Crimson Hurst

"I would like to see you make another remark with my lance down your throat!"

- Fredja Hurst

Appearance
Fredja is a tall and rather muscly young woman and if it was not for her considerable bust it would actually be very difficult to distinguish her from a man. She was red eyes and waist length dark orange hair that she keeps back behind her shoulders. Over her chest Fredja wears a grey long sleeve shirt and over that she wears a silver armoured chest plate that ends just below her breasts and with a raised collar that covers her neck. On her wrists Fredja wears a pair of large metal bracers. On her legs Fredja wears black jeans that go down past her feet and she wears a brown belt with a number of ammunition pouches on it around her waist. On her feet she wears a silver pair of armoured boots. Fredja can often be seen wearing a silver medieval style helmet and when she isn’t wearing it she will still make sure to carry it around with her. Fredja can also be seen carrying a small pistol looking device around with her which actually functions as a drug injector.

Personality
Personality wise Fredja is a very threatening person. Most of the time Fredja seems peaceful enough, although her tone of voice always contains a hint of hostility. This fact is quickly forgotten by most people however due to Fredja’s incredibly short temper and she will often go off at people for the tiniest of things. This is due to the fact that Fredja refuses to take trouble from anyone, and she fiercely defends herself whenever people try and take advantage of her. Despite her normal attitude, if Fredja comes to trust someone she will often control her temper while around them….sometimes.

If Fredja’s normal personality wasn’t bad enough, it is made worse by the fact that Fredja has a crippling addiction to a foreign combat drug known as ‘Slaught’, and if she doesn’t get a few doses of it daily she will become angrier and completely focused on getting more of the drug at any cost.

Backstory
Fredja’s backstory isn’t one that should be told around most people. She was born the daughter of 2….scientists, and Fredja’s parents were forever experimenting on the human body for some unknown purpose. During her early life Fredja fell victim to these tests and she was constantly being injected with a foreign combat drug which her parents called ‘Slaught’. Apart from this, Fredja’s childhood was rather standard, and she spent most of her time with her younger brother Saffron. Saffron had also been experimented on by their parents but Fredja payed no attention to it, mostly due to the fact she didn’t understand what was going on at the time. Over the years however, Fredja slowly began to realise what her parents were doing to them both was bad, and when her addiction to Slaught became permanent she began thinking of plan to escape.

Fredja began sneaking around her house, trying to find out more about what her parents have been doing to her brother and seeing if she could use it to her advantage. Fredja’s parents were oblivious to her sneaking around, and as she continued to search she found out that her parents had turned Saffron into some kind of weapon, although when she tried to tell Saffron this he ignored her. When Saffron had his teeth removed and replaced with metal fangs however and he came running to her, she triggered him, used him to kill their parents and escaped their home. After walking around on the street for a few days with a now unconscious Saffron, she was taken in by a policeman and when Saffron woke up she proceeded to explain to him what had happened. Fredja was soon after enrolled into Signal by her policeman carer and she graduated with a lower than standard mark, mostly due to her threatening attitude. During her time at Signal Fredja met a young man from overseas who offered to supply her with Slaught, the only condition being that she enrol into beacon. Knowing that if she didn’t she would most likely go insane due to withdrawals, Fredja enrolled into beacon and persuaded Saffron to as well so she could look after him.

Weapons and abilities
Fredja’s weapon is a large shotgun lance which she calls Punishment. Punishment is roughly 1.5 metres in length and the main part of it is littered with small, forward facing holes where specially made spread-shot shotgun rounds are fired from. These rounds are loaded into a special compartment on Punishment’s handle and it can only fire once before having to be reloaded. Due to some design complications Punishment doesn’t shrink down into an easy to carry form, and Fredja has to make due with carrying it around herself. Fredja also uses a medium sized circular shield in combat, and she keeps that strapped on her back when not being used.

Fredja’s fighting style is simple, but incredibly effective. She relies more on brute force than actual skill, and this is supported by her weapon being a lance, which itself relies on strength and force to use. Fredja herself is actually rather slow during combat but she puts all her weight into every thrust of her lance, so even a single hit can have devastating consequences. Also, often during combat Fredja is under the effect of the combat drug Slaught which greatly increases her strength, stamina and resistance to pain and this only serves to make her even more deadly, although this drug does greatly reduce her reaction time and heightens her aggression to an alarming degree.

Relations
Saffron Hurst - Freya’s younger brother. Freya loves Saffron more than anything she knows of, and he is the person she shows the least amount of violence towards. Freya understands the burden Saffron bears and she considers herself to blame for him having to bear it, so she tries her hardest to help him out when she can.