#*mutuals

@noesapphic — is 1000% the maverick con artist, especially good at manipulating the uber-wealthy. you charm them and you pretend to know them, and you get them just close enough to touch, and then steal their fortune for all it's worth. you're the solitary type that doesn't play well with others and doesn't intend to. you don't need others, they'll only disappoint and distract you. everyone sees your work scattered throughout the world, and there are constant questions about who you are - if you are even one person at all, or a network of many. eventually, you get caught in the spiderweb of the Larger Crew when you find yourself trying to poach the same wealthy family, at the same royal gala, albeit in an easier way. you'll have to tell the crew to back off, then, and attempt to ruin them if they don't... after all, this con is yours.

@destourtereaux — is the disguise expert, hands down. you are a master over it all. the hair. the makeup. the prosthetics. the accent. the posture, the stance, and the way you can melt into the crowd and disappear entirely. once, you were a lone con artist (see above) with a reputation known to all. now you have a "respectable" civilian job, but can always come back into the fray for that one person who is still owed a favor... you're calm and mature, compared to the rest, but not out of the thrill. no one is, nor will they ever be. the con will always excite everyone more than it should, and even though you have a family that you should be thinking about, now, old habits like to die hard...

@locke-writes — is the mythic - the legend. in every good heist universe, there is a character that has done all of the most epic jobs, and has done all the most impossible of moves, and that is you. you've had your day, in the past about twenty years prior, and now you live comfortable and large, content with your wealth and proud of your glory. no one around you knows the truth of how you came to be, and anyone that would recognize you is dead. where you've settled yourself - somewhere fabulous and by the sea - there isn't so much a whisper of your awe-inspiring deeds, but somehow, you're visited one day by a rookie - but someone with that insatiable hunger in their eyes, nonetheless. you indulge the chessmaster, years before their con begins in earnest, and you tell them how to fashion a key to wealth.

@heliads — is the ringleader - the chessmaster. it's you who birthed this con, you who fathomed it with the darkest of minds, and only you who knows the totality of how the game will be played. you're amiable and therefore believed to be easily read, and as someone seemingly new to playing the impossible, no one suspects you. you have your own reasons for wanting to steal, and they may be benign, or they may be a silent knife to the throat. you're charming, and you play yourself as sincere, and if you believe in it hard enough, it sometimes seems real. as the con stretches on, you grow to enjoy these people you're surrounded by, and you rally the team with the truth of something inspiring though you cannot always believe that things will run smoothly. you grow to love these pieces that are scattered across the board, and towards the end, you begin to stutter when it comes time to sacrifice who you planned to be the martyr.

@permanentreverie — is the jack of all trades, master of none. you come from an old family steeped in the con. you've been able to do it all from the moment you were initiated, and yet never found your particular area of talent. the family was disappointed by it all - you could have been so much, but now all you do is play second fiddle - the right-hand man to a chessmaster who seems more promising than the rest. in reality, the two of you lean on each other - the mastermind and the right-hand man know each other better than one could possibly understand another human being. you rely on one another, and the jack of all trades has a place here - an indisputable one that is perhaps more important than anything else, and more suitable to the con than anyone could realize. but you know all, and sometimes, you seem to notice something in the mastermind, too... something acidic that might burn this entire crew through...

@the-radio-star — is the getaway driver. you are the speed junkie always looking for excitement, tossing jokes at ill-timed moments and narrowly avoiding escape with a grin. you're always the tone of sarcasm, yet constantly the fount of clever inside knowledge - and not just of the roads and the airways, the water and the tunnels - but about life in general. you live fast and are always on time. you can't slow down for a moment - not even for the ones you've loved - and perhaps that has led to something dark in your past... something you're constantly running from... something that will most definitely be resolved by the end of the story, but in a way that makes you ache, still. because even though the getaway driver is beloved and can't be killed off satisfactorily, there's always the potential that you'll be in the sequel, and an arc needs to be set up asdfghjgfd.

@anthonysharmaa — is the demolition expert. the demo expert is a wildcard. you explode things in a whirlwind of chaos and confusion. you set things on fire and you don't hesitate to destroy a building for a singular secret inside. but you're also calm. you'll deactivate a bomb with relative cool. you'll face the flames unblinking. you'll bring buildings down with reverence and calm. you have a witty sense of humor - a little dry, a little nihilistic, and a little something more. you can keep her calm and make the hard shots, but some part of you longs for the chaos that follows. your temper is slow, but what lies at the end of the fuse... well, you're not a demo expert for nothing.

@kvteskywvlker​ — is the scapegoat. the con is in full motion, the tensions are high, and the cops know something is happening. during a critical moment of the con, the crew gets a tip-off that the cops are onto them. they're surrounded, and not everyone can make it. someone is going to be taken in. you, the scapegoat - formerly a hacker, with a role on the team that lied in the periphery, set yourself up to take the fall. you get left behind and taken in for questioning, but you're not a martyr - a martyr wouldn't have half the brains of a hacker, and wouldn't have won their way onto this crew. and a martyr... well, a martyr doesn't get caught on purpose, and use their smarts to pin the crime on another...

@amortensie — is the spy. you're an enigma. you can silently slip into rooms, know where the information is hidden, devour it and set it to flame, and then repeat the sequence of dozens of numbers back, with a smile and confidence unmatched. mostly, you know too much. you can run and you can hide, and you know your way around a gun well enough, but mostly, you wait and hear. listen, and notice. the spy is quiet, there's not much else we would expect you to be, but you also seem to be the most humane, in this dysfunctional group of criminals. you want to know how the rest of the crew is, and it might be your game, or it might not be either, but the fact that you asks at all means something, at least, because there's nothing she couldn't learn with a single glance.

@johnskeating​ — is the hacker of the group, the woman in the van, or the girl in the chair. there is a safety in the distance, and a quick break in the event of disasters, but there's also something heavy, doused in responsibility and lit with mistrust. the crew relies on you for most things - perhaps too many things if you ask some of the others. and so you have all of that responsibility, and yet none of the trust. after all, if anyone were able to sabotage the group, it would be the one who's apart from it all - the one who has a vital set of skills that the rest of them can't quite understand. is the hacker dedicated to the team? are you going to cut and run? no one is quite sure, and though you seem like you're on their side, there's nothing that entices like money, and sometimes the biggest cuts come from the most unlikely of benefactors...

@brokenandheadoverheels​ — is the long peddled yet uniquely skilled petty thief. you grew up stealing, and are in and out of someone's pockets like their wares never belonged to them in the first place. the whole world is there in your sleight of hand, and you have no scruples in taking anything that's before you. there's probably some tragic reason for it - there always is - but any good thief is a master at a sympathetic lie, and who really knows your motives and whether or not you'd tell the truth? some of the crew were reluctant to let you join. how can one trust a common thief that steals the shirt off their back and the change in their wallet? you're not used to the stakes of a high profile con, and is there anything you offer that can't be gathered, otherwise? but no - the chessmaster as a role for you to play, and the hacker seems keen on defending you, as well. perhaps there's some kind of kinship between you - or, perhaps you both know secrets that belong to the other...

@biqherosix — is the newcomer. the everyman. you won the lotto, being chosen for the team you're in. there's not exactly a resume for this kind of work, and it's not like you have a linkedin, but you've pulled off one or two jobs that were successful enough, and a long-respected mentor left you a decent reference. you were chosen for this job less so because of what is known of your marketable skills, and more because you were available, and the chessmaster believes you to be a bit of a sucker. after all, you're competent, but you bumble around just enough to seem like you're still in the fledgling stages. the others can roll their eyes at you, but you have to laugh. deception is your game, and you've never had any mentor but yourself. you're going to get more than your fair cut on this heist of a lifetime, and there are only a few who you think can see through you enough to stand in your way.

@moonlit-imagines​ — is the muscle. every decent crew needs someone to get them out of trouble when their con leads them into a tussle. you know how to use your fists, and you know how to make them deadly, and if all you had was a knife in a gunfight, you'd somehow find a way to manage. you never had much, and so you made what you were given a weapon, and maybe that extends to a stony heart. or maybe, it covers for the way you've always found it bleeding. you make the crew feel safe, and maybe, in some unexpected turn of events, there's someone in the crew with quite a few defenses that force you to lower your own. and maybe, one night, you both don't think you'll see the morning, and the corny truth is you both want to save the other.

@champagnesupernxvas​ - is the sharpshooter. you have a marketable skill and you know it, and you're unafraid of the messier side of crime. you see, whether you learned your trade yourself or had some kind of formal training, you found your niche quickly, and in your gifts, you found immense pride. the con needs you, and you lead with the threat that you can leave at any time, because you know better than to let yourself be had. there's a past there, and a secret that left you hardened and dedicated. you never left the team down, though perhaps your methods aren't always palatable. but for some inexplicable reason, they trust you, and slowly, your comrades will tug all your history from you and unspooled, you lay all those past betrayals bare. you swore you wouldn't be left wanting, any longer, and this group will tell you there's no reason to.

@teaand-dreams — is the ex-military. you are the one with the past that everyone wants to discover. in days that feel like lifetimes ago, you fought for your country. the skills you learned there you thought you might never return to, and yet they found themselves an outlet - in the art of crime. you're smart, almost worryingly so, and that makes you valuable and unable to be duped, but also dangerous in the right circumstances. your moral code is perhaps more sound than those around you, and yet, no one really knows how it goes, seeing as your past conflicts so much with your present. you have a soft spot for the younger members of the team, and there's always an unspoken history gleaming in your eyes. but who can say what it is? and who can say where it lies?

@musicallisto​ — is the academic of the con, the chic and clever refined thief. you grew up in the lap of luxury, once. you spent your early years eating from a silver spoon. you even went to their elite colleges and achieved their cute little master's degrees. you know art history. you know jewelry. you know the rich because they used to invite you into their circles before tragedy came your way and fallen, you found yourself wanting. since you had built a reputation for yourself - you could appraise art, and recognize a counterfeit, and you could get around those silly little lasers and steal some for yourself. you always did like a good monet, and this crew might need you for a bit of distraction-based thievery or immediate appraisal. or perhaps they'll have you rub elbows with your past, and you'll find yourself admitting to secrets that have you still aching.

@ughgclden​ — is the rich contact on the inside. the forger, when all is said and done. there's always someone whose riches were earned the hard way, and you've made many a deal with many unscrupulous people to get where you are, today. to you, it's about doing friends a favor, except these friends were once hired to steal, and others, to murder. the chessmaster did a simple job for you, and now it's time to pay them back - with an old skill you once acquired, and new connections that put you on the guest list to a royal gala. it's not really connected to you, and you have immunity once you're part of the nebulous con, so you make up a few identities and wire fake businesses substantial amounts of money. you're new to the high life, after all, and if anyone is ever suspicious, you can claim you were duped the whole time.