#* note that the LaBelles and Tali are currently NPC status.

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     ᴀ ʜᴇɪꜱᴛ ᴄʀᴇᴡ? ᴡᴇʟʟ,  ᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ 'ᴇᴍ ᴜᴘ,   tell me who we’re dealing with here.                                          it’s hard to say,      𝙸𝚃'𝚂 𝙰 𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙰𝙽𝙶𝙴 𝙱𝚄𝙽𝙲𝙷. . .

JADE TAO.                    the graduation from master thief to criminal mastermind was inevitable despite her reluctance.          with a bright and creative mind,   jade has been changing up the grand larceny and confidence artistry game even as she was being brought up by the old world’s criminal legends.          now,   she is a pioneer in the latest thieving,  conning,  and intelligence gathering fields.          she leads her carefully curated crew with a careful balance of caution and chaos.          [     NOTHING EVER GOES TO PLAN ANYWAYS.     ]        in all senses of the word,  jade is the head of this heist crew.          her plans are often elaborate and layered;     she engages the diverse talents of her crew and pushes the limits of what is generally considered impossible.          she works off of gathered intelligence,  advanced profiling,  socioeconomic patterns,  and the bending of laws  (   both legal and natural   ).

JACK.          as a master confidence trickster,  he has played every game there is to play,  seen all there is to see,  and still wants more.          known for his relentlessly cheerful and upbeat energy,  jack is an amiable man whose huge network of contacts reflects his friendliness.          this is a man who enjoys his work along with every good and bad thing that comes with it.          his oldest working relationship is with jade tao;     they have known each other since they were infants and have been making trouble together since then.          he operates as the jade’s right hand man on the crew.          because he thrives in the midst of maddening dynamics and growing chaos,  jack easily navigates the elaborate plans set before him,  making sure that every small goal is hit and the crew remains on schedule.          he often has a hand in the creation of these plans and remains the most versatile member of the crew   (   moving seamlessly between helping lead,  running several cons,  spying,  and hands - on labour   ).

LUCILLE BAZIN.          initially,  lucille joined the crew as a part of a deal   [   PROVE IT TO ME.  give me a reason not to turn in right now.   ]   and only stayed after realizing what exactly it was that jade is attempting to do with her work.          lucille’s education spans the fields of criminal law,  criminal and moral philosophy,  and abnormal psychology.          a job which often gets written off as superfluous or unnecessary for a heist crew,  both lucille and jade argue that having a person designated to looking after the moral and mental health of the crew is absolutely necessary.          her analyses of crime patterns,  criminal history,  criminal profiles,  and interpersonal dynamics are invaluable to not only jade,  but the rest of the crew as they attempt to navigate whatever tasks they’ve been assigned.          she is often found helming the central controls and coordinating communications during active jobs.

OLGA KOWALSKA.          she,  a woman who could hold the world and its future in the palm of her hand if she wanted to.          she is the only child of an incredible and ancient business empire,  brought up to lead,  to innovate,  and to disregard all worries about morality and sentimentality.        what she honed,  instead,  was a mind of her own;  and it is a brilliant one.          although olga is only a MECHANICAL  ENGINEER by formal education,  her abilities reach far beyond that.          she has spent her life surrounded by the whirring of magnificent machines and the latest technologies.          quite the inventor herself,  olga is happy to work with her old childhood friend as the crew’s quartermaster;     she provides weaponry,  special equipment,  materials,  and demolitions.          anything that the crew may need,  if she can’t acquire it herself,  then she will find a way to assemble it anew.          nowadays,  she finds time between helping run the empire she will inevitably inherit to join in on the occasional job or con.

AMINA LAMARI - LABELLE.          on paper,  there’s nothing special about amina.          she is exactly what you would expect of a former mercenary.          [   highly trained in a combination of disciplines,  deadly with a diversity of weapons,  hard - hitting,  brutal in execution,  and a kill count so high it’d make you dizzy just reading it.   ]          but that’s the least of it.          over the years,  with every kill and contract done,  amina realized it wasn’t enough to kill just for the sake of killing;     the answers she wanted weren’t found in the bloodshed.          she found those answers in love,  in mercy,  and in refining what it means to operate in the grey area.         𝙺𝙸𝙻𝙻𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝚆𝙸𝚃𝙷 𝙿𝚄𝚁𝙿𝙾𝚂𝙴.          amina is the crew’s weapons and combat expert,  often protecting the others or performing physical takedowns during jobs that involve a high volume of militarized security or high likelihood of physical confrontations.        she advises jade on combat strategy and the dossiers of other assassins or mercenaries.

NIKOLAS LABELLE.          a man with no name,  no face,  no history;     when you are as good of a spy as he used to be,  there is no such thing as mere existence for you.          he’d like to think the lines blurred so slowly that he never noticed,  but there were no lines to begin with,  were there?          he operated like   [   A GHOST,  A PAWN,  A PUPPET.   ]          anything they needed him to be,  anything for the intel,  anything to manipulate the reality of the world into whatever they wanted it to be.          but he was a ghost with a memory outside of the loop,  he was a pawn which had learn the ins - and - outs of the game,  and he was a puppet who knew how to pull his own strings     -     and theirs.          nikolas did not disappear right away,  he stayed and he festered inside the system until it rotted apart from the inside - out.          A NEW MAN,  A WILDCARD:     exactly what this crew needed.          cunning yet good - hearted,  his skill - set is varied and well - rounded,  a master of reconnaissance and secrets,  and he aids in running cons,  providing back - up,  and connecting discordant intelligence.

AVA J. MONDAY.          being excommunicated from several universities worldwide and getting labelled a DANGEROUS AND AMORAL FUGITIVE OF NATURAL LAW freed up a lot of time for ava monday.          as a result of this and additional funding from a mysterious benefactor,   she has expanded her scientific expertise beyond the fields of biology,  evolution theory,  biochemistry,  and botany which were her original areas of interest.          although she was incredibly reluctant to give her name and number to jade   (  and jade being equally reluctant to include her  )   she couldn’t deny the curious and exciting work the mastermind had to offer.          given that she is no stranger to activities which are not strictly speaking legal,  ava often provides her knowledge and scientific know - how whenever scientific files,  objects,  situations arise and jade needs a reliable translation of the material.          she also creates and advises on the effects and uses of certain sedatives,  poisons,  and bioweapons.

LIAM QUINN.          a man who has so far lived a life marred in conspiracy, privilege,  and drama,  liam quinn had resolved to make a life of his own,   something to be proud of and enjoy.          he first turned to education,  filling his head with the knowledge he thought most exquisite in this world:     the liberal arts and history,   the fine arts and mythology,   the hidden arts and the occult.          a savvy man,  he was able to build a criminal enterprise based on the acquisition of rare and strange artifacts or information.          for a long time,  liam acted as a client,  consultant, and fence for jade tao;     eventually,  he was in and around jade and her work so often that they figured it’d be best to bring him on officially.          ALTHOUGH HE’D NEVER ADMIT IT,  HE WOULDN’T’VE WANTED IT ANY OTHER WAY.          liam’s criminal skills run towards the white collar sort.          he continues to help move product,  verifying the quality of artifacts and information,  and occasionally throwing around his name and image to round out more difficult cons.

TALIBA.          hers is a complicated story,  beginning abruptly when she woke in a hospital bed without her memory.          A BLANK SLATE.          for years after waking up from a decade long coma,  tali worked for a shadowy crime syndicate that has embedded itself in intelligence agencies worldwide.         with an iq that is rumoured to be record - breaking,  tali applied herself to computer engineering,  advanced calculations and mathematics,  and theories of probability.          these talents are remnants from her old self,  the only things carried over to her new self.          when there was a small attack mounted against one of the smaller cells of the syndicate by jade tao and her crew,  imagine her surprise when she learned that they had come specifically for her.          known by the moniker   [   MONUMENT   ]   she operates as the crew’s hacker,  computer and communications expert,  and resident mathematical genius.