Iri Sewuel

Name: Iri Sewuel (pronounced as “Airy Say-well”)

Age: Unknown (includes factoring in cryosleep)

Race: Indogene

Gender: Female

Profession: Tech Repair, Medical Assistant, Arkhunter-In-Training

Weaponry: (Currently)

-Primary: Hog Leg SMG

-Secondary: Wolfhound

Physical Description:

-Build/Physique: Slightly Athletic

-Skin: Pale Grey, Hexagonal pattern

-Hair: None

-Eyes: Indigo

-Features: Implants that allow for her to diagnose technical issues with biomechanical implants and Earth-based technology. These can also allow her to hear EGO communication frequencies and other devices that transmit on those frequencies.

-Armor/Clothing: Often wears typical Earth clothes available, normally wears long sleeved shirts with high collars or turtlenecks or jackets with pants or short skirts with pants and knee high boots. Occasionally wears her Indogene attire. With the addition of becoming an Arkhunter, she wears an Ark Alliance Terranaut helmet and an Omega Recon outfit.

Mental Description: Sane, Calm, Emotional (depending on what), Argumentative (depending on the situation), Friendly and sometimes sexually aggressive (only when she’s stimulated).



Background:

Iri was born at an unknown time prior to the destruction of the Votanis system. She had begun studies on biomechanics at an early age after it was assigned to her and also learned various technological skills as a side project up until to the departure of the Arks. She became one of the lucky few who was admitted onboard one of the Arks during its trip to Earth. She met with Doctor Meh Yewll and Yewll’s future lover Lev during the intermediate periods in which crew of the Arks would interchange to maintain the systems as they went along.

After the arrival to Earth, she remained on the Ark until the Pale Wars broke out on Earth, and was then stationed with Yewll and Lev. She would serve as an assistant to Lev as she worked on the Biodyne Project. Iri would often have to handle the transferring of human prisoners to Doc Yewll and Lev for their experiments while working on side experiments not involving human subjects at Lev’s request, mainly focusing on aspects of biomechanics. In this time, Iri read up on the human anatomy and books about Earth technology. One day, when she walked into the lab, she discovered Lev dead from an apparent suicide, which she went and got Doctor Yewll to come to the lab. Yewll wanted Iri to continue on with Lev’s portion of the workload for the Biodyne Project, but Iri declined, saying that she wasn’t capable of performing to the same expectations as Lev, when in fact she felt uncomfortable in what was being done to the human prisoners.

At the end of the Pale Wars, when the Biodyne Project had fallen apart and the base of operations had to be abandoned, Iri and a small group of other Indogenes ended up at the University of Alabama, where some of the faculty and staff in the science department allowed for them to stay in a storage room. After the terraforming, some of the Indogenes, as well as some human doctors, spent years traveling in a small group in the southern states to provide medical aid to the towns near the Quarantine Zone. One day, the caravan they were with got attacked by Hellbugs, which got her separated from the others. Getting lost in the woods and being pursued by Hellbugs, the odds of her death were greatly increased until Chase Lonehart and his father Jebediah saved her, costing Jebediah his life.

After being brought to Freedom, Alabama (formerly Pensacola, Florida), she began to wonder what she needed to do and concluded going back to the University of Alabama was the best option. She hitched a ride with Chase Lonehart, who was leaving the town on short notice. During their time, she inadvertently had sex with Lonehart due to being sexually stimulated from skin-on-skin contact during a very cold night. Even though Chase agreed with her that it was a mistake, while having to wait for snow to melt in order to get back on the road, they ended up having sex a few more times. Despite feeling an emotional connection with him, and her sensing he felt something for her, Chase proceeded to drop her off at the University of Alabama and she remained silent as he left.

After a month, Iri relocated to Freedom, Alabama, where she lived a rather minimalist lifestyle in a cargo container turned apartment. She took up work at the Tech Shop with Michael Breaker, becoming proficient in repairs of pre-Pale War tech in addition to Votan technology. Due to her extensive studying of human anatomy and as well familiarizing herself with other Votan anatomy, she would often assist Doctor Jackson Peters in medical procedures for humans and Votans when Peters needed the extra set of hands. For personal relationships, she attempted to recreate the feeling she had for Chase by being involved with others, but couldn’t feel the same way (that and the human men she attempted to connect with were more selfish at sex than Chase had been).

Nine years later, Iri was surprised when Chase Lonehart had turned back up in her life. Following a small group on a trip into the Quarantined Zone, Iri and Chase rekindled their affair, finally admitting their love for one another. However, after Chase left with the group chasing after Rose Sinn, Belle Starr came back with news that Chase had died in Tampa. She had continued to carry the note that he had left for her with the advice that she should move on should he pass away. And she attempted to do so, despite the fact that he still lingered on her mind.

Five months after, she decided to make the trip out to the Bay to visit Belle Starr and the others, also wanting to see the mountain top in the Mount Tam area that Chase resided on. It was then that she and the others discovered that Chase was still alive, but for reasons unknown he hadn’t made himself be known. It was later discovered that Tom Cody, a man who refused to show his face and had disguised his voice, was Chase. Due to his injuries, he had lost his memory, his right arm and his original EGO unit replaced. Despite the changes in his personality from the loss of his memory, Iri still loves him and promises to stay by him for as long as they can. After they returned to the Bay, for two months, Iri has tried to find a way to restore Chase’s memories, but everything she’s found and tested has lead to no valid method to do so.

During a last ditch effort to explore all options on trying to restore Chase's memory, Iri accessed the computer systems at Fort Kshaa, a former Dark Matter base that was commandeered by VBI Security Director Belle Starr and her team. During her search for any potential method, she inadvertantly came across the blueprint formula for an Omec narcotic that had been used to push Indogenes to do things because it was the only form of pleasure they were allowed under Omec rule. She couldn't decide to delete it or not to keep it from falling into the wrong hands due to her curiosity about the drug. Due to her inaction, one of Belle Starr's group, Lady Christianna, went insane and joined up with a group of Inquisitors (who were founded by her mother, the Mistress of Judgment), using recently acquired Omec control rods on two others of Belle's group and downloaded the formula blueprint in a misguided plan to create a utopia.

Following that, the Inquisitors began to kidnap various Indogenes in the area, which included Iri. Under the influence of Omec control rods, Iri, Eren Niden and several other Indogenes were sent to Edmonton, Canada to an Arkfall and began repairs to a terraspire there due to Lady's plan to use the terraspires to create utopia. Chase Lonehart, sent by the others as a means to make sure he didn't kill Lady, and Lu Kshaa infiltrated and freed the Indogenes. Iri and Chase separated from the others in order to disable the terraspire in order to give the others in the Bay a chance to stop her. After doing so, Iri hugged Chase, causing him to drop his guard and got shot by one of the Inquisitors. Due to Chase's mechanical right arm and his placement of his hand at the back of her head, the bullet impacted against the back of his hand and kept her from being killed. However, the force of the bullet caused cerebral swelling and as a result, she become comatose. Unfortunately, due to how it looked, Chase thought she died in his arms, setting him off to murder the man who shot her and finally, leading him to walk out into the Canadian desert without any weapons, his EGO unit and without the will to live. Iri was rescued by Lu Kshaa and then transferred back to Top-Notch, where Eren kept an eye on her in her comatose state.

A month later, Iri finally awoke from her coma, unaware of what happened. Upon being informed about Chase walking out into the desert in an attempt to kill himself, she attempted to kill herself out of grief. She was stopped by Belle Starr, asking for a chance to try to find him and to be sure he was either dead or alive. It was after Belle received a message from Amanda Rosewater in Defiance that Chase, against all odds, was in her town. Upon arrival, it was revealed that Chase had escaped from custody, running on basic survival instinct. With the use of an abandoned TV station, Iri was put in front of the camera in hopes that Chase would see and hear her and come back. The message she sent out was noticed by Stahma Tarr, whom her and her husband was sheltering Chase after his escape, it inspiring her to turn him in. After being secured, Iri tried to talk to him, only to realize how primitive he became during his trek through the desert and how afraid he was of her. This upset her, making her believe she was at fault for what had happened to him.

The following morning, the town of Defiance was attacked by Victor Fontaine, the ruling power of Angel Arc, and his army of mercenaries, looking to get ahold of Chase to find out where Chase had hidden his wife and son. During the situation, Iri needed to go to the medical office to get sodium amytal in hopes of extracting information from Chase’s fractured mind, when she came across Doctor Yewll’s notes that were used to create Indo-Kenya, reading the section about the use of an EGO unit to access a hosts memory without them directly recalling it. The coding for the EGO unit to copy the memories was the missing piece she needed to repair Chase. After repairing and inserting the new coding into the EGO’s processor, Iri reinstalled McCoy and Chase’s memories and personality was restored, him remembering everything from prior to his Tampa accident.

After Fontaine was murdered and the situation subdued, Chase and Iri took some time to make up for lost time. After reflecting on how she had been caught by the Inquisitors, Iri decided and informed Chase that she wanted to become an Arkhunter so to learn to be able to defend herself better. During a run to recover parts for the Paradise Protector's aircraft, Iri revealed that she had been talking to Eren Niden about her and Chase's sexual habits for comparison to Eren and Rosa Rodriguez's relationship. Due to this, Chase requested some time apart from her, with her staying in Defiance while Chase headed to South America with the others to go find some of their group that went missing. While staying in town, she discovered that the Omec had been there and that there was some Omec tech underground that hadn't been recovered by Irisa Nolan due to her lack of tech knowledge. After being taken to the train repair station that the Omec had used, Iri discovered a clone of Doctor Meh Yewll still in the cloning chamber. With Iri's help, they were able to remove the clone without killing it, convincing Amanda Rosewater to allow the clone to continue the real Doc Yewll's duties as the town's doctor. Irisa called on Rynn, who came back into town just to help in recovering the cloning tank and to help Iri to take the tech to the Bay, where it could be in a secure location and giving her a chance to study the tech in order to reverse engineer it.

When going back to recover the cloning tech, the group discovered an underground bunker with Lena Marr, a Castithan female who is a member of the Paradise Protectors inside of an Omec sleep pod attached to equipment that looked to be out of the 1950s and being powered by an old nuclear warhead. After freeing Lena Marr, Iri and the Yewll clone began to disassemble the cloning equipment, Iri explaining how the tech could be useful to the world due to how long it would take to grow replacement parts that could easily be grafted into place upon completion. Iri also revealed that she was injured during the evacuation of the base she had been staying at during the end of the Pale Wars, the injury leaving her without the ability to get pregnant and that the tech could allow her and Chase to have children. Despite this, Lena Marr convinced her to destroy the tech due to how dangerous it was, crushing Iri's hope of having a family with Chase should she and he ever wanted one. Upon the destruction of all Omec tech by tossing it into Dante's Drop, Iri went drinking with Rynn. This lead to Iri having sex with Rynn, Iri doing it because she was pissed off at Chase for him reacting the way he did about her revealing to Eren Niden their bedroom habits. In the morning, Iri had mixed feelings about what she had done and Rynn explaining that it didn't mean that they were in a relationship, understanding that Iri had a need that needed to be fulfilled. After parting ways, Iri had found Lena Marr holding Amanda Rosewater hostage and able to kill Marcel Lestrange, her human lover, at the command of one of the multiple personalities in her EGO unit. Iri, pissed off from Lena convincing her to destroy the tech and possibly ruining her own life, took out the anger on Lena by using a pipe, nearly beating the Castithan to death. Upon regaining her senses, Iri realized she went too far, but Lena was still alive and thanked her for doing it because it saved Marcel. After fully recovering, Lena and Marcel escorted Iri to South America, with Iri being tempted to sleep with Lena and Lena even offering to have sex with Chase so to even out the wrong that Iri made. Iri managed to keep her wits about her and decided to just tell the truth.

Upon finally meeting Chase again, Iri admitted she cheated on him with Rynn and told him about the injury that made her unable to have children with him. Chase, after admitting that he recently had hallucinations about his dead parents, forgave Iri, going as far as to blame himself for setting the situation up that lead her to the events of the past couple of days. Knowing that Indogenes had a more open relationship structure in comparison to other species of Votans and humans, Chase told her that if she wanted to continue to have sex with other people outside of their relationship, that he would be willing to allow it because he hadn't comprised as much in their relationship as she had the past few months. As of this point, her and Chase's relationship is pretty much complicated to say the least.

Misc. Facts:

She likes many old Earth music. She particularly likes techno music as it reminds her of Indogene opera, which has been long lost in time and circumstance. But she’s been expanding her musical palette over the years.

Her favorite piece of Earth-based literature is The Four-Chambered Heart by French author Anais Nin.

Doesn’t see the point in old Earth video games. She considers them quite impractical despite their popularity and collectability then and currently.

Despite being monogamous to Chase, her sexual urges (when she is aroused by skin-on-skin contact) does often result in her approaching other potential lovers, be it for one-on-one contact or even a group contact (while trying to get Chase involved as well). The only other person in the circle of known associates to her and Chase to see her in such a position is Belle Starr and in a much awkward moment during the first trip through Freedom, Alabama. And due to Chase realizing he hadn't compromised enough in their relationship, he gave Iri permission for her to have sex with whomever she wanted outside of their relationship.