Biographic Information
Character Name: Duke Riviera
Alias(es): the Duke; TWD; discard Bowie; Ziggy
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Classification: Cyborg
Affiliation(s): free radical (unaffiliated)
Physical Characteristics
Height: 186cm
Weight: 63kg
Colors:
- Hair: red
- Eye: main setting is on cyan
- Skin: grey-ish
Aesthetics or Distinguishing Features:
Duke is a massive David Bowie fan and dedicates his aesthetic to the retro Rockstar, including red hair and red-and-blue face paint. He is chromed to the gills, but big guns and weapons are auspiciously not part of the setup. Lots of his work misses paneling and skin covers,- it looks improvised and it is.
Description:
A skinny and twitchy chrome junky with obvious and jarring augmentation. Young looking with an expressive face and an open demeanor.
Personal Details
Personality
- Duke casually talks to strangers and friends alike about every little thing on his mind. He is constantly soundboarding and if no one is around he talks to himself or to his AI. He seems to not understand himself completely if he doesn’t hear his thoughts out loud
- very much lives through his mind and always puzzles over past
experiences - a trickster and deal-maker
- very spontaneous and uncertain in his moods and expressions
- unorthodox charisma
Flaws
- somewhat annoying
- has an unreliable body, despite his hard augmentations. Often inexplicably unwell, dizzy, nauseous
- vulnerable to addictions
- would like to be a great success romantically but often isn’t
- secretly a bit insecure
Skills
- Duke is backstreet ripperdoc. He trained as a vehicle mechanic and dropped out to focus on his passion when he turned 20
- since he quickly went broke focusing on his passion he started working in a hospital in the emergency department,- he underwent medical training to the level of an emt nurse
- he has good intuitive abilities
- he is excellent at improvising tools and techniques because he has exceptional understanding of transferable concepts
- in current day he is pretty decent at making unusual augmentations work with the individual persons body and health
Equipment
Possessions
- chaotic toolkit to work on the move
- lots of pharmaceutical drugs, stolen from his job at the hospital
- vintage cigs
- overdrawn credit cards
- a small shack / clinic in a rough crevice of the moon
Cybernetics
- Cybernetic eyes / a tweaked cheap implant line that allows for magnification, dark-sight and funky color effects / gets stuck on magenta frequently, slight flicker
- Neuro port / run of the mill port for neural interfacing / connects to a variety of digital services / ad free version costs a monthly subscription
- Lung replacement / cybernetic lung. Commercial model Duke hacked to allow full access to filtration settings / filtrates environmental toxins, programmed exception for nicotine
- Various tissue and muscle replacements / Duke sports self-made replacement ware all over his body, mostly as a consequence for outfitting and removing many self-experimental prototypes / no special abilities / since he forgoes skin covers as a cost-cutting measure many of these areas are open and reveal the artificial fiber beneath. He has little sensation to touch there and the augmentations to his circulatory system lead to the unhealthy grey color of his remaining real skin
- two cyberarms with integrated omni-tools / self-develop and shoddy looking, actually his masterpieces / individualized and precise tools integrated into hands and forearms to allow for everything a renegade ripper doc needs, from precision cutting of flesh to soldering and welding of metals / these are his pride and joy and rarely break down. IF they do he is in BIG TROUBLE.
Background
History
Duke Riviera was born on Celeste 7 in Artemis Landing to an American mother, Liv Riviera, who worked with an engineering agency. His father is an unknown donor and Duke was conceived by IVF. His family was exactly one person, his mother. His upbringing was middle class and he visited a good educational program but struggled with a learning disability that saw him put on medication at an early age. He developed a fascination with cyborgs around this time of his life.
He failed to reach the grades for pursuing the traditional route of studying medical cybernetics and went to train at a mechanic firm for space vehicles instead, which his mother considered to be a stable enough option, since Duke did not seem cutout for higher education.
He ground trough his apprenticeship for a while, but the work taxed and bored him and was too physically demanding for his slight and undermuscled frame. He developed some deep seated and enduring health issues and a perception of his body as weak and inadequate.
At 20 years old he dropped out of his training program to pursue self-improvement by self-augmentation. This lead to a falling out with his mother and to this day both of them are barely on speaking terms.
Cut off from financial support, Duke moved out from home and had to learn to take care of himself.
His first venture into working as a ripperdoc saw him run out of his neighbourhood by a botched client, and broke. He promised himself to only operate on himself until he mastered his craft. To gain medical experience he started working at a private hospital close to the Mohole.
He has since found success (but not wealth) working as an experimental Ripperdoc. He keeps to the rougher areas of town to avoid detection for working without a license.
Mechanics
Story Purpose
This guy is a bit lost and he can glom on to a character or faction to fill a medic / mechanic role. He’s social and mobile and can fix others up or develop and triall some experimental tech with other player characters.
Stats
Optional stats for rolls, assign 3, 2, or 1 to the following (with no duplicates). To give additional context, you may add a sentence or two to explain your reasoning.
- Muscle: 1
- Grit: 2
- Savvy: 3
