Character Name: Meridia Verluk
Board Name: Shadow-Dragon
Character Gender: Female
Character Age: 23
Zoids:
König Wolf
-Name: Tasogare Kage (Twilight Shadow)
-Color: Black

Storm Sworder
-Name: Niciannon
-Color: White

AIM Screenname: FrostWyrmWraith@aol.com
Referred By: The link on the FF.net account
Character Description and History:

-Appearance:
Meridia is a plain, uninteresting girl who almost always goes unnoticed by the men around her. Her vibrant red hair reaches the small of her back, though her usual method of braiding her hair reduces the length to her shoulders. Her piercing blue eyes are quite capable of drawing attention away from her small, serious face, which can be very useful when doing business.

Meridia’s skin is very pale, giving her a ghostly look. Though she is not attractive, she is not ugly either, evidenced by both her slim, high metabolism induced figure and slightly childish facial features.

Her usual attire consists of a thin, deep blue one piece tunic of sorts that covers most of her upper body completely and goes down most of a foot past her waist before splitting into four individual pieces, each large enough to cover the entirety of her legs when positioned as such but able to reveal her legs due to metal wires inside the cloth that are almost always positioned to hold the sections two or three inches away from her legs, steadily curving from a 45 degree angle at the top to a 90 degree one at the bottom. Around her left thigh, just barely visible, is a belt that holds a single combat knife, and around her right is a holster for a small pistol. Her shoes are a pair of brown sandals with straps for attaching a watertight leather skin that transforms them into boots.

-Personality:
For the most part, Meridia is unreadable. This stems from the fact that she usually speaks only to put someone on the receiving end of a sarcastic comment or to respond to a direct statement or question. Contrary to this though, Meridia is a kind woman. Her problem lies in that she opens up to very few people, and so most everyone around her sees her in a different manner than what is true. Her usual silence does not hinder her ability to display kindness, as she will often drop what she is doing to help someone with whatever is causing them trouble, albeit wordlessly.

When backed into a corner though, she will defend herself without hesitation. She gives no thought to such actions though, as she is just as likely to draw her gun as to pull out her knife or attack with her fists. Even so, she refuses to kill. The last thing she would ever be caught doing is joining an unsanctioned battle, and she is even less likely to join a war.

-History:
Meridia was born Meridia Holcuth, daughter of a virtually unknown Zoid researcher. Her early life consisted of traveling around to various wild Zoid locations or ruins with her mother, father, and brother, whose names she can no longer remember.

It was a hard life. They were poor, as her father was unfunded, and so rationing food was a requirement. They got by though, through means of foraging and putting all their money into nourishment. Their home was a barely functional Gustav, and their beds were small, worn roll up mattresses.

And such was her life for the first five years of her existence. When she was five, her father got word of an organoid sighting in a particularly remote area. They headed out post haste, and arrived in only two weeks of travel. Three days of combing the ruins later, her father found the organoid.

It was vicious, extremely so. It didn’t even roar, it just attacked. Her father was mauled immediately, and her mother was ripped to shreds defending her nine year old brother. Her brother ran, making it as far as the Gustav Meridia was sleeping in before being taken down. His screams woke her, and she watched helplessly as her brother was torn asunder. As the berserk organoid homed in on her Gustav, though, it was hit by a sniper round fired from a Gun Sniper.

The man in the cockpit of the Zoid came to be known to her as Bek Verluk. He took her in without hesitation, using the Gustav as transportation for them and his Zoid, since the Gun Sniper could not hold them both.

This life was much different though. The man was a competitor in ZBC battles, and the prize money easily fed them both, even allowing them to afford a new Gustav. She learned a lot from watching the fights, and he taught her a lot traveling between them. Bek was reclusive, but he was a good man. She became patterned after her adoptive father, every bit as reclusive as he. She also came to love Zoid battles, and aspired to become a pilot. When she was eighteen, she left, taking the Guysack Bek had purchased for her with her.

A couple years and many losses later, she came across the sight of a battle. A wild Zoid battle. A black König Wolf lay there, damaged and pinned down, one leg buried beneath a pile of rubble. When she moved to release it, the other combatant, a Dark Horn, came at her from behind a nearby plateau. She didn’t see it, and as the rubble shifted off the pinned Wolf the Zoid rammed her Guysack.

The Dark Horn pierced through to the core, and her Guysack fell apart, with Meridia barely escaping from the cockpit before it hardened. She came out and ended up face to face with the enraged Dark Horn. Her act of kindness had earned her an ally though, and while the Zoid was distracted the Wolf jumped on its back and forced teeth deep into the Dark Horn’s back. The strike CSFed the Zoid.

The König Wolf crouched, and its cockpit opened. Together, they limped to the nearest town, where they waited until Bek could arrive to fund repairs. He was angry about the Guysack, but proud that she had acquired a König Wolf on her own. This time she remained with Bek, who was now retired from battles, and his new Storm Sworder became hers. The Gun Sniper, now disarmed, remained as a relic of Bek’s fighting days. It wasn’t able to travel with them though, and it remained at Bek’s home except on the rare occasion that it was taken out for a walk when they were in town.

Now, three years of practicing later, Meridia is reentering the world of Zoid battles.