Fate: No Exit - [Character Profile] Lien Binti Siva

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Lien Binti Siva

High Concept: Ex-Fleet Marine Force (FMF) Navy Corpsman Medic Mother (Combat and medical training, experience, and expertise.)
Trouble: Body After Baby (Hormonal surges, fatigues easier, sore muscles & etc....)

Memories
Patriotic Escape (Lien refuses to be cowed or 'put in her place'; she is also has incredible integrity and loyalty.)

Lien joined the Navy on her 18^th birthday after having earned her GED so she could join before her senior year at high school was up. The daughter of first generation Americans that still held strongly to their Malaysian Islamic heritage, Lien wanted a more ‘truly American’ life than her parents would let her have and so rebelled by enlisting in the Navy.

Touchstone: Her FMF Navy Corpsman pin.

Life Has No Second Chances (Lien knows that 'safe' is always a relative term; she tends to be alert and prepared but sometimes can hesitate too long because of her caution.)

Lien's first brush with death in the military happened before she even left the states: during a training scenario, one of Lien's squadmates was killed in a freak accident. Despite strong "suggestions" to avoid the grieving widower or provide him with details of the accident that he might use in a hypothetical suit against the Navy, Lien sought him out at the wake. She told James what had happened, what she had seen at least, hoping it would give him closure and asking if she could keep his wife's pistol marksmanship ribbon as a keepsake. Lien had helped her earn it, spending much of her free time at the range with his wife and making one of her first close friends in Navy as well. James allowed her to take the ribbon and Lien glued it to the back of her Corpsman pin; it wouldn't show when she wore the pin for formal events, but Lien would feel that her friend was still there with her in some small way.

Everyone Needs Shore Leave (Guest-starring in Ira's bonus memory)

On her shore leave in Germany just before being transferred over for training as with a Marine unit, Lien and a group of her Navy medic girlfriends took one last shore leave together. They hit the bars hard and ran into a pretentious but hot and loaded young man named Ira; after several free rounds on him, the laughing, giggling party roaved outside for a round car vandalism pranks. Looking back on it, Lien's pretty sure Ira or someone slipped a little extra into the drinks. Not GHB, they all remembered too much, but there was a table-dancing incident she's never quite lived down and the next morning when she went hunting for each member of their little band, she found most of them in Ira's larger-than-a-king sized bed. Thankfully, she'd woken up on one of the couches in the living room. She also found her trophy from their escapades in the streets: the hood ornament of an Excalibur show car parked in the garage of Ira's hotel. She rallied the hung-over troops and herded everyone back to base, but she kept the ornament and had it fashioned into a pendant. One last big hurrah before settling in to the serious work.

Don’t Screw the Boss Inviolate (Lien knows how to work well in a unit, but is distrustful of charismatic leaders and very attuned, almost to a paranoid level, to group dynamics.)

She trained as a Corpsman, but discovered a love of combat and an untapped aggressive streak in her basic training; melding the two with great proficiency, she was offered the chance to join the Fleet Marine Force and serve with the Marines. Her commanding officer became Captain Eric Miles and after several months of service in the field with her MSOT (Marine Special Operations Team), she and Eric began an affair. Members of the team figured out the affair pretty quickly and one, Jerald Epson, out of a mix of spite, jealousy, and just plain voyeurism, set up his Smartphone to tape them.

The video was discovered by the rest of the team and someone (she still isn’t sure), sent it to the military police. Lien was removed from the team while the situation was investigated. Eric’s family and family friends closed rank, all military legacies themselves, and after Lien tested positive for pregnancy, she was quietly offered medical discharge in return for keeping quiet about the affair and legally disavowing any member of her MSOT as the father. For the first few weeks after her discharge, she lived on an emotional bender: living out of a hovel of a extended stay hotels as she aimlessly wandered from city to city, going to bars to pick up guys (because, hey, she was already pregnant), and avoiding doctor check-ups or finding a OBGYN.

Eventually she had a one-night stand with a man with the name of an angel (if that was his real name). She woke up in a much nicer hotel room than she was used to and nausea that made her wonder if she'd forgotten going on a bender the night before. Uriel woke up to the sounds of retching and managed to coax out of Lien that she was pregnant, not hung over or overdosing. The reality of her situation finally set in and Lien literally sobbed out her story to a man she'd only intended to know for twelve hours. He got her cleaned up, cried out, and on the phone with a local women's clinic before paying for the room for the rest of the weekend and walking out of her life.

Touchstone: Her smartphone, with pictures of her unit, Jerald’s video, and several ultrasounds.

Life After Shame (Lien has moved passed really being able to be embarrassed and has little time for other people's preconceptions. It makes her clear-headed and strong-willed while still leaving her compassion in place.)

Lien considered going home. She even called her mother, who quietly but firmly insinuated that there would not be heartfelt welcome waiting for her or her bastard child if she showed up on their doorstep. So, Lien looked up a friend, Fiona, that had gone through Basic with her and left after her first tour was over. She took Lien in, but her friend had a bad habit of bringing home strays, animals and people. The animals were easy enough to deal with, Fiona would take them to no-kill shelters and the two would have ice cream over how nice of people they were.

The people-strays were far more of an issue. Beyond the problem of space (one-bedroom apartment), Fiona didn't like strangers in and out of the house all the time and she knew Lien was going through a fair amount of her savings helping out people that were likely to blow it on drugs and booze as much as food or new clothes for job interviews. The last stray-straw made it through their door during Lien's fifth month: a scarred, unnatractive woman named Agrippina Solas. Lien brought her home, patched her up from some bruises and cuts she didn't ask where they came from, and gave her enough money to get through a week or so under the disapproving glare of Fiona.

Fiona decided Lien needed to focus on her own life more and helped her get back into school, with an eye towards eventually getting her MD. After Lien was settled into school, she also helped her find a new place to move into, hoping having to be more responsible for herself and her home would keep Lien from trying to fix everyone else's problems because she didn't know how to fix her own. The Westmarch Living Complex not only accepted Lien’s student loans as acceptable income, but the two-bedroom loft apartment on the seventh floor that was currently open had an amazing view out the circle window of the spacious living room.

Touchstone: Her keychain with keys to Fiona’s apartment and her Westmarch apartment.

Apartment Aspects

Floor: Seventh

Spacious: The apartment is large and airy, well-lit by the windows.

Cluttered: The apartment is a move-in mess, filled with basic furniture, baby accoutrements, and lots of unpacked boxes with who knows what in them.

Skills

+4 Lore

+3 Physique, Will

+2 Fight, Shoot, Stealth

+1 Athletics, Clarity, Empathy, Notice, Rapport

Stunts

Medic (Lore): +2 to all Lore rolls relating to medical knowledge and application.

Deadly (Fight): Killing Stroke, pg. 111

It’s Not Real! (Clarity): Spend a Fate Point to use Clarity to grant an Advantage to another player to see through the lies of the Complex.

Other Stats

Refresh: 3

Physical Stress Track: 1 point, 2 point, 3 point, 4 point

Mental Stress Track: 1 point, 2 point, 3 point, 4 point