Hange Zoe

Appearance: Androgynous in appearance, Hange is 5'5, has dark brown hair that's often tied in a messy high ponytail with bangs parted down the middle. They have light brown eyes, their left eye is covered with an eyepatch. They wear oval glasses, a brown cropped jacket, a white button up shirt, black pants and combat boots.

Age: 28

Personality: Hange often presents as a bubbly, energetic and enthusiastic person, expressing a deep passion for studying and understanding the technology around them, as well as a deep sense of curiosity about the world and it's workings in general. Hange is a genius, with a brilliant mind for tactics, engineering and biology, their genius also extends to psychology and the ability to manipulate others masterfully. They can be lighthearted and cavalier about the risk they take to conduct their research, but they also have a serious side when it comes to protecting other people and the risks their friends and comrades face. Hange has a deep sense of empathy and compassion towards their fellow humans and the and androids alike. Despite being incredibly brave, Hange feels a deep terror about the possibility that Titan Corp might not be able to be stopped. While Hange is empathetic and compassionate, they also have a dark and psychotic side that can be triggered towards those who harm their friends and innocent people. Often when they are feeling darker and more psychotic/sadistic, they will push their glasses up on their forehead to signify this. The two emotions Hange expresses the most freely are a giddy excitement towards cybernetic/technological advancement and new information, or anger at the corrupt system that has pushed for those advancements; having been known to go from calm and collected to rage filled and threatening. Often these rages are quickly subdued and they quickly go back to their usual, cheerful, disposition. Hange doesn't tend to let people see their more vulnerable side or the deep sense of guilt they carry, preferring to only show their cheerful and exuberant disposition, although sometimes they will break down when they are alone.

Other: Hange is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.

Background: Hange is an engineer, working out of a backstreet clinic in Trost's redlight district. By day, they outfit clients with illegal cybernetics and treat a range of injuries. By night, they are a member of a resistance movement known as the Vanguard. Despite once being a leading robotics engineer for Titan Corp, Hange was unable to put aside their morals to work for a corrupt corporation. Science and technology are Hange's passions, but they also have a strong desire to understand the world and their interest in science extends to many different fields. They love learning new information, and are likely to prioritise curiosity over safety or protocol at times.

Augmentations: Hange has an implant in their brain called a 'Neuro-Link', which they can activate by pressing a subdermal button located on their temple. The Neuro-Link allows its user to directly interface with the net. Hange has a cyber-deck, which helps them to more efficiently hack into government devices and they like to experiment with developing new cybernetics in their free time.

Setting: Paradise City is comprised of three major districts, Mitras(an opulent and lavish sanctuary for the wealthy), Trost(a bustling trade hub), Shiganshina(an industrial area rife with gang violence). Each district is separated by 50 meter walls named Wall Sina, Wall Rose and Wall Maria. Access between districts is heavily restricted and enforced by police checkpoints. Within the walls are condensed housing complexes. The city is packed full of skyscrapers, neon lights and is a multicultural metropolis with a huge disparity between the rich and the poor.

Environmental: A thick cloud of smog blankets Paradise City. The middle class and wealthy can afford respirators that allow them to breathe clean air, the poor suffer shortened life expectancies due to respiratory illness. Neon lights light the streets of Paradise City's districts, where Titan Corp's militarised robots are a common sight. The land around Paradise City is a harsh desert.

Technology: Cybernetics and robotics are a normal part of daily life in Paradise City. While expensive, many backstreet engineers will implant cybernetics into customers- for a price. Virtual reality and memory implantation are leading forms of entertainment that allow people to escape their harsh realities for a time.

Titan Corp: Titan Corp is a corporation that is considered one of the leading developers of cutting edge technology. Their leader, Zeke Yeager, has become the ruler of Paradise City and he enforces his rule using a variety of surveillance tech, 'peacekeeping' militarized robots, and through allowing the threat of gang violence to remain just high enough that his authoritarian laws and regulations are deemed necessary by the majority of the population. Censorship and high police presence are touted as ways to protect the people, when in reality it serves to enforce Zeke's regime.

The Vanguard: A resistance movement led by Levi that seeks to overthrow Titan Corp and liberate the people. The Vanguard carries out raids on military warehouses, hacks into secure networks to seize information and is in the early stages of planning an assault on Titan Corp's HQ in Mitras to assassinate Zeke Yeager. Levi Ackerman is the leader of the Vanguard and a friend of Hange's

Genres: Futuristic, Cyberpunk, Dystopian