Lindsey El-Ghazzawy

Lindsey El-Ghazzawy, known by her screen name as '**Teal Leopard'**, is an Arabic computer hacker, who was born as the result of a neurological experiment, conjoining her mind with that of her mother.

## Information

### Language(s)

English
Arabic

### Affiliated with

The Zenith Collective

Lindsey was born in Chicago, as the result of a science experiment. She was part of SYSNA's MAIA-CETO (Mnemonic Acclimation through Integral Adjoining of Combined Egos and Trained Operation) programme, which had Lindsey's mother's consciousness joined into her brain when she was born.

Clarence Underwood, working undercover at SYSNA, saved Lindsey from the SYSNA institute and told her father that his wife died from childbirth. Her father had to take care of her, not knowing the true circumstances of her birth.

### Growing Up

As Lindsey grew up, she was raised upon Muslim beliefs. Her parents were among the thousands of refugees from the Middle East who were forced out of their homes due to multiple military conflicts and The Great Decline. Through these facts and her oversharing nature, she was the target of many vile pranks and insults by her teachers and peers throughout school. From her hijab to the nature of her parents, the insults never stopped. The only respite she got from school was the system administrator, Miraj Ajam, who mainly stayed in the background. During lunches and recesses, she would hang out with him in the server room, and he'd show her what he did for a living. The thought of a vast network interacting with each other appealed to her. At the end of her primary school career, she managed to get root access to the principal's computer, and marked all of her bullies for expulsion.

### The Poets

During high school, 2031, she made friends with Brianne Van Breda, who together founded The Poets, a Chicago based hacking group. She was known as 'Hackjabi Bitch', and together the group pulled harmless pranks on screened billboards, shut down YouView, and hacked security cameras of dressing rooms. However, Lindsey disbanded from the group without much announcement after an attack on a hospital. Lindsey did not want to attack the hospital at first, because she feared that it would affect life support systems. After Brianne affirmed her that it wouldn't, the ransomware attack did in fact damage the life support systems, killing 43 people in one night. The attack gained a lot of coverage, gaining the attention of the FBI. Lindsey burned her laptop in a trash fire and any evidence linking her to The Poets. Brianne skipped town, which made Lindsey think The Poets had disbanded. She never forgave herself for allowing the attack to happen.

### The Zenith Collective

Four years later, Lindsey made contact with the Zenith Collective, a large hacker group that exposes corporate and government secrets. She adopted the moniker 'Teal Leopard', and met Clarence Underwood in one of the many Zenith IRC channels. She carried out various tasks, both personal and pertaining to ZC. When the Zenith Collective became militarized, she and Clarence decided to leave ZC altogether. When Lindsey finished High School, she moved to Seaoko to work with Clarence.

## Effects of the MAIA-CETO Experiment

The circumstances of her birth being an experiment had lead to her mother's consciousness being merged with Lindsey's. Two egos on one brain has given her the capability of comprehending raw machine language on binary systems, which when paired with VR/AR Synapsis allows her to directly control a computer's central processor by directly talking to it. She does not know how she got this power, but keeps it a secret from others. She cannot hack Quantum computers with this ability, but can certainly target the microprocessors inside if present. Clarence is the only other person who knows about her power, which he tries to keep quiet about.