Era Niir'lana

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That One Fear In My Enemy's Eyes
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"There is a stigma that men are more powerful than women, but I beg to differ. I’ll show you the power of a Saiyan who is also a woman!”

Era's Theme:



Description: At twenty five years of age and standing an impressive five feet eleven inches in height, Era is at the peak of her physical condition. Her long violet hair is kept tied in a rather tight ponytail to keep it either out of her way or for use as a secondary weapon when she spins. Her hair is very thick despite its flexibility and reach, and she often enjoys toying with the tip when bored or to show her silent disapproval of a plan of action. Following her ponytail to her head one will find some rather thick bangs which are often slightly unkempt and block her left eye. This does little to hinder her sight, but is very often a source of annoyance for her. She always says that she should cut the bangs, but she has grown fond of them despite how much they annoy her and refuses to cut them.

Her neck is slender, but muscular. Her neck tapers down into her graceful shoulders, further moving down to her arms which are long, elegant, and fluid. There is musculature here as well, but it is soft and unassuming which is just the way she likes it. Her hands are average size being not too small and not too large, and her long graceful fingers with well kept nails on the end complete the picture. Her chest is full, very full, but not enough to hinder her in combat or embarrass her as she has no modesty whatsoever. Any modesty she had when she was young was beaten out of her by her parents who taught her that her abilities exceeded the need for clothing. Often in combat her clothing is torn or blown off her body, yet she continues unimpeded while her typically male opponents become more than a little flustered and red in the face.

Era’s full chest sits above a softly muscled abdomen. Like her arms the musculature is there, but a soft layer of skin floats over it to help her retain her femininity. Going down from her abdomen are her full hips and taught round posterior which any woman would kill for. Her legs are very long, muscular, and pristinely shaped to the point of drawing attention from literally any man who sees them without the cover of clothing. Her legs flow down nicely into her slender ankles and small, delicate looking feet. Her feet, however, are anything but delicate. Look at the bottom of her feet and you’ll find calluses from years of training barefoot outdoors making her feet just as tough and lethal as the rest of her. All in all, she is a true Saiyan beauty and one any man would be proud to call his own.

Race: Saiyan
Age: 25
Sex: Female
Height: 5’ 11”
Weight: 145 lb.
Hair Color: Violet
Eye Color: Grey/Blue
Body Type: Mesomorph
Voice Type: Soprano



Combat Style: Mixed

Starting Power Level: 10,445

Personal Techniques:

Era is a prodigy who has mastered the use of her body and Ki which now operate in perfect harmony with one another at all times. She doesn't have to be stronger or faster than her opponent. She just needs to tough it out long enough for her second prodigious talent to show itself.

What is that talent?

It only takes Era a few attacks to see the flaws in her opponent's fighting style and take full advantage of it no matter how strong or how fast they are. If Era has the chance to see her opponent's attacks more than a handful of times, it's as good as over. They will never be able to strike her the same way twice, as she will be expecting the attack a second time and have a natural reflexive defense ready and waiting for them.

* Power Lance - A lance made of pure energy capable of piercing the hide of almost anything which does not share her own energy signature. If she plans to use this technique, she has to send some of her energy to her allies to ensure that they are not harmed by the technique.

Ki Gradient - As she powers up she encases her body in a veil of pure energy which protects her from all incoming energy based attacks which do not exceed roughly 10x her own power level.

Internal Struggle - Concentrating her Ki into a single point in her fist or foot she can use the Ki itself as a weapon once it transfers to the target causing much greater internal damage to the targeted area than a normal attack.

Personality: Era is a proud member of the Saiyan race, and thus she holds a certain amount of personal pride in herself and her abilities. Whenever her pride is damaged, she knows how to swallow it unlike her comrade Valkyrie who enters a fit of rage. She is not without humility, but she is lacking in the knowledge of how to deal with her damaged pride on a deeper emotional level. She will take her damaged pride and swallow it in public, but does so silently and with obvious resentment towards the source of her newfound misery. It was her father who taught her to be proud of what she could do, and it was her mother who taught her to swallow her pride when necessary. Without both of their teachings, she would have a closed mind like many of her fellow Saiyans and believe that power is everything which she believes is the philosophy of a fool.

Another part of Era’s personality which was shaped by her mother is her love of physical activity unrelated to combat. Dancing, running, jumping long distances, taking walks through densely wooded areas, the works. It’s not your typical Saiyan behavior to enjoy leisurely activities, but then again she is not a typical Saiyan. Regardless of the fact that she’s a member of the female species, Era has always been a bit different. Where others seek power, she seeks knowledge within power and an understanding as to what makes her powerful. Where others seek dominance and dominion, she seeks peace of mind. Her desire for knowledge over power has always marked her as something of a social oddball, but not so much as to call her an outcast. She has made plenty of friends and forged powerful bonds with her colleagues on planet raid missions.

The final piece of the puzzle is the side nobody ever sees. The side no Saiyan wants to display… Her heart.

Era has a large heart, obscured only by her Saiyan heritage. Her pride and deep love of combat shroud the depths of her heart in a veil of shadows. Because of this, nobody outside of her mother and father know that she has a kind and loving heart buried beneath her tough exterior. Another thing which doesn’t exactly help her heart show its true colors is the fact that her father trained her using a special kind of psychology to try and force that side of her heart down into the back of her subconscious. While training her, he didn’t want her thinking about anything other than training and the importance of being powerful. Her mother didn’t see things this way, and tried to balance things out by using the opposite philosophy when her father wasn’t around. It worked… somewhat. Era is tough, tenacious, a vicious combatant and a powerful warrior, but she is also a caring and compassionate young woman deep down.

Likes:

* Outdoor activity
* Training
* Seeking knowledge
* Singing

Dislikes:

* Unnecessary displays of power or violence
* Arrogance
* Tyrannical behavior

Training History: Era's training began when she was very young, and her father was her first teacher. From the beginning, her natural fear of her father's size and musculature became apparent as an obstacle to her success, one which her father was quick to wipe out. He taught her that size, musculature, tone of voice, and perceived control of Ki were all nothing to be afraid of. Rather, they were to be observed and studied in as rapid a manner as possible. Thanks to her father, she learned at an early age how to judge an opponent's skill based on a combination of factors including their height, body type, musculature, power level (with help from a Scouter), as well as projected confidence and tone of voice. All of these things are tells, and as she grew and learned how to read them her natural fear of her opponent's "unknown" factors disappeared. In school, young Saiyans were taught many things, how to fight included. Her fearlessness served her well in such school disputes and class sparring sessions.

As Era grew, she began to train herself in other ways beyond what her father was teaching her. She found his style of teaching rather stale after a while, repeating the same things over and over and never teaching her the full extent of what he had learned over his years on raid missions. So she took it upon herself to analyze her own body's strengths and weaknesses, learn from them, study them, and utilize them to her advantage. Knowing how to turn one's own weaknesses into a strength under the right circumstances proved invaluable in proving she was the strongest in her school before she moved on to a higher education by the end of her tenth year. Her bouts with a boy in school, Khota, who was the strongest with a power level of 98, were instrumental for her in the testing of her analysis of herself. At such a young age, her analysis and mental processing skills were limited, and she had to make the most of them. Luckily, she was a very quick study.

Era discovered the effects of the body's nervous system at age eleven. She was training in the woods near her home and she fell down and struck her elbow on a rock which instantly made it go numb. Once she recovered, she tried duplicating the effect using the tips of her fingers. It took a few tries, but eventually she found the spot which caused the numbing sensation. After that point, she tried experimenting on herself to figure out where else on her body this could happen, and over the years she developed a mental map of the body and where these spots were. From numbness, to searing pain, to full blown knock outs with but a press of the fingers, Era now knows the nervous system almost like the back of her own hand. With but a glance, she can judge the map of her opponent's nervous system and use it as a weapon against them. Normally only light taps or hard pressing of the fingers is required, but against stronger opponents sometimes a full out strike is needed. But she is nothing if not adaptable.

As she became a teen, and then a woman, such bouts were even more crucial. Every year, her body changed and she adjusted her training to maximize her utilization of her strengths and weaknesses. Anytime her muscles got bigger, she adjusted. Anytime her bust size increased, she adjusted. Anytime she grew a certain number of inches, she adjusted. Everything was accounted for down to the smallest detail, and as she perfected her methods and finally stopped growing around age nineteen, she managed to find what was for her an optimum level of efficiency. She now knows how strong she is, how tall she is, how long her legs are, how long her arms are, how fast she can punch/kick/elbow/knee, and how quickly she can gather energy. The knowledge of all of these factors about herself make her a brilliant fighter even when her power level is lower than that of her opponent. While not an inherent prodigy, she became the equivalent of a prodigy through sheer effort and force of will over her many years of training. To date, her win/loss record is impressive for her age and average level status.

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Biography: Era was born on a Raid trip to a planet known as Seknm. Her father was heading the Raid, and her mother was along for the ride despite her being ready to bear a child at any moment. Sure enough during the course of the Raid and ensuing devastation of the planet, little Era was born. When her father returned to find his wife had given birth while he was away he was somewhat disappointed he'd missed the birth, but he was happy to see a strong, noisy fighter of a child wriggling in her mother's arms. When he picked her up, she fought even harder. He was so proud of her fighting spirit that he held her up for the entire team to see and bragged about her all the way home.

Born with a rather average power level of 7, Era was nothing special at first. During her earliest years she spent her time training with her father who instilled in her a sense of fearlessness. Teaching her that no opponent was without weakness, she learned never to be afraid of an opponent larger than her by the age of five. This fearlessness served her well in schoolyard disputes with other, larger children. The schoolyard fights were commonplace, and the teachers actually encouraged it from time to time and Era's was no exception to this. Even though she didn't win every bout she entered, she was always a fierce combatant up until the end. This earned her the admiration of many of her fellow students, especially those with power levels below her own.

Her power level had increased to 880 by the age of ten, which was rather high for a child. She was one of the strongest in her school, with only a handful of other kids stronger than her. The strongest child in her school growing up was a boy named Khota, whose power level was 940. Quite the gap for children, but despite the difference in power level Era never backed down from the chance to fight with him. She challenged him so often in fact that eventually she grew to understand another aspect of combat which her father hadn't taught her by this point in time: intuition. Not to be confused with instinct, intuition helped her predict Khota's moves by their seventh bout and she finally managed to defeat him in front of not only other students, but teachers. This recognition was also noted by her parents, who were unbelievably proud that their daughter had earned such a powerful yet unofficial honor.

Her defeat of the strongest child in school earned her an unofficial honor among the staff and she even had a few minutes in the spotlight as they held her hands up and proclaimed her the new "strongest" of the school. This didn't last though, as she moved on to another school two years later to reestablish her dominance in the yard. But this time, she was in for a rude awakening. By age twelve, going on thirteen, her power level had increased to 4,500, being utterly outclassed by the strongest in school who was another boy named Girham whose power level was 7,800. She challenged him numerous times, but he always won. However, her tenacity and desire to continue fighting him even when she knew she couldn't win earned her his respect, and the two became friendly rivals. They often sparred with one another, learning and growing together until Khota was taken away to become part of a raid group.

By age sixteen, and after coming into womanhood, her power level had increased to 8,340. For a young woman barely even worthy of being called a "woman," she was much more powerful than average which won her the attentions of many boys around her at that time. By this point she was going on regular raid missions alongside others with power levels around her own though sometimes greater. She relished the chance to fight alongside them and bout with them occasionally, which made most of them good friends and friendly rivals. Their teamwork was solid, and before long they were a powerful raid group in their own right. Earning many high rank missions over the years, Era's power continued to grow and her repertoire continued to expand as she continued to fight. Before long, however, she left her raid group and began going on solo missions. Being a Low Class Saiyan with a power level currently situated at only 10,445, she is a rarity. Had she been born to parents of the Elite Class, she'd be considered an Elite. But her low bloodline has kept her in the "Low Class" caste.

Today, she waits for her next mission.
 
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