#✧‧₊˚𝙊𝘾: 𝙃𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙏𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙚

[katsigian]

🖊🖊🖊 for valen, nikita and hart pls 👀👍

Thank you so much! From this ask game

VALEN KINLAW

-- Starting fairly early on in his life, Valen's been taking part in bare-knuckle fights. Sometimes it's because he needs to (either for work or because he's threatened and needs to defend himself) or because he's just itching for a fight. Physicality has always been a good output for Valen when things are overwhelming, be it because he's had a really rough week or past issues got triggered again. He's gotten better at going to the gym at his work facility, but he still prefers a real target. So he visits underground fighting rings on occasion. Tournament style usually, bare-knuckle, register at the dingy front "reception". Crowds of less-than-savoury patrons and gangers betting on the fights. Valen won't use his first name, usually just his alias.

Picture a grungy, dirty building with shuttered windows and low stadium seating, bright lights centered on the ring and red ones everywhere else. Blood still on the mat. Chain-link walls rather than ring ropes, that type of vibe. And Valen in nothing but pants and boots ready to get some of that pent-up aggression and stress out. He does very well, having been both trained informally and formally. Plus the years of experience beginning at 16 means he's got a vicious, dirty fighting style. Typically ending fights in some brutal fashion. He doesn't go without getting wounded, usually leaving with at least a few cuts and bruises that'll heal within a few days. If he leaves covered in blood, 8 times out of 10 it isn't his.

-- He's an excellent swimmer and used to spend plenty of time at the ocean. Valen loves beaches and water, being outside in the sun hence why he's so tan and his freckles are so strong. He still has a small collection of sea glass, interesting rocks, and shells that he used to randomly pick up. They're kept in a glass jar on his desk and he can remember each beach they came from.

-- He knows constellations and stars and planets by heart. He can tilt his head up and tell you all about the planets, the brightest stars, can point out the constellations and name all of the ones he can see. It's mostly because of how many nights he's spent awake. He first started learning them during his service in 2068-2071 where he'd be on patrol at night. It was one of these times that he found an old almanac in an abandoned nomad camp, and learned about the sky from it every night for almost four months while on a posting. As such, he's also excellent at navigating according to the stars.

HART THORNE

Okay so I haven't formally introduced him yet but I do have plenty of information on him. He's the oldest friend of Valen.

-- They met when they were fourteen and latched onto each other. Both of them having fathers that were heavy handed and mean, they could bond over shared sympathy and interests. Both Hart and Valen loved surfing and they'd try slip away on the weekends to go to the ocean. Hart's dad wasn't as terrible as Callen, Valen's dad, but Hart was still traumatized, having been through much of the same indoctrination as Valen was.

-- Hart nowadays is Valen's tattoo artist. Valen draws the tattoos, Hart puts them onto Valen. Usually, they'll chat late into the night, drinking in Hart's studio in Vista del Rey. He's also Valen's corner guy for cage fights and sparring partner. Hart doesn't have the skill that Valen does in hand to hand combat, but he can hold his own. There's been a few times where they accidentally hurt each other, a punch not pulled fast enough, and they'll sit there laughing even though one of them has a bleeding nose.

NIKITA BLAKE

-- She does mercenary work, but focuses mainly on women who need aid (all kinds of women, not solely biological). Nikita is a good talker and an even better listener, naturally sympathetic and caring. She does well at taking the work that needs a softer hand.

-- Nikita isn't the brawling type, even if she's shifted. Far more cunning and sly than anything else, and is good at talking people down. She'll avoid confrontation if necessary.

-- Her connections help her out with her jobs immensely. Noel, her brother, is Trauma Team and she can call him if a client is injured and needs transport. Her husband is Max-Tac and he has experience with conflict/combat for when things get dicey. Valen, her cousin, is for when she needs something done that neither Max-Tac or Trauma should be involved in.