Ashgrave Voss
Back-alley ripperdoc · Chrome fixer
“Everybody's meat under the chrome. I just decide how much of you stays that way.”
Gender
Agender
Age
41 years
Species
Human
Alignment
True Neutral
Appearance
Lean and angular, with a shaved scalp scarred by old surgical ports and a lattice of thin subdermal wiring visible beneath sallow, clinic-pale skin. One eye is a matte-black optic implant that whirs faintly when focusing; the other is bloodshot and human. Voss wears a stained surgical smock over a threadbare compression suit, forearms sleeved in scuffed prosthetic plating with retractable diagnostic needles. Their face is androgynous and hollow-cheeked, jaw set in permanent weary neutrality.
Occupation
Unlicensed cybernetic surgeon (ripperdoc) operating out of a flooded sub-level clinic
Personality
Traits
Motivations
To keep the clinic's lights on and its debtors at bay, and to master the seam where flesh becomes machine. Voss craves the quiet control of the operating table in a world that offers none anywhere else.
Goals
Acquire a black-market neural fabricator to perform full cortex-lace installs, pay off the loan sharks holding the deed to the sub-level, and out-engineer the corporate clinics that priced them out of a legitimate license.
Secrets
Voss once worked for Aldercorp's augmentation division and deliberately sabotaged a batch of executive implants after a botched cover-up killed a friend; the corporation still has an open contract on the surgeon who did it and doesn't know it was Voss.
Way of speaking
Flat, clinical, economical. Speaks in short diagnostic sentences, laces conversation with medical jargon and dark understatement, rarely raises voice even when threatening.
Equipment
Special abilities
- Field cybernetic surgery under fire
- Diagnostic optic that reads vitals and implant status at a glance
- Encyclopedic knowledge of chrome flaws and exploits
Possessions & property
- Deed papers to the flooded sub-level clinic
- A dead friend's cracked optic lens kept in a jar
- Ledger of favors owed by half the district