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Name: silky Age: 25 Contact: PM, silkyboy#4259 @ discord Timezone: GMT +8 Other Character(s): -

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Name: Sombra | Olivia Colomar Door: door pass (after giving it thought, she's a Scorpio - water sign) Canon: Overwatch Canon Point: Post "Infiltration" animated short and "Searching" short comic *The Overwatch timeline is a hot mess tbh. Let's say this is a short while after Overwatch's recall; she's working with Talon but not totally loyal to them. Age: 30 Appearance: Here History: Full history here. Born in Ciudad de México after the Omnic Crisis; grew up as one of thousands of orphans in a postwar zone that never really got rebuilt. Fell into crime early, for survival and because of her talents with technology. Joined a Latin American gang called Los Muertos at a young age and used her hacking skills to gain information about corporations, politicians and other people with power. In her virtual adventures she stumbled across a global conspiracy that she says very little about, but thinks about constantly. She doesn't know nearly as much as she'd like about it, but she knows enough to know that it's terrifying. Terrifying enough that she went into hiding, wiped all traces of her old identity, and got herself implanted with cybernetics to increase her power and access to technology. The conspiracy: she's kind of obsessed with it, actually. She joined Talon as a way to further her personal goals of gathering information about it. She does their dirty work, but she's far from a loyal minion. She's not above using her power to meddle in affairs that interest her. Most recently she leaked information about the corrupt acts of Guillermo Portero, former Mexican president and CEO of energy company Lumérico, sparking mass protests against the corporation and its monopoly. She is also currently blackmailing Russian leader Katya Volskaya regarding her collaborations with the nationally-hated Omnics, though Sombra hasn't figured out exactly what she wants from that relationship yet. Personality: first impressions: Sombra’s demeanour is sly, playful and clever. While not incapable of being friendly, she habitually teases, prods and mocks even in casual conversation, feeling out people’s boundaries and weak spots. In her dealings with others she is highly utilitarian and canny, resorting handily to blackmail and manipulation if they provide her with a way to get what she wants. Though she’s rarely an asshole merely for the sake of being one, she views human relationships above all in terms of power: who has it, who wants it, and for what purposes. motivations: She generally offers her services as a hacker to the highest bidder, but she’s not completely amoral, though her morals rarely align with the ideals of lawful good. There’s an anarchist bent to her worldview: under the front of the so-called Sombra Collective, believed to be a group of secretive hackers, she's launched cyberattacks against the powerful and exposed the corruption of governments and corporations such as the energy company Lumérico in México. Stickin' it to the man aside, the adrenaline rush she gets from hacking is incredible. This many years into her career, she’s more cautious and less megalomaniacal than she used to be, but she's still a little addicted to the feeling. affiliations: Strategic in her dealings, Sombra aligns herself with powerful organizations for protection, ranging from the street gang Los Muertos to the terrorist organization Talon. Although she’ll do their dirty work, she’s far from a loyal follower of their beliefs and goals, as displayed in her willingness to sabotage missions to advance her own ends. While not completely trustworthy, she’s adept at making herself too useful to be discarded, all the while gathering as much information as she can for her own purposes. weaknesses: Note: as part of the fallout from this event, Sombra has lost her ability to tell an outright lie (she gave it up to get her word removed). You still gotta watch that silver tongue, though! If there's something that hinders her in her interactions with others (other than being a criminal, a terrorist and a liar in the first place), it's her tendency towards mistrust and cynicism. Sombra spends way too much time thinking about conspiracies, secrets, threat, and manipulation. She's automatically suspicious of everyone and everything, though she's good at not showing it when she doesn't want to. Shaped by a childhood spent alone in the violent hardscrabble slums of Mexico City post-Crisis, she tends to dismiss genuine goodwill or kindness as naïvety, preferring to see the world as one where the strong dominate the weak. This makes it difficult for her to build genuine friendships or relationships with people, as she's frequently fixated on the ways they could screw her over -- or she could screw them over, for her own ends. She might be just a little bit lonely. A tiny bit. Something she'll never admit out loud. It's not really a weakness if no one is close enough to you to leverage that against you, right? She knows lots of people, but they're mostly using her for business reasons, or she's using them. She has a tendency to use her cybernetic network to do casual background checks on everyone she meets, arming herself with all the information she can about them. She won't hesitate to use that information as a weapon if she feels she has to, even if she takes a liking to someone. She definitely doesn't come off as a person who can or should be trusted. And if she seems like she's playing nice, she's probably putting on a front. Despite her cunning and duplicitous attitude towards all things, she is occasionally capable of throwing caution to the winds and allowing herself to be goaded into a rash act. Ego is something that has gotten her into hot water more than once. She rarely turns down a challenge, especially if it's at something she's good at, and she loves provoking people just to see what they'll do. She has a tendency to run her mouth when she shouldn't, always greedy for the last word. There's always a chance that she'll make someone so angry, they'll manage to land a hit on her. (Maybe she secretly wants that, even. She does have a bit of an adrenaline addiction.) If she did get into a straight up brawl -- something that isn't totally unlikely in Duplicity, since she doesn't have her network of blackmail and information brokering to protect her -- she might find herself in trouble. Relying mostly on stealth, subterfuge, and playing other people off each other, she has little brute strength of her own when stripped of her technology and tricks or backed into a corner. Words, information, manipulation: those are her weapons. But words can't stop a bullet that's fired, or a punch that's thrown. Powers and Abilities: hacker: She hacks. Stuff. She's fluent in just about every programming language, can build her own hardware and write her own software, plant trojans and backdoors, break into secure servers and databases, wipe her tracks when she's done, and accomplish a number of other highly useful and/or illegal things. cybernetic implants and kit: The implants in her skull allow Sombra to interface directly with technology, in combination with the gloves she wears. Using hand movements, she can interfere with devices and systems up to ten feet away, or disable them with an electromagnetic pulse. This extends to characters with cybernetic or technological modifications (though obviously, in RP, OOC permission is going to be important). She can project holographic purple screens into the air, move them around and type on them, which makes her look sort of dumb but also sort of like a genius. Her cybernetics also allow her to access information on the Internet/the network at all times, feeding the knowledge directly to her brain. thermoptic camo: This is a capability built into the ridiculous cyberpunk outfit she wears (i.e. she can’t pull this off in her jammies). When the camo is active, she can go invisible; her speed and agility are also slightly boosted. She mostly uses this to infiltrate secure spaces and position herself unpredictably in situations. Inventory: machine pistol: An automatic pistol that fires fast, with some spread. She has like half a clip of ammo in it, and a couple more clips stashed in her jacket. It's clearly hers, in her colour scheme and with a sugar skull decal on it. translocator: A useful little gadget she leaves in a safe position and can teleport to later instantaneously if things go south. When activated, she evaporates into purple pixels and reappears at its location. It's made from stolen Overwatch technology. She's sort of surprised they let her keep it. a half-eaten torta with the onions falling out of it: Fuck, can't a girl have a sandwich in peace? Samples: [ 1 ] It's almost shockingly easy to part an unsuspecting passerby from his wallet. It wasn't even like the dude was being careless; those who frequent the Down have gotta know it is not, like, the most squeaky-clean of places, and Sombra definitely isn't the only pickpocket casing the crowd. But even after so many years swimming with sharks at the highest levels of organized crime, a childhood spent on the streets doesn't let her down. With the glow of her implants dimmed, her jacket grimy and zipped up tight, no one gives her a second glance. She remembers how to make herself inconspicuous even with her purple hair, the ways to shift her weight and body language to fade into the crowd. The sensation, the thrill, of her fingers closing around the leather is exactly the same. She doesn't even notice the lack of guilt. She finds a quiet corner where she can keep an eye on the traffic and go through the wallet's contents at the same time. There's a couple of cards: she wipes their chips and tosses them into a nearby bush. Convenient, but too easy to track, when she hasn't yet gotten enough feelers into this city's tech network to wipe her trail properly. For now all she needs is the cash. She keeps her hands close to her body; the notes flicker quickly through her fingers. Sixty even. That's enough for now. She might be a lowly fucking worm in the pecking order of this world, but money is money -- there's gotta be someone out there who'll take it from her. And if there is, that might be enough for a new set of less conspicuous clothing, and maybe a burger from one of the street stands. Yeah. That sounds like a good place to start. First, una hamburgesa. Then this crazy upside-down city, and what's really going on behind the bureaucratic madness and horny shit. Once she gets her in, none of them are gonna stand a chance. [ 2 ] (lmk if those aren't okay! the second is rather old, but my voice for her is pretty much the same, and there's a lot of dialogue in it.)