Zenariae
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| Name | Zenariae Havraan | |
| Gender | Female | |
| Date of Birth | YC097.05.28 | |
| Birthplace | Black Rise (unspecified starbase medical facility) | |
| Height | 180cm | |
| Weight | 55kg | |
| Hair Color | Deep Brunette | |
| Eye Color | Blue | |
| Father |  | |
| Mother |  | |
| Corporation | Little Butterfly Enterprises | |
| Occupation | Space Photographer and Explorer | |
Key for Pronunciation of Names
- Zenariae Havraan [ ʒenαːriː hᴧvrαːn ]
- Vila Havraan [ vilᴧ hᴧvrαːn ]
- Soolin Havraan [ suːlin hᴧvrαːn ]
- Kaleena Vorick [ kαːliːɳᴧ voriːk ]
Early Life
Beyond a date entry nothing is recorded of the circumstances of Zenariae Havraan's birth at an outpost medical facility in the Black Rise Region. Her early years were spent enduring hazardous space travel and life aboard industrial starbases with her parents in and around Placid and Black Rise. The young family never settled long in one place and travel was a constant and difficult endeavour. Falling victim to illness, Zenariae's mother died while Zenariae was still a child aged six. In early YC111 Zenariae and her father moved into an orbital station above Samanuni XI where they have stayed since, keeping quietly to themselves.
Education
At an early age Zenariae demonstrated a natural curiosity for the universe. Regardless of her strong aptitude for learning, Zenariae's education was lackluster and insufficient due to continuous and disruptive travelling and did not foster her inclinations for focused academia positively. All of her schooling was conducted via antiquated remote interfaces, her father having an intense dislike for holographic projection and modern methods of instruction, and she did not benefit from the social interaction with other children.
During her later education, Zenariae's father involved himself in her instruction and supplemented her learning with the educational holoreels of his parent Megacorporation Hyasyoda as well as various other materials he saw fit for his daughter. She was a difficult student to teach however, easily distracted if not encouraged and often found the conservative materials and militaristic Caldari views presented to her stifling. The materials often polarized her views and increased her feelings of isolation as she grew into adolescence.
Dismayed with the future prospects for his daughter, who by Caldari reckoning was a halfbreed and thereby an insult to the State and bloodline purity, Zenariae's father instructed her enthusiastically in the Way of the Winds, as his own father had done. He hoped it would find a respectable outlet for her but met with considerable resistance and apparent disinterest as his teenage daughter became more and more withdrawn. He was strict and unrelenting though, and often punished her with tedious chores or extended denial of privileges for small misdemeanors in her behavior during this time.
Family
Vila Havraan was born to a conservative yet prosperous Civire family tied to the Hyasyoda Megacorporation, many generations having served diligently under its auspices. His family was also active in a highly stylized, minimalistic form of theatre with numerous and rigid rules of delivery that focused solely on depicting the essence of Nature Spirits, the Winds, and various aspects of Wayism. In YC110 he resigned his position at Hyasyoda to pursue independent trade in biotechnology with an associate from Zainou, basing his trade out of the less State-centralized region of Black Rise.
Kaleena Vorik was one of many children reborn into an Intaki artist family and practiced sculpture and craft from an early age, creating many small works of beauty that often depicted the human form blending with animal or nature themes. A woman of delicate beauty, intellect and gentle sensibilities, Zenariae's mother stubbornly resisted any cultural assimilation of her identity, Ida or her creative arts, by any Caldari influences through her connection with the Havraan family.
Soolin Havraan, Zenariae’s aunt, is a Caldari expatriate living in the Gallente Federation with her husband and two children. She practices the minimalist theatre as taught in the Havraan family, but with adaptations to storytelling and performance to suit the appetites of her mainly Gallente audience, often deconstructing Wayist themes into absurd forms exploring the lack of purpose and senselessness of humanity without a spiritual core.
Personality
Shy and finding it hard to relate to people, and sometimes reserved due to her isolated upbringing, Zenariae Havraan may however talk enthusiastically or with energy when excited. She is an attentive listener and observer, but often distracted or frightened easily by things in her surroundings which can set off various nervous tics that manifest in her hands or speech. Her demeanour is normally very polite and openly honest. Quiet and with a genuine warmth towards and interest in people, she responds to sincerity in communication and responsibility in behaviour. Negativity can get the better of her which sends her into mood swings and paranoia. It may also rarely activate a display of explosive anger or extreme frustration that deteriorates into hasty or impulsive actions. She dislikes uncouth or manipulative conduct, rudeness and impolite language. Her likes and hobbies include travel, which she enjoys immensely, space photography, fireworks, flowers, sharing and drinking a pot of milky Intaki Sweet Tea, chocolates, collecting dolls, and studying New Eden flora and fauna.
Physiology
Combining her mother’s features, dark hair and slender physique with a soft resonance of her father’s facial bone structure and bright blue eyes, Zenariae Havraan does not bear the usual hallmarks of either of her parents’ bloodlines and is an obvious hybrid. No scarring, tattoos or body modifications are evident apart from conservative, decorative ear piercings. Hair is usually worn uncolored and loose, tucked behind an ear or in a relaxed plaited ponytail.
Awkward and clumsy at times, her movements tend to be fidgety and not elegant. Physical and neurological assessments have not correctly ascertained the nature of her bumbling, whether it is due to a nervous and overly self-conscious disposition, actual physical impairments or an unfortunate combination of both. No records exist of her physical and neurological attributes prior to Capsuleer status, so it is also unclear whether the transition to a clone with implant technology has had detrimental effect on her physiologically. Her aerobic fitness levels are extremely high though, and she is able to maintain a continuous, although gangly, meditative jog for many hours without break that usually leaves her in a cheerful and ebullient mood.
Career
Capsuleer
Exploration
Photography
Spirituality and Beliefs
Zenariae is a Wayist with a heavily romanticised interpretation. Spiritual exploration, as her father rightly predicted, has given her an outlet to pursue the creativity that flows through her being. She admires the beauty of space, its spectacular forms as well as function as a means to define and expand consciousness and conducts her photography as an intensely spiritual activity. Often combining it with poetry, she seeks to explore and blend traditional aspects of Wayism with contemporary ideas as an expression of her life and a means to deal with the shadows that often pursue her thoughts and actively disrupt her feelings.
Although having had little exposure to Ida except through her mother, Intaki culture and spirituality is fascinating to Zenariae, particularly the notion of rebirth of the spirit, which she feels is not at odds with Caldari beliefs that death is a submission to the inevitable, harsh nature of the universe. Death, she believes, releases the spirit into memory, which is not afflicted by the ephemerality of human constructs of time, and thereby provides a conduit to the deceased's consciousness. The spirit is one of the highest forms of order and an instrument of the Winds. Intaki rebirth for Zenariae is simply an alternate expression of the same notion that a person's life is an echo of consciousness throughout all time and can be accessed with appropriate meditation, awareness and compassion.
YC116
The early year of YC116 was characterised by an unfortunate and devastating encounter with Bloodraider criminals. Spurred by the popular images and music of pop idol Midna Lyre, Zenariae's youthful innocence was lured and deceived with the promise of identity, community, and spiritual enlightenment through the Sani Sabik religion. She was simply taken advantage of however for her Capsuleer skills and assets, and trapped for several months in a criminal underworld of lies, degradation, and dark contemplation in a Bloodraider starbase in Delve. Here, the effects of secretly administered psychotropic drugs in her food and water kept her in a constant state of confusion, paranoia, and unwilling subjugation. She witnessed nightmarish rituals and horrific crimes against the dignity of humanity, and endured physical and psychological abuse that finally pushed her to the brink of suicide via a biomass facility.
No identity visited her, only shame. No community embraced her, only the memory of suffering. No enlightenment came to her, only darkness. It was her youth though, a deeply buried spark of optimism and creativity that had not been destroyed, and the determination to be unlike those who had harmed her, to remain human and compassionate in spite of vile terrors, that kept her mind and heart alive along a Capsuleer path. She spent most of that year in reclusive recovery while in pursuit of wandering solo travels amongst the stars to discover and reconnect with the beauty of her ethnic spirituality, the Way of the Winds.
