Tiah Rivers

Name: Tiah Rivers

Age: 25

Race: Human

Sex: Female

Hair: Dirty Blond

Eyes: Green

Weight: 145 lbs

Height: 5' 10"

Weapons: Tiah wields two silver 9 mm pistols that she refurbished herself. They have 10-round clips each and semi-automatic fire. They are unremarkable save for the fact that she has several different kinds of ammo for them.

Normal - Just your average hollow-nosed 9 mm bullets.

Stun - These bullets discharge electricity upon contact. Taking a direct hit from one of these bullets can paralyze a person for up to a minute. Just being grazed by one can cause paralysis or muscle spasms in that area.

Poison - These bullets explode into a small cloud of poison gas. Inhalation of the gas can cause a person to feel weak and nauseous but doesn’t cause any lasting damage. Unfortunately, Tiah doesn’t have any defense from the poison, other than staying away until the cloud dissipates.

Cryo - Liquid nitrogen in contained in each of these bullets. They instantly freeze the wound they create, preventing that wound from healing for a bit.

Armor: None

Strengths: Tiah keeps herself in great shape, meaning that her strength and speed are a little above an average person’s. She’s also quite capable of handing herself in dangerous situations. Her guns’ versatility can sometimes keep an opponent on edge. She also fairly adept at close combat and is able to use her guns to block other weapons.

Weaknesses: Despite her agility, Tiah is still a normal human without any enhancements to her strength or speed. She doesn’t wear any armor so she defenseless against attacks that she can’t dodge or block. Her guns usefulness is just about limited to how much ammo she carries so once Tiah runs out, that’s it. Finally, she has a very limited knowledge of magic and can’t use any kind of spell.

Appearance: Tiah wears a green sleeveless shirt and tan shorts with black leggings. She also has brown boots and brown leather, fingerless gloves. Her pistols are in black holsters on each hip. There are also leather pouches for ammo around each thigh for easy access and reloading. Around this she wears a tan cloak with a hood. It has several holes and is tattered around the edges as it is used to protect her from the sun and wind-blown sand. There is also a pair of goggles around her neck that she wears when the wind is especially rough. Tiah herself is fit with muscles showing but not obvious. Her skin is tanned from spending hours in the sun with the occasional spot actually sun-burnt. Her blond hair reaches down to her chin and is usually kept behind her ears so it’s not in the way.

Personality: Rivers is a fairly cheerful, happy-go-lucky person. She loves to explore, which her job entails, and discover new things. This is also how she views battles, as something new to be explored. She’s fairly used to combat, having to fight creatures that roam her own world. But despite her cheerfulness, Tiah does have somewhat of a short temper. Telling her that she shouldn’t or can’t do something is a sure way to get her to do just that. While this has obviously gotten her in trouble a few times, she hasn’t quite learned her lesson. She’s quite good with machines and is able to fix just about anything she finds.

Biography: Tiah comes from a planet ravaged by a world war. This war, caused by ancient people now called Elders in Tiah’s time, leveled the population, stalled civilization, and nearly destroyed the world. Sixty percent of the planet was reduced to an endless desert. The remaining people nearly stopped using all technology, fearing their complete destruction. Civilization turned backwards as people tried to cope with their new environment.

However, that was a little over a thousand years ago. Cities eventually sprung over areas with massive underground lakes. These cities were never given individual names like before, instead called Oases. It was in one Oasis that Tiah Rivers was born. Both of her parents were Salvagers, people dedicated to finding and helping restore the Elders’ technology. While her parents did care for her greatly, they would still leave the Oasis in search for more technology. It was their profession, and food needed to be put on the table. At times like these, Tiah would be left with Eric, a Repairer who, aptly named, repaired what technologies Salvagers couldn’t. Because of this, Tiah quickly became used to technology, whether it was items people used everyday or the stranger ones that her parents would sometimes come back with.

Finally, after much begging, Tiah’s parents agreed to take her salvaging when she was 14. Of course, they took her someplace safe, under the Oasis. Despite the fact that people live right over Oases, they hardly ever look under them, leaving several technologies undiscovered. It was here that Tiah found the pair of pistols she now uses, along with bits and pieces of other objects. After that, her parents routinely took her out salvaging with them, until she was 17. At that point, Tiah took a sand strider, a boat that can sail through sand, her parents had repaired for her and went out on her own mission. It was by herself that she first faced Mutants, genetic aberrations left behind from the Elders. Because of her training with her pistols, she easily dispatched the few creatures and successfully recovered some technologies.

Tiah left the Oasis she was born in at 20, determined to make a name for herself. Which she managed to do so successfully. During one of her excavations, she came upon a broken-down robot. The Salvager managed to repair it, upon which the robot introduced itself as Mary, a domestic aid. Mary became Tiah’s traveling companion abroad the Winder, her sand strider. It was also during this time that she discovered alternate bullets for her pistols, which certainly helped when dealing with the stranger Mutants that guarded rare technologies. At the age of 25, Tiah has managed to explore a good portion of the world. However, with her curiosity, she won’t be satisfied until she’s discovered everything.

Battles
Good Grief, Lady - In Progress

*APPROVED*

I would have done so sooner but the prank stopped that. Speaking of which I miss my Banner ;_;