Name: Kirsten Torsen
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Nationality: Republican
Zoid: Glaive Quama
AIM: SkysDragon


Personality: She is cocky and easily angered, but most of the time is quite level-headed and a little quiet. Kirsten is the “Forgot-to-look-before-I-leapt” type and commonly gets into trouble because of this too. She is a very determined one who will never give up, unless her Zoid is at the threat of being destroyed, but will always keep her end of a deal and help others out.

Background: Kirsten grew up in a fairly average lifestyle, though she didn’t have too many luxuries either. Her family didn’t have a great deal of money earlier on, but they could afford their needs and basic education.

During school, she wasn’t very popular at all, but did manage to get the good test scores. She did have a small group of friends, even though they mostly hung out with her to get test answers. She left them in grade five and spent most of her time in the library from then on, reading books and drawing. She also seemed to notice how her parents would never buy anything too expensive. It seems the reason was a bankruptcy before she was born.

But they were proud of the way she took the information without losing it. Kirsten just simply shrugged and walked off to grab her homework. At the time she had no a clue what the word 'bankruptcy' meant, maybe her parents should have thought about that first....

By the time she was in high school, Kirsten was hardly bothering with her studies while managing at least average marks with most things. She was working with her father’s not-so-great zoid shop as well, but didn’t really concentrate on it.
Most of the time she was keeping up with the library visits, but because of the new school, found a whole new group of friend who always hung out in that building every day. After a while she became a part of this group, but wasn't with them all the time.

It was during her time at high school that she gained knowledge of the Anti-zoid laws that were lost before her time during a history lesson. Everything fell into place, explaining her mother and father's reluctance to tell why they were always worried about money before and the reason for the zoid shop. Kirsten started feeling they didn't trust her enough, and started changing her attitude by accident.
She spent less and less time in the shop and around her place and more out and about with people from school.
She grew stubborn and got a got sense of humour, gaining a little more popularity as the 'class clown'.

Kirsten always had a short temper, but it started getting worse at this point in her life. Chucking things for no reason became a bad habit, but she quickly drove off it with embarrassment when her friends started measuring how far she could ditch the random items. The embarrassment was enough to get her cocky self back again.

She had started putting on the cocky act at about fourteen, but it has become a habit, the girl wishes she had never made that move now. Kirsten's parents thought she had mental problems because of this, but she stopped in time. Now, thanks to that odd little fact of distance measuring she picked up the habit again, but this time it went unnoticed, and wasn't as bad. Unfortunately, it increased her likelihood of cracking when someone tries to stir her up.

After graduating, Kirsten spent most of the time with her new friend group and with a new part-time job at the arcade, still working at the shop occasionally, even with its non-success. She didn’t stop her studies though, after being pushed on by her mother. Kirsten would go to the library every now and then to get out a book unwillingly. But on her eighteenth birthday, she started thinking. Her next big move, she decided, would be to try and join a zoid team. Her mother was unwilling, but her father? Of course, he was the one who had always loved zoids in the family. He immediately gave her a small zoid and said that she could go out to try and find that team, if she kept in touch with them.

Searching took a while, seeing as most of the zoid teams she knew about already had enough pilots. After about six months she was ready to give up, so decided to concentrate on her piloting skills, taking on people at the arcade simulators. Over time she became good at that, but was still uncertain about the real thing. She decided to give it a shot.

It ended in total disaster.
Kirsten was able to pilot the zoid, but she was too nervous to think straight. After a panic attack when it accidentally tripped over, Kirsten pulled the wrong lever and set off an alarm which freaked the girl out. She righted the zoid in time, but then was too determined to switch off the alarm, she pressed a button. The eject button. Greatest shock ever, getting thrown out of the cockpit before realising you've hit that button.

She immediately went back to the arcade simulators to practice for a while longer. But what was different this time was the two men that had a large crowd following them around asking for simulator challenges. When Kirsten asked what was going on someone said they were real zoid pilots on a real zoid team. Kirsten sat back and watched some of the simulator battles that really seemed to be getting on the pair's nerves while chatting with another employee. It seems they just won every time, after giving the tickets to the next child in line, they'd attempt to get away, only to be stopped by a mob of people wanting to have a shot at them and an even larger one of children wanting the tickets.

On the sixth time this cycle repeated itself, Kirsten decided to stop it, and to have a shot at that idea she had a few months ago.
She showed off the group saying that it was against arcade rules to keep harassing people into games, and to use them to get tickets. They left unwillingly, but a few reinforcements from the rest of the staff got them running.

The two seemed relived and thanked them, saying that any longer and they’d be in deep trouble. After the rest of the staff left, Kirsten went in for it, taking her chance. They both got a shock from the question, and both answered at the same time. Problem: One said yes, they needed more pilots, and the other said no, he didn’t think she could pilot a zoid. He ended up not participating in a match for a month due to a sprained ankle.

Kirsten did manage to get onto the team, after quite a bit of training and help from Nicholas, the one who agreed and Thomas, the team’s main brainy. Stanley, the guy who didn’t say so, did help a little, but he often spent his time stirring Kirsten up, seeing as it is so easy.

But the strange thing is; Kirsten doesn’t feel strange being in a team of all boys besides herself. She will admit that she felt a little uncertain at first, but over her practicing and getting used to everyone there, that sensation was lost, she doesn’t regret her actions.

Appearance: She has not-so-pale skin and stands about 165cm high. She has brown-blond hair which reaches about her shoulders and is rarely seen tied-up. Hasn’t really got many prominent futures that make her stand out; Kirsten is just another face in the crowd.

She wears different things on different occasions, but is usually seen with this outfit; a clinging, long-sleaved, black tee-shirt. Along with this, a white demin jacket that upon closer inspection is slightly pink. It covers most of the top up; you would only ever know that her top existed because the jacket is usually undone. Kirsten prefers jeans over skirts and other stuff like that, the pair she usually wears are fraying near the edges of the cuffs and knees, on the right knee it is completely worn through, but she hasn't found time (or hasn’t been bothered for that matter) to patch it up.

You forgot to mention that she's schizophrenic, too.
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