"I'm sooooo bored! Tee hee hee..."
Name: Lash
Age: 18
Birthday: June 29, Sun Sign is Cancer
Gender: Female
Blood Type: Lu(a+b-)
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 126lbs
Game/Series: Advance Wars 2, Advance Wars Dual Strike
Grade: Sophomore (2nd year at school)
Student Dorm: Student Dorm (B-13) Roomate with Kumatora
Extracurricular activities: Science Club, Football, Causing Trouble
Personality:
Batshit insane, in a cute, odd way, Lash has little concern for moral or virtues. She's the goddamn queen of the world and decides to do what she wants when she wants and no one can stop her when her mind is set on something except when she's swearing and Maxwell appears with a bar of soap. This is easily explained; she was raised without being punished for harming others or lessons of goodwill.
While she's mostly not an evil person anymore, sometimes there is no care involved in that her actions might have negative reciprocation and do serious harm to others. Trouble talking to someone? Expect her to write in huge sparklecaps in her own journal so the matter will be sorted out quickly. It's just faster this way! It doesn't help that she thinks EVIL = BADASS which causes her to do things without worrying about the consequences. Evil get things done a lot more faster! Lash has, admittedly, gotten better. Her stay with the Orange Star Army has made her somewhat a bit more appreciative of others and she has grown to call a lot of other people in the school friends, but she's still up to her old tricks if no one watches her. And/or of Hawke is watching her.
Secretly, she does want Black Hole to start again since it gave her a purpose in life, but she also secretly, secretly really, really loves being at the school. Lash is learning a lot of things she never dreamed of and while the thought of commanding armies and trying to take over the world and cities is somewhat romantic (don't ask), being at a learning facilty like Smash Academ is changing her view of what life should be about.
Don't think that the fact she acts insane mean she's an brain dead! At the tender age of fourteen, Lash already was the scientific and research brain of the Black Hole Army. She’s 17 now, but already destroyed a couple of countries with her inventions, created clones, mini-cannons, neo tanks, anti-humidity guns, A DEATH RAY, and if you ask her to pass the butter knife, she’ll probably hand you one she made herself that SHOOTS LIGHTING and probably ends up cutting not only your bread but the entire table as well. It will self-destruct later too.
For someone who likes to think about ways to kill things, she has a very positive outlook on life. She doesn't call herself the Perky Goth for nothing. It is all about movement, and there needs to be action for her to be happy. Standing around sitting in a desk is incredibly boring, unless you are in Robotonik's class in which case you get to be strapped in (a challenge to get out) and play some videogames or watch a movie.
Lash is very childish in her behavior - she takes dares to heart, loves to laugh and is extremely protective of her friends, who she has a high degree of respect for. She sometimes surprises herself that she has friends.
To those who would dare cross her – beware. Lash can't launch an army against you, but she has no qualms about making you pay dearly. It doesn't help at all that her roomate and her keep bouncing off dangerous ideas on each other and DOING THEM. Lash and Kumatora scheming is a VERY. DANGEROUS. THING.
She is a bit shy around those she does not know for all of five minutes, and likes to reply on others journals as a means of socializing, since she's mostly learned to DESTROY and not...you know...talk to others when not in wartime. Writing is easier. She comes off as kooky when she does, since interactions for most of her life have been "what can I build for you that can kill today" so a proper greeting to others in her mind is "OMG you sound dangerous!" or will point out the things others would consider drawbacks as advantages.
She really means to be nice, honest!
Despite the facade she puts on, part of Lash does feel lonely, especially when she sees the other members of the Allied Nations doing activities. She feels like the cat tagging along, for all the friends she's made comes a longing for 'home' where things where much more simple and she didn't have to concern herself about the love lives of others, just work on inventions and dance to Stress. She understands that will never happen again, but can't help but reminisce. You might catch her idly rubbing her right shoulder where she has a tattoo since she was five.
Relations with Other Characters
To be redone
Backstory:
Born to two soldiers, Lash's life was already predestined to be one of servitude to the great Black Hole War Leaders. Not that she really minded, of course, since the other choice was death. At a young age, she built her first war tank (on her own!) and it was the start of a brilliant carrier in the ranks of Black Hole. She was moved to the nuclear science division of the army, her parents hoping to shape her into the greatest, youngest scientific genius ever. She never saw them again. Life in a continent that was in a constant state of war, preparing to declare war or causing events so other continents fought each other made it so that you didn't really get attached to your family. Lash lived most of her childhood in the laboratories of the Black Hole Army, building various gadgets and dangerous weapons that were most certainly used to kill a lot of people. She, on the other hand, loved to build things, treating fellow scientist and war efforts like a beautiful game of chess. The childlike attitude never left her, for better or worse.
Unfortunately, she learned very little about how to live her daily life, caring little for things like eating right and proper manners. She ate with her hands and mostly lived on whatever food that was brought to her. All that was important to her was building and inventing. A few years later, after the disappointing defeat of Clone Andy by Orange Star, the previous Science Commanding Officer was shoot down ever so violently. Lash was promoted by the current leader of Black Hole Sturm himself, which she accepted with much glee since she'd now get to see her weapons do damage FIRST HAND. Lash was fifteen.
She was a rather ruthless Commanding Officer, not caring if her army was killed in the crossfire. Much like in the science labs, she treated her units and soldiers like useless toys, calling them “expendableâ€, and the poor soldiers had to follow along or else. Many considered it a curse to be placed under her, as she barely listened to anyone's advice. The only people who could really calm her down or put her in her place were Sturm and the three other Commanding Officers, Hawke, Sturm's second-in-command who Lash respected a great deal, Adder the snaky CO who she found weird and Flak, a soldier Hawke had appointed as a new CO. Lash treated him as her guinea pig for her experiments, much to his woe.
For a while that really went well, and Lash began to take over Yellow Comet, but then the other nations started allying themselves to each other (those cheaters!) and she found herself fighing Sonja, daughter of Yellow Comet's emperor. Lash respected her fellow strategist, but soon turned bitter when the later won all their battles. Eventually she was forced to retreat back home, where the allied nations defeated them completely. The situation turned grim as Sturm turned desperate and threatened to kill everyone, friend and foes alike. Hawke stepped up and used the opportunity to kill him, saving everyone and ending the war. Lash chose to follow him, as he promised to rebuild Black Hole. She found the idea
fun
.
The four of them worked on rebuilding all they had lost. Then the Bolt Guard showed up, saying they worked for the new leader of Black Hole named Von Bolt. Hawke became a CO under them, and Adder and Flak mysteriously disappeared. Lash continued to follow, although she openly hated the head of the Bolt Guard, Kindle. They kept her as a Commanding Officer because of her brains, and she continued to make weapons for them, considering Black Hole to be Black Hole one way or another. She'd been raised all her life in it, there was not much more she could do. Hawke, however, felt that the war effort was too drastic, even for their power-hungry nation.
He grew a little too curious about who their new mysterious leader was and found out the truth (they were using the Black Hole army to destroy the entire world so he could achieve immortality, SAY IT ISN'T SO), chased out by Von Bolt and slime-like creatures called Oozium 238, which could kill them easily. Lash was grabbed as an afterthought to save his skin and use as a meatshield if needed (although she would later admit she followed him anyway because 'she does what she wants') and they would have been terminated if not for the Allied Forces saving them under one of the new leaders named Jake.
The desperate COs struck a deal and both Hawke and Lash joined them begrudgingly, helping to end Von Bolt's reign. A very epic final battle later (in which Lash was more than happy to insult Kindle as much as she could), Jake was faced with either killing Von Bolt or letting him live. The CO chose to shoot his life support system instead, dooming the man to live the rest of his life sweeping the streets. However, the leader of Black Hole would not let himself be defeated in this matter and activated a self-destruct sequence that would kill them all. Hawke volunteered to stay behind himself, and the others left the building as it collapsed. The Allied Nations celebrated their victory, Lash admitting she was happy to have helped.
Peace returned to the land, and she realized that despite being a huge asset in the final days of the war, there would be those who would cry out for her head soon. Hawke was presumed dead and she had no more connections to anyone. Black Hole was in shambles and she wasn't powerful enough to revive it herself. Then...well peace returned to the land. But that was BORING, no offence to peace and all.
Now that war was over and...well pretty much all she had done during her short life was no longer relevant. Here she was, alone and without any science lab in a country that didn't like her. She felt caged even worse than if she had been captured.
She was happy when the higher-ups decided that any Ex-CO who wanted would be enrolled in a school named SumaBura?, and they were footing the bill. Lash had never been to a private school (hell a school at all), so it sounded like an exciting adventure, much less than staying and twiddling thumbs and watching her back if someone threw her rotten fruit. Always a bitch to wash her hair afterwards.
She quickly settled in well with the crazy school.
Canon Information
This is Lash from at the end of Duel Strike; she's now part of the Orange Army, somewhat good, somewhat...err...Lash. As Jeff put it "using the powers of evil for good."
Other Information:
- Lash can build you anything (especially if you are cute. And nerdy)
Just ask her nicely, but don't expect it to not come with a dozen or so dangerous freebies... - Her jet-black hair defies logic AND gravity.
It is awesome hair. - Her skin tone is pale white nerd.
She does, however, wear some lipstick and black eye toner. For that semi-goth look. - Has a Digital Camera Nell gave her
Already modified to cause trouble, it's been used to take pictures of Jeff and Kumatora kissing as well as Bow and Tetra - Black Hole Tattoo on her right elbow.
It is the Black Hole symbol, along with a barcode and her name. She doesn't mind it at all, apart of the fact that it clearly marks her as such. - Keeps a picture of the old Black Hole COs in her left pocket
It's kept together by pieces of tape. She took it in secret, so it's depicting Hawke nearly strangling Adder while Lash and Flak look on. - Stress is the most awesome song ever.
Lash relaxes to it. She doesn't understand why everyone else ever seems to hate it. - Lactose Intolerant and Mildly Allergic to Cinnamon.
She only found out while attending school, considering her previous diet was all Caloriemates
Character Secrets
Lol Lash have secrets? ...okay I need to figure these out.