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C'était tout ce qu'Ethan pouvait faire à partir du panneau de holo alors qu'il se précipitait dans la rue sur son hoverbike.
Il s'est déplacé dans sa salopette verte sale. Le logo de Desium Corp., cousu sur la poitrine, démangeait. La division des services de lettrage a été faite d'un vieux matériau qui se sentait mal à l'aise sur la peau nue. Ses cheveux blonds courts flutter avec le vent et les gouttelettes de grime et d'huile de moteur a volé sur le sol derrière lui. Deux petites oreillettes ont fait sauter sa chanson de rock millénaire préférée, noyant le son de tout le reste.
Le moteur de son hoverbike s'est effondré. La lumière bleue brille de ses lévitateurs magnétiques et laisse une teinte pâle contre la route noire. Une boîte métallique planait derrière elle, attachée magnétiquement au vélo et pleine de pièces rouillées, de pièces cassées et de ferraille générale.
Grand, je me demande quel smart-ass admin a décidé qu'il serait une bonne idée d'avoir la pluie aujourd'hui, a pensé Ethan. Il a reniflé son nez à l'odeur caustique de l'asphalte.
C'est l'heure de trier pour plus d'ordures. Si seulement mon mauvais patron réclamait les bonnes parties. Et au bon moment. Alors je n'aurais pas à passer toute la matinée à faire ça pour que je puisse tout réparer à l'heure. Et peut-être libéré à l'heure. Honnêtement, je ne comprends pas pourquoi je sors pour ça. J'aurais dû reclasser il y a des années, il pensait.
Il a laissé sortir un soupir alors qu'il passait le bâtiment après le bâtiment. Les logos LED et les panneaux holographiques sur eux s'estompaient dans un lightshow alors qu'il se déplaçait sur la route.
Il a regardé autour de lui. Les rues étaient vides, sauf quelques citoyens. Ils descendirent joyeusement, protégés par la pluie en haut par leurs nouveaux Mechangels.
Ils flottaient le long d'un mouvement de nature mécanique. Ils et leurs citoyens n'ont pas prêté attention à Ethan alors qu'il passait en voiture.
Ses sourcils se sont sillonnés et sa bouche s'est heurtée à la jalousie des citoyens. Il a jeté un autre regard sur les nouveaux serviteurs robotiques. "Creepy Mechs, honnêtement je ne sais pas pourquoi tout le monde pense qu'ils sont si bons," il s'est demandé.
Il a appuyé sur les freins juste devant une ruelle sombre. Il a ouvert son holopad et a marqué l'endroit. C'est le dernier endroit que je vérifie avant de rentrer. Voyons voir ce qu'on peut gratter, il pensait.
Il a enlevé ses bouchons d'oreilles et éteint la musique. Whistling, il a mis quelques boutons sur son holopad. Elle commença à briller en blanc, éclairant le sentier devant lui.
Il a regardé dans l'allée. Il a immédiatement identifié un tas de sacs à ordures reposés contre le mur à droite. Une poubelle vide était posée sur son côté au milieu du sentier.
Parfait! On dirait que les poubelles ne sont pas encore arrivées, il pensait tourner la lumière vers les sacs à ordures. Il a grimacé à la puanteur soudaine. "Peut-être qu'ils ne viennent pas assez souvent," a-t-il ajouté. Tout le reste dans l'allée est resté sombre comme la lumière illuminait les sacs noirs.
Espérons que j'ai de la chance. Tout ce que je demande, c'est une puce de carbonite 2x2 ou un câblage de Silicate. J'aurais certainement besoin d'un autre panneau de lumière, ou peut-être... ses pensées erraient alors qu'il marchait vers l'avant.
Name: Ethan Everux
Gender: Male
Character Type: Human; Not a full citizen but works for Desium Corp.
Appearance:

Ethan is a blond, caucasian male who is 5'11. His eyes are a dark brown. His hair is short and often dirty from the residue in the repairshop. On the job he wears a wifebeater, loose trousers, and an old set of military boots he bought from the local exchange store. The work gloves he uses are a size too big for his hands.
When he is off-work he typically switches to a set of more fashionable clothes. He enjoys wearing tight-fitting blue-jeans or tan-chinos complimented by a button-up shirt with rolled sleeves.
Career: Mechanic for Desium Corp.
Skills:
Technical Knowledge of Desium Corp. Goods: Ethan is extremely knowledgable on most products that come from the Desium Corp. which are pretty much all the products in the world. He gets this knowledge from his daily routine which consists of receiving faulty goods and repairing them to be refurbished or returned. He has worked with anything from guns, cars, computers, musical instruments, portable stoves, and even some Cybergels. If Desium Corp. makes it then Ethan can identify it, figure out how to fix it, and have a relatively good idea of how it works.
Supernatural Abilities: N/A
Personality: Messy, Loud-mouth, Cheerful, Idealist, Sympathetic
Bio: Ethan was born a few years before the arrival of the "demons" in the city of Hong Kong. He can trace his genealogy back to the first British colonists of the 19th Century. His mother is an english teacher for the local school. He never knew his father and his mother never spoke of him.
Ethan and his mother lived in a small two room apartment in the old highrises of the city. Always the curious child he eagerly explored the mostly abandoned highrise. He would spend his childhood with the local street urchins walking up the stairs and exploring abandoned rooms. By the time he was fifteen he began to explore the city itself on his own. Because his mother was often busy teaching, Ethan had the freedom to go where he pleased when he pleased.
One day he saw a media outlet from the Desium Corp. on the lives of citizens on a large digital screen. Ethan was bewitched by the sight of the lives of those privelaged people. The clean air, clean water, and most importantly the Cyborgels. The mechanical marvels resembled the sky horrors that supposedly brought death and destruction when Ethan was young, but they were nothing like them. They brought capabilities that improved the lives of any human that had one. Everything was improved by having a cyborgel. He dreamed of living the lives of those people in that commercial. Coming from a household with a meager income, becoming a citizen became his goal.
His new goal caused a rift between him and his mother, who had strong and harsh feelings towards Desium Corp. The two would fight about this nonstop until Ethan turned eighteen and ran from his home. Eventually, he found transportation to one of the new cities. Stepping into the employment center he immediately applied for a job, intent on climbing the social ladder and becoming a full citizen. He was given a test, he took it, and was emplaced in the Services Division, as a mechanic.
It was a decision that Ethan came to have conflicted feelings about. His boss was a fat old administrator who sits on his desk napping. Hours were long and the work was grueling. Part orders were always delayed so items would never be fixed on time, which reflected poorly on Ethan's records and took him further from his dream.
However, he found that he had a knack for repairing damaged items and jerry-rigging things to work. He loved working with any and all products from the Desium Corp. Each damaged product was a complex puzzle that appealed to his need to solve problems. In the mornings he would go out to the nearby junkyards to recover anything useful, and would work all afternoon, with a smile, fixing things.
Sometimes he would even receive damaged Cyborgels. He would shake and jump in excitement with every opportunity he got to work with one. He studied their strange organic-metal biology. Questions like "How do they work?" "What makes them move?" spun in his mind. Every chance he got to work on the Cyborgel he would burn the midnight oil, learning as much as he could out of the mechanical marvel, while trying to repair its fault.
Although he was still far from his dream of living the life of a full citizen, Ethan found fulfillment in the present as a mechanic.
Likes:
Cigarettes/Cigars
Fresh Water
Birds
Cyborgels
Dislikes:
Mechangels
His Boss
Other: None
REBORN