Grace

Personality and Backstory: Grace Nam always broke expectations, even when it meant she stuck out somehow. She scavenged or bought spare components to build her own computers. She played soccer with the neighborhood boys and got into fights with them, but it was her sharp tongue that landed her in trouble with her teachers. She looked and acted like a troublemaker, so they tried to force her to conform to expectations. To survive, Grace learned to soften her image, to better play with and manipulate preconceptions; she bought fake glasses and adopted the geek girl persona.

Grace's skills earned a National Scholarship at KAIST, but after graduating she decided to enlist in the Republic of Korea Army and was assigned to the 5163 Army Division. Looking for a change from office life, Grace earned her place in the 9th Special Forces Brigade, known as the Ghost corps, where she trained in mountaineering, survival techniques, and guerilla warfare.

Despite her unorthodox behavior within the highly disciplined ROK army, she gained notice for her exemplary tech skills and for being highly adaptable to situations. During joint training with Detachment K Green Berets, the American instructors encouraged her to focus on breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in networks. They also encouraged Grace to try out with the 707th Special Mission Group: White Tigers.

The White Tigers were a better fit for her skills, but Grace inadvertently butted heads with Major General Kuh, an old guard soldier with political ties all the way up to the Blue House, who followed orders to the letter and expected unflinching loyalty from his subordinates. Kuh made life difficult for Grace, preventing her from exploiting her full potential. Grace heard about Rainbow during training exercises with the SAS, and it sounded like the opportunity she had been seeking... the chance to contribute through her strengths. She knew that Major General Kuh would never put her on the list, so she did what she always did and thought outside of the box.

In 2017, Grace became an official member of Rainbow, much to the surprise of Major General Kuh, who was not happy about it. Kuh started to actively get Grace expelled from the White Tigers in order to threaten her position on Rainbow. As a result, Grace became suspicious of fellow White Tiger Chul Kyung Hwa for spying on her for Kuh as he was coincidently recruited into Rainbow not long after she was. Grace started to work closely with Masaru "Echo" Enatsu in Rainbow's R&D lab to engineer new countermeasure technologies.

In late 2019, Harry Pandey threw the first annual Tournament of Champions to serve as the ultimate test for Rainbow Operators under The Program. Grace's team qualified for the final match and she managed to eliminate Taina "Caveira" Pereira with a shot to the head. Shortly thereafter, Grace and Elias "Blitz" Kotz were eliminated by Jack "Pulse" Estrada after the detonation of a nitro cell. Despite this, Grace's team secured the championship after Yumiko "Hibana" Imagawa managed to eliminate Estrada.

Grace plays with expectation because she wants people to underestimate her, but it is different with Rainbow. Before she knew how to control the situation and was never afraid of failure until the stakes became this critical. She is among men and women who reward asymmetrical thinking even though she knows she now has a target on her back. Rainbow was her most daring stunt and she knows she's alienated herself from the Korean military; any slip up at this point will see her drummed out of the military entirely, and this has added pressure to perform, improve, and succeed.

Grace is playful yet serious, clever yet reckless, a paradox and enigma to all but herself. She is analytical, overachieving, adaptable, mischievous, ambitious, athletic, brilliant, boastful, calculated, competitive, considerate, conscientious, determined, diligent, eclectic, hardworking, insightful, intelligent, leisurely, level-headed, perceptive, passionate, self-critical, spontaneous, strong, versatile, manipulative, intuitive, cunning, childish, crude, egocentric, detached, insecure, opportunistic, condescending, workaholic, secretive, unreflective, iconoclastic, confrontational. Due to her harsh pressure in her childhood to be academically gifted, amongst other stressful influences, she generally walks with the belief that she has something to prove in everything she does, because otherwise she wouldn't be good enough. This can be more than detrimental on her at times, as this is where her ego spawns from alongside her work ethic.

It's hard for her to make the most nuanced, deep connections interpersonally due to her cunning undertones behind every interaction, both within herself and with others. She's yet to quite understand how pervasive her own traumas and neglects are.

Grace speaks with an accent as she's South Korean, occasionally using Korean phrasing and also speaking her native tongue in stressful or emotional situations.

She has a fearful-avoidant attachment style.

Grace is a Buddhist, and regularly visits her local temple.

Grace is an Aquarius Sun, Sagittarius Moon, Leo Rising.

Concise personality terms that would describe her are: ENTP, 7w8, Chaotic Neutral

Appearance and Proficiencies: Grace's specialist position is held in the power of her Ballistic Armor Military Laptop, shortened to BAML or codenamed Logic Bomb. This is a powerful hacking tool, allowing her to remain cyber-offensive as well as physically offensive, versatile and compact in size for tactical convenience. However, it's still unfortunately susceptible to EMPs and jammers.

Grace is trained to utilize her service weaponry as follows: The 7.62x51mm NATO Mk.14 EBR, the 12g BOSG.12.2, the 9x19 MAC-11, the 9x19 CZ75, and the GONNE-6 Breacher. Though she can use all of these, she typically runs her EBR with the MAC-11.

Grace is 29, 5'7, 34B cup size, 137lb. She has hazel eyes. In combat, she typically sports a beanie on top of her brown and ash-grey dyed hair tied off in twin braids, a purple crop top over a green flak jacket buckled around her, underneath that is her black, tight long-sleeved combat shirt, wearing gloves, a battle belt containing her various communications and kit, dark lilac pants, and boots. Outside of combat, she wears more casual wear styles reminiscent of her culture back in Korea, and her hair is back.

Grace wears prescription glasses, she has astigmatism.