Saint

Saint

Razorgirl Street Ronin
Righteous Blade for Hire, Fight Pit Ringer
Swordslinger, Fistslinger, Buzzkill at Parties
Discord	@jit
Reddit	[1]
Metatype	Elf
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	0
Public Awareness	0
CDP	36
D.O.B.	October 14, 2063
Age	21
Folder	[2]
Priority	Metatype - D Attributes - B Magic/Resonance - E Skills - C Resources - A
Theme Song	Slim Pickens Does the Right Thing and Rides the Bomb to Hell - The Offspring

Character Information

Summary

Very angry razorgirl who's trying her best. Her best often consists of callous murder, if she thinks the target deserves it. Someone should probably give her a hug.

Goals

• Identify, Find, and Execute the Person or People Who Killed Her Family
• Find and Execute the Woman and Gang Who Sold Her Soul When She Was No Longer Useful
• Find and Execute the Organizer of the Fight Pit that Converted Her to an FLR Razorgirl
• Cry, Just One More Time, So She Knows She Still Can

Background

Patricia Love never knew what her mother did at her corporate job, save to know that it made some very rich men much richer, and that it made their cozy little family life possible in the hellscape of the DFW Sprawl of the CAS. Unfortunate, then, that internal politics began to fall unfavorably against an elf in the workforce. Even more unfortunate that these culminated in a one-way transfer to a sister-branch in the UCAS, the Seattle Sprawl, and yet more misfortune as her employment was terminated scant months afterward, her corporate SIN and those of her family burned, her options depleted immediately to none. The Redmond Barrens were the nearest refuge she could find, at least among several of the overtaxed shelters and soup kitchens of the area.

Patricia, nearly thirteen by that point, did not adjust well. Dropped suddenly into the life of a Redmond street rat, she began to lash out, blaming her mother unjustly for the injustice done to her. Sneaking out, fist-fighting those who cat-called her, or reserving blades for those with even harsher words for those with pointed ears. Even this, however, eventually became comfortable. She made some few friends of convenience, the kind often found on the street. She tagged walls and learned to skateboard and picked up quickly where the worst of Redmond lived and what the boundaries of her new life were. She was a blossoming street urchin, destined for mediocre things.

It was by chance that she lived near quite a few other street rats vying to be kings of Redmond. Violent clashes between Chrome Crash and Red Ledger became a regular occurrence, and it wasn't uncommon for her little crew to be tapped every now and then as gophers for either side, dead drop delivery girls, and so on. She stayed always at a distance, though. Someone else's fight, and never her own.

Of the two, Red Ledger paid more, and had better drop points too. From an outsider's perspective, the sloppy chrome of a ragtag street gang was being rapidly outpaced for turf against Red Ledger's burgeoning enterprise. Desperation sets in, with conditions like that. Sloppiness becomes unforgivable mistake. Red Ledger, cunningly, had been operating out of a homeless shelter for some of their operations. Bribes kept the staff quiet and the users clothed, and gave good optics in the community beside, and in return, they received a convenient place to stash goods for drop-off and pick-up, guarded by public image.

When she was fifteen, a girl not that much older than her made a decisive call. Spying Patricia's face entering the shelter, and knowing of her past work with Red Ledger, she told her crew what she knew was true, (that Red Ledger had been operating a good chunk of their drug trade using this shelter as a key node in their distribution network), and what she suspected based on Patricia's presence, (that Red Ledger was also utilizing residents to get cheap and easy eyes-and-ears on the ground and into Chrome Crash's own affairs). Despite her reluctance to move ahead with that information, the call was made by her adopted father and those above her.

Patricia Love returned from a night of raising Hell to the smoking crater of a shelter. Even now, she doesn't know the final resting place of her family.

Despair made her weak, and the Barrens eat the weak alive. So, instead, she turned to that which made her strong, that which had helped her survive until now: rage.

She joined Red Ledger, who were happy enough to have her on full time. Feisty though she was with her hands and a knife, she still had the benefit of youth and the veneer of innocence to lower peoples' guard. She was given a handgun, "What real gangers use," she was told, and given assignments between her drekwork. Track down this person here. Lure them out - lie about missing a cat, or losing an older brother. Shoot them as soon as the opportunity presented itself. Red Ledger would cover her. Red Ledger would protect her. Windfall would protect her. And she would be empowered to fight those who had taken the lives of her family and the last of her former life away from her. For years she operated this way - until Chrome Crash caught on.

One evening, she returned not with shaking hands and a smoking barrel but with a trauma patch slathered across her shoulder. Waiting for her at the designated location for her current target wasn't the man himself, but an IED concealed in a dumpster. The explosion had taken her right arm clean off, and shredded her right leg. Ledgers street docs stabilized her, though couldn't save her limbs.

At eighteen, she had become worthless to the crew that had saved her, and though this woman had sworn to protect her, Windfall's loyalty could only be bought. Under the table, she was sold, and put into the care of an enterprising fight pit ringmaster.

Liam O'Malley had a vision - a razorgirl to call his very own. A pretty thing, like a rose with thorns, that could draw the crowds and stack the deck in his favor. A ringer he could put in whenever he wanted, to make sure the house could always win. She was gorgeous, if a bit fiery when not doped up on pacifiers, and already missing limbs too. What a bargain, to make his FLR dream reality, ne?

The next years were a blur for her. A whirlwind of surgery and pain and memoryless violence. Though they'd fitted her with a skilljack, it was barely needed - she picked up old street fighting habits as though she'd never needed a gun at all. As an attraction in the Barrens, O'Malley could have done no better, so long as their chrome rose never fell short of the personafix used to make her dumb and compliant.

That it only took three years should be counted as a miracle.

Shipments are delayed sometimes, even those within the tightly coordinated supply lines of the Finnigan Family. Rations need be made, and even the strongest pfix won't last forever. When chains binding minds rust over and become weak, even souls long held passive can burst free with the strength of seeking freedom.

A man in the ring with her begs for her mercy. He needs to feed his family, he says. She doesn't know if it's true - and in fact, the chip in her brain is telling her for sure that it isn't. She tells it, for the first time she can manage to, to shut up, and the waning persona in her brain snaps under the pressure.

She tears through the steel cage, through the crowd, and into the bouncers, smashing skulls against brick. She twirls, and her sharpened eyes glare straight for the organizer's office. A monster's chrome hands shred straight through a harried ocean of flesh and credsticks until she reaches the office - and finds nobody. A swinging back door, labeled "FIRE ESCAPE," paints the obvious path of his exit, though no alarm sounds, and a quick dash outside reveals nothing of where the man may have gotten away to.

She ripped open the safe, carelessly dropped the credsticks at her would-be opponent's feet, and walked away with only one driving thought in her heart. This isn't about vengeance, she insisted. There are just some people who should be dead.

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

• Indomitable / Redliner - When she hits the brink, she pushes harder. Her body is a tool that she will happily break, if that's what she needs from it.

Negative

• Driven (Revenge) / Code of Honor: Avenging Angel - See her goals above. She will also pursue this in regard to anyone else participating in exploitative hierarchies of power and exploitation of the powerless. She'll claim it's for a greater good, and she'll even try to adhere to it, but the truth is that she is an angry child lashing out.
• Impassive - It might be the years of being drugged up on BTLs and personafix to keep her docile, or it might be the trauma of back-to-back life-changing violence, but either way, she's basically numb to the worst of it now, and kind of forgets what it's like not to be.
• Phobia (Common, Mild) (Using/Holding Guns) - Her hands shake when she does, and she doesn't really know why, other than to know for sure that she doesn't like using them. Tell her that it's because they're what she used when she first took a life, and she'll show you what she plans to use when she takes her next. (NOT MECHANICALLY ENFORCED)
• Social Stressor (Cyberware Clinics/Ripperdocs) - Though the memories are blacked out, she'll often dream of being cut apart, arms and legs and eyes. Dissected like a frog to intertwine her nerves with wires. Street docs aren't well known for their bedside manner after all, least of all those on a ganger's payroll. These places put her on edge.

Run History

Name	GM	Metaplot	Date of Run
Piscine Plunder for Gator!	Elayne		12 May 2085
The Fire Undying	Sarcarian		17 April 2085
Hold on for me	TidanShock	The Arrival	4 April 2085
El Diablo Cazador De Hombres	Asmodeus	Meatgrinder	2 March 2085
Orc EO Eviction	LHOG		1 March 2085
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let Down Your Bear	Sleevey	Compound Interest	23 February 2085
Chain Mail	Sleevey	La Famille Du Peintre	10 February 2085
Finnigan's Wake	LHOG		25 January 2085
Working for the Man's Widow	LHOG		22 January 2085
Herding a Bear	LHOG		8 January 2085
A Wolf In Wolf's clothing?	Bulldogc	Trophäenjagd	6 January 2085
Redmond Rage	Sample Text	Compound Interest	31 December 2084
OMEDETOU+55	Fangblade_		29 December 2084
Another Gear run 1	Draknic		26 December 2084
The Shadowrun Before Corpmas	OrionsRequiem		24 December 2084

Affiliations

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
Alex "Good'ol" Samson	6	1	Fixer	Fixer	Money Laundry, Haggler, Word On The Street..., Antiques, I Know An Expert, I Have A Bridge To Sell Ya!, Debt Collector, Loan Shark, Take No Wooden Nickles	Even
8ball	1	1	Service	Decker	Data hoarder, Metahuman Interest	0
Exeunt	1	2	Service	Street Doc	Past Paranoia, Critical Condition, Metahuman Jury-Rigger, Cyberdoc	Even
Saint Nick	2	2	Gear	"Santa Claus"	Blissfully Unaware, KRIME Konnections, Milk and Cookies, Spirit of the Season, We Got Guns	Even
Gator	4	1	Custom(A, N, K, G)	Biggest, Baddest Alligator this side of the Equator	See you later, Alligator, Learned From The Best, See You, Swamp Cowboy, “Is that a gator with a sniper rifle?”, “Is it wiring an explosive??”, “Why won’t it die?”, “Did it bring friends?”, “Holy Dre-”	Even
Vee-Jay	2	1	Networking	Bouncer/Doctorate Student	We live in a society!, The List, Sociological Education, Bullied Bouncer, Versed in Venues	Even

Relationships with NPCs

• Alex "Good'ol" Samson: A louse. A useful one, though. He tells her what to do and where to go when the money gets tight. Completely impersonal - she is a tool to him, and she is not yet a sharp enough tool to take his hand when he slips.
• 8ball: Some dork she ran into on the street. She's not so up to date on computers, and so was introduced through a mutual contact. He's come in handy finding people, just not the ones she wants. Largely cold and barebones toward one another.
• Exeunt: An old Chrome Crash street doc she tracked down with the intent to dispense justice. After hearing his pleas and his commitment to having changed his ways, she took pity on him and let him live. They now enjoy a largely businesslike relationship with few pleasantries - still, their shared past, however slight, lifts their bond.

Organizations and Reputation

Allies

• N/A

Enemies

• Black Chrysanthemum Triad: -5
  • OMEDETOU+55

Street Cred

• N/A

Notoriety

• N/A

In Character Information

Matrix Search Table

Threshold	Result
1	A feel good story of several soup kitchens, homeless shelters, and food banks in the Redmond area that have received thousands of nuyen in donations in recent months from a mysterious girl decked out in chrome. She does so without a word, apparently - organizers have taken to calling her a saint for her selflessness.
3	Records of a matrix marketing eyecatch on the seedier parts of the web advertise a fight pit's newest attraction, a chromed out cutie elven razorgirl polished to the nines. Her expression is blank, dissociated. Knowledgeable eyes can guess the influence of various BTLs meant to pacify users.
6	Records of an old corporate picture on "Bring Your Daughter to Work Day." One of the little elves, no older than ten or eleven and perched on her father's shoulders, would bear a shocking resemblance to Saint herself if she weren't smiling so brightly. Her face is tagged in the metadata as 'Patricia Love.'

Shadow Community Table

Threshold	Result
1
3
5

Assensing Table

Threshold	Result
1	Saint is fit and healthy, the parts of her that aren't kitted out in chrome anyway. She almost always projects only a sliver of dull, almost numb annoyance, with less common bursts of outright fury.
2	Though it might be more easily seen just by looking, Saint has two full cyberarms, customized to fit her frame. Hidden behind her long hair, she also has two ports, a datajack and a skilljack, installed along the back of her neck. Her eyes are dull, and when assensed, plainly read as cyberware.
3	Saint's legs, again more obviously noticed with plain sight, are both customized alpha grade, as is the R1 Wired Reflexes intertwined with her nervous system. Her essence is thin.
4	Saint appears to have no bioware or betaware. Essence 0.250, Magic N/A, Force N/A
5	Saint appears to have no deltaware, gene treatments, or nanotech. No chronic illness seems to afflict her physically. She is not a technomancer.

SINs

Alyssa Beaton (Fake Rating 3, UCAS)

• Fake Restricted Augmentation License (Rating 3)
• Fake Weapon License (Rating 3)
• Fake Bounty Hunter's License (Rating 3)

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)
Chrome Crash Salvage Job	Chrome Crash isn't wiped out...? Saint has another target on her list. She'll finish what Red Ledger started, if she has to.	OMEDETOU+55
Whither the Black Flower Blooms	The Black Chrysanthemum is actively looking for Saint, but doesn't know who she is. Though rash, she shockingly does take basic steps toward opsec, though a driven triad such as the Black Chrysanthemum may be able to make headway.	OMEDETOU+55
Finn-again	Liam O'Malley's big fight pit project has escaped. Whether he chooses to cover this up or clean up his mistake is anyone's guess. Saint, for her part, will try to kill any Finn she sees.	TBD

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.