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Name: Astarte Cyprus
Age: 20
Appearance: Astarte is a small woman (around 165cm tall and weighing 50kg) with waist length brown hair and brilliant blue eyes. She wears a grey button-up coat with a tall collar and black skinny jeans. Underneath her coat she wears a white t-shirt and wears black ankle boots with flat bottoms.
Bio: Astarte was raised middle-class by her father alone who works as a detective inspector in the police force- her mother having disappeared when Astarte was very young- and shared his limited attention with a slightly older brother. Both of them worked hard in school, though Astarte was less inclined to try to impress her father than her brother was. The two siblings are now both freshman and take this class.
Astarte has taken a basic course on self-defense, and has done track running before, which she was quite good at.
Equipment: A shoulder-strapped grey bag (not a hand bag) containing a notebook, a knife a few pens and pencils, a can of spray-on deodorant, a can of insect repellant (also spray-on) and a flashlight. A white face mask. Nero's bag and it's contents, as well as what was in his pockets when he died.
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Name: Hector Cyprus
Age: 21
Appearance: Hector is an average height and weight (5'11 and 75kg) with unkempt black hair that just goes down past his grey eyes. He wears black jeans and a black t-shirt with a white, long-sleeved undershirt.
Bio: Hector grew up with Astarte and was constantly frustrated by her lack of a competitive nature, but was pleased to learn that this made it easy for him to take up a majority of his father's attention. During his early years at school, Hector met a quiet foreign student who came to the school mid-semester. This boy immediately took to Hector, who made him a lackey, and they have been close friends ever since. Hector has played sports such as soccer, fencing and basketball, making him quite fit.
He has now entered university and is taking this class with Astarte.
Equipment: Hector carries a plain white backpack containing bottled water, a notebook, some pens and pencils, a flashlight, a pack of cigarettes, some spray-on deodorant and a packet of adhesive bandages. In his zipped pockets he has a cell phone and a lighter. A box of flares, a white face mask, a first-aid kit and a flashlight.
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Name: Eduj Bonventre
Age: 21
Appearance: Eduj is a tall, gaunt and pale man with very few defining features besides his bright golden eyes and short white hair. He wears black trousers and a grey jacket, which when unzipped reveals a white and black striped t-shirt.
Bio: Eduj and his adopted parents moved to Germany when he was only just school aged. He originally felt lonely and bored with his new life and school, until he was made to do group work with a child named Hector. Hector was friendly to Eduj and for an hour of school time he didn't feel lonely or bored anymore. After that, he would always find Hector, who to Eduj's relief, welcomed him as a friend.
Meanwhile he was generally neglected by his adopted parents- his father worked too much to pay much attention to him, and his mother did nothing but make Eduj do house work or school work. When his mother was killed in a car accident, he felt little. It seemed that his father also felt little, as he continued to sleep with other women (as he had been doing prior to his wife's death) and spent next to no time at home with Eduj.
He only became more attached to Hector as they grew older and has now entered university with him and is taking the same class, and the same trip.
Equipment: A green and black backpack containing bottled water, a notebook, pens and pencils, deodorant, a box of cigarettes, and his house keys. In his pockets he has a cell phone and a lighter. A flashlight, batteries and a bottle of disinfectant.
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Name: Stefan Olligschläger
Age: 20
Appearance: Stefan stands at about 5'11 and weighs 90kg. He has blue eyes and shoulder length blonde hair parted in the middle. He wears a thin green sweater and blue jeans, as well as a golden cross hanging from his neck by a silver chain.
Bio: Stefen grew up in a Christian family with no brothers or sisters. He has always been forthright and confident, which has helped a little in his school and social life, but has occasionally led him to trouble. He has a general interest in geology, and is also considering a life in teaching.
Equipment: A shoulder-strapped bag containing a notebook, pens and pencils and deodorant.
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Name: Noctis Talea.
Age: 20.
Appearance: Noctis has fairly pale skin, a point of contention with her. Her hair is just longer than chin length in the front, and slightly shorter in the back. Her eyes are such a dark shade of brown that they look almost black. She has a proclivity for dark clothes, usually simple things with a jacket over it. She stands at just about 5'6''.
Noct.
Bio: Noctis, Noct for short, was born in the USA, but moved to Germany soon after her birth, making her bilingual. Noct was raised by her single, work-aholic mother. She never knew her father, though it didn't matter much to her. He had left her with a witch of a mother, and therefore, was just another in a long list of assholes in her life.
An introvert by nature, Noct spent a lot of time as an adolescent cooped up in her room, with one hobby or another, and not making many friends. This changed abruptly when she entered Ulm on a scholarship. Her plan was to coast by, and earn her degree as soon as possible. Her roommate, however, was able to get Noctis to become a bit more social. Noct, currently 3 years into her law degree, lived an otherwise healthy college life, using the dorms, and her new friends as an escape from her life at home with her mother.
Her roommate, and a few friends had planned on attending the field trip, but backed out when Noctis' mother was struck dead by a bus, leaving Noctis with a considerable inheritance. On the day of the trip, they attended the funeral.
Equipment: Noct's average college equipment consists of her backpack, filled with a laptop she uses as a stand-in for notebooks, a book on law, and a small knife she uses for mostly utilitarian purposes. She also always keeps her cell phone on her, a smart phone, which has a small homemade strap of a black cat and sheep made by a friend of hers. A 16gig USB, filled mostly with notes, and a personal journal, is also kept on the strap, though it is password protected.
Other: At her roommate's suggestion, Noct has trained for two years in self defense classes, and is deceptively athletic.

Name: Mortal Dulces.
Age: 20.
Appearance: Mortal has very fair skin, and platinum blonde hair that has continued to grow lighter until it became more white than anything else. She usually keeps it in a ponytail, with loose bangs, but likes to let it down to her shoulders every now and again. Her eyes are an icy blue. Mortal stands at about 6' flat, and has a voluptuous body. She has a small vertical scar over her right eye, going through her eyebrow. She usually wears a long sleeved t-shirt, mostly red, though she certainly owns more than one color of shirt, with the sleeves pushed up to her elbows, blue, boot cut jeans, and black riding boots, worn under the jeans, with a belt to match, though her shirt is usually untucked.
Bio: Mortal was born to two police officers and was raised in a style typical of that. Growing up wasn't harsh, but it was strict, and by the book. She made friends easily enough, but was a bit tough for a girl her age. Growing up it was uncommon for Mortal to be with both her parents at once. They worked at opposite ends of the day, for the most part, and rarely was the family together at once. While not exactly devoid of love, Mortal found her parents ability to raise a child wanting. She had decided from an early age to become an officer as well, and tried to impress them with her knowledge of law, but they always seemed distracted by something more important.
Her plans to become an officer were thrown away when her father was killed on duty. Since then she decided to study nursing at Ulm. While there she became friends with Noctis, her roommate, due to their interest in law, as well as troubled family lives. Mortal also became fast friends with Sab, another nursing major.
She had wanted to go on the trip, but canceled to help support Noctis during the funeral.
Equipment: Mortal's backpack is almost always filled with notebooks, and random first aid supplies, usually a full kit, plus a random scalpel or two that she forgets to put back after class. She also always keeps her phone on her, and has a strap like Noct's, only the cat is replaced by a small red dragon.
Other: Trained in Krav Maga from an early age as part of her conditioning to become an officer. Though no longer interested in that life, she still practices, and even dragged Noct into it.

Name: Sab Rosa.
Age: 19.
Appearance: Standing at all of 4'10'', with limbs like twigs, Sab isn't the most intimidating presence. Her incredibly pale skin also does little more than make her look sick. Her eyes are a pale shade of amber, looking almost like a pale gold. Her hair is pale blonde, and cut in a simple bob that has her hair ever so slightly longer at the sides. She usually wears a white summer dress that ends just below her knees.
Bio: She comes from a small family; just her mother, father and her, with no cousins, uncles, aunts, or grandparents to speak of. Her father was an accountant, and her mother a nurse at the local clinic. She always had a desire to help people, and thought that her mother had the right idea, so when she was accepted into Ulm she chose Nursing as her major.
She is a bit shy, but after getting to know a few outgoing people Sab fell into a group of friends that have made her life wonderful, particularly Mortal, a friend she met in Nursing, and her roommate, Aroma. At the end of her first semester she made cell phone charms for her friends consisting of an animal that reminded her of them, and a sheep, her own motif. Sab was at Dawn's funeral during the trip.
Equipment: Sab always has a fully stocked first aid kit on hand, as well as an assortment of medication, primarily anti-biotics and pain killers. She also always keeps her phone on her. Unlike her friends Sab doesn't have a cell phone strap.
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Name: Gabriel Elizondo.
Age: 21.
Appearance: Stands at about 5'9'', with emerald eyes, and straight chestnut hair, cut in a bob which she keeps a bit messy though it looks a bit more like a 'style' than a tangled mess. She has sharp features, and a bit of a stern look, but is usually found cheerful, and smiling. Her face is extremely emotive, and it is easy to read her like a book when her guard is down; hard, however, to read when she puts up an emotional wall, of is focused. Her skin is a light olive, and she has a small tattoo of a red, five point star occupying the space on the back of her right hand between her thumb and index finger. Despite her physical fitness she is more lanky than a meat head, with long limbs. She is a fan of loose fitting clothes, allowing her easy movement, mostly shorts, or baggy pants, and loose, sleeveless shirts. She mostly goes for sneakers in case she needs to move around, but likes slip-on's as well for something more casual.
Bio: Gabriel comes from a poor family, and, by extension, a rough neighborhood. She didn't fall into any bad crowds, however, because she was able to use sports as an outlet. Her father was a major inspiration for her. He played professional baseball in Spain before he moved to Germany in retirement. When Gabe was young, however, her father died, and her mother was unable to balance the checkbook well enough. This led the family to pack up and move when Gabe was about four years old to the neighborhood she lives at currently.
While middle school was tough for her, in high school she became something or a sports star, and was able to get a scholarship to Ulm on their track team, though she was also being scouted for their softball team as well. She majors in Political Science, but only because she thought majoring in Sports Management was too cliche. She is in her final year, and in addition to being a B student, she has brought back golds in three consecutive years for the Ulm track team in multiple sprinting events, as well as the 400m relay, and, as of last year, the 400m hurdles. During the trip she was with Noctis at the funeral, having become friends with the law student during her second year.
Equipment: Gabe's backpack is usually full of random shit, but almost invariably contains ace bandages, a water bottle, power bars, and her track uniform, as well as sprinting shoes. Gabe keeps her phone close by, but usually forgets to charge it up, leaving it somewhere between half health and dead most of the time. She has a Sab made charm as well, her's with a German Shepard, and a sheep.
Other: While not trained for fighting like Mortal, Gabe's upbringing has left her with a good understanding of how to defend herself. More importantly, she knows when to run away.