User Profile

Name: Vikram "Vik" Verghese
Age: 27
Birthday: May 29th
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 165 lbs
Race: Human

Affiliation: Crazy Rebel (yeah!)
Class: Outlaw

PB: Jan Valentine from Hellsing
Appearance: Vik is of an average height, a little on the short side to his disappointment, and stature, though he's built a bit wider than most people would like. He's not overweight, just stocky, and the baggy, unremarkable tracksuits he usually wears don't help him to look any thinner. Vik's complexion and hair are dark, the latter cut in scraggly chunks to about his ear. By far the ugliest member of his family, Vik's big, gold, bug eyes sit bulging from his narrow face and his wide, fish-lipped mouth (made even more horrible by the various piercings he has strung through it) appears far too broad for his tiny chin. He's got an array of facial and body piercings and countless tattoos, most of which look rather sloppy. He practices new tattoos on himself, after all, and he's running out of room.

Personality Keywords: closemouthed, crude, anxious, presumptuous, volatile, brutal, misanthropic, capable.
Personality: Vik, simply put, is a guy who puts most people off, either with his silences, his huge professional ego, his extreme cynicism, or his creepy habit of staring people down just to see them finally look away. He believes in telling the whole truth in any situation it won't set him in serious shit for. Upsetting coworkers, friends or family he doesn't consider serious shit. Being an asshole is just his style. Still, he doesn't go out of his way to antagonize, as viciousness annoys him, but if drawn into a conflict, he'll say whatever he thinks the other person needs to know. Vik has the serious appreciation of silence that comes about when a person realizes they've already said more than they needed to in a lifetime. His days of being a loud-mouthed punk kid are long gone, replaced by hours spent providing folks who don't know how to shut up a dose of humility.
Likes: Success, spicy foods, art, humility (in other people), cigars, meditating.
Dislikes: Manual labor, most people, hot weather, liking spicy foods, sex, formalities, vanity, sluts, androids who act too much like people, bullshit and seeing women cry.

History: Born in the Cinzneto District of Palpena, Vik grew up smack in the middle of the B-1231's underworld. His father, the original Larry of Larry's Discount Electrogadgets, was scarce during Vik's childhood, something that he isn't exactly sore over, but disappointedly accepting of. Most fathers in Cinzento don't bother sticking around at all. The person who taught him the most (his mother couldn't be counted on, she usually had her lips around a bottle or worse…) was his elder brother, Larry Jr. Through his brother, Vik learned how to rig gadgetry, pocket what he couldn't afford to pay for and keep his nose clean and as far away from the cops as possible. At 15, Vik dropped out of high school in order to clock more time at the shop, and at 18, he shipped out for his 2 mandatory years of military service.

During his time as a soldier, Vik became increasingly critical of humanity. He'd always figured life in the slums was tough and the people were the shittiest there were. What kind of people did you expect to meet in the back of a rip-off market? But in the military, he met men and women who would swear to uphold their oaths, and, when it got down to the times you most needed to keep them, they bailed. People were fake, cowardly and just biding their time before they had to sell a friend down the river.

When he returned to the store, his family noticed a major change in his personality; they all figured it had dried up in the service or maybe he had PTSD. Vik didn't talk much anymore and, when he did, it was usually to make someone else shut up. He works with his brother, Sammy, and sister, Neena, both hackers, getting access to top-secret medical researchers' and pharmaceuticals' databases so that the illegal body mods being sold out the back of Larry's can get bigger and better. Specifically, he works as an ice man, breaking security codes and organizing the heists that get hackers into the company mainframes. Most organizations that deal in sensitive intelligence keep their systems disconnected from any and all outside signals, so to hack these systems, a person needs to be able to jack directly into them. Vik, going as "Emet" in the underground, is one of the top guys who can get hackers this kind of access. Occasionally, he works as a freelancer, but only if he respects a hacker's work.

Personally, Vik keeps mostly to himself, though he does seem to be in the company of Larry's employees quite a bit. He has no visible interest in women (no interest in men, either) and hasn't been known to keep a girlfriend since he was a teenager. People just aren't worth the trouble.

Family: Larry Verghese, his older brother; Sammy, his second-older brother; Neena, his younger sister.

» Character Info [SPECIFICS]

Education: High school drop-out (10th grade)
Skills: Hotwiring almost anything, overriding alarms, quick fingers, moderate skill flying small spacecraft, passable aim, keeping secrets, finding loopholes, mental math and tattooing.

Languages: Basic (fluent), Palpenan Basic (fluent)


» Character Info [TECH]

Weapon(s): A pair of long-barreled puritite pistols he keeps concealed on him at all times, a six round, old-fashioned shotgun he likes to mess around with when bored, a collection of tattooing and piercing needles he might use in a pinch, and his trusty cigar lighter.
Vehicle(s): A four-person, black beater of a spaceship. It looks like shit, mostly because he spends his paychecks on security add-ons and suping up the engine. It is v v v fast, but slightly unreliable.

» Extra

Anything else?: He is usually on (not addicted to) a drug known as Optiphet (Optical Amphetamine). Optiphets give the user the feeling of having incredibly powerful eyesight: being able to zoom in and out of reality, see through solid objects, etc. While they do enhance awareness and sharpen vision, most of the effect is hallucinatory.

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