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===Summary=== | ===Summary=== | ||
A leftover cyborg adopted by the Hong Kong triads, fled to pursue a free life, doing what she was literally made to do: operate drones to cover all sorts of operational parameters | |||
===Goals=== | ===Goals=== | ||
*Build herself a perfect body, one piece at a time | |||
*Learn how to live as a person and not a glorified drone assistant | |||
*Make the triads hunting her down disappear, somehow | |||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
Hong Kong is where things that ought not to mix are mashed togheter. Britain and China, Wuxing and Triads, Man and Machine, and, in the case of Ho Sin, his fatherly tendencies and his work. | |||
A brilliant cybertechnologist at Wuxing, Ho Sin had the honor to be one of the minds behind the Hong Kong's archology cyborg program. It was the infancy of the process, and as such, the process was wasteful and the results often not stable. It took a few years, but the intuition of using cloned brains instead of ones harvested by orphans or kids put up for adoption was a good one. At the price of higher cost, the speciments had flawless genetics, well documented patterns and could even be selected for traits such as neuroplasticity and low immunal response. | |||
However, even this line had its black sheeps, brains that showed promise but not the consistency the execs demanded. But alas, Wuxing is not a company that likes waste, and in the city, their darling triad of the Ten Thousand Lions was surviving but not thriving. So, instead of tossing the imperfect speciments away, they were graciously gifted to the triad, alongside with Ho Sin, a man with the capabilities necessary for maintaining them. | |||
Amongst the brains he took with him, he developed a certain affection with the fourth of the combat line. It was discarded for what he evaluated as a minor issue: allergy to some of the components of the nutrient fluid used in the CCU, easily fixable by "homebrewing" the fluid, it was largely water and sugar anyways. | |||
As any cyborg made from a fresh brain, 4C was put in intensive VR training, partly to emulate decades of training in a few years, and partly to properly remold the otherwise normal metahuman psyche in a way that maximized loyalty and minimized hesitation and mercy. In simulations, 4C proved...peculiar. Not a pacifist by any means, but with a distinct penchant for selecting paths of least resistance. A thinker, more then a fighter. The kind of mind that would be much more fit as a man of science than a mere hitman. | |||
In his transition from Wuxing to the street life, Ho Sin gained a lot of respect and leverage. The only person with the knowledge and the means to mantain the cyborgs, which where the secret weapon that the Lions so desperately needed, and besides that, he was a damn good medic, and had the skills and connections to outfit the Fu Shan Chus with the shiniest chrome. Sure, taking one of the promised cyborgs and keeping it for himself was an insult, plain and simple, but he was simply too valuable to lose, and he knew that. | |||
So, 4C was removed from the project, and became the only person really in the doctor's life. At first, it was treated as an higher capacity agent, the young mind tasked with handling the automated systems in the clinic, passing him tools during operations, cleaning and other such menial tasks. But as superhumanly neuroplatic brains are destined to do, 4C learned and absorbed from all the people it met, and most of all, it slowly mimicked the doctor himself, reaching an intelligence comparable to a 12 year old human after the first year. Ho Sin was arrogant, brash and a mysanthrope, with an undying love for tobacco and women (especially prostitues), and so, 4C gained vestiges of those aspects. | |||
The doctor took this as a wakeup call: the brain was developing like a son would, and the pretense of being an "owner" training a "property" became hard to mantain when that property developed not only a personality, but one that was so close to his. So, he accepted the role, and started acting as a father. In reality, very little changed, being the very same annoying and gross man as always, but also training the cyborg properly became a priority. He knew that he had to make 4C capable of standing on its own two legs and have a valuable skillset, or as soon as his favor within the triad wavered, it would be gang pressed to join the assassin cyborg squad. | |||
The alpha line of clones were technically male, sporting an heavily tailored XXY chromosome set to allow easy genemodding, but when 4C started describing herself in female terms, he had no qualms about it, after all, can this be considered transition when she never had a body to begin with? | |||
4C got trained in rigger skills, as she had already the hardware for the job, and the streetdoc trade, being a blend of medicine, first aid and cybertechnology. To his distaste, the kid developed a liking for traditional Chinese medicine, which was and still is hugely popular in the Sixth World Hong Kong. He categorically refused to teach her that "insane anti scientific bullshit" personally, but never stopped her visits to Wuya, a Heung Chu well versed in the traditions, | |||
In a couple of years, they were close to equal, the old man being by far the most experienced, but with 4C's fierce intelligence and capacity of literally picking the right body for the job making her valued by civilians and triad clients alike. These were the best years of her life, enjoying unbridled freedom, being able to roam the streets of her city in the form of a flying drone, being immersed in the smells and colors, forging connections with customers, secretly doing acupuncture behind her father's back. | |||
But all good things are destined to end, and the end became in the form of the death of the Shan Chu, or supreme leader, of the Ten Thousand Lions. The triad reigned supreme in Hong Kong, holding monopoly in many criminal markets, but if the old leadership was one of compromises, the new one wanted to rule with an iron fist, and not lose the position so hardly gained. Many of those at the fringes, that were graciously ignored, were punished. Old crimes, thought forgotten, were to be avanged in sweeping shows of force. And Ho Sin was on the chopping block. | |||
The man was hardly a saint, of course. The stealing of one of the brains was the biggest transgression, of course, but he also had the triad muscle bail him out of a few bar brawls, accrued gambling debt, and even dared to pursue the services of joytoys favored by high ranking triad members. The only thing that kept him safe was the fact he was irreplaceable, but the facts changed. It seemed like that missing borg grew to become a more then acceptable substitute, one without his addiction and abrasive personality. | |||
So, they took him in the dead of the night, and performed their version of justice, delivering the remains to 4C in the morning, alongside a letter of congratulations, for she was now the sole owner of the clinic, and the woman in charge of the cyborg program. | |||
For a few years, she just...went through the motions, as if nothing happened. Install chrome, do acupuncture for back pains, find ways to fix "damaged" brains from Wuxing and turn them into loyal triad soldiers. There were some good cases, busted CCU ports or light amnesias, but also catastrophic personality disorders, body-wide phantom pains and a whole slew of mental ailments she was simply unequipped to treat. Still, she took those very expensive goods, and whipped them into a serviceable shape, sending them to a life of indentured servitude and violence, after all, the same life she was living. | |||
The absurdity of working for scraps under the people that killed her father hit her almost out of the blue one day. Why? Why did she even agree to all of this? She had to get away, and do it fast. She had the rights to the clinic, those could be sold to a corp for some good money. That money could buy her new papers, drones and vehicles to work abroad and even a nice apartment. Then, he had some favors to pull to manage safe transport away from the continent. Lastly, she had a new shell on her table. It was heavily damaged in a firefight that killed the brain piloting it, but she knew how to fix it. It was meant to be recycled for the next CCU handed out by Wuxing, but a human looking body was the missing key to make her disappearance. | |||
One day, 4C just...stopped being. Nowhere to be found. No notes, no hearsay, a ghost vanished in the wind. Likewise, she knew nothing of what she left behind, except the fact an hit was put on her, most likely because it was highly unlikely that the Lions found a replacement, and jarheadsd without maintenance are very, very prone to breaking. | |||
But now, she is in Seattle, and for the first time in her life, free to make her own decisions. This is...terrifying, truth be told | |||
== Narrative Significant Qualities == | == Narrative Significant Qualities == | ||
===Positive=== | ===Positive=== | ||
* '''Streetdoc''' ''<small>(Analytical Mind, Skillwires)</small>'' - Neijing was born an molded by cybertechnology, and she is more then willing to practice again on fellow runners | |||
* '''Post Metahuman''' ''<small>(Cyborg, Cyber-Singularity Seeker, Subtle Pilot)</small>'' - 4C never had a metahuman body in the first place, and thus her perception of the world has always been 100% digital, making her uncannily comfortable in switching bodies like most do with clothes. | |||
===Negative=== | ===Negative=== | ||
* '''Sins of a Past Life''' ''<small>(Wanted, Big Regret)</small>'' - The shame of helping brutal butchers use fellow cyborgs as cannon fodder, and the shame of having left without even attempting to fix her mistakes. | |||
==Run History== | ==Run History== | ||
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===Enemies=== | ===Enemies=== | ||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
|[[Ten Thousand Lions]] | |||
|A rogue jarhead made them lose millions and then disappeared in thin air. They are not fans of that | |||
|} | |||
=In Character Information= | =In Character Information= | ||
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==Matrix Search Table== | ==Matrix Search Table== | ||
{{SearchTable| | {{SearchTable| | ||
|LowResult= | |LowResult= Huangdi Neijing: An ancient Chinese medical text, fundamental doctrinal source for Chinese medicine | ||
|MidResult= | |MidResult= Not much really, she covers her tracks well | ||
|HighResult= | |HighResult= Someone that may or may not have purchased CCU fluid in the past month | ||
}} | }} | ||
==Shadow Community Table== | ==Shadow Community Table== | ||
{{SearchTable| | {{SearchTable| | ||
|LowThreshold=1 | |LowThreshold=1 | ||
|LowResult= | |LowResult= Greenhorn, bit of a nerd | ||
|MidThreshold=3 | |MidThreshold=3 | ||
|MidResult= | |MidResult= Native Cantonese speaker, some sort of weird rigger | ||
|HighThreshold=5 | |HighThreshold=5 | ||
|HighResult= | |HighResult= Seems to have ties with the Hong Kong shadows | ||
}} | }} | ||
==Assensing Table== | ==Assensing Table== | ||
{{AssensingTable| | {{AssensingTable| | ||
|Result1= | |Result1= Entirely absent from the astral | ||
|Result2= | |Result2= Entirely absent from the astral | ||
|Result3= | |Result3= Entirely absent from the astral | ||
|Result4= | |Result4= Entirely absent from the astral | ||
|Result5= | |Result5= Entirely absent from the astral | ||
}} | }} | ||
==SINs== | ==SINs== | ||
R4 Weiheng Hu, UCAS born and raised, degree in Biomechanical Engineering, PhD in Neural-Matrix Interfacing | |||
==Appearance== | ==Appearance== | ||
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== | ==Gallery== | ||
<gallery> | |||
File:NeijingCat.jpg| Domesticity with QiQi | |||
File:NeijingCasual.jpg| Casual fit | |||
File:NeijingJuan.jpg| Surgeon droid | |||
</gallery> | |||
[[Category:Player Characters]] | [[Category:Player Characters]] | ||
Latest revision as of 09:56, 14 June 2024
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| Discord | @shitpostbot3000 |
|---|---|
| ScrantonAnchor | |
| Metatype | Cybernetic Post Metahuman |
| Street Cred | 0 |
| Notoriety | 0 |
| Public Awareness | 0 |
| CDP | 0 |
| D.O.B. | 13th of August, 2057 |
| Age | 27 |
| Folder | [1] |
| Priority | Metatype - C Attributes - A Magic/Resonance - E Skills - E Resources - A |
| #Max IGs/Ascension | 0 |
Character Information
Summary
A leftover cyborg adopted by the Hong Kong triads, fled to pursue a free life, doing what she was literally made to do: operate drones to cover all sorts of operational parameters
Goals
- Build herself a perfect body, one piece at a time
- Learn how to live as a person and not a glorified drone assistant
- Make the triads hunting her down disappear, somehow
Background
Hong Kong is where things that ought not to mix are mashed togheter. Britain and China, Wuxing and Triads, Man and Machine, and, in the case of Ho Sin, his fatherly tendencies and his work.
A brilliant cybertechnologist at Wuxing, Ho Sin had the honor to be one of the minds behind the Hong Kong's archology cyborg program. It was the infancy of the process, and as such, the process was wasteful and the results often not stable. It took a few years, but the intuition of using cloned brains instead of ones harvested by orphans or kids put up for adoption was a good one. At the price of higher cost, the speciments had flawless genetics, well documented patterns and could even be selected for traits such as neuroplasticity and low immunal response.
However, even this line had its black sheeps, brains that showed promise but not the consistency the execs demanded. But alas, Wuxing is not a company that likes waste, and in the city, their darling triad of the Ten Thousand Lions was surviving but not thriving. So, instead of tossing the imperfect speciments away, they were graciously gifted to the triad, alongside with Ho Sin, a man with the capabilities necessary for maintaining them.
Amongst the brains he took with him, he developed a certain affection with the fourth of the combat line. It was discarded for what he evaluated as a minor issue: allergy to some of the components of the nutrient fluid used in the CCU, easily fixable by "homebrewing" the fluid, it was largely water and sugar anyways.
As any cyborg made from a fresh brain, 4C was put in intensive VR training, partly to emulate decades of training in a few years, and partly to properly remold the otherwise normal metahuman psyche in a way that maximized loyalty and minimized hesitation and mercy. In simulations, 4C proved...peculiar. Not a pacifist by any means, but with a distinct penchant for selecting paths of least resistance. A thinker, more then a fighter. The kind of mind that would be much more fit as a man of science than a mere hitman.
In his transition from Wuxing to the street life, Ho Sin gained a lot of respect and leverage. The only person with the knowledge and the means to mantain the cyborgs, which where the secret weapon that the Lions so desperately needed, and besides that, he was a damn good medic, and had the skills and connections to outfit the Fu Shan Chus with the shiniest chrome. Sure, taking one of the promised cyborgs and keeping it for himself was an insult, plain and simple, but he was simply too valuable to lose, and he knew that.
So, 4C was removed from the project, and became the only person really in the doctor's life. At first, it was treated as an higher capacity agent, the young mind tasked with handling the automated systems in the clinic, passing him tools during operations, cleaning and other such menial tasks. But as superhumanly neuroplatic brains are destined to do, 4C learned and absorbed from all the people it met, and most of all, it slowly mimicked the doctor himself, reaching an intelligence comparable to a 12 year old human after the first year. Ho Sin was arrogant, brash and a mysanthrope, with an undying love for tobacco and women (especially prostitues), and so, 4C gained vestiges of those aspects.
The doctor took this as a wakeup call: the brain was developing like a son would, and the pretense of being an "owner" training a "property" became hard to mantain when that property developed not only a personality, but one that was so close to his. So, he accepted the role, and started acting as a father. In reality, very little changed, being the very same annoying and gross man as always, but also training the cyborg properly became a priority. He knew that he had to make 4C capable of standing on its own two legs and have a valuable skillset, or as soon as his favor within the triad wavered, it would be gang pressed to join the assassin cyborg squad.
The alpha line of clones were technically male, sporting an heavily tailored XXY chromosome set to allow easy genemodding, but when 4C started describing herself in female terms, he had no qualms about it, after all, can this be considered transition when she never had a body to begin with?
4C got trained in rigger skills, as she had already the hardware for the job, and the streetdoc trade, being a blend of medicine, first aid and cybertechnology. To his distaste, the kid developed a liking for traditional Chinese medicine, which was and still is hugely popular in the Sixth World Hong Kong. He categorically refused to teach her that "insane anti scientific bullshit" personally, but never stopped her visits to Wuya, a Heung Chu well versed in the traditions,
In a couple of years, they were close to equal, the old man being by far the most experienced, but with 4C's fierce intelligence and capacity of literally picking the right body for the job making her valued by civilians and triad clients alike. These were the best years of her life, enjoying unbridled freedom, being able to roam the streets of her city in the form of a flying drone, being immersed in the smells and colors, forging connections with customers, secretly doing acupuncture behind her father's back.
But all good things are destined to end, and the end became in the form of the death of the Shan Chu, or supreme leader, of the Ten Thousand Lions. The triad reigned supreme in Hong Kong, holding monopoly in many criminal markets, but if the old leadership was one of compromises, the new one wanted to rule with an iron fist, and not lose the position so hardly gained. Many of those at the fringes, that were graciously ignored, were punished. Old crimes, thought forgotten, were to be avanged in sweeping shows of force. And Ho Sin was on the chopping block.
The man was hardly a saint, of course. The stealing of one of the brains was the biggest transgression, of course, but he also had the triad muscle bail him out of a few bar brawls, accrued gambling debt, and even dared to pursue the services of joytoys favored by high ranking triad members. The only thing that kept him safe was the fact he was irreplaceable, but the facts changed. It seemed like that missing borg grew to become a more then acceptable substitute, one without his addiction and abrasive personality.
So, they took him in the dead of the night, and performed their version of justice, delivering the remains to 4C in the morning, alongside a letter of congratulations, for she was now the sole owner of the clinic, and the woman in charge of the cyborg program.
For a few years, she just...went through the motions, as if nothing happened. Install chrome, do acupuncture for back pains, find ways to fix "damaged" brains from Wuxing and turn them into loyal triad soldiers. There were some good cases, busted CCU ports or light amnesias, but also catastrophic personality disorders, body-wide phantom pains and a whole slew of mental ailments she was simply unequipped to treat. Still, she took those very expensive goods, and whipped them into a serviceable shape, sending them to a life of indentured servitude and violence, after all, the same life she was living.
The absurdity of working for scraps under the people that killed her father hit her almost out of the blue one day. Why? Why did she even agree to all of this? She had to get away, and do it fast. She had the rights to the clinic, those could be sold to a corp for some good money. That money could buy her new papers, drones and vehicles to work abroad and even a nice apartment. Then, he had some favors to pull to manage safe transport away from the continent. Lastly, she had a new shell on her table. It was heavily damaged in a firefight that killed the brain piloting it, but she knew how to fix it. It was meant to be recycled for the next CCU handed out by Wuxing, but a human looking body was the missing key to make her disappearance.
One day, 4C just...stopped being. Nowhere to be found. No notes, no hearsay, a ghost vanished in the wind. Likewise, she knew nothing of what she left behind, except the fact an hit was put on her, most likely because it was highly unlikely that the Lions found a replacement, and jarheadsd without maintenance are very, very prone to breaking.
But now, she is in Seattle, and for the first time in her life, free to make her own decisions. This is...terrifying, truth be told
Narrative Significant Qualities
Positive
- Streetdoc (Analytical Mind, Skillwires) - Neijing was born an molded by cybertechnology, and she is more then willing to practice again on fellow runners
- Post Metahuman (Cyborg, Cyber-Singularity Seeker, Subtle Pilot) - 4C never had a metahuman body in the first place, and thus her perception of the world has always been 100% digital, making her uncannily comfortable in switching bodies like most do with clothes.
Negative
- Sins of a Past Life (Wanted, Big Regret) - The shame of helping brutal butchers use fellow cyborgs as cannon fodder, and the shame of having left without even attempting to fix her mistakes.
Run History
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Affiliations
Contacts
| Contact | Connection | Loyalty | Archetype | Profession | Aspects | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Fix-It | 5 | 1 | Fixer | Fixer | Information Broker, A Star in the Shadows, The San Francisco Treat, Pressing Concerns, Anarchist's Blackbook, Corporation Connector | Even |
Organizations
Allies
Enemies
| Ten Thousand Lions | A rogue jarhead made them lose millions and then disappeared in thin air. They are not fans of that |
In Character Information
Symbols and Signatures
Matrix Search Table
| Threshold | Result |
|---|---|
| 1 | Huangdi Neijing: An ancient Chinese medical text, fundamental doctrinal source for Chinese medicine |
| 3 | Not much really, she covers her tracks well |
| 6 | Someone that may or may not have purchased CCU fluid in the past month |
Shadow Community Table
| Threshold | Result |
|---|---|
| 1 | Greenhorn, bit of a nerd |
| 3 | Native Cantonese speaker, some sort of weird rigger |
| 5 | Seems to have ties with the Hong Kong shadows |
Assensing Table
| Threshold | Result |
|---|---|
| 1 | Entirely absent from the astral |
| 2 | Entirely absent from the astral |
| 3 | Entirely absent from the astral |
| 4 | Entirely absent from the astral |
| 5 | Entirely absent from the astral |
SINs
R4 Weiheng Hu, UCAS born and raised, degree in Biomechanical Engineering, PhD in Neural-Matrix Interfacing
Appearance
Clothing
Matrix Persona
Character Plot Hooks
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Gallery
Domesticity with QiQi
Casual fit
Surgeon droid
