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greatest_gift) wrote2026-05-25 11:53 pm
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TLV Application - Inmate
User Name/Nick: Danii
User DW: yarnzipan
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Other Characters Currently In-Game: John Doe, Jinu, Vincent Smith, Wiktor Szulski
Character Name: Sister Danica
Series: Warhammer 40K / Pariah Nexus Web Series
Age: mid 30s by appearance
From When?: Danica comes from the last episode of the series, killed by a Necron Deathmark literal seconds after she'd decided to try and harbor hope that the civilians they were escorting might survive the warzone.
Inmate Justification: Even with all the problems of the Imperium aside, Danica is an especially good example of faith gone bad: during the defense of Paradyce III, when the Imperial Guardsman she was working with begged her to retreat to save the lives of the fighters and increase their chances of being able to succeed, she denied the request and refused to fall back to another choke point, insisting that they had to hold every inch of 'holy ground' regardless of how many people died and that their faith and their righteous cause would see them through. This got the guardsman killed right in front of her, alongside all of the sisters in her unit and the other guardsman who were scattered and eventually picked off. Following this, she 'determined' that it wasn't her fault that everything went to shit and they lost, it was that the people's faith wasn't great enough, that their 'faithlessness' brought the ruin to the planet and allowed the invaders to desecrate the city, essentially blaming the dead for their own destruction. When someone tries to comfort her about her losses and tell her that it isn't her fault that everything's gone to shit, she turns on him, calling him weak and faithless and even pulls her gun on this civilian in a bit of a psychotic fit because he 'dared' speak on behalf of the Emperor to her. This is on top of pulling her gun when initially seeing the civilians brought with Sa'kan, intending to kill them so as not to give them 'poisonous' hope and to avoid coddling the faithless cowardly weaklings who had cowered in a crypt when the alien threats came. ...when it's a family with two small children. She puts her 'faith' over the actual people of the Imperium and even her own fellow soldiers/loved ones and lashes out when challenged on those mistakes, choosing the 'ugliest' scripture to repeat and support and choosing the most hateful, hopeless, and vicious version of the doctrine to live out.
But, ultimately, there is a part of her that knows better, that does question, that cares about people, that wants to do and be better even if her self-image and understanding of the world cannot quite manage to get her there herself. During her crisis on Paradyce III, she is accompanied by a delusion of a guardswoman (a soldier who died under her command) who acts as her counterpoint, who questions her decisions and her ideas, who speaks for basically every good decision she could make and seems to care a lot more for other people than she does. The Guardsman is critical of her blind devotion, of her ruthless dismissal of others, and speaks in favor of trusting the Salamander Sa'kan and trying to do the Right Things. But that delusion is just her, it's the thoughts she has herself, the doubts and fears and the crisis of faith she's experiencing externalized as someone else because her sense of self is so rooted to the doctrine and training she's received and too fragile to make that leap.
Arrival: Against her will; she thought she was heading to the Emperor's side. And oh she is not happy about this detour. This is the way of the heretic, cheating death. She's 100% going to be worse before she's better.
Abilities/Powers: Danica is a Sister of Battle, and while she has no psyker abilities, she does have a variety of faith-based powers at her disposal while doing battle in the Emperor's name. Some of them have no real use outside of pitched battle, but I would like her to straight out keep:
Shield of Faith / Pure Faith - for good or ill, magic can't effect her bodily (a fireball sent at her would work but trying to fuck with her head magically/psychically will not) which also includes being immune to healing magic
Divine Ministration - she can pray herself better
while all the rest are nerfed out/non functional.
She also died wearing power armor and I'd like her to be able to keep it as it has no offensive capabilities (is not a weapon) and having it taken away from her has a very specific message to her (specifically, that she has to kill people *until* she's forgiven) that would make her *exponentially worse* which would be a little rough in an already difficult character. It's fine if a warden or something takes it from her eventually because she's being a nitwit, but to have it flat out taken as part of her transition/death would fuck her up pretty hard. Given her entry is going to probably be rough, I don't forsee her keeping it long.
Skillwise: she is a highly trained commando, skilled with multiple weapons including swords, guns, and explosives of all kinds, as well as hand to hand combat, tactics, etc. used to fighting sorcerers, witches, demons, and a variety of alien threats. She has old scars and a reasonably large chaplet (rosary), meaning she's been in combat before and survived it which says a Lot in this universe.
Inmate Information: There's a lot of info here to help out a warden, but for Danica specifically, most of what's 'needed' is in her inmate justification. Spelled out for easy reference:
She's going to treat almost everything magical or weird as 'heresy' and rail against it and getting her to believe she's outside of that system will probably (at least initially) break her. She's going to be very angry that she can't even have her chaplet (rosary) because it's a WEAPON (the beads are adamantium, legit) or any weapons to start and honestly, no one should give her any because she's not going to have the reasonable restraint that most inmates do have (aka 'hey I shouldn't use this poorly because it'll get taken away' etc) because she's so used to being in a system that enforces her righteousness and the correctness of her actions so... not really going to be clever about any of this. Tactical, yes, but not clever. She's used to being a suicide fighter, ready to fling her life at the wall, and I forsee a lot of deaths or attempts on herself in her journey.
She's well-spoken, absolutely a perfectionist Type A sort, and while I suspect that she comes off as and puts up a front of humorlessness, the Guardsman is snarky as shit so yeah, that capacity is in her but she won't let herself be much of anything but Grim and Determined and Dedicated out loud. TL;DR I don't think she's going to make many friends to start and almost certainly going to make a lot of enemies. I think that without serious interference, she's going to hate the Admiral and see him as an agent of Chaos and see it her duty to defy him and all he stands for, including what is clearly a preference for compassion and kindness and a disdain for violence, all of which are totally heresy especially when shown to blatant non-human beings.
...she's going to be a piece of work, is what I'm saying.
Path to Redemption: Danica's got four things she's got to work on: she has to want to live for herself, she has to acknowledge the importance of people vs doctrine, she has to face the reality that failure is less about getting knocked down than it is about not getting back up, and she has to learn that hope is not a bad thing. Her dismissal of the importance of the lives being lost around her contributed to her poor decision making and her complete dissolution of self only helps her to see other people as devices effecting the world around her instead of people. The way she's put her faith above the very folks it's supposed to protect is a problem: as she's told often "there is no faith without the faithful" because if the Emperor's main claim to fame is that he protects his people, why do you think their lives matter less than his statues and land and belief in him? All this combined with her actual derision for the idea of hope literally had her wanting to shoot children so yeah, she needs to actually see that trying and striving and believing beyond just the idea that the Emperor's going to make it happen because I Am Righteous is both 1. good and 2. an important part of living.
A big piece of this is that she's going to have to learn to think instead of spouting doctrine that serves her purposes and hiding in Imperial aphorisms, as well as find an actual meaning to life and living that isn't just handing it away for a cause. We know that she has these thoughts and the means to get there because the Guardsman is just something in her head speaking through the image of another person, but even the moment of her death is more of a 'well, let me *try* this slightly different way to do things shown to me by one of the Emperor's 'angels' as opposed to really questioning properly.
...and getting shot in the back in that moment sure as heck isn't going to make this easier.
Also please note that I said people for all of that: while her universe has serious faction lines, there's examples of folks crossing them for relationships (Ephrael Stern and Kyganil come to mind, not to mention how the Lord Commander has returned-) that are mutually beneficial and seeing aliens/psykers/etc. as people instead of just Things To Kill is 100% part of her journey. She's probably never going to be amazing at it, but she is going to have to get past 'if it's not human, kill it on sight' and 'if it's not human it's automatically evil' and all the accompanying horseshit. Honestly, aside from the fanatical devotion to a religion that was basically set up by the closest thing to the Devil there is... she's more open than most! The fact that she doubts at all, that she's willing to work with a Salamander (many sisters see the astartes/space marines as mutants and subhuman) and take him as someone positive and worth listening to says that there's fertile ground there, she just has to actually... let herself.
History: Danica's earliest mentioned memories are getting her mother's dog tags from a member of the Imperial Guard reporting her death. She was scooped up by the Schola Progenium (Indoctrination and War Crimes and Survival Training with a dash of complete erasure of self), then siphoned into the Adeptas Sororitas and she ended up in the Order of Our Martyred Lady (super healthy sounding, right?), a chapter of Sisters of Battle, where she managed to rise to the rank of Sister Superior (squad leader). When the Necrons attacked Paradyce III, she was part of the fighting force called upon to defend the planet. During that battle, she made some very bad calls in her position as squad leader and both the Imperial Guard accompanying them and her entire squad of sisters were killed. She took this... poorly, to say the least, and things took an even greater turn for the worse when she encountered a group of horrifyingly experimented-upon guardsmen who attacked her like zombies. She killed all of them just before encountering Sa'kan, a Salamander space marine who was accompanying a small band of civilians towards what he hoped was an evac point.
And then tried to kill those civilians. /cough/ Sa'kan talked her down and got her head straight enough that she joined them as they headed for the evac point. During the journey, the priest who'd been with the civilians tried to comfort her about the losses and she flipped her shit and pulled a gun on him, though this ended without incident for the poor man. It's during this confrontation that she acknowledged that the guardsman who'd been 'with her' since that battle was actually a projection of her own fears and crisis of faith and that the woman it looked like had died in the battle begging her to Make Better Choices. She's in the midst of wrestling with this all and the two rejoin the main group just in time for Sa'kan to get jumped by a Necron warrior. He defeats it but goes down and that's when she makes the decision to try and look out for the civilians in his stead.
...and immediately gets shot in the back by the Necron Deathmark that was sent out to kill her and wipe out the last of the Imperial forces in the city. She goes down, but as she does, she hears Sa'kan coming, distracts the Necron, and grabs onto his leg so he can't teleport out so Sa'kan can kill the fucker before her last breath.
Sample Network Entry: When the people forget their duty they are no longer Human and become something less than beasts. They have no place in the bosom of Humanity nor in the heart of the Emperor. Let them die and be forever forgotten.
[ It's obvious from her tone that she is quoting someone else, scripture or doctrine or both, and that she believes every word that she's said. The disdain and disgust in her tone is evident enough to back that up as she continues. ]
I know I speak to a den of Beasts, but perhaps some of you remember what it is to be Human.
Thus, I call upon the men and women of this ship to rise up against this false god who calls himself Admiral, who would deny a faithful servant of the God Emperor her place at his side, who would stand between the unclean and their retribution! I call upon all who would name themselves righteous, who would serve humanity, to turn aside your place under his power, decry the wickedness of your service to him, and fight that he might be banished to the darkness of the Warp from whence he came.
[ It is also very obvious that she fully expects people to think this is a very reasonable and good argument. ]
Corruption and betrayal can never be forgiven, no, but you can, at least, attempt penance for your vile wickedness and faithlessness before death. It is the least that can be asked of you, and yet I doubt any of you will even consider it.
Sample RP: TDM
Special Notes: Her delusion of the Guardsman is not going away; this is not an actual person and is clearly in canon pointed out to be her own mental health coming to knock at the door; while the person who died was a real person and character, the Guardsman is just her own humanity and desire to question externalized. And she's VERY far from being ready to give up that crutch quite yet.
Also, given all the horrific shit that is her canon and how she's going to handle things, I've already got an opt out linked here.
User DW: yarnzipan
E-mail/Plurk/Discord/PM to a character journal/alternate method of contact: yarnzipan @ plurk / yarnzipan#1228 @ discord
Other Characters Currently In-Game: John Doe, Jinu, Vincent Smith, Wiktor Szulski
Character Name: Sister Danica
Series: Warhammer 40K / Pariah Nexus Web Series
Age: mid 30s by appearance
From When?: Danica comes from the last episode of the series, killed by a Necron Deathmark literal seconds after she'd decided to try and harbor hope that the civilians they were escorting might survive the warzone.
Inmate Justification: Even with all the problems of the Imperium aside, Danica is an especially good example of faith gone bad: during the defense of Paradyce III, when the Imperial Guardsman she was working with begged her to retreat to save the lives of the fighters and increase their chances of being able to succeed, she denied the request and refused to fall back to another choke point, insisting that they had to hold every inch of 'holy ground' regardless of how many people died and that their faith and their righteous cause would see them through. This got the guardsman killed right in front of her, alongside all of the sisters in her unit and the other guardsman who were scattered and eventually picked off. Following this, she 'determined' that it wasn't her fault that everything went to shit and they lost, it was that the people's faith wasn't great enough, that their 'faithlessness' brought the ruin to the planet and allowed the invaders to desecrate the city, essentially blaming the dead for their own destruction. When someone tries to comfort her about her losses and tell her that it isn't her fault that everything's gone to shit, she turns on him, calling him weak and faithless and even pulls her gun on this civilian in a bit of a psychotic fit because he 'dared' speak on behalf of the Emperor to her. This is on top of pulling her gun when initially seeing the civilians brought with Sa'kan, intending to kill them so as not to give them 'poisonous' hope and to avoid coddling the faithless cowardly weaklings who had cowered in a crypt when the alien threats came. ...when it's a family with two small children. She puts her 'faith' over the actual people of the Imperium and even her own fellow soldiers/loved ones and lashes out when challenged on those mistakes, choosing the 'ugliest' scripture to repeat and support and choosing the most hateful, hopeless, and vicious version of the doctrine to live out.
But, ultimately, there is a part of her that knows better, that does question, that cares about people, that wants to do and be better even if her self-image and understanding of the world cannot quite manage to get her there herself. During her crisis on Paradyce III, she is accompanied by a delusion of a guardswoman (a soldier who died under her command) who acts as her counterpoint, who questions her decisions and her ideas, who speaks for basically every good decision she could make and seems to care a lot more for other people than she does. The Guardsman is critical of her blind devotion, of her ruthless dismissal of others, and speaks in favor of trusting the Salamander Sa'kan and trying to do the Right Things. But that delusion is just her, it's the thoughts she has herself, the doubts and fears and the crisis of faith she's experiencing externalized as someone else because her sense of self is so rooted to the doctrine and training she's received and too fragile to make that leap.
Arrival: Against her will; she thought she was heading to the Emperor's side. And oh she is not happy about this detour. This is the way of the heretic, cheating death. She's 100% going to be worse before she's better.
Abilities/Powers: Danica is a Sister of Battle, and while she has no psyker abilities, she does have a variety of faith-based powers at her disposal while doing battle in the Emperor's name. Some of them have no real use outside of pitched battle, but I would like her to straight out keep:
Shield of Faith / Pure Faith - for good or ill, magic can't effect her bodily (a fireball sent at her would work but trying to fuck with her head magically/psychically will not) which also includes being immune to healing magic
Divine Ministration - she can pray herself better
while all the rest are nerfed out/non functional.
She also died wearing power armor and I'd like her to be able to keep it as it has no offensive capabilities (is not a weapon) and having it taken away from her has a very specific message to her (specifically, that she has to kill people *until* she's forgiven) that would make her *exponentially worse* which would be a little rough in an already difficult character. It's fine if a warden or something takes it from her eventually because she's being a nitwit, but to have it flat out taken as part of her transition/death would fuck her up pretty hard. Given her entry is going to probably be rough, I don't forsee her keeping it long.
Skillwise: she is a highly trained commando, skilled with multiple weapons including swords, guns, and explosives of all kinds, as well as hand to hand combat, tactics, etc. used to fighting sorcerers, witches, demons, and a variety of alien threats. She has old scars and a reasonably large chaplet (rosary), meaning she's been in combat before and survived it which says a Lot in this universe.
Inmate Information: There's a lot of info here to help out a warden, but for Danica specifically, most of what's 'needed' is in her inmate justification. Spelled out for easy reference:
- let her pride and need to prove her faith lead her to making a bad military call that got both the Imperial Guard troops she was working with killed as well as her fellow Sisters of Battle
- simultaneously felt guilty for the whole war in the city going badly and pushed all responsibility for this failure (including her bad call) on the people of the city itself being 'faithless' and 'worthless' and failing the Emperor
totally not projection, Danica, totally not - eschewed attempts at dealing with her emotional state by her own delusional projection and turned instead towards rampant violence for catharsis like the inmate do
- tried to kill a family of four and a priest as a 'mercy kill' because she refused to allow for 'poisonous' hope that might see them safely evacuated or even try to help them up to and including pulling her gun with enough seriousness that a space marine (aka guys with supersenses) stepped in her way pointedly
- pulled a gun on a priest who was just trying to comfort her and yelled at him for being a traitorous faithless coward for... not... being a fighter? for saving people? before giving a warning shot past his head during her episode
She's going to treat almost everything magical or weird as 'heresy' and rail against it and getting her to believe she's outside of that system will probably (at least initially) break her. She's going to be very angry that she can't even have her chaplet (rosary) because it's a WEAPON (the beads are adamantium, legit) or any weapons to start and honestly, no one should give her any because she's not going to have the reasonable restraint that most inmates do have (aka 'hey I shouldn't use this poorly because it'll get taken away' etc) because she's so used to being in a system that enforces her righteousness and the correctness of her actions so... not really going to be clever about any of this. Tactical, yes, but not clever. She's used to being a suicide fighter, ready to fling her life at the wall, and I forsee a lot of deaths or attempts on herself in her journey.
She's well-spoken, absolutely a perfectionist Type A sort, and while I suspect that she comes off as and puts up a front of humorlessness, the Guardsman is snarky as shit so yeah, that capacity is in her but she won't let herself be much of anything but Grim and Determined and Dedicated out loud. TL;DR I don't think she's going to make many friends to start and almost certainly going to make a lot of enemies. I think that without serious interference, she's going to hate the Admiral and see him as an agent of Chaos and see it her duty to defy him and all he stands for, including what is clearly a preference for compassion and kindness and a disdain for violence, all of which are totally heresy especially when shown to blatant non-human beings.
...she's going to be a piece of work, is what I'm saying.
Path to Redemption: Danica's got four things she's got to work on: she has to want to live for herself, she has to acknowledge the importance of people vs doctrine, she has to face the reality that failure is less about getting knocked down than it is about not getting back up, and she has to learn that hope is not a bad thing. Her dismissal of the importance of the lives being lost around her contributed to her poor decision making and her complete dissolution of self only helps her to see other people as devices effecting the world around her instead of people. The way she's put her faith above the very folks it's supposed to protect is a problem: as she's told often "there is no faith without the faithful" because if the Emperor's main claim to fame is that he protects his people, why do you think their lives matter less than his statues and land and belief in him? All this combined with her actual derision for the idea of hope literally had her wanting to shoot children so yeah, she needs to actually see that trying and striving and believing beyond just the idea that the Emperor's going to make it happen because I Am Righteous is both 1. good and 2. an important part of living.
A big piece of this is that she's going to have to learn to think instead of spouting doctrine that serves her purposes and hiding in Imperial aphorisms, as well as find an actual meaning to life and living that isn't just handing it away for a cause. We know that she has these thoughts and the means to get there because the Guardsman is just something in her head speaking through the image of another person, but even the moment of her death is more of a 'well, let me *try* this slightly different way to do things shown to me by one of the Emperor's 'angels' as opposed to really questioning properly.
...and getting shot in the back in that moment sure as heck isn't going to make this easier.
Also please note that I said people for all of that: while her universe has serious faction lines, there's examples of folks crossing them for relationships (Ephrael Stern and Kyganil come to mind, not to mention how the Lord Commander has returned-) that are mutually beneficial and seeing aliens/psykers/etc. as people instead of just Things To Kill is 100% part of her journey. She's probably never going to be amazing at it, but she is going to have to get past 'if it's not human, kill it on sight' and 'if it's not human it's automatically evil' and all the accompanying horseshit. Honestly, aside from the fanatical devotion to a religion that was basically set up by the closest thing to the Devil there is... she's more open than most! The fact that she doubts at all, that she's willing to work with a Salamander (many sisters see the astartes/space marines as mutants and subhuman) and take him as someone positive and worth listening to says that there's fertile ground there, she just has to actually... let herself.
History: Danica's earliest mentioned memories are getting her mother's dog tags from a member of the Imperial Guard reporting her death. She was scooped up by the Schola Progenium (Indoctrination and War Crimes and Survival Training with a dash of complete erasure of self), then siphoned into the Adeptas Sororitas and she ended up in the Order of Our Martyred Lady (super healthy sounding, right?), a chapter of Sisters of Battle, where she managed to rise to the rank of Sister Superior (squad leader). When the Necrons attacked Paradyce III, she was part of the fighting force called upon to defend the planet. During that battle, she made some very bad calls in her position as squad leader and both the Imperial Guard accompanying them and her entire squad of sisters were killed. She took this... poorly, to say the least, and things took an even greater turn for the worse when she encountered a group of horrifyingly experimented-upon guardsmen who attacked her like zombies. She killed all of them just before encountering Sa'kan, a Salamander space marine who was accompanying a small band of civilians towards what he hoped was an evac point.
And then tried to kill those civilians. /cough/ Sa'kan talked her down and got her head straight enough that she joined them as they headed for the evac point. During the journey, the priest who'd been with the civilians tried to comfort her about the losses and she flipped her shit and pulled a gun on him, though this ended without incident for the poor man. It's during this confrontation that she acknowledged that the guardsman who'd been 'with her' since that battle was actually a projection of her own fears and crisis of faith and that the woman it looked like had died in the battle begging her to Make Better Choices. She's in the midst of wrestling with this all and the two rejoin the main group just in time for Sa'kan to get jumped by a Necron warrior. He defeats it but goes down and that's when she makes the decision to try and look out for the civilians in his stead.
...and immediately gets shot in the back by the Necron Deathmark that was sent out to kill her and wipe out the last of the Imperial forces in the city. She goes down, but as she does, she hears Sa'kan coming, distracts the Necron, and grabs onto his leg so he can't teleport out so Sa'kan can kill the fucker before her last breath.
Sample Network Entry: When the people forget their duty they are no longer Human and become something less than beasts. They have no place in the bosom of Humanity nor in the heart of the Emperor. Let them die and be forever forgotten.
[ It's obvious from her tone that she is quoting someone else, scripture or doctrine or both, and that she believes every word that she's said. The disdain and disgust in her tone is evident enough to back that up as she continues. ]
I know I speak to a den of Beasts, but perhaps some of you remember what it is to be Human.
Thus, I call upon the men and women of this ship to rise up against this false god who calls himself Admiral, who would deny a faithful servant of the God Emperor her place at his side, who would stand between the unclean and their retribution! I call upon all who would name themselves righteous, who would serve humanity, to turn aside your place under his power, decry the wickedness of your service to him, and fight that he might be banished to the darkness of the Warp from whence he came.
[ It is also very obvious that she fully expects people to think this is a very reasonable and good argument. ]
Corruption and betrayal can never be forgiven, no, but you can, at least, attempt penance for your vile wickedness and faithlessness before death. It is the least that can be asked of you, and yet I doubt any of you will even consider it.
Sample RP: TDM
Special Notes: Her delusion of the Guardsman is not going away; this is not an actual person and is clearly in canon pointed out to be her own mental health coming to knock at the door; while the person who died was a real person and character, the Guardsman is just her own humanity and desire to question externalized. And she's VERY far from being ready to give up that crutch quite yet.
Also, given all the horrific shit that is her canon and how she's going to handle things, I've already got an opt out linked here.
Inmate Comment
Character Journal: greatest_gift
Status: Inmate
Pairing Information: Please note: Danica is from the Warhammer 40K universe and her backstory involves some truly horrific shit. If any of her opt out content warnings are not for you, turn back now. Also, she has an invisible hallucination of a dead woman that she talks to which is basically the 'voice' of her better sense. The Guardsman is not real in any metaphysical sense; it's just a projection created by her mind to deal with the events of canon and the crisis of faith/survivor's guilt/her humanity that she cannot (yet) allow herself to internalize given her programming. Other out and out warnings: I forsee her dying a lot (sorry), trying to kill people a lot (also sorry), and almost certainly going to have problems making friends on board given her views.
That said, she's not an idiot (hence being both picked to go to the Sisters in the first place and promoted to leadership in their ranks) but she is heavily indoctrinated and her life's focus has been on combat so getting her to branch out is going to be a trial. Debate is going to be rough because the Imperium has done it's absolute best to make her Stop Thinking And Stop Questioning so while she's got brains in there, getting her to use them to examine things is going to be an uphill battle and she's going to rail against it.
She's going to treat almost everything magical or weird as 'heresy' and rail against it and getting her to believe she's outside of that system will probably (at least initially) break her. She's going to be very angry that she can't even have her chaplet (rosary) because it's a WEAPON (the beads are adamantium, legit) or any weapons to start and honestly, no one should give her any because she's not going to have the reasonable restraint that most inmates do have (aka 'hey I shouldn't use this poorly because it'll get taken away' etc) because she's so used to being in a system that enforces her righteousness and the correctness of her actions so... not really going to be clever about any of this. Tactical, yes, but not clever. She's used to being a suicide fighter, ready to fling her life at the wall for So Many Unhealthy reasons: "It is better to die for the Emperor than to live for yourself" is a canon quote and one that she is very firmly attached to.
She's well-spoken, absolutely a perfectionist Type A sort, and while I suspect that she comes off as and puts up a front of humorlessness, the Guardsman is snarky as shit so yeah, that capacity is in her but she won't let herself be much of anything but Grim and Determined and Dedicated out loud. TL;DR I don't think she's going to make many friends to start and almost certainly going to make a lot of enemies. I think that without serious interference, she's going to hate the Admiral and see him as an agent of Chaos and see it her duty to defy him and all he stands for, including what is clearly a preference for compassion and kindness and a disdain for violence, all of which are totally heresy especially when shown to blatant non-human beings.
...she's going to be a piece of work, is what I'm saying.
Danica's got four things she's got to work on: she has to want to live for herself, she has to acknowledge the importance of people vs doctrine, she has to face the reality that failure is less about getting knocked down than it is about not getting back up, and she has to learn that hope is not a bad thing. She comes from a very fucked up universe, but especially right now in that time, there are forces starting to try and combat a lot of the fucked up even given the mounting odds and even given that universe, she could and needs to do better.