Ines Okoro
The Deserter
- Health
- 36
- Stamina
- 8
- Age
- 47looks 53
"Take the weapon. Never the life. Say it until your hands believe it."
Passive
After your first successful block each round, recover 2 Stamina.
Loadout
Who they are
Ines lived twenty-four years inside under automated medicine and twenty-three in the ash and cold since; at forty-seven she looks nearer fifty-three. She stands 179 cm and a broad-shouldered, heavy-boned 76 kg, lean and hard, with a square, grounded stance and her hands hanging low and open at belt height. Her deep umber-brown skin is dry and ashen at the knuckles. Her broad, square-jawed face has heavy level brows, a flattened, twice-broken nose and steady, deep-set dark green eyes, and her scalp is shaved at the sides beneath a short cropped band of tight black coils. She is clean-shaven. A pale, ridged crescent of burn scar curves under her left ear and down her neck, and the faded service stamp on the inside of her left wrist is crossed out with a knife cut. Four blackened steel rings climb the rim of her right ear and a heavy steel stud sits in her left earlobe. She wears the charcoal-black armored border police undersuit, piped bone-white, with gunmetal forearm guards edged in bright yellow, knee and shin guards on pine-green straps and yellow-marked black boots, and pale rectangles where its insignia were cut away, and over it a long dark pine-green Division greatcoat with a mustard-yellow lining, double-breasted, worn open with its high collar turned up and its insignia cut away. Carbide ratchet cuffs ride on her hip, and she fights with a tungsten jitte wrapped in black friction tape. On her belt she still carries two magnesium flashbangs of the Division's last issue, bright enough to blind and loud enough to open every hand in a room.
She lives alone in a hollowed-out armored transport on Hull Row in the Block 9 Ruins and walks the Surface Shanty Slums at night as an unpaid warden of the drum-fire yards, confiscating blades from brawlers and drilling Jesse Holt's militia in disarms for ammunition. She fights to keep her oath, to take the weapon and never the life, and she shadows the masked fighter she knows to be Silas's daughter, looking for a way to keep Kira from dying at the same gate as her father without confessing that she let him die.
The years before
Year0
The Cordon
"In the seventy-two hours I held the cordon at the Titanium Wall with a baton, never a rifle. We pushed them out through the blast gates in their indoor clothes, children on their shoulders. I told myself I was humane. I shot nobody."
Ines Okoro
Year1
The Corridors
"The airlocks locked behind the Exiles and my squad went into the corridors. Every strike they threw was already in my manual. I broke wrists and stripped pikes from hands that moved as I knew they would. Behind me the officers fired."
Ines Okoro
Year1
The Gate
"Silas Locke held the blast gate open with his staff while Lyra Vance dragged the wounded through. I read his strikes and trapped the staff on my baton. He looked past me at the gate. I lowered my baton. The officers did not."
Ines Okoro
Year1
The Helmet in the Ash
"That night I walked out through the ruined gate of Block 9 into the ash. I cut the Division insignia off my undersuit with my combat knife and scraped my service stamp half off my wrist. I threw the helmet in the ash. I did not go back."
Ines Okoro
Year1
The Oath
"I lived the Ashen Winter alone in a burned-out transport on Hull Row, the same model that carried my squad into Block 9. Nobody came for me. In that hull I swore one oath, and I have kept it: take the weapon, never the life."
Ines Okoro
Year24
Hull Row
"Roach's salvage crew came to cut up the transports on Hull Row, and mine was not empty. The one-armed girl came at me with a karambit. I turned it out of her fingers and put her in the ash. I saw the stump, and let her go."
Ines Okoro
Year24
The Checkpoint in the Mud
"Nobody pays me to walk the drum-fire yards of the Surface Shanty Slums at night. I take the blades out of their hands and send them home whole. I built a checkpoint in the mud out of scrap. I know what a checkpoint is for."
Ines Okoro
Year24
The Forms
"A masked fighter was taking Elias Thorne's water convoys apart, so I went to see. On the eastern spur I watched Kira Vance put the guards down. I knew the forms: Silas Locke's. I was trained to beat them."
Ines Okoro
Pack 3 · Ines Okoro vs Toby Vance
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