Asimov Solensan

Asimov carries the look of a weary gunslinger, with long brown hair, medium-toned skin, and a wardrobe of dark clothing. His design draws openly on Antonio Banderas' mariachi from Desperado, right down to the beautiful Latina companion at his side and a knack for cutting through a room full of hired killers. Repeated doses of Bloody Eye erode that presence over time, his features growing haggard and worn as the drug wears him down from the inside.

Driven and dangerous, Asimov clings to a single vision: escaping the syndicate life and building something new with Katerina far from the violence. Bloody Eye is central to how he operates. The drug floods his system with adrenaline, granting bursts of superhuman speed, strength, and reflexes that let him overwhelm anyone in his path. That power comes at a steep price, however, feeding delusions of grandeur and physically degrading him with each use, until the man Katerina fell for is buried beneath paranoia and desperation.

Once a heavyweight in his organization, Asimov turned on his own men during a shootout with a rival outfit and vanished with their supply of Bloody Eye, meaning to sell it off and disappear on Mars. He peddled the drug wherever he could, dosing himself whenever trouble found him. A sale arranged in the back of the El Ray bar went wrong when the rival syndicate arrived; the buyer died in the crossfire, but a fully juiced Asimov cut down every attacker before Katerina came to harm, knowing the bloodshed would soon bring the ISSP down on them.

Spike and Jet tracked him to Tijuana. Coming off a Bloody Eye high, Asimov crossed paths with Spike in a restroom, then trailed him warily, sensing a setup while Spike spoke with Katerina, before ambushing him from behind and speeding off with his wife. His next deal proved to be the trap he feared; caught without the drug's full effect, he lost to Spike, and only a rival attack let him slip away. Cornered, he resolved to ram the ISSP blockade at the Astral Gate, but Katerina had lost faith that he could ever see their plan through. Rather than watch him die in the charge or gun down the officers ahead, she shot him herself as they raced forward.