Personality: Relatively quiet and standoffish, Harumi gives off an aura that she couldn't care less about those around her. However the reality is that she lacks social skills, and becomes mentally drained when she deals with too many people in a short period of time. Despite this she's friendly, and willing to give people her age the benefit of the doubt, though she's very distrusting of adults.
Bio: Born to a relatively poor family, Harumi's parents worked their hardest to provide for their daughter. Despite their lack of wealth, they would occasionally buy gifts for her. However, the one that sparked something in her was simple: a cheap computer coding guide. She devoured the information, and quickly became quite skilled with code. However, her life took a downward turn when her mother was killed in a train accident. Her father fell into a deep depression, and began drinking heavily. As time went on, his drinking took over his life, and Harumi eventually ran away. She began supporting herself by beta testing games and software, as well as hacking, for the right price. A politician needed dirt on an opponent? A journalist wanted information for a story? Had to find out how many mistresses your husband had? For the right price (and sometimes just because it would amused her), Harumi would do it. Because of her exploits, she received an invitation to join Jormungandr.
Personality: Relatively quiet and standoffish, Harumi gives off an aura that she couldn't care less about those around her. However the reality is that she lacks social skills, and becomes mentally drained when she deals with too many people in a short period of time. Despite this she's friendly, and willing to give people her age the benefit of the doubt, though she's very distrusting of adults.
Bio: Born to a relatively poor family, Harumi's parents worked their hardest to provide for their daughter. Despite their lack of wealth, they would occasionally buy gifts for her. However, the one that sparked something in her was simple: a cheap computer coding guide. She devoured the information, and quickly became quite skilled with code. However, her life took a downward turn when her mother was killed in a train accident. Her father fell into a deep depression, and began drinking heavily. As time went on, his drinking took over his life, and Harumi eventually ran away. She began supporting herself by beta testing games and software, as well as hacking, for the right price. A politician needed dirt on an opponent? A journalist wanted information for a story? Had to find out how many mistresses your husband had? For the right price (and sometimes just because it would amused her), Harumi would do it. Because of her exploits, she received an invitation to join Jormungandr.
Personality: Some people like to say “honesty is the best policy”, most people think little white lies never hurt anyone and others spend every day pretending to be something they are not just to get through life. As you grow out of childhood and into adulthood it’s important to find the right balance between truths and lies that will allow you to comfortably navigate social situations in a way that both lets you get what you want while also not troubling your conscience too much; in Reiko’s case, she found that life got a lot easier when she started telling people what they wanted to hear rather than what was true or what she really thought. She also found that lying didn’t really bother her that much.
Bio: Reiko is a popular person, well-liked by almost everyone she meets at school or elsewhere; she is seen as kind, caring and intelligent, always willing to help when asked or always available to lend an ear to someone’s troubles. She’s never short on friends, has a thriving social life and always has a smile on her face; no boyfriends though, she’s always too busy to date and will gently turn down anyone who asks her out. She seems almost perfect.
Because this is what she wants people to think.
To tell the truth, and she rarely does, the Reiko most people see is just a character she came up with to make her life easier. She doesn’t care about the people she helps, or the petty problems they come to her with, she just helps them because it’s what’s expected of her; besides you’d be surprised at how quickly you build up favours like that and when you’re seen as someone who is always so busy helping others it’s easy to pass your responsibilities off onto everyone else. As long as she takes credit for it she can then build up even more favours. She doesn’t actually like the people she hangs out with nor shares any of the interests she claims to share with them. It’s easy to pretend to have a busy social life when you get invited to everything, even if you end up going to none of them.
She doesn’t like people nearly as much as she pretends to; if anything she’d say she hates them. But people don’t really like it when you tell them that; nobody actually wants to hear the truth. The only issue is that she’s trapped herself in this situation, she’s made herself too popular, and even though it makes for an easier life than the alternative of being hated it’s exhausting wearing a mask all the time.
That’s why she spends so much time in EDEN. Even though she only created an EDEN account because everyone was talking about it, she soon found that it offered exactly the kind of escape from her daily life that she was looking for. The first time she put on the headset she almost cringed at the sight of so many people in one place before the mask fell into place, but no one knew or cared who she was; no one tried to talk to her, no one was asking her for favours or advice or trying to invite her to things. She was anonymous. She soon found it was much easier for her to avoid people she knows while in a Digital Dive than in real life; she could simple change her clothes, hair or anything except her face, like putting on a disguise, and disappear for a while.
Putting on a disguise so she could take off the mask was a strange concept, but EDEN is the only place she has found where she can drop the act for once and be herself and she has been an avid user ever since.
The freedom she found in EDEN was liberating, but at the same time she sometimes found that freedom somewhat limited by such obstacles as security or firewalls. She understood the need for privacy, but as someone who started using EDEN as a means to not feel trapped such things were almost a personal affront to Reiko, so she started looking for ways around them. She taught herself how to hack as best she could using the resources available to her, but as someone who was never into computers much it was slow going. She read any source she could find and got in contact with anyone she could to help her, burning a few favours from people at school in the process, but her aptitude in this area was somewhat lacking; even now she struggles to hack anything more complicated than rudimentary firewalls.
Then she found out about Digimon. Or at least, she found out that hackers used them to break down walls that they couldn’t hack normally. That sounded a lot manageable than what she was currently doing, not to mention easier; why wasn’t everyone doing this?
Since those early days Reiko has made it a habit to break into any secure area she can just for the sake of doing so, although anything with a firewall that can’t be broken down with brute force is pretty much safe from her. She sees any area sealed off from the public as a challenge to be overcome, scouting the location, planning her break-in and executing it only to do nothing more than look around for a while before leaving. Even so she has more than a few somewhat high profile break-ins on her “resume” and a few places have even upgraded their security because she began targeting places nearby; not that that was usually enough to stop her.
Reiko doesn’t think of herself as a hacker, but this kind of activity is probably why she received an invitation from some group called Jormungundr.
Personality: Date often comes across as rough and vulgar, usually using a gruff tone and not bothering to address people with proper honorifics. On top of this, he has a "shoot first, ask questions later" attitude that can and often does get him into hot water. He seems to have a chip on his shoulder, some sort of anger or frustration at the world with no clear target in mind. He's also quite infamous for having a temper and overall dislike of having to explain or justify himself to anyone. The rest of the world tends to see him as a punk or delinquent, while he merely sees himself as a rebel of sorts. Finally, he's tenacious, willing to keep doggedly pursuing a goal or rival until he is incapable of doing so any longer.
But don't let that vulgar exterior fool you. Date is not at all a bad person, quite the opposite in fact. He's stubbornly loyal to anyone he considers a friend, often times to a fault. He hates corruption of all types, but none more than those who use their power to abuse kids or young adults. In fact, Date has a weakness for kids, as they are usually the one group he shows any outward kindness or generosity to, and in fact will chase down anyone who victimizes them to the ends of the Earth in order to punish them.
Bio: Date was a regular kid growing up. He did stupid kid things, occasionally took part in sports or even rough housing with other boys. It really wasn't until his second year of High School that things started going downhill. His parents had just died in a car accident, and Date himself had to move to another city in order to live with his Uncle. This also meant transferring to a different school, but this wasn't an ordinary school. Shujo Academy was known for its top honor students, be they athletic or academic. It was also known for having an extremely strict code of conduct and a zero-tolerance policy. But still, things were fine for the first couple of months. But Date had one particular teacher - a Math Teacher named Okawa who seemed to be the worst of the faculty. He had his own draconian rules for the classroom on top of Shujo's already strict rules, and he also a habit of holding grudges and singling out students he disliked. Date would later learn that there was a bit of bad blood between Okawa and his Uncle, something about a repair job on Okawa's car and the teacher accusing Date's Uncle of charging an unfair price. Regardless, Okawa decided to take his grudge out on Date.
Date tried shrugging it all off at first. He would just grit his teeth and endure the Math class every day, knowing that he would only have to deal with Okawa for a brief period each day. But then Okawa started singling out people Date had made friends with. He would give them a hard time just for the "crime" of associating with Date Kazuma. That, Date wouldn't abide. Finally at a boiling point, Date confronted Okawa directly to get him to stop, but to no avail. Eventually Date just lost his temper and - before he could process it, he took a swing at the teacher and knocked him to floor, bloodying his nose. With such an outburst and Okawa's nasty grudge, it wasn't hard for him to have Date expelled. As if that weren't enough, Okawa also pressed charges and before he knew it, Date was slapped with a criminal record that still haunts him even now. He couldn't find a single school willing to enroll him, and so he had no choice but to drop out entirely and simply find a job. But even that proved difficult, as no prospective employer was interested in hiring a drop out with a criminal record. Thankfully, Date's Uncle never once doubted his innocence and continued to give him a home and even let him work for him in his repair garage part time.
Date was at a low point in his life. There was only one person in the world who still believed in him, and he had zero other options or alternatives. EDEN was a welcome escape, and there Date thrived at Digimon Battles as they made for a useful outlet to vent his anger and frustration. But even that wasn't entirely satisfying. Date wanted to actually do something with his life, but how could he when he had that criminal record hanging over his head thanks that bastard Okawa? And then... an invitation to Jormungundr appeared in his inbox.
Sorry, we're actually full right now. The six characters we have right now is over what I was wanting originally too so I'm going to decline for now. I can put you on a list if we need to fill a slot
