Rieko

Rieko in her typical clothes on the fourth floor.

Techmander (Gagan)

## Description

Rieko is a wheelchair user of East-Asian descent with magnificently bright, cyan eyes and a bony wreck in the place of knees. Her typical attire consists of one of her various t-shirts covered in quotes and phrases, cargo pants, other clothes fitting the cybergrunge aesthetic paired with a vibrant orange lifevest atop all of that. Her animal features are patches of black, slimy salamander skin and a tail of similar properties.

## Personality

Rieko's always glad to meet new people and talk about any subject, though doesn't really do so due to being physically unable to go out to social gatherings often. In Milgram she doesn't do so out of fear. She has problems with neglecting personal needs and valuing others' over her own, such as caring for the Sleepers before tending to herself. New people, however, are the only new things Rieko likes. A change in setting, routine or anything else is very distressing to her, which is why she's a homebody and rarely goes out.

## Story

#### Pre-Rp

Born and raised in the modernising Kyoto, Rieko was eager to help bring new things into the world to help people. Her disability showing up in her teenage years further deepened this urge. At first she was interested in medicine but after many unfortunate events linked to hospitals the interest died away. So, once she realised the importance of enjoying things about life and her competence in using technology, Rieko began programming videogames. Soon she created a club at her local library for people with the same interest and created a two part RPG called Nights of the Severed Cradles. It told a story of an advanced world that relied so heavily on technology that after a magnetic storm it all collapsed and gave rise to two cults, The Ramifications and Felicidad Felina, which both enjoyed killing children. The protagonist, a weak one-armed kid, must survive the attempts the cultists make at taking their life and destroy the two gods that ask for the slaughter of kids. She began this project at the age of 16 and finished in just two years because of the large amounts of time at her disposal while she was stuck in hospitals due to constant medical emergencies.

Due to this ordeal she missed out on a lot of education but no schools except Milgram would accept her at the age of 17. Hence, her parents made the decision to apply and she successfully got in.

#### The Rp

Upon entering the facility she was immediately snatched by the researchers, excited to see how splicing her with a salamander would affect her disability. Spoiler alert, it didn't. After going through months rigorous testing the researchers dropped the toy that no longer provided any interesting results and Rieko fled up to the fourth floor to hide away and never have to see any of their faces again. Soon others with a similar story joined her up there and thus the Thug Sissies emerged. Nothing too interesting happened so far apart from her interactions with Gagan and Fletcher on the fourth floor and in the infirmary during the Strange Passes of Time. Later during the same day she was confronted by Kiemo, with whom she quibbled around. But out of their conversation one useful piece of information emerged: Kiemo was willing to make a deal.