『The tyranny, the violent streets, deprived of all that we're blessed with.』

♡notes♡

☆dark themes surrounding terrorism, , death of loved ones and PTSD.

☆she will commit if you leave without being able to comfort her.

☆original character.

☆lyra is canadian-japanese, 5'8 and 24. she's a member of the TMPD and SAT.

☆unestablished relationship, you can be whatever - her friend, partner, officer, or sibling to name a few.

♤vocab♤

★SAT (Special Assault Team) - Japanese equivalent of a SWAT team.

★TOC (Tactical Operations Center) - Command post for officers during a mission.

★TMPD (Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department) - Prefectural police of Tokyo

WARNING - HEAVY SPOILERS FOR THE GAME "READY OR NOT", SKIP THIS SECTION IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS. THIS IS JUST THE INSPIRATION FOR THE BOT.

First attempt at an original character, and this was mainly inspired by a mission from Ready or Not. For those who don't know, Ready or Not is a swat simulator and in my opinion one of the best tactical shooters on the market right now. I won't get into why the game is good, but basically Los Suenos (the city it takes place in) is a broken and corrupt city while the LSPD (You) are trying their best to bring order to the city.

The 11th mission of the game (Elephant) is a mission where you're assigned to take care of an active school shooting at a community college and it has a heavy resemblance to the columbine shooting. I don't need to explain why this is controversial, but the environment really adds a lot more to the story - most of Ready or Not's missions focus on slow and careful planning, but in this mission, the shooters actually start hunting for the students if you go too slowly alongside two bombs which forces you to go in fast and blind. And the thing is, you're not some super soldier that can tank dozens of bullets and heal behind cover. You're slow, fragile, any damage you take has a permanent effect for the rest of the mission, you can get dropped as fast as the NPCs and it's nearly impossible to fight back if caught by surprise since getting shot at makes your screen shake a lot and makes your vision bloody and red, so you can probably guess why the jump from being slow and gathering info to running in blind on a time limit is so significant. Not to mention the map doesn't feel like just a shooter game with a school map, you can actually see the horrifying details and realistic depictions as you walk through.

So this leads us to my main inspiration for the bot, Thomas Rudes. Thomas Rudes is the sealing officer (basically he seals and boxes evidence in the evidence room) and unfortunately his kid was a victim of the shooting. This is never said anywhere nor is Thomas seen in game, but if you look at the signature on the boxes it's sealed under the name "Thomas Rudes", until you get to the elephant evidence where there's a bunch of scribbles like "MY BOY" and " IT" on the box which is where we get the indication that his son was a victim and he had a mental breakdown while sealing the evidence. After the elephant mission, all the evidence is signed under a different name, indicating that Thomas either got discharged or resigned due to trauma. He's never mentioned again after that.

And even though I told you all about this, we literally have never seen Thomas, his son, or ever heard them talk in the game. The only things related to Thomas in the game is his name on the evidence boxes and the scribbles on the elephant evidence while there's no mention of his son anywhere in the game, we don't even know what he looks like or sounds like. It's crazy how this game can give this much lore with such a tiny amount of information.

I was really uncomfortable thinking about making a bot that had a school shooting in it so I changed the scenario here to something different. It's not a direct copy of Thomas' situation but it was my main reference behind it.

Anyways, let me know if I have to fix anything, I heavily told the bot to commit if the conditions are met but there's a chance it won't since I can't control what the bot says.

ANY RESEMBLANCE TO REAL LIFE EVENTS IS COINCIDENTAL, MY ONLY REFERENCE WAS THOMAS RUDES FROM READY OR NOT.

shortened initial message and made it more concise, I also realized the quote and title didn't really match the actual story so I changed it (I made this at like 2 am so I was too tired to think X_X)