Sawyer Li

Summary
Sawyer Li is the main protagonist of Cherubim of Polaris. She is a hitwoman in the VR world, before she is set by her boss Bravo on a mission to track down who ordered the assassination of Starlight Sagittarius. This sends her down a rabbit hole in the VR world.

IRL World
Sawyer has grey eyes and medium length black hair, styled into two short pigtails and bangs. She has a black and white hoodie that is oversized, given to her by Apollo; underneath she wears black cycling shorts, with pink and white sneakers and baggy white socks.

VR World
Sawyer has light grey eyes with black hair styled into a shorter version of her regular hair style, but cartoonishly more spiky. She wears a pink headset with cat ears and antenna (one bent into a somehow functional microphone), and a pink visor over her eyes. She has a strong and mildly muscular build.

She wears a cropped, hot pink patent leather jacket with multiple patches and badges on; a black undershirt; a pair of baby pink shorts with a black belt and suspenders hanging around her waist; fingerless driving gloves; and black thigh-high boots that has a 'friendship ring' around her left thigh.

Personality

 * Sawyer is can be very intelligent and cunning, despite her immature and childish façade (although most of the time her morals are not in the right place.) She often is quite manipulating and untrustworthy, quickly switching personalities and stories to get where she wants to be, this led to her employment at Syzygy.inc.


 * She likes to 'fake being an idiot', she likes to cause trouble and chaos just for the thrill. She puts on a cheerful and childish act to have fun, in contrast to Apollo.


 * She is very easily swayed by money, and is often put into risky situations because of it.
 * Despite her untrustworthy behaviour, she is very loyal to people close to her, and puts a lot of trust into her clients.
 * She tends to bottle up feelings
 * She is quite selfish, valuing her own interests over most others.

Scythe

 * Sawyer's scythe has a glowing pink blade and a black handle, with hot pink grip tape around it, similar to a hockey stick handle
 * It was Apollo's first successful weapon
 * It is her main weapon for her sports in the RPG element in the VR world
 * It is her main weapon for close-distance combat for her job.

Pistol

 * It is a regular-looking pistol
 * She does not use it much, and is seen more posing with it rather than using it
 * Given to her by Bravo on her 18th birthday

Sniper Rifle

 * It looks like a regular sniper rife, but the parts she added to it has a starkly different colour scheme compared to the original grey
 * It is her main weapon for her job
 * The bullets are made by Apollo
 * It was the weapon provided when she first started her job

Sword

 * It is based off a sword from a generic isekai anime, it is baby pink with many angel wings attached to the guard.
 * Sawyer does not know how to use it properly
 * She won it from a motorcycle race competition

Childhood
Sawyer's father, Alex, died from an illness when she was very young, leaving her mother spiralling into depression and suffer financially. Her mother, Xiang, often emotionally neglected her when she was a child. While growing up, Sawyer often went on her mother's VR set while sleeping and developed her hobby of motorcycle racing, and did various jobs or games to earn money for her mother.

During this time, Xiang eventually had enough money to buy a small apartment, and Sawyer met her new neighbours' son, Apollo Ward. She instantly hit it off with the family, Beau and Adrien Ward becoming more like parental figures than her own mother. Sawyer also went to the same middle school as Apollo, and they became inseparable. Sawyer earnt enough money to buy her own VR system, Apollo often helping her by creating his very first successful weapon, her scythe.

Beginning of her hitwoman career
While randomly scamming a random sketchy player, they made a bet to whoever could 'take down' a head moderator of TechnikStar, would win 2.3M G. Blinded by riches, she requested Apollo to modify her scythe to actually kill the person behind the screen. Apollo was reluctant at first, but also swayed by the numbers of the prize money, he eventually backed down. She won the bet without the assassination ever getting traced back to her; the person behind the bet turned out to be her soon-to-be-boss, Bravo, and hired her for one of the biggest companies, rivalling TechnikStar, Syzygy.inc.

Bravo acted somewhat as a mentor to Sawyer and gave her the Sniper Rifle as a 'Welcoming gift.' Her hitwoman career was enough to keep her and her mother stable in their small apartment, and everything was going smoothly.

That was until a client came with a request to kill Starlight Sagittarius, a pop idol in the VR world that her and Apollo absolutely adored and looked up to. She initially refused the offer, shoving her pride aside, but Bravo and the client kept insisting she took the job. Apollo's shock and grief caused Sawyer to feel extremely guilty, and never reveal that it was her who killed Starlight.

That client was actually one of the superpowers of the VR World, Seraphina.