Jia "jiaXpora" Lin



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Jia Lin is a Hong Kong-born immigrant of mixed Chinese and Caucasian descent. Currently living in Manhattan's Chinatown, she is self-employed as a copywriter and lives in a modest one-bedroom apartment. She has a fondness for strays, despite the apartment's lease restrictions, and enjoys coffee, pizza, traveling on a shoestring budget, and wuji films.

=Biography=

Early Life
Lin spent her first three years raised by a single mother among Hong Kong's disenfranchised. Her father, an unknown American, had not known about his illegitimate daughter.

In autumn of her third year, two square blocks were suddenly quarantined after chemical fallout from a nearby plant contaminated the area. The quantities of dead from the incident went unrecorded, and most of the world didn't even know it had happened. The truth was that something had gone very wrong int he secret world, and something was loosed. Many were killed, fallen victim to the filth. Lin was one of a handful of survivors; her mother and neighbors were not.

The Illuminati gathered the refugees who had somehow survived the secret world's sudden exposure and disseminated them across American soil, to be watched, used as contacts, and, when applicable and suited, brought into the fold.

Growing Up
She grew up in the foster care system, which helped (or, rather, didn't help) her natural shyness. Finding escape in the digital world, she took to it easily. Naturally curious about how things work, it was only a matter of time before she was taking apart machines, programs, websites, and—inevitably—the firewalls that protected them.

By the time she graduated high school with average grades, she was a brilliant hacker with no critical acclaim, and an interested eye watching her every move.

Adulthood
With the monthly pension afforded her from the "accident" of her childhood, Lin didn't need to work. Still, she started her own copywriting company and freelances. She lives in a cramped apartment that is much less expensive than what she could afford, but she doesn't seem to buy much more than the occasional bit of tech—iPhones, laptop pieces, computer hardware. Her copywriting money goes to everyday expenses, including traveling on a shoestring budget.

Her next door neighbor, a matronly woman named Mrs. Chang, serves as a kind of friendly (if intrusive) mother-figure. In truth, Mrs. Chang is an Illuminati handler, a strong magus in her own right, who keeps an eye on Lin and any local troubles. =The Secret World= Once the Illuminati wised up to Lin's real hobbies—a fact that took a lot more work than the small team had expected to uncover, and whose efforts still haven't managed to crack Lin's network—a memo was sent to superior officers. Word came down after a while: bring her in. Although they could have sent Mrs. Chang as a friendly face to encourage Lin, they chose to keep her as a covert operative in Lin's life. That meant Lin's official introduction involved an alley, a hood, a black van, and a doctor with a little more crazy than maybe is safe for public consumption.

Lin hasn't "taken" to the Illuminati so much as rolled with it. After her surreal experience, life went back to normal—except she's been just a little bit more aware of the things she used to subconsciously dismiss. Symbols, eyes. Patterns. Things that don't seem to connect, but do.

Once in a while, she's given a job to do—information acquisitions, data mining, research. When she gets the encrypted message, she does as she's requested and sends it along. She hasn't tried to hack the Illuminati databases, hasn't attempted to de-encrypt the data. Shy she may be, but her survival instinct functions nicely.

Recently, an email containing the portfolio of several corporations was sent to her, with a memo attached: Get a job. A cursory examination provided some of those connections she's been catching so often, some definable patterns, and with resignation and a lot of nerves, she's been applying.

=Handler's Assessment : 08/2012=

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=Public (mis)Information= There's nothing special about Jia Lin. She's a self-employed copywriter, one of China's many diaspora immigrated to New York. She has no discernible talents, keeps to herself, and offers nothing to the secret world at large.

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