Crave the Light [Project Moon Quest]

What an interesting name you have.

Named after one of the first Sinners in Biblical Mythos.

Your parents must either love you or hate you.

So your name is Cain, the youngest son of two.

(There would've been a daughter. That's what your mother murmured, focused on undoing the knots in your hair. The child version of you couldn't help but wince from the pain.

Your parents wanted one so badly. Of another child, a little sister running around and kicking up a fuss. Surely, spoiled to all hell. Sadly they couldn't support another child, there just wasn't enough money to go around.

They were already struggling with just two children. No matter how much you wanted to fit yourself in a neat, small box. So you don't have to make them spend more money on you. It's better that way, to be less of a burden. Mother and Father had always talked about money, how much things cost, how much things would continue to cost with the increasing prices. Everything was getting more and more expensive.)

The memories began to distort. They always did when you thought about your past.

Though as important names are, so is your appearance. It's part of your identity, how you always distinguished yourself from your older brother. The more excellent and prodigy son. (He was the firstborn of course, it was all too expected of him.)

What do You Look like Now?

[X] Image 1

[X] Image 2

[X] Image 3

[X] Image 4

[X] Image 5

[X] Image 6

[X] Image 7

[X] Write-In

Note: If you plan to put an appearance image that makes it so your character looks like he has an impressive physical build with a 6-pack and a five o'clock shadow, it doesn't change the fact that Fortitude is your chosen demerit.

It'll just add a minor trait to make people think twice until they actually engage you in battle and find your physical prowess doesn't live up at all. In fact the opposite and it'll invite more mockery to your reputation.

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Charming, aren't you? With such a pretty tongue, it's the rule of law to have an equally impressive face.

Moving on from these vain matters, I'll have to ask you since you did say you spent the last 4 years as a part of a Syndicate. Or well, not all four years with your 'stellar' reputation. As sociable as you are, the past always finds a way to catch up.

Of the Four, Which Syndicate do You Call Home?

[X] Church of Re-Establishment

• Threat Level: Urban Plague
• Affiliated with the Thumb
• Earnings: $$$

"Our God's dream still remains unfulfilled…"

"We can wait decades, or centuries and still be kept waiting. We will not wait. Today, we are gathered here to pledge to fulfill that dream."

"That This City will burn and we will hold the match to create a New Kingdom of God."

[X] The Orchestra

• Threat Level: Urban Legend
• Affiliated with the Index
• Earnings: $$

"The sound of Music beckons you. And you seek to be etched into the heart of The City, Flute."

"Do you hear it? Do you hear her voice like I have?"

[X] Moon Beasts of the 12th Pack

• Threat Level: Urban Nightmare
• Affiliated with the Middle (For a Family needs a Dog in every family picture to be perfect.)
• Earnings: $$$

"Answer the Call, for the Hunt comes to District 12 once again."

"Pffft… Rebuild the pack? That's what they always say. Nah, we only came here for one thing and one thing only."

"Ol' Pack Leader wants to settle the score."

[X] The Vagabonds | Commedia Del'la Arte Troupe

• Threat Level: Urban Myth
• Affiliated with the Ring
• Earnings: $

"The whole world is but a stage. Why cry, when you can laugh instead?"

"And so close your eyes and perform to the thunder of their applause. This is a story that will never end."

"For an end to this play would be a terribly, sad one, indeed."

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QM Note: Note that the earnings don't matter much on the decision to see if you can pay rent, food, amenities like air conditioning and heat, and the Head Tax. You can easily pay all of it with your current salary no matter which Syndicate you joined. It's just the extra amount of money that you can get at the start, if you want to decide to buy augmentations and replace your current ones from the get-go. With the base amount being $ (No extra money with some savings incase of a medical emergency) to $$$ (Hefty amount)

And as every Syndicate is a subsidary Syndicate from one of the Five Fingers, you too must pay monthly tribute to them. For most, it's money. For the Index, it's Prescripts. And for the Ring, it's Art. None from the Pinky since not much info has been revealed about them yet to create original content or something inspired from them. Other people would say otherwise but I don't got much ideas tbh.

This one took a far longer time to post LOL. Apologies about that, I'm very finicky when it comes to reformatting and making stuff look good so I had to reread and recheck this post since some of this was copy and pasted from notes and the other half was improv on the spot so it's always a tossup to make sure things don't break. But man do I love the spoiler text tab and its tab functions to make things look neat. It looks pretty that way...

Edit: Revealed Invis text