NIKSIA
NAME : Niksia Nystalea
GENDER : Female
AGE : 28 (10/23/1980, Cusp of Scorpio)
OCCUPATION : Retired, ex-Assassin
RACE : Human
LIKES : Reading lighthearted fiction books and the occasional research or reference book. Exploring outdoors; in forests, parks and other places of natural interest. Non human or unusual things.
DISLIKES : Backstabbing, and is aware of the irony. Liars. Having to lie.
LOCATION : Roughly between Barton and Durem, near at least one park. Can't really be missed as the one storey house stands alone.
LOOKS : Niksia's hair is dark red and styled in waist length waves. Her skin is pale white and her eyes are medium brown. Height is about five foot, six inches in bare feet. Weight is guessed at about 125lbs or thereabouts. Niksia normally wears a tight fitting top with no sleeves along with a long red scarf and tight black trousers of varying styles. Black fingerless gloves cover her hands and the criss-crossing scars that mark them from wrist to fingertip. The type of boot she wears is a black lace up style that reach to just under her knees.
PERSONALITY : Coming across as shy and sometimes awkward, Niksia is actually a victim of distrust. She can't help but be worried that people she meets for the first time might try to hurt her. While this seems like an empty fear, the strain of keeping her past a secret has opened her up to it. Niksia longs for the day when she can be open about what she used to do and why.
The training she received at the school and the lessons her parents gave her about life mean that her moral code differs greatly to what people would assume it to be. Refusing to kill without proper cause made many a mission end up filed away as void. This wasn't wrong, by any means, but few were willing to be as strict to the laws as Niksia was.
All of this combined with the lack of social interaction, caused mostly by other students looking to secure themselves a place at graduation, means Niksia's meetings with people are very dangerous near misses. Opportunity for it to end badly is always waiting in the wings though it never seems that willing to arrive. There is plenty of time for that to change however and hopefully she won't suffer as badly as she fears.
Deep down inside she is still the young and happy child her parents had been trying hard to raise under unusual circumstances. Niksia is simply afraid to admit that to herself or show it so clearly to others.
HISTORY : Niksia was an only child in a happy family, her mother and father the only real bonds she had with anyone. Both worked as Assassins, a family tradition that dated back many years. When she was eight years old her mother died and while her father loved Niksia, the death of his wife took its toll and he died only a year later.
Having no other family she was inducted fully into the guild school, a common occurrence in Assassin families. At this school she got the scars on her hands, in what she claims was an accident and records suggest was a late night training incident that was never heavily investigated.
After an eventful education she graduated along with a small number of others and nothing of interest took place for a number of years. Things changed when someone she refused to assassinate turned up dead. The right to refuse was complicated, but once invoked it meant that without due cause the person was safe from assassination. With the signs of an Assassin all over the victim, the finger of blame pointed at Niksia.
For what it was worth, she eventually managed to prove to the higher ups that she wasn't to blame, but the real killer was under special protection... To stop any more attempts to remove Niksia and risk a higher family having to lose face, an unknown amount of money was offered to make her disappear. Fed up with the lack of morals she was surrounded by, she accepted.
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