Lara Sedos
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Due to her job's sedentary nature and her luxurious diet, Lara is somewhat overweight. She also has poor vision that requires spectacles to correct it.
Body Features
Lara keeps her hair quite short, mainly so that it requires less maintenance. She also has rather androgynous facial features; if it weren't for her regal bearing, she might occasionally be mistaken for a male military officer.
Apparel & Accessories
Lara is notorious for her highly utilitarian wardrobe, always in an almost military style that she believes indicates her fervor for the empire.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Lara's upbringing was much like those of all upper-crust young Grenagese women. She was raised by a matriarch away from her birth parents (a fact she has never seriously contemplated) and decided on engineering for a career at a young age. She turned out to be adept at it, quickly surpassing most of her peers. She was frustrated by a lack of direction early in her professional life, but found a niche she excelled at in mining equipment technologies. She has enjoyed great success in her field and lives a luxurious life at present.
Sexuality
Lara rebukes all things sexual to a famous degree. She openly despises those who would "copulate without intent to replenish the ranks of the empire". However, beneath this adamant facade, Lara struggles to suppress her sexuality. She is a lesbian, but her thoughts associated with that greatly conflict with her ideals regarding patriotism.
Education
Lara recieved a standard education for a woman of her birth, which is to say that she recieved strict but highly enriching government lessons throughout her entire upbringing.
Employment
Given her clear aptitude from early on, Lara had no trouble finding a placement at a prestigious government laboratory after she completed her studies. She worked with some of the pioneers of present-day steam-powered technology, and much of her later inventions drew heavily on her early peers' and mentors' work.
Lara is now the head administrator of her own laboratory, a task which challenges her in ways steam engineering does not, but she has performed admirably in the three years she has served at this post.
Accomplishments & Achievements
Lara is praised for her ingenuity and ability to overcome new and varied obstacles. Among some of her most reputable advancements are a steam drill for mining into deep layers of stone (entirely her own project) and some major upgrades to the efficiency of existing technology for detecting good alumentum deposits.
Additionally, Lara's laboratory has met deadlines and advanced government projects with aplomb, and there is already talk of it recieving accelerated funding.
Failures & Embarrassments
Although it was not disastrous for her career, Lara did have a failed stint as an airship engineer before settling in to work on mining equipment. During this two-year period, she recieved significant government funding but was unable to produce any useful inventions other than minor tweaks to existing technologies. She spent most of this time working on a new model of airship that ultimately was scrapped due to extreme cost inefficiencies.
Lara is very self-conscious about this time in her life, and those who know her well know not to bring it up unless they want to mortify her.
Mental Trauma
Lara denies significant parts of her identity (namely that she is homosexual) on an almost subconscious level, convinced that it would be wrong for a "humble citizen of the empire such as herself to deviate from what is right" in any way. She has never spoken about this to anyone and has not even allowed herself to fully consider her feelings on the matter.
At times when she struggles to deny her sexuality to herself, Lara isolates herself and becomes absorbed in research to the extent that she misses meals and sleep for up to several days. When colleagues ask her about this after the fact, she is able to brush it away by demonstrating something she learned while alone with her studies that will be instrumental to whatever their current project is.
Intellectual Characteristics
Lara is an adept problem-solver and has a great capacity for complex technical knowledge as well as obscure fact and trivia, especially pertaining to the Grenagese government and its accomplishments. She is known to be highly inquisitive, a trait some of her colleagues find a bit off-putting after working with her for long enough.
Morality & Philosophy
Lara is exceedingly patriotic. She is greatful to the government for giving her the life she has, and believes firmly that Grenagem is the greatest place on the planet. She is known for the high praise she speaks of the empire, which some people argue is a reason why she has received such generous funding over the years.
Taboos
Lara's taboos are those of Grenagem: brazen lack of control over one's emotion andlack of passion for or dissent against the empire.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Lara's greatest wish is that when she dies, she will have contributed something meaningful to Grenagem through her work.
Savvies & Ineptitudes
Lara can dissect complex steam-powered machines in person or via diagrams at stunning speed.
Social
Social Aptitude
Lara is good at managing her subordinates; she views this task like any other puzzle she might have to work with. However, she freezes up when any kind of intimacy comes up, even if it's as trivial as a formal embrace.
Year of Birth
107 AG
43 Years old
Children
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