Character Owner: | virtualoctopus |
Name: | Phillip Harpool |
Street name: | Hive |
Archetype: | Street Samurai |
Race: | Unknown |
Appearance: | Pale, dark haired, almost dishevelled 30-40 male (species unknown). All but face replaced with cyberwear, of an old and bulky design. Wears black suit, with a black shirt and tie.. |
Personality: | After years of his Job, Hive has become cold, and calculating. He's way past being a brash, look-after-you-leap teenager. Anti-hero : Hive is in it for the money. Just the money. And perhaps a bit of fame, but that doesn't have to be for doing good things. |
Virtues: | * Strong (due to cyberwear) * Intelligent * Sly * Insomniac - Due to his cyberwear, Hive can go for weeks without sleep, as long as he is able to rest. |
Flaws: | * Spider Fetish * Obsession with the 'Mean Streets' (I through XXII) movie series * Love of money * Obsession with revenge - if anyone wrongs Hive, they'll live to regret it. |
Background: | Growing up, Phillip Harpool modelled himself after Stanson Jarg, the street-samuri hero of the 'Mean Streets' series of action 3d-movies. Up to the age of 15, he spent most of his time imitating the actor, including murdering three rent-a-cops. However, his life took a different, and much more dramatic turn, when he attempted to imitate the 'car surfing' in 'Mean Streets IV : Rigger-sun'. Falling onto a busy quadrouple-carriageway, Phil was lucky to escape with his life. The reconstructive surgery was extensive, arduous and expensive. Basically all of Phil's body had to be replaced, leaving him a shadow of his former self. (This is what should have happened to Xecktos). At the time, the Cyberwear techniques were new, so Phil's mechanical body is large, and not-quite human shaped. After release from hospital, over a year later, Phil, now aged 17, took up where he had left off, his new body not allowing some of the older stunts, but allowing many alterations. Soon, his dream of being a street-samuri had come true, at a terrible price. Due to his involvement with a Aztechnology hospital, Phil was recruited into the ranks of Aztechnology trial guinea-pigs, as was part of his contract to recieve surgery (signed AFTER the operation). The one, and only gtest he took part in was on personal holo-projectors, a device linked to the bearers brain that allowed them to project images into the real world via smart-manipulation. This primitive brain-cyber linking caused severe damage to all the other subjects but Phil, and the test was cancelled. Phil, however, still has the projector implant. One of his favourite tricks is creating the image of thousands of tiny spiders crawling over his target's body - an idea stolen from 'Mean Streets XI : Arachnozilla' |
Gear / Weapons: | * Aztechnology 'TQ' Prototype mental holoprojector. Permantently wired in. * Aztechnology 'Eagle IV' Light SMG * Fibre-strung Street-Blade * Wired Reflexes * Cyberlink to SMG, StreetBlade * One red cybereye (night vision, glare compensation) - as it's a one-off custom job, it's not as effective as normal. |
Cyberwear: | See Gear / Weapons |