Independent Rivia Durane

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NAME:
Rivia Durane
Aliases: Paraka Valan, Cold Fist

FACTION: Bounty Hunters Guild

RANK: Tracker

SPECIES: Human
AGE: 26
GENDER: Female
HEIGHT: 5'3"
WEIGHT: 116 Lbs.
FORCE SENSITIVE: No.

APPEARANCE:
Rivia matches the description of what many might call a common thug with a few differences. She has flowing black hair, kept unusually clean when considering the type of people she is often found associating with. She generally keeps the hair tied up in a neat ponytail to keep it out of the way unless she is at the cantina to relax or other such appropriate circumstances.

She has deep green eyes and slightly tanned skin, her eyes are narrow and angled in a manner that makes it hard for her gaze to come across as anything but sharp or aggressive even when she isn't glaring at someone. She has a scar under her left eye from a blade, and a few burn scars on her right forearm. Her right bicep and her entire left arm are covered in tattoos stylized after sword wielding warriors and tiger-like creatures beset in a scene depicting a temple at night. She also has a large tattoo on her back which mostly depicts a mountain, a lake spread out before it, surrounded in trees. The level of detail involved and full color speaks to the importance of those markings to her, but also to their expense.

The lines of her face are distinct and sharp, trying and partially failing to strike a balance between femininity and strength, owing to the somewhat unfriendly aura her eyes naturally give off. Her voice however is generally clear and obviously feminine, when she chooses to speak.

Along her back and the side of her chest opposite her tattoos are a number of noticeable scars she hasn't yet covered up with tattoo work, leaving many to wonder what's under the tattoos, if anything.


ATTRIBUTES:
Rivia is very strong in close combat and blaster pistol range. She thinks on her feet and can react very quickly to an unpredictable situation thanks to her honed reflexes, often coming up with outlandish solutions to problems that others wouldn't easily think of. This makes her ideal for activity in a hectic environment where other people may fall apart under the stress. This also extends to piloting ships and speeders to some degree, mostly pertaining to evasive maneuvers and emergency landings specifically. She spent much of her life training in several martial arts forms, to the point where she can hold her own against 2 or 3 opponents in unarmed or melee combat, provided they aren't on her skill level as well.

Her close combat and pistol training was closely paired with linguistic studies, her strengths in basic, hutteese, jawaese, droidspeak and a bit of Ryl(she lacks lekku, so this is more just her understanding of what is being communicated.) Because she spent so much time focusing on these pursuits, she was bound to wind up with some related shortcomings.

Aside from her appearance, the nature of her upbringing and job causes her to be rather distrustful, and she sucks at hiding it. Her laser focus on close combat and pistol marksmanship has limited her options as a Bounty hunter. While she owns a blaster rifle and does employ its use, she is average at best, and sub par at worst in actually using it, meaning she has to get up close and personal with her targets, which can cause her cover to be blown, and simply rules out any acquisitions that require a long range touch entirely. She also has a little bit of an issue with explosives. The burn scars on her arm hint at a bit of inexperience in that department, and she is very reluctant to employ the use of lethal explosives in any capacity because of this.

She is fairly intelligent, strong and dexterous, but her distrust of people and aggressive looking demeanor can be offputting to some, making any attempts at networking and diplomacy a delicate matter indeed. Her strength is also relative, being an unaugmented human female, she will of course have some issues against the naturally stronger races regardless of her training, at least in head on matters of strength. Her tracking abilities are fairly good, she can spot someone hiding in a crowd, is good at deducing someone's intentions, and predicting what someone under pressure will do, since she has been living that life from the start.

PERSONALITY:
Rivia makes attempts to be friendly in some capacity, though it can be easily undermined by her appearance at first glance, and her initial distrust of people. Her voice is smooth but sometimes the things she chooses to say can easily be twisted against her, her early life and what influenced it plays a big part in this issue.

Rivia is somewhat unlikely to speak first, but isn't necessarily a recluse either. When she is in a good mood, she will laugh and drink with almost anyone, but anything short of that and she seems closed off, very focused on whatever she is doing.

She does play host to a rather short temper as well. If she feels slighted, you will know about it, and very quickly. She does not take false accusations well, and if she feels you are wrong she will be rather hard headed in her approach to make sure you understand that. Despite this she manages to keep violence to a minimum, but everyone has their limits and hers still don't make it to what could be called 'generous' in any sense of the word, but she isn't likely to start blasting right away if someone pisses her off.

BIOGRAPHY:
Born on Florrum to a poor family in a world where making ends meet means doing what you have to do, no matter what that might be, Rivia learned hard and fast how to survive and think on her feet. Her birth name though, was Paraka Valan. She had several other siblings, and meals were a matter of who contributed the most got to eat the most.

She associated with all kinds of people to get the skills and knowledge she needed to get ahead, and this is why, out of all of her siblings, she alone survived when a rival gang attacked the 'settlement' that her family was a part of. Her parents were driven away by their debts and the grief of losing so many children that they seemed to feel Paraka was already guaranteed to die as well and they fled the planet leaving her behind. Thankfully by this time she was old enough to hit the streets and make a living on her own, and her endeavors at seeking knowledge made this all the more possible.

She escaped having any brushes with slavery by joining up with a gang that took hits and dealt in spice. She was good at what she did, and her demeanor and hand to hand skills earned her the moniker Cold Fist. This continued for a few years before another rival gang attacked her gang and nearly destroyed it. She found herself sick of living the same lifestyle that her parents did, and desperately looked for a way out. The problem was she had a small bounty on herself as well. She undertook one last job for someone in exchange for getting a new identity and facial structure, which has given her the more aggressive looking features she now sports. As soon as she gathered up enough funds and got her new identity, she went to join the Bounty Hunters Guild under the name Rivia Durane. She started taking odd jobs for them instead, and soon discovered she had a knack for it, or at least enjoyed the work. Several years later of her establishing her place in the galaxy doing that brings us to her present day.

SKILLS:
I'll estimate these on a scale of 1-10.

Hand to hand combat/ short bladed weapons - 9/10
Blaster Pistol Proficiency - 7/10
Blaster Rifle Proficiency - 4/10
Sniping - 2/10
Piloting - 7/10
Survival skills 7/10
Medical First Aid 6/10
Multilingual - (Basic, Huttese, Jawaese, Droid speak, Ryl[Understand only] )
Slicing 6/10
Tracking 8/10
Explosives 1/10
Traps/Nets/Ambushing 6/10

GEAR:
The following weapons were found Here.

Two DG-34 Heavy Blasters
A BM-548 Blaster Rifle
A pair of Kyuzo Petar

Her armor set is found Here.

She typically carries and uses these on a regular basis, aside from carrying restraints for taking aquisitions alive.

EZ Phone
Signal tracer
D-1001 Commlink



ROLE-PLAYS:

None as of yet.




RELATIONSHIPS:
A few associates within the Bounty Hunters Guild are all that is worth mentioning here..... for now.

SHIP:
Rivia has come into ownership of a ship out of necessity and many years on the job.

YX-940 Space Transport

DROIDS:
None as of yet.

PETS:
None as of yet.