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Date Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:59 pm
Subject: Character Backgrounds
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Feel free to add your background, or any note worthy (or even none-note worthy) information about your characters... likes, dislikes, kin, runners they're known to hang with, things along those lines.
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Date Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:41 pm
Subject: FLUXX Date Edited: Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:40 am (edits total: 1) Edited By: Punkette
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Character Name: Fluxx
Fluxx was born as Akira Fujira, an elf to human parents in Kyoto,Japan. Forced to leave the Japanese mainland, they opted to settle in the UCAS. She is 'nisei', i.e. pure Japanese descent, but outside of Japanese cultural upbringing.
She and a friend from high school, started a Japanese style girl band (ie. Puffy Amyumi), and gained some local popularity. Akira took on the nickname 'Fluxx', and her friend became 'Warpp' and their 'band' was known as FluxxWarpp. It wasn't long before they were 'discovered' by a promoter from Virgin Atlantic, and given a first single, then an album. They were considered to be climbing to the top when they were asked to do the theme song for a Saturday morning trideo animation, that soared to the top of the ratings.
FluxxWarps success was primarily among the junior high, and highschool crowds, mostly girls, but also popular among males of that age. The lyrical style was very much geared toward adolescent subjects. Fluxx, wasn't quite happy with that kind of theme, and when they were ready to do their second album about a year after the first, she insisted it include some songs that she wrote herself.
Fluxx's own lyrics, although still designed to appeal to the same demographic, were of a slightly darker nature, songs about loss, and pain. Her partner didn't like the songs, and though she played the instrumental part, Fluxx sang solo on these particular pieces.
They were surprisingly well received, and even musical critics saw something in the lyrics beyond the 'bubble gum mentality' of their previous album.
On her twenty-first birthday, they finished cutting their third album, of which Fluxx had written half the songs. These were darker even than the pieces on her previous album, and several of them were well out of the mainstream tastes of the adolescent clubber wannabe types that they had originally targeted with their music. She wrote songs about death, and pain, loss of friends, and other dark subjects, that were mostly beyond the experiences of teen girls.
Her hauntingly chanting singing voice (still singing solo on her own songs), gave these tunes an 'emotional reality' (as one critic wrote) that brought these experiences to life. One particular song 'Hiding in My Skull', seemed to be geared to rogue street life, and for a while was extremely popular among Shadowrunners of the day.
Warpp told Fluxx that she wanted to split. She had met someone, and her mind was on marriage and family, and the music was going in a diffferent direction than what they had started. She and Fluxx parted, with a hug, and remained friends.
Fluxx had a difficult time, selling the idea of herself as a solo artist. Critics were highly approving of her work, but her promoter had envisioned her as popstar idol, and was reluctant to try and recreate her image. After four years in the business, it almost seemed to her as if it were coming to an end...which is not much different than the lifespan of *most* teen idol bands.
There were some venues were she could solo her own songs, and she had a surprisingly steadfast following. She would occasionally write a new song, and include it in her shows, but without a record label recording it, the songs never caught on.
Her musical style changed over time, and she is now what she likes to call "outside the box". A sort of off beat combination of techno effects, and thrash metal, combined with her angst inducing, rough alto, very unlike anything previously heard before.
She caught a break when her old label Virgin Records contacted her. Virgin Atlantic had seen that she continued to attract audiences to small theeatres, even without a new recording in the last two years. Considering this, they decided that there was something there worth marketing, and soon she was in the studio again.
This time, there was no Warpp, no producer trying to steer her toward adolescents. This time it was all about Fluxx.
The album, "Fringe" went platinum in almost record time. Fluxx's personal writing, and her lyrical and musical style, reached people at all levels. Primarily, her fans seemed to be street types...gang members, shadowrunners, and others who were considered, or considered themselves, outside of the mainstream of today's society.
She enjoyed great successs for a year, including a major world tour.
Her new fan base took it as quite a shock when the news broke that her plane had gone down in the Rocky Mountains on her way to Seattle for the last concert of the Fringe Tour.
The first stories rported her as missing, then it broke that her body had been found, then other stories said she was alive, but in a coma.
Virgin Atlantic was curiously quiet, only verifying what they couldn't keep to themselves, and so it slowly came out that she had suffered clinical death, but was resuscitated after a *long* period of anoxia, and that she was in a coma. Extensive bodily reconstruction had been performed, and unless and until she recovered from her persistent vegetative state, there could be no news as to her future career or lack of it.
About a year ago, the news hit the world. Fluxx's body, her respirated, comatose body, was missing.....
Stories flew like leaves in the wind. Speculations, myths, sightings, .....and then slowly, bit by bit, the fervor died down.
It's been about a year since anyone in the news has spoken anything about her, and now there's a new Shadowrunner in town, Akira by name....
OOC NOTE: If any of you think you might recognize her (more likely her voice than her appearance) that's kewl. I'm not keeping this a big secret or anything. Right now, she's just waiting her time out to see if and when it's time to get back to the music bizz. For now, she's content to live the life that many of her greatest fans have been doing for years. But before you decide to recognize and shout FLUXX across teh sprawl or something, talk to me OOCly.
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Date Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:27 pm
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Title: Neophyte
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Date Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:20 am
Subject: A history and a future
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Character Name: Laurana
Born Lauralanthalasa Michelle Kanin to Dunathion and Erathia Kanin in Portland, TT, May 15, 2042.
For those of you who know her and those of you that don't, Laurana had a hard childhood. While her family was fairly wealthy her mother died in childbirth with her and she has always believed that her father blamed her for that. He was cold and distant to her always. While her older brothers were always perfect to Daddy all her efforts were for naught as it was never good enough. Thusly, as those of you who know her have seen, she starves for affection and bears great pains for losing those she cares for and considers dear and close friends. She came to Seattle to seek a new life and new dreams. But her ever continuing struggles to be accepted has greatly hampered her efforts to blend with the mean streets of the Metroplex. She has made many mistakes and has many pains that she seeks redemption for. Her greatest among these caused her to lose the first man she truly was in love with. While the pain of her loss is dulling only time will tell if it will ever truly heal. The reminder of this indescretion will always be with her though in the form of her two daughters, Faith and Hope. Thusly named as that is all that is giving her the will to soldier on believing that one day she will find happiness again. But she knows now that the damage she has done in Seattle is irrepairable and must leave to other places to seek a new life with her two daughters. Therefore, Laurelanthalasa Michelle Kanin bids farewell to Seattle and to her friends those that she still has and those that she has lost. Someday, after the pain is gone she may return.
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Date Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:48 am
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Character name: Desdemona
Desdemona was born in Berlin, Germany, and ran away from home at age four, fleeing for dear life from a mad and viciously abusive mother. Young Des survived on the streets of Berlin for a time before being discovered by "Helping Hand" orphanage, where she was raised by largely indifferent care providers. It was here she was given the name Desdemona, which in Greek means, "ill-fated one".
At age ten, Desdemona was tested along with the other girls in her home. The nature or purpose of this test was never disclosed, but within a week she and a small handful of her "sisters" were transported to a facility hidden deep in the mountains of Kyoto, Japan.
This facility was owned and operated by Risen Phoenix Intl., a company devoted publically to very little, but privately to training and loaning out highly skilled and deadly assassins to whomever would be willing to pay for them. Such an end was intended for Desdemona, and over the next ten years she was trained rigorously in the field of combat and provided with the most advanced cybernetic enhancement money could buy. It was during these training excersises that she first acclimated herself to the act of murder-- she was forced in several sparring matches to take the lives of her less fortunate and skilled "sisters".
At age twenty she was "graduated" and set out to make her way in the world. Although most Phoenix agents hunt in packs, Desdemona was chosen to be a "satellite" operative, which meant she was allowed the latitude to roam free within her assigned location, drumming up business and good PR wherever she could, and all that was required of her was that a small percentage of earnings went back to Phoenix.
And so Phoenix set Desdemona loose on unsuspecting Seattle. And the rest is history.
EDIT: And by the way.
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Date Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 2:31 pm
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Nice One, Dezi. Very Good.
Khareesa
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Date Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 5:20 am
Subject: Paladin- The White Knight Date Edited: Mon Mar 20, 2006 2:05 am (edits total: 1) Edited By: Khareesa
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Character Name: Paladin
Born: Christopher Michael McCloud, August 25, 2029, Boston, MA, UCAS to Kevin and Brenda McCloud
Paladin was the first of his family born in the United States (now UCAS) as his father and mother immigrated from Ireland and Scotland respectively. At the age of 18 he enlisted in the UCAS Navy where he served for eight years. Six of those was as a member of one of the Navy's elite SEAL teams where he was trained in multiple weapons and recieved extensive cyber-modification. During his two tours of duty he married his high school sweetheart and had four children but their marriage wasn't meant to last as she couldn't adapt to be a military wife knowing that his life was in danger every time he went on a mission. In 2056 he went on his last operation as a SEAL into the Chicago CZ (aka Bug City) where he saw 8 members of his 12 man team die horribly at the hands (or mandibles rather) of the insect spirits infesting Chicago. After finishing his tour of duty he entered the private sector as a security consultant being hired by Glendale Inc., a small subsidiary of Mitsuhama. During his tenour there he battled constantly with his superiors over having insufficient budgeting to properly secure his facility. Lo and behold it was hit by a team of shadowrunners and he was blamed for it and fired. After leaving there he contacted an old decker buddy from the Navy and paid him well to completely wipe out any record of his existence, thus dropping his identity and taking a new one. Paladin, a champion of the people...yeah right.
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Date Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:38 am
Subject: Khareesa De'nesseera - The Dark Lady
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Character Name: Khareesa
Born Khareesa Elizabeth De'nesseera, December 25, 2045 (approximate), Los Angeles, CFS
Khareesa knows little of her birth parents as she was raised in a children's shelter for as long as she can remember. Angry at being ridiculed because of her unique looks she ran away from there at the age of 10 to live on the streets. She quickly learned the skills needed to survive until at the age of 14 a wandering street mage made her aware of her innate magical abilities. He took her under his wing and trained her to harness her power. However he had ulterior motives and attempted to force himself upon her. Fending him off she fled only to return later to seek her vengeance upon him. She again began living on the streets until just after her 18th birthday a Hollywood simsense agent found her and offered her the oppurtunity to become a Simsense star. Figuring she had nothing to lose she accepted his offer until she found out that his "idea" for her fame was as a Simsense star in the adult film industry. Upon discovering this she left Los Angeles and made her way to Seattle, a place where she felt that she could blend into the dark shadows and not be noticed.
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Date Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 5:02 pm
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Come on Vile. You mean to tell me you're not willing to share the background of any of your characters? Don't be shy!
EDIT: Fun Facts--
* Desdemona enjoys very little outside work, and in fact does not even sleep so much as occasionally "rest". She has been known on occassion to hang out with friends at Hooligans and get a little toasted, and she's got Minesweeper secretly installed on her PDA.
* Sunsets remind her of Japan, her true home.
* Although she enjoys the act of killing she refuses to do it for free, unless in self defense. Of course it's more of a strict guideline than a rule...
* Desdemona has abysmally low self esteem. She sees herself as a product, manufactured by Phoenix, and a part of her recognizes her occupation as shameful. But she can't stand the thought of regressing to wage-slavery.
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Title: Runner
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Joined: 25 Mar 2006
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Date Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:02 am
Subject: Date Edited: Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:05 pm (edits total: 4) Edited By: Talos
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EDIT: Removed.
Just ask ICly if you really care to know.
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Title: Neophyte
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Date Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:56 pm
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I'm surprised more of the old farts aren't posting backgrounds.
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Date Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 6:10 am
Subject: The Fixer
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Name: Liam Alyosius O'Bannon
Age: 31
Liam was the second oldest of the O'Bannon clan born to Emma and Patrick O'Bannon in 2035 in the small town of Derry, about an hour west of Dublin, TNN (Tir Na Nog). He grew up with four brothers Marcus, Patrick, Seamus, Connor, ibe sister Molly and his close first cousin Nezzix. He had a talent for numbers at an early age which led to him recieving a scholarship to attend college in a suburb of Dublintown. At age 18, he left and was in the process of being groomed to be a corporate decker/analyst when the Trouble happened. Apparently, his Da's oldest and best friend, Tim O'Leary had goblinized into an ork. The local Baliff of County Cork took it upon himself to frame Tim a local store owner for rape and murder of an elven female. Tim was 'shot while resisting arrest'. When his Da protested to the Sheriff, his house was burnt to a cinder and the family was homeless for a bit. But the O'Bannons proved resourceful. The boyos came home from thier various pursuits and went to war. An old saying is 'Never give an Irishman cause for revenge'. Liam contacted a friend of a friend of a friend and arranged to be 'zeroed out'. Once he no longer existed in the electronic systems of the world, he became a member of the IRA. He underwent massive surgery becoming faster and deadlier. He spent many hard months learning how to fight and survive in an urban environment. Then about a year after he learnt of what happened, he showed up at the Sheriff's house with his brother Patrick and a LOT of ammuniton for his guns. It was the start of what would wind up being a guerilla war that lasted for almost another year. Liam waded in the blood of 'those racist pricks'. He killed more than 50 Tir agents and government officials, prompting a million nuyen bounty on his head. He realized that if he kept at it two things would happen one, he would turn into a full on sociopath and two, his family would wind up dead or in prison. So, he and Patrick caught a suborbital for Seattle and started over.
Once he got in Seattle, he sent for his family, but only Molly showed up. Liam got involved with a Tir Tangire elf crimelord named Azrael who had convinced him that Molly's troll paramour Kremlin was up to no good. Now, you have to understand that Liam lives by a few hard and fast rules: Never lie to anyone, don't care about race, and always help a friend. One of his biggest flaws is his nuclear temper. Kremlin had approached him as a friend, but once he thought that Kremlin had lied, he snapped.
He kidnapped his own sister but once the truth came out, he helped engineer the downfall of Azrael. He told everything he knew to Kremlin and helped him to bring down Azrael as the head of the Blackguard.
From there, he and Chance, a close decker friend that he had made formed a plan to create a crew of their own to help out new runners. Thus Hooligans was born. The pair worked hard to make contacts and establish good reputations for themselves and a few months later purchased an old bowling alley through a dummy corporation. They turned it into part bowling alley, part Irish pub and part headquarters for their new crew. Liam quickly rose in the sprawl from a scumrunner to one of the hottest fixers ever. He made deals with everyone and tried to be fair. But a rogue element called the Legion almost put an end to that. First off, they tried to blow up Seattle by detonating the reactor in the basement of Renraku. Through Liam's actiona and those of Molly and several others, disaster was averted. Secondly, the Legion somehow got their hands on an orbital weapon and vaporized half of the pub. The Fixer, as he became known, dropped out of the public eye for awhile and decided that he would start over again so that his new 'family' the Hooligans would not suffer like his blood family had. He began investing money in biotechnology and bleeding edge software in the NAN. He began taking 'business trips' and shifted his power to his lieutenants, namely the giant physad King and Liam's first cousin Nezix so that when he bowed out, it would barely cause a ripple.As of this report, the Fixer has left the sprawl to live the good life off his ill gotten gains.
Likes: Russian Music Hour, Harps, BM and STK weapons, APDS ammo, Marlboro cigarettes, partying and running hard
Dislikes: Magical Shaman assassins, liars, and racists
Kin: Molly O'Bannon
Runners and Friends of Note: King, Nezzix, Chance, Desdemona, Talos, Dmitri, and the rest of the Hooligans, Lancelot, Daedalus, Vile, Smokey
Quote: 'Howya Sprawlies and who needs some fione firepower this fione evening?'
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Date Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 11:56 am
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Character Name: Jubei Kibagami
Birthplace: Osaka, Japan
As a child Jubei learned of ways of the Samurai during Japan's feudal era. Envying their strict code of honor he saught instruction in the martial arts and swordcraft. At the age of 18 he was hired by a low-level exwcutive of Renraku whom he quickly discovered he disliked due to the man's lack of any honor. Leaving this field of occupation he became a freelance contract killer. Though he felt it was a dispicable line of work he had little talent elsewhere so he established a strict code in considering what type of contracts he took or refused. Over the next five years he gained a reputation as one of Osaka's deadliest hitters and perhaps even in all of Japan. The uniqueness of his work was that he eliminated his targets using only a pair of katanas he wields. The last contract he was sought for was issued by Oyabun Taku of the Red Tiger Yakuza. This contract was for him to assassinate the wife and son of one of Oyabun Taku's rivals. This went against Jubei's code and he refused the contract. However, the oyabun was angered by this and hired another hitter to eliminate Jubei and his wife, Keiko. While Jubei killed this hitter he was unable to save his wife before she was murdered. Afterward he sought his vengance against Oyabun Taku and killed him. Once this was done he decided to depart Osaka for he knew that Oyabun Taku's allies would seek him out and he no longer had an anchor to keep him there since he lost his beloved Keiko. He wandered Japan for several months doing odd jobs here and there before departing for San Francisco and from there to Seattle where the rest of his story now unfolds.
Note: I will go into further detail of his last days in Osaka here on the simsense rig as soon as I finish it.
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Title: Fixer
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Date Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 9:20 pm
Subject: Neato
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The deadliest hitter in all of Japan.
Studly.
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Title: Fixer
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Date Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 9:28 pm
Subject: Why? Date Edited: Tue May 23, 2006 9:41 pm (edits total: 1) Edited By: Play
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Hey all. I have a question after reading all of these backgrounds.
Why did characters become runners? That doesn't look to have really been answered. I mean, one person didn't want to be a wage slave so they became a runner. One guy became a contract killer because he didn't like his boss at his corp job.
I doubt people would turn to a life of crime and killing on a whim. Shadowrunning seems to me, while popular on the trid, a profession almost nobody is going to actually pursue.
Why are these characters actually going that route, with all the training and income required to get good enough to become more than a wanna-be?
Ok, two questions. How did they actually get good at what they do?
For the record before somebody gets all defensive, I didn't say nobody answered these questions.
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