Rikki Tikki Tavi - Going by Tavi in most circles and by Mongoose with her most familiar crowd, she grew up groomed to be a bodyguard. Her parents ran a security agency with bodyguards for hire. Although they were disappointed she wasn't born a boy, her parents affectionately named their daughter after an endearing story of a brave mongoose in the hopes she would possess a fighting spirit to outweigh the disadvantages of her smaller stature. She did prove to be a good student of the protective arts and took up several bodyguard duties after she turned 16. Unfortunately the family business went belly-up after an embarrassing death happened on one of the staff's watch. The staff in question declined taste testing his charge's food for poison, citing it was not in the contract. The charge succumbed to the grips of poisoning upon eating the dish in question and the scandal ruined the business entirely. Tavi was assigned to a government official on Courscant at the time and was promptly dismissed once the news reached the planet. She had been doing a lot of freelance mercenary work, but yearned for the longer term relationship that only a bodyguard and client can share. She is currently hired by a political outcast who is looking to redeem his own name, so this could be the turning point she was looking for.

Tavi has a soft spot for animals. As a child she begged her parents for pets, but was only allowed a few voorpaks. She tried to ask for a rancor for her 5th birthday and didn't give it up until she was 10. She will claim that she had a pet baby dianoga for a week. She found it living in her family's toilet and named it Louie. She got caught bringing her dinner scraps to the bathroom to feed Louie and he was removed by an exterminator. As an adult, when she got assigned to clients on other planets, she made a point of volunteering at animal rescues on her days off in hopes of working with lots of different species. She's still searching for that perfect pet companion.

Tavi's relationship with her parents feels more like a business partnership to her. In her eyes, they don't treat her much different then the others that they employed. She's had little luck with intimate relationships. She dated one of the other employees she was assigned with once and the vulnerability was too much for her to handle. Since it was affecting her job, she left him and asked for another assignment. She also had relations with a client which ended very poorly and she again asked for reassignment. She decided that more casual relations better suited her line of work, and she calls on a weapons merchant whenever she's in his neighborhood. She would like a more permanent partner but doesn't know how to deal with the vulnerability it puts her in along with her work.

Enthusiasm vs. Reckless

Redemption

Neutral in the Empire vs. New Republic - feels screwed by the whole political system for being fired from her last big job for someone else's incompetence. At this point, her main concern is making a living and doing the best job she can to save her own reputation. She feels she can operate under any regime, so long as they don't interfere with her work.

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-Female
-27 yrs old
-medium length brown hair in a braid and knotted up with two sticks carved to look like cobras
-brown eyes
-very unremarkable looking besides being 5 feet tall