Kopisha Prasad

Kopisha Prasad (a.k.a. Kup)

Kopisha ‘Kop/Kup’ Prasad was born to parents Arjun Prasad and Gauri Chaudhary in the town of Lukla at the foot of Mt. Everest in 1920, the year Quintessons came into contact with Earth. Humanity’s disastrous loss to and ongoing subjugation by the Quintesson colonizers by 1925 pushed many survivors of the First Quintesson War from obliterated major cities into isolated towns and villages where Quintessons would have difficulty launching a sustained assault; Lukla’s subarctic climate, for nine months of the year, provide a measure of protection for those who took refuge there and eventually turned the area into a fort.
As such, Kopisha grew up in a tight-knit community focused on mutual survival and joined the scouting division when she was eighteen, gathering intel for the Gurkha division during the Summer months, when the weather became warm enough for Quintessons to attempt surveillance and invasions.
During an excursion, she was captured by a Quintesson scientific expedition team who brought her to Kathmandu where their outpost was stationed. They ran experiments on her there, attempting to understand the people who lived on such inhospitable terrain and better adapt to it.
She escaped after a year in captivity, using her time there to map out the area and subtly gather intel from her captors, which proved to be invaluable to the survival of Lukla down the line, and while she has never confirmed this, she believes the experimentations on her in that time might have contributed to her longevity.
With her no-nonsense attitude, her dedication to her team and her talent for combat, she was quickly drafted into the Gurkhas three years into the Second Quintesson War where she excelled as a frontliner and took on the mantle of her squad’s leader in 1943.
She helped lead her squad to victory in the first counter-invasion on the Quintesson stronghold in Kathmandu in 1945, which was part of a collaborative, international effort to draw the attention of the Quintessons away from their Mothership via simultaneous worldwide rebellions so an attack could be launched on it by the 13 Primes.
After their victory and the end of the Second Quintesson War, she was promoted and continued to climb the ranks in the Gurkha division, eventually reaching the rank of Major.
She retired from active duty in 1980, taking up a position in Singapore’s Gurkha Contingent where she would work for a decade before heading to Nepal where she took part time work as a soldier-for-hire and training cadets for the Indian army.
It was during this time that she established a relationship with other retired soldiers who took on for-hire work together, eventually becoming a loosely-linked squad known as the Wreckers who went on dangerous missions mainly for the challenge, ranging in everything from extraction of kidnapping victims to infiltrating major drug dens.
(She scored her best payout during one of these missions in the form of an Ovcharka belonging to a Russian drug lord, which she adopted after they crippled his syndicate. Dakshi is her baby)
Around this time, she was approached by an up and coming Senator from Pakistan named Sharifuddin Waseem (Shockwave) who, having heard of her accolades, wanted to employ her services as his bodyguard while he traveled Asia and Russia seeking out a small group of people known as Outliers to save from oppression by governments which had deemed them as aberrations.
She agreed, and the two of them travelled the world for five years, seeking out children with special abilities who were abandoned, ostracized or hidden away by their communities, beginning with a boy simply known as Tagan (Tarn) from Turkmenistan, whose abilities led to villagers amputating both his hands out of fear of him, and Aleksandr ‘Sasha’ Kolyanov (Skids) from Russia.
These two served as the first students in Sharifuddin’s new secret Institute focussed on giving them an education and helping them develop their abilities for the betterment of mankind.
Despite having no desire for a family, Kopisha grew close to the children she helped bring to the Institute, who often referred to her as ‘Bajyai’ (Grandma).
It was also through her time with Sharifuddin that she became more aware of the activism he took part in, concerning the treatment of the poor and the working class as well as the new caste system based around work stratification.
These were things she agreed with, more so with many of her Wrecker friends turning to for-hire work after being unable to secure any different positions after their usefulness as soldiers had dissipated.
At his Institute was where she met Omar Parvez (Optimus Prime), Morgan Trayton (Megatron) and Stefan Scavarro (Starscream) for the first time, as members of a movement that was fighting for equality across the board for all members of society.
She was drawn to Omar’s warmth and sincerity almost immediately, and took the position of training the frontliners once more given her experience in the military.
When Omar was believed to have been killed by Sentinel Prime and Morgan sought to forcefully assimilate those loyal to the man into his new Decepticon faction to continue with his agenda, she was one of the few who escaped and regrouped into a splinter faction.
Omar’s miraculous reappearance weeks later however, seemingly with no lasting damage, was something they all rallied behind and she got into contact with her Wrecker friends to form a strike team which would help with breaking into the Decepticon base to free their comrades who were imprisoned there.
With their success and the establishment of the Autobots, the Wreckers, under her leadership, were officially assigned as their Spec Op team.
Having lived through the Second Quintesson War has jaded her towards battle, more so that Sharifuddin and several of the now adult children which she had helped save had chosen to align themselves with the Decepticons, but she holds onto the things that are worth fighting for, taking up the mantle of mentor once more for Stella Armstrong (StrongArm), Spencer Richards (Springer) and Praveen Satvinder (Perceptor) when the head scientist decides to take up the position of a sniper on the field.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Well-built, sinewy with toned arms. Has an equal distribution of strength and agility, though age has slowed her down a little.

Facial Features

Wears a piercing on her nose, which is bent and scarred from a bar fight. A Glasgow smile cuts through her left cheek from an altercation with a drug lord who attempted to take her hostage.

Identifying Characteristics

A large scar from a machete attack snakes across her upper right arm, and she sports two gunshot wounds on her left bicep and just below her right collarbone. Missing her entire pinky finger and the tip of her ring finger on her right hand from her rescue of Dakshi, her formerly-violent Ovcharka dog.

Apparel & Accessories

Her everyday uniform is her old Gurkha uniform retrofitted with new colors, though she's mostly seen in tanktops off-duty.

Social

Hobbies & Pets

Owns Dakshi, an Ovcharka she rescued from a drug lord during a mercenary sting.  Off-duty, she enjoys crocheting, playing and training with Dakshi, drinking with her boys and watching Bollywood movies.

Honorary & Occupational Titles

Chief of Special Ops

Age

120 (Start of war)

Birthplace

Lukla, Nepal

Pronouns

She/Her

Gender

Female

Eyes

Blue

Hair

White, stoppin just above her waist and worn in a bun during missions and a braid off-duty

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Tanned, with liver spots and heavily scarred

Belief/Deity

Sikh

Known Languages

Nepali, Hindi, English