Shiba Kanei

Shiba Kanei was the daughter of a Japanese corporate dynasty, from a Cyberpunk[1] universe. She was one to the first people to arrive in the Tradeworks universe. This character is played by Tommy Towers.

History

Early Life

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Shiba Kanei was born in Tokyo Japan in the year 2051, to Himura Kanei and Yutani Kanei. She, however, barely made it out. At birth she was diagnosed with Ivemark syndrome, causing her life expectancy to drop to near-nothing. In order to sustain her life, an estimated hundred thousand Eurodollars was spent every year to replace and repair her organs with synthetic counterparts. The first thirteen years of her life were spent in a hospital, and nothing notable occurred.

Education

When she was fourteen, she finally was allowed to leave the hospital. She had seen education while hospitalized, but her parents had wanted her to go to proper school. She attended primary school in Japan, where she received decent grades and finally graduated at nineteen years old. Against the wishes of her parents, she attended Night City Technical college. She spent four years there, however there are no records of her ever attending, or receiving any grades. All information points to her parents removing the records.

Night City

Shiba spent only four years in Night City. However, these four years changed her drastically. There are no records of how or why, but she was likely involved in criminal activity between the Tyger Claws and the modern Yakuza. The time in Night City radicalized her political and social views, starting a rebellious phase, which was quickly put out by her hesitant parents.

Modern events

The place that the original five people appeared.

Arrival

Shiba Kanei was among the first five to appear on the FAS Odyssey of Hope after traveling through universes. Unbeknownst to her she had more cosmic relevance than she expected. She found that none of her Cyberware was damaged in the transition period. Very quickly she came into contact with Ethan Feyrer, who she had never met before, but somehow knew who she was. After learning about her situation, she resolved to figure out even more about the world. In that day, the Aescir Rogues attacked after Ethan Feyrer had switched on the station's systems, powering them on and breaking the concealment that the Odyssey had lived under for the first time in decades. Alongside other notable people, such as Jack Mender (ODST), Kolsa, and an unnamed combat android.

The End

She, after suffering a certain death injury, was sent to a contact named Amadeus. Amadeus brought her back from the brink on the condition that she worked for him... indefinitely. Despite her wishes, this deal was made, and she became a true full cyborg-- the one thing she feared after grappling with her failures in other timelines. When she played an instrumental role in defeating the Rendath forces, being fully indispensable to the operation, she did not get to return home like all the others. She was left with a bad ending, unable to ever return home-- missing out on her reward despite how much work she put in, having been in the effort from the very beginning. She lives on in spite, as her only two options are as follows. She can work for Amadeus until she dies naturally, or she can kill herself.

The Multiverse

Timeline A

Timeline A, commonly referred to as the original timeline, due to it's direct relevance in the current universe Shiba has been transported to. In this timeline, she never visited Night City, as it did not exist. Instead, she attended all of her education in Japan. Once she finished that, she had become jaded by her life, and the reasons she has been allowed to live, and the methods behind them. Her personality in this timeline can be best described through her Machiavellianism

Early History

Finally jaded enough, she was done. She reached what she described as a breaking point. Shooting and killing three members of the security staff under the employ of her family, she stole an armed transport AV and flew to the prefecture of Tottori, where she planned to lay low and disappear. She changed her name to Shiba Chiyako to further this, and became a soldier of fortune to pay her bills. By this time, she had enough Cyberware in her body to make her lifestyle possible.

The upheaval of Tottori & Folk Hero status

The Sand Dunes that the final confrontation occurred in.

It did not take long for Shiba to become known in Tottori. It was a small town, and she was incredibly capable. As a mercenary, she took subcontractor jobs for the local PD, which was comprised entirely of mercenaries. She easily outshined the other rent-a-cops. In pseudo-Western fashion, a rift easily formed in the relative peace held between the criminals, and the passive law enforcement. Three years would pass, and in this time, she would become famous in the region for hunting down the criminals with oppressive force. She was especially known for not carrying handcuffs, or any sort of tool for pacification. She reportedly never made any arrests in those three years, all of her confrontations ending in the criminal's death. It all came to a climax at the end of those three years.

She led her group, comprised of four other mercenaries who'd been with her for most of the time. They were well-armed, all carrying rifles and wearing body armor. Explosives carried as well.

The opposing group was led by a criminal boss, who had been working against the enforcers the whole time. Alongside him was a practical army of twenty poorly armed gangsters. All that was left.

The battle ended after an hour of touch-and-go gunfighting, alongside multiple retreats from the criminal side. The fight took them all the way to the edge of the ocean, where the criminals finally had no ground to retreat to. Shiba returned to the town, with only one death on her side. Celebrations lasted the entire night, until four unmarked AV's appeared over the town. They began to search. They were from the same corporation Shiba fled from. When the locals wouldn't hand her over, a genocide began. This would be remembered as the Upheaval of Tottori, and officially recorded as a major gas line explosion. It is entirely unrecorded how Shiba escaped, but she then knew she had to switch countries entirely.

Seoul, 2068

Shiba arrived in Seoul after, having ditched most of her status and equipment. She wanted to start anew, and she did. During this time, she met dozens of critical figures in her life, some of which being Uchida Feyrer and Ethan Feyrer. Her reputation exploded, as she became the most sought after, and the most reputable mercenary in the city. Her exploits were so widely recorded, a local corporation known as Falcon Corporation hired her to train their anti-cyberpsycho police force. In this time, she ruled her reputation through fear and precise cruelties. She made a horrible example of anyone who wronged her, and manipulated the people who loved her, through her outward persona. She acted very bubbly, happy, and was extremely extroverted. Drawing people in, who in her mind, she could use to build her power. She went on dozens of jobs, none of which that she personally oversaw ending in failure. Some of her greatest stories involve defeating a battle mech in duel combat while injured, assisting to foil an international bank scam, blowing up half of the local Seoul PD building in lieu of clearing out the terrorists inside, and staging a terrorist attack on her own apartment that blew up the whole floor to prove a point to the corporations after her, alongside many more. Her legend hood continued only too far, until she found the corporation she would manipulate until she died. FeyrerCorp, ran by Ethan and Uchida Feyrer, was her home for a few months at most. By this time, she'd been going cyberpsycho herself, starting to physically retaliate against the people around her, and emotionally destroy those who were weak.

Death

Shiba Kanei died twice. The first time, she was hit by five military grade EMP's at once, essentially detonating over half of her body. She was then stabbed in the heart with a heated blade. Feyrercorp, utilizing their living metal program, transferred her brain into a T-1000-like machine. Then, shortly after, she took her own life. Death had sobered her, and paired with a new clarity of mind she realized how much harm she had done. She would be the final person she ever hurt.

Timeline B

Timeline B, commonly referred to as the secondary timeline, is a split from timeline A. The events of timeline B only begin after Shiba joins Feyrercorp. One small, unexplainable change is that Shiba did attend NC-Tech in this timeline, as Night City exists. In this timeline, she goes by Shiba Feyrer.

The Maxtac Incident

Only two weeks after Shiba joined Feyrercorp officially, the incident occurred. A local Korean enforcement agent named Cerise Turner and five or so other mercs banded together and killed a Maxtac officer in order to stop their friend from being arrested. These mercs were chased out of the country by the police, all of them fleeing to Night City and taking up residence there again as mercenaries. This is the first split. Shiba, having known all of these mercs who left, decided to pack up and go with them even though she was unrelated to the incident. When she arrived, she found that they all had begun new lives.

History

She became a fixer, or a contractor, in Night City. She gave local mercenaries jobs, some of which being as little as a gang squabble, and some being large enough to warrant a full-scale raid on a SovOil labor camp. Other notable jobs include participating in a city-wide gang war, hijacking an Arasaka AV, and utterly crushing her opposition in the criminal underworld. Alongside her illegal fixer business, she opened a legal bar, which sold highly illegal firearms and substances. She kept the business open by pure force, even though over twenty murders occurred inside of it.

Ryan Hunter

One of her closest associates in the city was the former Maxtac officer Ryan Hunter. He was the best mercenary in the city, by the pure merit that Shiba couldn't be considered a mercenary anymore, just a fixer. In the last week of her life, she had truly been spiraling out of control. She non-fatally shot another of her closest friends over a petty dispute, and had hospitalized another in a friendly boxing match. She was ingesting copious amounts of drugs, and not enough anti-rejection medication. It all culminated over drinks. Ryan Hunter and Shiba Feyrer sat upon the highest rooftop in the city together, alone. During their discussion, he'd begun to criticize her for her spiraling. She took it personally. So personally, that she crushed his left hand. So a battle began. During the battle, Shiba did further damage to Hunter. She stabbed him in the chest, disabling one of his lungs, and blew off his right cybernetic leg, alongside some major blunt force trauma to the spine. All of this occurred in the span of eighteen seconds, before Shiba's shutdown program, dubbed 'self-control', disabled all of her cyberware. A program she'd had irreversably installed in herself weeks ago, to stop something such as this. Ryan Hunter was a good man. Even though she had done all this to him, he called help. Shiba Feyrer was taken to the local hospital, where she forcibly had illegal military speedware removed from her at the advice of her friends. However, this advice was ill, as the police department abused a legal loophole. They took Shiba Feyrer into custody, and in settling a huge grudge, the mayor of the city killed her in cold blood.

Timeline C

Timeline C is, ever so simply, the current timeline that the article describes.

Predestination

Predestination, or fate, is a common theme experienced by the Shiba Kanei of timeline C. She lives in perpetual fear and despair, knowing that all other recorded instances of her existence ended in total tragedy-- caused by her own negligence nonetheless. Passively, she seeks to piece together reality, and figure out how she will have to avoid her fate, which seems too clearly defined. As the universe wills it, Timeline C also ends in tragedy. Her loss is inescapable.