Hi-Tech, Lo-Life
The year is 2073. Mankind over the course of years has developed greatly both scientifically and intellectually. Making amazing leaps and bounds in the fields of Medicine, *Cybertechnology, Biotechnology, Genetics, and Nanotechnology. The quality of life for the average citizen has never been higher, and people have never been living longer. Inversely the protection of personal freedoms has never been worse, and never before has the world been so overpopulated. Governments have fallen across the globe,going bankrupt trying to provide an infrastructure to the masses, and slowly stripped of their power over a century by Corporate lobbying and bribery. In 2031 The North American Government completed a slow collapse. Corporations received Extra-Territoriality, becoming self governing entities capable of owning and policing their own land and sets of laws on that land. Since then Mutant exploitation has reached horrifying levels under the guise of Corporate and scientific research. In order to propagate this abuse, Mutants are considered third class citizens, and refused basic human rights. Forced among the lowclass, the poor, and the criminal.
One ray of hope has been Charles Xavier, philanthropist, PhD, scientist, as well as Founder and CEO of the Xavier Research Institution. A corporation dedicated to the study and comprehension of the X-gene, and espousing the belief of acceptance and integration. A belief widely persecuted by larger more influential corporations who have moved both financially and physically to remove the Institute. Xavier always seems to slip through the traps, and their holdings are protected and policed by the X-men. Xavier's original subjects who he has taken on as security staff. Conversely Eric Lensherr, more commonly known as Magneto founded The Brotherhood of Mutants. A self organization of described radical activists while an appropriate term may be political terrorists; The Brotherhood is focused on fighting back against the Corporations. Assassinating or extracting CEO's, developer's and scientists, as well as attacking corporate laboratories to rescue held mutants, they rail against corporate exploitation, hitting them in profit and personnel and operating in local cells.
In retaliation to these two vastly different organizations, the Corporate noose is tightening. Leaving both Magneto's Brotherhood, and Xavier's Institution struggling for survival and freedom. The situation is a powder keg, waiting to go off. Will you be the one to save Mutant kind or condemn it? Will you stand tall through your struggles, or shall you succumb to them and fall? From the Hi-Tech spire of Corporate Arcology, to the Lo-Life of the streets. This is 2073, and this is your fight.
*Arcology - A self sustaining Mega-structure, the Arcology contains everything a self enclosed populace would need, from shopping centre's to dentists. All provided and owned by the corporation.
So yes, just so you know this is just another OC story. What's the catch? Well it's obviously an AU, and it's obviously Cyberpunk. And Cyberpunk means dark, gritty, street life with plated chrome and surgically implanted mirrorshades. It means Pink Mohawks and black trench coats. It's the super elite, and the street punk. Corp security to gang thug. Brotherhood, X-man, or independent. Whatever you want, I'm looking for 6-8 characters. They Don't have to match, in story they might not even meet. But they all will affect each other. And they'll all be integral to the plot. The more fleshed out a character is with personality and background, the more likely they'll be taken.
Example:
Name: Victor Sarkov
Codename (Optional): N/A
Power: Telepathy, and limited Precognition
Background: Victor Sarkov is slowly going insane, haunted by voices that only he can hear, his parents took him to one of their arcology branch's psychiatrists. Recognized almost immediately when he questioned the boy about what the voices were saying, he immediately prescribed Viktor a medicine designed to inhibit mutagenic expression under the guise of anti psychotics. While they inhibited his telepathy his dreams constantly grew worse. He suffered a recurring nightmare that he and his parents would die in a car crash. When he and his parents had to leave the Arcology, he absolutely refused to go, begging to do the same. Eventually they decided to leave him at home, but when he grew more adamant that they couldn't leave either they slipped him a sedative in a glass of water in order to calm him. When he woke up his parents weren't home and he stayed up all night waiting for them. Around 7 in the morning, they received a message to their home node for the coroner's office, informing him he'd have to come in and ID the bodies and that a corp sec detail was on its way to escort him. Harangued by guilt and horror as his nightmares shifted to something infinitely more horrifying he fled the arcology on foot to avoid the fate he saw.
Personality: Victor is a very troubled person. Haunted by his telepathy which lacks any form of a shield, and cursed by his precognition which shows him only the worst outcome of things he's fully convinced he's not a mutant, and instead insane. Refusing to commit suicide even though he blames himself for his parents death, he's wandering from motel to motel right now. . Though his suppressant pills are running low, and the dream still hasn't changed. Despite all this, he tries to remain strong and to find someone who may be willing to help him.
Age:15
Role:Victim
Affiliation: Independent
Weakness:He thinks hes crazy
Likes: Dreamless nights, his anti-psychotics, quiet, sleeping in
Dislikes:dreams, the voices, himself.
Habits:He's always doing something with his hands. He fiddles
Gear: All the Cred his family had left, a backpack of clothes, and a kitchen knife. (He fled in a panic)
Hair: Dirty blonde, messy and refuses to stay down.
Eyes: Green
Build: Smaller, but by no means skinny, just short
Clothes:Jeans, corpbrand t-shirts, synth-leather jacket, running shoes