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Name: Danielle Hartwright
a.k.a Dan

Age/Gender: 24, female

Appearance:
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Dan is quite tall, measuring in at about 176cm. She has messy, short, dark brown hair and dark green, playful eyes and a wide, smiling mouth. She has a round face with a slightly tanned skin. Her hair is always messed up as if someone just ruffled it up, and she is almost always wearing a perpetual grin. When she smiles, her eyes fold up into crescents that many find attractive. But when she concentrates on something, her face loses all signs of playfulness, her lips purse up, and her eye gains a sharp gleam. She is quite handsome by most standards, and have been asked out on multiple occasions by women, which she all turned down because she wasn't a lesbian. But with a little bit of dressing up, she is sufficiently pretty as well, as one of her female colleges proved to her in a particularly drunk night. There are curves on her body, but they are insignificant enough that most of those who do not pay close attention miss them. She usually dresses casually in hoodies, T-shirts, sweatshirts, and jeans. But when she is in her lab, she usually wears the classic scientist's white lab coat over it all, and when attending a formal meeting, she wears a suit and matching skirt, which looks surprisingly good on her. Her left pinkie and ring finger are missing one and two joints, respectively, but she usually hides this by wearing a leather glove on her left hand. It is not very noticeable at first, but if shakes her left hand or otherwise touches it, or even look at it for a period of time, they will find something unnatural about them. Most people do not ask her about this to be polite, but she does not mind: she wears the glove mostly because people stare at her when her hand is visible. She also has a British(?) accent.

Personality: Dan is extroverted, playful, loud, and aggressively friendly. But she is also very smart, and takes pride in her work. Dan does not enjoy the fact that her creations are being used to kill people, but she understands it is a necessity. She is active and is the first to participate in everything. She has a lot of hobbies, almost as if she is trying to try out everything she can. She especially enjoys sports, but despite her athletic looks and enthusiasm, she was never quite good at it. She seems rough, but at times can show incredible kindness. But most of the time, she is too active, and is not attentive enough, forgetting stuff, making mistakes, and unintentionally offending a lot of people. But surprisingly, she makes none of those mistakes when she is fully concentrated, while in the lab, or in battle. Although she seems playful, some who have known her for a long time may find something off about her laugh. She suffers from insomnia, but refuses to take medication, resulting in her looking like she was up all night every other morning.

Strengths and Weaknesses: Dan is extremely smart and extremely friendly. She can talk her way out of most situations with her aggressive friendliness, and can think her way out of most others she can't friend her way out of. She has a very positive mindset and a very determined spirit, and it will be hard to make her lose hope or determination in most circumstances. Her weapons are very effective in mid-long range against low armor enemies. She has extensive knowledge in her field of light and heat in physics, as well as significant knowledge in almost all academic fields, such as biology, chemistry, history, linguistics, etc. She is also a skilled engineer, and can build to improvise if need be. Moreover, when encountered with a gadget she has never seen before, she can learn what it does and how to use it in just a few moments by examining it and taking it apart. The downside is she may not be able to put the gadget back in one piece. But unlike Dan's athletic appearance, she is pathetic at exercise, and therefore, close quarters combat. If she tries to punch someone, she will only hit air on most cases, and hit herself on the rare occasion she does not miss literally everything. The only athletics she is good at is running and swimming. Dan is calculated when she recognizes the situation as being serious, such as when she is performing dangerous experiment, or is in a combat situation. But when not under these circumstances, she is not hard to trick, so will fall easily into ambushes. Also, when concentrated on one thing, she easily loses track of everything else, and gets tunnel vision, which could be critical in a battle situation. Dan also has a secret mental trauma that keeps her up at night. it is hard to break her, but when she does break, it will be even harder to get her back together

Affiliated Faction: Technologist
Backstory: Dan was born to a quite well off family: her parents had earned quite a lot of money in Averin, with her father working as a engineer for Axiom, and her mother as a professor of physics in the brand new university the technologists set up. They earned enough for money to not be a problem, and Dan and her sister was able to do what they wanted without worrying about their livelihood. Because of the scientific influence of her parents, combined with her innate intelligence, Dan learned to enjoy and excel at science. Although she enjoyed and was good at most every field in science, she was best at physics, which was the field she got a job in after completing her education. After the completion of her education, she was hired by Axiom, and was assigned to the research department. She worked in the application of lasers in industry, which later resulted in a lab accident that resulted in the loss of her left pinkie and ring finger. Soon, things turned sour between the technologist and the mages. Her whole team was reassigned to designing weapons. While research was ongoing concerning laser powered weapons, the mages demanded the evacuation of all technologists from their territory. Dan was supervising the packing up of equipments in her lab when an angry mob of mages attacked. The security team was defending another section of the building when a group of mages broke through into the lab, leaving the scientists undefended. But Dan managed to fend them off using her prototype laser weapon until the security team arrived. After the incident, Dan started carrying the prototype everywhere. Her research team was relocated farther east, and she now works with R’saava in the Axiom R&D lab.

Picture by @Liyrical
 
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