Origins of Clara Lille
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Clara had lost everything when she was just a kid. She came from Toronto, Canada at a very young age when her parents got a business opportunity in Chicago. Not long, she lost her parents in an automobile accident, sisters and brothers to the street gangs of Chicago, her friends to crime and greed, her dignity. At the age of 17, she had lost everything. She did not have a flow of income to keep her from roaming the streets of Chicago. One day, her life took a turn from its direct path to destruction. Clara begging pedestrians for money in downtown Chicago. She would grabbed onto people's legs, hands and beg them even for a penny. It was routine to her. That day, she sat outside a burger joint waiting for the rush hour crowd to arrive. Just then, the television screens in the store flashed with a pixelated symbol making dinging tones. Her attention drew to the television.
"Blume Inc. is the future. Keeping Chicago connected online 24/7."
Clara's interest grew and she went to the local community library to research on Blume. She was overwhelmed and soon fell in love with Blume. She had aspirations of working at Blume. She resorted to theft, prostitution and robbery to get her income. She used it to get education from online colleges and private classes on technology. Soon, she became an elite hacker. She managed to help authorities locate Raymond Kenny after the 2003 North East Blackout. Not long after, she had caught Blume's attention. She was immediately hired and given free diploma classes for advancing in her studies.
3 years later, she returned to Blume to begin her career. Just as she thought everything was going smoothly, the nationwide cyber war had begun. Dedsec, a vigilante group was involved in several cyber attacks on Blume networks. Clara was one of Dedsec's special targets. They didn't want to kill her, they needed her to win the battle. On her way home, she was ambushed by Dedsec and kidnapped. She was offered a large sum of money to work for Dedsec or she would face death. She had no choice. She had to take up the job. One of her job involved her working with a guy named Maurice and assisting him in an attempt to assassinate Aiden Pearce. What happened during the assassination is another story…
Clara picked up many other contracts. Some famous ones were the steam pipe explosion in downtown Chicago and the great bridge accident along the rivers of Chicago which claimed many lives. Eventually, she would frame all of her acts on Blume Inc. in hopes of clearing her name. She created trojan files pointing fingers at Blume. She was considered as a threat and charged for whistleblowing which chased her into the underground kingdom of Chicago. Drugs, guns, sex.
Clara would then assume the alias of "BadBoy17". Her path crossed with Aiden Pearce again, now known as the vigilante with no records on him at all. She found him impressive and wanted to learn more from him. And so the rest of the story goes…