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The daughter of a soldier and a diplomat, 'Minovsky's Woman' is a callsign first heard eight years ago, now widely-feared amongst the sensitive and the open. Day-to-day, she is Yuliana Dispersal, an REA Special Forces operative whose name is just as well known on the stage of world politics. Under one designation, she is the terror of the REA, an 'Anti-Newtype' melee specialist who can bring any battle down to the physical realm. In the other, she is a rare REA political socialite, advancing the Republic's interests in gatherings and meetings... with an unsettling aura. Yuliana's Cyber-Newtype experiments went /catastrophically/ wrong, and rather than opening her heart, she closed the hearts of everyone around her. Like the Minovsky interference she is named for, Yuliana disrupts empathic connections, making Newtype communication impossible around her -- a psychic black hole. She is the ultimate equaliser, nullifying the potential of the future... but such a horrible thing isn't possible, is it? Secretly, her talent for levelling the playing field in this manner led her to offer support to a surprising second party: Celestial Being.
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Yuliana Kafim was once Captain Yuliana Dispersal, a veteran REA special operative and mechanic leading the Nega Force. She secretly endured horrifying anti-Newtype experiments... until a publicised raid destroyed her laboratory, facilitating her defection. But the Awakened ''always'' knew something was wrong -- because Yuliana's strange aura disrupts their psychic abilities and plunges them into isolated silence. She is a manipulative and fickle authoritarian, intensely anti-Spacenoid, a dangerous saboteur experienced with infiltration and assassination. Her instability undercuts any attempts at mentorship or kindness... and it makes her a ''recklessly'' skilled pilot. Despite this negativity, Yuliana is protective of 'normal people', and she wishes to aid humanity. She has a vision of peace and absolute equality for the world. (An equality which brings those Newtypes Yuliana hates and envies down to physical reality.) This led her to become a double agent for Celestial Being, even as she enforced the REA's will... and once Elisa Kafim convinced her to split her loyalties, she claimed all Yuliana's fierce devotion for herself. Now married to Elisa, the madness which gripped Yuliana after her strange Awakening is everyone's problem. Yuliana communes with an eldritch realm: the Void. Its terrific powers have warped her body and her mind, and Yuliana is the gate which leads to that lacuna of existence, both its lock and turning key. Elisa will open the way...  
  
 
=Background=
 
=Background=
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'''0085:'''  
 
'''0085:'''  
  
'''0085:''' <span style='color:#F5FEEC;'>SHE IS WAITING</span>
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'''0085:''' <span style='color:#F5FEEC;'>SHE IS COMING</span>
  
 
'''0086:''' Yuliana Dispersal's rehabilitation after her violent response to her experiments continues at pace. She is the sole survivor.
 
'''0086:''' Yuliana Dispersal's rehabilitation after her violent response to her experiments continues at pace. She is the sole survivor.
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'''0095:''' Doctor Baihe disappears, to Yuliana's distress. She is further distracted from her official Federation mercy missions and unofficial terrors by the Bloody Valentine Conflict, which occupies a great deal of her attention as she fights ZAFT in their forward Asian bases. Her efforts in this war continue, even as she splits her attention between several other issues. Another cyber-newtype, Brassy Cachet, lasts eight months in the Nega Force before requiring a medical discharge. Towards the end of the year, Elisa Kafim makes contact with Yuliana in secret, and invites her to explore the fascinating new tale of Celestial Being. Despite her actions having resulted in plenty of strife, Yuliana is convinced that Celestial Being understands her desire to bring equality to the world, and agrees to help them.
 
'''0095:''' Doctor Baihe disappears, to Yuliana's distress. She is further distracted from her official Federation mercy missions and unofficial terrors by the Bloody Valentine Conflict, which occupies a great deal of her attention as she fights ZAFT in their forward Asian bases. Her efforts in this war continue, even as she splits her attention between several other issues. Another cyber-newtype, Brassy Cachet, lasts eight months in the Nega Force before requiring a medical discharge. Towards the end of the year, Elisa Kafim makes contact with Yuliana in secret, and invites her to explore the fascinating new tale of Celestial Being. Despite her actions having resulted in plenty of strife, Yuliana is convinced that Celestial Being understands her desire to bring equality to the world, and agrees to help them.
  
'''0096:''' A third cyber-newtype, Cascade Wattana, is assigned to Yuliana's unit. Secretly, Yuliana begins fighting for Celestial Being under the name of 'Verdiska'. Even more secretly, she enters a pact with Elisa which could stand to threaten both Celestial Being and the REA's interests; completely coincidentally, a chain of fast-food restaurants, Burger Fiend, begin to pop up. Doctor Baihe resurfaces as 'Athrusa', wanted by both Celestial Being and the REA; caught between loyalties, Yuliana pursues her on behalf of both parties, finally betraying her to Celestial Being. With Elisa's help, she subjugates Alma Stirner to their will. Yuliana escalates her aggression towards the Ra Mari, cruelly targeting Rena Lancaster. Elisa proposes to Yuliana in July, and marries her four months later; Lilith Aiden attacks their wedding in a desperate attempt to save her girlfriend, Alma, from Yuliana's grasp.
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'''0096:''' A third cyber-newtype, Cascade Wattana, is assigned to Yuliana's unit. Secretly, Yuliana begins fighting for Celestial Being under the name of 'Verdiska'. Even more secretly, she enters a pact with Elisa which could stand to threaten both Celestial Being and the REA's interests; completely coincidentally, a chain of fast-food restaurants, Burger Fiend, begin to pop up. Doctor Baihe resurfaces as 'Athrusa', wanted by both Celestial Being and the REA; caught between loyalties, Yuliana pursues her on behalf of both parties, finally betraying her to Celestial Being. With Elisa's help, she subjugates Alma Stirner to their will. Yuliana escalates her aggression towards the Ra Mari, cruelly targeting Rena Lancaster. Elisa proposes to Yuliana in July, and marries her four months later; Lilith Aiden attacks their wedding in a desperate attempt to save her girlfriend, Alma, from Yuliana's grasp. Late in the year she assaults Denver Colony, only to unveil correspondence from the head scientist of the Institute which reveals their true feelings about her.
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'''0097:''' Full of resentment, Yuliana sabotages both the Federation and physical reality -- and her efforts towards the former are cut off by consequences of the latter, as Sophia Castellan captures her. She is held in G-Hound's custody until the REA negotiates her return... and makes ready to awaken the alien cells inside her, so they can properly clone her abilities. That this will kill her is not their concern, but the Shuffles, Celestial Being, and G-Hound find themselves strange bedfellows as they all raid the Institute to raze it to the ground and rescue her. Unfortunately, Yuliana's cells are matured, regardless, but Elisa's antidote ensures that it doesn't destroy her consciousness. Now changed into a monstrous form, Yuliana disappears for a month before she reappears to assault the Phenex in a strange Void-powered scorpion wanzer.
  
 
=Resources=
 
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Nega-Newtype: Yuliana is a ravenous void from which no love or hope or sparklespace escapes. (See below.)
 
Nega-Newtype: Yuliana is a ravenous void from which no love or hope or sparklespace escapes. (See below.)
  
"Verdiska": The disguise Yuliana uses, when she's operating under Celestial Being's banner. She uses ranged mass production units in order to maintain deniability by keeping her foes at arm's length.
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Fully-Realised Hybrid: Yuliana has been physically warped by her connection to the Void. She has a frill of tentacles which she's able to hide behind her ears, and a pair of tentacles from her spine which resemble snakes.
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"Verdiska": The disguise Yuliana established while she was still supposedly an REA officer, for use when she's operating under Celestial Being's banner. She used ranged mass production units in order to maintain deniability by keeping her foes at arm's length.
  
 
Mechanical Skill: Yuliana's education is in mechanics, with a focus on wanzers; while she isn't at the genius level of some engineers, she's a normally talented mechanic. The improvements to her Tiandong are almost all her personal effort.
 
Mechanical Skill: Yuliana's education is in mechanics, with a focus on wanzers; while she isn't at the genius level of some engineers, she's a normally talented mechanic. The improvements to her Tiandong are almost all her personal effort.
  
[[The Nega Force]]: Yuliana is captain of her own squadron, and can call on elite NPC support to achieve the REA's goals on the field.
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[[The Nega Force]] remnants: While Cascade defected and Pham was destroyed, Yuliana still commands the loyalty of the sniping assassin, Wen Yuan, and the intelligence operative, Parminder Chaudhri.
  
 
=Relationships=
 
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==Threshold Dwellers==
 
==Threshold Dwellers==
  
[[Elisa Kafim]]: I'm so happy I'm yours, ''zhenushka''.
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[[Elisa Kafim]] (Elya): You are everything to me, ''zhenushka'', and I am yours.
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[[Mitsuba Greyvalley]]: My dear sister... return to us.
  
[[Shari Loom]]: <span style='color:#444444;'>I</span> <span style='color:#6B6B6B;'>r</span><span style='color:#7F7F7F;'>e</span><span style='color:#939393;'>a</span><span style='color:#A7A7A7;'>l</span><span style='color:#BBBBBB;'>l</span><span style='color:#CFCFCF;'>y</span> <span style='color:#F6F6F6;'>h</span><span style='color:#F6F7F5;'>a</span><span style='color:#F6F8F4;'>t</span><span style='color:#F6F9F2;'>e</span> <span style='color:#F5FBF0;'>y</span><span style='color:#F5FCEE;'>o</span><span style='color:#F5FDED;'>u</span><span style='color:#F5FEEC;'>.</span> I suppose we have to keep useful people around, even if they're like ''this.''
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[[Shari Loom]] (Sharochka): <span style='color:#444444;'>I</span> <span style='color:#6B6B6B;'>r</span><span style='color:#7F7F7F;'>e</span><span style='color:#939393;'>a</span><span style='color:#A7A7A7;'>l</span><span style='color:#BBBBBB;'>l</span><span style='color:#CFCFCF;'>y</span> <span style='color:#F6F6F6;'>h</span><span style='color:#F6F7F5;'>a</span><span style='color:#F6F8F4;'>t</span><span style='color:#F6F9F2;'>e</span> <span style='color:#F5FBF0;'>y</span><span style='color:#F5FCEE;'>o</span><span style='color:#F5FDED;'>u</span><span style='color:#F5FEEC;'>.</span> I suppose we have to keep useful people around, even if they're like ''this.''
  
 
== The Nega Force ==
 
== The Nega Force ==
  
[[The_Nega_Force#Major_Vinh_Pham|Major Vinh Pham]]: My commanding officer is getting... more pushy, of late. Does he object to my hobbies..? He's never had an issue with my criminal asides, but... it would be inconvenient if he suspects me.
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[[The_Nega_Force#Major_Vinh_Pham|Major Vinh Pham]]: How could you do this to me!?
  
[[The_Nega_Force#Wen Yuan|First Lieutenant Wen Yuan]]: Oh, Lettu, don't tell me your secrets. Don't make me your friend. You're a pleasant young woman, so I'm sure the charm of fixing me won't last too long.
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[[The_Nega_Force#Wen Yuan|First Lieutenant Wen Yuan]] (Lettu): If you feel so strongly, I won't chase you away. I'm... glad, you understand what I'm talking about.
  
[[The_Nega_Force#Parminder Chaudhri|Second Lieutenant Parminder Chaudhri]]: You're terribly insightful, Letda, but I do wish I could figure out who you were really working for.
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[[The_Nega_Force#Parminder Chaudhri|Second Lieutenant Parminder Chaudhri]] (Letda): lol. lmao
  
[[The_Nega_Force#Cascade Wattana|Officer Cadet Cascade Wattana]]: Fodder. The canary in the coal mine. The only thing I can say of them is they're as disgusted as I am with the arrangement.
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[[The_Nega_Force#Cascade Wattana|Officer Cadet Cascade Wattana]] (Canary): If you see you again, I'll kill you. I'm sure the feeling's mutual.
  
 
==Favoured Characters==
 
==Favoured Characters==
  
[[Athrusa Hsieh]]: I sold you out. I told you I'd hurt you, didn't I? Just stay away from me.
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[[Athrusa Hsieh]]: ... you're okay? Then, just... be okay somewhere else.
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[[Banagher Links]] (Nasya): You serve a purpose. See you serve it well.
  
 
[[Julia Ampere]]: Oh, you're delightful! Also someone I have to thwart on a regular basis, but let's not let that get between us, mm?
 
[[Julia Ampere]]: Oh, you're delightful! Also someone I have to thwart on a regular basis, but let's not let that get between us, mm?
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[[Kaworu Nagisa]]: You -- saw me. You really saw me. It's horrible! ... don't go.
  
 
[[Milly Ashford]]: I do regret your experience at our wedding; I had hoped to show you there are more options than a dozen tired old men.
 
[[Milly Ashford]]: I do regret your experience at our wedding; I had hoped to show you there are more options than a dozen tired old men.
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[[Leina Ashta]] (Leyasha): You serve a purpose. That's my decision.
  
 
[[Lin Xiahe]]: Ah, filling your days with trite villainy, I see. I'll entertain you, darling.
 
[[Lin Xiahe]]: Ah, filling your days with trite villainy, I see. I'll entertain you, darling.
  
'''Sashenka Dian''' and '''Tri Darma Dian''': I... told them what I am, and they didn't forsake me. Perhaps it's the duty of the prelude to always be supportive, but... I've heard far too many stories which end differently.
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[[Rita Bernal]] (Ritechka): I won't allow you to exist as you are.
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'''Sashenka Dian''' and '''Tri Darma Dian''': My darling Elisa's seeing to their safety.
  
 
== Problems To Be Solved ==
 
== Problems To Be Solved ==
  
 
[[Anita Rosetta]]: I suppose we'll never be friends, even if I save you.
 
[[Anita Rosetta]]: I suppose we'll never be friends, even if I save you.
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[[Artemisia ka Britannia]]: I'd rather not be a fish in your barrel, all the same.
  
 
[[Asciel Colette]]: A clever little streamer... I'm sure you'll be a problem, soon enough.
 
[[Asciel Colette]]: A clever little streamer... I'm sure you'll be a problem, soon enough.
  
 
[[BC-001 Minae]]: A friend of yours, Xiahe? Quite the foolhardy woman.
 
[[BC-001 Minae]]: A friend of yours, Xiahe? Quite the foolhardy woman.
 
[[Eisen Daiwel]]: Child, your hunger could stand refinement.
 
  
 
[[Koji Kabuto]]: A friend of Boss's, huh. Maybe I can still get you on side... we'll see.
 
[[Koji Kabuto]]: A friend of Boss's, huh. Maybe I can still get you on side... we'll see.
  
[[Roux Louka]]: Associated with the Ra Mari, but still you attended... hmm.
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[[Michele Luio]]: If we both have knives to each other's throats, that is, I suppose, some measure of understanding.
  
 
[[Shiho Hahnenfuss]]: Spacenoids. Ugh! This one wants me dead; good to know.
 
[[Shiho Hahnenfuss]]: Spacenoids. Ugh! This one wants me dead; good to know.
  
[[Sophia Mayhew Castellan]]: I '''told''' you not to read ahead, you ''wretched'' woman. If I'm not careful, you'll find the common link between your interests here...
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[[Sophia Mayhew Castellan]]: You are my predator? No. I will not abide such a thing.
  
 
==Useful Creatures==
 
==Useful Creatures==
  
[[Alexis Kerib]]: I would have given you nothing, and yet you deny me. Very well! You're of use for now, darling. Do try not to suffer overmuch under our affection.
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[[Alexis Kerib]]: Do come around more often, dear.
  
 
[[Asuka Shikinami Langley]]: Well, at least one Evangelion pilot has my esteem.
 
[[Asuka Shikinami Langley]]: Well, at least one Evangelion pilot has my esteem.
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[[Nena Trinity]]: No hard feelings for that little roasting, mm?
 
[[Nena Trinity]]: No hard feelings for that little roasting, mm?
  
[[Skel Heroic]]: The angels have such interesting characters amongst them.
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[[Sousuke Sagara]]: Seems like a good kid.
  
[[Sousuke Sagara]]: Seems like a good kid.
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[[Treize Khushrenada]]: I will not kill for you, but you were fair enough. I can respect that.
  
 
[[Todd Bonzalez]]: ''Quite'' a fancy flier.
 
[[Todd Bonzalez]]: ''Quite'' a fancy flier.
 
[[Vitaly Sokolov]]: The Winter Witch has gotten no less popular with age, I see. Well, even I could use that advice, when I was starting out.
 
  
 
==The Villains of the Story==
 
==The Villains of the Story==
  
[[Alma Stirner]]: Under my thumb. My dear Elya made a gift of her to me! I will destroy her completely.
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[[Alma Stirner]] (Rusalka): It's not that I don't see the problem. But isn't it your fault for being such a problem?!
  
 
[[Arriety Hearn]]: Pity me again. See where it gets you. ''And I'll get your little bug, too!''
 
[[Arriety Hearn]]: Pity me again. See where it gets you. ''And I'll get your little bug, too!''
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[[Eight York]]: You took my tooth, so I'll take everything you love.
 
[[Eight York]]: You took my tooth, so I'll take everything you love.
  
[[Leina Ashta]]: We're nothing alike -- and ''you'' are not ready.
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[[Jona Basta]]: I wonder how you drink so much. Do you take nothing at all?
  
 
[[Leito Igaguri]]: Are you lost, little man?
 
[[Leito Igaguri]]: Are you lost, little man?
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[[Rena Lancaster]]: Your destruction is only beginning.
 
[[Rena Lancaster]]: Your destruction is only beginning.
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[[Roux Louka]]: I mean, you could be worse.
  
 
[[Sayla Mass]]: You're useful as you are... how annoying. Perhaps I'll crush you properly one day.
 
[[Sayla Mass]]: You're useful as you are... how annoying. Perhaps I'll crush you properly one day.
  
[[Shelby Korts]]: You're NOT better than me.
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[[Shelby Korts]]: You're NOT better than me. YOU'RE NOTHING LIKE ME!
  
 
[[Sho Muramoto]]: Oh, I'll teach you ''everything'' you need to know.
 
[[Sho Muramoto]]: Oh, I'll teach you ''everything'' you need to know.
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[[Tieria Erde]]: I'll tolerate you so long as you remember what you're here for.
 
[[Tieria Erde]]: I'll tolerate you so long as you remember what you're here for.
  
[[Mitsuba Greyvalley]]: A scar such as yours oughtn't even catch my notice -- what, then, are you? What safe harbour do you find beside me? Unacceptable! I must know!
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[[Ujico Issa]]: ... well, the kit was pleasant enough.
  
[[Ujico Issa]]: You need to be a much more mature woman to pull those horns off, darling, but the effort is nice all the same.
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[[Zoltan Akkanen]]: I'll admit you had some insight. I still don't like you.
  
 
[[Zurvan Zevarist]]: Ah, out from old country. How quaint. It's really tragic, the way engineers are being infiltrated by the sensitive just the same.
 
[[Zurvan Zevarist]]: Ah, out from old country. How quaint. It's really tragic, the way engineers are being infiltrated by the sensitive just the same.
  
 
[[Jana Cektru]]: Alone? I will SHOW you alone, you HORRIBLE WRETCH!
 
[[Jana Cektru]]: Alone? I will SHOW you alone, you HORRIBLE WRETCH!
 
  
  
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No, Yuliana isn't going to brick your ride. Her powerset is ultimately an extremely isolating thing -- so while pilots engaged with melee with her won't be able to sense her intentions or try psychic communication, it's not something which will prevent them from acting on the world through their /own/ robot or its various accessories like Fin Funnels. If you want to play with the concept there may be some narrative difficulty in interfacing with highly Mental units, like operating through a layer of molasses, but ultimately: Yuliana's power stops people from reaching other's hearts, it doesn't stop them from being able to fight. If in doubt, think: what would be the most fun interpretation of these difficulties to bring to play? 'My robot doesn't work' will rarely be the most fun interpretation.
 
No, Yuliana isn't going to brick your ride. Her powerset is ultimately an extremely isolating thing -- so while pilots engaged with melee with her won't be able to sense her intentions or try psychic communication, it's not something which will prevent them from acting on the world through their /own/ robot or its various accessories like Fin Funnels. If you want to play with the concept there may be some narrative difficulty in interfacing with highly Mental units, like operating through a layer of molasses, but ultimately: Yuliana's power stops people from reaching other's hearts, it doesn't stop them from being able to fight. If in doubt, think: what would be the most fun interpretation of these difficulties to bring to play? 'My robot doesn't work' will rarely be the most fun interpretation.
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Yuliana now has the ability to expand the melee range of her powerset to affect many people at range, with the raising of the frills behind her ears. This effect can be reversed if one forces -- or convinces Yuliana to -- lower them back down.
  
 
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Revision as of 12:17, 12 March 2023

Yuliana Kafim
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IC Information
Full Name: Yuliana Kafim, née Dispersal
Gender: Female (She/Her)
Species: Cyber-Newtype (Alien Hybrid)
Age (Birthdate): 30 (July 28th)
Hair Colour: Teal
Eye Colour: Green
Height 5'5" (167cm)
Job: The Key and the Gate
Homeland: Indonesia
Awakening: 0
Primary Unit: Da Xukong 0
BGM:
OOC Information
Origin: Original
Factions: Celestial Being
Player: User:Cute Kitty L

Yuliana Kafim was once Captain Yuliana Dispersal, a veteran REA special operative and mechanic leading the Nega Force. She secretly endured horrifying anti-Newtype experiments... until a publicised raid destroyed her laboratory, facilitating her defection. But the Awakened always knew something was wrong -- because Yuliana's strange aura disrupts their psychic abilities and plunges them into isolated silence. She is a manipulative and fickle authoritarian, intensely anti-Spacenoid, a dangerous saboteur experienced with infiltration and assassination. Her instability undercuts any attempts at mentorship or kindness... and it makes her a recklessly skilled pilot. Despite this negativity, Yuliana is protective of 'normal people', and she wishes to aid humanity. She has a vision of peace and absolute equality for the world. (An equality which brings those Newtypes Yuliana hates and envies down to physical reality.) This led her to become a double agent for Celestial Being, even as she enforced the REA's will... and once Elisa Kafim convinced her to split her loyalties, she claimed all Yuliana's fierce devotion for herself. Now married to Elisa, the madness which gripped Yuliana after her strange Awakening is everyone's problem. Yuliana communes with an eldritch realm: the Void. Its terrific powers have warped her body and her mind, and Yuliana is the gate which leads to that lacuna of existence, both its lock and turning key. Elisa will open the way...

Background

Once upon a time, a young woman set out into the world holding hope and love in her hands, to grasp a better future for humanity. But the world was blind, to her and to each other, and she reached out to inherit nothing at all.

Minovsky's Woman's service record officially begins around 0087, though she didn't see active combat until the Mycenae Empire tried to encroach her homeland. Since then, she has been a unique asset of the REA Forces: an anti-Newtype operative who is capable of suppressing the emotional connection enjoyed by humanity's next step. She has offered her special forces assistance to several operations, focusing on anti-Zeon activities and protection of the REA's interests. Some of these operations are more classified than others.

For some reason, she's deeply interested in politics.

Timeline

2153: Ngzin Daceae finds herself in the foreign world of Earth, landing in the town of Bagansiapiapi, caught in brutal conflict between Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. There she finds Siti Dian, and grants her the power to unite her town and negotiate favourable terms of surrender. Ngzin Daceae is ultimately driven from the village when Siti's husband, Ram Dian, discovers that a demon is consorting with his wife.

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0064: Sashenka Morozov, a diplomat with the REA, marries the then-Major Tri Darma Dian. She has a terrible time adjusting to tropical seasons after living through Zaftran winters all her life, but it's a happy marriage, all in all.

0067: Yuliana Dian is born. After heavy discussions about the direction the colonies are going, the Dians elect not to have any other children.

0076: The Peace Mediation Organization, Sashenka's workplace, is disbanded after the REA's foul play is unveiled; she retires and occupies herself as a full-time mother to Yuliana, ending a period of after-school playgroups and babysitters. Over the years, she gives Yuliana a personal education in the REA's particular methods of diplomacy.

0079: The One Year War sees a colony dropped on Sydney; Ambon, a city-island of Indonesia and the Dian's family home, sees terrible flooding as the impact spreads out across the ocean. Sashenka ensures that the twelve-year-old Yuliana holds fast to the wreckage until the military is able to mobilise to save them. Yuliana resolves never to feel so helpless again -- using the might of mobile suits, which didn't seem to care about the water in the slightest.

0080: The Dians settle in Makassar. Yuliana grows enamoured with the Gundam Fight, and the idea that one person could change the flow of history. Yuliana enters high school, and even manages to make a few friends, despite having moved from another island.

0081: Second Impact occurs; Yuliana's new home is permanently buried under water. So are many of the people she met in Makassar. After much hardship, the Dians manage to use their clout to escape Indonesia and go to live in Zaftra. Yuliana learns that her grandparents were killed in the One Year War. Rather than rejoin school for a third time, she takes an apprenticeship with a local wanzer mechanic, and studies engineering.

0084: Yuliana watches the second Gundam Fight with a greater sense of cynicism and patriotism.

0085: Yuliana turns 18, and with her father's blessing, goes with him to register for the military. She scores highly in basic training, and is recruited for a particular cyber-newtype project. Her consent is maintained throughout the process. The project begins under the cover of the Titans' blackout, which serves to obscure its details for years to come.

0085: everything breaks.

0085:

0085:

0085: SHE IS COMING

0086: Yuliana Dispersal's rehabilitation after her violent response to her experiments continues at pace. She is the sole survivor.

0087: Yuliana enters service as a mechanic, rather than a pilot; she maintains a low profile through the end of the Gryps Conflict, helping prepare the REA's contribution to the third Gundam Fight.

0088: Seeing her superiors' inaction as an oversight, Yuliana strikes out against the Mycenae Empire, and proves her capacity as a pilot.

0089: Deployed as a weapon during intra-Federation conflict, Yuliana demonstrates that her capacity to nullify empathic connection is an asset on the battlefield, and earns a place on the REA's Special Forces as an officer cadet. Her inexperience coupled with the poor safety standards of REA wanzers causes her face to be terribly injured, but thanks to the work of doctor Hsieh Baihe, there's little permanent damage.

0091: Yuliana makes an internal name for herself as a saboteur and disruptor; no longer acting alone, she is assigned to a black ops team with the purpose of causing deniable trouble in neighbouring nations. She is promoted to lieutenant in the process.

0092: Despite now having the power to fight, Yuliana has nothing to do with the fourth Gundam Fight. She uses the attention the world is paying to it to place pressure on the newly-formed Helmajistan as a visiting dignitary -- after having contributed to the proxy wars which destabilised it in the first place.

0093: Yuliana grants mercy to Helmajistan after her superiors direct her to contribute to Earth's defence against the Devil Gundam, instead. She proceeds to make showings at several key problem areas, fighting against Char Aznable's Neo Zeon and participating in Axis Shock. These heroic efforts go a long way towards sanitising her image as an ace of the REA; they also keep her too busy to cause clandestine problems for a while. It doesn't last, and after Axis Shock, Yuliana contributes to the unrest of several areas.

0094: After her official and unofficial efforts, the REA promotes Yuliana from lieutenant to captain, and grants her a unit of her own: the Nega Force. Wen Yuan and Parminder Chaudhri join her; the third member, a cyber-newtype named Alexsey Melnik, enters medical retirement almost a year after he receives his posting.

0095: Doctor Baihe disappears, to Yuliana's distress. She is further distracted from her official Federation mercy missions and unofficial terrors by the Bloody Valentine Conflict, which occupies a great deal of her attention as she fights ZAFT in their forward Asian bases. Her efforts in this war continue, even as she splits her attention between several other issues. Another cyber-newtype, Brassy Cachet, lasts eight months in the Nega Force before requiring a medical discharge. Towards the end of the year, Elisa Kafim makes contact with Yuliana in secret, and invites her to explore the fascinating new tale of Celestial Being. Despite her actions having resulted in plenty of strife, Yuliana is convinced that Celestial Being understands her desire to bring equality to the world, and agrees to help them.

0096: A third cyber-newtype, Cascade Wattana, is assigned to Yuliana's unit. Secretly, Yuliana begins fighting for Celestial Being under the name of 'Verdiska'. Even more secretly, she enters a pact with Elisa which could stand to threaten both Celestial Being and the REA's interests; completely coincidentally, a chain of fast-food restaurants, Burger Fiend, begin to pop up. Doctor Baihe resurfaces as 'Athrusa', wanted by both Celestial Being and the REA; caught between loyalties, Yuliana pursues her on behalf of both parties, finally betraying her to Celestial Being. With Elisa's help, she subjugates Alma Stirner to their will. Yuliana escalates her aggression towards the Ra Mari, cruelly targeting Rena Lancaster. Elisa proposes to Yuliana in July, and marries her four months later; Lilith Aiden attacks their wedding in a desperate attempt to save her girlfriend, Alma, from Yuliana's grasp. Late in the year she assaults Denver Colony, only to unveil correspondence from the head scientist of the Institute which reveals their true feelings about her.

0097: Full of resentment, Yuliana sabotages both the Federation and physical reality -- and her efforts towards the former are cut off by consequences of the latter, as Sophia Castellan captures her. She is held in G-Hound's custody until the REA negotiates her return... and makes ready to awaken the alien cells inside her, so they can properly clone her abilities. That this will kill her is not their concern, but the Shuffles, Celestial Being, and G-Hound find themselves strange bedfellows as they all raid the Institute to raze it to the ground and rescue her. Unfortunately, Yuliana's cells are matured, regardless, but Elisa's antidote ensures that it doesn't destroy her consciousness. Now changed into a monstrous form, Yuliana disappears for a month before she reappears to assault the Phenex in a strange Void-powered scorpion wanzer.

Resources

Nega-Newtype: Yuliana is a ravenous void from which no love or hope or sparklespace escapes. (See below.)

Fully-Realised Hybrid: Yuliana has been physically warped by her connection to the Void. She has a frill of tentacles which she's able to hide behind her ears, and a pair of tentacles from her spine which resemble snakes.

"Verdiska": The disguise Yuliana established while she was still supposedly an REA officer, for use when she's operating under Celestial Being's banner. She used ranged mass production units in order to maintain deniability by keeping her foes at arm's length.

Mechanical Skill: Yuliana's education is in mechanics, with a focus on wanzers; while she isn't at the genius level of some engineers, she's a normally talented mechanic. The improvements to her Tiandong are almost all her personal effort.

The Nega Force remnants: While Cascade defected and Pham was destroyed, Yuliana still commands the loyalty of the sniping assassin, Wen Yuan, and the intelligence operative, Parminder Chaudhri.

Relationships

Threshold Dwellers

Elisa Kafim (Elya): You are everything to me, zhenushka, and I am yours.

Mitsuba Greyvalley: My dear sister... return to us.

Shari Loom (Sharochka): I really hate you. I suppose we have to keep useful people around, even if they're like this.

The Nega Force

Major Vinh Pham: How could you do this to me!?

First Lieutenant Wen Yuan (Lettu): If you feel so strongly, I won't chase you away. I'm... glad, you understand what I'm talking about.

Second Lieutenant Parminder Chaudhri (Letda): lol. lmao

Officer Cadet Cascade Wattana (Canary): If you see you again, I'll kill you. I'm sure the feeling's mutual.

Favoured Characters

Athrusa Hsieh: ... you're okay? Then, just... be okay somewhere else.

Banagher Links (Nasya): You serve a purpose. See you serve it well.

Julia Ampere: Oh, you're delightful! Also someone I have to thwart on a regular basis, but let's not let that get between us, mm?

Kaworu Nagisa: You -- saw me. You really saw me. It's horrible! ... don't go.

Milly Ashford: I do regret your experience at our wedding; I had hoped to show you there are more options than a dozen tired old men.

Leina Ashta (Leyasha): You serve a purpose. That's my decision.

Lin Xiahe: Ah, filling your days with trite villainy, I see. I'll entertain you, darling.

Rita Bernal (Ritechka): I won't allow you to exist as you are.

Sashenka Dian and Tri Darma Dian: My darling Elisa's seeing to their safety.

Problems To Be Solved

Anita Rosetta: I suppose we'll never be friends, even if I save you.

Artemisia ka Britannia: I'd rather not be a fish in your barrel, all the same.

Asciel Colette: A clever little streamer... I'm sure you'll be a problem, soon enough.

BC-001 Minae: A friend of yours, Xiahe? Quite the foolhardy woman.

Koji Kabuto: A friend of Boss's, huh. Maybe I can still get you on side... we'll see.

Michele Luio: If we both have knives to each other's throats, that is, I suppose, some measure of understanding.

Shiho Hahnenfuss: Spacenoids. Ugh! This one wants me dead; good to know.

Sophia Mayhew Castellan: You are my predator? No. I will not abide such a thing.

Useful Creatures

Alexis Kerib: Do come around more often, dear.

Asuka Shikinami Langley: Well, at least one Evangelion pilot has my esteem.

Hayato Jin: I think we could see eye-to-eye on many things, darling!

Lina Lombardi: A tragically honest woman, but that can be handled, just the same.

Liu Mei Wang: The princess brought us such fetching flowers!

Nena Trinity: No hard feelings for that little roasting, mm?

Sousuke Sagara: Seems like a good kid.

Treize Khushrenada: I will not kill for you, but you were fair enough. I can respect that.

Todd Bonzalez: Quite a fancy flier.

The Villains of the Story

Alma Stirner (Rusalka): It's not that I don't see the problem. But isn't it your fault for being such a problem?!

Arriety Hearn: Pity me again. See where it gets you. And I'll get your little bug, too!

Puru 'Callisto' Two: It's very easy to anger you, isn't it? Hahaha...

Eight York: You took my tooth, so I'll take everything you love.

Jona Basta: I wonder how you drink so much. Do you take nothing at all?

Leito Igaguri: Are you lost, little man?

Li Yao: Oh, choke on your honour. You always rubbed me the wrong way! It took me too long to figure out why...

Lilith Aiden: You'll pay.

Ranka Lee: Oh, I REALLY hate you. Just you wait...

Rau Le Creuset: You want to steal me? Oh, this will be good.

Rena Lancaster: Your destruction is only beginning.

Roux Louka: I mean, you could be worse.

Sayla Mass: You're useful as you are... how annoying. Perhaps I'll crush you properly one day.

Shelby Korts: You're NOT better than me. YOU'RE NOTHING LIKE ME!

Sho Muramoto: Oh, I'll teach you everything you need to know.

Tieria Erde: I'll tolerate you so long as you remember what you're here for.

Ujico Issa: ... well, the kit was pleasant enough.

Zoltan Akkanen: I'll admit you had some insight. I still don't like you.

Zurvan Zevarist: Ah, out from old country. How quaint. It's really tragic, the way engineers are being infiltrated by the sensitive just the same.

Jana Cektru: Alone? I will SHOW you alone, you HORRIBLE WRETCH!


THE VOID AND YOU: A HANDY GUIDE

Want to know how a nega-Newtype affects your character? Here's a handy briefing of standard effects based on Awakening tier. This is intended as a general guide for a unique powerset, and shouldn't be taken as gospel; if you want to have a different reaction, the world is full of infinite possibilities.

AWAKENING 0-1

Everything is normal! There is nothing weird about interacting with Yuliana and no sense that anything in particular is wrong, unless you have some other way of sensing psychic interference outside of your Awakening.

AWAKENING 2

Everything is more or less still normal, except that any connections to people close to your heart are suspiciously quiet around Yuliana. This is the level where things become a bit unsettling, but can still be passed off as not horrible pretty easily.

AWAKENING 3

The emotional tenor of the place goes dead silent in Yuliana's sphere of influence, and it's impossible to sense emotional information from people, too. This is the point where things become Clearly Kind Of Creepy. (Or relieving, if you don't like being an empath. That's valid!)

AWAKENING 4-5

The point at which being around Yuliana is like being blindfolded and deafened. At this point it is 100% plain what Yuliana is doing, because her psychic Minovsky interference shuts out an essential part of the existence of 4s and 5s. This can be a curse or a blessing, but it's extremely OBVIOUS, either way.

ADDENDUM: DUELING WITH MENTAL UNITS

No, Yuliana isn't going to brick your ride. Her powerset is ultimately an extremely isolating thing -- so while pilots engaged with melee with her won't be able to sense her intentions or try psychic communication, it's not something which will prevent them from acting on the world through their /own/ robot or its various accessories like Fin Funnels. If you want to play with the concept there may be some narrative difficulty in interfacing with highly Mental units, like operating through a layer of molasses, but ultimately: Yuliana's power stops people from reaching other's hearts, it doesn't stop them from being able to fight. If in doubt, think: what would be the most fun interpretation of these difficulties to bring to play? 'My robot doesn't work' will rarely be the most fun interpretation.

ADDENDUM: EXPANDING HORROR AURAS

Yuliana now has the ability to expand the melee range of her powerset to affect many people at range, with the raising of the frills behind her ears. This effect can be reversed if one forces -- or convinces Yuliana to -- lower them back down.

Soundtrack

[Mell - Red Fraction]
It's always been hell / From when I was born / They make me violate them / No matter who they are

[Nine Inch Nails - Only]
I just couldn't leave it alone, picking at this scab / It was a doorway trying to seal itself shut / But I climbed through

[Florence + The Machine - Cassandra]
Well, can you see me? / I cannot see you! / Everything I thought I knew has fallen out of view / In this blindness I'm condemned to

[Marinas Trench - Echoes of You]
I thrust my fist into the post / I still insist I see the ghosts / I can't stop myself falling now / Don't look down

[Fall Out Boy - The Last Of The Real Ones]
I was just an only child of the universe / And then I found you, and then I found you

[The Bravery - Bad Sun]
We are liars like the summer time / Like the spring, we are such fools / Like fall, we are false prophets / And like winter, we are cruel

[Pink Floyd - One Of My Turns]
Don't look so frightened, this is just a passing phase! / One of my bad days

[Icon for Hire - The Magic]
My seams are breaking / It's not as fun as it sounds / I've got a whole world inside me, begging to come out

[Florence + The Machine - My Love]
And when it came, it was stranger than I had ever imagined / No cracking open of Heaven / But quiеt and still / (All my friends are getting ill)

[How To Destroy Angels - The Space In Between]
Blinding light illuminates the scene / Try to fill the spaces in between

[Homestuck - Black Hole / Green Sun]
Instrumental

[The Black Mages - Kurayaminokumo]
Instrumental

[Deltarune - Until Next Time]
I'm with you in the dark...

Logs

Cutscenes