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気械こー佳奈
きかいこーかな
“In meditation, it is revealed that man and machine are aligned indefinitely.”
Name:
Kikaiko Kana
気械こー佳奈
きかいこーかな
Preferred Name:
Kana
Age:
23
Sex:
Female
Nationality:
Zainichi Korean
Languages Spoken:
Japanese
Korean
English
Kikaiko Kana
気械こー佳奈
きかいこーかな
Preferred Name:
Kana
Age:
23
Sex:
Female
Nationality:
Zainichi Korean
Languages Spoken:
Japanese
Korean
English
Cybernetic Enhancements:
► Modified Demolition Arm Prosthesis | This cybernetic limb prosthetic started out as an industrial augmentation meant for construction workers to use in demolition and deconstruction of structures. It was heavily augmented by Kana after she received it, but it was all she could afford with the small inheritance granted to her after her accident. The limb has quite a bit of strength in it as it is meant for heavy strain. The most prominent feature of the Demolition Arm is its jackhammer action which can cause a massive pulse of force outwards from the fist. This is accomplished by an autoloading explosive shell that is housed in the wrist that goes off when punched outward to create a shocking amount of force.
► Modified Machinist’s Arm Prosthesis |
Grafted onto Kana while she was young and upgraded to better fit her over time, her Machinist’s Arm is a mark left on her from the late Kikaiko family. The prosthesis is extremely similar to the one used by her father, as it houses a number of mechanics’ tools run by simple motors to extend from the forearm and be used precisely on any machinist’s project. Common available tools include a number of drill bits, a wrench mechanism, and a small circular saw.
► Neurotop Remote Interface |
The Neurotop Remote Interface is a common neural implant that allows for the user to interface with compatible machines and the internet remotely. Kana bought herself the implant whilst working in the KikaikonoDojo to allow her to access information, complex diagrams, schematics, and instructions whilst going about her biomechanical undertakings.
► Autodoc Toolkit Implant |
This internal implant is housed in the back side of the wrist on Kana’s Machinist’s Arm. It is a simple implant that houses a number of simple surgeon’s tools meant to assist in triage and urgent medical care.
► Modified Machinist’s Arm Prosthesis |
Grafted onto Kana while she was young and upgraded to better fit her over time, her Machinist’s Arm is a mark left on her from the late Kikaiko family. The prosthesis is extremely similar to the one used by her father, as it houses a number of mechanics’ tools run by simple motors to extend from the forearm and be used precisely on any machinist’s project. Common available tools include a number of drill bits, a wrench mechanism, and a small circular saw.
► Neurotop Remote Interface |
The Neurotop Remote Interface is a common neural implant that allows for the user to interface with compatible machines and the internet remotely. Kana bought herself the implant whilst working in the KikaikonoDojo to allow her to access information, complex diagrams, schematics, and instructions whilst going about her biomechanical undertakings.
► Autodoc Toolkit Implant |
This internal implant is housed in the back side of the wrist on Kana’s Machinist’s Arm. It is a simple implant that houses a number of simple surgeon’s tools meant to assist in triage and urgent medical care.
Property:
► Ōsuzumebachi Flechette Machine Pistols(大雀蜂)
Designed and manufactured almost exclusively for Tokyo’s more underground consumers, the Ōsuzumebachi Flechette Machine Pistols pack a noticeable and rapid-fire punch in the form of flechette projectiles rather than conventional bullets. This offers a lightweight, compact, and concealable model made almost entirely of plastic and ceramics. Each pistol is augmented with a laser sight. These two weapons are the only firearms that Kana owns— one having belonged to her father and the other to her mother.
► PsySys Prescription Technispecs
When it comes to impaired vision, PsySys Technispecs are one of the top products to combat such issues. These stylized glasses also act as screens that can offer the wearer a heads-up display with a small array of information about their surroundings. More quality models come with 2-3x zoom functions, thermal vision, and movement detection. In efforts to maintain a knack for style as much as they do functionality, PsySys allows for the glasses to tint to any number of specified colors. Kana’s set appear as a pair of circular spectacles that she rarely leaves home without.
Designed and manufactured almost exclusively for Tokyo’s more underground consumers, the Ōsuzumebachi Flechette Machine Pistols pack a noticeable and rapid-fire punch in the form of flechette projectiles rather than conventional bullets. This offers a lightweight, compact, and concealable model made almost entirely of plastic and ceramics. Each pistol is augmented with a laser sight. These two weapons are the only firearms that Kana owns— one having belonged to her father and the other to her mother.
► PsySys Prescription Technispecs
When it comes to impaired vision, PsySys Technispecs are one of the top products to combat such issues. These stylized glasses also act as screens that can offer the wearer a heads-up display with a small array of information about their surroundings. More quality models come with 2-3x zoom functions, thermal vision, and movement detection. In efforts to maintain a knack for style as much as they do functionality, PsySys allows for the glasses to tint to any number of specified colors. Kana’s set appear as a pair of circular spectacles that she rarely leaves home without.
Appearance:
Kana is by no means an imposing figure to be feared. With such small stature, she doesn’t carry much of an intimidating appearance. Instead, quite the opposite may be true as she often may appear rather sickly and weak. Her slight form is contrasted only by the mechanical appearance of her cybernetic arms— both appearing as slick and dark gunmetal limbs. Her prostheses have a very industrialized aesthetic, built from other pieced together cyberware. Kana is clearly of Korean descent, opting to dye her natural hair a lighter platinum blonde. She keeps her hair very well so that her straightened locks fall just around her neck. Very rarely is Kana seen without wearing a pair of circular spectacles. She has a knack for urban fashion, opting to dress with flashy aesthetics that have an unaccounted for tendency to stand out in the rural Suribachi.
Personality traits:
► Forlorn
► Wistful
► Withdrawn
► Pensive
► Perceptive
► Conscientious
► Dissonant
► Wistful
► Withdrawn
► Pensive
► Perceptive
► Conscientious
► Dissonant
Background:
Kana was born to a pair of Korean immigrants to Japan, settling in Suribachi. Their identities remain a mystery to her as she was told that she was orphaned at birth in a crime-related accident. Unfortunately for the young girl, no more information on her original progenitors was available to her anywhere she could look. She was, after all, unaware of her own last name. Kana was in particularly rough shape due to a rare form of minor muscular dystrophy in parts of her body. Lost without help in this world, Kana would have fallen victim to its cruel fate had she not been accepted and cared for as an orphan by a particularly benevolent pair of guardians.
When found and brought to the hospital in a state of near-death, Kana required the replacement of a number of muscle fibers with artificial counterparts. Kana was taken in by the Kikaiko family and cared for at the KikainoDojo, where her disability was dealt with via cybernetic augmentation of one of her arms. Her adoptive family ran this dojo as a refuge and support center for cybernetically augmented people struggling to survive for various reasons, operated between her ‘mother’, ‘father’, and another orphaned child of similar age to Kana named Tao that she soon grew to view as a brother.. The dojo acted something like a non-secular church for a struggling group in Suribachi, offering repairs, sustenance, and simple medical assistance to the many, though a number of outsiders likened the group more to a cult than a church. Either way, it created a tight-knit bond between its frequenters. As such, the caring family had no problem bringing the little girl into their dojo. With all of the work done to help others, the KikainoDojo required great monetary support. While the dojo received some donations and Kana’s mother worked as surgeon’s assistant at Suribachi General Hospital, they still didn’t have enough money to keep up with increasing demand of the dojo’s assistance. This led to the advent of the KikainoDojo Machine Shop built as an addition onto the dojo. In the machine shop, Kana’s adoptive father worked tirelessly on a number of odd mechanical jobs and repairs. Kana took to the Dojo’s principles quite quickly, and she soon became an apprentice to her guardians, offering as much help as a young child could.
Even in their ultimate efforts to keep the dojo afloat, the Kikaiko family was working against all odds. It wasn’t long into Kana’s life that the dojo had accrued a larger and larger debt that soon crippled the family. Having run out of options, Kana’s father resorted to taking out loans. What Kana was unaware of, however, was that he didn’t have the necessary assets to take out such great loans from banks and instead resorted to drawing funds from both the Yakuza and the Sycamore Family simultaneously. When Kana’s father finally reached the point where he could no longer stave off the wrath of the two families, the KikainoDojo was attacked in a drive-by. The place ended up riddled with holes, firebombed, and partially collapsed.
After the attack, Kana only remembers waking up in the hospital to learn that her remaining biological had been crushed and required amputation. With such an expensive medical procedure, Kana had no way to pay for it, but it was then that Kana received word that neither of her guardians had survived. With no other option, a small inheritance of her father’s hidden reserves was nearly entirely used up in Kana’s medical bills. Kana was entirely surprised by this revelation, choosing to accept only half of the treatment so that her brother could receive treatment for whatever wounds he might have taken in the disaster. It was then that it was revealed to the hospitalized girl that her brother was beyond saving and the doctors had proclaimed him unable to be saved, especially with the funds available. Tao himself opted to offer all of the inheritance to Kana so that one of them could live rather than having them both die.
Upon receiving her treatment, Kana made the impulsive decision to try and help Tao herself. That day, both Kana and Tao Kikaiko had disappeared from Suribachi General Hospital. At the shell of what once was the great KikainoDojo, Kana maintains herself in the broken machine shop while Tao remains lost in catatonia and barely kept alive by his sister’s biomechanical rigging. Kana has plans to resurrect the fallen dojo from its broken state, entirely unaware of any Yakuza or Sycamore grudges that may remain.
When found and brought to the hospital in a state of near-death, Kana required the replacement of a number of muscle fibers with artificial counterparts. Kana was taken in by the Kikaiko family and cared for at the KikainoDojo, where her disability was dealt with via cybernetic augmentation of one of her arms. Her adoptive family ran this dojo as a refuge and support center for cybernetically augmented people struggling to survive for various reasons, operated between her ‘mother’, ‘father’, and another orphaned child of similar age to Kana named Tao that she soon grew to view as a brother.. The dojo acted something like a non-secular church for a struggling group in Suribachi, offering repairs, sustenance, and simple medical assistance to the many, though a number of outsiders likened the group more to a cult than a church. Either way, it created a tight-knit bond between its frequenters. As such, the caring family had no problem bringing the little girl into their dojo. With all of the work done to help others, the KikainoDojo required great monetary support. While the dojo received some donations and Kana’s mother worked as surgeon’s assistant at Suribachi General Hospital, they still didn’t have enough money to keep up with increasing demand of the dojo’s assistance. This led to the advent of the KikainoDojo Machine Shop built as an addition onto the dojo. In the machine shop, Kana’s adoptive father worked tirelessly on a number of odd mechanical jobs and repairs. Kana took to the Dojo’s principles quite quickly, and she soon became an apprentice to her guardians, offering as much help as a young child could.
Even in their ultimate efforts to keep the dojo afloat, the Kikaiko family was working against all odds. It wasn’t long into Kana’s life that the dojo had accrued a larger and larger debt that soon crippled the family. Having run out of options, Kana’s father resorted to taking out loans. What Kana was unaware of, however, was that he didn’t have the necessary assets to take out such great loans from banks and instead resorted to drawing funds from both the Yakuza and the Sycamore Family simultaneously. When Kana’s father finally reached the point where he could no longer stave off the wrath of the two families, the KikainoDojo was attacked in a drive-by. The place ended up riddled with holes, firebombed, and partially collapsed.
After the attack, Kana only remembers waking up in the hospital to learn that her remaining biological had been crushed and required amputation. With such an expensive medical procedure, Kana had no way to pay for it, but it was then that Kana received word that neither of her guardians had survived. With no other option, a small inheritance of her father’s hidden reserves was nearly entirely used up in Kana’s medical bills. Kana was entirely surprised by this revelation, choosing to accept only half of the treatment so that her brother could receive treatment for whatever wounds he might have taken in the disaster. It was then that it was revealed to the hospitalized girl that her brother was beyond saving and the doctors had proclaimed him unable to be saved, especially with the funds available. Tao himself opted to offer all of the inheritance to Kana so that one of them could live rather than having them both die.
Upon receiving her treatment, Kana made the impulsive decision to try and help Tao herself. That day, both Kana and Tao Kikaiko had disappeared from Suribachi General Hospital. At the shell of what once was the great KikainoDojo, Kana maintains herself in the broken machine shop while Tao remains lost in catatonia and barely kept alive by his sister’s biomechanical rigging. Kana has plans to resurrect the fallen dojo from its broken state, entirely unaware of any Yakuza or Sycamore grudges that may remain.
Skills:
► Cyberneticist | Kana is well versed in the inner workings of cybernetics and mechanics of various machines. This stems from her time around her father at the KikaikonoDojo. She has the necessary skills to repair, maintenance, assemble, or disassemble mechanics she is familiar with.
► Biomechanist | Taking after her mother, Kana has an apprentice’s knowledge of how the body works, particularly in its interactions with machines. This allows her the skills necessary to manage basic medical procedures and maintenance of cybernetic augmentations on humans.
► The Way of the Machine | In the many teachings of the KikainoDojo, Kana learned how to fend for herself as an augmented human in Suribachi. One of the common practices around the dojo from day to day was the honing of what was called ‘The Way of the Machine’. This was a technical art taught by some of the dojo’s patrons meant to show its participants how to use their cybernetics to their advantage in combat. Lacking any actual training in any weapons, this knowledge of fighting with her own body offers Kana her greatest defense.
► Biomechanist | Taking after her mother, Kana has an apprentice’s knowledge of how the body works, particularly in its interactions with machines. This allows her the skills necessary to manage basic medical procedures and maintenance of cybernetic augmentations on humans.
► The Way of the Machine | In the many teachings of the KikainoDojo, Kana learned how to fend for herself as an augmented human in Suribachi. One of the common practices around the dojo from day to day was the honing of what was called ‘The Way of the Machine’. This was a technical art taught by some of the dojo’s patrons meant to show its participants how to use their cybernetics to their advantage in combat. Lacking any actual training in any weapons, this knowledge of fighting with her own body offers Kana her greatest defense.
Flaws:
► Debt To Inheritance | Due to the great debts accrued by the progenitors of the KikainoDojo, both Yakuza and Sycamore loan sharks never got the chance to collect on the business after it was destroyed. With Kana being the last connection to her dead parents, she has thusly inherited their debts, and may be considered an enemy of both of the major gangs in Suribachi.
► Debt To Metal | In her heavy reliance on cybernetics, Kana’s body finds it harder and harder to cope with its numerous mechanical augmentations. On a daily basis, Kana is faced with the conundrum of requiring medications to prevent the rejections of her augmentations and the immense pain of the slow process following. With expensive medications being so far out of her reach, Kana often must resort to procuring her fix through other means.
► Atrophy | While Kana has grown to overcome her disability from birth almost entirely, the lingering effects still remain as she augments her body more and more. Where Kana finds herself lacking any artificial muscle fiber or prostheses, she is a great deal weaker as her muscles have partially atrophied, thusly giving her reduced strength in those areas.
► Debt To Metal | In her heavy reliance on cybernetics, Kana’s body finds it harder and harder to cope with its numerous mechanical augmentations. On a daily basis, Kana is faced with the conundrum of requiring medications to prevent the rejections of her augmentations and the immense pain of the slow process following. With expensive medications being so far out of her reach, Kana often must resort to procuring her fix through other means.
► Atrophy | While Kana has grown to overcome her disability from birth almost entirely, the lingering effects still remain as she augments her body more and more. Where Kana finds herself lacking any artificial muscle fiber or prostheses, she is a great deal weaker as her muscles have partially atrophied, thusly giving her reduced strength in those areas.
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Connie Lee - A Driver or The Driver?
Life hit me hard. Now, I always move fast so that I never get hit again.
Name: Constance "Connie" Lee
Age: 22
Sex: Male
Nationality: Singaporean.
Languages Spoken:
- Malay (Fluent)
- English (Advanced)
- Japanese (Conversational)
- Hokkien (Basic)
Cybernetic Enhancements
Armalance Kasparovian Booster-Ware Model M - Originally designed by Armalance to provide government soldiers with the capability to deal with the rising number of augmented criminals on the streets , this . This reflex co-processor augments the cerebellum's capacity to process nerve signals, essentially increasing the reaction time of the recipient to inhuman levels where they could theoretically catch a bullet mid-air.
Suzuki Wireless Smart-Link v1.5 - A standard co-processor link chip that comes standard issue in every Suzuki bike issued after 2040. This cybernetic chip links the computing systems of the Undertaker and Connie's nervous system, allowing him to control the bike with literally a thought of his head and granting him a higher precision of driving than most other punk bikers.
Property
Undertaker - 2050 Suzuki Zendatsu FDX600 - No noise. No burning rubber. No smoke. Aesthetically, it's a beaut. A 3-D fabricated streamlined carbon-shelled plated body covering a low-weight titanium alloy skeleton that's a sexy blend of Japanese chic design and efficiency. The new and refurbished model of the front-runner Suzuki Zendatsu is a cutting-edge motorcycle armed with an experimental revolutionary integrated mag-lev motor drive and standard electromagnetic anti-lock brakes with a complete reduction in 85% of friction, thereby promoting higher efficiency and affording incredible amounts of balance. This bad boy's able to reach an acceleration of 0 to 60 mph in under 1 seconds and a measured top speed of 550 mph (No one's ever ridden it that fast before without dying). Furthermore, this baby's not just a machine of power but a machine of intelligence. The 2050 Suzuki Zendatsu, like most modern motorcycles, comes integrated with a computer system instead of a normal manual control system as seen in most vehicles developed pre 2030. Connie's model is modified with a matte-blue finish and a locked trunk where he stores a myriad of items, mainly his packages.
Bullpit Prismo - The Prismo is a full-faced motorcycle helmet that affords top-of-the-line protection against the many dangers of driving on the road such as drunk drivers, angry drivers, gun-toting drivers and plain stupid drivers. The nano-tube based mesh-foam cushioning and the poly-laminate composite shell is responsible for absorbing the devastating skull-crushing impacts which the driver wouldn't be able to normally survive. Hell, it's even been rated for bullets (but don't push your luck.) The 2030 Prismo features a new smart HUD that indicates incoming traffic jams, possible routes and the driver's proximity with other vehicles.
Armalance Broadsider Compact - Commonly referred to as the 'ABC', this semi-automatic pistol for first-time gun users is aimed for civilians who can't hit the broadside of a barn. A pathetic seven-round magazine with a caliber of 10mm ensures that it falls into the hall of shame for any aspiring gun owner. However, the cheap cost relative to other pistols on the market make it one of the most ubiquitous civilian firearms within Japan.
Pipe - It's a pipe. A five foot long pipe. A reinforced titanium pipe taken from the sunken remains of a battle-ship that was found in the junkyard that's good for pushing other bikers off their cycles. What? Did you expect some fancy vibro-blade or a chainsaw?
Appearance
For a man of his profession, Connie is decidedly mundane and contrasts the usual punkish images that one would imagine when they hear of the term "street driver". His head bears a short clean-shaven cut of tawny brown hair intermixed with a row of faint surgical scars from his extensive neural-ware modifications with blue eyes that almost glow in the dark. His body is of a stout stature, bearing broad shoulders and thick limbs. A mixture of South-East Asian and American genes effectively cancelled each other out in terms of ethnically defining features, placing his features somewhere between that of a Caucasian and a Asian. His street attire usually consists of a insulated bomber jacket in drab-green olive with motorcycle gloves and treads.
Personality traits
- Optimistic
- Restless
- Reckless
- Daredevil
- Energetic
- Greedy
Background
Born at the beginning of the 2030s, Constance forged his own name in poverty and rose out of the depths by becoming a feared man known as the Trailblazer. He came from a rough-and-tumble background filled with copious amounts of street racing and violence in the bordering lands of urban Singapore and rural Sabah, the latter of which was quickly being transformed into a major bio-oil plantation by rivaling Indonesian and Malaysian corporations. The disillusionment with the increasing industrialization of the rural villages of Malaysia intensified the current mat rempit attitudes within youth groups and led to the sudden onset of street racers, in open rebellion of the new social paradigm. During one of his many illegal street races, Constance saw the opportunity to participate in a high profile illegal street race which was known as the Danger Derby in order to win a highly coveted Suzuki Zendatsu prototype that had been stolen by black-market techies but denied it.
Before the eve of the match, Constance came in contact through his gang with an employee of a indie corporation, Hayai Motorworks, tbat was a rival to Suzuki to win back the Suzuki Zendatsu for them in exchange for a sum of 1,000,000,000 ringgit. A few broken bones and a concussion later, Constance became the new winner of a Zendatsu, the fastest electro-cycle on the market. Now, all he had to do was play his part of the deal and his gang would be one of the richest syndicates in the South-East Asian region.
He didn't.
Reneging on his deal, Constance fled both the bounty hunters sent to hunt him by Hayai and his furious gang members, eventually escaping to Japan and bargaining with the Sycamore Gang for protection from both parties in exchange for his services as a data-courier for several years, paying off his debts. During this era, Constance hitched it up with a local bokozotsu gang in Kobe which he grew extremely close with. During one day, whilst drunkenly boasting in a bar about the failures of the Sycamore Gang, the Sycamore Gang paid revenge by assaulting the hide-out of his bokozotsu gang and slaughtering all of them by jacking their consciousness into VR and letting them slowly bleed out from meat-space whilst stuck within cyber-space. Grieved, Constance fled the scene, not before burning their ashes and scattering them into the ports of Kobe. When news came out that Hayai had become bankrupt and was forced to become a subsidary corporation of Mizuki, Constance dissolved his connections with the Sycamore Gang and made his way to the Hyogo country-side where he travelled from place to place looking for employment.
Now, Constance works as a sushi deliveryman within the rural areas of Surubachi, working to scrap by with the meagre salary he has whilst trying to stay out of the gang war between the Yakuza and the Sycamore Family. Now, that the war's come to Surubachi, Constance wonders whether or not he's still able to run away from his problems....
Skills
Mat Rempit - The machine doesn't make the driver. The driver makes the machine. Connie is a fearsome street driver who's learnt how to grift it with the best of the best and able to push the capabilities of his cycle beyond its limits. Drifts and turns come to him as easy even as he's cruising at blurring speeds. Evading and escaping blockades of automated squad cars and armies of gangoons is exciting. Pulling off improbable tricks and death-defying stunts is his hobby. It's arguable whether or not Connie is the greatest driver in the world but he's certainly the best human driver Surubachi's ever seen.
Street Mechanic - A good driver knows how to maintain his vehicle. Connie has thorough knowledge of how to maintain and repair his cycle, along with being able to make the occasional fine-tune or upgrade to the systems of Undertaker. However, any more advanced upgrade is beyond the skills of Connie who seeks the help of techies or handyman's for more specific needs.
Living GPS - After five years of traversing through Surubachi and its many districts, Connie possesses a encyclopedic knowledge of every nook and cranny within the bowels of Surubachi. This allows him to travel to any location in Surubachi that he's familar with or has been before.
Flaws
Feel the Need, The Need for Speed - The common diet of an adrenaline junkie is going into high-risk scenarios with little to no regard for their own personal safety or common sense. Off the wheel, Connie's sense of security is about as normal as any sane individual. On the road , Connie transforms into a reckless driver, a demon of speed who will take the opportunity to engage in any dangerous route of driving or the one which provides him with the most sense of thrill.
Greenhorn - Due to a life-time of running people over and killing them, Connie has a lack of experience with guns and melee weapons, only having to use them in exceptional circumstances. In those exceptional circumstances, Connie is horrendously bad at ranged and hand-to-hand combat, but not completely inefficient to the point where he's worst than a pacifistic monk at the art of killing somebody.
That Chrome Looks Juicy. Mind if I pick it over your dead body? - Connie's cycle is a rare sight in a rural village such as Suribachi and his skills as a driver attract attention from both the Yakuza and the Sycamore Gang whilst he travels through the most dangerous parts of town. Therefore, Connie is a prime target for recruitment by both the Yakuza and the Sycamore Gang, despite him wanting nothing to do in their little war.
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Member
Seen
4 yrs ago
Name:
Kyo Kazuko (敬 かずこ.) Known by friends as "K-Kyo" and operates online under "akkd0g_".
Age:
28 (Twenty-eight.)
Sex:
♀ Female.
Nationality:
Japanese citizen by birth.
Languages spoken:
◦ Japanese: fluent and a native speaker.
◦ Chinese: advanced.
◦ English: conversational.
Cybernetic Enhancements
YuutaCorp® CIT Y-750 (modified)
The YuutaCorp® Cranial Integration Unit Y-series, model 750, is an overt yet powerful unit designed to allow the exchange of data between the brain and most devices. It occupies most of the space along the back of the neck and runs intrusively into the cranial nerves. While an older bit of hardware as far as CIT units go, it's still popular today among technology enthusiasts. It features four standard input/output ports alongside slots for common small memory units. This particular unit has been modified with a few retrofits, bringing it up to speed with recent advances in technology to allow for near-universal integration with modern and aged devices alike.
Property
NTS Weiland 5 (modified)
The "Weiland 5" omni-reality™ headset is a Full-Dive® integrated virtual reality headset developed and produced by Nishimura Technology Solutions Incorporated. While not competitive as far as base specifications go its sturdy construction, simple construction, and extensive modding community, make it appealing to the VR otaku market. Kazuko has modified hers almost beyond recognition, bringing it up to the leading edge. The headset is integrated with her CIU, creating a direct wire link between her brain and cyberspace. The headset is primarily used for browsing cyberspace, both innocently and maliciously, but also includes augmented reality support, a user health monitoring suite, a realspace environmental monitoring suite, and integrated BrightBulb™ lights in the frame. Several failsafes are also included in the headset, designed to prevent any cyberspace attacks or counterattacks against her from reaching her CIU with potentially life threatening results.
Appearance
There isn't much to see of Kazuko, being a frail woman who stands at an impressive 5 foot flat. While the health monitoring suite in her headset encourages her to manage her health, the success of the suite is limited at best, leaving her with the stereotypical hikikomori BTL-junkie build: borderline anorexic. Her neck length hair - currently dyed pastel purple, check in next week to see if she's changed it yet - is often scrunched up underneath her headset, keeping it out of the way while she browses, works, and full dives into cyberspace. While her eyes were once a pretty shade of blue, they've since been paled and bloodshot after spending months at a time within the headset for years.
Personality traits:
◦ Reclusive.
◦ Skeptical.
◦ Adaptive.
◦ Apprehensive.
◦ Astute.
◦ Cunning.
Background:
Kazuko was born in Osaka, Japan, as the first and only child of two Japanese-born nationalists. Her parents had issues with fertility between exposure to hazardous substances in their lifetime and their growing age, making even conceiving Kazuko the result of eight years of doctors appointments and countless attempts. The two gave up some four years later, instead turning to their only child with all of their hopes and aspirations: university education, a high-paying job, fighting the good intellectual fight in the name of what Japan once was. Tragically, as Kazuko grew up, her parents high standards only made her want to spite them.
As Kazuko grew into her high school years and began to form as a person, she dabbled into delinquency. What started as a phase became a trend; what began as spiting her parents and a taste of rebellion became a lifestyle. Over the years, skipping a couple of classes turned into skipping days as ignoring her parents turned into arguing with them. This came to a boil when, one night, she assaulted her mother in a fit of frustration. She had never been hit by her parents before, but her father smacked the life of her when he put her on the ground. "Enough was enough," her parents had decided. That night, she was handed a backpack and told to find her own life. She took to the streets, thinking it was all just one big scare tactic, but after a week of camping out front of her old home turned into the police taking her away for loitering, the reality of her situation slammed into her like a truck.
She regretted it. She regretted everything. It wasn't worth it, not in the slightest. After some weeks wandering the streets of Osaka, Kazuko decided to make things right. She started attending school regularly, she found a part time job, she even found a makeshift home in a small alcove somewhere near the city. But the showers at the gym weren't enough to keep her clean and a homeless employee was bad for business. She lost one job after another, becoming more and more desperate for money all the while, until she came across what she thought was a saving grace:
Enjo-kōsai. Compensated dating.
It went about as well as you expected it to. Within a month, Kazukos demeanor of renewed determination had fallen flat on its ass after she had already gotten in too deep, and she was simply gone from school the next. Pornographic videos, prostitution, the likes: the local foreign crime syndicate owned her, and they had their way making as much money as they could off her young body. For her, life had lost its purpose; it just wasn't fair. Months past - not that she could perceive any of them in the end - before she found her escape: better-than-life chips, or DreamChips. Virtual reality experiences that took the pain away, that whisked her off to a life and feeling sa thousand times better.
One thing led to another. As she delved deeper into the mysteries of cyberspace, her skills began to develop. It took her almost three years: three years of being shuffled around the city, only a cheap headset and a chop-job computer to her name, before she made her great escape. Through cyberspace, she made a deal with a local yakuza family: if she could make one of her captives warehouses vulnerable, the yakuza cell would free her after conducting a raid. So she did - but not before proving herself to the yakuza with a test run, of course. The foreign mafia tracked it back to her and shoved her into the back of a van without her gear, but while they were transferring her, a truck rammed the van onto its side and whisked the girl away midst fire and smoke.
She had done it. She was free and her debts were paid. But that left her back at square one: she didn't have any money, nor a place to live. This time though, she had a portfolio, even if it was small. She was a bone fide hacker now, the real deal, and she had a couple of contacts in the yakuza to kick her operation off. With a loan from the yakuza to get some gear to her name, she was off and away. Before long, her debts were paid and she was making some income, even if the start was a bit rocky here and there.
Yet despite being free, Osaka still felt suffocating. It had memories of her parents, need not mention her time as a captive to sex trafficking. She wanted to go somewhere different, somewhere where she could breathe. She tried Tokyo first but that didn't feel much better, so off she went to the countryside. There was a promising job going in Suribachi with the opportunity for further work, plus she could keep working freelance in cyberspace doing jobs for people across the planet. As far as her situation went, it was a good deal.
So as she sat on the bus at the young age of 23 with her headset over her head, it occurred to her: in the end, in her own way, did she end up living up to her parents dreams for her? She screwed over a foreign mafia for the yakuza in the end, and she might even end up doing it again if the war in Suribachi calls for hackers. If nothing else, the action made it a hotspot for jobs, whether it was working for criminals or not. She decided not to think about it too much in the end - it was too inconvenient to think about. Instead, she decided that once she had made enough or once the jobs stopped coming, she would try and enroll to university somewhere. She could reach out to her parents again then. Maybe they will be proud of her.
Skills:
Cyberspace whizz
Kazuko is intimate with the ins and outs of cyberspace, both jacked in and jacked out alike. Not only is it a good way to make money for a shut in like her, it also helps her keep alert and aware of information she otherwise wouldn't have. Cyberspace is a great way to learn things and that goes double for all of the devices connected to it.
Elusive
There have been attempts to capture or kill "akkd0g_" before: whether it be revenge, tying off loose ends, or eliminating the competition. Sometimes the chair has even been still warm when they get in there but they haven't once got a hold of them. They discover another sneaky trick of theirs every time they try. Whoever "akkd0g_" is, they really don't want to be found.
Flaws:
Fragile
In true hikikomori fashion, there isn't much to Kazuko's body, and what there is isn't very sturdy. What would bruise your average man could very well break something of hers and she certainly doesn't have the strength to stand up to half of the men she torments in cyberspace forums in the real world.
Min-maxed
To get that critical extra speed over the competition, Kazuko has set up a direct wire between her brain and cyberspace. While the benefits are obvious, there's also the obvious risk that comes with it. There's dump shock, sure, but there's also the chance of direct attacks against her own brain. While she has several failsafes between her headset and her CIU, she might have yet to meet her match.
Escapist addict
Kazukos journey into cyberspace began with BTLs: better-than-life chips, or DreamChips. The ultimate yet very illegal form of escapism: a full dive simulation that's a thousand times better and feels a thousand times better. Without her daily fix, well... what could happen to her?
Kyo Kazuko (敬 かずこ.) Known by friends as "K-Kyo" and operates online under "akkd0g_".
Age:
28 (Twenty-eight.)
Sex:
♀ Female.
Nationality:
Japanese citizen by birth.
Languages spoken:
◦ Japanese: fluent and a native speaker.
◦ Chinese: advanced.
◦ English: conversational.
Cybernetic Enhancements
YuutaCorp® CIT Y-750 (modified)
The YuutaCorp® Cranial Integration Unit Y-series, model 750, is an overt yet powerful unit designed to allow the exchange of data between the brain and most devices. It occupies most of the space along the back of the neck and runs intrusively into the cranial nerves. While an older bit of hardware as far as CIT units go, it's still popular today among technology enthusiasts. It features four standard input/output ports alongside slots for common small memory units. This particular unit has been modified with a few retrofits, bringing it up to speed with recent advances in technology to allow for near-universal integration with modern and aged devices alike.
Property
NTS Weiland 5 (modified)
The "Weiland 5" omni-reality™ headset is a Full-Dive® integrated virtual reality headset developed and produced by Nishimura Technology Solutions Incorporated. While not competitive as far as base specifications go its sturdy construction, simple construction, and extensive modding community, make it appealing to the VR otaku market. Kazuko has modified hers almost beyond recognition, bringing it up to the leading edge. The headset is integrated with her CIU, creating a direct wire link between her brain and cyberspace. The headset is primarily used for browsing cyberspace, both innocently and maliciously, but also includes augmented reality support, a user health monitoring suite, a realspace environmental monitoring suite, and integrated BrightBulb™ lights in the frame. Several failsafes are also included in the headset, designed to prevent any cyberspace attacks or counterattacks against her from reaching her CIU with potentially life threatening results.
Appearance
There isn't much to see of Kazuko, being a frail woman who stands at an impressive 5 foot flat. While the health monitoring suite in her headset encourages her to manage her health, the success of the suite is limited at best, leaving her with the stereotypical hikikomori BTL-junkie build: borderline anorexic. Her neck length hair - currently dyed pastel purple, check in next week to see if she's changed it yet - is often scrunched up underneath her headset, keeping it out of the way while she browses, works, and full dives into cyberspace. While her eyes were once a pretty shade of blue, they've since been paled and bloodshot after spending months at a time within the headset for years.
Personality traits:
◦ Reclusive.
◦ Skeptical.
◦ Adaptive.
◦ Apprehensive.
◦ Astute.
◦ Cunning.
Background:
Kazuko was born in Osaka, Japan, as the first and only child of two Japanese-born nationalists. Her parents had issues with fertility between exposure to hazardous substances in their lifetime and their growing age, making even conceiving Kazuko the result of eight years of doctors appointments and countless attempts. The two gave up some four years later, instead turning to their only child with all of their hopes and aspirations: university education, a high-paying job, fighting the good intellectual fight in the name of what Japan once was. Tragically, as Kazuko grew up, her parents high standards only made her want to spite them.
As Kazuko grew into her high school years and began to form as a person, she dabbled into delinquency. What started as a phase became a trend; what began as spiting her parents and a taste of rebellion became a lifestyle. Over the years, skipping a couple of classes turned into skipping days as ignoring her parents turned into arguing with them. This came to a boil when, one night, she assaulted her mother in a fit of frustration. She had never been hit by her parents before, but her father smacked the life of her when he put her on the ground. "Enough was enough," her parents had decided. That night, she was handed a backpack and told to find her own life. She took to the streets, thinking it was all just one big scare tactic, but after a week of camping out front of her old home turned into the police taking her away for loitering, the reality of her situation slammed into her like a truck.
She regretted it. She regretted everything. It wasn't worth it, not in the slightest. After some weeks wandering the streets of Osaka, Kazuko decided to make things right. She started attending school regularly, she found a part time job, she even found a makeshift home in a small alcove somewhere near the city. But the showers at the gym weren't enough to keep her clean and a homeless employee was bad for business. She lost one job after another, becoming more and more desperate for money all the while, until she came across what she thought was a saving grace:
Enjo-kōsai. Compensated dating.
It went about as well as you expected it to. Within a month, Kazukos demeanor of renewed determination had fallen flat on its ass after she had already gotten in too deep, and she was simply gone from school the next. Pornographic videos, prostitution, the likes: the local foreign crime syndicate owned her, and they had their way making as much money as they could off her young body. For her, life had lost its purpose; it just wasn't fair. Months past - not that she could perceive any of them in the end - before she found her escape: better-than-life chips, or DreamChips. Virtual reality experiences that took the pain away, that whisked her off to a life and feeling sa thousand times better.
One thing led to another. As she delved deeper into the mysteries of cyberspace, her skills began to develop. It took her almost three years: three years of being shuffled around the city, only a cheap headset and a chop-job computer to her name, before she made her great escape. Through cyberspace, she made a deal with a local yakuza family: if she could make one of her captives warehouses vulnerable, the yakuza cell would free her after conducting a raid. So she did - but not before proving herself to the yakuza with a test run, of course. The foreign mafia tracked it back to her and shoved her into the back of a van without her gear, but while they were transferring her, a truck rammed the van onto its side and whisked the girl away midst fire and smoke.
She had done it. She was free and her debts were paid. But that left her back at square one: she didn't have any money, nor a place to live. This time though, she had a portfolio, even if it was small. She was a bone fide hacker now, the real deal, and she had a couple of contacts in the yakuza to kick her operation off. With a loan from the yakuza to get some gear to her name, she was off and away. Before long, her debts were paid and she was making some income, even if the start was a bit rocky here and there.
Yet despite being free, Osaka still felt suffocating. It had memories of her parents, need not mention her time as a captive to sex trafficking. She wanted to go somewhere different, somewhere where she could breathe. She tried Tokyo first but that didn't feel much better, so off she went to the countryside. There was a promising job going in Suribachi with the opportunity for further work, plus she could keep working freelance in cyberspace doing jobs for people across the planet. As far as her situation went, it was a good deal.
So as she sat on the bus at the young age of 23 with her headset over her head, it occurred to her: in the end, in her own way, did she end up living up to her parents dreams for her? She screwed over a foreign mafia for the yakuza in the end, and she might even end up doing it again if the war in Suribachi calls for hackers. If nothing else, the action made it a hotspot for jobs, whether it was working for criminals or not. She decided not to think about it too much in the end - it was too inconvenient to think about. Instead, she decided that once she had made enough or once the jobs stopped coming, she would try and enroll to university somewhere. She could reach out to her parents again then. Maybe they will be proud of her.
Skills:
Cyberspace whizz
Kazuko is intimate with the ins and outs of cyberspace, both jacked in and jacked out alike. Not only is it a good way to make money for a shut in like her, it also helps her keep alert and aware of information she otherwise wouldn't have. Cyberspace is a great way to learn things and that goes double for all of the devices connected to it.
Elusive
There have been attempts to capture or kill "akkd0g_" before: whether it be revenge, tying off loose ends, or eliminating the competition. Sometimes the chair has even been still warm when they get in there but they haven't once got a hold of them. They discover another sneaky trick of theirs every time they try. Whoever "akkd0g_" is, they really don't want to be found.
Flaws:
Fragile
In true hikikomori fashion, there isn't much to Kazuko's body, and what there is isn't very sturdy. What would bruise your average man could very well break something of hers and she certainly doesn't have the strength to stand up to half of the men she torments in cyberspace forums in the real world.
Min-maxed
To get that critical extra speed over the competition, Kazuko has set up a direct wire between her brain and cyberspace. While the benefits are obvious, there's also the obvious risk that comes with it. There's dump shock, sure, but there's also the chance of direct attacks against her own brain. While she has several failsafes between her headset and her CIU, she might have yet to meet her match.
Escapist addict
Kazukos journey into cyberspace began with BTLs: better-than-life chips, or DreamChips. The ultimate yet very illegal form of escapism: a full dive simulation that's a thousand times better and feels a thousand times better. Without her daily fix, well... what could happen to her?
CaptainSully 🆆🅸🆃🅷🅸🅽 / 🆃🅷🅴 🆁🆄🅸🅽🆂
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킴용싴
"I can never take back what I did..."
——————————————— Name: Kim Yong-Sik Nicknames: Sik Former Name: Park Hye-Jung Age: 31 Sex: Male ♂ Relationship Status: Single Nationality: South Korean Job: Chef Job: Chef ——————————————— Languages Spoken Korean Japanese English ——————————————— Traits Caring Courageous Daring Independent Repentant Secretive Sincere ——————————————— | ————————————————————————————————————————————— APPEARANCEAt first glance nothing stands out about Sik or his appearance until you get close. He has optical augments and both of his arms have been replaced. He stands at six foot and one inch in height and weighs roughly two hundred and ten pounds. He has no tattoo's and no visible scarring of any kind. ————————————————————————————————————————————— BACKGROUNDArriving in Japan over ten years ago, Sik set out to start a new life free from the trouble he often found himself in. Whether it was fighting, stealing or running drugs, Sik was always a hairs width away from finding himself locked away in a cell for a long time. Unfortunately for him the idea of starting fresh disappeared quickly and gave way to his usual tendencies. He made a name for himself as an efficient thief and fighter. Even with his foreign identity the Yakuza came calling for his talents. What started out as stealing and debt collection soon escalated to contract killing. He killed a total of twenty four targets for the Yakuza including numerous bodyguards, grunts and lackeys. He was paid handsomely for the work he did both financially and through cybernetic enhancements. For a while he was their go to guy for jobs where the Yakuza wanted to maintain plausible deniability, that was until an accident changed him forever. While looking to take out his twenty fourth target, Sik fired several rounds at them and found his target with ruthless accuracy. Unfortunately one of his bullets ricocheted off the floor and hit a passing child square in the chest. The child dropped dead instantly and from that moment Sik vowed never to work for the Yakuza again. The gang had other ideas after the amount they had invested into Sik and gave him an ultimatum...return to work for them or run for the rest of his life. The months that followed involved a change of identity and moving from the bustling metropolis of Tokyo to the much quieter town of Suribachi. He now owns a small restaurent where he serves Korean food. He takes care of the local homeless by providing them with warm meals and sometimes with a roof over their heads on a late night. He is constantly looking to make up for what he did by helping others all the while keeping his identity a secret. ————————————————————————————————————————————— SKILLS✦ Stealth | A young life of crime helped him to develop skills to remain undetected by even the most vigilant of people. ✦ Hacking | Part of his latter years involved the hacking of computers and electronics. Whether breaking into a secure door or disrupting a camera feed, Sik knows how to get it done. ✦ Small Arms Mastery | Not one to set up on a ledge over a mile away to shoot someone, Sik has a preference for pistols and sub machine guns over bigger weapons. ✦ Close Combat | While he may be lacking any particular martial arts training, Sik's life of crime has taught him how to fight up close and personal. ————————————————————————————————————————————— FLAWS✦ Enemies Everywhere | In addition to the Yakuza, several smaller multinational gangs are trying to find Sik. ✦ Fuck the Police | After a life of crime a certain dislike of the police is bound to rise to the surface. Sik hates dealing with the police and shows them zero respect. In addition, he will readily intervene if he perceives the police to be dealing with someone too heavy handedly. ————————————————————————————————————————————— PROPERTY ✦ ZTX Active Camouflage Cloak | Sik has a cloak that can perfectly blend into the background wherever he may be. While it is almost impossible to spot when active, it can be spotted relatively easy when moving too quickly due to the cloak struggling to keep up and process the surroundings. It covers him head to toe and has a run time of one full hour between charges. (Usually kept in rucksack) ✦ Master Key Wristwatch | What appears to be a simple wristwatch is in fact a highly effective hacking tool. It is capable of hacking into low protection devices but struggles when it comes to more complex systems. In addition to this the watch can be linked to various other types of equipment in a remote control capacity. ✦ L231A Flechette Pistol | A pistol that fires armour piercing flechettes. While highly effective against most modern armour, the gun and flechettes are magnetically linked to each other. This means that once fired the flechettes can be recalled to their parent weapon. (Kept inside his jacket) ✦ Rufus | While not property per se, Sik’s pet dog Rufus is a German Shepherd. Raised from a puppy it follows him everywhere. It is friendly and entirely loyal but will not hesitate to attack those who try to hurt his owner. The dog has several cybernetic enhancements including having life extending augments, reinforced jaw and nano razor teeth. It’s bite is capable of cutting through most skin augments if required but since Sik left his servitude to the Yakuza, Rufus has never had to utilise these. ————————————————————————————————————————————— SKILLS ✦ Stealth | A young life of crime helped him to develop skills to remain undetected by even the most vigilant of people. ✦ Hacking | Part of his latter years involved the hacking of computers and electronics. Whether breaking into a secure door or disrupting a camera feed, Sik knows how to get it done. ✦ Small Arms Mastery | Not one to set up on a ledge over a mile away to shoot someone, Sik has a preference for pistols and sub machine guns over bigger weapons. ✦ Close Combat | While he may be lacking any particular martial arts training, Sik's life of crime has taught him how to fight up close and personal. ————————————————————————————————————————————— OTHER ✦ Speech Colour 888888 ————————————————————————————————————————————— |
Kashiwaya Takahiro
'Hoi, Ojiisan, I'm leaving now! Don't forget to take your medication! Ojiisan?'
Name:
Kashiwaya Takahiro
Given/American Name:
Donny
Age:
26
Sex:
Male
Nationality:
Japanese, Japanese/American dual citizenship
Languages Spoken:
Japanese - Fluent
English - Fluent
Korean - Conversational
Cantonese - Basic
Cybernetic Enhancements:
- Yamatetsu Cybernetics DynamoarmTM - A military grade cybernetic arm, the DynamoarmTM is one a favorite of military personnel seeking to replace missing limbs or 'upgrade' existing ones thanks to its high strength, light weight, modular armor plating, and its extremely precise manual dexterity. While at home in Japan, Donny uses a lighter, treated aluminum alloy instead of military grade armor plating.
- Yamatetsu Cybernetics DynashokTM Knuckles - A proprietary add-on for the popular DynamoarmTM, a set of pads built into the knuckles of the cyberarm can deliver an adjustable amount of electricity upon impact. Designed to provide its user with a more subtle means of personal defense, and is powered by a small power core within the arm, which needs replacing after every few usages. While lethal settings are possible, such settings were locked upon Donny's discharge from the military, though a skilled hacker could easily bypass the lock.
- Shiwase Subdermal Bone Lacing - Placed within Donny's left arm The lacing's primary function is to counteract minute muscle spasms and random motions, allowing for extremely precise and fine motor control when needed-such as when applying stitches or operating on patients in hectic environment. The lacing can also stiffen upon impact protecting the arms from bruising. This particular augment is very popular amongst military snipers and combat medics alike.
- Shiwase BriteLite Cybereyes - A basic set of cybereyes that provide zoom functionality, and a backlight.
Property:
- Armalance Streetwise Compact - Another popular pistol by the ubiquitous Armalance, the Armalance Streetwise Compact, is an accurate, rugged and reliable pistol, well loved by military, police, and sport shooters alike. Utilizing the ever common 10mm round, and 10 round magazine this pistol isn't an uncommon site in Japan.
- Shiwase Solar Powered Micro Medical Center (SSPMMC) - A 'portable' medical operating unit, with everything one would need for a variety of field care. Portable in the sense that it can be packed up into a whopping 30kg backpack, but utterly dreadful to actually carry around. A hold off from Donny's days in the military, nowadays it usually stays up in his room collecting dust.
Appearance:
Tall, and relatively brawny, Donny stands in at about 6 feet in height, and has a build of one used to physical activity. His body bears a couple of scars from a tour in the military, and his hair is short and dark- save for a single shock of white hair. His most noticeable feature would definitely be the cyberarm replacing his right arm- its white aluminum plating a far cry from the tan and olive drab of its original military plates. He dresses fairly casually most of the time, but will often throw a leather jacket on depending on the weather.
Personality traits:
- Earnest
- Brave
- Loyal
- Honest
- Trusting
- Adaptive
- Resilient
Background:
Born and raised in Suribachi, Donny is the youngest of two, and the only son. Donny and his sister spent most of their childhood living with their grandparents, as their parents worked in the city, and their father often traveled for work. Around the age of 8, his parents were divorced, and after a rather messy legal battle, Donny and his sister moved to America with their father.
Not entirely sure of what happened, Donny spent the majority of his teen years with a city sized chip on his shoulder, and held his father responsible for the apparent separation of their family. Throughout his early school years, Donny regularly got into fights and got in trouble for bullying and fighting. Despite his status as a foreigner, Donny quickly pushed and shoved his way to the top of the elementary schoolyard as a kid.
His older sister spent most of her time as Donny's primary caretaker for much of his early life, as their father was often out late for work leaving the kids at home to fend for themselves most of the times. Despite his bold and argumentative demeanor, Donny and his sister Tara got along incredibly well. Donny often regarded his older sister with a sort of reverence, and Tara was able to influence his actions with little more than a word. With more guidance from his sister than anyone else in his life, Donny would eventually turn himself around, eventually graduating from high school.
Donny would forgo college- his father could barely afford to send Tara to school- and instead joined the military after he graduated. Scoring well on his aptitude tests, Donny would find himself in the role of a combat medic, putting himself onto the battlefield with the role of both a fighter and a healer. While not an active or avid combatant, Donny would spend several years and a few tours in foreign countries, and found himself anywhere from the front lines of combat to field hospitals tending to soldiers and civilians alike. After a 4 year career with the U.S. Marines, Donny discharged himself from the military and moved back to Japan, his grandparents failing health being cited as his main reason for returning.
Now back in Suribachi for the past two years, Donny spends most of his time taking care of his grandparents and doing volunteer work around the town- mostly helping out at the Hospital, where his military training is most applicable.
Skills:
- Medic - A military trained medic, Donny is capable of a variety of medical procedures, from stitches to surgery and sprained ankles to bullet wounds.
- Combat Arms Training - Combat medics are expected to be riflemen as well as medics, and Donny is a capable shot with rifle and pistol alike. Donny is also relatively well versed in personal defense techniques, and can hold his own in a street fight.
- Resilience - Bearing copious amounts of physical and mental fortitude, Donny can keep going where someone else would collapse from exhaustion, whether that be carrying heavy things for hours on end, or staying up in a surgery room.
Flaws:
- Broke - Altruism is nice, but it doesn't do much to put food on the table. Compound that with the increasing costs of his grandparent's medications, the slow trickle of money from Donny's sister just isn't enough to cover the costs of living. Once what few savings Donny has runs out, well who knows what will happen?.
- Medically Indiscriminate - When it comes to helping people, Donny doesn't really care much about who he helps. Unfortunately, looks like other people of more... criminal persuasion take issue when Donny helps people of opposing organizations.
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Serrice Ward
"Are those M16's? Those things are almost a century old. Why don't I hook you up with something a little more modern? Some of the stuff I can get you would make those M16's look like BB guns."
Name
Serrice Ward
Age
24
Sex
Female
Nationality
Canadian
Languages Spoken
English [Fluent]
French [Fluent]
Japanese [Advanced]
Serrice can understand all other modern languages through the use of her SpeechMaster Implant, but she cannot speak them.
Cybernetic Enhancements
SpeechMaster LX - This implant is a small chip located in the ears that records languages and translates them into the wearer's native language. While it only serves the purpose of allowing the wearer to understand other languages, its data can be downloaded onto a computer for later studying and learning. This implant is popular for its ease of use and low cost, making it accessible to the masses. What separates the LX from the standard edition implants, is that it can be customized with new languages, whether they be officially recognized by the world, or a homebrew language shared between a small group.
Arm Scout 3rd Gen - These are ocular implants not much different from other sight enhancing augments. They improve eye sight, allow for better night vision and limited zoom. The Arm Scout's advantages over more common and cheaper ocular implants are focused on firearms. The implants are directly connected to the world's firearm database, allowing the Arm Scouts to identify and provide information on any cataloged firearm. The latest 3rd Generation model of the Arm Scout, identifies modern weapons, and attempts to interface with the firearm's onboard computer. If the weapon's data isn't properly encoded, the 3rd Generation Arm Scouts can provide 'active information' to the wearer, such as the weapon's current ammo count, the safety status, the last time the weapon has been given maintenance, and if there is a bullet currently in the chamber. Additionally, if the safety is off and the Arm Scout can interface with the weapon, it can then show the wearer, in real time, the direction and trajectory of the weapon. 3rd Generation Arm Scouts are very new, not even three months on the market. Arm Scouts are favored by arms dealers.
HoloPalm - A simple augmentation located in the palm of Serrice's left hand. It allows her to create holographic projections with her palm. Obviously, Serrice can't always carry around the hardware her company sells. The HoloPalm allows Serrice to show her stock to buyers without the need to struggle with customs. She can easily show off a new rifle or suit of full body armor. Better yet, small sensors linked to the holopalm in Serrice's fingertips, she can manipulate the holograms, rotate them, and pull parts away from the projection to showcase components and interiors of her products.
Property
Schwertkämpfer P633
A modern semi-auto pistol made by the German company Schwertkämpfer Arms, a young sister company to Sauer & Sohn. The pistols is chambered in .45 ACP and can carry a magazine of 12 rounds (plus one in the chamber). Serrice's personal P633 has a white slide, equipped with hologram sights mounted on a picatinny rail. The onboard computer in the P633 interfaces with Serrice's Arm Scout, allowing her to keep updated on the ammo count of her weapon. If she needs to, Serrice can rely on her Arm Scout to provide trajectory information for a more accurate shot. That said, Serrice uses the weapon for personal defense.
Spoofed ID
The very identification that managed to get Serrice and her brother out of Canada, and into Japan. The ID shares her face, but it can be modified to alter her information, such as her name, date of birth, country of origin, etc. Serrice and her brother paid quite a large amount of money from their arms dealing in Canada to hire a skilled hacker capable of spoofing the IDs to appear official.
Appearance
Serrice is a fit, pale girl with long blonde hair. She often dresses in fancy clothing when not on business, and more enticing clothing when working with a client. Her icey blue eyes are highlighted by bits of HUD data from her ocular implants. She has a tattoo on her right thigh, a garter with an old baretta resting in it.
Personality Traits
Calm
Approachable
Confident
Witty
Punctual
Knowledgeable (Weapons, Armor)
Background
Serrice was born and raised in Canada along with her older brother. Her parents weren't anybody of importance, even less so in Serrice's rise. She wasn't anybody special growing up, just another pretty girl in a middle class family. Serrice went through all the normal phases, a darling when she was a child, a rebel when she was a teen, and a bachelor living paycheck to paycheck when she was a young adult. She was never sure what she wanted to do when she was older, so she ended up taking out student loans for college and university to go through courses she thought might interest her. While she made it through all of them, Serrice was never too keen on the field by the end. This of course resulted in Serrice being buried in student debt, with nothing to show for it.
Her older brother was far more rebellious than she was. He had fallen in with the wrong crowds, and might have slipped on the opposite ends of the law on occasion. But Serrice saw the money he had, and figured he might be able to provide a solution for her debt. One day, she approached her brother, and asked if he could show her how to make the money he was making. Serrice found out that her brother was selling handguns and machine pistols to local gangs and wannabe hitmen. It intimidated her at first, but after she and her brother made their first joint deal with a corrupt businessman, she was hooked. They had managed to get their hands on a pair of ultra modern handguns, fresh in the market. The corpo who they sold the guns to, paid double to keep the entire affair hush hush. In just one deal, Serrice had already managed to make a huge dent in her debt. Things changed when a deal went south with a powerful group of local mobsters. Serrice's brother was beat after the kingpin claimed their price was too high for the quality of the guns. They had grabbed Serrice, and tried to take her to another room. In a panic to protect himself and his younger sister, Serrice's brother pulled an autopistol, and cut down the gangsters. Knowing that they hadn't seen the end of this, Serrice's brother took her and all of their money, and ran.
Her parents were obviously concerned, and had the police looking for them. But they never realized that their children had already left the country with spoofed identities. They ended up in Japan, masking their presence among the waves of immigrants flooding into the country. But it was a difficult transition. Neither of them knew Japanese, and they had no connections to start doing what they did best. Nevertheless, the siblings went to work, once again dealing arms on the street level to Yakuza remnants and other gangs. As months passed, the two had worked up the creds to get some implants that'd make their lives easier. The first implant Serrice got was a SpeechMaster implant to help her better understand their Japanese clients. She was glad that the second language in Japan is English. Next was a HoloPalm augment, simple enough, but it meant that Serrice didn't need to carry weapons around with her all the time to make a deal. Things were beginning to go smooth for the siblings. Their influence had grown to a respectable amount, and they managed to out compete some other arms dealers on the streets. Their clients got bigger and better, but that also meant their names became more widespread too.
Serrice had heard of the Sycamore crime family, but she hadn't yet dealt with them. The siblings had expanded further, reaching Sycamore turf. It wasn't long before they were approached by a man representing the Sycamores. He game then two choices. Work for the Sycamores, or leave the city. Relocating wasn't in the cards for them now, so the choice was clear. They had to start giving the Sycamores a cut of their income. At the time, Serrice had no idea that her brother was undercutting the Sycamores and keeping some money for himself. Meanwhile, her own loyalty to the Sycamores was growing. She was giving the family more of her share than what was agreed upon, and that helped build a rapport with them. A divide began to grow between Serrice and her brother. As a gesture of goodwill, the Sycamores even paid for an advanced augmentation for Serrice, state of the art Arm Scout cybereyes. Her brother warned her not to go through with the augmentation, but Serrice didn't listen to her. She accepted the augments.
Not long after she had the cybereyes installed, the Sycamores discovered the large secret savings Serrice's brother had been building. They were furious. Serrice and her brother were brought before the don. The don suggested first that they take both the money and one of Serrice's cybereyes as recompense and punishment. But her brother explained she had no part in his undercutting, that it was all him. It was the truth, but it certainly didn't improve matters. Serrice's brother was pulled from the room. He yelled, kicked, and punched helplessly as the heavily augmented mobster dragged him away. Serrice never saw her brother again. The don went back to Serrice, and said that for her brother's disloyalty, she would need to make up for his profits, and pay them back for the cybereyes, or else they'd be ripped out from her.
By the time she left the Sycamores' residence, her bank account had already been hacked and drained entirely. But even with the money they took back from her and her brother, she was still very short of what she needed to pay back the eyes, as well as maintain her brother's cut. She knew she'd need to make larger scale deals, and work above street level arms trade.
Skills
Arms Trade
Serrice has been selling weapons and armor for a a few years now, and has acquired a fair amount of knowledge in her field. When people come to her looking for something, she knows what they need, and how to get it. Her Arm Scout cybereyes help with this, but over time, she has learned for herself what is bad, what is good, and what is great.
Connections
Her work has allowed Serrice to meet a colorful variety of individuals. She knows some very dangerous people, some of which she has supplied before. Serrice keeps some of these connections loyal by making them preferred clients, offering them discounts for her wares and choosing to supply them over their competition (that they know of). If there is a service that Serrice can't provide by herself, then she will point you to somebody who can.
A Pretty Face and a Quick Mind
In her trade, one needs to be charming enough to break the ice, and witty enough to work their way out of a sticky situation. Serrice does quite well in both fields, and she knows it. She likes to learn her clients, so she can find ways to sweeten the deal. Given the situation the Sycamores have put her in, Serrice isn't afraid to get close and flirt with clients to entice them into more business. She might not like it. But she understands the effectiveness.
Flaws
Debt to the Sycamores
Because of her brother's attempt at undercutting the Sycamores, Serrice has inherited all of the debt. Unfortunately, this also comes with a way to easily manipulate Serrice. The Sycamores can call Serrice at any moment and tell her to do something, usually reminding her of the consequences if she doesn't comply. This debt has spawned fear in Serrice. Her survival instinct tells her to just get whatever the Sycamores ask of her over with, and continue on her own work to free herself from them.
Untrained
Serrice might know guns, but she rarely needs to use them. On top of that, she has never learned proper ways to fight. This makes her a rather poor adversary. Anybody with any real fighting experience could easily overcome Serrice. She does carry her own pistol however, so some caution should still be advised.
Her Brother's Fate
Serrice never knew what became of her brother after the don had ordered him taken from his office. Maybe he was killed. But Serrice doesn't know for sure. Sometimes, the thought of what might have happened to her brother depresses her. If somebody knows of this weakness, they can easily manipulate her into a disadvantageous scenario by claiming they have information on her brother. The Sycamores know she wants to find out, and they often use her brother as a way of getting her to do what they want.
Hazel Smith
"Arguing with a teenager is like wrestling in the mud with a pig. Sooner or later you figure out that they're enjoying it. "
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"Us teenagers are at the perfect crossroads of childish naivete and adult realism -- we still believe that
problems can be solved, and now we also have the tools and knowledge to solve them "
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Name:
Hazel Smith
Age:
19
Sex:
Female
Nationality:
American
Languages Spoken:
English [Fluent]
Japanese[Conversational]
Korean[Conversational]
Hazel Smith
Age:
19
Sex:
Female
Nationality:
American
Languages Spoken:
English [Fluent]
Japanese[Conversational]
Korean[Conversational]
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Cybernetic Enhancements:
Right and left leg " Runner " prosthesis
Following a car accident when she was young, Hazel lost both legs at the mid thigh down. After a good year of being confined to a wheelchair, her Godfather returned from his military service and used a large chunk of his paycheck to pay for a prosthesis. The " Runner " model was designed to reduce the negative effect of long distance running on the user, and allow for a much higher top speed as well as increase vertical jump height. As a result these prosthesis and many other similar ones are banned from professional competitions for the unfair advantage it gives, however they have become favorites of underground message runners, allowing them to have an easier time outrunning pursuers.
"Watcher" left eye implant
One of her own implants of choice paid for once again by her godfather, the " watcher " implant is technically a replacement for her deadened left eye, another result of the accident in her youth. The implant allows for a connection to many handheld devices, is able to project an image allowing her to use her phone without touch, works quite well in low light conditions and is equipped with a 4X zoom as well as the ability to store small amounts of information independent of a mobile device.
Property:Cell Phone ( Internet connection, " Watcher " connection ), Cigarettes ( Camel Original ), Brass Knuckles
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Appearance: 5ft6 with long straight black hair, Hazel has the face of a typical Japanese young woman, taking quite heavily after her mother in this respect. Her eyes match her name, a beautiful brown/gold, though her left eye seems slightly off color from her right though, the grey tinge betraying the cybernetics. Her clothing most often consists of black jeans and a tank top of some sort, accompanied by a leather jacket or dark hoodie. From the mid thighs down it is very apparent that she has cybernetics, the specialized " Runner " limbs a dull grey color that reflects little light, a request from Hazel.
Personality traits: Naive, Secretive, Curious, Skeptical, Sleepless
Background: Born in Southern Texas, Hazel is about as far as one can get from the Asian lifestyle. Her mother moved to America with her american father in 2034 and two years later gave birth to Hazel. Hazel was raised far from her mother's homeland, and never thought too much of it until the car crash that crippled her and killed both her parents in 2045, leaving her an orphan at age 10. Her godfather, Steven Braun had only recently retired from the millitary at that point, but fully took over her care and spent a great deal of his savings to make sure his god-daughter would be able to walk again.
The pair moved to Suribachi following Hazel's questions about her mother's old life, and by the point that Steven had found out what condition the place was in, it was already too late. Hazel's mother had left her home for good reason, her father being very involved with the Yakuza at the time and hoping that his daughter would join into the " Family business " She would not. Hazel still does not know this, and she now resides in a small home in Suribachi with her godfather searching for what is left of her mother's family, in hopes of learning more about the other end of her heritage.
Skills:
Liar - Despite her rather innocent appearance, Hazel has spent a good amount of her childhood lying to try and get her way. From hiding report cards and sneaking back into her bed at 4 in the morning, to hiding cigarettes from her parents and godfather. She has developed an excellent poker face and knows how to twist a cute smile to her advantage.
Free-runner - following the addition of her new legs, a few weeks worth of her " putting them to the test " gave her a love of freerunning, it allowed her to often get into spaces normally unable to be reached and also matched her hatred of being confined to one space. When not at home Hazel can often be found climbing something, standing atop a building with no roof access or laughing while evading police.
Natural Athlete - Even before her accident at age 10, Hazel was a natural athlete. Nobody in her classes could outrun her, and she frequently gave her father a run for his money when she decided he was moving too slowly. But now, with the addition of high grade prosthesis there is little one can do to catch her outside of a gun or a car.
Flaws:
Weakness for animals: Be it a bird, cat, dog or snake Hazel can never help but love animals, and this has gotten her into trouble more than once.
Curiosity killed the cat: Hazel can never take no for an answer, any attempt at forcing her to accept anything less than the truth results in her disappearing from sight, and forcing her way into anything that could even remotely give her an answer.
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