VERA BLUE.
she/her, biromantic bisexual. "the andricon girl."
vera blue is a fandomless character inspired from the 90s industrial band chemlab and, most obviously, their song vera blue and the albums east side militia & burn out at the hydrogen bar.
she is best suited for cyberpunk, technoir, and other vaguely futuristic settings and verses (cyberpunk 2077, ghost in the shell, blade runner, cowboy bebop, terminator, certain metal gear settings maybe idk, etc.).
jared louche says about his made-up word 'andricon':
"Andricon" is another in a string of words that I've made up. It's an adjective that describes the style and sexuality of Vera Blue. I think that it's important in the understanding of the word that know that Vera's a construct of three women that I knew in New York; two drug dealers and a gun runner and Andricon was a way for me to describe those strange qualities about them/her that drew me. Very nocturnal, almost pathologically so. Plastically android-gynous yet still very human underneath...somewhere beneath the welded plates and wires. Make-up around her LEDs. Hope that helps.
...so that's the big basis for the character!
vera blue is not her true name but rather is an alias. she's a sort of merc-for-hire who runs drugs, guns, johnny mnemonic-style uploading information-in-her-brain, and runs 'cowboy' detail (which means she plugs herself into computers to digitally project herself into cyberspace for hacking) on her own jobs. she's sort of a one-person-team and has cybernetically enhanced herself to be able to do anything in any job anyone may ever ask of her.
vera is mean in the way that all mercenaries sort of need a mean streak, raucous, relishes in taking risks, but also quite focused, and she cares little for her body and notions of bodily harm, and only takes real joy in working on transhuman upgrades for her body to keep making her the ultimate merc. given her body has been edited many times over and is mostly cybernetic she's immune to most drugs and poisons. vera takes so much joy in her work it's the only thing she can imagine doing and that's about the only thing she lets herself care about.
vera constantly changes her appearance many times over to continue being anonymous in merc circles and thus does not have a typical face claim as her appearance is always changing. i think she has a few favored bodies she cycles between since most of her body is purely cybernetic at this point, but i kind of want to play up the nebulous nature of her physicality and keep descriptions of her that aren't things like her cybernetic implants or her clothing choices (more on that just below) to a minimum.
i think she'd dress in something like motoko kusanagi's outfits in 95 gits (aka before they decided to make her a small fragile woman in the later adaptations god i hate u anime): very big bomber jackets that let her hide weapons over small bodysuits. little care for nudity or something resembling nudity. her body has been altered many times over and she can continue to swap around body parts at will for whatever the task requires, including multiple pairs of legs (for example maybe she has a pair of legs that have built-in jets in her calves, a second pair that looks like the bouncing boots in portal so she can jump around, etc.).
the line "she has a mercury smear in her eye" -> i am choosing to interpret this literally in that her eyes look more like mercury than 'eyes' to hide her pupils and irises. this is a protective coating. like built in goggles over your eyes or smth. and also it helps her expressions be a little harder to read.
her left arm can turn into a long knife for battles, a la the c2077 upgrade for mantis blades. her right arm is built more for her cowboy work, with cables and wires in it to let her jack in and store and exchange information. again, she can change these around depending on the job, but there isn't usually a job that won't require a weapon of some kind or some kind of hacking work to be done to complete it.
character insp: molly millions from william gibson's works (duh lol), johnny silverhand, killy and sanakan from blame!, i guess also motoko kusanagi, liquid snake.