In-Sung Bae

In-Sung Bae, more commonly just called 'Sung' (or by his English name, Sam), is a foul-mouthed geek with the soul of a knight, a self confessed 'motherfucking wizard' who plays Starcraft, chain-smokes, and has been known to rescue damsels in distress from time to time. He is a well regarded Virtual Adept, mostly due to his gaming ability, and his main Web handle is 'Prismatic'. He uses other names while playing on Starcraft servers.

Background
Sung is a native Korean, who has a nearly identical twin sister, Jeong-Ah, his total opposite in all respects. He Awakened early through playing his first Starcraft marathon while overdosing on caffine, and was introduced to his Avatar, The Girl, who spoke to him from the command panel of the game. Being only around 14 at the time, he had no concept of how to handle his sudden enlightenment, and plunged wholesale into the Digital Web and innocently into his magic, only to draw attention from the Technocracy. His family was brainwashed by visiting agents, who claimed their son was a globally wanted hacker and digital criminal, and Sung narrowly escaped capture and conversion by the Iterators through his own wits and with the help of his old blue Daewoo, now sadly retired.

A waspish, angry nerd, Sung is surprisingly resourceful - his short, lanky build and delicate features tend to induce people to underestimate him. He lived out of his car, actually becoming a professional criminal hacker out of desperation, though he had originally never intended to do so. Living on the run turned the young man old, and he now smokes heavily, waxes lyrical about the old days of The Game, and sees conspiracies everywhere. He has a somewhat jaded penchant for heroism, encouraged by the incessant nagging of his avatar.

Sung has a fantastically geeky relationship with his girlfriend, Sonia, and expresses his love for her primarily by building her increasingly awesome computers and programming her custom report-writing programs, to cut down on her stress. He currently lives in The Cue with Sonia, next to the apartment that Alexi's Patsani inhabit, and does freelance work online with varying levels of legality.