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Character Study--Ares

Layer 1: The Outside

-Name: Ares Tanner

-Eye Color: Deep brown, 'ganic eyes

-Hair Style/Color: Ares has wavy black hair. She usually keeps it up in a bandana and out of her face while she's working.

-Height: 6'3, 191cm

-Clothing Style: Ares' style leans towards the practical--anything she can get dirty and not worry about it too much. She likes pieces that are well made, and meant to last, sturdy jeans, leather jackets, and hard-wearing nomad tops, and work boots. When she's working she keeps her hair tied up with a bandana and out of her face, and has a pair of goggles hanging around her neck. She keeps buying pairs and losing them, so there's at least 6 different pairs scattered throughout her house. Her preferred colors are earth tones, with flannels mixed in, and comfy, fitted tanktops. She's not afraid to show off her tattoos. They cover her arms and most of her chest, and she likes being able to see them. Most of her clothing is a little worn, a little dusty but she tries to clean up before she goes into the city, even if it's only switching out her jacket for one that doesn't have splotches of oil on it.

-Best Physical Feature: She used to be insecure about it, but over time she's come to love her nose and freckles. It's not the smallest but it has character and she thinks its interesting, and can't imagine herself looking differently. The freckles are little reminders of how much time she spends in the sun, hiking, and exploring and driving--doing the things she enjoys.

Layer 02: The Inside

-Fears: Being alone--it's just her and her dogs and her mechs in the Badlands, and most of the people in her life are temporary presence, and there's the desire to get attached, but the expectation that they'll leave too. It's something she's usually good at ignoring but there's occasionally the fear that she'll never meet anyone, and it'll always just be her.

-Guilty Pleasures: Sleeping in late, campfire coffee (she doesn't like the fancy stuff), and really good melons (she blames Dakota, and her stash of real fruit for that one). She also loves watching the street races in the city--being surrounded by all the cars and people is additctive to her.

-Biggest Pet-peeves: People who try to stiff her out of payment for their cars--happens more than she'd like to admit, especially with a handful of her more unruly clients. It's one of the few ways to genuinely get her mad, and just the absolute disregard that a lot of the people in Night City have for the Nomads--wrinkled noses and passing to the other side of the street. She knows that it's partially a lack of knowing/unfamiliarity, but it doesn't mean it doesn't sting. Or that she's treated differently when she's dressed like someone from the city, as opposed to someone from the Badlands.

-Ambitions for the Future: Ares would like to keep running a garage, but move closer to the border of Night City, and somewhere it's easier to acquire new parts for her job. It's inconvenient to have to keep making trips and they eat through gas like crazy. She wouldn't want to cut ties to the Badlands completely but I can see her settling in the city, or at least nearby if there's enough incentive, and more clients. and she wouldn't be opposed to finding someone to share it with.

Layer 03: Thoughts

-First thought waking up: Five more minutes pleaseeee--and then 10, and then 15, and so on. Her dogs usually get her out of bed, and then her first thoughts are getting them fed and watered and walked before taking care of her/figuring out her plans for the day

-What they think about most: Ares' mind bounces from topic to topic, but she's usually thinking about her cars/work--the hobby and her job tend to blend together, and her work-life balance is dubious at best. And then her dogs--they're basically her children, and you can usually see them hanging around the garage while she works/supervising. She's always planning her next foray into the city, and what places she's going to hit up, or where she's going to hike next--her mind is rarely still.

-What they think about right before bed: Not much, Ares stays up until she's exhausted, and sleeps hard. She has time for couple errant thoughts, usually involving the day she's had or going over earlier conversations before she's asleep.

-What they think their good quality is: Ares is warm, and very engaging. She loves to listen to others talk, and give them a place where they can feel safe doing so, and feel heard. She cares a lot, and this can lead to her wearing her heart on her sleeve a little but it's also a strength of hers too.

Layer 04: Either Or

-Single or group dates: Ares likes either, it depends on whether the mood is more intimate/focused or more adventurous, and the other parties personal preferences. She's always down for exploring the Badlands or Night City, so she'd seldom turn down the opportunity. If it's just her and another person, she prefers to go somewhere more quiet so they can hear each other better, and get the opportunity to know each other more.

-To be loved or respected: Ares would much rather be loved. She knows that's always going to be people that don't respect her, and instead of looking for it in people that she knows she's never going to get it from, she choses to prioritize relationships where it's mutual. She's not someone who wants to have a deal of authority, or be respected in that regard--she'd rather be left to her own devices, than have people she has to manage.

-Beauty or Brains: Ares is fascinated by a good conversation or one that can make her think. It's not to say that she doesn't notice beauty, but it's not the most important thing to her, and her definitions of beautiful have always been a bit skewed anyway, more drawn to gleaming chrome, and danger than what's traditional. And she sees the beauty in being able to understand someone--see how their mind works, hear them reason things out and how the world looks through their eyes.

-Dogs or Cats: Ares is definitely a dog person--she loves how affectionate they are, and loyal, and they're easier for her to travel with than cats. She doesn't have anything against the latter, but prefers dogs. She has two, a pit bull (Luna), and a chihuahua (Jiji).

Layer 05: Do They…

-Lie?: Occasionally--she tries not to, and it's not as if it makes much different because she's not very good at it. She'll tell little white lies to save someone's feelings, or not be rude, but she's not good at coming up with one on the spot, and would rather just be honest. If there's something she doesn't want to talk about, she'll usually talk around it or try to redirect the conversation than outright lie.

-Believe in themselves?: Sometimes. Ares is confident in her physical skills/mostly confident in her appearance, but when in an unfamiliar environment, she's much less confident, and more hesitant. There's a bit of insecurity in who she is as a person, and perceived lack of adequacy--she knows she's not organized, or the most together, and sometimes things slip through the cracks, and it's a source of guilt and worry for her.

-Believe in love?: Yes--she definitely has, Ares loves easily and strongly, and has had her heart broken a couple times. It hasn't swayed her completely, but she tries to keep it more quiet than she had previously, and there's more hesitation

Layer 06: Have They...

-Been on stage?: No, and doesn't have much desire to--Ares doesn't want to be in the spotlight, and would much rather have it focused on someone else.

-Done drugs?: They've never appealed, although this is more from a lack of access than any moral objections to them. They were expensive and hard to obtain, fortunately for her. The Corpo stims and their ability to push productivity would be a little too tempting for her

-Changed who he was to fit in?: She hasn't in the Badlands, but it's something she struggles with more in Night City, and feels awkward and out of place in comparision. The Badlands are what make sense to her, and Night City is so different, with a completely different, unsaid set of rules, that everyone seems to know but her. It's less of an attempt to fit in, and more of one to just avoid trouble, which she seems to have a proclivity for wandering in to

Layer 07: What's their...

-Favorite Color: Earth tones--olive, terra cotta, sage, brick red. She leans towards warmer, more muted colors.

-Favorite Animal: Ares loves dogs, but horses are also another favorite--there's something really fascinating about them to her, even if she'd never own one

-Favorite Book: Ares reads just about anything she can get her hands on--romance, fantasy, fiction or nonfiction, it doesn't really matter to her. Her favorites are romance novels, the trashier the better, and they're definitely a guilty pleasure of hers. She loves poetry too--especially ones about the natural world. Kerouac's particularly resonante with her, and she has a couple verses that she's penned out scattered around her house.

"As I was hiking down the mountain with my pack I turned and knelt on the trail and said 'Thank you, shack.' Then I added 'Blah,' with a little grin, because I knew that shack and that mountain would understand what that meant, and turned and went on down the trail back to this world."

-Favorite Game: Ares likes activities over games, especially because most games necessitate memorizing more rules than she wants to--she'd rather go for a hike or practice her guitar, or read, over playing a board game. She won't say no to an occasional game of cards though, to pass time if someone else offers.

-Day their next birthday will be: March 21st

-How old they will be: 28 (she's the only one out of the three siblings that knows her birthday)

Layer 08: I…

-I Love: Learning, whether it's about people or machines, and figuring out how they work

-I Feel: Curious--my life feels like it's heading in a different direction than I'd expected and I don't know if that's a good or bad thing yet

-I Hide: My fears and worries, that I'll just be alone. I should be grateful to have what I have, and the independence but I wish I could share it with someone

-I Miss: My parents, and feeling that belonging. I couldn't keep moving with the Nomads, but I wish I had a place where it felt like I fit

-I Wish: To find a sense of purpose, something new--I need a change, to unlearn old patterns and discover something else, instead of what's comfortable and safe.