Nelan Tyria

Nelan Tyria
The Sniper Commando




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Profile

Alias: occasionally goes by Nel.

Race: Asari

Gender: Monogender

Age: Roughly 400. Matron

Marital Status: Single

Family: Mother - Moria Tessi - Alive
Father - Nelic Kurthan - Female Turian - Deceased

Details

Class: Adept

Specialization Class: Nemesis

Allegiance: Asari Military

Rank: Asari Commando - Sniper

Occupation: Commando

Character Description

Eye Color: Gray

Skin Color: Purple/Blue

Facial Markings: Silver markings around eyes that are shaped in thick tick marks that spread around forehead crest, silver mark on lower lip and chin.

General: Tall, 5'11 for height with a wired muscle build, strong arms. Favors simple rings for jewelry but usually wears some form of gloves when on missions.

Body modifications: N/A

Clothing: Favors armor on the heavier side, usually wears whatever provided from the military. Kept in black-brown colors. Her casual clothes usually remain professional, strongly made shirt and pants but when she actually relaxes she wears anything soft and comfortable.

Armour: Medium Armor[Asari]

Weaponry: M-97 Viper, M-6 Carnifex

Abilities:
Shockwave
Singularity
Fitness
Flare

Strengths: She has fairly high levels of stamina for both biotics and in general, heavy lifter, very determined.

Weaknesses: Ambivalent, stubborn, uses alot of energy, can be stingy

Likes: Shooting/Shooting ranges, talking, strange fondess to eating peanut butter, comfort food, credits

Dislikes: Sitting around, extrememe temperatures, dancing, tiredness, being woken up

Personality:
Nelan is strong willed, something taught to her by both her mother and father. As part of the asari military she respects authority but as a commando she is use to either doing solo missions or working in small groups so she has become testy to commands from strangers. She doesn't take kindly to being berated or teased though she has a habit of using dry humor on her peers and can be flat out sarcastic.
On the other hand, she is fairly good humored and can take jokes as long as they're not at her expense. In fact while she typically has a fairly grumpy front when she is around people she can be considered kind. If she has no reason too, she finds it causes too much energy to be rude to people but if she finds out someone is a nuisance she will either not bother with them or depending who they are and how they act she won't hesitate to imply violence.
She is terribly stubborn, when she sees something one way she will stick to it to her last breath. She isn't stupid though, she knows when her stubbornness could get her in trouble so she can hold her tongue. She isn't fond of being bossed around by the Matriarchs, she doesn't believe that age always comes with wisdom but she knows better than to refuse someone that far up the chain of command.
She is somewhat fascinated with the cultures of other species, atleast what is left of most. She knows about Turians the most due to her father who taught her a lot about military and honor. Though, what she got from her lessons was not honor of the fleet like what she was supposed to learn but honor of herself. She takes pride in her accomplishments and she does her work for herself, not just her homeworld and not just for her family. If she doesn't see any benefit for herself she won't do it. She's not into charity work.

Biography

History: Nelan was raised by her mother and father on Illium, she didn't leave until she was nearing her 30's when her father passed away. Nelic had left her mark though, she had taught her daughter plenty about the military and despite the protests of mother had even taught her to shoot a gun. She joined a small group Huntresses and served under the elected leader Te'elnia Sheya. She started learning for keenly the martial arts and tactics that Asari were proficient at, for many decades she spent honing her skills and finding out what style best suited her.
While usually Huntresses work individually or in small pairs she did end up in some much larger groups which needed commands. She didn't get to command her own group until she was nearing her 100's, by then she had much experience dealing with her independent comrades and she didn't mind the role. Unfortunately, commando leadership isn't structured and meant to be permanent so group dynamics and members were always fluctuating. 
She found stability by signing herself on as a sniper. She joined many missions over the years and found that blasting through enemies one by one was much more enjoyable than taking someone head on. She was even able to develop her biotics more surely at this time in her life for when enemies did spot her or were too close she had to learn to clear them away fast or die.
More decades passed before she found a comfortable spot as a commando. Once again joining a small team and infiltrating enemies, except everything was more elite, more difficult. It was here, on a small backdrop of a planet where she and a group of four other commandos that she was really put to the test. There mission was to assassinate a rogue spectre who had escaped to deep asari space to hide. The spectre was alone but hidden deep in an elaborate tunnel of old ruins and machinery.  They had to get in and get out before spotted. Before they landed they each had agreed to act independently, everyone had their own spot to infiltrate.
They had been misinformed, the spectre had brought their own mercenaries and even had several drones staking out the area. There had to be a change of plan, one of the older commandos took charge and ordered a frontal attack, something Nelan hadn't agreed too along with one other. They ended up with a pair going through the front to kill as many mercs as possible and the rest continuing to try to keep the rogue spectre from escaping.
As gunshots and chaos went through the field she had found a spot to set up her equipment, she had found a perch where she could see a long range of area, if she got luck the spectre would run out right by her line of sight.
Luck did happen to be on her side, the target had appeared through a hidey-hole, guns and armor at ready to fight off capture. The rogue didn't know they had a sniper with them though, it didn't take long for her to blow off the target's head. By the time she came down and cleaned up the enemy had disbanded, but what was left of the commandos was her and eldest commando. The mission was a success, but it had taken two weeks of traveling a dirty planet, scoping out the rogue's hideaway, fending mercs and dodging drones. She was exhausted and silently mourning the death of the comrades, though she had been recognized for killing off a criminal spectre, a task usually done for another spectre she had felt as if she needed a break.
She settled down for a bit on the Citadel, taking small jobs in C-sec mostly desk jobs and helping out in customs. She didn't touch a gun for many years at that point though occasionally she would find acsess to ranges to keep her skills sharp.
It was during this time that she also began socialzing a lot more with other species, making friends, going to bars. She met a young woman named Petra Flores, who for a time she dated. The pair stayed together for a good decade and a half before Petra, who was reaching her 40's tried to convine her to settle down. Nelan wasn't ready by a long shot, having a bond-mate she was fine with but Petra had wanted a home, kids for her to stay out of the military. She ended the relationship, its been nearly fifty years since she had a seriously relationship and she knows full well Petra is long dead, she doesn't regret what could of been.

In the past decade she has been active in the fight against Reapers and Cerberus.
She got back into serious fighting after Cerberus attacked the Citadel, she had heard that the Reapers were pressing on the borders of many asari colonies and Thessia. She served to protect Thessia during the Reaper invasion. Now that the Reapers are gone and things have settled down from that she prefers to fight as oppose to desk jobs and she will often still go to the Citadel. She sometimes takes work as an independent mercenary, back as a Commando for the Asari government, or for what ever military she trusts to hire her on.

Possessions of Note: A small apartment on the Citadel

Miscellaneous Facts: Has a preference towards females, has a stuffed octopus given to her by Petra, she is embarrassed by it but still keeps it. She hopes to make it as a Spectre one day