[hider=Edward Vates]
[b]Name:[/b] Edward Vates (aka Mr. Smith)
[b]Age:[/b] 24
[b]Gender:[/b] Male
[b]Birthplace:[/b] Wintra, Warshire
[b]Current Home:[/b] Sovereign

[b]Personality:[/b] Vates is a very private and reserved man, but confident in everything he says and does. He has good reason to be after all. He acts friendly but is rarely sincere, always keeping things professional and formal even whilst off the job. Whilst he would never say so, he is (due to both his personality and his job) very lonely and on the nights that he cannot get to sleep it is the idea of going back home that fills his mind. In terms of morality he is very pragmatic and calculated, willing to do 'bad things' if need be although he has so far done all he can to avoid having to take another life. 

[b]Bio:[/b] Vates childhood was nothing special. He had nice family who could afford a few luxuries. He got good grades at school and never got in trouble. He was however always a bit of an outcast, only having a few friends. By the time he left school however, things changed. Whilst he was far from being a child prodigy, he was very intelligent and he had no desire to join the local industries, but nor did he desire to go onto further study. He was lost. 

One day, whilst being forced by his father to take a look around some of the local factories in search of a job he might like, he came across a suspicious scene. Four men, who having poorly checked their surroundings for onlookers climbed down into the sewers. These men were not workers Vates deducted (for one: they lacked equipment), and for reasons he could not fathom he had to follow them. His eavesdropping revealed that three of the men were selling off various expensive components from military vehicles to the forth man; and following the meeting having continued to tail the three factory workers learnt that these men were far from organised criminals but rather foolish men looking for extra cash. These men would be the first in a series of blackmails that would place Vates in large sums of money. Vates was amazed by the ease in which only tiny amounts of information could yield such rewards, and how ever so more importantly could yield even more information. In only a few years Vates became more than an opportunistic blackmailer, more than a crooked private investigator or spy... he would be become an information broker, and he was damn good at it. 

To his family, few friends and anyone who wasn't a client he was a systems inspector (using falsified documents), and only a few months ago got a very nice job of it in Sovereign. Now he continues his trade in the massive capital, although he has found more and more that he has to get his hands dirty in order to slither his way to the top of the food chain, still preferring to do a lot of the information gathering work himself.

[b]Appearance:[/b] 
[url=http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/3/33869/1025082-adam_monroe_heroes_450151_796_1330.jpg]Vates[/url]
(but younger and he usually wears a pair of mirrored aviators) 

[b]Special Traits/Weapons:[/b]
He has become very versatile at stealth, both in terms of stalking around in the dark as well as hiding in plain sight being incognito. 
He has a fair understanding of how to pick some locks, and also has a very very basic understanding of hacking. 
He has no formal combat training but can handle himself, especially when he has the element of surprise having picked up a few methods on how to knock people out.
He did (until the event) rely on his information and money rather a lot, being able to buy various services and products.
Unless he's on a job he prefers to dress in smart expensive attire and he always wears two specially made core augmented gauntlets. His left one uses a kinetic core and allows him to push opponents/objects, or rather more stealthily it allows him to do such things as take out sources of light quietly with a concentrated burst. His right one uses a light core, which he can use as a torch, but also to blind pursuers. 

[b]Theme Song:[/b]
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4]Theme[/url]

[b]Kage Type:[/b] Kamikage
[b]Kage Name:[/b] Janus

[b]Kage Primary Power:[/b] Clairvoyance
Janus has the power to see into other alternative realities, both past, present and future. These realities are never perfectly identical but can be very very similar. This allows Janus not only to glimpse at what might have occurred or is occurring, but also allows him to see possible futures. A very powerful tool, especially in the hands of an information broker. Whilst this power presents the potential for much power, it only provides glimpses of what might be and any action that follows these visions is a gamble. Besides, you often meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. This ability is not turned on and off at will, but rather Janus and his host experience these visions almost at random. 

[b]Kage Secondary Power:[/b] UNKOWN - If Janus has any other abilities they are not obvious or known to him. Only since leaving the gate has the first power even existed.

[b]Kage Personality/Description:[/b] Janus was always considered to be one of the weakest Kages, despite being one of the eldest. Though he has some wisdom to him its not been since entering his host that his potential has been shown. Though naturally he is of humble nature, he is very concerned for the greater good and will do all he can to uphold it.[/hider]