Carrie Kang

**Carrie Kang** is a detective and a professional hacker who is Colin Spencer's replacement of Gabriel's route and and made her physical appearance at the seventh chapter of Jake's route and the second season of Colin's route.

## Appearance

She was unseen during Gabriel's route as her main appearance is revealed in Jake's route and the second season of Colin's route. She has short-length light purple hair styled in a wavy bob with full fringes, olive eyes and wears peach lipstick. She also has a mole on her bottom left eye.

She wears three outfits on her portrait.

Her main outfit is a pale green long sleeved denim blazer with a pale blue and blue stripped short sleeved undershirt which is tucked into her blue jeans which is folded below her ankles and white tennis shoes.

When she had a sparring match with Jake outside of the barn, she was seen wearing an athletic attire; A gray short sleeved mini shirt which exposes her midriff with four-pack abs, white fashionable sport trousers with a drawstring at the waistline and sneakers. Her mini shirt is also mistook by the player of wearing a sports bra and she was well-toned due to her battle experience.

Her third outfit is her semi-formal attire where she can fetched the player to the hotel to meet up with Jake, she wears a brown leopard fur coat with a gray and black tank top, gray jeans with a matching dark gray belt around her waist and boots. She later wears this during both Colin and the player's marriage at the end of the second season of his main story route.

## Personality

Carrie is described as a smart and bubbly woman and she is able to hack any servers from the government agencies. According to Colin towards both the player from Gabriel's story and the other from Jake's story that Carrie is a pretty good hacker and a very good replacement when he decided to take on a solo tour as a musician. At Jake's route, she seems very close to Jake as her closeness to him causing the player to get jealous and envious. In reality, Carrie can be sincere and very supportive which she tries to reason with Jake that the player has to know more about his second previous occupation instead of hiding these things from her just for her protection.

As a detective, she actually knows Jake's secrets and his previous occupation as a US government agent which Jake angrily scolds her to keep quiet and she is also the one who assists Jake in investigating about Aleksei Votiakov especially Jake's employer, Ryan Carter, leading the player became defensive towards her boss. Carrie is also a very strong combatant when she battles Jake in a sparring match twice and getting confident to see Jake as her sparring partner. Although, she is also a reliable and a smart person which she is able to outsmart Aleksei when he provokes the player to access the codes while Jake was taken hostage. Although, Carrie does not want to break her friendship and connection to Jake despite the latter who is already resigned, causing her to get annoyed, but deep inside she was upset while concealing her bubbly attitude towards both Jake and the player.

In all other story routes, she is friends and acquaintance with Colin Spencer. In Chapter 10, Colin reveals to the player that her real name was kept on the web as Carrie Kang as she uses the name of Carrie Dartieu because of her job as the government agent. In Ryan's story which is the third and final season, she became a programmer trainee under Colin's tutelage in order to find the culprits for taking assassination attempts on their boss Ryan Carter as Giorgio Maccini is the real mastermind behind Ryan's assassination attempt. However in Colin's story within the second season shows Carrie as Colin's replacement when the latter became the popular rock star who takes a solo European tour, she was also being checked upon by Colin during his visit in the company as seen in Chapter 2 where the latter tries to act like his former job only for Carrie to stop him on his tracks. Therefore, she's having trouble battling a fellow hacker in the cyber security which causes her to contact Colin for help. In Chapter 6, Carrie displays her rudeness towards both Colin and the player when Colin arrives at his old IT room to locate the culprit for sending his email and for murdering his parents and burning down their house but was failed when Colin gets angrily frustrated towards the player while driving his car. In the final chapter of the story, she decided to help Colin in dealing against Derrick's computer hacking which proves to be successful and also allowing them to do their make love sessions to inform Ryan about how she and Colin had managed to defeat Derrick from computer hacking. Carrie is also revealed to have a current relationship with Malaïka and was seen as one of the guests in both Colin and the player's wedding.

## Season 2 (Gabriel's Route)

Carrie was unseen during the events of Gabriel's route on it's second season where she replaces Colin Spencer as a computer programmer due to him going on a solo tour in Los Angeles, California with his bandmates. Carrie is also able to hack the computer files owned by Thomas Gordon who is responsible for taking a lot of pictures towards most employees including both Gabriel and the player without their knowledge. Although, she hasn't caught Thomas' accomplice who had immediately escaped.

## Season 1

Carrie first appears when she visited Jake at Joe's Barn only to be blocked by the player. She manages to sneak the player away and hugs Jake as a reunion, much to his dismay. The player became disappointed when she came here at the barn and Jake tells them to get ready to eat brunch. Jake then introduces Carrie to the player as a best detective of the country which makes Carrie throw an orange at Jake only for him to catch it in quick reflex. Carrie also knows the player very well because of Jake's stories as well as she knew about his secrets causing Jake to scold her to shut her mouth. The player becomes questionable about how she and Jake had knew each other and wanted to know if she is the one who speaks to Jake on his phone. Carrie is also knowledgable about their investigations especially about Aleksei Votiakov when his assistant had committed suicide was nothing more but a murder and he is one of the employees from the nuclear industry. Jake hints that Ryan has a secret laboratory within his company causing him to get angered. After learning of their revelations, the player became defensive towards her boss and leaves them. She later contacts Colin Spencer to investigate about Carrie and her real identity because Jake had introduce her as Carrie Dartieu especially about Ryan's involvement in the Russian embezzlement scam as Colin knows that government agents do keep their real identities a secret and about Ryan's involvement in the scam, he will look into it.

Later, she had a sparring match with Jake twice and the player had mistook them for having sex. Carrie was confident in battling Jake who became as her sparring partner which he nods in agreement. Both of them demonstrating their hand-to-hand combat and Carrie overpowers Jake. As she is about to check on him, Jake counters her. Seeing Jake is about to start a fatigue, Carrie knocks him out with a kick into his head. Carrie later became concerned about Jake keeping secrets about his real personality as a violent and dangerous person now knowing that the player had overheard their conversation. With that, Carrie decided to leave the barn by driving her car after refusing Jake's offer to stay because it was dangerous to drive at late night.

In Chapter 9, she is revealed to be acquaintance with Colin Spencer as he contacted her regarding about the La Bratva, a powerful Russian mafia group. In Chapter 10, she was mentioned by Colin regarding about her real identity as Carrie Kang which was kept on her web so that she can use her other name as Carrie Dartieu because of her job as a government agent. Later, Carrie decided to fetch the player at Gabriel's apartment to the hotel where Jake was staying. Despite Jake reveal that Carrie wanted to keep distance between the two of them because of their relationship and his job as a government agent, Carrie was just supportive to the player and she happily winks to her to see Jake before she parted ways. At the final chapter of the story, it is revealed that Carrie was subdued by Aleksei and his group of Russian militia where he is one of the members of the Russian mafia, the Bratva but it turns to be a ruse when Jake infiltrates alone during the first explosion and releases Carrie first. Altogether, Carrie outsmarts Aleksei long enough to activate the black box to make a second explosion so that the American special forces to infiltrate their territory. The plan succeeds and few of Aleksei's men were apprehended and Aleksei himself who survives from the gunshot from the chest inflicted by Jake. She also complimented them both for being lovebirds and telling them to get some room. Following the incident, Carrie has been contacting Jake but was not respond until she found them both. She scolds Jake for not contacting her which he reveals that he is already resigned his post on the Bureau, much to her shock and her annoyance because he wanted to spend time with the player who is also resigned her post as a CFO in Carter Corp. Seeing Jake had already cleared his resignation at the Bureau, Carrie allows them to go and she reveals to have a new partner after Jake and telling the player to look after Jake before she parted ways. Deep down, she was upset because Jake is no longer her partner anymore.

Although in the bad ending, she was the one who convinces Jake to return to the Bureau as a government agent who wanted to resign his post just for the player but interrupted. Jake decided to go with her to deal against the serial killer in Chicago. However, according to the radio news, they failed to subdue the killer who is now at large.

## Season 3 (Ryan's Route)

In the third and final season of Ryan's route which takes place three years after both seasons, Carrie was mentioned by Colin and she became his programmer trainee under his tutelage in order to find the perpetrators behind the assassination attempt on their boss, Ryan Carter as Giorgio Maccini is the real mastermind behind Ryan's assassination attempt.

## Season 2 (Colin's Route)

In the second season of Colin's route which takes place six months after the first season, Carrie was Colin's replacement when the latter left the company for his European tour. In Chapter 2, she was visited by Colin in the IT room to check on her by getting a rare figurine and Carrie scolds him not to touch it. Although, Carrie recognizes Colin as a superstar. The player thought he still worked for Ryan although he had resigned for his European tour six months ago. Colin also tells her that he has a contact with Carrie when he left the company to handle the cyber security business. Before Colin would try to touch the computer keyboards, Carrie stopped him in his tracks, telling him that his current status as a celebrity which makes Colin shocked when someone called him on his phone.

Later in Chapter 6, it was Carrie who was in the lobby to speak to Howard and was found by both Colin and the player. He tells the player to stall time with her while mistaking her as Ryan. Carrie arrives with her coffee upon seeing the player's presence. She became rude to both Colin and the player for barging over the IT room. Just before Carrie could barge the player angrily to get inside, Colin arrives just in time to confront her and he thanked her for using her equipments in hacking. As the two leave, Carrie remains rude towards them in annoyance. She is later contacted by Colin to track down the culprit behind his parents' murder and for burning down their house as well as for sending an anonymous email after he was hospitalized for getting collapsed into the ground due to his low blood sugar from his diabetes and had forgotten to inject himself with his insulin since the culprit now known as Josh is able to protect himself from getting tracked by hackers like the two of them.

At the final chapter of the story, Carrie was visited again by both Colin and the player at his old IT office in Carter Corp which also allows Colin to use his old computers including her equipment in order to track Josh who is mainly responsible for stalking on his girlfriend. However, Carrie detects Derrick's test files, leading her to team up with Colin in defeating him within their computer hacking skills. They succeeded in taking down Derrick and his files from getting trapped and to the player's excitement, leading her and Colin to have a quickie. Carrie tells them to go on another room but they didn't care and being ignored. She had no choice but to get coffee and informs Ryan about what her and Colin had done in beating Derrick in computer hacking.

## Trivia

* She is the second female hacker after Morgane Delchamps in Fallen Road and the fourth hacker to appear overall.
* She is the third female Asian character to appear after the player from Sebastian's route and Mai Lan Dinh from Blue Swan.
* On the casting in Jake's route, her occupation is a goverment agent but in actual game and according to the admins within their Facebook fan page that her occupation is a detective.
* In Chapter 7 during her introduction, her surname becomes Dartieu when Jake introduces her to the player despite her surname Kang is officially named in the game's cast and the admins within their Facebook fan page. Also, Colin tells the player that she currently uses that surname to keep her real identity a secret due to her current job at the government. In Chapter 10, it reveals to Colin that Carrie kept her real name in her web.
* Judging by Carrie's full appearance, she seems to be a little below average height compared to some of the other female characters. This is an interesting design choice as many other female characters have their legs drawn to be very long in an almost unrealistic way sometimes.