Jessica "Edgewyre" Romanov

=• Summary of Edgewyre •=

An wayward product of the 21st century, Edgewyre is someone who has been errant, deviant, and without a home for her entire adult life. Emotional childhood traumas as a child paired with poor lifestyle choices created a hedonistic, vice-ridden woman who used her computer prowess to always have money, always have access to her needs, and always the next party planned in some next door country to go to next. Ironically, Jessica's introduction to the Secret World has forced her to slow down, to find a foundation to her life that wasn't sex, drugs, and emotional roller-coasters, and to ask some hard questions about morality.

Two months in, Edgewyre feels just as far from answers as she did at the start. In fact, there are more questions if anything. Without a bee or any supernatural training, the hacker often feels overwhelmed by the sheer amount of new experiences and horrors that await her. At the same time, new friendships and ideas are constantly testing her boundaries, and not many days go by without her wishing to just run and hide. She hasn't yet though, and on her willful days works towards goals that might give her stability, and some level playing ground with the rest of this odd new way of life.

=• Before Ealdwic •=

(Background spoilers!)

Born in 1990, Edge's childhood was one constantly surrounded by computers. Her mother worked as a secretary at a computer chip company, while her stepfather was a programmer and web designer who had made a bit of money during the .com boom. Illnesses as a child like Chicken Pox or pneumonia became excuses to take extended crash courses in basic coding and data navigation.

Both her parents worked at the World Trade Centers on Sept. 11th, 2001. At 11, she was orphaned, and a hobby became an obsession. The foster home she was placed at wasn't a nightmare, but also offered no support. By 14 Edge had a taste for alcohol. The same year, her computer prowess wasn't finding any headway, ignored by her schooling. She joined hacker societies online, dabbling in illegal pranks online, getting a rush out heists to make up for a disappointing and boring daily life. At age 18, her current foster family encouraged her to apply for college, and for her to take control of her adult life. Hoping for a fresh start, Edge applied to UMass to get a degree in computer science.

Three months into college, Edge's life took its pivotal turn out of normalcy. All at once, her inheritance, much smaller than originally believed, dried up as her college scholarships were dropped, the banks responsible levying huge loans instead. She cracked - living by the rules timidly had only gotten her into classes where she was on par with the teachers, a crummy social life, and debts with no support. In a rash move, the young hacker flexed her pet project for the first time, Edgeware 1.01, in order to hack revenge into the system. It got her 100,000 dollars. Within the month, she had dropped out of college, packed up her things, and began travelling to see the sights and experience things she felt long denied her. She forged fake identities, tried many new drugs, and soon devoted her life to the pursuit of pleasure. When the money would dry up, she would hack for more. When trouble would find her, be it a jealous boyfriend or a government searching for her ISP, she would move. With a little work, she abandoned her birth name all together, fixing reports to have her declared missing among those lost during the 2011 Tsunami in Japan. She was free.

=• Down the Rabbit Hole •=

(Background Spoilers Present!)

For her 22nd birthday, while celebrating in a penthouse suite in Paris, Edge decided to get herself a late present in the form of hacking new money for her accounts. She had just finished making Edgeware Hackersuite 3.01 as a package, and was actually starting to get low on money: the American banks and the Federal government had recently shut down her stolen accounts in the last few months, cutting her off from the small fortune she had made with her first (and less careful) hacking sprees. The choice to find a non-bank target cemented her fate. Finding a hidden network in the WiFi that had been left open, Edge's curiousity took over. When she gained access to the system, a large red cross materialized on the screen against a white background: without realizing it, Edge had hacked into a less secure Templar archive. She took out a modest 30,000 euros, but paused to look at some of the file names. "Loch Ness Monsters" and "Black Forest Geists" seemed like good reading material for a laugh. Her eyes nearly popped out of her skull as the Templar's cybermancy defenses kicked in, and the hacker watched her laptop curl inward on itself like it was being crushed. With no comprehension of magic, much less cybermancy and curses, Edge spent the next few months in equal parts denial and terror. She would move cities, buy new hardware, only to watch as several weeks later data would corrupt with a binary language that shouldn't exist and computers would have parts smoke and melt for no reason at all. Becoming terrified of what was following her, she finally thought of no other option but to look at some of the files she can snuck off with. The stories she could decipher seemed insane or Stephen King quality stores, and the rest was in cypher... but one name kept popping up: Ealdwic. Spending the better part of a month tracking down the district, Edge walked onto its streets just as her newest laptops curled and destroyed themselves, wrapping into a ball. Fortunately, the engimatic Duet noticed the event, and walked over to comfort a hysterical Edge, and began the process of explaining that magic was indeed a very real thing indeed.

By fate, by trickery, or by coincidence, Edge discovered a very familiar name in Ealdwic: The Clokwerk Rabbit, a famed hacker who she had based much of her code on before she had gone silent. Her old mentor explained the secret world in detail over many hours, ending with a trade: the removal of the gremlin curse on Edge for all the data found about the Templars. The young hacker, overwhelmed, begged for Clokwerk to stay silent about this, so that she might go back to her normal life. It took only a day until Illuminati vans began looking for Edge, hoping to recruit her as needed to gain access to her talents. Panicking and afraid, Duet offered an alternative: join another secret society so that she could not be preyed on, and so that she would be Defendable by the Concil of Venice's agreements. Edgewyre took it, joining the Dragon under the assumpt that they gave more freedom than the corporate Illuminati.

Edge was a now a Dragon, and suddenly, catastrophically, had to come to terms with the fact that she was trapped dealing with things far beyond her reach.

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