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name: Neku Sakuraba
age: 19
appearance: Scrawny, lanky kid who looks a bit younger than he is. Picture of his hair down here.
occupation: Art thief/petty thief more publicly
residence: Here
fix: Working out and executing solutions to problems that are complex and hold a large risk to them- manifests normally in him getting past security systems
permissions: Here
record:
Like most kids in Auslosen, Neku has not had the easiest of times. Surprisingly, he’s not an orphan, though that doesn’t mean he’s been doing any better since his parents were busy trying to survive. They cared about their son, but not enough to use what little free time they had to pay much attention to their son.
Still, Neku started off doing well enough, having found a best friend on his first day of school ever. They bonded by doodling cats and it was adorable. They ended up sticking together during school, helping each other out when the inevitable bullying started and trying to navigate their way through an unkind school system. They ended up finding another friend along the way, the three of them having each other’s backs all the up through elementary school.
Middle school was a bit trickier, because of the general middle school problems as well as some added. The friend he’d met later, through no fault of her own, wound up in some gang troubles, while Neku was having to resort to some petty theft to make sure he could eat when his parents really started falling on bad times. Still, the three of them stuck together, going so far as to pool their money to by a shared MP3 player and headphones, so they could actually listen to some music together. They even found a halfway decent adult who was willing to help them out and gave them a place to hang out.
Unfortunately, their last year of middle school things took a turn for the horrible. They had all been planning on meeting up, but when the girl was running late they went to find her, only to discover that the gang problems had caught up to her and she’d been killed. Being teenaged boys, the remaining two agreed to find out what the hell happened... only Neku’s other friend went missing the next day. To make matters worse, that one adult they liked? A member of the gang that got his friend killed.
For any kid, this would be a very likely breaking point, and Neku was not an exception. He shut down completely, wanting nothing to do with the gang violence or much of anything else, if it involved other people. He only barely stayed in school, not because he wasn’t smart but because he stopped caring. He had no plan for himself, until he came across some very elaborate graffiti in a back alley. For the first time in a while, he felt struck by it, enough that he decided that was what he wanted to.
He’d always liked art, though he didn’t have much oppurtunity to be around it, but even if he had struck upon a passion (because even if it didn’t count towards a fix it was something he enjoyed), he knew he’d have to keep stealing to survive because artists on the lower levels made no money. However, his ‘luck’ might have changed a little, because one day when he was stealing himself some food for lunch he got caught. The man who caught him, however, recognized him as a frequenter of the art museum and asked if he’d like to try and steal something bigger.
Neku was asked to steal a small artifact, and he barely made it out of the place with it since he had no idea how to steal from a place with actual security. But, as the man paid him quite nicely for the job (nice enough to get some decent art supplies), it gave Neku an idea. He began actually working at stealing and figuring out to get in and out of places instead of just taking something that was around. It was actually kind of thrilling, to have to work at figuring out something for a change instead of skating by on his smarts at school. So, when he was approached again for something like this, he was a little better prepared.
At this point, Neku’s (code) name is getting around more, and he’s fairly well known for what he does. CAT’s made some headlines, partly because sometimes he’ll break into places just to see if he can... and since he’s never been caught, that answers that question. No one knows if anything about ‘CAT’- they don’t even know if it’s a single person or an organization. He mostly winds up stealing things for rival museums, trying to get each other’s famed works. Sometimes he’ll take private contracts, but... more often than not, he wants to keep being able to see the work himself so he won’t do jobs that take art from the public eye without good reason. In the meantime, he keeps up the petty theft (as a front, more than anything), using the money to survive and paint. And make sure the headphones and MP3 player remain in working order, even though it’s now several years out of date.
name: Neku Sakuraba
age: 19
appearance: Scrawny, lanky kid who looks a bit younger than he is. Picture of his hair down here.
occupation: Art thief/petty thief more publicly
residence: Here
fix: Working out and executing solutions to problems that are complex and hold a large risk to them- manifests normally in him getting past security systems
permissions: Here
record:
Like most kids in Auslosen, Neku has not had the easiest of times. Surprisingly, he’s not an orphan, though that doesn’t mean he’s been doing any better since his parents were busy trying to survive. They cared about their son, but not enough to use what little free time they had to pay much attention to their son.
Still, Neku started off doing well enough, having found a best friend on his first day of school ever. They bonded by doodling cats and it was adorable. They ended up sticking together during school, helping each other out when the inevitable bullying started and trying to navigate their way through an unkind school system. They ended up finding another friend along the way, the three of them having each other’s backs all the up through elementary school.
Middle school was a bit trickier, because of the general middle school problems as well as some added. The friend he’d met later, through no fault of her own, wound up in some gang troubles, while Neku was having to resort to some petty theft to make sure he could eat when his parents really started falling on bad times. Still, the three of them stuck together, going so far as to pool their money to by a shared MP3 player and headphones, so they could actually listen to some music together. They even found a halfway decent adult who was willing to help them out and gave them a place to hang out.
Unfortunately, their last year of middle school things took a turn for the horrible. They had all been planning on meeting up, but when the girl was running late they went to find her, only to discover that the gang problems had caught up to her and she’d been killed. Being teenaged boys, the remaining two agreed to find out what the hell happened... only Neku’s other friend went missing the next day. To make matters worse, that one adult they liked? A member of the gang that got his friend killed.
For any kid, this would be a very likely breaking point, and Neku was not an exception. He shut down completely, wanting nothing to do with the gang violence or much of anything else, if it involved other people. He only barely stayed in school, not because he wasn’t smart but because he stopped caring. He had no plan for himself, until he came across some very elaborate graffiti in a back alley. For the first time in a while, he felt struck by it, enough that he decided that was what he wanted to.
He’d always liked art, though he didn’t have much oppurtunity to be around it, but even if he had struck upon a passion (because even if it didn’t count towards a fix it was something he enjoyed), he knew he’d have to keep stealing to survive because artists on the lower levels made no money. However, his ‘luck’ might have changed a little, because one day when he was stealing himself some food for lunch he got caught. The man who caught him, however, recognized him as a frequenter of the art museum and asked if he’d like to try and steal something bigger.
Neku was asked to steal a small artifact, and he barely made it out of the place with it since he had no idea how to steal from a place with actual security. But, as the man paid him quite nicely for the job (nice enough to get some decent art supplies), it gave Neku an idea. He began actually working at stealing and figuring out to get in and out of places instead of just taking something that was around. It was actually kind of thrilling, to have to work at figuring out something for a change instead of skating by on his smarts at school. So, when he was approached again for something like this, he was a little better prepared.
At this point, Neku’s (code) name is getting around more, and he’s fairly well known for what he does. CAT’s made some headlines, partly because sometimes he’ll break into places just to see if he can... and since he’s never been caught, that answers that question. No one knows if anything about ‘CAT’- they don’t even know if it’s a single person or an organization. He mostly winds up stealing things for rival museums, trying to get each other’s famed works. Sometimes he’ll take private contracts, but... more often than not, he wants to keep being able to see the work himself so he won’t do jobs that take art from the public eye without good reason. In the meantime, he keeps up the petty theft (as a front, more than anything), using the money to survive and paint. And make sure the headphones and MP3 player remain in working order, even though it’s now several years out of date.
