Peleps Shuseki
Type: Dragonblooded
Aspect: Water
Titles: Senator (Deliberative Greater Chamber); Dragonlord (9th Imperial Legion), retired; Badge of the Lion (Imperial Census), retired; Satrap (Vigoor), dismissed;
Residence: Peleps Wing (Imperial Palace); Villa of the Papyri (Scarlet Prefecture);
Peleps Shuseki is a Water-aspected Senator of the House Peleps Deliberative caucus. She is married to fellow Senator Peleps Sasayaka, with whom she has children including Peleps Dumai and (adopted) Peleps Arden.
Shuseki has spent most of her life and career away from the Blessed Isle, first in service with the Imperial Legions and then the Foreign Office, where she reached the post of Imperial Satrap for the land of Vigoor in the Northern Threshold. She was removed from this post when that satrapy was transferred from House Peleps to House V’neef by the Scarlet Empress, and while Shuseki was honoured by appointment to join her husband in the Senate for her ‘capable and dedicated service as overseer of distant lands’, the satrapal transfer called on the V’neef to ‘grow order and good governance in wake of a flood of chaos and corruption’, casting a shadow over Shuseki’s record which, while no proof has ever been presented, remains a line of attack for her opponents in the Deliberative, particularly the House V’neef caucus.
Unlike her husband, known for his easygoing charisma, Shuseki is not considered a particularly capable politician due to a tendency to overreact in face of persona attack or insult... far from unknown amongst those who are newer to the Senate floor, it remains a weakness. However, raising Shuseki’s ire is not something done without caution, for she forgets no slight, and has proven more than capable of exacting physical vengeance against those who slight her either during Senate brawls or through duel challenges outside of the Chamber.
It has not escaped notice that senator Sasayaka aided his wife’s Threshold career, nor that he opposed her appointment to the Senate… while the two at times work closely on the same agenda (such as stripping Vigoor from House V’neef and the recent appointment of the 4th Imperial Legion to the Imperial Garrison), when they clash (such as over the Legion Control Act and Deployment of the Imperial Merchant Marine in Aid of the Imperial Legions) the confrontations are thunderous in their violence.
