Post by Spork on Jul 3, 2012 23:32:12 GMT -6
Name: Liara T'Soni
Aliases: The Shadow Broker
Age: 108
Gender: Monogendered
Species: Asari
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Canon or Original: Canon (Mass Effect Series)
Date of Birth: 2077 (Day and month unknown)
Place of Birth: Thessia
Physical Appearance:
Default appearance
Special Abilities:
Biotic Powers: Liara possesses almost complete mastery over her species' inborn ability to use biotics. She can create Mass Effect fields to lift enemies and objects into the air and render them defenseless, knock them over with a concussive blast from a distance, generate gravitational vortices to tear obstacles or enemies apart, or create protective barriers to shield her and her allies from all matter of projectile attacks. These powers are activated with physical hand gestures (think the Force). Each power varies in their cooldown time, with the more powerful physical and mentally draining abilities having longer cooldown periods. In addition, using a single ability puts every other ability in cooldown.
Liara's Biotic powers are listed as follows:
Pull (Field variant): An attack that lifts the target (object or living being) into the air, where it floats helplessly until the effect wears off. The attack can curve around obstacles as well. It can also be used as an area of effect attack, sending closely packed groups into the air at the same time.
Barrier (Heavy variant): A defensive power that forms a high gravity mass effect field around Liara that greatly strengthens her kinetic barriers. If her barriers are down, however, it will only bring them back up again with no additional protection.
Singularity: This power launches a dark energy sphere to create an intense mass effect field that hovers around the area of impact. The field creates a warp in the space-time continuum, creating a gravity well akin to a black hole. Unprotected (shielded) enemies are drawn into the Singularity and briefly float helplessly in orbit around the sphere. Enemies protected by shields are held in place, but suffer continuous damage.
Stasis: A power that holds an enemy in place, frozen in a mass effect field. An enemy in Stasis can be damaged at the cost of the Stasis field coming down after a set amount of damage is done.
Throw (Heavy Variant): A power that sends a spherical mass effect field that can curve around and over objects to hit its intended target, much like Pull. If it does hit, an unshielded target is knocked off their feet with force comparable to that of a semi-truck. If an airborne target is hit, it sends them flying through the air. If a target has been Pulled and is hit, the combined biotics explode before sending the unfortunate target flying through the air.
Weapons:
M-12 Locust Sub-Machine gun
M-5 Phalanx
History:
Liara T'Soni was born on the asari home world: Thessia. Her parents were two asari matriarchs, her mother, Matriarch Benezia, and her "father", Matriarch Aethyta (her father would be absent for most of her life). While Liara did have to deal with the prejudice against children with two asari parents, it did not stop her from dedicating most of her life to studying the technology and culture of the Protheans, an mysterious race that built the Mass Relays and the Citadel, then died out under unknown circumstances. Part of this decision was due to her wanting to escape from the pressures of being the daughter of her mother, a widely respected Matriarch among the asari. Her research would take her to a relatively isolated planet called Therum, a dig site of Prothean ruins. There, she learned to hone her biotic abilities from repeated skirmishes from the occasional band of pirates that hoped to raid the dig site. Later on, however, she would encounter an enemy that she could not fight alone: the Geth. The synthetics long thought to have vanished from the galaxy had come for her. Knowing that she would die fighting them in open combat, Liara retreated into the Prothean ruin itself, unknowingly trapping herself in a shield that was impenetrable, but also inescapable by her own efforts. Help would come in the form of an unexpected source, an Systems Alliance marine, Commander Tori Shepard.
Shepard and her two man squad singlehandedly eliminated all of the invading Geth. They told her that these Geth had come to forcibly recruit her to Saren Arterius's (a rogue Spectre that Tori, also a Spectre, was tasked to hunt down and kill) cause of finding the Conduit, a tool that would ensure the return of the Reapers, a race of synthetic machines that had been all but shoved aside as an old myth. Once she was escorted safely to the Shepard's ship: the Normandy SR-1, she willingly joins Shepard's team in order to assist her with interpreting the shattering visions she received from a Prothean Beacon. During her time aboard the Normandy, she became very interested in Shepard because of her visions that could potentially shed new light on the mysterious Protheans. During her conversations with Shepard between various missions, Liara developed feelings for the Commander, partially due to feeling a "special connection her", and also because of the selfless sacrifices she made (such as doing her best to rescue the Feros colonists) for the betterment of others. She would slowly confess these feelings to the Commander, and it came as a surprise to Liara when Shepard confirmed that she had similar feelings towards her as well, and it was when Shepard comforted her after their mission on Noveria (in which she was forced to fight and kill her mother, Benezia) that the two entered a romantic relationship. Although Liara thought it was best to put off the time when they would meld (the asari's method of sexual intercourse with either gender of any species) until their mission was complete, to which Shepard agreed. Though that would not stop their visits, the most notable being after Kaidan Alenko's death on Virmire, which Liara comforted Shepard over.
After the Normandy crew's escape from the Citadel, Liara visited Shepard in her personal quarters while en-route to the Prothean planet Ilos, claiming she wants to spend the night, afraid she might never see Shepard again but certain this is what she wants. Shepard agreed, and the two experienced a night of passion together.
After the death of the Reaper, Sovereign, at the Battle of the Citadel, Liara chose to accompany Shepard on scouting missions for signs of Geth activity. After several months of these missions, Liara was with the Normandy once it was attacked by an unknown enemy. Shepard ordered her to evacuate the Normandy, and despite Liara's protests, she escorted the Normandy survivors to an escape shuttle. As she watched the obliteration of the Normandy, Liara refused to believe that Shepard had died. None the less, she heard nothing about her, and Shepard was proclaimed dead shortly after the news of the attack went on the Extranet. Throughout all of this, Liara clung to the hope that Tori Shepard was only missing in action.
At a loss for what to do once the Normandy crew was disbanded, Liara went to Illium and became an Information Broker who garnered renown for being efficient in her dealings. Her actual motives were to find out the whereabouts of Commander Shepard. Eventually, she came into contact with the human splinter group: Cerberus. Liara knew of their activities through various tidbits of info, though the group itself and their activities were relatively unknown. But when they told her that they knew of the status of Commander Shepard, she made haste to Omega, the self-proclaimed "Capital of the Terminus Systems". There, she met with Cerberus' contact, a drell named Feron. He informs her of Shepard's death, which devastates Liara. When they are attacked by Blue Suns Mercenaries, the two escape when Cerberus operatives provide a distraction. It is then that she meets the leader of Cerberus, the Illusive Man. She agrees to help find Shepard's body when he says he can bring her back from the dead, though she makes it clear that she's doing it for Shepard and not for Cerberus.
Two years later, Liara has not heard from Cerberus ever since she delivered the Commander's body to them. She has matured significantly in these two years, being feared for what she could do to those who try to cheat her. Then, one day, Commander Shepard herself enters her office in the middle of a business transaction, much to her surprise. The two have a heartfelt reunion, but it is soured somewhat by the changes Shepard notes in Liara. When she makes it clear to Shepard that she cannot leave due to her mission to search for the Shadow Broker, Shepard leaves to resume her mission to stop the Collectors, the abductors of human colonies.
Liara would then be surprised to see Shepard return to her, bearing info of a potential lead on the whereabouts of the Shadow Broker. Shepard offers to help her, to which Liara tells her that they should meet at her apartment. Unbeknownst to Shepard, she would arrive to a crime scene of a failed assassination attempt. She flees to a Baria Frontiers office in the Dracon Trade Center to meet up with an informant. As Shepard, her squad, and an asari Spectre named Tela Vasir arrive, explosions rock the building on the third floor. Luckily, Liara survives, making her appearance known with a gun pointed at Vasir. Informing Shepard of Vasir's goals to kill her under orders from the Shadow Broker, she convinces Shepard and her squad to turn their guns on the Spectre. Though she manages to escape by shattering a glass window and fleeing outside the building. Shepard and Liara chase Vasir via car above the Illium skyline and manage to force her to crash into Hotel Azure. Cornering the wounded Vasir, the squad successfully kill her and take back the disk that Liara's informant had of the Broker's location. Along the way to the Normandy, Shepard tries to get Liara to talk about their relationship, and the two argue, with Shepard expressing resentment for Liara using her to find the Shadow Broker, and Liara countering that she can't undo two years of mourning. Liara would then cut off their conversation, telling Shepard that they need to focus on saving Feron, a captive of the Broker.
Making their way to the Broker's Base, Shepard's squad (which includes Liara) fights their way through stiff Shadow Broker Agent resistance and happen upon Feron, who is strapped to an electric chair that would kill him should anyone try to remove him. Liara promises to free him after the Broker is dead, and Shepard's squad moves on to the Shadow Broker's control room. There, they discover that the Broker is in fact a yahg, a race banished by the Citadel Council because of their extremely violent tendencies. After a long battle, Liara kills the Broker by incinerating him with the electricity from the room's ceiling. As the power in the ship goes down, Liara quickly takes up the mantle of the Shadow Broker to keep the various contacts assured that nothing is wrong. When Feron makes his way to the control room, he expresses shock that Liara has decided to become the new Shadow Broker. When Shepard asks her if she's sure she wants that responsibility, she reassures her that she'll only use the Broker's resources to stop the Reapers. Then she suddenly bursts into tears, unbelieving that her two year quest for vengeance is finally over. As Shepard hugs her, the two kiss, though Liara stops short, saying that their relationship has changed over Shepard's two year absence. Though Shepard interrupts her with a hug, and the two kiss passionately. Later on, Shepard returns to the base to ask Liara if she'd like a tour of the new Normandy, to which she agrees happily. After the tour, the two spend some time alone in Shepard's quarters, where they talk about the suicide mission that Shepard is preparing for. When Shepard expresses her frustration over the galaxy not believing her about the Reapers, Liara consoles her. Then she asks Shepard what she thinks about their future, to which Shepard jokes about old age and a lot of "little blue children". Feeling burdened at the thought of losing Shepard again, Liara needs to know if Shepard is always coming back. Shepard teases Liara for asking a big promise but subtly suggests about needing something special to come back to and hints to her for an offer. The visit then ends pleasantly, though Liara still worries for Shepard as she goes through the Omega 4 Relay.
Eighteen months later, once Cerberus turns on Shepard, the organization sends a cruiser to take down the Shadow Broker base. Liara and Feron managed to load as much vital equipment onboard a shuttle as possible, then crashed the Shadow Broker's ship into the Cerberus cruiser to make their escape. Liara didn't have much love lost over the event, for the most crucial part of the Shadow Broker's operation is the spy network across the galaxy. After learning of Shepard destroying a Mass Relay (killing 300,000 batarians in the process) to delay a Reaper invasion, Liara realized what little time left the galaxy had, along with Admiral Hackett, who commissioned Liara's aid in finding a way to stop them. But this brought her into conflict with the Illusive Man, as their agents began crossing paths. Eventually, through process of elimination, mixed with a little desperation, Liara discovered the existence of a blueprint for a Prothean device that could theoretically destroy the Reapers at the Mars Archives. Unfortunately, the Reaper invasion hit Earth. During the chaos, Cerberus assaulted the Archives and Liara found herself evading their troops through the air ducts. After managing to kill her pursuers, Liara reunited with Shepard, who had barely escaped Earth and had been ordered by Hackett to Mars.
Rejoining Shepard again, the two worked with a set of new and old faces to stop to Reapers once and for all. But then, without warning, Tori Shepard was gone without a trace. Using her information networks extensively, Liara took it upon herself to find the Commander, a mission that will take her to uncharted territories.
Aliases: The Shadow Broker
Age: 108
Gender: Monogendered
Species: Asari
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Canon or Original: Canon (Mass Effect Series)
Date of Birth: 2077 (Day and month unknown)
Place of Birth: Thessia
Physical Appearance:
Default appearance
Special Abilities:
Biotic Powers: Liara possesses almost complete mastery over her species' inborn ability to use biotics. She can create Mass Effect fields to lift enemies and objects into the air and render them defenseless, knock them over with a concussive blast from a distance, generate gravitational vortices to tear obstacles or enemies apart, or create protective barriers to shield her and her allies from all matter of projectile attacks. These powers are activated with physical hand gestures (think the Force). Each power varies in their cooldown time, with the more powerful physical and mentally draining abilities having longer cooldown periods. In addition, using a single ability puts every other ability in cooldown.
Liara's Biotic powers are listed as follows:
Pull (Field variant): An attack that lifts the target (object or living being) into the air, where it floats helplessly until the effect wears off. The attack can curve around obstacles as well. It can also be used as an area of effect attack, sending closely packed groups into the air at the same time.
Barrier (Heavy variant): A defensive power that forms a high gravity mass effect field around Liara that greatly strengthens her kinetic barriers. If her barriers are down, however, it will only bring them back up again with no additional protection.
Singularity: This power launches a dark energy sphere to create an intense mass effect field that hovers around the area of impact. The field creates a warp in the space-time continuum, creating a gravity well akin to a black hole. Unprotected (shielded) enemies are drawn into the Singularity and briefly float helplessly in orbit around the sphere. Enemies protected by shields are held in place, but suffer continuous damage.
Stasis: A power that holds an enemy in place, frozen in a mass effect field. An enemy in Stasis can be damaged at the cost of the Stasis field coming down after a set amount of damage is done.
Throw (Heavy Variant): A power that sends a spherical mass effect field that can curve around and over objects to hit its intended target, much like Pull. If it does hit, an unshielded target is knocked off their feet with force comparable to that of a semi-truck. If an airborne target is hit, it sends them flying through the air. If a target has been Pulled and is hit, the combined biotics explode before sending the unfortunate target flying through the air.
Weapons:
M-12 Locust Sub-Machine gun
M-5 Phalanx
History:
Liara T'Soni was born on the asari home world: Thessia. Her parents were two asari matriarchs, her mother, Matriarch Benezia, and her "father", Matriarch Aethyta (her father would be absent for most of her life). While Liara did have to deal with the prejudice against children with two asari parents, it did not stop her from dedicating most of her life to studying the technology and culture of the Protheans, an mysterious race that built the Mass Relays and the Citadel, then died out under unknown circumstances. Part of this decision was due to her wanting to escape from the pressures of being the daughter of her mother, a widely respected Matriarch among the asari. Her research would take her to a relatively isolated planet called Therum, a dig site of Prothean ruins. There, she learned to hone her biotic abilities from repeated skirmishes from the occasional band of pirates that hoped to raid the dig site. Later on, however, she would encounter an enemy that she could not fight alone: the Geth. The synthetics long thought to have vanished from the galaxy had come for her. Knowing that she would die fighting them in open combat, Liara retreated into the Prothean ruin itself, unknowingly trapping herself in a shield that was impenetrable, but also inescapable by her own efforts. Help would come in the form of an unexpected source, an Systems Alliance marine, Commander Tori Shepard.
Shepard and her two man squad singlehandedly eliminated all of the invading Geth. They told her that these Geth had come to forcibly recruit her to Saren Arterius's (a rogue Spectre that Tori, also a Spectre, was tasked to hunt down and kill) cause of finding the Conduit, a tool that would ensure the return of the Reapers, a race of synthetic machines that had been all but shoved aside as an old myth. Once she was escorted safely to the Shepard's ship: the Normandy SR-1, she willingly joins Shepard's team in order to assist her with interpreting the shattering visions she received from a Prothean Beacon. During her time aboard the Normandy, she became very interested in Shepard because of her visions that could potentially shed new light on the mysterious Protheans. During her conversations with Shepard between various missions, Liara developed feelings for the Commander, partially due to feeling a "special connection her", and also because of the selfless sacrifices she made (such as doing her best to rescue the Feros colonists) for the betterment of others. She would slowly confess these feelings to the Commander, and it came as a surprise to Liara when Shepard confirmed that she had similar feelings towards her as well, and it was when Shepard comforted her after their mission on Noveria (in which she was forced to fight and kill her mother, Benezia) that the two entered a romantic relationship. Although Liara thought it was best to put off the time when they would meld (the asari's method of sexual intercourse with either gender of any species) until their mission was complete, to which Shepard agreed. Though that would not stop their visits, the most notable being after Kaidan Alenko's death on Virmire, which Liara comforted Shepard over.
After the Normandy crew's escape from the Citadel, Liara visited Shepard in her personal quarters while en-route to the Prothean planet Ilos, claiming she wants to spend the night, afraid she might never see Shepard again but certain this is what she wants. Shepard agreed, and the two experienced a night of passion together.
After the death of the Reaper, Sovereign, at the Battle of the Citadel, Liara chose to accompany Shepard on scouting missions for signs of Geth activity. After several months of these missions, Liara was with the Normandy once it was attacked by an unknown enemy. Shepard ordered her to evacuate the Normandy, and despite Liara's protests, she escorted the Normandy survivors to an escape shuttle. As she watched the obliteration of the Normandy, Liara refused to believe that Shepard had died. None the less, she heard nothing about her, and Shepard was proclaimed dead shortly after the news of the attack went on the Extranet. Throughout all of this, Liara clung to the hope that Tori Shepard was only missing in action.
At a loss for what to do once the Normandy crew was disbanded, Liara went to Illium and became an Information Broker who garnered renown for being efficient in her dealings. Her actual motives were to find out the whereabouts of Commander Shepard. Eventually, she came into contact with the human splinter group: Cerberus. Liara knew of their activities through various tidbits of info, though the group itself and their activities were relatively unknown. But when they told her that they knew of the status of Commander Shepard, she made haste to Omega, the self-proclaimed "Capital of the Terminus Systems". There, she met with Cerberus' contact, a drell named Feron. He informs her of Shepard's death, which devastates Liara. When they are attacked by Blue Suns Mercenaries, the two escape when Cerberus operatives provide a distraction. It is then that she meets the leader of Cerberus, the Illusive Man. She agrees to help find Shepard's body when he says he can bring her back from the dead, though she makes it clear that she's doing it for Shepard and not for Cerberus.
Two years later, Liara has not heard from Cerberus ever since she delivered the Commander's body to them. She has matured significantly in these two years, being feared for what she could do to those who try to cheat her. Then, one day, Commander Shepard herself enters her office in the middle of a business transaction, much to her surprise. The two have a heartfelt reunion, but it is soured somewhat by the changes Shepard notes in Liara. When she makes it clear to Shepard that she cannot leave due to her mission to search for the Shadow Broker, Shepard leaves to resume her mission to stop the Collectors, the abductors of human colonies.
Liara would then be surprised to see Shepard return to her, bearing info of a potential lead on the whereabouts of the Shadow Broker. Shepard offers to help her, to which Liara tells her that they should meet at her apartment. Unbeknownst to Shepard, she would arrive to a crime scene of a failed assassination attempt. She flees to a Baria Frontiers office in the Dracon Trade Center to meet up with an informant. As Shepard, her squad, and an asari Spectre named Tela Vasir arrive, explosions rock the building on the third floor. Luckily, Liara survives, making her appearance known with a gun pointed at Vasir. Informing Shepard of Vasir's goals to kill her under orders from the Shadow Broker, she convinces Shepard and her squad to turn their guns on the Spectre. Though she manages to escape by shattering a glass window and fleeing outside the building. Shepard and Liara chase Vasir via car above the Illium skyline and manage to force her to crash into Hotel Azure. Cornering the wounded Vasir, the squad successfully kill her and take back the disk that Liara's informant had of the Broker's location. Along the way to the Normandy, Shepard tries to get Liara to talk about their relationship, and the two argue, with Shepard expressing resentment for Liara using her to find the Shadow Broker, and Liara countering that she can't undo two years of mourning. Liara would then cut off their conversation, telling Shepard that they need to focus on saving Feron, a captive of the Broker.
Making their way to the Broker's Base, Shepard's squad (which includes Liara) fights their way through stiff Shadow Broker Agent resistance and happen upon Feron, who is strapped to an electric chair that would kill him should anyone try to remove him. Liara promises to free him after the Broker is dead, and Shepard's squad moves on to the Shadow Broker's control room. There, they discover that the Broker is in fact a yahg, a race banished by the Citadel Council because of their extremely violent tendencies. After a long battle, Liara kills the Broker by incinerating him with the electricity from the room's ceiling. As the power in the ship goes down, Liara quickly takes up the mantle of the Shadow Broker to keep the various contacts assured that nothing is wrong. When Feron makes his way to the control room, he expresses shock that Liara has decided to become the new Shadow Broker. When Shepard asks her if she's sure she wants that responsibility, she reassures her that she'll only use the Broker's resources to stop the Reapers. Then she suddenly bursts into tears, unbelieving that her two year quest for vengeance is finally over. As Shepard hugs her, the two kiss, though Liara stops short, saying that their relationship has changed over Shepard's two year absence. Though Shepard interrupts her with a hug, and the two kiss passionately. Later on, Shepard returns to the base to ask Liara if she'd like a tour of the new Normandy, to which she agrees happily. After the tour, the two spend some time alone in Shepard's quarters, where they talk about the suicide mission that Shepard is preparing for. When Shepard expresses her frustration over the galaxy not believing her about the Reapers, Liara consoles her. Then she asks Shepard what she thinks about their future, to which Shepard jokes about old age and a lot of "little blue children". Feeling burdened at the thought of losing Shepard again, Liara needs to know if Shepard is always coming back. Shepard teases Liara for asking a big promise but subtly suggests about needing something special to come back to and hints to her for an offer. The visit then ends pleasantly, though Liara still worries for Shepard as she goes through the Omega 4 Relay.
Eighteen months later, once Cerberus turns on Shepard, the organization sends a cruiser to take down the Shadow Broker base. Liara and Feron managed to load as much vital equipment onboard a shuttle as possible, then crashed the Shadow Broker's ship into the Cerberus cruiser to make their escape. Liara didn't have much love lost over the event, for the most crucial part of the Shadow Broker's operation is the spy network across the galaxy. After learning of Shepard destroying a Mass Relay (killing 300,000 batarians in the process) to delay a Reaper invasion, Liara realized what little time left the galaxy had, along with Admiral Hackett, who commissioned Liara's aid in finding a way to stop them. But this brought her into conflict with the Illusive Man, as their agents began crossing paths. Eventually, through process of elimination, mixed with a little desperation, Liara discovered the existence of a blueprint for a Prothean device that could theoretically destroy the Reapers at the Mars Archives. Unfortunately, the Reaper invasion hit Earth. During the chaos, Cerberus assaulted the Archives and Liara found herself evading their troops through the air ducts. After managing to kill her pursuers, Liara reunited with Shepard, who had barely escaped Earth and had been ordered by Hackett to Mars.
Rejoining Shepard again, the two worked with a set of new and old faces to stop to Reapers once and for all. But then, without warning, Tori Shepard was gone without a trace. Using her information networks extensively, Liara took it upon herself to find the Commander, a mission that will take her to uncharted territories.
