Jessica Olic

First description in book
''“Ah, we’ll have to remedy that later then. For now… I think introductions are in order.”''

''           Lanrete says motioning to a young woman with light brown hair sitting next to him. Her orange highlights play in the light as she turns from Lanrete to Neven, her short hair coming to rest barely past her neck. Dark brown esha marks give her away as being Huzien. She flashes a smile, her silver eyes entrancing Neven as she holds his full attention.''

''“Major Jessica Olic, a pleasure to meet you Neven. I’m responsible for combat training aboard the ship, so I’m sure we’ll be sparring in the future.”''

''           Neven detects a slight accent in her voice. His eyes catch sight of her honey toned skin, her complexion leading him to guess she was from the Setna Isles on Thae. His mind goes back to white sand beaches and the sounds of the ocean, memories of his childhood flooding back.''

Personality
Jessica has a surprising amount of patience for someone with her ability; this is accentuated with her friendly and caring attitude. She is slow to anger but once riled up becomes extremely focused, has been known to hold a grudge “forever.” When she takes up the Blade she becomes a completely different person, Lanrete claims that her eyes change to red in the heat of combat which is where her callsign “Phoenix” comes from. While in combat she carries an aura of deadly calm that can easily send chills up the spine of whomever her target happens to be.

Biography
Jessica “Phoenix” Olic, born of Envero and Jasha Olic in the Setna Isles, showed from early stages of child development an advanced form of Muscle Memory. Jessica is able to quickly pick up complex tasks simply from watching it being performed. This lead to Jessica taking a keen interested in Huzien Blade techniques. The Huzien Military kept a close eye on Jessica due to her obvious talent and potential. After graduating top of her class at the age of 28 Jessica attempted to live the farming life with her parents but at the age of 32 she left Thae and relocated to New Ginea to start a new life. She joined the prestigious Dragma Wopan Academy due to her gifted abilities and quickly attained mastery of the Wopan gun arts. At the age of 35 she joined the military in direct opposition to her parents’ wishes and quickly advanced up in ranks to become one of the youngest officers in Huzien Military history at the age of 40. Her progress peaked the interest of Lanrete who began keeping a close eye on her progress and eventually offered her a position as part of the Founder Elites. Jessica trained quickly under Lanrete in advanced Huzien Blade Techniques. Lanrete now views her as an equal and possibly a superior in terms of Blade Techniques. She has been with Lanrete for 66 years. Her mother sends weekly messages while her father has ended all communication with his daughter due to her affiliation with the military. She hasn’t given up on her relationship with her father and continues to appeal to him through her mother. Jessica has contemplated asking Lanrete to make a personal visit to her father.

Motivation
Jessica is guided by her love of close range combat, she spends her leisure time experimenting and developing new techniques and is motivated by a constant want to discover something new. This is what ultimately lead to her leaving her parents farm, and eventually joining the military. She however wants approval from both of her parents and the disapproval from her father is a constant source of pain in her life.

Goal
Ultimately Jessica wants her father to accept her choices in life and acknowledge her. She believes that once she has mastered everything there is to master she can return home and confront her father with a belief that he will have no choice but to accept her because of her accomplishments.

Conflict
Although Jessica has a unique gift she begins to wonder if the goal she set for herself was too lofty. Mastering everything regardless of special ability begins to seem more and more impossible. And with that realization how will she garner the acceptance from her father that she desperately wants.

Epiphany
Jessica realizes that no matter what she accomplishes her father's disapproval of her actions will not change. Her only course of action is to confront him regardless and demand that he accept her for who she is, an Officer in the Military and part of the Founder's Elite. And if in the end he refuses to accept her, she will have no choice but to accept it and move on.