Kristina Kushchyenko

Kristina Kushchyenko Codename: Acid Burn
Profile
Origin	Liberty
Occupation	Freelance Hacker
Gender	Female
Height	1.70m
Weight	54kg
Hair color	Blonde
Eye color	Amber
Affiliation	unknown
Born	4 June 798 A.S., Planet Manhattan

Kristina Kushchyenko is a freelance hacker of Russian ancestry. She is currently living in the New York system.

Background

Early Life

Kristina was born on Planet Manhattan and abandoned at a Catholic orphanage by her extremely absent-minded father, Mr. Kushchyenko, when she was 5 years old. Eventually Kristina left the orphanage on her own before her father remembered that he had left her.

In 809 A.S. Kristina "Acid Burn" Kushchyenko was arrested and charged with crashing one thousand five hundred computer systems in one day and causing a single-day seven point drop in the New York Credit Exchange. Upon conviction, she was fined fifty thousand credits and banned from owning or operating a computer of any kind until her eighteenth birthday.

Kristina enlisted in aviation school shortly after her probation. A lack of combat acuity led to her withdrawal from the program twenty-four months later. She remained a skilled navigator, and found her way into the amateur starship racing circuit. For five years Kristina raced for enough credits to eat and slept in the beds of her mutual one-night stands.

Present Day

On her eighteenth birthday Kristina bought a computer for the first time in seven years. The net had changed dramatically since she last surfed, but she picked up quickly. Kristina had not previously had a proper education, and she spent the majority of her eighteenth through twentieth years studying Russian history for the first time.

To sustain herself she works as a number cruncher for Synth Foods Inc. and actively penny shaves their numerous credit accounts.

Characteristics

Appearance

Kristina is a skinny, diamond-colored woman with bright blonde hair. She often wears loose sleeveless white T-shirts, tight spandex leggings, and never wears footwear of any kind. Once she attempted to wear socks but she immediately lost her balance, suggesting she may have never even worn shoes. Kristina's somewhat androgynous appearance often causes her to be mistaken for a boy.

Personality

Kristina has displayed many unusual character traits that are common of a teenager and of an eccentric genius. She is a free spirit that sometimes shows emotion by growling or howling like a dog. Kristina rarely walks in a normal fashion; she instead prefers to run with her arms flailing, crawl on the ground, roll in somersaults, or walk on her hands. She is always talking about herself and will sometimes respond with nonsensical phrases. However, there is also plenty of evidence that at her core Kristina is a joyful adolescent with an affinity for human affection.

Tactics

Kristina is a ruthless and resourceful combatant, never choosing frontal assault when another approach will more easily destroy her enemies with less effort. When she moves, she does so with unexpected agility, speed, and grace - a sleepy-eyed cobra uncoiling rapidly as it strikes. Kristina has become adept at vigilance and is cautious of everything around her; she's not easy to sneak up on, and usually has a plan for every eventuality.