Taylor Lockhart

Taylor Lockhart AI Rendition

### Background

Taylor Lockhart's family used to try everything to stay out of Montour. Her father would work multiple jobs to pay rent for a house they couldn't afford. Eventually, he was laid off from his work, and the family had no other options, moving to a project housing unit in a rough neighborhood. Shortly thereafter, Taylor's mother demanded a divorce, leaving her father and the kids for a better life. In the divorce, she managed to leave Taylor's father with the entirety of their crippling debt, causing her father to kill himself. With an insurmountable debt to pay off, Principal Brandvold allowed Taylor to work in the Montour High School cafeteria while she was enrolled as a student. The other kids made fun of her, making it almost impossible to make friends. Despite her struggles in school, her issues at home were much worse. Her brother had given up school to get a job, but he overdosed on Fentanyl within days of their father passing away. Despite her world seeming hopeless, Greg Malone was drawn to a picture she drew in art class, which inspired him to give Taylor a chance.

### Subject A01

Taylor is introduced to be Greg Malone's latest scholarship recipient, and is working with Jayden Wright to uncover the identity of his hacker. Jayden does not recognize her and refuses to believe that he and Taylor went to high school together. While the two begin working together, Taylor eventually warms up to Jayden, but their budding relationship is interrupted when the hacked laptop begins corrupting the Silver University computer lab. Bruce Donahue takes them into Silver University's underground bunker where Taylor must answer for what happened to the school's network. Early on, she impresses everyone with her professional attitude and accountability.

Taylor returns to the bunker that night to explain her plan that involves breaking Jayden out from his underground confinement. Despite her efforts, the Board of Directors learns about her plans and John Nelson greets them the next day. Nelson allows Jayden and Taylor to enact their plan, claiming it is best for them to make their own mistakes, which causes Taylor to question her own judgment. They arrive at the Route 31 Barbecue and Grill, allowing Taylor to confess some of her background to Jayden. Following a quick meal, the two student interns get in a confrontation with the Route 31 bikers, which lands Taylor in a fight against Autumn Hargraves and another biker. Taylor manages to defeat her opponents and assist Jayden in his bout, but they quickly learn that the restaurant is a trap and is blows up. Taylor and Jayden narrowly escape death and Jayden feels responsible for dragging Taylor along with him. Taylor reminds Jayden that visiting the restaurant was her idea and that she is already in too deep.

Access to the computer lab is restored and Taylor helps Jayden uncover the hackers true identity, although it is unannounced to her. She works with Christina Dahl to hack into Jayden's phone and track his whereabouts, eventually bringing them to the Knowles home. There, Taylor admires Dahl for her courage, entering the house despite her visible discomfort. Unfortunately, Taylor falls through a holographic trap floor in the bathroom, but Jayden is able to catch her, potentially saving her life. Joyner's brainwashed goons arrive at the house and Taylor leaves with Dahl, comforting the Silver University President. They return to Silver University where Taylor begins assisting Melissa Burton in tracking down Greg Malone, who had been kidnapped and revealed to be stuck in a complex death trap. Simultaneously, she and Jayden uncover Malone's location and leave to save him.

They arrive at an abandoned insane asylum and confront Joyner Knowles, but the two are eventually stuck in the basement with red phosphorus burning their internal organs. Thankfully, Jayden manages to save them and they find Malone, but they are too late to save him. Taylor hugs Malone, and openly admits that she is not willing to live in a world without her mentor. By some miracle, Jayden ends up saving them, but it is revealed to Taylor the next day that the asylum was all a test. She is informed about Project Cultivation and the board tasks her with improving the operation. While she is working, Burton mentions that Malone wants her to lead the operation, which she plans on renaming to Hope Conduit.

The next day, Taylor gets sucked into traveling with Jayden and Teddy Silver to defeat Joyner. She is tasked with evading the mindless goons, leading them to a rickety mineshaft. Taylor eventually loses the goons in the crumbling cave and stumbles into a nuclear fallout shelter. Unsuspectingly, she meets Isaiah Turner and offers her assistance in helping him find his lost friend.

### Outfits

1. (*Worn while meeting Jayden at Silver University during laptop hack*) Taylor looked like a young professional.  She was wearing a breathable white dress shirt, designed with green streaks that were scattered around the shirt, bringing out the fiery ember color of Taylor's eyes.  She matched her top with a pair of matching ivy green straight-legged slacks that fit her legs perfectly.  Her top was tucked into her pants, but she didn't have a belt holding everything together, her clothes just fit perfectly.  On her feet, Taylor was wearing a pair of nude heels that looked pretty standard, letting Jayden know that Taylor didn't come from money.  She was trying to look more presentable than she felt, even though she was a beautiful young woman.
2. (*Worn during bar fight at the Route 31 Barbecue and Grill in Alabama*) Taylor looked great, sporting a cropped black leather biker's jacket that sat snuggly on her shoulders with silver bulbs scattered around the trendy jacket.  Underneath, she was wearing an olive-green tee that made her ember eyes seem more fiery that they naturally were.  Her tee was untucked, weaving down towards her black denim jeans with holes torn along the knees by design.  Her edgy jeans led down to her ankle high black leather biker boots with heavy black laces and silver holes that glistened along the shoes.
3. (*Worn at Silver University when Jayden figures out the hacker's identity*) Taylor was looking fairly sporty, wearing a dark purple cropped windbreaker with two white stripes running along the sleeves from the collar.  The windbreaker jacket was only zipped up about halfway, revealing Taylor's incredibly thin black long-sleeve top that was transparent enough for her black sports bra to be seen underneath her top.  Taylor continued the youthful fit with black spandex that clung to her legs tightly, leading all the way down to her limited edition high-top black and white sneakers with dark purple laces.
4. (*Worn at the Knowles household when tracking down Jayden with Dahl*) Taylor was wearing a thin black mesh jacket, done up three-quarters with a black zipper.  A black crop top was visible underneath the thin material, showing off Taylor's belly button, even under the jacket's mesh material.  On her lowers, Taylor was wearing pricey gray spandex that were black from the lower shin down to their leg holes.  Per usual, Taylor wasn't wearing any jewelry, but she was wearing designer sneakers with silver stitching running through the black laces.
5. (*Worn at Silver University during the Board's performance review for Jayden*) Taylor was sporting a thrifty gray and white thick vertically stripped blazer that was cropped just above her belly and the sleeves were only three-quarters length.  To go with the blazer, Taylor was wearing a silky black spaghetti strap top that hung down past her waistline, draping well beneath the cropped blazer.  Taylor was also wearing bleached blue-denim bell-bottom jeans with white and gray high-top skater shoes that were tightly triple knotted.
6. (*Worn during a conversation with Burton about Project Cultivation's future*) Taylor began her trendy look with a white and purple bandana tied around her head, covering most of her wavy hair.  She also wore a long limited-edition designer t-shirt, which hung low enough to be worn almost as a dress.  She still had on a pair of shorts, but they were hidden underneath her white t-shirt with a purple and yellow print design.  To complete the look, Taylor wore long white socks with two purple stripes running along the openings just above her knees and white sneakers with purple laces that were bought off a small online marketplace that she found on social media.
7. (*Worn at the abandoned steel mill while defeating Joyner Knowles with Jayden*) Taylor was wearing a thick turquoise pullover sweater with a long white dress shirt underneath that was untucked, allowing it to protrude from the bottom of the sweater.  She continued the fit with gray chinos, leading all the way down to her white ankle-high classic-style sneakers with gray fabric wrapped around the toe and heels, woven with matching gray laces.