Taavi
She is in her early to mid 30s with wavy brown hair and soft cheeks. She had grown very isolated over the last few years and decided that she needed a change to put some living back into her life, so she signed up to be part of a mission to [Moon], in one of the earlier habitation crews that was available to the public.
The mission started with an array of crafts orbiting the planet to monitor life and determine the ideal conditions and time for a satellite community to populate the surface. The satellite community had been operating at low capacity long enough to be considered viable for further expansion, so it was habitable but harsh with only enough development to carve out a very minimal society.
On the long commute there, Taavi was caught up in a disastrous malfunction that caused part of one quill of the ship to collapse in on itself. She was caught near the exterior of the incident, so she mostly suffered minor abrasions and a break to one arm. The break was easy enough to mend with surgery from one of the ship’s doctors, but the healing time that followed was a serious setback in her efforts to grow physically stronger for her work on the surface. The rest of her trip is spent feverishly recovering and panicking because her lack of choice in continuing the mission is making her question if she actually wants to go or if she’s just lulled into accepting her lack of choice.
The wait between signing up for the mission and departure was a little under 12 months. A few months into her last year on Amadeus, Taavi met Otto and the two of them developed an immediate fondness for each other. The two friends, both with reasons for not getting into a relationship, quickly found themselves in love. With three months til Taavi’s departure, they finally agreed to become romantically involved and make the most of their remaining time. The conflict she felt about leaving was exactly the missing element that had made her feel safe for the mission, and the return of not just isolation but longing was a nightmare.
She was finally adjusting to her loneliness when the incident in Quill 58 broke her arm and further traumatized her. By the time she arrives on Mellitri, she has steeled and numbed herself.
Edit: Taavi is a black woman with natural hair, but I have yet to decide on the length, texture, or style.
Further edit: making my "I'm gonna go work as an agricultural laborer on a colony planet" character a black person was something I did not think through until rereading it just now. Gonna need to rework this one.
