Checkmate

# Character Information

### Folder Link

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PkvviRkA-tYC8cfXnp9GTg8MnEpWumeh?usp=sharing

### Summary

Checkmate is a mundane streetsam, mostly focusing on melee combat.

### Goals

* Mostly making some good money

* Finding a sense of belonging in a community

* Possibly getting rich enough to move to a big ass penthouse

## Background

Although having been in the scene for a while now, few of her colleagues actually know her real story: for unknown reasons, she always changes some details.

The official version that almost nobody knows starts in a Renraku military lab, where she was born as an experiment, an attempt to obtain a bodyguard unlike any other, capable of increasing the safety levels in the ranks and ensure a smoother rise of the corporation in society. In the facility, she didn’t have much to do, except for endless tests and medical exams to check up on her experimental modifications, firing ranges when she finally was old enough to hold a proper gun in her hands and combat training, on good days. As one would expect from a not-secret-but-surely-not-so-public-either lab, there weren’t many children around to play with, so as a child she was often bored. There was one person, however, that always seemed to be around: Dr Tanaka, a woman in her late 40s, who always wore her greying hair in a perfect high ponytail, would spend a lot of time with young Emiko; she would take her on walks outside the facility and teach her to play chess. Emiko never, ever won a game against her.

Then on one day that felt perfectly identical to all other days, there was a break-in. Some runners from Yomi island had evaded all security measures and had got into the lab. they weren’t looking for her, but something in one of them holding a gun to her head while she was sitting under a desk just couldn’t make it. so, instead of kiling her or selling her for the valuable scientifical prototype she was, they took her back with them to Yomi Island.

Now Yomi island is not exactly a playground, or the type of place a teenager dreams to grow up in, but the days there were surely much, much more interesting than those in the lab, and while she was a bit sad about not seeing dr Tanaka anymore, she quickly dismissed that nostalgia for the euphoria rush of finally living on actual streets with actual people, being able to earn their bread and to punch in the face, if necessary.

Ok maybe a bit more than just if necessary, let’s say she was a bit short tempered with whoever wanted to steal something from her or corner her in a dark alley. In her friend circle, she had the second best record of broken noses.

After growing up with actual runners, first and foremost her mentor, Checkmate learnt the ropes easily, accompanying some other runners in low dangere runs. However, there came a point where she just wanted to see something else of the world, and learning from her squad that Seattle was the self-awared capital city of runners in the UCAS, she just packed her stuff, said brief goodbyes and moved out with a fake SIN, letting who took her out of the lab that once she had a place to stay, it would have been totally available to them if needed.

So she stayed, taking jobs when available and punching people in the face.

Usual business, different places.

## Narrative Significant Qualities

* Combat Junkie
* Did you just call me Dumb?
* Distinctive style
* No man left behind
* One born every minute
* Poor self control (Thrill seeker)
* Prototype transhuman
* Redliner
* Superhuman Phsychosis
* Wanted: Renraku (Prototype transhuman)
* Weak immune system

## Affiliations

### Contacts

* White Fox, fixer, loyalty 2, connection 4

# In Character Information

## Symbols and Signatures

Checkmate doesn't really have any signature or symbols yet.

## Matrix Search Table

 3
 6+

## Shadow Community Table

 3
 6+

## Assensing Table

 2
 3
 4
 5+

## SINs

R4 Hashi Rio (UCAS) (Restricted augmentations license)

## Appearance

Checkmate is a slightly short for her metatype(1.80/5'9), oni woman. She is pretty muscular and has a slightly wide frame. She has multiple visible white and golden tattoos on her dark red skin. She also has some on her cheekbones and chin. She has a barely noticeable crooked nose after having it broken during a fight. Many of the scars she has are covered by clothes, but she really doesn't mind about them being visible.

### Clothing

At first glance, Checkmate might look like a regular army dropout: usually wears comfortable training-friendly clothes like camo pants and tank tops or shirts, combat boots and the tiniest pieces of jewelry on her oni horns. Her clothes are usually slightly distressed, but she likes it that way: they make her feel and look much more badass. When it gets colder, she usually wears a distressed, clearly old leather jacket.

### Matrix Persona

Her matrix persona is basically her, but without the battle scars, and wearing formal clothes and a black and golden venice carnival-esque mask that covers her eyes and nose