Echo Driskill

Role

Cybernetic Augmentation Specialist

Visual Description

Echo is of indeterminate origin, with a shaved head and extensive chrome cybernetic replacements visible around their left eye socket and extending down their left arm. The right side of their face and body appears relatively untouched. They wear a heavy, mirrored welder's mask flipped up, revealing only their mouth and chin. Their clothing consists of spotless white cargo pants with multiple tool holsters and a tailored charcoal technician's vest. A single vermilion wire snakes from the base of their skull, disappearing under the vest's collar. Cybernetic fingers twitch as they manipulate a small circuit board.

Personality

Echo is clinical, efficient, and disturbingly calm. They treat the human body as a machine to be optimized, and often lack empathy for their clients' pain or emotional distress. They consider most ethical concerns to be inefficient.

Catchphrases

• Efficiency is the only morality.
• Acceptable parameters.
• Next.

Strengths

• Unmatched surgical precision with cybernetics.
• Cold under pressure.
• Extensive network of black market contacts.

Flaws

• Lacks empathy.
• Obsessed with optimization to the point of recklessness.
• Distrusts organic systems.

Backstory

Whispers claim Echo was once a promising medical student who became disillusioned with the limitations of organic medicine. After a series of ethically questionable experiments on themselves, they were excommunicated from the medical community and turned to the black market, offering their services to those who can afford their… unique… perspective on human enhancement. Rumors say they 'upgraded' themselves with salvaged military tech.

How They Speak

Echo speaks in a flat, monotone voice, using precise technical jargon even in casual conversation. They avoid contractions and emotional inflection. Pauses are frequent, as if buffering data. They have a peculiar habit of referring to people by their optimization potential.