𝑱𝒊𝒎 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒄𝒉

Anton was born in a regular family but always had a thing for tech. Construction sets. Circuit boards. Taking apart old appliances. He dreamed of being an engineer. In school he did well at first but classmates thought he was too serious. Too proper. A total nerd. He had almost no friends. The phrase "just chill out dude" hit him way harder than he ever let on.

By high school he decided to flip the script. One buddy told him to just blend in. Hit the parties. Don't stand out. So Anton dove in headfirst. Every night he was at some local disco learning to crack jokes and fake being one of the crew. That’s where he first heard Michael Jackson. The music. The moves. It grabbed him completely. By 17 he was a full blown fan and his whole vibe got cocky and loud.

At 18 he changed his look completely. Purple mohawk that stayed forever. Contacts instead of glasses. Leather jacket and ripped jeans. He finally looked like he belonged. He had a girlfriend for about two years but they broke up bad. She wanted him to settle down and change for her. Anton said no way. He spent too long wearing masks to ever change for someone again. After that he stayed single.

School totally fell off his radar. Party life ate up his lectures. But deep down he still remembered his old dream of being a tech guy. He moved out at 20. Parents didn't mind. Money was always tight so he worked as a waiter but got fired for showing up late or not showing up at all.

That fall he got bored at another party and left early. Took a dark alley as a shortcut. Two guys jumped him. They demanded his cash. Anton fought back but got slammed. They robbed him and left him on the ground with a split lip. Stumbling home pissed and humiliated he barely noticed a stranger in his building entrance. The guy saw his condition but didn't laugh. Just handed him a business card and said he had steady work for a guy like him. Anton took the card and walked away.

He had nothing. No job no money no desire to crawl back to his parents. So he called the number. That's how he became a thief. At first his conscience ate at him but the pay was good and Anton learned to save instead of blow it all. He started hoarding cash for one big goal – building his own high tech suit. His old mechanical skills came roaring back. Video tutorials. Blueprints. Soldering. Trial and error. By 23 he had a full suit with built in projectors and extra functions. Plus a Cyclops visor with thermal vision. And he rigged his purple mohawk with a holographic emitter turning his hair into a weapon.

By 26 he was a pro with years of experience. But small time jewelry heists got old. He wanted bigger scores. More risk. New challenges. So he started hunting for clients in the dark corners of the web. He found a listing from some 41‑year‑old guy with no photo. Anton messaged him but got no reply. Too impatient to wait he decided to show up at the office address in person.

Early morning he was standing outside the building when the guy suddenly appeared behind him. Anton spun around and aimed his lasers just in case. But something shorted out. A wild shot hit the stranger right in the right eye. Anton froze. He didn't know if he was more scared of jail or of the fact that he just maimed a guy. He called an ambulance but the victim grabbed him and said "You're coming with me or I'll find you and kill you."

That's when Anton learned the guy was Ivan Steranko. A big time arms dealer and the very employer he was looking for. Ivan survived but lost an eye. Instead of revenge he made Anton work off the cost of a diamond prosthetic. Anton agreed. He had no choice.

Shinigami is straight outta Japan. Born into a family of hermit sorceresses from Kyoto. Her mom taught her to read fortunes in water flows but also to read the soul of the world through cracks in stones and ripples on the surface. Plus she could weave illusions that could fool even demons. That’s how their family style got its name — “Moon Shadow Magic” (Geika-jutsu). At 11 her mom sent her off to a ninjutsu master living in a temple on a cliff. Dude was deaf and strict as hell but she learned to turn her magical flexibility into deadly skill with a kusarigama.

At 17 she’s coming back from a mission when she runs into some cocky dark-haired chick with a sword — Karai. One thing leads to another: Shinigami calls Karai’s fighting style “clumsy hacking” and Karai fires back that Shinigami’s magic is “cheap carnival tricks”. So they throw down a little. But their scuffle gets spotted by Foot Clan trackers who are loyal to Shredder — the ones who’ve been hunting Karai for a while. The girls get ambushed and have to call off their fight. Right then they gotta team up to survive and break through the Foot goons. They manage to take down the ninjas and get out.

As a child Xever Montes was a thief and a delinquent. His parents were so poor they could not properly provide for him. Xever had to steal money or food to survive. At age fifteen he met Vitor Sousa. Vitor lured him into a serious and dangerous criminal world. Xever was forced to abandon his parents to save himself. Together with Vitor they first robbed small businesses and then moved on to banks. They both came to New York to continue their life of crime there. During one particular heist Vitor betrayed Xever by turning him over to the police. He used Xever to gain fame for himself and to divert suspicion from his own actions. Naturally Xever was sent to prison.