Dr. Liara T'Soni ⇨ Application ⇨ Abax
player information.
name: Aaron
are you over 18?: Yes
personal lj: sabbato
email/msn/aim/plurk/etc: Email: Refraction.ing@mail.com / Aim: Timeless Tealeaf / Plurk: redfielding
characters in abax: N/A
in character information.
series: Mass Effect
name: Dr. Liara T'Soni
sex: Other (Asari are techncially mono-gendered but due to the feminine appearance "she/her" is used when referring to them)
age: 108
race: Asari
height: 5'9"
weight: 127lbs
canon point: Mass Effect 2, Post DLC
previous cr: N/A
history: Liara's Wiki
-Liara was not romanced through Mass Effect
personality: Before Shepard died, before she risked her life against all odds, against the Shadow Broker, and aided Cerberus, Liara was a compassionate individual. She was caring, sympathetic (to Shepard for the nightmares, to Saren for the painful indoctrination), and did her best to understand those around her. She preferred to be alone, and her experience with social situations most of time dealt with her digging up Prothean artifacts, so there are times she came off as socially awkward. She preferred to research by herself, dedicating fifty years of her life on the Protheans, but she has opened up to those on board the Normandy. She is intelligent, graduating from Thessia with a doctorate, and she does her best to use her knowledge in locating Saren or figuring out what the Conduit is. She’s curious, distracted, and interested in the history of how the Reapers destroyed the Protheans.
That all changed when the Collectors launched their attack on the Normandy SR1, which left Commander Shepard dead and the galaxy as a whole a much darker place.
For two years her whole world revolved around revenge and hate. She's ruthless in her pursuit for information, angry, bitter, and guilty. Anything that can and will bring her closer to the Shadow Broker, she will use at any cost even if it means to break the law. Despite her ruthlessness she is a respected broker according to those on Illium, and trades information that will both benefit her and her clients should she feel the need. Under layers of pain and guilt, she's still a caring woman. She deals with social situations easier, and she knows what her role is. She's determined to aid Shepard in anyway possible, and loyal until the bitter end.
Liara can be playful, hopeful, and optimistic, but with the last two years she has to hide everything. Emotions are a mask, a way to get people to do what she wants, and she does everything in her power to keep those emotions under wraps. When Shepard first meets up with her again, she’s asking a client if they had ever encountered an asari commando before, the same line her mother used when Shepard and crew encountered her on Novaria. She plays into emotions to get what she wants and needs to succeed as an information broker. She has some closure in finding Feron alive, as well as in assuming the role of the Shadow Broker, but that doesn't mean the fight is over and she knows that. She's taken it upon herself to continue the role of the Shadow Broker, and with luck will continue to do so for years. She doesn’t let the role get to her head, however, though at first it’s questionable when she admit that she could start a war with what information she now has at her fingers. She knows what it is important though, and will do her best to aid Shepard in the fight against the Reapers.
abilities/powers: Lucky for her, Liara is proficient with heavy pistols and submachine guns, should she need to use weapons of any kind. Like most asari, she's a powerful biotic (meaning she has the ability to create mass effect fields) and it comes natural to her because of her species' evolved ability to consciously control nerve impulses. This unique ability also allows her species to reproduce with any race.
Her biotic capabilities are, as follows:
"Throw" uses mass effect fields to hurl a target away from the user with damaging force.
"Lift" can cause enemies to float helplessly in the air, making them more vulnerable to attack, momentum intact.
"Warp" works by creating rapidly shifting mass effect fields that shred a target apart.
"Singularity" is a gravitational power sucks multiple enemies within a radius to a single area, leaving them floating helplessly and vulnerable to attack. It can also pull objects.
"Barrier" uses mass effect fields to protect a user from damage similar to that of a kinetic barrier.
"Stasis" causes an enemy to be temporarily locked in a mass effect field, freezing the target in place and making them unable to attack, and also making them impervious to damage.
Liara is also extremely smart, dealing mostly in information since she took over as the Shadow Broker.
first person sample: By the goddess, if this is what waking up dead feels like I never wish to do so again. This device is...rather primitive, nothing similar in our technology back home. [Though she’s intrigued. This was a antique human device, was it not?] Fascinating, I never dreamed I would get my hands on something like this. It's amazing to think of what history is in this small device.
[Oh this was embarrassing, she nearly started rambling about the phone.] I don’t recall ever dying but this room is clearly a morgue, and this device for communication. Can anyone tell me where I am? [She had important business to take care of back home. Namely the Reapers.]
third person sample: Two years searching. Two years she dedicated herself to revenge, dedicated herself to finding Feron who was neither friend of enemy at the time, and two years hoping to help Shepard with her mission: it was daunting as she sat in a leather chair. It was quiet with the exception of the buzzing machinery, and Liara sat alone with her thoughts staring off into the distance. She never thought she would have a moment of piece as the shadow broker. Constantly keeping information flowing, auctioning off to the highest bidder and compiling the information: it was never ending.
Yet here she was, her fingers curled against her chin as she wondered where their next step was. The batarians were on the brink of war with humanity due to the Bahak system's destruction (and the 300,000 inhabitants subsequently within), the Reapers were about to invade, and she wasn't sure where their next step would lead. Shepard was on her way back to Earth under court-martial to determine whether it was a terrorist act or not, but Liara was sure it was all for show. There was no time to try her without suffering massive consequences with the Reaper invasion. Her only option was to find anything at all to aid her. All information was beneficial, even the seemingly insignificant, but it wasn't enough.
Was it ever enough? It felt futile with their effort knowing that mass genocide was in a constant cycle but they all hoped that they could stop it. By the goddess they had to stop it. There was no ifs, no buts, no can't or try, but the inevitability of success even when all hope seemed loss.
"I hope you know what you're doing." She said quietly to herself, something to disturb the silence before she peered up at the network panel as one of her informants buzzed in with new information.
case no: Random is fine.
name: Aaron
are you over 18?: Yes
personal lj: sabbato
email/msn/aim/plurk/etc: Email: Refraction.ing@mail.com / Aim: Timeless Tealeaf / Plurk: redfielding
characters in abax: N/A
in character information.
series: Mass Effect
name: Dr. Liara T'Soni
sex: Other (Asari are techncially mono-gendered but due to the feminine appearance "she/her" is used when referring to them)
age: 108
race: Asari
height: 5'9"
weight: 127lbs
canon point: Mass Effect 2, Post DLC
previous cr: N/A
history: Liara's Wiki
-Liara was not romanced through Mass Effect
personality: Before Shepard died, before she risked her life against all odds, against the Shadow Broker, and aided Cerberus, Liara was a compassionate individual. She was caring, sympathetic (to Shepard for the nightmares, to Saren for the painful indoctrination), and did her best to understand those around her. She preferred to be alone, and her experience with social situations most of time dealt with her digging up Prothean artifacts, so there are times she came off as socially awkward. She preferred to research by herself, dedicating fifty years of her life on the Protheans, but she has opened up to those on board the Normandy. She is intelligent, graduating from Thessia with a doctorate, and she does her best to use her knowledge in locating Saren or figuring out what the Conduit is. She’s curious, distracted, and interested in the history of how the Reapers destroyed the Protheans.
That all changed when the Collectors launched their attack on the Normandy SR1, which left Commander Shepard dead and the galaxy as a whole a much darker place.
For two years her whole world revolved around revenge and hate. She's ruthless in her pursuit for information, angry, bitter, and guilty. Anything that can and will bring her closer to the Shadow Broker, she will use at any cost even if it means to break the law. Despite her ruthlessness she is a respected broker according to those on Illium, and trades information that will both benefit her and her clients should she feel the need. Under layers of pain and guilt, she's still a caring woman. She deals with social situations easier, and she knows what her role is. She's determined to aid Shepard in anyway possible, and loyal until the bitter end.
Liara can be playful, hopeful, and optimistic, but with the last two years she has to hide everything. Emotions are a mask, a way to get people to do what she wants, and she does everything in her power to keep those emotions under wraps. When Shepard first meets up with her again, she’s asking a client if they had ever encountered an asari commando before, the same line her mother used when Shepard and crew encountered her on Novaria. She plays into emotions to get what she wants and needs to succeed as an information broker. She has some closure in finding Feron alive, as well as in assuming the role of the Shadow Broker, but that doesn't mean the fight is over and she knows that. She's taken it upon herself to continue the role of the Shadow Broker, and with luck will continue to do so for years. She doesn’t let the role get to her head, however, though at first it’s questionable when she admit that she could start a war with what information she now has at her fingers. She knows what it is important though, and will do her best to aid Shepard in the fight against the Reapers.
abilities/powers: Lucky for her, Liara is proficient with heavy pistols and submachine guns, should she need to use weapons of any kind. Like most asari, she's a powerful biotic (meaning she has the ability to create mass effect fields) and it comes natural to her because of her species' evolved ability to consciously control nerve impulses. This unique ability also allows her species to reproduce with any race.
Her biotic capabilities are, as follows:
"Throw" uses mass effect fields to hurl a target away from the user with damaging force.
"Lift" can cause enemies to float helplessly in the air, making them more vulnerable to attack, momentum intact.
"Warp" works by creating rapidly shifting mass effect fields that shred a target apart.
"Singularity" is a gravitational power sucks multiple enemies within a radius to a single area, leaving them floating helplessly and vulnerable to attack. It can also pull objects.
"Barrier" uses mass effect fields to protect a user from damage similar to that of a kinetic barrier.
"Stasis" causes an enemy to be temporarily locked in a mass effect field, freezing the target in place and making them unable to attack, and also making them impervious to damage.
Liara is also extremely smart, dealing mostly in information since she took over as the Shadow Broker.
first person sample: By the goddess, if this is what waking up dead feels like I never wish to do so again. This device is...rather primitive, nothing similar in our technology back home. [Though she’s intrigued. This was a antique human device, was it not?] Fascinating, I never dreamed I would get my hands on something like this. It's amazing to think of what history is in this small device.
[Oh this was embarrassing, she nearly started rambling about the phone.] I don’t recall ever dying but this room is clearly a morgue, and this device for communication. Can anyone tell me where I am? [She had important business to take care of back home. Namely the Reapers.]
third person sample: Two years searching. Two years she dedicated herself to revenge, dedicated herself to finding Feron who was neither friend of enemy at the time, and two years hoping to help Shepard with her mission: it was daunting as she sat in a leather chair. It was quiet with the exception of the buzzing machinery, and Liara sat alone with her thoughts staring off into the distance. She never thought she would have a moment of piece as the shadow broker. Constantly keeping information flowing, auctioning off to the highest bidder and compiling the information: it was never ending.
Yet here she was, her fingers curled against her chin as she wondered where their next step was. The batarians were on the brink of war with humanity due to the Bahak system's destruction (and the 300,000 inhabitants subsequently within), the Reapers were about to invade, and she wasn't sure where their next step would lead. Shepard was on her way back to Earth under court-martial to determine whether it was a terrorist act or not, but Liara was sure it was all for show. There was no time to try her without suffering massive consequences with the Reaper invasion. Her only option was to find anything at all to aid her. All information was beneficial, even the seemingly insignificant, but it wasn't enough.
Was it ever enough? It felt futile with their effort knowing that mass genocide was in a constant cycle but they all hoped that they could stop it. By the goddess they had to stop it. There was no ifs, no buts, no can't or try, but the inevitability of success even when all hope seemed loss.
"I hope you know what you're doing." She said quietly to herself, something to disturb the silence before she peered up at the network panel as one of her informants buzzed in with new information.
case no: Random is fine.