Dr. Erica Graves

Dr. Erica Graves. Female. 30s. American.
5'1" tall, 105 lbs. Human.

A child prodigy and daughter of two scientific geniuses, Marshall and Athena Graves. Graduating at MIT before she even hit her teenage years, Erica had a bright future in many scientific fields with her inventions. But her parents were among the heads of the secret Archon Program to create supersoldiers using alien technology, so she found herself often overshadowed by their already established reputation and is frustrated that nothing is new under the sun, annoyed that she was born at a time that technology has hit a plateau. She wants to create her own legacy that would put her name on the map. Credited to have created the later power armor models of the Warskin Project (Mark 3 to 5), advanced particle weapons that made railguns and vibroswords less relevant, and later Kratonium types; her first true invention contribution was the Trigram reactor, a type of fusion reactor small enough to be portable but has more power output than the ones being used in her world.

Personality:

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Erica is perhaps one of the smartest humans alive, eventually taking the title of her parents as Earth's greatest inventor. The erudite alien race called the Ecalun even considers her to be intelligent in their standards. She is dangerously competent in various scientific disciplines from engineering, biology, chemistry, and physics. Her intellect stretches to human nature, occasionally can be relied on for advice. Her brutal honesty is often to better other people and calling them out on their flaws, to which she helps reconstruct their confidence with proper advice once they realize their mistakes.
Despite her well-known tendency to be a sardonic person, Erica is a good person who prefers to use mass destruction as a last resort and not getting innocent people harmed by her inventions, she tends to invent things that will save lives rather than end them, like power armors and safer vehicles. News of the deadly efficiency of her particle weapons technology have struck a cord in her that she hid, claiming the mass produced versions of her inventions in the hands of soldiers are the true weapons of mass destruction, rather than the bombs that could end planets because they are used more as a deterrent.

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A cynical and mysterious woman who hides her true personality behind a veneer of sarcasm and a short-fused temperament. She is foul-mouthed with a loud yell that people come to know her for, along with giving people nicknames and calling them "idiots". She has little regard for societal institutions (like religion which she's very critical of) and describes herself as a misanthrope who prefers the company of robots than people but shows some respect to certain people when outside her territory. She never leaves the comforts of her lab and rarely even seen walking around the base unless forced to go out. She tends to be impatient and has a short-attention span, leaving behind many works-in-progress. She claims to only work for the Spiral Consortium since it helps her focus on what to work on. From the outside, it seems her genius is her only redeeming trait, but she is capable of empathy and can put her pride aside to apologize and show moments of weakness in private. A part of her seem to have never grown up from wanting her parents' approval, which she'll never have since they have long passed away. This makes her significantly nicer to children in comparison to adults.

Quirks: Uses eye-drops and nasal sprays frequently, has a weak immune system, sings and dances in her laboratory, politically incorrect, physically abusive to her robot/android companions, tends to yell at people/robots in her lab if they annoy her, frequently hires hookers, has an erratic sleep schedule, openly insults Archon supersoldiers to their faces with no fear of retaliation, insists on being called "Doctor" instead of "Miss", 

Likes: Coffee, running in marathons, robots, cyborg parts, Crocs and running shoes, video games (on portable), candy, creative insults, chewable vitamins, Japanese food, sensitive people, whisky, rosé wine, playing piano, delivery services, zoos, pajamas, ukelele, spicy food, her youthful appearance, defeating magic with science, smashing things,

Dislikes: Tea, pickles, poorly-cooked food, incompetence, impudence, being called "Shrimpy" (or "Ebica" by Japanese-speaking agents), winter, social media, pineapple on pizza,

First Impressions:



Visual: Tig bitties

Audio: Gordon "IT'S FUCKING RAW!" Ramsay

Olfactory: Smells like science

Demeanor: Angery smol



Abilities:
 
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