| “ | The doc said I'd never develop fine motor skills. So you know what I did? I proved the bastard wrong, and I never, ever looked back. | „ |
| ~ Jazz |
Yasmin Hadiyya (Arabic: ياسمين هادية, Yāsmin Hādīyah), better known as Jazz, is a main character in Cybermania. Born deep in San Rosario's decaying district of Noise City with tremors in her hands, her dreams of following in her Shamari parents' footsteps as a technician were crushed. Refusing to accept this fate, Jazz used her life savings to buy her own set of cybernetic arms.
The transformation opened Jazz's eyes. It was then she became a proud believer in the potential of cybernetics to overcome limitations, although she learned to mistrust mainstream technology early on. Determined to spread its good word, Jazz joined the Cyberpunk Brotherhood, San Rosario's criminal underworld, becoming a reputable dealer in custom-built cybernetics while staying out of public eyes.
Personality[]
Jazz is a fiercely intelligent, independent, and deeply wounded engineer whose life has been shaped by pain, betrayal, and survival. Once a girl who was told she'd never function normally, she (literally) rebuilt herself through raw determination and unflinching defiance. Her cybernetics aren’t about fashion or fantasy. They are tools. Weapons. Armor against a world that chewed her up and spat back out.
She operates out of a cluttered, makeshift workshop hidden in the underbelly of Noise City, surrounded by worn machines, broken dreams, and illegal weapons she can’t sell because she knows exactly who’d use them. She doesn’t trust easily, least of all people without implants.
Jazz refuses help, partnership, or even casual trust. She's convinced any form of vulnerability will be exploited. Every favor comes with strings. Every deal is a test. She's the kind of person who double-checks every handshake.
Her wit is sharp and laced with bitterness. She’ll insult a client mid-surgery if she thinks they’re soft. Her version of “small talk” usually involves anatomy, system failures, or betrayal. If she smiles, it’s probably because she’s messing with you.
Jazz handles danger by controlling the people around her through debt. If someone wrongs her, she collects. If someone owes her, she doesn’t forget. She sees emotions as liabilities, and control as the only real currency.
Jazz believes implants don’t change you; they reveal you. In her mind, the world isn't cruel because of technology; technology just removes the mask. She sees people like Tes-- those who resist cybernetics--as naive, or worse: deniers of reality.
Jazz is a woman who's upgraded every part of herself, minus the part that got hurt. She sees organs as obsolete, weakness as failure, and emotional intimacy as a luxury she can't afford. She’s respected, feared, and utterly alone.
Jazz sees the world as a machine, and she’s learned to upgrade herself into something even colder to survive it.
Abilities[]
The Hot Wire was originally designed for firmware updates and neural interfacing with machines. In Jazz’s hands, it has become something far more dangerous: a weapon of precision, control, and raw electric force.
It is nearly undetectable in passive state, coiled within Jazz's left arm when not in use. Where others rely on brute force, Jazz connects, infiltrates, and dominates through the very technology that sustains the city. In combat, it offers a hybrid of close-quarters control and technological warfare.
It can be used like a whip, lashing with crackling energy to disable, disarm, or damage enemies- especially effective against robots and cybernetically enhanced foes. With enough charge, it can be used to incapacitate enemies with taser-like electrical shock.
As a lasso, it can entangle and reel in targets, even disarm them. Jazz can additionally use it for quick launches into flight in conjunction with her wings.
The Hot Wire's direct neural uplink allows Jazz to interface with some vehicles, robots, computer systems. She can override enemy tech or feed false data into security networks.
Zylo the Wolf[]
Zylo is Jazz's giant robot pet wolf, who she created out of spare Badnik hardware. Zylo serves as her personal guardian, and she is capable of summoning him any time with a whistle. Zylo is a violent, territorial machine that Jazz once described as a "ferrovore," targeting mostly people with cybernetics. However, even Tes, having none of his own, was almost attacked by Zylo while visiting Jazz. The robot is usually kept in a cage to protect Jazz's customers. Zylo's favorite snack are motherboards.
Relationships[]
Akio Tsukuda[]
Jazz views Akio as a necessary evil: a client who brings her work and connections in the hyperball scene, yet also representing everything she hates about the mainstream, especially since he owes her a significant debt. Throughout Cybermania, Jazz hunts Akio down in attempts to claim his debt, and will do so by any means necessary.
Tesla Hunt[]
Jazz initially saw Tes, a passionate opponent to cybernetics, as naïve and out of his depth, even once calling him "stuck in the past." Over time, she recognizes his potential and reluctantly becomes a mentor. Their dynamic is marked by tension, with Jazz pushing Tes to face uncomfortable truths about himself and the world around him.
Conficker[]
Despite having no cybernetics, Conficker was once a regular of Jazz's business, only requesting antibo in bulk. Jazz thought of Conficker as a strange individual, but nothing alarming. It was only when she witnessed Conficker mysteriously controlling her hardware stockpile that she came to fear him. The experience traumatized Jazz, but she hadn't seen him since.
Trivia[]
- Jazz is the only character in Cybermania to be left-handed.
- Jazz's last name, Hadiya, comes from the Arabic word for gift, ultimately deriving from هدى (hadā) meaning "to lead the right way, to guide". This is a reference to how Jazz becomes Tes' guide into San Rosario's criminal underworld.
- Jazz was originally designed to be a dark Cybermania equivalent to Amy Rose. In her 2020 design, she even had a hammer resembling hers.
- Zylo was named after a wolf-like character of the same name from the 1992 SEGA Genesis video game, Shining Force.