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[abeautifulgame]

PLAYER
↠ NAME: Alishia
↠ CONTACT: knightinqs or knightinqs @ Discord
↠ AGE: 38
↠ PAST PLAYER?: Nope.
↠ CURRENTLY PLAYING: N/A

CHARACTER
↠ NAME: Damien Brenks
↠ CANON: WATCH_DOGS
↠ JOURNAL: abeautifulgame
↠ CANON POINT: Just before his final confrontation with the game's protagonist, Aiden Pearce, at the Harbor Lighthouse + CRAU from tabularasa_rp
↠ RESERVE: Here
↠ AGE: 48 (47 in canon + 1 birthday in his last game)
↠ REFERENCE / HISTORY:

Here

As far as his experiences in his last game went, Damien:

• Made friends with several of his fellow gamemates, including Goro Akechi and Ren Amamiya from Persona 5, Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy VI: Remake, and Seto Kaiba from Yu-Gi-Oh.
• Convinced Kaiba to build a series of ramps around the setting to make it more accessible for him.
• Met and started dating Melinoë, a reincarnation of the Greek Goddess of Nightmares; didn't really believe she was a goddess at first
• Realized he could influence the setting if he tried hard enough; became convinced that the Void was some kind of computer simulation as a result
• Started bringing pieces of Chicago to the Void, as well as writing a computer code that he was convinced if he wrote out in a blank section of the Void, would let him 'edit his avatar' and fix his leg
• Realized Melinoë had disappeared permanently, and between that and the fact that he felt his new friends were abandoning him more willingly by moving out of an apartment complex he had contributed to the setting and felt was his, had a temper tantrum and tried to influence the setting enough to make an incendiary device he'd built work
• Was talked down by Ren / had a Change of Heart
• Saw the concept of sickness / Hanahaki Disease introduced to the Void; ended up almost dying until he confessed to Akechi that he'd come to see him like a son
• Recovered from that mess and was generally slowly maybe working through a redemption arc???

↠ POWERS / ABILITIES: Unfortunately, Damien has no special abilities in a superhuman sense. He did, however, learn a fair deal about magic theory from Kimihiro Watanuki in his previous game, so he at least understands how magic works -- and would probably be quick to pick up on it, if it was something he could learn in the City, already familiar with the foundations. He's also a damn good hacker in his home canon, and while the network can't be hacked, he'll probably at least beat his head against that wall for a good, long while, convinced that there has to be a vulnerability somewhere.

↠ LANGUAGES: English, Japanese (reading only)

↠ INVENTORY:

• An iPhone 4S
• Six hand-rolled cigarettes
• A basic butane lighter
• A hand-carved King (玉将) Shogi game piece
• A black permanent marker
• A small stack of papers full of handwritten computer code
• The clothes on his back, including his leg brace

↠ WHAT IS YOUR CHARACTER'S SIN?:

LUST

While not in the traditional, sexual sense, Damien wants.

Knowledge, money, control -- all of his more obvious wants boil down to a lust for power.

It's this want that gets him and his partner-turned-rival Aiden Pearce in trouble in the first place, Damien lingering too long during a digital heist, desperate to pull as much money as he can out of the rich and powerful, and reckless in that want. He gets his legs broken by the Chicago South Club, the Irish Mob, as a result, but rather than back down, he doubles down when he realizes the Club may have more than just money. From there, he spends the majority of the game chasing the blackmail files the Club has on just about everyone in the city and then the intellectual nuke they had beyond that, because what's better than paying someone to do what you want with your mountains of cash? Getting them to do it for free because you know something about them they'd rather you not share with the class or, Hell, just mindfucking them and getting them into wanting to do for you willingly. Damien's not really one to get his hands dirty, physically -- he'd rather either pay someone to visit violence on his enemies for him or manipulate someone into playing along.

In his previous game, while Damien seemingly mellowed out a little, what with there not being much he could gain in terms of power -- the setting had no concept of money, unlimited resources and no one with functional superpowers, he really didn't have much to covet. Anything he wanted, he could take without anyone stopping him, and he actually managed to make friends who saw him for who he really was and didn't flinch. There was, perhaps, still an undercurrent of his lust, though, even so -- part of the reason behind his making connections in the first place had to do with making sure he had protection if Aiden ever showed up and maybe getting his leg fixed, if and when everyone's powers suddenly got turned back on. It all just so happened to become more than that, too.

Thankfully (or not), in the confines of the City, he'll probably go back to his old ways, even without the push of a Prominence. There are things to be gained here, after all, unlike in the Void, and he wants it all. He's likely to make real, lasting friendships like he did before, too, that a lasting part of his character growth, but -- well, he's not going to say no to one of his new friends doing for him.

SAMPLES
↠ PLAYING SAMPLE: Link
↠ ADDITIONAL SAMPLES: Link + Link
↠ NOTES: ENTJ (The Commander), Slytherin, Aquarius, Wood Snake, Choleric Temperament, Neutral Evil Chaotic Neutral