Appearance:
Jake is of very short stature for a man of his age. Being appropriately—but not unhealthily—skinny as well and lacking any real muscle, physical strength is not his forte. Neither does he consider his appearance to be worthy of any praise, though there were undeniably some who called him ‘cute’ before.
Most of the times he wears formal clothing or the default Institute attire, the biggest reason for which is that he hates having to put together a decent-looking—or rather, one that does not look atrocious—outfit every single day.
There is a miniature and lightweight device attached to the rim of his glasses at his left eye, created by himself. Currently it is just a framework and serves little more than a barely visible decoration, but one day he hopes that it can be upgraded to be capable of enhancing his sight in ways a normal pair of glasses cannot.

Likes:
Practical applications of any kind of research, fascinating theories and models, progress, a good challenging puzzle, moments of solitude, open-minded people, cool robots, energetic music, video games

Dislikes:
Overly long and descriptive research papers (especially if he has to read them), people who value emotions above rational thought, cocky and/or stubborn people unwilling to accept others' truths, sappy soap operas, buzzing crowds (after a certain extent)

Party Trick: Due to his ability to think and speak at incredible speeds, Jake can perform even the trickiest rap songs flawlessly (a skill he very rarely acknowledges, much less shows).

Profession:
Associate Research Scientist in the field of Computer Science and Robotics at the Shine City Science Institute and Research Centre

Personality:
Jake is a very excitable person, quick to gain attention and easy to impress. He can get very passionate about the newest developments in research and more importantly, in practice, especially in his own field of work. This comes with a fleeting attention span which means that he often jumps between projects and rarely finishes anything. He tries to make up for this sometimes irritating behaviour with kindness and loyalty towards his fellow scientists and co-workers. He rarely approaches others without a strong reason to do so, but can be a very pleasant conversation partner when the talk is about topics he is knowledgeable about.
Although his full potential has seldom been realised yet, it has been shown time and time again that when he does work on something seriously, he is capable of great results. He has both the eye and the mind for applied computer science and electrical engineering.

Biography:
Ever since he was a little kid, Jacob Sharner was known as a generally insufferable brat with sparks of genius shining up in him every now and then. His rather selective memory and incapability to stay at one place for too long gave plenty of headaches to his—otherwise lovely and caring—parents who took him to a variety of examinations and tests screening for mental illnesses ranging from autism to ADHD. At the end, it turned out that he had nothing of the sort, but was simply like that as a person. Despite this, they tried to temper his extremities—to various degrees of success.

In high school, it was his ‘sparks of genius’ that carried him through the years. He has always had an interest in mechanical engineering—started by binging on mecha cartoons and animes in his earlier years—, he won numerous design competitions in this time which helped keep his grades afloat from the appropriate subjects. The teachers, aptly, likened him to the schematics of a revolutionary machine: incredible potential, but a massive effort required to make it a reality.

Unfortunately for him, not many places were willing to make the effort. He got himself reasonably together in university—where he only made it to thanks to a generous recommendation by the principal and the staff—, strengthening his memory and taking up meditation to help him focus. He graduated without a hitch, but the hardest part of his life had only just begun: finding a workplace that would take a person such as him in.

The stars finally smiled on him after a couple years of part-time jobs and low-pay work. The S.C.S Institute in the nearby Shine City extended him an offer to put his skills to good use at them full-time. With an accepting environment to his faults and the possibility to move up the academy hierarchy, it was all Jake could have hoped for. He accepted it without a second thought and moved to Shine City where the Institute provided him with a small apartment to live in just like the rest of the scientists and professors working there.

Life has been great to Jacob Sharner since that. Alongside the hard but rewarding work, he managed to build up some social life and presence in the city. It was now up to him and him only to continue this development and finally reach the life he has always dreamed of.

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Name: Booker Waterman
Age: 21
Appearance:
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 140 lbs
Likes: videogames, ranting about trivial things, water, philosophy
Dislikes: small talk, drama, coffee
Party Trick: knows several tricks with a butterfly knife for no reason.
Profession: Letsplayer, recently hired at the local arcade
Bio/Personality: Before moving to the big city, Booker lived in a two story house with his parents. Although unemployed, he kept himself fed through his Letsplay channel, where he had enough views and subscribers to both make ends meat, and cause a bit of trouble for himself. After supposedly being kicked out by his parents for being a burden, Booker is a bit anxious to this new environment, having grown up in the suburbs before. He hopes to just fit into the mold here, not wanting to stick out as he has in the past. He'll make friends with people that will help him stick out a bit less. He won't try do anything to draw attention to himself. His bad habits might make that a bit difficult, though, as he has the inability to keep his hands idle, and has to keep them occupied at almost all times. When not twiddling his thumbs in public, he is alone in his single bedroom apartment with his Shiba, Jackie, playing videogames and recording himself doing so, with boxes remaining packed with his belongings that he should have emptied a while ago.

Name: Alec Bright
Age: 21
Appearance:



Height: 5'8
Weight: 136

Likes: Guys, singing, way too many boy bands to name in anything resembling a timely fashion, COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE, despite his lack of higher education he has also has an interest in history, it started as musical history, but gradually spiraled into the subject as a whole-he feels like one can't capture something in a song unless one knows what that something is, top to bottom-and since so many subjects are human subjects...well, history is essential to the profession. Appletini's. Fantasy-he's got a thing for sirens, for obvious reasons, he's also got a thing for pretty boy vampires....they're his normal Halloween custom....complete with glitter. Being incredibly touchy-feely (when feeling good/open). Dancing to a good beat-and then chatting up the band afterwards. Politics (super-left wing). Motorcycles. Humanity. And fame. Getting his name out there, that sort of thing. Strategy games (Zerg and Vampire Counts FTW).

Cats or, as he is wont to call them: KITTIES

And, of course.

MUSIC. EVERYTHING. MUSIC.

Dislikes: Being drunk (turns into a weepy mess). Family (except his brother and grandmother), people who don't like music, bigots, flings (and himself, sometimes, for partaking anyway), failure, cooking (he's burnt cereal) and stodgy, stiff, environments. He doesn't do....well...at formal, somber affairs. At all. Economics (sounds, to him, like it's a bunch of bull shit artists presenting the bullshit they made up as fact). Government aid (YES, he knows they've struggled and that he and his brother needed them but it just reminded him of everything he's failed at). His...bitchy moods. Which are getting more frequent.

Party Trick: A singer by trade, Alec's always up for an impromptu performance or serenade. That said, he has a habit of press-ganging members of the audience, on such occasions, as impromptu back up singers. And god help anyone who happens to have a musical instrument. They're not getting away.

Profession: Singer. Alec takes any gigs he can get-one night he might be singing in a lounge, next he might be singing for some rich kid's family at a party. The only thing that's really consistent about his career, at this point, is his brother providing some of the instrumentals. Currently, however, he's on the prowl for his next job-he has high hopes, but lord knows the world has a history of letting him down.

Bio/Personality: Alec and Lex have had a...rough time of it. Their mother, Rachel Bright was not a well women-and had convinced herself-prone to obsession and delusion and exceptionally resistant to seeking treatment for them. Her boys, Alec and Lex (she was not...a terribly creative sort when it came to names), knowing little better, bought into these delusions-hook line and sinker. When she told them Alec's real father was one terribly famous celebrity or another-they believed it. Not even noticing that the name of the celebrity in question seemed to change from year to year. Naturally, she encouraged the musical ambitions of Alec-claiming that it was in his blood, and that he got it from his father. Eventually, however, Rachel took her delusions public-and attempt to sue a famous rock star for child support. A quick DNA test proved her accusations quite false-and that Alec's actual father was a modest businessman on the east coast, who'd gotten a little bit to drunk one night. The world shrugged and moved on.

Alec though, was crushed. He stopped to talking to his mother, and just about everyone but Lex. Lex, for his part, was completely enraged. And as soon as he was able, scrapped together enough money to pay lawyer (...law student....) to aid in the legal emancipation of he and his brother from their mother. When this was done, they moved as far away as they could-they tried California, and were driven into bankruptcy by the rent-minimum wage jobs just didn't cut it. They tried Utah and did all right...but it wasn't the life Alec had dreamed off. That life he'd built around a lie. He didn't talk to anyone, he lashed out seemingly at random, and sometimes, he cried himself to sleep.

Painstakingly, his brother-and in a surprise, the law student he'd begged borrowed and stole to pay-worked, as best they could, to rebuild's Alec's shattered dreams. It took years, but Alec was...somewhat back to his old self, and trying to make a career out of music again. Which brought them to Shine City-a cheap apartment, representation by their now-favorite law student (now an actual lawyer...). Shine City had alot of venues-a generous social support program, and most importantly, the american tabloid media-which would be eager to pounce on "blackmail boy" if they got word of any major success on his part, had a minimal presence and interest in the area.

So.

Here's hoping.

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Name: Shakti Subramaniam

Age: 25

Appearance:


Height: 6'

Weight: 140lbs

Likes: Spicy foods, sweet foods, running full tilt, climbing, children, people, cultures, philosophy.

Dislikes: Being slowed down, irresponsible parents, strictness,

Party Trick: Shakti has the uncanny ability to get to places that would normally be off limits: someone's balcony, restricted access rooftops, on someone's car, sewer, etc. HARDCORE PARKOUR BABY!!!

Profession: Shakti has officially graduated with a Bachelor's in Philosophy, but thanks to a technical glitch, she is still allowed to stay at Shine Academy's graduate student housing and is roommates with Otonashi Shizuka. She runs many odd jobs on the side, as a delivery woman, courier, Süper driver, if it involves getting from point A to point B, she's probably done it.

Bio/Personality: Shakti is energetic to the point of restlessness, the very image of unbridled freedom. She is friendly, a lover of people and would be a bit of an experience junkie if it weren't for the lack of disposable income. She is extremely tolerant, even towards those with intolerant views. Her one weakness is impatience. Her energy level directly correlates with how fast she is moving and she becomes lethargic and bored if forced to slow down. Why do you think it took her so long to get her Bachelor's?

According to the orphanage, Shakti was found wandering the alleys of Shine City when she was three, crying and holding a worn out stuffed animal. They didn't know whether she was abandoned or if her parents had died, but they took her in and posted a missing child notice. No one ever came. As such, Shakti was essentially raised by the orphanage until adulthood. She had a few flings with foster families: doe-eyed optimists who misplaced altruism with responsibility, who promptly returned her when she presented herself as 'too wild' or unwilling to conform to their expectations of a child. As 'punishment' for her unruliness and unadoptability, Shakti worked at the orphanage since she quickly became one of the oldest kids. But working at the orphanage was really all she ever really wanted to do. And due to the fact that boys are less adoptable than girls, Shakti became a bit of a tomboy herself, being surrounded by them. The orphanage was trying to decide what to do with Shakti. They had enrolled her in public school (though she was held back a few times) but after graduating high school they were at a loss. Fortunately, a wealthy donor had created a fund for sending orphans with promise to college. Forced to apply, Shakti, against all odds (ok, so the scholarship was obscure and nobody else applied) got enough to make her way through Shine Academy. Well not entierely, the scholarship only covered four years. Shakti took a little longer than that but made it through with money from her various odd-jobs. Now that she's graduated, she still lives in the dorms. The orphanage expects her to become a self-sufficient adult. Where does her life take her from here? Can anything hold her down? Will she able to stand still long enough to find 'the one'?

Age: 22




Likes: Skating, gum, causing trouble, getting away with causing said trouble, music, louder music, tattoos, piercings, hanging out on the swings at the park


Party Trick:

• Some sick yo-yo tricks, no kidding

Profession:

• Currently studying the complexities of paint peeling off a wall, referred to in some cultures as “unemployed”

Personality/Bio: Pen is a spunky girl with enough attitude for a handful of teenagers. She’s interested in anything that tickles her fancy, be it flirting, graffiti, stealing or anything that seems fun. Some of her favorite hobbies are teasing cuties and pissing off boring normies. Her hair seems like it changes color every week, maybe to match her mood or maybe she just keeps up with the date.

Everything about her family seemed to repress her. She always wanted to be a success but not because of “daddy’s money” but in spite of it. Alongside it, even. There was nothing she wanted to be more than a success, but she didn’t want it to be because of her family’s money. She wanted to carve her own way through the world and own it. At the age of 13, Pen lived with her friends most of the time but came come about 50% of her time off school and work but by the age of 16 she was basically moved out. They would see her on the weekends every now and then with just enough time for her to swoop in, throw her laundry in to clean and steal some food. She always made sure to have ample time to mess up her mother’s perfectly set up couch and put her feet on the coffee table. The longest she can be in the house is around an hour or two before there’s yelling, fighting, and slamming of doors. She tries to keep her visits as close to this time restraint as possible.

Her parents were the ones who had gotten her interested in music, paid for her to learn how to read sheet music, how to keep beat. They seemed so surprised when she claimed she wanted to pursue it, though. They had put so much pressure on her childhood self to learn and dedicate hours of work to perfecting the art and wanted her to suddenly drop it to go to college. She did not have their blessing, so she left.

It was the best decision she had ever made. Of course, she missed her little sister. She’d write songs to her sister in hopes that she’d listen. She’d pop in and torture her sister at all times possible, she even tried to dress her up and take her out. But, the girl was thoroughly brainwashed by her parents. It made her heart ache, the girl had so much potential but she just slid around the well-paved tracks that her parents had planned for her even before she was born.

The years she spent hopping city to city, putting on shows, looking for gigs, and mostly finding small jobs were the foundation of who she really was. She knew that she wasn’t some factory-made person, she was real and she personally made herself into who she is. Of course, their antics got them kicked out of stages, arenas, or even entire cities but they kept with it. Everything was going well until one of their members was thrown into jail and another quit because they thought he was the backbone. They were no strangers to replacing members, but it seemed like it was finally time to move on. The two left decided to go their own ways and hopefully join a more stable band. Pen often looks at her time as practising, auditioning for a real band.

And thus, she is brought to Shine City. Homeless, detested by her family, and nowhere to work she decides to go to a bigger city to work it all out. It was her last chance, plus, she was sure that she could bunk with her sister for awhile. Even though the bitch acted like she hated her, deep down in she could never turn her away.

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