Zakiya

female

early thirties (but also late thirties because of time travel thing)

5'4"

the gallery image is close to what i have pictured for her (her hair's a little different and i'm not sure why she's posing with a pineapple)

endomorph, stocky build

black

dark brown

140 lbs

black

afro

brown

hair birthmark (white streak)

dresses like kara from school
bright colors, funky fun and fresh, not "normal" outfits but they look great and she makes them work, just an overall Nice style

not great but not necessarily bad

she eats healthy for the most part, if she knows she's gonna be focused on her work, she'll consume all calories needed for the day in one sitting which isn't great but it's better than not eating, has good hygiene, exercises a little but not a lot, gets adequate sleep

no diagnosable mental illnesses but she has some symptoms of PTSD from being betrayed/what happened with the black hole
can focus really well, constantly learning and teaching herself new things, achieves goals she sets, productive (known to push herself too hard to get things done), responsible

bottles up emotions, good at dealing with a moderate stress but struggles when there's a lot of stress, overworks herself, doesn't particularly like sharing feelings but will if she wants to, willing to be emotionally vulnerable around people she trusts but not around strangers or acquaintances, her work makes her happy so she completely immerses herself in it

she lives alone on a planet in the middle of nowhere. she's an introvert and prefers solitude, but being completely isolated is very unhealthy
when she's first introduced, she had had minimal interaction with people for over a year and is kind of closed off, but she warms up as the story goes on
respects others even if she doesn't like them, slow to trust but very loyal to her friends, quiet in large groups of people (will talk more if she knows the majority)

INFJ-A

intelligent, creative, dedicated, careful, reserved, tactful, private, a bit reclusive, perceptive, approaches problems with a plan, strategic, logical, hardworking, methodical, innovative, a bit of a perfectionist, practical, decisive, usually kind but firm, stubborn if she believes in a cause, doesn't take shit from anyone, confident, can come off as arrogant but isn't actually, not super emotional but definitely more than she lets on, a bit sensitive but doesn't usually show it, serious demeanor but she has a good sense of humor, not the socially awkward kind of introvert and can carry on a conversation smoothly, gentle and caring towards her friends, wants to be seen as respectable so she's more reserved around people she doesn't really know but she's much more laid back around friends/if there's already mutual respect

her posture is usually great but not so much when she's stressed or something, holds eye contact, rarely fidgets, clasps hands behind back (in the confidant way, not the nervous way)

can be kind of closed off, a little too serious at times, can come off as unfriendly when she isn't, overworks herself/doesn't give herself a break, perfectionist,

sometimes gets caught up in the details and making things /exactly/ the way she wants them to be, can take on too many tasks at once and become overwhelmed trying to do them all perfectly

heights, black holes, avoids thinking about erika/what happened with her and hates the thought of ever seeing her again

she wants to make things better, the best they possibly can be, and improve the lives of people in the galaxy

doesn't like criminals (yes, she is a criminal herself, but she's doing what she's doing to secure the galaxy's freedom, not to benefit herself), has a particular hatred for drug dealers

surgery, decision making, problem solving, strategizing, usually a good judge of character

great with science and other things in the STEM field, specifically biology and neurology and math, knows a lot about anatomy, decent with robotics and electronics

working on her research, making new things (specifically involving genetics), learning new things, playing with her pets

none of them have names yet

she's been isolated for a while so it's been a long time since she's interacted with her friends but she's with friends later in the story
she's not the greatest with dealing with her own emotions, so she goes to her friends when she needs emotional support. her friends are more emotional, so they go to her to figure out a logical way to deal with their problems. they support each other equally, just in different ways
she's much more laid back around them than she is with other people

erika, higher-ups in the federation

she's fluent in four different languages and learning more

when she's overthrowing governments, she's a lead doctor/surgeon, but she's also helps the people in charge with strategy and planning

agnostic

libertarian (? i don't actually know anything about politics she's not an anarchist but she prefers the government to give as much freedom as possible), democrat

bisexual

purple and black

(i know i should put something here i'm just not sure what)

she likes cool knives but if she's actually using a weapon she'd use something more efficient

peacock

plants, big dogs, stars

May 16

she graduated a vocational high school and graduated collage with a doctorate in neuroscience

she did well in her early schooling, and she went to a vocational school that focused on science.

when she was a teenager (~17/18), she and her brother, ikaika, figured out that their parents were creating weapons, technology, and other stuff and giving it to people across the galaxy, and when they confronted them about it, they told them that they were helping people fight oppressive governments. they let them work on some stuff with them, but they kept their involvement limited. unlike ikaika, she didn't push to learn more than what her parents let them know, but she cared a lot about the cause and devoted a lot of her time to it.

she studied neuroscience at a prestigious college, graduating at the top of her class. she went to med school, got her doctorate ahead of schedule, and began her residency at a hospital.

though she didn't do as much as ikaika and her parents, she continued to help them expose and take down corrupt governments. they learned about a group of planetary systems that they had tried to help that were united under one government. they were suspicious of it, but they didn't have any evidence that it was corrupt.

when she was older (mid twenties), her parents died of natural causes (old age or whatever), and even though they could have lived a lot longer, they chose not to. it hit her pretty hard, and she threw herself into her work to cope with the loss.

she completed her residency, and she was on the way to become an accomplished neurosurgeon. ikaika showed her proof that the intersystem government they had been suspicious of was in fact corrupt, and he left to completely focus on taking them down. she stayed at her job for a little less than a year after he left, helping the cause remotely, but she eventually quit her job to join ikaika and his team. she was one of the group's leaders and was the head doctor, in charge of keeping everyone alive and as healthy as possible.

they exposed a lot and aided multiple rebellions, and the government really hated them and wanted them dead. they tried to kill zakiya and her team but they had so many upgrades and augmentations and weapons that it was almost impossible to kill them.

in a fight against government agents, erika, who had worked with the group since it was formed, got them to go through a portal, supposedly to safety. it lead to a dwarf planet very close to the black hole at the center of the galaxy, and as soon as everyone but her was through, erika destroyed the portal, trapping everyone there. the team was able to get it fixed pretty quickly in their time, but because of the time dilation, it took eight years for them to get back in everyone else's time. they were ambushed as soon as they came through the portal, and while some got away, a lot of them were killed.

(the government wasn't actively looking for them during the eight years because they knew where they were and they knew they spot they would come back in so they made sure they’d be alerted when they came back and they were able to get there quickly to attack when zakiya and the gang came back. they knew they weren’t dead because of erika and just because of who they were, they knew they were likely to come back at some point so they were ready for when that happened)

the ones who survived learned that in the years they were stuck by the black hole, the government had gotten huge and had gone from having control over a few systems to many systems, giving them influence over the entire galaxy. the survivors, very wanted and having suffered heavy losses, were forced to split up and go into hiding. they kept contact at first, but the government was able to find and imprison/kill some of them because of that, so they had to cut off all communication with each other.

she found a very remote dwarf planet and claimed it as her own, getting a lab and everything she needed built on it. before they cut all communication, she gave ikaika the information he would need to reach her in an emergency. she stayed on her planet, completely isolated, for around two years. (not super relevant but i'd just like to add that she pirated college courses so she could keep learning and teaching herself new things while isolated)

the story starts here, but she's not included until much later

she learns that ikaika was arrested and being held at a federation facility. they had an agreement to never put themselves in significant danger if the other got caught, but she couldn't do nothing. she contacted [unnamed infp], who is skilled in coding and hacking, and he launched a cyber attack on the facility, shutting everything down and displaying the federation's corruption. zakiya hoped ikaika would take advantage of the ensuing chaos to escape, and through the little news she was able to safely access, she learned that he was able to get away.

a few weeks later, ikaika overdosed (not spoiling what happened before this but it had to do with a sloppy, failed attempt to take down the federation) and came through the portal in her lab, begging her for help. she saved his life, and he rambled to her about what happened before passing out. when he woke up, she made him go get amari, who he had ditched to go do drugs, and bring her to her planet so they could work out a way to actually try to take down the federation.

this is where zakiya makes her first appearance

she's adopted so she's not sure of where she was born, but she grew up at her parents' house and lab outside of a city
she went to the city occasionally but she spent most of her time at home
planet: auren
system: veshela
arm: etano

Ikaika, Andres, Janai, Teegan

all of these are adoptive relationships

parents
she was closer with her parents than any of her other siblings, and she's the most similar to them. they supported her schooling and interests in science and helped her stay motivated.

ikaika (younger brother)
she was closer with him than any of her other siblings. they have the same intelligence level (more or less, she's better in some fields, he's better in others), and they worked on a lot of stuff together when they were younger. his behavior and overall recklessness can really annoy her, and they're very competitive, but they love each other. they both worked to overthrow that the planetary federation, and both of them were teleported by the black hole. they both survived the ambush when they got back to the normal part of the galaxy, but they split up while escaping. they kept contact for a little while, but they learned the hard way that it would be safer to not have any interaction with each other whatsoever. they haven't talked in over a year.

andres, janai, teegan (younger siblings)
she's 6+ years older than them, so they're not super close because of the age difference. she was in college/off on her own by the time they were old enough to have actual personalities, but they got along well growing up. she stopped contacting them when she started taking the overthrowing governments thing seriously in order to keep them safe. she's had no interaction with them for a very long time.

she has a massive kind dog (it's jakey she has jakey [if anyone other than me is reading this jakey is my friend's grandparents' enormous collie])
she has lots of massive kind dogs: a huge collie, a samoyed, a bernese mountain dog, and a newfoundland,

she doesn't have as much tech in her body as the people she works with do, as she prefers her augmentations to be natural (with gene editing or whatever)

-has much better vision than normal humans
-can see more colors
-can see in the dark

-heals faster than normal humans

-device in her arm allows her to send and receive messages
-wears a special contact lens to be able to see the messages
-sends messages with mental command
-can connect to certain other devices if she needs to (rarely does this, mostly just uses this for communication)

[more stuff will likely be added once i actually start writing her]