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Name: Ekko
Contact: jupiter(dot)kincaid(at)gmail(dot)com; PMs through this account.
Age: 30
Other Characters: None
Character Information
Name: Felix
Canon: Original
Canon Point: Approximately 2 years after escaping from the organization, and about 1 week after running away from Libra (2115).
Age: 10
History:
The World
Felix comes from the year 2115, and lives (lived?) in the United States of America. Almost 70 years ago, from his perspective, nanotechnology was developed to the point that it could be used, as an injection, to begin treating injuries and diseases. It was only a few years before nanites, injected in some subjects as early as birth, provided care for a host of health issues. In 2115, most estimates place between 75 and 80% of the population of the United States had health-related nanites. Memory, weight, strength, stamina, even aging were all improved among those with the technology.
For all of the bonuses that it brought, however, there were drawbacks. The cost of nanite tech was exorbitant. The cost of healthcare decreased as a whole, but individual costs skyrocketed, as even the healthiest people now spent large portions of their income maintaining their tech. Internationally, tension have been rising for years, and everyone acknowledges, at least tacitly, that there is an almost desperate arms race between a dozen nations, all fighting in proxy battles around the globe. While the quality of life granted the normal person has increased in the last century, the stress put forward by the pressures of society remain.
Much of the technology we know today, in one form or another, remains in the next century: cars, smartphones, computers and television can all be found in one form or another, though they often work in ways very different from the versions of 2017’s technology. Cars drive themselves, smart phones have braked AI components which handle many of the minutiae of day-today tasks, and the nanites form a link between all of the aspects of technology found in one’s life.
The Boy
Felix was born to a young couple with financial and health troubles. His father, an immigrant from Argentina, wasn’t doing well at work, and his young wife only got sicker after the baby was born. Over the next year and a half, things only got worse. The baby’s health was often poor, due more to circumstance than anything else, and when the doctors softly told the couple that he’d passed away, his mother didn’t make it to the following morning. In grief, the father left the country, and has never made any effort to come back and try again, or even to visit his family’s graves.
He had no idea his son was kidnapped.
Felix was taken in, his nanites flashed; no one would be able to trace him that way. For the next six and half years, he was upgraded and conditioned to be a killer, loyal to Country - and the Country was represented by his guards and his handlers and no one else. He got new nanites, upgraded and dangerous, both to him and to those around him. He was drilled in marksmanship, hand-to-hand fighting, stealth. Failure was not tolerated, and mistakes were punished harshly. He became a quiet, stern, and very poorly adjusted child.
If there hadn’t been other children, he would have cracked apart completely; as it was, he simply unravelled at the seams.
When he was 6, 22 children were upgraded with a highly unstable, highly dangerous set of nanites. 13 of them died; Felix wasn’t one of the lucky ones. He, with the remaining 8 other children, were arranged into 3 teams, a “hub” and two others. The hubs were the team leaders, and received additional implants to help coordinate the teams, store and analyze data, and serve as mobile communication points for extended missions. Felix wasn’t a hub; he was simply a member of a team.
None of the children were named; instead, they we given names which they had to respond to immediately, until new names were provided. This occured at random intervals, which differed for each child, forcing them all to constantly adapt when speaking, even amongst themselves.
After that, they added nanite control and manipulation to the training. He learned to stop and restart his heart, to regulate his body temperature and metabolic rate, enhance his vision and hearing and speed for short bursts, dull pain and even, more recently, to remotely link up with someone else’s nanite system and hijack its functions.
The children became remotes capable of causing a heart attack, a stroke, hypothermia in the middle of summer...anyone with nanites could become his target, with time and a little luck. He was 7 when he proved that luck was on his side. The senator was dead four minutes after shaking his hand at a meet-and-greet with school children from around the country.
Things probably would have gone differently if the guards hadn’t been chosen for their cruelty. After one of the kids put him on the ground, a guard got mad, and lost control. He hit the girl hard, and didn’t stop. Felix and his squad killed the guard, but it was too late; the kid was dead, too. Events began spiralling quickly. One of the scientists, a man who was trapped in the system as much as the subjects he was forced to work on, helped the kids to escape.
Other operatives had defected over the course of the previous 5 years, and they helped the children and scientist find refuge with a corporation that had been working to counter the work of the organization from which they’d escaped. At this point, they were brought under the protection of Libra, a corporation which worked to oppose the blacksite operations of the facility which created them.
The children mostly kept the names which they had at the time of their escape, though a few took their birth names instead, if they were reunited with their families. The three teams: Devon (killed during escape, birth name), James (reunited with family, birth name), and Felix (not reunited, kept name); Heidi (Not reunited, kept name), Edward (not reunited, took birth name), and Rebecca (killed by guard prior to escape); and Layla (not reunited, kept name), Kevin (reunited with family, twin of Jared, birth name), and Jared (reunited with family, twin of Kevin, birth name).
Isabella Rhodes and her husband, Blanc Leoprid, adopted the children who didn’t have families to return to. Rhodes was a former marine, and Leoprid a former cop; together, they offered the children a supportive environment that still had the set rules and expectations that they’d come to need and rely on. In addition to their parents, Libra sheltered 3 former operatives of an older generation who became as close as family to Felix and his siblings.
Beth was taciturn and dour, maybe, but she was also fair and honest (even when it hurt); they knew she was going to tell them the truth, though they admittedly didn’t always want her to. Erika, on the other hand, was the kind of crazy, wacky aunt everyone wishes they had. She taught them about pranks, laughter, and being general dangers to public welfare. Ginia, the third operative, was somewhere in the middle; she let the kids have fun, even encouraged it, but had comparatively little patience for their lack of social skills; she expected them to use the manners they were learning, and so they did, as a rule.
Along with his brother Edward and sisters Heidi and Layla, Felix spent time socializing, learning to be his own person. The other children (James, Kevin, and Jared) were returned to their families by Libra. Of all the children, Felix suffered from it the most, feeling incomplete without the full team at hand. Though not a hub, he has found himself somewhat pressured into the position of “team leader”, as he and Devon had the connection to Sawyer, the tech that helped them to escape, and after Devon’s death, it was Felix that got the other kids to snap back and run. After that, they all started to defer to him. It doesn’t help that he has the least problem speaking up to strangers, and for a long time, they were surrounded by strangers.
Given all of this, when James began acting strangely on the rare occasions they were able to speak, Felix reacted immediately, and went to Beth, Ginia, and Erika for help. The adults, however, felt they had indulged him too much; and so he was told to let them handle and get back to his own life. He didn’t like the answer, and so he stole Erika’s motorcycle and set out for Florida on his own. When Libra came after him, he naturally assumed the worst, given his history, and went into full flight mode, concluding that, like the organization that made him, they had no intention of letting him go.
Of all the hunters, only Erika managed to catch him, briefly, largely because he took her bike. The confrontation was tense, but even after she pulled a weapon on him, he didn’t want to hurt her, and instead disabled her nanites briefly and ran.
He never expected that his path to freedom would lead into a different world.
Personality: Felix is a child, but a child who was built into a weapon with little concern for his well being. He alternates between highly arrogant and wildly vulnerable. He has never built up the normal tools children gather to handle stress, sadness, fear, or anger.
On one side, he is adept at hiding emotions, for a kid, and can cover surprise, shock, anger (strong reactions) very well at the time. He’s fine with blood and death, and the adrenaline of a fight isn’t going to give him the shakes or anything like that. He’s controlled, cool, and able to respond to challenges quickly and decisively, though he often tends towards a more violent solution
The flip side of that, however, is that when his control falters, the failure is catastrophic. While not prone to wild fits of screaming or crying, he can be paralyzed by fear, or so overwhelmed with grief that he struggles to breathe. Though he may appear well balanced, even mature, on the surface, this is far from the truth. Felix bravados his way through life, and whenever the facade cracks, he has absolutely no idea how to handle it.
In broad strokes, his moral compass is, in any practical sense, stuck at 2 years old; he wants what he wants. This has been tempered somewhat by an existence which denied him most anything he wanted (and a great deal of what he needed), but merely makes him suspect a trap if he is offered something without ulterior motive by anyone he doesn’t explicitly trust (and he trusts basically no one). People to whom he grows close, such as the other operatives in his group, his adopted parents, or the senior operatives (including Ginia), are taken into account with his actions, for the most part, but in the end he is still just a selfish little kid. Coupled with his projection of arrogance, he can be very difficult to deal with for most outside of his circle.
Until fairly recently, meeting new people meant one of two things: he was going to be an experiment again (and it would probably hurt), or he was going to kill someone again. While he doesn’t hate strangers, he views them from a practical standpoint: What do they want, and can I use them? This means he doesn’t have many friends, and none his age that weren’t raised with him (other kids have no power to hurt him if he doesn’t give them anything, and they have no long term use for him, either). He’ll cheerfully speak with new people, but unless he fears them or needs them, he is not going to seek them out on his own that often, and either way, it’s probably not going to be sincere.
Abilities: Though young, Felix has been trained in hand-to-hand combat, making him a surprising opponent, if still physically outmatched by a full-sized adult with even basic training (generally). He is less confidant with blades, though he has learned some basic knifework. He is a decent shot with a handgun, if it doesn’t kick too hard; better with a rifle if he can lay out with it and stabilize the thing. He also knows a great deal more about driving than anyone his age has a right to know, but finds it difficult to operate most vehicles still due to his size.
Additionally, Felix has been implanted with a set of advanced combat nanites, a form of nanotechnology which allows him to do a large number of things an average human could not. He can use the nanites to enhance strength (briefly; this is a chemical/hormone reaction, not a physical adjustment to his body). He can stop his heart (or control its rate), though after a short time damage will set in if he doesn’t start it. He can lower or raise his core temperature, dull pain or even deaden nerves (though this means he cannot assess further damage, making the ability dangerous to use, especially over time). He can also improve his senses, though extended use is known to damage the affected organs.
When in a situation that allows him to hack into someone else’s nanite network (which effectively doesn’t exist in this new world, save perhaps for Ginia), Felix can alter most of the autonomic functions on the other person that he can on himself. Stopping hearts, dropping core temperatures, and a host of other invasive and difficult to detect modifications to the programming of the nanite structure mean that, given time enough to identify a target (done most easily via touch), he can kill almost anyone without trace.
Nanites in general also give him a number of simpler benefits, so long as they haven’t been disabled. Felix can’t get sick due to a strengthened immune-response; he heals faster than a normal human; he can breath toxic air or fumes by using the nanites to filter the air, but a buildup inside of his lungs can cause damage after about 10 minutes; and known toxins in anything but copious amounts can be filtered from his blood (which means, among other things, he can’t get drunk), although certain fast-acting toxins, especially natural neurotoxins, can outpace the response time. The nanites even regulate his metabolic rhythms, which means even eating a ton of junk food is compensated for as much as possible - basically, he really can eat as much candy as he wants without a stomach ache.
So long as his nanotech is functioning, he is simply healthier than a human without the tech would be in virtually every way, without an equivalent effort required.
Strengths: Nanotech - Physically, he is capable of things far beyond both a 10-year-old, and often a normal person in general
Training - He was trained to shoot, to fight unarmed, and to blend into a crowd. He is a trained weapon, even if the training wasn’t complete.
Charm - When he focuses, especially when he is around strangers, he is impish, but charming. The veneer works best on people who don’t know him.
Control - Though not true over longer timeframes, during intense situations, he is fully capable of pushing back the worst emotions and reacting on training; in a surprise fight, he may be scared, but he’ll still fight like he planned the ambush himself.
Confidant - I know, I know. But the fact is that he’ll step up and try, even when he might fail. He is afraid of failure, but doesn’t let that stop him; he couldn’t afford not to try when he was growing up.
Weaknesses: Child - And all that that implies. Physically and mentally, he is not mature, and won’t act like he is (don’t tell him that, though).
PTSD - This is from both extended, longterm trauma, and some specific, extra-jolting moments (such as his teammate getting mauled by a guard dog). He may not ~show~ it, but he is not ‘okay’ in any sense of the word most of the time.
Training - While he has many strengths that come from this, he relies on it too much, especially in a world without nanites. Additionally, it makes it hard for him to make his own choices, and harder to weigh them against experience.
Loner - He has friends; the 6 surviving children who were trained with him, and a handful of adults, most of them also operatives. He doesn’t trust easily, and often prefers to do things on his own; this will most certainly include his shinki.
Fear - He lives with fear every day: fear of dogs, fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear of betrayal. He tries to bull his way through, but that means that he often ignores legitimate fears and gets himself into trouble; conversely, even the smallest things can paralyze him with fear at times.
God/Shinki: God
Why?: While Felix spent half his life (during especially important years) taking orders after being built into a literal weapon, the fact of the matter is that he’s been free for two years. While he’s come to terms with not needing orders to make a choice, the fact remains that his moral compass is effectively missing. Like the Gods, he could probably use the guidance of a Shinki or two in order to understand such things.
Top 3 Choices: Set; Egyptian. Anansi; Asante. Asclepius; Greek.
God Type: Active and involved, but always behind the scenes when possible; he doesn’t exactly like a lot of attention. He can do what others can’t, and so he will...but just because he can doesn’t always mean he should, a lesson he has yet to learn. Regardless, his heart is in the right place, and though he may not know how to do better, he is trying to help people. Most of the time. Well, sometimes, anyway. He knows he is supposed to help people, at least.
Power: Felix, as a God, has the power to make those around him invulnerable. Specifically, with a touch, he can encase another with a protective coating of nano-tech armor, which fits almost as closely as a second skin. This armor makes the wearer virtually invincible for a time, turning weapons aside, cushioning impacts (like falls or getting thrown into a wall), even allowing extremes of heat and cold to be tolerated. The armor doesn’t increase natural abilities (strength, speed, aim, etc.), but also doesn’t actively interfere with them, either. It’s meant to protect those who serve Felix in battle from even the most dangerous of enemies.
He cannot apply the armor to himself, only to those around him.
NOTE: This power only applies for 5 minutes.
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Name: Ekko
Contact: jupiter(dot)kincaid(at)gmail(dot)com; PMs through this account.
Age: 30
Other Characters: None
Character Information
Name: Felix
Canon: Original
Canon Point: Approximately 2 years after escaping from the organization, and about 1 week after running away from Libra (2115).
Age: 10
History:
The World
Felix comes from the year 2115, and lives (lived?) in the United States of America. Almost 70 years ago, from his perspective, nanotechnology was developed to the point that it could be used, as an injection, to begin treating injuries and diseases. It was only a few years before nanites, injected in some subjects as early as birth, provided care for a host of health issues. In 2115, most estimates place between 75 and 80% of the population of the United States had health-related nanites. Memory, weight, strength, stamina, even aging were all improved among those with the technology.
For all of the bonuses that it brought, however, there were drawbacks. The cost of nanite tech was exorbitant. The cost of healthcare decreased as a whole, but individual costs skyrocketed, as even the healthiest people now spent large portions of their income maintaining their tech. Internationally, tension have been rising for years, and everyone acknowledges, at least tacitly, that there is an almost desperate arms race between a dozen nations, all fighting in proxy battles around the globe. While the quality of life granted the normal person has increased in the last century, the stress put forward by the pressures of society remain.
Much of the technology we know today, in one form or another, remains in the next century: cars, smartphones, computers and television can all be found in one form or another, though they often work in ways very different from the versions of 2017’s technology. Cars drive themselves, smart phones have braked AI components which handle many of the minutiae of day-today tasks, and the nanites form a link between all of the aspects of technology found in one’s life.
The Boy
Felix was born to a young couple with financial and health troubles. His father, an immigrant from Argentina, wasn’t doing well at work, and his young wife only got sicker after the baby was born. Over the next year and a half, things only got worse. The baby’s health was often poor, due more to circumstance than anything else, and when the doctors softly told the couple that he’d passed away, his mother didn’t make it to the following morning. In grief, the father left the country, and has never made any effort to come back and try again, or even to visit his family’s graves.
He had no idea his son was kidnapped.
Felix was taken in, his nanites flashed; no one would be able to trace him that way. For the next six and half years, he was upgraded and conditioned to be a killer, loyal to Country - and the Country was represented by his guards and his handlers and no one else. He got new nanites, upgraded and dangerous, both to him and to those around him. He was drilled in marksmanship, hand-to-hand fighting, stealth. Failure was not tolerated, and mistakes were punished harshly. He became a quiet, stern, and very poorly adjusted child.
If there hadn’t been other children, he would have cracked apart completely; as it was, he simply unravelled at the seams.
When he was 6, 22 children were upgraded with a highly unstable, highly dangerous set of nanites. 13 of them died; Felix wasn’t one of the lucky ones. He, with the remaining 8 other children, were arranged into 3 teams, a “hub” and two others. The hubs were the team leaders, and received additional implants to help coordinate the teams, store and analyze data, and serve as mobile communication points for extended missions. Felix wasn’t a hub; he was simply a member of a team.
None of the children were named; instead, they we given names which they had to respond to immediately, until new names were provided. This occured at random intervals, which differed for each child, forcing them all to constantly adapt when speaking, even amongst themselves.
After that, they added nanite control and manipulation to the training. He learned to stop and restart his heart, to regulate his body temperature and metabolic rate, enhance his vision and hearing and speed for short bursts, dull pain and even, more recently, to remotely link up with someone else’s nanite system and hijack its functions.
The children became remotes capable of causing a heart attack, a stroke, hypothermia in the middle of summer...anyone with nanites could become his target, with time and a little luck. He was 7 when he proved that luck was on his side. The senator was dead four minutes after shaking his hand at a meet-and-greet with school children from around the country.
Things probably would have gone differently if the guards hadn’t been chosen for their cruelty. After one of the kids put him on the ground, a guard got mad, and lost control. He hit the girl hard, and didn’t stop. Felix and his squad killed the guard, but it was too late; the kid was dead, too. Events began spiralling quickly. One of the scientists, a man who was trapped in the system as much as the subjects he was forced to work on, helped the kids to escape.
Other operatives had defected over the course of the previous 5 years, and they helped the children and scientist find refuge with a corporation that had been working to counter the work of the organization from which they’d escaped. At this point, they were brought under the protection of Libra, a corporation which worked to oppose the blacksite operations of the facility which created them.
The children mostly kept the names which they had at the time of their escape, though a few took their birth names instead, if they were reunited with their families. The three teams: Devon (killed during escape, birth name), James (reunited with family, birth name), and Felix (not reunited, kept name); Heidi (Not reunited, kept name), Edward (not reunited, took birth name), and Rebecca (killed by guard prior to escape); and Layla (not reunited, kept name), Kevin (reunited with family, twin of Jared, birth name), and Jared (reunited with family, twin of Kevin, birth name).
Isabella Rhodes and her husband, Blanc Leoprid, adopted the children who didn’t have families to return to. Rhodes was a former marine, and Leoprid a former cop; together, they offered the children a supportive environment that still had the set rules and expectations that they’d come to need and rely on. In addition to their parents, Libra sheltered 3 former operatives of an older generation who became as close as family to Felix and his siblings.
Beth was taciturn and dour, maybe, but she was also fair and honest (even when it hurt); they knew she was going to tell them the truth, though they admittedly didn’t always want her to. Erika, on the other hand, was the kind of crazy, wacky aunt everyone wishes they had. She taught them about pranks, laughter, and being general dangers to public welfare. Ginia, the third operative, was somewhere in the middle; she let the kids have fun, even encouraged it, but had comparatively little patience for their lack of social skills; she expected them to use the manners they were learning, and so they did, as a rule.
Along with his brother Edward and sisters Heidi and Layla, Felix spent time socializing, learning to be his own person. The other children (James, Kevin, and Jared) were returned to their families by Libra. Of all the children, Felix suffered from it the most, feeling incomplete without the full team at hand. Though not a hub, he has found himself somewhat pressured into the position of “team leader”, as he and Devon had the connection to Sawyer, the tech that helped them to escape, and after Devon’s death, it was Felix that got the other kids to snap back and run. After that, they all started to defer to him. It doesn’t help that he has the least problem speaking up to strangers, and for a long time, they were surrounded by strangers.
Given all of this, when James began acting strangely on the rare occasions they were able to speak, Felix reacted immediately, and went to Beth, Ginia, and Erika for help. The adults, however, felt they had indulged him too much; and so he was told to let them handle and get back to his own life. He didn’t like the answer, and so he stole Erika’s motorcycle and set out for Florida on his own. When Libra came after him, he naturally assumed the worst, given his history, and went into full flight mode, concluding that, like the organization that made him, they had no intention of letting him go.
Of all the hunters, only Erika managed to catch him, briefly, largely because he took her bike. The confrontation was tense, but even after she pulled a weapon on him, he didn’t want to hurt her, and instead disabled her nanites briefly and ran.
He never expected that his path to freedom would lead into a different world.
Personality: Felix is a child, but a child who was built into a weapon with little concern for his well being. He alternates between highly arrogant and wildly vulnerable. He has never built up the normal tools children gather to handle stress, sadness, fear, or anger.
On one side, he is adept at hiding emotions, for a kid, and can cover surprise, shock, anger (strong reactions) very well at the time. He’s fine with blood and death, and the adrenaline of a fight isn’t going to give him the shakes or anything like that. He’s controlled, cool, and able to respond to challenges quickly and decisively, though he often tends towards a more violent solution
The flip side of that, however, is that when his control falters, the failure is catastrophic. While not prone to wild fits of screaming or crying, he can be paralyzed by fear, or so overwhelmed with grief that he struggles to breathe. Though he may appear well balanced, even mature, on the surface, this is far from the truth. Felix bravados his way through life, and whenever the facade cracks, he has absolutely no idea how to handle it.
In broad strokes, his moral compass is, in any practical sense, stuck at 2 years old; he wants what he wants. This has been tempered somewhat by an existence which denied him most anything he wanted (and a great deal of what he needed), but merely makes him suspect a trap if he is offered something without ulterior motive by anyone he doesn’t explicitly trust (and he trusts basically no one). People to whom he grows close, such as the other operatives in his group, his adopted parents, or the senior operatives (including Ginia), are taken into account with his actions, for the most part, but in the end he is still just a selfish little kid. Coupled with his projection of arrogance, he can be very difficult to deal with for most outside of his circle.
Until fairly recently, meeting new people meant one of two things: he was going to be an experiment again (and it would probably hurt), or he was going to kill someone again. While he doesn’t hate strangers, he views them from a practical standpoint: What do they want, and can I use them? This means he doesn’t have many friends, and none his age that weren’t raised with him (other kids have no power to hurt him if he doesn’t give them anything, and they have no long term use for him, either). He’ll cheerfully speak with new people, but unless he fears them or needs them, he is not going to seek them out on his own that often, and either way, it’s probably not going to be sincere.
Abilities: Though young, Felix has been trained in hand-to-hand combat, making him a surprising opponent, if still physically outmatched by a full-sized adult with even basic training (generally). He is less confidant with blades, though he has learned some basic knifework. He is a decent shot with a handgun, if it doesn’t kick too hard; better with a rifle if he can lay out with it and stabilize the thing. He also knows a great deal more about driving than anyone his age has a right to know, but finds it difficult to operate most vehicles still due to his size.
Additionally, Felix has been implanted with a set of advanced combat nanites, a form of nanotechnology which allows him to do a large number of things an average human could not. He can use the nanites to enhance strength (briefly; this is a chemical/hormone reaction, not a physical adjustment to his body). He can stop his heart (or control its rate), though after a short time damage will set in if he doesn’t start it. He can lower or raise his core temperature, dull pain or even deaden nerves (though this means he cannot assess further damage, making the ability dangerous to use, especially over time). He can also improve his senses, though extended use is known to damage the affected organs.
When in a situation that allows him to hack into someone else’s nanite network (which effectively doesn’t exist in this new world, save perhaps for Ginia), Felix can alter most of the autonomic functions on the other person that he can on himself. Stopping hearts, dropping core temperatures, and a host of other invasive and difficult to detect modifications to the programming of the nanite structure mean that, given time enough to identify a target (done most easily via touch), he can kill almost anyone without trace.
Nanites in general also give him a number of simpler benefits, so long as they haven’t been disabled. Felix can’t get sick due to a strengthened immune-response; he heals faster than a normal human; he can breath toxic air or fumes by using the nanites to filter the air, but a buildup inside of his lungs can cause damage after about 10 minutes; and known toxins in anything but copious amounts can be filtered from his blood (which means, among other things, he can’t get drunk), although certain fast-acting toxins, especially natural neurotoxins, can outpace the response time. The nanites even regulate his metabolic rhythms, which means even eating a ton of junk food is compensated for as much as possible - basically, he really can eat as much candy as he wants without a stomach ache.
So long as his nanotech is functioning, he is simply healthier than a human without the tech would be in virtually every way, without an equivalent effort required.
Strengths: Nanotech - Physically, he is capable of things far beyond both a 10-year-old, and often a normal person in general
Training - He was trained to shoot, to fight unarmed, and to blend into a crowd. He is a trained weapon, even if the training wasn’t complete.
Charm - When he focuses, especially when he is around strangers, he is impish, but charming. The veneer works best on people who don’t know him.
Control - Though not true over longer timeframes, during intense situations, he is fully capable of pushing back the worst emotions and reacting on training; in a surprise fight, he may be scared, but he’ll still fight like he planned the ambush himself.
Confidant - I know, I know. But the fact is that he’ll step up and try, even when he might fail. He is afraid of failure, but doesn’t let that stop him; he couldn’t afford not to try when he was growing up.
Weaknesses: Child - And all that that implies. Physically and mentally, he is not mature, and won’t act like he is (don’t tell him that, though).
PTSD - This is from both extended, longterm trauma, and some specific, extra-jolting moments (such as his teammate getting mauled by a guard dog). He may not ~show~ it, but he is not ‘okay’ in any sense of the word most of the time.
Training - While he has many strengths that come from this, he relies on it too much, especially in a world without nanites. Additionally, it makes it hard for him to make his own choices, and harder to weigh them against experience.
Loner - He has friends; the 6 surviving children who were trained with him, and a handful of adults, most of them also operatives. He doesn’t trust easily, and often prefers to do things on his own; this will most certainly include his shinki.
Fear - He lives with fear every day: fear of dogs, fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear of betrayal. He tries to bull his way through, but that means that he often ignores legitimate fears and gets himself into trouble; conversely, even the smallest things can paralyze him with fear at times.
God/Shinki: God
Why?: While Felix spent half his life (during especially important years) taking orders after being built into a literal weapon, the fact of the matter is that he’s been free for two years. While he’s come to terms with not needing orders to make a choice, the fact remains that his moral compass is effectively missing. Like the Gods, he could probably use the guidance of a Shinki or two in order to understand such things.
Top 3 Choices: Set; Egyptian. Anansi; Asante. Asclepius; Greek.
God Type: Active and involved, but always behind the scenes when possible; he doesn’t exactly like a lot of attention. He can do what others can’t, and so he will...but just because he can doesn’t always mean he should, a lesson he has yet to learn. Regardless, his heart is in the right place, and though he may not know how to do better, he is trying to help people. Most of the time. Well, sometimes, anyway. He knows he is supposed to help people, at least.
Power: Felix, as a God, has the power to make those around him invulnerable. Specifically, with a touch, he can encase another with a protective coating of nano-tech armor, which fits almost as closely as a second skin. This armor makes the wearer virtually invincible for a time, turning weapons aside, cushioning impacts (like falls or getting thrown into a wall), even allowing extremes of heat and cold to be tolerated. The armor doesn’t increase natural abilities (strength, speed, aim, etc.), but also doesn’t actively interfere with them, either. It’s meant to protect those who serve Felix in battle from even the most dangerous of enemies.
He cannot apply the armor to himself, only to those around him.
NOTE: This power only applies for 5 minutes.
Writing Sample
Sample: Test Drive
Other
Anything Else?: Nope
