Alexandra
The black-eyed cousin
Name; Lexi Smoke
Callsign; Fractal
Age; 38
Gender; F
Background
Lexi climbed her way up from the bottom; her father was a prostitute, her mother a drug dealer, and her siblings following after in one way or another. She was the youngest daughter, the golden child; sometimes literally because of a low-level Torchbearer mutation, and her family pushed her to get out of the slums based on this. She wanted to be a cop from a young age after an unusually compassionate Califresco PD detective saved her family from a berserk manatech, and left them with a pittance for the collateral damage. Everyone got to eat really well for a couple of weeks after, and it stuck with her.
With family support she was able to follow this dream; her gang enforcer brother showed her how to fight, her con-artist sister taught her how to talk to people, and everyone else saved to get her into Tinstar Security corporate police academy. Lexi believed this would be a stepping stone, she had a five-year plan laid out; if she could earn citizenship while at the academy and acquit herself well, then applying for the CPD should be a natural progression. Then, with some hard work, she should be able to finally get her family to a better place.
It sounded so simple.
While excelling professionally, she quickly became jaded. Tinstar was corrupt, their parent company was corrupt, and there came a point where she couldn't put up with it anymore. Selling them out to the CPD earned her provisional citizenship, later graduating to beat cop and registered Citizen. The shine faded even faster this time when it became apparent the civic police were just as corrupt as the corporate ones, only you had to look harder. The rules they enforced held up the status quo, effectively keeping people like her family from ever getting out of the spiral of crime and self-destruction. The only thing that could seem to bring about change was money, so she decided to reenter the private sector, but this time in more of a directorial capacity.
The joined up with a renegade Conduit named Iosef Gilt, who had a tendency to piss off corporate authorities. With his funds, and additional resources from likewise indignant investors, Lightning Security Solutions was founded. The company made a name for itself over the years that followed; a private military company with a rigid code of ethics was something of an oddity, a good PR hire if nothing else. When Iosef finally made his way onto the Most Wanted list, he vanished leaving just enough instructions for her to cover his tracks, and to have him declared legally dead once the appropriate amount of time had elapsed.
Personality
Lexi has zero faith in large institutions, and this can cause her to come off as cynical, if not downright bitter to casual acquaintances. She's a stickler for specifics and quite no-nonsense; she won't accept bullshit sob-stories, but has a soft spot for those genuinely in need. Underneath it all she still remains idealistic about change, even if it means burning everything to the ground and starting over.
Callsign; Fractal
Age; 38
Gender; F
Background
Lexi climbed her way up from the bottom; her father was a prostitute, her mother a drug dealer, and her siblings following after in one way or another. She was the youngest daughter, the golden child; sometimes literally because of a low-level Torchbearer mutation, and her family pushed her to get out of the slums based on this. She wanted to be a cop from a young age after an unusually compassionate Califresco PD detective saved her family from a berserk manatech, and left them with a pittance for the collateral damage. Everyone got to eat really well for a couple of weeks after, and it stuck with her.
With family support she was able to follow this dream; her gang enforcer brother showed her how to fight, her con-artist sister taught her how to talk to people, and everyone else saved to get her into Tinstar Security corporate police academy. Lexi believed this would be a stepping stone, she had a five-year plan laid out; if she could earn citizenship while at the academy and acquit herself well, then applying for the CPD should be a natural progression. Then, with some hard work, she should be able to finally get her family to a better place.
It sounded so simple.
While excelling professionally, she quickly became jaded. Tinstar was corrupt, their parent company was corrupt, and there came a point where she couldn't put up with it anymore. Selling them out to the CPD earned her provisional citizenship, later graduating to beat cop and registered Citizen. The shine faded even faster this time when it became apparent the civic police were just as corrupt as the corporate ones, only you had to look harder. The rules they enforced held up the status quo, effectively keeping people like her family from ever getting out of the spiral of crime and self-destruction. The only thing that could seem to bring about change was money, so she decided to reenter the private sector, but this time in more of a directorial capacity.
The joined up with a renegade Conduit named Iosef Gilt, who had a tendency to piss off corporate authorities. With his funds, and additional resources from likewise indignant investors, Lightning Security Solutions was founded. The company made a name for itself over the years that followed; a private military company with a rigid code of ethics was something of an oddity, a good PR hire if nothing else. When Iosef finally made his way onto the Most Wanted list, he vanished leaving just enough instructions for her to cover his tracks, and to have him declared legally dead once the appropriate amount of time had elapsed.
Personality
Lexi has zero faith in large institutions, and this can cause her to come off as cynical, if not downright bitter to casual acquaintances. She's a stickler for specifics and quite no-nonsense; she won't accept bullshit sob-stories, but has a soft spot for those genuinely in need. Underneath it all she still remains idealistic about change, even if it means burning everything to the ground and starting over.
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