[Reboot]Ｔｅｒｒａ ＿ ｒ：Ｅｖｏｌｕｔｉｏｎ[Cyberpunk]

[KaiserElectric]

Can I throw my hat into the ring tentatively? Cyberpunk sounds fun!

[Raijinslayer]

*pokes head in*
*drops in interest*
@SmileyJaws I do have a question tho. Are A. I. characters allowed? I would think so, but I want to be certain, and if so, how would I handle Augmentations?

[Sierra]

I have another priority in the immediate short term, but beyond that I'll consider working through a CS.

[SmileyJaws]

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Good evening prospective citizens, we hope the application process is treating you kindly. Hopefully the Discord will be fully operational by tomorrow, although today is a bit of a slow day, the ooc is still scheduled to go live on Monday. To anyone who hasn't already we'd recommend you read the front post fully and you can expect further updates soon.

Those who have asked questions will be receiving answers via PM shortly, if you do not have an answer within the next hour feel free to send a gentle reminder to one of the GM inboxes. Your patience is appreciated.

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-SunsetWanderer
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-DruSM157
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-Genni
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[KaiserElectric]

I think I will wait for the discord and share my idea there, if everyone is chill with that. ^^

[SmileyJaws]

I think I will wait for the discord and share my idea there, if everyone is chill with that. ^^

@KaiserElectric

Apologies, forgot to send out an invite to new interest. Invite incoming.

[Genni]

Apologies, forgot to send out an invite to new interest. Invite incoming.

@SmileyJaws

I'm just waiting for Susie to hack her way in for me. :D

[SmileyJaws]

@Genni I think she may just have found a backdoor.

[OwO]

I think she may just have found a backdoor.

@SmileyJaws

I'll find Susie's backdoor ifyouknowwhatimean

[Genni]

@Genni I think she may just have found a backdoor.

@SmileyJaws

~quickly stops herself from making a backdoor action joke~

[skidcrow]

<Snipped quote by SmileyJaws>

~quickly stops herself from making a backdoor action joke~

@Genni

you are too late

the local autist @Burger stole it from you

[13org]

*Timidly walks in*
H-hey guys... I'm kinda interested...

@Genni

PS: You have no idea how mesmerizing is your profile pic. Actually spent 6-7 minutes looking at it while I was listening to music lol...

Umm... totally not stalking @Raijinslayer...

[Genni]

*Timidly walks in*
H-hey guys... I'm kinda interested...

@13org

~Susie quickly dashes into cover. Anyone entering that timidly must be packing some serious hidden hardware~

@Genni PS: You have no idea how mesmerizing is your profile pic. Actually spent 6-7 minutes looking at it while I was listening to music lol...

@13org

Just a nice, simple gif which just happens to be loosely based off of the loading animation icon from Deus Ex:
Mankind Divided. :D

[Shifter_Master]

I'll be keeping an eye on this.

[GreenGrenade]

Figured I'd post a WIP to give peeps a better idea of my concept.

[+]

^{[ “You’re under arrest.” ]}

𝙽𝚊𝚖𝚎:

Augustus Heraclitus Coburn

𝙰𝚐𝚎:

27

𝚂𝚎𝚡:

Male

𝙰𝚏𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗:

The Europa Policing Authority

𝙰𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎:

Coburn has the sort of average good looks that don’t afford him much attention. Brown hair, brown eyes, and short stubble, adorning a face that doesn’t have anything particularly remarkable about it besides a slightly crooked nose, a permanent mark from when his parents’ repair store was robbed by human purist. He’s relatively fit, his muscles well-formed but ill-defined, covered by a layer of fat that indicates an irregular exercise pattern. A tattoo of a spider runs from his right shoulder down the length of his bicep, typically covered by his coat and so abiding by the EPA’s dress code.

𝙿𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚢:

A usually quiet man, Coburn tends to sit back and let his surroundings do the talking; observant by nature, he takes every opportunity to analyse in his silence, a habit he picked up during the many boring days and nights spent observing the patrons of his parents’ store. His worldview is one that many would consider naïve – while he’s not necessarily optimistic, he believes in justice and the inherent goodness of people – that, if presented with a problem, they’d at least endeavour to do the right thing. He’ll speak openly of and defend his beliefs when he feels it’s necessary, remaining purposefully ignorant of the reality of agendas and self-preservation – and that stubbornness carries over into everything else. He’ll work on a case until it’s done, even when told to drop it. No hunch goes unfollowed. This will occasionally see him clashing with his superiors, as disobeying orders and sticking strongly to his beliefs tend not to mesh well with the bureaucracy of police work.

ANALYTICAL • NAIVE • OUTSPOKEN • STUBBORN

𝙱𝚒𝚘:

Augustus Heraclitus Coburn grew up hearing much of his family’s once great wealth. His name, Dad would tell him, was his only link to it, the one thing that he had left of the Coburn family’s prestige. Mum, on the other hand, would tell him that she was just a big fan of Ancient Greco-Roman history, and that his dad liked to hold onto a past better left in the mid-twenty first century – the days when great-great-grandad Tyrell Warren owned a multi-million pound cybernetics corporation whose greatest achievement was the big Bionic Materials Scandal of ’74, after which any wealth the Warren/Coburn clan held went by the way of bankruptcy. She’d explain that Dad felt bitter about being made to live in Europa’s ___th District when luxury had been within his family’s grasp just a few generations ago; running a cybernetics repair store was practically slave labour compared to running what could have been one of Terra’s leading corporations by now. And while Augustus wanted to relate to his father by mirroring his frustration, as kids do, he couldn’t really complain. He enjoyed working in the store, learning the ins and outs of different augmentations, and the colourful personalities that made up the district were an interesting (if dangerous) bunch. His childhood was a good one, made better not because his parents shielded him from hardship, but because it was always there, just another part of his life that he accepted and learned to live with.

His parents both passed away early into his adult years, his mother from heart failure, his father from… grief. Seeking purpose, Coburn drifted from job to job, never really finding anything that stuck. It was then that he found a “home” in a small apartment at the same district he grew up in, sharing rent with another drifter named Django Ellis. Eventually the drifting stopped, and Coburn found work with the Europa Policing Authority. Finding his calling, he worked hard to get to where he is, making detective after years of diligent labour on the beat. Partnered with Vincent DeSilvio, he’s been on the job for just over seven months now.

𝙳𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚝:

WHERE ARE YOU FROM?

𝚆𝚎𝚊𝚙𝚘𝚗(𝚜):

» Standard issue EPA handgun

» Standard issue EPA Taser; tends to short-circuit most cybernetics

» MELEE WEAPON GOES HERE

𝙰𝚛𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛:

» ARMOR GOES HERE - WRITTEN DESCRIPTION COMPULSORY - PICTURE IS OPTIONAL

𝙲𝚢𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚜:

While Coburn spent much of his time around augments as he grew up, he was never one to think about getting any. The cybernetics he does have were installed in order to make his job easier, and are all approved under the EPA’s by-laws.

» FIRST AUGMENTATION TYPE

Dataport/hacking augment, approved by EPA by-laws.

» SECOND AUGMENTATION TYPE

Evidence detecting system contained in a chip embedded at the base of Coburn’s neck. It tracks, points out and files away evidence into Coburn’s personal database via video, still images and audio, and manifests itself through an optical display projected over his retinas. It can also pick up on body language, helping inform Coburn whether someone’s lying, and is connected to the EPA’s EuroNet database, able to display information such as arrest records and send out an APB on the fly. It’s controlled via a small detachable wristpad.

» THIRD AUGMENTATION TYPE

DESCRIPTION THREE

𝙰𝚌𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚝 𝙱𝚊𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎:

NET WORTH GOES HERE

𝙾𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛:

» Coburn has a roommate, Django Ellis. Loud, vulgar and very poor, he came to live with Coburn years ago, and is the closest thing he has to a friend.

» Thanks to the time he spent working with his parents at their store, Coburn came to know the many models, types and brands of cybernetics intimately, able to recognise many at a glance.

[Grammatic]

Interested if still open.

[13org]

@SmileyJaws

Also did something regarding my CS.

I would say its... hm... 78% finished. maybe 79%.

But I need to know a bit more about Korporat18 and some other things. Mainly to write my backstory & etc.

What is the current technology level? Are ballistic weapons considered obsolete? Do ballistic weapons based on electro-magnetic-rail systems currently exist?

Regarding human physical augmentation, is there a 'limit'? Can we have modifications that would require complex and extensive physical surgeries, such as cerebral surgeries or even replacing certain tissues on our body by artificial ones?

Regarding Korporate18 (and others too), do they only use android/AI soldiers/mercenaries or do they use cyborg and humans too?

Again, regarding Korporate18 (and others too), are they all goody two shoes or they do whatever they need to do in order to grow & etc?
Things that would be morally condemned & etc? Such as buying children from poor or adopting orphans in order to modify them and turn them into disposable mercenaries & etc?

Regarding melee weaponry (both lethal and non lethal), what is considered 'normal' or even 'plausible'?

Sorry for asking so many questions. I really, really love cyberpunk and steampunk themes, and I'm really hyped to this RP

[Mag Lev]

Spades WIP

^{[ "”Are you a gambling man? Yes? Good, we’re gonna play Russian Roulette. And you go first." ]}

𝙽𝚊𝚖𝚎:

Jack ‘Spades’ Werhner

𝙰𝚐𝚎:

32

𝚂𝚎𝚡:

Male

𝙰𝚏𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗:

N/A

𝙰𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎:

Spades isn’t exactly your average person, though that is quite obvious from the augs which riddle his entire left side. But beyond that, he is rather tall and bulky, standing at 6’4 and weighing close to 245lbs of pure muscle. His hair is kept short in a military-esque buzzcut and he prefers to keep any facial hair as a simple goatee, no mustache. Tattoos cover his body, though ending at where his augs are, and tend to depict a deck of cards.

𝙿𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚢:

Spades isn’t exactly what one would call a gentleman, then again some people just wouldn’t even call him a man anymore, though that hardly bothers him. His job is violence and he is damn good at, especially enjoys it too which just makes that another plus. It is rare to find Spades having an actual conversation with someone that isn’t focused on how good their sidearm is, how many kills they have, or what their latest job was like. Though, really, it is rare to see him actually talk to someone unless he is fuck all hammered and seemingly oblivious to social cues.
However, social cues don’t really matter when it comes to doing a job and it definitely doesn’t matter when a EPA comes around while you’re breaking down a door. As much as Spades loves money, he also loves to not be in jail and to not be dead. Possibly one of the reasons why he is less than willing to accept an offer to be bought out of a job, though the other reason might be his debt to the people that saved his life with the augs he was given. After all, debts gotta be paid whether you are dead or in prison, though it’d be pretty hard to collect if he was dead.

Loyal • Irritable • Empathetic • Reserved

𝙱𝚒𝚘:

Accessing Database:
Locating Data File: Wehrner, Jack
Status: Deceased

Jack Wehrner was born to a middle class family and was well taken care of, especially due to his Father’s position as a member of CorpSec, an occupation Jack would later take himself. His live in Europa was rather simple, he attended school and did as he was told, he played with the other children. However, at age 5 his Father died in the second war between EuroCorp and Korporat, an event which soon caused much turmoil in his life. After the death of his Father, Jack’s Mother took to heavily drinking and abusing drugs. She sought work in unsavory parts of town and they had to abandon their apartment for a shitty slum apartment so that they could afford rent. Though, this did not mean Jack was any better off for it.
Soon after taking up residence in the slums, Jack was forced to work for pennies with his Mother at the back-alley restaurant. His education was abruptly put on halt, only attending schooling a few hours every night and even though only receiving basic education. There were many times with the young Jack and his Mother were faced with either losing their home or starving, neither options being ones either wanted to take. However, as Jack grew older, he soon found himself facing a plethora of jobs available to him.
Over the course of his teen years, Jack worked odd jobs and helped him Mother out as much as he could, though he secretly kept his mind focused on his one and only goal. Jack wanted to be a member of CorpSec, even if it was EuroCorp’s fault that his Father died. Upon turning 18, Jack entered training to become CorpSec. He went through training not too different from that of military or a cop, though less focused on the legality of what to do with their detainees. Upon turning 19, Jack was welcomed into CorpSec as a recruit.
Jack’s service was uneventful. Jack service ended abruptly due to a gas leak which resulted in his death.

Encrypted Data Detected, Decrypt?:
Decrypted:

Jack Wehrner was severely injured during combat with data jackers in one of the labs. A makeshift grenade had been thrown at him, likely with the intent to kill, however his training had allowed him to dodge away from the majority of the explosion. However, the shrapnel from the explosion shredded the left of his body and he was forced into a medically induced coma until his CorpSec Captain could make a decision.
Wehrner was subsequently discharged and left in the hospital, his wounds healed however extremely crippled and requiring life support due to damage to his lungs, heart, stomach, and other vital organs. He is to be pronounced as dead and his Mother, widow of Gerald Wehrner, is to be paid for her loss.

End Doc

Accessing Criminal Files
Subject: Spades
Affiliation: Unkown

Little is known about the criminal going by the alias ‘Spades’ other than that he is well armed, well trained, and definitely well taken care of. Spades first surfaced on a camera as he and two others broke into a building and left not long after with a fourth person slumped over his shoulders. Said person later surfaced in the outer slums of Europa, severely beaten and dehydrated, months later. His only recounting of his time in holding was of daily beatings for information on his dealing in illegal weapons. Date of Incident: 2193

Spades was once again spotted not long after in a shootout between a group of thugs, he was supposedly the leader of the crew at the time and had been detailed to kill all of his rivals. It is unsure through what source he was hired, simply that he came highly recommended. Source Intel: One surviving member of the Crew he ran, left to die when EPA came. Date of Incident: 2193
Seemingly under the guise of a random civy, Spades actively participated in the riots of 2194 and is believed to have caused the death of at least four officers of EPA and three civillians. Reason for Involvement: Unknown Date of Incident: 2194
Files past 2195 Encrypted
Feed Interrupted

𝙳𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚝:

Europa

𝚆𝚎𝚊𝚙𝚘𝚗(𝚜):

»Modified SMG with Silencer

»Blackmarket Assault Rifle with Red Dot Scope

»Blackmarket Steel alloy combat knife

𝙰𝚛𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛:

»

Armor

Spade’s armor is a steel alloy based suit, one which mostly covers his vitals, with an interface that allows him access to various styles of camo for city environments. It is believed to have been stolen from an EPA compound and was taken off the blackmarket by Spade’s bosses, though the reality of it is probably a lot more simple. Despite its composition, its light weight and mobility focused design makes it less resistant to sustained combat, only really acting so as to stop full penetration of bullets and only able to take light rounds.

𝙲𝚢𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚜:

Much of Spade’s body was left shredded and near useless due to shrapnel from an explosion. As such, he was fortunate enough to be given a deal to get augs and work off the cost of their implementation.

» Cybernetic Heart and Lung

Due to the shrapnel, Spade’s left lung was left completely useless and his heart with shrapnel stuck into a portion. His new heart and lung function much the same as the original organs. The most major difference is that he has a much greater stamina and tires less often than usual.

» Left Arm and Leg

Perhaps the most needed of his augmentations was the one to his arm and leg, both of which had been left near useless due to burn damage and shrapnel tearing up tendons and muscles. Spade’s left arm and leg are both high quality augs made from a steel base polymer, though maintaining a light design, and improve his lifting capacity and stability by quite a bit. Shock absorbers installed into his left arm allow him to fire more accurately and his left leg allows him to run for longer. Though, their quality is also the main reason he is so heavily in debt to his saviours.

» Audio Feed Left Eye

A heavily unneeded augmentation but one which was put in for… security purposes. His left eye is exactly like his other eye but can be switched on so as to record everything Spades sees, the purpose of which is to make sure he completes his jobs exactly as detailed and doesn’t keep things hidden from his bosses. Once his mission is over, they may access the datastore implanted next to it and upload it for review. Only a few people have access to the activation code for it and, as such, Spades cannot turn it off himself. It is, however, turned off whenever he is not out on a work.

𝙰𝚌𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚝 𝙱𝚊𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎:

Spades only really has a few hundred credits to his name, mostly due to the debt which he has been paying off to his saviours. Almost 80% of his pay goes directly to his boss.

𝙾𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛:

» ANYTHING I LEFT OUT

[KaiserElectric]

Oph WIP

^{[ "Happy? Of course I'm happy, I'm alive aren't I? c: " ]}

𝙽𝚊𝚖𝚎:

Ophelia 'OPHELOS' Hayes

𝙰𝚐𝚎:

26 Physically, actual age unknown.

𝚂𝚎𝚡:

Female

𝙰𝚏𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗:

𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝

𝙰𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎:

Ophelia stands a hair under five foot ten with a lithe but deceptively strong build, helped out by the augment that replaces her entire right arm up to the shoulder. Her wavy blue-black hair falls to her shoulders, framing a face with immaculately sculpted features and jade-toned eyes that sometimes change their shade, hinting at the augments within. She often wears her hair to hide a visible scar from a back alley surgery on the upper part of her left temple, and she also has a tattoo in the form of a binary code she has wrapped around her left forearm, which she tends to keep under a long coat.

𝙿𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚢:

PERSONALITY GOES HERE

GOOD TRAIT • BAD TRAIT • GOOD TRAIT • BAD TRAIT

𝙱𝚒𝚘:

BRIEF CHARACTER HISTORY

𝙳𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚝:

WHERE ARE YOU FROM?

𝚆𝚎𝚊𝚙𝚘𝚗(𝚜):

»PRIMARY WEAPON GOES HERE

»SECONDARY WEAPON GOES HERE

»MELEE WEAPON GOES HERE

𝙰𝚛𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛:

» ARMOR GOES HERE - WRITTEN DESCRIPTION COMPULSORY - PICTURE IS OPTIONAL

𝙲𝚢𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚜:

REASON FOR AUGMENTATIONS - WRITE "N/A" IF NONE

» FIRST AUGMENTATION TYPE

DESCRIPTION ONE

» SECOND AUGMENTATION TYPE

DESCRIPTION TWO

» THIRD AUGMENTATION TYPE

DESCRIPTION THREE

𝙰𝚌𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚝 𝙱𝚊𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎:

NET WORTH GOES HERE

𝙾𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛:

» ANYTHING I LEFT OUT

[DruSM157]

Everybody else is doing it, I suppose I should post my WIP as well.

Vincent WIP

^{[ “Jesus fuckin' christ. What'd they do to her?” ]}

𝙽𝚊𝚖𝚎:

Vincent Anthony DeSilvio

𝙰𝚐𝚎:

29

𝚂𝚎𝚡:

Male

𝙰𝚏𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗:

Europa Police Authority

𝙰𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎:

Vincent is a wisp of a man. Tall, thin, gaunt and ghost-like. His Italian ancestry is muddied by his pale features; and what was once a handsome young man has been changed by long hours, too many cigarettes and not enough coffee. His chin is permanently stained with stubble, and his outfits are always tinging on the side of unkemptness. He is highly unfashionable, and his work desk shows that organization is never his strong suit. He has a crescent moon scar under his left eye, but beyond that, he has no exceptional markings to distinguish him.

𝙿𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚢:

Vince doesn't like to talk. He's the man who sits in the back of the room writing down his notes, letting his partner take point on many of the cases they do. Vince is the kind of guy who sits and studies all the small pieces of a crime scene, connecting them to a bigger picture. His weakness is just that he can't talk to save his damn life. He's almost robotic in tone, and for a while, many people believed he was some sort of defective android. But no, he's just another fucked up bag of flesh trying to eke an existence in this awful, cruel world. He has very few friends in the department. He doesn't go in for gifts, he doesn't go out to bars after hours with other EPA grunts, and he rarely talks about himself. This has soured most of the department's views on him; something that Vince has no problem with.
The one place where Vince is truly himself is at home with his girlfriend, Audra. Ironically (or maybe just fittingly) she is an android. Something that his family has never been too happy about.

INTROSPECTIVE • CYNICAL • RIGHTEOUS • CLOSED-OFF

𝙱𝚒𝚘:

Vincent was born the youngest of 7 siblings in one of the poorest districts in Europa. He worked odd jobs helping his family along during his life, and his household was extremely anti-aug and anti-android. Fiercely religious and fearful of the transhumanist movement, he was raised in an extremely prejudiced environment. When he became a police officer, his mother pined over the thought that her poor innocent child would be chopped to pieces and turned into some sort of cyborg lawman. It's due to that family upbringing that Vince has avoided any augmentations where possible. Not being outwardly prejudiced against augs, but inwardly, he made few real connections during his academy and beat days. The fact that his partner has minor augmentations is a point of contention for him, but nothing that would keep him from doing his job. In fact, his own beliefs are constantly challenged at home.
Two years ago, Vince met a young woman named Audra at a night club. They hit it off, and after some time moved in together. The problem is that Audra is an android. Something that Vince keeps under wraps and hidden from his family, out of fear that the shock of her son getting his cazzo sucked by a robot would flat out kill her.
He joined the EPA Academy when he was 19, and has been working for the Authority now for 10 years. He made detective at 26, and for the past 3 years, was partnered with Donlan Caul, a much older detective who for better or worse, showed Vincent the ropes of good police work in a dark and corrupt city. 8 months ago Donlan retired, and Vincent was assigned a new partner: this time a newbie named Augustus Coburn.Vincent took his new partner without much fanfare, and he has been cold and awkward with the other man since.

𝙳𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚝:

WHERE ARE YOU FROM?

𝚆𝚎𝚊𝚙𝚘𝚗(𝚜):

» EPA Standard issue EPA handgun

» Standard issue EPA Taser; tends to short-circuit most cybernetics

» Electro-Stun Baton

𝙰𝚛𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛:

»EPA Issue Bullet Proof Vest; A thin vest that at first seems too thin to actually stop anything. The vest is made of self-hardening carbon nanotubes that tighten upon high impact. Light and more reliable than old issue kevlar vests, there have been complaints on how uncomfortable the vest gets when it "hardens". The vest also does little to protect against slashes; only hardening to direct stabs: another complaint about the vest.

𝙲𝚢𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚜:

N/A

» FIRST AUGMENTATION TYPE

» SECOND AUGMENTATION TYPE

» THIRD AUGMENTATION TYPE

DESCRIPTION THREE

𝙰𝚌𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚝 𝙱𝚊𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎:

NET WORTH GOES HERE

𝙾𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛:

» Vince has a girlfriend who lives with him, an android named Audra. Quiet, beautiful and petite, she is the one person that understands Vince, and the only person he is truly comfortable around.