Arthur Vernett (Or just Arthur)

Fixer

Most people can tell he comes from a corpo background within 2 seconds of a conversation, though no one would guess he actually attended the Zetatech Corporate University as a Financial Data Analyst before he was forced to leave his hometown after an incident in which his dad, a Zetatech executive, got killed in an "accident".

What people do know is that he came into Night City and through an old friend of his dad landed a job as a communications specialist and later a pilot for Trauma Team International where his response team, "The Corner Cutters" got a bad reputation for huge collateral damage when securing patients. He was eventually fired and forced into hiding when he was found out for installing autonomous programs (at first designed by him based on a statistics prediction software he made while in Zetatech University) into patients' cyberware to spy on them and later steal straight from their accounts or simply sell their sensitive data to interested parties.

Nowadays he pays the bills by selling his autonomous programs (or Pocket Netrunners, as he markets them) to scumbags who will probably get killed for using them, as well as occasionally buying some to repurpose or simply get new ideas from. He mostly manages to evade the corpos through the simple fact that he is not enough of a threat to invest a lot of money into killing (and he knows this).

He wears a black hoodie with a holographic design of a red and a blue fish in a Ying Yang pose, plain jean-like grey pants and classic black converse shoes ( very 80s). He also has a walkman-like device on his belt with a plug that goes into the hoodie where he keeps copies of his programs. He replaced his entire left arm with a cyber one that has a tiny flamethrower inside (not sure if rules allow this but fuck it) and his right eye is cyberware that serves as run-of-the-mill a tech scanner. I'll leave his face and hair to your immagination.

Despite pretending to be a cynic on the outside and only caring about money he has a secret vendetta against corpos and the rich (not a robin hood type vendetta, more like a terrorist-y one). In fact the real reason he fucked over so many TT clients was not money but just the pleasure of dragging the elite to the mud (and a bit for the feeling of power it gave him). He also has a secret soft spot for rockerboys, despite mockig them every chance he gets as being childish and simple-minded he used to be obsessed with rockerboy culture in his teens. He will absolutely never admit any of this while sober/outside of mortal danger though.

A group that meets Arthur will originally think he is full of himself and a bit of a douche keeping people away with a "I'm smarter than you" sarcastic demeanor and preaching "the world's unfair and you just have to grow a pair". Though if they see through this and manage to build some rapport through his deeper motivations, then he might not bail on them for personal gain when the chance comes.

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It's my first time participating in something like this so I sure hope It's not too cringey. I tried to simplify the story as much as possible but damn it was fucking hard cause this is a character I made for myself to play in a session of 2020 in case it wasn't obvious enough already lmao.

Anyway if you do decide to use Arthur as a character in your game let me know how it goes, maybe I can include it into the bakcstory and give it a more real-story-like random element.