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Connie Lee - A Driver or The Driver?
Life hit me hard. Now, I always move fast so that I never get hit again.
Name: Constance "Connie" Lee
Age: 22
Sex: Male
Nationality: Singaporean.
Languages Spoken:
- Malay (Fluent)
- English (Advanced)
- Japanese (Conversational)
- Hokkien (Basic)
Cybernetic Enhancements
Armalance Kasparovian Booster-Ware Model M - Originally designed by Armalance to provide government soldiers with the capability to deal with the rising number of augmented criminals on the streets , this . This reflex co-processor augments the cerebellum's capacity to process nerve signals, essentially increasing the reaction time of the recipient to inhuman levels where they could theoretically catch a bullet mid-air.
Suzuki Wireless Smart-Link v1.5 - A standard co-processor link chip that comes standard issue in every Suzuki bike issued after 2040. This cybernetic chip links the computing systems of the Undertaker and Connie's nervous system, allowing him to control the bike with literally a thought of his head and granting him a higher precision of driving than most other punk bikers.
Property
Undertaker - 2050 Suzuki Zendatsu FDX600 - No noise. No burning rubber. No smoke. Aesthetically, it's a beaut. A 3-D fabricated streamlined carbon-shelled plated body covering a low-weight titanium alloy skeleton that's a sexy blend of Japanese chic design and efficiency. The new and refurbished model of the front-runner Suzuki Zendatsu is a cutting-edge motorcycle armed with an experimental revolutionary integrated mag-lev motor drive and standard electromagnetic anti-lock brakes with a complete reduction in 85% of friction, thereby promoting higher efficiency and affording incredible amounts of balance. This bad boy's able to reach an acceleration of 0 to 60 mph in under 1 seconds and a measured top speed of 550 mph (No one's ever ridden it that fast before without dying). Furthermore, this baby's not just a machine of power but a machine of intelligence. The 2050 Suzuki Zendatsu, like most modern motorcycles, comes integrated with a computer system instead of a normal manual control system as seen in most vehicles developed pre 2030. Connie's model is modified with a matte-blue finish and a locked trunk where he stores a myriad of items, mainly his packages.
Bullpit Prismo - The Prismo is a full-faced motorcycle helmet that affords top-of-the-line protection against the many dangers of driving on the road such as drunk drivers, angry drivers, gun-toting drivers and plain stupid drivers. The nano-tube based mesh-foam cushioning and the poly-laminate composite shell is responsible for absorbing the devastating skull-crushing impacts which the driver wouldn't be able to normally survive. Hell, it's even been rated for bullets (but don't push your luck.) The 2030 Prismo features a new smart HUD that indicates incoming traffic jams, possible routes and the driver's proximity with other vehicles.
Armalance Broadsider Compact - Commonly referred to as the 'ABC', this semi-automatic pistol for first-time gun users is aimed for civilians who can't hit the broadside of a barn. A pathetic seven-round magazine with a caliber of 10mm ensures that it falls into the hall of shame for any aspiring gun owner. However, the cheap cost relative to other pistols on the market make it one of the most ubiquitous civilian firearms within Japan.
Pipe - It's a pipe. A five foot long pipe. A reinforced titanium pipe taken from the sunken remains of a battle-ship that was found in the junkyard that's good for pushing other bikers off their cycles. What? Did you expect some fancy vibro-blade or a chainsaw?
Appearance
For a man of his profession, Connie is decidedly mundane and contrasts the usual punkish images that one would imagine when they hear of the term "street driver". His head bears a short clean-shaven cut of tawny brown hair intermixed with a row of faint surgical scars from his extensive neural-ware modifications with blue eyes that almost glow in the dark. His body is of a stout stature, bearing broad shoulders and thick limbs. A mixture of South-East Asian and American genes effectively cancelled each other out in terms of ethnically defining features, placing his features somewhere between that of a Caucasian and a Asian. His street attire usually consists of a insulated bomber jacket in drab-green olive with motorcycle gloves and treads.
Personality traits
- Optimistic
- Restless
- Reckless
- Daredevil
- Energetic
- Greedy
Background
Born at the beginning of the 2030s, Constance forged his own name in poverty and rose out of the depths by becoming a feared man known as the Trailblazer. He came from a rough-and-tumble background filled with copious amounts of street racing and violence in the bordering lands of urban Singapore and rural Sabah, the latter of which was quickly being transformed into a major bio-oil plantation by rivaling Indonesian and Malaysian corporations. The disillusionment with the increasing industrialization of the rural villages of Malaysia intensified the current mat rempit attitudes within youth groups and led to the sudden onset of street racers, in open rebellion of the new social paradigm. During one of his many illegal street races, Constance saw the opportunity to participate in a high profile illegal street race which was known as the Danger Derby in order to win a highly coveted Suzuki Zendatsu prototype that had been stolen by black-market techies but denied it.
Before the eve of the match, Constance came in contact through his gang with an employee of a indie corporation, Hayai Motorworks, tbat was a rival to Suzuki to win back the Suzuki Zendatsu for them in exchange for a sum of 1,000,000,000 ringgit. A few broken bones and a concussion later, Constance became the new winner of a Zendatsu, the fastest electro-cycle on the market. Now, all he had to do was play his part of the deal and his gang would be one of the richest syndicates in the South-East Asian region.
He didn't.
Reneging on his deal, Constance fled both the bounty hunters sent to hunt him by Hayai and his furious gang members, eventually escaping to Japan and bargaining with the Sycamore Gang for protection from both parties in exchange for his services as a data-courier for several years, paying off his debts. During this era, Constance hitched it up with a local bokozotsu gang in Kobe which he grew extremely close with. During one day, whilst drunkenly boasting in a bar about the failures of the Sycamore Gang, the Sycamore Gang paid revenge by assaulting the hide-out of his bokozotsu gang and slaughtering all of them by jacking their consciousness into VR and letting them slowly bleed out from meat-space whilst stuck within cyber-space. Grieved, Constance fled the scene, not before burning their ashes and scattering them into the ports of Kobe. When news came out that Hayai had become bankrupt and was forced to become a subsidary corporation of Mizuki, Constance dissolved his connections with the Sycamore Gang and made his way to the Hyogo country-side where he travelled from place to place looking for employment.
Now, Constance works as a sushi deliveryman within the rural areas of Surubachi, working to scrap by with the meagre salary he has whilst trying to stay out of the gang war between the Yakuza and the Sycamore Family. Now, that the war's come to Surubachi, Constance wonders whether or not he's still able to run away from his problems....
Skills
Mat Rempit - The machine doesn't make the driver. The driver makes the machine. Connie is a fearsome street driver who's learnt how to grift it with the best of the best and able to push the capabilities of his cycle beyond its limits. Drifts and turns come to him as easy even as he's cruising at blurring speeds. Evading and escaping blockades of automated squad cars and armies of gangoons is exciting. Pulling off improbable tricks and death-defying stunts is his hobby. It's arguable whether or not Connie is the greatest driver in the world but he's certainly the best human driver Surubachi's ever seen.
Street Mechanic - A good driver knows how to maintain his vehicle. Connie has thorough knowledge of how to maintain and repair his cycle, along with being able to make the occasional fine-tune or upgrade to the systems of Undertaker. However, any more advanced upgrade is beyond the skills of Connie who seeks the help of techies or handyman's for more specific needs.
Living GPS - After five years of traversing through Surubachi and its many districts, Connie possesses a encyclopedic knowledge of every nook and cranny within the bowels of Surubachi. This allows him to travel to any location in Surubachi that he's familar with or has been before.
Flaws
Feel the Need, The Need for Speed - The common diet of an adrenaline junkie is going into high-risk scenarios with little to no regard for their own personal safety or common sense. Off the wheel, Connie's sense of security is about as normal as any sane individual. On the road , Connie transforms into a reckless driver, a demon of speed who will take the opportunity to engage in any dangerous route of driving or the one which provides him with the most sense of thrill.
Greenhorn - Due to a life-time of running people over and killing them, Connie has a lack of experience with guns and melee weapons, only having to use them in exceptional circumstances. In those exceptional circumstances, Connie is horrendously bad at ranged and hand-to-hand combat, but not completely inefficient to the point where he's worst than a pacifistic monk at the art of killing somebody.
That Chrome Looks Juicy. Mind if I pick it over your dead body? - Connie's cycle is a rare sight in a rural village such as Suribachi and his skills as a driver attract attention from both the Yakuza and the Sycamore Gang whilst he travels through the most dangerous parts of town. Therefore, Connie is a prime target for recruitment by both the Yakuza and the Sycamore Gang, despite him wanting nothing to do in their little war.