Name: Talia Hawkinson

Species: Cano-sapien

Age: 22

Height: 5’7"

Breed: White Shepherd

Eye Color: Silver

Hair: It’s white, and falls just below shoulder-length. Almost always worn in a ponytail, and usually pulled through the back of a baseball cap.

Build: A feminine build. J I don’t know…I’m not a girl. I don’t know about these things. She’s pretty, though.

Clothes: Very tomboyish clothes. J As Jake puts it: "Cutoff jean shorts, black T-shirt, baseball cap, and hiking boots." She’ll also wear jeans, white camouflage, black finger-less gloves, and other cool clothes.

Super Powers: She’s able to make Derv swoon with a single well-timed glance. ~laughs~ She’s a great electronic gismo analyzer and fixer and so on. She’s an incredibly good hacker.

Weapons: Since Talia was part of the same mercenary group Cero was in, she was trained similarly. She has been trained to be very proficient with most types of handheld melee weapons and projectile weapons. (guns, rockets, etc.) However, one of her best weapons is her knowledge of mechanical devices, and what makes them tick. Talia is more likely to stay in the backfield gathering information and undercutting an enemy’s technical resources than to be out fighting herself. But if she’s forced to fight, she’s pretty good at it.

Personality: Talia’s nice, and fairly outgoing. She’s pretty smart, but doesn’t show it too often. She’s pretty much a tomboy. J

Fighting Style: As mentioned before, she is a capable fighter but prefers to stay in the background support network, using her technical expertise to give advice and undercut her enemy’s mechanical support.

History: Talia was an intelligent and playful pet of one of the U.S. Government’s top computer experts. She lived a happy life in her home with her master, Owen Hawkinson, watching him do his work and learning a lot from him. Then Zachary Storm dognapped her. The white-shepherd was taken to Storm’s new facility to make cano-sapiens, and was put through the procedure. This procedure, other than transforming its subjects into cano-sapiens, also brainwashed them leaving no memories of his or her past lives, but letting them retain all of their acquired knowledge. Talia was no different. She went through the process and came out an intelligent cano-sapien with no knowledge of her past master, but an extensive knowledge of his trade. Talia was trained as a member of Storm’s mercenary team as a computer hacker and technical specialist. Later, when Cero left the team, Talia chose to stay with the group, as it was her only real home, and she had a decent living. Eventually though, the group disbanded due to internal conflict (partially caused by Cero’s leaving). With nowhere else to turn, Talia contacted her friend Cero, asking for advice. Cero conferred with Dervish and Valkyrie, and it was decided that Talia could stay with them if she wished. She accepted, although she was still suspicious of the heroes who had instilled the desire in Cero to become one on the up-and-up. Now she lives with Dervish, Valkyrie, and Cero in their northern compound. At first she was very apprehensive about working for no profit, but with the help of everybody she is now starting to see the value in the good life. She now assists on missions occasionally, and provides even more technical expertise to Dervish’s (and even occasionally the Road Rovers’) support network.

NOTE: Talia was thought up by me (Casey Johnson), but I had some help designing her background and such. DJ (Jake Williams) helped me out the most, providing great ideas for her whole identity. We combined both of our ideas for Talia to create a rich background for her, plus some general physical information. I’ve got to give credit to Penny (Nicky Messina) for giving me species ideas and some physical traits. And also a big shout out to most of my other female friends out there, lots of which helped me with physical info, considering I’m not really an expert on the feminine body structure and clothing and such. J Thanks all! ^_^ (Oh no! Now I’m doing it too! ^_^)