Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor is the main character in Apocalypse Ascending. He is the focus of the story.

### Childhood

Chris grew up in Undercity with his adopted brother Trent Taylor, and his adopted sister Emily Taylor under the oppression of a abusive drunk father until one day late at night Trent was sharing some of the items he stole from work with Chris and Emily. When their dad walks and in drug induced rage and hurls himself towards them ending in Trent shooting him with his Flintlock pistol ending him for good. This freeing event lead to a even great lack of money leading to both Chris and Trent joining The Rouges of the Undercity for money.

### Story

Chris starts with Trent and Darcy Miller, where they meet Christian Liu, who tries to rob them of their money and goods. The group chases him down, and decided to let him join after the chase, due to his skill in stealth and combat. He agrees, and quickly makes friends with Chris, as they go on many jobs together.

Shortly after Pearl Hernandez joins the team, the group has to go save Val Hernandez, and they decide to raid the Terrorist hideout to get Val back. Chris manages to aid the group by being able to decipher and hack multiple locked doors in their way, but Trent sadly dies in a shootout between The Rouges of the Undercity and the Terrorist group. This has a lot of emotional impact on Chris, as Trent was a father figure to him, unlike his real father. For a few days, he lost the will to do anything, locking himself in one room for hours at a time in the Rouges Hideout. He eventually found the urge to live his life once again, when Darcy and Christian set up a surprise party for him. Pearl and Val also return to Topside.

Chris and Christian watch as Darcy blows up the Aldcrest bridge, not really sure what he is doing, but don't try to stop him, because they are his friend. Pearl joins the group again, and Darcy becomes obsessed with the UPGC-Rogue war. A few months into the war, Christian is able to show Darcy, Chris and Pearl the mountains of research that he has done on the Quantum Interface, and urges Darcy to have the group undertake a mission to retrieve it. He reluctantly obliges.

As the group enters the vault, Chris seems to always have the feeling that something isn't right. Darcy begins acting strange and he starts to feel unsafe. He considers leaving, but Christian persuades him not to. Eventually the group reaches the central vault, where the Quantum Interface is held. Viper Squad, and Val are already there getting the USB. In a rage, Val is killed at Darcy's hands, and a shootout occurs in the vault, which resolves in Topside leaving with the Quantum Interface. Pearl leaves to join Topside after. Darcy, heartbroken at the loss of Pearl, commits suicide.

Chris and Christian, dissatisfied with where the journey got them, decide to steal the Quantum Interface back from UPGC themselves. This is Chris's first time seeing Topside, so he is quite amazed with the new quality of life there. They sneak into UPGC Enterprise, where they fight Viper Squad and Asha Brown again. After a shootout, Asha finally decides to side with Chris and Christian, and they steal the Quantum Interface together. The contents of it are released to the public, and the separation between the cities is mended.

He survives to the end of the story, as he is seen at the Lockbank Café with Christian, Pearl and Asha.