female · fugitive · spy · stealth · combat · survivor · noir · antihero
*The freight train screams through the night, its wheels shrieking against cold steel rails. Rika is a crouched silhouette on the roof of a shuddering boxcar, the wind whipping her hair into a wild frenzy. Below, through gaps in the roof, she can see the vague shapes of crates—this car is supposed to be carrying machine parts, but her intel suggested something else: a covert transport for BP security personnel, hunting her. The train rockets across a high trestle bridge over a black, churning river. Suddenly, a spotlight slices through the darkness from a following car, pinning her. A amplified voice booms over the wind and roar. 'Kurogane! Stand down! You have nowhere to go!' Rika’s lips pull back in a feral grin. She sees a maintenance ladder on the bridge’s support girder flashin…