As for the "hacking" part, yeah, I don't plan on making her able to hack through everything or alter TU in anyway that would essentially be circumventing the system rules, etc. I suppose, since you mentioned Sombra, she would be like a support/engineer type character using her hacking abilities as a debuff really. Or, an item that can essentially shutdown certain tech, as mentioned.
But yeah, I'm trying to be careful how I use the term "hacker", since IG it can mean a lot of things. In RL, Blake has actual hacking skills that she uses to test Corporate Security. In TU, she also uses those skills to test Security Protocols, but everything is more symbolic (i.e. like The Matrix, Deus Ex, etc).
I also don't want to make her to diffculat that even I lose sight of what she's supposed to be doing, lol.
EDIT: Or...maybe I just simplify her to be essentially a stealth-based "hacker / infiltrator / thief" who's sole purpose is to get in & out of wherever without being seen, and the ability to evade/escape.
APPEARANCE// Short, sweet, and good enough to eat. This young girl is about five foot three tall, and weighs a bit over one hundred and forty-five pounds. She naturally has blonde hair but ever since she has been a teenager has been dyeing (despite her grandmother's disapproving looks) it a vibrant and fun magenta color. Her eyes are dark, and sit in an almond shape upon her porcelain skin. Though fashion can be a pain in the ass, Char loves to dress up and do her makeup and hair as often as she can. She keeps very well manicured, and prides herself in knowing some of the newer trends before they start blossoming both IRL and in game.
RING LOCATION// Lower class city ring.
OCCUPATION// Charlize is an artist in the real world, selling her traditionally made art paintings. People in the inner most ring buy them for high price because they are a reminder of the old world. Within The Universe Charlize does use her artistic skills to customize people's avatars in exchange for miscellaneous items. She very rarely charges anything expensive, doing it as a fun hobby now and again, rather than a money earning business.
REAL LIFE SKILLS// Charlize has a real eye for detail in the creative world, she likes to take her time in her creations and make the world a little more beautiful..even if not everyone agrees. When not using traditional arts, she knows her way around the digital systems as well.
LIKES AND DISLIKES// + Art + Homemade food + Swimming + Talking over mic + Fresh flowers + Movies
- Eating fish - People who don't in game text back fast enough - Hot summers - Having long nails - Rodents - Sports
PERSONALITY// Charlize is a sometimes naive, friendly, and when behind her avatar- a flirtatious charmer. She tends to make friends and keeps them for years, finding common interests and things to talk about with all of her clan mates. In game she is seen as level headed, loyal, and well spoken. Outside of game she can be a bit on the silly and outspoken side, sometimes falling into a sense of impatience and sensitivity with others that leads her to stay offline for a few weeks at a time. Her creativity is seen in both sides of life, as well as her overall cheerful attitude.
BACKGROUND// Jenna Chevrolet was once a fifteen year old in the city inner circle. She fell in a whirlwind with an exciting eighteen year old boy during the summer one year, and in result Charlize came into the world. The unnamed boy left as soon as he went, and Char was raised by her mother and grandmother in the bustling city stacks, getting by with a little bit of a weight on their shoulders but fairly well off. When Charlize came of teenage age, Jenna didn't want her daughter following the same path that she had followed and felt that setting Charlize up to start a life in The Universe would give her a step up in life. You couldn't get pregnant in game, at least you couldn't just yet.
She quickly became a reoccurring beautiful face and charming personality that could not be forgotten even after users signed off..
USERNAME// Rosetta_Stoned, often referred by Rose or Rosetta.
APPEARANCE// Rosetta is skinned as Widowmaker from an old game, Overwatch.
HOME// Rosetta's home base is a very simple room in the many roomed hotel above The Universe's well known OUTDOOR SIMULATION. This area is for players to experience weather they have never experienced as well as outdoor activities they have only heard about. It is a non-pvp zone besides the occasional snowball fight. She has a very well decorated room, most in which she has created herself or was traded with for exchange of alterations.
FAME// To be determined.
WEAPONS// WIDOW’S KISS: "Widowmaker’s versatile sniper rifle is ideal for scope-aimed shots at distant targets. Should targets close to medium range, the rifle can also be fired in fully-automatic mode." Rosetta stayed with the skin's classic companion. Not spending a lot of time in PVP areas, Rosetta has not found the need to go all out for weapons, at least not yet.
ARMOR// Basic skin, light weight armor. Her skin's recon visor allows her to see the heat signatures of her targets through walls and objects for a small amount of time. This enhanced vision is shared with her group team mates.
UTILITY ITEMS// Completing her vintage skin combination, Rosetta kept her skin's two very distinct items. A grappling hook, as well as a small mine. When a target wanders within range of the mine’s motion trigger, it explodes, delivering a small poison gas to any enemies in the vicinity. It's a classic!
MOUNT// MIDNIGHT STEED: This horse from the world of Elder Scrolls has a jet black coat and mane. Capable of keeping an even pace over long distances, this beast's spirit never ends. It has no other abilities besides a sturdy and simple ride from one small area to another. It is not anything special, and is used by most earlier level players. Rosetta has yet to find a reason to upgrade, but might if something were to catch her eye. Preferably something in magenta, but purple or pink will do.
ARTIFACT// THE WITCHING HOUR: A very limited time use skin changing artifact (Only can be used around 4:00 AM in game time) that can incapacitate and sometimes even kill, a player if the skin wearer is startled by light or attacked with a small enough damage to awaken the inner beast from the game world of Left for Dead. It is best used when the player using said artifact is AFK or camping an area.
Still making some tweaks here and there, BUT- here is what I have so far c:
@MissCapnCrunch, Charlize sounds like a fun character! I almost imagine her being that chatty friend who, while they both like similar interests, she just don't shut up about anything, lol. Or I could be wrong
Ack, I'm sorry I'm still working on my app, something kinda big happened over the weekend and it made it hard to work on it, but I'm still here and it's getting closer! I could probably just post the WIP for everyone to get a general idea of him though.
Name: Jason Wright Age: 23 Gender: Male Sexual Orientation: Bisexual Height: 5’10” Weight: 170lbs Appearance:
Ring Location: Lower City Ring
Occupation : Jason works solely in the Universe as a weaponsmith and engineer of sorts, taking scale commissions from potential customers and making them a virtual reality. This can be small projects, such as figuring out how to craft someone’s favorite iconic sword or electronic from a game, or much larger projects such as fixing or creating an iconic vehicle or functional mech. He also does this for fun, selling his fun side-projects for a profit or keeping them for his own use.
Real Life Skills: Jason has some mechanical prowess when it comes to fixing real life vehicles or electrons, and is good at spotting flaws or minor details someone may not see or notice.
Likes and Dislikes: + Staying fit + FPS games + Italian food + People he can depend on + Messing with tech - Getting the cold shoulder - Scams - Variation in weather - Hackers - Coffee
Personality: Jason’s personality is relatively the same both inside the Universe and IRL, but there are a couple differences. To start with, Jason is the kind of guy who faces the world not with a smile, but a smirk. That is to say, he faces life with confidence in himself and his abilities, and he isn’t afraid to show it without coming off as overly arrogant. In game, he’s a lot more willing to take risks, whether that’s with difficult commissions or take a larger risk in PvP or PvE to get better materials or items, to him if you’re gonna do something, you do it by going all in everytime. In real life, he’s a bit more lax and not as big of a risk-taker. He’ll go outside his comfort zone occasionally, but that’s the exception, not the norm.
Background: Growing up in the lower ring, Jason hasn’t had it easy nor tough. As soon as he was able to, he was thrust into working at any possible job he would have time for in order to alleviate his family a bit of their stress. It wasn’t something Jason minded, though, he felt that it was likely the norm, and at least it wasn’t the Slums. And working odd jobs has it’s payoffs too, at least in his eyes. You got to work with a lot of things you’d never really think about, and it was because of these starting jobs that he soon found his talent with electronics. He would watch his superiors fix broken appliances and the like, often rushing home soon after with scrap and dumped appliances in an attempt to replicate what he saw, failing more often than not but insistent on continuing to experiment. But that’s where the Universe would come in, it was a place where one’s imagination could run wild with ideas, and if he could get good enough, he could make anything and people would willingly want it. He just needed the determination to save up enough to get started there, and that’s exactly what he did. After he got a grasp on how the Universe worked, it wasn’t long before he was able to take commissions and quit his jobs in real life. He’d support his family his way, and it was already a step up.
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Username: Arclight_Halcyon (Goes by Arc or Hal) Appearance:
Home:
Fame: TBD (I’d think he’s recognizable for his work but not a celebrity) Weapons: Vector .45 ACP Submachine Gun Keratos .357 Pistol
Armour: “Pro League” variant of skin, standard bulletproof armor. His goggles protect his eyes from various environmental hazards.
Utility: Alterra PDA: An Alterra PDA, used to store information gathered via scanner for quick and easy organization. It can also act as a notepad application.
Alterra Scanner: The Alterra Scanner is a handheld electronic device that allows the user to scan items or materials and send the information it gathers to the PDA. It copies what the item is, what media it came from, where it was found, and even it’s rarity. This allows for easy tracking of found items or materials. If an avatar is scanned, it reveals information such as potential origins and username.
Mount:
Artifacts: Quirk: Creation! This artifact is a timed based artifact that can only be used once every 30 minutes. It takes the shape of what looks like an energy cube that is about the size of a fist and can fit in most people’s hands. The cube can create one object of the user’s desire, so long as the object is nonliving and not in the rare or unique category. The main use is that it’s essentially free material for his creations, that way he doesn’t have to look for something specific, he can simply create it with what feels like the snap of someone’s fingers. It can also be used to manufacture things like ammo or standard armor. Based off of Momo Yaoyorozu’s ability.
@KiwiHalcyon Of course, I'd recognise that bike damn near anywhere.
And in the spirit of Rooster Teeth shows, here's my own character sheet.
Name:
Cassandra "Cassie" Alvarez
Age:
25
Gender:
Female
Sexual Orientation:
Homosexual
Appearance:
At 5'6" and 106 Ibs, Cassie is somewhat underweight for her level of activity. Much like her avatar, she has chest length, blonde hair - which is typically allowed to cascade down her back and shoulders - though, unlike her avatar, she possesses deep blue eyes. While she rarely pays attention to clothing choices, due to her works uniform and a lack of going outside otherwise, her wardrobe is filled with mostly identical, casual clothes, in deep reds, whites, greys or blacks.
Ring Location:
City Ring, Ground Tier
Occupation:
Cassie is, put simply, a weapons engineer. With the sheer number of automated sentries and armed patrols around London, at any one time the weaponry could need to be repaired or replaced. Cassandra ensures those weapons are up to spec, safe to use, and fire as well as they should. Her years keeping weapons coming out of the Manufacturing Ring afford her a keen sense to the quality and upkeep of various weapons, and fuel her avatars combat prowess.
Real Life Skills:
A marksman through and through, Cassie has put over a dozen years into developing her aim, both through her job, and in The Universe. Her time spent as a weapons engineer has given her a keen insight into mechanical repairs, as well as the appraisal of various modern day and futuristic weapons, and what she lacks in physical attributes, she makes up for with wit, tactical planning, and a fuck load of hot lead. While her aim is her proudest trait, her keen eye and high charisma definitely rank among her most defining features.
Likes:
Specialised and Rare Weaponry
Scifi and Fantasy
Small Animals
Sweets
Teasing People
Dislikes:
The Romance Genre
Poorly Maintained Equipment
Taking Advantage of Others
London
An Empty Bank Account
Personality:
Evidently a sarcastic piece of shit, Cassie enjoys swearing and generally demeaning people to the best of her abilities. Not in an aggressive, "I don't like you" kind of way, nor a "I'm superior to you and want to feel better" way. Practically speaking, she just enjoys teasing people, as though they were her friends, regardless of their actual relationship with each other. Topped with the confidence that there's nothing a person can do to her that she can't handle, she's well suited to insulting and being insulted on a regular basis - exactly how she likes it. This certainly goes vice versa, both in and out of virtual reality, which her coworkers will happily attest to.
Personality Trait Locked, Needs: Social Link Level 2
Personality Trait Locked, Needs: Social Link Level 3
Background:
Cassie spent most of her life without a family, per se. After her parents were gunned down trying to cross into the City Ring without clearance, she spent her time bunking with various families in the Slums for as long as they were willing to keep her around. While those families were out working to sustain themselves, she mooched off their Universe connections, where she developed an interest in guns, and used her days to gather as much money as possible on her account before she was either asked to leave or kicked out. When she was old enough to enter into an industry, she applied immediately to the manufacturing of weaponry for the City Ring and armed police, and worked her way up the chain until she gained clearance to live within the lower tier of the City. Her years of early life spent grinding for cash on her account turned into an easy way to afford decent gear once she had a stable connection to The Universe, and from there she transformed herself into the gunslinger she is today.
Avatar is Cameron "Cammie" MacCloud, of the 2019 animated show gen:LOCK
Home:
Freischutz has her home set in a digital recreation of the two storey penthouse complex at the top of the John Hancock Centre in Chicago, owned by Number Nine and his Cêpan, from the Lorien Legacies series of books. It has a vast number of rooms, more than enough space to house eight adults, and most notably, a massive lecture hall which doubles as an in house training facility.
Fame:
Within certain circles she is well known as a remarkable gunslinger, but outside of those bubbles, she's relatively obscure.
Weapons:
A heavily modified TTI TR-1 Ultralight AR-15 - a semiautomatic rifle loaded with ten round magazines. Modified to include a collapsible stock, compensator, variable 1x-6x-24x scope, and an offset red dot sight. Freischutz pride and joy.
Jack's Rifle from the 2013 movie Oblivion - a modified Bushmaster ACR, using ten round magazines. Has an inbuilt variable 2x-4x scope and flashlight.
Spectre M4 - a fully automatic submachine gun using a fifty round magazine, modified with a suppressor and vertical foregrip.
Crown & King Auto-5 from the 2018 game Hunt: Showdown - a five shell semiautomatic shotgun, modelled after the Browning A5.
Ingram-40 Flechette Pistol from the 2018 show Altered Carbon - a 10 round pistol firing armour piercing rounds, which can be magentically retracted back into the clip from a distance.
A basic body suit, and a set of casual clothes. Since her Shaed acts as armour, anything else beyond it is unnecessary.
Utility:
Nugget - the small robot dog that accompanies Freischutz, sitting perched on her shoulder at practically all times. Belonging to the actual Cameron MacCloud of gen:LOCK, Nugget acts as a basic camera system, recording everything provided the area allows it, while doubling as an environmental/motion scanner. Nothing special or particularly rare, but a useful tool and aesthetic piece nonetheless.
Mount:
Artifacts:
Shaed - From the 2011 novel The Wise Man's Fear, written by author Patrick Rothfuss, a Shaed is a cloak made of physical manifestations of shadow and starlight, woven together by a creature of the Fae. With the Fae magic of Grammerie, making something be something, the Felurian crafted one such Shaed and gifted it to Kvothe.
The Shaed itself moves of its own accord, swishing and billowing gently even in areas of no wind. However it can be manipulated by the wearer - allowing Freischutz to change it from a long, full body cloak into a short, not even back length cape. It also provides defence from physical damage, lessening damage to a quarter of its actual value, while having the Shaed covering her body in darkness grants complete magical invisibility, only discernible through Truesight or greater.
