OH!! I love this one- so racing was cool, I know a lot of you wanted me to keep racing. I loooved racing, especially that bit I did on the gravity slingracer circuit off the Cradle proper. I know it's like kind of dangerous but you really can't get the same feeling anywhere else. Going really fast and being in the moment makes me feel really zen. but it was kind of a stepping stone on purpose, I never intended to be a racer forever. It was like....pilot training? To make sure I was cut out for it.
So my dads have always talked about Lancer pilots and how cool they are, they were kind of like my superheroes growing up! So were Dad and Pops, don't get me wrong, but we're Sparri so they always brought it back to our family history as Lancers. We're one of the families who cleared the planet for settlement way back when, like the original Atlas pilots of the homeworld! Actually on both sides, too. I always thought it would be so cool to keep the story going, and I'm really really good at operating machines and thinking on my feet. I thought I had a decent shot at being a Lancer, and my dads helped me out how they could. They let me drive maintenance mechs all the time, got me in touch with a few pilots they knew for tips, and bought me holosims to give me a pilot POV. It's just kind of been my dream forever :)
Also. So, I wanted to be a Lancer no matter what. That was already a done deal, but when I started getting old enough to test into the program and scoring race titles, Dad and Pop told me about Khutulan. She's everything to me, she's my goal. She's been in the family forever, and she hasn't chosen a pilot in like...way longer than any of the other ones our family had. They showed me old holos of her in action and I just knew immediately that she'd be the one for me. I wanted to earn her trust and be her man <3 I'm closer every day. I just know we're gonna be together forever, someday.