Ria Kah Bao

[Ria Kah Bao]

your name | Lucie. Nice to meet cha.
your age | Fifteen
contact information |
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E-Mail - [e-mail]
characters | Just Ria.

full name | Ria Kah Bao
nicknames & titles |On Earth, she's known mostly as Ria, but if she is ever in need of an alias, Sarah is the go to name.
age | Using her Paxi age, Ria is five but in Earth years, she's eighteen going on nineteen.
sexuality | Heterosexual, although she hasn't had the opportunity to actually find out as she has had no feelings for anyone.
occupation |Alien language and behavior specialist and a great knowledge in alien weapons and technology. Ria considers humans aliens, but she doesn’t know a lot about technology or language here.

family information | On earth, children stay with their families for a good part of their lives. On Pax, it is no longer than one of their years, when they go and fend for themselves. Ria has a family, but she can’t really remember them very well. There are no family Christmas dinners to stay in contact with her many family members. All Ria knows is that she has nine sisters and fifteen brothers. Paxi tend to have large families. Her real family, the people she loves and looks up to are the crew of the Oberon scavenger ship.

Julia Long | Surrogate Mother | Alive ; The 32 year old captain of Oberon found Ria as a stowaway when she was three. She took pity on the young girl and let her stay on board. She has had a massive impact on Ria’s life.
Samantha Smith | Surrogate Sister | Alive ; Bright, spunky and adventurous would describe the 21 year old. She shared a room on Oberon with Ria and became extremely close to her, actually announcing at dinner one time that she was her sister. She is wild and bubbly and Ria misses her dearly.
Matthias Bennett | Surrogate Brother | Deceased ; Matthias was a quiet mechanic on the Oberon and apart from Ria, the youngest member on the ship. He died in the crossfire of a planet in war, and Ria didn’t talk to anyone for a week.

residence |Pax is one of the most beautiful places in the universe. To travelers it is known as The Glass Planet in The Indigo Mist. The entire planet looks as if it was shaped out of glass. The mountains, the grass fields, the beaches, everything is transparent. The odd thing with that is you’d expect for example, a Mypholin (somewhat similar to an apple) to fall from a tree and shatter, as it looks like glass, but it wouldn’t. You can bite into it just like an apple, although it wouldn’t taste like one. It tastes roughly like gravy. All Paxi live underground in caves dug out into the clear ground. These caves are less transparent as the disturbance of the ground turns it frosty white. Gravity is a lot stronger on Pax than it is on Earth, making the planet a slightly less desirable place to vacation. Due to gasses in its atmosphere, the sky is indigo and the sun has a green tint to it. The sunsets are said to be beautiful there.

Ria currently lives in Cardiff, in the Torchwood Hub. Ever since she was saved, she never lived in another place. She has her own room, quite small but she wouldn’t have it any other way. Her bed consists of a small mountain of brightly coloured pillows and blankets in one corner, with fabrics and fairy lights hung up over the top on the lower than average ceiling. During her first month with Torchwood when she was still fairly shaken, Ria painted a detailed and accurate panorama of Paxi scenery over the four walls to feel more at home. Over on the left wall, the one with the beach painted on it has her expansive wardrobe hung on a horizontal metal pole. In her small room, Ria has stacks of books and video games along with a small television. Her room is small and to anyone else it would seem awfully cramped, but Ria wouldn’t have it any other way.


physical description | Ria is in possession of a handy piece of technology that enables her form to be disguised as human. This resides in a large locket that she hardly ever takes off. Paxi themselves are quite beautiful, slender with long black hair and entirely red eyes that look as if they would shine in the dark. Their skin is something quite remarkable. It is pitch black with moving, sparkling patterns that mimic stars and galaxies in the universe. These patterns are ever changing, and you can actually see them moving around slowly across their skin, glowing gold and purple. Ria is no exception to that. She is quite a beautiful young woman, with her hair grown long to her lower back. On Pax, the longer a woman’s hair is, the more beautiful and desirable she is. It wouldn’t matter if the woman was not much to look at, if she had long hair she would be quite a pretty woman. This is not the case with Ria, as she is quite gorgeous anyway with a slender face and a light spray of ‘stars’ across the bridge of her nose and cheeks that form an array of freckles. She is not the tallest woman, standing at a meter and fifty two centimeters. Ria usually stays away from patterned clothing in Paxi form as it looks odd against her skin. She wears dresses and skirts of solid colour, and jeans and a tank top while working.

When her human form is cast, she is an average member of society. Nothing odd or out of place about her. She is the same height as she is in Paxi form, but she has fair skin and reddish brown hair with a slight wave to it. With blue grey eyes and cherry lips, she is quite the looker in human form as well. She has soft yet still distinguished facial features, usually pulled into a cheerful smile or a furrowed brow when she is concentrating. In human form Ria has much more freedom when it comes to clothing and she takes full advantage of that, wearing bright patterned skirts and dresses, but still sticking with jeans and a plain to when it is impractical to wear dresses that would stand out.

played by | Becky Filip [Singer and Model]

personality |

• shy
  

  Most likely spawning from the combination of a lack of Human social behavior and an incomplete knowledge of the English and Welsh languages, Ria will shy away from conversations and other social situations if she can. Talking amongst company makes her feel awkward and sick, but unfortunately as she wants to improve her English she bites the bullet and talks anyway. Ria prefers listening. She will listen to people talking to each other or even to themselves, something that she finds fascinating. After getting to know someone, she’ll fell more comfortable talking to them but still she will feel extremely conscious of her phrasing and gestures. Even without speaking in a language she is not completely familiar with she is quite shy but not as much as on Earth. With her shyness, Ria is a very quiet person as well, and in extreme situations is prone to blushing. Due to all of this, she much prefers to stay in her room or in the Hub reading or drawing, both of which require no social interaction.

  
  
• smart
  

  She's not smart enough to be called genius, but if you have the brains to know fifteen languages fluently and another twenty seven partially, I think you can be classified as at least clever. Ria is no stranger to piloting spaceships or pulling apart the motor of a Tsialio warship and assembling it together again in under twenty minutes. She has had no official schooling to speak of, she has learned everything she knows aboard the Oberon traveling between planets and helping around doing various tasks. When she was ten (Earth years) the oppertunity to undertake lessons on a small pink planet by the name of Zi was given to her but Ria felt that she would learn more teaching herself with the materials she could find on Oberon's library and she wasn't wrong. Every spare moment she had was taken up in the library soaking up as much of the text as possible. As Ria is quiet and shy, many do not see her as being a smart person, just a young girl that doesn't talk all that often be ause she has no opinion. In her own language, Ria is known for speaking her strong opinions, but the same could not be said for on Earth.
  

  
  
• friendly
  

  Ria purposely distances herself from conflict so she doesn’t upset anyone. She doesn’t hold grudges and she always sees both sides of the story because it is important to her that people like her. On the outside she is the innocent girl who is a good friend, although at times a tad quiet. People’s thoughts about her come before opening up to people. Whilst on Earth Ria has learned that people like to talk about themselves. A lot. So, who was she to deny that right to people? Opening up and letting all her feelings spill out in front of her would deter people from being friends with her, and she doesn’t need that rejection. She bites her lip, smiles and gets on with it. She really is a friendly person anyway, but she hasn’t had the opportunity to show her true colours on this new and strange planet that she now calls home.

  
  
• inquisitive
  

  She grew up all over the universe, so she has been hit by the inevitable ‘Holy wow, space is gigantic and I’m so small’ feeling. This sparked her urge to find, learn and explore at a young age and it hasn’t yet been fed. If it’s something as large as visiting more planets than she can count on a crowd’s hands or something as small and seemingly insignificant as learning origami, Ria wants to do it all. She loves just knowing things, listening into a conversation and being able to identify what people are talking about, or offering new information about something. It’s why she likes reading so much, there’s just so much information crammed onto those thin pages. Beck on Oberon she used to ask so many questions. How does the ship fly? Why am I heavier on one planet than another? Why does Noel insist on wearing such tight pants? The same cannot be said for on Earth; she doesn’t want to bother people with her sometimes meaningless questions, so she endeavours to find them out on her own accord.

  
  
• disconnected
  

  Yes it is one of those alien things, however did you guess that? Ria is disconnected from humans for a very good reason; she isn’t one. As she is an alien, she does very typical foreign things as she is adapting quite slowly to human life. She is almost overly polite to everyone, something that she certainly would not do back home and she is almost painfully critical of herself as she doesn’t want to either stand out or make a fool of herself. Ria gets embarrassed easily. Ria has tried her best to research as much as she can on human culture, but has found it extremely difficult. On Pax, you are Paxi and you speak Paxi. On Earth, you can be anything from Chinese to French and every country speaks their own language. It’s so confusing. So because of that, she will say the wrong things to people, eat the wrong things and make a complete and utter fool of herself. Much like humans going on vacation to foreign places.

  
  
• creative
  

  When Ria can’t put something into words, she puts it into drawings and paintings. No matter where she is, she can always explain things with a quick sketch or an elaborate oil painting. For the first month with Torchwood, she told the story of where she came from with a massive panorama of Paxi. She isn’t just creative with her art, but her whole way of thinking is very lateral. To her, there is always another way of doing things, another way of seeing life. She may have had her family ripped away from her, but she met an amazing group of people in the process and is soaking up so much more culture than she would have if she was still living on the Oberon, although her drawings bare a constant pang of homesickness. Her creativeness goes hand in hand with her friendly and caring personality.

  
  
• caring
  

  Ria hates to see people sad or unwell, so it’s just like her to cheer them up. She was the shoulder to cry on, the sympathetic ear, so it saddens her that she can’t be that in her new place of residence. It’s a misconceived thought of hers that people don’t want to get to know her or tell them what’s troubling them. She just doesn’t feel close enough to people, not like with her family who are lost more than one hundred years in the future. Well, Ria is the one that is lost, but the point still stands. She was the one that everyone talked to, and now she isn’t. She has taken to talking to the aliens locked up in the hub, the ones that don’t talk like the Weevils. In a way, she can sympathise with them, even if she isn’t the one trapped behind bullet proof plastic.

  
  

greatest fear | Ria has a fear of being alone. Not in the sense that she's afraid of not finding love and living the rest of her life as a woman with nineteen cats, but in the case that physically being the only person scares her. the way that she can only hear her own heartbeat makes her jumpy when something moves on its own accord. She has to have something playing in the background; music or television to create the illusion to herself that she isn't alone.
greatest desire | Whether it be with love or just being, Ria wants to fit somewhere. Some place that isn't complete and can only be filled with her, a perfect little puzzle piece.
personal treasure | Family is the most important thing to Ria. As she was denied that right at the beginning of her life, she grasps onto anything that involves people existing together.
biggest secret | Probably the fact that she hasn't had any official schooling to speak of, yet she has a job. This is a fact that she has failed to mention to anyone.
best memory | A small and starry (quite literally) child hiding beneath a sheet of metal and other scraps looking into the kind eyes of a captain and her crew. She was home.
worst memory | The cold air was harsh against her naked body. She was bleeding from too many places to count. Nobody deserved this, but she knew that they would keep coming back for more. There was never enough of her flesh in their labs, never enough of her blood in their vials. There was never enough, and she'd had enough.

history | Ria Kah Bao. She was born on what seemed like paradise, grew up over three constellations and somehow ended up on a little planet called Earth. It hasn’t always been the best of times for her, but at the same time it hasn’t been the worst either. No matter how much she would like to think otherwise, the memories are that she has, all that defines her. Without them, she wouldn’t be Ria.

Granted, Pax was a beautiful planet with its glass spires and mountains but it never felt home to Ria. Her family was so large that she never got the love and attention that she craved and longed for. It was just the way that it was on her planet. Mothers and fathers were there to feed, clothe and put a roof over their children’s’ heads, not to love. Her twenty four siblings never had a problem with that, but somehow Ria did. After just year under her parents’ supervision, Ria was left like the rest of her siblings that were of age, to fend for herself. At that same time, the crew of the scavenger ship Oberon were refuelling on that same planet. Sure, ‘scavenger ship’ was in the title, but really the crew just did whatever they wanted, only doing work when they were short on money. They were friendly and carefree travellers, nothing else.

A massive metal ship was so foreign and strange to the small Ria, so of course she had to have a poke around. It wasn’t as if she had anywhere else to be. It was inevitable that she was found poking around in scrap metal and wires but the Captain Julia Long saw the potential in the small child and instead of punishing her for breaking and entering, she took Ria in. It made Ria feel like she belonged for the first time in her incredibly short life, and Julia felt like a mother again. She spent her life growing up on the Oberon with her new mother and family learning the many languages of the crew aboard, travelling between planets and things that she would have never dreamed of if she was still on Pax. She cherished the memories of rebuilding ship parts with Matthias, learning how to pilot the Oberon with her mother and spending every waking moment with Sam, her best friend and the only person she considered her sister. Sure, all of the twelve crew members were family to her, but those three people were her life.

When Ria was seventeen (in Earth years) the Oberon needed refuelling. Of course this wasn’t a shocking moment, as is needed refuelling a lot, but there was a problem with the ship’s communicating system. It didn’t seem like that much of a problem at the time, so Matthias and Ria didn’t look twice at it. No one wanted to contact the Oberon anyway, but due to this the crew didn’t receive the planet Korr’s landing warnings. The planet had been in war for the past three months and the crew of the Oberon were oblivious to this fact. Caught in the crossfire, the Oberon lost a crewmember that day and the position was never filled again. Matthias never stepped back on board again.

The news hit Ria hard. This was her brother that was slaughtered before he had even fully lived his life. He was a quiet boy but he was always close and caring of Ria, knowing her almost as long as she had been a part of the Oberon. She didn’t speak to anyone for weeks, and unfortunately, those weeks were the last that she would spend with her family. Whilst on a dark blue planet whose name escapes Ria, she wandered off on her own without telling anyone and she found a rift in time and space. It was so beautiful. It was pure energy. You can’t blame Ria for reaching out and trying to touch it. It was the last thing she did in that time.

She was flung rather violently back a hundred and seven years, landing on a planet called Earth. It was so strange with the city lights and the dark night sky, so she ran. She didn’t even know where she was running but she had to get back. She knew deep down that she never would, but some nice people in dark clothes promised her that they would help. It turned out that those nice people were not so nice. Ria was too trusting sometimes. The ‘nice’ people drugged her and put her in chains. They did so may tests, took so much flesh and blood and left Ria a broken girl. She picked up small parts of English from these people and their hushed conversations. They called her ‘alien’ and used the word ‘research’ a lot. For those four months that she was kept there, Ria thought it was a word for torture.

The days melted into months but it all went so slowly to Ria. It felt like years to her. Not the years that they had on Earth, but the Paxi years. But all of a sudden, the pain stopped. She was found by Torchwood, her salvation. They stopped the pain and Ria could heal. Communication was a problem, but Ria learned basic English and Welsh during her months with Torchwood. She was used to learning languages. It still hurt so much on the inside when she thought of the fact that she would never see her family again, but Ria didn’t mind as much being with Torchwood. Torchwood was the word she associated with ‘hope’ and ‘kindness’ for so long was now the word that she would have to learn to associate with ‘home’.

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[Captain John Hart]

Congratulations! Ria Bao has been accepted. Her played by is so beautiful and her character is really interesting. The application was filled out flawlessly. the Paxi seem so awesome and really original. Now you can put up a plot tree and start roleplaying! I wish you the best of luck.