RippA

# Character Information

### Summary

RippA is a wannabe-trog-punk-rocker with some actual potential. And Edge! Because he's Edge-y! And he hates the corps! So he 'runs against them! Also for the sick views on the Matrix!

### Goals

* Be the best trog-punk-rocker in the world
* Take down Renraku
* Make all the money and live the high life

## Background

Terry Gibson was born in 2065 to troll parents in the Black Forest. He had a happy childhood, growing up among others of his kind. Accepted. Wanted. Loved.

In search of economic advancement, Terry's parents moved to Seattle in 2076. It was a good time for him. Living in the ACHE opened up a whole new world - new places, new people, new friends, new foods, new experiences. It was a wonderful time, and it lasted right up until July 2077. A drastic budget cut by Mayor Nikola Taul combined with a record breaking heatwave resulting in the overworked cooling system of the ACHE failing, resulting in the deaths of both Terry's parents. It also cost him his right arm as, when rescuers found him, his arm had gone gangrenous from being trapped under his father's body.

With no parents, no support and unpayable medical bills, Terry Gibson was cast out onto the street. He was soon found by the Ork Underground and taken in. Placed with an Ork foster family Terry became fast friends with their son, Jack McNamara. Both were obsessed with music and they soon formed a band - Slash&Burn - an anti-corp, Trog Punk Metal band.

Slash&Burn is two parts System of a Down to one part Rammstein and one part Powerwolf, with Terry as the frontman assuming the persona of RipAnTear ("RippA" for short). They mostly play covers at the moment, but they're working towards discovering their own sound, their own purpose.

When Terry and Jack turned eighteen and left school, Jack took the safe path becoming a struggling session musician and working on Slash&Burn in his spare time. Terry refused to be bound down that way, hating the world, the corps, the establishment and everything that it entailed, for the loss of his parents (the arm was kinda cool though). He turned first to crime, with his beloved Ruger Super Warhawk "Thunder", and then to the far more lucrative (if far riskier) shadowrunning.

Despite being fairly oblivious when it comes to tech, Terry is a major attention/media-whore and he needs to get his message out there (even if he isn't quite sure what his message IS just yet). To do this, he's teamed up with an Ork tech/decker named Marianne Vargas who took something of a motherly shine to him when he first started exploring the darker sides of life. She manages the band's Matrix-presence (such as it is) and edits/posts the simstreams of Terry's activities. Marianne tries to keep him out of trouble, as much as possible, and actually introduced him to his first fixer, hoping to limit the likelihood of him getting screwed over and geeked in a dodgy deal.

Spades, the aforementioned fixer, has also become quite fond of Terry. Having largely assigned him to minor-league busywork, he's proven to be effective and reliable. Nothing like discrete however - she's still trying to break him of his habit of posting his activities on the Matrix. Until that happens, however, Marianne continues to handle his sim-editing and publishing figuring that it's far safer for him if it's done by a professional rather than cutting him off and having him try it himself.

## Narrative Significant Qualities

* Community Connection (popular in the OU and folks watch out for him)
* First Impression (despite his appearance, there's just something about him)
* Distinctive Style / Signature (he doesn't even try to hide who he is)
* Force of Chaos / Attention Seeker (he's gotta be the centre of attention and gets bored *real* quick if he isn't)
* Emotional Attachment (nobody, and I mean *nobody*, is allowed to touch his gun)

## Run History

* None - only minor-league criminal activities so far

## Affiliations

### Contacts

 Jack McNamara / Slash&Burn (Musicians)
 Marianne Vargas (Techie/Decker)
 Oakstein (Smuggler)
 Spades (Fixer)

# In Character Information

## Symbols and Signatures

RippA has an over-bulked, polished chrome cyberarm with Slash&Burn's logo on the shoulder as an LED tattoo. When that's covered up, it's usually by his lined coat - with the band's logo on the back. His horns also have an intricately patterned, inlaid LED tattoo. Oh, and he records his runs so Marianne can scrub them and post them online!

## Matrix Search Table

 3
 6+

## Shadow Community Table

 3
 6+

## Assensing Table

 2
 3
 4
 5+

## SINs

```
  Terry Gibson, BFTR   [Fake/"Legit"]   ||   Drivers, Firearms, Restricted Augments

```

## Appearance

### Clothing

RippA is a large, heavy troll. He has black hair and two large, onyx horns curving back from his temples, offset by a massive (usually neon) mohawk. In addition, his horns sport LED decorations in the form of intricate Celtic knotwork / circuitry / arcane patterns. His right arm is fully cybernetic, with a buffed chrome finish and an LED tattoo in the shape of the band Slash&Burn's logo covering his upper arm and shoulder.

He wears an obviously armoured vest (with metal plates attached) covered by a black trenchcoat and he has a massive, custom revolver openly displayed on his hip. The rest of his outfit is made up of leather, buckles, more leather, some armour plates, more buckles and some extra leather just because.

When running, he'll usually be carrying a large ballistic shield, and those of particularly high perception may notice a tiny drone flying around him.

### Matrix Persona

Terry doesn't use the Matrix much. He can *just about* manage to run a browser. His icon is the default for the commlink he's using, currently the Pulse Wave (so the icon is a basic outline of a big troll with various band's stickers plastered all over it).