PUPPY

## Biography

The Protagonist was created as nothing more than a clone inside of Heaven with the sole purpose of being used as spare parts for his template BOSS in case any of his cybernetics or biological functions began to fail. However, PUPPY also represented a security flaw in the system, as his identical genetics to BOSS meant that he HEAVEN's automated security would allow him to pass through most defenses untouched. His existence would change when a coup was hatched by the the top executives of HEAVEN who wished to kill the BOSS and take control. A low level employee named Wizard hacked into PUPPY and convinced him that he needed to "KILL BOSS", under the idea that Wizard had taken the protagonist's little brother hostage and was forcing him to carry out these acts.

The Protagonis would come very close to succeeding in his original task, coming face with Head of Heaven HQ Security Chief Watayama after having traversed through the facility and managed to dispatch of the security director and his goons and was about to break into the door to BOSS's office when suddenly he was electrocuted and knocked unconscious when HER managed to overpower Wizard for control of PUPPY.

Having ended up in Rengkok South, the protagonist would be saved by the Mechanix and later contacted by HER and instructed on how to save his captured brother, although in truth she was using him to track down all those whom had betrayed BOSS. First the protagonist was sent through to the Creep's Parking Garage where he fought through the hordes of gang members in order to track Wizard down. He kills Nerve, Donvius and Jurek in the process before finding Wizard and allowing HER to fry him to death and take his memory chip.

Next was to track down the protagonists lost brother using a tracker HER claimed to have on him, which led the duo to the industrialized roots of Rengkok known as the Hanza Compound where the protagonist had to fight through Techno Dogs, and defeat the bloodthirsty A.I. known as Mother and her "children" known as Angel and killing Captain Bogdan, Hongshi, and Shadow before finally finding and confronting TrafficKing and after being chased by him, the protagonist managed to turn the tables and defeat him and allow HER to hack into TrafficKIng and knocking him out.

The protagonist dragged the corpulent company man back to the Mechanix who wired him to be obedient only to the protagonist and HER and gave the protagonist the options to be able to electrecute him if need be. With him in tow the protagonist made his way to the deepest part of the city, the Imagination Farms where Hosts are kept in containment pods as they work in the virtuality business, a place also known as HELL. Unfortunately for them, as the protagonist and HER learn, these people often end up loosing their sense of selves and become Drained Hosts, zombie like entities barely passing for a living creature. The protagonist cut his way through the Hosts and the defenctive Angels, and cut down Khog and seemingly kill TrafficKing in the process before finally reaching Mother again as well as battling a remade and reanimated TrafficKing who is soundly defeated by the protagonist before he confronts the Sick Sisters.

The protagonist discovers they were in charge of these ruthless acts and engages them by battling Mother who acts as their transport and after an intense battle the protagonist managed to kill both of the sisters as well as destroying Mother for good. Finally with the last of the people who tried to betray BOSS dead, he opens the containment pod that he thinks his brother is inside, but instead has a hallucination and apparently shuts down, unconscious. When he awakens, he has been brought to HEAVEN, shackled, and BOSS is in front of him.

It is there that the protagonist discovers that he was never his own person and the Brother he was hoping to save never existed, he was nothing but a puppet that had been used by various parties for their own goals, continuously manipulated with false memories and manufactured motivations. He was originally created as a clone of BOSS merely as organ donation spare parts. BOSS' traitorous executives had come up with a plan to use the protagonist as an assassin to try to kill BOSS, taking advantage of the protagonist's identical biometrics to BOSS to bypass automated security; HER had made a deal with BOSS to use the protagonist to sniff out the traitors and destroy them instead. However, HER had plans of her own, and used him to first destroy all the other traitorous leaders of HEAVEN to gain BOSS' trust, but finally revealing her true plans by releasing the protagonist's shackles right in front of BOSS and ordering the protagonist to kill the leader as well (therefore destroying HEAVEN). BOSS, akathe protagonist's template confirms this to the protagonist before ordering his guards to killthe protagonist. BOSS sent everything he had at his clone, putting a veritable army of elite forces in his way, but ultimately his security was defeated and the protagonist either electrocutes BOSS or bludgeons him to death with a steel pipe before going to meet HER at an as of yet unspecified location, now finally "free" thanks to HER.

## Appearance

The nameless protagonist (nicknamed PUPPY by HER) is a cybernetically enhanced clone who believes he is pursuing his kidnapped brother through the metropolis of Rengkok with the help of the enigmatic hacker known as HER. He wears a cybernetic mask that cannot be taken off (according to HER), a jumpsuit similar to those worn by the Hosts in the Imagination Farms, and a leather jacket with the Han character "弟" on the back, which translates to "Little Brother" in both Chinese and Japanese.

## Abilities

The protagonist is able to upgrade his lethal skills and cybernetic abilities as he continues to progress through the game and acquire more and more Karma. He uses all of these to great effect while in combat and has overcome numerically superior enemy forces, as well as individual foes more physically imposing then himself such as Mother, Heavy Cyborgs and augmented mercenary veterans with decades of experience like Captain Bogdan.

The one weakness the protagonist consistently seems to have is his perceived low intelligence at detecting deception, or at the very least, constantly demonstrates that he is easily manipulated. He is also hacked repeatedly, by even an "amateur hacker" like Wizard who is able to take control of him (although this may be a deliberate weakness installed by BOSS, to allow the coup to take place), not to mention having his motivation completely subverted by HER.

It is unknown if the protagonist is potentially capable of all the same feats of corporate leadership and planning as BOSS is; although he is a genetic clone, in terms of their personality the two are completely different, as the protagonist has virtually no life experience prior to the events of the game. However, the protagonist's combat abilities have been honed to extreme levels after defeating thousands of mercenaries, assassins, and cyborgs during the course of his rampage, abilities which BOSS apparently does not have.

## Trivia

* In the entire game, not once does the protagonist do something he isn't manipulated into doing.

* The protagonist never says a single word in the game but communicates with simple gestures like nods and shrugs.

* Puppy believes that the Iching Oracle works.