Name: Kara Rhee

Age: 23

Gender: F

Colony of Birth: Aerilon

Hair Colour: Blonde

Eye Colour: Grey

Height: 5'7"

Weight: 138

General Physical Description: Slender, with tanned or brown skin and long legs for her height.  She has a long, puckered burn scar on her neck, and another on her scalp, paralleling the spiky mohawk she favors.  She has a very hard time holding still, and when she does, she tends to have facial tics and restless hands (generally seen tapping things) unless she keeps her attention focused on another task.  She's often seen mouthing or saying the nonsense word "Zang," but in a situation that requires all her attention, she only says it voluntarily.  When not in uniform, she favors simple, loose homespun clothes, regardless of current fashion.

Personality: Kara is energetic and unsophisticated.  She doesn't know her way around larger society as well, and knows it, which can make her feel awkward; her tics and twitches are also something that embarrasses her.  Still, she chooses to be outgoing, using a certain amount of self-deprecating humor to attempt to dissolve awkwardness.

Likes: Dancing, physical activity, hand-made clothes and blankets, fried food, beer, excelling at an activity, martial arts, being respected for her talents, new kinds of food

Dislikes: Feeling awkward or incompetent, people condescending to her, guys assuming that she'll sleep with them, having to make a decision without enough information

Hobbies: Dancing, martial arts, food tourism.  (The line for her between dancing and martial arts is fairly nonexistent-- her dancing is very acrobatic)

Military Details

Branch of Service (Marines or Navy): Navy

Military Occupational Specialty (See the thread for list): Viper Pilot

Rank: LT(JG)

Time in Service (How long have you been in the Colonial Military?): Two years

Decorations: n/a

History and Background

Kara's from an isolated corner of Aerilon; she learned how to fly for agricultural work at a far younger age than is truly advisable, but was somewhat hindered by the medical condition that makes her twitch and tic.  The condition has other side effects, however-- it gives her lightning-fast, unpredictable movements in combat, making her a martial arts champion at a young age, and when she's focused on a physical situation, her movements are instinctive, precise, decisive and smooth as mercury.  This gave her great potential, but in peacetime, she was mostly just the weird girl who twitched a lot.  Her family mostly does agricultural work, but Kara found a niche in piloting, shipping packages, crop dusting, and so on.  Both for reasons of tradition and because it helps her cope with her medical condition, she has been a lifelong practitioner of her family's traditional martial arts/dance style.

It was clear to her family that her drive and potential could and should take her further than repetitive farm work, and so she applied to the Naval College at 17 to become a Viper pilot.  She's had awkwardness adjusting to mainstream culture and military discipline, but she is sincere, determined and extremely skillful, so she's been able to survive so far.  (She's fine with respecting officers and obeying orders, but she's not good with paperwork, and her twitches can get misinterpreted as disrespect)

Her family misses her very much, and will literally attempt to send her messages and care packages at least twice a week, regardless of how appropriate or expensive it would be to ship things over an interplanetary distance.

She still practices her forms/dances regularly and intensely, and given that she needs a fair amount of space for most of them, many people have seen her in action.  She hasn't been willing to train anyone, however, regarding herself as too young and unskilled to do so.