CHAR YOJIHIROMATA
AGE: 32
ROLE: FIXER/CORP
CHARACTER POINTS: 394
INT: 10  REF: 9/12  TECH: 9  COOL: 9/10  ATTR: 4/10
LUCK: 7  MA: 9/13  BODY: 7  EMP: 10/7
Char was born 4/7/87 in Osaka Japan.  His parents who usually resided in California had gone to Japan so their son would be born in his native land.  After  his birth the family returned to America.  Chars father, Lord Taro Yojihiromata was the right hand man to Yakuza oyabun Oyata Hayagami.  Six months after his 5th birthday Chars parents were taken out by Costa Nostra assassins as retribution for a Yakuza hit on a Mafia warehouse.  Due to his fathers rank and close friendship, Oyabun Hayagami took Char as his ward.  It wasn't just out of pity, Hayagami saw an opportunity in the form of this young boy.  Char was betrothed to his newborn daughter Neko earlier that year, and now Hayagami would have a more direct control over the heir to his empire.  He began training the boy for his future role almost from the moment he learned to speak.  The child was brought along on every deal that posed no immediate threat to him.  By the time he was twelve he knew more about the business than most of Hayagami's trusted personnel.

Char was taught by the best tutors money could afford, in both Japanese and English, and by the age of 17 he had a gained an education equal to a Rhodes honor student.  While Char did only average in the physical aspect of his education, his mental prowess proved remarkable.  At the age of sixteen, fearful that Char was learning to much, Hayagami decided to keep the boy out of the family business until his marriage to his daughter on his 25th birthday.  Instead he gave Char 20,000 EB and the instructions to start his own business.  Hayagami felt that if the boy succeeded he would truly be a worthy heir.  Char began small and soon found he had an uncanny affinity for two things, information and arms dealing.  At first it was slow, dealing to small neighborhood gangs, but by the time he was 18 he controlled all weapon sales to the Asian gang community.  His rivals left him alone for fear of retribution from Hayagami and Char was careful not to step on the wrong toes.  At 18 his career took a giant step forward when he started dealing weapons to  many of the larger gangs of Night City (most notably the Horde..now known as Maelstrom).  His operation got so big that he needed a steady partner.  He found one in 20 year old Kyle Harris, a combat zone fixer.  The partnership was short lived, Harris betrayed Char, stole a shipment of guns and killed the buyer taking the payment as well.  Harris sold the guns to a rival gang of the Hordes and put out a contract on Char.  When Char heard of this he countered by giving the Horde a large shipment of military assault weapons, the only payment he asked was that Harris be brought to him alive and unharmed.  The Horde annihilated the rival gang in two nights  and brought Harris before Char.  Harris was taken to the heart of the combat zone at 11pm stripped naked and shackled hand and foot to a light post, a sign was stapled to his back which read only "POLICE INFORMANT", he was never seen again.

The day before Chars 25th birthday, as Neko arrived in Night city for the their wedding she was kidnapped by the Mafia.  Demands were made and Hayagami refused to kowtow, oddly enough he also did not seem to make any effort to find her.  Enraged Char decided to find her on his own.  He hired two freelance solo's, Scott Harada and Yumi Sonada, to help him find her.  Upon finding her they discovered she had been extensively cybernetically enhanced and was deep in the throws of cyberpsychosis.  Furious and believing the men who kidnapped her did this Char and his new companions slaughtered all the kidnappers but one.  The last kidnapper informed them that she was like that when they took her and proved it by showing them the restraining wheelchair she was in when they took her from the airport.  He also informed them that the whole thing was arranged by Hayagami.  Char let the kidnapper go so he could spread the message that Char was not someone to be reckoned with.  Char sent Scott and Yumi to take Neko to the hospital, and immediately set out to find if their was truth to the kidnappers accusations.  He went  home and confronted the Oyabun.  Hayagami confessed stating it was the final test for Char, now he would be made the official heir to the Hayagami empire.  As for his daughters enhanced state he explained that now she would be the perfect body guard, and that Char should be grateful.  Instead Char became enraged and attacked Hayagami, beating him severely, as he was about to kill Hayagami he hesitated, Char declared that Hayagami's plan had backfired and that now he would never join the Yakuza.  Hayagami now furious and humiliated attacked Char.  Char crippled Hayagami and put him on a plane for South America with the warning that if he ever returned his death would be long and painful.  Hayagami was now powerless and Char seized his estate.  He liquidated the entire Hayagami fortune and called for a meeting of the Yakuza dons, informing them  that control of the Night City Yakuza was no longer the responsibility of the Hayagami house, and they were free to find a new Oyabun amongst themselves, but he would have no part in it.  It worked perfectly, the Yakuza was too busy trying to find a new leader to mount retribution on Char, and by the time a new Oyabun was chosen it was too late.  Char used the money to build Autumn blade and invited to Scott and Yumi as partners.  He also acquired a great deal of wealth from a salvage operation of one of the larger banks in the submerged section of LA, rumor has it that he now uses the submerged banks vault as a storage facility.

As soon as Neko was released from the hospital, after several months of therapy, the two were married.  Char is a ruthless business man, and while he will do anything to keep a low profile, he will also be sure to exact swift and devastating retribution to any who would betray him.  His home is a virtual fortress, and while he spends most of his time there, he is by no means a recluse.  Char has powerful contacts all over the world, and knows the secrets of many who would rather he didn't.  Char is serious and determined, he rarely becomes jovial, and only when he is in the company of his wife or senior partners, Neko, Yumi, Scott and Kimi.
 

NEKO YOJIHIROMATA
AGE:27
ROLE: SOLO
CHARACTER POINTS: 269
INT: 8  REF: 10/14  TECH: 5  COOL: 7/8 ATTR: 10
LUCK: 6  MA:  8/16/21  BODY: 7/17  EMP: 10/4
From the day of her birth Neko was betrothed to marry Char, she was the only daughter of Yakuza Oyabun Oyata Hayagami and his wife Kaori.  Kaori had become pregnant 3 times after Neko was born but was forced to abort the fetus's because they were all female.  Kaori could not give Hayagami sons and after Neko's fourth birthday vanished without a trace.  Neko suspects her father may know something, but he has never given any hint of what happened.   After her mother's disappearance Neko was sent to Japan.  There on a small uncharted island off the coast of northern Japan, she attended a secret school.  The school was a ninja camp centuries old, and she was trained hard as a ninja.  She also underwent traditional geisha and social training, and was instructed in massage and sexual techniques.  This was all part of Hayagami's plan for the future of his empire.  Neko was to be the perfect bodyguard and wife to his chosen successor and ward, Char Yojihiromata.  Neko stayed on the island until she was 20 years old, as her wedding approached she was taken by her masters to a room and sedated heavily.  A group of Japan's finest surgeons went to work and gave her drastic cybernetic implantation, increasing her speed, reflexes, strength, senses and endurance.  Other implants made her silent as a cat, gave her weapons such as retractable vampires and rippers.  They boosted her healing abilities to an uncanny level.  The science of cybertechnology was still young however, and she did not receive the therapy she needed.  While still unconscious Neko was placed on a plane and sent escorted to America for her wedding.  Upon arrival she was taken by hired Mafia associates hired by her father.  This was a ruse designed to look like a kidnapping to see how Char would react, it backfired and when Char and his companions finally found her she had lapsed deep into the throws of cyberpsychosis.   She attacked Char, Scott, and Yumi and they barely managed to subdue her.  She was taken to the hospital and given the best care and therapy available while Char enacted his revenge on her father.  Soon after her release from the hospital she and Char were married.  Electing to keep the enhancements was Char's decision, and Neko submitted.  Due to her extremely enhanced state and her tentative grasp on sanity Char employs a full time live-in doctor and therapist from Switzerland and twice a year they travel to the Swiss Alps for upgrades on her Cybernetic systems.  She has therapy sessions twice a week, unless traveling, and has managed to regain much of her lost humanity.

Neko is quiet and reserved, and whenever there is company, or whenever her husband leaves their home she is always by his side.  Occasionally she teaches at Mama Sifu's and Papa Sensei's dojo, and is a student there as well.  Neko is one of the deadliest women on the face of the earth,  her cybernetic enhancements have made her the perfect assassin.  Unfortunately she knows very little of the world and would be completely lost without her husband.  Neko was trained only in the use of traditional weapons and has up until recently known next to nothing about firearms.  When not by her husbands side, Neko enjoys spending time with Yumi and Kimi, and only seems to come out of her shell when the three are together.
 

SCOTT HARADA
AGE: 29
ROLE: SOLO
CHARACTER POINTS: 320
INT: 9  REF: 10/13  TECH: 8  COOL: 9  ATTR: 7
LUCK: 6  MA: 10/13  BODY: 10/17  EMP: 10/5
Scott was orphaned at an early age when his parents were killed by the wasting plague.  He was raised by his older sister in the slums of Night City's Chinatown.  Scott's father was of Scottish descent and his mother was mixed Chinese/Japanese.  He and his sister lived tentatively on the streets and his sister became addicted to morphine.  To support herself, her brother, and her habit, she became a prostitute.  When Scott was 18, he witnessed 3 young women being assaulted by members of a local streetgang.  Scott jumped in and attacked the offenders with his skateboard while the young girls watched.  Scott barely managed to beat the the thugs into retreat and returned a stolen purse to the young Yumi Sonada then left quickly.  He had stolen the wallet from her purse and made his way home.  The boy had taken the wallet out of habit as he made his living as a pickpocket, but he also had ulterior motive, he wanted to know more about the young girl whom he had just rescued.  Scott hurried up the stairs of the abandoned building he and his sister lived in, he wanted to tell his sister about the girl, but instead found his sister dead with a needle sticking from her arm.  Scott fell to his knees crying over his sisters body.  Yumi had followed the thief home and found him there sobbing next to his sister.  Yumi walked over to him and put her arms around him.  She took him away from there and set him up in an apartment.  Scott could not understand why a stranger would do this but Yumi began taking care of him.  She trained him in martial arts and got him a job as a bouncer at a club her brother played at.  The two soon fell in love.

One of Scott's new neighbors was a combat vet of the first and second South Am wars and took Scott under his wing.  He taught Scott how to use a gun, and all the skills needed to survive in combat.  Scott became a freelance gun, and was fast gaining a rep on the streets.  Yumi moved in with Scott and the two sometimes worked as partners, but usually Scott worked alone.Scott and Yumi were hired by Char to help find his kidnapped fiancee and proved themselves to be dependable and extremely talented.  After the incident was over Char invited them to join him full time as patners.

Scott accepted and serves as Chars chief enforcer and second in command.   Scott is extremely combat proficient and has incredible skill with handguns.  He learned and mastered the skill of Gun-fu, and has been trained by Yumi in other martial arts as well.  If  Scott wasn't so careful about keeping a low profile he would surely be one of leading solos in SOF's top ten list.  Scott is generally good natured and cheerful, but when he is "working" he is completely serious and to the point.  He loves Yumi and worries for her safety, this is perhaps his greatest weakness.
 

YUMI SONADA
AGE: 26
ROLE: SOLO
CHARACTER POINTS: 294
INT: 9  REF: 10/13  TECH: 7  COOL: 7  ATTR:10
LUCK: 8  MA: 9/12  BOD: 8/15  EMP: 10/7
Yumi's father was an executive for Arasaka who was growing weary in his unfulfilled life.  His eldest daughter (a child from his first marriage) had been missing ever since she was 18.  He had married again and the couple had twins,  a boy Ken, and a girl Yumi.  Soon after the twins were born he received an offer from Militech, he accepted.  Militech extracted the family from Japan and set them up  in Chicago.  They thought they had escaped, but when the twins were three years old Arasaka found them.  Two hitmen entered the house and killed the parents, but before they could kill the children a woman appeared and slaughtered the assassins.  The woman was the long lost older sister of Yumi and Ken.  Her disappearance was due to her becoming a Ninja for Arasaka.  When she heard of Arasaka's plot to kill her family she betrayed her masters and saved the children.  Knowing she could not protect them, she took the children to an elderly couple she knew she could trust and then disappeared.  The couple, known only as Mama Sifu and Papa Sensei, ran a secret dojo in the Little Tokyo/ Chinatown district of the newly formed Night City.  The couple raised the twins as students and came to regard them as their own children.  The children were never allowed to leave the dojo alone nor were they to ever venture beyond the safety of the Asian community.  From the moment they were brought to the Dojo the children were constantly trained in the martial arts.  Along with the Sensei and Sifu there were numerous instructors from around the world.  Each masters of specific martial arts, the other teachers were named after the countries where there martial art originated, ie...Uncle Jamaica for Capeoria, Auntie Russia for Sambo etc...   By the time they were 12 they had already mastered several martial arts each, unfortunately they were also isolated from the world and knew very little, outside of their neighborhood.  In addition to their martial arts training, teachers would take turns tutoring the children in regular education as well.  the twins learned to speak Japanese, Chinese, and English fluently, and are able to get by in several other languages as well.

One day while strolling down a back alley with some of her friends from the school, Yumi and the other girls were mugged.   Before Yumi could wipe the floor with her would be assailants, a strange boy came from nowhere and attacked the muggers.  After the muggers fled the assault, the boy returned Yumi's purse, introduced himself as Scott Harada and ran away.  A few moments later Yumi discovered her wallet was missing from her purse and tracked the boy down.  Intent on pummeling the lad, what she found was more than she expected.  She followed Scott to an abandoned building and discovered him crying over his sisters corpse.  Her anger soon gave way to compassion and Yumi got Scott out of there and set him up in an apartment.  The two fell in love and have remained so to this day.

Despite all their instructors efforts all the twins really knew were martial arts.  So when they turned 18 Ken decided he had, had enough.  He left the safety of the dojo and became a musician.  Yumi stayed for a while longer, and when their was nothing more she could learn from her instructors she became a teacher herself, although she moved in with Scott eventually. When Char approached Yumi and Scott, he was actually just looking for Yumi.  The Dojo had long catered to Yakuza pupils in addition to its regular student body, and Char had learned of Yumi's prowess through Hayagami's henchmen who had studied under her.

Yumi is a very compassionate and free spirited young woman and usually quite calm (although when excited she does tend to get a little bouncy), and even tempered.  Her sheltered upbringing did not fully prepare her for the sins of today's world though, and occasionally when things become crazy, especially if children or innocents are being hurt, she will go berserk and attack the enemy in a blind rage until the enemy is no more.  Yumi is extremely dangerous and one of the greatest martial artists in the world,  Scott has trained her to use firearms but she prefers either to use her hands or melee weapons.  Neither of the children have anything but vague memories of their parents, not even knowing their names, nor  are they even aware that they have a sister.  Recently Yumi has been entertaining thoughts of marriage, but as of yet has not discussed them with Scott.  She is third in charge of Autumn Blade, and the Head martial arts instructor.  She also is still student and teacher at Papa Sensei's and Mama Sifu's.
 

KIMI NOBUN
AGE: 21
ROLE: SOLO
CHARACTER POINTS: 215
INT: 8  REF: 10/12  TECH: 7  COOL: 7 ATTR: 9
LUCK: 4  MA: 10  BODY: 6/10 EMP: 9/6
Kimi was born to a pirate clan that believed in the concept of  community birth (childbirth is a public process and the child is separated from its parents after birth, then the entire community becomes the child's parents,   this is especially important in a slaver society that sells and barters its own children).  During a heave-to in the ruins of Los Angeles, a seven year old Kimi was sold to a group of salvagers in exchange for a custom Jet Ski.  The salvagers then sold the girl to a whore house owner in the Night City combat zone.  The girl grew up sweeping the floors, cleaning rooms, and emptying trash.  Occasionally one of the older girls would take the time to teach the young girl to read and write.  During this time Kimi became a thief, she realized her small body could get her places others could not, and her youth made her go generally unnoticed on the streets.   She would follow the regular johns home to learn where they lived and then when they paid a visit to the brothel she would go and rob them blind.  But Kimi was getting older and the customers began requesting her.  So at the age of 11 she was put to work, at first it was just posing which she could live with, but then it was decided she would become a full fledged whore.  On the night she was lose her virginity an auction was held for her.  When a large man bid the highest, he took her upstairs.  After 2 hours the girls of the house began to worry about her, when they opened the door to her room the found the man dead, his throat slit from ear to ear....... Kimi was gone.  Kimi was of obvious oriental descent so she went to China town to lay low.  Too young to work and destitute, she lived on the streets, turning tricks every now and then for food or a place to stay.  Yumi and Ken found her in an alley, she was suffering from dehydration and malnourishment.  She had been left for dead.  They brought her to the dojo where the girl became another adopted daughter of Mama Sifu and Papa Sensei.  The girl was taught much the same way as Yumi and Ken were, although she preferred the darker forms of Martial arts.  Kimi began studying Ninjutsu at the age of 19 from the masters at the school, and that's how she met Neko, and later Char.  At the age of  20 Kimi became an assassin.  She tried to keep her profession a secret from the school, but soon she was discovered.  She was told to leave the school.  Before she got even a block away, Char pulled up in a big black limousine and offered her a job and a room at the mansion.  She was 22 at the time.

Kimi is the most dangerous kind of assassin, the kind that kills you in bed.  Along with a very few other cybernetics Kimi has a 2 Cybersnakes, one implanted in her throat, the other in her vagina.  She will wait till the moment of orgasm and trigger them both at the same time.  Then simply wait for the thrashing of the victim to stop before making her escape.  Kimi is not a classic beauty but she appears cute and innocent and is a master of seduction and disguise.  Even though she is Autumn Blades top assassin, Char and Yumi treat her like a daughter.  They will not let her take jobs that involve to much risk and will keep her safe whenever possible.  She has a private tutor and therapist, and is slowly coming to grip with the demons of her childhood.  Kimi has a crush on Ken and wants him to notice her, but Ken regards her as a little sister much to her discernation.  She has been bio-sculpted to ensure that her regular appearance is that of a 20 year old girl.