Cerberus Daily News/Characters/Illium Dwellers

Ana'Therion vas Nedas
Quarian psychotherapist/dominatrix formerly based on Omega. Enjoys working on psych publications and forcibly 'reforming' slavers and pirates.


 * Bastard Girlfriend
 * Brains and Bondage: A PhD and a PsyD from one of Thessia's top universities.
 * Despair Event Horizon: In the course of two days, she melded with (and absorbed a mindful of horrifying imagery from) a Serial Killer, was Mis Blamed for a kidnapping incident, caught up in life-and-death-tinged relationship drama, and had her house blown up in a crossfire between armed militias. She gave up and left Omega shortly afterwards.
 * Depraved Bisexual: Went from Bi the Way to this after setting up on Magdala.
 * The Exile: Subverted; she left the Flotilla on her own (although family troubles and a hostile political climate certainly influenced that decision), and generally gets along well with other quarians.
 * Good Bad Girl
 * Honor Before Reason
 * Knight in Sour Armor
 * Launcher of a Thousand Ships
 * Marshmallow Hell: Oh yes.
 * Mind Rape: Her modus operandi for 'reformation'. Essentially Brainwashing for the Greater Good.
 * Nightmare Fetishist: YahgLadiesMan acquired her Porn Stash. It's thirty gigabytes and full of faux-snuff and hardcore sadomasochism.
 * Ominous Opera Cape (combined with Shoulders of Doom)
 * Shout-Out: A few every now and then, especially post-Citadel move, to Norman Osborn.
 * The Shrink
 * Super Villain: Not actually one, but loves invoking the imagery. Also, there's the suit of Powered Armor stowed away, just waiting to be used...

Daia T'Nara (asari_promiscuity)
A 398-year-old asari escort. She began her career dancing in clubs like many an asari in her Maiden phase, then moved into the sex industry proper, finding that she had rather a natural aptitude and inclination for it. She spent the next three centuries moving up in the industry on various worlds, including a profitable (if somewhat trying) period on Omega, which got her the finances to set up her current upper-middle-class independent escort business on Illium. Since joining CDN, she has begun a relationship with Ana'Therion.


 * Action Dress Rip: The non-dress equivalent, anyhow - the one time thus far as a CDN member she's been present when a crisis has occurred, when she was attending a costume party (in armour as a Spectre) when somebody was shot, her first reaction was to shed the armour, which was just a replica with no protective qualities, leaving her in just a bodysuit for ease of motion.
 * Air in a G-String: At one point in her career was a member of "The Omega-4some", a quartet of exotic dancers whose act revolved around the asari equivalent of violins.
 * Anything That Moves: She has devoted considerable time and effort to making cross-species encounters as enjoyable as possible, even by asari standards, from learning various languages for better pillow talk right up to commissioning a special encounter suit allowing her to entertain volus clients in their native atmosphere and pressure conditions.
 * Audio Erotica: Shortly after beginning their relationship in earnest, Ana resolved to get Daia to say "cellar door" at some point.
 * Beware the Nice Ones: By exotic dancer standards, at any rate. She's no commando, but she's proficient in a turian martial art, and has unusually precise biotic powers that she's quite prepared to employ to defend herself, regardless of normally having other uses for them.
 * Bio Augmentation: Has various genetic modifications suited to her profession, including limited dextro-resistance, enhanced flexibility, increased lung capacity, and so on.
 * Blue Skinned Space Babe: Standard for asari, but Daia goes the extra mile in the Ms. Fanservice sense of the trope.
 * Casual Kink: A large variety of kinks.
 * Combat Aestheticist: But only when sparring, when she'll incorporate dance moves into her martial arts for fun. On the infrequent occasions she's had to "really" fight, she doesn't muck around, and escapes at the earliest opportunity.
 * Cool Car: Her personal aircar is a Terran Talbot-Lago T150 SS, which she found as a display piece at an anqitue dealer and modified to fly with considerable help from fellow CDN member Thel'Adean.
 * Cool Ship: The Belle de Nuit, a former diplomatic courier shuttle, remodelled inside as Daia's personal love den. Regardless, retains its original speed, and though unarmed has been upgraded with very powerful ECM, thanks to contacts Daia's made during her career.
 * Ethical Slut: Formerly. Since falling for Ana, Daia has become socially monogamous, but still makes no excuses for enjoying the heck out of her work.
 * Everything Sounds Sexier in French: Which is why she's learning to speak it (although at first it was because she misunderstood the term "romance language").
 * Fan Girl: Dirk Black, Shi'ra: Priestess of Power.
 * Fantastic Arousal: Loves having her scalp massaged. Then again, she loves a lot of things.
 * Going Commando: Future-dresses evidently have inbuilt bust support, so Daia treats underwear as a whole as optional, although she often wears it for effect.
 * High Class Call Girl: Not at the rarefied level of entertaining multi-billionaires and planetary rulers, but she does well for herself.
 * Love Redeems: Daia's effect on Ana'Therion; Ana wanted to put herself back together anyway, but has admitted that if it weren't for Daia, she'd probably have just given up.
 * Ms. Fanservice: Aside from her clients, Daia still dances on occasion, and has appeared in Fornax several times, in one erotic asari/hanar video game (providing the voice and motion-capture for a character), and recently in a supporting role in a major adult film; several forum members (on their players' own initiative) have fond recollections of her appearances.
 * Neutral Good
 * Noodle Incident: Happens often, with the board's PG-13 rating preventing her from explaining many of her past exploits in any detail; probably all that keeps her from publicly being a Fetish Fuel Station Attendant.
 * Playing to The Fetishes: Her standard approach to work. Anything (within reason) she doesn't naturally find arousing, she'll contemplate it until she can get herself into a mindset where she does, thus she adapts to be specifically into whatever clients are into.
 * Safe, Sane, and Consensual: Her sexual relationship with Ana'Therion is highly submissive and at times very intense, but is nonetheless wholly healthy and mutual.
 * Sergeant Rock: Daia's turian father, prior to retiring and settling down.
 * Shout-Out: The VI autopilot for Daia's ship is a holographic image of herself as she would look if human, which she named Sasha; Daia's appearance when photoshopped is based on Sasha Grey.
 * The Pollyanna: She's had her fair share of rough times, especially on Omega, and is active in awareness campaigns to improve safety in the sex industry, but is invariably cheerful in her personal outlook.
 * Wrench Wench: Reckons she could have been a pretty fair mechanic had she pursued it; tinkers with machines on occasion as a hobby, and has her own light aircraft (named Vixen) back at her family home which she maintained herself while living there.

Janice Amelia Proctor (j_proctor)
A 34-year old politican based mainly in Illium. A self-described "ethical industrialist, European parliamentarian and casual wit", Proctor balances her time between maintaing her seat in the European Parliament and attending to her business portfolio. For reasons unknown, her business ventures tend often to end in failure, if not litigation.


 * Corrupt Corporate Executive: Until lately, after the latest in a series of business failures,
 * Deadpan Snarker: Spends more time perfecting her putdowns than she does catering to the demands of her constituents.
 * Designated Antagonist: Tends to get looked down upon, even though she's one of the few characters on the board whose day job doesn't consist of killing people, unlike certain heroes.
 * Fashion Victim Villain: As attested in this thread.
 * Fridge Logic: There's really no way that someone who behaves like Proctor does could ever be democratically re-elected to parliament.
 * Jerkass
 * Lawful Evil
 * Never Live It Down: Prior membership of Terra Firma. Also serves as a Berserk Button.
 * Strawman Political: Of politicians in general.
 * Villain with Good Publicity: Manages to hold on to her seat in the European Parliament, despite being a caustic elitist with a history of dodgy financial deals and links to quasi-racist political parties.

Linya M'Tanis (Scientific_Pursuits)
A two-hundred and forty seven year old asari maiden with a doctorate in Chemistry. Not that you could tell at first glance, considering her...enthusiasm.


 * Anything That Moves: Apparently slept with a hanar once. Naughty Tentacles ahoy!
 * Blue Skinned Space Babe: Get your head examined if I have to explain this one to you.
 * Break the Cutie: She was hit hard by Elara's death, but is at least trying to move on with help from her family and friends.
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer: She hugs lab equipment and allows untrained visitors to handle unknown minerals, but she's good at what she does.
 * She's also a terrific dancer.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: It bears repeating - she hugs lab equipment.
 * Comically Missing the Point: Euphemisms and their ilk tend to make a slight whistling noise as they fly over her head.
 * Cute but Cacophonic: She is REALLY friggin' loud when excited.
 * Ditzy Genius: Many an accident has been attributed to her lack of situational awareness.
 * Friends with Benefits: Used to sleep with Elara casually, but they eventually grew to have a thing for one another.
 * Genki Girl: Word of God states that she's like Merrill on coffee....
 * Happily Dating: She and Elara have been going steady for some time now as of recent events, "I Want Grandkids" pressure be damned.
 * The Glomp: She has a Black Belt in ninja-glomping and isn't ashamed to use them.
 * Hot Scientist
 * My Beloved Smother: Played-With, Mirala loves her dearly but tends to go on about embarassing details at times and is seriously wanting grandkids yesterday.
 * Squee: Unleashes these with aplomb whenever either Elara or anything cute are around.

Hok Ginnde
Turian sniper and incarnation of awesomeness, currently MIA at the moment.

"TSS: So... cooking, Hok? Uh, you guys know I don't actually know how to cook, right? Oh, we are so boned.
 * Bash Brothers / Vitriolic Best Buds: With Aphin Protretho
 * Buddy Cop Show: Aphin and Hok before they left the Citadel.
 * Butt Monkey
 * Cowboy Cop
 * Friendly Sniper
 * Neutral Good
 * Obfuscating Stupidity: Hok's a really nice guy and a competent soldier, but he can be pretty dorky when he's off the field, much to The_Sarcastic_Salarian's annoyance.

Hok: Oh, I don't know. The stuff you cooked for me that one time on the Nialla wasn't half bad. Or at least, I don't think it was. My memories of that night are a bit...fuzzy to say the least. I'm sure you'll think of something though, I mean, you're ex-STG.

TSS: EX-STG AREN'T TRAINED TO COOK, HOK."


 * Turn in Your Badge: Hok quit C-sec.

Nakalaxi Lorgrek (Kalla)
A cordial batarian slave broker who values ethics and professionalism.


 * Affably Evil: Well-spoken and usually polite.
 * Anti-Villain: Nakalaxi's slave brokerage exists to help her clients as much as it does as a source of income.
 * Birds of a Feather: Her relationship with Abad Sam-mel.
 * Blue Blood: Nakalaxi was born near the top of the batarian caste system.
 * Friendless Background: Between growing up as a female biotic in the Hegemony, and living her adult life as a batarian on a planet dominated by asari, Nakalaxi has very few friends. Spends the bulk of her free time reading and playing video games.
 * Friend to All Children: Given how unlikely it is for Nakalaxi to ever have children of her own, she cares for them that much more.
 * Iron Lady: Nakalaxi became this when she started her slave brokerage.
 * Lady of War: In addition to being a wellbred batarian of high caste, she is also a talented biotic with weapons and self-defense training.
 * Lawful Neutral: An easy thing to be when you live on a planet like Illium.
 * Mistress and Servant Boy: Nakalaxi pretended to be the former when helping Abad Sam-mel rescue his nephew.
 * Slaver With Good Publicity: On Illium, Nakalaxi has an impeccable reputation for her ethical business practices.
 * Then Let Me Be A Slaver: Present in Nakalaxi's backstory.

Virnius Shin / (ArmaliShin)
A biotic turian middle-manager. Orphaned on Illium, he never became a citizen of the Turian Hierarchy and was raised by various street gangs until he was thrown out for demonstrating biotic abilities. He was saved by a slave broker and served a five-year term as an indentured servant before landing a job at the Armali Council.


 * Berserk Button: Do not abuse a biotic kid in his presence. Ever.
 * To a lesser extent, the Spiritual Church of Enkindler Consciousness.
 * Big Eater: Has a hyperactive metabolism from his biotic powers.
 * Boldly Coming: Prefers turians, but also has fetishes for humans, drell, quarians, and salarians.
 * Camp Gay: By turian standards.
 * Chaotic Neutral -> Character Development -> Chaotic Good/Selfish Good
 * Chivalrous Pervert/Ethical Slut
 * Closet Geek: A fan of economic theory, math, and extranet gaming. He doesn't take it well when he inadvertently lets it slip that he is a member of the Galaxy of Fantasy fandom.
 * Club Kid: Sympathetically deconstructed; his hedonistic lifestyle is largely a result of his attempting to repress his past.
 * Conveniently an Orphan:
 * Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?:
 * The Hedonist -> Character Development -> For Happiness
 * Lovable Coward:
 * Made An Indentured Servant
 * Mankiller In Love
 * No Sense of Personal Space
 * Rape Is OK When It's Asari On Male: Seemingly played straight when he first talks about his indentured servitude period, volunteers the information, and jokes about it. Subverted when it is revealed in a mental monologue how he actually feels about it.
 * Red Oni to Idem's Blue Oni.
 * Self-Made Man
 * Sherlock Scan: Especially adept at reading body language and small nuances. Although he possessed a basic form of the talent naturally, it wasn't until he began researching the subject that he became competent.
 * Occasionally swings around into the realm of parody; his scans require him to focus on one object, often making him react with shock to sensory input from anything else that he's not focusing on.
 * Stepford Smiler: Type A.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Dextro-formulated varren skewers.
 * Trickster Archetype: Obfuscating Stupidity and Xanatos Speed Chess are his favorite tactics.
 * Yaoi Guys: With Idem.
 * Uke: A sasoi subtype.
 * You Gotta Have a Dyed Cyan Fringe
 * Uke: A sasoi subtype.
 * You Gotta Have a Dyed Cyan Fringe