CHARACTER Dr "Redeye" Sloak

[Dr "Redeye" Sloaks]

(Images of "Slaok" taken from Dark City featuring Rufus Sewell, great movie, highly recommend)

Name: Dr David "Redeye" Sloak
Alias/Handle: Dr Redeye, Doc, Sloak.
Age: 31
Ethnicity: White American
Birthplace: New York,
Appearance: Constantly looks tired, almost always smoking, rough, plain clothes worn from years of use. Short brown hair, pale complexion, not as tall as you'd think, not as broad as the coat makes him look.
Green eyes (One is a prosthetic implant that functions less well than he'd like). Torso covered in Nomad Tattoos and markings, usually covered up.

Background:

• Family Ranking: Nomad Pack (Exile)
• Parents: Lost (presumed dead)
• Childhood Environment: Nomad Pack moving from East Coast to West Coast

Personality:

Quiet and watchful. Sloak takes more in than people may realise and while reserved is far from unwilling to act if it means defending what he sees as "his people" though he is loath to violence as it has never came easily to him.

Friends:

Queenie, fellow Doc and ally. Consults on various issues, sometimes they go for tea.
Loose alliance with local Runner Gang (Sharks Neon, yes Sloak think's it's a stupid name too but they have the guns so) in exchange for protection he patches up their injuries and supplies drugs when they experience augment rejection.

Enemies:

Unknown

Lifepath / Role:

Nomad Medtechie.

Skills:

Scavenger (cannot work miracles with discarded tech but has a knack for getting more out of what might be considered useless by most others)
Medic (a lifetime on the road has left Sloak with a small libraries worth of ad-hock medical knowledge. While not a licensed surgeon he has had to learn how to stitch folk up, remove bullets, treat sickness and work on augments with typically a portion of the supplies needed. Always carries clean handkerchiefs, short scissors and needle and tread just in case)
Unremarkable (no visible tattoos and the one primary augment (aside from his neural jack) is his prosthetic eye, which passes for normal except under scrutiny. Sloak is afforded a level of anonymity due to his deliberately bland appearance, finding that if nobody notices you, then nobody is likely to give you trouble)
Watchful (Keeping an eye out for trouble and where it might come from is at the heart of Nomadic existence and as such Sloak is often quick to spot a change in mood or vibe in others and far more likely to remember a face and name than of seemingly inconsequential people. You never know who might be out to get you.)

Language(s):

English, Yiddish

Cyberware:

Neuroport (slightly sub standard)
Prosthetic eye, functions as a normal human eye (but is on the fritz, causes headaches)

Empathy:

7

Humanity:

68

Gear & Style:

Style: Dresses like a homeless detective.
Gear: Emergency medpac.
Weapons: Snub nosed 5-shot revolver, scalpel.

History:

David Sloak was born into the Gargoyles Nomad Clan in New York City.
For the first five years of his life he lived with his Clan until his parents were exiled for reasons he was never told about.
The next ten years of his life saw him and his parents make the long trek from New York to Night City. Moving from town to town and earning livings best they could. Sometimes they would shack up with another Nomad Clan for a while but never longer than six months before moving onward and Westward. Like the legendary pilgrims of old America they crossed the wide plains and great deserts but by the time Sloak made it to Night City he had lost his parents and the small caravan they had joined to a dust storm. Alone and with no clan, Sloak has been living in Night City ever since using his accumulated medical knowledge as a back alley surgeon.
No clan, no family and with few friends Sloak is haunted by the fear that whatever his parents might have been running from would someday come for him and he would never know why.