Cheryl "Cherry Bomb" Rockefeller

Cherry is a reckless dwarven cyborg with a taste for big guns and cheap whiskey. She is an explosives expert, skilled mechanical engineer and hacker, and an arms dealer who will sell to anybody who is buying. She's crass and tacky and money hungry with a carefree attitude, out for a good time. She's known for being one of The 10 Billion Heads and takes pride in the bounty placed on her.

## Description

Cherry has the stocky build of a classic Dwarf but usually stands around 6ft tall thanks to her cybernetics. Having lost all of her limbs in the ducksplosion each has been replaced with a custom cybernetic skeleton, integrated into her biology, which provides the foundation for the modular attachments she uses. She is fair skinned with pink undertones and freckles, and her entire body is covered in faded burn scars. Her hair is bright ginger and curly with a jagged hairline from the scarring and her eyes are a hazel/green.

There is little she takes seriously or seems to really care about. She's driven by avarice and excitement, not shying away from danger, not dissuaded by the possibility of violence. Her perspective is thoroughly nihilistic, self-centered, and irresponsible. She can be kind and even generous but such tenderness is reserved for those few she cares about or takes an interest in. Her opinions are shaped primarily by how something impacts her, whether it excites her or annoys her, rather than by any moral compass. She's not completely without compassion when she directly witnesses injustice or heinous acts but in order for something to move her it generally has to be right in front of her to care at all. She's flirtatious, often crude, and can be a very grating personality for her bullheadedness and ego. She has an immense distrust of magic as it is unstable and unpredictable.

## Skills and Abilities

Cherry is a homebrew variant of the fighter class designed around utilitising modular cybernetics. In transhumanist style she rebuilt herself to go beyond what is limited purely by biology, turning herself into a weapon. She can convert any weapon into an attachment and mount them directly onto her cybernetic skeleton providing her with bonuses. She is also skilled with heavy and special weapons, hacking, mechanical engineering, and being gay.

## Bounties

Wanted dead or alive for 1 Million imperial dollars for treason, espionage and mass murder

Wanted for theft, armed robbery, and a number of minor charges for 15,000 Imperial dollars

Wanted dead or alive for 10 Billion Imperial dollars for armed robbery of the Imperial Bank

Eliminate on sight

## Biography

Cherry was born as Cheryl Rockefeller in the Ganra Dominion. The rigid rules and hierarchy of the Dominion didn't suit her even when she was young. Bored out of her mind, she was always making trouble and getting into trouble, exploiting the specialised technological education provided to cause chaos, and always starting fights. As she grew older her parent's status ensured she didn't end up doing menial work but tuning life support wasn't what engaged Cherry and she was constantly in and out of the brig. It was while resisting arrest that she met Ada, a brilliant visiting military mathematician, and was recruited to the military's aid. She has since never returned.

She was given a position in weapons development at a blacksite and the freedom to experiment. It was Ada that called her Cherry and encouraged her to push the boundaries of what was possible, just as fascinated and excited about development as she was. Over the next twenty years their relationship strengthened, they got married, and Cherry worked to develop the world's first nuclear technology.

Then a catastrophic accident took half of the facility, a booming reality warping implosion, and with it Ada's life. After expressly forbidding the use of magic on any of her work the military had done it anyway, and this experiment in arcane fission left Cherry with nothing but the reflection of her wife who wasn't there in the irradiated glass from the epicenter of the implosion. The other half of the facility self destructed in the distance as she drove away.

The hardware and military information she stole was enough for her to get on her feet in Dresden and make enough contacts to get involved in the arms scene. She built her local reputation and brought together her crew of likeminded scoundrels with similarly low moral thresholds over the span of a decade, providing brutal arms and ammunition to the highest bidder. The ducksplosion brought an end to their growth and put Cherry in the hospital and almost put the crew under. She emerged half a year later with a grenade launcher for an arm and a debt to The Holloway Family.