Misato Tachikawa

Being the sole heir to the Tachikawa Electric Corporation, her father’s vast business empire, was a lot of pressure to bear when growing up. This did provide her with the best tutors and coaches money could buy, allowing her to excel mentally and physically, but left little left in the way of a normal childhood. With little time to make friends, and the ones she did make being too intimidated by her success and fortune to stick around.

The pressure and isolation built and grew inside of her over the years, which would have festered into standard contempt and resentment for her father over time were it not for a series of tragic circumstances. One day, on her way to school Misato was kidnapped and held to ransom at gunpoint. Rather than pay the ransom he could have easily afforded, her father instead decided to attempt a rescue and demonstrate his new line of piloted combat suits to the public. She was rescued, but not before a malfunction in one of the suits directly led her right forearm being irretrievably crushed in the attempt.

The burden of her father’s legacy, his risking of her life for his companies PR and the physical trauma of losing a limb all lead to Misato mentally breaking down and exacting a trail of revenge. Her first act was to steal a prototypic covert exoskeleton and destroy all of the data and personnel pertaining to it from her father’s company. The suits power enabled her to single handedly hunt down and murder all of the criminals involved in her kidnapping.

All of these acts lead her to be a wanted lady by the authorities, criminal underworld and most importantly her father. The suit represented a significant investment by the Tachikawa Electric Corporation, and without the knowledge to rebuild it the only hope for the company to survive is its retrieval. His desperation and companies remaining resources make him the most dangerous of her pursuers.

Her only option for survival was to become an En-Merc and disappear into its dark and covert underbelly. Her intensive education put her in good stead for the profession, granting her the physical and mental acumen it takes to survive in such a cutthroat world. It also prepared her for the isolation such a life offers, though she does have a companion, of sorts, in the form of her suits artificial intelligence, Alf. Having taught it its personality and behaviour, it makes the perfect companion for her.

After many years she has managed to stay alive in the En-Merc industry and keep one step ahead of all her pursuers until recently when she was contacted by an anonymous client. Promising her an obscene amount of money, enough to stage a hostile takeover of Tachikawa Electric Corporation and provide copious amounts of protection from the other elements after her. Is this offer to good to be true…?