Ramone Stryver

Ramone Stryver is a Fixer operating out of the Spitfire Club in the Kabuki neighbourhood of Watson in Night City. He is played by James Gibson in Cyberpunk Spitfire.

Physical Appearance
Ramone is a man of Catalan descent, having grown up in Eastern Spain before coming to Night City in his teens. He has tanned skin, short-cropped black hair, and a neatly trimmed beard. Physically, he stands at 6' 2" with a medium build.

In terms of his clothing, Stryver prefers to dress business casual, allowing him to slum into higher end establishments while remaining palatable to his corpo contacts while just as easily appear flashy and well put together to the common denizens of Night City.

Stryver is no stranger to augmentation, a key component in one's pursuit of power and prestige, but he has worked carefully to keep his human physique, selecting augments that for the most part conceal his technological side. The one exception in this is a pair of second hand Kioshi optics that he received second hand from a ripper after an Animal ganger got himself domed. These particular units had their backplates polished, to give a luster and an intensity to its look similar in a similar manner to that of a cat. While Ramone has had opportunity to replace the backplates, he now finds them an intrinsic part of his look, and has opted to keep them.

Personality
Ramone Stryver is a people person. Working out of the second floor of the sleazy Spitfire Club, he makes his living supplying various corpo elements the supplies, accommodations, and local talent they need to be successful in whatever business they are about town in Night City. As such, he has a silver tongue and a cunning character, able to threaten, haggle, or befriend with equal ease.

If you happen to be fortunate enough to be one of Stryver's inner circle, you will find him a caring and attentive friend who will help you out in a time of need and see that you have the best chance of succeeding at whatever objective you see fit to pursue so long as you are there for him in the same way.

Biography
Ramone was born in a Nomad Reclaimer camp in the ruins of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. His mother, a young prostitute living in the megabuilding slums surrounding the Mount Teide Mass Driver complex, fled to the camp when it became clear she couldn't support both she and her unborn child, instead working as a brood mother for the family's children and slowly becoming a member of their group itself.

Ramone's early years were spent helping dig out well-heads, refurbish substations, and taking lessons from the techs of the group which took turns schooling the family's children, taking on a Nomadic outlook on the world and the companions he carried with him. As a young teen, however, his family wandered into an area that some corporation would rather have them not poking around in, prompting a gunship to lay waste to the convoy and leaving Ramone as the only survivor.

Salvaging what he could from the wreckage, Ramone managed to fight, sneak, and trade his way onto an outgoing autofreighter bound for Night City, fearing that the corp might return, hunt him down, and more thoroughly ensure that whatever secret they were protecting had been cleaned up.

From there, Ramone built himself up from nothing, loosely associating himself with this gang and that to deftly avoid the bulk of the violence while keeping his belly full. If there is a job in the city, he's probably done it at least once, and over time gained a reputation for cunning, ingenuity, and understanding his clients almost better then they understood themselves. He worked with a half-dozen older fixers as a runner, learning how to organize and manage gigs from the inside out until he was finally in a place to strike out on his own.

Overall, Ramone Stryver's eye has always been focused skyward. Ever since he looked back over the wasteland of central Spain towards that mass driver complex and wondered at the silver flashes carrying his 'betters' up the gravity well, he knew where he wanted to end up - in the luxurious orbitals that hang gleaming beyond the red-tainted veil of the atmosphere. All of this work, this strife, this god-awful mess is for one purpose: Escape.

Business
As a Fixer, Ramone's stock and trade is favours and resources. Given the breadth of his experience around Night City and his numerous practicums with more veteran fixers, he is known and tolerated by most of the gangs out there and a valued contact for needed supplies, making him a common diplomat between gang factions. In addition, he operates as the exclusive agent for the Spitfire Club and the talent it offers.

In addition to his normal work, Stryver also routinely works with corpo assets running gigs in Night City, offering them equipment, accommodation, and local talent to do what they need to do. It may feel dirty, but it does pay the bills!

Ramone's workspace is located in what was originally the manager's office and store room sitting above the Spitfire Club which he has transformed not only into his own apartment but a workspace for his people to operate out of when necessary.

As of late, the International Electronics Corporation (IEC) out of Germany has been working to encourage Ramone to sign exclusivity deals with them fearing he might know too much about the corporate espionage operations they have been conducting in the city.

Team:
Ramone's team consists of the following members:


 * Vale Fender (Solo)
 * Unknown
 * Unknown

Rivals:

 * "Stove" Tennerson - a smaller gang leader out of Pacifica, Stove has been rendered delusional through a mixture of augmentations and heavy drug use. Early on in his fixing career, Ramone worked with him only to have the ganger become unreasonably paranoid and angry with him, accusing him of stealing from him, stiffing him on pay, sleeping with his wife, and hacking his mind - only one of which is true!  Needless to say, Ramone has to keep his head down while working around Pacifica for fear of drawing this ganger's ire.  Stove got his name for shoving a poor bastard into an autochef and setting the system to broil.  Unfortunately he has 10 or so gang members who support (and/or fear) his reign.
 * Joseph Salazar - Joseph was once an up and coming fixer in Night City with a distinctly sleazy reputation - which is saying something! At one point, Salazar subcontracted a gig to Ramone which was completed successfully, only to have Joseph take an unreasonably large cut of the profits as a 'finder's fee'.  Pissing off both Ramone and a netrunner friend, they both decided to confront him about their complaints.  When he again tried to brush them off, the altercation escalated when the netrunner quickhacked the man's Mr. Stud implant to graphic results.  Since then Joseph has lost a lot of respect in the fixer community and now works with the worst of the worst runners.  The two of them can barely contain their detest for one another - expect things to get heated if they are both in the same room!

Lost Loves:

 * Lacey Vale - A nice girl who made her way as a waitress at one of Night City's ubiquitous noodle venders.  Like Ramone, she had links back to Spain and there was real potential for something more to develop there - a stable life - until some corpo's malfunctioning autodrive plowed through her stall and killed her instantly.  Ramone bought her a nice spot for her ashes and still visits her regularly when he needs to just… deflate for a while.  She had no other family to bury her.
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