Red Ribbon

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Red Ribbon
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Jumped-In Rigger/Off-Face
"You're in for the ride of your life!
Just remember - it's my car."
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MetatypeElf
Street Cred0
Notoriety1
Public Awareness0
Titles and Awards0
CDP104
D.O.B.September 9, 2063
Age22
FolderRed Ribbon
PriorityMetatype - D
Attributes - B
Magic/Resonance - E
Skills - B
Resources - B
#Max IGs/Ascension1


Character Information

Summary

Red Ribbon is a young elf lady who takes care of her cars and drones rather better than she does herself. She's slow to trust and loves to do her background research. Shadowrunning is her way of exerting self-determination - she hates feeling manipulated.

Goals

- Get a nice car or bike to ride around casually. And a proper nice one - no cop-outs. Her van gets her places, but it's no hot rod.

- Make a name for herself so people think twice about crossing her. Fame, public awareness... whatever it takes.

Background

Holly Spade was born to a pair of middle-weight criminals in the Redmond Barrens, in a body distinctly wrong for her. The life they provided would only last for a few years before they abandoned her to the streets, unwilling to properly care for her. She was too young to properly understand what was happening, and now barely remembers their faces. She was left with scarcely anything - her name, a near-depleted credchip she couild scrounge from the wreckage, and her wits. There are a hundred thousand ways for such a child to go wrong in Seattle.

Holly was taken in by an agent of a local gang, who deceived her as to his proper affiliation. Growing up on the streets had thoroughly quelled any naivete that Holly had left, but the (to her) luxuries he offered tempted her beyond compare, calling back on long-faded memories of an infancy in greater comfort. As she grew, Holly found herself a reasonably good actor, and with a particular knack for drone operation. Her new "guardian" furnished her growth in these areas with small trinkets - a fly-spy, a simple commlink. A nice place to stay. Providing for her transition from masculine to feminine. It was after she turned nineteen that he began to ask for gratitude for these favors, usually involving the quiet surveillance of others or the planting of small, anonymous packages in secluded places.

Holly never questioned what her guardian was doing with the information she gathered - at least not openly. To her, what she had was worth whatever ignorance he required. Alas, she would one day be asked to take an unusually long watch, and thus witnessed the true purpose of her operation - as part of one of the many deadly, shadowy conflicts that rage across Seattle, gathering intelligence to set up ambushes for her guardian's enemies. Many were innocent. Nobody's perfect, and eventually the retaliation came, on a day when Holly was returning to meet with her "guardian" some few days after one of these follow-ups. She found the apartment where he hid shot to hell, and entered to catch the his last moments, dying from gunshot wounds.

The moment that her erstwhile "guardian" bled out was the moment that her reality came crashing down upon her. Though those who knew of her relationship with the man were dead by virtue of his goals, his impact wasn't nearly enough to eliminate anyone who might possibly hold a grudge against her should the truth come out. Suddenly, she was alone - alone and afraid, and so she booked it, again scrounging whatever she could from the safehouse he provided and swearing never to be so willingly blind again. So it was that she began running for herself, rather than anyone else.

The residual guilt from what she was involved in and the acute awareness of how willing she was for some time eats away at her in the early hours of the morning. Not just for being involved in killing, of course - some awful stuff happens in the shadows - but more so for her willful, even eager ignorance of what was truly going on. Her refusal to question her circumstances more makes her concerned about her own intuition. She tries to drive it away with work and adrenaline - there's always tuning to be done on one of her drones, or a paint job to be touched up, or someone to be researched before an upcoming run, often with the help of Psyche. Oh - and her coat just has to be impeccable, even though nobody sees it when she's cooped up in her van. On runs, she finds that riding far closer to the edge than comfortable takes the clenching feeling out of her stomach, at least for a while.

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

Profiler - Red Ribbon's past makes her unnerved when she can't do her research beforehand. Her difficulty adapting to social improvisation often comes across as an odd inability to trust what others are saying, or in her own ability to make good decisions. Biocompatibility & Black Market Pipeline (Cyberware) - Red Ribbon is in the market for cyberware and sure knows where to get it. She doesn't really seem to be thinking about how much she's going to shred her essence.

Negative

Big Regret - Red Ribbon deeply regrets both how she allowed herself to facilitate indiscriminate murder, even if it was for the benefit of someone who helped take care of her. Moreover, she regrets intentionally turning a blind eye to anything that made her suspicious, lured by the relative comfort she lived in.

Distinctive Style - Red Ribbon's runner clothing is covered in stylish, angular red accents that match her hair, also dyed a deep red. The same accents are present on the pop-up gun of her MCT Fly-spy. Even dressed more casually, she always has a noticeable number of bright red accents to her style, through accessories or otherwise.

Poor Self Control (Thrill Seeker) - Red Ribbon likes to take risks in the heat of combat. The adrenaline is exhilarating - not much more to say about that.

Run History

NameGMMetaplotThreatDate of Run
Peace: Noblesse Oblige 1RobintonExtreme25 February 2086
E4 c5VilliersDeadly9 February 2086
Dead(er) HeadRobintonExtreme4 January 2086
House of HorrorsJ.R.Extreme22 November 2085
HopquestLHOGExtreme7 August 2085
Not Onotari's armsBulldogcExtreme19 July 2085
ShenanrigansTidanShockDeadly13 July 2085
Through the Red TapeTidanShockDeadly25 May 2085
Séquence en CascadeSarcarianExtreme19 May 2085
The Solvay EffectJohnMilk Run19 April 2085
The Great WaveAsmodeusThe ArrivalSemi-Prime, escalated to Prime22 March 2085
Hacking through the gateFangblade_Milk6 March 2085
420BPM THROUGH THE SKULLFangblade_Amhrain na PreachanDeadly4 March 2085
1.1 1-one6away.cafFangblade_An Anhedonic CodeHigh2 March 2085
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let Down Your BearSleeveyCompound InterestDeadly23 February 2085
Spray, Pray, and Co-PayjitCompound InterestHigh17 February 2085
Watership DownFangblade_Amhrain na PreachanMilk19 January 2085
LUNARECLIPSE+55Fangblade_Amhrain na PreachanDeadly17 January 2085
Alea Ecta EstFangblade_Deadly30 December 2084
MAKE A BAD CHOICEFangblade_Deadly28 December 2084
Replicant EncryptionAsmodeus28 December 2084
SWALLOW INTO INSANITYFangblade_Deadly19 December 2084
Special Delivery... for the Military!TidanShockArma Ex Machina
Rad Wars 2084
Extreme5 December 2084
Contrôle d'AccèsSarcarianRad Wars 2084Deadly22 November 2084
RevolutionsFangblade_Amatsu KazeDeadly19 November 2084
PULLTHETRIGGER+55Fangblade_High11 November 2084
Knock KnockAsmodeusSwarming SeasonDeadly10 November 2084
Noblesse ObligeFangblade_The Light Before We LandHigh6 November 2084
BANGYOURHEAD+55Fangblade_High2 November 2084
An average Ohio exterminationTidanShockArma Ex MachinaExtreme26 October 2084
DuvetFangblade_And Love You Shall Find
The Light Before We Land
Deadly24 October 2084
Killing WaveFangblade_22 October 2084
A slightly rainy day in KansasLotusSwarming SeasonHigh20 October 2084
Fort DumbassFangblade_And Love You Shall Find20 October 2084
Unhaunt My HouseKirkHigh15 October 2084
Are you a Bringer?LOV.EuphoriaDEADLY13 October 2084
So Goes Darkness Part 1Fangblade_And Love You Shall FindDeadly7 October 2084
Halloween KittyAsmodeusHail to the PumpkingHigh6 October 2084
They Left Her Buried in the Sandlov.euphoriaHigh4 October 2084
Building on BiometricsLHOGQuinn Connoway's Family MattersHigh1 October 2084
As Goes LightFangblade_When the hunters came to town
And Love You Shall Find
30 September 2084
Some Real Fancy RocksLHOGDeadly28 September 2084
Blitzkrieg BopFangblade_Medium27 September 2084
DawntrailFangblade_And Love You Shall FindHigh24 September 2084
SpotterFangblade_And Love You Shall FindDeadly22 September 2084
Everybody Wants To Be A Co-AuthorKirkHigh17 September 2084
Small EmbersAsmodeusDeadly15 September 2084
Wine Tasting in K-TownVilliersMedium10 September 2084
Fading by a ChanceDraknicDeadly8 September 2084
RemaniementZerreContre-RévolutionDeadly7 September 2084
Between a Port and a HardplaceDraknicMeidum25 August 2084
Finger Lickin' GoodVilliersThe C in UCAS is for CorruptionMedium19 August 2084

Affiliations

Contacts

Contact Connection Loyalty Archetype Profession Aspects Chips
Alessa P 4 3 Fixer Owner of The Daze The Daze, Shadow Connections, Ear to the Ground, Punk Rocker, Bootleggers Even
Dr. Henry Wallace 6 1 Custom(G,A,K,N) Cybertechnologist Cybertechnologist, Designer Deltaware, Cyber Snob, Embrace the Chrome, Biotechnologist, Black Market Pipeline, Cyber-Singularity Seeker Even
Lil Raj 5 2 Service Mechanic Mechanic, Vehicles, Drones, Flashy Vehicles, Chop Shop, Vehicle Enthusiast Even


Organizations

Allies

Enemies

In Character Information

Symbols and Signatures

Matrix Search Table

Threshold Result
1 Red Ribbon often offers advice on vehicle and drone purchases on hobbyist forums, and has apparently helped a few people out with repairs.
3 She's a member of a small matrix community dedicated to learning and practicing Cantonese.
6 There's an old, buried forum thread from years ago wherein a resident of Redmond expresses frustration at someone who's constantly flying a fly-spy around their windows, seemingly for fun. The resident apparently had to chase some 'scrawny elf chick' off the street. The area where this apparently took place was a pretty violent one, too.

Shadow Community Table

Threshold Result
1
3
5

Assensing Table

Threshold Result
1 Generally healthy. Mundane. Usually a bit anxious.
2 Multiple cranial implants, cyberears, and a full cyberleg.
3 Situational.
4 Essence 1.9475.
5 Narco geneware.

SINs

(Fake) Vivianne Price, UCAS, R4

  • Driver's License R4
  • Drone License R4
  • Restricted Cyberware License R4
  • Concealed Carry Permit R4
  • Automatic Weapons License R4

Appearance

Holly Spade is tall, even for an elf, with straight-backed posture and an expression that usually looks mildly worried. She has lightly freckled fair skin, green eyes, and blonde hair that she dyes a deep red. Her hair is swept over one side of her face, where it trails down to just below her shoulders, while the other side is buzzed or also long, depending on her tastes at the moment. Her facial features are sharp and angular, which only tends to exacerbate how nervous she looks. In terms of her build, she's thin - not quite fit enough to fairly be called lithe, but not unhealthy-looking either. Her left leg is a cyberlimb with red accents.

Clothing

She is almost never seen without a distinctive amount of red in her style. Her armored coat and suit, which she generally wears for running, have loud, angular red accents to them added down the arms and the torso, as well as a chaotic, tangled ribbon embroidered on the back. Likewise, she makes a point to include a notable amount of red in her more casual clothes, usually through accessories or by buying clothes in that main color. It stands out.

Matrix Persona

Holly's Matrix Persona carries the same red accents that her physical one does, though this time they're integrated into the persona's body itself, which is usually dressed just as well as she is in meatspace. Her face is shadowed by a red mask. The accents trail off from her and fade away, ethereal ribbons that match her pseudonym - or alternatively, are very on-the-nose, if you want to be sassy about it.

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