Aspen

Age

19

Job

Courier

Height

9'8"

Weight

464lbs

Pronouns

He/Him

Player

Archy

Overview

He’s the nicest, happiest, and most upbeat person you’re ever going to meet. The guy lives every canine trope there’s ever been. You can throw a ball and he’ll chase it, he wags his tail, he loves to run and play. The guy’s often seen running around and happiliy getting into all manner of fun and trouble.

It makes some of his job a bad idea: he’s a library courier. He delivers books and data-sets by hand. Most of it is material that some measure of law makes illegal to just transmit digitally. Proprietary corporate BS.

Appearance

As befits his nature, Aspen is a dog. He walks on two digitigrade legs, has long, soft fur, and a tail. His overall build seems somewhere between a border collie and a husky. Despite the advanced genetic engineering that made him, he’s still basically a mutt. He tends to wear big, baggy, loose clothing to help with staying cool - the long fur keeps him very warm.

It’s rare to see him holding still. Even just waiting in line, he’s always a little fidgety. It takes some sharp concentration or a good book to get him to hold still.

Genetic Mods

Canine Genetics

It’s the standard canine-morph package:

• Enhanced hearing
• Enhanced scent
• Slightly degraded sense of taste
• Heightened endrance for running
• Improved athletics
• Canine claws - kind of dull, but long

That’s where you get, half human and half-dog.

Tech Mods

Comms Implant

He has a radio embedded in his ears. The antennas run to his ear tips. He uses the system mainly for voice communication, but he can pair his hand terminal with it for increased networking range. Sometimes he can ‘hear’ where electronics are.

History

Aspen was born to a broken home. He had a rough early life, lots of screaming fights between his parents. They were low income and things just kept getting worse. Every day was a new struggle. One fight got worse in his teens. It escalated from shouting to fighting, threats were made, he ran. Poor Aspen only had the clothes on his back, but he just ran into the darkness beyond his door.

After a night or two in the cold and rain, Aspen started to have regrets. He turned back towards home and found only tragedy. Honestly, he’s never looked up what happened, but the house was covered in caution tape. There were broken windows. Blood on the ground. Did he cause this?

The days after were only dark and darker - until his salvation.

Aspen met some of The Pack and was swiftly adopted. It was a totally different experience for him: he saw a family that didn’t hate each other or their kids. They were playful, happy, and warm. More than that, they were perhaps aggressively-friendly about taking care of him. Dogs and wolves came by, dropping food for him. He’d wake up in his makeshift shelter and find a bagged lunch just inside it.

It took a few months, but Aspen embraced them and underwent surgery to become like them: a dog.

In the years since, he’s gotten a job as a courier, become a handful as a dog, and embraced a life of happiness. Right now, he’s just trying to get by and live his life. He doesn’t want to think about the politics of the world or the dark stuff.

Affiliation(s)

The Pack

A mixture of organization and found familiy, the Pack is a group of generally canine-themed people who've call come together out of horrible backgrounds. They've banded together to collectively lift each other out of capitalist misery.

Crewed Ship(s)

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