I left my family as soon as I could to travel the world and experience. I spent seven years of my life living from day to day, never sleeping in the same place every night, doing tricks on streets I’ve never been to, for people who don’t look like me, just so I could eat. And I’d do it for the rest of my life, if I could. I returned for the family I left behind, though not the same family I left when I decided to go travel. What does that tell you about me, Mr. Dossier?

I grew up in the big city everyone dreams of. Not this one, but your typical cramped, overcrowded, overpriced townhouse half a block down the street from, well, everything. My parents divorced when I was eight, only a few months after my littlest brother Ezekiel died from some sickness. I took care of the family. For four years. When I was eight. Do I hate my mother? Not nearly as much as I did when she showed up with her new husband and twin daughters, claimed both me and my brother in court, and stole us away from my dad.

I left them as soon as I could, and I traveled the world. I spent seven years living off the street, accepting scraps and cash for the art I gave to the world. My performance was everything to me, and it seemed like all the different people I met were just as interested in me and where I came from as I was with them. I learned so much, made so many lifelong friends, and I still send and get letters from them to this day. But as I was traveling from one city to another, an impossibly old woman stood in my path and told me I was going to die, just like my little brother. My little brother, who was sixteen years dead, thousands of miles away. So I d.d wh.t .ny..e ...ld .o, … . …………..

ERROR. The rest of the document seems to be corrupted. Attempting retrieval…ERROR. Document is corrupted. Attempting repair...ERROR. Input manual code? (y/n)

Please input code: ********__

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Override code accepted. Proceeding to next point in dossier.

I can make magnets. I can’t really explain how I do it, or how the strange power works, or why I was given such a...gift? Curse? It can be convenient at times, sure, but there’s only so much attention one girl can attract, you know? There’s a lot you can do with electromagnetism. Practically anything, really. I can create electricity. I can magnetize metals, or change their polarity, and even use my own body as if I were a magnet. There’s a constant field of electromagnetic energy constantly surrounding me, though it is weak and not really noticeable, unless you're the observant type. Unless I want it to be strong, I can’t really control it. Polarity can be weird. The best part, though? I can fly. Kind of.

So if your phone starts acting weird, like getting bad reception near me, I’m sorry, but I really can’t do anything about that. You should put that thing down when you’re talking to me anyway. It's annoying. I’d hate for something to happen to your car’s battery, making it short-circuit for no reason and end up killing you from the resulting explosion.

Does that make you uncomfortable, Mr. Dossier?

Cherry has often been called, and very much is… intense. She’s not easy to talk to. She always seems on edge. In an average conversation there’s a pervasive sense that something very bad must have happened to make her what she is.
What goes on in her head is a mystery. What she shares is often malformed. She will insult people she likes and those she doesn’t. She will, in fevered and angry and sometimes incoherent tones, speak and act against every system of the world.
Politically, you would call her an anarchist. Neurologically, perhaps a psychotic. Philosophically, she owns a well-worn hard copy of Industrial Society and Its Future, and socially, she has declined to have any conversation with you about who she is.

I was born here. In Taygete. Do you really want to know more? Does my past really matter?
Cherry is extremely cagey about her past. To what extent it’s a defensive measure and to what extent she simply doesn’t care to share is hard to say.

My family liked to pretend that they mattered. The world thought the same. Still does. But you’ve never heard of the Arbor family, have you?
Her parents ranked high in the corporate nobility. They didn’t want her. She decided she didn’t want them either. The surname she gives to those who ask is a fabrication. If there is an Arbor family, they aren’t corporate.

Then and now, I’m no one’s little princess.
She caught herself, briefly, on the way to the bottom of the class ladder, and owned an apartment in Arche funded by a profession no one remembers. She was not diligent. She was not polite. She hit her boss for something that he did to deserve worse. Now she lives in Herse, and has had to get good at hitting people.

I live for what I know, what I can say, and what I can change. No one likes to look me in the eye, but they’ll hear me. They don’t have to want to.
To most on the Shoegazer forums, “Fruitstem” is an open-and-shut basket case. Her goals are rather higher and more dangerous than nonparticipation, and her manifestos tend to drown out perfectly good threads. Her street art, from closed and raised fists to unrecognizable abstract scenes, is unremarkable for Herse, apart from its consistent bloody shade of red, and its seemingly oblivious encroachment into all different territories.

You don't want to know me as badly as you think.
She has accumulated three pending friend requests in her inbox from among the few who’ve understood her. Only the last is less than a month old. Likewise, she never returns to see whether her artwork has been cleaned up or overwritten with a threat.

The me you want is not real.
People might ask when she got “like this.” A question with several answers: she was like this when she was born. She was like this when her parents abandoned her. She was like this when the professional world disposed of her for giving the wrong man, if anything, mercy.
She was like this after her X-Factor manifested and showed her how untenably full of lies her world really was.

Orochi is outgoing and confident if not a very flirtatious gay man. He likes to show his affection through actions and in writing. His friends call him “Ganondorf” due to his obsession with the Legend of Zelda Games. If you look into his library, you'll find a lot of neuroscience journals, biographies, and studies about the brain and its development. He doesn't hesitate when talking to people either. Since he grew up with a very supportive family, he never had problems with his sexuality. In fact, he's pretty open-minded about it.

He likes to joke around and make friends easily but also has a serious nature. He's good at reading emotions and understanding the world better than most people. When others underestimate him or get angry he is quite calm and composed. However, this isn't always enough for himself because sometimes he can be an insensitive ass. He has a bad habit of taking everything too literally. It gets really annoying, especially when he tries to make a point or is wrong. When he makes mistakes on an assignment he will immediately apologize. This tends to happen more often than he would like. Even though he does take great pride in being smart and intelligent.

His favorite food is kombucha because he enjoys that flavor. He loves to drink vodka and wine but hates beer. He can handle alcohol well, but drinking when stressed makes him nauseous and dizzy. He's tall and very lean. He has a muscular/lean build so he rarely looks weak. He wears glasses and is a perfectionist. When he's working, it's easy to forget how smart he is. His hair is black and curly and his face is framed by thick dark eyebrows.

Orochi is the son of two botanists. His parents met when they were in college in Tokyo majoring in Biology. Luccas Vertino had just moved from Italy when he met Kaguya, his wife. Even though they both shared an immense love for plants, they expressed it in extremely different ways. As soon as they moved to Taygete, Kaguya opened a flower shop, while her husband decided to expand his academic knowledge. It didn't take long until he was hired as one of the head researchers of the Technological Advancement Department, eventually becoming the head of the Transgenics and Genetic Modified Plants Sector. His first research project brought him into contact with some of the most prominent financiers in Taygete.

Orochi was born when his parents were already pretty much known in the Chaldene upper circles. They had him in their 40s and there were concerns that Kaguya might've not survived the labor, but everything worked fine. The boy grew up surrounded by books on botany, history, physics, and genetics. While he never made any real friends at school, Orochi has always been quite popular. He was a good student and was known for playing video games and getting good grades.

When he was 14 years old, he started working part-time alongside his father, assisting him in the development of a new line of botanical sprays. Luccas loved having his son around, although he could be hard to deal with sometimes. In the beginning, he had to learn how to keep his son cool when dealing with the more aggressive researchers, especially in the lab. After some months of training, however, Luccas felt like his son could handle himself. He also realized that Orochi was a smart kid who could probably help out with any projects they might have, so he continued sending him back to work after school. Thanks to his stellar progress, he was able to finish school being only 16.

He then went on to university to study Genetic Engineering. Luccas offered to buy him the apartment that he currently lived in, so he would have enough funds to continue his studies. The young man accepted the offer, although his mother still couldn't get over how expensive it was. She knew that her eldest child would need the money to pay off his debts and she supported whatever choice he made. As Orochi graduated from high school, he started taking up more shifts as a technician for the Biotech Division, where the labs were still being built. This gave him more access to people from all over Taygete.

Eventually, he was admitted into a prestigious Master's program, one that would take him further in academia. Professor Uchikake wanted his graduate advisor in the development of new biotech solutions for medical use. Orochi accepted the opportunity immediately, and after two years of intense study and preparation, he finally got his diploma and a place alongside his father as an effective scientist in the Transgenics and Genetic Modified Plants Sector.

At about 5'9", with light brown hair and bright green
eyes, he often stood out, but he enjoyed the attention nonetheless. He had a very friendly and cocky personality, with people quickly making his acquaintance whenever they saw him. This gave him some confidence to go against what many expected of him. He liked being seen as someone confident and strong, even if that meant standing up to certain individuals. He wasn’t afraid to show that he was more mature than most since that meant less criticism thrown at his character. He preferred to be seen as someone with a strong sense of humor instead of someone whose mind seemed to wander all the time. He loved meeting interesting characters and was interested in learning more about them. He found many of them attractive and wanted to get to know them better as well. Eventually, he became a very flirtatious man. At this point, it wasn’t uncommon for girls and boys to try and hit on him. However, Orochi enjoyed every chance he got to make a fool of someone. He never failed in finding out information about another person; usually about what they did or where they worked. It always amused him when they reacted in amusement.

It was only working so closely with the chiefs, that he finally understood how deeply rotten the Taygete government was. There was no denying that their current treatment policies were unfair and discriminatory. He learned that while some scientists did have problems with certain aspects of Taygete's legal system, many of them had come here seeking asylum under the
guise of scientific experimentation. Orochi also learned that these scientists had a vested interest in seeing the world grow and evolve. Some even advocated for creating artificial lifeforms based on their genes or using DNA to replicate.

It wasn't surprising to him that this kind of behavior was common among them. The main problem Orochi faced during his tenure there was the lack of ethics. The scientists were not willing to listen to reason regarding their rights and responsibilities. If they thought that something could improve society, then it would benefit all regardless of what it cost them. Orochi had seen evidence of people being forced through forced genetic treatment due to these laws. Those cases were not documented, nor did any of them ever show up before the courts. This led to many cases being settled by judges rather quickly. Many of these patients were forced to undergo extensive tests to determine if their children could be genetically engineered to survive. It was after learning those things that he decided things needed to change. Would them be from inside and out or from a revolution he was still trying to figure out.

Orochi is a highly methodic and trained scientist and engineer, who knows how to handle a lot of challenges. He is also trained in several martial arts he grew up learning. His favorite is Muai Thai. He also comes from a rich family and have access to resources and contacts most people don't have.

Isaac has always been known as a generally laid-back individual, mostly deciding to wing life and enjoy the small things with a half-cup-full point of view of the world. Socially he can be a man of few words but has always had a welcoming aura about him that has benefitted him in sinking in well with a crowd, especially when he decides to hit the bar. After downing a few of his favorite drinks he'll become more open, perhaps even a bit wild if the day has been good enough for him. There have been times though when he would be seen drinking alone, refusing to interact with anyone, and seemingly staring off into his drink with a heavy look on his face. Overall though, he's become known as one of the greatest drinking buddies around. That is when he's off the clock from his profession.

Over a few years, Isaac has managed to make a small name for himself as a Freelance Mercenary and part-time bodyguard for the highest bidder. When on the job Isaac can become a cold and calculated man, choosing professionalism in his field over his moral compass. After years within the lifestyle of a hired gun Isaac has learned that men like him can only survive by having two things: Credits and a reputation. One without the other means a freelancer's career is as good as dead. So, to maintain both Isaac will ignore the line between right and wrong and ensure the jobs he's hired for are complete with the utmost professionalism. As the years have gone by though, Isaac has had his doubts about whether or not this is all he is good for. Is there another path for a man like him, or is the life of guns and credits truly all there is for him?

Born and raised within the harsh slums of the Herse Isaac has always been confronted with the struggle of conflict and poverty. Little is known about Isaac's parents, the only known members of his family being his older brother and sister who seemed to have raised him together with the best they could. Life within the Herse was no easy experience for the three siblings, gang wars, drugs and the constant dangers around every corner truly gave Isaac an early harsh lesson on life within Taygete's forsaken district. As time went by life seemed to only become an even more difficult struggle to overcome. At the age of twelve his brother, the oldest of the three, was unfortunately gunned down after being caught up in the crossfire of a gang turf war. The loss of their oldest and most relied upon sibling left Isaac and his sister alone to fend for themselves. Wanting to avoid losing her youngest and only family member, Isaac's sister knew she had to do whatever it took to escape the slums of Herse, or at least that one of them needed to escape. To this day Isaac still has no idea what favors or strings his sister pulled, but within a week he and he alone was being smuggled to a new district. His sister's fate remains unknown to this day.

After escaping the slums of Herse Isaac was brought to the lively district of Carme Promenade and left to fend for himself. To survive, Isaac found work as an extra hand around several of the shops and businesses that filled the bustling district. Washing dishes, loading and unloading product and even working as a busser within the well-known Heritage bar. It wasn't an easy living but compared to Herse Isaac was no longer scared to turn around every corner. One night after a few years of working within Heritage, Isaac encountered a group of off-duty Freelancers of the CrimsArk Security company. Isaac couldn't help but notice the heavy number of credits the group had been dropping that night and grew curious about the life of a merc. Anything at that point seemed better than cleaning dishes and clearing tables. As he reached the age of seventeen Isaac put everything he had into joining the CrimsArk security company. In the end, he was successful and joined the ranks of a private military company. His time within the company remains vague, Isaac mostly refusing to speak about it with a distasteful attitude towards his former employers.

After serving within the CrimsArk Isaac became a solo Freelancer, offering his services to those looking for more specific jobs or looking for a cheaper gun for hire compared to CrimsArk prices. Even managed to get himself a set of business cards to hand out! In the beginning, things were slow and rough, but soon things began to improve with the more small-time jobs he completed. He even managed to buy an apartment in the Arche district and made it his main HQ for business. For now, Isaac is living life on his terms, but he knows all too well it won't last for long.

Highly trained and experienced in both security and combat situations. After years of being put in dangerous situations, Isaac knows his way around a gun quite well and can hold his own in a fight. His time within the CrimsArk security company had rewarded him with plenty of knowledge and experience in the field, making him a very dangerous individual.