Post by Meira on May 24, 2018 6:37:37 GMT -5
 Emi Jun Full Name • Emi Jun Nickname • Fade Race • Pantoran Birthplace • Pantora Age • 27 Gender • Female Sexuality • Bisexual Faction • Fringe Concept • Rank 2 Slicer Languages • Pnatoran, Basic, Binary Assets • Slicer's kit, holdout blaster, hover chair with simple integration interface (for diagnostics purposes), access to Jun family account (emergencies only) Appearance Face Claim • Karen Gillan Height & Weight • 5'8" 120lbs Overall Looks • Fade is a fairly tall woman, though most would not know that, since she spends most of her time in a hover chair. She has long limbs and is too thin for her height, the result of poor health her entire life. She has no hair, eyebrows, or even eye lashes. Her blue skin has segments of slightly differing colors, the results of skin grafts received throughout her life. She also possesses a large number of cybernetic equipment. These include: a cranial plate along the top of her head, a cybernetic left eye with a socket casing replacing her eye socket and cheek bone on that side, her left arm from shoulder socket to fingers, her lungs, spleen, several of the vertebrae in her spine, and the toes and half of her right foot. Her natural eye is black, which helps as it matches the cybernetic one. Personality Profile Fade has an incredible intellect. From an early age she demonstrated an aptitude for engineering and electronics. This affinity only grew with time, as she was often kept in quarantined hospitals and nursing facilities. Her only physical interactions were with her parents and health care staff. Over time, this caused her to retreat inward, having a rather flat and withdrawn affect in person. She avoids eye contact speaks with a quiet, halting voice, and is wary of others touching her. She is often prone to frustration, as she desperately wants contact with others, but cannot seem get that need met. Her physical limitations are a sore subject, and the root of almost all her woes. In moments of rage or panic, Fade might lash out, and then quickly retreat. But the physical world, for Fade, is a necessary evil. A place where Emi must exist so that Fade can live. Fade, as she sees herself, is a being of the holonet. That is where her true personality can shine. That true personality is quick witted, ambitious, and more than a little cocky. She's also jaded and spiteful, prone to petty acts of revenge and overt displays of dominance. Background Father • Chun Jun, 58, Member of the Pantoran Assembly Mother • Aiya Jun, 54, Historian Siblings • Bo Jun, 5 at death, Older brother Other Important Connections • >U, age unknown (dead?), fellow slicer Overall History • Emi was born to parents who were hopeful that she would not share in her brother's fate. Initially, it seemed that their hopes were in vain. Chun and Aiya's first child, Bo, had been born with a rare autoimmune disorder that caused his body to reject its own organs. Doctors and experts did everything they could to keep him alive. He'd had Eight surgeries before his fifth birthday, replacing everything from his liver to his heart, but to no avail. His parents were assured that his condition was exceedingly rare, and that the odds of a second child having the same disorder were astronomical. It seemed that the Jun family existed to be the exception that proves the rule. Emi was tested for the condition when she was born and the results came back positive. The difference for her, was that the family was prepared. Emi spent the first ten years of her life separated from the world by plasteel walls and sterilization chambers. She was prodded and poked by doctors and scientists. She was the subject of studies and experimental treatments. The most prominent of these was a gene therapy regiment that would, hopefully, train her immune system not to reject itself. The daughter of a well liked Assembly member who had already lost a child, Emi was something of a celebrity on Pantora. For much of that time, she knew no better. But as she aged and gained knowledge of the world beyond her habitation pod, Emi longed to see the sky and to breathe real air. In the ten years she was kept in complete quarantine, Emi technically died three times. the first was when her body began to reject her lungs and they filled with blood so quickly that she choked to death. She was revived and the lungs were replaced by artificial cybernetic implants. The second time was when the optic nerve in her left eye atrophied, and the rot caused her to have a stroke. The eye and the rotting tissue around it was removed, along with much of the bone of her left eye socket, replaced by cybernetics. The last death came when Emi's very flesh began to rot off her body. As the doctors raced to remove the dead and infected skin and replace it with grafts, others fought to stave off the infections. She'd spent two weeks in a coma, missing her ninth birthday. After that, however, things started to change. Emi's illnesses grew fewer and farther between. When she did get sick, she recovered faster, and with fewer severe complications. Every high temperature or runny nose still posed a threat, but it seemed that the years of gene therapy pills were paying off. Slowly, the doctors began to expose Emi to more of the world. First, it was short forays into other parts of the hospital. She would be masked and closely monitored on these trips, but she savored every moment of them. With time, her world expanded. But she did not escape the hospitals entirely. While Emi eventually was able to go home with her parents, she still required frequent visits to the hospital for evaluations and continued treatment. She still had weak bones and had to be careful about walking to doing anything too physically demanding. She still had to take her daily cocktails of pills, and she still had the occasional emergency. Throughout all of this, Emi found her solace on the holonet. She'd started using it for her education, since she could not attend a typical school, but quickly found herself drawn to the virtual world it housed. On the holonet, Emi wasn't a sickly, fragile little girl. On the holonet, Emi didn't even have to be Emi. Over the years, more and more of her time and attention would be devoted to this virtual existence and the being known as Fade would be born. Fade fell in with slicer crowds online, learning everything she could and at an impressive rate. Through her teenage years, while her peers were living out their rebellions with drinking and promiscuous encounters, Fade lived our her own rebellions by hacking into government systems and causing as much chaos as possible. She began to gain a reputation. Eventually, Fade came to develop a close relationship with a fellow slicer known as >U. Though they never met in person, Fade and >U seemed to naturally work well together. In what seemed like no time at all, they were so in sync that Fade felt like there must have been something more between them. They hacked various systems, increasing their notoriety on the holonet and the HLS. Fade felt as if she could tell >U anything, like she'd finally found someone who understood her and genuinely seemed to like her. Most importantly, >U shared in Fade's near obsessive desire to uncover the identity of a notorious slicer named Memento. Soon, their quest consumed every moment of Fade's waking hours, and most of her dreams as well. She began to fantasize about finding Memento and overtaking them as the best slicers on the HLS. They would finally meet and >U wouldn't care at all about Fade's deformities and sickness. >U would love her for who she was. Instead, it appeared that Memento found >U first. One day, >U was there, helping Fade plan their next assault. The next, a taunting message from Memento circulated around the HLS forums, and >U was never heard from again. "You tried, kid. It was cute. It really was, but a bug is a bug. Ya done been squashed." Fade reeled for days, searching for any sign of her friend on the HLS servers, but there was nothing. What's more, Fade had become something of a pariah due to her association with the now disgraced >U. No one would help her. No one would even work with her any more. Memento had ruined everything she loved. She withdrew from the holonet, falling into a several year long depression. Her parents, unsure of what to do, committed her to a care facility that specialized in the mental and physical care of beings with fragile medical conditions. The facility was a space station near Alderaan. While the lower gravity was helpful to her weaker bones, and the staff generally quite good, it felt like a prison. Like being back in the hospital at home. Fade's depression festered, compressed, and became anger; pure, unadulterated rage toward Memento. Slowly, she began to work her way back into the slicing scene. She had limited access at the facility, but it mattered little. Fade became a woman on a mission. She would find Memento, and force the truth out of them. And then, perhaps, she would kill them. All she would have to do first, is get out of the facility. |
