Jag's Nexus Characters

[Jag]

Name: Natalie "Nat" Veinte

View attachment 5764Age: Mid-twenties

Race/Species: Cybernetic-Enhanced Human

Occupation: Professional Survivor, Occasional Exceptional Thief

Powers/Abilities: Natalie possesses highly enhanced speed and agility courtesy of cybernetic implants. Her speed is not supernatural to the point of comic book ability, but is appreciably faster than the world-class athletic competition sprinters. Her agility and flexibility additionally makes her incredibly resilient to physical damage.

Natalie's greatest ability is that of "phase shifting" where she is able to literally blink or fade in and our of the tangible corporeal form of her physical dimension for a very short amount of time. She is working to improve this ability to be able to phase through objects, although so far it has progressed little beyond a parlor trick without much practical use for fear of phasing back in the middle of wall and slicing herself in half.

Speed doesn't apply only to movement -- she's quick with a keyboard or just about any other technical interface as well. Passwords and firewalls aren't much different than locked doors and safes. She has a knack for finding a way in.

Oh yeah, and legendary luck.

Personality: If Nat's penchant for working herself into dangerous situations won't eventually be her downfall, her acerbic wit mouthing off to the wrong person will. Biting sarcasm is rarely hidden shallow beneath the surface. The only thing that moves faster than her body is her mouth. A thief by moonlight trade, Nat isn't afraid to skirt the lines of morality and finds stodgy adherence to draconian legal codes a real bummer. She's rarely one to turn down a party and usually the last one to flinch in a game of chicken.

While she takes great pride in being "the bad guy," the truth is that beyond her thievery of taking what's good for her, Nat has an underlying code of abhorrence for anyone taking advantage of the helpless, often marking those who do as worthy targets -- her own form of karmic and cosmic justice.

Background: Wouldn't you like to know? Nat would just a soon drink you under the table (or collapse trying) or drag you to bed before she'll talk about the past.

 

[Jag]

WORK IN PROGRESS

Name: Andres Costa / Viper

Age: Late Twenties/Early Thirties (by appearance)

Occupation: Warring Prince of the Valencian Empire

Powers/Abilities: Andres appears as a normal human, but the Vibora within him courses through his veins and exists as a separate yet intertwined entity wholly within him. Fighting for control mentally, emotionally, and physically, Andres and the Viper meld to give him abilities far beyond that of any ordinary human. When exerting control, the Viper can transform Andres wholly or in part into a completely different creature. A twisted and grinded, matte black thicket of bone, sinew, and muscle, capable of strength exponential to that of a normal being. Appendages alternatively take the form of razor claws or sinewy tendrils, offensive weapons of pain and tear as well as unmatched climbing speed on almost any sheer surface.

Normally, the Viper's control is limited to brief moments and only small parts of Andre's body, often morphing only his arm and hand for a specified purpose rather than his entire body. Its effect on his mind and will, however, are a constant battle of every inch they forcefully share. When any part of his body is manifesting as the Viper, however, Andres' eyes become entirely black, his skin losing its normal rich color and veins prominent beneath the surface.

Background: Born as the third child and second son of the Marquès Costa, Andres was raised in the comfortable sun-soaked ocean side villas given to the wealthy and powerful with Valencian Imperial society, his family one of the leading contenders with legitimate claims to the bloodlines of succession entitling them to claim the Empire. Raised with schooling in classical literature and philosophy, fencing, and the arts expected of one in such high birth, Andres grew restless with the need to travel beyond expected borders.

When civil war inevitable erupted as the clashing families dueled for the throne, Andres found himself putting that restlessness to point, leading a crew across Valencia tracking down relics of Valencian myth and history to strengthen his family's side. It was during this that he was to recover lost treasures of imperial glories long forgotten, and at which time he encountered the long-dormant creature known as Vibora, or the Viper.

Personality: While attuned to the finer things in life due to his upbringing in the upper echelons of his home society, Andres found the constrictions placed upon him by the expectations of that life suffocating and a life of exploration and existence on the fringe of the known called to him. Still, within him lay the darkness of extreme ambition. It was this seed that led the Viper to him, finding a home in the very worst an otherwise decent man had to offer.

Constantly battling his better nature with the dark force barely dormant within him, Andres' nature fluctuates based on who holds the advantage in the struggle.