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Name: Em
Age: 34
Contact: problematique258 at gmail dot com
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Character Name: Awake Remembrance Of These Valiant Dead Kia Hua Ko Te Pai Snap Back To Reality Oops There Goes Gravity. Yes, really genuinely. You may refer to her as Wake; you may not assume she has a sense of humor about being called, say, Wake Me Up Inside. (Or about anything, really.) As far as a fake name for her paperwork, I suspect she's going to hang onto Wake as her surname and choose a suitably portentous given name that she will never, ever use, but I could be wrong.
Age: Mid-to-late 30s; entirely possible she doesn't know her own exact birthdate.
Canon: The Locked Tomb Series
Canon point: Eighteen years prior to Gideon the Ninth, immediately between being kicked out of an airlock and dying horribly in space.
History: This covers it admirably.
Personality:
Ruthless. Like, "sacrifice a fucking baby if that's what it takes to maybe uncover the single vulnerability of the immortal necromantic god-emperor on the opposite side of the skeleton war" ruthless.

Correction: like, "conspire with his disaffected underlings to create said baby, artificially inseminate herself with the stolen genetic material of said immortal necromantic god-emperor when Plan A didn't work out, carry the pregnancy to term with the full intention of sacrificing the resultant baby in order to maybe uncover the aforementioned vulnerability, get killed in the process, cling grimly on as an angry ghost haunting her kid/her kid's sword/her kid's hate gf/a literal corpse, and really overall only allow herself to regret bitching the dismount" ruthless.

Horribly, there's really every indication that Wake understands the monstrosity of her decisions and is absolutely consumed by them; she's just fully capable of doing that kind of thing anyway as and when it seems necessary.

Passionate: In literally every sense: Wake hates hard, she commits hard, she loves hard, she doesn't have the most control over any of it. In the midst of all that, she was simultaneously carrying on the world's weirdest poly V with an immortal killing machine who happened to be two souls trapped in one body and also basically the emperor's personal attack dog; and she was down bad, despite all her most fervent wishes to the contrary. Her ghost subsequently filled someone else's reality bubble with frantic stream of consciousness love-hate letters. It was a lot.

Idealistic: Like, no, genuinely. Her ex describes her as having always had too much faith in her own people and their ability to come together in adversity. There are indications that she was running one of the less institutionally terrifying factions of a really vicious insurgency. She genuinely believes she's overall more or less on the side of the angels. Never trust a motherfucker with a cause.

Hypocritical: The kind way of putting this would be something like "she dreams of a world with no place in it for someone like her." The unkind way would be "literally sleeping with the enemy, for years, and alarmingly good at being a revenant for someone who loathes necromancy."

Freakishly competent: As well as being, by all reports, a pretty intelligent leader, she also seems to pick up skills quite effectively. Not only was she singlehandedly carrying out what we 21st-century humans would consider to be some very advanced medical procedures; we have ten-thousand-year-old murder saints reminiscing in no small degree of awe about that time she rocked up armed with throwing knives made from the carapace of a cosmic horror insanity locust. She is, in fact, alarmingly good at being a revenant. You cannot accuse her, ever, of failing to give 110%.

Suitability: Wake literally doesn't know how to exist except in all-consuming opposition to a mind-numbingly powerful evil force. She is going to light up with a hideous calling the instant she sees a fear entity manifest, especially if it has some overall morbid and apocalyptic vibes. (I have legitimately described John Gaius, the King Undying, the Kindly Prince of Death, her evil baby daddy, as being functionally an Extinction avatar in all but name. She's motivated.)

Powers/Abilities: Since I'm pulling her in from a point in canon that pre-dates her death and subsequent revenant phase, Wake has no supernatural abilities to speak of. She's a crack shot and a highly skilled fighter in general (albeit in slightly rough physical shape for the time being), which will obviously translate; her expertise with spaceship flight and questionable far-future medical equipment probably won't, and may even get in her way if she expects present-day tech to be set up in anything like the way she's familiar with.
Entity Affinity: I'm really deliberating between Hunt and Slaughter, here. I feel like the Hunt is going to win out – she's more focused on search-and-destroy than mindless, indiscriminate violence – but she is quite rage-fueled and militaristic, so the Slaughter deserves a mention.

Entities that are going to trigger an intense and visceral negative reaction even more than usual: the Extinction, the End, the Desolation, and possibly the Buried.

Inventory:

1 orange pressure suit, oxygen tank empty.

1 set of nondescript fatigues.

1 set of silver dog tags, engraved with the single word "AWAKE."

1 portable cryogenic storage container, open, empty, no longer functional, impossible to repair with current technology.

1 pair of extremely battered aviator sunglasses. I would absolutely love to make these a cursed item – while not technically magical as such, they are a pre-Resurrection artifact, which are known to give weird vibes to in-universe magic users with an interest in psychometry. They also belonged to her ex. I'd love some help brainstorming suitable curses/powers; their previous owner used them to conceal the shift in eye color that signaled her taking control of a body she shared with another soul, so my first thought would be something to do with concealment and/or loss of self.

Samples: Will this do for both? Lmk if I need to whip up anything additional.