Sunday, January 25, 2015
The Ass Kicker
Saturday, January 24, 2015
The Face
SUGARYO, RYOMA
Born in 2050 to an American mother and Japanese father, Sugaryo Ryoma grew up in the well-regarded ‘family’ of the Renraku corporation. His parents both worked as engineers for a Renraku assembly plant in Kyoto, and he was raised with a great amount of respect especially for Renraku Corp., but also for all of the megacorps and their accomplishments in the relatively-infantile Sixth World. His parents occasionally told him, always in private, that they were so proud to have a perfectly human boy as their only child, and that his ‘ability’ (though it’s really just ‘probability’) to avoid magical capabilities or any effects of metahumanity is what made him such a special person. He stood out in the academic wing of Renraku child-rearing, eventually revealing an affinity for legal studies above all else. He graduated the Renraku Corp. University School of Law, Kyoto campus, and was instantly assumed as junior attorney in Renraku Tokyo’s Criminal Prosecution department. He excelled, which wouldn’t have been difficult considering there was rarely a worthwhile defense to oppose, but he excelled nonetheless. In his third year with the company professionally, at the ambitious age of 24, he made a suggestion to a superior that a particular case shouldn’t be pursued: the pertinent paperwork all suggested innocence, and in confidence suggested that a higher-up in Renraku Corp might have brought the accused before charges for political ambitions, rather than legitimate criminal reasons. Later that day he caught wind of his own impending incarceration, and was barely able to escape with his relative liberty. He absconded to Seattle, began a small-time legal defense operation, all the while planning his lifelong revenge against the Corporate Conglomerate that revealed its own evils and shattered his modern paradise. In his quest for vengeance he discovered his own value and appreciation for the shadowrunning life, enjoying it much more than his old job. Ryoma’s naturally positive demeanor, intimate knowledge of the law, knack for organization and maintaining of his SIN all detract from the suspicion of his shadowy extra-curriculars.
EDG - 5/7