[CHAR] The Dark Beyond

[Estylwen]

HiveMind Facility

Von Galloes

Name: Director Von Galloes
Age: Appears in his 40s
Gender: Male
Appearance: Stands at 6'1, wears spectacles with a silver chain, well-built, slicked back dark hair with a single streak of white. His labcoat is perfectly pressed.
Augmentation: Activated HiveMind AR Sight chip embed, the small dot glowing a light green on his right temple.
Personality: Appears to be cold, cruel, and dominating.
Defining Trait: ???
Backstory: ???
Skills: ???
Inventory: ???

The Beast

Name: The Beast
Age: Unknown
Gender: Unknown
Appearance:

Hider

It is similar to this, except the Beast prefers to float and has a red eye.

Augmentation: Has enhancements that other drones don't have, plus a more advanced learning algorithm. One of the abilities it has displayed is the ability to project real-time holograms and create light-based shields.
Personality: Like a cold and calculative guard dog, loyal to Director Von Galloes.
Defining Trait: ???
Backstory: ???
Skills: ???
Inventory: ???

Non-Facility

Subject #003

Name: Subject #003
Age: Unknown, appears to be a young teenager
Gender: Female
Appearance:

Augmentation: The remnants of an AR sight chip implant that has since been deactivated. Appears as a blue, non-glowing dot on the side of her temple.
Personality: Appears to frighten easily, but seems to not complain, despite having gone through a lot.
Defining Trait: ???
Backstory: ???
Skills: ???
Inventory: ???

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Stella

Name: Cristella "Stella" Desdemon
Age: 23
Gender: Cis Female
Appearance:


Augmentation: Stella's fingertips and forearms have been altered in ways that allow her to be a walking Swiss Army Knife. Her right pointer finger is a literal laser that can cauterize wounds and the right thumb can produce stitching material and a needle to sew up major wounds. Her palms have the ability to read vital signs. Her left thumb, when snapped, produces a small flame. Her eyes have also been altered to see abnormalities within environments.

Personality: Stella is a sarcastic person at first. Some may call her abrasive or a know-it-all. Once she gets to know people she can trust, she shows kindness in her own weird way. Stella is a fighter and never gives up on what she wants the most.

Defining Trait: Cautious

Backstory:
Stella is the daughter of a high-ranking general and a scientist. At a young age, Stella's parents wanted her to become the perfect soldier to help with the energy crisis. Some say they might have gone too far on their daughter. Since she could walk, Stella was taught hand-to-hand combat and how to properly handle firearms.

The first thing they altered in her was her eyes at age ten. After five back-to-back eye surgeries, Stella proved that she could see old and ancient technology on a previous dig site when she was thirteen, she started training to be in the field.

By the time Stella turned fifteen, she could properly reattach digits (fingers and toes), sew up bullet wounds, and perform emergency surgery techniques. That was when her parents altered her forearms and hands.

It wasn't too long after that her father had done the classic test of having her pick out a pet, letting her raise it for a year, then made her kill it unknowingly until she opened the crate. His goal was to kill any mercy within his daughter, wanting her to not question any authority. That would backfire on him.

All her augmentations were performed and created by her mother. Her mother loved her enough to not allow her daughter to be connected to any pre-existing servers or with the HiveMind. Her mother didn't want anyone to know about any of the experimental technology she used on Stella. Rumors have it that there was more done to Stella than what even she knows about herself.

Once Stella turned eighteen, she left the moment she could. Her father trained her so well that she could disappear without a trace and since she placed a virus on her mother's computer system, there was no way for them to track her. She did leave a reminder on her father's face that he could not break that wasn't meant to be broken. His right, dominant eye was her trophy that she crushed with the heel of her boot.

Currently, Stella does odd jobs here and there to make ends meet. She often travels around to avoid her father's goons, now learning that her mother has passed from illness.

Skills:
Stella has a wide knowledge of both field and medical medicine. She can identify various healing herbs and materials. She was trained to be a military doctor, botanist, hacker, and soldier, specifically a sniper. Stella prefers hand-to-hand combat over guns, often using environmental objects to finish the fight.

Inventory: Her black leather jacket and gloves hide her augmentations. Her cross-body pack appears small but actually holds twice the size of a duffle bag. Her bag is currently the home to her sniper rifle, a box of ammo for said rifle, and a full-size emergency medical kit.

Voidlight

Voidlight

Company Size:
30 at the administration building, field employees number 100+

Augmentation:
Many of Voidlight's employees are mechanics, IT personnel, plumbers, construction workers, nurses, lab techs, certified nurse assistants, lawyers, and engineers with various augmentations. Interestingly enough, the augmentations connect to a separate database.

Defining Trait:
Prepared

Backstory:
Voidlight appeared on the scene about a decade after HiveMind established itself. Voidlight is an employment company that serves the general public. They have contracts and connections with almost every major hospital and laboratory throughout the world. Rumors are that Voidlight is more than just a simple employment company but no one, not even HiveMind has been able to prove any of the rumors.

Skills:
Machinery knowledge
Laws knowledge
Healthcare
Medical knowledge
Technology based

Zeus

Codename:
Zeus

Real name:
Viktor Grotrovski, CEO of Voidlight

Gender:
Male

Appearance:

Age:
50

Augmentations:
Enhanced hearing and sight
Increased strength

Personality:
Zeus has always had this trustworthy air about him. He has had many random people start telling him their life stories in transit on public transportation or waiting in line in places. He has a cold-cut philosophy about life, if one of his operatives is compromised, it is expected of them to get out of the situation or die trying. Despite this outlook, he does care for those under him and does well to support them with whatever they need.

Defining Trait:
Leadership

Backstory:
At one point in time, it was rumored that Zeus was employed by [REDACTED] before they were what they are today. Once he started noticing signs in certain key members, Zeus left that company before he became too involved. He created Voidlight, a hiring company to help fill the void in the healthcare, technology, and maintenance business industries, supplying those businesses with fill-in employees.

Skills:
[REDACTED]

Inventory:
Always has a 9mm strapped under his suit coat.

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Dragon

Codename:
Dragon

Real Name:
Kai Stoick, Vice President of Voidlight

Gender:
Male

Appearance:


Age:
31

Augmentations:
Fire creation and control
Increased speed
Levitation
Daggers can pop out of the top of his hand, via his wrists, to use at will

Personality:
The Dragon is a sarcastic, stubborn man who is determined to finish his job to the fullest. He doesn't sugarcoat things and would rather others don't tip-toe around him as well.

Defining Trait:
Headstrong

Backstory:

Skills:
Technology literate
Hand-to-hand combat, he prefers an up-close fight

Inventory:
A super strong alloy chain necklace that is almost indestructible lays around his neck.

Sabrina

Sabrina Lennox

Age:
45
Gender:
Female
Appearance:


Occupation: Sabrina is the Director of Forsenics and Field Archaeology for the Louvre. Her job is to make sure the Louvre dig sites are running smoothly and that the artifacts make it to the Louvre in one piece. She isn't physically at the Louvre as much anymore and prefers working from home if she can. Every once in a while, she has to make an appearance in person at the home office. Usually, ends up running into her ex-husband (she's convinced that fate likes to laugh at her awkward pain).

She is also a professor at a local university and helps her brother run Lennox Corporation when she can.

Personality: Sabrina is a very driven woman. She tends to be stubborn and a hopeless romantic, which was one of the reasons her relationship with her ex strung out as long as it had.

Augmentations: None. Sabrina would rather shove a pipe down her throat than let a Louvre doctor touch her body.

Defining Trait: Nurturing.

Backstory:
Sabrina and her brother, Sebastian, are the only two remaining members of the Lennox family. Their family has had a history of being tied to power, both political and mystical. At a young age, Sabrina found her calling in sketching. She could create the most amazing pictures in minutes with a blank sheet of paper and a piece of charcoal.

The Lennox family is one of great wealth with Sebastian currently running the family trade business. Sabrina, being much younger, was allowed more freedom to choose her path in life. By the time she turned sixteen, she had become fluent in various languages such as French, German, Latin, Mandarin, and Greek. Driven by her family's affinity to historical artifacts and her love of creating something out of seemingly nothing, Sabrina joined up with the Louvre as an intern after graduating with her Master's degree in History and Myths. She worked her way up through the ranks, and along the way, she met her ex-husband, Thierry.

Sabrina had three children with Thierry. Aurelie is the eldest child, followed by their son, Theodore, and Cosette, their youngest, whom they lost almost a decade ago.

Skills:
Sabrina has a wide knowledge of both historical and mythical stories and artifacts. She can put a skeleton back together in under five minutes if she has all the proper bones, including phalanges and teeth. She does have martial arts skills, although she prefers a gun. Sabrina also isn't afraid to use torture techniques to get information.

Inventory: Her red leather-bound sketch pad with charcoal sticks. Her cross-body brown canvas bag, not only does it hold a flashlight, and extra sketch pencils, but also her 9mm pistol and a set of daggers.

[Days]

Nova Ashford

Nova Ashford, Codename Star

Name: Nova Ashford

Age: 29

Gender: Female

Appearance: Nova has darkblonde hair and honey coloured eyes. Due to her retina augmentation in her right eye, that eye presents as blue. From afar, it seems like regular heterochromia but to the keen eye (ha, get it?) it will be noticeable that she has a retina augmentation, though it is quite subtle aside from the colour. A transparent or almost invisible one would've been too expensive. She has several piercings in her ears with varying jewellery. Behind her right ear, there is a small augmentation visible if she puts up her hair. It works together with the retina.

Augmentation: As mentioned, Nova has a retina augmentation. This is because she is mostly deaf, the thought of the retina augmentation and the additional piece behind her ear almost negates that. Kind of like cochlear advanced. She can still actually hear a bit, too. It tells her visually the location of sound, and the source of it, or when people talk, it makes small subtitles for her. This also comes with the handy ability of immediate translation, should someone not speak English. Due to her lack of hearing, the retina also ups her vision such as ultraclear zoom. The retina connects to a small watch on her wrist, through which she can enter its settings.

Personality: Nova is a hard worker, who works more than she relaxes. If she were to relax, she'd find herself with a book, and not around humans. If she wanted to get away from her small living space, she would go outside to run (though, with the use of an advanced mask against the smog), or to one of the inside running simulator rooms in the gym of her building. She's not afraid to speak up or get feisty, and she is more of a spitfire than anything else. Though, while she doesn't quite show, her emotions and feelings run deep.

Defining Trait: Hardworking

Backstory: Nova lives in a too-small loft apartment with too many plants. It helps make her small house feel more cosy and oxygenated than the smog-filled world outside of her tall windows. She shares the home with her cat and her hobbies, which are reading books. Her favourite hobby is archery, one of the more affordable sports due to its old and non-futuristic characteristics. Why touch an actual bow and arrow when you could do it in VR, right? Well, for Nova the real deal is where it's at. She grew up in a military family, and her father always taught her know how to defend herself. Which- does not help the current lab tech out at all, unless she would have to defend herself against rogue bacteria.

In order to make a living, she applied at Voidlight for a job once she graduated from university in microbiology, thinking the company was a simple hiring agency so she could afford her home and the crippling debt her augmentation put her in. She soon rose from a simple lab tech to lead researcher due to her commitment to her work, long hours and smart thinking. Though, the loansharks she had gotten money from, to be able to get the augmentation that would allow her to be a functioning citizen, came knocking. That's why Nova didn't doubt when she got asked for a different type of project, one involving many NDAs and something to do with Dark Energy. And a hefty pay raise. And working under the Vice President people refer to as 'Dragon' she had before only ogled from afar.

However, the combination of her research and her physical capabilities are about to throw her in a new assignment altogether. One deep, deep below the water.

Skills: Knowledge of Dark Energy, yet there is so, so much more to learn. Physically fit, fast runner, extremely proficient with a bow and arrow.

Inventory: A Voidlight provided set of bow and arrows, futuristic in a way that tiny rods turn into deadly sharp arrow once activated. An earpiece connected to her behind-ear argument putting her in contact with the Voidlight assistant. A 9MM handgun strapped to her thigh. A backpack with the essentials of exploring + snacks.

Aurélie de Villiers

Aurélie de Villiers

Name: Aurélie de Villiers (nicknames: Auri, Ellie, Subject #6425)

Age: 25

Gender: Female

Appearance: Aurélie has ashen blonde, wavy hair and her eyes are hazel, lighter than her father's. She has freckles, but a pale complexion due to her time in the facility. 5'4". Frail, but surprisingly strong.

Has piercings in her ears, and a tattoo behind her right ear. It is obvious her body, and mind, have been through a lot these past 7 years, and the 18-year-old teenager has not grown well into the 25-year-old woman she is now.

Augmentation: A implant which allows Von Galloes to control her muscle functions.

Personality: 7 years of being a captive, under Von Galloes's twisted mindgames, Aurélie changed. At first, she fought tooth and nail, and held onto hope that someone would come save her and Cosette. But, when Von Galloes started holding Cosette over her head, that she couldn't see her sister if she misbehaved, she became a meek puppet for Galloes. But she didn't stop scheming. Instead, she armed herself with knowledge about the facility and the people within it. She is strong willed, but easily broken, as her hope has been shattered time and time again.

Defining Trait: Haunted

Backstory: Aurélie spent 7 years being tortured, working as a researched, and being the object of Von Galloes's twisted games. When, a month ago, she was forced to say goodbye to her sister, being told she was being sent off to die, Aurélie stabbed her direct manager in the neck in a fit of rage, thinking her sister was dead. She got thrown into a cell, and abandoned all hope until the door of her cell opened once more.

Skills: Knowledge gathered by researching [REDACTED] in [REDACTED] while [REDACTED]. Strong in her legs and hands.

Theo de Villiers

Theo de Villiers

Name: Theodore Noel de Villiers (nicknames: Theo)

Age: 24

Gender: Male

Appearance: He's 6'3", with dark brown hair, and the dark brown eyes of his father. Fit. Often keeps his facial hair, full but short.

Occupation: Conservator-restorer at The Louvre

Personality & Backstory: Theo is what you could call a social butterfly, though the last 7 years of his life have left a permanent mark on his mental health, and the broadness of his smile. Still a social man, he went to university as planned, despite his senior year in Lycée being a fiasco. After the summer where his sisters went missing, everything went down hill. Between his parents at him, and between him and his father. His worries, or rather his grief, for his sisters made him a terrible student. Still, he got the drive because Aurélie always told him to stay in school, to become someone, instead of a guy who lives of his parent’s money. So, he got into university, following his original path; MSc Conservation for Archaeology and Museums.

He still has a good, swift talk, often found making jokes and not taking everything too seriously. He's a flirt, too, and is well aware of his good looks. Once he started in university, he finally convinced his father to let him work at the Louvre. Though, Theo thinks that may have been the result of some guilt of the divorce upcoming. He was a tourguide during his entire university period, mirroring what his father did when he first started working at the Louvre. He did his internships at other museums, and once he graduated, he started working as conservator-restorer at the Louvre, his main focus on artifacts.

He’s still very fond of his mother, essentially having chosen ‘her side’ during the divorce. It had pulled at him more than he let on. He spent his entire youth idolizing his father, and loving his mother, but didn’t realise they didn’t really love each other like he thought they did. The los of his sisters was a nail to the coffin. To this day, Theo still struggles what to make of his relationship with his parents, his status as an only child, and dealing with his father’s new spouse; Nick, a man a year younger than he himself is.

He took over Aurélie’s motorcycle once he got his license, at that is his main mode of transportation. He’s had some relationships, but Theo always ends it off once they become… attached.

Defining Trait: Extrovert

Skills: Smooth talker, physically strong, spent a couple of years doing Taikwando before he got bored, extensive historical knowledge over artifacts and conservation.