Age: 19
Gender: Female
Appearance: Oryx stands at 5'3 and weighs about 107 pounds. She's known for her slight frame and quick agile movements. Her limbs are thin but the muscles are toned, so she's no weakling. When she moves, she can look graceful, even in the midst of battle, ruthlessly slashing through the enemy defences. She has black messy hair, that has a tendency to flop over one eye, although she dislikes it. Her eyes are bright and silver, and is probably her main giveaway when fighting in the dark, as they act sort of like a low-power flashlight. She has her own share of scars, however, mostly on her extremities. While the majority are light and hardly noticeable, she does have a few that are large red marks on her skin, from the more serious wounds she's suffered.
She usually dresses in black or grey robe, taped up with duct tape at the end of the limbs to reduce air drag and maximize the speed of her movement. She also wears ankle-high boots with natural shock absorbers for when she goes parkouring in the ruins of old large cities, to protect her feet from the strong impacts. She also sometimes wears a beanie over her head, black, with a purple music note. On the other hand, for casual clothing, Oryx enjoys wearing almost whatever she can get her hands on, as long as it's not a bright color. She lacks fashion sense, so one day she might wear a pair of shorts and a bulky biker's vest, or another day, a frilly skirt, combat boots, and a tank top. At least she knows enough to not wear clashing colors.
Augmentations: Behind the retinas of her eyes are faint bioluminescent cells artificially made, so she can easily see enemies in dark or foggy areas, and see through thin blindfolds. It also allows her to scan for weak points in enemy armor. She also has H-Wave emitters underneath her skin, allowing her to do short range bursts of speed, almost appearing to be teleporting. This is good for surprise attacks on unsuspecting enemies. She has a mostly experimental technology embedded into the palms of her hands, as well, allowing her to shoot bolts of pure energy at her enemies.
Skills: Deadly Striker Due to her great speed and her ability to scan for enemies weak points, Oryx knows how to make her attacks efficient and hopefully lethal. Devious Bandit Oryx is quite proficient at lying, and keeping her lies consistent, making it hard for anyone to notice if she's being truthful or not. Play Cute Since she's small and looks younger than she is, she can appear endearing to people when she's not in battle, and grabs her sympathy from some people.
Weaknesses: Due to her slight frame, Oryx can't take a hit very well at all. If an enemy manages to strike her, most likely Oryx is out for the count, and will try to retreat. She has a low pain tolerance and she's easy to break. Her luminescent eyes makes it easy for enemies to spot her in dark or foggy areas, making it so that they can incapacitate her or capture her without much effort at all. If she uses her speed burst too often from the H-Wave emitters, she'll completely burn up from the air resistance being too great. And shooting energy bolts from her hands drains her life energy, so that's limited as well.
Weapons: Oryx wields two serrated daggers that she wears holstered around her hips. They're sharp and are made from a synthetic material so that it always remains sharp. However, they don't have very long reach, so Oryx has to get close up and personal to her target when she strikes. And, of course, the implants in her hands, allowing her to use her own energy as a projectile weapon.
Personality: Oryx, simply said, is a rebel. She dislikes doing what people tell her to do, especially her father, once known as Kyle Waverly. She almost always thinks of herself first and foremost, and she's not willing to admit that she needs people around her in order to feel safe. She's prideful and often ruthless. But at the crux of her very being is to search for excitement, and to make a name for herself. To feel like she's important and doing the 'right' thing. Oryx isn't loyal in the least and she's often doing something simply for herself. But her vanity doesn't let herself be aware of the fact that she truly does, on a subconscious level, care about those around her, leading to conflicting emotions, making her hesitate at times in the middle of conversations. But she's manipulative, too, knowing how to prey on people's emotions. But for whose gain? Her own selfishness, or the people of the land?
Alignment: Oryx is, actually, undecided between neutral and good. While she likes to think that she's doing everything for herself, it doesn't change that she's secretly optimistic and wanting to do good for the world, although she may go to lengths in order to do that that others might find unacceptable, making her some sort of anti-hero, to some.
Background: Oryx was born as Lace Dux, a once powerful warlord who's currently in the palm of Lenassia's hand. Even at a young age, she was trained to fight, by the other people around her, for being the child of the war master, despite being female. She eventually settled o the style of two daggers, enjoying the versatility and speed that they give. Her whole life, until the age of fifteen, was one large attempt to please her father; to gain his approval. But when she was thirteen, she met a strange boy. A boy with 'technics', as her fellow tribesmen call it. That intrigued her, and he said that he came from the lands to the north, where cybernetics are used more often by the wealthy or the criminals. They became fast friends until the day he was killed by the technophobic tribesmen, two years later. That sparked Lace's resolve, and she fled from her father's land, moving northwards to see the land that she heard so much about.
Along the way, she was kidnapped by the Moirae Bandits. These bandits saw themselves as some kind of vigilante group, taking from the weak and giving half to the poor. And the daughter of a war lord definitely counted as the 'strong', even if he had lost to Lenassia. So they kept her and used her for a few weeks until she convinced them to let her join their ranks, by showing off her skill in battle. So she officially joined the Moirae Bandits, and convinced them to head north, saying that she had a connection there that could grant them with cybernetics in return for protection. And so, the Moirae Bandits became a techno group, powerful for their small numbers.
Lace then changed her name to Oryx Lachus, to mask her identity from her father and her people, as the bandit group started moving southwards, again. Unfortunately, they have no idea about the bounty placed on their heads in Keldos.