Biru

Indah ‘Biru’ Sukarnoputri Biru · Science Scrapper · Energy Melee Electric Armor Mu Player: @Blackhand Identity Real Name Indah Sukarnoputri Aliases Blue Birthdate 1997 Birthplace Jakarta Citizenship Naturalized US citizen Residence Peregrine Island Occupation Chemist Marital Status n/a · Known Relatives · Intan and Eva Sukarnoputri Physical Traits Species Human/Cephalopod/etc. hybrid Ethnicity Indonesian/Czech Gender Female Apparent Age 26 Height 5'3" Weight 180 Hair Black Eyes Bright blue Skin Blue by preference but varies Early Life Indah Sukarnoputri was born in Indonesia. Biru means ‘blue,’ a nickname from childhood due to her oddly firm favorite color, often insisting all her clothes be blue. Biru was seemingly a born scientist. Her parents laughingly recall a constant refrain that she had a "hypothesis" from age 5. She blazed through school and started college a year early. Portal Corp After getting her Master’s degree, Biru became a chemist at Portal Corp where she worked on the continuing research on Superdine, studying safe short term uses. One day at Portal Corp, there was a series of partial power failures and a portal began to oscillate in intensity and directionality. Ten people were killed outright. Despite the best efforts of Portal Crop, Biru could not be found. Sensor and targeting data was fragmented at the time she disappeared, just before the portal exploded. It was a ‘needle in a haystack’ issue, with the added challenge that the ‘needle’ may have been disintegrated or disbursed atomically across the multiverse. All but her parents eventually gave up hope. The Blue Pearl Six months after the incident, Indah Sukarnoputri phoned home. A literal message in a bottle was piggybacked on a portal return signal with identification, coordinates, and a request to send a diplomatic detail. A rescue party and xenoambassador were sent. They were greeted near a beautiful artificial reef pool by a blue, bioluminescent Biru waving excitedly and circled by a party of 1 to 2 meter tall cuttlefish-like creatures, with lavishly adorned shells. Their hosts‘ name for themselves, Biru laughingly explained, was basically ‘home sapiens,’ in translation. “They call their shells ‘homes,’ so it makes sense!” Biru would later explain she had been flung into this version of Earth nearly dead. The ‘homeys,’ as she calls them for short, raced to save her. Their medical technology was largely based around rapid healing. An approach that was not viable for humans without the right mutations, often going cancerous. Their best doctors and scientists were only able to save her through gene splicing. Novel process that it was, with them not understanding human metabolism, the DNA changes manifested in much more powerful ways in Biru. Which when she first awoke, was very problematic. The homeys communicate electropathically. Biru could sense that they were trying to communicate, even if the ‘words,’ made no sense ….”seemed like math though” but her attempts at replying would stun the homeys. The two species worked at it. Biru figured out that the messages they were sending her were essentially vector drawings. They resorted to sending signals to her directly with her using a tablet to draw her responses. Being fluent in five human languages, she mostly figured it out in a few months. ..”it is a bit like Chinese, except all the parts of speech have distinct shells…haa…and emotional and structural meaning is color based. Though that is like, the trade language, some of their languages are like abstract art just in simple sentences.” “This was first contact for them. I lived like a celebrity mermaid in many ways. Oh ya, [shows her gill slits] gills!!…..working gills! I had a lovely foster family …and incidentally the DNA change cured my shellfish allergy…Ya getting back, so I didn't set right away to coming back because I had rather profound amnesia. But once my memory came back, while I could make casual conversation at that point, it took longer to explain portal technology. They had imagined there was sentient life out in the universe, but had assumed I had come from a spaceship.” A year after returning to her own Earth, tourism to and from the Blue Pearl (their name for Earth) is thriving. Biru visits her foster family as often as she can between her continuing work both at Portal Corp and with Longbow.