Kaeden Ó Rinn

**Kaeden Ó Rinn** (nickname **Kade**) is a private investigator and former Militech agent currently working in Night City. Following his career as a Militech soldier and Acquisitions Specialist, Kade became an independent mercenary for awhile before ultimately retiring from that occupation as well, becoming a private investigator.

## Biography

### Militech Career

Kade was a special ops soldier in Militech's mercenary army. He eventually showed enough skill and cunning to work his way up to Militech Acquisitions Specialist.

### Mercenary Career

At some point after he left Militech, Kade became an independent mercenary and was contracted by many individuals and organizations. He worked for the yakuza at some point.

### Private Investigator

By 2074, Kade had retired from being a mercenary and moved into Night City, setting up an office that doubled as an apartment in one of the city's megabuildings.

## Personality and Trails

As a result of his upbringing and actions he undertook during his Militech career, Kade has difficulty connecting with others, often closing himself off to the people around him. This attitude complicates his work as an investigator, making him appear indifferent to the plights of the clients he is meant to serve.

Kade is pragmatic, cunning, competent, stoic, and usually even-tempered. Even after all his years as an investigator, he is still a bit anti-social, and can sometimes appear inconsiderate to the people he's meant to help. He can be callous, sarcastic, uncompromising, blunt, distant, hateful, cynical, manipulative, impatient, and distrustful.

He holds all but his closest friends under scrutiny, and is willing to intimidate, harm, torture, and even kill anyone that is a threat to his community's security or, more importantly, his loved ones. He can come across as gruff, brutish, and certainly intimidating.

Despite his cool and collected demeanor, Kade could and would demonstrate that he was an experienced, hardened detective capable of turning aggressive and contentious. Kade enjoyed listening to various types of music, from jazz to rock.

He also tended to indulged himself with cigarettes and bourbon upon returning from a hard day's work. Kade's investigations often pushed him to the limits, both emotionally and physically, yet ultimately he chooses to act selflessly and courageously when faced with difficult decisions. He has a singular force of will, in other words, "he's a suicidal idiot that never gives up."

Kade appears to be a person of strict loyalty to both his family, people, and organizations- in that, he is loyal to a person/organization who has earned his loyalty, but he has no qualms in breaking that loyalty if the person/organization in question breaks that loyalty. Despite knowing how to deal with corpos, he tends to avoid them if he can.

## Skills and Abilities

Kade is a man who keeps himself in great shape and maintains a strict level of training. His strength, speed, reflexes, agility, durability, and stamina are in top conditioning, for a man of his age. Despite his mastery of martial arts and firearms, Kade is injured frequently but demonstrates nearly inhuman tolerance to pain, rarely notices beyond checking his wounds for bleeding.

Via ocular and auditory implants, Kade demonstrates the ability to hear or detect enemies that are otherwise unseen. The process looks similar to echo location or sonar, and it allows him to precisely locate an enemy and engage in combat more effectively. Kade is also effectively bilingual, speaking English and Japanese.

He is also highly trained in counter-interrogation and anti-hacking. When trapped inside a Net or Braindance construct, for example for interrogation, a kind of meditation can enable him to consciously manipulate and escape the construct. As a part of his corporate training, he is extremely skilled at breaking into secure locations and escaping without being noticed and he is able to memorize complicated architectural layouts easily.

Kade has displayed an uncanny deductive ability, able to realize people's motivations with little data, contributing to his legendary ability as an investigator. He is also able to absorb and observe details and information in his environment through subliminal pattern recognition. He shows incredible foresight and is able to anticipate people's actions.

His remarkable perception and intuition also contributes to his skill in combat, being able to predict and anticipate his opponents' movements. He is extremely capable in hand-to-hand combat, utilizing strikes, grapples and takedowns. He can quickly outmaneuver, outmatch or simply outlast his opponents, even being capable of taking on multiple enemies at once. Kade is able to adapt to his opponent's fighting styles, studying them during the fight and adapting to negate their strengths. He is also highly skilled in gunplay and is a deadly accurate marksman, also being quick to draw and aim. He is most proficient in handguns, but is also skilled in the use of rifles and shotguns.

Despite his various strengths, Kade is effectively physically unaugmented (internal and neural cybernetics aside) and is at a disadvantage when facing opponents with strong cybernetic enhancements, limbs and weapons.

## Trivia

* Kade has a younger brother who runs a nightclub in Los Angeles, doubling as a Fixer.