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Daisy Morris
Out of this nettle - danger, we pluck this flower - safety.
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The School of Hard Knocks. | |
History
Daisy grew up not remembering her mother. Her father was always moving them around, going from job to job... but Daisy noticed since she was very young that he was always watching, like he expected someone was looking for them. Her bao bao was a gunhand, though when Daisy was much older she began to believe that he has some sort of military training, but for what side she never knew. He taught her his trade as she grew up, taught her to shoot, to fight, to know when a deal was about to go sour and guns were about to be drawn. What he didn't teach her was how to deal with people, how to have a relationship with another person that didn't require stabbings or taking money for that violence. She never really had a childhood, nor was allowed to play with other children, her father felt it too dangerous considering... considering what Daisy never knew. Her main contact with other people was when she was younger, when her father would hire a whore for her usual services and to watch the girl while he was on a job. Unfortunately, as likely as not the woman would lock the girl in a closet and service other clients while Daisy's father was away. That encouraged Daisy to convince her father to take her with him as soon as he was willing. She would help him where she could, eventually even wielding a gun alongside him. He always said that she had the damnedest knack for seeing ambushes before the trap was sprung.
They both knew it would happen eventually... one day he didn't come back from a job. They had a plan: she was to take the money they had squirreled away and keep moving. He wanted her to retire, set herself up as a gunsmith or a deputy on some Rim planet... but she disobeyed again. She decided to keep with the only life she had ever known. So, she traveled about as always, helping brothels-full of women tell that patron or that not to come back again or take a little money from a poor settlement defend themselves against bandits.
But then she answered an advertisement on a whim. She found what seemed an almost-normal job. That was on Rickart Bordicchia's 'Pathfinder', as a gun hand. The ship was run fairly loosely, the huge crew kept together mostly by the captain's personal charisma, but there was excitement a-plenty - Lord Takeshi Odori himself often would utilize Rick's crew for Alliance Security operations that needed a certain amount of plausible deniability. This is where Daisy began to get an inkling of what life in the DAS might be like - no more looking over her shoulder. She could use her talents for what might be considered 'good'. There were certain stresses among the crew - people were promoted within the crew heirarchy over Daisy despite having less time on the ship, worse was that the captain was going to marry a certain member of the crew that Daisy had some confused feelings about.. this was too much in the end. So, when she saw a DAS advertisement suggesting that people apply for Interpol's Special Response Team, Daisy jumped at the chance.
She went to Londinium and applied, vetted by Director Brennart and put through her paces by several officers (Heather Jacy, and Dyre Esbenson, among others) and was accepted. Of course, she had to go through the Academy, but mostly this was book-work for her - most of the physical parts of the Academy training (marksmanship, martial arts, tactics, fire discipline, etc.) she was able to qualify on already. Thus, she completed a fast-track program and was immediately recruited by Dyre Espenson for a special unit even within the special SRT unit - approved by Director Brennart, Espenson, Heather Jacy, and Daisy travelled to a remote station to search for a lost ship. After a quick investigation they assisted the owners with the collection of their stolen ship. Unfortunately, Dyre disappeared and Heather was reassigned to the IAV Temperance along with the SRT commander Charlene Wong. Though likely Daisy could have transferred as well, she did not think that the life of a naval officer would suit her.
This left the unit in something of disarray, but Daisy kept working, kept her head down and was rewarded with two promotions within the SRT - now a sergeant, Daisy finds that she works much more with people than she ever expected. She has responsibility to lead people now, to keep them alive but also to see that the mission is completed. In the past she would have just done what needed to be done on her own. Now, she can't do that. People are counting on here now - her superiors in the Alliance, Alliance citizens, the people she leads into situations, even people out on the Rim who don't care much for folks from the Core trying to tell them what to do. Still, that's her job now - ask questions first and shoot later. This is a change for Daisy Morris.
She might have an almost-normal life now.
Is that good, or bad?
Recent Events
Daisy has taken a position on the 'Pathfinder' as a gunhand.
Personality
Daisy is for most part a perfectly normal person, or so she would tell you. She doesn't realize that she is rather dysfunctional. She does not feel it strange that she knows ways to kill someone with a chopstick but has no idea how to make her hair look decent. She doesn't understand why she puts people off, she only tells people the truth!
Daisy has a another problem - she steals things. Not because she is greedy or wants these things, she can't help herself. She sees something small, interesting, and unattended and her palms itch... so they end up in her pocket before she realizes it. Later she will tell herself that someone must have dropped the item, or it fell out of their pocket and she was just keeping it safe for them. She always meant to give it back! Onboard Pathfinder, Daisy has put out a 'Lost and Found' box with a sign on it... she dumps the things she has filched from her crewmates or dirtside there so people can claim them.
Trivia
Daisy is allergic to bees and their related flying beasties, not so much that she will die if she is stung... but she will wish she had. She is also quite afraid of them because of this.
The People
- [The Pathfinder[1]] Pathfinder is the ship Daisy crews on.
RP Hooks
- Daisy never knew her mother and her father was always running from something. Who was her mother and who was after her father? Does Daisy have relatives looking for her?
- Daisy is a veteran of quite a few jobs, some with her father and some on her own when she was older. Someone paid for these jobs and there are both victims and people who benefited from her work.
- Daisy's father had a past, possibly a military one. Was he a Browncoat? Alliance Special Forces? Something else?
Music
[Rasputina, "Things I'm Gonna Do"[2]]
A picture is worth a thousand words.
