Opposition

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Akina Izuna

“Reservations for Akina Izuna?”
“Yes. I’d like to check in.”

Akina Izuna would check in, but in the next three days, the figure that would leave the Kinmokusei would be someone entirely different. To Izuna, this whole ordeal was something of a dream vacation, but in the back of her mind, she knew she had to keep any advantage she could, and that meant keeping herself as anonymous as possible despite what Loingsech might already know. Alongside that, the girl had no idea who she would be working with, but she had no doubt they would most certainly be of an unsavory variety. While she trusted in her abilities to keep her cover, Izuna feared betrayal more than those who had been in her business longer than her. She put up a pretty good facade, though. To any patron of the fine Kinmokusei, Izuna was a starstruck sort, ceaselessly entertained by the inner workings of the hotel’s fine casino. The naive young girl played, drank, and made merry for the entirety of her stay.

What happened upon the Kinmokusei’s main floors differed greatly from what occurred within Izuna’s room, though. Couches and end tables had been covered in papers splayed about carelessly on every surfaces. Dining space had been converted into a personal place to link into the Net and keep up with all of her work. As much fun as she may have appeared to be having, Izuna was dealing with just as much work on the side. Sure Izuna may have been at the Kinmokusei for those couple days, but her pseudo-identity acted everywhere and all at once— or at least, that was what she liked to think. As time remained stagnant in the windowless casino below, the Revenant worked tirelessly through her helmet while the days passed.

Her motivations were far from being easily explained. Izuna was an enigma as is. The Revenant, even more so when it came to jobs like this. Through all the cloak and dagger, though, one thing remained revealed in the maelstrom of mysteries. Loingsech knew that they were hiring the Revenant, and with Izuna’s past foundationed in the concept of making trouble for corporations just like them, she would have to remain just as vigilant as the corporate dogs that would be looking into her. Izuna knew that without the bat of an eye, her employers would put her down when she wasn’t necessary anymore. That’s why it was her job to remain not only vigilant and watchful, but to also gain the upperhand.

The extravagance of the Kinmokusei was by no means a normality for Izuna, however unfortunately. Thus, her time basking in the sin that was the lifestyle of the very people she so abhorred was soon over. Dining with her enemies was undoubtedly a great time for Izuna, but she came here to work, and it was about time she got things rolling. The exposure of her identity was the greatest risk of all that this trip posed— at least in her head. That much made dealing with her interesting meeting circumstances all the more painful. Fully attired in the same outfit that would could get her arrested in Japan, Izuna posed herself in a corner of the Kinmokusei’s massive lobby. A rather fashionable sweatshirt was all that stood to normalize her Revenant Combat Suit. Of course, a curious look could afford a sight at the Revenant Wiring that lined Izuna’s skin below. Her disguise was lackluster and it surely didn’t fit in with the fancy attire most of the Kinmokusei’s patrons adorned, but Izuna knew that much. This morning would be the first time the Revenant would meet face to face with representatives from Loingsech. Izuna wasn’t going to let herself be caught off guard so easily.

As the E.T.A. of her colleagues drew near, the Revenant rose up and made her way towards the door. The completely conspicuous van that soon made its way into her helmet’s sensors was a clear indication that it was just about time. Shedding her petty disguise, Izuna couldn’t help but feel a tinge of nervousness surge through her. Was she worried about the meeting? No, of course not. Rather, she appeared woefully overdressed in her combat suit compared to the few patrons that also found themselves ushered into the dark van. When another heavily-augmented sort stepped into the van, Izuna found herself relaxing for a bit. Without him, she could have sworn she was stepping into some diplomat’s meeting. The thought of such an event brought Izuna to roll her eyes beneath the concealing visor she sported on her helmet. As much as she wanted to break the ice with the completely silent bunch, who would she be to break her own fear-inducing persona. It was a topic to be discussed another time.

The ride was luckily short enough for the long silence to be tolerable. Izuna merely watched as her cohorts stepped from the van into the stale air of the city. She would be the last to eschew herself from the cover of the vehicle, the sensors and servos of her combat suit whirring to life as she stepped from its concealed carriage. It was clear enough that the Revenant was making all sorts of calculations and gathering as much data about where they were as possible. It was as if Izuna was scanning for an ambush. Of course, with the Net connections in her helmet, doing so was much more subtle than it could have been. The first words belonged to a rather dapper gentleman that Izuna could have mistaken for a normal patron of the Kinmokusei just an hour ago. Contrary to him, Izuna stood wordlessly at the ready, but she did move towards the woman who could only be their assumed contact.

★— w h a t i s a m o n g t h e s t a r s ?

Definitely interesting. I love the vibe.

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Akina Izuna; The Revenant

_{A K I N A I Z U N A
⟁ 22 ⟁ FEMALE ⟁ 5’4” ⟁ AB-}

_{A P P E A R A N C E}

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By no means is the young Izuna an imposing figure. She stands with a slight and lean build— the sort you’d expect of a common research intern. Standing at 5’4” and weighing only 129 lbs she isn’t as small as some, but her form is definitely unobtrusive. She appears to be of mixed ethnicity, partially American, though dominantly of East Asian descent. This, of course, doesn’t take into account her rather striking cybernetic limb, appearing as a metallic black mesh mimicking muscle. What remains most striking about Izuna’s appearance is her face. Her brown eyes seem to consistently hold a look of mixed focus and caution. Sweeping down to frame her visage, her black hair reaches just down to her neck, brushing along her shoulders. Very rarely is her hair well kept and straight, though it is by no means curled, merely slightly disheveled as she braces herself for business every moment.

Izuna has a few distinct styles of dress, but each has their purpose, and each is as common as the others. Once upon a time, she would be seen sporting lab coats and uniform black pants and shirts. It seems those days are over for the girl unless undercover. Izuna is a large proponent of fashion, sporting all sort of designs and colors. While she is never too conspicuous, she likes to keep up with trends. While on business but not needing to be in full armor, Izuna dresses casually. Her most notable articles would be a polymer grey sports coat sporting a few Japanese brand names and her Revenant Helmet. When she is on the job and not afraid for things to get a little hot, Izuna will likely wear her Revenant Combat Suit.

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Izuna definitely had an interesting struggle after her birth. She wasn’t born into a struggling family, no. Rather, Izuna was born to parents out of wedlock— her mother a top American scientist and her father the CEO of a Japanese company researching and producing new and extremely experimental designer cybernetics. The custodial struggle was constant, and both of her parents raised her in their own ways. Izuna bounced between her two parents’ lives consistently, and it made for an interesting childhood. Speaking with that aside, she lived a relatively pampered life for her first handful of years. No good lasts forever, though.

Between her two progenitors, Izuna had quite the connection to a company called PsySystems Cybernetics— PsySys Company or PsySys for short. Akina Satoshi stood as the CEO, and since Izuna had no siblings, her future was insured quite well. On the other side of things, Jessa Locke was a top American scientist contracted by PsySys to oversee a few top cybernetic research endeavors. Izuna’s mother was very well integrated into the actual practical side of biomedical technology. In the young girl’s mind, the scientific side of things was far more interesting than her father’s constant worrisome business-centric attitude. As she grew, Izuna was geared more and more towards becoming a biomedical researcher herself. After all, her entire heritage surrounded the subject, and she was the only scion ready to inherit the company.

Education didn’t provide much trouble for her, and Izuna breezed her way through higher education. With access to the greatest resources and great prestige in her field, she was nearly something of a celebrity at her University. It wasn’t but halfway through her collegiate years that Izuna started a true internship with PsySys. Of course, she was set up much better than any other intern might expect. To put it simply, Izuna was essentially just placed on a research team to study and learn how things worked. It really was the life biomedical students would have dreamed for. It wasn’t all perfect. She still found herself working mainly on lower end hardware and other old projects. Innovation was saved for employed sorts. Overall, though, All was well in young Izuna’s life— at least for a good long while.

Eventually, things came to a head when Izuna was promoted to work alongside her mother— which surely was caused by an interesting and awkward conversation between her parents. It was finally time for Akina’s beloved daughter to move up in the world to work alongside her mother’s team, and Izuna was ready for that, but what awaited her in the higher levels of PsySys Company’s clearances. The veil had finally been lifted and Izuna came to realize PsySys wasn’t all as happy and just as she once thought. It was here that conflicts of interest became a part of her daily life. Her mother was all for Izuna’s work alongside the team, but her father held a secret close to his chest. Being a pioneer in the cybernetics industry, he and his implants were getting old. He was running out of time, but he remained determined to update his hardware in search of longevity and greater profit. Messing with heavily experimental augmentations was a dangerous game, though, and Satoshi needed to put his teams’ products through human trials. Luckily enough, he had access to just the compatible subject that could be used. Izuna was mostly unaugmented at this time in her life, but once the news came that PsySys was ready to hire her for real, that wasn’t going to be true for much longer.

Being the only scion in the Akina family, Izuna was the only person left on the planet that shared her father’s genes. Goals of immortality and great fortune clouded the once humble man’s mind. Alas, without having this knowledge herself, Izuna gladly stepped up and accepted her father’s offer. It was here where she learned what sort of trials PsySys truly undertook. Street rats would be brought in with the promises of free augmentation. In return for their assistance, they would often leave with their bodies shredded by experimental tech or their sanity shredded by the shear hardship endured through the trials. Izuna was next in line, but she didn’t back down. The idea of experimenting on herself with the ultimate goal of furthering augmentation for humanity as a whole was noble to her. She was ready to give herself for a better future.

Design after design, surgery after surgery, Izuna knew her cause was getting lost along the way. She watched and complied as her body was manipulated not with implants that would better humanity, but military equipment and personal betterment augmentations. If someone had access to all the technology that PsySys teams worked on alongside her own implants, they would be nearing super soldier concepts. As more and more of her work seemed to grow darker, Izuna knew she had to do some digging, and with her connections, she had all she needed to do just that. Contracts, supply lists, and client ledgers were all she needed to collect to uncover was PsySys was truly all about. The idea that they surged forward seeking the greatest breakthroughs in cybernetics was true, yes, but what sort of technology they sought was what worried Izuna. All her father’s top clients were military and paramilitary organizations. PsySys was a leading producer in technology that would perpetuate war, espionage, sabotage, and all other sorts of black hat endeavors. Izuna knew she had to do something. This wasn’t the life she wanted.

Izuna’s work got more oppressive and demanding as time went on, but it was in this time that she received some of her staple augments. As jobs got increasingly demanding, Izuna had to put a stop to it all, lest she become another subject number condemned and locked away in another of the monolithic PsySys buildings. She was unable to just give it all up easily, though. Instead, Izuna had goals in mind. Under the guise of her working position and with the time of her collegiate work, Izuna amassed the resources she would need. It was time she made a stand against the corruption she found so prevalent in her life. Even if she didn’t have what it took to stop megacorps like PsySys Company, she could sow her dissent simply and sincerely.

Things started that simply at least, but faster than she could handle, Izuna’s father ramped up PsySys experimentation to inhumane levels. Time had gone by and Izuna had amassed the resources she required to perform small tasks to assist those in need, but as augmentation continued and she was once again scheduled to warp her body at her father’s whim, something within the poor girl snapped. With her connections, Izuna had more than someone with her mindset should have, and after a few evenings consumed by her own project, she had the tools, gadgets, weaponry, and armor necessary for her spur of the moment plan. Wielding the abilities that were scarred into her body, Izuna used the cover of night to assault PsySys. Research, data, and machinery were torn through and destroyed. Unfortunately, she only had a short window to work, lest PsySys Company’s extensive security team catch her. The thought of being found out left Izuna with a shiver, but her special access and familiarity with the building managed to keep her identity hidden.

PsySys was hit hard even if just by one person. The damage was expensive and word definitely got around about what someone was doing. As much as it hurt her parents, what Izuna did notice was the positive view the public seemed to have on the assault at PsySys. The idea that this vigilante style combat against PsySys was changing things for the better soon got to Izuna’s ears. She was spurred by her noble view of her pursuits. More attacks occurred in the night, the culprit barely escaping. She was never one for violent approaches before, but something was changing Izuna. The ease of the attacks seemed so simple for how great of an impact they were making. That, and there was just something about the violent strikes. Something… addicting about pursuing her goals like that.

It wasn’t long before news of this mysterious new ‘terrorist’ got out, and what happened next surprised even the mysterious figure that surrounded the rumor. Rather than running from the outlandish lifestyle that surrounded the rumored girl, Izuna embraced it. She became the figure that the everyman wanted. Soon, even some news companies caught wind of the idea: there was an extremely augmented insurgent that had it out for the oppressive megacorps of Japan. Thus, the legend of the Revenant was born.

Izuna’s work was satisfying in PsySys, and she was definitely making an impact however small, but as time passed, she felt the need to push things further. Other corporations on the same levels as PsySys were a bit out of Izuna’s reach, so she took to the streets, further branding her new alter ego in the minds of the people behind her custom-made mask. Izuna devoted the next months of her life to her persona. One might have gone as far to say The Revenant was its own entity and Izuna was just stepping in to fill its shoes. The Revenant didn’t always remain such a savory and heroic figure, however.

There were times when Izuna’s attacks were more than just strikes of defiance. On one of her raids into PsySys Company’s research facilities, she came across a cache of supplies. Convinced in her head that it was for the greater good, Izuna ‘repurposed’ the cache for her own benefit. After she saw what she could do with access to PsySys’s equipment, things didn’t stop there. Augmentation components, medical supplies, ammo, and all sorts of other useful objects were fair game as she went about her work. While a good portion did go back into her work or end up being distributed to those afflicted by The Revenant’s enemies, a good deal of materials just went back to Izuna. She was living quite comfortably for how young she was, and as The Revenant’s activism became more widespread, more folks were interested in bringing The Revenant down. Izuna’s solo activity soon began to dwindle.

What did pick up, however, was her activism in groups. The Revenant would work with workers unions or rebel groups. Izuna became something of a specialist, called in when big jobs took place. While she never did like working in groups, she most often acted alone even when contracted. Since this started, Izuna has found herself all over Japan, the GFEZ, and even America on occasion as she follows work. The tale of The Revenant was by no means what it was in its prime days, but Izuna still got jobs. When she was approached by a colleague who acted as a liaison for a company trying to safely transport a girl out of Hong Kong, Izuna was immediately intrigued. To help people again— it was what she was destined for. It was what the Revenant was created for. As her ties with PsySys and her parents began to dwindle with growing suspicions, Izuna knew she had to move on with her life. She felt that bigger things were calling her, and The Revenant needed to answer that call. Whether that was through assisting the people— like this girl, or weaseling her way into another corporation like Loingsech to have the chances she had at PsySys, Izuna wasn’t even sure herself. What she was sure of was that The Revenant would attend when the meeting was called.

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“In pursuit of vengeful retribution, we all end up sinning…”

Izuna is a special breed one might not see every day. In early life, many things were handed to her, and it seems a lot of her laters years have been focused on returning the favor. She is a proponent for justice and equality, but it seems somewhere in all the wires buried in her head, that noble motivations like this get skewed. With the power she’s acquired and the name she’s made for herself, Izuna finds herself with the ability to take shortcuts and make selfish decisions on occasions. As much as she hates to admit it, she has certainly fallen victim to the teasing call of these benefits.

While this touch of sin is present in Izuna’s life, it is by no means what drives her. Izuna sees herself as something of a retributivist. She acts as an agent of what’s right— or she at least tries to. Even Izuna knows that no one can truly be righteous. She believes no one is truly able to fully do what’s good for humanity. As pure as she may seem, Izuna finds herself touched with her own dose of malice. Whether it stems from her sanity finally catching up to her or her reaction to the power brought to her by her augmentations, Izuna has as much madness to bring to the table as any other low life.

That quirky element of her personality certainly comes into play when Izuna is on the job. Her new identity has brought something into her life that nothing else ever could. Perhaps it’s just an extreme bout confidence, but perhaps its something else. No matter what it is, though, when The Revenant is found in strife, Izuna doesn’t hold back. She’s a risk taker, making plays left and right no matter the expense. That doesn’t mean she doesn’t calculate her odds. She does plenty of that, but she has become very adept at playing the odds in dangerous situations. In short, The Revenant is no figure to shy away from danger. To put it in most simple terms, The Revenant is a wild card… And people don’t forget that.

Despite all the cloak and dagger days that chase The Revenant, Izuna is still herself. She has a personality behind the facade of the armored figure that goes bump in the night, and it sure is one that would surprise many. While she can be friendly and even a bit arrogant when it comes to her work, a great deal of her time is spent lost in self conscious thought. She fears what the world is and when she isn’t working, she fears what it holds for people like her. Izuna is lost in her own powerlessness. This manifests itself in different ways. Around people she isn’t familiar with, Izuna can be prone to a certain stoicism, always second guessing herself. Buried in all of it however lies at least the last modicum of the girl’s innocence. While Izuna has done some bad things, she has lived her life more or less for the good that’s left in the world. When confronting situations where no good can come, she finds herself confused— naive even.

Between PsySys experimentation and trying to be a heroine, Izuna was something of a pinnacle for the ‘all work and no play’ concept. Alongside that, she’s never really seen herself as a true criminal or underground citizen. Because of this, she finds herself lost in the romanticism of a lot the activities that most would see as everyday practices. She frequents a variety of bars and clubs around the city, both high class and low class. While she is by no means an avid drinker, Izuna is in love with the atmosphere. Life on the streets in general seems to do it for her. While she never had to live day to day consuming food from street vendors and skating with no capital (and she probably never would want to truly have to), she enjoys the image of it and loves to spend her few free days wandering and enjoying herself. In a similar vein, Izuna loves to reminisce on her moments passed. This manifests as her being pegged as something of an exotic collector. Close colleagues sometimes teasingly call her a hoarder as Izuna loves to keep a lot of things on hand from scrap parts, to excess stocks of food and water, to ammunition, to even photos or flyers she likes. It’s almost as if she finds the world in the mundane. If one could recognize one thing about Izuna’s overall character when casually around those she is acquainted with, it would be the fact that without a doubt she is nothing like The Revenant.

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Infantry Combat and Sabotage: Izuna’s career has given to her the basic skills any scientist would require, but her skillset goes far beyond that. Contrary to what many might think, she is not formally trained at all when it comes to combat and subterfuge, but her skills in these fields are vast. Izuna’s combat experience is unlike any other, though. Perhaps that’s what makes her so effective at what she does. While Izuna isn’t the strongest machine in existence, she is quick on the draw and strikes hard, aiming to destroy any hostile in her path. Her philosophy surrounds elimination. Be it infrastructure, machinery, research notes, or her enemies, Izuna is always ready to rip through her opposition.

Infiltration and Espionage: With a life built upon rebellion, terrorism, and sabotage, some skills are guaranteed. Izuna has found herself quite able to readily infiltrate, exfiltrate, and deal with any obstacles along the way during a job. Between her augmentations, her equipment, and her abilities, Izuna is a great fit for when a mission requires one to be quick and clean. Information gathering, theft, and assassination are all part of The Revenant’s skillset.

Disguise and Deep Cover: When it comes to striking with vengeance, Izuna is one of the best, but when in her field, you don’t make it far if you aren’t quick to protect yourself. Her time with PsySys left her more cautious than most, and Izuna has become phenomenal at establishing deep cover identities and disguising herself well when in public. Perhaps having one alternate identity is just what leads to having hundreds.

Credit to The Revenant: Between Izuna’s early reputation and her work with a variety of different insurgent groups and criminals, The Revenant is quite the name, particularly with the lower class individuals of Japan and the GFEZ. Whether it strikes fear, awe, or anger in your heart, though, the name sure counts for something. It’s not all good reputation, though. Her criminal status can also be quite the hindrance, and bearing the name in and of itself takes a toll on Izuna’s mind. Seeing herself as The Revenant makes her feel invincible. She becomes a risk taker, fearing nothing. If there was one flaw of hers to draw attention to, it’d be this bad judgement of hers.

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Weapons and Armor

► Revenant Combat Suit

The Revenant Combat Suit is what makes Izuna who she is. Initially a hodgepodge of Japanese Self Defense Forces standard issue combat armor pieces, Izuna and her allies have turned it into much more, both physically and mentally. The starting pieces were heavily modified and cut down. The Revenant Combat Suit functions physically as a number of interlocking and connected pieces of vital armor made from carbon fiber and kevlar in different respective areas. While it is not the most physically protective to the entire body, the suit protects vital areas rather well while not limiting mobility. The true marvel of the suit lies not within its protective capabilities, though.

The suit itself was built wholly to bring about a massive offensive advantage. The weaknesses in kevlar and carbon fiber plates make space on the suit’s small frame for a complete wiring interface that runs along all primary muscle groups of Izuna’s body. There are nodes along the ballistic weave that interface with a specific augment allowing a user to connect to the suit’s Revenant function. Connecting the suit is used quite literally in this sense, as the wearer is required to fuse the site of their Revenant Wiring augmentation with the suit’s nodes. These sites act as a branch from machine to nervous system. Once connected to the Revenant Combat Suit, a user is essentially relinquishing complete control over their nerve endings, allowing the machine to send some signals through the user’s body.

Although some rumors may say otherwise, the Revenant Combat Suit is not sentient. It gets its directives based off of prior nerve impulses the user directs, allowing it to mimic their combat style. This complex process may seem daunting and its use may be hard to discern until you see Izuna in action. The extra impulses essentially allow her to overexert herself, surpassing her body’s normal limitations due to the human brain’s fear for damage and the like. This allows Izuna to stay in combat much longer when sustaining damage and can offer her some strength that may not normally be accessible without surges of adrenaline. It is hypothesized that Izuna’s suit could actually take control of her body and act in combat for moments after she is incapacitated or killed due to the fact that it would just continually send familiar impulses to her nervous system, bypassing the brain. All rumors that The Revenant is actually dead inside her suit are far from true though. Theoretically, it could happen, but only if her body was sustained by an outside source, and The Revenant Combat Suit likely doesn’t have the capacity to replicate actions beyond combative tactics, but still… May the legend live on.

► Revenant Helmet

The suit was made alongside a standalone helmet, custom-built by a few skilled colleagues. Izuna actually helped in its design to assure it worked in unity with her combat suit and allow her to interface with the Net. Izuna’s helmet provides her with a constant heads-up display as well as enhancing her visual and auditory capabilities if she takes the time to focus on such endeavors. At times, the helmet denoting The Revenant’s identity is sported by Izuna even when she isn’t wearing her full suit. It provides her with a sense of concealment that can be donned and interfaced with much more quickly than the full Revenant Combat Suit. Izuna’s Revenant Helmet is her main interface with the Net, but it provides much more than that. Infrared and thermal vision, zoom, and other situational features can be accessed if Izuna has the time to interface with the net.

Izuna’s Revenant Helmet

► Seeker 2020

Izuna’s has never been too keen on firearms. Without formal training, she has never really tried her hand at more heavy duty equipment, instead preferring a small submachine gun: the Seeker 2020. Despite its compact size, it is actually the largest weapon in Izuna’s arsenal. It is chambered in 9mm, featuring automatic, semi automatic, and burst firing modes. The weapon fires closed bolt, allowing for very accurate shots and the metallic frame of the weapon is set to allow it to be very customizable. Despite its well made design, the Seeker is actually a knock off version of a similar American design, meant to be cheaper and more street ready. Some shortcuts are obviously taken. Like all of Izuna’s weapons, the Seeker 2020 are as untraceable as the market can get these days.

► Ōsuzumebachi Machine Pistols^(大雀蜂)

Izuna’s signature weapon is the Ōsuzumebachi Machine Pistol: a weapon designed and manufactured for and by Tokyo’s more underground consumers. Known almost solely by its slang name, referring to a giant hornet endemic to the Japanese islands, this little machine packs the perfect punch and manages to remain concealable. Izuna owns a pair of them and uses them interchangeably with her submachine gun as demand arises. The Ōsuzumebachi is known particularly for its use of plastic and ceramics. While it isn’t entirely devoid of metal— as its inner workings still require some vital pieces— it is still enough to fool some of the lower end metal detectors around the GFEZ. Alongside each pistol, Izuna has access to a laser sight and a silencer for extraneous purposes during missions.

► Carving Knives

Perhaps The Revenant might not be so fear-inducing if she didn’t wield a pair of massive knives. These Monomolecular bladed sabers are a japanese weapon ‘recovered’ from a special task force supply, following which they were modified with some butchery tools. Said to be sharpened down to a level measured in atoms, these blades are sharp enough to cut in between cells rather than tearing through and destroying them. Such a quality makes for extremely clean cuts and is only topped by the fact that the blades of Izuna’s carving knives were modified to allow for their edges to be heated while in combat. While this might not do anything in combat with other people— perhaps even helping to cauterize wounds after Izuna inflicts them— it does allow her to better destroy harder materials that may be more susceptible to heat if trying to bring down a large machine.

► Miscellaneous

Izuna is known to keep a rather extensive makeup kit with her. She is rather absorbed into fashionable culture and keeping up appearances is rather important to her. It comes in handy for a disguise or two as well. Alongside that, she always carries a handheld dataslate. While her helmet is usually enough when it comes to anything technology-related, you can never beat the old reliable sorts. Her dataslate manages to keep her covered there. Being a woman, Izuna is smart enough never to leave home without a package of tissues, which she finds people underestimate all too often.

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► CarbonSkin Muscle Fibers

On first glance, one might assume that Izuna remained mostly human after all the PsySys experimentation. Her outward appearance, while not entirely unscathed, shows little of what’s going on inside her body. Having gone through a variety of botched surgeries and experimental implants, a good deal of Izuna’s muscle fibers in certain areas were rended in the repeat processes. In order to keep Izuna mobile and properly fit, she did receive a great deal of artificial muscle grafted into her body. These carbon fiber filaments mimic normal human muscle fibers. While the augmentation was much to the chagrin of Izuna at the time, she finds herself grateful that the processes occurred as the synthetic muscle fibers let her go far beyond the limits of her old human muscle. While not drastic, the new fibers have given Izuna a slight increase in strength and agility.

► Revenant Wiring

With all her time at PsySys, one would imagine Izuna was tired of the constant augmentation and would be absolutely against getting any further augmentations, but as she fully accepted the identity of the Revenant and helped design her combat suit, she knew it was time for her to embrace her alter ego. With the assistance of a variety of underground mechanics and scientists, Izuna managed to cobble together a team to work on the Revenant Project, wherein they developed not only the iconic suit but also the special interfaces a user would require. Izuna was fully prepared to further deconstruct her body to meld herself with the suit. The Revenant Wiring is a complex system that works with the Revenant Combat Suit, allowing the augmented subject to use the suit in its full capacity. This is done by embedding the wiring along important nerve pathways throughout the human body. This wiring connects both with the nerve endings and the suit which acts as an exoskeleton for the wearer.

When the wiring and the suit are combined, the suit can record common motions and stimuli that the user undertakes and replicate those effects on the nerves. The Revenant Wiring will only connect under two circumstances, however, to prevent unwanted takeover of the user’s body. If the user wishes to willingly activate the wiring, that will work, but the wiring also triggers under another unique circumstance. If the user’s brain stops sending certain stimuli to the nervous system (in cases of incapacitation, fatigue, or death), the Revenant Combat Suit will take over, essentially allowing a user to fight when their body otherwise wouldn’t allow them. This augment stands to be extremely dangerous as it allows to user to push past their usual bodily limits, which may or may not permanently strain the user’s body. In extreme circumstances, it is hypothesized that the wiring and suit combination could allow Izuna to fight moments after death or unconsciousness, but its application in such circumstances would be very limited without further programming.

► PsySys Voltskin Limb Prosthesis

The PsySys Voltskin Limb Prosthesis was one of the first full replacements Izuna received from her days at PsySys. Upon first glance, it appears as any other cybernetic limb made from carbon fiber filaments and metallic mounts. It is relatively high end work, but that’s not what makes it special. All the interesting technology lies in the hand of the prosthetic. It’s called the Voltskin for a reason, and that much is evident as soon as you see the exposed diodes and wires on the palm of the hand. The Voltskin Prosthesis allows the palm of the hand to build a charge of electricity generated through the kinetic and potential energy present in the limb. When the user wills it, that energy can be discharged through the palm of the hand as a small electrical pulse. This can be used in a variety of ways. In combat, Izuna can release the charge to subdue opponents in close range. This works akin to a taser. This pulse can also be discharged into electronics to temporarily disable or scramble various electronic systems. The Voltskin never made it out of its experimental stages, though. The full breadth of the electrical discharge can’t be directed and the Voltskin often causes pain to the wielder when activated. Alongside that, due to its unique method of generation, the Voltskin has a short cooldown, so it is ill advised to go into combat without another weapon. Izuna has a Psys Voltskin Limb Prosthesis replacing her left arm.

► PsySys NanoSanguine Cardiovascular Regulation Unit X

After undergoing so much trauma, Izuna’s body is by no means unscathed. Heavy augmentation is not easily accepted by the human body, but technology has allowed us certain ways to counteract the body’s rejection to augmentation and other harmful effects. Implanted next to Izuna’s heart is something that allows her own heart to remain beating and her cardiovascular system to remain circulating. PsySys developed the NanoSanguine CRUX from a multitude of concept designs all plastered together into one. In short, while the true heart keeps the cardiovascular system circulating, the second heart (the CRUX) keeps the cardiovascular system insured. It functions to remove contaminants, excess viral agents, and other extraneous toxins as well as regulating circulation speed to a certain degree. This is all done through a specific liquid metal called NanoSanguine.

The CRUX regulates the circulation of NanoSanguine as it monitors the heart. When microbial disease or other anomalies are detected in the blood, the NanoSanguine will circulate through the body to find and exterminate the extraneous substance. The volume of the bloodstream is limited, though. This process can take time, but this limitation can be beneficial in certain circumstances. When a heart momentarily stops or beats at an abnormal rate, the CRUX can detect this and pump NanoSanguine through the bloodstream. As it moves, it can force the blood forward at normal rates until the subject’s heart returns to normal or is treated. Izuna’s early model of the CRUX is by no means perfect, and certainly can’t regulate a body forever. It relies on the beating of the first heart to keep it functioning, so if a Izuna’s heart was to stop beating for too long, even the CRUX would give in to the inevitability.

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Phew, finally threw everything together. I was really hit with a wave of creativity here, so I went pretty in depth. I hope it's not too much. Things can change as needed.

Akina Izuna; The Revenant

_{A K I N A I Z U N A
⟁ 22 ⟁ FEMALE ⟁ 5’4” ⟁ AB-}

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By no means is the young Izuna an imposing figure. She stands with a slight and lean build— the sort you’d expect of a common research intern. Standing at 5’4” and weighing only 129 lbs she isn’t as small as some, but her form is definitely unobtrusive. She appears to be of mixed ethnicity, partially American, though dominantly of East Asian descent. This, of course, doesn’t take into account her rather striking cybernetic limb, appearing as a metallic black mesh mimicking muscle. What remains most striking about Izuna’s appearance is her face. Her brown eyes seem to consistently hold a look of mixed focus and caution. Sweeping down to frame her visage, her black hair reaches just down to her neck, brushing along her shoulders. Very rarely is her hair well kept and straight, though it is by no means curled, merely slightly disheveled as she braces herself for business every moment.

Izuna has a few distinct styles of dress, but each has their purpose, and each is as common as the others. Once upon a time, she would be seen sporting lab coats and uniform black pants and shirts. It seems those days are over for the girl unless undercover. Izuna is a large proponent of fashion, sporting all sort of designs and colors. While she is never too conspicuous, she likes to keep up with trends. While on business but not needing to be in full armor, Izuna dresses casually. Her most notable articles would be a polymer grey sports coat sporting a few Japanese brand names and her Revenant Helmet. When she is on the job and not afraid for things to get a little hot, Izuna will likely wear her Revenant Combat Suit.

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Izuna definitely had an interesting struggle after her birth. She wasn’t born into a struggling family, no. Rather, Izuna was born to parents out of wedlock— her mother a top American scientist and her father the CEO of a Japanese company researching and producing new and extremely experimental designer cybernetics. The custodial struggle was constant, and both of her parents raised her in their own ways. Izuna bounced between her two parents’ lives consistently, and it made for an interesting childhood. Speaking with that aside, she lived a relatively pampered life for her first handful of years. No good lasts forever, though.

Between her two progenitors, Izuna had quite the connection to a company called PsySystems Cybernetics— PsySys Company or PsySys for short. Akina Satoshi stood as the CEO, and since Izuna had no siblings, her future was insured quite well. On the other side of things, Jessa Locke was a top American scientist contracted by PsySys to oversee a few top cybernetic research endeavors. Izuna’s mother was very well integrated into the actual practical side of biomedical technology. In the young girl’s mind, the scientific side of things was far more interesting than her father’s constant worrisome business-centric attitude. As she grew, Izuna was geared more and more towards becoming a biomedical researcher herself. After all, her entire heritage surrounded the subject, and she was the only scion ready to inherit the company.

Education didn’t provide much trouble for her, and Izuna breezed her way through higher education. With access to the greatest resources and great prestige in her field, she was nearly something of a celebrity at her University. It wasn’t but halfway through her collegiate years that Izuna started a true internship with PsySys. Of course, she was set up much better than any other intern might expect. To put it simply, Izuna was essentially just placed on a research team to study and learn how things worked. It really was the life biomedical students would have dreamed for. It wasn’t all perfect. She still found herself working mainly on lower end hardware and other old projects. Innovation was saved for employed sorts. Overall, though, All was well in young Izuna’s life— at least for a good long while.

Eventually, things came to a head when Izuna was promoted to work alongside her mother— which surely was caused by an interesting and awkward conversation between her parents. It was finally time for Akina’s beloved daughter to move up in the world to work alongside her mother’s team, and Izuna was ready for that, but what awaited her in the higher levels of PsySys Company’s clearances. The veil had finally been lifted and Izuna came to realize PsySys wasn’t all as happy and just as she once thought. It was here that conflicts of interest became a part of her daily life. Her mother was all for Izuna’s work alongside the team, but her father held a secret close to his chest. Being a pioneer in the cybernetics industry, he and his implants were getting old. He was running out of time, but he remained determined to update his hardware in search of longevity and greater profit. Messing with heavily experimental augmentations was a dangerous game, though, and Satoshi needed to put his teams’ products through human trials. Luckily enough, he had access to just the compatible subject that could be used. Izuna was mostly unaugmented at this time in her life, but once the news came that PsySys was ready to hire her for real, that wasn’t going to be true for much longer.

Being the only scion in the Akina family, Izuna was the only person left on the planet that shared her father’s genes. Goals of immortality and great fortune clouded the once humble man’s mind. Alas, without having this knowledge herself, Izuna gladly stepped up and accepted her father’s offer. It was here where she learned what sort of trials PsySys truly undertook. Street rats would be brought in with the promises of free augmentation. In return for their assistance, they would often leave with their bodies shredded by experimental tech or their sanity shredded by the shear hardship endured through the trials. Izuna was next in line, but she didn’t back down. The idea of experimenting on herself with the ultimate goal of furthering augmentation for humanity as a whole was noble to her. She was ready to give herself for a better future.

Design after design, surgery after surgery, Izuna knew her cause was getting lost along the way. She watched and complied as her body was manipulated not with implants that would better humanity, but military equipment and personal betterment augmentations. If someone had access to all the technology that PsySys teams worked on alongside her own implants, they would be nearing super soldier concepts. As more and more of her work seemed to grow darker, Izuna knew she had to do some digging, and with her connections, she had all she needed to do just that. Contracts, supply lists, and client ledgers were all she needed to collect to uncover was PsySys was truly all about. The idea that they surged forward seeking the greatest breakthroughs in cybernetics was true, yes, but what sort of technology they sought was what worried Izuna. All her father’s top clients were military and paramilitary organizations. PsySys was a leading producer in technology that would perpetuate war, espionage, sabotage, and all other sorts of black hat endeavors. Izuna knew she had to do something. This wasn’t the life she wanted.

Izuna’s work got more oppressive and demanding as time went on, but it was in this time that she received some of her staple augments. As jobs got increasingly demanding, Izuna had to put a stop to it all, lest she become another subject number condemned and locked away in another of the monolithic PsySys buildings. She was unable to just give it all up easily, though. Instead, Izuna had goals in mind. Under the guise of her working position and with the time of her collegiate work, Izuna amassed the resources she would need. It was time she made a stand against the corruption she found so prevalent in her life. Even if she didn’t have what it took to stop megacorps like PsySys Company, she could sow her dissent simply and sincerely.

Things started that simply at least, but faster than she could handle, Izuna’s father ramped up PsySys experimentation to inhumane levels. Time had gone by and Izuna had amassed the resources she required to perform small tasks to assist those in need, but as augmentation continued and she was once again scheduled to warp her body at her father’s whim, something within the poor girl snapped. With her connections, Izuna had more than someone with her mindset should have, and after a few evenings consumed by her own project, she had the tools, gadgets, weaponry, and armor necessary for her spur of the moment plan. Wielding the abilities that were scarred into her body, Izuna used the cover of night to assault PsySys. Research, data, and machinery were torn through and destroyed. Unfortunately, she only had a short window to work, lest PsySys Company’s extensive security team catch her. The thought of being found out left Izuna with a shiver, but her special access and familiarity with the building managed to keep her identity hidden.

PsySys was hit hard even if just by one person. The damage was expensive and word definitely got around about what someone was doing. As much as it hurt her parents, what Izuna did notice was the positive view the public seemed to have on the assault at PsySys. The idea that this vigilante style combat against PsySys was changing things for the better soon got to Izuna’s ears. She was spurred by her noble view of her pursuits. More attacks occurred in the night, the culprit barely escaping. She was never one for violent approaches before, but something was changing Izuna. The ease of the attacks seemed so simple for how great of an impact they were making. That, and there was just something about the violent strikes. Something… addicting about pursuing her goals like that.

It wasn’t long before news of this mysterious new ‘terrorist’ got out, and what happened next surprised even the mysterious figure that surrounded the rumor. Rather than running from the outlandish lifestyle that surrounded the rumored girl, Izuna embraced it. She became the figure that the everyman wanted. Soon, even some news companies caught wind of the idea: there was an extremely augmented insurgent that had it out for the oppressive megacorps of Japan. Thus, the legend of the Revenant was born.

Izuna’s work was satisfying in PsySys, and she was definitely making an impact however small, but as time passed, she felt the need to push things further. Other corporations on the same levels as PsySys were a bit out of Izuna’s reach, so she took to the streets, further branding her new alter ego in the minds of the people behind her custom-made mask. Izuna devoted the next months of her life to her persona. One might have gone as far to say The Revenant was its own entity and Izuna was just stepping in to fill its shoes. The Revenant didn’t always remain such a savory and heroic figure, however.

There were times when Izuna’s attacks were more than just strikes of defiance. On one of her raids into PsySys Company’s research facilities, she came across a cache of supplies. Convinced in her head that it was for the greater good, Izuna ‘repurposed’ the cache for her own benefit. After she saw what she could do with access to PsySys’s equipment, things didn’t stop there. Augmentation components, medical supplies, ammo, and all sorts of other useful objects were fair game as she went about her work. While a good portion did go back into her work or end up being distributed to those afflicted by The Revenant’s enemies, a good deal of materials just went back to Izuna. She was living quite comfortably for how young she was, and as The Revenant’s activism became more widespread, more folks were interested in bringing The Revenant down. Izuna’s solo activity soon began to dwindle.

What did pick up, however, was her activism in groups. The Revenant would work with workers unions or rebel groups. Izuna became something of a specialist, called in when big jobs took place. While she never did like working in groups, she most often acted alone even when contracted. Since this started, Izuna has found herself all over Japan, the GFEZ, and even America on occasion as she follows work. The tale of The Revenant was by no means what it was in its prime days, but Izuna still got jobs. When she was approached by a colleague who acted as a liaison for a company trying to safely transport a girl out of Hong Kong, Izuna was immediately intrigued. To help people again— it was what she was destined for. It was what the Revenant was created for. As her ties with PsySys and her parents began to dwindle with growing suspicions, Izuna knew she had to move on with her life. She felt that bigger things were calling her, and The Revenant needed to answer that call. Whether that was through assisting the people— like this girl, or weaseling her way into another corporation like Loingsech to have the chances she had at PsySys, Izuna wasn’t even sure herself. What she was sure of was that The Revenant would attend when the meeting was called.

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“In pursuit of vengeful retribution, we all end up sinning…”

Izuna is a special breed one might not see every day. In early life, many things were handed to her, and it seems a lot of her laters years have been focused on returning the favor. She is a proponent for justice and equality, but it seems somewhere in all the wires buried in her head, that noble motivations like this get skewed. With the power she’s acquired and the name she’s made for herself, Izuna finds herself with the ability to take shortcuts and make selfish decisions on occasions. As much as she hates to admit it, she has certainly fallen victim to the teasing call of these benefits.

While this touch of sin is present in Izuna’s life, it is by no means what drives her. Izuna sees herself as something of a retributivist. She acts as an agent of what’s right— or she at least tries to. Even Izuna knows that no one can truly be righteous. She believes no one is truly able to fully do what’s good for humanity. As pure as she may seem, Izuna finds herself touched with her own dose of malice. Whether it stems from her sanity finally catching up to her or her reaction to the power brought to her by her augmentations, Izuna has as much madness to bring to the table as any other low life.

That quirky element of her personality certainly comes into play when Izuna is on the job. Her new identity has brought something into her life that nothing else ever could. Perhaps it’s just an extreme bout confidence, but perhaps its something else. No matter what it is, though, when The Revenant is found in strife, Izuna doesn’t hold back. She’s a risk taker, making plays left and right no matter the expense. That doesn’t mean she doesn’t calculate her odds. She does plenty of that, but she has become very adept at playing the odds in dangerous situations. In short, The Revenant is no figure to shy away from danger. To put it in most simple terms, The Revenant is a wild card… And people don’t forget that.

Despite all the cloak and dagger days that chase The Revenant, Izuna is still herself. She has a personality behind the facade of the armored figure that goes bump in the night, and it sure is one that would surprise many. While she can be friendly and even a bit arrogant when it comes to her work, a great deal of her time is spent lost in self conscious thought. She fears what the world is and when she isn’t working, she fears what it holds for people like her. Izuna is lost in her own powerlessness. This manifests itself in different ways. Around people she isn’t familiar with, Izuna can be prone to a certain stoicism, always second guessing herself. Buried in all of it however lies at least the last modicum of the girl’s innocence. While Izuna has done some bad things, she has lived her life more or less for the good that’s left in the world. When confronting situations where no good can come, she finds herself confused— naive even.

Between PsySys experimentation and trying to be a heroine, Izuna was something of a pinnacle for the ‘all work and no play’ concept. Alongside that, she’s never really seen herself as a true criminal or underground citizen. Because of this, she finds herself lost in the romanticism of a lot the activities that most would see as everyday practices. She frequents a variety of bars and clubs around the city, both high class and low class. While she is by no means an avid drinker, Izuna is in love with the atmosphere. Life on the streets in general seems to do it for her. While she never had to live day to day consuming food from street vendors and skating with no capital (and she probably never would want to truly have to), she enjoys the image of it and loves to spend her few free days wandering and enjoying herself. In a similar vein, Izuna loves to reminisce on her moments passed. This manifests as her being pegged as something of an exotic collector. Close colleagues sometimes teasingly call her a hoarder as Izuna loves to keep a lot of things on hand from scrap parts, to excess stocks of food and water, to ammunition, to even photos or flyers she likes. It’s almost as if she finds the world in the mundane. If one could recognize one thing about Izuna’s overall character when casually around those she is acquainted with, it would be the fact that without a doubt she is nothing like The Revenant.

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Infantry Combat and Sabotage: Izuna’s career has given to her the basic skills any scientist would require, but her skillset goes far beyond that. Contrary to what many might think, she is not formally trained at all when it comes to combat and subterfuge, but her skills in these fields are vast. Izuna’s combat experience is unlike any other, though. Perhaps that’s what makes her so effective at what she does. While Izuna isn’t the strongest machine in existence, she is quick on the draw and strikes hard, aiming to destroy any hostile in her path. Her philosophy surrounds elimination. Be it infrastructure, machinery, research notes, or her enemies, Izuna is always ready to rip through her opposition.

Infiltration and Espionage: With a life built upon rebellion, terrorism, and sabotage, some skills are guaranteed. Izuna has found herself quite able to readily infiltrate, exfiltrate, and deal with any obstacles along the way during a job. Between her augmentations, her equipment, and her abilities, Izuna is a great fit for when a mission requires one to be quick and clean. Information gathering, theft, and assassination are all part of The Revenant’s skillset.

Disguise and Deep Cover: When it comes to striking with vengeance, Izuna is one of the best, but when in her field, you don’t make it far if you aren’t quick to protect yourself. Her time with PsySys left her more cautious than most, and Izuna has become phenomenal at establishing deep cover identities and disguising herself well when in public. Perhaps having one alternate identity is just what leads to having hundreds.

Credit to The Revenant: Between Izuna’s early reputation and her work with a variety of different insurgent groups and criminals, The Revenant is quite the name, particularly with the lower class individuals of Japan and the GFEZ. Whether it strikes fear, awe, or anger in your heart, though, the name sure counts for something. It’s not all good reputation, though. Her criminal status can also be quite the hindrance, and bearing the name in and of itself takes a toll on Izuna’s mind. Seeing herself as The Revenant makes her feel invincible. She becomes a risk taker, fearing nothing. If there was one flaw of hers to draw attention to, it’d be this bad judgement of hers.

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Weapons and Armor

► Revenant Combat Suit

The Revenant Combat Suit is what makes Izuna who she is. Initially a hodgepodge of Japanese Self Defense Forces standard issue combat armor pieces, Izuna and her allies have turned it into much more, both physically and mentally. The starting pieces were heavily modified and cut down. The Revenant Combat Suit functions physically as a number of interlocking and connected pieces of vital armor made from carbon fiber and kevlar in different respective areas. While it is not the most physically protective to the entire body, the suit protects vital areas rather well while not limiting mobility. The true marvel of the suit lies not within its protective capabilities, though.

The suit itself was built wholly to bring about a massive offensive advantage. The weaknesses in kevlar and carbon fiber plates make space on the suit’s small frame for a complete wiring interface that runs along all primary muscle groups of Izuna’s body. There are nodes along the ballistic weave that interface with a specific augment allowing a user to connect to the suit’s Revenant function. Connecting the suit is used quite literally in this sense, as the wearer is required to fuse the site of their Revenant Wiring augmentation with the suit’s nodes. These sites act as a branch from machine to nervous system. Once connected to the Revenant Combat Suit, a user is essentially relinquishing complete control over their nerve endings, allowing the machine to send some signals through the user’s body.

Although some rumors may say otherwise, the Revenant Combat Suit is not sentient. It gets its directives based off of prior nerve impulses the user directs, allowing it to mimic their combat style. This complex process may seem daunting and its use may be hard to discern until you see Izuna in action. The extra impulses essentially allow her to overexert herself, surpassing her body’s normal limitations due to the human brain’s fear for damage and the like. This allows Izuna to stay in combat much longer when sustaining damage and can offer her some strength that may not normally be accessible without surges of adrenaline. It is hypothesized that Izuna’s suit could actually take control of her body and act in combat for moments after she is incapacitated or killed due to the fact that it would just continually send familiar impulses to her nervous system, bypassing the brain. All rumors that The Revenant is actually dead inside her suit are far from true though. Theoretically, it could happen, but only if her body was sustained by an outside source, and The Revenant Combat Suit likely doesn’t have the capacity to replicate actions beyond combative tactics, but still… May the legend live on.

► Revenant Helmet

The suit was made alongside a standalone helmet, custom-built by a few skilled colleagues. Izuna actually helped in its design to assure it worked in unity with her combat suit and allow her to interface with the Net. Izuna’s helmet provides her with a constant heads-up display as well as enhancing her visual and auditory capabilities if she takes the time to focus on such endeavors. At times, the helmet denoting The Revenant’s identity is sported by Izuna even when she isn’t wearing her full suit. It provides her with a sense of concealment that can be donned and interfaced with much more quickly than the full Revenant Combat Suit. Izuna’s Revenant Helmet is her main interface with the Net, but it provides much more than that. Infrared and thermal vision, zoom, and other situational features can be accessed if Izuna has the time to interface with the net.

Izuna’s Revenant Helmet

► Seeker 2020

Izuna’s has never been too keen on firearms. Without formal training, she has never really tried her hand at more heavy duty equipment, instead preferring a small submachine gun: the Seeker 2020. Despite its compact size, it is actually the largest weapon in Izuna’s arsenal. It is chambered in 9mm, featuring automatic, semi automatic, and burst firing modes. The weapon fires closed bolt, allowing for very accurate shots and the metallic frame of the weapon is set to allow it to be very customizable. Despite its well made design, the Seeker is actually a knock off version of a similar American design, meant to be cheaper and more street ready. Some shortcuts are obviously taken. Like all of Izuna’s weapons, the Seeker 2020 are as untraceable as the market can get these days.

► Ōsuzumebachi Machine Pistols^(大雀蜂)

Izuna’s signature weapon is the Ōsuzumebachi Machine Pistol: a weapon designed and manufactured for and by Tokyo’s more underground consumers. Known almost solely by its slang name, referring to a giant hornet endemic to the Japanese islands, this little machine packs the perfect punch and manages to remain concealable. Izuna owns a pair of them and uses them interchangeably with her submachine gun as demand arises. The Ōsuzumebachi is known particularly for its use of plastic and ceramics. While it isn’t entirely devoid of metal— as its inner workings still require some vital pieces— it is still enough to fool some of the lower end metal detectors around the GFEZ. Alongside each pistol, Izuna has access to a laser sight and a silencer for extraneous purposes during missions.

► Carving Knives

Perhaps The Revenant might not be so fear-inducing if she didn’t wield a pair of massive knives. These Monomolecular bladed sabers are a japanese weapon ‘recovered’ from a special task force supply, following which they were modified with some butchery tools. Said to be sharpened down to a level measured in atoms, these blades are sharp enough to cut in between cells rather than tearing through and destroying them. Such a quality makes for extremely clean cuts and is only topped by the fact that the blades of Izuna’s carving knives were modified to allow for their edges to be heated while in combat. While this might not do anything in combat with other people— perhaps even helping to cauterize wounds after Izuna inflicts them— it does allow her to better destroy harder materials that may be more susceptible to heat if trying to bring down a large machine.

► Miscellaneous

Izuna is known to keep a rather extensive makeup kit with her. She is rather absorbed into fashionable culture and keeping up appearances is rather important to her. It comes in handy for a disguise or two as well. Alongside that, she always carries a handheld dataslate. While her helmet is usually enough when it comes to anything technology-related, you can never beat the old reliable sorts. Her dataslate manages to keep her covered there. Being a woman, Izuna is smart enough never to leave home without a package of tissues, which she finds people underestimate all too often.

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► CarbonSkin Muscle Fibers

On first glance, one might assume that Izuna remained mostly human after all the PsySys experimentation. Her outward appearance, while not entirely unscathed, shows little of what’s going on inside her body. Having gone through a variety of botched surgeries and experimental implants, a good deal of Izuna’s muscle fibers in certain areas were rended in the repeat processes. In order to keep Izuna mobile and properly fit, she did receive a great deal of artificial muscle grafted into her body. These carbon fiber filaments mimic normal human muscle fibers. While the augmentation was much to the chagrin of Izuna at the time, she finds herself grateful that the processes occurred as the synthetic muscle fibers let her go far beyond the limits of her old human muscle. While not drastic, the new fibers have given Izuna a slight increase in strength and agility.

► Revenant Wiring

With all her time at PsySys, one would imagine Izuna was tired of the constant augmentation and would be absolutely against getting any further augmentations, but as she fully accepted the identity of the Revenant and helped design her combat suit, she knew it was time for her to embrace her alter ego. With the assistance of a variety of underground mechanics and scientists, Izuna managed to cobble together a team to work on the Revenant Project, wherein they developed not only the iconic suit but also the special interfaces a user would require. Izuna was fully prepared to further deconstruct her body to meld herself with the suit. The Revenant Wiring is a complex system that works with the Revenant Combat Suit, allowing the augmented subject to use the suit in its full capacity. This is done by embedding the wiring along important nerve pathways throughout the human body. This wiring connects both with the nerve endings and the suit which acts as an exoskeleton for the wearer.

When the wiring and the suit are combined, the suit can record common motions and stimuli that the user undertakes and replicate those effects on the nerves. The Revenant Wiring will only connect under two circumstances, however, to prevent unwanted takeover of the user’s body. If the user wishes to willingly activate the wiring, that will work, but the wiring also triggers under another unique circumstance. If the user’s brain stops sending certain stimuli to the nervous system (in cases of incapacitation, fatigue, or death), the Revenant Combat Suit will take over, essentially allowing a user to fight when their body otherwise wouldn’t allow them. This augment stands to be extremely dangerous as it allows to user to push past their usual bodily limits, which may or may not permanently strain the user’s body. In extreme circumstances, it is hypothesized that the wiring and suit combination could allow Izuna to fight moments after death or unconsciousness, but its application in such circumstances would be very limited without further programming.

► PsySys Voltskin Limb Prosthesis

The PsySys Voltskin Limb Prosthesis was one of the first full replacements Izuna received from her days at PsySys. Upon first glance, it appears as any other cybernetic limb made from carbon fiber filaments and metallic mounts. It is relatively high end work, but that’s not what makes it special. All the interesting technology lies in the hand of the prosthetic. It’s called the Voltskin for a reason, and that much is evident as soon as you see the exposed diodes and wires on the palm of the hand. The Voltskin Prosthesis allows the palm of the hand to build a charge of electricity generated through the kinetic and potential energy present in the limb. When the user wills it, that energy can be discharged through the palm of the hand as a small electrical pulse. This can be used in a variety of ways. In combat, Izuna can release the charge to subdue opponents in close range. This works akin to a taser. This pulse can also be discharged into electronics to temporarily disable or scramble various electronic systems. The Voltskin never made it out of its experimental stages, though. The full breadth of the electrical discharge can’t be directed and the Voltskin often causes pain to the wielder when activated. Alongside that, due to its unique method of generation, the Voltskin has a short cooldown, so it is ill advised to go into combat without another weapon. Izuna has a Psys Voltskin Limb Prosthesis replacing her left arm.

► PsySys NanoSanguine Cardiovascular Regulation Unit X

After undergoing so much trauma, Izuna’s body is by no means unscathed. Heavy augmentation is not easily accepted by the human body, but technology has allowed us certain ways to counteract the body’s rejection to augmentation and other harmful effects. Implanted next to Izuna’s heart is something that allows her own heart to remain beating and her cardiovascular system to remain circulating. PsySys developed the NanoSanguine CRUX from a multitude of concept designs all plastered together into one. In short, while the true heart keeps the cardiovascular system circulating, the second heart (the CRUX) keeps the cardiovascular system insured. It functions to remove contaminants, excess viral agents, and other extraneous toxins as well as regulating circulation speed to a certain degree. This is all done through a specific liquid metal called NanoSanguine.

The CRUX regulates the circulation of NanoSanguine as it monitors the heart. When microbial disease or other anomalies are detected in the blood, the NanoSanguine will circulate through the body to find and exterminate the extraneous substance. The volume of the bloodstream is limited, though. This process can take time, but this limitation can be beneficial in certain circumstances. When a heart momentarily stops or beats at an abnormal rate, the CRUX can detect this and pump NanoSanguine through the bloodstream. As it moves, it can force the blood forward at normal rates until the subject’s heart returns to normal or is treated. Izuna’s early model of the CRUX is by no means perfect, and certainly can’t regulate a body forever. It relies on the beating of the first heart to keep it functioning, so if a Izuna’s heart was to stop beating for too long, even the CRUX would give in to the inevitability.

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Good luck, @Scout. Hope everything goes well.

Rectifier

In a similar vain to everyone else, I just finished reading and love the concept. Anything cyberpunk is always my style. I'm thinking up a character concept that revolves around a fairly heavily augmented girl that was once a scientist who now acts as a vigilante against corruption wherever she can manage to survive doing it. She'll be an infiltrator type, acting as something of a terrorist that is for hire if the price and the job are right.

I'll have some sheet stuff up in the near future.

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@Lovejoy
I was going to have Tatiana respond to Galahad's consolation. Shall we do that in PMs as well?

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@OppositionJ

There's actually going to be something Tatiana-specific in the next reply, concerning her dad. So, you can reply after that. :)

@Lovejoy

Oh boy. Hooray.

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@Lovejoy
I was going to post Tatiana's perspective of the last bit before we went to the Glacier, but I figured it might be easier if you moved us there first as I don't have much to write about at the moment. Is that a possibility?

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Grand Ridge Academy - Callie's Dorm --> Mount Ever Reaching - Fence Line

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An average day... Tossing and turning in bed with little motive for however long it took for Callie to find a shred of motivation to rise. She spent her minutes thinking back on Britney's mission. In fact, it had eaten up quite a bit of her sleep before she had awoken as well. It was all just strange. She could put it in a more extreme matter, but housed within the eldritch oddities of little Farmer Hill was a strange simplicity. It really collapsed away any urgency that any normal person might have felt in the scenario. As much as Callie wanted things to be normal, there was too much left unanswered for her to just get up and go home. Hell, perhaps the the pseudonatural nature of Farmer Hill was the only thing that kept her present. It wasn't like there was much for her here aside from that strange allure. Callie would never be able to put such a drive into words, though. She would try, however.

Hiking... That, Callie had done. Camping? Backpacking? Mountain climbing? Those were a different story. Luckily enough, she really didn't overthink the scenario. In fact, she vaguely thought of it at all. So when it came to packing for such a venture, Callie didn't appear as ready as some of her colleagues might later reveal to be. A jacket covered her frame donned in jeans and a plain shirt. Her true preparations lied in the bag swiftly strewn over her shoulder after an array of notepads and pens were shoved into it. Was she ready to travel? At least by her terms, at least. Callie didn't ever foresee herself having to cut through shrubbery with a machete or gut a fish with a pocket knife. Even if she did come to those scenarios fully equipped to deal with them she was unsure whether she would actually even try to accomplish such feats. She wasn't a survivalist. She was a writer. In her mind, she had every tool she needed for the job. Well... Either that or she simply didn't think to bring anything useful...

Even as she packed— even as she walked down the road accompanied only by the whispers of the wind, Callie had meditated on her reason for agreeing to joining a search party. Ordinarily, she would know she was never cut out for a job like this, doubly so with a massive monster guy running around, but it was that damned allure that kept her compliant. It was as if she was caught in the flow and had no choice but to follow the lead of the rest of the sudden superheroes. It was likely that she was in her own unique situation as well, considering half of these kids she was meant to travel with probably already knew each other. Callie was the odd one out— the new kid in Farmer Hill. All the questions and thoughts swarmed her head. For a good portion of the walk, she didn't even realize she was walking, too lost in her own thoughts. It wasn't until Callie came within sight of the fence line that she found herself snapping back into her head.

Not many folks were gathered when Callie had arrived, but considering she only really recognized Britney, it was going to be an odd scenario. She approached as quietly as she had strolled all the way there. Momentarily, her eyes flicked in between the present company. It was quite the sight between a Britney's survivalist look and another girl toting around a rifle. Perhaps this was a bad idea. There was a stutter in Callie's step as she took the sight in. She was never one to turn away from fear easily, though. She soon stepped to the group. While Callie spoke no words, she offered a plain wave towards Britney before taking up a position pacing along the fence line where her pondering continued. Perhaps she could try observing some of them... Perhaps she could try to see what was ahead.