Name: Adina (Addy) Craft
Gender: Female
Cycle/Age: 15th Cycle – 24 years old
Appearance:
Standing at 5 feet 5 inches, Adina has a slim build. She is reasonably fit, and enjoys running, but dislikes most organized sports. She usually lets her hair fall wildly around her head, and often wears a hooded cloak when walking around.Healing
Weapons:Flex Cutter: The machete-like weapon has a memory polymer blade. It can be easily rolled up and concealed. When activated, the blade stiffens and sharpens. Ideal for cutting away fabric or flexible metals to get to a wound. *
SIG Sauer P226 Pistols x2: These rather light pistols use staggered-column magazines, with a short-recoil lock breech method. They can be duel-wielded, though Addy has only used them that way when she was trained how to use to fire them. They are for self-defense, and she has only had to shoot one person. It was very traumatizing. She begged for some sort of tranquilizer gun instead, and was eventually granted non-lethal ammunition, which she keeps loaded in the gun on her left hip.
Equipment: Standard Armor clothing- Clothing with extra-resilient organoweave fibers and fullerene materials. It provides some degrees of protection against kinetic and energy weapons.*
Ecto- A bracelet that functions as a PDA, locator, camera phone and other information.*
Flashlight
Basic Med Kit- Bandages, Needle and Thread, gauze pads, gloves, instant cold compress, tweezers, hydrocortisone ointment. She knows how much healing hurts her, and tries to mend some of the less serious ones with other means, rather than by using her own lifeforce.
Food/Provisions- Even with most food in plentiful supply on Awilix, growing up on the Husk made her wary about waste. She never eats all of her food, and stores away what she doesn’t eat to make sure that she never runs out completely.
Character Bio:
Adina grew up on Husk, her family was mostly made up of miners. The miners were far from wealthy, but they had enough to get by, so long as they made good choices. Her father had the tech ability, and in all of her memories, he had been in a humanoid robot. When she asked why, as a child, he stated it was so his body would be more durable, and so that he could come back after every shift to his family. Her mother had the Gravity variation, which she used in her work. It was a rather common ability for miners, and two of her older brothers had it as well. Her cousin, as they all lived together in a rather humble abode, could Fade, which he enjoyed using for pranks, on occasion. Her eldest sister died some time ago, but Adina knew that she was of the climate variety.
Still, she had expected to fall in line with one of her family members, to be a part of their unit. So when a mining accident revealed that her variation was healing, they were all shocked. They were able to keep the powers secret for a little while, their outpost not regularly visited, but they all knew that eventually she would be picked up and ‘reassigned’ to a more important place. These miners were considered expendable, for the most part. Healers were more valuable in other regions, namely, protecting the elite upper echelon.
She received a transmission on the family account, requesting her appearance for transfer to Awilix and training. The date was set, and she knew she had no choice but to appear. Her elder brothers thought otherwise. They tried to convince her to meet a friend of theirs, a revolutionary who worked for a real cause. But she didn’t want to hurt people. She didn’t want them to go either, but it seemed that she hadn’t noticed they already pledged their allegiance to the group. She told them that their actions would get them killed, but they said they would be stronger with her around. Their last words to each other were harsh ones, calling the other names like coward, hoodlum, puppet. Adina left to report for transport, and she never saw them again.
When she was able, Adina contacted home, but her brothers and cousin had left. Her parents wouldn’t talk about them, and eventually she dropped the subject, at least to them. She was trained in some medicine, and taught how to channel the gems to avoid taking her own life force. But there were never enough gems, and always more people hurt. She lost track of how many bodies she had, but at least she was never on a waiting list long. Trained healers dedicated to the government’s cause rarely had to wait.
Adina completed a few cycles with the military, moving into various positions. She had tried to leave numerous times, but their promises of security, in terms of having a place to sleep and food to eat, kept her working for them. If she stopped, that support might run out, and then she would have nothing. Fear of poverty kept her complacent, and renewing her contract with the military.
Another mining accident had taken her home on Husk away a few cycles ago as well, though she knew that her parents had moved in with another family and continued working. She asked them when the last time was that the equipment had been repaired, and her parents avoided the question completely. She did some digging anyway, and found out that sure enough, their entire region was being neglected. She couldn’t find the official reports that said where the funds had been appropriated, but she could guess.
Fed up with not knowing anything, Adina coined herself an investigative reporter, and got a position with an independent news organization called The Public Eye. Rather than having a constant payroll, The Public Eye paid people when they brought good stories. Thus, every broadcast, every conversation, every interaction she had might be one step closer to the truth. And for Adina, the most important truth was finding out what happened to her brothers.
Long Term Motivation: Adina would like to reunite with her siblings, or at least find out what happened to them. She doesn’t want to join the rebel group, but when she hears rumors, she goes out of her way to try to learn names, dates, and events.
*Some of the weapons/equipment were modified from Eclipse Phase
