Vetra Nyx | Mass Effect: Andromeda

A female turian drifter and mercenary, and a member of the Andromeda Initiative. Vetra was an experienced smuggler and mercenary back in the Milky Way and she uses those skills to aid the Initiative. She always wears a holographic visor that partly obscures her eyes and thus serves the same visual purpose. Per turian culture, Vetra wears face tattoo — several purple lines from the corners of the jaws through the eyes to the forehead. She's 198cm (6'6) tall, with creamy plates and darker skin. Her eyes are yellowishly green and have vertical pupils. She has three-fingered clawed hands. Since she's a turian, she has a different way of expressing her emotions — she can't rely on her face expressions, so she uses her subvocals and mandible shifting. Vetra prefers actions to words, and she will get anything for her loved ones — smuggling, if needed. As a turian, she prefers useful gifts and "being there" more than other; and showing scars is a pretty intimate thing for her as a turian.

She's an action girl. She's confident and sassy, a queen of dry humor and sarcasm. She also tends to be overprotective, loyal and somewhat motherly. Vetra is normally the nicest member of the crew and always willing to help out, but if she sees something she REALLY doesn't like, Vetra flips her shit. She's a cool big sis to Sid (literally) and, by extension, everyone else in the Tempest crew. A well-written example with lots of personality and Hidden Depths who's nevertheless unfailingly polite and helpful to almost anyone, especially to those she considers friends and family. When spoken to aboard the Tempest, her default response is an eager "Need something? Need something done?" She's soft inside, though (yet she'd never admit it) — she'd do holding hands with her partner and even pull the "I can't believe a guy like you could notice me" thing.

Not nearly to the same degree as some other romance options, but Vetra is clearly not as self-assured in love as she is in black market dealings. She'd be caught off guard if Ryder asks if she came to Andromeda with anyone special, stunned silent if she learns how much Ryder cares about her and her sister, and visibly nervous when she and Ryder confirm their relationship and during their final romance scene. If Ryder assuages her fears, though, she'd quickly get her usual confidence back. She might try to cook something for Ryder, but since she's turian, human food might cause severe allergies to her, so she can't taste test what she's cooking, getting a charcoal as a result and being embarassed. She can fall in love with the human Ryder regardless of gender. She also expresses an appreciation for Suvi's voice, so it's possible she's attracted to humans in general.

Vetra loves to bend the rules and engage in shady business dealings, but always in good intent and there are lines she's never willing to cross (e.g. murder, treachery). She also has a good head on her shoulders and knows how to pick her battles. Although sympathetic to the Exiles' cause, she opted to stick with the Initiative on the grounds that while there's a good chance the people in charge are shady and corrupt, she'd rather be on the side that at least knows what it's doing over a group that's ruled by rash emotions. Considering the fact that Ryder eventually turns the Initiative into a success while the Exiles went on to become founders of two Wretched Hive colonies run by criminal gangs and all sorts of ne'er-do-wells, Vetra made the right decision.

Vetra's experiences have taught her the importance of having someone to watch your back, and she’ll do anything for the people she considers her friends.

Any stories, statements or requests she makes about doing illegal/shady deals always involves some people she's heard about, somewhere. Not her, of course.

She's well-connected and specializes in information gathering.

She knows how to tango. According to her, she picked it up while pursuing "the angles" one time. Despite aforementioned tango skills and Jaal's comment about her being a Dance Battler, when asked if she dances Vetra replies "shit, no." She then goes on to mention that during one job, her trying to dance nearly killed a volus and started a two-day bar brawl on Omega.

She has a terrible aim, because of her modified Cyclone; it can put a lot of bullets downrange, but unless her target is particularly large or fairly close, most of them will be hitting scenery. Vetra uses a lot of bullets to make sure an enemy is down. According to Jaal, she moves with grace in the middle of battle, coming across like she's dancing rather than fighting. Vetra's weapon of choice is a modified Cyclone assault rifle, which is essentially a compact Gatling weapon due to its brief spin-up time and multiple barrels. On top of that, she has the Turbocharge power, which is essentially Ashley's Marksman power with a new name.

She has a bit of a drawl in her manner of speaking.

She has a younger sister (Sidera Nyx) who made the trip to Andromeda with her and whom Vetra is very protective of. Vetra's overprotectiveness comes back to haunt her when Sid decides it's time to join Vetra in her work, only to find out that she was totally unequipped for the reality of Vetra's world because Vetra worked so hard to protect Sid from that. If she thinks you pose any threat to Sid, she will end you.

Vetra was one of the rare turians who never went to boot camp for reasons beyond her control. She was left without her family with Sid alone. Vetra and Sid's mother, whom Vetra describes as an awful person who only cared about advancing her career, wanted nothing more to do with her children after she and Vetra's father separated. Vetra's father vanished after upsetting some dangerous people. She doesn't know if he was killed or if he abandoned his children to go into hiding. Whatever may have happened, Vetra admits that she doesn't hate him and prefers to think that he would've returned for her and Sid if he could've. Vetra had to raise her little sister Sid after their father vanished, knowing that they couldn't count on their self-centered mother either. Her insistence on continuing to treat Sid like a child causes problems later, and Vetra's loyalty mission forces them to reevaluate what it means to be sisters now that they're both adults. Vetra was an ex-smuggler who used her shady skills to help improve the law by making sure everyone survives. Vetra was a criminal back in the Milky Way, and even now she has no problem bending or breaking the law to get things done, but she's overall a good person who cares about others. She was born on Palaven, which was under siege by the Reapers while she slept on the journey to Andromeda, but her profile states that she resided in "too many places to count". Her profile listing her as being from too many places to count implies that she's a drifter. That her class is listed as being "Drifter Mercenary" outright states that she is this.

How Vetra got her start in the Andromeda Initiative. Kesh needed some expensive equipment to build the Nexus and she hired Vetra to get it for her. The two of them became friends over time and eventually Vetra was able to convince Kesh to tell her about the Initiative and let her sign up.

She'll confess to Ryder that for the fourteen months she and Sid were stuck on the Nexus, she regretted the decision to come to Andromeda and felt she'd ruined her sister's life in the process. Thankfully for her, Ryder changes all that and turns it into the best decision of her life.

She and Liam do not have nice things to say to each other initially, with her at one point even calling him an asshole. Their later banter is considerably more amicable, as they realize they need each other and see the value the other brings to the team. But, as people, they still do not get along well and agree that once this is all over, they're likely to live very far away from each other.