4NG3L

4NG3L

Decker
"The Deck-Jockey Yakuza Princess"
Discord	@Lady Regina Jane#1079
Reddit	[1]
Metatype	Human
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	1
Public Awareness	0
CDP	30
D.O.B.	14th October, 2055
Age	30
Folder	[2]
Priority	Metatype - D Attributes - C Magic/Resonance - E Skills - B Resources - A

Character Information

Goals

Not necessarily in the following order, her goals are:

1. Burn her SIN and the criminal record associated with it.

2. Prove to her father that she is an asset to the Umezawa-gumi as a decker and/or as a Shadowrunner, despite being a woman.

3. Survive.

Background

Born and raised in Neo-Tokyo in the Minato Ward area to Kotono and Kenji Umezawa, Sasori Umezawa was brought up in the typical manner in Japanese culture, and above average education, and with no shortage of tech at her disposal. By the time she reached the age of 16, she was breaking into corporate Matrix mainframes. At age 20, however, she hacked into the Renraku's corporate mainframe with two other deckers in an effort to steal paydata. However, Corporate deckers caught Sasori and her accomplices, engaging them in cybercombat.

Link-locked and facing data-slaves who knew exactly what they were doing, Sasori fought back, fully intending to fry her enemies’ brains, succeeding in derezzing one of the opposing personas. However, the remaining corp-deckers made a point to make sure she and her accomplices didn’t stroke out from biofeedback when they finally outmaneuvered them. She managed to put up a fight for a bit longer than the white-hats had anticipated, but ultimately Sasori and the others were derezzed and found by the Neo-Tokyo Municipal Police Force, stunned from a very painful bout of dumpshock. Sasori woke up in jail with no bond and awaiting trial.

Renraku’s lawyers prosecuted with an aim for the maximum of ten years for Sasori and her accomplices, although the Umezawa clan’s defense attorneys managed to get them only two years. Renraku, however, happened to own and operate Chiba Prison at which Sasori was remanded and made sure her two years of incarceration were as uncomfortable and hellish as they legally could make them. Sasori had even been locked in solitary a few times for fighting other inmates when the corporate suits running the prison had set both other female inmates and even male inmates against her (once), just so that they could have an excuse to punish her; she survived intact mainly because she has aikido and karate training, which the prison’s administration found out after the first two times they tried to have her roughed up. They then used her martial arts training as an excuse to shackle her wrists and ankles anytime she left her cell.

Two years passed and she was released on parole, essentially keeping her ass clean and avoiding former haunts she used to hang out at on the Matrix. She checked in regularly with her P.O. and passed every drug test, having never been an addict in the first place while the Umezawa-gumi worked to get her off the hook as quickly as possible. The day after she was released from parole, her father and older brother began making arrangements to move her to Seattle in a part of the Japanese enclave controlled by the Umezawa-gumi. The moment she got to Seattle, Ryuichi made living arrangements in a comfortable condo, living amidst both gangsters and non-gangsters with a living stipend to take care of her as well as a forged SIN which she personalized herself via her hacking skills. It is the “Molly Millions” SIN that she has everything registered to, complete with a not-unusual background as a weapon shop manager.

She had also gotten retractable hand-razors and high-end cyber-eyes implanted, new additions to the tattoos she had gotten in Japan before her arrest which spread the traditional Japanese art out across her chest, lower back, and right side in addition to the upper-arm sleeve she had, and got herself a customized motorcycle made to look suspiciously like the lightcycles from Tron: Legacy. Whether Oyabun Kenji Umezawa liked it or not, Sasori was a Yakuza princess and the best he could do to keep her out of the gangster life was to, ironically, let her be independent and simply have the members of his Clan watch over her. Yakuza clans were notoriously patriarchal, so what few places women could find themselves in the crime syndicate’s management were always subordinate positions to male leadership, usually running legitimate front-businesses and managing organized prostitution rings, the latter Kenji wanted for his daughter; however, the Oyabun knew that his daughter’s decking skills were an asset, whether he cared to entertain the fact or not.

Now, after being in Seattle for six months and only a few months away from her twenty-eighth birthday, Sasori had begun looking for a way to burn the SIN she was born with and the criminal record attached to it. She began making connections outside of Yakuza circles, particularly with SINless shadowrunner deckers on the local Matrix networks and in meatspace through people who visit the tech shop she frequents for decker gear and the body shop she takes her crotch-rocket, Murasaki-hime, to. New to the world of shadowrunning, but not ignorant of the concept, she has returned to dabbling in the seedy underbelly of the Matrix and meatspace, realizing that if she wanted to do things for the benefit of her family, her clan, and herself, she would need to return to the darkside of the Sixth World.

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

Biocompatibility (Cyberware): Sasori has always had a natural affinity for cyberware, which runs on her mother's side of the family. Impenetrable Logic: Sasori has a quick mind and a smartass wit, deriving amusement from outsmarting other people and abusing her intelligence for nefarious ends. Instinctive Hack: Having an affinity for Matrix work, hacking, cracking, and coding comes naturally to her and she has enough practice to have a system by which she operates as second nature. Made (Wo)Man: Sasori is the daughter of a Yakuza oyabun, granting her some degree of pull with her clan through her connection to her older brother, Ryuichi, who is a ranking lieutenant in the Umezawa-gumi. Overclocker: As an experienced decker, Sasori knows a few tricks by which she can capitalize on her gear's potential and is not afraid to push a deck or even a commlink to it's limits. Trust Data, Not Lore: Sasori has learned the hard way to trust only what the data itself before her says and not to second guess it. While she can instinctively react to stimuli and it is an asset, especially in cybercombat, trusting her gut has caused more rookie mistakes (and the subsequent dumpshock) than not.

Negative

Creature of Comfort (Middle): Having been born and raised into appreciable wealth, she is uncomfortable in any living situation lesser than middle-class. SINner (Criminal): Umezawa, Sasori; JIS. She has a criminal record which can be a liability and she has a mind to get that SIN burned, having determined that using a fake SIN deliberately kept squeaky-clean and sufficiently backed by the right data can more than replace the one she was born with. Prejudiced (Common, Biased): Metahumans: Like most Japanese, Sasori holds a bias against non-Human metatypes. She finds racist humour funny, occasionally will use racial slurs if vexed sufficiently by a non-Human, and would be more likely to warm up to or otherwise trust a Human before any other race of Metahumanity.

Run History

Name	GM	Metaplot	Threat	Date of Run
Activating My Alucard	Asmodeus		Deadly	26 January 2084
Let's Maintain Integrity	Kaigen87		Medium	24 January 2084
Beneath the Silver Moon	Sarcarian		High	23 January 2084
Remnants of an Omen	Zerre	Contre-Révolution	Extreme	22 January 2084
Derezzing the Dead Zone	Asmodeus		Deadly	15 January 2084
Charge Headfirst to Freedom	Furaidopoteto		Deadly	23 November 2083
Denial of Service Attack	Asmodeus	The Life and Times of One Kevin Crimes	Deadly	22 November 2083
Scripted to be this Way	Furaidopoteto		High	19 November 2083
Incorrect Owners	Toaster Tech		Medium	18 November 2083
The Quest for the Grail	Furaidopoteto		High	12 November 2083
The Womb of Demons	Zerre		Semi-Prime	5 November 2083
Knives out, Its Dinner Time	Furaidopoteto		Medium	28 October 2083
Investigate quickly, stay alive	KaterSalem		Deadly	12 October 2083
Gasoline Guzzlers	Asmodeus		Medium	11 October 2083
This is 2083	Asmodeus	Hail to the Pumpking	Medium (UPGRADED TO DEADLY)	4 October 2083

Affiliations

Umezawa-Gumi Yakuza

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
Ryuichi Umezawa	6	5	Fixer	Gang Leader	Armorer services, Fake SIN, Drugs, Cyberdecks, Equipment brand: Shiawase, Blackmail, Vehicles	Even

Allies

Umezawa-gumi Yakuza Clan

In Character Information

Matrix Search Table

Threshold	Result
1
3
6

Shadow Community Table

Threshold	Result
1
3
5

SINs

"Molly Millions"

Appearance

Ethnicity: Yamato Japanese Eyes: Blacklight-purple (originally dark brown) Hair: Purple (Naturally black) Skin: Pasty-olive Height: 5'4" Weight: 120 lbs

Identifying features: Datajack located behind the right ear at the base of the skull; Tabori-style Yakuza tattoos done in the traditional Irezumi method all over her body which stop only at the wrists, ankles, and neck (These tattoos have motifs of dragons, the sea, Western angels reimagined as Shinto kami, and subtle hints of technological themes such as hexagonal particles, implanted LEDS, and circuit board-style line patterns interspersed among the more traditional ukiyo-e art-style); Right arm is obviously a cybernetic prosthetic which has been painted and enameled to replace the tattoos lost when the natural arm was amputated.

Clothing

Sasori tends to dress in modern Neo-Tokyo cybergoth-style streetwear mostly; special occasions may call for a formal kimono and her best one is a royal purple silken furisode hard-painted with feminine motifs associated with the Umezawa clan while the obi is black with violet and gold overlapping hexagons;

Matrix Persona

On the Matrix (and to most people on the streets of meatspace), she goes by the moniker "4NG3L" (pronounced "Angel"). See the picture provided for how the persona appears on the Matrix.