[CHAR] Evolution of Aggression (Halcyon + Azseth)

[Azseth]

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Name: Steve Spears.
Age: 24.
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 190
Hair: brown
Eyes: brown
Status: Formerly crowned human.
Abilities: Crowned abilities: increased strength, senses, agility, durability, healing, etc.
Birth place: Northern Michigan.

History: Steve was born in Northern Michigan and had the envious childhood that entailed being raised on a compound with a family of dooms day preppers. The majority of his life, he was only around family and hadn’t seen anyone outside of those on the compound until he was about 16. His family “went into town” to stock up on some supplies.

He ended up talking with two other kids around his age and after that, something just didn’t sit right with him being as isolated as he was. Part of that was the fact that he had developed a crush on the girl he’d met, but another arguably larger part of it was simply the fact that there were other people out there and other things.

Eventually, he started sneaking out and off of the compound, using this time to socialize with people outside of what had recently been his entire life. He enjoyed it more and more, did it more and more, until it started causing friction with his family. When things reached their boiling point with the family, he was 19 and given the option of moving out or ceasing his activities. He opted to part ways with his family and they haven’t made contact to this day.

He eventually made his way out to southeast Michigan where he worked at menial jobs. He was somewhat socially awkward, but it was easy for him to find jobs because he was very mechanically inclined and capable. He had all kinds of skills that had him be able to work at places that needed odd jobs.

Around the time that the mutations began, he was working at a bowling alley as a mechanic and grounds keeper. Truth be told, if he was anything he was curious. Upon leaving the compound, everything and everyone not survival related was new to him and he accepted many new things into his life. Mutants couldn’t be much different. While this was his opinion, it was not the opinion shared by many people, and because of this, he began to seclude himself from people, keeping to himself because the world seemed to be going into a frenzy of sorts.

Things were tense and only seemed to be building and then the unthinkable happened: alien ships filled the skies. He was 22 when he was taken and crowned as aliens started to touch down outside of Detroit (which was heavily attacked leaving most of the city in complete ruins).

Almost two years later, he was freed from his crown and joined a resistance group.

Personality: Prior to being crowned, Steve was quite but curious and enjoyed people. Once he was familiar with settings and people, he was very outgoing. The crowning and removal changed him however. Where he was quiet before, he is now withdrawn and distant. He didn’t get too close to people out of a degree of self-loathing and the fact that lots of people were lost in the fight against the aliens. There’s also a degree of having been violated that most people do not understand or even think he would be going through. Most just assume he’s happy to be free and do not consider the damages he accrued. There are a lot of people who do not trust him, or look at him differently now too, so between his own distance and the hostile actions of others, it seems a good thing more often than not.

There are 2 distinct marks, one on each temple of his head, that make it obvious to anyone who knows about crown removal what has happened to him.

Where he was curious before, he’s now insulated. He doesn’t talk much, especially about anything personal.

[Azseth]

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Name: Lazlo Bragimov.
Nickname: The Ukrainian. Yook.
Age: 27.
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 210.
Hair: Blue.
Eyes: Black.
Status: Mutant.
Abilities: Lazlo’s first ability is heightened sense. He can hear, see, sense things at higher level than normal humans. His vision is extremely acute and he can see very long distances. His other ability is that once he is completely still and focused, he can essentially become indestructible. He must concentrate extremely hard and it must remain unbroken for the entire time. This also physically exhausts him the longer he utilizes it.

Birth place: Rolov, Ukraine.

History: Lazlo was born and raised in the Ukraine. He worked at a young age in the rural area as his family owned a farm and raised livestock and crops. On his off time, he worked in the village with a cobbler to make money to go to school, also in his off time. He learned English and a variety of other subjects that made him more than just a farmboy.

When the tensions of the world started building up, Russia and its satellites went into a state of military frenzy, similar to the cold war days. Armies were made, territories redrawn and eventually Lazlo’s family lost their farm. His mother and father put together enough money to send him to America to work and get enough money to bring them over, but that was never to happen as the world began to spiral lower and lower. And then the aliens came.

Eventually after the smoke cleared and various degrees of conflict started, Lazlo started joining whatever resistance movement he could.

Personality: Lazlo is loud, talkative, and social. In spite of the world’s state, he doesn’t seem too negatively affected by it. He drinks when he can and enjoys down time almost as much as he enjoys killing aliens. He has a noticeable Ukrainian accent when he speaks English.

[Halcyon]

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Name: Jamie Hollander
Nickname: Doc, Jamie, Holly, Hollander
Age: 28
Height: 5’7”
Weight: 136
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue
Status: Mutant.
Abilities: Jamie has the ability to cure many wounds and illnesses at great cost to herself. While having to maintain physical or eye contact with the person who’s afflicted, Jamie has to know what’s wrong with the person before her power allows her to heal them. Her powers working as a healer and a pain mediator, Jamie feels the pain and the effects on the wound on herself. While it’s entirely mental, the repercussions feels all too well.

Birth place: Houston, Texas

History: Born into a conservative family, Jamie grew up in a house of men. While her mother did teach her how a lady was meant to act, her brothers instilled onto her a sense of initiative and strong headiness to always go after what she wanted. Her father taught her that no one was simply going to hand things over freely; the individual had to earn it through their merit. A lesson she’d kept with her throughout her life.

It was during her years in middle school did Jamie discover that she had ‘gifts’. When her friend and she were out exploring a state park trail with their families, Jamie’s friend slipped on a rock and scrapped up her knee pretty bad. With their folks not around, the stress from the event caused her mutant side to emerge. The first contact with the powers was something Jamie remembered vividly. Seeing her friend’s leg stitch up and looked unblemished, Jamie felt the searing pain of sliding against the rocks and injuring her leg. When she looked, however, she saw nothing.

Swearing a pact of secrecy, her friend, Jillian, never revealed her gifts. Jamie wasn’t naive to the fact that something like this could be problematic if people found out. The vow silence wasn’t meant to last.

It was after she finished college, did Jamie see the news about mutants being rounded up all across the country. There were whispers of others like her existing, but she hardly paid attention. She was on her way to medical school, and she had absolutely no ambition to reveal her ‘non-human’ side. The prospect of others knowing and being treated like the mutants getting rounded up terrified her. On top of that, the world regressed into an age of mutual assured destruction. Or what seemed like it. Every country was riled up and aiming their arsenals at one another. Why? Jamie was still trying to figure that one out for herself.

Continuing to normalcy, as if the mutants and the war wasn’t enough, they came. Extraterrestrials. Aliens.

The world powers temporarily forgot their differences and tried to contact the aliens. Inevitably, they sent their arsenal they’d been saving for each other and directed them towards the visitors in the sky. It was a futile attempt. Over the next several years, death came from the sky and swept over all of the countries. Nations fell while millions died.

With infrastructure and order failing, Jamie was forced to flee as she joined a resistance group. Breaking her vow of silence of her mutant status, she continually worked to save those she could while staying alive.

Personality: Jamie is the epitome of a proper country lady. While she was raised outside of the life of a true country born, she isn’t afraid to get down and dirty when needed. She’s very goal oriented and will not stop until she completes her goal. In a way, she’s very much a Type A personality. With those she knows, she assumes a relaxed and playful persona highly uncharacteristic of her typical self.

[Halcyon]

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Name: Miranda Averson
Nickname: Mira
Age: 25
Height: 5’8”
Weight: 138
Hair: Black
Eyes: Grey
Status: Mutant.
Abilities: Possessing abilities that are in line with telepathic communication, Miranda is a special case within this group of mutants. Miranda has the ability to allow mass telepathic communication amongst those she reaches out to. Essentially she’s a walking walkie-talkie. While two persons doesn’t hinder her performance, the more people she has accessing this ability of hers, the less capable she is in other activities, for she has to focus solely on maintaining the communication webway.

Birth place: Santa Barbara, California

History: Born to a single mother, Miranda learned how to take care of herself at a young age. While her mom was at work, she cooked, cleaned, worked, and attended to her schooling mostly on her own. Realizing the distance that could potentially come between mother and daughter, Miranda’s mother allotted Sunday to spend with her daughter be it a day out or simply staying home and catching up.

As Miranda grew older, she became very aware of the fact that she could communicate with others and even animals. When she told her mother this, her ‘voices’ were thought to be nothing more than symptoms of some foolish psychological disorder. Her mother told her not to bring it up again, and she didn’t. She continued to utilize her ‘gift’ with any organism other than humans for fear of being shamed yet again. For a time, she believed the conversations were all but a figment of her imagination while she attributed her connection with animals as being a animal person. That was until she saw the news about the mutants however.

Out of all the people that could’ve turned her in, it was her mother that drew the attention of the authorities. Taken from her life at a young age, Miranda was placed in a mutant camp where her rights were stripped. Her people were under constant guard while scientist explored and probed them. While the government told the public that their treatment was humane, Miranda saw the concentration camp as a modern day Nazi genocide site. Thus began her hatred for her own race.

When the world drew closer towards the precipice of human induced destruction, the aliens appeared. What started out as wonder turned into horror as the aliens descended from the sky and obliterated humanity’s cities. Nations fell while mutants and normals alike were consumed by the alien war machine. Though Miranda’s distaste for her species outweighed her love for it, for every soul that was lost to the invaders - mutant or normal - Miranda felt a pang of pain. She’d found something else to hate. Her vendetta with the soldiers, the scientists drew to a prolonged hiatus.

Since the world fell, Miranda joined a resistance group that consisted of mutants and normal human beings. Fighting to survive each and everyday, Miranda and the other telepathics freed any crowned human whenever they got the chance.

It was either fight or die. Miranda merely gave the chance to all who were willing. Those unwillingly would rot in the ground soon enough.

Personality: Violent and ruthless in both battle and daily life, Miranda houses very little empathy due to her experiences before the aliens descended from the skies. She harbors a strong hatred for humans though she tries to repress these impulses for her group’s cohesion. Embodying the very phrase of ‘the ends justify the means’, whatever got the job done, she’d do. As long as there was an outlet for her violence, Miranda would be satisfied.

[Azseth]

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Name: Lonnie Tyler.
Nickname: LT.
Age: 23.
Height: 5’11”.
Weight: 190lbs.
Hair: Black.
Eyes: Brown.
Status: Mutant.
Abilities: Lonnie can control the mind of sentient beings. Up to the war, he could only control one human mind at a time. Upon the alien invasion however, things changed slightly. Since the majority of the aliens have some form of telepathic link with one another, he can view a group of aliens almost as a “network” in his mind and choose which to control. This is also valuable for getting positions of enemies as he can get approximate locations and get a good estimate of enemies.

The more powerful a target is mentally, the more they are likely to resist. Additionally, when entering the mind of another, he essentially becomes 100% vulnerable and has zero awareness of what’s around him and no ability to react until fully withdrawing from the mind of the target. He wouldn’t know if his own arm was being sawn off while in the mind of another.

Birth place: Michigan.

History: Lonnie was born and raised in a relatively unstable environment. His mother and father were together, but his father was very mean and cruel, and his mother only acted as an occasional buffer. It didn’t work however, it only made it worse because he had to see his mother as the target of his father.

He played football and did what he could to stay out of the home through high school. One day, during an altercation, he discovered his mutant power when he entered the mind of his father out while reacting angrily. He essentially made his father run outside and get hit by a car. At the time, he thought it was a weird dream, but he woke up and saw his father in the street. His dad survived, but it was after that that Lonnie started exploring his powers. He left his house to as he went to college and worked, maintaining a relatively normal life, even amidst the mutant panic as he could hide his power very well.

He was lucky to live through the initial alien attacks and started fighting back immediately, joining whatever group he could find, discovering that his powers were a lot more useful with the aliens than with humans.

Personality: Lonnie is on the middle ground in terms of being outgoing and insulated. He is very talkative in a social manner, especially around people he knows. He tends to be a bit more tight lipped around new people, or around conversations that are deep. When it comes to people he trusts and cares about, he is willing to go to great lengths to make things good and right, or help them out.