Heartbreak

Heartbreak

Rigger/Medic
Least Dysfunctional Grad Student
Discord	@discogoblin#9660
Reddit	https://www.reddit.com/user/Discowhor
Metatype	Human
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	0
Public Awareness	0
CDP	4
D.O.B.	6/4/2060
Age	26
Folder	[Drive URL Link]
Priority	Metatype - D Attributes - C Magic/Resonance - E Skills - B Resources - A
#Max IGs/Ascension	1

Character Information

Summary

Fatima Kumar is a dead woman walking, a cheap designer baby whose body is slowly falling apart. In order to live she requires constant support from in-built cybernetics, along with frequent doses of a fiendishly expensive drug. Even still, her life expectancy is measured in single digits. When she was younger she was something of a star, an academic whiz-kid thriving in the face of adversity. Now she's the definition of a burnout. With no scholarship, no job, and a monstrously expensive illness, she's forced to risk what's left of her life playing doctor for groups of criminal psychopaths. Or, as her fixer calls it, shadowrunning. If she'd known this would happen she would've majored in English.

Goals

• Finally get that stupid doctorate
• Get a super cushy research job
• Eventually find a way to heal her body

Background

Designer babies are a common enough thing these days. Almost everyone above a certain class gets some level of augmentation before birth: tweaks to their appearance, protection against disease, and in some cases, pre-cultured bioware to give them an early leg up. Even among the most conservative corpos, natural births have fallen out of style. Of course, these mods always come with some inherent measure of risk; a dice roll, however unlikely, that tweaking one gene will lead to the collapse of another. Reputable clinics are very careful with what they change, and always make sure that their clients are aware of the danger. BetterNetics Inc., on the other hand, promised their kids would be CEOs. Fatima Kumar's parents bought this hook, line, and sinker, and spent an obscene amount of money on the company's "executive package". With a photographic memory, enhanced cerebellum, and extensive beauty augs to boot; the unborn Fatina was poised for great things. Both her parents and the company were already congratulating themselves on the win. Then the problems started, and there were a lot of problems.

The neural augmentation worked, but at the cost of pretty much everything else. Fatina's heart, lungs, and kidneys were almost completely non-functional, requiring round-the-clock maintenance from specialized machines. She was horribly frail, prone to bruising at the slightest touch, and dangerously susceptible to all kinds of disease.

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

• Prototype Transhuman - Heartbreak was, quite literally, bred to be a genius, with specially cultivated bioware to enhance her neural processes. These augmentations also allow her to interface with machines through touch, by way of a knockoff MCT biolink.

• Smart Cookie (Analytical Mind, College Education, Speed Reading, Photographic Memory): Genetics mean nothing if you don't put in the work, and Heartbreak's done nothing but. She is academically brilliant at the cost of everything else.

• Subtle Pilot - During her stint as a child star, she got pretty good at hiding from reporters.

• Insured - Not strictly a mechanical quality, but it is worth mentioning that Heartbreak subscribes to DocWagon gold. Better safe than sorry!

Negative

• Held Together with Hope (Infirm 3, Mild Allergy (Soy), Asthma): To put it bluntly, Heartbreak has the constitution of a Mayfly. She's allergic to most foods, can barely walk without assistance, and needs constant support from her implants to stay alive.

• Pretentious (PSC Attention Seeking, DYJCMD): There is no such thing as a well adjusted child star, much less one who was constantly praised as a genius. Heartbreak both resents those around her and constantly seeks their approval.

• SINner (UCAS): She's working on getting that corpo SIN, okay?

Run History

Name	GM	Metaplot	Threat	Date of Run
Haunt My House	Fangblade_		High	31 January 2085
Fly, Little Blackbird	Fangblade_	Amhrain na Preachan	Medium	24 January 2085

Affiliations

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
Dr. Aditya Pal	2	1	Fixer(N,K,G,A)	Study of Religion and Awakened Individual at UW	Burning the Midnight Deepweed, Magically Acquired Information. Nah, It Was Part of My Dissertation., Miracles are just Magic. I know, I study it., I need that for (political) SCIENCE!, Drugs are actually magical though. Trust me, I'm a doctor.	Even
Ameline Laurent	4	2	Custom(A,N,K,G)	Docwagon HTR Pilot	HTR, Solid Reputation, Mercenary Connections, Angel of Mercy, Flight Clearance	Even

In Character Information

Matrix Search Table

Threshold	Result
1	Huh, looks like she's got a wikipedia page.
3	Huh, looks like that page has a "public scandals" tab
6	Huh, looks like she's the product of incredibly sketchy genetic engineering

Shadow Community Table

Threshold	Result
1
3
5

Assensing Table

Threshold	Result
1
2
3
4
5

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)
Extremely in debt	Heartbreak owes, at a minimum, hundreds of thousands of nuyen to various hospitals and schools. She's given up hope of ever paying them off, but if the chance to do so arises, she'd do just about anything for it.
Aspect 2
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Aspect 5