Decie is a wise cracking man with a brain that works both methodically and quickly. His morals are gray; his only real goal is completing the job at the end of the day. Very knowledgeable in law and criminology, Decie prides himself on being the best person to get somebody in and out of Stem Tower's sightline.
As he's aged, though, he's taken a step back from all of his investigative work to settle down in a small town, far from the corruption and degeneracy that Stem Island is filled with. If he was never offered another job and allowed to live a peaceful life, he'd be fine with that.
He has an IQ of roughly 180.
Decie will refuse to eat anything sweet. His teeth are rotten and full of cavities.
He smokes at least one Felgood a day.
Lives in the tiny Outlands village known as Core. He spends most of his time helping the folks around Core. He is still hired as a private investigator sporadically via his years-old reputation alone, and he supports his home with the money he rakes in.
Growing up as the oldest in a strict middle-class family with almost a dozen siblings, Decie found himself constantly having to defend both himself and his favorite brothers and sisters from their parents's wrath. It was a thrill that he came to love. He grew up aceing his education and ended up taking classes for Stem City history and law, two niche fields in the incredibly business-centric Stem City.
Studying was the only thing he did for years. He learned everything he could about Stem City, past and present, along with the people who resided in it. After enough time, the young man became one of the most knowledgeable nobles around, somebody who would be able to figure out any legal case you threw at him and get the proper evidence shipped off to Stem Tower in no time. Decie was a horrific frankenstein between a private investigator and a bounty hunter.
Decie took on a lot of jobs that he knew the public would hate him for. However, he did what he was paid to do without asking questions. His hands got dirty frequently, often making him worse than most of the men he had snagged and turned in before.
In XX806, the detective suffered a terrible accident during a chase. Despite him only being 40 years old, he suffered a near-fatal stress-induced heart attack. The near-death experience left his determined spirit broken. Decie was out of business for a long period of time. People came to him job after job, and the man was obligated to decline as he recovered. Every declined job hurt his pride more and more until...
He couldn't take the stress of not living up to his reputation. One day, Decie had a psychotic break and vanished into the dim shadows of Stem City.
The Outlands settlement of Core found him lying unconscious in the watering hole. They took him in and cared for him like he was one of their own. The detective took years to shake off his paranoid, cynical, and rough nature. Armed with a single illegal firearm, the man swore to protect the off-world villagers from despair.
Noble PIs found him eventually. They asked him to come back to Stem City, his family, and his job, which he all politely denied. Word of his whereabouts still spread back home. The few desperate enough to seek him out would come with real jobs and real worries. Sometimes the desires of his clients were cruel, but most simply wanted justice. His pride was still a core part of his personality; he took jobs that the desperate gave and used the payment to improve the lives of everybody back at Core.
Philly "Squawk" Delly - Hired by Ms. Delly to investigate the origins of a mysterious briefcase she handed over to Mr. Backster years ago and all the strange circumstances surrounding it. There is currently an ongoing joint investigation between the two. Philly's spunk reminds the detective a lot of how he felt during those early years.