Kifo Mletalclaw

Basics
IG Name: Kifo Mletalclaw

Class: Engineer (Scrapper)

IC Profession: Medical Doctor and Research Pathologist, and Resident Research Surgeon with the Tarnished Coast Surgical Research Partnership, headed by Professor Shaarku.

Race: Charr - Iron

Warband: Gladium (Past, Mletal)

Pact Affiliation: Priory

Alignment: Neutral Good

Description
Kifo is quite small and not very muscular, coming in at about 5'11" and 125 lbs. She looks like a cheetah in coloring and facial shape, with pronged horns and neat, blunted claws.  Her eyes a bright blue and Kifo requires glasses to mitigate her extreme farsightedness, she is relatively blind at close-range.

The little charr is usually in a lab coat and dungarees, and carries a sniper-style rifle that she is proficient with. Kifo generally has a lil wheeze to her breathing and will sometimes wear a filtering apparatus if the air quality in her current environment is poor.

Demeanor
Kifo is fairly reserved and mild-mannered for a charr, generally letting others take the lead and keeping comments in reserve. She doesn't pick fights and isn't drawn to physical combat, though Kifo will throw a punch or two if the need arose.

She prides herself as a doctor and usually well prepared for most medical emergencies. The little charr can take charge in a surgical ward or run an efficient field unit, which is why she was hired onto Shaarku's laboratory staff after her stint in Dynamics. Kifo works best with humans and asura, though she avoids casual conversation with the latter. She also avoids the Citadel and most other charr.

Early Life
The Mletal Warband was formed as any other warband, with Kifo assigned to her 'bandmates as a cub and choosing a name. An unfortunate typo in registration was the source of the errant 'L', but they kept it since 'Metal' turned out to be taken anyway.

Diagnosed from birth with moderate intermittent asthma and acute allergies, Kifo was left behind in the combat sector very quickly. Her warband was an optimistic and innovative lil bunch, so they helped the wheezy cub move into a full-support role and Kifo started her path to a doctor by first training as a field medic. Even with her asthma, she was able to get through her basic training and a bit further, but was not medically cleared for actual battle.

Gladium
Kifo's asthma is what ultimately kept her from sharing the fate of her warband.

Deployed into the Verdant Brink and pulled down with their ship, most of the Mletal Warband were at the head of the fleet, while Kifo was in the R&D sector's ship taking up the back ranks. When Mordremoth attacked, Kifo's ship was still far enough away to be out of reach of the tendrils that destroyed much of the Pact forces. Some of her warband was able to be recovered, but not after they had contracted an undiscovered strain of malaria and they soon succumbed to their illness. Though everyone assured her that there hadn't been enough time for anyone to develop a treatment, Kifo took this as a personal failure since they were not only her 'bandmates, but patients assigned to her care.

Kifo took a blood oath not to join another warband (lest she fail them as well) and to further pursue a career in medicine.

Medical Training
Kifo has studied in numerous places over the years, often times starting as an assistant or nurse and slowly proving herself and taking on harder tasks. She has formal training from the hospital in Divinity's Rest, and had already completed all medical training available to charr before the loss of her warband. Kifo lived in the Grove for a year and learned as much as she could about holistic medicine and Canthan acupuncture. With this impressive resume, she was eventually allowed to attend the College of Dynamics to study viral pathogenesis and oncology.

The little charr had a hard time, both from the advanced nature of the courses and the constant judgement of her asuran peers. Shaarku took over as mentor for her when she happened to attend one of his classes. With intense tutoring sessions and doing little more than sleeping and studying outside of class, Kifo was able to get her associate's level degree, but had to withdraw from classes in the second half of her third year. She did so before she officially "failed" out of the college, closing off the possibility of returning to finish. She returned to college after a two year break and is due to graduate soon with an average GPA.

Kifo is currently working as his assistant, and helps oversee the Shadowprey Laboratory. when not on assignment for the Priory.

Relationships Within the Stray
Kifo is currently seeing Calixx.

Trivia
- "Kifo Mleta" means "Death Bringer" in Swahili; it is not a typo.

- Kifo's player has the same type of asthma, and finds it tragically hilarious in a cheetah. LoL get wrecked.

- She carries a little rescue inhaler, which would be whatever the GW2 equivalent to "Albuterol Sulfate HFA" is.