1. Unless a post specifically mentions that she's wearing armor, Ellen will be in one of two sets of clothes. One is her Vault 101 reinforced jumpsuit, which can be seen here. Her other set of clothes is a set of fatigues that vaguely resemble a dark green version of the Army uniforms you might see on the soldiers in the early parts of the movie White Christmas; these have a Brotherhood of Steel emblem, seen here, embroidered on the arm where an American flag might otherwise be and a nametape that just says '101' stitched loosely to one pocket. These are the only clothes she owns, other than the set of twenty-first century clothing Steve Rogers gave her to visit his world and a pre-War suit she wore to Bryan Mills' world. She thinks it's kind of weird to have multiple different sets of clothing when these two serve perfectly well. Armor is another story; different armor for different combat threats.
2. She's twenty years old, coming up on about twenty-one. She lived nineteen years of her life completely isolated from sun and weather and then got dropped into post-nuclear scrub desert, which did some interesting things to her skin. She has steel-grey hair- it runs in her family- and quite a few facial scars from things like shrapnel, knives, and animal attack, because helmets were in short supply in the Capital Wasteland for a long time. She's got several notches in her left ear from where she was jumped by someone with spiky leather armor and a knife. The most recent addition to her scar collection is on the left side of her forehead, from where someone thought they'd attempt a field lobotomy but got killed by her dog before they could pick up the bonesaw. She'd probably be conventionally pretty for a young Korean woman if it weren't for the mark-up.
3. Nineteen years of life in a fallout shelter have her used to bland food with relatively soft textures; she does not like spices or strongly sweet things and is put off by chocolate. She is also not a very good cook, although she can survive on her own cooking, but that tends to be of the '1. kill it 2. skin it 3. cut the muscle from the bone 4. roast it on a fire' variety these days.
4. She grew up around service robots in a world that, so far as I can tell, has no use of the Robot War trope in its fiction at all. Sometimes robots kill people, yes, but that is because they are military robots and the people they are killing are at war with the military that owns the robots in question. The idea of machines rising up and rebelling against humans, other than the admittedly more humanlike androids of the Commonwealth, is completely foreign to her and she puts it in the same category as being afraid of your fork and knife staging a Communist revolt in the kitchen. This makes for fun times with the Galactica crew.
5. Vault manners revolved around conflict avoidance and mitigation in a closed society; Vault privacy consisted of recognizing when it was time to back off and avoid the other person because continued presence irritated them. Ellen will generally do her best to avoid inflaming arguments in a conversation and will stay away from a person she thinks she has angered until a suitable amount of cooldown time has passed. She gets upset when other people don't do the same towards her, as this is an incredibly pushy and jerk-like thing to do in a system where nobody can ever truly leave. ETA: if she says something 'mildly' it generally means she disagrees with the other person or knows that they are factually wrong and just doesn't feel like being pushy about correcting them.
6. Ellen firmly believes that every single other version of Earth represented at Milliways is some weird alternate universe, possibly caused by a time traveler attempting to intervene in World War II's history without triggering the Adolf Hitler Time Travel Exemption Act (which states that any time traveler who succeeds in killing Hitler will return to their own time and discover that they've created an alternate history where the Nazis not only won the war but took over the world). She will refer to other versions of history as 'weird alternate universes' to people's faces.
7. She has no interest in sex beyond needing to eventually do her civic duty and get married and have at least the replacement rate number of children (given the high mortality rate on the surface she suspects this is four children per adult woman). She's not sexually naive, though; she grew up with a doctor for a father and learned a lot more than someone in a world where medical privacy was more closely legally guarded would have. She does, however, consider other people's sexual activity or interests to be none of her business, just as hers is none of theirs. It's not the kind of thing you need to talk about in public, and she will generally deliver rule three as "no public indecency" because really, why should she go into more detail than that, it's just tasteless.
8. She's had several different kinds of small arms and hand-to-hand training from soldiers of different eras of history. She doesn't move like a martial artist, as mostly what she got is personal self defense rather than any particular art. She vastly prefers fights to involve her power armor or combat armor and a plasma rifle or Gauss gun, anyway.
User's guide to Ellen Park
2. She's twenty years old, coming up on about twenty-one. She lived nineteen years of her life completely isolated from sun and weather and then got dropped into post-nuclear scrub desert, which did some interesting things to her skin. She has steel-grey hair- it runs in her family- and quite a few facial scars from things like shrapnel, knives, and animal attack, because helmets were in short supply in the Capital Wasteland for a long time. She's got several notches in her left ear from where she was jumped by someone with spiky leather armor and a knife. The most recent addition to her scar collection is on the left side of her forehead, from where someone thought they'd attempt a field lobotomy but got killed by her dog before they could pick up the bonesaw. She'd probably be conventionally pretty for a young Korean woman if it weren't for the mark-up.
3. Nineteen years of life in a fallout shelter have her used to bland food with relatively soft textures; she does not like spices or strongly sweet things and is put off by chocolate. She is also not a very good cook, although she can survive on her own cooking, but that tends to be of the '1. kill it 2. skin it 3. cut the muscle from the bone 4. roast it on a fire' variety these days.
4. She grew up around service robots in a world that, so far as I can tell, has no use of the Robot War trope in its fiction at all. Sometimes robots kill people, yes, but that is because they are military robots and the people they are killing are at war with the military that owns the robots in question. The idea of machines rising up and rebelling against humans, other than the admittedly more humanlike androids of the Commonwealth, is completely foreign to her and she puts it in the same category as being afraid of your fork and knife staging a Communist revolt in the kitchen. This makes for fun times with the Galactica crew.
5. Vault manners revolved around conflict avoidance and mitigation in a closed society; Vault privacy consisted of recognizing when it was time to back off and avoid the other person because continued presence irritated them. Ellen will generally do her best to avoid inflaming arguments in a conversation and will stay away from a person she thinks she has angered until a suitable amount of cooldown time has passed. She gets upset when other people don't do the same towards her, as this is an incredibly pushy and jerk-like thing to do in a system where nobody can ever truly leave. ETA: if she says something 'mildly' it generally means she disagrees with the other person or knows that they are factually wrong and just doesn't feel like being pushy about correcting them.
6. Ellen firmly believes that every single other version of Earth represented at Milliways is some weird alternate universe, possibly caused by a time traveler attempting to intervene in World War II's history without triggering the Adolf Hitler Time Travel Exemption Act (which states that any time traveler who succeeds in killing Hitler will return to their own time and discover that they've created an alternate history where the Nazis not only won the war but took over the world). She will refer to other versions of history as 'weird alternate universes' to people's faces.
7. She has no interest in sex beyond needing to eventually do her civic duty and get married and have at least the replacement rate number of children (given the high mortality rate on the surface she suspects this is four children per adult woman). She's not sexually naive, though; she grew up with a doctor for a father and learned a lot more than someone in a world where medical privacy was more closely legally guarded would have. She does, however, consider other people's sexual activity or interests to be none of her business, just as hers is none of theirs. It's not the kind of thing you need to talk about in public, and she will generally deliver rule three as "no public indecency" because really, why should she go into more detail than that, it's just tasteless.
8. She's had several different kinds of small arms and hand-to-hand training from soldiers of different eras of history. She doesn't move like a martial artist, as mostly what she got is personal self defense rather than any particular art. She vastly prefers fights to involve her power armor or combat armor and a plasma rifle or Gauss gun, anyway.