Braccus Grier, Head of the AUMO
Head Chairperson of the AUMO Braccus Grier (a.k.a. Iceheart, Piercer)
"As we turned the corner, Shulak wormed her fingers in between mine and held my hand tight. Normally composed and level-headed, she was an uncharacteristic nervous wreck, sweating profusely and breathing quickly. Her flagella were playing around on her head, a telltale sign that she was most uncomfortable. I held her hand in turn, as I too was anxious. The long hallway stretched out in front of us, and the massive round door loomed at the end of it, its aura of menace reaching us from our distant vantage point.
'Please. Pash.' She turned to face me now, her brow creased with worry. 'Hold me. I'm not feeling well.'
'Relax,' I said, attempting to comfort her. 'I don't know why she would call upon us either. But I am here for you, my friend.'
We reached the door. It was a lot bigger up close than I had previously anticipated, towering above us, little better than a giant boulder blocking our path. It rolled to the side suddenly, much to both our surprise, to revealed a stunningly decorated room. Gold outlined most of the white architecture, and many different exotic plants dotted the foot of the walls. A gorgeous tree of shiny pearl grew in the center, and within it was carved a throne of wooden magnificence, embroidered with tapestries of golden wispy fabrics of an unknown origin. In the throne sat one of the most beautiful people [Ausran] I'd ever seen. She had the thin face and pronounced cheekbones of a Northerner, with the height of a Westerner, dressed in finery so white, I could have sworn it scorched the back of my eyes. The robe draped across the floor in front of her, clearly meant to cover her legs as best it could. She had no flagella, and her eyes were the most piercing blue. This room was a place of extremes.
She flashed a cold smile at Shulak and I, as if to mock our appearance in this room of pure elegance. 'Shulak Baash. Pashaman Gaheltno. Welcome to...' She glanced around, as if to remind herself where she was. '...my room. I am Braccus Grier. We have much to discuss.'" -Pashaman Gaheltno, Eunjeck Entho, Beginning of Red Snow
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
She is generally fit, with an average build for her height, and she is shaped like a thin hourglass. Her muscle reaction time is on the faster side. She has no ill effects, although she has the tendency toward a slight cough when she stays in the Head Chair room for too long, possibly due to the plants.
Body Features
Her skin is a light blue color. Her fingernails are pearl white, and if she had flagella, they would be sky blue.
Facial Features
Her face is that of a Northerner. Taller and thinner, with large, slanted eye sockets and a mouth somewhat on the smaller side. Her cheekbones are slightly pronounced, and her ears are small. (All Northerners have the same basic face.) She has no scars or blemishes and takes very good care of her appearance.
Identifying Characteristics
Terrans wouldn't be able to tell the difference between one Northerner and another. The easiest way for a Human to identify Braccus Grier would be to notice her clothing.
Physical quirks
She is ambidextrous. Her right eye twitches when she is frustrated, and her left when she is enraged. She twiddles her thumbs and shakes her leg when she is bored. Her gait is very elegant, with long strides and dainty foot placement when she's showing off.
Special abilities
Braccus has no abilities.
Apparel & Accessories
She is almost always seen wearing brilliant white clothing long enough to reach over her legs, and her accessories are usually located on her wrists in the for of gold-colored bracelets. Other than that, she has been caught sneaking around in public wearing a dark-colored poncho-like jacket.
Specialized Equipment
Braccus carries a digital notepad and a white stylus. Her soul weapon takes the form of a tattoo on her left thigh when sheathed, and when revealed takes on the shape of a very long piercing blade, similar to an estoc, and she also is armed with a KoChak rapid-fire clip pistol. She never travels without a heavy-duty skin tight vest underneath her clothing to protect from bullets, blades, and general projectiles.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Braccus Grier was born into a semi-affluent small family of 5 in the Northernmost part of the Western Region. She was a generally ordinary youngling. Her mother ignored her, focusing most of her efforts on her 2 brothers, who received the most attention due to their skin being the same red as their mother's. Her father showed her the most attention, giving Braccus his family name when her mother declined to do so. Fortunately, Braccus enjoyed the isolation that she was born into. When she was in her teen years, her brothers were killed and eaten, and her mother offed herself as a result of their deaths. While she had very little tying her to her mother, she did share a significant bond with her siblings, whose passing affected her greatly and started her on the path to what she is today. Against her father's best wishes, she moved down to Aeon. There, she began working in the service of a politician, where she picked up all the tools of he trade. As years went by, she worked herself up the ladder, eventually becoming a distinguished politician and being elected to a high seat in the AUMO. Here, she garnered a reputation for being cold, merciless, and cunning, surrounding herself with a cloud of gossip and rumors, using these to her advantage and exploiting all of her perceived opponent's weaknesses. She later found herself gaining even more power, rising even when there seemed to be nowhere else to rise to. She ran a campaign to be elected to the highest seat in the AUMO- Head Chairperson. Using her extensive clout, she cinched both the nomination and the official election. During Red Snow, she leveraged her diplomatic strength, pushing the Southern Region away from their Northern allies using a network of spies and insurgents the AUMO had never used before, utilizing them as her secret police and personal informants. To this day, she maintains her seat of power through these spies, called the Zaban. When Red Snow concluded, she found herself a political juggernaut, not only with indirect power over the entirety of Auser, but also direct influence over the Eskan religion and all its houses. Today, she stands as one of the most powerful people in recorded history.
Sexuality
Braccus prefers Ausran males, but she has been accused of having affairs with females in the past. She has neither confirmed or denied these allegations, but she has said that any relationships she had in the past were 100% consensual.
Education
Her education was largely had in the School of Hard Knocks. Ausran don't have schools, but they do have areas in which a skilled practitioner of a trade or profession will instruct or teach a group of Ausran. There is no particular age requirements for "courses."
Braccus Grier learned from an elder politician in Aeon about the inner workings of the Ausran government, but most importantly, how to exploit those workings.
She also knows several different Ausran martial arts, including twansammner and polelt, both created by Voak Skedrow. Rumor has it that he trained her personally.
Employment
She joined the workforce as an underling of an elder politician. Making her way up the ladder, she campaigned and was elected to a government oversight position, then a regulator position, and after that a high seat in the governing body of the AUMO. Afterwards, she choose to make one last bid for the highest office in the AUMO. She now holds the Head Chair. She has never held a job outside of government.
Accomplishments & Achievements
In addition to being the most powerful person by way of political clout and influence and the youngest person to be elected to the Head Chair, she is also a champion speed-reader in Eskan and Western-dialect literature. Her other achievements are veiled in government secrecy- not necessarily because they need to be covered up, per-Se.
Failures & Embarrassments
One of her greatest failures that she admits to is not being able to prevent Red Snow. Her greatest embarrassment was at a party during which she tripped over her own foot and fell, catching her vestments on a nearby chair and revealing herself to a crowd of 216 people. The scandalous display was remarked on for a significant period of time afterward, with pictures showing up in Ausran news every other day for the equivalent of several years. A bit of advice, dear reader- if you should find yourself in her presence, refrain from mentioning this. She has punched out teeth and is willing to do so again.
Mental Trauma
She has a spot in her conscience for her brothers, as their loss all that time ago still afflicts her to this day.
Intellectual Characteristics
She is snobby, a characteristic common within Northerners. Her thought process is cold and calculating, and she has a knack for seeing the most diminutive of details. The authority in her voice has been known to silence a whole room even when her words are so much as a whisper.
Morality & Philosophy
She will take advantage of any weakness or flaw she finds and exploit the ever-living daylights out of it. As long as people don't get in her way, either directly or indirectly, she doesn't bother them, but she doesn't discriminate- if she dislikes someone, she will find a way to punish them, regardless of whether the person in question is a youngling, a disabled individual, or a shell-shocked veteran.
Her philosophy is largely egotistical, as she believes that the best way to achieve is to work in your own self interest.
Taboos
- NEVER MENTION THE PARTY SCANDAL
- Don't eat her food without first being invited to do so (dinner meetings and brunches. Seriously, don't touch any food served to you in her presence until she says so. That is, unless you're paying for the meal in question).
- Absolutely do not insult the garden in the Head Chair office. Compliment it once, than say no more of it.
- No tugging on the dress.
- Don't act nervous in front of her. She will leverage that against you almost instantly.
- Don't talk about teeth. She keeps good oral hygiene, but dislikes talking about it. People have lost teeth to her fist over this issue. If you have the urge to talk about a salad leaf sticking out of her teeth, just keep it to yourself- she'll find out later.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Unknown, but rumor has it that she is motivated by her mother's indifference to her as a youngling and her brother's faith in her before they all perished, and she seems to work toward making them proud of her to honor their memory.
It's a nice story, but I have a feeling that it's closer to her just acting in her own consumerist-self-interest.
Savvies & Ineptitudes
Proficiencies:
- Mudslinging in politics
- Gardening
- Nitpicking
- Distance running
- Writing
- Exploitation and Manipulation
- Sex (has been described as "unenthusiastic" in bed)
- Sports (hates rules)
- Board games (her husbands and cleaners leverage this against her when bargaining with her)
- Finding lost items (very seldom loses anything, but when she does, it's gone forever)
- Can't work heavy machinery worth a damn
- Social Interactions
Likes & Dislikes
Likes:
- Her garden
- Her husband (specifically the one that takes care of the plants in her garden)
- Terran music, most specifically rap music from the 21st Human century
- The colors gold and white
- Lying, manipulation, and exploitation
- Sneezing
- Girr (an Ausran dish consisting of a sliced Tomoc leaf filled with Girrfer, a breed of livestock. Tastes like cauliflower and steak fat and has the texture of celery containing ground turkey)
- Easterners
- Talking about oral hygiene
- Sleep
- The French
- Sports
- Social Interactions
- Looking like an idiot
- Tacos ("A sick joke. An insult to Girr. How dare you serve me this disgusting mockery.")
Virtues & Personality perks
Braccus is described as patient and confident, and is inspiring to those around her.
Vices & Personality flaws
She has a deep-seated hatred for Easterners. Also, due to her social ineptitude, she has a tendency to cut herself off from others during times of tension. Somewhat ironic, considering her most famous quote.
Personality Quirks
Her right eye twitches when she is frustrated, and her left when she is enraged. She twiddles her thumbs and shakes her leg when she's bored.
Hygiene
Braccus tends to keep herself and her surroundings clean. She doesn't tolerate stains anywhere in the Head Chair room or on her robes or dresses. She also keeps VERY GOOD DENTAL HYGIENE. I can't explain this enough, don't talk about teeth to her, please.
Social
Contacts & Relations
She has contacts all across the known universe, most notably the Kaasai (Admirals) in charge of tactical and humanitarian efforts beyond the regular sphere of influence. She is not affiliated with other organizations- other organizations are affiliated with her.
Family Ties
Her grandmother lives in the Northern city of Kjeljimeryashimatotenyu, and her father still resides in the Braccus's place of birth. She has no other known surviving relatives.
Religious Views
Braccus Grier is an active member of the house of Soga, and has a more well-known joint membership in the house of Balmorra. She also runs all houses in the Eskan religion independently. The strength of her faith hasn't been tested.
Social Aptitude
Braccus has a knack for speaking to crowds and can seem very charismatic when making speeches. When she is forced into smaller and more social conversations, however, she struggles with friendly dialogue. She has exquisite manners and is respectful toward those that show her the same respect. She still comes off as an unbearable snob to some.
Mannerisms
She has a habit of drawing friendly conversations toward more political topics, as she doesn't do very well with other subjects. Her speech is straightforward and powerful, and she easily hijacks conversations she doesn't want to be in to end them before she gets too uncomfortable. When she becomes flustered (a very rare occurrence), her cheeks will turn a darker blue and her speech speeds up slightly, always moving toward an end to the conversation at hand.
Hobbies & Pets
Owns one African Grey Parrot named Kiggen. She does a lot of gardening in her free time with one of her husbands, and messes with cleaning staff when she gets bored with that.
Speech
Her voice is a tenor. She speaks Eskan with a twinge of a Western accent, and English with a cockney accent.
Her favorite catchphrase:
"We have much to discuss."
Favorite compliment:
"A humble action/idea."
Favorite insult:
Tailors each insult to its recipient, but the most common is "Who are you?"
Greetings:
Always uses the name of the person/people she's talking to when in small groups, and greets with "My dear acquaintances"
Farewells:
"Until we meet again." "Dunes be merciful." "Goodbye."
Swearing:
Doesn't use profanities if she can avoid it
Metaphors:
Negative- "A breeze that's lost its force."
Positive- "A field of eunjeck still in color."
Wealth & Financial state
Braccus's net worth is unknown, but she is estimated to be worth 750 trillion US dollars, or approximately 25 trillion AUMO Pons (the Pon maintains a value of approximately 30x the value of the Dollar on the Interplanetary Market, although it is by no means the most expensive currency in the documented universe. More on the Pon later). This puts her in the so-called "1% of the 1%," as she has so much money that she doesn't know what to do with it all. Due to expenses and taxes, her disposable monthly income is around 37 billion Pons on average.
Her assets include a large estate in the Western city of Beljensik, another 4 estates in Aeon, three large metal manufacturing facilities toward the southernmost area of the Midland region, 72 different manufacturing facilities located across the known universe, and 5 Ausran farms.
Most of her wealth is amassed through investments in the Interplanetary Market and through sales of manufactured goods including weapons, vehicles, and spacecraft. How she acquired the funds to purchase these businesses is unknown. Edit: Her first company, Es-tem Raj, was a mining and excavating business specializing in digging on outer planets for valuable minerals and elements. A large portion of her income is still made through this business.
She currently has investments in Dark Matter energy, a form of propulsion that she believes will take off universally once perfected, and is also shorting (betting on the fall of) the US Dollar to get back at Nick Offerman for making light of her garden. We've told her it's a petty waste of money, but we did tell Nick not to laugh at the bushes, and there isn't a time when she's ever been wrong about shifts in the market. Sorry, Nick, she's devaluing your currency as this is being written.
Current Location
Species
Conditions
Honorary & Occupational Titles
HCP of the AUMO
Year of Birth
969 EAP
10007014 Years old
Circumstances of Birth
Unremarkable.
Birthplace
Jehashnae, Northernmost point of the Western Region
Children
Current Residence
Aeon
Gender
Female
Eyes
Ice blue, large and slanted.
Hair
None.
Height
2.87m
Weight
145.46k
Quotes & Catchphrases
"My friends, I have little regret for my words. In fact, if you would wish to challenge them, I may be forced to double down." -Braccus Grier, when asked about a smear campaign against survivors of Kajell's Last Charge
"He has a knack for insolence. I love him for that." -Braccus Grier, on Voak Skedrow
"Working around your problems won't solve them. A wise woman will always face her adversaries head on, be they imaginary or physical."
Aligned Organization
Other Affiliations
Character Prototype
Tilda Swinton, if I could think of anyone. Skuma-a, I'd ask Tilda to play any Northerner. I doubt Braccus would appreciate that, however, seeing as Tilda is a fraction of her height. I'll convene with her at a later date to discuss the possibility of a Human actor representing her image in a Terran film production.
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