Character Tahlah Vizsla

[Tahlah Vizsla]

Tahlah Vizsla

Age: Late Teens to Early Twenties
Species: Nautolan
Gender: Female
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 196lbs.
Force Sensitive: No


PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Tahlah is incredibly fit and athletic as a result of favorable genetics and a Mandalorian-style upbringing. Typical of Nautolans, she has aquatic features to her anatomy, as well as the numerous tendrils emerging from the back of her head. Along each tendril, there are small blue stripes, contrasting with her light green skin tone, going along the middle as a result of skin pigmentation. Her large black eyes, typical of her species, have a slight blue tinge to them that sometimes reflects when light is shown on her. She often has a stoic and serious expression on her face, and it hardly cracks unless in the presence of those she sees as close friends or family. She has a noticeable scar across the bridge of her nose from a sparring accident that took place in her youth. Tahlah has broad shoulders, somewhat wide hips, and other traits of physique consistent with woman who has spent a lifetime in athletic and soldier training while still displaying typically feminine physical attributes. Tahlah lives in her armor. It is most often what one sees her in, and she is seldom in public not in it. However, outside of her armor, she wears very plain clothes that would likely be worn as undergarments when in her armor. Lastly, Tahlah had her right arm replaced after a severe injury. She had a great fascination with technology used as a weapon, and decided to have a prosthetic that was modular enough to add, replace, and house different weapon loadouts depending on general efficiency and her likely target. This device blends with her armor, where beskar plating of the armor is put overtop its main segments. Out of armor, the prosthetic is far more noticeable.

INVENTORY

• Mandalorian Armor (helmet modified for anatomical reasons; functionally consistent but cosmetically different) - HERE
  • Note Armor has standard jetpack equipped accompanied with rockets on the boots for additional maneuverability.
• Striker Projectile Pistol (sidearm) - HERE
• Dressellian Projectile Rifle (longarm) - HERE
• Proesthetic Arm - To Be Submitted

PERSONALITY AND BELIEFS

Tahlah's behavior mostly comes from her mandalorian upbringing. From the moment she was no longer a tadpole, and was able to perform physical acts, she was drilled intensively with standards fitting that of a Mandalorian. She is very grim, serious, and stoic on the outside. However, she is quite warm and personable on the inside. Granted, only those she sees as family or very close friends may ever see that warmer side of her. A lifetime as a bounty hunter and a Mandalorian have given her a sense of professionalism when with the general public, which may make her cold and grim to many outside of the circle she associates with closely. Oftentimes, she is still somewhat reserved when among those close to her, and may be considered somewhat introverted. Such a pattern of behavior, is the result of the understanding of rank in a Mandalorian clan where she spent much of her life in the lower ranks focused on learning wisdom and skills from those that were her senior. As a means to contribute to her clan, she has taken up skills with robotics and technology. The idea of fine-tuning gadgets and weapons to benefit the user reflects a level of perfectionism alongside an attention to detail where she strives to make herself a living weapon on the battlefield.

The personality that came about from her strict Mandalorian upbringing contributes greatly to the beliefs she holds near and dear today in adulthood. For starters, feats of strength and physical prowess are two very important measures of one's ability to provide for their clan. If one cannot do the basic functions of a warrior from their innate ability, it is highly doubtable they could contribute much at all. Tahlah has honorable and meritocratic tendencies as a result of her upbringing as well, where from the moment she was physically able she was being drilled to become a soldier of Clan VIzsla. As a young warrior, her job was to take in knowledge, wisdom, and skills that the more seasoned warriors of the clan were passing on. For that, she believes in respecting one's elders tremendously. For her, she would do much in order to have the instruction of a grizzled veteran of her clan impart knowledge to her so that she could better contribute to the clan through her actions. All other aspects of philosophy and beliefs are dictated by the Mandalorian code of honor that was made clear to her from an extremely young age.

STRENGTHS

• Born Into Mandalorian Ways: Her clan took her in as a tadpole and raised her to be a Mandalorian Soldier since she was physically able in early childhood, making her well-versed in Mandalorian tradition and also extremely conditioned to serve as a warrior.
• Supplemented Development: As a tadpole, Tahlah's diet was supplemented heavily with nutrients that enhanced muscle and bone development, as well as overall growth, which gives her great strength and resilience in present day.
  • Through raw strength alone, she would have an edge in melee and hand-to-hand combat, which was then accentuated with Mandalorian training.
  • The large size can contribute towards intimidation.
• Technology Hobby: Tahlah's view on technology makes her not opposed to cybernetic augmentations as long as they do not compromise one's organic nature, however her perfectionism with technology inclines her to make a perfect orchestration of weaponry to handle a given enemy or bounty target.
• Professional: Growing up Mandalorian from birth has given Tahlah a strict code of conduct that she employs in all settings, that often reflects well on her part when taking bounties.
• Stoicism: Her Mandalorian upbringing conditioned Tahlah to suppress severe emotional expression when on the battlefield or in front of others not of her closer kin in the clan, which gives her an air of toughness and intimidation that she could leverage when necessary.

WEAKNESSES

• Indoctrinated: Due to being raised as a Mandalorian since birth, Tahlah sees the ways of Mandalore as the only righteous way to live life in the galaxy, and sees all other philosophies as either evil, weak, or simply wrong.
• Perfectionist: Tahlah is meticulous when it comes to equipping herself for a mission, working on a piece of technology, or performing a duty for the clan, where she does not tolerate her own failure regardless of what could be learned from it.
• Youthful Naivete: Tahlah is very young, and thus has many idealist viewpoints that may not mesh with the wider galaxy that came about due to her Mandalorian upbringing.
• Soldier On and Off the Field: With Tahlah being raised to be a warrior from the moment she could do any physical action independently, she has a hard time separating how to behave on and off the battlefield as a result of her regimented upbringing.
• Big Target: While the supplements to her diet as a tadpole contributed many boons to her ability as a warrior, the growth the nutrients supplemented made Tahlah larger than most in her species and a big target on the battlefield.

HISTORY
The story begins when a fringe clan of Mandalorians under House Vizsla came across a small Nautolan egg after a mission in the vicinity of Glee Anselm. While the clan never had many children raised in their ranks, they saw the abandoned egg and decided that it would become a member of their clan raised in the clan. Given some time, and that egg hatched into a small green tadpole where blue stripes were found on portions near the head. Such times were very simple, as Tahlah's larvae form was focused on eating and growing with total abandon for anything else. The clan decided to prepare this future warrior from birth by supplementing her tadpole self's diet with many nutrients that would contribute to the development of muscle and bone development, as well as size. As Tahlah developed into a more typically seen form of Nautolan, she was much larger than other counterparts her age, which signalled for rapid growth in her development. By the time she was ready to brave dry land and the real world freshly grown out of the tadpole larvae stage, she was already twice as tall as other members of her species around that age.

By the age of 3, Tahlah was started in physical training. She was too young to wield any weapons or bare armor. However, she was old enough to be physically able to start training and building her body. The drills were rigorous, and she was put alongside other foundlings of the clan. While they were few, there was comradery-abundant competition between them all akin to what would be seen from soldiers enlisted in an army would exhibit. This intense physical training would persist all throughout her life, where she performs it for herself in present day. However, as she got older, that was when weapons training and learning to live in armor began. With the enhanced development she had as a tadpole, Tahlah's skill with hand-to-hand combat and melee weapon practice was nearly unmatched. She was able to overpower her opponents in sparring matches, however she still lacked a fair bit of skill that made her opponents win fairly often early on. Tahlah's skill would improve over time, though.

When Tahlah reached the age of 16, she was a large Nautolan. Tahlah stood at a height that rivaled even the most giantish members of her species alone. Her strong body towered over most in the clan, and after a while she surpassed her peers in physical strength. Also, around this point Tahlah took up an interest in understanding and exploiting technology. Her physical prowess was good in of itself, however she found the ability technology had to enhance her abilities in combat to serve the name of Vizsla better. Around the age of 17, Tahlah would have her right arm removed after an incident involving local wildlife on a planet the clan was staying on for a time. The prosthetic arm used was able to be modified with gadgets for utility. Tahlah would leave the clan to pursue a career as a bounty hunter on Rishi. Rishi was known for pirates, spacers, and unsavory sorts holding up in its wild anarchy amidst the tropical jungles and archipelagos. It was also known for having beasts in the wilderness certainly worth hunting for both glory and credits. It was the perfect place for Tahlah to live as a mercenary. While she knew she was born on Glee Anselm, the chaos and favorable climate of Rishi inclines Tahlah to this day to call that Outer Rim jungle world her home planet.