DD – Hacker/Secondary Face

Street Alias: "DD"
Fake SIN Name: Desirée DeMoins
Real Name: Debora Carter
Age: 20
Origin: Lousiana, CAS
Nationality: CAS
Metatype: Human (Caucasian)
Sex: Female
Location: L.A.
Height: 1.75 meters
Weight: 60 kg
Hair: Color changes depending on latest fad
Eyes: Color changes depending on latest fad
Lifestyle: As hip as she can afford

Character:
DD has a need to feel popular and wanted. She's usually projecting a confident front, but not as secure of herself as she would like to be, and unconsciously craves praise. "Style over Substance" is a weakness of hers, she's prone to judge people by appearance. She's not the confrontational type (although can appear so), and easily follows orders as long as she feels appreciated.
While she's not a pacifist, she's not a cold-blooded killer either, but capable to rationalise killing, especially if in self-defense, or as vengeance. She's very keen on paying her debts, both in money and favors, and therefore loyal to people who did not con her (or don't get caught doing it). DD is not naive or innocent, but even after her time in New Orleans she’s not as hardened as other runners.
She’s a bit queasy when it comes to magic, despite magic being „hip“ in the entertainment sector.

Motivation for running the Shadows:
DD is a new arrival to L.A.'s sprawl, wanting to make her big break in L.A.'s showbusiness - and thinks shadowrunning is the fastest way to stardom, or at least to get the contacts and the P2.0 ratings needed in the industry.
DD grew up on trideo, sims, and lately the new live feeds from runs, so while she hasn't been to L.A. yet, she thinks she knows some of its scene, or "beat". She has done some shadow work in New Orleans already, but that was often minor stuff (courier stuff, some „find out what he knows through pillow talk“, hacking a commlink left on the nightstand or an isolated home computer, and similar stuff).

Description:
While originally of average appearance, DD has had extensive cosmetic surgery and now looks striking - if one finds the clichee "human movie starlet" build and face attractive. She changes her hair color often, and plans to use a disguise (goggles) and distinctive haircolor (green) on runs.

History:
DD grew up in Loisiana in a middle class family. Her mother was a creole, her father was a texan. Both parents are still alive, as is her brother, currently serving as a marine in the Navy. Her parents work for a local corporation in middle management/personal ressources.
Of average height and looks, DD failed to make the cheerleader squad in her high school years. She compensated by moving to the local computer/hacker scene, in an attempt to "be the most popular in a niche instead of a wallflower in the mainstream", with so-so success. She did pick up her hacking skills there, aided by an interest in the net since she was little. Once she was out of high school, she was supposed to go to college. Instead she raided her college fund's first year payment, faking her mother's access code, and ran away to buy some cosmetic surgery, implants, a new identity and a ticket to L.A. Of course, she had not enough money to pay for all that, so she got the cosmetic surgery and some implants first, then worked as a callgirl in New Orleans to pay for the rest, and brushing up on her skills, before finally making it to L.A.
She picked the name of her new SIN from a french-canadian SimSense Starlet from the 2050s named “Desirée Desire�.

Notes:
I only took 2 contacts, none of them in L.A. since the basic layout of the campaign said the runners were new arrivals. I assume DD got a name to contact for work in L.A. from her New Orleans contact. If needed for the run set up, one can replace the Blogger with a fixer or Johnson in L.A.
The Mafia contact may be a bit high-powered, but he’s in New Orleans, and he’s not that loyal – DD’s leash is simply a bit longer than those of his other employees, but the mob still has its hooks in her.

Skills I kept at 3 or lower (with the exception of hacking), though cyberware compensates somewhat. DD is starting out.

Armor is dependent on the situation, ranging from none or Leather Jacket (2/2) to “Second Skin� (4/0) (for meetings and such, to make an impression) to Urban Explorer Jumpsuit (6/6) (for runs where people shoot at her).

Role:
DD can serve two roles, although won’t probably excell in any. I built her with the L.A. setting in mind, especially the P2.0 scene and their runner (reality) shows, hence her motivation, gear, and fashion sense.
She should be able to hack and run matrix cover decently, though she’s no specialist. She should also be able to use the media angles of the L.A. scene – she has a SimRig, cybereyes, and the skills to edit recordings from runs for publication/sale, which should fit the setting.
She can also act as a second face, with her etiquette and social skills.
In a combat she’s not that effective, lacking IPs and skills.

I uploaded some renders of DD, with “civilian clubbing clothes�, “runner meeting clothes� (second skin outfit) and “Run Clothes� (Jumpsuit):

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Contacts: (9 BP)

Emanuel Baglista (New Orleans Mafia Lt., Connection 4, Loyality 2)
Emanuel runs the escort service DD worked for during her time in New Orleans. He also provided her with some of her implants, and set up the loans she took to pay for them (Mostly part of his regular work for his other girls).
Emanuel is a “businessman in a discrete family business�, as he calls himself with some irony, and a member of the New Orleans Mob. While he is not above sampling his “stock� – and did so regularily with DD – he’s a Family member and profit comes before his personal desires. He has a slight fixation with cleaning – he can’t stand dirt or smells. He dresses in dark suits, with the only touch of color being a new tie each day. He’s 37 years old, 1.8 meters tall, and of average, muscular build. Good “human ressources� management skills.
DD did not really leave the mafia’s employment for good after paying her debts off, even if she may think so. For Emanuel, she simply became a long term (if a bit risky) investment – should she make it big in L.A., either as a runner, or a star, or both, then the Mob will have a better asset to use.

SelecTo (Matrix-Blogger, Connection 2, Loyality 1)
SelecTo is a blogger that specialises in spotting trends and commenting on them – from music to tech gadgets. DD met him first in the Net during her time at college, and for a time was an avid follower of his “Hot or Not� Blog. They never met in the flesh, and she doesn’t know anything other than his matrix persona about him.
SelecTo sees himself as a trendsetter, but his influence over his readers is vastly overstated in his mind – however, he knows a lot of what is going on in the scenes he watches, but is not privy to much in-depth information.



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>>CHARACTER CONCEPT<<
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Spiritbomb will be a combat orientated spellslinger. He is versed in all forms of magic, from spellcasting, to spell defense, to summoning, to banishing, to assensing, to astral combat. His main attack spells are more telekenetic though (clout, levitate). You wont see him use to many fireballs or acid streams or lightning attacks unless something is vulnerable to those spells and he has to put it down ASAP. He is a shaman and gets his powers from Bat. Bat allows him to detect enemies and summon beast sprits well. I struggled between beast and air spirits but i'd rather have the spirits look more like a real bat than one made of air or smoke. Beast spirits are also suppose to be good fighters which fits his style more. Some Bat's hang out in large packs and thats one of his quirks. SpiritBomb likes being around other people especially friends. If he has to make a choice to leave a friend he has to make a willpower test. (I accept thats open to GM interpretation).

Oh he heavily restricts the way in which he uses magic. He has a gesture gaes, and all of his spells are "limited" which means he cant cast them without thier fetish in his possession. Being a shaman from the city he uses technology in his magic, his fetishes are little metal slivers that have artistic drawings and runes on them on a microscopic level that have been etched into the surface. Not by him but from others.

I made a shaman up with stats and skills but i could not pick a mentor. Then I was inspired by the bats that live in my area. They have been around since i was a kid. But recently they have found ways to get into our house and I have had to catch a few of them lol. Im not trying to make my character into Dracula or a goth but some bats do drink blood(which i might reproduce with spells?) and they are ravenous hunters. The bats in my area are actually beneficial to people because they eat up 1000+ mosquito's a night per bat. Thats where I get my mages combat alignment from.

In the future I just plan on making him a better magician primarily, secondary goals are to work on his astral combat and maybe pick up the same physical combat skill and get a weapon focus. I'd also like to pick up spells that are bat like. Sonic spells, confusion spells, maybe stealth spells, alot more detect spells and most definately work on binding spirits and getting an ally spirit.


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Die is the result of a vision I had before bed. As I was thinking of characters to make and reasons why they were who they were this character just came to me. I was like possessed by the need to make her. Die is a mystic adept but she is being granted these magic powers by a mentor spirit. A chameleon spirit to be exact. I dont really want her to ever speak with her mentor, but their relationship will be expressed in a kind of obsession with Die. She will get tatoo's and buy/make artwork and maybe even buy a pet chameleon. It will seem odd to other people but everyone is odd in some way.

Chameleons have independant eyes(allowing Die to be good at dual wielding pistols), they sway back and forth as they walk to fool prey and predator(Die knows how to hypnotize people with the way she moves), chameleons can change colors to blend in to their environment(allowing Die to cast stealth spells on herself[dont know if she is aware of it, or how she will react once she is aware..]), and last but not lease chameleons shoot out their tongues extremely fast to catch their prey(allowing Die to put on sudden bursts of agility and speed)

She uses her twin light pistols together and her heavy pistol by istself like swords of a samurai. Twin pistols for main combat, and the heavy pistol for when she needs to be stealthy or more accurate. I only took light pistols because some people bitch about heavy pistols and arm slides, and because hammerli's have recoil comp. I will upgrade her pistols with whatever is best and or modded weapons as the GM allows.

She will become an infiltrator/assassin type character working on stealth skills and influence skills. Theres probably some room there to become a crappy hacker to. Being an adept she will probably stay clean of all cyber and bio mods.

>>CONCEPT<<
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Cherry is a card chucking adept. She can take an everyday playing card and either infuse it with magic or chuck it so hard that it can cause 5P damage. I'd like to eventually get custom cards that have some damage value on them already in which case she will be able to cause even more damage. She has knives she can throw but thats like pulling out the big guns for her. I'd like to coat her playing cards in the toxin Gamma-Scopolamine which causes paralysis and disorientation. She is immune to the substance even though it doesnt do anything on contact. G-S would be one of the first things she gets in-game from her first pay day. G-s is also a truth serum but not really sure how or if that will ever come into play.

She is basically just a flashy fighter. The sky is the limit on what her secondary abilities become. I just want to make her into the most bad ass card chucker adept ever. Being an adept I think she would most likely evolve into a good "Face" character or become very "stealthy" in which case she would probably start picking up Breaking and Entering skills.

She constantly has playing cards in her hands, shuffling them, and doing small slide of hand tricks.