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21:55, 28th March 2024 (GMT+0)

Zarya

Height: 5'10" (1.78m)
Weight: 135lbs (61.2kg)
Hair: Strawberry Blond
Eyes: Blue
Apparent Age: Early 20s

Attractive

Tall and lean, Zarya possesses an athletic build with the smooth muscling of a swimmer or a dancer rather than one accustomed to heavy lifting. The warm golden strawberry blond of her cropped hair is natural, but the preternatural blue of her eyes seems to have been enhanced beyond what one would expect to see in nature. Her tendency to rim them with a heavy smudge of dark eyeliner only serves to accentuate their oddity. The set of her chin lends an air of aloofness to her demeanour, as does her preference for remaining on the outer fringes of any gathering, the better to watch everything that happens.

Her attire displays a clear fondness for industrial fashion, generously peppered with studs, zippers, and heavy stitching on sturdy fabrics and dark leathers. It seems that her only concession to traditional femininity is a love of cosmetics and an assortment of earrings of every style under the sun, although the crystal dangling from the second piercing of her right ear is never-changing. In uniform, she wears a heavy sidearm in a black holster at her right hip, an older M&G Service Auto of rugged and reliable construction, and occasionally carries a sword of more than standard dimension. Over one and a quarter metres in length, the lack of any curve at all identifies the blade as being of a more ancient Terran European style than the popular vibrokatanas commonly in use, concealed in a metre-long palm-wide sheath of plain black carbon fibre. Utilitarian in appearance, clearly more a weapon than a work of art, the visible metal components of the hilt and its obvious vibrogenerators have been dipped in a matte black coating, the two-handed grip itself wrapped in soft black leather.

Although few have seen it given her preference for non-revealing clothing, Zarya possesses a tattoo on her left hip of a black horse with a mane of reddish-gold.