Mine was Preston. Once he wanted to be a police detective, but got kicked out of training when he got caught doing some minor grade hacking. He was soon picked up by a bounty hunter who was training him in that fine trade in return for Preston running the matrix searches and sweet-talking locks. They came to Seattle on a job at one point.
Then Preston woke up in a grimy apartment, almost two years later, with no recollection of what had happened in-between. And he was sporting a high performance cyber-arm that was trying to take over his mind (at least, that is his conviction). And he had a high quality fake ID, some not-so-legal lock picking gear, and a small sum on his cred-stick. In the couple of months since then he’s been trying to makes sense of life, but he’s afraid to go to his official identity because he doesn’t know what he did during those lost years. However his money supply is running out, so he’s being forced to look for more lucrative work than what he’s scraped together so far.
In the time that he lost, the latest matrix re-build happened – rendering useless a lot of what he did know -- so on the matrix side he’s pretty much limited to searching/perception and, if he’s lucky, sleazing an occasional lock open. He isn’t an especially skilled fighter, but The Arm is good enough to make him pretty dangerous if he uses it (and likewise its finesse makes lock picking much easier). However he really tries not to use his arm, because sometimes when he does he goes into a blackout state again and wakes up hours later not knowing what he’s done. The Arm, it takes control of his mind, chummer, and The Arm: it’s a killer.
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What was yours?
