Name:
Xaviana Alicia Durant (Goes by Alicia in the underground)
Age: 21
Height: 5� 4�
Eye Color: Brown
Hair: Dark Brown, almost black, length to her mid-back
Occupation: None, she is the middle child of a wealthy family in the service
of the Emperor. Currently an aid to the underground in getting information
that they would normally not have access to.
Status: Single
Family: Father: Col. Marcus Aurelius Durant (age 55). Mother: Lady Francesca
Maria Durant (age 50). Older brother: Lt. Augustus Michael Durant (age 31).
Younger sister: Lilia Anna Durant (age 15).
Personality: Alicia is caught between
worlds. She has a lot of
conflicting emotions about what she is doing to help the underground. She is
a very strong willed person, but has a hard time over coming over 20 years
of being inundated with the �serving the Emperor� party line. She grew up
privileged and more than a bit on the snobby side. She knew her place in
society� and others places too. Now that place has been turned upside down
and inside out, she is more than a bit lost. She genuinely wants to help,
she knows-now- that what�s been happening in the Empire is very wrong and
sometimes you have to question the norm. She will revert on occasion back to
her upbringing and stick her foot in her mouth with many in the underground.
But she is also pretty young, and is very frightened on occasion by what she
does and what she sees. She grew up adoring her father and older brother,
who are *very* devoted to the current Emperor, and feels it keenly when she
passes along information she gains from spying on them and their friends in
their social circle. There will be more than one occasion where she will
feel her betrayal of her father is too much for her to handle, whom she was
raised to obey without question. There are also times when the sheer
excitement of what she is doing, as well as her attraction to two different
men in the underground, will drive her on.
History: Alicia was born on Davros, a planet
almost entirely devoted to training facilities for the Emperor�s army. She
grew up with a life of privilege, nothing that she wanted was denied to her.
As a child, she followed her father and older brother to the training sites,
pretending to fight along side them. They amusingly tolerated her presence
there until she turned 10 and her mother insisted that she start learning to
be �a lady�. But she never forgot what she saw there, and though she never
participated fully in the exercises, she knows their tactics and could
probably use them to fight in a pinch.
Alicia has had devotion to the Empire, and above all else, the Emperor,
drilled into her head since she was a baby. She grew up thinking it all was
a perfect world and that nothing was wrong with it� until the day after her
20th birthday. She had spent the previous night of her birthday gala
flirting with a young Roman soldier named Brian. He was a bit older than her
and the interaction was encouraged by her mother as a good match for her.
She noticed Brian coming to visit the following day and excitedly, but
discreetly followed him to her father�s study. She overheard them talking
about setting up an ambush of a transport full of people from the
underground. Their cold and calculating way of discussing the fact that they
were intentionally going to leave no survivors- by order of the Emperor-
shocked her completely. She had never heard her father speak so about
anyone. She couldn�t believe that they would be so cold and callous about
taking another life, let alone the 48 lives on board a single ship.
She left without hearing the rest
of
the conversation and spent the next week and a half convincing herself that
she had �misheard� what they were talking about. She was pleasantly
surprised when Brian came by to visit again and after dinner, enclosed
himself in her father�s study once more. Later on that night, she snuck
downstairs and into her father�s study. There she found papers describing in
detail the ambush and capture of several underground members. Photos and
data crystals detailing the torture and information extracted from the
survivors of the initial attack, all who were summarily executed afterwards,
if they hadn�t died from the initial interrogation.
Alicia was in shock not only from the horror she was seeing before her, but
also from the realization that she could have done something to maybe stop
it had she acted after hearing the initial conversation. Not really knowing
what to do, she left her father�s study in a daze and walked into one of her
family�s servants, who was a member of the underground. He told her where to
take the information, that it could be used to save more lives than she
could possibly know. He couldn�t go, he was bound to the house after curfew,
but she could. In the most frightening night of her life, Alicia took the
information to a young man in the city whom she came to know as Dodger. Half
in tears and half scared to death, she told him all she had overheard and
gave him the tangible proof to back it up.
The next day, the servant who told her where to go was accused of stealing
the information and �disemployed� from the house. She could never prove it,
but listening to talk among the other servants, she came to the conclusion
that her father had him killed.
Totally devastated by the disillusionment of her world crumbling around her,
Alicia began to use her station to gain access to information for the
underground. She still has doubts about what she is doing, she still has
some loyalty to her father, brother and family, and this causes no small
amount of stress and worry for her. Apart from the obvious danger she is
putting herself in, she feels horrible for a time after each contact, like
she is betraying her family for no reason.
