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[color=F8EF00]Svetlana Petrovna Shaposhnikova[/color][/INDENT]
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[img]https://i.imgur.com/7Cb1ywk.png[/img][table][row][sup][h1][color=2c2c2c][b]▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅[/b][right][b]▅▅▅▅▅[/b][/right][/color][CENTER][sup][sub][code]"I’m a blank slate in a broken body wearing a dead woman’s face. Past that? I don’t know who I am."[/code][/sub][/sup][/CENTER][/h1][/sup][/row][row][cell][INDENT][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] C H A R A C T E R   P O R T R A I T[/color]
[color=F8EF00]C H A R A C T E R   P O R T R A I T[/color] [/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][img]https://i.imgur.com/K5p4pIK.png[/img][center][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/606675886800109589/980406819203743754/SnezhanaCyberpunkCropped.png[/img][/center][INDENT][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] C H A R A C T E R   S U M M A R Y[/color]
[color=F8EF00]C H A R A C T E R   S U M M A R Y[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][img]https://i.imgur.com/K5p4pIK.png[/img]
[CENTER][sub][COLOR=gray]Svetlana Petrovna Shaposhnikova[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=gray]Age[/COLOR]  29 (b.d. 2048) [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=gray]♀[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=gray]Sexuality[/COLOR] Bisexual
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[COLOR=gray]Single (Divorced)[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=gray]Muscle[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=gray]Former USSR Netrunner, links with the Valentinos[/COLOR][/sub][/center][indent][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] P H Y S I C A L   P R O F I L E[/color]
[color=F8EF00]P H Y S I C A L   P R O F I L E[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][img]https://i.imgur.com/K5p4pIK.png[/img]
[INDENT][hider=][indent][sub][b][color=B3AC0E]▼   P H Y S I C A L  T R A I T S[/color][/b][/SUB]
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    [COLOR=gray][color=B3AC0E]► [b]Build[/b][/color] - Toned and chromed
    [color=B3AC0E]► [b]Ethnicity[/b][/color] - Russian
    [color=B3AC0E]► [b]Hair Colour[/b][/color] - White
    [color=B3AC0E]► [b]Eye Colour[/b][/color] - Heterochromic cybernetics, amber and light blue
    [color=B3AC0E]► [b]Other[/b][/color] - [i]Extensive[/i] cybernetics, predominantly older models. Prominent scarring on face, neck, and other parts of body. Tattoo on thigh.[/color][/SUP]
[color=#2e2c2c]-[/color][/indent][/hider][/INDENT][indent][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] C H A R A C T E R   N O T E S[/color]
[color=F8EF00]C H A R A C T E R   N O T E S[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][img]https://i.imgur.com/K5p4pIK.png[/img]
[INDENT][hider=][indent][sub][color=B3AC0E][b]▼   C H A R A C T E R   I T E M S[/b][/color][/sub]
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    [COLOR=gray][color=B3AC0E]► [b]Constitutional Arms Unity[/b] [color=1ce07c](Basic)[/color][/color] - a 12-round capacity semiautomatic handgun in .45 caliber.[/color]
    [COLOR=gray][color=B3AC0E]► [b]Katana[/b] [color=932ae3](Expensive)[/color][/color] - A skillfully crafted katana taken from the body of a dead Tyger Claw. Shaposhnikova’s favored weapon.[/color]
    [COLOR=gray][color=B3AC0E]► [b]Cyberware[/b] [color=red](Poor)[/color] to [color=932ae3](Expensive)[/color][/color] - Attempting to list every piece of chrome in Shaposhnikova’s body would be a truly Sisyphean task. It might be easier to list what [i]isn’t[/i] artificial. Approximately 60-70% of Shaposhnikova’s body has been replaced with augmetics, and most of them were top of the line, too - thirty years ago. Most of her body has been through at least one, and more likely five or six previous owners before making its way to her. Most of it is incompatible with modern connectors and requires frequent tuneups just to stay functional. As it stands, the cybernetics certainly put her well above the ability of an unaugmented human - but she’d be so much scrap metal against someone packing the equivalent amount in new corp gear.[/color]
      [COLOR=gray][color=B3AC0E]► [b]Archer Hella EC-D i360[/b] [color=1ce07c](Basic)[/color][/color] - Cheap and reliable.[/color][/sup]
   
[SUB][color=B3AC0E][b]▼   K N O W N   A S S O C I A T E S[/b][/color][/sub]
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    [COLOR=gray][color=B3AC0E]► [b]Josefina Costa[/b][/color] - Shaposhnikova’s former wife, affiliated with the Valentinos. Zero combat skill, black market connections.[/color][/SUP]

[SUB][color=B3AC0E][b]▼   S K I L L S[/b][/color][/sub]
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    [COLOR=gray][color=B3AC0E]► [b]+ Combat[/b][/color] - Despite no formal training, Shaposhnikova displays excellent combat skills and is skilled at using her extensive augmentation in melee or at range. The primary and probably only reason you might want to hire her. She’s [i]good[/i].[/color]
    [COLOR=gray][color=B3AC0E]► [b]+ Intelligence[/b][/color] - Curiously, Shaposhnikova retains her excellent logical thinking abilities and skill at mathematics.[/color]
    [COLOR=gray][color=B3AC0E]► [b]+ Fearlessness[/b][/color] - Shaposhnikova seems completely immune to fear.[/color]
    [COLOR=gray][color=B3AC0E]► [b]- Language[/b][/color] - Shaposhnikova is almost completely unable to write, displays significant difficulty in typing, and struggles to remember many words.[/color]
    [COLOR=gray][color=B3AC0E]► [b]- Charisma[/b][/color] - Though not a cyberpsychosis risk, Shaposhnikova’s odd mannerisms and general “weirdness” make her ill suited to lead any sort of interpersonal assignment.[/color][/SUP]

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[color=F8EF00]C H A R A C T E R   H I S T O R Y[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][img]https://i.imgur.com/K5p4pIK.png[/img]
[COLOR=gray][indent][i]This one? Hah. A true tragedy, fitting for the stage plays of Ancient Greece.[/i]

Born in the city of Novosibirsk in the Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics to midranking employees of SovOil, Svetlana Petrovna Shaposhnikova was easily set up for a relatively comfortable life at first. My sources say she was a bona-fide little tech whiz from day one, and apparently young Svetlana could often be found tinkering with scrap electronics or in the midst of a deep dive into the local net while other children were playing. Raised by loving parents who nurtured her interests from day one, there were, even then, inklings that young Svetlana might have something of the troublemaker in her blood. You see, young Svetlana was not only enamored with technology, but like many of the passionate youth of the world possessed a fierce sense of right and wrong and a determination to enforce it whenever she could. You knew who to call on for righteous vengeance, and vengeance would be swift and uncompromising, it seems. Svetlana picked up more than a few injuries as a result of angering the wrong people or ending up too far in over her head, but never seemed to learn the lesson.

Despite all of this, she blossomed into what seems a genuinely skilled Netrunner with the skill and gumption to, according to some, maybe one day break into the big leagues. She found employ first in small time gigs, nothing much I can dig up there, but quickly attracted the attention of SovOil - in part due to her parents’ connections within the corp. Quickly she proved her worth and her skill, and secured generous pay for her hard work. Everything seemed lined up perfectly for the young woman, and she was poised to coast into an easy life. But as before, she could not leave well enough alone. With her newfound skills she redoubled her miniature vigilante crusade, hiding behind skillfully constructed layers of defensive ICE and anonymized signatures. Guy I contacted was genuinely impressed by it at the time. All the same, she was working on borrowed time, and it was not long before she drew the ire of the regional Organitskaya, who placed a price on her head.

Left with little in the way of recourse and living every moment with a target painted on her back, our young Svetlana fled the USSR. She had no real destination in mind, distraught over the upending of a comfortable life and like a fish out of water, desperately out of her element. Like detritus from all over the world, she wound up in our absolutely lovely [i]City of Dreams[/i] - where, by all accounts, she settled in pretty quickly and established herself as a freelance netrunner of considerable skill. She found a wife, too, Josefina Costa, married her after a year. Everything I found suggests it was nothing less than the perfect picture of a happy marriage. She was a rising star in the netrunning scene and was fielding jobs from the corps in the city, had a nice apartment, a well padded savings account. Even found some inquiries with a local IVF clinic. Wholesome shit.

Naturally, it couldn’t last.

The hamartia of this little Greek tragedy, dear Svetlana’s justice-dispensing streak crept back up, and seems she spent more than a few of her off hours trawling the net looking for wrongs to right. And boy howdy, she apparently found one. What it was? I can’t figure it out. She didn’t want to say what whenever she did mention it, and she was good at hiding her tracks. ‘Course she can’t answer that question herself, now. Whatever it was, though, she wouldn’t let go. Everyone warned her to drop it. That pursuing it further would only end poorly for her. All the same she kept at it. Persistent, if nothing else. Whatever she was doing it seems to have pissed off some powerful people. Again - girl covered her tracks well, but near I can tell she dodged two prior assassination attempts before they got her.

The peripeteia of our little tragedy occurred on June 7th, 2075, at approximately 7:43 PM in her apartment’s living room. Skilled netrunner to the core, they never got her while she was plugged in. A spiked BD though? That’s another story. Should’ve killed her by all accounts, but she survived - just barely.

I’ll take Shaposhnikova’s own words here, next.
[quote]”I- I woke up on couch. Covered in blood. Someone was lean over me? I… what is word…
I did not know who she was.” [i]unintelligble muttering in Russian[/i] “She say to me she is my wife. I did not understand. It is… was, difficult.” [i]a momentary pause as Shaposhnikova wipes away a tear.[/i] “I still do not remember her. Only how hurt she was. Pained. I remember Novosibirsk. I remember some of childhood. But it is like memory is… what is term… secondhand? I forget all netrunning. I remember all math. Ripper-doctor says that brain damage affects language portions of my brain. Is why I cannot speak English good anymore. Doctor tells me I am paralyzed and have two options.”[/quote]
Poor thing.

She suffered extensive retrograde amnesia. Can barely remember a single thing about Night City. Woke up paralyzed with a stranger standing over her. Can’t even remember her own passwords. Ripper was right - she can’t even write her own name in English or in Russian. Can barely type. Takes a minute to string a simple sentence together and forgets key words anyway. Speaking to her you’d think she was a simpleton among simpletons. She can hold a sword in those antique store find hands of hers just fine, though. Apparently she can still do complex mathematics, too - can even write it just fine. Moment she tries to write actual words? Boom. Nothing. Brain’s a hell of a thing isn’t it?

You can probably piece together the rest of what happened next. She and her wife divorced. Shaposhnikova’s big fat savings account was entirely wiped out overnight to pay for whatever chrome she could get - I suppose when your alternative is being bedridden with most of your nerves fried, chrome that’s older than you are is less of a problem isn’t it? ‘Course, the money only partly went to the chrome. The rest of if ensured she was actually able to use it all. Apparently large chunks of her nervous system had to be patched up - and that, at least, seems to be good quality. Guess she was already thinking of future upgrades. Something like 60-70% of her body is cybernetics? She’s pretty much skin stretched over chrome and a few surviving organs at this point so I can’t say it doesn’t make sense.

Oh, and all that netrunning skill? Gone. Completely. Seems to have damaged that natural knack for it, too. She’s gone and picked up a sword now. And that’s why I wrote all this up. Despite everything - she’s good with that sword. [i]Real good[/i]. Even on chrome old enough they wouldn’t get carded if they were people, she’s good. And good thing too, or she wouldn’t be paying her bills.

You might be wondering - that much chrome? That vintage? This chick sounds like if she hasn’t already shown up on a headline with MaxTac she’s due for it any second. That’s the funny thing. Far as I and everyone else in contact with her can tell, she’s perfectly stable - or at least as stable as anyone in her position [i]can[/i] be. I have a hypothesis - I don’t need to explain cyberpsychosis to you, hopefully, so I’ll skip over that part of the lecture. She’s talked about clinging to any sense of self she can - she’s [i]already[/i] dissociated. Unlike those lovely chums in Maelstrom she didn’t choose to get that extreme, nor did she ever exhibit signs of ever being anything but a genuinely pleasant person beforehand. Now, hear me out - but I think she won’t start seeing us fleshies as beneath her because she mourns what she has already lost, and doesn’t want to lose any more. Heh, something poetic about that. Clinging so hard to any sense of self remaining that it gives her a stronger grip on reality than some people with a quarter of the chrome she’s packing.[/indent][/COLOR]
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[color=F8EF00]D E T A I L E D   A P P E A R A N C E[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][img]https://i.imgur.com/K5p4pIK.png[/img]
[COLOR=gray][indent]Svetlana Petrovna Shaposhnikova is a woman of average height, with piercing cybernetic eyes of mismatched color. Catching a glimpse of her on the street might not betray much about the true extent of her augmentation. A long black coat conceals most of her arms, and her hands are usually gloved to conceal any trace of the cybernetics beneath. Baggy pants likewise conceal that her legs, too, are artificial. She is the spitting image of a woman who wishes not to have the extent of her augmentation noticed. By anyone. Unlike most of her body, her leg chrome is actually from this decade, rather than dad’s three times recycled hardware. Some of the only cyberware installed before her ‘accident’, the legs were accompanied by what was at the time a [url=https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/606675886800109589/980402690616086558/il_340x270.3852649323_ohf5.webp]humorous tattoo[/url] on her thigh, an in-joke between her and her at the time wife. Now, it serves only as a reminder of what she’s lost.

Persuade her to take off the jacket and things change, and drastically. Her arms, legs, most of her organs, and large patches of her torso have been replaced with cybernetics. Svetlana is less “a woman who is part machine” and more “a machine into which a woman has been haphazardly inserted”. Most of this cyberware is self evidently [i]old[/i]. Certainly, when it was released, it was top shelf stuff - but that was in the Time of the Red, when Night City denizens were simply happy not to have died in a nuclear firestorm. Now? Outdated is pushing it. Obsolete might be a better term to use. But it still functions - and it was what was affordable for a desperate former netrunner.

Her face and body are well adorned with numerous scars and battle injuries, almost all of them recent. Exactly what you might expect of a mid tier solo with a lack of self preservation.

Shaposhnikova is certainly pleasant enough in how she carries and presents herself. She’s even genuinely fun, some times. A lovely sense of dark humor, too. However interacting with her is… strange. As though her personality is a painting of the old one, painted purely from memory alone. Certainly there is a resemblance - but it’s fundamentally wrong. She might be described as an empty slate. An incomplete person trying to recover what has been forever lost.
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[COLOR=gray][INDENT]Despite everything, Shaposhnikova is young and full of energy and determination. Maybe she doesn’t have much of a bright future laying in store - maybe the best she can hope for is to become a mid-level merc patching together a new life from the old. Maybe the bottom will fall out, and we’ll see her on the headlines being gunned down by MaxTac. Maybe, just maybe, she might find closure and resolve whatever it was that brought about such an unpleasant turn of events for her. And then, maybe, she can finally put to rest a dead woman’s past and become her own person.
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