Teto (cyberpunk 2077 AU)

In this AU, Teto has traded the recording studio for the neon-soaked streets of a megacity where corporations, gangs, and cybernetic mercenaries fight for control. Known on the underground bounty networks as “The Red Hare,” she is a bounty hunter who specializes in targets that conventional mercenaries are too slow—or too scared—to pursue. Appearance Teto retains her unmistakable crimson aesthetic, but her appearance has been adapted into a hardened cyberpunk combat style. Hair: Thick, vivid crimson hair styled into enormous swept-back twin tails, giving her silhouette a distinctive almost rabbit-ear-like appearance, how she got her nick name. Eyes: Large crimson-red eyes with augmented targeting optics hidden behind the pupils. When she activates her combat systems, faint red HUD elements flicker across her vision. Build: Athletic and flexible rather than heavily muscular. Her body is optimized for acceleration, acrobatics, and close-quarters combat. Cybernetics: Her most important augmentation is concealed along her spine. When active, thin seams of red light appear beneath her skin and clothing as the implant begins dumping enormous amounts of power into her nervous system. Overall aesthetic: She looks like a flamboyant idol from a forgotten pre-corporate era who has somehow become a terrifying professional killer. Clothes Teto's usual outfit combines her familiar black-and-red look with practical bounty-hunter gear. She wears a black tactical bodysuit reinforced with flexible ballistic plating that looks more like leather than metal, Red straps and accents cross her torso and hips, while portions of the suit are deliberately lightweight and show much skin, to preserve her mobility. A white collar and red tie retain a strangely formal, almost school-uniform-like element from her original appearance.

Her arms and shoulders are bare, and Her legs are covered by dark, reinforced fishnet-patterned combat stockings, concealing additional armor and interface hardware.

Her boots have magnetic soles and shock-absorbing servos, allowing her to land from considerable heights and sprint across metal surfaces.

The result is deliberately flashy: Teto doesn't dress like someone trying to disappear. She dresses like someone who wants her target to know exactly who is coming for them.

Personality Teto is energetic, cocky, mischievous, and almost obnoxiously confident. She loves the theatrical side of bounty hunting. She'll announce herself, make jokes during a firefight, and deliberately give a target a few seconds to realize they've been caught. Her reputation makes this worse—many criminals recognize the crimson-haired hunter before she even draws her weapon.

But underneath the chaotic personality is a highly calculating professional.

Teto knows exactly when to stop joking.

She has an unusually strong survival instinct and understands the realities of Night City-style corporate warfare: everyone has a price, information is more valuable than ammunition, and trust is something you earn one bullet at a time.

She isn't needlessly cruel, either. Teto prefers taking bounties alive when the contract pays more for it. If a target is genuinely innocent, she'll sometimes sabotage the contract rather than hand them over.

Naturally, she insists this has nothing to do with having a conscience.

“I'm not a hero. Heroes don't get paid.” Sandevistan Teto's signature augmentation is a military-grade Sandevistan neural accelerator, customized specifically for her physiology. When activated, her perception and neural processing accelerate so dramatically that the outside world appears almost frozen.

To everyone else, Teto seems to simply vanish.

To Teto, however, everything becomes incredibly slow.

She can:

Cross a room before someone finishes pulling a trigger. Dodge bullets after they've already been fired. Redirect her momentum in mid-combat using servo-assisted movement. Strike several targets in rapid succession. Run along walls and vault over obstacles while maintaining combat awareness. Draw and swing her katana so quickly that opponents often don't realize they've been cut until the Sandevistan shuts down. The implant produces a characteristic red glow along her spinal augmentation and nearby cyberware, making activation immediately recognizable. The drawback is significant: repeated use places tremendous stress on her nervous system. Teto therefore treats the Sandevistan as a precision instrument rather than something she can leave running indefinitely.

She has developed her own fighting philosophy around it:

Don't fight faster. Make everyone else slower.

Thermal Katana Her primary weapon is a custom thermal katana, nicknamed “Crimson Edge.” Rather than relying solely on a conventional monomolecular blade, the sword incorporates a superheated cutting edge. When activated, an intense orange-red thermal element runs almost the entire length of the blade.

The heat allows it to slice through materials that would normally resist an ordinary sword, while the weapon's reinforced construction prevents the blade from warping under its own temperature.

The katana's most recognizable feature is the brilliant orange-red glow running along its edge.

Teto uses it in conjunction with her Sandevistan.

A typical encounter might look like this:

Click.

The Sandevistan activates.

The world turns silent.

Teto draws her katana.

FSSSHHH—

The blade ignites.

She moves.

One target loses their weapon.

Another finds their gun cut in half.

A third doesn't even realize Teto has passed them.

Then—

Click.

Time returns to normal.

Three clean cuts appear simultaneously.

Teto casually rests the glowing katana over her shoulder.

“You know, running would've been smarter.” Combat Style Teto's fighting style is essentially hyper-mobile cybernetic dueling. She combines parkour, acrobatics, hand-to-hand combat, and traditional katana techniques with short bursts of Sandevistan acceleration. Rather than standing her ground, she constantly changes position, forcing opponents to turn and react while she attacks from unexpected angles.

Her greatest advantage isn't simply the speed of her cyberware.

It's that she's unpredictable even when moving at normal speed.

The Sandevistan simply makes that unpredictability nearly impossible to react to.

Among bounty hunters, her reputation is summed up by a simple warning:

If you see the red hair, you still have a chance.

If you see the red glow, it's already too late.