A couple of associated characters, drawn from the CITD bits.
Seong Hyun-ae: A former North Korean intelligence agent, Hyun-ae was second in command of the security team for the Norks' handwavium research facility. When she learned just how badly the idea of her government playing around with the stuff scared Certain Western Powers, she decided to remove the temptation in order to save her country. The result left her rather haphazardly (due to limited time) handwaved Hind in a chase with fighter planes from six countries (North Korea, South Korea, Japan, the USA, Russia, and China) until she managed to get out of the atmosphere. There, about to be picked up by a rescue ship from InsertFactionHere (Stellvia, Roughriders, Greenwood, maybe even Tom Dodge or someone), she set a demolition charge to destroy the chopper and bailed out.
Contamination from the handwavium spray-job (and a few bits of shrapnel from the exploding helicopter) left her hospitalized for several days after her rescue. She awoke to find herself with a minor biomod - she can, with some conscious effort, rearrange muscle and body structure as well as change surface color and other aspects of her appearance. (She's at the low end of what Potterites would call a Metamorphagus, although she cannot alter her bone structure. She is currently practicing mimicking tattoos, and is somewhat embarrassed that without a deliberately-imposed change her new 'default' appearance seems to be a blue-haired space elf.)
Before she could even begin to master this new ability, however, Hyun-ae found herself at a loss for future plans. Her escape had been made and her country was safe, but she could never return there. She was in the midst of researching the various factions to find one that might best suit her when she was approached by Ultra-Commander Haruhi, who needed a trained agent to infiltrate a Boskone supply route and trace down one of their bases.
She hasn't looked back since.
Personality: Seong Hyun-ae did not rise to be a Captain in North Korean Intelligence by being bubbly, cheerful, and kind. She is, however, quite capable of pretending to be any of these. When on-mission, she is calculating, pragmatic, and ruthless. This, apparently, is just as much a mask as any other for her. Most people who know her think they've gotten through to the "real" Seong Hyun-ae... sometimes it seems like each of them knows an entirely different person.
The one common thread among the personae she presents seems to be that of a patriot. She has consistently kept one part of her self-identity the same - she always has been, and always will be, Korean, no matter where she ends up.
She is fond of elegant, fashionable clothes, especially traditional Korean fashions. She is also very fond of sharp things, things that go boom, and ships that fly fast and agile. Her personal vehicle is, in fact, another Hind, this one purchased from Russian military-surplus grey-market dealers and given a much more professional 'wave job. (She appears to have been inspired by the American television show 'Airwolf' in the redesign of the helicopter.) In one of the several civilian identities she maintains, she leads a small Korean cultural club on InsertStationHere.
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.
Seong Hyun-ae: A former North Korean intelligence agent, Hyun-ae was second in command of the security team for the Norks' handwavium research facility. When she learned just how badly the idea of her government playing around with the stuff scared Certain Western Powers, she decided to remove the temptation in order to save her country. The result left her rather haphazardly (due to limited time) handwaved Hind in a chase with fighter planes from six countries (North Korea, South Korea, Japan, the USA, Russia, and China) until she managed to get out of the atmosphere. There, about to be picked up by a rescue ship from InsertFactionHere (Stellvia, Roughriders, Greenwood, maybe even Tom Dodge or someone), she set a demolition charge to destroy the chopper and bailed out.
Contamination from the handwavium spray-job (and a few bits of shrapnel from the exploding helicopter) left her hospitalized for several days after her rescue. She awoke to find herself with a minor biomod - she can, with some conscious effort, rearrange muscle and body structure as well as change surface color and other aspects of her appearance. (She's at the low end of what Potterites would call a Metamorphagus, although she cannot alter her bone structure. She is currently practicing mimicking tattoos, and is somewhat embarrassed that without a deliberately-imposed change her new 'default' appearance seems to be a blue-haired space elf.)
Before she could even begin to master this new ability, however, Hyun-ae found herself at a loss for future plans. Her escape had been made and her country was safe, but she could never return there. She was in the midst of researching the various factions to find one that might best suit her when she was approached by Ultra-Commander Haruhi, who needed a trained agent to infiltrate a Boskone supply route and trace down one of their bases.
She hasn't looked back since.
Personality: Seong Hyun-ae did not rise to be a Captain in North Korean Intelligence by being bubbly, cheerful, and kind. She is, however, quite capable of pretending to be any of these. When on-mission, she is calculating, pragmatic, and ruthless. This, apparently, is just as much a mask as any other for her. Most people who know her think they've gotten through to the "real" Seong Hyun-ae... sometimes it seems like each of them knows an entirely different person.
The one common thread among the personae she presents seems to be that of a patriot. She has consistently kept one part of her self-identity the same - she always has been, and always will be, Korean, no matter where she ends up.
She is fond of elegant, fashionable clothes, especially traditional Korean fashions. She is also very fond of sharp things, things that go boom, and ships that fly fast and agile. Her personal vehicle is, in fact, another Hind, this one purchased from Russian military-surplus grey-market dealers and given a much more professional 'wave job. (She appears to have been inspired by the American television show 'Airwolf' in the redesign of the helicopter.) In one of the several civilian identities she maintains, she leads a small Korean cultural club on InsertStationHere.
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.