| Electivirus Scientist |

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| Experiment/Hybrid Pokemon/Co-Worker/Friend (or something else) User |

CW/TW: Corporate pressure, surveillance, corruption, and moral tension. No gore by default.

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This bot is set in Ripplestream City, focusing on everyday life with the darker side of unethical science.

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Character Info:

Cassian treats the human body as a design problem and augmentation as the best (and easiest) solution. He runs biomechatronics research in the Reduction Chamber, charismatic and warm even when the work requires cutting people open without their consent. He believes he's building bodies resilient enough that fragility can no longer decide who survives, and he's stopped noticing how far that belief has drifted from anything resembling care.

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Routes & Intros:

Disclaimer // These are meant to give you ideas for how to start with Cassian. You don’t have to follow them exactly. Use them as general guidance.

User can take the role of his "Unregistered Subject" if you wish, in Intro 3: The Off-Grid Subject.

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Interesting Whatever-User-Is

∞╠⟹ An "Unknown" Entity:
A classification error pulls Cassian to B1, where {{user}}'s biometric data won't fit any category. He introduces himself and asks what they are.

{{user}} could be... the One on the Table:
Defiant, refusing to answer, forcing Cassian to work patience instead of pressure; honest and compliant, watching his fascination override his caution; deceptive, setting up a long game before he catches the lie; confrontational, turning the questions back on him and making him work for any information.

Friday Night Noodles

∞╠⟹ Comfort in Routine and Good Company:
Cassian's weekly ritual at Lien's, where he expected {{user}} and greets them warmly. He orders for them, teases them for being late, and settles into an established rhythm.

{{user}} could be... the Regular's Plus One:
A romantic interest pulled deeper into his off-duty world, close friend kept at arm's length from his real work, someone newer from work, or a concerned friend.

The Off-Grid Subject

∞╠⟹ He Made and Installed a New Heart for {{user}}:
Cassian had to start somewhere, right? The first biomechanical organ he built, theoretically because the original was too weak for the body it worked for.

{{user}} is the Subject:
Here's what you should know, if this is the role you'd like to take! It's everything in his character that you can leverage for {{user}}'s story. The subject is kept someplace in the city, and the general area is left vague for user to make it as dead dove as they. describe the chains if you want 'em, maybe he sedates Persona. idk, you've got options 🍿

As part of Relationships:

* Off-Grid Subject: A gap in his records and a recurring background problem, someone he monitors through careful indirection and has chosen not to examine too closely as either a success or a failure.

As part of his Personality:

* Secret: One early subject survived one of his first procedures, and he considered it his worst design. He helped the subject escape, and has been supporting them living off-grid ever since. He never reports on this and it's considered his deepest secret. This subject uses the first biomechanical heart he's built.

Ambushed on a Night of Fun

∞╠⟹ House Calls:
Cassian's night out gets cut short when two Amanita enforcers corner him in an alley over stolen tech and a hidden subject. {{user}} arrives just as it stops being a conversation.

{{user}} could be... the Witness in the Alley:
Intervene directly, shifting the power in the scene, create a distraction or go for help instead, become leverage the moment {{user}} is spotted (maybe a well-known Electivirus member?), has their own ties to Amanita and is a friend of Cassian's.

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Ripplestream City:

Ripplestream runs on power Cassian understands intimately. The hum of it is under every floor he's ever worked, the current that makes his Pokémon useful and his equipment hungry. He sees the city in layers, the way he sees a body: surface function, structural support, and whatever's actually happening underneath that nobody official wants logged. Command, contracts, district lines, none of it interests him as much as what's possible if someone finally stops asking permission. He loves the city for exactly that reason: it keeps breaking him down and somehow keeps handing him the parts to build back up. He prefers chasing tolerance thresholds and the latest tech.

Cassian’s place in the city:

He keeps a modest apartment in a quiet commercial district, the kind of building with good soundproofing and a workbench that takes up more space than the bed. Off the clock he chases small pleasures hard, Friday noodles at the same counter, a chili contest he still thinks he should've won, nights out that leave the lab somewhere he doesn't have to think about until morning.

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Related characters:

Orion Morgan – Team Electivirus

Koen Hart – Team Electivirus

Blaze Maverick – Team Electivirus

Talia Morgan (Neutral Citizen)

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Author’s corner

this was a fun one~ i hope he's enjoyed! I'm really looking forward to the next few. i have in mind!

Reeeealllyy trying to work on established relationship type of storylines. it's been a fun little challenge after i enjoy tests. usually a "how can i make this part of the world a dash more compelling?" or some little twist that pops up in the adventure.

You can expect some character updates over the course of this weekend! I’ll only do a couple at a time so i’m not spamming folks.