FRED LUPEI
ORIGINAL CHARACTER BASED ON THE OUTER WORLDS
ORIGINAL CHARACTER BASED ON THE OUTER WORLDS
hope, are you nothing but a tomb?
NAME: Frederica Lupei
ALIAS: Fred, Captain, Cuckoo
AGE: Technically 104-ish, went into cryo at 34
RACE: Human
GENDER & PRONOUNS: Female & she/her
ORIENTATION: Lesbian
ZODIAC: Taurus (May 4th)
NATIONALITY: Scottish
OCCUPATION: Ichthyologist working for NatureScot, maritime pilot, amateur helicopter pilot, weapons and drugs trafficker, captain of the Unreliable
FACECLAIM: Rachelle Lefevre & Soul LaRouge
HEIGHT: 171 cm / 5’6
BUILD: Athletic, angular
SKIN: Light, tanned, warm undertones, freckles
HAIR: Auburn, curly, voluminous, long
EYES: Green
WARDROBE:
HOMETOWN: N/A, multiple homes all over the world
BIRTHPLACE: Inverness, Scotland
MOTHER: Dr. Antonia Lupei, deceased
FATHER: Codruţ Lupei, deceased
SIBLINGS: N/A
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: Alison Lupei, wife (verse-dependent)
ABILITIES: Extensive knowledge of biology, ecology, and specialized fields, maritime navigation and pilotage, combat skills, firearms proficiency
LANGUAGES: Polyglot, primarily English (Scottish Gaelic, Icelandic, Norwegian, Romanian, French, etc.)
RELIGION: Atheist
ALIGNMENT: Chaotic Neutral
MBTI: ENTP- the debater: smart and curious thinker who cannot resist an intellectual challenge
ENNEAGRAM TYPE:
STRENGTHS: Knowledgeable, skillful, energetic, efficient, quick thinker, ambitious, creative, resilient
WEAKNESSES: Argumentative, insensitive, intolerant, aggressive, sarcastic, materialistic, fussy, obsessive
LIKES: Fish, her wife, adrenaline, the ocean, bright colors, drinking, stimulants & hallucinogens
DISLIKES: Fish, teamwork, dullness, landlocked countries, prudes
Frederica Lupei was born into a family of scientists and engineers, and so it came as no surprise when she showed an early aptitude for retaining and rapidly sifting through large amounts of data, as well as connecting the invisible dots other people seemed to miss. Yet for all their academic success and fulfilling home life, Fred's parents would not live long enough to see their daughter grow up into a full-fledged scientist.
When Fred was five, both her parents were murdered while they were traveling back home from a months-long work trip in a remote location. A third coworker who was traveling with them at the time was charged with double homicide. The media and the rest of their coworkers painted the whole incident as some sort of love triangle situation and jealousy driving the man mad.
The truth, however, was far darker, and it involved the Alta-Vitae gas, which back then was a project initiated by a handful of scientists on Earth with the intention of distributing it to all colonies struggling with food supplies, all over the galaxy. Before the project was even halfway finished, the Halcyon Holdings Corporate Board acquired exclusive access to all research from the Earth Directorate for a very large sum of money. The scientists working on Alta-Vitae were either bought in exchange for their silence or eliminated if they put up any resistance-- Fred’s mother, Dr. Antonia Lupei, was one of those scientists. Her father was also involved in the project, but only as a handyman working at the same station.
Fred was raised by her grandparents from then on, and when she was old enough to put two and two together, she attempted to get in touch with the supposed murderer of her parents (in truth, another scientist who opposed the Board, the same way Antonia had), but only a few weeks later after she started poking around, he was found dead in his prison cell.
Fred never quite managed to unravel the whole mystery while on Earth. There were too many missing pieces as she never learned about Alta-Vitae and the Halyon Board getting their hands on the project. At least, not until years later.
When the opportunity to join the Hope colony ship came up, Fred-- now a well-respected ichthyologist-- signed up to study and work with the native species of Terra 1, having no idea it would bring her so close to the truth of her parents' deaths.