PROPER
Keisha Carter is one of the new breed of Blood Roses, coming into the
organisation through the covert recruitment program being operated out
of the Gaijin club. A straight-A student from one of the city's better
public schools (her parents, good liberals that they are, insisted on
supporting the severely ailing public school system, rather than sending
their children to one of the increasingly overcrowded private schools)
she went onto John Holland University to study Arts & Humanities,
where she was intending to take a year out before graduation in order to
work with disadvantaged children. Like every other kid her age, she
liked going out partying, and went along a couple of times with her
sorority friends to Club Gaijin.
It was there that she first encountered Jeung Bloodrose. She knew
vaguely who he was - although his background was a whole different
level in wealth and privilege above her comfortably middle-class
upbringing - and she knew that he was supposed to be mixed up in
something edgy and dangerous, although no-one actually seemed to know
what it was. Keisha was drawn to Jeung almost immediately; there was
something about him and his companions that reminded her of one of those
wild old English aristocrat-poets that she had been studying in her
Romantic Poetry class - "mad, bad and dangerous to know." She started
going back more and more to the Gaijin, even though most of her friends
were getting bored of the Ronin Style thing. Eventually, she started
going on her own, and it was on one of those nights that Jeung sent one
of his circle out to invite her into the VIP suite.
Two weeks later, she was aiming a machinegun pistol at a security
guard's head, while three other Blood Roses searched a Port Authority
warehouse for a specific consignment of military communications
motherboards intended for a Federal facility out in Silverfield. After
that, Romantic Poetry classes and gap years out to work with the
underprivileged no longer seemed as important as they may once have
been.
Keisha might just have been another one of Jeung's (or even
Charlotte's....) many conquests, since there's nothing the Blood Roses
inner circle usually enjoys more than corrupting the morals of nice
well-bred college girls, but there must have been something about her - a
hitherto unsuspected truly wild side, perhaps, that he sensed in her
from the very start, since she became a fixture on the Blood Roses
scene, taking her place in the Harem alongside Lilith and Strega. Or
perhaps, cynically, it was maybe just her family name that assured her a
place at the foot of the throne; what she lacks in Sister Lilith's true
psychosis or Sister Strega's social cachet, she more than makes up for
in novelty value, by virtue of her family name alone. Her parents don't
approve of these strange new friends of hers, or the clothes she wears
now, or her decision to drop out of college and move into the creepy
abandoned Insane Asylum known as Abington Towers.
Neither does her uncle. Who just happens to be August Carter, Commissioner of the San Paro Police Department.
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