Kira lost her whole family & almost her life at what was considered a normal day in the park, with 6 years. She found a loving 2. family but the tragedy struck once more as her 2. Father died. After which her 2. mother acted like Kira was somehow infectectious.
Arkham had a relatively balanced childhood as long as her Father lived, he died as she was 8. Her mom than turned up her Draconian behavior to 11, forcing Arkham to "live out her dream" (that of the mother) forcing her into all kinds of 'Hobbies' like music, dancing, poetry, arts.
On an Union core world Arkham would have been protected, sadly her mother took her to a colonial world close to the Rim. Arkham fled & lived on the street as she turned 13. Taking on the name Arkham.
A.S.H.L.E.I. is only 6 years, her 'childhood' was reinforced learning behavior, patterns, data analysis etc.
10.11.2025
MC POV: Name one thing you’ve never done but really want to.
Kira: "Well I'm not disclosing that."
Arkham: "Oh come on be a bit fun."
K.: "Did you want to imply that I'm not?"
A.: "You can be funny but that's quite literally one of the better Psychological Evaluations questions lately. I'm sure I could ask Ash?"
K: "Ash wouldn't tell you because I simply don't want it."
A: "I could ask very nicely."
Ash: With all do respect FC, I am bound to honor the Captains wishes, I am your friend but disclosing a secret of the Captain would set a dangerous example for the crew that I am not trustworthy.
K: "Thank you Ash. Arkham, Imzadi, how about askin me very nicely? In private, later tonight? But don't give me a reason to regret it, please."
A: "Why you don't want to share it openly?"
K: "Because I'm the captain & even in a tight knit family, not everyone needs to know everything, even less so on a military vessel."
24.11.2025
What’s the strangest animal product your MCs eat?
Honey.
Kira isn't the only MC but Honey is a rare item, because most colonies don't have any thing like a bee population & on earth they only exist again thanks to reintroduction into the catastrophically damaged ecosystem.
Arkham eats meat but only lab grown or printed in the Enzyme Printer which makes it not a real animal product. Like most people on Terra.
J. one of my SC's eats animal meat on occasion, she comes from Terra but her parents went into the rim boarder area to live on a giant farm with a lot of animals, To produce food for themselves & some neighbors. Such J. often gets weirded out looks, if she tells them, that she has killed animals & taken their meat for food.
Mondira, another SC, loves the fish chocolate from her home planet.
25.11.2025
Does your Current MC share any traits with you?
Kira & I are both female, both cyborgs, since Terrans do not see themselves as Humans anymore that falls flat. She loves ancient SciFi, like me even if it is only classic from my perspective. She has 300 Years of development I can only guess as history so there are a lot of differences & in her time I wouldn't even be considered a cyborg (most people today won't too but I match more then one criteria🤪).
Arkham & I: Arkham shares my sexual & romantic path while she beginns from another starting point in her live than I did in my. Also Arkham has more of my temperament while I am more restricting myself than she does. I am also not in possession of any licenses to use vehicles so she is way ahead of me (I can actually drive a car better than her but yeah she has a license to do so).
A.S.H.L.E.I.: She is my spiritual child in a way. And I leave it with that.
28.11.2025
Your MC gets a free bag of candy corn. How do they react?
Scan it, search the NIN for it and probably put it into their survival pack as a fire starter or kit material.
Thanking the gifting person very diplomatically.
Kira has already horrible eating habits she is not so much into unnatural sweets.
Arkham is a health junkie so no junk food for her if she didn't make it herself.
Ash would probably put it into her recycling system, after scanning it for any dangers to her fungal colonies. Also handing doesn't fit the bill here it would have to be something like littering or throwing it inside the ship for A.S.H.L.E.I.s drones to reach it.
Kira: 1 of the issues if you loose your complete family, in an instant, safety you realize that it IS always an illusion. Your are only relatively safe.
That doesn't mean you can't relaxe, if you don't care & Terrans are good in Not carrying. Others even relax through dangerous activities for Kira free climbing & parkour have become such an active ty. The illusion of control is enjoyable, the most, if you control at least something.
Arkham: Arkham feels safe with Kira, something she doesn't understand at first, after all other Terrans are mostly complicated messes of emotions that often act against one another without realizing it. Arkham has the same control wish as Kira but for her the illusion of safety still works in most cases.
Ash is not programmed to feel safe but to provide safety for the crew.
12.10.2025
MC POV: Explain you life in one sentence.
Kira: "A well maintained shipwreck..., I do my best to not loose it and protect my fellow people in the best way I can."
Arkham: "Nah won't to much to press into one sentence and it won't even cover most of it."
A.S.H.L.E.I.: "My life is to serve, protect and support the crew of the Ghoz'Tarc on its mission to defend the Union's achievements and it's citizens lifes."
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Kira has fond memories of Thunderstorms, as she was born a thunderstorm knocked out the power grid of the colony she was born in. The night was worthy of some horror scenes but Kira after screaming for quite some time seemed to enjoy the rain hitting the windows being carried around by her parents and the birth helper in the light of candles.
The sound of rain and wind relax her to this day even if she doesn't know why she likes Thunderstorms so much same with the light of candles.
Arkham earliest memories are her mother screaming at her father that he is to lazy with her, not challenging her enough and that Arkham would have been way better already if her mother only was allowed to raise her in her own way without his interference.
She still remembers her hands grabbing onto the fabric of his pants as she hid behind him. His hand on her head.
⬅️ 2/2 Allow them to not be treated like a prized possession. But I don't live in a society where males are outnumbered 1 to 999...
About the BIG war ... I still hope that there is a peaceful solution for the Eltaryn situation. It must be some sort of misunderstanding, there must be a reason why they attack all of us.
Arkham: "Don't get me started, I have a peaceful live carrying around stuff I can change like getting the crew from a to b and I don't like talking politics or society... A lot of people today are still emotional, social or empathetic wise trash and I leave it there."
Ashlei: "I am not programmed to have such strong emotions or opinions. But I am programmed with a moral code that aims at preventing damage from biological entities and the opinions of the Captain have influenced me since our merge. For that I am thankful and see it like the Captain. We need to stop suffering favorable by education."
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How much does your MC value communication in their relationships and/or friendships? Are they prone to being misunderstood?
Kira values them highly, after all she is the XO/Captain and has to be understood correctly. She sometimes can be almost brutally blunt, upfront and open. While in her private communication she isn't that unsimilar for some parts she prefers a more closed off and interpretable language. She loves flirting with J. and J. With her but both know that this is not romantic but simply to make the other feel valued and appropriated, and J. is almost certainly not interested in anything more than close emotional bonds or not sexual body contact.
Arkham learns to communicate more openly.ejole on board even if she would prefer not communicating at all but even that is a sort of communication so being open is the lesser evil.
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...very different way. You see my parents are supporting the unbound education, that means we mostly learn practices and theoretics at the same time."
"What does that have to do with sexuality and romance?"
"We get introduced to sexuality by an educated Person to prevent us from having bad experiences. They teach us to respect consent and stand for our consequences. They offer courses and only few educational Persons are even allowed to give such courses."
"So on the world of unbound capitalism people care enough to give their children sexual/romantic education? And they 'train' you? Honestly, I don't think I like the sound of that... It sounds like grooming to me."
"It may appear to you like this but 1. every act is consensual. 2. Their is no expectation forced upon trainees.
3. Psychological Personal is available at all time in unbound educational facilities. And we openly talk about our pers-
...nal interests & things we would like to expirience.
4. The trainees can stop a lesson at every moment if they feel uncomfortable.
I kissed for the first time with a very gentle & careful older female. My first sexual lesson was with carrying same age male. Both took great care of my wishes & my feelings.
The kiss felt welcoming & she was gentle, we talked about it & tried different styles afterwards.
I was 14 & fully educated on all things sex & romance at this point. She even asked if I wanted some specific taste & so my first kiss really tasted like roses & strawberries. Not the Epi generated but she organized real ones. I was lucky enough that I could expirience a stress free & safe situation to test around, it was pleasant & I used the skills I learned successfully in my first relationship with 16. Why would I have it any other way?"
Disclaimer same age in the Star Ryde universe means something else since people get a good bit older, live longer and have longer time to be not adults that said the trainer at "the same age" would be probably around 17-25 so more a similar age than the exactly same age. Blame it to the translation from Union Standard to our current English.
Which fits a bit to today answered Word Weavers about constructed languages from the 31.08.2025.
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MC POV: Do you think you have any idiosyncrasies?
Conversation between Kira & Arkham.
Kira:"I don't think so."
Ark:"Oh you surely have, your sneaky, constantly pulsing & you love to surprise people by shadowing them only to slurp loudly from your disgusting little "brew" of unrefined Eqil. I get it your efficient & I don't love you less for that but one needs to get used to that."
"I'm sure that doesn't count."
"What's about your sleep schedule of 6 hours max, you are one of the few that have a real freaking bed, I wouldn't leave that in days if I wasn't on schedule."
"In my current state I don't need more than 6 hours this will change sooner rather than later by itself & wait til we get to my house."
"What if I want to go home for my first shore after 6 months?"
"Well than we go to your place? We probably won't be scheduled for such a long mission again."
Kira:"Than I stay with the ice queen? I have to face her even if we go to my Home."
"What if I don't want you anymore after this mission...?" Arkham swallowed, tears in her eyes.
Kira looked at her sorting things in her head, even resorting to use Ashlei's system for faster computation what just happened.
She swallowed & gently spoke:"Are you scared? That I am just a fling? Your first flirt? That sticks to you? Like old chewing?
... Well I don't like the the sound of that or the idea ... But if that will be the case we can part as grown up persons..."
Arkham choked than swallowed:
"What if I can't serve you right? What can I offer you? I'm just realizing that I have sexual & romantic tendencies. What if your just the ignition spark not the flame?"
Kira smiled awkwardly:"Than let me be your spark and burn bright without me."
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How does your MC view the gentler, daintier things in life: as things worth preserving and caring for, or things only bound to wither and disappear?
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Kira fights for them to the blood.
This is what the Union is all about preserving the most stress less, most gentle and fair way of living for every citizen and non citizens alike.
This is why the Union Fleet exist that is the pure defense fleet (defense means they react, not that they aren't deadly and devastating) this is why the Alliance exist (they are the attack fleet) this is why the shades exist (they are the scalpels or sledgehammers) what ever is needed to win against inner and outer enemies of the Union.
Never before have 6 species united against a intergalactic threat, never before have 66 other species joined such a Union, and keeping it alive, its core values of decency, freedom and existential rights defended, that is what Kira fights for.➡️
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Arkham is not as a steadfast believer in the Union as Kira, Kiras dedication is sometimes even a bit alienating for her. Arkham has seen the downside of the Unions efforts as she ran away from home & landed on a rim close world that struggled to keep the ideals & habits of the Union alive. She knows that the Union is the biggest political entity in galactic history & knows it's the very best for everyone to keep it alive, but she doesn't trust politicians to do that. She has seen that it depends on the creatures that live under the rule as much as the enforcer of that rules. That said, she will defend people & peoples rights.
Ashlei is the most pragmatic about this, she is programmed with the Unions core values, thus she doesn't doubt, that they are right & everything making live more livable is worth protecting, thus she supports the supporters/defenders & does what she can to protect them.
Kira, the Knox Family Chili which has as many iterations as you can grab random ingredients at the location you're at. While on shore leaf Kira cooks sine after the original family recipe she remembers since she watched her mother & her father cooking it together. She later found a recipe in the inherited house as she moved in. From this fresh chili she takes a part of & dry "freezes" it, around a liter, it's her special ingredient for the local chilli while on mission & she keeps a block as a special emergency ration.
Arkham loves Terran street vendor food & enjoys traditional food from the Indian region basically because it doesn't reminds her to home.
One would think Ash wouldn't have a favorite food but indeed next to the reactor energy the Ghoz'Tarc creates Ash likes pure sunlight. Luckily the skin of the Ghoz'Tarc is basically & extremely advanced solar panel.
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Tell us about your MC’s past or current jobs. What are their skills?
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Kira: Alliance Military since her first Praktikum as a trainee with 14. She went through S.H.A.D.E.S. training a special forces training to develop leadershio skills on a galaxy wide level. Special training in several different melee combat variants (as far as application goes between different species), endurance training, weapon training, piloting different sized space vessels, climbing, infiltration, programming in 3 different languages, basics of space travel, ship maintenance & space walk, diplomacy (that one thanks to her adoptive mother).
Arkham was unemployed on the streets before she entered Alliance training with 18/19 and was fast tracked to Flight Command Officer do to her piloting skills and quick thinking. A lot of Kira's skill set is mirrored on Arkham training minus the special S.H.A.D.E.S. training & of course both don't ➡️
2/2 ⬅️ have the same skill level. A lot of overlapping Skills sets exist inside a crew but this is mainly do to the fact that you never know what you need on board a space ship.
A.S.H.L.E.I.: The intelligence of the Ghoz'Tarc wasn't really existent before she was created for the main reason of creating the next level of artificial intelligence.
Unlike LLMs or limited intelligences Ash can learn from her own "thoughts", interactions and access her goals, the shear amount of raw data she can handle & repack into biological individuals digestible data would easily surpass today's existing data on the Internet. Most of this capacity is used to control the ship & run diagnostics, scanning etc.
The Ghoz'Tarc was retrofitted for stealth missions, her basic design is that if a short range patrol vessel but that only accounts for the space frame at this point. Everything else is completely new.
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symphonic ballade that's roots are in Spraggae. Owate did a great job of capturing Terras beautiful past views, the hope we feel while progressing on the renaturation project. I talked enough about the picture of my parents & sisters. I still hold it dear."
Arkham: "Music, dancing... I like crafting, I dipped into material design lately & especially the Somwhar crafts but nothing springs out as my favorite. Through Kira i found 20 century Jazz which has this volume that modern Spazz at least Terran made lacks somehow. I like good NIN dramas especially the emotional multi track variants where you can feel & relive the situations from more than one perspective simultaneously. I just love feeling the emotions of 2+ persons. It's a bit overwhelming to be true but i can manage that, even sped up."
Ash: "I was not programmed to value specific arts more than others, but music fascinates me."
Gosh about the German Penned Possibilities yesterday "that second word" that's one I hate...
I eradicated it so far almost completely and I don't plan on using it again.
That said.
Kira is a Terran spacer even if she wasn't born on Terra & lived most of her life in space, 1st with her biological family & later after finishing the academy again.
Arkham Terran shore people that lived most of their life's on solid ground like Terra itself even if they aren't born their.
Terran also is a bit misleading because it's applied to people originating from Terra and people living on Terra so a Xeno Person like a Somwhar living on Terra would be considered Terran too.
Technically Ash would be a spacer, her Program was developed onboard a space station and she never was longer on ground than a week also I don't think Spaceship counts.