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CHARACTERS
Character Bios
Tara Vivas
Come on. Pop queen, about a quadrillion albums
sold, Tara Vivas was the woman every teenage
girl wanted to be, and the one every teen-
age guy just plain wanted. Her singing career
crashed, literally, a few years ago, when she
lost control of her hovercar and collided with
another vehicle, killing the parents of a young
girl named Alicia Waverly.
Tara slowly built a new career as a
Quantum
Redshift racer but, last year, lost the North
American crown to a certain upstart racer
named
—
yeah
—
Alicia Waverly. Think
there’s a grudge here?
Prince
Yuri Galitz
So, this guy says he’s the last
descendant of the Czars of Russia,
and no, that’s not the name of a band.
Other people say he’s just a crime lord
with lots of money (enough to buy his
own personal kingdom in the mother
country). I’m sure he’s just a really nice,
misunderstood guy. (Sucking up never hurts,
my friends. Say it with me now).
Superstitious by nature, “Prince” Yuri believes
the World Championship is his destiny.
Kumiko Nikaido
I’ve been to Japan, and lemme tell you, you can’t swing
a dead anything around without smacking it into a
picture of Kumiko Nikaido. The woman has her own
national holiday, folks. I don’t make this stuff up.
She’s even more popular than her dad, Shingen,
who had a massive run as Japan’s national
Quantum
Redshift champion back in the golden days. And she’s
way more popular than her sister, Ami, who went
rotten cuz her dad never hugged her enough. Or
something. I’m not, like, a shrink here.
Zaki Shaheen
Here’s a weird story. This college kid is on a dig in
some tomb in Egypt, and a sandstorm comes up and
blows him into the desert. Everyone thinks he’s dead.
Then
—
wham. He walks back into civilization years later.
This is Zaki Shaheen.
Zaki, who was an amateur
Quantum
Redshift enthusiast before the storm,
claims his inheritance (and yeah, it’s
more than you’re getting) and goes
full bore into the sport, maintaining
that his time in the desert made him
tougher and more deserving of victory
than anyone on Earth.
And if that’s not weird enough, now there’s
this guy in a Pharaoh mask who keeps
popping up at races and basically trying to
run him into the ground. Is
my life this
interesting? No.
Jordan Reynolds
Finally, a World Cham-
pionship. I suppose I
can stop holding
back now.
Ship: Talamur
Pilot: Jordan Reynolds
Weapons: Plasma