[The Green Flame] Ilse Mistral

Name: Ilse Mistral

Age: 19

Gender: Female

Birthplace: Side 3 (Colony 38, Mahal)

Faction: Titans (Republic of Zeon)

Rank: Ensign

Appearance: Standing at around 5’8, Ilse is a spacenoid with grey eyes and black hair most frequently tied into a ponytail along with an olive skin tone that can be traced back to North Africa. Rather than muscular, Ilse’s physique can instead be considered comfortably toned from her time as an active pilot, a trait that, when combined with other factors, allow for an attractive visage.



Like others with the Helios Corps, Ilse wears a military uniform but most strikingly, the uniform she wears is not that of the Earth Federation forces (or even the Titans) but of the Republic of Zeon. A point of contention among the Corps given the uniform’s conception during the rise of the Principality and the war that would follow, Ilse nonetheless wears it with pride. Similarly, the normal suit that Ilse wears is that of the Republic, albeit one introduced in the later days of the OYW, its colors a muted black and purple. The one truly personal touch on her normal suit is an emblem of crossed lances on the side of her helmet.



Personality: A taciturn, if direct, young woman at first glance, Ilse is a soldier at odds with her place within the Helios Corps. Like her fellow countrymen, Ilse is proud of her nation and is among the untested youth of the Republic of Zeon’s defense force seeking to prove herself in the war between the Titans and the AEUG. At the same time, however, she unabashedly shares the unpopular opinion of the war being a Federation affair, far and away from anything the autonomous Republic of Zeon should be involved in. It’s an opinion that would grow into silent disdain for her Titan compatriots, a group who, as far as she was concerned, would want nothing more than to show her the airlock the first chance they got.



However, if there’s one thing that truly gets under her skin, it’s any mention of her father. A man widely considered to be a hero among her family alongside fellow Mahal citizens who staffed Zeon’s prized Marine Amphibious Units, the man she once idolized was revealed to be a war criminal following the end of the One Year War. With her family already reeling from the loss of their home colony during the war, the revelation of her father’s status as a war criminal would send her mother into a downward spiral of depression, culminating in estrangement from her mother. In the years since, Ilse has held nothing but disgust for the man and were he still alive, she’d want nothing to do with him, his actions forever shaming her merely by association.



History: Hailing from Side 3, then known as the Autonomous Republic of Zeon, Ilse was born during a time when the winds of change and turmoil were enveloping the Earth Sphere. The leader of Side 3, the philosopher Zeon Zum Deikun, was unexpectedly taken from the world by illness, leaving his closest advisor, Degwin Sodo Zabi, to succeed him and swiftly purge those who didn’t support his rise. The capital was in complete chaos as the Zabi family solidified its control and transformed the Republic into a Principality.



However, for Ilse, it was an entire world away from her, the young girl far and away from the chaos in the 38th colony of Side 3, Mahal. What could an infant possibly understand about the nuances of colonial politics? No, instead she was born into the rather mundane life of a simple spacenoid, if of lower social standing. Her family didn’t have anyone to write home about. Her father was just a member of the colony’s guard force, her mother was a simple homemaker and Ilse herself was their only daughter. The only thing on their minds was how to make a living in such an unwelcoming environment, Mahal taking after many other colonies as it was faced with overpopulation and little means to climb the social ladder.



But it was an existence that, for better or worse, would simply cease to exist. As the years went on and the Principality’s anti-Federation rhetoric intensified, life in Mahal changed for Ilse. The airwaves were filled with calls for total independence from the Federation, the government merely leeching off the colonists it treated no better than second-class citizens. The usual grumbling of a hard life turning to outright shouting matches for the people of space to take hold of their own fate and cast aside their oppressors. Ilse’s own parents, far from being fervent followers of the Zabi family, nonetheless became swept up themselves with her father leaving Mahal’s colony guard to join the Principality of Zeon’s growing army, serving in one of Zeon’s prized Marine Amphibious Units. Before they knew it, the war had started.



Like the vast majority of Side 3’s populace, Ilse and her mother were ecstatic. This was the moment they’d all been waiting for, after years of oppression by the Earth Federation, they’d rise up strike such a blow to their enemy that independence was all but assured. By the end of the first week, everyone expected the Federation to come groveling to the negotiating table, reeling from their string of devastating defeats. Instead, the war dragged on. At first, Ilse believed it was just a matter of time, that her father would return triumphant and they’d be free of the Federation. But as weeks turned to months, things just never turned around. Contact with her father, already sporadic because of the war, became nonexistent and the average age of a recruit steadily grew younger, the adults either forced out by injury or, more likely, simply being killed in the fighting. By December, the war had become so desperate that even the people of Mahal were forced from their homes, the plight of the people deemed a ‘necessary’ sacrifice for victory.



In the end, Zeon had lost the war, its people left behind to pick up the pieces. For a time, Ilse didn’t know just what the future had in store for her. The colony she called home was destroyed for the war effort, she was resettled several times into one of the many overcrowded colonies brought in to ease Side 3’s overcrowding and, most trying for Ilse, her father was among the many to not return from the war. She and her mother held out hope of course, just believing it was a matter of time before he came home. But as the years went on and they struggled on without him, the reality quickly took hold that he just wasn’t coming back. Perhaps the hardest pill to swallow was the steady declassification of information of Zeon’s military conduct during the One Year War, in particular, the actions of the Principality’s prized M.A.U.s. like the one that her father served in. More than just fearsome units, they were supposedly behind numerous war crimes during the opening days of the war, notably the gassing of multiple colonies just to eliminate the Federation garrisons within. The mere thought of being related to such a man crushed any remaining faith Ilse held for her father. And her poor mother…Even when they were ostracized for being the wife and daughter of a war criminal, she kept on believing her husband to be a good man. That belief was likely the only thing that kept her going albeit at the cost of her own daughter.



In the years since then, the Earth Sphere was on track to become a dangerous place once more over the following years. The resurgence and fall of the Delaz Fleet led to the rise of the Titans and with it, a backlash against spacenoids that would soon plunge humanity into another war. Even the Republic of Zeon, far and away isolated from the conflict, would be preparing for the days to come as its meager defense force saw a surge in recruitment. A newer generation of pilots, coming of age at a time where the Republic was at the Federation’s beck and call, were driven by an uncomfortably familiar nationalistic pride as if to prove the Republic still had a place on the world stage. Ilse herself felt that same pride and would be among those itching for a chance to prove herself. By August of 0087, she would get her chance as the Federation fell into a full-blown civil war. With the war between the AEUG and Titans looking to stretch on than initially thought, the Titan’s began looking elsewhere for all the help it could get and its first stop was the Republic of Zeon. With hardly any fanfare, the Republic had allied with the Titans in their war and began delegating its forces to the Titans to use as they see fit with Ilse herself finding a place within one of the first integrated units, the Helios Corps.



Mobile Suit:

RMS-106CS Hizack Custom

- 1x Beam Saber

- 1x Shoulder Shield

- Beam Launcher