pugbutterVanessa Stroud
"Fuck off!"
Age: 23
Appearance: Vanessa is of average height for someone her age with a slim build. She has pink hair that she keeps in a messy ponytail and two eyebrow piercings. It is pretty obvious she has had cybernetics implanted from the glowing lines of metal around her eyes. Her choice of fashion is very simple as she usually wears an orange jumpsuit adorned with a designs along with black boots and carries a backpack where she keeps all her tools. Under her jumpsuit, she wears a white tanktop. Her most notable feature is the tattoo she has on her back which has been known to give her some looks from people who have seen it.
Faction: Solo
Sk8te Cell:
Background: Vanessa originally grew up in the backstreets of Megacity 01. She was the eldest of two children born into a single parent household. Her childhood (or lack there of) was not the happiest moment of her life.
Her father died when she was young which left her mother with two kids to raise, but raising two kids in the backstreets was not easy. Her mother worked as a contracted ModDoc for a local hospital which led her to be gone for hours during the day which left Vanessa to take care of her younger brother. Vanessa took an interest in her mother's profession at a young age and on the rare occasions when her mother was home and she didn't have to watch her brother, she would spend time learning everything she could from her mother. during her time in school she would take an interest in various biology and anatomy classes.
While her mother made enough money to support them financially, it was not enough to send any of her children to a good college, not that she wanted to go college as she figured it was a waste of time. Most good ModDocs were not licensed and most who were never spent a day in class in her eyes. She figured she would find her own way to get the proper documentation if she needed to, yet as it turned out, she would need it and the cost was not cheap. At the age of 16, her mother died and she was left to take care of her brother, being only sixteen however, she was left to the mercy of the city and that meant the orphanage. Life at the orphanage was in her eyes, the worst place she ever lived and that was saying something living in an apartment in the backstreets. The only reason she stayed there was for her brother as he was the only person in her family she had left.
She did almost anything to make as much money as possible in order to get her licenses including having a small crime spree under the orphanage's nose. Smuggling small arms, drugs, and other things to make a little extra money on the side for her licensing well into her late teens and even earned herself a nickname. Queen of the teenage underworld they called her, she even did a few small mods her and there thanks to the lessons she learned from her mother before she passed. She wasn't proud of that part in her life, but she did what she had to do in order to make a better life for the both of them. Her choices in life would come to haunt her later on in her life. At the age of 18 she had to leave the orphanage leaving her brother there by himself and with no place to go she took to the streets.
She continued her illegal activities to make money in order to survive and did so for about six months much to the dismay of a local small time gang that the pack found of very little threat to their operations. To say her her run-ins with them were less than pleasant would have been an understatement. Six months later she scrounged together enough money and got her licensing to become a ModDoc which meant she could find work and get her brother out of that place. Her crime spree soon caught up with her as her brother was killed in an altercation with that group. Alone and devastated by the fact that she got her brother killed, she spiraled into alcoholism and spent the last five years. Despite her alcoholic binges, she managed to land a job on metrostreet in a "legal" mod shop as a co ModDoc.
Cybernetics:
arakoshi mk5 cyberoptics - used to help her when installing mods that come with a variety of features such as a zoom fuction, infrared vision, low light which allows clear vison in dim light.
Weapons/Tools:
While mainstreet is relatively safe, it does have its dangers and a Hippocratic oath doesn't mean much if you end up dead which is why She carries a six shot revolver. Nothing too fancy, but it will make someone think twice.
Likes: List some things your character likes
- alcohol
- children
- loud music at bars
Dislikes: List some things your character dislikes
- most of the gangs
- being sober
- people from the spire
Quirks: Add some details that make your character unique! Can be an odd habit or just some information not revealed in the image or the backstory!
- She gets absolutely blackout drunk one day a year which is, as you guessed it, the anniversary of her brother's death
- She has a soft spot for children, especially those who are at the mercy of the system
- She tends to switch between talking in slang and regularly speaking
Places of Interest:
- The bodega
- the bars of the Metrostreet