Age: 44 (appears ageless) Height: 5′7″ Weight: 152 lbs. Eyes: Cybereyes Hair: Fibreoptic implants/Black
Living Relatives:
Mother (Japanese) - Mori Hana
Father (Chinese) - Li Huan
Maternal Grandmother - Saitou Tsubaki
Paternal Grandmother - Song Fen
Paternal Grandfather - Li Yin
Maternal Aunt - Mori Wakana
Maternal Uncle - Mori Katsurou
Maternal Cousin (son of Mori Katsurou) - Ryuu Mori
Son - Aleksey (Alex) Li
Jesse stands 5′7″ and weighs in around the 150 lb. mark. They are very slender, preferring mental pursuits over physical ones, and relying on their inherent charm to talk their way into and/or out of any (dangerous) situation. Jesse has always preferred to present as androgynous, though being gender-fluid, occasionally presents as masculine or feminine. They are pan-sexual, or maybe just sexually non-preferential, seemingly having no preference across gender, ethnic, or metarace lines, though rarely taking long-term lovers (for no one can compare to their dead wife). Jesse keeps their sex a closely-held secret, so much so that even some former lovers never learned the truth, and those that do are often paid handsomely (if so needed) to keep such information private. Despite being forty-four, Jesse has an ageless look about them, often mistaken for a club kid when out at night on the circuit scene. Jesse pays attention to the current trends in media and fashion, making sure to always keep on the bleeding edge. They prefer Sinthcore music, though (even taking up the keytar as a teenager), and tends to dress in unisex/gender-neutral fashion, accessorising with both male and female accoutrements, and occasionally dressing in gendered styles (having mens’ suits and evening gowns in their expansive wardrobe). Jesse has cybereyes installed and tends to skin them in whatever is fashionable, accessorisable, or as a pair of near-realistic blue eyes. Jesse has also had all facial and most body hair surgically altered to not grow. Most notably, however, Jesse has had their head hair removed and replaced with very fine fibre-optic strands slightly thicker than actual hair, which can be programmed to be any colour(s) and/or patterns. Their fibre-hair hangs about two inches below the shoulder line and can be styled as normal hair (though without being able to grow it longer or cut it shorter without a trip to the cyberware clinic).
Mori Hana, born into a family of Renraku wageslaves (her mother an accountant, her father an engineer), was working on a negotiation team when she met Li Huan, another wageslave negotiator with Wuxing (and likewise born into a wageslave family, his mother a production floor manager and his father a maintenance man/janitor). Sitting across the table for days on end during a months-long contract negotiation process, they soon fell in love. At the end of the negotiation process, Huan proposed to Hana and subsequently convinced his superior to include a clause trading his employment at Wuxing to Renraku when she accepted. They married and transferred to Seattle, UCAS, moving into a Renraku housing complex with both of their families. Li Jesse was born the following year. Jesse grew up in a household containing two sets of grandparents, an unmarried aunt, and a married uncle, his wife, and twin children, Ryuu and Fen, who are/were two years younger (tragically, Fen Mori died in a car accident at the age of nineteen). Jesse joined Renraku as an intern at the age of fourteen, becoming a hired wageslave at sixteen. Jesse showed a natural gift of charisma and for negotiation, and joined a contract negotiation team like their parents. Jesse also had an eye for fashion and an ear for music, and quickly became a known club kid. Between two families’ income and their own, Jesse could keep themself in fine clothes (and accompanying accessories) and afford to be flashy at the trendiest clubs. At age twenty-three, Jesse met Darya Konstantinov, a twenty-year-old bodyguard for a Wuxing official-turned-mafioso who frequented the Klub Eklypse, one of the many on Jesse’s circuit. After a year-and-a-half of flirtatious conversation, Darya and Jesse starting dating. A year later they married. With the money left Jesse when their maternal grandfather died of lung cancer, Jesse and Darya Li got their own house. Two years later, Darya gave birth to their son, Aleksey Li, named after Darya’s father. When Aleksey was six, Darya grew ill after an attack on her boss in which she took a bullet coated in an unknown pathogen. For two years she tried many different treatments from nearly as many doctors, but eventually succumbed to organ failure. Jesse fell into a deep depression and grew addicted to BTL’s (finding a preference to Tripchips). Aleksey moved in with the Li/Mori family, growing resentful and angry at Jesse. Jesse sold the house he had shared with Aleksey and Darya and got a smaller place, and spent several years in and out of rehab facilities, getting their BTL addiction under control. Eventually, mostly clean and healing from the death of their wife, Jesse turned to repairing the relationship with their now-twelve-year-old son and extended family. Jesse also decided the life of a wageslave was no longer for them and returned to the club scene, first as a bookkeeper, then as a small-time fixer for some of the ‘Runner regulars. Jesse’s natural charisma and bartering skills made them a natural choice when some group of ‘Runners wanted the best bang for their buck (Jesse always negotiated the best prices). Now sixteen, Aleksey (who prefers Alex), bounces between Jesse’s condo, the Renraku compound where the Li’s and Mori’s still live, and whatever group of friends (or Shadowrunners or gangers?) he hangs with. On mostly good terms with Jesse, Alex occasionally comes looking for money, information, or contacts, which Jess is more-than-happy to for the son they love, even as his presence brings back the memories and pain of their lost wife, Darya.
