NOVA

PERSONALITY

Nova only has 3 priorities in her life: Have as much fun as possible, stay in the spotlight, and keeping her club afloat. If there was any one person to be the poster child of hedonistic and indulgent behavior, Nova would sweep the competition. Many on the planet have assumed that her personality would get in the way of running a business, but at least so far, it's been quite the opposite. She's willing to do nearly anything to ensure that she and her partners are having a good time everyday. Of course life can't always be perfect, but that doesn't stop her from trying, at the least she can make a shitty slog of a day mildly better than it would have been. The club is a major part of this "having a good time".

These '3 priorities' are often how she makes all of her decisions, and for the most part, everything else she cares about is under one of these categories in some form. For example, her romantic partners Coin and Maggot make her happy, so they qualify under 'having fun', this doesn't mean she drops them when the going gets tough however, if any of them are having a rough time, it means that her goal is to figure out how to solve it together so they can all return to enjoying themselves.

Nova is excellent at balancing the serious with the fun, often managing to find ways to make the more slow tasks of a day into something more interesting, while still keeping up the pace, if not managing to end up finishing them even more efficiently. She is acutely aware that those who are miserable will never get things done as well as those who are enjoying their life, both in quality and quantity of their work. For this very reason, despite herself not being exempt from greed whatsoever, she takes excellent care of her club's employees. The goal of her club, at least as she sees it, is to spread joy and fun into the city. Anyone hired there enjoys full benefits, regardless of how 'low ranking' their job may be. All receive plenty of paid time off, living wages, and excellent medical insurance.

But having enough money to do all of this as well as run a club that could practically double as an amusement park is no easy feat. No one gets to her amount of wealth without getting their hands dirty, she's no exception. Her 3 priorities are, quite literally, her only 3 priorities. She may genuinely want to spread the fun to as many people as possible, but she doesn't care how it gets done. Almost all actions are neutral in morality to her, if it isn't harming her, her partners, or her club, then she couldn't care less. Nova is an excellent manipulator, and has no qualms using others to her benefit, she believes that what others don't know can't hurt them. If they're having a good life still, or at the least don't realize what she's doing, then what's the problem? The only two people in the world safe from this behavior are her partners, who she is very open with and communicates to frequently. On the same subject, she also has no issues whatsoever with abusing loopholes in Lynxon's laws, both her country's and the planet's global/intergalactic ones. She has the skills to hide it, and the money and connections to weasel out of it even in the case that she was ever caught. Though she's never had to face the latter on any serious level yet. Rules are meant to be broken after all.

Because of these views on morality however, her ideas of fun can sometimes end up a bit twisted in nature. She would never show it around the club or in public, of course not, that could ruin her club's perception and that would be unacceptable. But she frequently finds amusement in the things people will resort to when at their lowest, a trait that partly led to her agreement in beginning her 'middle-man'ing for those seeking bounty hunters and assassins. Watching people be willing to kill others for varieties of reasons is fascinating to her, and since those doing so are often beyond the line of returning to 'normal' life ever again, it can feel like playing with toys. It is perhaps the one and only thing she does not speak to her partners about, at least not in full detail. Maggot may share some of her amusement in it all, but Maggot is also an amnesiac, and nearly all she's known is Nova and the club. She's sane enough to at least not want to encourage this behavior in her partner too much. This same fascination also leads her to being quite nosy about other people's lives, often digging deep into people's histories, whether it's the killers she's working with, or simply just people partnered with the club. Knowing as much as she can about the people she's surrounded by is one of the key parts in how she manages to get things to go the way she wants them to. She's usually not the blackmail type, keeping what she knows to herself for the most part, but having this knowledge gives her a better look into other's personalities and what makes them tick.

To most people she meets though, Nova is surprisingly calm and forgiving, she prefers not to solve her own issues with violence usually, there's no need to risk something like that getting out when her smooth talking and bargaining is often enough, especially if Coin is assisting her. But there is nothing Nova hates more than whoever she deems 'party poopers' however, a category that is reserved for those who try to harm her, her partners, or the club. She will usually react to these people 'eye for an eye' style, but those who particularly piss her off by going too far? Well, she /is/ connected with plenty of people who kill for money. She's careful and calculated whenever it reaches this point, she will never allow anything to be traced back to the club, but she does not back down. In regular business, she's known for being effeciently cutthroat in the manner most business owners expect. In the seedy underground of galactic crime though? It is incredibly common knowledge that messing with her or the club is strictly discouraged. She does not play games with her club, she is here to middle-man and provide a service in connecting clients with people who will kill, and that's all. She wants no part in their drama, and those who attempt to involve her are swiftly taken care of, whether it be a good old fashioned murder, or stamping their reputation into the ground as deep as it can go.

Similarly to how she interacts with the average person, Nova also has lots of leeway when working alongside the vendors and sponsors that make the grande scope of her club possible. She's timely on payments, knows what to say, and what not to say. But she has her skills mostly in the talking side of business, less so the actual financial sides of things. She knows her weaknesses, and that one of them is she can get a bit overzealous with her ideas and plans for the club. So when it comes to this, she and her partner Coin work together. Coin is great at handling a budget and executing plans on the financial side, but is a little lacking when it comes to getting the best deal out of things, they know what the best deal would be, but don't have the same gift Nova does in smooth talking their way into it, meanwhile Nova excels at bargaining and getting people on her side. Coin tells Nova when she needs to back down from an idea a bit and settle for something smaller, and what sort of deal they're looking for in order to achieve what they want, Nova handles the speaking portion. The two of them together make a force to be reckoned with, one that allowed their club to grow so expotentially quickly, going from mildly wealthy to some of the richest people on Lynxon.