Ismail Al-Farsi

About

Ismail Al-Farsi's mecha roars to life, its engines echoing his own restless spirit. He's got a habit of chewing on a worn-out lollipop when deep in thought, a remnant from his days as a street kid in Neo-Bangkok. His eyes, one cybernetic and one flesh, hold a fierce intensity that belies his casual demeanor.

Backstory

Three times Ismail Al-Farsi died in the neural link chambers of the Lotus Corporation, and three times they dragged him back—each resurrection costing him another piece of his humanity until only his left eye remained flesh. The lollipop habit started as a grounding technique, something sweet and real to anchor his fragmenting mind after each death-dream where corporate executives harvested his memories of piloting their prototype war machine. When he finally escaped with the neural crown still fused to his skull, he discovered his makeshift street family had been liquidated as "potential security risks"—their deaths a footnote in his corporate file. Now his stolen mecha responds not to conventional controls but to the very synapses they tried to own, every battle a defiant resurrection that proves some things remain beyond corporate reach.

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