Kaiza's Questionnaire

1. What town or city do you live in? Why do you live there instead of anywhere else? Describe your home.

Link Answered before Kaiza's first Contract.

Kaiza lives in the Messenger quarters, in a shared room near the front of the Messengers' floor. She has claimed the bunk closest to the door, her jumpiness getting the better of her, and she rarely spends much time there. Her bunk is actually pretty hard to sleep in, due to all the random junk that she's dropped off in it "in case she needs it later", but she usually just curls into a small ball on the pillow instead of trying to clean it up.

She sleeps here instead of anywhere else because if she has to be vulnerable somewhere, it's certainly not going to be near members of factions she's had to give bad news to or make hard requests of. She still doesn't really consider this home, though.

2. How do you get your money right now? What do you spend it on?

Link Answered before Kaiza's first Contract.

Kaiza gets most of her money from gambling, running illegal races on scavenging trips, and gambling on the illegal races on scavenging trips. She spends most of her money on gambling, running illegal races on scavenging trips, and gambling on the illegal races on scavenging trips.

Kaiza has always had a bit of a hard time holding on to money, a bad habit she picked up from her mother. When she's hanging out on the Odyssey in her free time, she enjoys both drink and drug. When she gets to go out on small ship trips to scavenge, mine asteroids, etc., she enjoys the freedom of being farther away from C&C and uses it to dive a little deeper into the seedier side of things.

3. Describe your Ambition. What are you striving for? How far would you go to achieve this? Would you kill for it? How close to death would you come for it?

Link Answered before Kaiza's first Contract.

Kaiza will break C&C, whatever that takes and however she can. She will rip them to shreds, burn them to the ground, kill the ones who will not back down.C&C took from her, and that cannot stand.

She would kill for it, having had the ones she loved most killed by them, and she thinks that she would even take a perverse sort of pleasure from it.

She would let herself be killed for it, if her death could be the tipping point for change. Martyrdom can go a long way in the right hands, as can a symbolic spark.

She knows there are those who wish to reshape C&C, to change them into a "better" form of government. She doesn't think that's possible, not anymore. There is only the desire to rip and tear and claw.

4. What was the most defining event of your life (before signing The Contract), and how did it change you?

Link Answered before Kaiza's first Contract.

Betrayal. Lies. Death. All wrapped up in one awful night.

Kaiza grew up with her best friends Madge and Finn, the three of them as tight as peas in a pod. They got her through her father's death, and they swore to stick together always, even when they went into different factions. Kaiza and Finn ended up falling in love, and did their best to ensure that Madge never felt left out (and to try to help her find someone, too). Kaiza truly believed in the three of them, and in the better future that they wanted to work together to shape for the Odysseus.

Finn fell in with the Forgotten, making both girls promise not to say anything as he started slipping away more and more often or hiding things away. Kaiza wasn't interested in joining them herself, but loved Finn, and would have done anything to protect his secret. She thought that Madge would, too, until one night when Enforcers stormed into a poker night and ripped Finn from his chair. By the next morning, both Finn and Madge were dead, and Kaiza was left to pick up the pieces of her life.

Now, she knows only self-preservation, adrenaline, and how unsafe it is to trust.

5. Name and briefly describe three people in your life. One must be the person you are closest to.

Link Answered before Kaiza's first Contract.

Finn, her lover who she lost after a horrible betrayal. He was soft and sweet with her, highly protective against her mother, and always ready to do what it took. To the outside world, he was sharp and too sarcastic and more than a little dangerous, but very good at his job as an Enforcer. She was closer to him than to anyone else, and when he told her that he had been meeting with the Forgotten, she kept his secrets for him.

Madge, her best friend nightmare. They grew up together, closer than anything, even when Madge joined the Cultivators and Kaiza the Messengers. Madge was quiet, highly intelligent, and always fiddling with something anxiously. The night that Finn was taken by the Enforcers, Madge was nowhere to be found, and the next morning, she was found dead in her quarters.

Louisa, her mother. After Kaiza's father died when she was eight, her mother became bitter and twisted, blaming everything wrong in their lives on her daughter. She raised Kaiza to be distrusting of men, penny-pinching, and always looking over her shoulder... traits that Kaiza carries to this day, although not in the ways that her mother would like. They haven't spoken in years.