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Your Name: rui
OOC Journal:rui
Under 18? If yes, what is your age?: nope
Email + IM: alioth @ gmail, life in flame @ aim
Characters Played at Ataraxion: Sophie Groeneveldt (worthtempting)
C H A R A C T E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: Fiona
Canon: Tales from the Borderlands (part of the Borderlands franchise)
Original or Alternate Universe: OU
Canon Point: end of ep 2
Number: 091
Setting: Tales from the Borderlands
Borderlands universe
info about Pandora
For a little tl;dr, Tales from the Borderlands (let's go with TFTBL) is a Telltale Games offshoot of the popular Borderlands series of first-person shooters, which are games full of clever storytelling, irreverent humor (poop jokes abound) and surprisingly well-crafted characters.
NOTE: Telltale games are the sort where situations and outcomes change based on player responses, so the two main characters can have different sorts of personalities depending on how they're played. This is my version of the plot and of Fiona, but it's not the only possible version of either.
The story takes place mainly on the space station Helios, owned by evil overload corporation Hyperion, where the only way to get ahead is to stab some backs, step on some faces, and throw the right people out of the right airlocks; and on the planet Pandora, which Hyperion has helped turn into a desert wasteland where almost literally everything is trying to kill you all the time. So, Pandorans have a teensy weensy grudge against Hyperion employees for ruining their planet, their economy, and their lives, and Hyperions basically see Pandorans as kill-crazy savages. In most cases, neither side is exactly wrong.
The two main playable characters of TFTBL are Rhys, the occasionally-charismatic Hyperion fuckboy who ends up on Pandora trying to screw some jerk who just screwed him out of a promotion, and Fiona, a clever grifter who participates in the con that would've screwed that jerk really good if Rhys had just kept his nose out of it.
History: Fiona and her sister Sasha grew up in an underground city on Pandora called Hollow Point (because it's in a cave, get it?). They spent their younger years living on the streets, surviving by picking pockets and dumpster diving and probably searching the pockets of dead or dying people, since there were never really a shortage of those. One day, they picked a mark who caught them attempting to steal his wallet. But instead of shooting them, he taught them how to do it better. Felix took the girls in and gave them a place to stay. Fiona, Sasha, and Felix became a team, and then gradually a family.
Their cons got bigger and better, until they finally saw opportunity for the Big One, the one that could finally get them off Pandora. Felix created a fake Vault Key, an object that would have been basically priceless if genuine. Sasha found a mark named August, who found his mark in a Hyperion employee named Vasquez. Fiona pretended to be an archeologist who had found the Key, and everything was going to be just fine until Vasquez 'promoted' Rhys to Head Janitor on Helios and Rhys decided that he was going to get that Vault Key instead. His friend Vaughn from accounting got them the ten million dollars, and they headed down to Pandora.
Then more or less everything went wrong. Sasha realized that Rhys' cybernetic eye would recognize the fake Key, so they gently EMP'd his robotic arm, causing him to drop the key. It broke and revealed it was a fake anyway, and the money, or at least the Mysterious Unopenable Hyperion Suitcase, was stolen by some of the local color.
For obvious reasons, the Pandorans and the Hyperions were reluctant to trust each other, but they formed a tenuous truce to attempt to recover the money. This ended up with some crazy hijinks, including Rhys plugging a Hyperion ID key with unknown contents into the port on his head, Fiona and Vaughn ending up riding in a death rally, and Rhys using a really cool ninja sword to cut open an animal that had eaten a guy who'd been carrying the suitcase. In the end, Felix manages to grab the suitcase full of money, and all is well.
Except not. Felix turns on his girls, taking the suitcase and attempting to run away with it. Fiona warns him just in time that the suitcase is booby-trapped with a bomb, and Felix escapes into the night in a gentle confetti of what used to be a whole lot of money. Now that everyone is equally screwed, Rhys tops off the evening by falling down into a hole. In a strange twist of luck, it happens to be a hole containing something related to the mysterious Gortys project. For this group, that means some valuable tech, the most valuable of all what may or may not be a genuine Vault Key. There are two pieces of it, and Fiona picks up one, while Rhys picks up the other. Then things get a little weird, as Rhys suddenly screams like a wee girl and runs off into a different part of the hole they fell into while everyone else tries to figure out what to do. Rhys has a good reason for this, since he just witnessed the holographic form of Handsome Jack, Hyperion's greatest megalomaniac who is 1) dead and 2) only visible and audible to him, because he's a genius and downloaded an AI of Jack into his head when he stuck that random ID key in there.
A whole lot more hijinks with Rhys and Jack ensue, but that's not who this app is about. Eventually they all get out of the Gortys Project hole and head off toward the ladies' hometown of Hollow Point to regroup. Along the way, Hyperion starts shooting them with the big laser on its moon base, and in the chaos, Rhys and Vaughn fall out of the caravan to be lost in the desert for awhile while Sasha, Fiona and their badly damaged vehicle limp back toward home.
Things aren't that great in Hollow Point either, where the price on Fiona's head has at least doubled, and there are a whole bunch of people who want to collect. They have just enough time to find a last message and mementos from Felix (including a couple of grenades, because who doesn't need grenades), and meet up with the boys before they're off and running again, this time for the city where this Gortys Project is supposed to be hidden.
Turns out, it is, but they have a whole bunch of unfriendly faces waiting there for them. Both August, the mark Sasha had lied to about the Vault Key, and Vasquez, the Hyperion guy Rhys was trying to screw over, are just waiting for the rest of the crew to show up with the important pieces of the...whatever it is that will take them to the Gortys Project. Since it turns out they're the only ones who can hold the Key pieces without getting a nasty shock, Rhys gets marched down one hallway and Fiona gets marched down another, they put the Keys into their respective keyholes, have a super cool sequence where their two platforms get moved together, and then a super embarrassing one where they have to push like hell to make the two pieces connect. Connecting them creates...a floating metal ball. Pretty neat, except for how nobody knows what it is or does, and they promptly almost drop it off the floating platforms. This makes the bots protecting Gortys very unhappy, and suddenly there are guns and lasers and explosives pointing at everyone's heads. In short, it's a bad day. Fiona pulls out a grenade, threatening to blow herself, Rhys, and the floating metal ball to bits. Meanwhile, Rhys lets Handsome Jack integrate with his cybernetics to control all the robots with the promise that nobody will die...probably...unless Rhys wants them to, which would be totally cool with Jack.
And that's all we know, because the episode ends.
Personality: Having grown up as a grifter, Fiona is a pretty good snap-judge of character, but is by no means infallible when it comes to these things. Felix's betrayal comes as a complete shock to her, and her hatred of Hyperion blinds her to Rhys and Vaughn's actual personalities for much of the time they spend together. Fiona also has no compunctions about embellishing on a story to improve the action, make herself look good, or make Rhys and Vaughn look dumb. Storytelling is all part of a good con, and when she has to she can cook up a real humdinger.
On the whole, she's slow to trust and quick to get suspicious, because everything on Pandora has at least even odds of being a con, and everyone on the planet was raised to believe that nobody from Hyperion is ever to be trusted. Vaughn and especially Rhys have to do a lot to earn even a little of her trust, and it's only when they follow the sisters and their busted caravan to Hollow Point (and get them out of a very sticky situation) when they could have gone after Gortys on their own that Fiona actually begins to believe that Rhys isn't all talk, even going so far as to call the Hyperion guys her friends. It's not a word she uses lightly.
'Friendship' is a weird concept to all the characters in the game, but Fiona seems to have a good handle on things like love and forgiveness, even if they're more rare than diamonds in a poop chute. She believes Felix's ECHO apology to them and that he somehow had their best interests at heart when he took the money and ran, while Sasha is furious and resentful that he would dare say such things after what he'd done to them. Fiona calms Sasha a bit, telling her that it's all right to be angry, and that they'll get off Pandora someday, Felix or no Felix.
As the elder sister, Fiona is the cool head to Sasha's fiery temperament. Throughout the game, she carries only a one-shot derringer pistol tucked into her sleeve and a maximum of two bullets on her at any time, while her little sister sports a few different SMGs (semiautomatic machine guns) that she liberally applies when necessary. Fiona is a firm believer in the idea that quick-thinking and slick-talking will get her out of more trouble than shooting her way out of any given situation, and thus far this has proved mostly true. Fiona has some balls of steel, and she's not afraid to put them to good use, whether it's lying about a fake Vault Key or convincing some random bandit that she is indeed a driver in the death rally and would he get her damn ride already, jeez. On the other hand, she also convinces Vaughn to ride in the death rally with her with a somewhat rousing speech about 'revving the engines on his life' and having exciting experiences, so it's not all bad. She puts her charisma to good use, or at least to use that benefits her and her sister.
In a world where things like trust, safety and love are so rare, Sasha is, at this point, more or less Fiona's everything. She is the only person Fiona can trust completely, and the only person that she hesitates to put at risk. When Fiona is trying to sweet-talk her way into something, she wants Sasha safely out of the way in case things go sour. When she and Rhys are being forced to assemble the mysterious Gortys project, Fiona keeps her cool right up until guns get pointed at her sister's head, at which point she threatens to blow herself, Rhys, and the potential Vault Key to bits with a grenade. Keeping her kid sister safe and happy (or as happy as one gets to be on Pandora) are top priorities in Fiona's life, and she's used to working with Sasha as a pair. Together, they make a great pair, and they're slowly learning to work with Rhys and Vaughn to make a full team.
This isn't by any means to say Fiona is perfect, or even particularly good. She has no problem with robbing anyone who doesn't protect their money or looting the corpses of the dead and dying. At one point, she scares some little psychos (which is what they call themselves, not the fake-medical terminology) off a man they're stabbing and then takes his money while he bleeds out, saying only that 'a girl's gotta eat'. Not exactly an angel, but nobody on Pandora is.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations: Fiona is just a run of the mill human being with no superhero powers. She's more fit than an average person, as she seems to have no problem doing things like leaping across rooftops in heeled boots, falling off things a fair amount of times, and struggling with hardened psychos when she needs to. That said, she's not a Vault Hunter like the MCs of the main franchise games, and doesn't seem to be carrying any special tech like a shield or have a unique class skill.
Inventory: 1 set clothing, including hat, boots, jacket, vest, shirt, and hip pack for inventory (whether the hip pack has hammerspace powers or how effective her hammerspace is would be up to the mods, but physics-defying inventory is definitely a thing in the game. everything but her clothes, derringer, and comm fits in a little hip pack.)
1 derringer pistol on a wrist spring with a single bullet
2 homemade grenades
about a thousand dollars in Pandoran/Hyperion money
1 bloody spork
1 eyeball
1 hand-held blacklight
1 in-ear communicator that could connect to similar communicators carried by Sasha, Vaughn, Felix, and Rhys (I would like to eventually bluetooth this to her comm for voice conversations)
1 metal ball approximately the size of a small beach ball, of no obvious purpose. (it is probably a Vault Key, and won't do anybody a lick of good on the TQ, other than possibly putting on a neat light show. in any case, nobody will be figuring out how it works or doesn't until there's a canon explanation, and even then, a map to a Vault isn't any help to them here.)
Appearance: this pops pretty big
Age: 29
S A M P L E S
Log Sample: When Fiona talked with her sister about wanting to get off Pandora, she had definitely not meant 'via kidnapping into a stasis tube of disgusting blue goop while naked'. But on the other hand, hey, it wasn't Pandora. On the other other hand, Sasha didn't seem to be anywhere, and that was definitely not okay. She wasn't answering her ECHO, which only spewed a quiet, distorted static into her ear, or Fiona's good old-fashioned yelling around the locker room.
Once she gave up on that, took stock of her inventory and went and found a room, she flopped down on the mattress, marveled that she was lying on a mattress, and then started to think. It wasn't like she could walk around going "Hi, I'm Fiona, wanted Pandoran con artist and possible Vault Key holder!" That just wasn't going to cut it. She needed a cover.
She very specifically did not think of the exact moment she had come from.
There was no point in a fake name, since a once-over of the flimsy looking ECHO device she'd been given showed her own right there on the lock screen. The rest was harder. Felix had never been in favor of a con longer than a week or two, especially in a small town. People started recognizing each other, things went wrong.
Half an hour later, she was still coming up empty. Well, there was always improvising. It was one of the things she did best. So she stood up with a groan, adjusted her hat at its proper jaunty angle, and ventured out into the halls.
"Hi," she said to the first person she passed, a little bit wide-eyed and a little bit sheepish, and she rubbed at the back of her neck. "I'm Fiona and I'm kinda new here. Brand new, actually. Probably still have some of that goop behind my ears." She gave a little shudder. The skin behind her ears was perfectly clean, especially considering how much time she'd spent in the luxury of a hot shower. "Anyway, could you point me at the nearest food?" The question was followed by a bright, hopeful smile.
Comms Sample:
[the woman on the video has a smile on that's attempting to be confident, but seems just a touch wobbly. Her hair is brown with a vivid red streak on one side, and she seems to have coordinated the rest of her outfit with said streak, down to the ribbon trim on her white bowler hat, which, while clean, has definitely seen better years. given what she's discovered about the size and history of the ship, she's decided that she might be better served not coming out swinging with her normal confidence. this wasn't pandora, after all, and it seemed like people often actually helped a girl in need. weird.]
Hey, so, I bet you all get this a lot, but I'm looking for some people. They're kinda important--well, at least one of them is--and I kinda ended up here with some really, really awkward timing. So, Sash, if you're listening to this, call me already, wouldja?
Guess I should introduce myself, huh? I'm Fiona, and I'd say I'm fresh off the boat except for how I'm actually fresh on the boat. So to speak.
[that had sounded better in her head.]
Yeah.
Anyway, if anybody has the latest ECHOcast newsfeed, catching up on current events would be great.
[there's a moment of silence where she seems to be contemplating turning off the feed, but then she snaps her fingers, as though remembering something.]
Oh, right, Rhys and Vaughn, if you're around you should give me a call too. Don't ask me how, but I've still got the thing.
Your Name: rui
OOC Journal:
ruiUnder 18? If yes, what is your age?: nope
Email + IM: alioth @ gmail, life in flame @ aim
Characters Played at Ataraxion: Sophie Groeneveldt (
worthtempting)C H A R A C T E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: Fiona
Canon: Tales from the Borderlands (part of the Borderlands franchise)
Original or Alternate Universe: OU
Canon Point: end of ep 2
Number: 091
Setting: Tales from the Borderlands
Borderlands universe
info about Pandora
For a little tl;dr, Tales from the Borderlands (let's go with TFTBL) is a Telltale Games offshoot of the popular Borderlands series of first-person shooters, which are games full of clever storytelling, irreverent humor (poop jokes abound) and surprisingly well-crafted characters.
NOTE: Telltale games are the sort where situations and outcomes change based on player responses, so the two main characters can have different sorts of personalities depending on how they're played. This is my version of the plot and of Fiona, but it's not the only possible version of either.
The story takes place mainly on the space station Helios, owned by evil overload corporation Hyperion, where the only way to get ahead is to stab some backs, step on some faces, and throw the right people out of the right airlocks; and on the planet Pandora, which Hyperion has helped turn into a desert wasteland where almost literally everything is trying to kill you all the time. So, Pandorans have a teensy weensy grudge against Hyperion employees for ruining their planet, their economy, and their lives, and Hyperions basically see Pandorans as kill-crazy savages. In most cases, neither side is exactly wrong.
The two main playable characters of TFTBL are Rhys, the occasionally-charismatic Hyperion fuckboy who ends up on Pandora trying to screw some jerk who just screwed him out of a promotion, and Fiona, a clever grifter who participates in the con that would've screwed that jerk really good if Rhys had just kept his nose out of it.
History: Fiona and her sister Sasha grew up in an underground city on Pandora called Hollow Point (because it's in a cave, get it?). They spent their younger years living on the streets, surviving by picking pockets and dumpster diving and probably searching the pockets of dead or dying people, since there were never really a shortage of those. One day, they picked a mark who caught them attempting to steal his wallet. But instead of shooting them, he taught them how to do it better. Felix took the girls in and gave them a place to stay. Fiona, Sasha, and Felix became a team, and then gradually a family.
Their cons got bigger and better, until they finally saw opportunity for the Big One, the one that could finally get them off Pandora. Felix created a fake Vault Key, an object that would have been basically priceless if genuine. Sasha found a mark named August, who found his mark in a Hyperion employee named Vasquez. Fiona pretended to be an archeologist who had found the Key, and everything was going to be just fine until Vasquez 'promoted' Rhys to Head Janitor on Helios and Rhys decided that he was going to get that Vault Key instead. His friend Vaughn from accounting got them the ten million dollars, and they headed down to Pandora.
Then more or less everything went wrong. Sasha realized that Rhys' cybernetic eye would recognize the fake Key, so they gently EMP'd his robotic arm, causing him to drop the key. It broke and revealed it was a fake anyway, and the money, or at least the Mysterious Unopenable Hyperion Suitcase, was stolen by some of the local color.
For obvious reasons, the Pandorans and the Hyperions were reluctant to trust each other, but they formed a tenuous truce to attempt to recover the money. This ended up with some crazy hijinks, including Rhys plugging a Hyperion ID key with unknown contents into the port on his head, Fiona and Vaughn ending up riding in a death rally, and Rhys using a really cool ninja sword to cut open an animal that had eaten a guy who'd been carrying the suitcase. In the end, Felix manages to grab the suitcase full of money, and all is well.
Except not. Felix turns on his girls, taking the suitcase and attempting to run away with it. Fiona warns him just in time that the suitcase is booby-trapped with a bomb, and Felix escapes into the night in a gentle confetti of what used to be a whole lot of money. Now that everyone is equally screwed, Rhys tops off the evening by falling down into a hole. In a strange twist of luck, it happens to be a hole containing something related to the mysterious Gortys project. For this group, that means some valuable tech, the most valuable of all what may or may not be a genuine Vault Key. There are two pieces of it, and Fiona picks up one, while Rhys picks up the other. Then things get a little weird, as Rhys suddenly screams like a wee girl and runs off into a different part of the hole they fell into while everyone else tries to figure out what to do. Rhys has a good reason for this, since he just witnessed the holographic form of Handsome Jack, Hyperion's greatest megalomaniac who is 1) dead and 2) only visible and audible to him, because he's a genius and downloaded an AI of Jack into his head when he stuck that random ID key in there.
A whole lot more hijinks with Rhys and Jack ensue, but that's not who this app is about. Eventually they all get out of the Gortys Project hole and head off toward the ladies' hometown of Hollow Point to regroup. Along the way, Hyperion starts shooting them with the big laser on its moon base, and in the chaos, Rhys and Vaughn fall out of the caravan to be lost in the desert for awhile while Sasha, Fiona and their badly damaged vehicle limp back toward home.
Things aren't that great in Hollow Point either, where the price on Fiona's head has at least doubled, and there are a whole bunch of people who want to collect. They have just enough time to find a last message and mementos from Felix (including a couple of grenades, because who doesn't need grenades), and meet up with the boys before they're off and running again, this time for the city where this Gortys Project is supposed to be hidden.
Turns out, it is, but they have a whole bunch of unfriendly faces waiting there for them. Both August, the mark Sasha had lied to about the Vault Key, and Vasquez, the Hyperion guy Rhys was trying to screw over, are just waiting for the rest of the crew to show up with the important pieces of the...whatever it is that will take them to the Gortys Project. Since it turns out they're the only ones who can hold the Key pieces without getting a nasty shock, Rhys gets marched down one hallway and Fiona gets marched down another, they put the Keys into their respective keyholes, have a super cool sequence where their two platforms get moved together, and then a super embarrassing one where they have to push like hell to make the two pieces connect. Connecting them creates...a floating metal ball. Pretty neat, except for how nobody knows what it is or does, and they promptly almost drop it off the floating platforms. This makes the bots protecting Gortys very unhappy, and suddenly there are guns and lasers and explosives pointing at everyone's heads. In short, it's a bad day. Fiona pulls out a grenade, threatening to blow herself, Rhys, and the floating metal ball to bits. Meanwhile, Rhys lets Handsome Jack integrate with his cybernetics to control all the robots with the promise that nobody will die...probably...unless Rhys wants them to, which would be totally cool with Jack.
And that's all we know, because the episode ends.
Personality: Having grown up as a grifter, Fiona is a pretty good snap-judge of character, but is by no means infallible when it comes to these things. Felix's betrayal comes as a complete shock to her, and her hatred of Hyperion blinds her to Rhys and Vaughn's actual personalities for much of the time they spend together. Fiona also has no compunctions about embellishing on a story to improve the action, make herself look good, or make Rhys and Vaughn look dumb. Storytelling is all part of a good con, and when she has to she can cook up a real humdinger.
On the whole, she's slow to trust and quick to get suspicious, because everything on Pandora has at least even odds of being a con, and everyone on the planet was raised to believe that nobody from Hyperion is ever to be trusted. Vaughn and especially Rhys have to do a lot to earn even a little of her trust, and it's only when they follow the sisters and their busted caravan to Hollow Point (and get them out of a very sticky situation) when they could have gone after Gortys on their own that Fiona actually begins to believe that Rhys isn't all talk, even going so far as to call the Hyperion guys her friends. It's not a word she uses lightly.
'Friendship' is a weird concept to all the characters in the game, but Fiona seems to have a good handle on things like love and forgiveness, even if they're more rare than diamonds in a poop chute. She believes Felix's ECHO apology to them and that he somehow had their best interests at heart when he took the money and ran, while Sasha is furious and resentful that he would dare say such things after what he'd done to them. Fiona calms Sasha a bit, telling her that it's all right to be angry, and that they'll get off Pandora someday, Felix or no Felix.
As the elder sister, Fiona is the cool head to Sasha's fiery temperament. Throughout the game, she carries only a one-shot derringer pistol tucked into her sleeve and a maximum of two bullets on her at any time, while her little sister sports a few different SMGs (semiautomatic machine guns) that she liberally applies when necessary. Fiona is a firm believer in the idea that quick-thinking and slick-talking will get her out of more trouble than shooting her way out of any given situation, and thus far this has proved mostly true. Fiona has some balls of steel, and she's not afraid to put them to good use, whether it's lying about a fake Vault Key or convincing some random bandit that she is indeed a driver in the death rally and would he get her damn ride already, jeez. On the other hand, she also convinces Vaughn to ride in the death rally with her with a somewhat rousing speech about 'revving the engines on his life' and having exciting experiences, so it's not all bad. She puts her charisma to good use, or at least to use that benefits her and her sister.
In a world where things like trust, safety and love are so rare, Sasha is, at this point, more or less Fiona's everything. She is the only person Fiona can trust completely, and the only person that she hesitates to put at risk. When Fiona is trying to sweet-talk her way into something, she wants Sasha safely out of the way in case things go sour. When she and Rhys are being forced to assemble the mysterious Gortys project, Fiona keeps her cool right up until guns get pointed at her sister's head, at which point she threatens to blow herself, Rhys, and the potential Vault Key to bits with a grenade. Keeping her kid sister safe and happy (or as happy as one gets to be on Pandora) are top priorities in Fiona's life, and she's used to working with Sasha as a pair. Together, they make a great pair, and they're slowly learning to work with Rhys and Vaughn to make a full team.
This isn't by any means to say Fiona is perfect, or even particularly good. She has no problem with robbing anyone who doesn't protect their money or looting the corpses of the dead and dying. At one point, she scares some little psychos (which is what they call themselves, not the fake-medical terminology) off a man they're stabbing and then takes his money while he bleeds out, saying only that 'a girl's gotta eat'. Not exactly an angel, but nobody on Pandora is.
Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations: Fiona is just a run of the mill human being with no superhero powers. She's more fit than an average person, as she seems to have no problem doing things like leaping across rooftops in heeled boots, falling off things a fair amount of times, and struggling with hardened psychos when she needs to. That said, she's not a Vault Hunter like the MCs of the main franchise games, and doesn't seem to be carrying any special tech like a shield or have a unique class skill.
Inventory: 1 set clothing, including hat, boots, jacket, vest, shirt, and hip pack for inventory (whether the hip pack has hammerspace powers or how effective her hammerspace is would be up to the mods, but physics-defying inventory is definitely a thing in the game. everything but her clothes, derringer, and comm fits in a little hip pack.)
1 derringer pistol on a wrist spring with a single bullet
2 homemade grenades
about a thousand dollars in Pandoran/Hyperion money
1 bloody spork
1 eyeball
1 hand-held blacklight
1 in-ear communicator that could connect to similar communicators carried by Sasha, Vaughn, Felix, and Rhys (I would like to eventually bluetooth this to her comm for voice conversations)
1 metal ball approximately the size of a small beach ball, of no obvious purpose. (it is probably a Vault Key, and won't do anybody a lick of good on the TQ, other than possibly putting on a neat light show. in any case, nobody will be figuring out how it works or doesn't until there's a canon explanation, and even then, a map to a Vault isn't any help to them here.)
Appearance: this pops pretty big
Age: 29
S A M P L E S
Log Sample: When Fiona talked with her sister about wanting to get off Pandora, she had definitely not meant 'via kidnapping into a stasis tube of disgusting blue goop while naked'. But on the other hand, hey, it wasn't Pandora. On the other other hand, Sasha didn't seem to be anywhere, and that was definitely not okay. She wasn't answering her ECHO, which only spewed a quiet, distorted static into her ear, or Fiona's good old-fashioned yelling around the locker room.
Once she gave up on that, took stock of her inventory and went and found a room, she flopped down on the mattress, marveled that she was lying on a mattress, and then started to think. It wasn't like she could walk around going "Hi, I'm Fiona, wanted Pandoran con artist and possible Vault Key holder!" That just wasn't going to cut it. She needed a cover.
She very specifically did not think of the exact moment she had come from.
There was no point in a fake name, since a once-over of the flimsy looking ECHO device she'd been given showed her own right there on the lock screen. The rest was harder. Felix had never been in favor of a con longer than a week or two, especially in a small town. People started recognizing each other, things went wrong.
Half an hour later, she was still coming up empty. Well, there was always improvising. It was one of the things she did best. So she stood up with a groan, adjusted her hat at its proper jaunty angle, and ventured out into the halls.
"Hi," she said to the first person she passed, a little bit wide-eyed and a little bit sheepish, and she rubbed at the back of her neck. "I'm Fiona and I'm kinda new here. Brand new, actually. Probably still have some of that goop behind my ears." She gave a little shudder. The skin behind her ears was perfectly clean, especially considering how much time she'd spent in the luxury of a hot shower. "Anyway, could you point me at the nearest food?" The question was followed by a bright, hopeful smile.
Comms Sample:
[the woman on the video has a smile on that's attempting to be confident, but seems just a touch wobbly. Her hair is brown with a vivid red streak on one side, and she seems to have coordinated the rest of her outfit with said streak, down to the ribbon trim on her white bowler hat, which, while clean, has definitely seen better years. given what she's discovered about the size and history of the ship, she's decided that she might be better served not coming out swinging with her normal confidence. this wasn't pandora, after all, and it seemed like people often actually helped a girl in need. weird.]
Hey, so, I bet you all get this a lot, but I'm looking for some people. They're kinda important--well, at least one of them is--and I kinda ended up here with some really, really awkward timing. So, Sash, if you're listening to this, call me already, wouldja?
Guess I should introduce myself, huh? I'm Fiona, and I'd say I'm fresh off the boat except for how I'm actually fresh on the boat. So to speak.
[that had sounded better in her head.]
Yeah.
Anyway, if anybody has the latest ECHOcast newsfeed, catching up on current events would be great.
[there's a moment of silence where she seems to be contemplating turning off the feed, but then she snaps her fingers, as though remembering something.]
Oh, right, Rhys and Vaughn, if you're around you should give me a call too. Don't ask me how, but I've still got the thing.