<div class="floatright">(http://orig06.deviantart.net/2289/f/2015/028/4/e/ryuko_by_kr0npr1nz-d8fqyq6.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Kathryn Foss<br/><strong>Callsign:</strong>Dwarf/Dorf, 'Vibe' (unofficial)<br/><strong>Race:</strong>Human<br/><strong>Sex:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Age:</strong>23<br/><strong>Occupation:</strong>Veritech Pilot, RIO<br/><strong>Rank:</strong>2nd Lieutenant<br/><br/><strong>Description:</strong><br/>Kathryn is<em>just</em>tall enough to meet the minimum height requirements for being a pilot. She keeps herself in excellent physical shape, refusing to (or perhaps afraid of) being denied flight privileges due to physical reasons. Self-described as being "smol, but also (ง •̀_•́)ง". Her short stature, wiry physique, nerdy interests, somewhat bellicose attitude, and impressive ability to consume alcohol earned her the callsign 'Dwarf'.<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong><br/>Kathryn was born to a happy and moderately well off family on Earth, with a single older sister (Millie). As a child, she dreamed of mecha and flying through the stars. She did (and still does) wave model ships and robots around, making 'whoosh' and 'pew-pew' noises. The UN SPACY was her only real path to that, so she took it as soon as she could. The day she crossed the threshold of being tall enough to be a pilot was easily one of the happiest days of her life.<br/><br/>Her interest in veritech most likely began as a child, during the Zentradi invasion where an early veritech fighter was instrumental in saving her sister's life. If such a thing could protect her big sister (who protected her), she would need to fly one to protect others. Millie ended up working as some form of medical research scientist, but Kathryn's excited, jargon filled ravings about her big sister's awesome research remain unintelligible to her wingmates.<br/><br/>Kathryn has some limited combat experience against non-peer opponents (has been in combat, but not against a 'real' opponent). Most of her prior experience was in flying the equivalent of a F-16 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting_Falcon) to the VF-1's F-14 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F-14_Tomcat). She finds her current craft heavy and sluggish by comparison, but 'fortunately' she's generally not in a combat pilot seat anymore, instead running ELINT and EWAR systems or flying around someone operating those systems. Possibly as a result of her piloting experience, she strongly favours the gunpod over missiles in combat. Somewhat hypocritically/amusingly, she tends to argue that missiles are superior to guns, and will tend to favour suggesting tactical positions for her wingmates that favor them.<br/><br/><strong>Your 3 best attributes / skills:</strong>Feisty, Determined, Situationally Aware<br/>Kathryn has a fiery passion, and (most of the time) the ability to maintain that fire. While neither bloodthirsty nor foolhardy, she does have a tendency to be the 'first one in, last one out' if given a choice/opportunity. She rarely burns out, and can maintain her enthusiasm, creativity and goal-focus for a surprising amount of time, making her surprisingly flexible for someone so bloody-minded.<br/><br/>While her pure piloting and gunnery skills are not the best, Kathryn has some of the best situational awareness there is. She wins most of her fights by getting and staying in the right place at the right time, and waiting for her opponent to slip up. Like anyone, she can be goaded into taking unreasonable risks, but she generally finds the prospect of defeating someone supposedly better than her by making them appear less patient than the supposed hothead. Somewhat to her annoyance, this has resulted in her gaining a RIO position instead of an Intercept position.<br/><br/><strong>Your 2 worst attributes / skills:</strong>Insecure, Mouth is Faster than Brain<br/>Due to her barely being tall enough to qualify for flight privileges, Kathryn is remarkably insecure about being denied her wings, and tends to overcompensate for this. This most obviously shows up in her attention to PT and maintaining her physical fitness, but it also manifests in her obsessive filing of reports and paperwork. While this would generally be an advantageous trait for an officer's career, it tends to result in her overworking herself and failing to keep up on the very paperwork she exhausted herself on. A common infraction of hers is having a berth 'unbefitting the dignity of the Corps', ie having a messy room with sex toys laying about. In one particularly egregious incident, a vibrator slipped out of her uniform during a readiness inspection, earning her the pseudo-callsign 'Vibe'. The 'Vibe' callsign is mostly limited to in-jokes, drunken pup crawls, and reports the writer thinks no-one will read; it sees more use when interacting with civilians than other members of the military.<br/><br/>The other limiting factor on her career is that, despite her best efforts, her mouth also tends to run faster than her brain. While a quick wit and willingness to speak ones mind is also generally seen as a positive, the inability to keep ones mouth shut has a long and glorious history of screwing people over, and Kathryn is no exception. While she rarely throws the first punch in a fight, her mouth is usually the instigating factor.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong><br/><sub>(ง •̀_•́)ง</sub>