Khimilia Delair

"Silence. She stares back at you, and raises her right eyebrow; suggesting that you just made a fool of yourself. ~ Typical encounter with Khim."

Diary excerpts

Biography
Khimilia was born with the name Julia Steinmayr in Austria, to live a normal life in the a small town called Roitham. Life changed dramatically as an accident took away her younger sister. She refused council at first, but after she grew more and more introverted and eventually became a complete loner and refused to even speak to anyone, she was admitted to a mental hospital. Although the doctors could not find anything wrong with her persona - except that she refused to speak - she was released again shortly afterwards. She continued her education by studing at the TU Wien, pretending to be mute.

Childhood
Julia was born in the hospital in Linz, as the second child of Karl and Katharina. She has one older brother Valentin who is three years older as her, and was soon joined by two younger siblings, Sarah and Matthias. Father Karl worked at a huge metal company based in Linz, and was an avid hunter in his spare time. He enjoyed listening to the call of nature, and passed on his knowledge and love for the wild on to his children. Her mother Katharina was a passionate mother, house wive and joined the work life again after her children were old enough and didn't need her immediate care anymore.

While she struggled to form a deep connection with her brothers, she found a soul mate in her younger sister Sarah. They often went camping together into the forests north of Roitham. The entire family also did several camping trips into the Klausgrabenwald, where she learned many survival tricks and tracking from her father.

Julia went to the elementary school in Roitham (Volksschule, as it is called in Austria), and then visited the Bundesrealgymnasium in Gmunden (a higher school which can run from the 5th class to the 12th class). Having grown fond of computers in her spare time, she left her school at the eighth grade to visit the more technically focused school of HTL Leonding. She finished her final exams in the HTL Leonding with outstanding success, which allowed her to continue to study at a university.

Loss of a soul mate
"'I hobs probiert. I ho zong, und zong oba irgendwos hods festghoidn. Und donn... is ma aus da hond glittn.' ~ a shocked Robert to the police shortly after the incident."

In the summer after her graduation, Julia, Matthias, Sarah and Sarah's boyfriend Robert went for a camping trip into the forests surrounding the Traunstein. On the second day, they had lunch in the Ramsauer Alm, and decided to take bath in the Laudachsee. They rented a boat from the Alm, and rowed out into the water. Sarah stayed away from the water as she proclaimed it to be too cold for swimming. Regardless Matthias and Robert threw her into the water. Frustrated and angry, she swam back to shore. Halfway to the shore she screamed for help, and was being pulled under water. The others jumped in and swam towards her. Guests on the Alm also heard the screams and called the ambulance and police. Before the three could reach her, she was pulled under water again. Robert, who was a good swimmer and mustered all of his reserves to reach her quickly, arrived first at the place where Sarah went under water and dived. He was under the water for three minutes and when he came up again, he looked scared and shocked.

The ambulance and the police, with divers, arrived shortly afterwards to rescue Sarah, but where unable to find her. The three others, still in shock, were taken to the Gmundner Hospital, after preliminary questioning from the police. After two days of searching, the police asked the Austrian Jagdkommando and their combat divers for help, but even after a full week of searching, they were unable to find the body.

Aftermath
The entire family was shattered. Karl blamed himself for his daughters death, claiming that he should have been there. Julia's mother turned to God in hope for answers, consolidation and support. Matthias, quit school and slacked considerably, spending most of his evenings drunk at the local pub. It took combined effort and support from his family and a councilor to get him over his grief and back to a sane way of living. It wasn't that easy for everyone though.

Julia became introverted after the incident, speaking less and less. She ran away from home twice, once to retreat into nature for several weeks, and once to "get lost" in the huge city of Vienna. Both times her parents filed a missing persons report with the police. After a police woman from Vienna spotted her, she was taken to a mental hospital for counselling. She refused to speak to anyone, including her family, and had the following words drawn on her left forearm during her stay:

"I red nimma vü den de mit dera I gern reden dat, is fia imma stü." (ger:) Ich rede nicht mehr viel, den die, mit der ich gerne reden würde, ist für immer still. (eng:) I don't talk much anymore, because the one I wish to talk to, is forever silent.

Her doctor realised that there was nothing else wrong with her, and released her. Julia did adhere to the recommendation of her doctor though, and picked up a basic understanding of sign language.

Studies
A few weeks after coming home again she picked up education again and inscribed at the TU Wien to study software engineering. Mostly to flee home, where everything reminded her of sister. She did exceptionally well in the university, receiving excellent grades, especially in English, software engineering and Swedish, which she attended for two semesters. The fact that she would not speak, and that very few actually understood sign language, left her mostly alone, or on the outskirts on social gatherings. Still a loner at heart, she didn't mind at all.

She finished her BSc. at the TU Wien, and was offered to do her Master of Science on MIT, which she accepted. She finished her MSc, two years later at the MIT.

Move away from home
After graduating from MIT she moved to New York, where she gave lectures on IT Security, net neutrality and freedom of information. She also wrote several articles for various magazines and newspaper as a freelance journalist.

In her spare time she began camping again, and took tactical shooting classes. Something she was unable to do back home in Austria. She had an uncanny skill with any firearms, and outperformed many professional shooters without much practise. She won several sporting events, and turned down the offer to join the American Armed Forces twice.

Campaign and Arrest
During the events of the Arab Spring, she worked heavily to secure the freedom of speech for the people demonstrating in the Arab world. She wrote several applications meant to bypass censorship and firewalls in Egypt and Libya, and helped projects providing free network access to those countries. After realizing that the corporations threw more and more money at their software's security; she took a more active role in the conflict. She "joined" the loosely organized Anonymous and started writing exploits for several of the major companies security solution's and even took down two corporate networks through coordinated DDoS attacks.

At the 21st August 2011 the police raided her flat in New York and arrested her on the grounds of hacking several companies' networks. She was interrogated by both the NYPD and later by the FBI but didn't talk with either. Her - by law appointed - lawyer claimed that the evidence against her was overwhelming and that she should cooperate with police. Julia refused.

During her imprisonment on remand, she was visited by another lawyer, who offered her a job at his company and a better lawyer to get her out of this trial. She initially refused, as the offer came from one of the companies she actively worked against during the Arab Spring. Yet every person has a price, or a weak spot. And the man new exactly what he had to convey to win her over. In November of 2011 she joined the Argosec Corporation under a new name "Khimilia Delair", after the charges against her were dropped.

The offer and a new work place
She was reluctant at first to accept her new work, as it meant to work for the "enemy". Furthermore it enclosed her in a dialy routine, which is something she hated with a passion. It took her several months to adapt to her new environment, although she realized she could do so much more at Argosec: Their equipment, training and her collegues were the best all around, and she learned a lot while working at the company lated to computer and network security. And even though she had worked for the company for several months, and made friends in her department, the moral conflict still ate away at her inside. Just a few weeks ago, she worked against companies like Argosec; and now she is working with such a company against her former fellow hackers.

The ArgoSEC leak
On March the fifth, 2012 ArgoSEC was attacked by LulSec and Anonymous in hopes to gain inside information about the company. Although their attack was advanced and well prepared, their forces were insufficient to bypass the counter measures the companies employers through in their way. She saw an opportunity, and intentionally left doors open, which were assigned to other employees. LulSec and Anon succeeded in stealing up to 12000 corporate emails nine gigabytes in size, and even captured and held a main frame long enough to damage backups and capture client information. The information was passed on to WikiLeaks, which in turn released the information - in cooperation with major news papers around the world - in summer 2012.

Although she covered her tracks well, her actions were discovered a few weeks after the attack. She was fired, and the company prepared a lawsuit against her.

Appearance
She stands one metre and 75 centimetres tall, and has an average weight for her size. Her true eyecolour is brown, yet she enjoyes wearing differently coloured contact lenses, to change her appereance. She also copied the habbit of Julian Assange, and regularly changes both her heircut and hair colour. She was last seen with white hair, just like her role model. Although she enjoys tattoos and body art in general, she has no permanent tattoos on her body. She instead gets temporary tattoos - the same technique is used in movies - which add variety to her constantly changing appereance.

Clothes
Khim enjoys practical clothing, and usually wears shirts, sweaters and camo pants (lots of pockets to store all sorts of things in them). For hunting and camping she wears a Molle west, which can be fitted with various pockets which best suit the job.

Equipment
Apart from her Molle west, she also has a small brown Eastpak rucksack.

Personality
Khim is a light hearted and friendly person, although rather shy and usually avoids large gatherings of people. Even though she prefers to stay in forests rather than cities, and prefers to hunt over buying her food in a store, she believes that every animal is just that, an animal, and thus should not suffer.

Skills
TBD

Inspiration & Credits
TBD