Ethereal Kaiser



"You sit around here and you spin your little webs and you think the whole world revolves around you and your money. Well it doesn'   t, Mr. Potter. In the whole vast configuration of things I'd say you were nothing but a scurvy little spider." -- Frances Goodrich

Profile
Name:  Ethereal Kaiser (Born Ester Allgood)

Race:  Black

Age:  41

Height:  5'10 or 178 cm

Weight:  140 lbs or 63 kg

Likes:  Money, her children, comfy office chairs

Dislikes:  Lazy employees, messy rooms, Moira Lynwood

Relatives:  Valiant Kaiser (son), Spectral Kaiser (daughter)

Occupation:  CEO of Kaiser Industries

Appearance
A well-dressed business woman of age forty-one, Ethereal is always sure to keep her dark hair up and out of the way in fancy and professional bun. A smile and an amused expression on common on her face, her suit always well ironed and tailored to her shapely, motherly form. Her outfits change, usually, like any normal person, but her iconic outfit is a black and teal pinstriped suit top with a white turtleneck beneath, a teal pencil skirt, and grey heels.

However, the only thing off-putting about her is her ever-present squint. She walks like she owns the place and tends to often have a sly grin on her face.

Personality
A fierce mama bear and CEO of Kaiser Industries, she won't hesitate to divide, conquer, and subjugate as needed. She likes to play with her prey and likes to have fun. As expected of a mother of two, she's cunning, manipulative, and smart with discipline.

Despite the nature of her company, she does actually care about safety regulations and would not let a death-trap such as Moira Lynwood's DPAs get marketed. Despite Ms. Lynwoods various attempts to push her DPAs as a viable product and the researcher's continuous violations of company policy (and the several times she reduced the top floor of Kaiser Towers into a pile of rubble), Kaiser keeps her employed because she understands the merit of having someone as innovative and determined as Ms. Lynwood on the engineering team. There is also some unresolved sexual tension.

Back Story and the History of Kaiser Industries/Kaiser Armaments


Ethereal was born to a moderately poor family of seven -- she, her parents, and four siblings -- as Ester Allgood. She was a smart girl, clever, always getting good grades by paying attention and being nice to everyone. Ester opted out of the school's offered combat training, chosing instead to focus on business classes and ended up graduating high school at the top of her class. Things were looking prosperous for Ester Allgood, until her youngest sibling fell horribly ill. The long and arduous treatment for the child's illness was costly, and while they were reluctant to do so, the majority of the money for it ended up coming out of Ester's college fund. When she learned what her parents had done, she was enraged that they'd pull the rug out from under her like that, even for the sake of her sibling. She left the house on poor terms, finding an apartment for cheap.

Left without a cent to her name, Ester got a job as a waitress for a catering company that frequented large business galas, and it was at one of these galas that Ester met Severin Kaiser.

The man was in his late forties, in comparison to Ester's radiant age of twenty at the time, and apparently thought that Ester Allgood looked quite fetching. Seeing her opportunity, she reluctantly married the aging corporate executive. There was some affection in the marriage, Severin called her his "ethereal goddess" and, with her youth and his stubborn virility, they had two children, a boy named Anselm Valiant and a girl named Adelinde Spectral.

At the time, Kaiser Armaments Inc was a small weapons dealing company, focused on trade and buying rights to designs and giving them to third party companies to develop. Severin Kaiser had inherited the company from his grandfather, who had left it in disrepair and the business was just about ready to go under. Ester, from her poor but business oriented backgrounds, had fierce arguements with her husband about keeping the company. However, Severin was firm in his choice to sell what was left of Kaiser Armaments.

Panicked and terrified at the thought of losing the revenue that was brought in by the company, Ester did the only thing she thought she really could. Before Severin could get into serious negotiations about selling the company, Ester arranged for an 'accidental' dust explosion to happen in his office...

Severin left everything to his wife, the company, his dwindling fortune, and his crippling debts. In the wake of Severin's death, Ester changed her name to Ethereal, both to honor him and to make herself seem more intimidating. She had her children start going by their middle names, as well.

She established a new branch of Kaiser Armaments:  Kaiser Industries, an off-shoot which served to develop the weapons which Kaiser Armaments would market and distribute. Using cutthroat business tactics and a solid publics relations policy, Ethereal Kaiser brought the Kaiser Conglomerate to heights never reached before, the company becoming number one in dealers of dust-powered weaponry.

Trivia

 * Ethereal Kaiser received a -10 score on the Mary-Sue Litmus Test on Springhole.net
 * She keeps a dust-laced whip beneath her skirt, and there's a rocket launcher hidden beneath her desk.  These items are for self-defense only.  She is not a combatant.