Post by Kilian Qatar on Aug 3, 2010 23:43:03 GMT -4
KILIAN WALTER QATAR
....the mask
Your Name: Blitz
Where did you find us?: Tiffany showed me
How long have you been roleplaying?: a couple years
Password: [admin edit!]
...basic character information
Birth Name: Kilian Walter Qatar
Nickname
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Grade: 10th
Birth date: January 1st
Program: Bachelor of Engineering
Major: Environmental Engineering
Major Explanation: Qatar Industries is a multi-billion dollar company, with assets ranging from oil to advanced technologies, and Environmental Engineering, as well as the other majors that fall under the Bachelor of Engineering category are needed to competently run the company. Kilian fully intends to one day take control of the company, and wishes to be properly prepared to do so. It links with her animal being that jackals are intelligent and come from the region that she would be handling primarily.
Animal Identity: Golden Jackal
...personality
Likes:
- Sunshine
- Sand
- Women
- Math
- Science
- History
- Mythology
- Her parents
- Her father's company
- Her own IQ
Dislikes:
- Corporations that aren't careful
- Dependance upon advanced technology
- People giving her crap for her heritage
- People badmouthing religions
- Politicians (or Polichickens in her words)
- Corrupt officials
- Governments that don't really help people
- Extremists
- Corporate espionage
- Terrorism
Fears:
- Her parents dying
- Never getting the family company
- Dissapointing her parents
Strengths:
- Genius level IQ
- Planning
- Problem solving
Weaknesses:
- Her temper on occasion
- Her attitude
- Can be annoyed easily
Overall: Kilian’s personality is one that is both rather simple and complex at the same time. By default she is something of a rich girl, but despite that, and her blonde hair, she is far from being anything resembling a ditz. She looks toward the future with hope, and to the past with envious eyes, as she often times wishes that she could go back to days that have long since passed. The ancient Romans and Greeks, especially the philosophers, kings, and emperors, are her greatest idols, and she desperately wishes she could have met the great men that lived so long ago. Granted, some of that might have to do with the fact that she is rumored to be related to Alexander the Great through a very long, strung out line of possibilities that are far too intricate to go into unless you’re experienced in following blood lines and a great deal of ancient history back to the main source. Overall though, she simply believes that things were a great deal better back then.
Despite the fact that her father’s company is technologic in a great many ways, she absolutely hates how dependent upon technology the human race has become. It seems as though very little is actually done by mankind anymore when compared to how things were done even a hundred years ago. Simply put, she thinks the old ways of doing things were better, even if only because at the end of the day a person that had actually gone out and worked could say they had truly accomplished something. You didn’t get paid for sitting in front of a computer for hours upon hours a day entering numbers or writing up documents. Things were done by hand, made by hand, and people took a great deal of pride in their work. In her mind, technology has ripped away what few sources of pride mankind truly has left, and has given back only death, destruction, depression, and the threat of total and complete annihilation.
Her aim is to take control of her father’s company when she comes of age, and ensure that while it may continue doing as it’s done for a great deal of time, that it will also be able to ensure that other companies in and around the areas of influence it has will also adhere to greater precautions in various areas that they deal with.
...appearance
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Celebrity Play By: Tricia Helfer
Appearance: Long legs that bring her to stand at almost six feet, and blonde hair are usually the first two things that get noticed about Kilian, despite the fact that she often dresses in a rather boyish fashion. She’s never really been one to get all dressed up for some fancy party, or to worry about having a lot of shoes. She actually seems to hide her looks more than anything, and really doesn’t much care for fashion, so if you ever see her dressed in such a way that you can tell she has a bust, well, you’re probably in luck, for that’s something that’s rather rare to see. While she covers her body though, it’s not because she’s self conscious about how she looks. Rather, it’s actually the reverse. She knows she looks good, and because she does, she would rather cover up a little more so people don’t try and sweet talk her of judge her by how she looks.
She does, in fact, have a few scars that are easily visible, though they’re small. Most of them come from fencing practice through the years, as she’s rather taken with the idea of using real rapiers instead of the typical training swords. Most of these scars are on her hands, though there is also a small one on her right cheek. Her knuckles are scared as well, though most of those scars are from fights that she’s been in throughout her life. Ever since late two thousand one, when the World Trade Centers were attacked, she’s been bullied by other kids when they find out that her father is a Saudi businessman. Of course, most of the time it also springs from the fact that she’s incredibly proud of her heritage, even if she chooses not to wear the typical garments associated with that particular sort of heritage.
Beneath the clothes she wears is the body of a model, though certainly not one of the anorexic sort that strut down runways and act like divas. She used to get compliments fairly often from boys, but ever since she started wearing clothing that covers that body up, the compliments are few and far between, and rarely have anything at all to do with how she looks. Instead, they revolve around her abilities, skills, and intelligence, for those are the things she demonstrates most. That is also what she prefers to be complimented on.
As far as what her shifted form looks like, there’s nothing out of the ordinary about it. She’s a golden jackal, with tannish/blondish fur, and patches of brown. She’s also incredibly average for a female of the species as far as height, length, and weight are concerned.
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...history
Parents: Ahmed Qatar (father, owner of Qatar Industries), Anya Walter (mother, actress)
Siblings: none
The Qatar family line can traced back as far as at least a thousand years, and is often said to be several millenia old. As legend goes, the Qatar line was one of the first families to settle in Mesopotamia after the destruction of the Tower of Babel. From there they built a small empire and were a family of local warlords until Alexander the Great began heading for the area. It was then that most of the family moved to the lower portion of present day Saudi Arabia. Some however, did stay behind.
A few centuries passed and the family grew wealthy, many of them were weapons smiths and soldiers, and all held high standing in the local area. The Arabian portion of the family then split once more, some heading to Egypt, others heading into modern Iraq & Iran, and the remainder staying in Saudi Arabia. The Mesopotamian portion also split, branching out into modern Turkey.
A couple more centuries passed, and the portions of the families began to grow apart, even began to refer to themselves as different "houses". It was then that Ahmed Akil Almahdi Qatar, head of the Saudi Arabian house sent out a challenge to the other houses - a fighting tournament, the prize: all the possetions and persons of the defeated houses should fall under the control of the victorious house. The challenge was accepted, and in the end, the Saudi Arabian house was the victor - and became the ruling house of the Qatar line for all years to come.
Eventually, the family would own a major company in the Middle East known as Qatar Industries. The company does everything from construction, to steel, to oil, technology, next generation weapons' design, and much, much more. It also has a good number of projects going that are designed to help the environment. In truth, it has projects going – everything from secret military projects for multiple governments, to things in the private and civil sectors. The medical division is also making leaps and bounds, and believes it’s well on its way to finding a way to use nanites to target and eliminate cancer cells, though this is only in the beginning stages as far as testing goes, and is not likely to come to any kind of fruition before 2013 unless some sort of massive breakthrough occurs in the time between now and then.
Kilian Qatar was born on January 1st, 1994, to Ahmed Qatar, the owner of Qatar Industries, and Anya Walter, a German stage and film actress. The couple had been married for almost a year when the heiress was born. Much of Ahmed’s family complained that his first born had been a girl, and it only became worse as the years went on and no male heirs were born. Ahmed, angered by his family’s lack of respect for his daughter, moved the company’s main headquarters to Germany, shifting where the power in the family would rest if and when he eventually passed on. He wanted to ensure that the company found its way to his daughter’s hands, and not the hands of his brothers (or the government) as Saudi law would have placed it. With the company’s move to Germany, Ahmed, Anya, and young Kilian moved to German as well and began a life there.
From a very young age, Kilian was taught to wield a sword by a private tutor, and became very skilled with the weapons by the age of twelve. It was at twelve that she began getting taught swordplay by her father, though she insisted that she wanted to use the real weapons rather than the training swords. Her father agreed, though made sure to be careful during their sessions. Also from a young age, she was taught not only at a top private school, but by tutors at home, and she excelled in her studies, getting ahead by the equivalent of two grade levels by the age of twelve. At twelve, her parents decided to pull her from school under the guise that she would be homeschooled. This, of course, was not true. They pulled her from school for the simple fact that they knew she would be coming to her first shift in the next few years some time, and wanted to ensure that when it happened she wasn’t in public somewhere.
Taking a few steps back, the family had also moved to the United States back in 2004. The city they chose, of all that they could have chosen, was Detroit. Kilian had found a school online in the city called the Detroit Military Academy, and while her father couldn’t quite understand why, she practically begged him to go there. He’d agreed, and they moved. Once she was enrolled there, Ahmed discovered why she’d wanted to go so badly – she had a knack for being in a command position, and she flourished. She shot through the ranks as fast as she could, and by the age of twelve she was a warrant officer (she would have made Lieutenant, but due to age requirements, that was all the higher she could go until she got a little older). After her parents pulled her for “homeschooling” (which was still done through DMA), she pushed herself all the harder in other areas that weren’t academic. She wanted to be ready for when she finally went back to school.
It was only about six months after she was pulled that she had her first shift, though due to both her parents being shifters, from families of shifters, they knew what to do and were able to control the situation. The next few times she shifted, they guided her, and even shifted themselves and escorted her around the city. Once the next school year started, she went right back to school and fought to get the rank she believed she deserved. Over the next few years, she would show time and again that she was an excellent officer, and had a great capacity to lead troops – as shown during training exercises away from the school. By sixteen, she had achieved the rank of Captain, and by the end of the 2009-2010 in June, she had made Major. She was considered one of the school’s top cadets, and was lined up perfectly to be the Cadet Commander and a Colonel by the time she graduated.
However, her mother and father brought something to her attention – another school, for shifters only, and it offered a good deal more education wise than DMA. While Kilian loved the military school she was at, she also realized that she would be needing the things at the shifter school, and decided to go for it. When the Commandant of DMA learned that she wouldn’t be returning for the rest of her high-school career, he decided to award her the rank of Lieutenant Colonel as a “sunset” promotion (essentially, a going away present). He also awarded her the medals that she had already done enough to earn, but would have been reserved for those that were in grades higher than her. After that, in the summer of 2010, she was taken out to the island where the shifter school was located.
She still wears her DMA uniform.
...connecting human to animal
Kilian shifts into a golden jackal mainly because of it being what identifies her family. The entire Qatar line has been golden jackals, all the way back to her ancestors in ancient times. Also, while not all of them are golden jackals (and those few relatives in the ‘states actually become Coyotes mostly), many of the shifters on her mother’s side are golden jackals as well. The entire family is cunning and intelligent though, and many think that might be the connection between their human and animal sides.
...literacy
RP Sample
Qatar Industries was perhaps one of the world's most successful, albeit comparatively small, oil companies. Originating in Saudi Arabia back in 1933, it was originally part of the California Arabian Standard Oil Company that would be renamed as the Arabian American Oil Company in 1944. In 1973, when the Saudi Arabian government bought twenty-five percent of the company, Qatar Industries, what was then a shipping and construction company, bought ten percent of the company, and promptly broke off. It would be another five years before Qatar Industries would be able to stand entirely on its own. When all was said and done though, the construction portion of the company was dropped, most of the shipping vessels were converted to transport oil, and the oil and natural gas company was there to stay.
Today, Q.I. is trumped by the state-owned company, Saudi Aramco. However, it still has an annual net profit of around $12.9 billion USD (though this does fluctuate and has gone as high as $19.4 billion, and as low as $10.1 billion since the turn of the century). Interestingly enough, this mirrors the split that occured nearly thirty-seven years ago, in that it is still about one ninth of the net earnings of Aramco (or one tenth of the total). In a similar manner, the company's worth of $86.8 billion USD also reflects this. This could be attributed to the fact that Q.I. participates in OPEC, and has done so since 1981. In 1985, the company was restructured when Kilian took control of it. By late 1989, Q.I. was firmly under her control, and before leaving to head back to Germany, she left the company in the hands of a board of directors. She would come to regret this decision eventually, though not for a few more years to come.
In 2001, when Kilian formed Task Force Talon, she still had enough of her own control in the company to sign a contract guaranteeing that the company would finance the unit until 2021. Yet, there was already some animosity between her and the board. By the time 2008 rolled around, the board had control enough of the company that they could over-rule and control the decisions made for the company. Another year passed, and that brings us to the current situation. The current problem: Kilian wanted to take the company back. To show that it was still hers. But how? How could she do that? She'd never really pushed the board to fund anything other than TFT before, and that was back when she had some real influence left. So how could she do it? And perhaps more importantly, how could she do it here in Los Angeles? The first thing that popped into her mind: a skyscraper, maybe even twin skyscrapers, and taller than any other building in the world. Yeah! That was how companies showed power. Bigger... Taller... Stronger... Better...
As the thought came to her, she grinned and went to the computer in her room, running a few searches on real estate, abandoned buildings, land that was for sale, and other things that could help her find a good foundation for these buildings. As she did though, she kept coming across something that... disturbed her. Half the articles that came up during her searches weren't about land that was for sale outright, but rather, homes that had been foreclosed. They were about the unemployed, and worse, the homeless. Soon enough, the topic of her searches changed. The towers were in the back of her mind, as they likely always would be, but she was changing her mind about what she would do here in Los Angeles. She would help these people. She would give them jobs, homes, and a brighter future than what they currently had.
And she wouldn't even do it for the sake of her own, or her company's prestige...
She would do it for one simple reason: she still had her humanity...
And with this act, she hoped to challenge others to remember theirs.
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