Riona 'Rio' Adalura
Dec 1, 2015 0:21:49 GMT -5
Post by Adalura on Dec 1, 2015 0:21:49 GMT -5
Age & Date of Birth: [ December 15, Age 25 ]
Gender: Female
Descent: Brazilian
Languages: English, Portuguese, French (Passable)
Class: Slums / Civilian
Occupation: Mafia marksman
Nuip port: Slightly down and behind her right ear[/font]
Appearance
Watchu' look like, pussycat?
Watchu' look like, pussycat?
Height: 5'5"
Weight: ???
Eye color: Lion Gold (Hawk eye is light blue)
Hair color: Garnet Red
When out on the job, Rio sports para-military equipment including boots and cargo pants with built-in kneepads. On her upper body, she sports an elbow-length black shirt, light bullet proof vest and a poncho long to her right side. This hides her robotic arm, and the 9mm semi-automatic pistol holstered to her thigh. Along the back of her hips is a high-caliber revolve. Due to her light frame, Rio is only able to fire this with her mechanical arm. Casually, she sports similar low-attention-getting garments. Usually opting to wear spandex pants with shorts over top or loose fitting jeans with a sports jacket. Knockoff converses are a preferred form of footwear because even with catlike balance- who even enjoys heels screw that.
Genetic Modifications:
Gene-splicing: Mountain Lion
Gene splicing from her parents have passed down several features to Rio. Her organic eye resembles that of a lion, giving her a better focus at night time. She also has a short-furred tail measuring approximately 2 1/2 feet and a pair of red cat-ears protruding from her head. These give Rio an excellent sense of hearing- but does little outside her immediate proximity with the chaos of noise inside the slums.
Weight: ???
Eye color: Lion Gold (Hawk eye is light blue)
Hair color: Garnet Red
When out on the job, Rio sports para-military equipment including boots and cargo pants with built-in kneepads. On her upper body, she sports an elbow-length black shirt, light bullet proof vest and a poncho long to her right side. This hides her robotic arm, and the 9mm semi-automatic pistol holstered to her thigh. Along the back of her hips is a high-caliber revolve. Due to her light frame, Rio is only able to fire this with her mechanical arm. Casually, she sports similar low-attention-getting garments. Usually opting to wear spandex pants with shorts over top or loose fitting jeans with a sports jacket. Knockoff converses are a preferred form of footwear because even with catlike balance- who even enjoys heels screw that.
Genetic Modifications:
Gene-splicing: Mountain Lion
Gene splicing from her parents have passed down several features to Rio. Her organic eye resembles that of a lion, giving her a better focus at night time. She also has a short-furred tail measuring approximately 2 1/2 feet and a pair of red cat-ears protruding from her head. These give Rio an excellent sense of hearing- but does little outside her immediate proximity with the chaos of noise inside the slums.
Personality:
Don't bite, pussycat
Don't bite, pussycat
Charismatic and tomboyish, Rio is a social butterfly that takes the lone-wolf path by choice. Betrayal is as commonplace a word as any in the slums, and through trial and error she's come to realize that the average encounter isn't worth the average result. Riona is a talker at heart, preferring to solve her problems without violence when possible but able to drop pleasantries for violence at the drop of a dime if needed. Although holding a long standing grudge against the powers that hold the slums in such low regards, she actively makes time to further her own knowledge with a compulsively large book collection. Riona possesses a curious personality true to her catlike features, once people make their way past her cool exterior and start getting to know her- she's a considerate and flirty charmer at heart.
Of course, that kind of personality comes with the territory when you work with people for a living. Although the shots in her line of work usually end in a gurgling last breath- she deals in a separate sort entirely. Bartending, get it? Rio works at a local bar when work slows down, allowing her a peaceful source of income. Because of the obvious problems she has dealing with drunken men for a partial-living, Rio has become almost ignorant of sincere feelings, finding herself blowing over them as nothing more than a passing joke.
Of course, that kind of personality comes with the territory when you work with people for a living. Although the shots in her line of work usually end in a gurgling last breath- she deals in a separate sort entirely. Bartending, get it? Rio works at a local bar when work slows down, allowing her a peaceful source of income. Because of the obvious problems she has dealing with drunken men for a partial-living, Rio has become almost ignorant of sincere feelings, finding herself blowing over them as nothing more than a passing joke.
Unique Tech:
That tech is the cats meow~
That tech is the cats meow~
Hawk eye: Left eye cybernetically replaced, allowing Rio to view and aim at great distances with an additional focus on extreme details up close. Because the detail involved is so high, it essentially gives her 'tunnel vision', as she is unable to view with both eyes if her Hawk Eye is currently active. Seeing at distances is synonymous to looking through a rifle scope with a range finder, while close ranged use allows her to focus on minute details at the cost of situational awareness. When not activated, Rio's hawk eye resembles its organic partner, though discolored to a light blue tone
Mantis arm: Right arm replaced from the elbow down. Index and middle finger tips equipped with electronic lockpick. Rio is capable of picking all conventional cylinder levers, with varying degrees of speed pending the complexity of the lock. Prosthetic has higher than normal strength, allowing Rio to hold herself up by it and maneuver easier when using it. Built-in gyroscope keeps her rifles steady, as Riona fires with a south-paw style. Arm is synced to Rio's eye, allowing her to snap-aim to targets when using her own calibrated pistol or rifle. Only works when Hawk Eye has been activated and focused on target.
Features:
32x magnification with range finder
Syncs to Mantis arm, allowing snap-aim adjustments
Thermal imaging (Close range only)
Mantis arm: Right arm replaced from the elbow down. Index and middle finger tips equipped with electronic lockpick. Rio is capable of picking all conventional cylinder levers, with varying degrees of speed pending the complexity of the lock. Prosthetic has higher than normal strength, allowing Rio to hold herself up by it and maneuver easier when using it. Built-in gyroscope keeps her rifles steady, as Riona fires with a south-paw style. Arm is synced to Rio's eye, allowing her to snap-aim to targets when using her own calibrated pistol or rifle. Only works when Hawk Eye has been activated and focused on target.
Features:
Contains removable stun-baton
3x Rio's strength (Able to lift 225 lbs without sustaining damage)
Self-contained gyroscope
Built-in shock absorbers, little to no recoil (weapon caliber dependent)
Muscular supercharging: The muscles in Rio's lower body have been modified, using the mountain-lion genes inside her already to increase the density of her type I and II muscle fibers. This gives her more power, allowing Rio an additional 30% performance in running and increasing her ability to fall from heights.
History
You were a stray, huh pussycat?
You were a stray, huh pussycat?
Riona had parents in the lower class, both of which possessed the genetic modifications passed down to their daughter. At 16 Rio took the examination and nerves had gotten the better of her. She failed the test, miserably, and stared down the results that condemned her to a life in the slums. Dumped into a world she'd never known with only phone calls from her parents to keep her warm, Riona soon found out that the life of polite requests and hard work she'd known before wasn't enough to make it. The services present in the Novus slums made to help orphans like Rio were overpopulated and understaffed. It didn't take much to lose track of one child- and what life was there to live inside a crammed little half-way house in the middle of nowhere?
After the first six months, Rio left without saying goodbye. Stealing became a nightly ritual, until a prize looking just a bit too appealing caught first her attention, and then her arm. Stealing from an unknown stranger held inherent risks, but finding out it had been a back ally 'affiliate' brought a whole new level of peril. Faced with a choice of her life or her service, Rio started working for scraps under the arm of illicit organizations in the slums. The phone calls with her parents eventually stopped, and her conscience faded into nothing as she fought, clawed and stabbed her way through years of life in the slums. A few sour deals as a liaison lost the redhead first an eye, and then an arm. Making it out of the scraps alive inspired just enough compassion in the organization Rio had put so many years into. She was put under the knife, replacing an arm and an eye with black market cybernetics- granting her an uncanny aptitude for her newly found occupation in firearms. Eventually taking on the unofficial role of an 'escort' for enforcers, Rio's job became easier when the focus of her work shifted from marketing negotiations to 'insurance'. It was no charity work, but she felt confident every bullet that found its way into the chest of some gangbanger was doing the city of novus a little bit of good. Help where you can, right?
The opportunity had arose several times to retake the same test that put Riona in the slums, but she refused it completely. There was nothing left for her in the upper class. Higher rent, the parents that gave up on her and the judgmental eyes of the high class.
After the first six months, Rio left without saying goodbye. Stealing became a nightly ritual, until a prize looking just a bit too appealing caught first her attention, and then her arm. Stealing from an unknown stranger held inherent risks, but finding out it had been a back ally 'affiliate' brought a whole new level of peril. Faced with a choice of her life or her service, Rio started working for scraps under the arm of illicit organizations in the slums. The phone calls with her parents eventually stopped, and her conscience faded into nothing as she fought, clawed and stabbed her way through years of life in the slums. A few sour deals as a liaison lost the redhead first an eye, and then an arm. Making it out of the scraps alive inspired just enough compassion in the organization Rio had put so many years into. She was put under the knife, replacing an arm and an eye with black market cybernetics- granting her an uncanny aptitude for her newly found occupation in firearms. Eventually taking on the unofficial role of an 'escort' for enforcers, Rio's job became easier when the focus of her work shifted from marketing negotiations to 'insurance'. It was no charity work, but she felt confident every bullet that found its way into the chest of some gangbanger was doing the city of novus a little bit of good. Help where you can, right?
The opportunity had arose several times to retake the same test that put Riona in the slums, but she refused it completely. There was nothing left for her in the upper class. Higher rent, the parents that gave up on her and the judgmental eyes of the high class.
Edits:
05/02/16: Reworked profile, added details to Hawk Eye and Mantis arm. Added thermal vision to Hawk Eye. Added lower-body carbon fiber bones and muscular-modification. (Pending approval)[/ul]