Fog rolled through western half of the city, limiting visibility to a little less than a block. The year had started with a half month of nearly-continuous rain, and while it had finally eased about a week before, the air was still heavy with humidity. It was chilly, and the streets were quiet, with only occasional passing cars.
The stars of the show did not yet realize what lay ahead of them. For some, it was a night like any night. For others, it was already abnormal to be out and about alone so late. But for all that local papers had complained about the rise in property crime over the past years, the city rarely seemed truly unsafe.
And yet, one after another, they were taken. It was so quick, so effortless, that they didn't even realize. A moment passed, and they were unconscious.
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- [+] Nadia Aller - Yonagoda
- Name: Nadia Aller
Gender: F
Age: 19
Profession: Unemployed
Height: 5’5
Weight: 110lbs
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Light sienna red-brown
Appearance: Nadia is ethnically ambiguous and has medium length layered hair, downturned eyes, thick brows and tan freckled skin. Her frame is slight and she looks notably messy with circles under her eyes and unkempt hair. She likes fashion but puts less work on other aspects of her appearance. She had on black basketball shorts, a strappy scrunched white top, red and white slip-ons, and a white-stripped dark teal track jacket.
History: Currently taking a gap year post-graduation, Nadia is the younger daughter of a middle class SF family. She is passionate about biotechnology and medicine, due to spending her childhood in and out of hospitals for neuroblastoma treatment. Nadia is a solitary person who spends most of her time playing video games. She frequents animal rights protests and anime conventions, albeit only as a spectator. Nadia has a strained relationship with her parents and a good relationship with her sister.
Personality: Nadia is withdrawn but friendly, intensely affectionate to the few people still consistently in her life and anyone who approaches her. Her morbid personality contradicts her idealistic attitude. She is helpful and overly apologetic at times. She is quick to be judgemental but very cautious about letting others know her opinions. Selfless to a fault, Nadia fears being disliked by, being forgotten by, or inconveniencing others. She has a low view of herself.
- [+] Tyler Becerra - Dogs231
- Name: Tyler Becerra
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Profession: "Investor" / Unemployed
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 185 pounds
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Appearance: Tyler is an unremarkable-looking young white twenty-something man, neither particularly attractive nor unattractive. He has short brown hair and eyes. His facial hair grows slowly, and he shaves it when necessary. There are bags under his eyes from excessive computer use and poor sleep. His eyesight is poor, so he wears black plastic-framed glasses. Much of his wardrobe is generic t-shirts, often with motifs of games and cryptocurrency projects. On the day of his abduction, he wore his glasses, an off-white t-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "Greetings from CRYPTOLAND, Decentralized Gear, NV," a pair of jeans, socks, and shoes.
History: Tyler was born in Silicon Valley and grew up in an upper-middle-class household. Most of his early life was unremarkable. He had no aptitude for sports or education but was good with computers. Later, he went to San Francisco State University and majored in Computer Science—however, he dropped out within two years. Tyler's current passion, which he picked up while in college, is cryptocurrency. He loves the blockchain, he loves NFTs, and he loves DeFi. He has invested much of his savings into Ethereum, NFTs, and other miscellaneous projects, such as Cryptoland. He has, thus far, seen little returns.
Personality: Tyler is gullible, vulnerable to promises of unrealistic returns, susceptible to flattery due to insecurity, and highly responsive to memes and irony. He is good at ignoring obvious warning signs and willing to take substantial amounts of unreasonable risk. He thinks he is more intelligent than he is and, as a result, often digs in his heels in response to criticism. Tyler intends to be a thought leader and trendsetter but comes off as somewhat meandering and aimless. He thinks he is charismatic but is charmless and annoying rather than smooth. Also, Tyler adamantly refuses to shut up about cryptocurrency.
- [+] Kevin Carter - NoLife42069
- Name: Kevin Carter
Gender: Male
Age: 33
Profession: Odd-Job worker
Height: 5’10”
Weight: 158
Eye Color: Heterochromia: Right eye blue, Left eye brown
Hair Color: Brown, greying
Appearance: Kevin is a white man with the main defining features being his heterochromia and scars. His hair is cut short and ungroomed and he has a fair bit of beard stubble. His face is in a perpetual frown with dark bags under his eyes. He is often wearing jeans and a plain white tee. On the day of the abduction, Kevin was wearing a pair of black jeans, steel-toed boots, A T-shirt with “FIXER” emblazoned on it, and a brown leather jacket. All of which is dirty and his shirt has a bit of blood on it.
History: Born in Las Vegas as a teen Kevin joined a gang. When he turned 21 he began to gamble, after winning big he continued to gamble even gaining a debt. After gambling away a chuck of the gang's money, Kevin was kicked out, leaving him completely at the mercy of the debt collectors. After several years of trying to work off the debt, Kevin moved to San Francisco in an attempt to escape.
Personality: Kevin is a cold, ruthless, and detached man who has grown jaded over the years. While he used to be kind and energetic after so many years in debt he developed a view not so different from the debt collectors' he hates. With few friends left Kevin is mostly quiet, only really speaking when he thinks there is something to gain. Kevin hates those with more than him and see those with less as pawns to be used.
- [+] Rose Dahl - Slam
- Name: Rose Dahl
Gender: Female
Age: 25
Profession: Unemployed
Height: 5’7”
Weight: 140 lbs
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Blonde
Appearance: As someone who gets by on her appearance, Rose goes to great lengths to keep herself looking hot. She is well endowed, in great shape, and keeps her long blonde hair in immaculate condition. Her fashion sense runs as expensive as her make-up line, and she will rarely be caught in anything less than a designer brand. When abducted, she was wearing a gold Versace mini dress, with matching high heels and purse wallet.
History: Born and raised in San Francisco, Rose is a quintessential example of a woman believed to have peaked in high school. Growing up in a wealthy household and blessed with good looks, it was easy for her to ride a wave of popularity to succeed on the backs of others. After her parents grew tired with her lack of direction or ambition, she has since been living off the back of a string of shallow relationships and the hard work of others, rather than being productive with her own life.
Personality: Despite her parasitic lifestyle, Rose knows how to put on the charm. She is adept at persuading gullible people to give her another chance and can keep the conversation going as long as she needs it to. Deep down though, she is always out to keep her own good time rolling without putting any real effort in.
- [+] Malachi Darragh Harlington - Pippi
- Name: Malachi Darragh Harlington
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Profession: Line cook
Height: 6’1”
Weight: 148lbs
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Dark brown
Appearance: Malachi is a tall and scrawny Caucasian man, with little muscle mass or fat to speak of. He has a thin mouth and a pair of lidded eyes with prominent bags underneath. He has a small spattering of freckles across his nose, and a notable scar on the back of his left hand. His dark brown hair is parted roughly in the center and reaches midway down his back, but is always tied up into a messy ponytail. When Malachi was abducted, he was still wearing his work outfit: black shirt and trousers, off-white apron, and battered black sneakers.
History: Born in Sacramento to a third-generation Irish-American family, Malachi grew up with a love of cooking that has steadily diminished as he has grown older. After completing his culinary arts degree, he moved to San Francisco to be closer with his long-term girlfriend; an ill-fated decision as the two broke up seven months after moving in together. He has worked as a line cook at a Mexican restaurant since his move, and while he has held the same job down, he has very little faith he'll ever progress further in the industry.
Personality: Malachi is a dour, moody individual, with a rather grim outlook on life; his own in particular. He is quiet and aloof, rarely seeking interaction with others and generally only speaking when spoken to, leading to him having very few connections in his personal life. He has practically no sense of humour, and is generally a rather depressing person to be around. He's also surprisingly superstitious, and will avoid things like putting his left shoe on first or walking under ladders at all costs.
- [+] Jules Hudson - Kotorikun
- Name: Jules Hudson
Gender: Male
Age: 30
Profession: Bartender
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 165 lbs
Eye Color: Amber
Hair Color: Light strawberry blonde
Appearance: Jules is of unremarkable build with a straight frame and fair skin. His face is oval shaped with expressive downturned-eyes, a straight nose, and average lips. On his left cheek are remains of a small bruise. His hair is kept on the shorter end of medium length and is usually messily slicked back or to the side. When kidnapped, Jules was wearing an oversized leopard print sweater over his work outfit which consists of a white dress-shirt, a grey waistcoat, and dark pants. For shoes, he was wearing traditional black leather boots.
History: Born to a middle-class family, Jules was a rebellious child who grew up to be softer in nature. There was always a bunch of arguments thrown back and forth between family members, but the family was still functional. He took on various jobs to finance his expenses, never being one to decide on a concrete path in life. He currently shares an apartment with his friend who had introduced him to his current job in a bar. Since Jules enjoys the nightlife, he is very content with it.
Personality: Jules is someone who wears his emotions and body language on his sleeve. He often doesn’t think before he speaks and is generally seen as friendly. Despite his confident nature, Jules can be easily discouraged by simple words and actions. He doesn't like silence and feels like he can’t relax when it is present, so he always keeps the TV on when alone in his own room or listens to music.
- [+] Nana Hana Kana - AnimeNerd
- Name: Nana Hana Kana
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Profession: Student
Height: 5’ 6”
Weight: 131 lbs.
Eye Color: Dark Brown
Hair color: Dark Brown
Appearance: Nana is of mixed Hawaiian and Iraqi descent, made evident by her naturally tanned skin and dark curly hair reaching her mid back. Her face is oval shaped, with monolid eyes, a small bulb nose, thin s-shaped eyebrows and thin lips. Her weight is distributed evenly in her body, making her neither athletic nor unathletic. When abducted, Nana’s hair was in a messy ponytail, some hairs left out to frame her face, and she wore a white t-shirt under a black hoodie, dark blue jeans, and black sneakers.
History: Nana was born to a lower middle class family. Her parents realized when she was young that she was neurodivergent, specifically that she suffers from Antisocial Personality Disorder, with little to no sense of empathy. Despite this, they raised her well enough, treating her no differently than other children, making sure she knew right from wrong, and helped the best they could with learning empathy, struggling but never giving up. Fascinated by the human mind because of her situation and achieving valedictorian status among her graduating class, she earned a scholarship to Stanford, and has been studying psychology ever since.
Personality: Nana has ASPD, causing her to have trouble feeling emotions that relate to empathy, while simultaneously enabling negative emotions such as those relating to anger. Combined with her high intelligence and knowledge in her major, she can easily manipulate those she wants to use and get what she desires. Despite this, she tends to be open about her disorder, and tries her best to make an appearance of empathy, not acting differently but finding ways to make others happy as well as herself.
- [+] Maria Lozano de la Cruz - Salic
- Name: María Lozano de la Cruz
Gender: Female
Age: 28
Profession: Mechanic
Height: 5' 6"
Weight: 166 lbs
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Black
Appearance: María is a stolid, well-built, well-endowed individual, with very developed musculature due to years of manual labor. She has a few scars and burn marks on her arms and hands. Her hair is straight and frizzy, and it cuts off just after her jaw. Her skin is bronzed from a combination of sun exposure and Mexican ancestry. Her face is square, with a strong jawline and chin, paired with a button nose and large almond eyes. María was wearing a white tank top, stained blue jeans, worn down work boots, and a work sweatshirt tied around her waist when she was abducted.
History: María was born in San Francisco, the only child of Mexican immigrants. Always one to do more with her hands than her brain, María became more invested in physical work than schoolwork, culminating in her dropping out during eleventh grade. Since then, she's been working at a local car repair shop, and is well-regarded by customers and employees for her skill. On the side, she does chop shop operations for a local mob for extra money. This has led her to becoming friends with Vasya Sokolov, a member of the gang.
Personality: María is a quiet, serious, no-nonsense individual who likes to get things done as quickly and efficiently as possible. She has no love for people who do not have a work ethic. She is a generally suspicious person, unwilling to do favors for others unless tangible benefits are involved. María is fairly greedy, and money is the best way to approach her about doing something. Outside of Vasya, María has few friends and little interest in making more.
- [+] Anna Mikhailov - Wham Yubeesling
- Name: Anna Mikhailov
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Profession: Student
Height: 5’4”
Weight: 120 lbs.
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Black
Appearance: Anna is short and lean, with a straight figure and most of her weight being mild muscle on her arms and legs. She is Caucasian, rather pale, with mild freckles on her nose and upper cheeks. Her hair is shoulder-length and tied back into a ponytail. She has thin lips, a button nose, and a small indentation on her forehead that’s a circle within another circle—a scar from having had chickenpox as a child. When she was abducted, she was wearing a white dress shirt, black suit pants with shoulder straps, a black fedora and black formal shoes.
History: Born the oblivious daughter of the head of the local Russian mob, Anna has never particularly wanted for anything. Breezing through life due to a strong work ethic and incredible amounts of money, Anna has landed tuition and accommodation at USF, and is currently in her first year of a pre-med degree there. While the adjustment to college work and living by herself has been a bit of a shock, she’s giving it her all to excel at school in hopes of becoming a doctor.
Personality: Bright, bubbly, and enthusiastic, Anna is a people person through and through. Eager to impress, and with a fondness for meeting new people, Anna excels at making friends and getting to know new people, though these connections seem to be more surface-level than anything else. She is rather easily led on, however, even when she knows she’s being misled, primarily due to distance from her father giving her a need for approval, though generally this trait has not caused her much harm so much.
- [+] Jimmy Miller - Spindarene
- Name: Jimmy Miller
Gender: Male
Age: 36
Profession: Security guard
Height: 5’6”
Weight: 178 lbs
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Appearance: Jimmy is a Caucasian man who is a bit short and stocky. He is slightly overweight, but quite a bit of his body mass is also due to muscle. His brown hair is cut short in a crew cut, and he has a short beard. On the day of the abduction, he was wearing a black t-shirt, blue jeans, a camouflage jacket, and black sneakers. On the night of the abduction, he also has a bruise on his left cheek, as well as bruised knuckles from a fight.
History: Jimmy works as a security guard in a nightclub in downtown San Francisco. He’s worked at his current job for about a year and a half; he got fired from his previous security job at another nightclub for sexually harassing female patrons. On the night of the abduction, he was taken as he was walking home from a night out at a bar. He got into a drunken fist fight with another man at the bar, and the man hit him across the face. Jimmy also landed a couple of punches on the other man.
Personality: Jimmy tends to be aggressive, especially with other men. He will often either start fights or escalate them, and the fights tend to start based on perceived insults or threats. Jimmy will also often make sexual advances towards women, and is not always deterred by women showing displeasure at his advances. He hasn’t sexually assaulted anyone, but it will sometimes take a couple of increasingly forceful rejections from women before he leaves them alone. Occasionally he’ll pick up a woman at a bar for a one-night stand, but he hasn’t had a long-term relationship in years.
- [+] Eugene Schaffer - Fiori
- Name: Eugene Schaffer
Gender: Male
Age: 47
Profession: Executive
Height: 5'11
Weight: 196 lbs
Eye Color: Greyish Blue
Hair Color: Dark Brown, Greying
Appearance: Eugene has the look of a man who was once quite handsome, but is long past his prime. His chisled face is square jawed with a cleft chin, boney cheeks and narrow eyes framed by thick brows. Despite his best efforts to keep fit he possess something of a pot belly, along with hairy arms and a hairy chest. He is white, his fair skin tanned slightly from a recent holiday to Australia. He is wearing a dark blue suit, black loafers and a white shirt with pink lipstick marks on the collar along with a slate tie.
History: Born in 1975, Eugene was very much a child of the 80s, growing up on Saturday Morning cartoons and Spielbergian fantasies. His childhood desire to make movies clashed with his distinct lack of creativity, though he would discover a knack for business that would land him a job with streaming juggernaut Cinerealm, eventually climbing and politicking his way up the corporate ladder to become an important executive within the company hierarchy. He has married twice, his first marriage resulting in two daughters aged 22 and 17 respectively before ending after it was revealed that he was having an affair with his secretary.
Personality: Eugene fancies himself as a rebellious trendsetter, youthful in spirit with a mind for innovation. In reality he is creatively sterile, thoroughly narcissistic and prone to flights of fancy. He life is mired by self-destructive desires and commitment issues, his youthful idealism long eroded by the cynical realities of being another cog in the corporate machine. Nevertheless, he takes great effort to remain connected to his daughters, even when he disapproves of their life choices.
- [+] Vasya Sokolov - ItzToxie
- Name: Vasya Sokolov
Gender: Male
Age: 29
Profession: Insurance Requisitions
Height: 5'11
Weight: 190 lbs
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Ice White
Appearance: Vasya is caucasian with a heart-shaped face with high cheekbones and a rounded chin. He has medium-length hair messily cut into a left-parted fringe. He's built mostly of lean muscle. The most notable ones are 'OMyT' tattooed between his upper left eyelid and eyebrow and an inverted-cross tattooed below his left eye down his cheek. He speaks with a somewhat squeaky voice, with a thin Russian accent.
Vasya wears a black fight club styled leather jacket. Underneath that he wears a white tanktop revealing his tattoos. He wore a dark blue pair of adidas track pants with white shoes.
History: Since he was a teenager, Vasya had been a member of the Russian mob. He's been in and out of prison multiple times since he's joined, and has earned his place as a mob enforcer. He takes part in many dubious activities including fight clubs, loan sharking, vehicular chop shops, and worse. Vasya takes pride in his work, and has earned a reputation for his ruthlessness and tendency for violence.
Personality: Vasya carries a relaxed and jovial persona to everyone he meets, always quick to talk or to make a joke. However, he is prone to anger and has a habit of losing his temper at the drop of a hat, and he doesn't take well to disrespect, either percieved or genuine. His associates know to tread carefully around Vasya, due to his unpredictability and hot-headedness.
- [+] Autumn Suzanne Sommers - Gundham
- Name: Autumn Suzanne Sommers
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Profession: Hooters Waitress
Height: 5’7”
Weight: 110 lbs
Eye Color: Dark brown
Hair Color: Auburn
Appearance: Autumn is a very attractive girl with long auburn hair. Her frame is slim, and she looks athletic but not muscular. She has a slightly snub nose and full eyelashes, with a smattering of freckles across her cheeks.
She has several butterfly tattoos, including a large butterfly of her own design on her right shoulder and bicep, and a small flock on her ankle.
On the night she was abducted, Autumn was wearing her standard Hooters uniform: white tank top, orange shorts, tan hose, white athletic socks, and white running shoes. Her tattoos were covered with makeup.
History: Autumn Sommers is an only child. Her mother is currently in jail and her father is unemployed. She dropped out of high school a year early to help pay the bills, but soon got tired of supporting her father and moved out. She shares an apartment with three other women.
She has taken a series of dead-end jobs and earned her liquor license at age 18. She intends to get a mixology certification once she’s saved up enough. She took a job at Hooters because the tips were good. She continues to work there but hates it intensely.
Personality: Autumn often puts up a front of friendliness, and in her time in the service industry she has developed a high level of patience. In situations where she doesn’t feel the need to treat people well, she tends to be sarcastic and defiant. Autumn has fairly low opinions of most people she meets, especially middle-aged men. She does not trust others easily, if at all. She knows that she’s attractive and isn’t above using that to her advantage, but dislikes being dismissed because of it.
- [+] Charlotte Torres - Dr Adjective
- Name: Charlotte Torres
Gender: Female
Age: 30
Profession: Retail Service
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 200 lbs
Eye Color: Hazel
Hair Color: Black
Appearance: Charlotte has a natural brown tint to her skin from her mixed caucasian-hispanic ancestry, though remains pale due to spending most of her life indoors. Tall and broad-shouldered, she carries herself with a discomfort that belies her distate for both of these features. She wears her straight black hair long, with bangs that cover up much of her face. Her body has a little muscle from the manual aspect of her work, but is also a little chubby. On the 23rd she wore a Trader Joe's staff uniform under a plain blue jacket adorned with pins and patches.
History: Charlotte was born to a working class family and raised in Oakland. She was considered gifted in her early life and was able to attend UC Berkeley on a chemistry scholarship. However, after two years of progressively worsening performance, she dropped out and fell into dead-end wage labour. At age 25 she identified one of the root causes of her burnout, gender dysphoria, and began social transition. At present she works retail in San Francico, struggles to access medical transition, and maintains a modestly popular Facebook page called "Goblin Town" where she posts comics she draws in her free time.
Personality: Charlotte is generally kind and seeks to avoid conflict or hurting others. She behaves with little energy most of the time, and though friendly, typically displays a sarcastic pessimism and regularly half-jokes about hating life. She thinks of herself as a failure, and is easily pushed around socially by others.
- [+] Diana Trant - Namira
- Name: Diana Trant
Gender: 26
Age: Female
Profession: Engineer
Height: 5ft 1"
Weight: 94 lbs
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Brown
Appearance: A small and slightly built woman with pallid skin, Diana is easy to miss. Her hair is self-styled—messily—to around shoulder length; her bangs are absolute carnage. Her features are narrow and a little pinched, something which emphasises how large and bright her eyes are, to her displeasure. When taken, she was wearing a purple hoodie, black leggings, and sneakers.
History: The adopted daughter of two Canadian men living in San Francisco, Diana had a mechanical fascination from an early age, and has been making things and studying mathematics all her life. Always better with machines and spreadsheets than people, she had a bumpy trip through college thanks to poor social skills, but now has a job in her favourite field. Diana only interacts with the outside world sparingly and spends her free time tinkering and writing, just how she likes it.
Personality: Quiet and shy, Diana keeps to herself and gets by with the bare minimum of social interaction in both her personal and professional lives, much to the exasperation of her immediate family members and colleagues. When she needs to talk to others, she is polite, but guarded. Diana is uninterested in trying to work on this part of herself, but is aware that she probably has some form of anxiety disorder.
- [+] Shane Wilcox - Anderson
- Name: Shane Wilcox
Gender: Male
Age: 30
Profession: Freelance Programmer
Height: 5'10
Weight: 165 lbs
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Blonde
Appearance: Shane has shaggy blonde hair that's about two inches long and rather sharp features on his face. He's got plenty of muscle on him - he's no bodybuilder, but it's clear that he spends a decent bit of time at the gym. On the night of the abductions, he's wearing a plain t-shirt, a North Face hoodie, sweatpants, and combat boots.
History: Shane is a former Army soldier who bounces from company to company. He's more used to coming in, solving a problem, and leaving. He did one four-year contract out of high school, went to college on the GI bill, and dropped out when he got a high-paying job with stock options. He liquidated those when the company stock soared during the pandemic. He has used the resulting money to enable himself to move from project to project at will over the last few years.
Personality: Shane is rather aggressive - good to the few friends he has, but otherwise rather a rough edge to deal with. He tends towards the weary and sarcastic when dealing with the world.
- [+] Alma Williams - MW
- Name: Alma Williams
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Profession: Student
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 115 lbs
Eye Color: Light blue
Hair Color: Blonde
Appearance: Short and slender, Alma almost always looks tired, with bags under her eyes and her shoulder-length hair disheveled. Her face is narrow, almost gaunt, and she uses makeup to clumsily try to hide her exhaustion. She has a small nose, narrow eyes, and ears that lie close to her head. Alma is Caucasian, with a pale skin tone, and despite her age is still very prone to acne. When taken, Alma was wearing grey sweatpants, a white tank top, a black sweater, and slippers.
History: Alma started nursing school at the UCSF right after earning her bachelor's degree, and has been going full force since. An academically-talented young woman from a middle class family, she inherited a strong work ethic from her parents. Unfortunately, Alma has come to realize she actually has very little passion for the nursing field, and the stress this causes her has been compounded by a severe case of insomnia she's developed over the past year.
Personality: Once bright and enthusiastic, Alma has turned quiet and bitter over her time in nursing school. While most of her real frustration is directed inwards, she has nonetheless became frostier towards others, and often loses her temper, snapping at her classmates and people she encounters in daily life. This causes her significant guilt, but the stress and lack of sleep have sapped her self control, and she is not currently getting help for her problems. She's very fatalistic, and feels like she's trapped in a life she doesn't want anymore.
- [+] Marcus Wilson - almostinhuman
- Name: Marcus Wilson/"Ashe" (online handle)
Gender: Male
Age: 31
Profession: "Investment Specialist"/Crypto Scammer
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 162 lbs
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Black
Appearance: Marcus is a fairly tall man with an average build. He's African-American and has a warm, dark skintone. His black hair is worn in fairly long dreadlocks. His face is androgynous, and his eyes are typically rimmed by dark shadows partially hidden by his square-framed glasses. He likes to paint his fingernails and toenails, and currently has painted them black. Having stumbled outside in the middle of the night to retrieve a lost cat, he was abducted wearing a dark pink hoodie and dark red sweatpants; he had no shirt under the jacket, nor any shoes or socks.
History: Marcus was born to a fairly wealthy family in Los Angeles. Upon turning 18 and receiving a very large sum of money from his parents, he'd find himself investing in many tech projects, and struck big in the cryptocurrency scene in 2015. He had the money to succeed despite the market's volatility, the charm to convince people to trust him and invest in his projects or give him personal info, and the ruthlessness to exploit others to the limits of legality. He currently lives in a fairly expensive home in San Francisco with his boyfriend, a corporate lawyer.
Personality: Marcus thinks of himself as an intelligent master manipulator, and indeed there's not nothing to that. He's shrewd, good at sussing out targets for his schemes, has a personable charm to him, and is very good at pushing past people's better judgement and getting them to act in his best interest and against their own. However, he's also undeniably smug, insufferable and thinks himself far smarter than he really is, and not quite as good at keeping the mask up around people who aren't the usual gullible sort he targets.
- [+] Gerald Yao - Deblod100
- Name: Gerald Yao
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Profession: Unemployed / High School Graduate
Height: 5'8
Weight: 160 pounds
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Black
Appearance: Gerald is of Asian ethnicity, due to his Chinese-American lineage. Gerald has short bushy black hair that is currently ungroomed, along with brown eyes that has recently been given eye surgery so he can not worry about wearing glasses. He has a goatee on his chin that is kept thin and short. On the night of the abduction, he had dressed out in a long-sleeved orange shirt with a pair of denim jeans, a cheap plastic Call of Duty themed wristwatch in light and dark green colors, a brown belt, and red Converse sneakers.
History: Gerald Yao was born and raised to Chinese-American parents in San Francisco within the Chinatown District. Gerald's life is considered average, though he aspires to be involved in e-sports, having played multiple competitive video games. He is currently stuck to focus on his academics, due to the possible scholarship to UCLA down the state, though he isn't so hopeful. Gerald went out late at night by himself to attend a friend's party, however he has failed to return back home in the early morning.
Personality: Gerald can be seen as a know-it-all, though it is due to his internet savvy knowledge and the forced commitment to his education. He still acts rational and will be aware that something is completely wrong from the situation that he's in. Seeing his life possibly on the line with others, he intends to resorting to drastic means, though he doesn't intend for others to be harmed, even if they are seen as complete strangers to him.
They woke in a well-lit but dull concrete room, seated on simple chairs made of plastic and metal. They all came to around the same time, an oddly quick and complete return to lucidity, and for a moment there was confusion. What was happening? Where were they?
The room was square, forty feet per side, but a smaller square eight feet per side protruded from the back left corner. At the front of the room, behind a pane of glass, was a screen ten feet wide, and to the right of it was an analogue clock without numbers, but with emoji faces at the three o'clock and nine o'clock positions. The clock currently read ten minutes to either noon or midnight, though anyone with a timepiece of their own could see that it was actually 6:50 AM.
For a moment, there was a general murmur of movement and confusion. Then the screen at the front of the room came to life. It displayed what appeared to be a messy dorm room, with cluttered bookshelves and a bunk bed visible in the background. In the foreground was a desk, upon which the camera—presumably a laptop webcam—rested.
A Caucasian woman who looked to be in her early to mid twenties sat behind the desk, smiling into the camera. She wore her lilac-dyed hair in pigtails, and the dark purple of her lipstick matched the primary color of the sleeveless pinstripe tank top she wore with the top button undone. She also wore silver stud earrings in the shape of stars.
"Hello," she said, and waved. "I'm The Director. I know you're all very confused, but please listen. I promise I'll be quick."
As she said "promise" she leaned forward towards the camera, widening her eyes.
"You see, you're all going to star in a little drama of mine. "
