<span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial black;">Pilot</span><br/><div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/4/44/Sonjalg.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Sonja Blackstone<br/><strong>Sex:</strong>Female<br/><strong>BattleMech:</strong><em>Black Knight</em>BLK-6-NT<br/><strong>Homeworld:</strong>Erdvyn<br/><strong>Original Faction:</strong>Periphery/None<br/><br/><strong>Description:</strong>Sonja’s external image suggests her rough, fringe origins. Her face is dominated by a rough scar down the left side which cuts across one of her striking green eyes and mars her otherwise attractive features. Her red hair is worn in a series of messy dreadlocks that cascade down her back like a mane, giving her a wild, almost feral look. She sports several more minor scars across her body (including an ugly burn on her right shoulder), the result of her rough upbringing and background.<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>Officially, the planet Erdvyn is listed as ‘dead’ on interstellar maps. The truth of the matter is somewhat different. Central authority on the planet collapsed long ago, with its cities left in ruins and its infrastructure devastated. But its people remain, the descendants of its former glory left to eke out a living among the remnants of the past. This was the life that Sonja was born into, the child of scavengers who made their living by picking through the ruins of the planet’s fallen cities. Her early life was rough enough, living off whatever scraps her family could find or trade for. Form an early age, Sonja grew used to going hungry or living rough in whatever shelter they could find. It was not an easy life, and one she yearned to escape.<br/><br/>When she was eighteen, a band of pirates called the Black Fang Legion made the dead world their home. The Legion were the only power on the planet, their Battlemechs able to easily destroy anyone able to resist them and allowing them to impose their control by force. Most of the population soon learned to accept their new overlords, doing their best to avoid the pirates or incurring their wrath. However, Sonja saw them as a way off the into a better life.<br/><br/>She bartered her way into the Legion using her knowledge of scavenging to lead them to a cache of high tech equipment from a long-destroyed Battlemech factory. That was enough to impress them and earn her a shot. Within a year, a combination of talent and bartering through other ‘discoveries’ had seen her assigned to pilot an ancient, reconditioned Battlemech in their raiding team. This was not the end of her plan, however.<br/><br/>After several raids to other Periphery planets, Sonja’s first ever attack on an Inner Sphere planet took her and the rest of her Raiding team to a nearby Lyran Commonwealth world. Once on world, rather then hitting her assigned target, Sonja instead deserted from her team. Turning against them, she bartered a place for her and her Battlemech on a cargo ship against information that helped the planetary defenders to hunt the raiders down. After burning the last bridge to her past, Sonja made her way to the mercenary planet of Outreach, hoping to find legitimate employment.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Outwardly. Sonja appears to be cool, collected and to the point. She will focus on the objective and what is needed to get it done. Her approach tends towards the practical and functional, opting for sensible tactics while ensuring that she does a thorough job. This is a result of her upbringing, and the necessity for survival in a rather unforgiving environment where even the basics were hard to come by. She is used to roughing it, and has an ability to make herself comfortable under even the most unlikely conditions. For example, she could just as easily sleep in her Battlemech’s cockpit or a crude shelter as she could in a comfortable bed.<br/><br/>Inwardly, she lacks self-confidence and has low self-esteem. She is often awkward around unfamiliar people and has a lot of trouble opening up to strangers. She doesn’t like to let this side of herself show, feeling that it could hamper her attempts to integrate into a more normal life and Inner Sphere society. Likewise, she tries not to let her origins show through, feeling that coming from the Periphery would be seen as ‘backwards’.<br/><br/>Sonja is not proud of her past and how she came to be a Mechwarrior, and will try to avoid talking about it. If asked directly, she prefers to answer in a roundabout way.<br/><br/><strong>Speciality Skills:</strong>Sonja is a good shot and good at keeping cool under fire, or when her ‘Mech is overheating/damaged. Her upbringing and background has taught her a lot about survival, finding resources and water, scavenging and dirty fighting.<br/><br/><strong>Sexual Ons:</strong>Sonja is straight and dominant-leaning, but relatively vanilla. She particularly enjoys receiving oral sex.<br/><br/><strong>Sexual Offs:</strong>Rape, receiving anal sex, anything to do with body fluids/gore/etc<br/>