Zero line

Zero line

I don't carry regrets. I carry names.
Discord	Edward_von
Reddit	edward-von
Metatype	Orc (Oni)
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	0
Public Awareness	0
CDP	4
D.O.B.	05/05/2024
Age	63
Folder	Folder
Priority	Metatype - C Attributes - C Magic/Resonance - E Skills - C Resources - A

Character Information

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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

TL;DR

Kenji “Zero Line” grew up in a strict, nationalist UCAS household. At 16, he bought a forged SIN to enlist early, chasing a warped sense of loyalty. He served as a UCAS special operations soldier, earning a reputation for precision, cold efficiency, and surviving a lot of missions.

Now operating as a professional shadow operative, Kenji returned because he misses the clarity and focus of life behind a sniper scope. The only people he refuses to mock or harm are his wife Marisol and daughter Minji. Everyone else is fair game for his sharp sarcasm and calculated violence.

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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. Impassive – Stillness is not absence. It’s presence under control. Kenji doesn’t emote to explain himself.
  4. Poor Self Control (Compulsive I, Personal) – When he see trought the bottom of the glass his brain rember that the scope should stay on the left side, and it must stay there.
  5. 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): 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

Nothing fancy. Just the default wireframe silhouette that ships with the cheapest commlinks on the market no mods, no custom skins, no personal signature.

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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)
Old Debts, New Enemies	There are people alive who still want answers — or revenge — for what Zero Line did during blackbook operations in the Sioux border zones and New Revolution purge. Some remember the calls he didn’t answer. Some still wait for justice.	//
Daughter in the Dark	Minji is smart, curious, and too much like her father. Kenji has enemies, past and present, who might see her as leverage. He knows it. And it keeps him awake, long after the adrenaline fades.	//
Ghosts in the System	UCAS Military Intelligence hasn’t closed the file. They just moved it deeper. With cybernetic telemetry still reporting spikes during dream cycles and prayers logged to Santa Muerte nodes, there are signs Kenji isn’t quite out. Someone is still watching.	//
Ledger of the Dead	Kenji doesn’t pray for forgiveness — he prays for memory. Every name he whispered to La Flaca, every face he recalls before sleep, is a ritual of record-keeping. He’s not haunted, but the ledger is growing, she might not be the only one keeping the count.