Sanna

Lily Häkkinen, Public Relations Manager, Biotechnica
AKA Sanna, corporate spy and edgerunner

Looks & personality
Of Finnish extraction. Tall and lean. Tends towards high fashion businesswear, accessorised with light tattoos and bleached dreadlocks. Hard core vegetarian.

Comes across as stable and serious. As charismatic (and amoral) as Odysseus. The sort of person who will quietly take note of wrongs committed against her in order to deliver revenge at a later point, generally long after the offending party has forgotten the offence.

Extremely protective of family, which can mean her own family, the friends she considers family, or the concept of family (i.e. she will defend family units if it means keeping a family safe or together).

Born in a combat zone
Lily and her twin sister Kiira were born in Pacifica, part of the large Häkkinen clan. Called Lily at birth after a fight between her parents (her father wanted a traditional Finnish name, her mother did not), he persisted in calling her Sanna despite her mother’s objections, and the name stuck. The Häkkinens who were of working age, including parents, uncles, and elder siblings and cousins, mostly worked gig jobs, while the younger kids were looked after by the grandparents. They mostly just scraped by, until Sanna’s uncle had an accident in his taxi that left him mostly crippled, and the company taxi a write-off. The family couldn’t afford more than basic medical care, and when a huge bill for vehicle and property damage arrived on top of that, everything fell apart.

In desperation, Sanna’s father signed the family on for a drug trial. The bills went away, and the family started to breath again. About a month into the trial, everything went very badly wrong. Unfortunately, the corporation responsible for the trial was far more interested in watching and learning from negative reactions than actually helping the Häkkinens.

The body count was at seven before a second corporation, Biotechnica, forced their way in to save what was left (and potentially to reverse-engineer the drug). The family received good medical care from that point, but the damage was already done. Only two of the Häkkinens survived — the twin girls, Sanna and Kiira.

Raised by a megacorp
Now orphans, Sanna and Kiira were taken in by Biotechnica. Sanna took well to the structured training and lifestyle, but Kiira found it stifling and eventually went seriously off the rails.

Sanna has now risen to head of PR for Marieta Veinberg, a senior executive at Biotechnica. This is mostly a cover for Sanna’s actual job, which is performing corporate espionage for Veinberg.

Kiira technically has a job and accommodation provided by the corporation, but she’s rarely there. Sometimes she claims to be a beat poet, or a singer, but more often than not she’s couch-surfing between petty crime and drug scores. Sanna has taken on her debts, which include rehab, psycho-therapy, and money owed to less savoury sorts.

Sanna’s most prized possession is the diary her father kept of the drug experiments, which she hopes to one day use to find and get revenge on the researchers who killed her family.

Kiira Häkkinen
Sanna's twin sister, and the reason Sanna is in so much debt. Generally either missing, in trouble, or in rehab. In short, a fuck-up.

Diana Manullang, AKA Redeye
Ostensibly Sanna's researcher, actually a company netrunner. Competent and quietly sarcastic, her caustic humour complements Sanna's icy charm.

Renaud Ziani
A boy Sanna grew up with on the estate, and later fell in love with. A quiet life wasn't on his mind though, and he followed his elder brothers into the Voodoo Boys gang. Sanna tried to talk him out of it, and in the end, her efforts to get him back made him lose face in front of the gang. Lovers became enemies. Sanna still harbours some compassion for him, but regards him as a lost cause. They've only run into each other once since Sanna got her promotion - unkind words were exchanged, and he threatened to get his gang involved.

Marieta Veinberg
Sanna’s mentor and boss. High up in Biotechnica, but with enemies.

Jan van Broek
A friend. He works for a rival company, and he and Sanna were originally enemies until they worked out it was more fun (and more lucrative) to just pretend to hate each other in public and quietly pass intelligence under the table while saying they got it through other means.

Agate
A street rat Sanna accidentally adopted. Agate won’t admit to having any other name, and is approximately twelve but despite living on the street, still has all her teeth. Sanna maintains that she meant to put the fridge delivery box in the disposal area, and it was purely coincidence that a pile of discarded clothing and canned food made its way into the box. It was cold and the kid looked hungry, okay?

Kasandro
Sanna’s last serious lover, and the reason she’s insisted on one night stands ever since. He got caught in the wake of one of Kiira’s benders, foolishly tried to help, and got killed by the gangers trying to collect on Kiira’s debts.