Vector "Yora'tu" Kertan's Questionnaire

1. What town or city do you live in? Why do you live there instead of anywhere else? Describe your home.

Link Answered after Contract 2, Truck Stop

Yora'tu lives in a small town near Düsseldorf. His parents have there a second house, that they rented to ppl. Once Yora'tu turned 20 they kicked him out, but gave him a option to live there for a somewhat lower rent (and payment for repairs). He took the offer as he had not enough to be anywhere else while being close to one of the biggest Europe's gaming convention.

The house is 1 floor 2+1. One of the rooms act as his bedroom and livingroom, the other is a gameroom. Livingroom is quite plain, bed, table with two chairs and quite a few posters. The other room is more interesting. One of the walls is a shelf containing stacks of games in various collector editions while top of it is a collection of action figures and other rare-to-unique items from games, tournaments etc. Except that there are two tables. One with a two monitors and computer under it and second that Yora'tu uses to fiddle with electronics.

2. How do you get your money right now? What do you spend it on?

Link Answered after Contract 3, Honeymoon

Concept of money is something Yora'tu didn't really caught as a kid. Reality check in form of getting kicked out by his parents was quite harsh. He has some part-time job as a tester so at least the job is fun, but it doesn't pay much. In addition to it every spare cent goes into another game, action figure or just something like this.

His account is always on a verge of nothingness, but he always manages to have just enough so he can buy the newest title in collector's edition. Sometimes this means a foodless day. It doesn't bother him that much as every week he takes himself into a gaming café, where he always win a big sale on meal.

Once he wants to create a game that will make him enough money.

3. Describe your Ambition. What are you striving for? How far would you go to achieve this? Would you kill for it? How close to death would you come for it?

Link Answered after Contract 4, The Essence of Fear

Yora'tu sees world unfair, it doesn't give you option to pre-plan your build, take level whenever you want. Progress is painful, expensive and most of the times just a unrefundable waste of ones time and power to get xp you'll never use again.
He wishes for a respec button. A way to wake up from one dream and begin to dream again, dream better. To become his own player and character. And he will be the first of them, the Templar, the one with power to reset, respec and repair anything and anyone.
He was always a dreamer, thinking himself to be psionic warrior and master crafter. Now he sees his dream as is his reality.

As for death, he'd say YOLO, but you don't get to live unless your dreams become your goals and your goals become your reality. And once you achieve this you can't really die anymore.

4. What was the most defining event of your life (before signing The Contract), and how did it change you?

Link Answered after Contract 5, The Demon Cabinet of Mr Long

Yora'tu had been living a rich childhood without needing to even take out trash. He was never a spoiled kid, he had his gaming PC, Console and a small (in size of a wall) bookshelf filled with his collecitons.

That was until his 20th birthday when his mother kicked him out with ultimatum: "You get yourself life, or you are sleeping outside."

And she actually did that. Yora'tu slept few nights in house garden, before he remembered a small guesthouse a bit more on the edge of his hometown. He went there and used keys he took during one argument to get inside. Here he knew this is not new standard. He called his friend and got himself a software tester job. It paid actually well. After few weeks dodging parents visits to the guesthouse, he finally met them with the news. After an argument they agreed to let him live under the roof under conditions of paying rent and taking care of the house.

On the table there is a dagger shaped stone he found first day, as a reminder what is money worth. And as a nod to his dream: Make Life a game.

5. Name and briefly describe three people in your life. One must be the person you are closest to.

Link Answered after Contract 6, This is a lot

Derek Kertan, a successful businessman in real estate area. Cold and calculating, but he has a soft spot for his son, who he even calls Yora'tu in public. If there is problem he let Yora'tu solve it and fail again and again just to give him experience and mindset of never giving up. He does always give some gift to further root in the "Do something and get much" though he used to gain his ritches. At first it hurt to see his son falling into gaming and spending, but that's a lecture he will gladly oversee. Now that Yora'tu goes on his missions, however deadly, he is happy to see his son wake up and stand for himself.

On the other hand Mia Tanemann Kertan, Yora'tu's mother, is a psychologist. Where Derek has compassion she sees experiment. She's never satisfied with blunt results and wants to know why. She is partial cause of Yora'tu's gaming, as he tried to hide from her into online games. And she knows it. 

Tomas, aka TommyGun, is Yora'tu's maybe only real friend. He has his back, mostly in games. They have met quite a few times despite being from different countries, mostly on Cons.