GummiWyrm

### Folder Link

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12p7IUfi87X67\_2lBGng4aeXCrXMuOBc3?usp=sharing

# Character Information

### Summary

Dissonant technomancer, AR hacker, virologist, demolition expert, heavy weapons fire support, off face, and cat girl. She's a jack of all trades but fully capable in each of them.

### Goals

* Figure out what needs to happen if she and her fiancee decide they want to be together, long term
* Not spend the holidays alone
* Become a medical doctor without going to medical school
* Build a spider tank, like the one in the original Ghost in the Shell

## Background

The 4th generation Scion of an influential family, Matthew Thomas had higher expectations on his shoulders than most full corporate citizens. He excelled with those expectations, earning a doctorate in virology (as well as a significant amount of experience in the fields of nano-technology and genetics) as well. His scientific prowess was unexpected, but more than welcomed as he went on to work on high level projects at Ares Space. He was a prodigy, limitless career options in his future, especially with an arranged marriage to a corporate executive from another influential family. Until he realized that he wasn't "he".

A month or so into her not-quite-perfect engagement, Doctor Thomas realized why she'd felt so incomplete all her life. Like she was simply wearing a mask that she couldn't take off. Her lack of chemistry with her fiancee only drove this home as she realized that it wasn't because of Julia, however cold a person she is, it was because Matthew Thomas wasn't who she really is. And as the feelings continued to crash in on her, so much of what she'd felt and experienced in her life coalescing into the realization of who she truly was. And desperately needed to be. With so many expectations on her shoulders as the only "son" of such a prestigious Ares family, she knew things weren't going to go well for her if she came out, regardless of company policies or her education and talent.

As she spiralled, her best friend, since they were first in school together as kids, Doctor James St. Claire, used a few connections he had to "outside contractors" to help her just as she was starting to hit her breaking point. It happened two days after he simply told her, pulling her into a hug and whispering in her ear, "You need to leave." An extraction team grabbed her and stuck her in a tank, letting them wipe her trail while she spent a month having her body rebuilt, and emerging, finally, as her true self.

Hazel's hope was always to find legitimate work under her fake SIN, but one that didn't pan out with her lack of qualifications for plenty of medical positions and lack of desire to be herself while cleaning stuffer shack toilets. So, with the gifts of her resonance that she'd been hiding at Ares, she turned towards true freedom - running in the shadows.

She quickly made a name for herself, earning a reputation as a consumate professional after only two months, throwing herself into her work to cope with... everything. Everything was different. Even the good things, with her new body, but her whole life has changed and she's truly experiencing so much of the world in a trial by fire. Eventually, she's put in enough schooling (and money to her SIN forger) to work as a registered nurse, up at the UC Anschutz medical campus in Aurora between jobs. And putting all of her skills to use, she prefers to help people when she can; Now that her situation is (relatively speaking) stable, the big jobs just fund more work for those who need it.

She came to Denver chasing ghosts. Part of her still longs for her old life, still wonders what she did wrong for all of this to happen, so when she found out her parents had left Seattle, she followed, despite not having spoken to them since before she left. Her fiancee, having learned the truth of her "extraction" back in Seattle is on her heels, and James is right on hers. While what happened to her is now an open secret to many people at Ares who'd very much like her back, it's been kept discreet enough to not have ruined her family. There's always the thought of "What if I just went back?" that keeps her up at night. Second only to "What if they find me?"

GummiWyrm has spent the last few years running with the neo-As of Denver and establishing herself as a formidable shadow operator. But more recently, she's been spending more and more time in Seattle, as she and her fiancee have been exploring their feelings for each other and building a real relationship out of the ashes of their arranged corporate union. More and more she's been considering a move back to Seattle, to be closer to Julia, her BFF, and her estranged parents, and longing for some of what she left behind. ((This is the catalyst for her moving back to Seattle and joining the Market!))

## Narrative Significant Qualities

* Battle Hardened 3 - GummiWyrm has been a shadowrunner for years, now, and through a lot of terrifying, high pressure situations, has learned to ride the waves of fear and adrenaline instead of letting those feelings overwhelm her.
* College Education - Graduated with her doctorate in virology at 22. Has passed the NCLEX exam and is a registered nurse in the UCAS under a fake SIN, but never actually attended nursing school. She tends to absorb information and spends her free time honing a lot of her skills. Has her sights set on medical school as her next major pursuit.
* Techoshaman - Her sprites are more than just dissonance constructs. They're her friends and companions, things she can speak to without fear of judgement. Her pet sprite, Diaboromon, came to her just after she left Ares, when she felt like she was going to drown in her loneliness. She's still not sure if she created him unconsciously, or if he found her.
* Full Corporate SINner - Ares Macrotechnology
* Records on File - Ares Macrotechnology
* Decaying Dissonance - As Hazel's life fell apart around her, as she lost everything and found herself out in the cold, new body, new name, new everything, something broke. The flow through her head was no longer a chorus of resonance. There was something else, echoes of dissonance. She's well aware of it, now, even if she didn't recognize it when it first happened, or even exactly when it first started happening. She's dissonant. She doesn't corrupt everything she touches, her thoughts aren't fragmented into billions of different discordant streams, there's barely anything off about her. She can even still bathe in a resonance well without it setting her virtual skin on fire. But it doesn't change that what she's channeling is dissonance, not resonance, no matter how much she can still feel the resonance. But as a scientist, her analytic approach and research on it has led to her embracing it, feathering the line of using it as a strength rather than letting it be a weakness and making sure she doesn't lose herself entirely in it.

## Affiliations

### Contacts

 James St. Claire
 Julia Morgan
 Derailer

### Organizations

-Well respected among the loose confederation of Neo-As in Denver.

-Very reluctantly tied to Ares Macrotechnology through her past and her fiancee

-Probationary member of the Denver Nexus's administrative team

### Allies

-Neo-Anarchists and anyone else fighting the good fight

### Enemies

-Anyone experimenting on unwilling subjects or otherwise outside the purview of ethical guidelines on human experimentation

# In Character Information

## Matrix Search Table

 3
 6+
-Posts on the Denver Nexus in academic circles, primarily virology, nanotechnology, and medical research, from a user named GummiWyrm

## Shadow Community Table

-Provides a lot of fire support with heavy weapons and explosives, but is *very* careful to not cause collateral damage or harm non-combatants
 3
-Probably an ex-corpo with a hard exit from whatever corporation she worked for
-Skilled with explosives and demolition, but incredibly picky about who she'll offer those skills to. Has no problem scrubbing a job if there's even a chance an explosive of hers could cause collateral casualties
 6+
-Has a doctorate in virology and extensive medical knowledge
-Loathes unethical human experimentation, has bombed several corporate blacksites after rescuing the test subjects.

## Assensing Table

 2
 3
 4
-R1 cerebellum booster
 5+
-Her human ears have been completely removed and replaced with her delta grade kitty ears
-Sensitive skin treatments around her ears and scalp!
-Dampers in her kitty ears! Ear muffs don't really fit her anymore
-Fiberoptic hair, waist length, silky smooth and soft!
-Smartlink
-Clean metabolism
-Tetrachromic vision
-Thermographic vision

## SINs

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Miranda Priestly - UCAS - R4

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-CCW
-Firearms
-Private Detective License
-Matrix Specialist Certification
-Security Consultant Certification

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Rebecca Chambers - UCAS - R6

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-CCW
-Firearms
-Registered Nursing License
-Matrix Specialist License

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## Appearance

5'0", biosculpted cat ears and tail, waist length fiberoptic hair (and the fur of her ears/tail)

### Clothing

Usually very femme and cute, lots of bright colors. Often wears scrubs when she's working and needs something simpler.