Writer Info
Name: Lex
E-mail: evil_wild_one@yahoo.com
ICQ/AIM: EvilWildLex
Chara Info
Name: Vera Kassidy (known to some as Kass)
Age: 26
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 120 pounds
Weapon(s): A pair of large steel nunchakus with a chain, a basic standard-issue gun, thin daggers she wears with long chopstick-like hairpins to keep her hair in a bun.
Appearance: Vera's body is in excellent condition and it shows. She has the kind of body women aren't sure if they envy or find disturbingly unfeminine due to her muscle tone. Her strawberry colored hair is always kept out of the way with hairpins or a ponytail elastic, but she's never had the heart to cut it. Her grey eyes are unusually bright due to a touch of Mako. As for clothing, she sticks to a classic and tidy look both in the workplace and outside of it. She doesn't go for wild styles and she makes sure everything fits properly.
Personality: Vera is a frank and sometimes blunt individual with a great sense of humor that has carried her through her trials and tribulations. She's independent and likes to stand on her own two feet, but she still does enjoy the company of a variety of people, believing variety to be the spice of life. Vera doesn't get discouraged easily, and laughs uproariously at people that tell her she can't do something, unless said task is a physical impossibility for anyone not heavily juiced up on Mako.
She's very passionate about her goals and desires, and will go to great lengths to pursue them. She can overwork herself without being aware of it when she's really involved in something.
Brief History: Vera grew up as the baby of three siblings. Her family managed a chocobo stable close to Rocket Town, breeding them, caring for them, and renting them out to people. As her petite mother did her fair share of the physical labour around the stables, so did Vera, even though they could have managed with just her father and older brothers doing it. Thusly, she grew up in excellent physical condition, lifting two fifty pound bales of hay at a time.
She missed her eldest brother Scott terribly when he went off to join SOLDIER, so when she was fourteen, she set off to join up, too. While she could say she had a good life, she knew she wanted more than to raise chocobos all her life. The physical labour she'd grown up doing spared her some of the physical conditioning new SOLDIERs had to go through, and she progressed reasonably quickly through the ranks, slowly but surely getting herself a high school diploma and then university degree while she was at it. When fellow members of SOLDIER made rude jokes about how she'd actually progressed through the ranks while getting an education, she just laughed and cracked a few of her own. After a while, most of them gave up. If she wasn't hurt or offended by the rumors, they lost their power.
Vera had just been promoted to the rank of Colonel when the mayhem with Sephiroth, Aeris, the Lifestream and the WEAPONS ensued. Amidst the havoc, her brother Scott lost his life, and her parents experienced severe injuries. Her mother broke her arm and suffered a hernia, wheras her father would be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Vera experienced a few of her own injuries; several enormous bruises and nasty cuts, and a concussion.
When the calm had settled, the casualties were tallied up, and the world restoration project had begun, she applied for the late Heideggar's position: Head of Public Maintenance and Order. Her background in SOLDIER and her university degree made her one of the few qualified persons for the job, but it was her personality and record that got her the position.
Anything else: The small dose of Mako Vera received did little to enhance her physical strength, but it did increase her endurance and up her immune system significantly. Essentially, she's one of those precious few people that can pull a literal all nighter without suffering any ill-effects.
Also, she frequently looks after her young niece and nephew to give Scott's widow a break now and then, though she's always happy to get them back to their mom before her sanity suffers.