for the character headcanon thing: miss nisha kadam! :D
- She’s painfully honest. Even if it hurts other people’s feelings. Not because she thinks lying is wrong or immoral or anything - she just can’t be bothered to make up lies. I mean, for what? To spare someone’s feelings? And if someone tries to come at her for it, even better, bring a gun.
- So much trauma-based hypervigilance.
- Yes, she got her famous reflexes from catching the stuff her mother threw at her but at the same time it’s also because she really, really doesn’t like things moving towards her face at high speeds (I mean, the throwing thing is the reason for her dislike of that but it also kept her in training)(in short: see above)
- She is fluent in four languages.
- When she first advertised herself as available for ‘mercenary work, S&M, and birthday parties’ she was actually just kidding about the last part but...it turns out that Pandorans don’t really see an issue with an armed, infamous mercenary performing trick shots at their kids’ birthday parties. Also, a lot of Pandoran birthday parties turn into open fights and clan wars at some point so she can offer her mercenary skills as well. win-win (and cake)
- She was actually always expecting to die young. The thought of growing old and weak and helpless is one of the few things that she was afraid of. Or at least that she refuses to contemplate.
- The reason that she deputised Winger out of all the people she murdered when she first arrived in town was that he wore a patch on his coat of a band she liked. Nisha lifestyle rule number one: If you have to work together, always pick someone with the same taste in music! (also, see point 1, she openly told him that this was the reason but for some reason he was not particularly enthusiastic)
- While there are many ‘normal’ rules in her laws for Lynchwood (no stealing), there are also some really, really random ones (she banned ice-cream) - although these all have a backstory. There are however no laws concerning her personhood or demanding for them to worship her or pledge loyalty. She is counting on them to resist, after all.
- She also put all almost 300 of her laws on signs outside the train station for the bandits to read - fully aware that most of them cannot read. In fact, many of them find out what they did wrong when she reads out their ‘crimes’ before putting a noose around her neck.
- (This one is from the fic I’m writing but:) The silver emblem at the front of her hat doubles as an access key to the Helios fast-travel network.
- She actually used to have short hair in most of her 20s. Easier to maintain on the road and less problems with hat-hair.
- Her mother died of a rare bone disease. Nisha found out not too long before the events of TPS.
- Her father had found out where Nisha was based on all the bounties and wanted pictures on the ECHO.net but had been scared to reach out while his wife was still alive because he didn’t want to draw her anger. He tried to get into contact Nisha a few times when his wife first became too sick to leave the bed, but he had no means of contacting her (on Pandora of all places!) until an old employer of Nisha actually gave him an ECHO handle. However, her father could onyl reach Nisha in time for him to tell her that it was too late and her mother was dead.
He saw this as his chance to make things right in his old age and bring his lost daughter home and asked for her to come back and move in with him and her sister and promised her that he would help her hide from the authorities and that they would ‘just not talk about the things they say you did. I don’t believe you did that.’ (The last part ...he was lying) and that if she needed any help he would be there. She hung up and joined a giant party in Pyro Pete’s bar.
- Based on the photo of Angel on Jack’s desk, she suspected that he either had or had had a child and she made it very clear to him that this subject is never to be brought around her. She doesn’t want to hear anything about kids or parenthood. Her personal suspicion is that the kid in the photo is either dead (in which case she’s not available for any mopey death anniversary drinking!) or on some fancy Hyperion boarding school at the other end of the galaxy.
- On average, she killed 6.2 people each day she spent ruling Lynchwood, not counting the initial purge when she arrived.
- She has very detailed anatomical knowledge. For one, because of all the time she spends torturing others, for two, because of all the time she spent getting herself fixed up while alone out in the desert (glass cannon fighting style and all).
- In close combat, she is really, really vicious. Biting off, twisting off, dislocating, a blade hidden in her boot - she doesn’t hold back. (In short: She loves close combat although only a few even get that close)
- She has a lot of scars. The only scar she hides is the one where her dog bit her (that’s why she wears those chokers. It’s not so much that she’s ashamed of it or hiding it - it’s just very intimate and not everyone’s business, okay?)
- She is a very good or a very bad driver, depending on your point of view and how resilient your stomach is.
- She has dyslexia but it was never actually diagnosed bc of her childhood. (One symptom of dyslexia? Difficulties reading maps)
(and of course: she actually survived and went off to live with Aurelia)
