[Shadowrun] How to roleplay MCT exec conflicted about his extraction?
[Shadowrun] How to roleplay MCT exec conflicted about his extraction?
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My characters are organizing an extraction of local (country) MCT head of security. He is Japanese, raised by the corp from birth, but not completely beguiled as his son is an orc and he had to pull some levers to get him into school etc.
He's aware of extraction and agreed to it.But the twist is that he decided to get extracted because he's taking the fall for a secret lab getting blown up in the middle of MCT office campus. So in a way he was made responsible for actions of some shadowrunners and now he's hiring (technically it's his mother organizing this but that's a detail) another ones. I think that can evoke some ambivalent emotions.
They are going to meet in secret soon to get some of his blood, pass the details of the plan, etc.
What are your thoughts on how to roleplay his attitude towards the characters and the whole thing?P.S. He doesn't know that but, of course, it was our jolly bunch of psychos that have blown the lab up.
I like to cast the character in my head. Do you have someone in mind? I think it makes it easier to try and get into their head if I can use screen performances as reference.
Not much comes to my mind, unfortunately.
We probably could take as a basis the protagonist in Equilibrium. Raised in a certain worldview and not putting emotions on display.
But the character I will portray is not an enforcer, rather lawmaker. And now he's hiring those who he's seen as opposition whole life to save him and his family when the beliefs he lived by (but started to question sometime in the past) turned against him