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[Edit 2: I promise this is the last time app update I swear ; - ; Also the name Rifqa fits better!][Edit: Now Mevis looks more like mechanic :''D]
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Name: Golshani Rifqa "Riff" El Nadi
Age: 231 (30)
Birthday: 12th of Month of Seeds, year 8063
Gender: Female
Height: 1'60
Race: Wood elf
Class: Scout
Occupation: Engineer and Workshop owner
City: Tusa
Allegiance: Southern Federation
Personality:
[Focused|| Eccentric|| Easy going|| Blunt || Caring || Prideful || Socially awkward || Restless]
Once an idea of a new schematic or project, whether it be for a machine, rifle or even something that can explode, sets roots inside of Rifqa's head, her focus locks itself into that one thing only and sets her to work to make that idea grow and blossom. This usually means she will spend every waking hour in her workshop only fueled by a lot of hookah until that idea or project has become a reality. While she can seem as a eccentric in the way she can work so tirelessly on something or even swoon over anything from guns, rifles or aircrafts, she is overall easy going. She can almost come across as lazy and don’t tend to stress up so easily, which could probably be thanks to the lack of sleep. Or the hookah.
Her occasional blunt remarks boils down to a tough upbringing of growing up in the slums in combination of being surrounded by “odd role” models and people using her for cheap labor, which is what shaped her into the blunt and sometimes even shrewd mechanic she is today. But despite all that, she can still be a caring person to the ones who are able to “stand her” and her “cranks”.
Rifqa is pretty much a illiterate seeing that she never got herself a proper schooling and instead began working from a early age. Despite her reading and some of her writing has slightly improved for the last couple of years to be able to read simple texts and to atleast write her own name, she’s way too prideful to ever admit it as a weakness but still makes sure to surround herself by people she knows can read better than her.
Since Rifqa is much more at home with her machines along with her quite eccentric and narrowed down interests than with people, she can sometimes find herself feeling awkward among people or social gatherings. She can also become incredibly restless if she stays away from her workshop for too long or haven’t been tinkering on something in awhile.
History:
While the slums wasn't exactly one of the most idyllic or the safest places for a little elfling to grow up in, Rifqa still made do! Having her young mother leaving the picture quite early for a more luxurious life in Koben with a wealthy merchant and to mainly put a entire Empire between her estranged parents along with her father’s failure hovering over the family, Rifqa was left with her grandparents inside of a shack in the slums of Tusa.So one might think there wouldn’t be much for a little elfling to do but the shack only served as a place to sleep for her. Her happy place was just a stone throw away: the messy junkyard!
People living around the junkyard would daily see Rifqa scurrying back and forth between piles of old pumps, scraps and taking things apart with glee.
Back at the shack, there was ol’grandma Bamu (or Bamuhufriya) and grandpa Kobek. Grandma Bamu was washerwoman for the brothel she once worked at in her youth and where she also meet her husband and grandpa Kobek, born in Tusa but was once a skilled ammunition technician for the Empires Military in Koben. It was also thanks to his military education that he made sure to train his wife to become a sharpshooter in self defence- which only invoked her love for guns! A quite unhealthy obsession, really...
His plans for the future was bright for him and his wife, planning to bring their family to a more more comfortable life in Koben from a comfortable middle class life back in Tusa, until a error made him to accidently blow up a officer during a demonstration and he was dishonorably discharged while Rifqa mother was a young teenager. So Tusa’s slum became their permanent address.
One day, Grandpa Kobek was in a alcohol marinated rage over a neighbour he had been feuding with and used the remaining gun powder from his old work arsenal to blow up the neighbours outhouse. While it would probably horrify most children to see such a display, a new strange fascination woke up in the small elfling. She was "enlightened"!
Being “inspired”, she began scurrying around the training yard of the Military Academy to look for used rifle cases- just to gather that sweet gunpowder. While it took time to gather the gunpowder needed, it made the explosions more the special for Rifqa and it also brought her closer to her grandpa, who only encouraged this fascination.
A quite a few more outhouses, trash cans and flowers pots was sacrificed to her explosive needs.
As the years passed and being tossed out from the practice yard of the Military Academy by one or two superiors from time to time, Rifqa knew that it only meant that she needed to learn how to sneak better in order obtain her precious gunpowder.
So with time she learned how to more easily slip away from any disgruntled soldier or superiors who didn’t wish her there. She even started plot and schedule over which superiours to avoid.
One day at the age of 14, a mechanic was throwing pipes and junks into the junkyard when he found Rifqa dismantle a old model of a pump with ease. Seeing this as a chance to hire cheap labor of naive child, the mechanic offered her to work at his workshop. Realising that she could get “paid” for something she was pretty much breathing for, the elfling took it! The explosions happened less now and while the fact she was working for peanuts didn’t seem to bother her, she thrived! She did easy tasks at first such as dismantling water pumps aswell as running errands and bring food to the other workers, passing tools to the senior mechanics who would then share their wisdom to her and let her watch their work.
As the years passed and after working and bouncing between workshops, she found herself doing maintenance repairs of cargo airships that would stop in Tusa at a more commercial workshop in her early twenties.
Due to not being able to read contracts since she is a illiterate, she would sign herself into unfair payments for her work. This weakness was exploited by the chairman at the more commercial workshop.
So when Rifqa expressed her thoughts of opening her own workshop, the chairman put down a offer. After all, he was “starting to get too old”. In the deal, Rifqa would work for half her pay but while doing so, the other half of her salary would go to pay off for the deed of his workshop and with time he would pass it on over to her.
In reality, seeing Rifqa way of intense and eccentric working as valuable asset, he wanted to overwork her enough to have her agree marrying his son.
This would mean she would be working for the family: for free!
However, he did not expect Rifqa's stubbornness!
As events in Tusa transpired, Rifqa kept working tirelessly for years as a chief mechanic and overseer while dismissing the chairman's sons courting attempts, which only caused the chairman to increase the payload and set her to work on more aircrafts under tight schedules.
Feeling the workload starting to take out its toll on her, the Revolution happened.
While Rifqa, who was a quiet supporter of the Southern Federation with a bitter resentment to the Empire, barricaded herself, her gun ready grandma’ and waisted sick grandpa, the chairman was killed by looters and the Empire sympathetic son fleed Tusa, leaving the workshop without a owner and workers due to the chaos.
As the Revolution died out, sadly along with grandpa Kobek, Rifqa had the shell of a workshop in her hands.
She has now moved herself and her still gun ready grandma in to the flat above the shop. She hopes she can soon open up ol’ Kobek’s Workshop and do her effort for the Southern Federation’s cause for a better future for Tusa.
Additional info:
Her favorite mechanical vehicle? Aircrafts! After seeing her first aircraft and seeing them come and go from the hangers of the workshops, she felt a need to be in the air. Next to explode things, of course. This also made her to build a small glider at age 15 with scraps she had obtained from the workshop. With the glider, she used it to toss herself out from a hill- she crashed a lot but did manage to glide!
The white streak is due to a genetic birthmark passed down from the female side of the family.
Once Rifqa was old enough, grandpa Kobek also made sure that she also knew how to handle guns and rifles.
- Rifqa bitterness towards the Empire boils down to how quick they threw ol'grandpa Kobek, a once loyal Empire military man, away after the accident without thinking how it would affect his family. While she's cautious, she do think the Southern Federation is what they need.
- She knows how to do basic repair and maintaince of prosthetics that doesn't require magic. However along side with others or a Healer, Rifqa knows how to do more prober maintaince work and repairs.
- The nickname "Riff" was the nickname she got when she first started to work at workshops.
- She despises her first name and goes by her middle name instead
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It has been several years since I have joined an RP server, please do not temp me.
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You're welcome! =3
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I like her design and how she managed to remain strong and independent despite the chairman's pressure on her to try and marry her off to his son! I also like how illiteracy is a real issue for her but that she's still managed to work around it in her own way o/ And her love for explosions is somehow endearing HAHA 8D Would be interested in headcanoning/RPing if you like!
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Eeee thank you so much for your comment!<3
And I would love to~ >u<
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Great! Do you have a Discord or something else works for you? 8D
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I got Discord! : D It's Maki#5595
And so sorry for the late reply x _ x
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IS GOOD TO SEE YOU TOO!<3 QVQ
LET'S RP SOON AGAIN TT u TT
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OMG YES MAKI YES I MISSED U SO MUCH SJAHDH
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Oops, that happens!~ e v e
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Aw she looks fantastic
Superb backstory as well, must make RPing easier for you 
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