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Miri Robertson Tiazan Clan Korval

Names[]

  • Name given by Clutch Turtles: Miri Robertson Mercenary Soldier, Retired, Personal Bodyguard, Retired, Have Weapon Will Travel.
  • Name in The Mercs: “Redhead” and later, “Captain Redhead”
  • Val Con calls her cha’trez, heartsong

Birth & Childhood[]

Miri Robertson was born on aptly named Surebleak, of a Liaden mother (Katalina / Katy Tayzin; Line Tiazan Clan Erob) and a Terran father, Chock Robertson. [1] See Fighting Chance.

'Miri Tiazan, born in the year named Amrasam.'" He let the badge fall gently back to the padding and looked up at her. "That would be approximately sixty-five Standards ago." "Tayzin," she muttered, giving the name a Terran inflection. "Katalina Tayzin-my mother. Miri Tayzin- grandmother, I guess. Mom might've named me for my grandmother- she never said. Just that her mother'd died in 1358, back during the Fevers, when the fatcats . . . " [2]
  • Her mother Katy threw out her father because he was abusive, useless, and worse. [1]
  • Katy got sick and meds were unavailable on Surebleak. Katy died two years after Liz Angela Lizardi invited Miri to join her Lunatics in The Mercs (at age 13). [3] [1]
  • Young Miri swore she’d never go back to Surebleak
Fighting Chance, excerpt

excerpt, Fighting Chance

Timeline[]

  • Born 1365 day 28 on Surebleak.
  • 1375 day 116 Miri gets first paying job, age 10
  • 1379 day 4 Miri joins Lizardi's Lunatics merc unit under Commander Angela "Liz" Lizardi, and leaves Surebleak, just short of 14 years old. Liz takes on the role of foster mother to Miri, having been friends with her mom, Katy. (see Fighting Chance)
  • 1382 day 198 Corporal Miri arrives with Lizardi's Lunatics on Klamath and meets Ichliad Brunner. (see Misfits)
  • 1384 Lizardi's Lunatics deactivated, Miri in rehab from Cloud addiction
  • 1385 Miri takes Bank of Fendor loan for half a cantra
  • 1386 Miri becomes Sergeant with The Mercs —The Gyrfalks, under Suzuki and Carmody
  • 1388 Miri pays off Bank of Fendor loan
  • 1388 Miri becomes Master Sergeant, Gyrfalks
  • 1388 Miri loans Murph the money he needs to make his severance payment so he can leave the Gyrfalks
  • 1391 Miri resigns from Gyrfalks and some month later signs on as bodyguard to Sire Baldwin
  • 1392 Juntavas attack Sire Baldwin's household; Miri kills several in self-defense (5 month after Miri signed on with him)
  • 1392 Miri meets Val Con yos’ Phelium, an Agent of Change for The Department of the Interior
  • 1392 Miri and Val Con lifemate on planet Vandar (see comments)
Juntavas Announcement Carpe Diem & Breath’s Duty

Seeking Miri and Val Con

Descriptions[]

Agent-of-change

Mire & Val Con

Agent of Change cover 2018

Miri, “Redhead” & Val Con, w Edger

She had heard tales of the headwoman of the People of the Tree. She was a warrior so ferocious the Yxtrang revered her as a hero; a lover so skilled that she had captured the heart and hoard of a dragon; a woman who gave her word but rarely, and always kept her promises."[5]

  • Straight red hair (copper colored), braid around the head like a crown, or down below waist
  • Freckles across small, snubbed nose
  • Grey eyes, direct, expressive, beautiful
    • not thought beautiful on Vandar[6]
  • Willful, intelligent face, all sharp angles, willful square chin, full mouth
  • 5’2″, slender build
  • sings well, stays within the limits of her range [7]
  • when needed, wears a gleaming wooden hair stick / deadly stick-knife that Val Con gave her[8]
  • mostly-Liaden, mutated within acceptable limits: [8]
    • Val Con tells Miri she’s Liaden: "Look at you. Everyone knows Liadens are short, small compared with other humans; that the heartbeat is a fraction off, the blood count a trifle different . . . ."[8]

Positions[]

Kin[]

See Korval Kin for complete list and ancestry charts

Father: Chock Robertson -Terran, born on Surebleak, a repairman, "the best there was..if he was sober" but he was usually "smoked or drunk" and then so abusive that his wife Katy rejected him, threw him out: "You're none of mine, Chock Robertson! I deny you!"[1] See Fighting Chance

Mother: Katalina (Katy) Tayzin - Liaden, born on Surebleak, descendant of Clan Erob /Rool Tiazan [11]. She was a baker on Light Street, where young Angela Lizardi also worked (bakery isn't there now)[1]

Grandmother: Miri Tiazan -Liaden, born on Lytaxin c 1327, died of Fever on Surebleak in 1358[8] a pilot.

'Miri Tiazan, born in the year named Amrasam.'" He let the badge fall gently back to the padding and looked up at her. "That would be approximately sixty-five Standards ago." [8]

Miri left Lytaxin and Clan Erob to postpone a contract marriage until after she gave birth to her dead lover's child. "She ran away to have her kid...She crashed on Surebleak and couldn't get home...I'm guessing."[12] "Miri Tayzin — grandmother, I guess. Mom might've named me for my grandmother — she never said. Just that her mother'd died in 1358, back during the Fevers, when the fatcats . . . "[8]

Appearances[]

  • Fighting Chance (young Miri Robertson's last days on Surebleak)
  • Misfits Corporal Miri meets Ichliad Brunner and fights together with Lizardi's Lunatics on Klamath and later meets Ichliad Brunner again with Val Con on Liad)
  • Agent of Change (Val Con and Miri meet and flee the Juntavas)
  • Carpe Diem (Val Con and Miri survive, make friends and find themselves on Vandar)
  • Plan B
  • I Dare
  • Ghost Ship
  • Prodigal Son
  • Necessity's Child 
  • Dragon Ship
  • Dragon in Exile
  • The Rifle's First Wife
  • Code of Honor
  • Street Cred
  • Neogenesis

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Fighting Chance, in Allies: Adventures in the Liaden Universe #12, and in A Liaden Universe Constellation, volume ii
  2. Agent of Change, ch 6
  3. Plan B, chapter 2
  4. Plan B, ch 2 / “STANDARD YEAR 1393: Vandar Orbit and Jump”
  5. Dragon in Exile
  6. Carpe Diem
  7. Agent of Change chapter 5
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 Agent of Change, chapter 6
  9. Dragon in Exile
  10. I Dare and Plan B
  11. Plan B
  12. Plan B
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