Character Applications

[druid91]

Character name: Gerald Sterner
 

Character handle: Stern

Role: Tech

Appearance: A mid-twenty something, wearing Maelstrom gang colors, Heavy fabrics and a multitude of pockets while sporting obvious chrome, including a singular glowing red cyber-eye.
 

Personality: Stern is friendly, intelligent, with a genuine passion for cybertechnology. But he is also aloof and distant. Prone to bouts of morbidity, fatalism, and possessing a deep-seated streak of ruthlessness born of a childhood in post-nuclear Night City.
 

History: The child of Arasaka Corporate technicians, Gerald was born in 2016. He spent much of his early childhood in one Corpo-Education program or another. Then at the age of five that all changed. 2023. The Fall of the Towers. The assaults on Night city had Gerald’s parents moving him out of their apartment in the city center, and the last he saw of either of his parents was his father, driving into the distance to try and reach Arasaka tower to pick up his mother.

Thirty Minutes later, the city center vanished in a nuclear fireball.

Their home was destroyed. Arasaka was forced out of the country, and Gerald was out on the streets. Starving, Scared, and alone, he spent the next three weeks picking through the rubble of night city looking for food, or things he could trade for food. Sleeping in a makeshift cave in a pile of rubble on the Northside.

That was where Johanna found him, a Maelstrom ganger. And if things had gone differently, maybe that’s where he would have died. But a childhood spent in the home of Cybertech Engineers rubs off on even a young child. He had been identifying various implants on corpses, and had been clumsily harvesting them, cleaning them up, and trying to figure out how to sell or barter with them. Pleased with the cache of, albeit broken, cyberware Johanna took him in. From there she set him to work scavenging for her. As the years went on he graduated from corpse scavenging to running repairs for Johanna. Stern found himself a satellite to the gangs operations. Not quite a member, but not quite an outsider either.

Treasured Things: A cybereye Johanna gave him, that he fixed up and chipped. A recording of the call his mother made to his father just before the Tower fell.

Important Connections:
Johanna - Low level gangoon who took Gerald in after his parents died. Now a business partner.

Goal: To replace his body with cybernetics of his own personal design and manufacture, and rise through the ranks of the gang.

[TheWorldmaker]

Rad, make a character in the character section whenever you're ready

[Seth0194]

 

Character name: Bradley Conner

Street-Name, Callsign:  Bison

Role: Solo

Appearance: Drawn to the 1920's mobsters' apparel, Bradley dress in latest fashion with a certain old-world flair.  He is found of two designers (Abella and Joesph Moncrief) both French and have revolutionized the roaring 1920's again.

 

Personality: Bradley is a bit of a social butterfly, seems quick witted and never too harsh, he knows what he is and how to take care of business. No need in drawing unwanted attention to himself.  He can be very business orientated when he needs to but at the same time, he can be chummy with almost anyone.

 

History: Bradley cannot remember anything further than the last 8 years.  He knows he was a soldier who did westwork for Corps and has found out he worked for some really bad people.   Caught in an explosion just over 8 years back on an OP, he lost his long-term memory, as his files were deleted once joining Corps an effort to protect those he loved, his name Bradley Conner was an assumed name once he joined.  He has attempted to find information out but has met with negative results.  He has a few pieces but not a lot to go on.  After 3-4 years of searching, he got back to what he knows best, being a hired gun.  At this point he has accepted he may never know where he came from or why he made the choice to become a hired gun.   Bradley kept his OP name and callsign, he thought maybe it was selected from someone in his past.    

 

Bradley has taken several pro-bono jobs to help those less fortunate, asking for a favor should he need it as payment.  As a result, a few people owe him here or there and seems to stay well informed.   He started dating a dancer a few months ago but is learning he is not the relationship kind of guy, one thing is certain a pretty face goes over easy with Bradley, not necessarily a ladies' man just a man.

 

Treasured Thing:  He possess a few things that are very meaningful to him.   After-all being a Solo doesnt mean he has lost touch with those things in life.   He is found of a handgun, it is an older model he is not sure where it came from but knows someone in his family fought with it years ago, his only link to his past.  He also has a voice message saved.  He is not 100 sure who it is, but the woman's voice is sweet and southing.  Bradley often listens to it when he becomes angry or upset, it helps calm him down. Last, he has kept a journal, over the last few years to help, sometimes there are random things placed in the journal.  One thing he has noted in the journal are the women he has been with almost a list of sorts.

 

Journal: Today I was riding on the tram, why I take these things......  Anyway, a couple of two-bit punks start harassing this elderly couple.  They weren't even trying to shake them down, being @$$ hats for the simple pleasure.  I was gonna mind my own business but then I thought, you know this could very well be my parents, my grandparents.    Yea, I know if I approach everything like that, I'm going to spend all day helping rift-raft pull their heads out of their rumps.  But this is that time, I just couldn't let it go.  So, I walked up to the first one and as he turned, I laid him out clean. (I really need to stop headbutting people I am ugly enough) then the second one pulled out the cutest little knife and I laughed.  He must have been surprised cause he stood there motionless.   I looked to the woman and said, I'm sorry you have to deal with this kinda of trash.  She looked from me to the punk who went to say something, but I smacked before he could get it out.   I told him, dont say another word unless it was an apology to this sweet woman and her husband.   He lunged at me with the cute knife, so I broke his arm, he screamed out so I slapped him again.   I told him, "What did I say?" He went silent and dropped to the floor with his friend or pale whatever they are together.     I looked back at the women who seemed to smile at me.   The tram stopped, she motioned that this was their stop, she gathered her belongings and her husband.   I kicked the one so he would move, she needed to walk by.     She started toward the doors and turned to me as I watched them leave.     She pressed her hand to my face, her skin felt like cold paper, it was very soothing.   She said in a little more than a whisper.  "  You are a good boy."   She turned and walked away.     She made my day. 

 

Goal: To survive in a world gone mad, maybe find out a bit about who he was.  Finding out who the women is on the message would be amazing as she has saved him countless times. 

[mattilald]

Rosalie Application

Character name: Mercedes Thomson
Character handle: Rosalie

Role: Media

Appearance: This smallish blonde woman, at the first glance wears typical businesswear - jaket and office slacks are mix between a pastel neo militirasim and muted neon kitch. Bud the left side of her comb-over bob cut hair is full of bightly coloured locks of hair, below her jacked she ussualy wears simple t-shirts or tank tops. She wears studded belts or spiked gloves. Smal acts of rebellion.

Personality: The many bad things and traumas, left her not just lagely joyless, generaly numb to her lot in life, but he is goot at faking it. Cares about others more than herself (unless they are corpo). Driven to improve herself thu hard work and deremined to reach her goals. 

History: Born in 2011 to corporate tehincians in coprorate housing. She lived a comfortable life untill her parents died after a long battle with radiation induced cancers  (her parents were working just close enough that they ere radiated by the Arisaka hq blast, but far enough to survive). She had to choose after between paren'ts apartment or continuing academy. She choose to finish her graduate degrees, but in the mean time she worked small jobs and lived on one of the cheapest meagabuildings. But that wouldn't dent her optimism, things were still looking up: she had Zetatach scholarship and she was going to get a job there.

She started her job at Zeta Tech and progressed from simple system admin jobs thur pen testing to inteligence and security division. She was climbing coporate lagger whan she was entangled into internal corporate business, and then everything went wrong. She lot her job, her apartment, and her lover suddenly dissapeared without a trace.

Now it was personal. She used her skills in connections to reinvend herself as a journo. She was oging to have revenge on exacs that too everything from her 

Treasured Thing: M1886 Lebel Bayonet 

Goal: She'll tell you that she is crusading tor truth and and corporat accountability, but while important to her, it is just a side-effect in her quest for revenge.
Lifepath beakdown:

Type: Investigative reporter

How: primarily Screamsheets

Etics: Fair and honest reporting, strong ethical practices. You only report the verifiable truth. Will follow up on rummors and hearsay, but will report on them only if and after they are verified.
Stories: Corporate Takedowns 
Cultural Origin: Western Europe

Family Background: Corporate Tehnicians
Childhood environment: Safe coprorate zone, walled off from the rest of the city.

Family tragedy: parents died as a result of nuclead bomb explosion in Arisaka HQ - years after the fact

Friends: none

Enemies:

Daniel French (A minor Zetatech exec) - he caused her lot lose job, coporate account, and appartment. He can throw local cops and lawmen at her. Revenge: He'll ignore her if he can. She will seek to backstab him indirectly.
Lovers:

Catherine Kasai - a japanese american descent escort, she first met on Cat's off time. It had a rocky start, but a trusting relationship, untill dissapeared in mysterious circumstances, shortly after Rosalie lost her job.

I'll add a few more details, including connections with some of the other players.
Corpo that got thrown out of their corporation due to internal poritics, it an idea I've come up years before Cyberpunk 2077 came out ago for a caracter in a 5e Shadowrun campaing that never took off, but idea of corporate inteligence department, does come from 2077 ( it didn't occur to me before, that a megacorp could hav it's own inteligence department). 

Edited November 20, 2022 by mattilald (see edit history)

[Gris]

I know my way around the old mythweavers, but this is my very first Baldr post. So allow me to ask, do I just quote - copy - paste an existing sheet and modify it for my own character or is there another way to get the awesome character sheet that the others have used?

[Gris]

found it!

[TheWorldmaker]

@Seth0194 & @mattilald you guys can go ahead and draw up full characters in the apps, they both look good, @Gris I see yours, nice work, if you wanna get a circular character token, you just gotta make the image circular first like on a website like this one

[Seth0194]

13 hours ago, TheWorldmaker said:

@Seth0194 & @mattilald you guys can go ahead and draw up full characters in the apps, they both look good, @Gris I see yours, nice work, if you wanna get a circular character token, you just gotta make the image circular first like on a website like this one

Sweet, I'll have my character done by Wednesday.    Thanks.

[erter]

Character name: Hakim "Rabbit" Amrabat.

Role: Trained to be a black ops operative from puberty as part of a coporate project. Started freelancing when the coporation ended the project.

Appearance: A slender, fit Morrocan guy that looks a lot older than he is. All he knows about style and fashion comes from his lessons about blending in, so you can leave it to Rabbit to put the generic in generic chiq.

Personality: There is no personality. Personality died at the compound. There is only obedience. Obedience and unwavering loyalty to the corporation. Or so Rabbit thought. Then the corporation dumped him, and now he's not so sure anymore. Ever since he ended up on the street there have been gaps in his memory, and he's been recalling glimpses of who he once was, before the compound. Once, he was a boy. Once, he was stubborn, curious, innocent.

History: Rabbit barely remembers it, but he used to be a son of two corporate managers from Casablanca. Unfortunately for him, his parents got too greedy, embezzling money from the corp they worked for. Eventually internal affairs caught wind, and when he was 12 years old Rabbit's parents went on a business trip they never returned from. A week later he was transported to the corporate compound where he'd spend the next 6 years of his life.

First came the mental conditioning. Methodically, ruthlessly every part of Rabbit's personality was stripped away, destroyed, piece by piece. The void that remained was filled by corporate propaganda and disciplining. Once his utter obedience had been assured, his black ops training began. Rabbit went through intense physical exercises and spent countless hours at the shooting range perfecting his aim with a variety of weapons. But he was also schooled in more subtle skills, such as smuggling weapons past security, avoiding unwanted attention and bypassing locks.

For Rabbit this period was one big hazey hell. He lost all sense of time, each day blurring into the next. His training and conditioning are most of what he remembers, and none of the other memories he has are pleasant. Except for one. There was a girl, Amber. After the pschycological torture Rabbit went through, the bond he formed with her was a ray of hope for him, but it would be a rocky relationship.

The training they went through was designed to foster intense competion and a dog eat dog mentality among the recruits. And it worked. Thanks to their growing rivalry Amber and Rabbit slowly drifted apart. But it's hard to stay pissed at someone you spend hours training with each day of the week and eventually Amber and Rabbit rekindled their bond, as far as they could with the strict surveillance they were under.

After what seemed like an utter eternity, Rabbit finally went on his first mission. He would never forget it. Just the change of scenery after the countless days in the same compound felt ecstatic. Then came the thrill of his first kill. This was it, this was what he had trained for, for so long, where he had gruellingly been conditioned for. And it felt unlike anything he had experienced before. After six years he had been turned into the perfect killer.

Three days after that first mission Rabbit awoke to screams and gunfire. Someone had come for revenge. During the chaos of the raid he and Amber were cornered by the assaultants. In the end, the years of mental conditioning proved stronger than his affection for Amber. As the mercs subdued her, he made a run for it. Rabbit doesn't know what happened to Amber, and he prefers not to think about what happened that day. It's better that way.

With the safety of their project clearly compromised, the corporation decided to pull the plug and dumped all the recruits that had managed to survive the raid. Suddenly, Rabbit found himself on the streets of Night City. His world completely turned upside down, he turned to the only thing he knew how to do. He put his skills up for sale. He became a solo.

Treasured things: A harmonica given to him by his dad. It is the only thing Rabbit has that reminds him of his life before the compound. He is also oddly attached to the large tattoo on his left arm he got after his first mission. For Rabbit it is both an unpleasant reminder of his time at the compound but also a proud testament to the hardship's he endured and survived during that period.

 

Goal: Rabbit can use the money. He has bills to pay, just like everyone else. But saying that he's in it for the money would be a lie. Rabbit is simply doing the only thing he is good at. And he is chasing the thrill he experienced during that first mission. He'll do anything to relive that feeling.

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@TheWorldmaker My application is all done. Still looking for a portrait that I like, I'll add that as soon as I find one that I'm happy with.

Edited November 28, 2022 by erter (see edit history)

[Cirlot]

@Sapphic Reiver - at the risk of admitting to being an utter busybody (I might have been reading the other apps with some interest; always fun to see who you might be playing with); well I saw that Desirae rolled a corpo foe with a news channel tie in.  Cat also has a new corpo in his background as an antagonist - if you wanted to invoke the law of narrative expediency and double up so we share an enemy it occurs it could be fun and result in some IC ties and friction to RP with.  If you're interested,I'd be happy to offer up Natalia Xiang-Gale - AKA "Xialia" for you to play around with and flesh out in your background.

 

[It's admittedly  not a perfect fit - I stated her (Xialia) as WNS but with mid-tier within the org, not exactly a small independent news corp.  But I could change that.  And the current angle has Cat being responsible for the death of her wife, albeit accidentally, and it occurs if you want DRAMA in the background I could swap that relationship to her (Xialia's) unrequited love.  Which would in turn mean Cat might be responsible for the death of someone Desirae cares about which could either be 1) awesome or 2) awful depending on how frakked you want character relationships to be . . .]

[Sapphic Reiver]

14 hours ago, Cirlot said:

@Sapphic Reiver - at the risk of admitting to being an utter busybody (I might have been reading the other apps with some interest; always fun to see who you might be playing with); well I saw that Desirae rolled a corpo foe with a news channel tie in.  Cat also has a new corpo in his background as an antagonist - if you wanted to invoke the law of narrative expediency and double up so we share an enemy it occurs it could be fun and result in some IC ties and friction to RP with.  If you're interested,I'd be happy to offer up Natalia Xiang-Gale - AKA "Xialia" for you to play around with and flesh out in your background.

 

[It's admittedly  not a perfect fit - I stated her (Xialia) as WNS but with mid-tier within the org, not exactly a small independent news corp.  But I could change that.  And the current angle has Cat being responsible for the death of her wife, albeit accidentally, and it occurs if you want DRAMA in the background I could swap that relationship to her (Xialia's) unrequited love.  Which would in turn mean Cat might be responsible for the death of someone Desirae cares about which could either be 1) awesome or 2) awful depending on how frakked you want character relationships to be . . .]

While I appreciate the suggestion, I'm already in talks with someone about crossing the wires with other apps. If only said person would post their app already. 😛

[Cirlot]

No worries and sorry for butting in - got excited when I noticed the potential background synergy.  Good luck with the talks and looking forward to seeing you around Night City!

Edited November 30, 2022 by Cirlot (see edit history)

[Whitehart09]

Character name: Jaime Perez

 

Handle: Citizen J

 

 

 

Role: In your face Solo

 

Appearance: Jaime is clearly more comfortable in the usual trashy, torn and run down found on the streets among the homeless. His hygiene is the same.

 

Personality: He is a moody, grumpy man who has disdain for most everyone. He understands the need for a good team though so reins it in when on the job. Easily irritated by dishonesty.

 

History: Jaime grew up in a loose homeless community amongst a harsh combat zone. He was ducking bullets before he even had proper shoes. Life was typically fast and loose on the streets, people came and people went. Even Jaime's family, lost to the streets and war.

 

Treasured: He holds on to a photograph of him and his family. A splurge by his mother, the last of their meager savings to have a remembrance of each other. With this, he wears his life on his body. Having his story tattooed upon him.

Lastly, the only person Jaime can really stand is a man known as Skinny Jim. Another man on the street, a confidant, a brother in a sense.

 

Goal: While most from his position seek money, Jaime seeks power and control of his life. To survive in his station but to be true.

 

Edited December 2, 2022 by Whitehart09 (see edit history)

[TheWorldmaker]

@Whitehart09 & @erter Looks cool, roll up character sheets and I'll get you added to the Night City Legends page

Edited December 5, 2022 by TheWorldmaker (see edit history)