Following Ogo's example... behold! Mockingbird 2.5!!

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[b][color=mediumslateblue][h3]Mockingbird (Dio Sparks) | Male | 19[/h3][/color][/b]

[color=mediumslateblue][u][b]Appearance:[/b][/u][/color]

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Meet Mockingbird – the most eye-catching person in the room. 

This kid looks like a rainbow vomited all over him. Looking at him can sometimes feel like being on an acid trip, and has been known to cause epileptic seizures. When he’s not specifically putting effort into controlling them, Mockingbird’s skin, eyes and hair just sort of do what they want, and what they [i]want[/i] is to flicker through every random color and pattern that you can think of. Sometimes they’ll change color based on his emotions, too. 

Once you get past the swirling LSD colors, though, you’d be surprised to find that the super-soldier known as Mockingbird is really just a short, androgynous-looking kid. Years of a specialized diet have kept him small and wiry – at just over 5’7” (171.45 cm) and weighing in at 58.3 kg (128.5 lbs), Mockingbird’s height and frame are ideal for slipping into nooks and cracks to lurk in wait.

In terms of his actual face, Mockingbird is blessed with fabulous bone structure… even though it’s a little hard to see under all the colors. This boy’s angular face is accented with high, sharp cheekbones and young-looking, unusually wide eyes. Also worth noting are his girlishly long eyelashes and inhumanly clear skin. Mockingbird’s best feature, however, is actually his hair – kid’s got a head of thick, silky smooth hair that reaches halfway down his back and looks like something straight out of a shampoo commercial. It looks best down, but on missions he pulls it back into a low ponytail.

In other words, we’ve got a real pretty boy on our hands, folks. It’s a pity he hasn’t met enough other human beings to have developed enough taste to appreciate it.

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[color=mediumslateblue][u][b]Personality:[/b][/u][/color]

Mockingbird is the perfect soldier -- obedient to a fault, he can barely even comprehend the idea of questioning a direct order. Any trace of rebelliousness was beaten out of this kid back in training, where disobedience and talking back were punished by a quick zap from the shock collar. It doesn’t matter what abhorrent or degrading task he’s ordered to perform. If a superior asks him to kill a litter of puppies, Mockingbird won’t even blink – he just pulls out his gun and shoots.

From that alone, it’s pretty clear that Mockingbird’s personality is a little unsettling. It’s not just the blind obedience: this super soldier has no concept of ethical systems or moral codes at all. It’s just a product of his upbringing. After all, this is a kid who’s spent his whole life without human interaction, being attended to by robots and taught to obey orders at all costs. It’s not that he’s a bad person, per se – he just doesn’t understand morality, or worth. Human life, friendship, love… all of that is incomprehensible to him. 

Mockingbird is the perfect killer -- to him, it doesn’t matter if target he’s aiming at is a six-year-old girl or a middle-aged criminal. Mockingbird can kill anything and feel no guilt whatsoever. Why should he? He’s never had a single relationship in his entire life, and is thus devoid of any empathy whatsoever. It's not even that he enjoys killing. It's just the way he was taught to be.

This, of course, means that Mockingbird’s interactions with other human beings are bound to be… a little odd. He learned about human interaction from textbooks, so he’s always unfailingly polite and grammatical to a fault. He’s friendly, even, because the textbooks say that that’s how humans build trust in each other. But there’s something a little stiff about his mannerisms. Maybe you’ve noticed that his smile’s a little too wide, or that his speech patterns are strangely formal. Maybe you tried to hug him and he flinched back. Whatever it was, it tipped you off -- there’s something not quite right about this kid.

Well, it’s not all bad news. As a person for whom even the most mundane of things is new, Mockingbird is endlessly curious about everything that’s out there. And, like most sheltered young people, Mockingbird is a little too trusting for his own good. He doesn’t know much about things that you can’t read about in a textbook, and as a result he’s hopelessly gullible. Idioms, sarcasm, and metaphors? Yeah, those will fly over his head like a UFO.

In conclusion? Mockingbird’s a perfectly pleasant, friendly young man. He just happens to have a very casual attitude towards brutal murder.

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[u][b][color=mediumslateblue]Team role: [/color][/b][/u]

Overwatch -- Mockingbird's camouflage-focused genetic enhancements enable him to pull double duty as a sniper, and a recon/infiltration specialist.

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[color=mediumslateblue][u][b]Skills:[/b][/u][/color]

[b](1)[/b]	[b]HIDING:[/b] Mockingbird can literally paint himself into the background, or change up his color scheme a little and blend into a crowd of civilians. Aside from the his obvious genetically enhanced capabilities, however, Mockingbird’s basic training included instruction in the art of holding very still for long periods of time and squeezing one’s self into places that no human body should ever be able to fit into.

[b](2)	MARKSMANSHIP:[/b] As a sniper, Mockingbird is naturally a pretty good shot. He’s good at accurately shooting things from a distance, and hitting them on the first try! However, on the flipside, the focus that Mockingbird’s training put on accuracy meant that in close quarter combat, he often can’t react fast enough and spends too much time trying to line up an accurate shot.

[b](3)	UNREPENTANT MURDER:[/b] Humans, aliens, robots, animals – whatever. Mockingbird doesn’t care what it is: if you tell him to kill something, he’ll do it. And he won’t feel bad about it either. Why should he? That’s his job. It’s what he was built to do.

[b](4)	PARKOUR?!:[/b] This kid is a space ninja. Climbing, catching himself after jumping off cliffs, etcetera, suspending himself by a cord off a building to get the perfect angle for a shot… you name it, and he can probably do it. All in the name of accuracy, right?

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[color=mediumslateblue][u][b]Genetic Enhancement:[/b][/u][/color]

The scientists responsible for Mockingbird’s genetic modifications thought that splicing chameleon genes into human DNA was [i]totally[/i] a great idea. The result they ended up with after nineteen years of research? Well, a kid whose default appearance is an art teacher’s worst nightmare.

Mockingbird is a human canvas -- with a bit of mental effort, he can construct a pretty good camouflage, or give himself a complete makeover. Blond hair and blue eyes? Sure thing. It’s the world’s speediest disguise. 

Well, that’s the military use, at least. More importantly, Mockingbird’s body also functions as the world’s only walking, talking drawing tablet. If he’d be willing to co-operate, you could draw diagrams on his skin! He can also recreate scenes of cute, fluffy animals frolicking around on his skin… and animate them too! Pretty nifty, huh?

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[color=mediumslateblue][u][b]Armor description:[/b][/u][/color]

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Mockingbird’s gear was built to optimize his potential as a sniper, enhancing his camouflage and allowing him to access high vantage points or execute complex mid-air acrobatics for the sake of making perfectly accurate shots. It was designed for him to be able to make the most difficult shots under the most strenuous conditions, and all while nearly invisible – in other words, to make him the perfect assassin.

The real purpose of Mockingbird’s armor isn’t actually defense: it’s enhancing his camouflage. Mockingbird’s armor covers his whole body from head to toe. In its default setting (that is, when it hasn’t been turned on), the whole thing is a neutral grey color. After activation, however, the material mimics any change in Mockingbird’s body coloration, occasionally correcting for minor mistakes. Helpfully, it also masks his heat signature and hides his shadow.

Mockingbird’s shooting capabilities, meanwhile, are augmented by his helmet. The helmet’s visor acts as built-in binoculars to enhance his vision far beyond regular human capabilities. It also has heat and motion-detecting capabilities, allowing Mockingbird to detect and eliminate threats that he might otherwise visually overlook before they reach his team. 

Connected to Mockingbird’s armor by means of electrical cables are two (a sniper rifle for long distance shots, and a sub-machine gun for emergency close combat), a knife, and a grappling hook. The gun he slings over his back, the knife’s on a thigh sheathe, and the grappling hook’s attached to a utility belt. This specially designed equipment is hooked up to Mockingbird’s armor by an electrical cable, allowing them to benefit from Mockingbird’s camouflage.

But more importantly… what’s the grappling hook for? Lightweight and flexible, Mockingbird’s armor sacrifices defense for maximum maneuverability. With this streamlined armor and the aid of a grappling hook and cord, Mockingbird can [s]be a ninja[/s] achieve the perfect position for an accurate shot by lowering himself off buildings to snipe a target through a window, or jump off a cliff to shoot a fleeing enemy only to catch himself at the last minute. 

Significant weaknesses of Mockingbird’s gear? Well, a single bullet from the right angle could penetrate the defensive layer: this armor’s meant to protect Mockingbird from shrapnel and glancing blows, not to stop bullets. Worse, however, is the fact that the armor’s camouflage is controlled by a device within the armor located on his chest, just beside his heart. If this device is damaged, the camouflage functions shut off and the armor defaults back to grey. Furthermore, while his camouflage is almost perfect when it’s working, it doesn’t magic away footprints – in other words, Mockingbird can be tracked if he’s on the ground!

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[color=mediumslateblue][u][b]Backstory:[/b][/u][/color]

Once upon a time, a baby was born in the slums of the industrial planet Mechnar-12B to a prostitute. That baby was named Dio Sparks.

Then he got sold on the black market as a source of spare organs in exchange for 21 thousand credits, and that was the end of that. His mother promptly used the money to buy a kilogram of synthesca powder, the good quality stuff, and no one on Mechnar-12B ever saw the child again.

Approximately two days later, a certain government researcher purchased a living human baby off the black market from an organ trader. He was looking for a subject to continue his experiments in splicing chameleon genes into human DNA with viral RNA -- the last three children that he’d tried ended up dying, and this particular kid had been a real bargain.

And thus it came to be that Mockingbird, fourth of his name, came into the world.

After that exciting start, Mockingbird’s life settled into a comfortable routine: he’d wake up, cry a lot, be fed and cleaned by a small army of robotic lab assistants, and then there’d be experiments performed on him all afternoon.

Shockingly, he survived. And the experiments worked -- his constantly changing skin, eye and hair color was a bit of a dead giveaway.

Once it was clear that Mockingbird wasn’t going to die after all, talk in the lab shifted to how they could make their new invention useful for NEST. And thus it came to be that, at three years old, Mockingbird was moved into a series of interconnected white rooms with a shock collar, a loud speaker, and everything that a child could use in the process of being raised into a super soldier trainee.

For the researchers, who had no qualms about irrelevant things like child abuse, this seemed like an ideal situation. They’d teach Mockingbird his lessons over the loudspeaker, and if he didn’t do them right, then they’d give him a nice little shock as motivation to do better next time. It was a lot less effort than giving him to a drill sergeant or finding a foster family to raise him, and hey! This way, he’d even learn to live without human contact.

Meanwhile, Mockingbird took to his training fairly easily. As a young child, they focused on easy things, like holding a single position for long periods of time, reading etiquette manuals and blending into a tree trunk, or memorizing the proper way to take apart and reassemble a gun. By the time he’d reached his early teens, they’d worked their way up to giving him farm animals and captured rebels to shoot, just to get him used to killing things.

With a childhood like that… well, are you really surprised that Mockingbird grew up a little twisted?

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[color=mediumslateblue][u][b]Theme Song:[/b][/u][/color]

STANDARD EDITION:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqqc2FHf9Ug&list=PLbAFXJC0J5GZ8gOHG2lYyuTmSG33gtGAG&index=1[/youtube]

FIGHT CLUB:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9zoqc4G96Q[/youtube]

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