Discovery Character Development and Motivation Guide

[Karst]

I can't believe I only just found this thread. This is awesome and I really enjoyed reading about all these characters. Discovery is unfortunately not really a perfect medium for "deeper" roleplay, so I'm always happy when it does happen.
Here's probably my most important character:

What is your human?

Name: Nicknames: (Sub-class): Gender: Profession: Year of birth: Place of birth: Current stay: Finances: Education: Faction: Religion: Sexual orientation: ____________________________________	Name: Katherine Pennybrooke Nicknames: Kathy, Kat (Sub-class): None Gender: Female Profession: Freelance researcher and explorer, Nomad spy Date of birth: 788-05-26 Place of birth: Benazir Island, Planet Cambridge, Cambridge Current stay: The Ahoudori-class exploration vessel RV-Pennybrooke. Usually in space, if moored then mostly at Heisenberg Research Station. Occasional stays on the yacht Volcarona. Finances: Very comfortable. Katherine's family is wealthy and she won't have to worry about affording things even without any income. Education: Bachelor's degree in atmospheric physics, University of Cambridge Faction: None / Nomads Religion: None Sexual orientation: Heterosexual, but bordering on asexual at this point ____________________________________
Body Height: Body Weight: Fitness: Muscularity: Eye type: Hair type: Skin type: Features:	Body Height: 1.74m Body Weight: 64kg Fitness: Average Muscularity: Mediocre-low. She isn't really the exercising type. Eye type: Green Hair type: Red, light curls Skin type: Pale, light freckling Features: Nothing extraordinary. Besides being taller than average for a woman, nothing about Katherine really stands out. She does not care much about her appearance, and her clothes are often worn due to long voyages with few stops.
Dreams: Likes: Dislikes: Fears:	Dreams: A world without suffering. She is haunted by visions of all manner of human suffering, be it war, forced labor, or just a mugging in the street. She believes humanity must be taken over by the Nomads to achieve this. Likes: Nomads, being alone, space exploration Dislikes: War, violence of any kind (unless necessary for the eventual Nomad victory) Fears: Violence. She has been pretty badly traumatized by being shown the effects of violence on Nomad universal consciousness.
Family: Friends: Love interest: Rivals:	Family: Edwin, twin brother; Elise, younger sister Friends: Not many due to her solitary lifestyle and affiliation. Gabriella Casta, Angela Corino (Emissary), Robert Foster (the infected LNS-Tundra), Jared Nomak, the Marduk Harbinger. Love interest: Previously, Jared Nomak Rivals: The Order, and ultimately all of humanity
Philosophy: Hobbies: Talents: Traits:	Philosophy: Pacifism, Nomad Superiority Hobbies: Exploration and observation. She is most comfortable in the very distant corners of space. Talents: Katherine is a good observer. She is mostly very calm, and has a strong sense of empathy, except for occasional bouts of extreme rage and talking about burning down all of humanity. But that doesn't happen very often. As she does not carry weaponry on her ship, she must rely on words to avoid trouble, which she has been mostly successful with. Traits: Loner, idealist. Somewhat detached from worldly concerns. Calm and patient when listening, but fiery in her convictions. She values practicality bordering on austerity for her daily lifestyle, has no interest in feasts, parties or any sort of luxury, although she is known to enjoy the occasional bottle of fine wine.
Goals:	Goals:Humanity uniting with the Nomads. She believes this to not only be their right, as Sirius is their home, but also the only way to end human suffering. Universal empathy, she is certain, will end all antagonism and cruelty among humanity, as no one would wish to harm another if they are essentially harming themselves. As a strongly pacifistic person, that is her ultimate dream. As one of very few Nomad supporters that is not infected (although she wouldn't use such a negative term), she can fill a valuable role for them. Her only real goal not related to Nomads is space exploration, which she has years of experience with. She believes that once humanity is "harmonized" with the Nomads, a golden age of peaceful exploration will push us beyond the edge of the Sirius sector.

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