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[h2][colour=LightSlateGray]⦋ [b]30 (AOD)[/b]  || [b]Prague, Czech Republic[/b]  || [b]He/Him[/b] ⦌[/colour][/h2]
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[h3][colour=LightSlateGray][b]OVERVIEW[/b][/colour][/h3][hr]
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[u][colour=LightSlateGray][b]APPEARANCE          [/b][/colour][/u]
[indent]Cain, to put it politely, immediately resembles a corpse prepared for burial that up and walked out of the casket. Standing at 5’11, Cain’s build is emaciated and his skin is borderline chalk white, along with dark bags under his eyes and messy black hair adding to his wraithlike appearance. His face carries numerous blackened scars along with a particularly nast gash along the left side of his mouth exposing his teeth and jaw underneath.

Cain’s attire is relatively simple. Darkened jeans, black boots, dark grey hoodie with a dark blue denim vest and dark red beanie over his frenzied hair. For obvious reasons he’ll wear his hood over his face when outside in crowds of people. His chain is wrapped around his wrist for quick use, adding to his disheveled and punklike appearance.[/indent]

[u][b][colour=LightSlateGray]BACKSTORY & MOTIVATION          [/colour][/b][/u]
[indent]Adam Vrbata had dedicated his life to the cause.

Coming from an, to him, unacceptably unambitious father and naive brother. He had dreamed of impacting the world for the better, of making a difference. Though not much to write home about as a fighter, his unquenchable desire for improvement and drive led him from The Army Of The Czech Republic to MAVERICK and eventually to MIRAGE once word of his pull on others and peerless mental fortitude reached Abel’s ears.

Adam was easily taken in by Abel’s spiel. Protecting the world itself from something greater than nomads had him apply himself more than ever before. Studying under Abel’s tutelage and going from a dime a dozen pointman to a trusted operative. While no nomad, Adam engrained himself as a valuable asset to MIRAGE’s goals. But to someone devoted to a cause already, an understudy equally as devoted and loyal is still only a tool.

Adam found himself heavily wounded after leading an operation that would distract forces from a raid Abel’s team would be conducting, the armed response being more than they had anticipated and managing to chip away at MIRAGE’s robotic forces. The rest of Adam’s team were wiped out, Adam himself only barely clinging to life when his body was recovered by Abel’s team to ensure he wouldn’t be taken alive for interrogation.

Abel stood over his would be protege and offered him a chance. He could guarantee no miracle, but there was a project they were experimenting with that may allow Adam to continue his service, albeit in a more direct form. Unwilling to die pointlessly, Adam agreed.

The experiment was one Abel had been testing in small doses both within MAVERICK and MIRAGE. A new type of operative that could be mass used as needed and quickly turn any soldier into a beyond equal match for a nomad. A type of phantom that could heal wounds, hit with devastating force and utilise abilities outside the realm of ki or magic. All while still being under control with Abel’s desires. It was thought Adam, if he survived, with his tireless devotion and loyalty would be the perfect first candidate. Stabilized and still holding on, Adam underwent the procedure.

And died. Violently. Whatever had been concocted that would allow his body to perform these incredible feats instead tore him apart, burning his flesh and melting through his insides. Those in charge of the project, including Abel himself, watched as their prototype turned quite literally to ash.

The project was scrapped and discarded and forgotten.

Adam Vrabata’s mundane family disappeared one day. Friends and neighbours fed clues that the thought of losing their beloved son to a rogue nomad while under MAVERICK had been too great a stress to bare that they moved far away from their home country and never looked back.

Adam Vrbata’s name was expunged from every record that carried it. No loose ends.

Yet, the project had not failed completely. What remained of Adam Vrbata within the bowels of the project facility began to restructure itself, flawed but whole, Adam Vrbata walked again. MIRAGE forces were quickly called to the scene and slaughtered by abilities promised by and foreign to the project’s original intention, every ounce of force thrown at Vrbata would destroy him only for him to reconstitute himself moments later and continue the onslaught.

Eventually, he tore right through and escaped into the air. Lost and confused, he could feel no cold or warmth or rain against his skin, food no longer had any taste. He still felt the agony of his injuries. Worst of all, he had been exposed repeatedly to the fact that his actions with MIRAGE were never as noble as previously thought. He found he could not justify the atrocities he had allowed to be committed as casualties of war. All he had given, and all Abel and MIRAGE had taken.

Seeing a group of nomads destroy the mechanical monster known as Oh-One he decided then and there to become Cain. Perhaps he could not change the world, he was never any kind of hero he liked to believe. But he could eviscerate an evil he knew to exist.

MIRAGE was going to be ripped and torn down to the last man. But as for Abel, Cain knew there much, much worse fates than death...[/indent]

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[h3][b][colour=LightSlateGray]FIGHTING STYLE & ABILITIES[/colour][/b][/h3][hr]

[indent][u][b][colour=LightSlateGray]SKILLS & ABILITIES          [/colour][/b][/u]
[indent]Once a soldier trained in rifles, automatic weapons and close quarters combat, Cain has long since disbanded his old skills in favour of his new ones. Cain is, in many ways, a living ghost. His body can reconstitute itself after a time from fatal injuries even from being crushed or burned to nothing, if the smallest piece of Cain exists, he will be back sometime later. He is able to break his body down at will and move at blindingly fast distances to act as a teleport and faster means of travel when moving and his body can twist and disfigure itself in strange ways to deliver pummeling blows to opponents. 

Cain is deadly fast and extremely hard hitting, while hardly an experienced nomad, his abilities belay that of any known form of ki usage or magic, making him difficult for unfamiliar fighters to predict and contend with. His inhuman anatomy has even enabled him to fashion his body into weapons.[/indent]

[u][b][colour=LightSlateGray]SIGNATURE MOVES          [/colour][/b][/u]

[indent][u]■   Rip & Tear[/u]
[indent]Cain’s body breaks down and dashes forward in a smokey swirl of claws. Although the dash is relatively short range it can also be used to phase through projectiles.[/indent][/indent]


[indent][u]■   Gutless[/u]
[indent]Cain’s arm morphs into a blade which he charges towards his opponent, if it connects he’ll plunge the sharp end into the opponent’s stomach and hold them aloft for a moment before slamming them into the ground.[/indent][/indent]

[indent][u]■   Mark Of Torment[/u]
[indent]Cain can only walk in this mode but dark smoke swirls around him as he starts to heal any damage and wounds sustained, though his original scars remain burned on his body. Taking any damage will knock him out of this.[/indent][/indent]

[indent][u]■   As One[/u]
[indent]Cain shoots imbues the chain around his wrist with shadows and shoots it out which, if it connects, coils around an opponent and pulls them violently towards Cain.[/indent][/indent]

[indent][u]■   Black Hole[/u]
[indent]Cain’s body spirals upwards before disappearing, reappearing above above the opponent where he falls downwards with a stomp.[/indent][/indent]

[indent][u]■   Sharpened Fury[/u]
[indent]Cain hunches over as sharp spikes shoot out of his body, damaging and knocking back close opponents.[/indent][/indent]

[indent][u]■   Claws Of Hatred[/u]
[indent]Cain’s fingers extend and sharpen into claws, he gets a short burst of speed enabling him to close distances much faster and do great damage with his swipes.[/indent][/indent]

[indent][u]■   Reach Of Death[/u]
[indent]Cain’s arms extend and sharpen as he slashes them several meters outwith in a criss cross motion.[/indent][/indent]

[indent][u]■   All Is Dust[/u]
[indent]Turning his body to ash, Cain swirls around like a black tornado and batters anything in his path for a few seconds, throwing around any object or person pulled into his motion.[/indent][/indent]

[u][b][colour=LightSlateGray]SUPER MOVES          [/colour][/b][/u]
[indent] [u]■   I’ll Be Back[/u]
[indent]If close to death, Cain’s eyes may turn clear black as he gets a marked increase to his speed and strength as will as the ability to feel no pain meaning he cannot be staggered or knocked out, after a few minutes he’ll keel over and die from the overextension.[/indent][/indent]

[indent] [u]■   The Beast In Me[/u]
[indent]Cain’s body twists and contorts into a ten feet tall monstrous creature of shadow and flesh. While his speed is considerably more limited in this form, his blows are highly damaging, albeit somewhat telegraphed. He can smash through near anything with ease and shrug off all but supers in his rampage. After several minutes or from sustaining enough physical punishment, the beast will begin breaking down and melting into nothing. Death after this super takes longer than normal for Cain to regenerate back to life.[/indent][/indent]

[indent] [u]■   Mark Of Cain[/u]
[indent]A shadowy vortex swirls around Cain’s body. If he is attacked, the damage will reflect back on to the attacker sevenfold, making this ability lethal if an opponent is unaware of that fact. Cain cannot attack but he is still strong enough to march implacably towards opponents if need be. After a few minutes, the vortex will consume and obliterate Cain.[/indent][/indent]

[u][b][colour=LightSlateGray]WEAKNESSES & LIMITS          [/colour][/b][/u]
[indent]Cain is very very fast and very very damaging and he cannot truly die, but he is by no means unstoppable. The majority of Cain’s special moves leave him wide open if they miss or are dodged or parried and his fighting style is extremely all or nothing and primarily suited towards singular opponents than larger groups. Further, he’s not a nomad and gains no benefit of natural ki defense, he can withstand a lot of punishment before dying due to his wraithlike nature but his limbs and body can be torn apart as easily as any other normal human. Additionally, all three of Cain’s supers kill him, two of which fully destroying his body which can take several days before he fully restructures himself to fight again.[/indent]
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[h3][b][colour=LightSlateGray]OTHER[/colour][/b][/h3][hr]
[indent][indent]■ Despite his dreary look and fighting style, Cain is fairly composed, calm and affable if not outright polite to most people. The exception being MAVERICK and especially MIRAGE employees or affiliates. It would be an extremely difficult feat to have Cain stay his hand in the presence of such individuals.

■ Despite his hatred for MIRAGE and Abel however, he actually still believes in MIRAGE’s goals, or at least the ones he was told about. Though he has come to feel tremendous self-disgust for the actions he participated in in pursuit of those goals.

■ Cain’s senses are muddled. He can hear and see normally but has difficulties with smell and can no longer taste. He is able to feel pain and emotion but cannot feel the differences of warmth and cold or rain against his skin.[/indent][/indent]

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