<div class="floatright">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/5b/fd/68/5bfd684acbbaa2ce635387ab576f324e.jpg)</div><strong>Character:</strong>Katya "Valkyrie" Vasser - call her Val<br/><strong>Player:</strong>Andronica<br/><br/><strong>Lifepath:</strong>Street kid<br/><strong>Role:</strong>Ex-Maelstrom, solo merc<br/><strong>Specialties:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Katya is well versed in almost all firearms, with a particular fondness for auto rifles and SMGs.</li><li>Hand to hand combat has been vastly improved through her modifications as well. If there's a job that requires brute strength and bloodshed she's on it.</li><li>She can take a hit and just keep coming. It's not a pretty sight but it works.</li></ul><br/><strong>Personality:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Tactful</strong> - Despite the Maelstrom's reputation for being one synaptic misfire away from a cyberpsycho, she is more level-headed than others give her credit for. Guns-blazing might be her style but she knows how to keep a low profile if needed.</li><li><strong>Temper, temper</strong> - Outside of work she's got a mean streak. Sometimes it's easy (re: fun) to wind her up and watch her go. Katya tries not to let too much get under her chassis, though it's best not to poke the metal bear <em>too much</em> unless you want to come away with missing fingers.</li><li><strong>Softie</strong> - Much as she likes to think she can hide it, Katya has a bleeding heart when it comes to street kids, roughed up joy toys and others who lived lives not so dissimilar from hers. Sometimes this throws a curve ball into her contracts.</li></ul><br/><strong>History:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Growing Up Kat </strong>- Katya grew up an only child in Watson with a mother who did whatever she needed to get eddies. She had a decent life - pretty subjective in Night City - but she knew how to go unseen, which usually kept her out of serious trouble and with a roof over her head well into her adolescence. She started to love the adrenaline rush of thievery. After her mom died she escalated to B&amp;E's, assault, and beyond. Kat began running with the dangerous Maelstrom crowd for her fix. Then she met <em>him</em> and everything was going to get better because he treated her right...right? </li><li><strong>Stars in her Black Eyes </strong>- It turned out things were going to get much worse. He was obsessive. He got her wrapped around his finger into his gigs running drugs, stealing, and other offences that might be scrubbed away by a pretty face. When he pushed her to get on the street though, she pushed back, and he didn't like it. The fallout was volatile. It turned out he had friends from dark places. He kept her locked up for a few weeks switching between beatings and torture 'til he got it into his head that he would <em>make her</em> obedient. The resulting experiment was brutal considering his amateur knowledge of anatomy and cybernetics, so she didn't last long. After a while he couldn't stand the sight or smell and ditched his failed handiwork out of his car late at night on the outskirts of Japantown far from Maelstrom haunts. She tumbled messily into the underpass below where the momentum caused further severe internal and external damage, compounding her already mangled limbs and nearly unrecognizable face.</li><li><strong>Aftermath, Kat v2.0</strong> - A ripperdoc from another local gang was passing through and found her somehow clinging to life, if twitching pieces still count as living. They took her in for 'repairs' as a little pet project. Now Katya is almost more mods and machine than flesh and bone, sporting a sleek matte black right leg from the hip down along with a matching right forearm. In exchange for remaking her, the good doc'  took her on to repay the life-debt in whatever capacity she's able. It was through them that Katya got into contracts at Afterlife to make eddies and release some of that pent up anger.</li></ul><br/><strong>Relationships/Connections:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>The Ex </strong>- He's still out there somewhere, but he's always been good at laying low 'cause he's had years of practice as a violent, opportunistic coward. Between jobs Kat puts out her own feelers for people who might know him so she can hunt him down to take her revenge. She considers dropping it and unburdening herself though the phantom limb pain usually responds with a 'fuck him'.</li><li><strong>Karma, the Ripperdoc</strong> - A guardian angel, more like, who literally pulled her out of the muck. Katya feels indebted to the ripperdoc for life (regardless of their generous compassion). Their expertise put her together again an entirely new and powerful machine ready to take back what the City's underbelly took from her. Since her 'accident' Katya isn't very good at... people-ing, though she would do anything to help Karma and keep them safe. Whatever the good doc needs, job or errand, Katya's going to make it happen.</li><li><strong>Choko, the Fixer</strong> - She doesn't know much about the mysterious fixer except that she seems bent on finding the perfect people for any job. Good talent is vital so she'll give her credit for being thorough in her research and point blank about her requirements. Val appreciates that. Though she has a hard time trusting someone with enough mods they'd give a Maelstromer a run for their eddies.</li><li>More connections to come IC...</li></ul><br/><strong>Additional Details:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Kat wears a sentimental braided leather bracelet with a moon charm on her right wrist. It belonged to her mother.</li><li>While she needs to go to the ripper doc for maintenance, Katya knows enough to tinker with a few aspects of her tech. She likes to sit back and treat the mini tune ups as much needed quiet time.</li><li>Vibing to Gravedigger by MXMS (https://youtu.be/lNO8XbkuE-Q)</li></ul><br/><strong>Weapons/Equipment:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Fenrir SMG modded for a little extra burn 'n burst</li><li>A reliable old Nowaki AR she picked up after clearing a Tyger den</li><li>Titanium techgogs with tactical software</li></ul><br/><strong>Cyberware:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Circulatory System:</strong> Syn-lungs, Bioconductor, Biometer</li><li><strong>Operating System:</strong> Biodyne Berserk </li><li><strong>Frontal Cortex:</strong> Visual Cortex Support (she loves head-shots, and also there's that missing eye situation)</li><li><strong>Skeleton Cyberware:</strong> Titanium bones, Bionic Joints in her dominant right arm</li></ul><br/><div align="center">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/0c/cc/de/0cccde65a2974e481b0795fbffb63f21.jpg)(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/d4/51/13/d45113a6705a695f578aee0f0b471048.jpg)(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/62/64/fc/6264fc6e628cd78cdb88439ae6a05baf.jpg)(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/24/8a/9c/248a9c6846a134e051550feb2f5edb3e.jpg)</div>