Character biography: Chikitita

[SlimeBird]

First Name: Chikitita

Last Name: N/A

Gender: Genderless, presents Female

Pronouns: she/her

Nicknames/Alias: Chiki, of Coffee and Love, Based Coffee Vox, Chickentita, Chicky, Bar Leech, MMI Medium, Chi, Chickentenders, Briki, Voxromancer, Medbay Mascot, CHIKI2TA, ChikititaVox39, Freak of Nature, Wiggly Worm, XENO, Birdie, "Kikeri", Chikorita, the Mad Nurse, Lizard Lady, Narcoleptic Bird Doctor

Species: Vox Primalis

Blood Type: B+

Height: 3'5", 104 cm

Weight: 72 lbs, 32.66 kg

Eye Color: Magenta

Picture/s:

 

 

Nanotrasen Issued ID (base by angelictactics)

Age/D.O.B: ~27 years, unknown date of creation, documented as the first of January, 2541.

Place Of "Birth": Arkship "Survivor of The Fighting Winds of the Star Due North, Bastion to New Ways and Efficient Production" or "Fighting-Winds"

Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Very dutiful to the shoal, strong enforcer of the inviolate among vox on the station. Her sense of justice is entirely tied to the vox Inviolate.

Affiliation: Employed by Nanotrasen. Loyal to shoal. On the Raan-Kirkland-Anide family Spacemas card list.

Religious Beliefs: No organized religion, but very superstitious to the point of obsessive paranoia. Also practices almost heretical dedication to vox rules and customs.

"Childhood": As a vox, she doesn't have a proper childhood, but she spent her younger years of this host body on a raiding skipjack carelessly learning the skills of a medic through trial and error. After tragedy struck and the rest of her crew were apprehended, she made a very narrow escape by hiding. Seeing her friends carried away never to be seen again through the slits of the locker she was hiding in instilled a tremendous amount of guilt in her, and from then on she resolved to never leave a vox behind again.

 She laid low for a couple of years afterwards and decided to take the skills she learned on the skipjack to the next level and became a licensed nurse at 20. She was given a full ride to Croxas's Academy of Medicine- the only vox in her graduating class, as part of an alien outreach program. Her arkship suspiciously approved her attendance on the heels of her previous failures, and she hasn't returned to Fighting-Winds since. During her final year of nursing school, her caffeine addiction careened into organ failure, and her heart and kidneys were replaced with cybernetics as a result.

Adulthood: After graduation, she tried desperately to get a job at a hospital, but no professional establishments were willing to take a vox nurse seriously, especially with her poor grasp on galactic common. At 21, she took up a contract with Nanotrasen treating patients in the medbay, because the money was good and other vox seemed to thrive there. She now considers most of the crew on the NSS Cyberiad to be her friends, and can't bring herself to leave them even if she wanted to. She appreciates the "respect" and attention from a job well done. Some crew have complimented her skills as a bartender, which she accredits to "being a party girl in nursing school." She swears she was cool. 

She loves her position in medbay, and has many regular patients she looks forward to seeing (despite the fact that them being in medbay usually indicates something bad has happened). Even if offered in a desperate situation, she will never fill the role of Chief Medical Officer. She feels guilty having others answer to her, especially because of how foreign it is for a primalis to take on such a role. Seeing vox primalis in command positions feels like a slap in the face to the shoal to her, and she struggles to see real authority in them. She has a constant twitch that can't be good for a doctor, but manages it well and doesn't struggle to treat because of it.

While suspicious about the fact that her arkship keeps her so far away, she will become defensive and vehemently deny being an exile when asked about her employment situation. She considers her contract honorable, even if it doesn't all add up to her. Currently, she receives 20% of her paycheck for necessities, and the rest of the Nanotrasen shares go to her arkship. She lives on a small station of vox dorms, full of vox primalis sourced from various arkships that need a place to stay for contract work. (pictured top right)

 

"Supernatural" Experiences:

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Three years into her employment, several crew began noticing her disappearing from her post for hours on end, and screeching as if she was talking to herself when she returned. She can often be seen mumbling to herself whenever a light flickers, and she tends to panic when the power fails. Officially, these were written down as signs of hallucinations and proof of a decline in mental state, but nothing worth firing her over.

If you were to ask her, however, she would say she's found herself in a strange back and forth between Nanotrasen, the syndicate, the shoal, and several abnormal entities. It began in January of her third year of employment, after an ill-advised attempt to break into a Nanotrasen vessel to rescue a friend, Kikeri, who she did not realize was not in danger and was being held for questioning by naval officials about her own supernatural experiences. Chikitita apologized profusely, but Nanotrasen decided to use the threat of a permanent sentence for grand trespass to ransom information from the shoal, the nature of which she was not allowed to know. Following this event, she first noticed the entities in the form of an unknown spirit communicating through blood writing on the medbay floors. At one point, it possessed Kikeri, but along with her friend and coworker Atria, Chikitita was able to talk it into leaving them all alone for the time being.

The next incident occurred weeks later, when the voice in her head requested she go to sleep to save Kikeri, only for her to wake up in a strange room filled with eyeballs, flesh, and blood. As soon as she was conscious, she noticed Kikeri and a floating purple woman who she would come to get more acquainted with than she'd like. The floating spirit introduced herself as Melody. She shrieked "your fault" at Chikitita several times before telling her Kikeri no longer existed, and summoning another spirit to murder her in front of her friend. As soon as Chikitita died from the wounds sustained from the invisible spirit attacking her, she found herself awake in the same hellish room, her friend looking on horrified. A flash of light occurred and a man in wizard gear teleported her out of the hellish situation into his home. He introduced himself as Leland Blaine, and began explaining as best he could what was going on before sending her back to work. She woke up on a medbay cot, and learned from Kikeri that it was apparently a dream they shared. This event left her traumatized and scared of sleep, reinforcing her caffeine addiction.

A month later, after frequent incidents with voices in her head, she was visited by a strange man who asked her out on a date. He quickly turned hostile when turned down, and before she knew it she was being held off-station in a Syndicate captured Nanotrasen navy vessel, where she was interrogated by an IPC only identified as "Nameless." He explained to her that her name was featured in important Nanotrasen documents acquired from the station, and grilled her for information regarding it. She was unable to provide any meaningful answers, and the operatives decided she was just a crazy vox with no importance to the Syndicate. In syndicate fashion, he decided to end her story by leaving a syndicate bomb in front of her cell to end her life and turn her cortical stack to ash.

As soon as the operatives were gone, though, Melody appeared in front of her. With minutes until her fate was sealed, Chikitita was told she still had a puzzle to solve, and to remember "this is your fault." In a move Chikitita never would have expected from the redspace entity she used to consider an enemy, she was whisked away to safety before the detonation erased her from existence.

 

Since her close call with the syndicate, Chikitita has poured over a bulletin board in her dorm with facts and names connected by red string, trying to figure out what puzzle she had to solve and why she was so important in whatever grand scheme was playing out. Still frequently visited by haunting voices in her head, she's gotten better at identifying the spirits speaking to her. The most dangerous of them simply identified as "the cat" frequently threatening her and referring to her only as "Snackrifice", she trusts Melody to come to her aid should she ever be backed into a corner again. Despite the reassurance that Melody did not want to kill her, she's found herself more paranoid than before, and lives life looking over her shoulder. The syndicate is not pleased she survived her execution, and puts out increasingly frequent assassination attempts- including blackmailing her close friends into murder. She's determined to figure out what's going on, and bring it to an end with as few casualties as possible.

It is worth noting there is no detailed research on the long-term effects of caffeine dependency on vox sanity. Whether she is a trustworthy source is up for debate, take all of her stories with several grains of salt.

Detailed Information

Appearance: Stands at about 3'5", a perfectly average height for vox, with uncommon but not unusual greenish blue coloring. Her eyes are a bright pinkish red, and she has her quills styled into a short purplish-red mohawk (whether its her natural quill color is unknown). Her blue sweater is a constant, and it looks old and worn. Rarely spotted without her nurse hat.

Character Voice: Loud. She likes to sing, and considers herself musically talented. She is not. Attached is a video from bar karaoke night.

Personality: In her youth she was more carefree, but losing loved ones because of her actions has made her less selfish. Still, she tends to lose focus a lot, and her curiosity leads her to make very poor decisions sometimes. She hates to lose patients, as most doctors do, but seeing one of her kin die can drive her into hysterics, and she will desperately attempt to bring them to health until something pries her away, even if it is futile. She takes patients dying in her care very personally, and frequently blames herself for their passing. 

She's developed a more anxious demeanor as she continues to work for Nanotrasen, being subjected to experiences that cause her to be paranoid and distrusting. She fidgets frequently with her nitrogen tank, and you can often find her pacing medbay and talking to herself in her native pidgin.

She loathes having to fight, but does what is necessary to survive and protect the ones she cares about if it comes down to it. She feels responsible for the safety of younger vox on-station, and she can get obsessive if she sees them acting carelessly and putting themselves in harms way. For reasons she doesn't completely understand, she finds herself almost instinctively drawn to aiding injured vox. On several occasions she has had to be physically torn away from lost causes. She could never forgive herself if a young first-body vox perished while she was on-station. 

Once vain and proud of her mohawk when she began working at Nanotrasen, she now cares little about her physical appearance and takes rather poor care of herself- with stray quills lining the shape of her mohawk and dark circles underneath her cybernetic eyes.

 

Character Biography

Background: A vox who spends most of her time in medbay as a somewhat respectable nurse. If not in medbay, she is likely drinking a soy latte or getting herself into dangerous situations she doesn't need to be in. Look for her in medbay, the bar, or wherever there are problems. 

Family: None officially. Because of her lack of real family, she used to believe herself to be expendable. Idunn Raan and her family have taken her under their wing in recent years, and though it's hard for her to admit she appreciates the support and companionship. She's spent weekends sleeping on their family room couch, and 19 year old Tidal Kirkland sets up low-viewership videogame streams for her to star in online. Tidal manages most of Chiki's social media for her, as she isn't the galaxy's most technologically literate.

She has a sister-like bond with an engineering vox from another station, Kikeri. Having taught Chikitita to value herself, she's the biggest presence pushing her to take care of herself and not lose herself to her work. While their friendship has had a few rough patches, they've been there for each other through unimaginable circumstances and would both give anything to keep their friend safe.

Chikitita allows a runaway vox primalis, Tachaka, to sleep in her dorms to keep him from taking up residence in garbage cans. While she doesn't support running away from your arkship, she hopes she can convince him to return and make amends someday. While the concept of vox having real family is still shaky to her, Kikeri, Takoyakika, and Tachaka have all helped her to value herself and be more considerate of her life's value and she would easily lay down her life for them.

History: Reset after 605 years of life for unknown reasons and stored until the year 2464. Her stack as far as she knows is near 97 years old, with 3 iterations currently. Historically speaking, lifespans tend to be cut short. Brought back earlier than most recovered stacks because of a decline in population on Fighting-Winds.

Iterations:

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Yakichirika - Alive from 2464 to 2514. Created for maintenance purposes, did minor engineering work on the arkship, and had a bad habit of getting high off of welding fuel with other lowlifes. Despite being created to maintain the station, Yakichirika had an airheaded streak and did not particularly excel at the work. Stack recovered from a charred corpse, presumably from a wiring accident.

Kirakchiki - Alive from 2515 to 2536. Stack was restacked early due to desperate need for maintenance on Fighting-Winds. Frequently squabbled with local security. Notorious welding fuel addict, and infamous for their paranoia. Stack recovered from a tragic gibber "accident" and required minor repairs, delaying the next iteration. Still a speedy return, as Fighting-Winds struggles with a decline in population. Modifications and repairs made hastily to fit station needs for next iteration, resulting in her losing most if not all of her engineering abilities.

Chikitita - Alive from 2539 to present. Supposedly intended for engineering purposes, but finds herself instinctively drawn to medicine. She disappeared from her arkship at a young age to try her luck on a raider crew. After that failed and she returned from her shameful abandonment with the skills of a skipjack medic, she was given permission to partake in an alien outreach scholarship program at a nursing academy in a nearby sector (likely to get her as far away from Fighting-Winds as possible) and somehow found herself to be a good nurse on the NSS Cyberiad. Feels tremendous guilt for the time she wasted during her previous iterations.

Other Information
- Her usual drink order is two rum bottles filled with soy latte. She claims to like the aftertaste

- Enjoys drask remakes of classic films

- Secret stoner

- Will rarely say no to ultra-lube
 
Faction Relations

Allied | Love | Like | Neutral | Dislike | Hate | Enemy

Nanotrasen - Dislike.

You scare me. Fine. But yer not breaking me.

Syndicate - Enemy.

A mutual hatred. At least I'll be missed when it finally comes.

SolGov - Neutral.

No substantial interactions.

Shoal - Allied, Love.

Anything for the shoal. The inviolate is my duty, even if I.. don't live on Fighting-Winds right now. I miss home..

 

Personal Relations

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Closeness: Love / Close / Like / Neutral / Dislike / Hate / Unsure
Feelings: Admiration / Trusted / Respect / Relaxed / Envy / Fear / Distant / Complicated, etc.

No particular order!

Kikeri

Close - Respect, Trusted, Relaxed

Thanks for... always keeping me safe. I appreciate all yer insight, yer a good elder (even if it's only by a couple decades- yer not ancient yet!) and you taught me to value my life. I'll try to keep myself safe for you and all my friends. I promise.

Idunn Raan

Close - Respect, Trusted, Relaxed

I've never had a family, but you all make me feel like I have. I promise I value myself.. Yer doing a great job with yer family, and I feel like I can talk to you about anything.

Michael Bovine

Close - Trusted, Relaxed

Thank you so much for all the money and free therapy.. I owe you. Please look for a more healthy relationship--

Freya Raan

Close - Trusted, Relaxed

Yer mom would kill me if something happened to you, STOP RUNNIN' OFF!

Rivera Kirkland

Close - Respect, Trusted, Relaxed

It makes me happy seeing you, Angel, and Idunn so happy together. I'm glad yer having more fun- I appreciate everything.

Angel Anide

Close - Trusted, Complicated

Glad yer on my side, you kind of scare me but I won't say that to your face. I.. can't believe you respect me like that..? Sara sells you out.

Tidal Kirkland

Close - Trusted, Relaxed

I know what it's like to live that way... You're a great friend, and you shouldn't have to live in fear. Proud of you for making the team!

Fiona Phillips

Close - Respect, Trusted, Feared?

I.. don't agree with a lot of yer views, but I appreciate what you do. The friendly parts, I mean-- Getting close to others is hard, I can relate to that much.

Viisk-hoorm-vroo

Close - Respect, Trusted, Relaxed

One of the coolest people I know. You would be the perfect roommate if you could breathe nitrogen. Where did we meet, again?

Jakki Rockatansky

Close - Trusted, Relaxed

I don't agree with your life choices, but yer young. It's nice to have people like you I can trust with things off-the-record, sorry I've practically made ya my therapist at times.

Tachaka

Close - Trusted

I care about you very much. Please stop trying to take on armies by yourself. It's very hard to keep you alive.

Anton Fasani

Close - Trusted, Relaxed

Coolest bartender, hands down. You talk to me like an old friend, makes me feel appreciated.

Takoyakika

Close - Trusted

I'll always be here to talk when you need it. I'm sorry for every doubting you, thank you for everything.

Tokoyokiko

Like - Trusted, Feared, Extremely Complicated

I know I can't fix whatever in Groves is wrong with you, but I'll still nag you regardless. As long as there's witnesses nearby, that is.

Dayana

Dislike - Feared

I do not understand you and I never will.

D.I.M.E

Like - Respected

Yer a dedicated worker with a great attitude. Medbay wouldn't be the same without'cha.

Shesi Izsair

Like - Feared, Complicated, Trusted

I'm still coming around to ya, feels like. It's.. hard not to be scared of a man who stuck me on a meathook. Still, I appreciate everything yer doin' now. I ain't givin' up coffee, though.

Kar-ski

Like - Trusted, Respected

So I say thank you for the music~

PTL-303 Page

Like

I'm.... a hero..?

Esforikakiti

Like - Trusted, Fear for

Is this what parenting is like? MAX YER SUIT SENSORS.

Atria

Like - Admiration, Trusted

I would not be alive had it not been for your frequent interventions, I admire you. Thanks for the survival classes, crowbars save lives!!

Steven Stingray and Keira Stingray

Like - Relaxed

YOU TWO ARE SO NICE TO ME... THANK YOU SO MUCH, WISH I HAD AN ADDRESS FOR SPACEMAS CARDS!

Sara Holloway

Like - Trusted, Relaxed

Yer very sweet- I'd love to spend more time with you! Allay scares me.

Skjarekke

Like - Complicated

Whenever I feel self-conscious about my caffeine addiction, I always have you there to make me feel better. I don't think any crewmember has made me laugh as much as you.

Cure #FF99FF

Like - Relaxed

I would love to schedule a therapy session with you someday, maybe it'll finally help.

Atmoloid Skyla

Like

Thanks for all the help with vox bars! Yer a wizard with atmospherics, it scares me.

SEAGULL

Like - Relaxed

Thanks for helping with whatever pranks I want to pull on medbay staff. CAW!

COI

Like - Trusted, Relaxed

I was extremely proud I was able to help you experience organic life. Be safe!

Lillian Coi

Like - Relaxed

Sweetest IPC I've ever seen.

Bubblegum

Like - Admiration

Thanks for the shooting lessons! Always cool seeing Rivera kick ass, right?

Kirimii

Like - Admiration

I wish all my bosses let me do ultralube on the job...

Phoebe Dean

Like - Admiration, Complicated

I like seeing you as CMO again! I'm sorry I couldn't help you- I'm.. still confused.

Yikaya

Like - Respect

It's great having a nurse who can lay down the law when she needs to.

Yachichatahiya

Close - Respect, Admiration, feared

I admire yer wisdom, thanks for keeping me alive! Please remember to take care of yourself. You deserve life just as much as Kikeri and I.

Zouri Essouer

Like - Respect, Feared

Coolest boss. Love working with you, we get things DONE! I'm glad you consider me worth warning, at least-

Gikikigi

Like - Relaxed

It's hard to be scared of you, I'm sorry.

Yaya

Like - Complicated

I'm sorry I can't help you. I'm not giving you my stack.

Cardiox

Like - Relaxed

I am so so so so so so so so so so so sorry about the break-in idea. I hope your paycheck recovered....

Krek

Like - Relaxed

Who knew doing space drugs and listening to synth music in a chicken coop could be so healing. DON'T TELL ANYBODY ABOUT THAT.

Jacob Pearls

Like - Complicated

Yer a strange one. I live in fear of the day the syndicate thinks to contact you for one of their assassination attempts. Hard to hate you, though...

Kincaid Renard

Like - Relaxed

Glad yer gettin' yer rest, I think...!

Scarlet Einholve

Like - Admiration

You're intimidating, but super nice- to me at least! Thanks for keeping us safe!

Qixxiq Xiqqix

Like - Relaxed

Still lost on the bestie thing.. STOP SPACEBOOKING ME!!

Chalmun Dratavik

Like - Relaxed

Yer the oldest and coolest human I know.

Oleg Klimov

Like

I used to think there were no constants in this world, but yer certainly never changing.

Reli Irasheki

Like - Crushing

I'm glad we stayed married for tax deductions, I like talking to you! Is it that obvious...?

S.O.O. Kaoz

Hate - Feared.

You just like seeing me scared. There's something wrong with you. The threats won't work, I have people who care about me now.

S.O.O. Mikhan

Dislike - Feared.

Yer not as twisted as Kaoz but I still loathe yer presence. Is it really all worth it!?

Titi

Like - Respected, Admiration.

I'm sorry I couldn't save you. I didn't know what to do..

Melody

??? - Feared, Complicated

I don't know your motives, but I think I want to help you?

Cat

Hate - Feared.

I'mnotcrazyI'mnotcrazyI'mnotcrazyI'M NOT.

 

Edited November 20, 2022 by SlimeBird
every time i fix one thing i break another

[Veterankyl]

Chiki is best birb.

[Viz]

I see that relationships update.