Austin Marie Arlein

Austin is the occasional smart-ass, lazy, less figured out, 'rather-would-keep-my-mouth-shut' character of Serenity's Elsewhere. Originated in an orphanage at Facility G, she ran away at age five, and yes, is aware of who her birth parents are, but does not like discussing such a topic. As far as she remembered, or wanted to remember, her mother was a bossy, workaholic, highly ignorant woman and her father was an abusive idiot. Her brother was the only other mindful person in the house. But even he had to leave often for his work to provide. The only good memory she was left with of her old family was a small charm necklace with made of her birthstone, the amethyst, given to her by her oldest brother. He gave her this before she fled, and told her what she'd do was the right thing.

Before arriving at Serenity, she was adopted into several families only for her to run away from the disgust she remembered, that is having a family. After countless times of running away, she may have finally found a good family to stay with, in Facility D. A family of three siblings and a mother who accepted her fully.

Even when she had her hopes up, the facility had been broken in. During evacuation, the last train system would leave. There is where they had split, and never see each other again.

She is transported into a training base in the upper facilities. In Serenity, she changes her entire look; from blond hair to pink, from baby face to stern teen, and from cheerful to monotone. Mostly for the reason of not wanting to be figured out. After time erodes her memory of her past life, and Austin takes time to adjust, she eventually meets a whole new group of friends. First Halika, being her roommate, then Dez, the annoying flirt that stuck with Halika. She then met Pan, catching him fight with Dez (Boy, what an intro.) followed by Red and Raina in the cafeteria, and so on. She sticks with mostly Halika or Pan more than anyone else in the whole group due to her unrevealed trust issues. After while, she did warm up to them, enough to tell them the basic, "I was adopted and..." story. Yet, she has more of a story than she's told everyone, and she prefers to keep it like that.