Beta

Overview
Beta is a primary character in the Coco SMP. He fills a unique niche as a deuteragonist, and as a primary character as seen throughout the storyline. The was the fourth member recruited, with the fifth being Isaac, who was right after him. Beta has prominently been a main-character throughout the Coco SMP, and with more recent quests/adventures, has remained ever-so active. He is also a secondary-character in the Online Mode, where helps with raid setups and can help the Online Protagonist with electronic-based setups, for a fee of the player's currency.

Personality
Beta keeps his options simple, he either determines whether he believes if someone is worthy or not of helping or recruiting. Despite this, others find him humorous and see him as a respectable, trustworthy, and helpful in many situations. He also comes across to many as apathetic by not showing much interest in certain people's issues or problems (despite those who already have known him). It is because of skills he has learned with computers and electronics in-general is why he is respected as being a semi code breaker, and he has quoted himself as being a "digital genius."

Family
Beta has not revealed any prominent family members, besides an apparent cousin who isn't mentioned often outside of a few cutscenes. It is possible that since it has been proposed that he is a Cyber or transhuman, that he has limited relationships with actual "biological" members of his family.

Max
Sebastian had introduced Beta to Max during an outside training exercise. The two became friends after discussing telepathy and after trying to succeed in creating a facility (which predated Site-11), but it never came into fruition. In later acts, the two would meet up before lectures in the cafetorium where they would discuss odd internet phenomenon such as bizarre happenings, undesirable images, and other strange content that would surface online.

Sebastian
A good friend of Beta's, Sebastian introduced and first reached out to Beta. This naturally lead to the two having a good friendship with one another which continues into the present setting, of course. The two have appeared on the most amount of quests with themselves, and Beau. Beta always appears alongside Sebastian and usually either breaks off to do his own thing, or assists him in various tasks. Beta would note that finding Night Gang was a lucky occurrence, as per revealed in the mission, The Wrap Up, which shows he truly thinks that the group is worth his time, as he has invested a lot into it.

Isaac
Similar to that of Kaleb, Isaac used to be a prominent close friend of Beta's. It is unclear why, but it can be inferred that since Isaac was already teased by Kaleb for his playboy-esque nature, that Beta included confronting Isaac about it. Originally not caring too much, Isaac then grew to find that the consistent questioning about what he is doing with so many women drove him to asking the rest of Night Gang to tone it down with confronting him on everything. Though it is possible that Beta was just concerned for Isaac, as Isaac was the leader of Night Gang during the time Beta joined the group. In more recent times, they also have a hate-like relationship with one another.

Kaleb
Beta's relationship with Kaleb is neutral at best. The two interact fairly often, and mention each other semi-frequently, yet they go on and off it would seem. Expanding on this idea, Kaleb might agree or even find Beta humorous in a certain sense, yet if Beta were to make an error on a concept than it is obviously seen that this greatly annoys Kaleb. Kaleb once even called Beta a "dumbass", however this was at a point when Sebastian and Ivan were enacting various acts or scenes of annoyance to him. To conclude their relationship in the modern day/present, the two appear to have a better relationship, and even have been seen to work together. A great example of this was when Max recruited Beta to help him defeat a Mutant Waterbottle, and Kaleb joined in to help the duo in the mission, Gladiatorum, which itself was apart of EPIC RPG.

Beau
Due to various interactions with Sebastian following and concluding 2020, Beau and Beta had a naturally-good progressing relationship with one another. The two would often join Sebastian in various quests, and appear the most in missions/quests that are set in 2020 and even early 2021. They often make harmless jokes about one another, and mostly respect each other to an extent.

Ivan
TBD.

Sean
TBD.

Background

 * "Holy shit dude, Beta knows parkour?"
 * ―Sebastian exclaiming to the rest of Night Gang, after Beta chased after Isaac for his laptop.

It is not certain where Beta had originally lived, or if he has always lived in Downtown before even the start of the various main-events of the Coco SMP. However, it can be inferred that Beta has lived there for all of his life, or at least since 2011, however this is still unconfirmed and is ultimately pure speculation. What is known though, is Beta 's keen obsession with electronic performance, and it is widely known that he admires and is interested in digital jail-breaking and cypher-depicting.

Living in Downtown

 * "Stayed after today, windy as hell."
 * ―Beta in a text to Max.

After seemingly living in Downtown already, Beta was no stranger to Afrika Tek. He had became interested in submitting and application to potentially join them when he saw an advert in which it was explained that the company was in need of code-breakers, or those with digital/electronic experience. Beta, not being a shy one, decided to apply to which his application would be accepted some weeks later. He would attend seminar's at the Institution of Afrika Tek, where he would study for weeks. Not knowing too many people at the institute, Beta kept a close eye on his perceedings, with little time invested in meeting new people. However, this all changed when he first met Sebastian in October of 2017. He would explain to Beta that he was looking for someone with potential basic, entry-level programming skills to trace a location of a Labej Maraov, promising Beta he would pay him back somehow. Agreeing, Beta was excited for this, as it would be his first gig. Beta would provide key evidence on Maraov to the trio during The Jewel of Africa.

2017
Beta would originally keep to himself, and prepare himself for the first day at the Institution of Afrika Tek by practicing his cypher-skills. He would attempt an decipher on the internet mystery of Cicada 3301, but he would postpone his work on the case due to a lack of resources, and time being limited since he had an interview with Afrika Tek shortly after. It would be at the Institution of Afrika Tek where Beta would meet Sebastian and later meet Kaleb and Max. This would lead him into joining Night Gang. Despite the illegal nature of this raid on a higher up in Afrika Tek's house, (Labej Maraov), he would agree since Sebastian promised he would pay him back in some sort of way, whether it would be currency or a high-favor. Beta agreed to this, and this can be seen as the basis of the Night Gang's intelligence section, however, Beta would not be recruited into this, and the organization would dwindle in later years but would remain active to present day. Another note taken on by various members is that Beta's loyalty to Night Gang started here, this would immediately earn the trust of the original trio who would be very thankful for Beta's help, despite there turning out to be no actual reward for helping them.

The Jewel Heist

 * "Sure."
 * ―Beta to Sebastian, in The Jewel of Africa.

Beta proposed that he will be able to trace various emails from Labej Maraov to a certain address. He would provide the correct information on the location of the Maraov Estate, but was not able to hatch his way into security feed, or any protection details that Labej could have insinuated. Just by pure chance, Beta had uncovered an email whilst Max and Kaleb were breaking and entering into Labej's residency. It had stated that he would be away from his property during this time, since the heist took place on Halloween day, and he possibly did not want to be disturbed by potential trick or treaters at the time. Beta would quickly share this information with the duo, easing them by a large margine. Unfortunately, Beta discovered an email late, saying that the gem would not actually be at Labej's estate, but instead it is to be transferred Afrika Tek's headquarters in Kampala, Uganda, where an unknown buyer would acquire the item. Beta would break the news around the time that Kaleb had seen the email on Labej's open laptop, and he would suggest to Sebastian that there are other ways that Night Gang can be a partner of Afrika Tek.

Post-Jewel Heist

 * "That was a total, waste."
 * ―Beta's reaction.

Beta had already determined that decision that he knew he wouldn't actually get any benefit such as a reward as Sebastian had guaranteed, but Beta did not take this in a bad way. He instead opted to see this as a growing experience and set out to continue his experiences with Night Gang. Sebastian, impressed by this, quickly offered Beta to join, to which he agreed. After this, he would better meet Kaleb and Max, and get along with them to great extents. Days after his recruitment, he would meet fellow newly recruited member at the time, Isaac whilst at a luncheon with Sebastian, Kaleb, and Max respectively. Beta would find it humorous that Isaac was a pretentious type of person, and naïve to call himself a self-proclaimed "gangster." Due to this prior experience however, it was opted that Isaac should take the role of leader as Night Gang, to which Beta would support this decision by stating "he has the most experience out of all of us." Already being a likeable member, Beta would gain the trust of others and introduce people outside of Night Gang to the group to see if they were fit for joining. Most however we never realized as true members of Night Gang, and instead were called "contractors" due to their limited and expendable usage by the group. Despite being close enough to Max and Kaleb to know their intentions, he would not be informed about the GlobeX raid's, and would mostly not be active upon those.

2018

 * "But why?"
 * ―Beta's reaction to not being able to join the High Council of Night Gang.

Already being seen as a staple member of Night Gang, Beta would attend most setups and raids done by the group. Beta would be keen on focusing on getting to the spot of being put into the High Council, which was a select committee created by Sebastian and Max to regulate and keep order internally in Night Gang. But his requests would ultimately be denied because it would be noted that three out of five members originally were already placed into this council and too many would be seen as unjustified for balance. Understandably, Beta would hope that more members would flock to join Night Gang, meaning there would have to be another member added. Due to this and Beta actually wanting to see Night Gang expand, he would seek out other people of interest and attempt to get them to join Night Gang. Unfortunately, many would just be overlooked or not be considered actual members of Night Gang, and more of "contractors" since they were quickly expendable associates who could not be traced back to Night Gang in case of any situation. It can be inferred that other member's have noted Beta's determination, and due to this he was given a semi-promotion to Moderator. This would be a unique role that only he inhabits, and it can be seen as an advisor to the High Council, and a temporary decision maker for Night Gang low-levels. Sebastian would also introduce Ivan to the group, and Beta would befriend him soon after. Interestingly, he would not appear in Galápagos RPG at all.

2019
During 2019, Beta is still a prominent member, and has attracted fellow people of interest to associate themselves with the group more. It can be traced to Beta for being the one that would originally introduce people and new members to/around Night Gang, something that other members would do in the future since it was a genuinely good idea, and omitted members from joining with zero previous experience. Beta would also hark remarks about Colin's disappearance from the school entirely. This sparked a large amount of controversies, such as why Colin's mother would be seen with a body guard, however these conspiracy's would last to present day and many of Night Gang recount that Colin could possibly be Night Gang's greatest enigma. Beta would also start meeting Max in the morning in the cafetorium where they would discuss internet oddities, bizarre happenings, and other interesting concepts at the time. The two would also share a wide arrange of courses with fellow Night Gang members such as Sebastian and Ivan. Beau would also meet Beta around this time in 2019, and the two became good friends thanks to Sebastian. When Zenith RPG rolled around, Beta would be yet again a prominent figure, alongside Beau and Sebastian who would put time into skill basis's. Kaleb would also be present with Max at times, but not severely or impactful to the storyline. Online Mode allows various setups to occur if the Online Protagonist so desires to join the Night Gang/Faction, and he will be present and after the mission, Infiltration will be a contactable character who can do various electronic jobs for the player.

2020
Starting off the year 2020, Beta would mention that he still isn't a member of the High Council, to which Sebastian promotes him again to Moderator, which had previously expired in 2019. Beta, Sebastian, and Beau would continue communications between the three of them and still go on raids and hunts. Unfortunately, certain members of Night Gang fell off for a time period, such as Max and Kaleb, but they would quickly be re-contacted by either Sebastian or Beta and would relink up with their old friends. Beta would serve a prominent role in supporting Sebastian and Beau in these raids, sometimes Max would join the trio but not very often. Beta once again would put this parkour skill basis to good usage, and was able to traverse caverns, villages, and facilities with a noticeable amount of skill. Beta would comment on Kaleb's seemingly dull absence from Night Gang, to which others would agree that Kaleb has been less and less active with the group per year, but it would be understandable as Kaleb desired other prospects in life, such as discovering rare items in Uganda for Afrika Tek. Beta would also appear in new online content, such as in the heist The Pyramid Job.

2021
Beta now appears still very active, but has somewhat returned to a more "academic" approach to situations. He will often see how he can use his skill basis to an advantage. This might be an ode to Kaleb, however this is unconfirmed and is pure speculation, and using this method approach is not very uncommon, and is considered a smart choice to use when in a strife. Beta again appears in Carnage RPG as a supporting character. Beta would contact certain key members of Night Gang, such as Max, and presumably Beau and Sebastian, stating that due to his personal life being complex, and him wanting to conclude a better understanding of concepts that he did not disclose, Beta announced a departure from events in March of 2021. However, still remaining as a member of Night Gang, he was announced missing, or "AWOL" on March 21st, 2021. Despite this, efforts to track down Beta would mostly been fruitless due to the reason that it is out of respect, and it is knowingly annoying to try to disturb him whilst on a self-proclaimed "break" by cutting all contact.

Murders Committed by Beta

 * Emicka (Indirectly, possibly gave location)

Hackings Committed by Beta

 * Various system infiltrations into Afrika Tek.
 * Three system infiltrations into GlobeX computer systems.

Coco SMP

 * Creation
 * Surveying the Score
 * The Jewel of Africa

Online Mode

 * Infiltration
 * The Pyramid Job