Face Name: Nessus
Soul Name Sails-The-Stars-With-The-Enkindlers
Age: 25
Sex: Male
Race: Hanar
Appearance:
A light purple body with eight long, muscular tentacles. Normal hanar have six but two extra tentacles were surgically grafted onto Nessus in order to improve combat performance. The extra tentacles are clones of his back tentacles and have been seamlessly integrated with the rest of his body.
Armour:
This is a special hardsuit worn by Nessus when he must leave a ship in a hostile environment. Nessus' body is fully sealed and the metal claws on his tentacles serve to focus his biotics and strengthen his grip. They can also be used to shred an enemy to bloody bits. The suit also has black ballistic fiber "tentacle sleeves" to fully protect him against damage and exposure.
Weapons: Two M9 Tempest SMG's and two M6 Carnifex heavy pistols. Plus omni-tool born tech attacks including incinerate, overload, cryo blast and sabotage. Nessus' own tentacles can be used to restrain or even strangle an enemy, while their natural toxins can be secreted to weaken and confuse enemies if skin to skin contact is achieved. Nessus' toxins have been altered to effect all council races.
Biotics (if applicable): None
Personality:
Positive Traits: Kind, friendly, always wishes to learn, very polite like all hanar, extremely intelligent, can perform certain tasks better than any bipedal organic such as swimming or typing. Having what is essentially eight hands helps.
Negative Traits: Nosy, socially awkward, has difficulty getting to the point due to meandering speech, tends to overwork himself, hasn't experienced serious failures or setbacks yet.
Likes: Water, bathing, swimming, hats, mindfish, cooking, learning new cultures, shooting guns, meeting new people, watching the reactions on people's faces when they see a hanar fire a gun, Blasto movies.
Dislikes: Dry climates, ignorance, people he perceives as slow or dull witted, rude behavior, racism, anyone who speaks ill of the Protheans, Blasto himself.
Position: Pilot
Bio:
Nessus was born on Khaje twenty years before the Reaper War. He was born in a clutch of over 100 hanar and grew up in an underwater city beneath Khaje's vast oceans. His father was an ambassador to the drell and often went to a small coastal city on a nearby island to see them. He took Nessus along so he could learn from and be exposed to the humanoid race that did so much for the hanar and learn Nessus did. The drell taught him of the stars and of space travel, something many hanar aren't interested in, and of the constellations in the night sky. At first this confused Nessus since Khaje is always covered by clouds so to enlighten him the drell took him on his first ride into orbit at the age of 9. When their ship pierced the could cover and Nessus first stared up at the night sky, the black void of space, he was convinced that he was looking into another world. A world nothing like the ocean he was born in but just as wonderful, just as full of life and surprise and filled with opportunity for an adventurous little jellyfish like himself. When they reached orbit and he saw the sun and stars in the black void he was awestruck. He was immersed in this new and wonderful realm and he never wanted to leave. Since that day he wanted nothing more than to explore the universe and see everything it had to offer.
All hanar learn of the Protheans, the Enkindlers, in school and their stories of how they ruled the galaxy only emboldened Nessus on his quest to travel the stars. He seemed willing to do anything to realize his dream. When he learned about the Mass Relays and the Citadel in school he read everything he could about them. When he was old enough to understand that the universe was made up of stars and planets he studied every star chart and astronomy book he could find. When he realized that mathmatics was the universal language of the universe he threw himself into equations and formulas. He received excellent marks in school and used role models such as Thane Krios, Blasto and of course Commander Shepard to do his very best for his people and more importantly himself. In what could be considered hanar university he studied math, space geography and mass effect theory. It seemed he would become a ship's navigator or engineer until one day that changed his life.
The Reaper War finally found Khaje and the Reapers invaded with crushing force. Like giant terrifying steel crustaceans they came. Like giant crabs the Reaper destroyers laid waste to everything they saw, reducing entire islands to ash and cinders. Like all-consuming demons the sovereign class Reapers dove into Kahje's oceans and destroyed the hanar cities. Reefs and marine habitats were incinerated, cities were destroyed with only the lights of terrified luminescent cries for help. Entire oceans boiled at the Reapers touch and the hanar and drell forces sent against them were powerless to stop them. All able-bodied drell were drafted but they weren't enough to stop the ever-advancing waves of husks, marauders and the twisted drell-hanar shredders. Indoctrinated drell and hanar fused together into mindless killing machines.
Khaje had a desperate need for pilots and Nessus volunteered, seeing his chance to finally do what he always wanted, even if it wasn't the way he wanted it. As soon as he stepped into a simulator it felt right. He was able to dodge asteroids that crushed the other students' imaginary ships and evade imaginary enemy fighters minutes longer than anyone else. His simulation ended with incorrectly approaching a mass relay and flying into a sun but it proved beyond any doubt that he was a pilot. He was immediately pressed into service after graduation and assigned to a frigate as part of a task force to guard the Crucible as it was being built. Nessus' first taste of combat was during the liberation of Earth but it was more than enough. His ship was shot down in the first wave and crash landed on Earth. Nessus and the remaining crew found themselves in a struggle for their lives as husks swarmed the area. He was using all four of his guns, one in each arm, to hold back the waves and augmenting it with tech attacks but it wasn't enough. He was forced to fight and became so enraged that he glowed with a deep red color and shredded the husks to bits with his hardsuit's claws, using his augmented speed and reflexes to turn himself into an 8 bladed food processor. Nessus feared he was the only one to survive but survive he did. When Shepard sacrificed himself to destroy the Reapers and the Catalyst Nessus fell flat on the ground with exhaustion and praised the Enkindlers by name before passing out.
Nessus recovered and found out that there were other survivors from his ship. The Enkindlers had saved them as well as he and this restored his hope. He has since done all he can to help rebuild the galaxy and the lives of its inhabitants in the following years. He was assigned to fly a new frigate and has done so with honor and distinction. Now, just as things have gotten back to normal, there have been reports of uprisings in the Terminus Systems and Nessus has been called for a special mission.
Dialogue colour:
Deep Purple (Not the rock band.)