Caroline "Kitty" SmithSheet:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/erq15dko3mt8bz0/Kitty.PDFupdated sheet:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gcsxdjowe7sew49/KittyPDF.pdfBrief Background
From foster home to foster home to foster family, the list would probably go on, Caroline was (is) the epitome of a trouble child, some of the things she saw in foster care where enough to scare any person, although she outwardly tries to maintain a happy go lucky demeanour deep inside she hates with all her strength the abuse some people in the foster care "industry" (her words not mine) inflict upon children, they are just another pay-check, another number on the credstick to the foster families, they don't want to adopt you and make you part of the family, youre just one more asset to pay for the BTL's, drugs or whatever tickles their fancy. and there are even those scarier cases, of children simsense exploitations, she was lucky for not having encountered those.
She would probably be described as the scrawny smart kid, introspective, always looking for a (easy) way out, well things don't usually work out very well for kids on foster care, running away was almost a trademark of her, stealing what she could grab and wasn't nailed to the ground was another, getting away was not her best skill though, the services eventually caught up with her and the justice department did the same as soon as she turned forteen, B&E is considered a felony...so... graduation to juvie, one year. Juvie is to crime as High school is to life, there they do not reform you, Caroline really had issues with personal property boundaries, she did have a fair sense of conduct has she tried never to hurt anyone, but as far as property goes "Finders keepers!! hehe!", so, what do they teach in juvenile detention? they get you contacts, they provide a way for you to get more acquaintances in the street, they "teach" you how to disassemble a commlink, matrix theory is also a good subject, there are other "classes" , like fencing, mugging, con artistry, so its a junior high of crime pretty much.
There she met Samantha, she used to run with the Cereal Killers, she taught Caroline much of what she knew matrix wise, she was also two years older, in fact more experienced than Caroline. Eventually Samantha nearly got turned into a vegetable, no matter how much experience you have there is always someone out there that is a bigger fish than you are, mix with a good dose of overconfidence and the result in her case was too much damage to her brain, sometimes spiders spin their web and GOD just looks the other way, by the way, the pun was intended chummer.
So its true, Caroline did run with the Cereal Killers for a couple of years, when she got out of juvie she was sent to another foster family, its was the same drek all over, there isnt much to complain with the social workers that only want to dump you and there is nothing much to argue with the family that is all warmth and smiles until the social workers turn their backs, then its fastforward to half rations, take care of the other brats and dingy room shared with 5 other kids who have to make happy faces when the social workers come to have a visit. YouŽll be amazed what a bomb threat and a few gas home-made bombs can do, contact a chummer that knows his way around detonators (cheap thing to find really), place the thing when no one notices, make a couple calls, wait for people to leave, trigger it off, wait for the pawns to arrive (they never do) and for the fire dpt to come and put the flames, act all teary and innocent and bam! scot free and one more lousy couple out of business, what goes around comes around they say, and fyi no one got hurt luckily, even the cats and dogs where out of trouble (but they are usually wiser than us tbh).
So... where was i? yes Caroline running with Cereal Killers, she already knew her way around a commlink, she could disassemble one with you eyes closed, her first one (a nasty looking Meta Link that she attached a Hello kitty sticker on its back, she still has it somewhere around her backpack) got it coming more than a couple hundred times, so what next? pull a couple low time jobs and get yourself a datajack and a deck, even if its a crappy one . Erika MCD-1 is not much to go by, and at second hand rates it still does not cost you much, maybe that was the reason why Samantha loaned it to her, on the condition "if you break it you pay it". the Jack was even cheaper, used shiny little piece of chrome, sweet piece of hardware in her opinion, she still keeps it (you never know when you need a direct link to a piece of equipment, and the Jack's cable fits perfectly for that), even though she has an implanted Microdeck Summit in her skull, she says that the bronze chrome jack looks good on her. Yes she was a natural, she had always been a smart kid to start with, she had always had a knack for assembling and disassembling stuff, so it was either go decking or go mechanic, she did go decking but that you already knew.
I was told to tell a brief story... but hey listen up chummer, youŽre certainly not wondering how she got her nickname, that's pretty obvious taking the Hello Kitty fixation she has, what you're probably wondering is why she carries that scruffy backpack wherever she goes, am i right? it was there (or so the social workers swear) when she got given to adoption, it did contain a letter and a bottle of formula, nothing much, when she got thrown around from family to family it went with her, she got into fights with other kids over it, it got lost twice and she always went to great lengths to recover it, she says its her lucky charm, my guess its the one piece of the family she never knew that she cannot part with, you make your own judgement mate.
so yeah, she goes all giggly and happy go lucky, she does brave it, but i guess you never had to ear the kids crying themselves to sleep, she did and she was one of the ones doing the crying. But pretty much things where all nice and spiffy with the Cereal Killers, she got a scooter which she had custom painted pink with HK motifs, she had the name painted on it キティ・ホワイト(Kiti howaito), the only reason (actually there where two) she had to cry about on that period was when Samantha got way over her head and nearly got turned (and that nearly was too close and she never came around) into a human cucumber.
Since i have already told you this much I might as well tell you the whole story, the other reason she had to cry about at that time was because of Charlie, Charlie was a good looking kid, about 1 year older than she was, good looking, nice strong jaw, curly brown hair, green eyes, he really had the looks, as for the personality... well in the end he was a scum-bag in the making, but its like they say " If you love someone, you like virtually everything about him", thus i reckon she did not mind the fundamental flaws in him, not until she discovered he was two timing her with Jill, Jill was also a member, and one of her friends, so what did you expect from those two kids? they started fighting over him, and guess what, he was like the king of the hill, he was cheating and they still fought over who gets the spoils, the problem with smart kids is (and there are plenty of those in the Cereal Killers) is that somewhere along the line they eventually get smart over things, so lets make a long story short (shorter that is) and Caroline and Jill eventually stopped fighting, they thought about who was in the wrong and a sort of alliance is born, Charlie ends up leaving the Killers, end of story for him... or perhaps not. if they where friends then that just made the friendship stronger, and as they say, one thing leads to another and they eventually hit it of with each other, they actually ended together (in more than one sense if you get my drift chummer). If you think this is starting to sound like a fairy tale in the making forget about it chummer, bad things happen to good people and sometimes life just takes its course, some relations work, other don't.
Caroline's relation with Jill ended the moment she had second thoughts, that and Charlie returning to the Cereal Killers, it was also the time when Samantha met her mental demise, one bad job was what it took, nearly turned into a vegetable, a drooling shell of what she once one with only short lapses of "normal" behaviour, the hot-sim running and the encounter with a black ice did it for her, what angered Caroline was Charlie's and the Cereal Killers lack of empathy for Samantha, they said it had been her fault, let her family take care of her, it did not matter that she only had the Cereal Killers as a family. to Caroline that was a utter betrayal, only adding to what she perceived as Charlie petty revenge, she could also not phantom why Jill went back to him, sometimes even wise kids are not that wise when it comes to matters of the hearth.
Thus ended Caroline relation with Jill and the Cereal Killers, she did however took Samantha under her roof (even if you are squatting you can call it a roof right chummer?) and vowed to help her, to find and pay for any treatment that would return her only friend back to her former self, or at least try. Jill was still maintained on friendly terms, Caroline cared too much for her, loosing her as a friend would be too much, so she mentally made excuses for her behaviour, in Caroline's mind a series of justifications where correct in order to keep a friendly relation with Jill. So a new chapter in Caroline's life began, as she set herself to make a name for herself, to accomplish something on her own and to find a way to help Samantha.
Distinctive features: Bleached hair, red round glasses, leather jacket, hello kitty tattoo on the right temple, dragon tattoo (on blue neon colour) on left side of the face (almost enveloping the datajack). Flowery pink dress, loosely tied army boots, ruffled skirt and a Hello Kitty battered (and i mean battered) backpack.
PS: that's the background, i cleaned it up somewhat, just read it in case i case i missed any detail (congruity wise). iŽll make an edit to post the sheet as soon as i upload it to Google drive.
