Novara Ricci | Personality

Time has come to share this lovely character's personality. She really is 'everything nice' and I'm not sorry. Mayhaps she takes it a little too far. But I swear, I know people like this - and they break and mend my heart everyday. Personality below the cut!

Novara Ricci bears the burden of a simple motivation: Save people. From hurt, from pain, from suffering, and even from death. But most crucially, sometimes from themselves.

Novara dedicates copious amounts of time to achieving her goal as literally as she can. Her ability to process information that will aid her in this venture, is off the scales. She’s generally sharp, but her genius is particularly amped when something that she is studying has a potential application in her field. Given the right guidance and resources, she certainly would be a major pioneer as a researcher. On a smaller scale, she already is. Her relationship with her work is devotional and pure. She is not conscious of mistakes or judgement and surrenders to the iterative process towards perfection - And yes, on some levels, she believes perfection is achievable. She is not too picky about where she gains her knowledge from and will never deny it. But given the opportunity she is very picky about how she uses her own. The only thing that distracts her from learning, theorising and experiment, is actively helping other people. She will always put aside her ambitions temporarily if she has the opportunity to help someone through her practice. Her skills and instincts combined make her an excellent and attentive medic. She’s keenly empathetic and takes a great interest in her patients. Though she is warm, she avoids getting too attached, for good reason. She fears attachment will exhaust her - which it will because all her usual tendencies are exacerbated for friends. However, she is rarely cold and clinical. Friendship and other relationships are a very intense bond. She’s invested, involved and loyal to a fault. The process of giving up on her personal goals, becomes more apparent for friends too. Novara will easily make drastic decisions involving her own life if she sees an opportunity to help or save someone she is attached to - Even if this lands her in inconvenient or detrimental situations.

While she’s not totally impulsive, she’s also not someone who will plan extensively. A loose plan of action is enough for her to jump in. This is because she doesn’t care to consider all outcomes. She just believes that there will be a good one... eventually. She has a deep-seated sense of hope. Her ability to continue hoping even through dire circumstances often becomes a pillar of strength.

Novara also believes in the good of people generally. She focuses on the positives of individuals and of groups. She certainly isn’t blind to the bad, but will glaze over it. It takes a lot of blatant evil for her to think someone or a group is irredeemable - and even then, she'll give them a shot more than once. It takes even more for her to hate and it can be easily reversed. If the body can be injured, so can the soul... and both can be repaired. She sees evil action and intention as symptoms of an underlying problem, something that can be fixed… In time, she has gathered that she can’t do it all. She can just try. Fix people and the world one at a time.

The combination of her beliefs and her practice leads to an optimism that is as brilliant as it is dangerous because it leads her to underestimate the dangers of situations she’s entering.

Meet Novara Ricci

A little bit of info below the trace-sketch and the cut.

Prodigious | Gullible | Encouraging | Acquiescent | Empathetic | Workaholic Nicknames: Nova, Supernova, RaRi Age: Teens to Thirties Birthday: 17th July, 2095 Height; 164 cm Weight; 51 kgs Sex; Female Gender: Female Pronouns: She/Her Sexuality: Pansexual Relationship Status: Taken MBTI: INFJ - A [The Advocate] Job Description - [Acer. BioHacker - Field Medic - Researcher]

Novara Ricci | History

After a long enough brekke. Nova's tentative history below the cut. Its subject to change, but I think I'm satisfied with its core at the moment.

Novara is a product of an experiment. S.P.A.N.C.C was trying to cultivate - created, curated humanity. The intent was to be able to produce children on demand, without needing humans to carry the children and with the ability for partners/groups etc, to pick and choose the traits they wanted their children to possess, among those that are deemed conducive to society (the ‘choice’ exists to ensure diversity). So Novara, was the first and (for the time being) only synthetic child. The limit was because this was a very costly endeavor and S.P.A.N.C.C wanted to follow her as she grew and developed to ensure that she remained viable before making such an option accessible to select public and wider. Novara Ricci - (Named so since she was picked out of the mobile incubator in Sector 0 Region 3 (Italy). She is a baby with no biological parents, including the phase of embryological development, she was incubated entirely outside of the human body. Her genetic data is curated from a whole host of people after extensive research. The choices were made by Wezen Franz and Cepheus Cygnus (at the steep incline of their careers), with the additional goal to create an ‘ideal and accessible human’ so she may also serve as an advertisement, if and when the process was deemed safe and ready to use. She was meant to be someone, who, according to the two of them , embodied the very spirit of empathetic humanity and was easily relatable. Her early upbringing, till about five, was by humanoid AIs and occasionally by the community of scientists, researchers and doctors that operated them. Having this somewhat unusual experience did leave her slightly introverted, which was a little off the original goal. Noticing this change, they decided it was time to enrol her in the Sector 0 G.C.A as an ‘orphan’. She and people around her were fed the story that her mother died during child-birth due to some very unexpected complication and her father was not found. She was enrolled in the academy with the intent to make her more comfortable around her other her age. Though she was the pinnacle of kindness (and health) more often than not, she did not seek the company of other children. Instead, growing up, Nova felt driven and compelled to solve the issues that remain amidst humanity and spent a lot of time studying and doing research regarding sickness. She was quickly labeled a prodigy. Her genetic material had been loaded with substantial potential for intelligence, so while this was not a surprise, this was also not the initial expectation. However, given her proclivities, her curiosities and research was encouraged and she was given all the resources to better her education. While she was also physically trained alongside other G.C.A students, it quickly became apparent that she lacked the killer and competitive instinct required to excel in that domain, she did however quickly pick up the basics of self-defence and core-strength training (when lured with the concept of it being used protectively, not just for herself but for others). However, given her tendency to ‘do good’ she was picked as a target to groom to become a SpecSyn agent. Though the kept a wary distance and getting her to admit her strange history, gave SpecSyn some intel on her origins and the kind of things S.P.A.N.C.C was developing. She did closely get involved with SpecSyn by her own volition, because they seemed to be aligned with making things better as well. Eventually, she graduated G.C.A and entered G.C.U under the umbrella of Crux, in order to improve access to healthcare particularly for other on-field Acers. However, she was certainly under the impression that her experiments and research would (eventually) aid all of humanity. She and Ezekiel entered a formal romantic relationship. She was drawn to the way he seemed to need… help and support, that she thought she could provide, in addition to that Mark (from SpecSyn, and also Jared’s handler) also encouraged her close contact with Ezekiel and the Pyxis family. While at G.C.U Nova also started working under

Alcyone Viser - a being who in some ways starkly contrasted with Novara philosophically, but was a visionary researcher as well. Working under Alcyone allowed her to improve upon the Shealing (wound sealing and healing) serum, to start developing an Advanced Shealing Serum - Abbreviated A.S.S. Nova tested her serum (very very reluctantly) on synthetically generated tissue and rodents. She was still not convinced that her revolutionary development was ready to be mass-produced, simply because the side-effect included excruciating unavoidable pain - and she was convinced that given enough some more time, she could get rid of it.

Alcyone on the other hand, had been smuggling the A.S.S to The Nexus for more enhanced (but illegal) testing - and the results were definitely better than anyone could expect. It soon became a currency amidst the Nexus, since it allowed for bloodier Bloody Blitz shows and the quick recovery of the Bloody Blitz star performers. Eventually, when Ezekiel (who Nova was now in an uncomfortable relationship with) realised about her work, he decided to raise his own stakes in the Bloody Blitz, not entirely letting Nova in on the loop, and exploiting her willingness to help at any cost, to further his own agendas. All the while their relationship descended into darker territories, with a wider, inexplicable and insidious power-gap.