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=Character Information=
=Character Information=
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==Summary==
 
Sad brat of a technomancer with a chip on her shoulder and a grudge against her dad and the Kanaga-gumi. Currently working her way toward freedom from the Yakuza.
BHop, bhop, and other variations
 
bun
 
૮꒰ ˶• ༝ •˶꒱ა ₍ᐢ.  ̫.ᐢ₎ ₍⑅ᐢ..ᐢ₎ ૮₍ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ₎ა ૮₍ ´ ꒳ `₎ა and other variations
 
===Summary===


===Goals===
===Goals===
* A Secure Identity Unknown to and Unexploited by the Yakuza
* <s>A Secure Identity Unknown to and Unexploited by the Yakuza</s>
* The Professional Downfall and Death of Her Father, Takashi Kurosawa
** As of [[Graduation Day]], she has her R6 SIN, one that she hopes to keep squeaky clean.
* Transition
* The Professional Downfall and (Probably) Death of Her Father, [[Takashi Kurosawa]]
* Explore the Resonance Realms, and Become Attuned with Other Technomancers and the Deep Resonance
* Continue to Hone Her Hacking Skills


==Background==
==Background==
TLDR: BHop, born and raised in the Seattle area, is the first child of Takashi Kurosawa, a rising star and Shategashira of the Kanaga-gumi. Though groomed from childhood to follow in her father's footsteps as part of the gumi's Kumi-in, her poor aptitude for such things and her apparent dissociative PTSD from the death of her mother at age nine led to her being passed over as her father's favored heir. Her awakening as a Technomancer around the same point in time gave her the independence and rebellion she craved as she discovered herself along the fiber optic roads of the Matrix.


On her twentieth birthday, during her own Seijin no Hi celebration, she thwarted an attempted hit on her father from those dissatisfied with his policies and unwilling to see his aspirations of leadership go any further, disabling their SmartLinked guns. Rather than praise, she was beaten and berated by her father for both being a Technomancer and for concealing her power from him. In a fit of reckless rage he told her that he should have had her killed as well, alongside her mother - in order to better reflect the Yakuza's traditional values, his American wife needed to be out of the picture so that he could remarry a properly Japanese woman. Divorce wouldn't look good either, and so the most honorable path was a violent death defending their child from gangers, or so his logic deemed.
'''WIP'''


She snapped. With impotent balled-up fists, she spat that not only was she a Technomancer, but that she, his first son, was a woman as well. She was instantly disowned and given two options - with a blade at her neck, she could die, or she could become his tool, another pawn in a game of power. With gritted teeth and salted tears, she accepted. Even as she said it, however, gears of furious rebellion turned in her head. She knew people - years of living on the Matrix can give a girl access to all sorts of people and places, and not all of them are well within the watchful eye of the Yakuza.  
Though she is not dead, Akiha Kurosawa's life ended when she was seven years old. Though she is not alive, her mother yet lives in every moment, each time she is recorded, rewound, and replayed while burning to death. The phrase "Better Than Life" seems to her in every replay a cruel joke.
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Unabridged
During an apparently innocuous trip to downtown Seattle, suspiciously scrupulous Halloweeners run a bit of cord along a narrow road and pull it tight to bring a young mother and her oldest child skidding to the ground. She screams and reaches for a side-arm she didn't dare try to sneak through the SIN scanners, and she is beaten bloody for her effort. With a ragged voice, she only begs that they not take her child, and for a mercy uncommon among their brutal ranks, they do not.


Where does the story of someone's life begin? Not with an introduction, but with a thousand little tragedies, all disconnected in time and space until the red thread of fate woven between them pulls them taut and stitches them close.
Akiha, already half-emerged, cries as her mother is dragged into the murky underground of a gutter, and when she is dry of tears and flat in a hospital bed, she dissociates, falls out of her body, and never quite returns. The sprites of the Matrix chirp as her young persona is born.  


As a young child, Akiha fights with pangs of jealous hurt seeing other girls his age, and he does not yet know why. He is struck when he expresses that hurt to those around her. When she looks back as an adult, as she often does, she will try desperately to reach across time to comfort that child, and always finds she cannot.
[[Takashi Kurosawa|Her father]] is little comfort, a rising star of the grievously Old School [[Kanaga-gumi]] and more preoccupied with his work than his children, no matter his lip service. He tells her, his oldest son, that Koichi Kurosawa is his first-born and his lineage, and that one-day his lineage will follow his footsteps into the Yakuza as his pride. She is eight-years old, and has no strength to deny the only love she might have left. She abandons even the thought of telling him she is his daughter, and will painfully choose to deny she'd ever thought so for several more years to come.  


Some time before her birth, the man who will be her father, Takashi Kurosawa, loses his job, and another, and again, always to bar fights and drunkenness, until a chance encounter with a Yakuza Kaikei in the drunk tank connects him with the Kanaga-gumi, and he begins a shadowy life as a Kumi-in. His pregnant wife, an American woman he insists doesn't know the prestige of the Yakuza, spars against him with whispered screams behind closed doors in protest.  
Well into a pubescence that is to her horrific, he grooms her to fight and withstand pain, when he can manage to find her awake. She is made to hold blades and fire weapons and be burned with cigarettes and hot shells that leave her skin pink over a decade later. She is made to fist-fight her brother, and where he revels in violence and the call of duty, she crumbles. She is made to bleed, and though she is told this makes her strong, she can only remember the hurt.


As a nine year old, Akiha begs through bloody tears for her mother to cling to life. Halloweeners flee from the shattered glass and shell casings littering the street beside their overturned scooter with a scant few hundred nuyen as a reward. Though it was supposed to be a safe part of the city, the nearby screech of Knight Errant is small comfort as her mother says her goodbyes to her oldest child and the light leaves her, taking Akiha's along with it, who even years later will still dream of this night. Her father, the bright, powerful, and ruthless presence that he is while sober, counts his blessings - he is looked on favorably as a long term candidate for a role in the gumi leadership, and though a haafu child will be tolerated if abnormally scrutinized, a non-Japanese wife would be unacceptably gauche.  
But more often, she is asleep, or staring blankly at walls. Sometimes she leaves her body and lets it crumble like warm laundry onto the ground, and days later awakens dehydrated and starving and alive and wishing she were not. She wears no trodes, no patch, and doctors can find nothing wrong to explain her fainting spells. They shrug their shoulders and call it PTSD.


As a ten-year-old, Akiha awakens to the Resonant, though knows enough to keep her secrets just as she has with all the other things her heart desperately wants and can't have. She flies the skies of the Matrix in ways she has never known before, and finds that here, her body does not chafe against her as it does when made of meat. Doctors struggle to find a medical cause for her apparent dissociation, and can only attribute it to PTSD. She is beaten for it behind closed doors in desperate bids to fix her in the only ways her father knows how. She does not feel it with hotsim as her shield.
Her father remarries a properly Japanese woman, and his ''oyabun'' is pleased. Eventually, he abandons her training, and leaves her, as a stick-like corpse in its gentle repose, to slowly rot.  


As a tween, she is forced to fist fight her brother to learn a killer instinct, and then her father himself to learn pain. She is taught to shoot guns, and to hold swords, and to withstand burns and wounds though as years pass she will forget most of it, except for the latter. She is told that this makes her strong, and that when the time comes that she might become useful to the Kanaga-gumi, she will be ready for it. Her father is made Shategashira, and their family, along with her father's new wife, made wealthy.  
But every moment asleep is a moment alive in another world. Her childish persona emerges and teases at threads and strings tying hosts to level Earth. She befriends the little creatures that find her, and finds that they are unspeakable to many of those around her. She is mocked for insisting she sees ''kami'' in the newly formed Matrix, and called a liar at best. She gradually realizes that she is a child alone with the world. The rabbit-like sprites she has found as friends and family comfort her.  


As a teenager, Akiha struggles for purpose of her own. She begins vandalizing smalltime hosts and setting data free, some with righteous purpose and some only for the fun of setting fires, and finds some power in escaping the grasp of GOD. She finds comfort in competition, and throws her soul into fighting games, team-based shooters, MMORPGs. For the first time in her life, she makes friends, and chases dreams of her own, she likes to think. Her father outside the Matrix, who finds her more often than not staring silent holes into walls, abandons his first son as his preferred successor in the organization, and gives up on grooming his closeted child for a position in the "family business" in favor of Akiha's younger brother by only a year, Jiro.  
By the time she eventually falls in with other 'trode children, she has been long since taught to speak nothing of the blood and beating heart of the Matrix thumping alongside her own. She imagines herself as a shrine maiden, she imagines herself with family, and she imagines her true self special and loved and chosen - and falls numb to keep from crying whenever she awakens to the meat.  


She is twenty now. Though she is abandoned as his heir, she is still Takashi Kurosawa's oldest son, and so their family celebrates a less-than-authentic Seijin no Hi with kimono and fried food in Seattle's downtown. Her father promises a flight to Tokyo to properly celebrate her brother's ceremony next year, and though she knows he speaks not to her but to the oyabun and the wakagashira and his underlings and whoever else might catch wind and think highly of his traditional values, she smiles politely so as to avoid seeming ungrateful. She has learned by now that things are easier here when she is silent, even when she resents this man who should have stayed in Japan if he liked it that much.  
Her teens are spent online. Her body atrophies from disuse, save for those few moments she blankly plays gopher to the [[Kanaga-gumi]], or performs even worse crimes for their sake, or rides her mother's Scoot to try and anchor her fleeting memory in something real. Takashi Kurosawa climbs to the rank of ''shategashira,'' and they move into nicer, more traditional Japanese homes, and indulge in ever-nicer Japanese dinners, and she experiences all of it only as a bad dream.


They walk, all five, through the streets, stalls, back alleys. Some of the Kumi-in he has stationed slip away surreptitiously, and Akiha only notices by the conspicuously SmartLinked guns they carry in AR. Odd - they'd been there to keep watch, and to leave their post is unusual. As more guns gather, their icons swarming like flies in back alleys and around corners, she pieces together a conspiracy, and as they're followed through crowded city streets, she's gripped by a tense fear, and a horrific sense of deja vu. She smiles and, turning into an alleyway, lies that she'd like her picture taken against a mural. She tells the others to go on without her, and asks only her father to stay, to take her picture.
She hacks because she loves to craft the forms that change the forms around her, and because to forge a shim of just the right shape to slip between the seams of otherwise flawless code brings her joy, and because it is a sign of love for the only things that have loved her in return. She learns more complex forms of hacking, and feels that this brings her closer to the soul of the world, though she also learns the word "technomancer" and all the stigma it brings. She's relieved, nonetheless, to know that she is not uniquely absurd.


She gestures subtly to call forth her sprite, and pleads for its help under her breath. To her father, as they walk together into the dimly lit space, she announces softly that guns are coming, only a few for a hit this out in the open - she tells her father with a presence he hasn't seen from her before that most of his men here aren't present where they should be, and that he should be armed and prepared to shoot. For all his evil, she still does not yet want him dead.  
She sleazes slushies off of Stuffer Shacks and trids off of Horizon hosts. She changes her icon to catfish boys out of passwords and in-game gold, and embarrassedly finds she does not want to change herself back. She dives into foundations, ill-advised, and though there are hiccups and horrors and might-have-been-friends who never log in again, crises of conscience and trying on white hats that never quite fit, she always returns to her love.


She disables one gun with little trouble as it rounds the corner - they didn't bring a Matrix presence to cover their asses, and she is endlessly grateful for their oversight. Her sprite gladly takes another, and they act in sequence, one after another. To those in the meat, she is possessed, rambling with knowledge she shouldn't have, gesturing out of habit in ways that do nothing - her father, nonetheless, recognizes with furious shock what she must be. When those impotent guns fully stroll round the corner in front and behind (Yakuza themselves, the analytical part of her makes a mental note to remember), they find their triggers jammed, their smart weapons made dumb, and their smug confidence immediately gone. Her father, a concealed blade at the ready, swings without mercy until their intruders lie dead or fleeing. Any screams are made mute by the roar of the downtown crowd in the surrounding streets - and the sound of steel through flesh is itself only silent.
Throughout it all, Akiha is, at her core, alone but for the sprites at her side. She childishly wonders for far longer than she should when others like her might come to bring her to her real life.


She pants, adrenaline waning. Her father turns to her, and she half-anticipates praise before he slaps her across the cheek. He berates her. For being aberrant and ugly, and most of all for concealing it from him, because even that ugliness could become strength, for the family, for him. He shouts with careless rage that he should have arranged to have her killed too, all those years ago.  
On the second Monday of January 2084, Akiha, her siblings, her step-mother, and her father wander Downtown Seattle's annual ''seijin no hi'' festivities to celebrate her upcoming twentieth birthday.


Something in her snaps. Like kindling, years of dry rage ignite all at once. She tells him, recklessly, that not only is she a technomancer, but that she is a woman, and his child, and that if anyone should have died it should have been him just a moment ago, and instead of hitting her now, apoplectically red, he seethes and raises his blade, point first, toward her chest. Cold, traditional steel without a thought or care for the Matrix. He hesitates - as if he were hoping combat lessons from a decade ago might suddenly leap back into her mind. "Choose," he says, "since you choose not to be my son. Be my tool instead. Or else, die."
((((BHop, born and raised in the Seattle area, is the first child of [[Takashi Kurosawa]], then a rising star of the [[Kanaga-gumi]]. Though groomed from childhood to follow in her father's footsteps as part of the gumi's Kumi-in, her poor aptitude for such things and her apparent dissociative PTSD from the death of her mother at a young age led to her being passed over as her father's favored heir. Her awakening as a Technomancer around the same point in time gave her the independence and rebellion she craved to discover herself along the fiber optic roads of the Matrix.  


She wants to see him dead, for herself, for her mother who she barely knew - but with red hot cheeks and clenched fists, with salty tears that dribble down her nose, fear wins her over. Shivering, she accepts his ultimatum. There are enemies within his ranks - Kanaga-gumi or some other faction, she can't say. But if he has enemies, then in his mind he'll have use for her, more use than for a corpse, more use than she would be worth as a disgrace to his honor and a body in an MCT research laboratory, at least she hopes.
She made small waves, vandalized some hosts and competed in some duels and played at being an activist, though here too she quickly realized that she was in some way aberrant compared to those around her, just like she was in the meat. While proper deckers talked shop and hardware in precise and learned terms, Bun compiled sprites in code that she felt more than understood. Deckers talked marks on devices, and Bun instead simply reached in to feel the souls she swore were there. Small wonder, then, that she fell to obscurity, unwilling to out herself and unable to match more capable codeslingers in brute strength alone. Competitive games were her salvation instead - in the Matrix, a place that felt more real than her own meat, running and gunning and fighting in ways without blood or death, in ways where she could dream of going pro and being free, were her hope in the face of worlds that couldn't understand what she was and didn't want to try.  


He lowers his blade, twirls it, wipes it clean with a small kerchief he keeps in his pocket for just such an occasion, and sheathes it. He uses a comm to call his men back, the loyal ones who'd been told to go on break. He nods his head toward the wall, the enormous mural with shrines and yokai, and Akiha shakes her head in disbelief. He gruffly tells her to smile, and she does - just out of frame, a corpse bleeds out, and loyal hands drag it away.
The meat, however, was unfortunately an inescapable hole. When hotsim was not an option, she was made to fight, to bleed, to hurt, against her brother, her father, and other Yakuza. She was told that this made her strong, though she only remembers the hurt it brought. When she was given up on as a proper heir, she was still made to work for the gumi, delivering packages and messages on the meat, and occasionally spotting for the group while more illicit activities were performed. Even more occasionally, she would be made to perform more grisly tasks herself as a way of hardening her and making her complicit - especially to those around her age, who many even in the gumi couldn't stomach hurting themselves.


So she resolves to be Yakuza, to pretend, or to be a handy consult for them at least. While she's pretending, she buys a comm and pretends she's a decker too, and that's normal enough. She wears a suit and pretends she's a man, and this more than either of the other two kills her, though it protects her from Old School yaks more reliably than kevlar.  
On her twentieth birthday, during her own Seijin no Hi celebration, she thwarted an attempted hit on her father from as yet unknown operatives, disabling their weapons. Rather than praise, she was beaten and berated by her father for both being a Technomancer and for concealing her power from him. He told her, in a fit of reckless rage, that the hitmen should have killed her too, so that at least her death would have honor unlike her life.


She turns Matrix tricks on the side, research and oddjobs, but they're not enough to break her out, to buy her freedom, and certainly not enough to ruin the man or the organization who have ignited a vengeful flame inside her. If she's going to put Takashi Kurosawa into the ground, she will need a far bigger shovel.  
She snapped. With impotent balled-up fists, she spat that not only was she a Technomancer, but that she, his first son, was a woman as well, and was instantly disowned. She was given two options - with a blade at her neck, she could die, either here or as an MCT lab rat, or she could become his tool, another pawn in a game of power. He could use her - and more importantly, could not stand the familial shame were all her truths made light. She would be silently disposed of, or made into a tool more useful than the liability she brought. With gritted teeth and salted tears, she accepted. Even as she said it, however, gears of desperate rebellion turned in her head. She knew people - years of living on the Matrix can give a girl access to all sorts of people and places, even those outside the powerful grip of the Yakuza.)))))
 
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Luckily, her dear friend and Fixer, a ghost from her rebellious teenage past, has heard of a little runner's hub called ShadowHaven, provided BHop is willing to take the risks. She'll hook her up, point her toward the host - so long as she always comes back with another story to tell.


== Narrative Significant Qualities ==
== Narrative Significant Qualities ==


===Positive===
===Positive===
* Analytical Mind
* '''Bilingual''' - BHop is Japanese-American, and frequently plays up her Japanese fluency for its cute-factor.
* Bilingual
* '''Instinctive Hack / One With the Matrix / Hi-Rez / Etc.''' - As a Technomancer from a young age, and with a past of dissociation from meatspace, the Matrix is intimately entangled with BHop's brain structure and way of thought. Far from being a first resort, it is often the only one in her head.
* Instinctive Hack
* '''Spiritual (Technomancer)''' - The Deep Resonance is one of the great ''kami'', the broader spirit of the Matrix, its great ''tsukumogami''. Pay it reverence and it will provide for its adopted resonant children. So she thinks, anyway.
* Ninja Vanish
* '''Analytical Mind / Speed Reading / Brilliant Heuristics''' - She's had a lot of practice needing to read through files and metadata ''very'' quickly in order to safely do her job. She's picked up a knack for seeing patterns in these things by now.
* One With the Matrix II
* '''Unique Avatar''' - After an eye-opening experience with a physical mask spell of her persona([[Hot Potato (Chips)]]), she's managed to build an unbelievably realistic Version 2.0 of the Bunny Hop branded Matrix presence! After some frank discussions and solid performance on the job, she's started to garner a small reputation in the shadows.


===Negative===
===Negative===
* Basement Dweller
* '''Basement Dweller''' - See above; BHop has spent the majority of her life online, and does not feel comfortable in her skin on top of that. It's only by the miracle of needing to work that she can bring herself to speak with strangers in person at all.
* Driven (Revenge on Father)
* '''Driven (Downfall of Father)''' - See above; if Takashi Kurosawa loses his standing with the Kanaga-gumi and therefore his connections with MCT - better yet, if he loses his life, though this is a grisly detail she has not yet fully processed - then the only man who knows she is a technomancer is dead, and BHop starts on the path of freedom from the Kanaga-gumi.
* Emotional Attachment (Dodge Scoot [Haruko-chan])
* '''Emotional Attachment (Dodge Scoot [Haruko-chan])''' - It was her mom's. She's overhauled it with maintenance and customization since then, however.
* Phobia (Uncommon, Moderate) (Clowns [Halloweeners])
* '''Phobia (Uncommon, Moderate) (Clowns [Halloweeners])''' - Nightmares after the death of her mother left their scars, exacerbated by early experiences on the Matrix. The fear of Halloweeners as a child quickly morphed into a broader fear of these apparent harbingers of death. Halloweeners specifically do have a stronger impact narratively if not mechanically.
* Social Appearance Anxiety 1 (Gender Dysphoria)
* '''Social Appearance Anxiety 1 (Gender Dysphoria)''' - She girl. She doesn't look it, though. Androgynous at best. She's sensitive about that. If she's in a position where she has to dress or identify as male, this applies. Androgyny ''skirts'' by without penalty (as with dysphoria hoodies to disguise her silhouette, face-masks to cover up, etc).
* '''Wanted by Null Sect''' - After the events of [[Encroaching Viscosity]], the xenosapient AI hive known as Null Sect has her number. This quality manifests mechanically as the Data Hog quality from Kill Code page 99.


==Run History==
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===Organizations===
===Relationships with NPCs===
* [[Anhe]]: Met her as a teenager during her hiatus from hacking to pursue Matrix Games. Anhe sees her a bit like a little sister to be protected, though trusts her skill and likes to rib her even still. Their relationship is softly antagonistic in the way siblings frequently are.
* [[WRN3]]: Met during the events of [[As Goes Light]] and has had subsequent interactions through [[Fort Dumbass]] and [[Duvet]]. Again, a sibling energy exists between the two, thought his time BHop takes the smug, teasing older sister approach to WRN3's brattiness.
* [[Takashi Kurosawa]]: Antagonistic, bluntly speaking. Takashi Kurosawa is using Bunny Hop for his own means, and as a way to rise within the ranks of the gumi and sus out his supposed enemies. Kurosawa is at present unaware that Bunny Hop is shadowrunning on the side, but has his suspicions. If discovered, he would likely burn her, and sell her out to MCT while hiding that information from the [[Kanaga-gumi]], in order to avoid the familial shame.
 
===Organizations and Reputation===
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===Allies===
====Allies====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Faction
!Reputation
!Related Run(s)
|-
|[[AllWire, Inc.]]
|2
|[[Hot Potato (Chips)]]
|-
|[[Erika]]
|1
|[[Knock Knock]]
|-
|[[Farraday's Clinic]] (DEFUNCT)
|5
|[[As Goes Light]]
|-
|[[Finnigan Family]]
|10
|[[Building on Biometrics]], [[BANGYOURHEAD+55]]
|-
|[[L.R. Foundation]]
|5
|[[Third-Story Malpractice]]
|-
|[[People of the Orc Underground]]
|2
|[[Diggin']]
|-
|[[Skraacha]]
|5
|[[Diggin']]
|-
|[[West Coast Monolith]]
|1
|[[Guerilla Gangoons]]
|-
|[[All Yakuza Clans]]
|1
|[[Tying A Yoke to Yamada]]
|}
 
====Enemies====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Faction
!Reputation
!Related Run(s)
!Note
|-
|[[Compulsory Execution Unit]]
| -10
|[[As Goes Light]]
|-
|[[Cutters]]
| -5
|[[Go big, go loud, or go home!]]
|-
|[[Greater Medical Community]]
| -5
|[[Third-Story Malpractice]]
|-
|[[High Society]]
| -5
|[[Ash Replevin]]
|-
|[[NTerLOK Production]]
| -2
|[[Hot Potato (Chips)]]
|-
|[[Kenran-kai]]
| -4
|[[Building on Biometrics]], [[Tying A Yoke to Yamada]]
|BHop has a sort of split reputation with the Kenran-kai. Unless they make the connection between the two, the Bunny Hop that attacked the Kenran-kai during [[Building on Biometrics]] is a different, unrelated person to the Koichi Kurosawa who made a positive impression at the yakuza gathering in [[Tying a Yoke to Yamada]], even though both are her "true" identities.
|-
|[[Yellow Lotus Triad]]
| -7
|[[BANGYOURHEAD+55]]
|-
|}


===Enemies===
====Street Cred====
* [[Little Rat, Big Hole]]
 
====Notoriety====
* N/A


=In Character Information=
=In Character Information=
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==Matrix Search Table==
==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=
|LowResult=Junk: "Bunny hopping (bhopping) is an advanced movement technique used in some varieties of pre-Matrix first person shooters. To perform a bunny hop..."
|MidResult=
 
|HighResult=
Bunny Hop keeps a low profile online, for the most part. Some known aliases are BHop, Bun, and Hops. She's had some good results in amateur leagues for Shadowrun Online and Road Fighter as recently as three years ago, but seems to have dropped completely off from the competitive circuit since then. She has public accounts on anime and game discussion sites, as well as cooking forums, art discussion groups, and others, all with relatively sparse public post histories.
|MidResult=Some details begin to add up in seedier parts of the web - common elements from her more public and innocuous profiles can be pieced together, giving a probable link between them and some Matrix vandal going by a variety of ascii rabbit emojis. Examples include: ₍ᐢ. .ᐢ₎, ໒꒰ྀི´ ˘ ` ꒱ྀིა, ૮₍ ´• ˕ •` ₎ა, and others. The bunny face vandal has been inactive for several years, however, and has not made a marked impact on either commonly shared blacklists or in other decker circles. Descriptions matching Bunny Hop's red rabbit persona have been noted in a few places they probably shouldn't be.
|HighResult=A name appears, associated with the bunny face vandal: Akiha. Those few who are familiar with the bunny face vandal's techniques and MO remember her taking a peculiar approach to decking, one that was indirect and seemed to flow with the Matrix rather than imposing upon it, like a digital Aikido. She spoke briefly of spirits in the wire. Disturbingly, some unrelated deckers in unrelated incidents have reported similar techniques used by a Yakuza spider in recent months, a nameless and textureless silhouette of an oni, appearing as negative space, like a hole cut into the Matrix.
}}
}}
==Shadow Community Table==
==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult=
|LowResult="Bunny Hop? She's a decker, right?"
|MidThreshold=3
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult=
|MidResult="You know, come to think of it, there was that bunny face vandal a few years back too. Cheap way to pwn a smalltime host. Did decent work but the other deckers seemed to think her style was real weird. Seems to match up with her current work - think they might be the same person?"
 
Update: "If they are, she's really upped her game. She's got a solid track record over the last few months. I hear she even did an op with Wychking at some point."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult=
|HighResult="Actually, this just occurred to me - and this is ''strictly'' between you and me - some of the Yak hosts have been harder to hit on the Matrix lately. New spider or somethin'. Some of the cowboys seem to think they're not using your standard hardware or running some new IC or something weird like that - I wonder if she was closer to whatever that guy's doing now."
 
Update: "Some whispers crawling down the grapevine kinda suggest they might be the same after all. If they are, she's definitely double-crossing the yaks. The [[Kenran-kai]] especially are pissed. I'd be a lot more careful going forward if I were her."
}}
}}
==Assensing Table==
==Assensing Table==
Bunny Hop's aura peels away from her in wispy, vaporous strands, easily visible like steam on a cold day, though chilled as a shell of frigid, stagnant air. Close to her body, the shell suddenly breaks, and she radiates a sweet warmth, scented like Spring. The fuzzy, shadowed silhouette of two rabbit ears rest on top of her head. Gentle whispers surround her - on five hits, the assenser can just make out that the whispers seem to be reciting blocks of raw assembly code.
{{AssensingTable|
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=
|Result1=Bun is generally healthy - not a specimen of particular physical value, but someone who is reasonably fit despite appearances. No matter what her outward expression and mood, an undercurrent of hurt and longing bleeds through, beneath her other emotions. She does not appear to be awakened.
|Result2=
|Result2=Bun appears to have no cyberware.
|Result3=
|Result3=Bun appears to have no alphaware, and an untouched Essence.
|Result4=
|Result4=Bun appears to have no bioware or betaware. Essence 6, Magic N/A, Force N/A
|Result5=
|Result5=Bun appears to have no deltaware, gene treatments, or nanotech. No chronic illness seems to afflict her physically. She is a technomancer.
}}
}}


==SINs==
'''Yuuki Love (Fake Rating 4, UCAS)'''
*Private Investigator
** Fake Firearms License (Rating 4)
** Fake Cyberdeck License (Rating 4)
** Fake Private Investigator's License (Rating 4)
'''Yuuji Akasaka (Fake Rating 4, UCAS)'''
*Security Professional
** Fake Firearms License (Rating 4)
** Fake Cyberdeck License (Rating 4)
** Fake Bodyguard License (Rating 4)
* ''Note: This SIN is used exclusively for when BHop is doing work for the Yakuza.''
'''Kei Kisuke (Fake Rating 4, UCAS)'''
*College Student
** Fake Student ID for Seattle Central College (Rating 4)


==SINs==
'''Akiha Robins (Fake Rating 6, UCAS)'''
Yuuki Love (Fake Rating 4, UCAS)
*Cybersecurity Consultant
* Fake Firearms License (Rating 4)
** Fake Driver's License (Rating 6)
* Fake Private Investigator's License (Rating 4)
** Fake Cyberdeck License (Rating 6)
** Fake Matrix Software License (Rating 6)


==Appearance==
==Appearance==
On the meat, Akiha is short and lean for a boy at only 5'8", but gargantuan for a woman, which she's of course very self-conscious of. Her dark hair curls softly around her face, framing it well and lending it a round femininity, even as her shoulders flare on the masculine side of androgynous. She is pale, leaning more closely to her American heritage than her Japanese. Her dark eyes bounce between the bratty mischief she tries to play up online and the riptide of dull, bitter fury that swirls underneath. Overall, she is a woman of opposites struggling to reconcile.  
On the meat, BHop is short and lean for a boy at only 5'8", but gargantuan for a woman, which she's of course very self-conscious of. Her dark hair curls softly around her face, framing it well and lending it a round femininity, even as her shoulders flare on the masculine side of androgynous. She is pale, leaning more closely to her American heritage than her Japanese. Her dark eyes bounce between the bratty mischief she tries to play up online and the riptide of dull, bitter fury that swirls underneath. Overall, she is a woman of opposites struggling to reconcile.
 
On the impossible occasion Bun can be made to undress, a myriad of scars, those caused by burns and those caused by blades, mar her entire body, her torso especially. On her back, in the ''ukiyo-e'' style, a large tattoo of a ''torii'' gate spans from shoulder to shoulder - an eastern dragon of a deep violet color passes through and coils around her spine. Touches of blue bioluminescence glow within its eyes and beneath its scales.  


=== Clothing ===
=== Clothing ===
Doing Yak work, her outfits are decided for her. Button ups and blazers and belts. Her shoulders visibly slump in these scenarios.
Doing Yak work, her outfits are decided for her. Button ups and blazers and belts. Her hair is done up in a top-knot. Her shoulders visibly slump in these scenarios.


Most other times, BHop covers up in facemasks, baggy hoodies and jeans. Goofy cat faces and ironic Japanese written in ''gana'' and ''kana'' are printed all over her mask and clothes, and augmented by AR tags with light-up decorations surrounding her - speech bubbles, moving cat ears, and so on, provided neither stealth nor tact are needed. On runs, she also sports a pair of red reflective goggles to cover her eyes, and a little side-satchel to carry her gear.
Most other times, BHop covers up in facemasks, baggy hoodies and jeans. Goofy bunny faces and ironic Japanese written in ''gana'' and ''kana'' are printed all over her mask and clothes, and augmented by AR tags with light-up decorations surrounding her - speech bubbles, moving cat ears, and so on, provided neither stealth nor tact are needed. On runs, she also sports a pair of red reflective goggles to cover her eyes, and a little side-satchel to carry her gear.


Bun always has some kind of corrective vision on - typically a proper pair of glasses.
Bun always has some kind of corrective vision on - typically a proper pair of glasses.


===Matrix Persona===
===Matrix Persona===
On the wire, Bun is much more plainly herself. She flits between personas, though typically sports two large bunny ears, whether anthropomorphic or purely fashion. Her hair is typically bright and long, defaulting to a blonde red, and her height a meager 5'1" on average, though she'll sometimes adjust to at least try to be the shortest in the conversation by a centimeter or two (with the largest chest to boot, if she's feeling jealous). Her eyes are bright and playful, mischievous and fun, always shimmering in whatever color she chooses to match her aesthetic that day - though defaulting to a deep purple. Her outfits are copious: lolita fashion, stylishly baggy street wear, promiscuous bunny outfits, and so on - she always attempts to coordinate these outfits with the body of her persona, and will adjust the color of her hair and eyes to match if needed.  
On the Matrix, Bun is much more plainly herself. She flits between personas, though typically sports two large bunny ears, whether anthropomorphic or purely fashion. Her hair is typically bright and long, defaulting to a blonde red, and her height a meager 5'1" on average, though she'll sometimes adjust to at least try to be the shortest in the conversation by a centimeter or two (with the largest chest to boot, if she's feeling jealous). Her eyes are bright and playful, mischievous and fun, always shimmering in whatever color she chooses to match her aesthetic that day - though defaulting to a deep purple. Her outfits are copious: lolita fashion, stylishly baggy street wear, promiscuous bunny outfits, and so on - she always attempts to coordinate these outfits with the body of her persona, and will adjust the color of her hair and eyes to match if needed.
 
When operating her unique persona on runs, as she moves swiftly, red feathers fall in her wake, apparently spawned from nothing. Subtle scents of spring follow her. Smoldering white moons the size of her fist orbit her in a perfect circle, as though a shield she can command at will.
 
In combat, she may unsheathe a blinding crescent moon for as a katana's blade, its hilt wrapped in ''ofuda''. A small, red rabbit charm keychain dangles from the handle.  


In rarer moments, when her guard is down, she may even dress down. She holds in reserve a lovingly crafted render of herself, her real body, edited only far enough to become what it always should have been. This persona is only ever shown to those she trusts.  
In rarer moments, when her guard is down, she may even dress down. She holds in reserve a lovingly crafted render of herself, her real body, edited only far enough to become what it always should have been. This persona is only ever shown to those she trusts.  


When doing Yak work, she limits herself. A simple textureless mesh with only the silhouette of an ''oni'' to give it shape are all she needs to please the Kanaga-gumi and disguise herself from the other side of her work.
When doing Yak work, she limits herself. A simple, textureless mesh with only the silhouette of an ''oni'' to give it shape are all she needs to please the Kanaga-gumi and disguise herself from the other side of her work.
 
===Tokens===
{| class="wikitable"
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!Yakuza Work
!Casual
!Obvious Runner (ID Concealed)
!Matrix
|-
|[[File:bhop_token_meat.png|150px]]
|[[File:bhop_token_meat_2.png|150px]]
|[[File:bhop_token_meat_shadowrunner.png|150px]]
|[[File:bhop_token_matrix_2.png|150px]]
|-
|}
 
==Character Plot Hooks==
 
Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in content unrelated to runs, please ask first.
 
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Aspect
!Information
!Related Run(s)
|-
|'''A Yak in Sheep's Clothing'''
|As the "son" of the [[Kanaga-gumi]]'s ''shategashira'' and an active spider for the organization, her face on the meat is known to those in the gumi and likely to some Yakuza outside of it. Though she always covers her face on runs (Hood, Sick Mask, Goggles, Ballistic Mask, Synthskin Mask, etc.), refuses to speak with her real voice, instead opting for DNI and using the speaker of her comm, and utilizes separate Matrix personas and broadcast SINs, it is possible that close contact with Yakuza personnel may reveal her identity, especially to those of the Old School. This would snowball into potentially dire consequences, especially if this information gets back to [[Takashi Kurosawa]].
|[[Building on Biometrics]], [[Fennec Bueller's Day Off]]
|-
|'''Hacker on Steroids'''
|Though she prefers stealth, brushes against a former demiGOD and other heavy hitters wearing both white and black hats have revealed her persona's icon to potentially powerful users in the Matrix. If her unaltered persona is spotted, it's possible that she may be recognized as a known quantity in the shadows. Recently, it has qualified her for the Unique Avatar quality, furthering her reputation in the shadows.
|[[As Goes Light]], [[Knock Knock]], [[Go big, go loud, or go home!]], [[Hot Potato (Chips)]]
|-
|'''Technomancer in Hiding'''
|She is a Technomancer in hiding, meaning that she takes care to disguise herself as a decker. It's possible that this ruse could be revealed. (Trode Patch, Trode Patch Cover, and a kitbashed deck in a C-K Analyst shell is currently her cover to present as a decker on the meat. She also utilizes SINs [listed above] to sell this illusion, in particular that of Yuuki Love, private investigator.)
|N/A
|-
|'''Wanted by Null Sect'''
|After the events of [[Encroaching Viscosity]], she is on their radar. Terrifying!
|[[Encroaching Viscosity]], [[Graduation Day]]
|}


==Media Mentions==
==Media Mentions==


==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==
==Note==
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Revision as of 04:27, 15 May 2024

Bunny Hop
BHop.png
Techno Hacker
Matrix Freeter, Tool of the Kanaga-gumi
Self-Proclaimed Cyberpriestess and 世界一かわいいハッカーです～
Discord@jit
Reddit[1]
MetatypeHuman
Street Cred36
Notoriety0
Public Awareness0
CDP65
D.O.B.March 03, 2064
Age21
Folder[2]
PriorityMetatype - D
Attributes - B
Magic/Resonance - A
Skills - C
Resources - E
Theme Songanybody can find love (except you) - hkmori


Character Information

Summary

Sad brat of a technomancer with a chip on her shoulder and a grudge against her dad and the Kanaga-gumi. Currently working her way toward freedom from the Yakuza.

Goals

  • A Secure Identity Unknown to and Unexploited by the Yakuza
    • As of Graduation Day, she has her R6 SIN, one that she hopes to keep squeaky clean.
  • The Professional Downfall and (Probably) Death of Her Father, Takashi Kurosawa
  • Explore the Resonance Realms, and Become Attuned with Other Technomancers and the Deep Resonance
  • Continue to Hone Her Hacking Skills

Background

WIP

Though she is not dead, Akiha Kurosawa's life ended when she was seven years old. Though she is not alive, her mother yet lives in every moment, each time she is recorded, rewound, and replayed while burning to death. The phrase "Better Than Life" seems to her in every replay a cruel joke.

During an apparently innocuous trip to downtown Seattle, suspiciously scrupulous Halloweeners run a bit of cord along a narrow road and pull it tight to bring a young mother and her oldest child skidding to the ground. She screams and reaches for a side-arm she didn't dare try to sneak through the SIN scanners, and she is beaten bloody for her effort. With a ragged voice, she only begs that they not take her child, and for a mercy uncommon among their brutal ranks, they do not.

Akiha, already half-emerged, cries as her mother is dragged into the murky underground of a gutter, and when she is dry of tears and flat in a hospital bed, she dissociates, falls out of her body, and never quite returns. The sprites of the Matrix chirp as her young persona is born.

Her father is little comfort, a rising star of the grievously Old School Kanaga-gumi and more preoccupied with his work than his children, no matter his lip service. He tells her, his oldest son, that Koichi Kurosawa is his first-born and his lineage, and that one-day his lineage will follow his footsteps into the Yakuza as his pride. She is eight-years old, and has no strength to deny the only love she might have left. She abandons even the thought of telling him she is his daughter, and will painfully choose to deny she'd ever thought so for several more years to come.

Well into a pubescence that is to her horrific, he grooms her to fight and withstand pain, when he can manage to find her awake. She is made to hold blades and fire weapons and be burned with cigarettes and hot shells that leave her skin pink over a decade later. She is made to fist-fight her brother, and where he revels in violence and the call of duty, she crumbles. She is made to bleed, and though she is told this makes her strong, she can only remember the hurt.

But more often, she is asleep, or staring blankly at walls. Sometimes she leaves her body and lets it crumble like warm laundry onto the ground, and days later awakens dehydrated and starving and alive and wishing she were not. She wears no trodes, no patch, and doctors can find nothing wrong to explain her fainting spells. They shrug their shoulders and call it PTSD.

Her father remarries a properly Japanese woman, and his oyabun is pleased. Eventually, he abandons her training, and leaves her, as a stick-like corpse in its gentle repose, to slowly rot.

But every moment asleep is a moment alive in another world. Her childish persona emerges and teases at threads and strings tying hosts to level Earth. She befriends the little creatures that find her, and finds that they are unspeakable to many of those around her. She is mocked for insisting she sees kami in the newly formed Matrix, and called a liar at best. She gradually realizes that she is a child alone with the world. The rabbit-like sprites she has found as friends and family comfort her.

By the time she eventually falls in with other 'trode children, she has been long since taught to speak nothing of the blood and beating heart of the Matrix thumping alongside her own. She imagines herself as a shrine maiden, she imagines herself with family, and she imagines her true self special and loved and chosen - and falls numb to keep from crying whenever she awakens to the meat.

Her teens are spent online. Her body atrophies from disuse, save for those few moments she blankly plays gopher to the Kanaga-gumi, or performs even worse crimes for their sake, or rides her mother's Scoot to try and anchor her fleeting memory in something real. Takashi Kurosawa climbs to the rank of shategashira, and they move into nicer, more traditional Japanese homes, and indulge in ever-nicer Japanese dinners, and she experiences all of it only as a bad dream.

She hacks because she loves to craft the forms that change the forms around her, and because to forge a shim of just the right shape to slip between the seams of otherwise flawless code brings her joy, and because it is a sign of love for the only things that have loved her in return. She learns more complex forms of hacking, and feels that this brings her closer to the soul of the world, though she also learns the word "technomancer" and all the stigma it brings. She's relieved, nonetheless, to know that she is not uniquely absurd.

She sleazes slushies off of Stuffer Shacks and trids off of Horizon hosts. She changes her icon to catfish boys out of passwords and in-game gold, and embarrassedly finds she does not want to change herself back. She dives into foundations, ill-advised, and though there are hiccups and horrors and might-have-been-friends who never log in again, crises of conscience and trying on white hats that never quite fit, she always returns to her love.

Throughout it all, Akiha is, at her core, alone but for the sprites at her side. She childishly wonders for far longer than she should when others like her might come to bring her to her real life.

On the second Monday of January 2084, Akiha, her siblings, her step-mother, and her father wander Downtown Seattle's annual seijin no hi festivities to celebrate her upcoming twentieth birthday.

((((BHop, born and raised in the Seattle area, is the first child of Takashi Kurosawa, then a rising star of the Kanaga-gumi. Though groomed from childhood to follow in her father's footsteps as part of the gumi's Kumi-in, her poor aptitude for such things and her apparent dissociative PTSD from the death of her mother at a young age led to her being passed over as her father's favored heir. Her awakening as a Technomancer around the same point in time gave her the independence and rebellion she craved to discover herself along the fiber optic roads of the Matrix.

She made small waves, vandalized some hosts and competed in some duels and played at being an activist, though here too she quickly realized that she was in some way aberrant compared to those around her, just like she was in the meat. While proper deckers talked shop and hardware in precise and learned terms, Bun compiled sprites in code that she felt more than understood. Deckers talked marks on devices, and Bun instead simply reached in to feel the souls she swore were there. Small wonder, then, that she fell to obscurity, unwilling to out herself and unable to match more capable codeslingers in brute strength alone. Competitive games were her salvation instead - in the Matrix, a place that felt more real than her own meat, running and gunning and fighting in ways without blood or death, in ways where she could dream of going pro and being free, were her hope in the face of worlds that couldn't understand what she was and didn't want to try.

The meat, however, was unfortunately an inescapable hole. When hotsim was not an option, she was made to fight, to bleed, to hurt, against her brother, her father, and other Yakuza. She was told that this made her strong, though she only remembers the hurt it brought. When she was given up on as a proper heir, she was still made to work for the gumi, delivering packages and messages on the meat, and occasionally spotting for the group while more illicit activities were performed. Even more occasionally, she would be made to perform more grisly tasks herself as a way of hardening her and making her complicit - especially to those around her age, who many even in the gumi couldn't stomach hurting themselves.

On her twentieth birthday, during her own Seijin no Hi celebration, she thwarted an attempted hit on her father from as yet unknown operatives, disabling their weapons. Rather than praise, she was beaten and berated by her father for both being a Technomancer and for concealing her power from him. He told her, in a fit of reckless rage, that the hitmen should have killed her too, so that at least her death would have honor unlike her life.

She snapped. With impotent balled-up fists, she spat that not only was she a Technomancer, but that she, his first son, was a woman as well, and was instantly disowned. She was given two options - with a blade at her neck, she could die, either here or as an MCT lab rat, or she could become his tool, another pawn in a game of power. He could use her - and more importantly, could not stand the familial shame were all her truths made light. She would be silently disposed of, or made into a tool more useful than the liability she brought. With gritted teeth and salted tears, she accepted. Even as she said it, however, gears of desperate rebellion turned in her head. She knew people - years of living on the Matrix can give a girl access to all sorts of people and places, even those outside the powerful grip of the Yakuza.)))))

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

  • Bilingual - BHop is Japanese-American, and frequently plays up her Japanese fluency for its cute-factor.
  • Instinctive Hack / One With the Matrix / Hi-Rez / Etc. - As a Technomancer from a young age, and with a past of dissociation from meatspace, the Matrix is intimately entangled with BHop's brain structure and way of thought. Far from being a first resort, it is often the only one in her head.
  • Spiritual (Technomancer) - The Deep Resonance is one of the great kami, the broader spirit of the Matrix, its great tsukumogami. Pay it reverence and it will provide for its adopted resonant children. So she thinks, anyway.
  • Analytical Mind / Speed Reading / Brilliant Heuristics - She's had a lot of practice needing to read through files and metadata very quickly in order to safely do her job. She's picked up a knack for seeing patterns in these things by now.
  • Unique Avatar - After an eye-opening experience with a physical mask spell of her persona(Hot Potato (Chips)), she's managed to build an unbelievably realistic Version 2.0 of the Bunny Hop branded Matrix presence! After some frank discussions and solid performance on the job, she's started to garner a small reputation in the shadows.

Negative

  • Basement Dweller - See above; BHop has spent the majority of her life online, and does not feel comfortable in her skin on top of that. It's only by the miracle of needing to work that she can bring herself to speak with strangers in person at all.
  • Driven (Downfall of Father) - See above; if Takashi Kurosawa loses his standing with the Kanaga-gumi and therefore his connections with MCT - better yet, if he loses his life, though this is a grisly detail she has not yet fully processed - then the only man who knows she is a technomancer is dead, and BHop starts on the path of freedom from the Kanaga-gumi.
  • Emotional Attachment (Dodge Scoot [Haruko-chan]) - It was her mom's. She's overhauled it with maintenance and customization since then, however.
  • Phobia (Uncommon, Moderate) (Clowns [Halloweeners]) - Nightmares after the death of her mother left their scars, exacerbated by early experiences on the Matrix. The fear of Halloweeners as a child quickly morphed into a broader fear of these apparent harbingers of death. Halloweeners specifically do have a stronger impact narratively if not mechanically.
  • Social Appearance Anxiety 1 (Gender Dysphoria) - She girl. She doesn't look it, though. Androgynous at best. She's sensitive about that. If she's in a position where she has to dress or identify as male, this applies. Androgyny skirts by without penalty (as with dysphoria hoodies to disguise her silhouette, face-masks to cover up, etc).
  • Wanted by Null Sect - After the events of Encroaching Viscosity, the xenosapient AI hive known as Null Sect has her number. This quality manifests mechanically as the Data Hog quality from Kill Code page 99.

Run History

NameGMMetaplotDate of Run
Family BusinessOrion1 May 2085
Front Point & CenterAsmodeus24 April 2085
Invasive SpeciesSleeveyLa Famille Du Peintre11 April 2085
Gojira Drinks Bleach and Fucking DiesAsmodeus6 April 2085
Dusk's MessengerLemon24 March 2085
Memitim's TombSleeveyDead Gods Stir
The Name of Heaven		10 March 2085
Runnin' from the Dock of the BayLHOG27 February 2085
Graduation DayAsmodeus13 February 2085
Budding HeavenseekerSleeveyThe Name of Heaven26 January 2085
Third-Story MalpracticeSleeveyLa Famille Du Peintre11 January 2085
Encroaching ViscosityAsmodeus8 January 2085
Guerilla GangoonsAsmodeusThe Arrival3 January 2085
Party BalloonSyphilen29 December 2084
Ash ReplevinSleeveyLa Famille Du Peintre27 December 2084
Hot Potato (Chips)Sample Text9 December 2084
Matrix MedicineLotus8 December 2084
Tying A Yoke to YamadaLHOG30 November 2084
Jumping Jimmy GLHOG29 November 2084
Go big, go loud, or go home!TidanShockThe Life and Times of One Kevin Crimes18 November 2084
Diggin'Fangblade_15 November 2084
Knock KnockAsmodeusSwarming Season10 November 2084
Move Ahead, Lay Down Dead, or Slip on ByFangblade_Sign of Zeta8 November 2084
BANGYOURHEAD+55Fangblade_2 November 2084
Little Rat, Big HoleLHOG29 October 2084
DuvetFangblade_And Love You Shall Find
The Light Before We Land		24 October 2084
Fort DumbassFangblade_And Love You Shall Find20 October 2084
Our Fellow Sorcerer's Corpses Part 1Fangblade_16 October 2084
Falling Dusk, Part 2 (Midnight)Açai.015 October 2084
Falling Dusk, Part 1Açai.08 October 2084
Building on BiometricsLHOG1 October 2084
As Goes LightFangblade_When the hunters came to town
And Love You Shall Find		30 September 2084
10 Byte CrooksLHOG27 September 2084

Affiliations

Contacts

Contact Connection Loyalty Archetype Profession Aspects Chips
Anhe 3 5 Fixer(K,N,G,A) Matrix Information Specialist and Fixer Detached, Lore Hunter, Chronically Online, Software, Shadowrunning, "Oh? Tell me more.", Information Specialist, Fact vs. Fiction, AI "Ally", Protosapients and Technocritters Even
Takashi Kurosawa 4 1 Custom (A,G,N,K) Shategashira of the Kanaga-gumi Cyberware, Automatic Firearms, Handguns, Long Arms, Blades, Don't Talk Back, Yakkity Yak Even
Re:Gulus 3 2 Fixer Clocktower Leader Aspiring Leader, Magician, Magical Theorist, University Degree, Astral reconnaissance, It's Always a Game Even
Skinshedder 4 3 Service Free Sprite Sprite Fragile, Skinshedder, Matrix Denizen, Favored Gremlin, Loyal Friend, Untiring Even
WRN3 4 4 Service Feedback Seer Technomancer, Matrix Search, Electronics Hardware, Reticent, Hosts, Infected Sympathizer, Vision through the feedback Even
Alias 5 2 Gear SIN Forger SIN Forger, Police Contacts, Disguise Enthusiast, Hacker, Infiltrator, College Educated Even
Taina Kauhava 5 1 Gear
Corporate Loyalist, Accessory Maniac, Corporate Roots, Matrix Expertise, Software Engineer, Personal Assistant, Backroom Nokia Consultation, Personal E-Security Even
Greg 3 1 Fixer Skraacha Gumshoe Skraacha, Ork Underground, Gumshoe, Drugs, Ex Renraku Neo-PD, Orc Family Man Even
Jackie Jack 5 1 Generalist
Retired Prime Runner and Therapist
Example Positive Aspect, The big leagues, Stick it to them, In the shadows, Gonna need something bigger, Don't sell your soul kid., History best left forgotten Even
EN-Z-0 Contact Not Found. Please create contact using Template:Contact. 5 You may also see User:Free Sprite for bot instructions. Even
Kakei Steve 6 1 Fixer Fixer Lawyer, Legal Connections, I Know Many Things, Weeb Swordsfan, Yakuza Networker, Deltaware Dealer, I Know The Best Cyberware Even
Leonard MacLainn 3 1 Custom(K,N,G,A) Legwork and Information Financial Instability, Cursory Examination, Do You Know Who I Work For!, Time is ... time?, Spirit Wrangler, Small Fry Even
The Girl in Many Colors 3 4 Service Technomancer Color Coded, Matrix-Bound, Spinning Along the Color Wheel, f3f6f4, 701ac2, 000000, 97a3a9, 1787dc -1
Angélica Cabral 4 3 Fixer For The Cause: OHK, Unbending Morals, Trying Times, Hang on, I've Heard of Them, Oh, I've heard of Them!, A SURGE of Empathy, Breaking Cycles of Violence, Viewed from the Ground, Wide Awake, Striking Cycles of Violence, Still a Hospitaller, Blocking Cycles of Violence Even
Kousuke Yamada 4 1 Fixer Kanaga Kyodai Even
G01bez_and_0-MUS 2 4 Service Matrix Siblings

Decker and Technomancer Tag Team Duo

Overprotective, Technology Connections, Technomancer, Double Trouble, Sibling Synergy Even
Makali'i [[Contact_Rules#Connection_Rating|]] 3 [[Contact_Rules#Contact_Archetype|]] Even
C0nc0rd3 Contact Not Found. Please create contact using Template:Contact. 4 You may also see User:Free Sprite for bot instructions. Even


Relationships with NPCs

  • Anhe: Met her as a teenager during her hiatus from hacking to pursue Matrix Games. Anhe sees her a bit like a little sister to be protected, though trusts her skill and likes to rib her even still. Their relationship is softly antagonistic in the way siblings frequently are.
  • WRN3: Met during the events of As Goes Light and has had subsequent interactions through Fort Dumbass and Duvet. Again, a sibling energy exists between the two, thought his time BHop takes the smug, teasing older sister approach to WRN3's brattiness.
  • Takashi Kurosawa: Antagonistic, bluntly speaking. Takashi Kurosawa is using Bunny Hop for his own means, and as a way to rise within the ranks of the gumi and sus out his supposed enemies. Kurosawa is at present unaware that Bunny Hop is shadowrunning on the side, but has his suspicions. If discovered, he would likely burn her, and sell her out to MCT while hiding that information from the Kanaga-gumi, in order to avoid the familial shame.

Organizations and Reputation

Allies

Faction Reputation Related Run(s)
AllWire, Inc. 2 Hot Potato (Chips)
Erika 1 Knock Knock
Farraday's Clinic (DEFUNCT) 5 As Goes Light
Finnigan Family 10 Building on Biometrics, BANGYOURHEAD+55
L.R. Foundation 5 Third-Story Malpractice
People of the Orc Underground 2 Diggin'
Skraacha 5 Diggin'
West Coast Monolith 1 Guerilla Gangoons
All Yakuza Clans 1 Tying A Yoke to Yamada

Enemies

Faction Reputation Related Run(s) Note
Compulsory Execution Unit -10 As Goes Light
Cutters -5 Go big, go loud, or go home!
Greater Medical Community -5 Third-Story Malpractice
High Society -5 Ash Replevin
NTerLOK Production -2 Hot Potato (Chips)
Kenran-kai -4 Building on Biometrics, Tying A Yoke to Yamada BHop has a sort of split reputation with the Kenran-kai. Unless they make the connection between the two, the Bunny Hop that attacked the Kenran-kai during Building on Biometrics is a different, unrelated person to the Koichi Kurosawa who made a positive impression at the yakuza gathering in Tying a Yoke to Yamada, even though both are her "true" identities.
Yellow Lotus Triad -7 BANGYOURHEAD+55

Street Cred

Notoriety

  • N/A

In Character Information

Symbols and Signatures

Matrix Search Table

Threshold Result
1 Junk: "Bunny hopping (bhopping) is an advanced movement technique used in some varieties of pre-Matrix first person shooters. To perform a bunny hop..."

Bunny Hop keeps a low profile online, for the most part. Some known aliases are BHop, Bun, and Hops. She's had some good results in amateur leagues for Shadowrun Online and Road Fighter as recently as three years ago, but seems to have dropped completely off from the competitive circuit since then. She has public accounts on anime and game discussion sites, as well as cooking forums, art discussion groups, and others, all with relatively sparse public post histories.

3 Some details begin to add up in seedier parts of the web - common elements from her more public and innocuous profiles can be pieced together, giving a probable link between them and some Matrix vandal going by a variety of ascii rabbit emojis. Examples include: ₍ᐢ. .ᐢ₎, ໒꒰ྀི´ ˘ ` ꒱ྀིა, ૮₍ ´• ˕ •` ₎ა, and others. The bunny face vandal has been inactive for several years, however, and has not made a marked impact on either commonly shared blacklists or in other decker circles. Descriptions matching Bunny Hop's red rabbit persona have been noted in a few places they probably shouldn't be.
6 A name appears, associated with the bunny face vandal: Akiha. Those few who are familiar with the bunny face vandal's techniques and MO remember her taking a peculiar approach to decking, one that was indirect and seemed to flow with the Matrix rather than imposing upon it, like a digital Aikido. She spoke briefly of spirits in the wire. Disturbingly, some unrelated deckers in unrelated incidents have reported similar techniques used by a Yakuza spider in recent months, a nameless and textureless silhouette of an oni, appearing as negative space, like a hole cut into the Matrix.

Shadow Community Table

Threshold Result
1 "Bunny Hop? She's a decker, right?"
3 "You know, come to think of it, there was that bunny face vandal a few years back too. Cheap way to pwn a smalltime host. Did decent work but the other deckers seemed to think her style was real weird. Seems to match up with her current work - think they might be the same person?"

Update: "If they are, she's really upped her game. She's got a solid track record over the last few months. I hear she even did an op with Wychking at some point."

5 "Actually, this just occurred to me - and this is strictly between you and me - some of the Yak hosts have been harder to hit on the Matrix lately. New spider or somethin'. Some of the cowboys seem to think they're not using your standard hardware or running some new IC or something weird like that - I wonder if she was closer to whatever that guy's doing now."

Update: "Some whispers crawling down the grapevine kinda suggest they might be the same after all. If they are, she's definitely double-crossing the yaks. The Kenran-kai especially are pissed. I'd be a lot more careful going forward if I were her."

Assensing Table

Bunny Hop's aura peels away from her in wispy, vaporous strands, easily visible like steam on a cold day, though chilled as a shell of frigid, stagnant air. Close to her body, the shell suddenly breaks, and she radiates a sweet warmth, scented like Spring. The fuzzy, shadowed silhouette of two rabbit ears rest on top of her head. Gentle whispers surround her - on five hits, the assenser can just make out that the whispers seem to be reciting blocks of raw assembly code.

Threshold Result
1 Bun is generally healthy - not a specimen of particular physical value, but someone who is reasonably fit despite appearances. No matter what her outward expression and mood, an undercurrent of hurt and longing bleeds through, beneath her other emotions. She does not appear to be awakened.
2 Bun appears to have no cyberware.
3 Bun appears to have no alphaware, and an untouched Essence.
4 Bun appears to have no bioware or betaware. Essence 6, Magic N/A, Force N/A
5 Bun appears to have no deltaware, gene treatments, or nanotech. No chronic illness seems to afflict her physically. She is a technomancer.

SINs

Yuuki Love (Fake Rating 4, UCAS)

  • Private Investigator
    • Fake Firearms License (Rating 4)
    • Fake Cyberdeck License (Rating 4)
    • Fake Private Investigator's License (Rating 4)

Yuuji Akasaka (Fake Rating 4, UCAS)

  • Security Professional
    • Fake Firearms License (Rating 4)
    • Fake Cyberdeck License (Rating 4)
    • Fake Bodyguard License (Rating 4)
  • Note: This SIN is used exclusively for when BHop is doing work for the Yakuza.

Kei Kisuke (Fake Rating 4, UCAS)

  • College Student
    • Fake Student ID for Seattle Central College (Rating 4)

Akiha Robins (Fake Rating 6, UCAS)

  • Cybersecurity Consultant
    • Fake Driver's License (Rating 6)
    • Fake Cyberdeck License (Rating 6)
    • Fake Matrix Software License (Rating 6)

Appearance

On the meat, BHop is short and lean for a boy at only 5'8", but gargantuan for a woman, which she's of course very self-conscious of. Her dark hair curls softly around her face, framing it well and lending it a round femininity, even as her shoulders flare on the masculine side of androgynous. She is pale, leaning more closely to her American heritage than her Japanese. Her dark eyes bounce between the bratty mischief she tries to play up online and the riptide of dull, bitter fury that swirls underneath. Overall, she is a woman of opposites struggling to reconcile.

On the impossible occasion Bun can be made to undress, a myriad of scars, those caused by burns and those caused by blades, mar her entire body, her torso especially. On her back, in the ukiyo-e style, a large tattoo of a torii gate spans from shoulder to shoulder - an eastern dragon of a deep violet color passes through and coils around her spine. Touches of blue bioluminescence glow within its eyes and beneath its scales.

Clothing

Doing Yak work, her outfits are decided for her. Button ups and blazers and belts. Her hair is done up in a top-knot. Her shoulders visibly slump in these scenarios.

Most other times, BHop covers up in facemasks, baggy hoodies and jeans. Goofy bunny faces and ironic Japanese written in gana and kana are printed all over her mask and clothes, and augmented by AR tags with light-up decorations surrounding her - speech bubbles, moving cat ears, and so on, provided neither stealth nor tact are needed. On runs, she also sports a pair of red reflective goggles to cover her eyes, and a little side-satchel to carry her gear.

Bun always has some kind of corrective vision on - typically a proper pair of glasses.

Matrix Persona

On the Matrix, Bun is much more plainly herself. She flits between personas, though typically sports two large bunny ears, whether anthropomorphic or purely fashion. Her hair is typically bright and long, defaulting to a blonde red, and her height a meager 5'1" on average, though she'll sometimes adjust to at least try to be the shortest in the conversation by a centimeter or two (with the largest chest to boot, if she's feeling jealous). Her eyes are bright and playful, mischievous and fun, always shimmering in whatever color she chooses to match her aesthetic that day - though defaulting to a deep purple. Her outfits are copious: lolita fashion, stylishly baggy street wear, promiscuous bunny outfits, and so on - she always attempts to coordinate these outfits with the body of her persona, and will adjust the color of her hair and eyes to match if needed.

When operating her unique persona on runs, as she moves swiftly, red feathers fall in her wake, apparently spawned from nothing. Subtle scents of spring follow her. Smoldering white moons the size of her fist orbit her in a perfect circle, as though a shield she can command at will.

In combat, she may unsheathe a blinding crescent moon for as a katana's blade, its hilt wrapped in ofuda. A small, red rabbit charm keychain dangles from the handle.

In rarer moments, when her guard is down, she may even dress down. She holds in reserve a lovingly crafted render of herself, her real body, edited only far enough to become what it always should have been. This persona is only ever shown to those she trusts.

When doing Yak work, she limits herself. A simple, textureless mesh with only the silhouette of an oni to give it shape are all she needs to please the Kanaga-gumi and disguise herself from the other side of her work.

Tokens

Yakuza Work Casual Obvious Runner (ID Concealed) Matrix
Bhop token meat.png Bhop token meat 2.png Bhop token meat shadowrunner.png Bhop token matrix 2.png

Character Plot Hooks

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in content unrelated to runs, please ask first.

Aspect Information Related Run(s)
A Yak in Sheep's Clothing As the "son" of the Kanaga-gumi's shategashira and an active spider for the organization, her face on the meat is known to those in the gumi and likely to some Yakuza outside of it. Though she always covers her face on runs (Hood, Sick Mask, Goggles, Ballistic Mask, Synthskin Mask, etc.), refuses to speak with her real voice, instead opting for DNI and using the speaker of her comm, and utilizes separate Matrix personas and broadcast SINs, it is possible that close contact with Yakuza personnel may reveal her identity, especially to those of the Old School. This would snowball into potentially dire consequences, especially if this information gets back to Takashi Kurosawa. Building on Biometrics, Fennec Bueller's Day Off
Hacker on Steroids Though she prefers stealth, brushes against a former demiGOD and other heavy hitters wearing both white and black hats have revealed her persona's icon to potentially powerful users in the Matrix. If her unaltered persona is spotted, it's possible that she may be recognized as a known quantity in the shadows. Recently, it has qualified her for the Unique Avatar quality, furthering her reputation in the shadows. As Goes Light, Knock Knock, Go big, go loud, or go home!, Hot Potato (Chips)
Technomancer in Hiding She is a Technomancer in hiding, meaning that she takes care to disguise herself as a decker. It's possible that this ruse could be revealed. (Trode Patch, Trode Patch Cover, and a kitbashed deck in a C-K Analyst shell is currently her cover to present as a decker on the meat. She also utilizes SINs [listed above] to sell this illusion, in particular that of Yuuki Love, private investigator.) N/A
Wanted by Null Sect After the events of Encroaching Viscosity, she is on their radar. Terrifying! Encroaching Viscosity, Graduation Day

Media Mentions

Note

I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

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