Zero line

Zero line

Truthseeker, Wordsmith, Soothsayer
Future Spymaster, Current Wizard
Real life begins when you stop trying to be someone else.
Discord	Edward_von
Reddit	edward-von
Metatype	Orc (Oni)
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	0
Public Awareness	0
CDP	4
D.O.B.	05/05/2063
Age	23
Folder	Folder
Priority	Metatype - D Attributes - C Magic/Resonance - A Skills - C Resources - D

Character Information

Freedom is crafted — one secret, one spell, one step ahead.

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Summary

Once a sniper in the deep jungle and urban warzones, Kenji now walks the civilian shadows. Cold, calculating, and dry-witted, he's a compartmentalized man held together by memory, ritual, and duty. He's retired, but only on paper.

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Goals

Short Term Goal

• Upgrade all his cyberware to Betaware
• Set up 3 safehouse across the city
• Fill his armory to the brim
• Create a state of the art altar to the Santa Muerte

Long Term Goal

• Set Up a Legacy Locker for Minji (1.000.000 ¥)
• Feel alive again

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Background

CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENT – AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY – SIGMA-BLACK CLEARANCE REQUIRED

#001 — PRIVATE SESSION — UNAUTHORIZED DUPLICATION PROHIBITED

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Narrative Significant Qualities

• 1. Common Sense – A sniper doesn’t get to be wrong. Not about angles. Not about people. Kenji learned long ago to read a room the way he reads terrain — anticipate, adjust, survive.
  2. Perfect Time – It’s not luck. It’s control. When to breathe. When to squeeze. When to step in or step back. He doesn’t believe in fate — only windows.
  3. Sharpshooter – Kenji doesn’t miss. He remembers the name of the first person he didn’t miss. And the last. That’s why he still counts them.
  4. Strive For Perfection – Ritual is control. Control is survival. A clean shot, a clean uniform, a clean conscience — all require discipline. He still sharpens the knife he no longer carries.

• 1. Records on File (UCAS) – He’s off the books — mostly. But the books still remember. His dossier is redacted, not erased.
  2. Striking Skin Pigmentation – A pale blue tone marks him as something other. In the field, it meant recognisability. In the city, it means questions.
  3. Thousand-Yard Stare 1 – He doesn’t blink at things that break most men. That’s not strength — it’s memory.
  4. Impassive – Stillness is not absence. It’s presence under control. Kenji doesn’t emote to explain himself.
  5. Antipathy – People expect warmth to mean kindness. Kenji doesn’t warm easy — but he shows up. He stays. And he remembers every name that mattered.
  6. Dependent (Inconvenience) – "He’s retired, not free. The pension helps, but it’s not enough — and he won’t let Minji or Allende carry the weight alone. He still picks up contracts, not out of duty, but out of love. A soldier’s job was orders. A father’s job is bills."

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Run History

Name	GM	Metaplot	Threat	Date of Run
Eviction Notice	Alex	Environmentalism Was Just a Phase	High	13 August 2086
A Bleeding Window	Archtmag		High	9 August 2086

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Affiliations

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
Ashen Hand	5	2	Fixer (A,G,N,K)	Private HTR	First Hand Knowledge, Military Grade, Status Report, I work with professionals, act like one., Up your Arsenal, Urban Warfare, Special Forces, Ware and warfare, Tactical and Protective, Cold Mind, Cold Heart	Even

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In Character Information

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Matrix Search Table

Threshold	Result
1	Zero Line: The practice of adjusting the lens recticle to line up with where do you want to land the shot.
3	Recordings of Veteran support groups of Ex U.C.A.S Snipers, one Oni subject appear almost always, always giving the back to the camera.
6	CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENT – AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY – SIGMA-BLACK CLEARANCE REQUIRED

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Shadow Community Table

Threshold	Result
1	Quiet. Big guy. Heavy eyes. Doesn’t say much unless it’s worth saying.
3	Ex-black ops, some say MSMC sniper. Runs clean jobs. Old-school discipline. Carries himself like someone used to following orders — and making decisions no one else would.
5	Keeps a tiny amulet in his go-bag. Always brings his own cigars. One of the few who remembers your name if it meant something. You don’t earn his trust — you survive long enough to deserve it.

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Assensing Table

Threshold	Result
1	Appears healthy, though stress markers are deeply buried. Emotionally unreadable an internal stillness that reads closer to absence than calm. Subject is not Awakened.
2	Full cybernetic limbs and enhanced optics.
3	cybereyes with tactical overlays. No magical signature. Essence is low.
4	No bioware. Essence 0.93
5	No deltaware, nanotech, or genetic mods. Absolutely not a technomancer.

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SINs

Fake (R4): Stephen Veen - licensed Bounty hunter, private investigator

Fake (R4): Kenjii Onizuka - licensed Bounty hunter, private investigator

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Appearance

Clothing

Zero Line dresses like a man who never left the war — but insists on doing it with polish. His everyday wear leans toward practical civilian-tactical blends: boots with memory tread, dark slacks reinforced at the knees, and a utility jacket with hidden interior pockets for everything from burner credsticks to lho cigars. He owns precisely one suit, matte black, custom-fitted, worn without a tie. Rumor says he only brings it out for funerals. You’ll never catch him in branded streetwear or corporate logos unless he was paid to bleed in them.

Matrix Persona

An empty, archmage robe, surrounded by orbs and other such arcane items

Reference Images

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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 unrelated to runs, please ask first.

Aspect	Information	Related Run(s)
Astralnaut Wannabe	He is just at the beginning of his wanderings amonght the many astral planes, ready to grow and evolve as a mage and as a person. He'd love to join in some metaplanar questing!	//
Rightful Ascendancy	The Rite of Progression traditionally takes place every 7 years, and the next one will be in 2092. This leaves Aishar to look into the other avenues to reclaim his title, either getting progressed by the Council of Princes, succesfully appealing his demotion as unlawful, or, as a plan B, absolutely ensure that in six years, he has all the ammo he can to win	//
Thirst for the Forbidden	He feels it in his bones. In his travells, hidden beyond the void and the gloom. In hushed voice, in the halls of magicians much greater then him. He wishes to udnerstand what the 4th world is, what it meant, and what it will mean	//