File #S5318008: Death Otter [Terra Nullius Lore]

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Subject's Name: Vivienne Edgars.
Subject's Alias: D3@TH_0TTER.
Sex: Female.
Race: Human.
Age: 20.
Height: 5' 6"
Weight: 121 lbs.
Hair: Red.
Eyes: Green.
Special Characteristics: First Generation SEED implant, augmented with Athena base code and unique individual modifications.
Typical Garb: Otter prefers to dress in garbs that invoke a Goth or Punk vibe. Many would just call her style crazy as she often wears a mish-mash of whatever speaks to her in that moment. Typically, she wears a "stealth suit" that was stolen from Genesis to protect her and keep her out of view in most situations.
Status: Alive.

Combat Assessment:

Physically, Death Otter is unremarkable. She is a decent shot with a handgun, but is far more dangerous utilizing effects from her SEED. She appears to recognize her vulnerability, and uses a thermo-optic camouflage suit ("stealth suit") to avoid notice until she's found an advantageous position to operate from.

Her SEED makes her dangerous, especially when she has support from allied individuals. She is capable of interfering with enemy movement and actions, making them vulnerable to the attacks of others, or rendering their attacks less effective. Death Otter is in particular fond of altering the perceptions of others to her own amusement and/or advantage.

She suffers from a reckless nature and lack of patience in many cases though, which can provoke her into unwisely revealing herself, or otherwise putting herself at risk.

Skill Assessment:

Death Otter's skill-set is highly focused, and exceptionally well developed within her area of expertise. When it comes to illegally gaining access to a person, place, or digital object it's very hard to find better. Beyond this she is very intelligent, but rarely has the patience or discipline to apply herself to other fields of study. In most situations she relies on either being able to coast through situations on sheer intellect or luck, or on being able to gain whatever knowledge she needs via wireless network connection. Her physical skills are lacking, though she can get by through manipulating the machines and technology around her to her advantage. 

Background:

The daughter of wealthy upper-middle executives in Genesis, she wanted for very little as a child. She was technically minded from the start, perhaps inspired by her father's work in electronics and computer technology. In school however she suffered social anxiety and had difficulty connecting to peers. She retreated into online friendships to compensate, and began following the then-brand-new technology of SEEDs obsessively. Her parents, wishing to encourage their daughter, let her purchase one of the early models. Drawing on knowledge she gained from online friends, and contacts she'd made with her online persona, she learned how to bypass various safety features in the SEED; significantly improving its performance but at the cost of altered mental function and possible trauma.

It was at this point that the online persona of 'Death Otter' superseded her original identity. She hacked her father's accounts and used his authority to delete or alter her records, stole as much money as she could manage, and vanished underground; resurfacing a few months later almost unrecognizable from how she'd been. From shy to flamboyant, from timid to reckless, she now lived in real life with the same wild abandon that she'd only known from the safety of online avatars before. Unfortunately, this included a zealous disregard for rules and laws that ensured she could never return to her 'real' life.

Runner History:

For reasons that should be clear, the Middleman has never sought contact with Death Otter. Most of her clients hire her via online interaction with an avatar and never see her again; receiving the data they wanted, or software, or whatever, via electronic transfer. She has worked however with a few small teams in the past. Mei-Xing, a hengeyokai assassin, has worked with her on several occasions when she needed muscle that could perform infiltration.

When Mei-Xing teamed up with a group of my Runners, Death Otter was called in for her expertise. It was there than Death Otter's 'friendship' with individuals like Heather Morrisson (Managirl) and Aria Nacht began. She partook in the bringing down of the Olympians, primarily Athena, though that was a result of Death Otter's own vendetta rather than helping the Middleman.

Motivations:

Death Otter seems to take perverse pride in being difficult to ascribe consistent motivations to. However, there are patterns to her behavior, if one makes allowances for an unusually high number of outlier events. First and foremost, she resents any form of authority over her, and takes vicious pleasure in punishing any such entity in ways both small and large. Second, she has expensive tastes in hobbies, and is very mercenary in her outlook as a result. Finally, she appears to be a creature of whim, who acts immediately on whatever impulse she experiences at the moment. It is not quite fair to say that she fails to consider the consequences of these actions. Rather, it appear she considers them, and continues anyway, confident she can either deal with those consequences or avoid them entirely.

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