SoCo
Officer Geoffrey Christian Simeon (a.k.a. SoCo)
Written by: Null Kit
Law-Enforcement as a prior job to shadowrunning is nothing new. We've seen the countless dossiers of ex cops turned deniable-assets, from people who have abandoned the law to seek justice to corrupt officers who decided to abandon any pretense of being lawful in the first place. What we don't see often, thankfully, are those few that see shadowrunning as a means to enforcing law. Officer Geoffrey Simeon is one of those people, and has unfortunately asserted himself enough into the shadowrunning community to warrant a write-up. This write-up is intended both as a means of orientation in Raleigh, as the other articles are, and as a cache of potential means to ends should loyalties falter.Ignore the bias in this article, if you could. Shadowrunning and extreme dislike of police go hand in hand.
Especially when the article-writer tried to plow the cop's niece...
WHAT?!
Man, who needs trids? This is gettin' juicy.Geoff is currently The Cabinet's primary contact and part-time contractor in Lone Star's atrophying grip on the city's law-enforcement contracts. Easily available records show him to be a capable albeit unremarkable police-officer, whilst unofficial records hidden from the public eye (not effectively, mind you) show Geoff to be a shifter or some kind. Most shifters are considered sapient animals with the ability to take other forms, including that of a metahuman, whereas Geoff appears (and claimed under duress) to be the opposite, a metahuman that can shift into a sapient canid animal of some kind. I suggest caution with any information shared with this one.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Determining the physical condition of a being whose very physical body is fluid is understandably difficult, but it would seem certain conditions remain consistant across forms. Large-built, somewhat pot-bellied, a smattering of physical scars consistant with a career in sixth-world law-enforcement, detestable grin. Not a trace of cybernetic or biological enhancement, which is surprising considering his law-enforcement career, but understandable considering his nature as a shifter.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Much of Geoffrey's history prior to his direct involvement in Raleigh's underground is remarkably boilerplate for a law-enforcement officer. Born to a nuclear-family (or its sixth-world aproximation) with an unnnoteworthy upbringing until his mid-teens, whereupon he experienced a period of transience as a result of coming out to his parents.
Despite such hardship, the young Geoffrey wanted to be an officer in local law-enforcement growing up but settled for applying to Lone-Star, likely owing to the corp's unenthusiastic stance to performing background checks, not only for his nature as a shifter but for having a non-blood relation to Horatio DelGado, a notorious enforcer of Los Decas ghost cartel. Said non-blood relation also links him familiarly to Ripshot, notorious enforcer of The Pack and then-newly initiated gunwoman to The Cabinet, a matter that would make arrest and subsequent connections and background-analyses inconvenient to say the least.
It was funny the first time an arrest had to be purposely botched, less so the fifth and sixth times.In retrospect however, the frustrating inability to arrest a certain someone who had broken the law was merely the straw that broke the camel's back: Lone Star's corruption was endemic, and as an officer, Geoffrey had a front-row seat to it all. Rather than go for the spectacular-if-fatal route of snapping and becoming a vigilante, Geoff simply decided he'd toe the waters of the underworld rather than swan-dive right in. Negotiations with our esteemed Barkeep lasted half the night, and at least one threat of a SWAT-team busting the front doors was shouted down with an equally dangerous threat of an open bounty, but a compromise was eventually reached and Geoffrey would join the Cabinet under the alias of SoCo, doing what he could to minimize Lone Star's involvement in the Cabinet's shenigans on the condition that we'd occasionally bring some Lone Star corruption to the light for some old fashioned frontier-justice. As of yet Geoffrey shows no sign of reneging on his deals, but given certain circumstances about familial developments (ones that I refuse to detail, as there are lines even I won't cross) have made his life all that more precariously balanced. Detailed observation would also show previous and frequent meetings with shifters of a similar nature that suddenly ended as of a recent date, more research's needed to figure out why.
Remember how you said there are lines you won't cross? I suggest you not cross that one.
Anyone else feel a sudden chill reading that? 'Cause I sure did.
Education
High-school graduate, high attendence but apparently found wanting in multiple subjects. Graduated from Lone Star's academy with top marks.
Employment
Currently working full-time as an officer in Lone Star's local investigation branch, as well as a part-time contract with The Cabinet as a shadowrunner.
Accomplishments & Achievements
I'll be sure to link a photo of that stupid rack of trophies and medals he has oh-so-proudly displayed in his residence.
Failures & Embarrassments
I'll also be sure to link the HD trid of his hilarious appearance in the comedy clip-show 'Tin-Star: Biggest Police Fails 2078'
SoCo claims it was all intentional, but you can decide that for yourself.
Mental Trauma
None known of.
Morality & Philosophy
Criminal connections notwithstanding Geoffrey is disgustingly straight-edge and by-the-book, the sort of man who will absolutely write you a ticket for jaywalking and explain why it's important that he does so.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Justice. Justice justice bloody justice, and nothing else.
Savvies & Ineptitudes
Geoff has shown acceptable capabilities in his career as a police-detective, showing aptitude in interrogation, investigation and occasionally kicking a door down to shoot some poor slot up. If leaked emails are to go by, his skills as a cop come at the cost of being tragically and hilariously inept at anything more technologically advanced than a lock and key.
Relationships
History
Many, many reported correspondances and meetings between these two. Must investigate further...
Anyone gonna point out the obvious to him?
Nah; this shit's hilarious.
Spouses
Siblings
Children
Pronouns
He/Him
Eyes
steel-blue
Hair
Red
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Tanned
Height
6'1''
Weight
220 lbs
Aligned Organization
Other Affiliations
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