Kite Adams [+]

Kite Adams

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Despite being a tattooist, she doesn't have too many herself. The majority were drawn from normal ink, but the ones shown below are her Lumal™ tattoos.

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Name
Kite Adams

Age
25

Gender
Female

Nationality
Unknown African ethnicity and Scots-Irish

Occupation
By day, Kite owns and operates Sky Tattoos. She became an innovator in her line of work by developing a new type of tinted ink called Lumal™ that takes better to darker skin. The brightest hues of red and blue and every other color on the spectrum can now adhere to even the tannest of complexions thanks to Lumal™. Before her great discovery, Sky Tattoos was a typical tattoo shop in the Foundry, but has since catapulted to popularity, garnering a small pool of clients from Diamond Heights. But that doesn't mean Kite exclusively works with those who hold prestige or honor. In her humble beginnings, she worked with multiple gangs to design and tattoo their varying symbols and sigils. While she is very proud of her recent work and its success, she greatfully remembers her early days and still takes on gangmember clients.
One thing to note about her invention is the process of its creation. Kite experimented with multiple drugs and pigments until finding that certain doses of distilled neon can produce vivid and vibrant colors on brown and black skin when mixed with ink. While she believes that such small amounts of neon cannot harm her clients, she is still very unsure of the possible future consequences that come with these special tattoos. Lately, she finds her own Lumal™ tattoos itch and tingle, but for now, she'll shovel out as many of the tattoos as much as possible. Her current supplier of distilled neon is the Shang Kal gang. They provide good prices, and from time to time, she gives out a couple free tattoos to Shang Kal gangmembers.
On the flip side of things, Kite pushes organs on the blackmarket to high-maintence celeberties. She had a prosperous and prominent beau a few years ago who first introduced her to the organ market, but she no longer associates with him. Recently, the culture of wealth has been rejecting certain aspects of cybernetic enhancement. Natural pregnancies and births have become popular again, but many of her clients are in need of fertile reproductive organs. Between the middle and lower classes, Kite occassionally stumbles across a woman or man with clean blood and useful parts and bits. She offers them a sum of money in return for whatever organ she finds most profitable, and in these rough times, who can say no? While she mostly caters to the 'all-naturale' crowd of famous women in search for undamaged uteruses or detoxed kidneys, she sometimes takes special requests of eyes, skin, and other various biological products. Being illegal and all, she often has to pay off law enforcement, or supply to them at reduced prices. Things are going well in her one-woman operation, as many of the Diamond Height bigwigs don't want to be involved in sticky syndicates, but Kite is unknowingly beginning to encroach upon gang property. If she doesn't drop out of her side-job soon, she may find herself a target of a varying number of infamous mobs.

Place of Residence
Technically, Kite stays in the Foundry, in the small backroom connected to Sky Tattoos. It's not too shabby, with a clean bed, a desk and chair, and unstained white walls that Kite painted herself. Under her bed, she hides a minisafe with a good sum of cash and pictures of her family. She knows better than to hang up photos of her mother and siblings. If her room was ever broken into, they might be targeted for blackmail. Sometimes the lack of windows drives her crazy, but she deals with it. Kite owns a separate location in the Lower District, Studio Garage B19, where she stores and manufactors her ink, along with her neon. She only visits the garage on Sundays when her tattoo parlor is closed, and she buries herself in tireless hours of concocting new dyes for her work. Kite also uses the garage as a pit stop for her organs, temporarily storing new goods there until they can be sold to clients.

Cybernetics
While Kite would like to boast that her steady-handediness is all natural, she owes it to metal rods in both her wrists. The enhancements extend into her hands and fingers and are controlled by electronic impulses from her brain. They help keep her from slipping up on tattoos and aid in the precision of frabricating her special ink.

Bio
Born to a struggling single-mother family in the Complex, Kite has known poverty, but not like in the Lower District. She always had a warm bed to sleep in and (most of the time) had food in her stomach. As the middle sibling to two sisters, she wasn't given too much special attention or pressure. Her mom had one simple rule: Don't get caught up in that riff-raff. Kite stayed true to her mother's wishes for the majority of her life, but once her old beau entered her social sphere, things changed. For the longest time, her mama didn't know a thing about her daugther's illegal activities. Kite was only 22 and a mediocre tattooist; it didn't seem like she had much to hide. Her sisters soon became aware of her side job, and being loyal to their matriarch, snitched. Kite was cast out of the Adams' family and forbidden to see her sisters. "Come back when you're done or you'll come back when you're dead," she remembers her mother sneered at her before expelling her out of their apartment. Kite hasn't seen them since, not even after the sudden success of Lumal™.

seong-ho. [+]

_{𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑.}

‶비겁함이 너를 내세로 인도하지 않는다.″
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ＮＡＭＥ：

❃ gangjeon seong-ho.

ＡＧＥ：

❃ twenty-seven.

ＧＥＮＤＥＲ：

❃ male.

ＮＡＴＩＯＮＡＬＩＴＹ：

❃ south korean.

ＯＣＣＵＰＡＴＩＯＮ：

❃ doctor alexei guskov's intern. while seong-ho spent the past few years as a pharmaceutical assistant, so as to better acquire the ingredients required for drug-making, he has recently taken up a job with doctor guskov at the geiger institute. this job serves as an outlet; it allows him to get hands on with the doctor's variety of cybernetics, as well as learn how to somewhat effectively apply them.

however, when he's not interning with a mad russian surgeon, seong-ho's main focus is on the kang shal. he acts as the smarter half of the leadership, playing a large role in formulating plans and discussing large changes for the gang, though his intellect often goes out the window when in the heat of the moment. originally, he spent most of his time managing and generally helping out with drug production, but due to the shift in focus towards violent crimes, he's found himself more involved with kidnapping and overseeing extortion. rest assured, if seong-ho is directly involved with an operation, blood will be shed.

ＰＬＡＣＥ ＯＦ ＲＥＳＩＤＥＮＣＥ：

❃ the complex. seong-ho lives at the back of the humming robot, the pharmacy he used to work at. while being slightly more spacious than most ground-level apartments, the space is barely filled up by his minimal furniture and lack of decorating skills. the walls are a bland light grey, with a few cracks here and there and some posters set up on the walls. in the left corner of the room, positioned adjacent to the door, is his old, rusty bed. the frame is rickety and close to falling apart, and the springs are easily felt within the mattress, but so little of his life is spent on it that he doesn't care. as for any other form of furniture, all he has is a wardrobe with a missing door, and a table and chair where he can sit and somewhat relax.

the kitchen is located in a sunken off section of the main room, large enough to be considered it's own separate room, but with no separating walls or even a foot to support that. in seong-ho's kitchen are only thever bare essentials - a cooker, a counter that has two barely functioning cupboards above it, and a refrigeration unit with built-in freezer option. much like the main room, the kitchen is in somewhat of an okay condition. seong-ho is very resourceful with what little he has, dragging his chair over to the counter to eat and buying food if and when he needs it. unfortunately, due to his lack of a kitchen sink, the few plates, cutlery and single cup that he has are washed in the bathroom.

said bathroom is in a significantly worse state than the apartment's other two rooms. while not at the point where leaks would be a serious concern, the general look and wear for tear makes it unappealing. against the back wall is a small bathtub, speckled with red stain and a few ceramic cracks. at the bottom of this bathtub is the bathroom sink, which faces the door and is where seong-ho's washing up takes place. situated above this is a broken mirror, one that has had many a smashed mirror come before it, to the point where seong-ho doesn't bother replacing them anymore. tucked away in the corner of the room is the toilet, which, despite being the highest quality thing in the room, is missing a toilet seat and a part of the lid.

even though seong-ho doesn't exactly live in luxury, he prefers it to living out on the streets. so little of his time is spent in his apartment, therefore he has no care for artifical plants or pretty wallpaper. so long as there's a roof over his head and he can reliably provide himself with food and water, then he has more important matters to deal with.

ＣＹＢＥＲＮＥＴＩＣＳ：

❃ no. he can't afford that shit.

ＢＩＯ：

❃ seong-ho gangjeon was born in the complex, much to the surprise of his parents, who were struggling enough without another mouth to feed. fast-forward 2 years later, and yet another mouth to feed as born, in the form of his brother min-soo. most of his childhood memories are that of him and his brother, growing up together in the harsh world the gods had deemed them to live in. it wasn't one of those sibling relationships where seong-ho protected his younger brother from bullies in the schoolyard, god knows they had to look out for themselves, but they never reached a point where they hated each other's guts like most young siblings would. of course, while (unbeknownst to him) his brother was doing drug-running for people more than twice his age, seong-ho took it upon himself to try and pay attention more in school. unfortunately, it wasn't necessarily easy - there was a lot of stress boiling up at home due to his father's inability to pull his own weight, wanting his wife and sons to pamper him instead. this helped the young boy form his views about the world, gaining a distaste for those who did nothing but expected everything in return.

eventually, seong-ho took his bad situation and made something out of it. he started off doing minor things, like stealing foodstuffs from the local vendor and selling them off to other kids in the complex. soon enough it slowly wound him up in a 'gang', comprised of a couple guys around double his age. they noticed his sleight of hand and tasked him with more dangerous jobs, like stealing drugs from other 'gangs' in the area so they could pawn them off or even sometimes use them. while it took a few years longer for seong-ho to get involved in the same illegal activities his younger brother did, he became hooked, wanting more and more from this new dangerous life. as he grew older, of course, people grew more suspicious of him, due to him lacking the childlike innocence he once had. however, it proved to be a minor problem, as he could move on to bigger things - forming his own gang with min-soo.

the two brothers both knew that their desire for more out of life, to chase the dream, was the perfect driving force for them. they wanted money, drugs, fame, a real title to hold. and so the kang shal was founded on gratuitous violence, drug running, and chasing the goal that almost every young delinquent in the complex wanted.

y'all can start dropping characters in the character's tab

@NuttsnBolts Ooohh, I know you're not done but Kite probably handled the distribution of a couple of Lian's organs lol

So perhaps it's a good idea of thinking how we should tie together our characters. Sandboxes are nice and all but we need driving force here.

<Snipped quote by spencerishere>

That'd work in nicely and help create some interesting drama. ;D
also, Lian is the surname. Chinese write surnames first... but the confusion may make it fun in IC when she has to correct people.