Time for the Daddy-o and cool cat Kicks to finally come to front and center!
Kicks is a senior curator and part of the Conglomerate and another of the ex-Alliance group. He's a very laid back Speaker and part of the Beatnik Speaker culture in the Conglomerate and barely makes a whisper, snaps instead of claps, and an art critique.
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Kicks is good at slam poetry and often just spits hot slam poetry when talking to his friend sand the mood takes him
No one has ever heard him freak out raise his voice above a calm, neutral tone. Very little seems to shake him.
He is a beatnik speaker thus tends to dress more black and white as well as having few cosmetics. The most notable is he got speaker LED design lighting on his front in red.
He has that little bit of red on his face to hail back to his Alliance days as he doesn't want to let go of where he came from.
Very knowledgeable about art and can name paintings easily by artist, style, medium used, and when it was painted. He always is happy to talk art to people visiting the exhibits and giving informative tours.
He is actually rather bored at his job of just keeping an eye on the art pieces, moving new ones in and out, doing art exhibit lectures, and selling art pieces. Not that he hates his job, it just doesn't keep him as busy as he would like.
He is part of Ms. Violette's entourage and often seen with her when she goes to official events and big art exhibits. He is one of her favorite curators as she sees him as a "performing art piece showcasing tragedy"
He uses scalpels as a weapon in his jacket and avoids larger knives for his work. Very much a precision striker, but also has adopted the use of an actual gun to avoid getting blood on his suit.
Tends to be the level headed one in the group that points out he obvious about a situation and gets the others back on track.
He is ex-Alliance and used to be the chief medical officer and a celebrated medical doctor. He misses being able to work in his given field and keeping busy on research to help others.
Kicks and Jericho often work together to make mind worms that can work more as medication for those suffering from mental illnesses and help ease symptoms. It is going behind Vector's back a bit, but both are a bit stubborn about doing something good people despite their situation.
Often is the one that has to patch up Jericho after he has a rough night, although it distresses him a bit.
He is the one of the group who would 100% go back to the Alliance, but given he signed his life away and now has a bomb implanted in his chest that goes off if anyone but Ms. Violet touches and if he leaves the ship, he's the most stuck on the Pleasure Cruise.
The reason he ended up in the Conglomerate was after the Titan Speakerman was taken over by the parasite and there was huge causalities among the speakers, there were not enough resources to treat so many wounded and dying.... so he cut a deal with Ms. Violette to get access her technology and resources to save as many as he could. He was the one that saved Biggs and Tremolo and so many others.
He traded his freedom to save many but the trade-off was he had to give up his freedom and no longer work in medicine, becoming one of Ms. Violette's personal attendants. He left the Alliance to pay his debts and has been on the Pleasure Cruise ever since.
He cut off all contact with his old Alliance friends as it was too painful to hear about the war and all the things he could be doing there to help. Tends to avoid all news about the war, just acting casually how some people are to his friends who go off ship.
The design of his face, a blood red tear is "the tears I am crying, but never come out," to represent his longing to go back, but how he is trapped in this new life.
He hates his boss and many of the other executives, but hides all that anger inside. No point in acting on it when it will do no one any good. Just finds small ways to help the Alliance from within.
Will take breaks to smoke quietly up on the top decks in the middle of the night and listen to old songs of his faction to pass the time, just a bit of nostalgia.
No one recognizes him these days when they visit the ship. Made worse that he was made to change his name....and forget his old one which has frustrated him. He can remember a past life, but no name to it. It makes him feel like he's not himself anymore. Kicks is all that is left after the damn Conglomerates took everything.
Sometimes he regrets his choice, but at the same time knows there are a lot of speakers out there alive and able to have a second chance of life in exchange for his own.
Sometimes he wish people would recognize him, that they might tell him his name and then he could reclaim who he was in some small part. No one does and his name remains lost to him. Kicks is the only name he has now, given to him by Ms. Violette.
