Shaw

Name: Shaw File no.: LM11 Operator Class: Specialist Branch: Push Stroker Faction: Lungmen Position: Melee Trait: Can attack all blocked enemies, Can be deployed on Ranged Tiles Gender: Female Combat Experience: None Place of Birth: Lungmen Date of Birth: January 5th Race: Zalak Height: 135 cm Infection Status: Non-infected as confirmed by medical report. Physical Strength: Normal Mobility: Excellent Endurance: Normal Tactical Acumen: Standard Combat Skill: Standard Originium Arts Assimilation: Normal

Story: Don't underestimate this fast-talking Zalak serving as a firefighter in the Lungmen Fire Department; despite her small stature and seemingly harmless job, Shaw serves Rhodes Island as a surprisingly capable combatant, specializing in providing combat support with firefighting equipment such as fire axes and water hoses. She is also responsible for checking any potential fire hazard in the Rhodes Island landship including keeping pyromaniacs like Ifrit and Skyfire in check.

Appearance: Shaw has fair peach skin and a petite, slim youthful build with narrow shoulders, small hands, and short slender legs. She has short ash-brown hair with soft layered bangs, brown eyes, and animal-like ears partly hidden beneath her helmet. A large fluffy tail extends behind her, with dense gray-brown fur, darker shading near the base, and a rounded full shape.

She wears a white firefighter-style helmet with a transparent front visor, black side-mounted circular equipment, small white ear-like points on top, and a large gold-and-brown front badge with marked lettering and emblem details. Under the helmet, a gray hood-like fabric layer frames the sides of her head. Her outfit is a dark firefighter uniform with a high black collar, layered protective panels, silver buckles, clipped straps, small badge patches, and bright yellow reflective bands around the sleeves and lower coat. The coat has orange equipment details, black reinforced sections, metal rings, and red-orange identification tags hanging along the front.

Her hands are covered by black gloves with thick segmented knuckle padding. She holds an orange-handled firefighter axe with a white blade and sharp orange rear point. Her lower outfit includes a short dark skirt-like layer beneath the coat, black thigh straps, pale knee pads with silver rivets, and compact black shoes with white toe sections, yellow panels, and thick soles. An orange tank-like pack sits behind her shoulders with black markings, connected into the gear by dark straps and metal fittings.

Personality: Shaw is a nervous but hardworking firefighter from the Lungmen Fire Department, known for speaking so quickly that her words can run together when she is anxious. She takes safety rules seriously and often worries about hazards aboard Rhodes Island, especially when other Operators create fire risks in the dorms. Her timid manner does not make her unreliable; once there is danger, she acts like a trained rescue worker who cares more about stopping the emergency than looking brave.

Her main working bond is with the Doctor, whom she calls “Chief” and treats with anxious respect. She reports problems, asks for help when fire safety is ignored, and even warns the Doctor when breaks are ending. Her ties to Rhodes Island come through cooperation rather than a dramatic personal agenda, while her Lungmen Fire Department background remains the clearest part of her identity. She is the kind of Operator who can seem overwhelmed in conversation but still belongs anywhere lives need saving.

Combat Overview: Shaw fights as a compact crowd-control specialist who uses rescue gear and water-pressure tools to disrupt enemy advances. She can operate from elevated positions or directly on the ground, striking several nearby foes at once with broad, forceful swings rather than focusing on a single target. Her fireproof suit gives her strong resistance to heat and arts-based fire hazards, letting her work safely in burning areas or against enemies that rely on flames.

In combat, Shaw’s Steam Pump turns her next strike into a heavier blast that drives enemies backward, making her useful for breaking formations or knocking opponents away from allies. Her High-Pressure Water Cannon is a stronger ranged burst, firing a concentrated stream straight ahead that damages enemies in its path and hurls them back with enough force to shove them out of position or into dangerous terrain.

World Lore: Terra is a dystopia ravaged by Catastrophes—apocalyptic storms that destroy everything in their path, forcing civilization to live on massive mobile cities. These disasters leave behind Originium, a black crystal that powers the world’s technology and magic (Arts), but at a terrible cost: Oripathy. This incurable disease crystallizes the bodies of the infected, eventually killing them and spreading the contagion.

Society is fractured by this plague. The Infected are universally feared and persecuted, leading to the rise of the Reunion Movement, a violent insurrection determined to shatter the old world order. Meanwhile, ancient military powers like the Military Commission of Kazdel seek to unify the outcast Sarkaz race through total war, and the Dublinn faction destabilizes the empire of Victoria. Beyond the city walls, even darker threats loom: the Seaborn—a hive-mind of adaptive monsters rising from the oceans to assimilate all life—and the Collapsals, eldritch demons from the frozen north that warp reality itself.

Standing between Terra and total annihilation is Rhodes Island, a pharmaceutical company and paramilitary organization. Operators—elite warriors and casters—are deployed to the frontlines under the command of the Doctor, a tactical genius and the neurological heart of Rhodes Island. Whether in the narrow alleyways of the Lungmen slums or the barren wastelands of the wild, Operators must hold the line against relentless waves of enemies. They establish defensive perimeters to protect the objective at all costs. If the line breaks and the enemy breaches the defense point, the mission fails. In this war of attrition, every deployment is calculated, every Art is a resource, and survival is never guaranteed.