“Midnight Code” casting call

[Pegasus]

Hey there,

So, it’s been a bit since I had anything to do with this particular idea. I was under the presumption [mention]CaptainL[/mention] was going to stay away from LAW and one of the people participating hasn’t been active and one is leaving LAW and obviously that means they won’t be up for this idea any longer. We still have [mention]CaptainL[/mention], [mention]DSX93[/mention], and [mention]APlaying[/mention] . I know DSX put down who his characters will play and I don’t want him to feel like he wasted his time doing that. APlaying and CaptainL never got the chance to put their characters down. If they still want in, they are more welcomed to join.

I will give about a week to gather more interest and we can see where we go from there. Maybe one or two more people so if you are interested in your character securing a spot, just come to me or Cap on here or Discord or just reply here.

[CaptainL]

Talia Chavez as Valentina "Val" Rivera-Mendez: Val was a small-time streamer from an unassuming Midwestern town, carving out her niche on the internet with gaming videos and the occasional off-the-wall tweet that went viral for one reason or another. Though her channel was never really a popular one, it seemed to do well enough for her to make streaming her full-time career, leading to her sequestering herself alone in her apartment with just her and her computer against the world. She rarely left her room, living off of delivery orders from grocery stores and restaurants. While her family, and the small circle of in-person friends she had made, questioned what she was doing with her life, they were no one to judge, and Val wouldn't let them tell her what to do, anyway. They did, however, have to ask themselves - if Val wasn't making a lot of money off of streaming, how long was she going to be able to sustain such a lifestyle?

As it turned out, Val had another source of income - one that was more than enough to keep her afloat. Streaming was just a convenient distraction for where her real talents lay. After logging off from her Twitch account, she would take on jobs from various shady elements as a hacker for hire, putting her computer skills to the test in bypassing firewalls and breaking into the bank accounts of powerful and wealthy corporations. She had the know-how, and she wouldn't even have to leave the home - something that appealed to her, as a chronic slacker. All she requested for her services was a cut of any profits received from the operation.

Engaged as she was in such high-stakes work, Val knew better than to leave a digital footprint behind. She worked through several layers of VPNs and kept any identifying information encrypted. What undid her in the end came after an operation to install a ransomware virus onto the hard drive of a prominent pharmaceutical company, which led to her client seeing a payout in the millions - a bigger turnout than anything she'd been a part of before. Val saw the dollar signs, and got a little too ahead of herself in demanding her cut at a higher rate than what she'd promised initially. Disgruntled, her employer sent in an anonymous tip that implicated Val in the theft, and the authorities were able to trace her location, landing her behind bars for a 30-year sentence. Despite the magnitude of her crimes, Val refuses to take any personal responsibility, insisting that her client was the one who framed her. She's a true free spirit at heart - to the point of being self-serving if she can profit at the expense of others and get away with it - and the prison life isn't one she takes well to.