Olliana
1.) She comes from a long line of family that enjoys game, particularly gambling. They use expressions like "are you game" more then entirely necessary and challenge each other on a regular basis. In the ancient days, her ancestors were gladiators, part of the greatest and deadliest game on the planet. While they outgrew the bloody game over the centuries, they never outgrew their competitive nature. Olliana inherited it. Her siblings inherited it. She's prouder of your heritage then anyone else you'll ever meet.
2.) One warm afternoon when she's twelve, she, her brother, and her sister make a board game out of random junk their parents threw away. They worked feverishly to perfect the game play and the pieces. As an adult, she whispers the rules whenever she isn't thinking straight. She then stops herself and resists the tears that suddenly come to her eyes.
3.) She loves both of her siblings, but she's always liked her brother better. Her baby sister changed over the years. She started out fun and light-hearted, not afraid of appearing crazy in front of others. Then her sister evolved into a sullen, no-nonsense kind of person. It destroyed the individual she was on the inside. But Olliana's brother kept cracking jokes, playing games, and his personality remained relatively in tact. He survived, while her sister died a slow and painful death. For that, Olliana blames society for influencing her sister in that way. It was unfair to all of them.
4.) Being alone scares her. Olliana likes to know that, should she trip, she'll fall into someone's comforting arms. She craves security and the knowledge that they are safe. The immature players of that horrid Galactic Smash game will never make a beeline for her planet. There are too many of her people wandering around. They won't dare...
5.) In later years, she becomes a chronic gambler. She plays during the night under a dark persona, amongst boorish men who often hit on her. But they later collapse in shock when she defeats them all in one round. Her excuse is that gambling helps her forget. But what it really does is that it makes her feel closer to her family.
6.) She decided to join the militia at nineteen, even though a female had never been integrated into their ranks. She worked hard to discourage the stereotype, and she consequently did with time and patience. She lost one very valuable aspect of her life when she joined time. To be accepted as one of their own, she had to trade in love, marriage, and the right to start her own family.
7.) Plants fascinate her. The rest of her family is more into the animals that bounce and slobber all over your face, in a disgusting but cute way. But when she gets a place of her own, the only thing she wants is a healthy garden, full of vegetables, fruits, and blossoming pink flowers.
8.) She loathes outer space with deep and unforgiving passion. What can possibly happen out there? All of the things that matter are on her humble little planet.
9.) Galactic Smash gets closer. But still she refuses to believe that they may become one of their victims.
10.) When her planet's about to be destroyed, Olliana has to resist panicking at the sound of the wailing alarm. She grabs everything she can, hops in her clumsy ship she bought at half-price, and escapes the atmosphere just in time. Asteroids hit against her ship. Maybe bodies of her people; she can't really tell in these conditions. Amongst the survivors and chaos, she searches desperately for her family. It takes several days does she care to admit it. She'll never see them again. She'll never go walking up her house's front path to visit home, in between an iron wrought gate. She'll never see her parents, her brother, or her sister. They'll never sit down at the table and play their games ever again.
She should be glad that she isn't the sole survivor. But she has never felt more alone.