Damien Evans

Damien Alistair Evans, infamously known as the Tyger Hunter, was a well-known Night City-based Solo with a personal vendetta against the Tyger Claws and Maelstrom gangs, as well as the Arasaka Corporation.

## Appearance

Damien was a young Hispanic man of average height with a light tan. He is described as having attractive, feminine features. His build is also somewhat feminine, being slim but slightly curvy with a narrow waist and wider hips. He has shoulder-length black hair in a wolf cut-like style, parted near the middle with a slight right lean. He has royal blue Kiroshi eyes. His nails are typically painted black. He has a black and blue phoenix tattoo on his right forearm.

Damien wears a variety of outfits, but his main outfit for doing merc work is a black pozer-jacket with a luminescent blue inner collar, a white and light gray horizontally stripped hoodie, dark blue skinny fit jeans with a black thigh holster attached to the right leg, and a pair of black female model exo-jacks with blue lining.

His visible cyberware include Mantis Blades in each arm, a Sandevistan along his back, and a black right cyberhand.

## Biography

### Early Life

Damien was born on March 28, 2057 to Carina and Anthony Evans. His father, Anthony, was a high-ranking corporate worker for Arasaka. His mother Carina was a young ex-joytoy who had fallen in love with Anthony while he was one of her clients. The first two years of his life were well, until Anthony was murdered under mysterious circumstances. After his death, Arasaka seized most of Carina and Damien's possessions, including their condo in City Center, forcing them to move to Heywood. When Carina failed to find work, they once again had to downsize to a small Japantown apartment. After moving in, Carina returned to her old life as a sex worker and drug addict.

Throughout the years, Damien was frequently on his own, but when with his mother he was cared for well. He learned what she did for work at age 11 when he was shown a video of his mother while at school. They got into an argument over it that night before she left, with Damien begging his mother to find a safe job. She simply smiled and kissed him goodbye before leaving for her shift.

### Falling Apart

When Damien was 16, he snuck out after his mother one night and staked out the club she worked at. When she left with a Tyger Claws gang member, he followed them back to the goon's apartment, where he continued to watch over his mother while she and her client got to business. After things got too rough, Damien smashed through a window with a knife and attacked the man, stabbing him in the face numerous times and consequently killing him. After the pair recovered from their shock and adrenaline, they cleaned up the scene and disposed of the gangster's body, then returned to their normal lives.

Sometime later, Carina never came home from work after leaving one night. After she was gone for longer than ever before, Damien called the police, and they started an investigation into her disappearance. NCPD only investigated for a week or so before concluding that Carina had abandoned her son to seemingly "focus on her vices." With no other family, Damien was put into the foster system, where he went from home to home before finally having enough. One night, he packed a backpack with the essentials, stole jewelry and other valuables from the family he was with, and disappeared.

Damien lived on the streets for about a month, spending most of his time around Watson. He found he had a knack for pickpocketing and quietly breaking into residences, and used those skills to get by. One night, he was jumped by other homeless people, and he ran into the Afterlife club to escape them, shoving straight past the bouncer and hiding in a back room for almost an hour until he was sure he was safe. When he came out into the main area of the bar, he found himself face to face with the barrel of Rogue Amendiares's handgun. After hearing the young man's story and his plea for amnesty, Rogue decided to give him a job at the bar as a janitor and server, which he happily accepted despite the small salary and hard work.

### Afterlife's Errand Boy

Damien worked at the Afterlife for about a year, now living in a small apartment nearby loaned to him by Rogue, who covered the rent for the first couple of months until he could pay it himself while also paying her back. During his time at the Afterlife, he made the acquaintance of many mercs both known and obscure, such as Nix, Crispin Weyland, Mike Kowalski, and Maine and his crew. He made side money by doing personal errands for the club's clientele, mostly involving delivering items or messages between different parties. One day, while delivering a briefcase of Eurodollars in cash form for Nix, he was cornered by three Tyger Claws right outside the club, who taunted the young man for his feminine appearance and demanded he hand over the case. When he refused, one of them threatened him at knifepoint. Acting on sheer instinct, Damien used the briefcase to knock the knife out of the Tyger's hand, then hit him in the jaw hard enough to send him to the ground in one hit. When the other two drew their guns, Damien was about to surrender when Rogue and the Afterlife's bouncer came to his rescue, subduing the two remaining Tygers with minimal effort. As they fled, the highest-ranking of the Tygers called out Damien's full name, saying that they knew what he did and that they were hunting him.

After the incident, Rogue commended Damien's initial bravery but reprimanded him for having immediately surrendered when his opponents drew their guns. After hearing Damien's retort that he had no way to fight back if they had guns when he didn't, Rogue decided to promote him from errand boy to a solo in training. She handed him off to a skilled ex-merc named Jacen to help him learn the ways of the solo.

### Budding Solo

Jacen's training was rigorous, and he taught Damien to fight similarly to how he did when he was active: to hit fast and hit hard without hesitation, but to spare those who surrendered. Damien proved to be a quick learner, rapidly improving his skills in hand-to-hand and bladed combat, marksmanship, and stealth. Jacen provided Damien with his first combat-based cyberware, including light subdermal armor, Mk.1 Kiroshis, and a set of low-grade Mantis Blades. He was also given a mid-tier Tsunami Nue and a Militech M-179 Achilles as his first personal weapons, though he had a considerable preference for the Nue. Once Jacen deemed Damien ready to hit the streets, he began taking gigs of his own for the first time. The majority of his early jobs came from Regina Jones, the local fixer in Watson, though he soon began seeking out jobs across the city, though he tended to refuse jobs that would take him into Westbrook- Japantown in particular- because of his lingering fear of the Tyger Claws' alleged "hunt" for him. It wasn't long before Damien was able to afford to move away from the Afterlife.