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41, queer trans furry trash, actual professional deer, perpetually tired // mostly 18+ but let’s say entirely 18+ to be safe


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Korps Operative: Backchannel

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"If there was a ‘Lifetime Achievements in Sexpionage’ award, I’d expect to at least be nominated."


General Information

Name: Rin Gorgoni
Known Aliases: Sandrino (pre-transition preferred nickname)
Pronouns: They/Them
Date of Birth: May 12, 1967
Place of Birth: Toronto, ON
Villain Pseudonym: Backchannel

Species: Blue Anole - Anolis gorgonae
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 130 lbs
Scale Pattern: Deep azure to cyan, off-white front
Hair: None
Eyes: Blue

Agent Intel

Designation: K-LAW Administrator (CEO of Toronto front company Helical BioSpectra, Inc.); Field Agent with the Fruits Glacées operations team, SHS (formerly)
Superpowers: None
Modifications: Extensively titanium-reinforced skeleton, internal cybernetic joint replacements, hyperproductive fluids
Threat assessment: In their field agent prime, 1990-2004, moderate to high; following retirement from field ops, moderate.

Biographical Information

Personality: Self-described twinkgender enby turboslut, Rin gained a reputation in their field agent days for the ability to make any mission horny - in some cases, against all odds. Their aggressive frustration with cisheteronormativity, and accompanying passion for queer liberation and solidarity, were direct causes of joining the Korps in 1989. Rin regrets having to give up field work in 2004 (see below) but, having decided not to pursue the kind of extensive augmentation that would make it a viable continued occupation in the Korps, is happy too merely to contribute as a civilian and elder statesvillain.

Queer as in both "Fuck You" and "Magneto was right," the anole delights in flamboyantly extravagant presentation across the spectrum of gender, favouring a heavy black leather kink look when younger, later adopting a wardrobe of jumpers, kicky pantsuits and breezy gowns in their legal career. They pursued the surgical intervention of vaginoplasty during their transition solely to become more penetrable, as a bratty, bottom-leaning switch.

Background: Rin's parents, Vincenzo and Maria Gorgoni, were Italian-Colombian immigrants to Canada in the early 1950s. Vincenzo became quite successful in business, expanding a small import-export operation into a sprawling patchwork of real estate and commercial enterprises, serving booming immigrant communities across the newly-formed municipality of Metro Toronto. By the time Rin was born in the late 60s, the youngest of four siblings, the Gorgonis had become boorish, new-money social climbers; their mansion in the rich Toronto neighbourhood of Rosedale reflected the status and respect Vincenzo felt he was owed.

Rin was sent to the best private schools, including the tony Upper Canada College, where - in part as rebellion against Father's status-seeking attempts at assimilation into wealthy Anglo-Canadian society - they were a defiantly swishy theatre kid, amateur acrobat and attention-getting spectacle. The teen anole was expelled from UCC in Grade 10, in 1982, after being caught in a cheerleader uniform, in the locker room, getting fucked by several members of the lacrosse team. (The others involved, "confused" young men with "potential" - i.e. richer, old-money parents - were not punished.) Vincenzo, furious at being embarrassed by the child he thought to be his youngest son, denounced and disowned the 15-year-old Rin, throwing them out on the street. Maria, for her part - by then an isolated, disaffected pill-popper barely capable of showing up to play the good wife for her husband's social events - was wholly indifferent.

Rin spent several years homeless, doing survival sex work in Toronto's then-seedy downtown, before finding the stability to obtain a drafty loft apartment in the industrial Liberty Village area, and briefly attend Centennial College. A self-taught savant who quickly outpaced the instruction of their classes, they became bored with their studies in electronics and electrical engineering, dropping out to take an under-the-table job as a technician-installer for Intermetro Cable. In July 1987, a dispatch to an emergency repair job at waterfront theme park Ontario Place led to Rin stumbling across a superpowered heist; dissatisfied with their job, and enticed by the freedom and anti-authority attitude of villain Rod "Degrade" DeGray, they helped him rob the park and shortly afterwards joined the horse in the world of independent villainy. ("It's All Yours")

Rin and Rod were lovers and partners in crime for the next two years, amicably breaking up over Rod's reluctance to be part of a community. He saw the supervillainous life of crime as a means of carving out a safe space in a hostile world primarily for himself and a few close friends and loved ones, while Rin grew increasingly attracted to the Korps' ethos of queer liberation (as well as the opportunity to be part of a team, and have backup and support against the cops and heroes). Rin joined the Korps in 1989, quickly taking to stealth and combat training under the callsign Backchannel despite their lack of powers, and became a Field Agent with the Fruits Glaceés team out of SHS - to their delight, as seeing Agent Désirée's public rampage in Montreal, and subsequent defection to the Korps in the course of abandoning her superhero career as Superté hero Congelé, had been an inspiration to the anole.

In February 1992, to let off steam after an electronic surveillance and sabotage op, Rin went out clubbing at Ottawa's busiest gay bar, the Coral Reef; there, they chanced to strike up a conversation (and flirt) with local drag queen Miss Marcy. They had seen the tabby around the local scene, but never before spoken; she turned out to be dissatisfied public servant Dr. Marcy Killian, several years pre-transition. After a furtive hookup, on a whim, the anole offered their connections to help her pursue whistleblowing on (what she felt to be) the inappropriate weaponization of her work with the National Research Council's Special Projects Division. When the two were cornered by would-be queer-bashers in the ByWard Market, Rin thrashed their attackers, and revealed their villainous affiliations to a shell-shocked Marcy afterwards. ("Disclosure")

By 1994, Rin had become close friends/fuckbuddies with Dr. Killian. Though they were not habitually a recruiter, the anole encouraged her to take things into her own hands - leaking government secrets and sabotaging her NRC work - before offering her the opportunity of joining the Korps. While she took some time to adjust to the organizational culture, Rin was thrilled to have brought one of their best friends on board. ("Chapter Break")

Rin continued in field work with the Fruits Glaceés under Agent Désirée's leadership for many years, taking part in missions around the hemisphere, from as close as just across the river in Hull, QC ("Good Dreams") and as far away as Maracaibo, Venezuela. Increasingly cocky and reckless by the early 2000s - the latter Maracaibo mission was a disaster of some kind, as was one in Quebec City, QC - their overconfidence nearly became their undoing in 2004.

Undercover at a Canada Day party held by a Canadian petroleum lobby group, procuring intel on the industry's plans to allow toxic drilling runoff to pollute much of the Prairies, Rin ran into the unexpected partygoer Roger "Heartwood" Oakes, a heavy bruiser of a PHL hero with the Prairie League, who nearly killed the anole. They barely escaped the bear's grasp with the help of Fruits Glaceés teammates Tommy Legris and Beau, and needed extensive surgery and internal cybernetic augmentation afterwards. Dr. Killian, lamenting their increasingly daring nature - a product of pushing themselves past natural limits as they aged - convinced Rin to retire from field work. ("After Hours")

Rin moved back to Toronto and joined the Korps Legal Affairs Wing (K-LAW) out of KDS in late 2004, attending law school (Osgoode Hall, LL.B., 2007) and subsequently being assigned to one of the division's front operations, the downtown Toronto biotech firm of Helical BioSpectra, Inc. Their extensive experience as an agent put them in a natural leadership role despite only coming to law as a second (or third) career, and Rin was Chief Counsel by 2008, overseeing a legal department that would by 2009 include new Korps recruit Grace Dunlop. ("Sandy Hill") While they had made space for Grace as a favour to Dr. Killian, the deer proved to excel in the role, and Rin encouraged her to take on a leadership position; when they were appointed the new HBS CEO in 2017, they advocated for her to replace them as Chief Counsel.

Vincenzo Gorgoni made an insincere effort to reconcile with Rin in 2017, upon seeing their elevation to the leadership of HBS, in order to beg his "successful CEO son" for financial help. The elder anole's success was revealed to be built on extensive criminal tax fraud, and the Canada Revenue Agency had opened an investigation that could ruin him. Hating the man but feeling sorry for him despite themself, Rin arranged for altering government records and getting Father off the hook. Vincenzo thanked them, but then promptly reverted to his fervently normative shunning of his queer youngest child - dying several years later, to Rin's relief.

In the present day, Rin is an aggressively queer presence in the largely-staid world of corporate biotech. They use the attention they receive in HBS' press conferences to call out the exploitative nature of the company's industry rivals, participate in public-interest legal actions, and launder high-quality Korps-sourced pharmaceuticals into the legal market - in combination, getting life-saving medications into the hands of those who need them freely or cheaply, and undercutting those exploitative rivals.

Rin's known friends and associates include Dr. Killian, Dr. Amanda "Mindy" Peril, Grace Dunlop, Hibiscus, Maddy Gillespie and Carmen Rayne; and the Fruits Glacées team, particularly Agent Désiree and Tommy Legris.


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