Rope

Mundane No-Ware Assassin

# Character Information

### Summary

Rope, a Mundane No-Ware assassin, is a Korean male in his mid 40s. Due to lacking the two most common edges people can gain in the sixth world, he makes up for it with diverse skills, having the right tools, proper knowledge, and extensive planning.

### Goals

* Repair their broken mind

* Relearn the knowledge and skills lost

* Train String so she can take care of herself

* Figure out what to do with their life now.

## Background

Il-Seong Kang (AKA, Rope), was once a world class corporate assassin from Korea. Due to variations in his personal phsyiology, ware technology was not a very viable option and recommended against by his doctors. With no special qualities like being awakened or emerged, Kang made himself valuable through sheer skill and determination. Born with a quick mind and strong body, he was able to forge himself into quite the honed weapon. While going through security training, not only was his physical and mental acumen noticed, but he checked nearly every box for the necessary in-born psychological traits during psychological screening. The ability to compartmentalize emotioins, detach one's self empathetically, high anxiety threshold, lack of violence threshold, a solitary nature, able to blend in, ease with deception, and self-sufficient.

At first, despite his extremely high physical and mental capabilities, the powers that were had concerns of his inability to take 'ware. Until it was noted that his lack of having ware would make him underestimated, even among awakened security. Can't hide anything if there's nothing to hide afterall. If Kang could prove he had the ability to learn very well, he could become extremely proficient. And, that's what he did. Became a master in tactics, knowledgable in the awakened, metatypes, medicine, anatomy, weapons, toxins, and many other areas and skills over his long career. Extensive plans, having the right tools for the job, knowing the various weakpoints of what laid before him, and if he didn't know he would find it so he can find the path of least resistance. Plans, backup plans, multiple egresses, backups after that, and all things considered, still have an option available for improvisation.

And that served him well for decades, very well respectable for not only assassins as a whole, but also one without any of the edges of the modern day. Flying under security capable of assensing or scanning for 'ware helps keep someone from ever getting pinged as someone who needs to be watched, a weakness made strength. Of course, thats not something to rely on, and there's going to be challenges he can't always handle. But as long as his employers continued to keep sending their loyal weapon on appropriate jobs, then they'd keep getting the ideal results.

And then one day, they didn't. Or more accurately, someone higher up in the corporate board decided to betray the company prior to their extraction from the company, they tipped off a rival that Kang was being sent after one of their own execs. This betrayal normally would have just been a complication at worst that made security unusually high, but not something he couldn't work around. No... instead this time a Diviner got involved behind the scenes. Kang was good, but not even he could work around someone who can predict the future if he doesn't even know they're in the picture. This wound up leading to his capture and 'enhanced interrogation', having even managed to prevent self termination. In order to make the assassin crack, they administered several drugs to break down his willpower, enhance pain receptors, and lower brain functions needed to lie. This however wound up causing a long lasting mental burnout, not allowing him to be the same again even after the drugs left his system, which normally wouldnt be an issue as he'd be killed once he was used up... right?

Well, he was slated to be killed. But in the standard corporate hubris way, since his mental capacity absolutely tanked, they didn't see much threat in him anymore, not enough to turn down the opportunity to sell him to Horizon for a Death Game they run from time to time. It was in this death game that he'd be bomb-collared and paired with another korean girl, an aware that would later be known as String. She was a former secretary and didn't have much in the way of combat, but she could follow along well enough. Luckily enough for the two of them, while Kang had lost much of his knowledge, skill, and mental capacity, his instincts and body were still sharp, and he retained the most vital combat skills necessary for Geurilla Tactics, brutal methodical takedowns that weren't flashy like many other contestants, but effective for the two to survive. Survival was stacked against the two of them though, a bare Mundane and an out of place Aware isn't much of a group for people to bet on when other combatants are wared to the nines and even a mage or adept was around. And that's what happened, eventually a mage with detect enemies on sensed the killing intent right before Kang struck, causing a struggle Kang was sure to lose, until the hidden String managed to get behind and start strangling the guy with her shirt, and by effect was unable to be magicked since he couldn't establish line of sight on her.

Eventually, the two managed to get to being the last in the Death Game, winning both a sum of money and their freedom. Unlikely winners and hardly any excitement generated caused that game to be considered a flop. With newfound freedom, a SIN marked as deceased, and having failed his cooperation, Kang needed to adapt to a new lifestyle, simple enough for him. String quickly found she couldn't return home either, also being burned in the system and having no real skills, so she stuck around with him. Kang was more than fine taking her in, having sort of mentally adopted her since if one of them died, the other one would as well from the bomb collar, and she did save his life back there, so he's determined to take her in and teach her how to stand on her own two feet the only way he knows how... by passing his skillset onto her.

Together they eventually made contact with their fixer Big Jun, and after the standard evaluation and initial runs, they eventually got considered to and accepted into the Market System, transferring them over to Seattle to set up shop and make the big money that such a hot-spot runs. Big Jun kinda hopes that this two-for-one deal of more tame and competent individuals will make up for his earlier additions.

## Narrative Significant Qualities

* Strive For Perfection - "An assassin is precise, knows the body like know other, and always hits their intended mark."

* Adrenaline Surge - "Strike First, Strike Hard, Strike Last. Always take the advantage, never hesitate."

* Impassive - "Assassins need a certain psychology at the end of the day, and that makes them not the nicest, or gentlest, of people."

* Prejudiced (Common, Biased: Trolls) - The interrogator who chemically crippled his mind was a Troll, this has left an impression for now, though muted due to a more muted emotional disposition as needed by Born-Assassins.

## Affiliations

### Contacts

 Gear: Rocket Raccoon
 Cleaner: HAZMATilda
 Infobroker: Techy

# In Character Information

## Matrix Search Table

 3
 6+

## Shadow Community Table

 3
 6+

## Assensing Table

 2
 3
 4
 5+

## SINs

R5 Chung-Hee Kim, EVO

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 R5 Bounty Hunter License

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R4 Kim Davis, UCAS