Liseron Loew
From Flight From Darkness
Liseron Loew, dogged security cadet officer. This page is a work in progress, mostly because I am phenomenally lazy.
[edit] Appearance
(Lifted directly from my post in Manual Override; I'll write up a real one eventually. Maybe.)
This being the first time several of those present had seen Lise out of full uniform, the narrative would be remiss here in not providing adequate exposition. As her reinforced duty coat was a bit stifling, underneath it she wore a simple sleeveless top (dark blue, today). Her tallish, lanky build and weather-rough pale skin painted her typical Haslanti almost as clearly as her manner of speech and irreverent, vaguely dark sense of humor. Though not supernaturally ravishing as the other women of her erstwhile party, she had a certain "tomboy cute" charm -- which she was quite clearly struggling (and only occasionally succeeding) to overcome for the sake of being taken seriously.
[edit] Personality
Passionate, resourceful, and dutiful, willing to go two extra miles to get the job done, Lise is all that her superiors in the Security Corps could want in a recruit... if not for the fact that her head is often in the clouds, dreaming of bigger and better things. She chafes only mildly under authority, but she does chafe, sometimes wishing she could untangle the strings of bureaucracy and personal and political favors with one good hard yank -- or, in darker moments, wondering if it might be best to grab those very strings, and wield them with terrifying efficacy against those who abuse them. But she's just a cadet, and a dreamer besides. Such thoughts are clearly idle flights of fancy.
From her mother, Lise has learned how to speak convincingly, and with authority, and how to understand the unspoken prices. Her father taught dedication, and an eye for both the big picture and the small detail -- as important to a yeoman seeking both geomantic rectitude and the best angle on the sun and wind for his crops as it is to a criminal investigator. From her brothers she learned passionate intractability and compassionate impartiality; they taught her the way to fight, and the reason to protect others. But it is from Lise herself that springs her most defining trait: the absolute will to pursue her dreams and her ideals, no matter how long it takes...
...and no matter what she must do to achieve them.
[edit] Background
Youngest of three children of a trader's daughter and a prosperous farmer's son in Icehome Greenfield. Of her brothers, both served in the Haslanti military prior to the Dream's departure, and the younger of the two, Emil, enlisted with the Security Corps as soon as the family joined the Dream. Lise wanted to follow in similar footsteps -- and pursue her dream of flying -- by joining the EDC, but was turned away for inexperience, and forbidden by her parents after early reports of battles in the Deep Wyld and their results. Eventually, she convinced them that joining the Security Corps would be a "safe enough" alternative (seeing as Emil was still alive after two years in it), and has recently finished her training. Her work has brought her into conflict with the Black Cartel of late, and she has been harboring a steadily growing suspicion of Cartel corruption in the ranks of her peers and immediate superiors. This will not stand!
