Name
Vyacheslav Kirillovich Putin
Вячеслав Кириллович Путин
"Mr High C" (underworld pseudonym)
Gender
Male
Age
36
Class
Human
Relationships
- The Leper (business associate)
- Adeline Brunhilde Mueller (age 20) ("fiancé")
- Doctor M (business associate)
Role
- Scientist
Despite being a scientist (and, hence, a member of the intellectual class by default), Dr V. K. Putin is an outcast from the rest of the research community, reviled for his questionable ethics and eccentricity, as well as the fact that most of his research has been done mainly for himself.
He, nonetheless, possesses a brilliant scientific mind, which he puts to "good" use through his research on the anti-ageing serum VKP-4h, as well as on various other underworld projects brought to him through the Leper.
Personality
Dr V. K. Putin is obsessed with preventing himself from ageing, perpetually trying to find ways to reverse or at least slow down the process in his own body. Every time he wakes up, he checks the mirror, sometimes for hours on end, to see if his hairline is receding or if more wrinkles are appearing on his face, and also to apply makeup to disguise the signs of ageing that
have appeared.
He does seem to have some affection for his crush, who visits him occasionally. However, her visits have become less and less frequent, something which Dr Putin has noted with more than a little discomfort. Despite supposedly pledging his loyalty to one woman, though, Dr Putin is still very much eager to act on his lecherous instincts, readily groping or forcing himself upon other women as and when he feels urges to do so. Due to his unpleasant and lecherous personality, Dr Putin has few true friends, if any at all, though he has a large number of acquaintances.
Appearance
Dr V. K. Putin's usual wardrobe consists of a white dress shirt with a pastel-coloured tie tied into a
Trinity knot, accompanied with a black coat. His left leg, amputated just above the knee, has been replaced with an ivory peg plated with gold; Putin is paranoid that a mechanical leg would cause chemicals to leech into his bloodstream and age him faster. One of his pinky fingernails is always grown out long (about 4cm), presumably so he can dig wax out of his ear.
Many of those who see Dr Putin for the first time often comment on his intense gaze.
Height: 186cm
Weight: 73kg
Gear
Dr Putin is not trained in any particular weapon; he relies mostly on the fear factor he possesses through his association with the Leper in order to remain safe. Nevertheless, he carries a low-calibre pistol of an indeterminate model around, along with an extra magazine of 16 bullets.
Combat Skills
- Can fire a pistol (likely to miss)
Weaknesses
- Peg leg
- Lack of combat skills
- Lack of social skills
- Lack of friends
- Obsession with death
Other Skills
Dr Putin occasionally attends the opera, though not as much as he used to.
Bio
Vyacheslav Kirillovich Putin was born to an aristocratic family of intellectuals, the third of four children (and the only son), and was raised almost like a prince, wearing the finest garments and receiving training in subjects as elocution and dining etiquette from tutors. His father, Kirill Yevgenyevich Putin, had numerous connections to individuals of power, and as such, was able to siphon money from all over the place to fund his and his family's lavish lifestyle.
When young Vyacheslav was 9, he was kidnapped by a band of beggars while journeying to a museum with one of his tutors. The beggars, desperate to get rich quickly, demanded a ransom from Kirill Y. Putin and, receiving no reply, severed Vyacheslav's left leg and sent it back. Enraged, Vyacheslav's father enlisted the services of several mercenaries, one of whom was a notorious hitman and "cleaner" known simply as the Leper. After brutally slaughtering the beggars, the mercenaries brought Vyacheslav back home to his mansion.
After the ordeal, Vyacheslav began to develop a morbid obsession with death, which he had narrowly escaped. As he grew up, this eventually evolved into a rabid desire to overcome ageing. It became a very sensitive topic for him, to the point that he would fly into an uncontrollable rage every time anybody wished him Happy Birthday. His father, who used to throw lavish birthday parties for his children, the costs of which exceeded seven figures easily, eventually decided to respect Vyacheslav's preferences and stopped throwing birthday parties for him.
When he was 20, Vyacheslav Kirillovich Putin enrolled in the Tor Institute, an elite school for aristocratic youths, where he studied both medicine and chemistry. Upon graduating, he severed his links with his family, demanding from his father that he receive his inheritance there and then, before setting up shop as a chemist and an ad hoc physician.
Through the years, Putin slowly gained notoriety as a sadistic, salacious individual, willing to take on any job, no matter how unethical, as long as the pay was good enough. He used the money earned from his projects to finance his obsessive search for a drug that could reverse ageing and, by extension, prevent death, with no intention of using the final product on anybody except himself (and, should mass production of the product be possible, anybody willing to finance him sufficiently). He got into contact with the hitman known as the Leper, one of the mercenaries who had rescued him back when he, as a child, had been kidnapped, and for the past three years, has had an uneasy professional relationship with him.
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Name
Sora Yuno
湯野空
"Christopher" (general purpose pseudonym)
Gender
Male
Age
13
Class
Human
Relationships
- Kō Yuno (age 48) (mother)
Role
- Ad hoc "Cleaner" (i.e. Paid to clean up bodies from a crime scene)
- Various odd jobs
- Test subject (former)
Personality
Vengeful and unforgiving, Sora Yuno is not one to easily forgive those who have attempted to double cross him, and if he feels he has been wronged past the red line, will plot ways to hunt down whoever was responsible and give him his just deserts. He is quick to anger, and at the slightest provocation, will fight viciously.
Nevertheless, Sora cares deeply about his stroke-bound mother, to the point that the greatest part of his unstable and dirty income goes into caring for her.
Appearance
Sora has a varied wardrobe, but mostly comprising second hand clothes and whatever he can find. He is usually barefoot.
He usually travels with a long laundry pole, to deter potential aggressors (the fact that he's thirteen and stands less than 170cm is rather counterproductive to this goal, however). Occasionally, when his hair becomes too long, Sora will cut it himself using whatever sharp object he can find; this gives his hair an unkempt and unruly appearance.
Height: 162cm
Weight: 42kg
Gear
- Metal laundry pole
Combat Skills
- Somewhat proficient at wielding a staff in combat
Weaknesses
- Short in stature
- Lack of funds
- Responsibility for his mother's care
- Side effects of experimentation
Other Skills
He has a soft spot for puppies.
Bio
Sora Yuno was originally born Sora Kakuta, but changed his surname by default following his parents' divorce. He and his mother led a relatively comfortable life until three years later, when Sora's mother suffered a severe stroke and, as a result, was bedridden. Sora, then, was 9 years old.
In order to support himself and his mother, now that she could no longer work, Sora took up a number of jobs on the side, a few of which were not strictly speaking legal.
When he was 11, Sora noticed, on a notice board, an advertisement by a scientist looking to test an experimental anti-ageing drug. This scientist, by the name of Dr V. K. Putin, was offering a large sum of money to any volunteer who willingly joined his programme. As such, Sora, having calculated that the money offered could last him and his mother at least four years, entered the programme secretly.
Dr Putin had botched the serum, however, and as a result, Sora was left with an uneven heartbeat and migraines that acted up without warning. To make matters worse, Dr Putin had broken his contract, and disappeared before the boy could approach him for payment.
For the past two years, ever since the incident, Sora has been simultaneously caring for his stroke-bound mother, working odd jobs to earn money, and, in his free time, hunting down Dr V. K. Putin to make him suffer.
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Name
Aldous Donne
More commonly known as "The Leper"
Gender
Male
Age
Early fifties
Class
Human
Relationships
- Dr Vyacheslav Kirillovich Putin (business associate)
Role
- Since his early days, the Leper has worked as a hitman, killing or maiming targets as directed by his clients.
Personality
Despite his occupation, the Leper
does possess some semblance of a moral code: while he has no qualms about killing for money, he refuses to kill children, pregnant women, the elderly, or those who are mentally disabled, and will walk out on clients who request such services.
Nevertheless, despite his streaks of humanity in this regard, the Leper is still a fearsome and cruel being, torturing and slaughtering uninvolved people (he refers to them as "peripheral details" and "collateral damage") if he feels it will help him to attain his goals. He is notorious for leaving nothing but a person's personal effects behind as a warning to others to stay away.
The Leper has a penchant for weed; he will light a joint and insert it into a specially drilled hole of his plague mask. This doesn't seem to affect his physical or cognitive function.
Appearance
The Leper dresses in a monochrome Victorian-era suit, but reveals no part of his skin, covering his face with a plague doctor mask and his hands with white silk gloves. He keeps his weapons hidden, preferring small calibre firearms, but also carries a black leather suitcase in which he keeps a disassembled rifle for sniping.
One quirk about the Leper is that his jacket's buttons are sewn on the right side instead of the left, unlike a typical men's jacket; the reason for this is not known.
Height: 180cm
Weight: 68kg
Gear
- Small calibre pistol (concealed)
- Sniper rifle (disassembled)
- Jagkommando knife (concealed)
- Box of marijuana joints
Combat Skills
- Extensive small-calibre firearms training
- Sniping skills
- Unarmed combat skills
Weaknesses
- Extreme ugliness
- Wanted criminal status
- Blind in one eye
- Unwillingness to seek help
Other Skills
- First-aid skills
Bio
Aldous Donne was born into extreme poverty at the lowest rungs of society. His mother was a prostitute-turned-beggar, and he did not know who his father was.
Ever since he was a young child, Aldous had an extremely ugly face, and was shunned by everybody, including his own mother, who gave him the cruel nickname "The Leper". His entire childhood was spent selling biscuits for a merchant, a job which earned him a meagre, almost mockingly small income. During this time, Aldous painstakingly taught himself to read and count, in the hopes of entering university.
He eventually managed to successfully apply for an entrance exam, at the age of 18. Outside the hall, however, a number of other applicants, annoyed by his repulsive and hideous face, attacked him with knives and matches, severely burning half of his face and subsequently leaving him to die in a bush.
Aldous survived through his sheer rage and his will to take revenge on the three boys who had disfigured him even further than what his own mother had done to him. He bought a suit and a plague doctor's mask with money stolen from a street food hawker and, with a knife tied to a tree branch, proceeded to kill the three who had attacked him at their commencement ceremony. He was 23.
As a result of his triple homicide, Aldous was sentenced to death, but following a prison riot, managed to escape, taking his disguise from the guard's office as he went. It was then that he embraced the nickname "Leper", putting up nondescript advertisements for hitman services in the quieter, darker areas of the city.
For the next thirty years or so, the Leper worked as a hitman and a mercenary, gaining a rather notorious name for himself by performing extrajudicial killings and punishments, and even, in one case, the rescuing of a young scion from his kidnappers (whom he brutally slaughtered). This young scion, one Vyacheslav Kirillovich Putin, eventually became one of his closest business associates, albeit with a rather shaky professional relationship.
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