Description
HERE COMES TROUBLE!!!
Name Ruben Greene
Nicknames Has several aliases that he uses for his ‘profession’
Age 18
Height: 5ft 3 (but he’ll insist he’s at least 5ft 4)
Weight 9st 7lbs
Gender Male
Rank Rookie Private
Partner Yuukiro!
Element Water
Abilities and talents
Technology This young man easily sits on the genius scale when it comes to his technological know-how. He is an expert hacker and can punch through some of the most sophisticated firewalls out there gaining access to, and control of, entire networks and their systems. He can also design, build and programme gadgets and/or computers from scratch, as well as customise existing ones to suit his needs. Give him a broken device and he won’t just fix it, he’ll enhance it.
> By-products from years of hacking: highly dexterous; impressively quick reflexes; fabulous multi-tasker; abstract, tactical thinker.
Exceptional memory Probably photographic in many ways, it can be truly frightening how quick he can learn…when he’s not fighting against it. He notices the finer details and can retain immense volumes of information for future recall. This ability helps him to analyse looooong strings of code for patterns or vulnerabilities.
Driving //just LAAAAAAUGHS X’D
Personality
(+) Creative/resourceful
(+) Warm-hearted
(+) Adventurous
(+) Bright
(-) Childish (a deliiightful mix of stubbornness, backchat, impatience, naughtyness and - oh yes - temper tantrums!!!)
(-) Reckless
(-) Guarded
(-) Sensitive
+/- Tendency to bend and/or break rules - It’s what makes him such an excellent hacker and also why he can struggle with discipline and boundaries.
+/- Determined - He can have unwavering focus if he wants something, but that drive can easily overshadow sense. If that's the case then it's either help him get what he wants or get the hell out of his way!
History
Life before the age of 11 was pretty unhappy for Ruben. He was pegged as a trouble maker at a very young age and mistakenly labelled as a child with 'severe behavioural issues' and little else. Seen as a lost cause, he was routinely fed through the war-torn social system and palmed off from one adoption centre to another.
He swiftly found his own ‘home’ within the various internet cafes dotted throughout London. They offered him a familiar environment, which he found comforting, and a place where he could indulge in his love of technology. He would be the first one in, last one out, and getting himself ’accidentally’ locked in was a regular occurrence.
Being unable to afford any of the fancy tech he desired, and with resources so short during the war, he learnt to build devices for himself from whatever he could get his hands on. He soon found himself running a small scale business of sorts selling his creations to questionable individuals to make a quick buck.
Things changed when one Francis Scott Sinclair caught the brat in the middle of digitally hot-wiring his car. Francis would have marched him straight to the authorities by the scruff of his colourful neck but he happened to catch sight of the device the boy clutched in his hand. Upon discovering the young man had built it himself - it didn’t take long to realise that Ruben wasn't your average street rat, but rather the unlikely architect of several, cutting edge black market technologies. Ruben was taken in and has had his talent nurtured ever since.
Today, he is without doubt one of the top hackers of the times and possibly one of the best computing minds too. He's spent the last five years building himself his own network and has taken full advantage of society's instability to do it. He works under multiple aliases and leans towards a grey to dark grey ‘hat’ in terms of his ethical hacking standards. These days he's not interested in siphoning accounts, destroying or stealing files - by all mean's he'll have a nose about, but his motivation for breaking into high security systems is simply to prove that he can. It's for the thrill. He’s well known for leaving snotty messages behind and 'presents' - which are generally programs designed to annoy or temporarily disrupt rather than be malicious. He's not a criminal per se - he's just too clever and never been caught!
He finds it amusing that he regularly receives job offers from the high-tech or security-orientated organisations he busts into. He's always turned his nose up at those. Teaching people twice his age how to be half-way decent at their jobs hardly floats his boat. It really doesn't float his boat. Nope.
Why DAMMED?
Ruben has known for a while that he’s reaching, if not already reached, the top of his game. He’s hacked into some of the most secure systems in the world and now he’s getting bored. He's found nothing, and no one, that can rival his abilities and the thrill just isn’t there any more.
But as luck would have it, he stumbled across someone else's program during one of his sessions. A program with a firewall tight enough to resist one of his auto-infiltration protocols. Outraged yet intrigued, he switched to a manual hack and broke through after more attempts than he'd like to admit. He had no time to gloat, because seconds later the foreign program latched onto his own code and started to route itself back through his network at a speed that sent the young man into sheer panic. Ruben was left little choice other than to destroy a chunk of his OWN NETWORK to protect himself from being traced.
After having the mother of all tantrums over it - and a good sulk too - he realised that it was the first time, in a very long while, that he'd felt such a rush of excitement. He just HAD to meet the person who designed that program! He wanted to look them in the eye, maybe shake their hand...and possibly kick them in the shin!!! He'd been lucky enough to record just enough data to find out where they might be: DAMMED
That was it. He wanted in. And by god, he would do whatever it would take to get in...
Fun facts
* Those aren't regular glasses - they're his 'Optics'. He usually wears them when he's using computers or hacking.
* No matter what he’s wearing - there’s bound to be a little skull on it somewhere
* LOVES his music and regularly goes ‘gigging’ and/or to music clubs. This passion has been helped along by the fact Francis owns a string of successful nightclubs. Ruben is quite the little dancer, knows how to move and this is possibly how he's amassed so much stamina. Well, that and time spent at the skatepark with Francis.
* Also sings.
* Will often have a bit of tech on him to allow him to interface with the virtual world at the touch of a button. He will have built or customised it himself.
* Some of the technology he designed when he was younger is still in circulation on the black market today.
* He can complete a 3x3 rubix cube in about 5 seconds. He can do it blindfolded too, very much like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW-rd9…
* Best worst actor
* His eyes are just one of his best assets. They're an unusual, stunning shade of aqua and quite beautiful. On occasion they can betray a lot about how he's really feeling.
*Has a definite naughty streak in him...
* Loves gaming!
* Adores sweets and typically eats dessert before his main meal so he’s probably going to have a meltdown when he attempts to adjust to the eating regime at Dammed
* Things he likes but would never admit: flowers, old-fashion romance, soft things against his skin, a good romcom/tear-jerker movie :’D LOL
* Maaaaaybe there's a second version of that uniform picture...
* 8tracks.com/m-e-z/sounds-like-…
Don't let this young man get into your system because once he is - he's difficult to get out...