Biographic Information
Character Name: Trà Mỹ Kadora
Alias(es): Kadora Trà
Age: 17 (Biological) | 8 (Chronological)
Gender: Female
Classification: Exotic
Affiliation(s): Celeste Security (CelSec)
Physical Characteristics
Appearance: Kadora has orange fur covering her body, with occasional brown markings, and sports a wild head of brown hair. Her eyes are hetero-chromatic with green and yellow irises, and her face has a handful of freckle-like spots on each of her cheeks where whiskers might be found.
Height: 165 cm
Weight: 60 kilograms
Colors:
- Hair: Brown
- Eye: Green and Yellow
- Skin: Tan/Orange
Aesthetics or Distinguishing Features: She typically wears a uniform of red with black accents, and signature arm gloves. Her most unique outfit choices though is a red headdress she wears to keep her hair out of her face, and her persistent lack of shoes.
Description: A very young CelSec Captain (the youngest, in fact) with anger management issues and a Stun-baton labeled “Therapy.” Don’t ask what her sidearm is called…
Personnel Assessment
Personality: Your character’s perspective on and response to life in general. What is their general behavior/mannerisms? Do they have any strengths or quirks?
- Young, Scrappy, and Hungry: Kadora knows what she wants, and if she doesn’t know how to get it, she has the drive to find a way to take it by any means necessary.
- In the Moment: Kadora lives in the present, bottling up as much of the past deep inside herself as much as she can, and thinking about the future only in the context of her next objective. She has not given herself the time to analyze her regrets because doing so usually results in a breakdown, and thinking beyond the next immediate ladder rung to grab feels like energy better spent actually grabbing that next rung…
Flaws: What your character’s failings are, the chips and cracks that make the character real. What are their weaknesses?
- Emotional Timebomb: Kadora has not had much experience in the way of regulating her emotions, which have been massively amplified due to her genetic circumstances and accelerated lifespan. Hit the right buttons, and she is liable to detonate.
- Experience Deficient: While Kadora has been educated in an accelerated fashion to match her accelerated life, her massive blind spot covers almost the whole of what it means to be a person.
Skills: What your character can do particularly well, is trained in, or has a particular knack for.
- Natural Athleticism: Kadora is naturally stronger and faster than many other baseline humans despite her smaller frame, and additionally has the advantage of natural weaponry and a prehensile tail. Her natural constitution and extrasensory abilities will also benefit her in any close quarters combat.
- Cunning: Kadora possesses a natural aptitude for intelligence, and sports an impressive amount of ambition to take full advantage of her sharper intellect compared to her peers and immediate superiors. Where her donor’s intellect might atrophy, hers would soar.
Equipment
Possessions: What things does your character own, what’s their daily carry?
- Stun-Baton
- CelSec Badge
- Sidearm
Cybernetics: List your character’s cybernetics, if they have any
- Subdermal Audio-Bridge (SAB) - A cybernetic component installed between her felinid ear canal and where her human ear canal would have been, synchronizing the nerve endings into a synthesized dataset the brain can process correctly. Without it, she is effectively deaf, but while active her hearing capabilities rival some surveillance technologies, better than human or felinid hearing. It also enables various communication protocols to interact directly with her implant, which can be both a boon and a vulnerability…
Background
History:
Before Kadora Trà was born, a rich Vietnamese CEO, Trà Minh Hào of the biomedical company HaoGen Dynamics, had a young daughter who would someday inherit all the fortune of the family business. He doted on his daughter in the sense that there was no price point to acquiring whatever she desired, even if his attention may not have been focused on actually raising her. This young heiress, Trà Mỹ Linh, would badger him for days, weeks, months with the request that she wanted to “be a cat!” sometimes compromising to she would like “a cat, just like me!” Despite the portfolio advertised by his company, Hào was not one to permit the sort of genemods that could satisfy his daughter’s request for fear of ruining the identity of the Trà family’s business image. So he did what any sensible father would do, and simply got her a cat…
Or rather, he cloned his daughter, and spliced chimeric feline tissue into the designer embryo with enough growth stimulants to rapidly age the clone to match the age of his daughter in only a short two years. His daughter could now see a version of herself who was “a cat” as she desired, without sacrificing his insistence to keep his daughter unblemished by fanciful requests. Trà Mẫu-02, the original clinical designation for Kadora Trà, was the result; a “toy” for the heiress she was legally and genetically sister to. For a few short years, life for Kadora Trà was wonderful, in the sense she had a constant playmate… but after the third year, bizarre developments began to distinguish the clone from the donor. A miscalculation in her growth stimulants over-accelerated her early development and skipped directly into a tumultuous early puberty. She was no longer the mirror of what the heiress could be in the present, but a glimpse of the woman she would become in the future.
This was an unacceptable development to her “mother,” Trà Ngọc Lan, and Kadora Trà was swiftly disowned and sent out of the estate, into the hands of the company’s “product recycling department.” Kadora Trà was not alone as an “Exotic” rejected by their former families, and given that their genetic templates were company property, customers were not to damage returned products, which meant their recycled inventory would need to find use to the company in other ways. Kadora Trà and a handful of other select exotics were purchased by lot auction to security company specialized specifically in corporate protection – Celeste Security (CelSec). Given the lax labor laws on Celeste 7, the corporation had no issue in creating a special “Whole Life Cadet” youth program that specialized in training orphaned, abandoned, or otherwise troubled children into “useful job skills.” Ripped from the literal lap of luxury, emotionally betrayed, and thrust into the unfamiliar idea of labor instilled in Kadora Trà a primal rage fueled by confusion.
For the first couple years, Kadora Trà was untameable, a whirling storm of hormones and claws rejecting all authority, one bad day away from being thrown into the street or “compassionately euthanized.” But in the third year, she saw some of her fellow Cadets graduate… and leave the compound. At first, she didn’t know what to make of it, her tantrums subsiding into a lazy (but manageable) facade of uncare, while she observed more graduates “abandon” her. By the fourth year, her previous storm of rage had fixated single-mindedly to performance, surpassing all her previous metrics and ascending the rankings beyond her previously more accomplished peers. Graduating with Distinguished Honor for her class year, Kadora Trà finally had the semblance of control over her life, and aggressively pursued her goals in acquiring more authority. Adapting quickly and finding unorthodox methods to outmaneuver other officers of similar rank, she gained a waiver to permit her promotion as the youngest CelSec Captain ever to receive the rank.
Timeline
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2104 - Conception
Trà Mẫu-02 is cloned from Trà Mỹ Linh (age 4), chimerically grown with felinid tissues and injected with epigentic growth hormones to rapidly accelerate her development. It takes a year before her development is considered satisfactory enough to gift to his daughter on the New Years.
2105 - Kadora
Trà Mỹ Linh (age 5) ecstatically clings to her “me cat” who is so “adorable,” and names her officially Trà Mỹ Kadora… or rather, a portmanteau of “my cat adorable” she invented and then had transcribed by a family aid, who took the liberty of borrowing the heiress’s middle name to give it some dignity.
2106 - Mirrored Playmates
Kadora and her donor are inseparable, pampered and catered to, the pair are as thick as thieves. Sharing everything, the two would be difficult to distinguish from one another, if not for Kadora’s feline nature.
2107 - Broken Mirror
Something begins to happen to Kadora as the year goes longer. For the first time, she is… taller, than her donor. She begins to feel unusual pain, her emotions become more complicated, and messy. The geneticists behind Kadora assure Trà Ngọc Lan that minor variance is expected and discrepancies should even out with time, and that the chemical imbalance may at time produce behavior issues that can be resolved with medication.
2108 - Despair
The geneticists were wrong, and the drugs ineffective. Kadora grew rapidly, painfully, beset by powerful hormonal changes happening much earlier than predicted. Not only was she growing taller, she was growing fuller, adolescent, and providing a glimpse of what the future held for Trà Mỹ Linh (age 8). This was unacceptable to Trà Ngọc Lan, who demanded the “perverse creature my husband created” disowned and abandoned.
2109 - Rage
Placed into a “recycling program” for other Exotics created by HaoGen Dynamics, unable to understand the circumstances of her expulsion from the lap of luxury, Kadora raged against any sense of authority as her body continued to develop into adulthood at a rapid pace. Despite her animalistic fury, a Corporate Security representative for the “Whole Life Cadet” program saw potential in her desperation and enrolled her in the Academy.
2110 - Confusion
Unaccustomed to expectations, and still unable to fully process her circumstances, Kadora struggled with the rigors of the Academy and generally gained a reputation as a lazy good-for-nothing one bad tantrum away from being expelled.
2111 - Hope
For the first time, Kadora sees other Cadets Graduate from the Academy and leave the compound free as a bird. This inspires her, in seeking to reclaim control over her life, to put all her effort into attaining “Graduation.”
2112 - Graduation
Kadora graduates from CelSec Academy with Distinguished Honors against all expectations, and quickly gains a waiver in the months afterward to directly commission into a CelSec Captain, the youngest ever on record.
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Mechanics
Story Purpose: Antagonist foil to Darkwire characters, but with an exploitable vulnerability that may lead to unlikely cooperatives…
Stats: Optional stats for rolls, assign 3, 2, or 1 to the following (with no duplicates)
- Muscle: 2 - Genetic splicing and corporate combat training give Kadora an edge over most combatants
- Grit: 1 - For all her determination and ambition, ultimately Kadora is weakened by the trauma of her upbringing. Vulnerability is poison to her, and is possessed of many openings.
- Savvy: 3 - Having to grow up as quickly as she has, learning quickly has been her key to survival; Kadora is sharp witted and doesn’t let her lack of experience or non-corporate education get in the way of finding solutions and results.
Dialogue Color: [color=#eb6b56] “Power concedes nothing without a demand.”