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Name: Kate
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Characters already in Systemwide: None
BASIC PROFILE
Name: John Kennex
Age: 41
Canon: Almost Human
Appearance:
John is played by Karl Urban. full body
John is 6'1 and weighs 160 pounds. He has short brown hair and gray-green eyes. He has two tattoos, as explained on his wiki page: 'One on the bicep of each arm. On the left side it appears to be a small rectangular marking with numbers in it and on the right, a dragon, three clawed, in the Japanese style.' John has a robotic leg that connects halfway through the thigh, though in reality he'll have his leg.
Extraction point: End of 1x13
OVERVIEW
Personality:
John sometimes has a rather prickly personality. One example of that is when he shuts the door on his MX and demands a new partner. Another is when he gets tired of the MX, he pushes him out the car door onto the highway. He can be an asshole. For instance, he hangs up on Maldonado, his captain, and tells Dorian to go in quiet mode. He can get on people's bad sides with the way he reacts sometimes. John is also stubborn as hell. One instance of this is when there's a hostage situation and he ascends the stairs instead of evacuating like his captain told him to. He also stubbornly goes back to Recollectionist time and time again to figure out what happened during the raid.
John can be rather awkward. For example, he's awkward on the phone to Valerie, whom he has a crush on, especially when in episode eight, he thinks she means she got him a present when she means she's got something for him on the case. He also thought kids would like to see him stab his synthetic leg. Naturally, he frightened them. He also thought kids would like to see a picture of a man's arm blown off. One of the kids vomited. He can also be a little shit, though. He insists on bringing Dorian to eat noodles. Dorian says that he can't eat. John then says in that case, he's buying. Also, when he's blowing off his captain he makes a bunch of sounds into the phone as if he were getting cut off and ends with 'Christmas.' I don't know how else to put it. He really can be a little shit. He's got a sarcastic sense of humor, frequently making sarcastic comments. For instance, in his conversation with Maldonado when he gets back, she says, “'Kennex should return to service never.'” and John says, “Never? That's a long time.” She goes on to say, “'[He's suffering from]... psychological rejection of his synthetic body part.'” and John says, “Well, that last part is true.”
John can also be bold and brash. He takes a lot of risks, such as going after the hostages and carrying on when they see the device in the first episode. He also tends to beat up the criminals he interrogates, especially if they did something to cops, like in the fourth episode for Rudy and the first episode for Detective Vogel. He also has Dorian hack into things without a warrant a lot. He's got some loose morals, as shown in the first episode when he sees a black market recollectionist and beats up a suspect in an interrogation. He also kills a guy in the fourth episode that is discussed in the history section. John also has quite a temper sometimes. He spends a lot of the time angry about his girlfriend's betrayal. He also shoots an MX, a man, and beats up suspects when he wants information. That's a lot of pent-up anger.
He rejects anything robotic. This is because during the Insyndicate raid, an MX left him and his partner for dead. In his psychological report, the department's psychiatrist says that John is suffering from psychological rejection of his synthetic body part. In the first episode, he tells his new robot partner 'Come' and he tells Dorian 'synthetic off' instead of asking him to be quiet. He also calls Dorian a 'synthetic' throughout the first episode, which Dorian hates. John eventually warms up to Dorian and even learns to trust him, but he still has a dislike for robots, as shown by him shooting an MX in the head when he was talking bad about Dorian and by his speech after that (which is written out in the history section).
He also has some psychological problems that aren't always shown. He is 'suffering from depression, mental atrophy, trauma-onset OCD, PTSD, and psychological rejection of his synthetic body part.' This all came from the trauma of the raid and losing his leg, and also from his coma. He has a PTSD episode in the pilot episode where he stares off to space and has flashbacks to the raid, triggered by just a phrase that he recognized from the raid 'myklon red'. He also had some memory loss of the raid and possibly more than that, but has since gained some of those memories back. John also is using an illegal black market drug called Membliss (discussed in the history section) that has a lot of side effects, some of which are starting to affect John in canon.
Most of all, he's a jerk with a heart of gold. He may not always follow the rules, but he tries to do what's right. He warms up to a little boy in the second episode when the boy's mother was taken. He makes the boy smile and gives him a toy giraffe. It's also obvious that he showed that heart of gold to his girlfriend, by the video she sent him before the raid. He seemed truly in love with her. He also tries, even when he's inconsiderate. When he was interrogating the sex bot and Dorian asked her where she was born instead of where was she made, John echoed him. He really is a good man deep down.
John's motivations vary. There's his want to keep innocents away from harm, like he shows in the third episode by trying to help Paige. Then, probably most importantly, is his path to redemption. At least in his eyes, he let down a lot of people. He lost his partner and everyone in that raid. He sees remembering things and taking down his ex-girlfriend as the path to redemption. He has a need to prove himself. And then there's his need for justice that he inherited from his father. His father would do anything to get to the truth, and to make sure that the bad guy paid. John stops at nothing to do that, including disobeying direct orders from his superior multiple times and shooting a man. And finally, there's the want to help or protect the ones closest to him. He displays this in the fifth episode when he won't let Dorian get out of the vehicle when people are shooting at them because he doesn't have a chest plate.
John hasn't been unplugged long, but so far, his views of it are neutral to good. He's not sure how he can redeem himself now, but he's invested in the people here and in saving his own life. He's ecstatic about having his leg back.
Matrix: Earth. 2048. The future is full of advanced technologies, medicines, and transportation. Androids are now an accepted part of life, having jobs in law enforcement, maintenance, and the sex industry, though they're considered property, not people. There is no supernatural or magic, and there really isn't any political intrigue. The story is about the RHD and John and Dorian, and how they both struggle with their humanity. The Agents might be criminals or Insyndicate members.
A year and a half to two years or so before the canon start point, John was in charge of a raid against Insyndicate, a crime organization, that ended terribly. His partner died, he lost his right leg, and was betrayed by his girlfriend. He was in a 17 month coma. He took a break from the force. The psychiatrist said 'Kennex is suffering from depression, mental atrophy, trauma-onset OCD, PTSD, and psychological rejection of his synthetic body part.' He also said John should never be allowed back on the force. Thankfully, he's close with the captain and was allowed back on the force. They discuss some details about Insyndicate case and the captain reveals that John is the only one she trusts with this information. He doesn't remember most of it, including that his girlfriend, Anna, betrayed him or where she went. John is prickly around robots, destroying his first partner before gaining Dorian (the DRN) as a partner. Insyndicate tries to steal something from the evidence room with a raid, but it's unsuccessful due to the efforts of John and Dorian.
In the second episode, John and Dorian investigate a case involving sexbots. He and Dorian discuss death and how to remember someone. John learns a little about how robots can feel, too, through Dorian and the case. He finally goes to his old partner's kid to tell the kid about his dad after he and Dorian solve their case. In the third episode, he and Dorian head toward a hostage situation instead of following orders and evacuating. He bonds with Paige, one of the hostages hidden in a closet, over the phone. He and Dorian end up saving the hostages and taking down the bad guys. His insubordination is overlooked. In the fourth episode, a cop John is friends with is killed. They go deep into the drug scene and put Rudy, their tech, undercover. When they find the guy in charge (Bishop), John goes after him. The Bishop says, “You stupid cop. I'll bury you like I buried your loser friend, Cooper. I'm a Captain. This'll be a mistrial-” at which point, John kills him. It is unclear whether the murder is justified in the eyes of the law, or if John said it was self-defense. All in all, the situation is a good example of his brutal side. In the fifth episode, they are protecting the last witness to a murder- a psychic/medium. John is dubious of her. The murderer's clones kidnap Stahl, and Dorian, John, Rudy, and Maldonado play a trick to get her back. The psychic/medium testifies at the murderer's trial. Dorian and John bond with her, and John finds himself a little more open to the idea of it.
In the sixth episode, John and Dorian investigate a case where people are given synthetic hearts- with timers so they'll stop working unless they pay he supplier. This episode mostly involves Dorian's growth. In the seventh episode, a mad man with revenge on his mind straps bombs to people's necks and plays sick games with them. John and Dorian can't disarm the bomb in time for the first victim. They find the next victim. Dorian tells John to put up the shield, basically saying he doesn't have enough time to save her, but John doesn't and instead helps Dorian, and they disarm it just in time. Simon, the mad man, is furious, convinced John stole the approval he so desires (He posts them online and seeks the internet's approval. He is humiliated by the victim and John, and he loses all his viewers.) Therefore, he kidnaps John and straps a bomb to his neck, cuffing his leg to a bench. He says they're like one another, that their black marks on their records follow them. Dorian takes down Simon and John disarms the bomb attached to him.
The eighth episode starts with John in an anger management group. He says he's great, and the therapist points out all the horrible things that have happened to him and asks if he's lying. He insists he's doing great, and doesn't take the session seriously. A man is killed at the public transit station. Maldonado is interrogating the man they caught from the Insyndicate attack on their evidence room. He wants to be let go in exchange for what he was looking for, or he'll tell them where Anna is. He taunts John, asking him how badly he wants to strangle her. John is mad that Maldonado would negotiate 'with a murderer'. She's afraid something terrible is in the evidence room. They don't agree to the deal. John doesn't agree with scrubbing (a method to forget memories). He stops the victim's girlfriend from scrubbing her memories, and they catch the bad guys. In the ninth episode, a robot commits a crime to get in the evidence room. It rips its head off and puts on another head in an evidence locker, which we find out belongs to the XRN, a robot that is more of an unstoppable soldier than a cop. The same company that made Dorian made the XRN in a bid to save their company. During the demonstration, a lot of people were killed until they finally took down the XRN. Only the head was left. She grabs a new body. They track down Danica, the XRN, and take her down, with the help of John's synthetic leg. He takes the pin to the grenade strapped to her and kicks her into an elevator, where she explodes. John had Dorian's back and admitted that he could get used to his synthetic leg.
During the tenth episode, we see that John is still using Membliss. He's using it to try to remember things about the raid. Dorian and Maldonado notice it, and Dorian confronts him about it. John says he needs them and he's got it under control. He gets flashbacks throughout the episode. John blacks out while driving due to the side effects of Membliss (the side effects are paranoia, visual distortions, short-term memory loss, migraines, heart palpitations, increased risk of aneurysms, and blackouts.) He and Dorian are okay, though part of Dorian's ear is torn. Maldonado tells John to stop using the pills and let the memories come naturally. Now that the memories were coming back, they'd have to contact IA (Internal Affairs). He doesn't listen, popping a pill while visiting the recollectionist again. He remembers Anna giving him a nesting doll. He asks a lab tech to check it out for him off the record. They solve the case. IA comes to talk to John. When he hints that John's hiding something and John muses about, the IA guy says “I don't know. Look at your father.” It turns out the nesting doll that Anna gave him is a listening device. In the eleventh episode, a 'smart house' is overridden and kills a couple, and another body had been found on their lawn almost exactly one year ago. John and Dorian investigate. They figure out who the bad guy is going after and who the bad guy is. She was a girl in love with the boy found on the lawn and she was getting revenge. In the twelfth episode, John and Dorian solve a case involving a guy using nanobots to kill them and take their features for his own face. John tries to talk him down when the suspect stands on the edge of a building. He says he understands how he must feel. The suspect asks if he's ever been loved. John says he has. The suspect says “Then you wouldn't understand. We're supposed to be loved.” and lets himself fall off the side of the building. John seems to feel something about this man, as he has his profile up after the case has been closed and is staring at it.
In the thirteenth episode, they find a victim cut open and filled with straw. There have been other cases of this, and the man behind those (Costa) is behind bars. Even more interesting, the lead detective on the case was Edward Kennex, John's father. He says it was the collar of his career right before he was killed. Dorian says John's father was under investigation for stealing robotic tech from the evidence locker and reselling it on the black market. Turns out that John's father visited Costa right before he died, and told him he believed him that he was innocent. Rudy has a theory that the bodies are not the real bodies. The body is flat-footed, which points to a sort of printer that can recreate the victim, but not the organs, so the bad guy fills them with straw to hide it. They see a pinprick on her hand and figure out his hunting grounds are the shelters. John tells a story about his dad where he refused to be a dirty cop and says that's who he was, and that he's why John became a cop. They discover that the bad guy has been the one stealing robotic tech and trying to integrate it into his body to save himself. John kills the Straw man, and clears his father's name. Dorian passes his review with flying colors, thanks in part to John saying that Dorian's the reason he wants to stay on the police force.
Real World: John was unplugged about a month ago and has been recuperating and going through the physical therapy and stuff, so he hasn't had a chance to do much. Significant mental things that have been going on: He's an amputee in the matrix, so he has his leg in reality. He's elated about retaining his leg. It means better mobility, no longer having to charge or clean or take care of his stump and prosthesis. He's now trying to settle in and prepare for missions and stuff. He's going to try to get a job.
ABILITIES AND SKILLS
Anomalies: None
Skillset: Cop: He's an expert marksman, and good at hand-to-hand combat. He was trained in the police academy, and knows how to wield a knife to a small handgun, to an assault rifle.
Upload Capabilities:
SAMPLES
Sample #1: Network
[He turns on the video, and it displays a handsome man with a masculine face. He's got short, spiky brown hair, with light stubble on his face.]
Hey, uh... I'm John, John Kennex. I know I haven't exactly been a presence on these things, but I thought maybe some human contact would be good. [He shifts awkwardly, taking him out of the view and back into it.] I know we're not really here for fun things, but... does anyone do tattoos? It's stupid, but.. I mean, we've changed. We're different. I've got a couple tattoos that mean something to me, and I was just thinking that maybe people would like that sort of thing. A way to show they're different.
Anyway, [He shrugs, trying to not look stiff and failing.] just thought I'd ask.
Sample #2: Log
John is terrified. He'd been terrified a few moments in his life, and this is one of them. He feels the tingle in his body, his hair standing on end, the goosebumps. But he hardly ever freezes in these moments; the fear feeds his action, thrills him in a chilling way.
“We're being breached by a sentinel,” his crewmate repeats, her voice higher-pitched this time. They didn't have much time if they were cutting into the ship already. John nods once, and then he's on the move, making sure everyone is holding a weapon.
“It's in.”
They're quiet, listening to machine burst into the ship. John looks around at his fellow crewmates, and he can't help but be proud of them. They're scared, but they're holding on. He steps a step forward, subtly putting his body in front of one of his crewmates.
“Will we be okay?” his crewmate asks behind him, and he nods stiffly.
“No matter what, we'll be okay.” He's not sure if he really believes it, but if he could ease her mind... he'd do it. They stand, tense, until the sentinel bursts onto the bridge.
OOC
Name: Kate
Age: I'm 22
Contact details:
pixiesticks, kjmajor92@gmail.comCharacters already in Systemwide: None
BASIC PROFILE
Name: John Kennex
Age: 41
Canon: Almost Human
Appearance:
John is played by Karl Urban. full body
John is 6'1 and weighs 160 pounds. He has short brown hair and gray-green eyes. He has two tattoos, as explained on his wiki page: 'One on the bicep of each arm. On the left side it appears to be a small rectangular marking with numbers in it and on the right, a dragon, three clawed, in the Japanese style.' John has a robotic leg that connects halfway through the thigh, though in reality he'll have his leg.
Extraction point: End of 1x13
OVERVIEW
Personality:
John sometimes has a rather prickly personality. One example of that is when he shuts the door on his MX and demands a new partner. Another is when he gets tired of the MX, he pushes him out the car door onto the highway. He can be an asshole. For instance, he hangs up on Maldonado, his captain, and tells Dorian to go in quiet mode. He can get on people's bad sides with the way he reacts sometimes. John is also stubborn as hell. One instance of this is when there's a hostage situation and he ascends the stairs instead of evacuating like his captain told him to. He also stubbornly goes back to Recollectionist time and time again to figure out what happened during the raid.
John can be rather awkward. For example, he's awkward on the phone to Valerie, whom he has a crush on, especially when in episode eight, he thinks she means she got him a present when she means she's got something for him on the case. He also thought kids would like to see him stab his synthetic leg. Naturally, he frightened them. He also thought kids would like to see a picture of a man's arm blown off. One of the kids vomited. He can also be a little shit, though. He insists on bringing Dorian to eat noodles. Dorian says that he can't eat. John then says in that case, he's buying. Also, when he's blowing off his captain he makes a bunch of sounds into the phone as if he were getting cut off and ends with 'Christmas.' I don't know how else to put it. He really can be a little shit. He's got a sarcastic sense of humor, frequently making sarcastic comments. For instance, in his conversation with Maldonado when he gets back, she says, “'Kennex should return to service never.'” and John says, “Never? That's a long time.” She goes on to say, “'[He's suffering from]... psychological rejection of his synthetic body part.'” and John says, “Well, that last part is true.”
John can also be bold and brash. He takes a lot of risks, such as going after the hostages and carrying on when they see the device in the first episode. He also tends to beat up the criminals he interrogates, especially if they did something to cops, like in the fourth episode for Rudy and the first episode for Detective Vogel. He also has Dorian hack into things without a warrant a lot. He's got some loose morals, as shown in the first episode when he sees a black market recollectionist and beats up a suspect in an interrogation. He also kills a guy in the fourth episode that is discussed in the history section. John also has quite a temper sometimes. He spends a lot of the time angry about his girlfriend's betrayal. He also shoots an MX, a man, and beats up suspects when he wants information. That's a lot of pent-up anger.
He rejects anything robotic. This is because during the Insyndicate raid, an MX left him and his partner for dead. In his psychological report, the department's psychiatrist says that John is suffering from psychological rejection of his synthetic body part. In the first episode, he tells his new robot partner 'Come' and he tells Dorian 'synthetic off' instead of asking him to be quiet. He also calls Dorian a 'synthetic' throughout the first episode, which Dorian hates. John eventually warms up to Dorian and even learns to trust him, but he still has a dislike for robots, as shown by him shooting an MX in the head when he was talking bad about Dorian and by his speech after that (which is written out in the history section).
He also has some psychological problems that aren't always shown. He is 'suffering from depression, mental atrophy, trauma-onset OCD, PTSD, and psychological rejection of his synthetic body part.' This all came from the trauma of the raid and losing his leg, and also from his coma. He has a PTSD episode in the pilot episode where he stares off to space and has flashbacks to the raid, triggered by just a phrase that he recognized from the raid 'myklon red'. He also had some memory loss of the raid and possibly more than that, but has since gained some of those memories back. John also is using an illegal black market drug called Membliss (discussed in the history section) that has a lot of side effects, some of which are starting to affect John in canon.
Most of all, he's a jerk with a heart of gold. He may not always follow the rules, but he tries to do what's right. He warms up to a little boy in the second episode when the boy's mother was taken. He makes the boy smile and gives him a toy giraffe. It's also obvious that he showed that heart of gold to his girlfriend, by the video she sent him before the raid. He seemed truly in love with her. He also tries, even when he's inconsiderate. When he was interrogating the sex bot and Dorian asked her where she was born instead of where was she made, John echoed him. He really is a good man deep down.
John's motivations vary. There's his want to keep innocents away from harm, like he shows in the third episode by trying to help Paige. Then, probably most importantly, is his path to redemption. At least in his eyes, he let down a lot of people. He lost his partner and everyone in that raid. He sees remembering things and taking down his ex-girlfriend as the path to redemption. He has a need to prove himself. And then there's his need for justice that he inherited from his father. His father would do anything to get to the truth, and to make sure that the bad guy paid. John stops at nothing to do that, including disobeying direct orders from his superior multiple times and shooting a man. And finally, there's the want to help or protect the ones closest to him. He displays this in the fifth episode when he won't let Dorian get out of the vehicle when people are shooting at them because he doesn't have a chest plate.
John hasn't been unplugged long, but so far, his views of it are neutral to good. He's not sure how he can redeem himself now, but he's invested in the people here and in saving his own life. He's ecstatic about having his leg back.
Matrix: Earth. 2048. The future is full of advanced technologies, medicines, and transportation. Androids are now an accepted part of life, having jobs in law enforcement, maintenance, and the sex industry, though they're considered property, not people. There is no supernatural or magic, and there really isn't any political intrigue. The story is about the RHD and John and Dorian, and how they both struggle with their humanity. The Agents might be criminals or Insyndicate members.
A year and a half to two years or so before the canon start point, John was in charge of a raid against Insyndicate, a crime organization, that ended terribly. His partner died, he lost his right leg, and was betrayed by his girlfriend. He was in a 17 month coma. He took a break from the force. The psychiatrist said 'Kennex is suffering from depression, mental atrophy, trauma-onset OCD, PTSD, and psychological rejection of his synthetic body part.' He also said John should never be allowed back on the force. Thankfully, he's close with the captain and was allowed back on the force. They discuss some details about Insyndicate case and the captain reveals that John is the only one she trusts with this information. He doesn't remember most of it, including that his girlfriend, Anna, betrayed him or where she went. John is prickly around robots, destroying his first partner before gaining Dorian (the DRN) as a partner. Insyndicate tries to steal something from the evidence room with a raid, but it's unsuccessful due to the efforts of John and Dorian.
In the second episode, John and Dorian investigate a case involving sexbots. He and Dorian discuss death and how to remember someone. John learns a little about how robots can feel, too, through Dorian and the case. He finally goes to his old partner's kid to tell the kid about his dad after he and Dorian solve their case. In the third episode, he and Dorian head toward a hostage situation instead of following orders and evacuating. He bonds with Paige, one of the hostages hidden in a closet, over the phone. He and Dorian end up saving the hostages and taking down the bad guys. His insubordination is overlooked. In the fourth episode, a cop John is friends with is killed. They go deep into the drug scene and put Rudy, their tech, undercover. When they find the guy in charge (Bishop), John goes after him. The Bishop says, “You stupid cop. I'll bury you like I buried your loser friend, Cooper. I'm a Captain. This'll be a mistrial-” at which point, John kills him. It is unclear whether the murder is justified in the eyes of the law, or if John said it was self-defense. All in all, the situation is a good example of his brutal side. In the fifth episode, they are protecting the last witness to a murder- a psychic/medium. John is dubious of her. The murderer's clones kidnap Stahl, and Dorian, John, Rudy, and Maldonado play a trick to get her back. The psychic/medium testifies at the murderer's trial. Dorian and John bond with her, and John finds himself a little more open to the idea of it.
In the sixth episode, John and Dorian investigate a case where people are given synthetic hearts- with timers so they'll stop working unless they pay he supplier. This episode mostly involves Dorian's growth. In the seventh episode, a mad man with revenge on his mind straps bombs to people's necks and plays sick games with them. John and Dorian can't disarm the bomb in time for the first victim. They find the next victim. Dorian tells John to put up the shield, basically saying he doesn't have enough time to save her, but John doesn't and instead helps Dorian, and they disarm it just in time. Simon, the mad man, is furious, convinced John stole the approval he so desires (He posts them online and seeks the internet's approval. He is humiliated by the victim and John, and he loses all his viewers.) Therefore, he kidnaps John and straps a bomb to his neck, cuffing his leg to a bench. He says they're like one another, that their black marks on their records follow them. Dorian takes down Simon and John disarms the bomb attached to him.
The eighth episode starts with John in an anger management group. He says he's great, and the therapist points out all the horrible things that have happened to him and asks if he's lying. He insists he's doing great, and doesn't take the session seriously. A man is killed at the public transit station. Maldonado is interrogating the man they caught from the Insyndicate attack on their evidence room. He wants to be let go in exchange for what he was looking for, or he'll tell them where Anna is. He taunts John, asking him how badly he wants to strangle her. John is mad that Maldonado would negotiate 'with a murderer'. She's afraid something terrible is in the evidence room. They don't agree to the deal. John doesn't agree with scrubbing (a method to forget memories). He stops the victim's girlfriend from scrubbing her memories, and they catch the bad guys. In the ninth episode, a robot commits a crime to get in the evidence room. It rips its head off and puts on another head in an evidence locker, which we find out belongs to the XRN, a robot that is more of an unstoppable soldier than a cop. The same company that made Dorian made the XRN in a bid to save their company. During the demonstration, a lot of people were killed until they finally took down the XRN. Only the head was left. She grabs a new body. They track down Danica, the XRN, and take her down, with the help of John's synthetic leg. He takes the pin to the grenade strapped to her and kicks her into an elevator, where she explodes. John had Dorian's back and admitted that he could get used to his synthetic leg.
During the tenth episode, we see that John is still using Membliss. He's using it to try to remember things about the raid. Dorian and Maldonado notice it, and Dorian confronts him about it. John says he needs them and he's got it under control. He gets flashbacks throughout the episode. John blacks out while driving due to the side effects of Membliss (the side effects are paranoia, visual distortions, short-term memory loss, migraines, heart palpitations, increased risk of aneurysms, and blackouts.) He and Dorian are okay, though part of Dorian's ear is torn. Maldonado tells John to stop using the pills and let the memories come naturally. Now that the memories were coming back, they'd have to contact IA (Internal Affairs). He doesn't listen, popping a pill while visiting the recollectionist again. He remembers Anna giving him a nesting doll. He asks a lab tech to check it out for him off the record. They solve the case. IA comes to talk to John. When he hints that John's hiding something and John muses about, the IA guy says “I don't know. Look at your father.” It turns out the nesting doll that Anna gave him is a listening device. In the eleventh episode, a 'smart house' is overridden and kills a couple, and another body had been found on their lawn almost exactly one year ago. John and Dorian investigate. They figure out who the bad guy is going after and who the bad guy is. She was a girl in love with the boy found on the lawn and she was getting revenge. In the twelfth episode, John and Dorian solve a case involving a guy using nanobots to kill them and take their features for his own face. John tries to talk him down when the suspect stands on the edge of a building. He says he understands how he must feel. The suspect asks if he's ever been loved. John says he has. The suspect says “Then you wouldn't understand. We're supposed to be loved.” and lets himself fall off the side of the building. John seems to feel something about this man, as he has his profile up after the case has been closed and is staring at it.
In the thirteenth episode, they find a victim cut open and filled with straw. There have been other cases of this, and the man behind those (Costa) is behind bars. Even more interesting, the lead detective on the case was Edward Kennex, John's father. He says it was the collar of his career right before he was killed. Dorian says John's father was under investigation for stealing robotic tech from the evidence locker and reselling it on the black market. Turns out that John's father visited Costa right before he died, and told him he believed him that he was innocent. Rudy has a theory that the bodies are not the real bodies. The body is flat-footed, which points to a sort of printer that can recreate the victim, but not the organs, so the bad guy fills them with straw to hide it. They see a pinprick on her hand and figure out his hunting grounds are the shelters. John tells a story about his dad where he refused to be a dirty cop and says that's who he was, and that he's why John became a cop. They discover that the bad guy has been the one stealing robotic tech and trying to integrate it into his body to save himself. John kills the Straw man, and clears his father's name. Dorian passes his review with flying colors, thanks in part to John saying that Dorian's the reason he wants to stay on the police force.
Real World: John was unplugged about a month ago and has been recuperating and going through the physical therapy and stuff, so he hasn't had a chance to do much. Significant mental things that have been going on: He's an amputee in the matrix, so he has his leg in reality. He's elated about retaining his leg. It means better mobility, no longer having to charge or clean or take care of his stump and prosthesis. He's now trying to settle in and prepare for missions and stuff. He's going to try to get a job.
ABILITIES AND SKILLS
Anomalies: None
Skillset: Cop: He's an expert marksman, and good at hand-to-hand combat. He was trained in the police academy, and knows how to wield a knife to a small handgun, to an assault rifle.
Upload Capabilities:
Anomalous Skills: 0
Martial Arts: 3
Projectile Weaponry: 5
Technical Skills: 0
Wild Card: 2
Martial Arts: 3
Projectile Weaponry: 5
Technical Skills: 0
Wild Card: 2
SAMPLES
Sample #1: Network
[He turns on the video, and it displays a handsome man with a masculine face. He's got short, spiky brown hair, with light stubble on his face.]
Hey, uh... I'm John, John Kennex. I know I haven't exactly been a presence on these things, but I thought maybe some human contact would be good. [He shifts awkwardly, taking him out of the view and back into it.] I know we're not really here for fun things, but... does anyone do tattoos? It's stupid, but.. I mean, we've changed. We're different. I've got a couple tattoos that mean something to me, and I was just thinking that maybe people would like that sort of thing. A way to show they're different.
Anyway, [He shrugs, trying to not look stiff and failing.] just thought I'd ask.
Sample #2: Log
John is terrified. He'd been terrified a few moments in his life, and this is one of them. He feels the tingle in his body, his hair standing on end, the goosebumps. But he hardly ever freezes in these moments; the fear feeds his action, thrills him in a chilling way.
“We're being breached by a sentinel,” his crewmate repeats, her voice higher-pitched this time. They didn't have much time if they were cutting into the ship already. John nods once, and then he's on the move, making sure everyone is holding a weapon.
“It's in.”
They're quiet, listening to machine burst into the ship. John looks around at his fellow crewmates, and he can't help but be proud of them. They're scared, but they're holding on. He steps a step forward, subtly putting his body in front of one of his crewmates.
“Will we be okay?” his crewmate asks behind him, and he nods stiffly.
“No matter what, we'll be okay.” He's not sure if he really believes it, but if he could ease her mind... he'd do it. They stand, tense, until the sentinel bursts onto the bridge.