ARCHTYPES: Loveable Rogue, Waif-fu, Reckless Sidekick, Troubled but Cute,
DATE OF BIRTH: November 8th 2125
NATIONALITY: Grounder - Trikru
RELIGION: Grounder Religion
PREFERRED PRONOUN: She/Her
ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: Biromantic
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Bisexual
SPOKEN LANGUAGES: Trigedasleng, Basic Gonasleng
THEME SONG: Live Like Legends - Ruelle || Holy - PVRIS
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: To establish herself as a Warrior by becoming Inia’s seken and learning what she can from her Heda.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: To avenge Edra - her cousin and the former Trikru Heda
QUIRKS/HABITS/ADDITIONAL INFO:
- Will not back down from any kind of dare or challenge
- Carries multiple concealed knives on her person.
- When bored she has a tendency to start playing with one of her knives, either twirling it in her fingers or spinning it and catching the handle. Before becoming a warrior she still did this but less so because she tended to just start drumming on random surfaces instead. She still does this to some extent now but not as much as she used to.
- As someone who loves a good celebration, she likes to drink and has been known to drink people twice her size under the table.
- Is not particularly good at lying and knows this.
- Always wears a malachite pendant around her neck on a leather cord but keeps it hidden. The pendant itself is in the shape of an arrow head. It was given to her by her cousin, Heda Edra. When she has to make a hard decision she will rub her thumb over the pendant.
-Has a very intense dislike of anyone and anything from Sangeda, but when it comes to meeting people from other clans, Nike has a childlike curiosity about her and is intrigued by the difference between them and her own people.
- Does not have a good grasp of Gonasleng because she only started learning it a couple of years ago and hasn’t had much of an opportunity to use it.
- Plays the drums, flute, lyre and hardanger fiddle.
- Does not like silence and will hum or whistle if it gets too much for her.
WEAPON OF CHOICE: Throwing Knives, Bow, Lance/Spear
TALENTS: Athleticism, perfect pitch, knife throwing and bowmanship
INCOMPETENCIES: Sword fighting, patience, holding her tongue, has authority issues
-PHYSICAL APPEARANCE & TRAITS-
SCARS: Has seven kill scars on her back, a circular scar in the palm of her right hand from an arrow, three long scars crisscrossing her left arm from various fights and a large claw mark over her shoulders and upper back from a feisripa.
TATTOOS: One on the top of her right arm that she got when she became a warrior. It resembles the fletching of an arrow and fades into a black band that wraps around her arm.
PIERCINGS: Currently none
WAR PAINT: Both eyes rimmed with dark black war paint with two thin stripes going over her left eye.
ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS: None of Significance
OTHER CONNECTIONS: Inia (Heda and friend), Bama (close friend), Penn (Baka and teacher), Shaw (friend and fellow warrior), Kira (friend)
-PERSONALITY/MENTAL OVERVIEW-
FIVE PROMINENT TRAITS: Playful, Impulsive, Resentful, Resolute, Realistic
INTELLIGENCE: Body Intelligence/Musical Intelligence
MORAL ALIGNMENT: True Neutral
ENNEAGRAM: Type 7 - The Enthusiast
BOGGART: Dead loved one, a feisripa
DESCRIPTOR QUOTE: “And you make jokes because you’re afraid to take anything seriously. Because if you take things seriously, they matter.“
BIO: With a drummer for a mother and a warrior for a father, war has been a natural part of Nike’s life from an early age. She was raised on her father’s war stories, with her mother’s drumming forming the soundtrack and by the time she was 5, her parents had already started teaching her the basics of their craft, wanting her to have a foundation in both but ultimately leaving her future up to her. She enjoyed her lessons in both activities but it was clear to everyone who met her that she had an affinity for music and that what she loved most wasn’t the bloodlust or the adrenaline that came from fighting, but the ability to raise the morale and spirits of her people, no matter the situation.
Family has always been important to Nike. Not just her blood relatives but the family she has chosen for herself. As an only child, Nike found herself bonding to others around her age instead and she also forged a close bond with her older cousin, Edra. The day she found out that Edra had been killed was one of the worst days of Nike’s life and one she can never get out of her mind, despite having full knowledge of Edra’s responsibilities as Heda and knowing it put her in the line of fire. Her usual ability to remain levelheaded was stripped away and she still doesn’t know how to cope with her grief because the feeling is so foreign to her. She’s always been the one who can see the good in any situation and focus on it, bouncing back from even the greatest losses, but for once she can’t.
Following the death of her cousin, Nike traded in her drumsticks for a sword. She needed to make a change in her life and fighting seemed like the obvious choice. The lessons her father gave her when she was a child proved useful as does the extra training, but that didn’t mean that her training was easy, due to her being significantly older than most of the other trainee warriors and the fact that she’s prone to giving into her reckless side. There are some days where Nike’s not really sure why she’s doing this, but it makes her feel better and that’s all that matters. She’s come far and shown a lot of improvement in such a small space of time; she’s even considering requesting to be Heda Inia’s Seken, but there are other things on her mind that might prevent that from being possible. Things like Locke’s need for justice which resonates with her far more than it should.
