The Street Rat - Take 1
Name: Tarowanay Uqo (a.k.a. Taro)

Appearance: a tall(5'7) and slim(95 lb)Caucasian teenager(17) with short, dirty-blonde hair, almost always ruffled, with big olive-green eyes and a rather curiously-innoncent gaze which can become a deceitful, lethal weapon at times, with rosie lips usually carrying the bloody bite marks of own teeth as when nervously chews the bottom one( and that is quite often as she finds the 'habit' hard to let go of, to say the least).
Taro generally likes to wear baggy clothes, her general appearence making it easy for one to mistake her with a boy, rather than a girl. She does have one biker suit - dark leather- which she borrowed for an undefinite term from a certain someone.
3 basic weapons: 9 mm semi-automatic pistol she had found on some random body in one of her 'exploration' missions, hunting knife won in a fair fight with another street rat, a wooden pole she carved herself with the hunting knife, about 5 ft in lenght

History: An accident child born during the times of war, Taro still had a taste of that maternal loving during the first five years of her life, until a group of haters decided to punish her parents for their constant seek for knowledge by depriving them of the little bundle of joy in their lives. Faith, as always, overplayed its part in this little drama, and the child Taro, instead of being reunited with her family, had the priviledge of watching them being clubbed to death, among other things the unriped eyes of a child could see and the unformed mind could acknowledge. Her delicate and innocent looks, and especially those big, pleading eyes helped her be able to tag along and cling to survival forging her character as she is now.
In time, her name didn't just shorten, but gave her a new, cruel identity. Taro behaves like a male, she considers herself to be a male because she found that to be much more advantageous among street rats, avoiding for example, lust-based conflicts triggered by the screaming hormones of the teenage youth.

Vehicle: a motorbike currently under restoration after being damaged when the previous owner had a crash and lost his life (with a little help)

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The Street Rat - Take 2

Name: Tarowanay Uqo, Alias Red

Race: Genetically altered human
Don't confuse this with your average human, those genetically engineered have suprassed the human condition and should not be classified as one.

Sex: Hermaphrodite

Appearance:
A tall(5'7) and slim(95 lb)Caucasian youngster(21) with short, dirty-blonde hair almost always ruffled, with big olive-green eyes and a rather curiously-innoncent gaze which can become a deceitfully lethal weapon at times, with rosie lips usually carrying the bloody bite marks of own teeth when she nervously chews the bottom one( and that is quite often as she finds the 'habit' hard to let go of, to say the least).

The youngster generally likes to wear baggy clothes, the general appearence making it easy for one to mistake Red with a boy, rather than a girl. She also favors biker suits and some dark leather outfits.

Weapons:
Generally 3 basic weapons are equipped, however exceptions can be made.
Fire weapons: - 9 mm semi-automatic pistol that belonged to her first ever kill. The weapon has been modified to suit her purposes better (i.e. a small entry light, and laser sights both mounted under the barrel with a special mounting sheath).

White weapons:
- Dual modified katanas - titanium blades, silver plated, a baby-blue carbon nanotube ribbon of about 2'' width wrapped around the tsuka that plays an important role in a fight. Touch the tsuka the wrong way and small, sharp blades will spawn cutting the hand that holds it and making it impossible to hold the weapon until the baldes retreat.
- Silver "glaive", a collapsible boomerang-like weapon. The glaive can be thrown to dispatch enemies at range or it's just as deadly in close combat, functioning as a double bladed knife
- Hunting knife

Vehicle: sports touring bike, black frame.

Short Background Information:
An accident child conceived during times of war, the youngster had the misfortune of being extracted while still a fetus and 'prepared' (to be read genetically altered) for a magnificent artificial birth in one of the compounds of VIRUS Corp. This particular compound hovered around the idea of creating perfect soldiers able to reproduce themselves. Thus, the child was born as a genetically altered hermaphrodite, enrolled in the combat assassination training program as soon as she was old enough and monitored for study results, the scientists awaiting the age of puberty when it was believed the changes they were interested in will manifest.

The child seemed to have adopted her female self. Transferred to a special assasin squad- 7 young ones of similar ages -under the command of the fierce Legato, she did the Corporation's bidding under the alias RED until one late night when a particular mission went to hell - almost literally- and she barely scrambled away with her life. With no squad to return to, commander thought dead and path to the headquarters unknown, the young teenager had to learn to sustain herself. Her split personality disorder, first detected during preteen period and supressed with special treatment, began to manifest stronger now that she was off medication and off monitoring.

Life alone as a teenager wasn't easy at all, especially when the bubble burst and one is invaded with all the novelies of a world hardly before seen. Her delicate and innocent looks, and especially those big, pleading eyes helped her be able to tag along and cling to survival forging her character as she is now. In time, her split personality disorder gave her two new identities - Taro, the gentle, and Tarowanay or Red the cruel.

Taro is the mail identity. It became real when she discovered that it was much more advantageous to be a male on the streets avoiding, for example, lust-based conflicts triggered by the screaming hormones of the teenage youth.
Taro is gentle and could even pose as a sloth. He'd do his best to avoid any type of conflicts and would rather take a punch than fight back.

Rowana is the new female identity. Still using the alias Red, still making use of her life-long lessons as an assassin, she's much changed from the girl trained by VIRUS Corp. Red's sly. She comes across as a cheerful, energetic person, easy to get along with.... until someone gets on her wrong side. Then she will own up to her name - merciless, cruel, blood thirsty.