Costello

^{Yet another Cyberpunk TTRPG character}

Full name: Serge Costello

Age: 33

Height: 5'7"

Nationality: Mars-ian

Occupation: Private Investigator

❤ Likes: Animals ^{(Especially cats, birds, horses, small dogs)}, honesty, retro fashion, old books and movies

✖ Dislikes: Big dogs ^{(afraid of them)}, relying on others, having to lie

His hair is dyed a dark blue colour, though it is naturally black, and his eyes are dark blue with a light blue glowing circuit board pattern inside due to his cybernetic contact lenses. He stands at an average height at 5'7" and has a fairly average, if muscular build, he easily blends into a crowd, which is a great asset when you work as a private investigator.

His right eye is cybernetic, he has an image enhancement modification to it which he can toggle to clarify distant images or to slightly zoom in to view small details. He also has a video recorder linked to both his eye and a cyberaudio module which installed in the back of his right ear, this records audio and video onto a chip embedded in his cybernetic eye which can store 2 hours of video, in order to access the chip he simple needs to push his cybernetic eye up to slide the cover open and depress the chip to eject it. He has cybernetic "shift-tacts" which work as coloured contact lenses that can change colour, he usually has his glow blue and uses them to help hide the differences between his cybernetic eye and his natural one, and to look cooler. He has some minor cosmetic cyberwear in the form of some circuit board copper tracers on the side of his head close to his ear.

Given his job he is fairly distrustful of other people, and dislikes having to rely on other for help or information. Though this doesn't mean he's bad at interacting with others, in fact he's good at it, he's skilled at detecting changes in emotion and social cues and is good at tactfully persuading others to give him the information he needs or to get small favours, though if things turn more hostile he is also good at interrogating others and keeping a level head. He is educated and likes to keep to himself, he has a love of old and classic media and enjoys reading classic books (In e-book form of course) and watching old, preferably black and white films on his tablet. He also has a great love for animals, he was adopted by a corporate family has a young child and grew up with all kinds of cloned and artificial animals, and whenever one is around he makes a beeline for them and immediately attempts to get their attention and favor and can often be found picking up any animal small enough to do so, however, he does have a fear of large dogs since as a child his neighbors had a large Akita dog which despised him and would constantly attempt to bite him.

He was adopted as a baby into a corporate family as a youngest sibling for the families four children, two older brothers and two older sisters. His adoptive mother was the founder of a successful telecommunications company, and as such he grew up with a fairly luxurious lifestyle, being put through a good school and getting his needs and most of his wants taken care of. Though as the youngest and not biological member of his family he was occasionally treated worse than his siblings who often picked on him, teasing him and pulling pranks on him. He turned to watching classic movies and reading old books as a hobby and enjoyed spending time alone, and being the youngest child also meant less responsibility and pressure and more freedom which he enjoyed. When he was 9 his right eye was damaged by an infection and it was replaced by a cyberoptics model which the family had invested in, he quickly adapted to it and suffered little of the problems which arise from adult cybernetic modifications, and which also gave him an edge over his siblings and he could suddenly see further, clearer and in darker light. As he became a teenager he found himself becoming more inquisitive about his family and began to look into their history and industry connections, where he discovered that his mothers identity wasn't exactly as her records stated, this sparked a desire for the truth in him and he began a slow unravelling of his families secrets. By the time he had finished high school he had discovered that his mother had not founded her company and had in fact used cybernetic modifications and plastic surgery to appear exactly like the woman who had founded the company. Unnerved and unsure about what to do next, he left his home to study business at a nearby university, however the conspiracy surrounding his family kept driving his attention away from his studies and eventually he dropped out. From there he decided to direct his desire for uncovering secrets towards uncovering other peoples secrets, and became a private investigator.

The first complication in his new job as a private investigator came when the ex-partner of a client, a corporate business woman, accused him of stealing from her office as revenge for breaking up her shady business dealings, and he was sentenced to be jailed for 6 months after she had slipped the judge some Eurodollars. However his sentence was cut short after 2 months when the woman came back and helped to pay for the jails latest expansion in return for his release. She did this in order to make amends and to recruit his help in taking down her own business rivals. He decided to forgive her and received a boost to his reputation by helping to take down another shady corporation (and had his criminal records mysteriously wiped in a blackout), and his positive reputation started to win him some friends in the local police force. However, several months later the corporation was back, and the CEO, was back with a vengeance.

Character Stats  _{(Character stats in Cyberpunk TTRPG are rated from 1-10)}

Role: Investigator

Intelligence     -  8

Reflexes          -  8

Cool                -  8

Tech Skills       -  5

Luck                -   4

Attractiveness -  7

People Skills   -  8

Body Type      -  6

Skills:

Research  - 4

Interrogation  - 5

Streetwise  - 3

Awareness  - 7

Human Perception  - 4

Interview  - 2

Persuasion  - 5

Driving  - 2

Education  - 3

Hide/Evade   - 3

Shadow/Track  - 4

Handgun  - 5

Wrestling  - 3

Forgery  - 3

Pick Lock  - 3