Corpse

Corpse

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Discord	peep_the_dictator#6484
Reddit	[1]
Metatype	SURGE Human/Dryad
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	0
Public Awareness	0
CDP	0
D.O.B.	04/07/2060
Age	26
Folder	[2]
Priority	Metatype - E Attributes - E Magic/Resonance - A Skills - B Resources - B
#Max IGs/Ascension	1
# Optional Infected powers allowed	0
Essence(Current/Max):	6/12
# Optional Drake powers available	Major Powers:0 or Minor Powers:0

Content Warnings

This character is a Bunraku escapee, meaning the following themes will be displayed. There is a sanatized version of his backstory above the full version. It is very short to keep a very tight veil over everything. Despite this, I do hope you enjoy the character.

- Heavily Veiled Sexual Abuse

- Kidnapping

- Loss of a person's agency

- Body Horror

- Human Trafficking

Character Information

Summary

Corpse is someone who has been biosculpted to resemble a marionette. He escaped one of Bonraku’s doll houses with extensive personal sacrifice, and seeks to free as many of the unwilling dolls as possible.

Goals

- Kill the man who kidnapped him.

- Help others in his situation.

- Reconstitute the corpse of his lover as an ally spirit.

- Find the man who rended his mind with the info-hazards.

CW Aware Background (Sanitized)

Basil was born and raised in the Alaskan UCAS where he had a loving childhood and a budding career. Though, getting caught up in a convention where the Red Dragon Association set up a plot to get back at the convention's organizers, he was kidnapped and made into a Bunraku. He awakened and escaped, and now runs under the alias of Corpse.

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Background

Growing Up

Basil grew up in Alaska, back before life got cold. His world wasn’t harsh or cruel like people like to say. He had parents. Decent ones. Xander and Rose weren’t complicated people, and Basil never needed them to be. They were present. Meals came hot and regular. Nights came quiet. He remembered that part most.

He liked small things. Puppets, mostly. Carved wood. Old plastic marionettes from secondhand shops that smelled like dust and mildew. The stillness of them appealed to him. Faces frozen in quiet, perfect expressions. He could spend hours working the strings, pulling joints into careful motion, making them dance until his hands ached.

There weren’t many places in his town for a boy like Basil to belong, but the small queer community folded him in without question. He didn’t need to explain himself there. He didn’t have to. He could exist, soft voiced, small, different. People understood without needing to say anything.

He worked hard, and a scholarship showed up, Basil thought his life would stay simple. He thought he could keep it that way.

Young Adult

Corporate promises don’t need to be cruel to kill something. Horizon taught him that. It wasn’t malice that sharpened Basil into a tool. Just process. Just efficiency.

He took the implants. Learned how to work systems. Basil wasn’t built for spotlights anyway. He worked backend. Did what was needed.

He met a girl there. Emma. She laughed softly and listened patiently. He never said what he felt, but he didn’t need to. She understood that much, at least.

She asked him to come to a cosplay convention with her once. Northern NAN. Some throwaway event where people wore bright wigs and bright smiles. He agreed.

They were taken from the parking lot before they even made it through the doors.

Pre-Runner Adulthood

They took his name first. Then the parts of him that made it matter. Personafix modules did the work quickly, erasing him line by line until there wasn’t much left to cut.

Surgeries followed. Bones broken. Skin shaped into what someone else wanted. He became a product. A marionette again, only this time the strings weren’t in his hands.

Though, sometime in this blur, he awakened. Making it very difficult to justify modding him any more.

Many things followed through the years, injuries that wouldn't heal.

He would’ve let himself fade, but Emma was there. Close enough that he could hear her breathing if he concentrated hard enough. Her mind was gone, but her body was still moving. Still obeying.

Then, something changed. Something to do with leylines and where the place was located.

Angry customers, damaged products. People shot dead. SURGEd individuals everywhere.

Emma stayed down.

The rage in Basil didn't. A rage he didn't recognize bubbled up from within among a number of other changes.

His body wouldn’t move, but his mind didn’t need it to.

The corpses did.

Binding what was left of them into something half-living, half-memory. Used their hands to cut his own apart, severing his hand so he could feed it into the ritual. A necro mage's reagent. It wasn’t clean magic. It wasn’t skilled. It was desperation. He tied her to himself with blood and hope and hate, and in doing so, he ruined whatever part of himself was still salvageable.

Pre-Haven

He crawled from the wreckage. Not literally. His body didn’t move anymore. The animated body he had at the time.

In Seattle, people started calling him Corpse. It started as a joke, a mage who didn’t show up to runs except as a spirit or drone wearing his voice. But the name stuck. Everything about him felt wrong to people who looked too close. The way his spirits moved. The way they remembered Emma’s posture when he wasn’t paying attention.

The real Emma... the body, not the spirit, he kept hooked to life support. Just to keep her from dying. He told himself he’d find a way to help her properly someday, but the programming in his head kept him from explaining why he cared.

His reputation grew. Some feared him. Some pitied him. Most just avoided him.

Though, as always, that was never the point.

Then, with a final exhale, Corpse entered Seattle after he was offered a job. The rest was history.

Things Explained

- Basil was a Bunraku for a Red Dragon Association in a building over in China that went up in flames after a lay-line mana-spike incident having to do with a rather large ritual. One of the Bunraku died after their SURGE caused their cyberware to violently combust after exposed wires met with synth-wood, this happened sometime in 2084. More Info

- Basil was kidnapped alongside a number of other people at a convention in the 2070's after several threats were made on the convention's organizers pressing them for cash. They didn't pay up, so they killed some of the convention goers and kidnapped others, leaving the convention to bleed out and die after the scandal was then leaked to the news. The creators of the event went missing 2 months after this event.

- Basil was brought into the Red Dragon Association as a Bunraku, but awakened soon after the first few cosmetic surgeries. Leaving them puzzled and deeply disappointing that they (quote) "ripped up a good mage". They tried to get him to perform magic with his personafix, but he was always resistant to do so. Leaving them to keep him as a high value asset inside the Bunraku asset, but never really releasing him in case he started to perform magic. Though, this is something Basil did out of a deep vendetta ingrained into who he was as a person.

- Emma is a mundane woman who was made to be a Bunraku alongside Basil, and was injured alongside him while the two were there on their tenure. She was saved by him, though she remains severely injured and cannot live on her own. She has Antipathy, as her sense of self wasn't so gravely injured by the personafix due to a high will. She is now a dependent that Basil works to support. Though she has stated on multiple occasions that she doesn't understand why he does this given that she knows he has no will of his own any longer.

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

- Biocompatibility (Cyberware)

- Erased

- Ex Att (Mag)

- History Is Not As Certain As We Are Taught

- Mentor Spirit (Raven + Mask)

Negative

- Blank Slate

- Dependent (Demanding)

- Phobia (Common, Moderate) [Physical Contact]

- Prejudiced (Specific, Outspoken) [Red Dragon Association]

- Quadriplegic

SURGE Qualities

Positive

- Glamour

- Metagenic Improvement

- Vermonasal Organ

Negative

- Berserker

- Cold-Blooded

- Impaired Attribute (Bod)

- Mood Hair

- Nocturnal

- Third Eye

Run History

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Affiliations

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
Axolotl	5	1	Fixer	Sneaky Snake	Metasapients, Aztechnology, Metaplanar Guide, Talislegging, Corporate Security, Magical Security	Even
Dr. Triboulet	4	2	Gear	Mortician/Talismonger (Necro-Magic)	Resurrectionist, Charles Triboulet: Reanimator, A Man of Class, Relax! I'm a doctor!, Overworked, Well-Stocked Medicine Cabinet, Memento Mori	Even

In Character Information

Matrix Search Table

Threshold	Result
1	N/A
3	N/A
6	N/A

Shadow Community Table

Threshold	Result
1
3
5

Assensing Table

Threshold	Result
1	Malnourished, Quadriplegic, A Void Where Feelings Should Be, Awakened
2	Cosmetic Surgery [Marionette], Cyber Genitalia
3	Control Rig (Alpha), Synthetic Left Hand (Alpha)
4	Mentor Spirit (Raven), Severe Biosculpting, Sleep Regulator
5	Metaposeur (Dryad)

SINs

Cassie Imegin [UCAS] - R5

Character Plot Hooks

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