Character sheet is mostly done! There's a few things that will need to be tweaked a bit, but it's ready for review!

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[color=008000][b][G A B R I E L    V I L N E R]
[28] | [M] | [5’10] | [O-][/b][/color][/center]

[color=008000][h3][i]General Information[/i][/h3][/color]
[center][i]“Can you guys try to shoot 'em in the face next time? I need the hearts in case one of [b]you[/b] gets shot.”[/i][/center]

[color=008000][b]NAME:[/b][/color] Dr. Gabriel “Gabe” Vilner

[color=008000][b]ALIASES // TITLES:[/b][/color] “Angel”, Gabe the Ripper

[color=008000][b]SEX:[/b][/color] M

[color=008000][b]AGE:[/b][/color] 28

[color=008000][b]APPEARANCE:[/b][/color] Upon seeing Gabe, your reaction will likely be either “Who does this assclown think he is running around dressed like that?” or “I wonder if he can put my innards back in.” Gabe wears a white helmet with a red cross on it, a facemask, and a lab coat with shoulder and elbow pads strapped to the outside of it. Under that, his clothes are quite casual (aside from the obvious Kevlar vest), usually consisting of whatever shirt he can find for the cheapest and a pair of ragged jeans with knee pads. He is of somewhat slim build, and it’s clear that he’s not much of a fighter. He is decently handsome, with a healthy amount of stubble that covers the lower half of his face and rectangular glasses with thin frames. If left alone long enough, his stubble may grow out of control into a large beard. Overall, he looks like someone dressed for healing, but ready for a fight. His messy black hair is long enough that the scars from his neural augmentation surgery aren’t immediately apparent.

[color=008000][b]OCCUPATION:[/b][/color] Doctor-turned-ripper-turned-doctor-again.

Gabe is a licensed doctor who became fed up with the monopolistic practices of pharmaceutical, insurance, and augmentation industries. Surrounded by corruption and inhumanity of the modern world, Gabe turned to the life of the ripper, hoping that he could supply more people with better access to healthcare. He has had mixed success.

[color=008000][h3][i]Psychological Profile[/i][/h3][/color]
[center][i]“I can fix that. Probably. Well, I’ll try, anyway. If you wake up from this, that means it worked.”[/i][/center]
[center][b]Intelligent | Focused | Hardened | Paranoid | Irritable | Impatient[/b][/center]

[color=008000][b]PERSONAL GOAL:[/b][/color] Gabe’s more selfish motive for joining Dao’s campaign is to push for the restriction of mercenary activity in the Twin Cities. The Scrapteam’s Water Reclamation Branch, headquartered in the arid Twin Cities, have strong-armed their way into Ontario’s substantial water supply by intimidating local officials and paying off national ones. After being bottled, everything that isn’t taken back to California and other arid American cities is sold back to Ontarians at inflated prices. He wants to stop this by any means necessary, including by bending the ear of whatever political figures will listen to him.

[color=008000][b]CAMPAIGN GOAL:[/b][/color] Gabriel is primarily concerned with expanding access to healthcare and getting better equipment for his practice. He believes that the HyperHuman Party’s platform is most aligned with his goals. Gabriel began working in one of the party’s many medical clinics before being selected to travel with Chen Dao himself, maintaining the various biomechanical augmentations of the Abbot and his inner circle. Gabriel is ambivalent towards his transhumanist philosophy and does not consider augmentation to be anything special beyond another form of medicine, but believes the Abbot to be a kindhearted and decent person.

[color=008000][b]PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY:[/b][/color] The advent of cybernetics have changed medicine a lot. It is now more about studying the long-term impacts of implants and other such novelties. Gabriel wants to learn as much about biomechanization as he can, and use it to help as many people as possible.

[color=008000][b]POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY:[/b][/color] The profiteering of pharmaceutical and insurance companies, coupled with mercenary attacks on his country of origin, have produced a left-leaning individual, with his central issues being universal healthcare and non-interventionism. As a non-American, he doesn’t see these issues through the lens of American parties.

[color=008000][b]SECRETS:[/b][/color] Gabe currently possesses two identical USB sticks, both containing gigabyte upon gigabyte of important research done in collaboration between Gaea Naturae and the University of Toronto. It contains top secret information about a revolutionary stem cell treatment project would allow for the completely organic regeneration of limbs and organs without the need for scaffolding or invasive surgery. His parents were the project's leaders, and Gabe has sadly not been able to continue it due to a lack of resources. Gabriel believes his parents' research was one of the mercenaries' targets when invading Toronto, but he cannot prove this. Gabe's foresight to make a copy and destroy the database when the mercenaries advanced upon their building ultimately saved the research, but his parents were gunned down as they tried to prevent the victorious Scrapteam from entering the laboratory to loot it.

This technology fuels the experimental implant in Gabe's chest, and has the potential to drastically alter the entire landscape of the augmentation market, reduce the risk of SPECS, and possibly even extend the human lifespan by several decades. Gabe is determined to continue this research so that his parents did not die in vain, and wishes to deliver it to Gaea Naturae to make use of their vast resources and pool it with their own information.

[color=008000][b]FEARS:[/b][/color] Gabe constantly fears for his home. Squalor, poverty and destitution have gripped the region since the Scrapteam moved in a few years ago and started charging exorbitant prices for the most basic necessities of life. Gabe fears that if their activities continue, there may not be a home for him left to go back to.

[color=008000][b]REPUTATION:[/b][/color] Very few people are [i]upset[/i] to see a licensed medical doctor in these times. Let alone one who’s willing to offer his services on the cheap. Gabe might be impatient and rude, but nobody questions that there is some level of altruism beneath that; his prices wouldn’t be so low otherwise. Most still wonder how someone so gifted can be so bitter towards the world, though. Some rare few might break through his hard exterior and reveal the awkward but enthusiastic nerd he used to be, but he tries to hide it as well as he can.

[color=008000][b]LIKES:[/b][/color]
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[*]Reading
[*]Listening to loud music
[*]Cooking and chemistry
[*]Working with his hands
[*]Blood and gore. Yes, that’s in the “Likes” section.
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[color=008000][b]DISLIKES:[/b][/color]
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[*]Slow walkers
[*]Dull medical equipment
[*]Dull people
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[color=008000][b]QUIRKS:[/b][/color]
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[*]Gabe absolutely loves cooking, but can’t do much of it in his cramped ambulance. When he has a chance to prepare a meal, expect him to go all-out.
[*]Gabe will occasionally go on long, angry, impassioned rants about various aspects of medicine or augmentation technology. While not the intention, they can be quite entertaining, even for those who do not fully understand the subject matter.
[*]Gabe is suspicious around mercenaries, especially anyone working with the Scrapteam.
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[color=008000][h3][i]Background Information[/i][/h3][/color]

Gabriel Vilner is from north of the border: Toronto. The University of Toronto had always been the largest landholder in the city, and as traditional forms of government were unable to handle the challenges posed by climate change, refugees and food shortages, the university began to expand its influence. Vertical farming complexes, water recycling plants, and other vital infrastructure was built on university-held land with support and funding from local officials, but run by university administrators. The result was a technocratic and somewhat authoritarian city, but one with a very high standard of living.

Gabe was the son of a doctor and a neuroscientist. His career path was predetermined all but in name, though thankfully he naturally gravitated towards the field of medicine. He worked his way through the city’s now-streamlined education system, earning his doctorate at the young age of 24. Armed with knowledge of both traditional practice and augmentation sciences, Gabe started working in the university’s hospital network.

A year later, the mercenaries came. 

The Scrapteam’s Water Reclamation Branch, headquartered in the arid Twin Cities, arrived in Southern Ontario armed to the teeth, and began to strongarm cities into disadvantageous commercial deals. Smaller cities had to surrender immediately to be spared the mercenaries’ wrath, and medium-sized ones which offered resistance were crushed by the mercenaries’ superior weaponry. All the while, bribed national politicians neglected to send support, leaving the water-rich cities of Ontario to fall one by one.

Toronto was the last to fall, for its population and military capabilities were far stronger than their neighbours. Armed with state-of-the-art technology, they felt they would be able to hold their own. Led by a core of volunteers drawn from university alumni, they would make their stand.

Unfortunately, they were wrong. Despite superior technology, the University’s forces were crushed by the mercenaries’ superior training and numbers. One by one, pockets of resistance were snuffed out, until most of the city fell under occupation. Amidst the fighting, Gabe’s family was killed, and the region broke out into civil war. Gone was the University’s reign, and in its place, mercenaries now ruled the city. The Scrapteam took over the city’s water purification plants and began exporting bottled water to arid Southwestern American cities. Ontario’s own water was sold back to them at inflated prices, leaving the city’s residents in poverty they had not experienced in decades. As the mercenaries tried to keep up the appearance of “business as usual”, quality of life rapidly declined over the coming years.

Some continued to fight. Some left, including Gabe, who fled only a month after the mercenaries invaded. He stole an ambulance, filled it with as much medical equipment as it could carry, and gunned it for the border, never looking back. Not knowing where to go, he drove his ambulance to the Twin Cities where the Scrapteam’s Water Reclamation Branch was located. Perhaps for revenge, or perhaps just out of a morbid curiosity. He wasn’t sure himself.

Gabe was appalled at the state of healthcare in the Twin Cities. Despite his certifications, Gabe turned to the Ripper Doc life, treating people out of the back of his ambulance under cover of night so as to avoid the complex bureaucracy and billing schemes of “official” hospitals. One of his overnight patients was a HyperHuman monk who, after a series of conversations, convinced Gabe to join Chen Dao’s campaign for Twin City’s mayorship. Perhaps, Gabe reasoned, Dao might put an end to mercenary excursions funded by the city’s commerce... and if not, at least Gabe would have the chance to provide healthcare to people who needed it in a matter that was a bit safer than the ripper life.

[color=008000][h3][i]Operative Information[/i][/h3][/color]
[center][i]“It is possible to have too much of a good thing. And yeah, some of the monks are a little too enthusiastic about augmentations.”[/i][/center]

[color=008000][b]AUGMENTATIONS:[/b][/color]
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[*]Gaea Naturae Regenerator-X2: This prototype cardiovascular implant was developed in collaboration with numerous institutions including the University of Toronto. It is not available to the general public, nor is this model considered the "final" product, due to its slow and expensive design. It contains a stem cell incubation system which is resupplied by a tube located just below Gabe’s left collarbone. The implant regularly scans the body, and if a severe injury such as a gunshot or knife wound is detected, it quickly dispatches nanobots who apply stem cell treatments to the wound. It can perform feats previously thought impossible by medical technology, most notably repairing severed major arteries. Repairing more severe injuries takes longer. The GNR-X2 leaves behind artificial, unnatural looking scars and seams on the skin it heals. Gabe has several such scars on his fingers, indicating he may have had them blown off at one point.

[*]FuryTech “Steady” Hand-Eye Coordinator: A standard-issue implant which steadies an individual’s hands during delicate surgical procedures, reducing the chance of error. It has a corresponding neural implant which enhances hand-eye coordination. This implant also improves one’s accuracy with small firearms, grants greater proficiency in hand-to-hand combat, and allows anyone regardless of handedness to achieve ambidexterity. It also plays music!

[*]Artificial Eye Lenses: Less an augmentation than a cure for his astigmatism. These implants are essentially built-in contact lenses. They are imperceptible from a distance, but do have a lovely mechanical pattern if one gets close enough to look deep into Gabriel’s eyes. Gabriel can change the colour, but prefers to leave them brown, like his original eyes.
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Gabriel has been avoiding further augmentations--especially neurological ones--so as to not put himself at risk for SPECS.

[color=008000][b]EQUIPMENT:[/b][/color]
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[*]Standard first-aid kit
[*]Scalpel, tweezers, forceps, and other sterilized medical equipment
[*]7.5 FK BRNO Pistol
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[*]This high-velocity firearm is far more accurate than other automatic pistols. Since its invention, the technology inside the gun has only improved. Gabriel’s policy is “First, do no harm, but if you do, make sure you do the harm first.” And this gun is powerful enough to break through some subdermal implants without sacrificing accuracy.
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[*]Short-range taser
[*]Combat knife. Strangely enough, he seems to sterilize this alongside his medical equipment...
[*]The Med Bay
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[*]Hulking white ambulances are mostly a thing of the past. However, a few of them have been repurposed and retrofitted with electric motors to serve as mobile hospitals. Gabriel lives and works out of this ambulance, parking it alongside the HyperHuman Party’s motorcade for him and other medical staff to work from.
[*]FEATURES
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[*] A single medical bed, as well as a cot that Gabriel sleeps in when said bed is occupied.
[*] A large fridge and freezer, which Gabriel uses for food, chemicals, drugs, vaccines, and everything else. It is stabilized such that everything stays in place, even when driving at high speeds. Gabriel refuses to let anyone aside from other ripper docs see the inside of said fridge.
[*] A fold-out laboratory used to make drugs, both pharmaceutical and otherwise. Underneath is a cupboard full of various chemistry tools.
[*] Bulletproof glass, chassis and tires, because when driving through dangerous areas, people love to try and steal medical supplies.
[*] Miniature autoclave, for sterilizing medical equipment
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[*]Blood Purity Monitor and Filter: Exactly what it says on the tin. As someone lucky enough to be blessed with universally-donatable O- blood, Gabe often donates his own to use for transfusions later. Any bloodborne impurities such as alcohol, as well as diseases, are detected by this device. On rare occasions, Gabe has been known to use his own blood for transfusions on-the-spot. Given that Gabe has a device which releases nanobots into his bloodstream, this is especially important.
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[color=008000][b]SKILLS:[/b][/color]
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[*]Healing Touch: Gabe is a traditionally-trained surgeon, and a great one at that. He can do more out of the back of a modified ambulance than some can do in a fully-sterilized hospital. In addition, Gabe can fix a wide variety of augmentations (including low-quality or jury-rigged ones), and even identify and treat the early signs of SPECS.
[*]First, Do No Harm: Gabriel isn’t experienced with a particularly wide range of weaponry, but his neural and hand implants have greatly improved what was already a crack shot to begin with. He can plug a stationary target between the eyes with remarkable consistency, and scrap up close with the best of them. And after travelling with the HyperHuman monks for so long, and having the requisite hand-eye coordination implants, he’s learned a few tricks...
[*]One Man’s Corpse is Another Man’s Treasure: The name “ripper” is rumoured to originate from the gruesome practice of stripping dead bodies for implants and repurposing them. Although the etymology of the term is debated, Gabe can strip a corpse of parts like it’s an old car. While some believe the practice to be barbaric, Gabe’s ability to dismantle, repurpose, and reassemble almost any implant (and sometimes the organs that they’re attached to) has saved countless lives.
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[color=008000][b]FLAWS:[/b][/color]
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[*]A Cold, Cruel World: Gabe has no bedside manner whatsoever. He frequently performs surgeries while wearing headphones and listening to music, explains patients’ ailments in technical and confusing terms, and shows little empathy for those who dislike having their loved ones stripped for parts. He wouldn't stop for even a moment to think about the morals of desecrating a dozen corpses to save one life.
[*]A Short Fuse: Gabe is quick to anger, and generally unpleasant around strangers. His emotional intensity will go from zero to ten, and despite what some neo-Luddites might say, this was a characteristic he possessed since long before his neural implants.
[*]Some Wounds Don’t Heal: Gabe was traumatized by the occupation of his home city, and has coped with it by retreating into his work and distancing himself from those around him. Someone very persistent is going to need to break down the metaphorical walls that he’s built around himself.
[*]Danger Around Every Corner: Gabe is constantly worried that the Scrapteam Water Reclamation Branch is after his family's research, and has an instinctive distrust for anyone involved with their organization. Whether or not they actually are after him is unknown... to Gabe, at least.
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[color=008000][b]NOTES:[/b][/color]
[i]"Look, I’m not saying I agree with Dao on EVERY issue, but the dude makes some pretty good points..."[/i]

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[row][cell]Chen Dao[/cell][cell][i]"I've worked with Chen Dao and his monks for a while now, and to tell you the truth, I think Dao and his whole HyperHuman ideology are absurd. Augmentations are a form of medicine like any other, not a universal panacea that’ll lead to some sort of enlightenment. I’ve seen the miracles augments can create, and they’re not the kind he’s talking about. The reason I support Dao and his party is because they’re not just talk. They open up clinics, treat people with SPECS, service peoples’ augments for free, and have done more for public health than any of the bozos involved the archaic mess that is America’s healthcare system. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, actions are more important than words or ideologies. And while I hate the idea of people lopping off perfectly functional limbs to replace them with metal parts, I'd rather it be done responsibly if at all, and Dao’s clinics will prevent them from fucking up their brains in the process."[/i][/cell][/row]

[row][cell]Dr. Parker Howland[/cell][cell][i]"For everything I can't treat, there's Dr. Parker Howland. I haven’t met anyone as smart as Howland since I left the university. When he’s not trying to diagnose my PTSD, he’s decent conversation, and I’ve loaned him my lab equipment from time to time to make meds. We’ll shoot the shit about medicine, the human condition, augments, stuff like that. It’s refreshing to find another doctor who doesn’t think the solution to every medical problem is to cut it off and replace it with a machine. Yes, I’m aware that probably sounds hypocritical coming from an augmented doctor. Yeah, Howland’s a bit of a luddite, but he’s never said anything which would peg him as a bigot. For the most part, he's a joy to work with."[/i][/cell][/row]
[row][cell]Stella Solomon[/cell][cell][i]“I know she calls herself a mixologist, but I bet Stella would make a damn good biochemist. It’s funny; she seems to know everything about anything related to getting people drunk. The few times I’ve been to Duat, she knows what I want better than I do. I worry about her, though. She’s hooked on this stuff called ‘Void Dust’ that comes from a goddamned asteroid mining rig, and for obvious reasons, it’s hard to find a supply planetside. I’ve been trying to cook up something to limit the withdrawal symptoms based on the crystalline structure of the sample she gave me, but I’m worried she’s gonna do something dangerous to try and get the real thing.”[/i][/cell][/row]
[row][cell]Delilah Amano[/cell][cell][i]“Who? ... Oh, is that her real name? Yeah, I know her. I used to play some video games here and there on the Labyrinth, and I ran into her once or twice. Never got myself an e-brain, though: I used one of those immersion helmets. Much safer. She comes by the HyperHuman clinics now and then, but when I offer to help her with her problem she either accuses me of coming onto her or says something about hackers or code-demons or whatever. She won’t even talk to me at all unless I introduce myself by my screenname. She’s also a big part of the reason I made sure to remove the online capabilities of my augments. If there’s even a small chance of someone like her hacking them, I’d rather just carry around a ComPad. She is brilliant, after all. Crazy, but brilliant.”[/i][/cell][/row]
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