Aadzrian

Childhood
Aadzrian was a happy-go-lucky child born in the year 2971, having just turned 36 years old at the current time. His parents, Vaajzia Dazliin and Vandius Axbovi, were constantly separating and reuniting, a state of affairs which produced two younger sisters for the Timonae. All three children grew up being passed between mother and father during times of discord, rather inured to the two badmouthing each other- for all its chaos, the upbringing seemed to harm them little.

After all, Aadzrian's issues- such as they were- began during the six year period of relative calm his parents' relationship enjoyed after his birth. He was a bright, inquisitive child with one certain failing... an even greater dose of recklessness than one might expect out of his kind. He jumped out of trees to see if he could fly, he accepted any and all dares given by fellow children, and basically ended up bedridden every couple of weeks from some masterful new way to hurt himself.

And he never seemed to grow out of this, maturing into a young man who frequently got himself injured in his pursuit of interesting experiences. About the only thing that seemed to limit his experimentations was a dislike for drugs, incurred by a rather bad trip during his first attempt to try them out. Eventually, as time passed to 2988 and he showed no particular aptitudes by the age of seventeen, his parents began to worry about what their feckless son would actually -do- for a living.

Assuring them he would be just fine, Aadzrian set out wandering to find something that struck him as particularly interesting. This wandering was not entirely with his parents' permission, as 17 was still very young- even for a Timonae who bloomed early as he did.

Wandering
This quest for his purpose took ten years, during which he found himself briefly arrested for a bout of thievery, landed in the hospital for a while with two broken legs for gambling debts, participating in a 'business venture' to comfort lonely widows, and engaging in multiple other dubious adventures. The last career the young man gravitated toward, after he turned 26, was cage-fighting for the entertainment of others... his naturally showy personality led towards more success than his mediocre, self-taught fighting talents merited. However, there was some promise to the young man's quick reflexes and coordination, and a retired warrior took note of him.

Befriending Aadzrian, this old warrior- one Kalax Temaz- filled his head with stories of glory in the militia. Taking the man's advice after a long period of reluctance, Aadzrian returned home in 2998 at the age of 27. His parents and friends were surprised at the change in him- still a little wild and charming, Aadzrian had at last gained something of a serious side, and now knew what he wanted to do. Shortly after his return, he joined the Antimone Militia much as his mentor had urged.

The Militia Years
Oddly enough, he seemed to take well to the regulated life and the discipline that was the opposite of all of his previous experience. Occasionally his old recklessness still surfaced, but usually he handled the job of law enforcement capably and well. It seemed his biggest problem was a certain inability to obey any order that struck him as dubious. Usually he would manage to salvage a situation even when disobeying, but a few mishandled happenings ensured he remained at his low rank.

A string of brief romantic entanglements, none serious or lasting, kept Aadzrian entertained while not working- for the most part, other than the occasional violence on the job, his existence took on a calmness he had never known before.

But despite his seemingly settled nature, the Timonae was working on something else all this time- honing his native psionic powers, a talent he had hardly even realized until recent years. It began as an entertaining trick to show his friends, but progressed to a serious interest as he discovered he was not at all incapable at the art.

During this time, in mid-3004, Aadzrian also began to see- rather seriously- a lovely young woman named Challzi Liran. Their relationship was passionate and tumultuous, much like his with his parents- for all they fought, the two could never truly stand to be apart, and at the end of 3004 they moved in together. But Aadzrian knew their happiness would not last when he acquiesced to her request to read her fortune... and saw him leaving her, as she sobbed alone.

Understanding what would lead him to do this begin to drive Aadzrian's life for the next couple months, and he strained terribly hard to maintain the relationship. All went well, almost perfectly for all his effort, until the unexpected happenings of early 3005- the Birthright War.

The Birthright War
The militia-man prepared to fight this new enemy, grimly resigned to this course of action- he didn't wish to participate in a war, but he wouldn't let his people become slaves.

And then Antimone surrendered- an act viewed as pragmatic by some and a great betrayal by others. Challzi was in the first camp and Aadzrian in the second, this argument causing a great rift between the two. This tension came to a boiling point when Aadzrian was offered a chance through his militia unit to join the Antimone Liberation Army, a group of resistance fighters wishing to oppose the Nall. Challzi forced him to choose between her and them, and he choose them, walking out and leaving her in tears just as he had foreseen.

From February of 3005 until April, Aadzrian fought a guerilla war with other members of his militia who had joined the ALA. They were largely unsuccessful due to poor resources and strained manpower, eventually banding together on a ship to join the exiled militaries at the Junkyard. Aadz befriended many of his comrades, becoming particularly close to a young, equally idealistic soldier named Najaz. After what had happened with Challzi, he steadily refused to read Najaz's future, a task made easier by the fact the soldier didn't even want to know. Yet in the loneliness of space their relationship progressed past friendship, and one quiet night, Aadzrian was unable to resist- and received a piercing vision of Najaz's death, along with the sense it would be quite soon.

As he had with Challzi's vision, he kept this one to himself, swearing to change it. By drugging Najaz's drink, Aadzrian kept him out of the Battle of the Junkyard- in which he himself played only the most minor of roles- and counted that victory won.

After that great battle, the ship of Timonae returned to Antimone, heroes in the eyes of some... but dangerous rebels who would bring down the wrath of the Nall in the eyes of others. And so it was his own people who killed Najaz, opening fire on the ALA as they disembarked from their ship.

Aftermath
Aadzrian was severely wounded, forced to recuperate for several months before being able to resume active duty. The wounds even forced the doctors to remove his long hair, a braid nearly to his knees he had been cultivating since he left home completely shaved off.

During this time Challzi came to take care of him and the two rekindled their relationship; but struck by a severe bout of depression at the loss of Najaz and the seeming betrayal by his own kind, he found himself unable to take joy in either her presence or his former duties in the militia. In late 3006 he retired from active duty, wasting several shiftless months on the blind seeking of anything to dull his memories- including some of the drugs he had previously scorned.

Finding nothing that would let him forget, he hit rock bottom just at the turn of the year, having to be dragged all the way home out of a gutter by his two younger sisters. Struck with the sudden realization of all he truly had through the effort they took to bring him home, Aadzrian began to recuperate mentally as well, and resolved to leave Antimone in the search of a place with fewer memories where he could truly heal. He wished to find a new life that he would explore with bravery, curiosity and hopefully friends at his side, so that one day he could live without fixating on the past.

Offworld
It took until the fourth month of 3007 for Aadzrian to get his affairs in order, leaving Challzi behind- their parting was almost a relief to both after his tempestuous behavior following the war. With that he left on a shuttle to New Luna, with only a smattering of Terran gained at the junkyard and in study after the war to see him through.

His only goals were to see new places, meet new people and try new things, making use of his new beginning to truly live. This vague desire led him to become a part of the crew of Vadim Tostanavich through meeting Razorback Cliffwalker, his first real friend offworld. He now travels with the Working Blue wherever it may land, meeting new people and getting in the skads of trouble his irrepressible nature lends itself to. Most would never guess the mess his past was from his cheerful, ebullient behavior; those who know him well, however, recognize the Timonae may not be as recovered as he acts.