***EDIT*** Fleshed out the character some. I wanted to make someone that basically gave over his life to the machine. He'll probably be the most vulnerable to electronic tampering as a result, but it's something that he would have learned to deal with.<br/><br/>Name:  Richard “Oni” Preston<br/>Actual Age: 40<br/>Apparent Age: 20<br/>Gender: M<br/>Sexuality: Straight<br/><br/>Appearance: A slender man just shy of six feet tall, he has remained the age of twenty while retaining a tight musculature with very little exercise. He sports wild hair as both self expression, and to hide his cranial implant. He usually dresses a step below typical urban sheik, deciding to keep the expensive clothes for when he really needs it. Typically seen in Ratty baggy cargo-pants with shirts usually either a few sizes too big, or skin tight<br/>Nationality: “American” Citizen<br/><br/>Languages spoken: natural English speaker. Most spoken languages loaded in his brain and available at his command.<br/>Modifications:<br/><br/>Cranial Implant (custom wireless interface included): Offers direct PnP with anything holding DirectConnect Technology (damn near anything used today) using a “zero” setting that doesn’t limit his ability to connect to other machines as it would a normal citizen.<br/><br/>Cyber-eye for left eye: Enhanced vision, including telescopic, microscopic, multi-spectrum, and light sensitivity (extreme day or extreme night)<br/><br/>Soldier-Sol Corp. nanobots (custom): Soldier-Sol Corporation, the leading military manufacturer for warfare products (both hard and wetware) developed nanobots for military use. Primary function is to maximize body/sensory efficiency (perfect right eye vision and higher than average hearing), including nutrition consumption and waste reduction. Secondary function is an increase in muscle density and endurance. Rest periods are used to knit and repair damaged tissue throughout the body.<br/><br/>The custom application allows for minor repairs of his cybernetic enhancements, providing the damage isn’t extensive enough to require a whole new device. Muscle density protocol runs within acceptable limits, based on body mass and muscle use. Nanobots also use a mode of replication that employs the food eaten by the host as well. If they require more nanobots for a task, the host will experience a larger appetite than usual until the need has been fulfilled. The custom upgrade requires that he sometimes each metals of various types. Nanobots no longer needed flow out with normal waste material.<br/><br/>Neuro-Net (installed at the cost of childhood memories): The Brain Sorter. A section of wetware installed in his brain to Access and store information in parts of the brain still underused. This allows for a vast amount of data to be immediately stored and recalled, including complex instructions on dance or martial arts, language, and manual machine operations. During extreme moments of electronic feedback, the net acts as a disbursement device as well. This could result in anything from no-change (light feedback), to complete net replacement (which would normally result in a fried brain)<br/><br/>Neuro-net Firewall and Anti-virus: Corporate issued with a few tweaks done to beef up the settings for his own tastes and situations. Though not as robust as a Military issue suite, the corporate version allows for easier modifications. This allows for much more flexibility than military security suites, and constant upgrading to combat bleeding edge viruses and intrusion techniques.<br/><br/>Voice-emulator: After almost botching a job that needed voice-identification, Oni quickly purchased this mod to make sure it didn’t happen again. As long as he had a 30 second sample of the voice, he could mimic it. The longer the sample, the more original the sound, right to the point of regional dialect.<br/><br/>No Fingerprints, due to laser-burn of his fingertips<br/><br/>Specific skills and abilities: Decker (Hacker) and Cyber-Cowboy Extraordinaire. Makes everyone’s job easier by talking the doors into opening and certain security eyes into closing. If it has wireless access or direct port, he could make contact. If he makes contact, he's in business.<br/><br/>Secondary skills: Jack-of-all-trades, thanks to his enhancements, but it's no substitute for a person who has a full level of experience in a chosen field. The best example would be the fact that he could perform open heart surgery, provided he had the tools, but he could not adjust that surgery in the even of complications. His ability to perform a downloaded function, is only as good as the information he downloaded.<br/><br/>Character traits: Oni is an adrenaline junky with a geek’s demeanor. The chance to go fully over to the “Black Hats” was something he couldn’t resist if he tried. Though augmented to display his boyish good looks, it doesn’t hide the depraved side of him for very long. Highly Intelligent, though he keeps it to a casual minimum when interacting with groups, as a way to fit in. Socially adept, with a fear of being an outsider, which constantly clashes with his chosen lifestyle. He wouldn’t consider himself a hypocrite, if asked, merely an individual who has had the chance to fully appreciate the duality within humanity itself. Oni is very sure of himself, to the point of overconfidence in some cases, but has always got the job done…just sometimes not as subtle as it should have been.<br/><br/>Bio: Much of Richard’s life before his transformation to Oni was erased by the man himself, including a large part of his own childhood memory due to augmentation. One could decide that such a deliberate act could mean that his childhood was especially painful, or his life as Richard wasn’t worth remembering. He has fully accepted his Oni decker alias, and works hard to keep his net cred strong by performing “random acts of art” that he inflicts on certain higher-profile targets, leaving the artistic ancient Japanese calligraphy symbol for “Oni” either in code, or visual graphic form. The Chiba market crash of '63? Him. The infamous vending machine free-for-all of '67? A prank he thought of after a dream about raining snack food. He'd had near-constant solo and group battles for net supremacy to carve out a name for himself. While he earned his rep, he also built up credits, which have paid for his augmentations and rigs over the years, but it was all hollow. Lacking a certain...pizazz.<br/><br/>Like many other cowboys, he only allowed for computer-related work, until his first freelance job working for someone other than himself and rep.There he saw the meaning of a true rush, as he put his meat on the line along with his tech. The pressure and activity almost broke him, and after the job, he  spent his proceeds on the nanobot enhancement, he was back to checking seedy dives and even seedier forums to see who needed what done. It wasn't long before he found Iron First. Then it wasn't long before the Iron Fist Office rigs would be sporting "Oni" symbols as their screen saver. He'd already dropped his card, and even left a convenient trace to a dump of a warehouse far from where he put his head. Now he'd wait to see where things went from there.<br/><br/>Picture(s): (http://i825.photobucket.com/albums/zz178/Writersblockade/hacker.jpg)<br/>