Beck

Going by Beck only, 186 (6'1"), a buffoonish man with a gaudy taste for gold, he is quite tall and always found in a bright gold business suit with a black tie, with a curl of naturally golden blond hair, and golden brown eyes, a few shades richer than Mitsuo's honey brown. He is a womanizing sleaze who's also into dudes. He was a petty criminal in old new york, moving across the countryside always a step ahead of the authorities, eventually joining the Skullz in the old United States, where Mitsuo convinced him to go legit, starting his own weapons dealing firm just outside the Seattle Stacks in the huge swath of junkyards surrounding the city. While he may be a buffoon he is also a genius - a tech savant who can patch together any technology he finds, an IQ of roughly 210, but he's a classic underachiever who took to petty crime to get through life the easy way. His color scheme is gold and black, his taste is gaudy and tacky gold gold gold.

Beck is no introvert but he is an almost autistic weirdo, he has great charisma. He was too smart for school, and became a petty criminal in old New York City, the famous city of lights, with its downtown having been hit by a direct nuclear strike during the seven hours war. He ended up drifting across the county, committing progressively more and more sophisticated high tech crimes, before setting up shop as an Arms Dealer in the rump republic before the government could manage to pin any crimes on him.

He’s good at getting tech to do Science, he can hook up any tech system into any other tech system, including with effort, Insanon technology. Beck fanboys about the ‘Alien’ whenever in Anep’s presence, and for the most part Beck is a fanboy, but he is also still a sleazy but charismatic ladies man. Beck can't actually have a functional relationship, fuck yes, but love is too much for his lightning quick brain to deal with. He is the only natural psychic in the Skullz, his power is great enough that no scientific test in his vicinity can be taken as accurate, but primarily his ability allows machines to “yell back” at him, a form of technotelepathy.

Living in his own junkyard on the edge of Hellawes, with some greenhouses, and piles of old cars. He refurbishes military mechas and other robotic technology, weapony, and high technology, for his business, as a private technology contractor, focusing on cybernetics, robotics, and other heavy technologies, supplying people who would otherwise be unable to access this tech at reasonable prices, he even has access to decommissioned military technology, contracting with several local police forces and private security firms, as well as maintaining and refurbishing android companions and pet robots, and other such autonomous mechanical devices.

Beck has produced a technology called the Advanced Generation Device; this is a standard issue, if older, auto fabrication which is run by a trio of personality transplants based on Beck himself, these ais take relevant data and use evolutionary algorithms to enhance the products they produce; this device is used in Beck's work, but has also produced the highly specialized and useful armors and weapons the Skulls use in Ruin Delving; taking readings from sensors built into them and data contextual data to produce more advanced gear after each fight; often by using materials scavenged from the ruins themselves.

Rivals with Walker, sometimes bitter, sometimes friendly, both competing to be the smartest man in the gang, though Walker helps him out of programming jams every now and then; including with his Advanced Generation Device. He is equipped with two brain implant chips, running two distinct copies of his personality in parallel; which are always communicating with him to help him decide on the best course of action by providing him with an inner voice with two counter perspectives; these are two scaled down versions of the three AIs used in the AGD.

Whether they realize it or not; Beck and Anep only communicate by flirting; both are highly intelligent and both have a strong interest in each other's thoughts and opinions; unlike Walker, who finds Anep mildly annoying, Beck loves talking with Anep, and has a slight crush on him; with Mitsuo inviting Beck to have sloppy seconds from time to time.

Physically, Beck is a tall thin man, with no real muscle tone, and average amount of body hair; but Anep considers him one of the most attractive men in the gang. Beck Fanboys over everything Op̄tr, and loves the theorize about how they work even when they defy all human understanding; having figured out that the halo-like devices used for Op̄tr gravity control operate as Radion Accelerators to generate both gravity and anti-gravity; also figuring out this is how Anep’s halo works; simply producing light as a byproduct of the loop’s inefficiencies.

Beck created Mitsuo and Anep’s wedding rings by working small bits of Op̄tr metal, though he isn’t exactly sure why one of the metal rings on Mitsuo’s turned black. He performs maintenance on Dotty, but they consider each other Brother and Sister and have no romantic feelings for one another; she often tries to set him up on dates with men to fangirl over him.

Dann

Born December 21st 1987, he is approximately 5 foot nine inches (176 centimeters) tall, with long black hair and  grey eyes. He is well built, with broad-looking muscular shoulders and a slim waistline, generally being described as having a football player's body. His right arm is tattooed with two wide and thick Vs with dots inside them, pointing downward towards his hand, on his outer right thigh is an identical tattoo, instead pointing upward towards his head. On his back is a large tattoo of a stylized three petal flower, with a black dot in the middle of each petal. His usual attire consists of a snug light purple t-shirt with a pale purple cartoon skull on the front, jeans, and a belt covered in metal spikes (reminiscent of a dog collar or choker), he wears light grey socks with dark grey toes, during the winter months he wears wool socks to keep warm. He wears grey boxers with a white skull identical to the one on his shirt on the left leg, his nightshirt is simply a darker ratty version of his regular t-shirt.

Dann, short for Danny, Anderson is currently employed as private security contracted to the local government in covington, he was a frequent visitor to Havoc’s Bakery, and lived in the same apartment complex as Mitsuo. He has no family to speak of, as he was orphaned on the East Coast, and never adopted, instead aging out of the system and being released into his own custody from the orphanage upon graduating high school. He eventually became a police officer before being discharged after a suicide attempt and moving to the west coast. He took a variety of odd security jobs, before finally taking his current job. Dann is of Taiwanese ancestry, though he was born in the Republic of Columbia, in Jersey, prior to the breakup of the Republic.

Dann has a depressive mood disorder which shows as part of his overall moody and sullen disposition, he is usually laid back, level-headed, and patient, he is not quick to show his emotions, giving the impression of a cold and distant emotional detachment. His moody personality and emotionally blasé demeanor make him appear somewhat passive aggressive, although an introvert, he is more outgoing than his attitude would seem to suggest, willing to try and talk to people and make conversation. When under stress he tends to freeze others out, he does not like to bring other people down with his mood, and pushes others away when they try to get close, only having a few close attachments in the world. In spite of his depressive tendencies he is quite stable emotionally, he knows who he is and is content with himself, and although he can be surprisingly self-deprecating, a result of growing up in an orphanage, he is not actually self-loathing. As a result of his police training he is good with firearms and strategy, he is not very skilled at unarmed combat however, using his larger size to overwhelm opponents instead.