The Earth Has Teeth RO intro: Nikita Leu

Full name: Nikita Leu

Age: 25

Gender: selectable between cis man (he/him), cis woman (she/her), and transfem (they/them)

Background: Nikita is a courier like you, fetching and carrying items, messages, and sometimes people from settlement to settlement. They’re a survivalist, having a great deal of experience handling life on the plains even in emergencies, and are fiercely independent. Nikita doesn’t talk much about themself or their past: hard to tell whether that’s because they have a  withdrawn personality (which they do) or because there’s something they don’t want to say.

Personality: watchful, quiet, terse, toughened

Appearance: mid-height and rangy, but holds themself tensely so they often look a little hunched. They have olive skin and wide green eyes.

Style: Male Nikita shaves his head and has a scruffy beard; a non-male Nikita wears their hair longer, with a ponytail. Nikita’s clothes are practical and durable. They wear thick linen shirts, woolen trousers, sturdy boots, and a charcoal-coloured woolen coat with fleece lining. In colder weather they wear a cloak, but mostly they use it as a blanket.

At their best: generous, prepared, attentive

At their worst: brusque, withdrawn, despairing

You’ll like Nikita if you like… a withdrawn, melancholy person who’s nevertheless very competent in a pinch, who will give their all to those in need while being intensely ruthless in certain situations, who takes a while to warm up but will be an attack dog if necessary

You’ll like romancing Nikita if you like… teasing someone and flustering them or slowly building a serious connection, opening up vulnerabilities, trauma-bonding, hot-and-cold emotional rollercoasters

A song from Nikita’s playlist: Break Me Gently by Doves

Face cast ideas: (bear in mind that this isn’t the be-all-and-end-all - feel free to imagine as you like) Luke Pasqualino, Benedetta Porcaroli, Paola Buratto