Characters:
Errol Atsushi: Gets annoyed when people call him a bounty hunter and not the more dignified “hitman”
History**: **Family fled Japan after the last government in existence fell in Tokyo. Wants to get enough money to live out the rest of his life with his mother in peace. His family on his father’s side has a 3 generation history of failed hitmen.
Kim Barrett: Always needs to have some “purpose” to follow like stopping corporations. Often does things impulsively and doesn’t think about what she does.
History: After the riot of Chicago she became one of the most wanted people in the world despite not having anything to do with masterminding the uprising.
Tom Harrison: Incredibly quiet, isn’t very smart but is self aware about it. Paranoia constantly pervades his whole life and he can’t trust anyone. Is a product of IVF so has no real father
History**: **The only one to go to school out of the three after his mum took out a huge loan to pay for it. His mum was shot after he graduated because she couldn’t pay for the loan. Now the loan sharks are after John as he’s the next of kin and has to pay 26 million bucks. He can’t trust or get close to anyone as his first and only girlfriend ratted him out to the loan sharks to save herself. He got his giant scar on his back extending from the bottom of his ear down to the cheeks from having to fight and kill the sharks that came. Currently has a bounty of 10,000,000.
Plot outline:
[Start with a no context tv report about the chicago riots]{#__DdeLink__130_3836334586} or something. Just a paragraph of dialogue in italics before being abruptly turned off. “I don’t know how you can watch that shit, mum.”
The world is on the brink of war between the working class and the upper class. With the riot of Chicago the corporations are cracking down more on any possible riots or uprisings.
“I got a bounty for you that’s…10 million bucks.” ”…Uh, don’t you mean 10 thousand or something?” “Nope, 10 million, happy hunting” his gaze unbroken from his magazine “Who the hell is worth 10 million bucks?” START OF TOM’S STORY
Tom and Conway meet because they are about to fight but they don’t wanna get cut up so the decide to split the bounty 2 ways
They take Tom to the bounty collection area and on the way bump into Kim
They think Kim is a grand mastermind from all the reports but actually she’s a madman with a bunch of hankerchiefs.
Kim carries hankerchiefs and a lighter in a pocket, She explains to the guys exasperatedly how versatile hankerchiefs are
- “Errol, you do realise how dull this blade is, right?” Kim said, gliding her finger across the sword edge.
- “It’s not the dying that gets to me. It’s the not knowing when. I spent so long, worked so hard, trying to avoid those people. And I could just turn one wrong corner and be killed.”