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Name: "Rook"
Age: Unknown. Guessed to be in his mid-thirties.
Height: 6'4
Weight: 155
Hair: Dirty blond
Eyes: Red
Ethnicity: East European
Occupation: Criminal, thug for hire

Powers: Durability: Rook is exceptionally durable and can take vast amounts of punishment before falling. While not truly invulnerable, he can take far more damage than other post-humans, even those in peak physical condition. He has been known to get up after being run over by a semi-truck, walk after suffering multiple stab and gunshot wounds, and has even survived in the heart of an explosion.

Adaptation: Paired with his great stamina and capacity to take one on the chin, Rook's power of Adaptation allows him a limited form of invulnerability. Simply put, the same trick will never work on him twice. Once Rook has been exposed to a certain type of damage (a fist to the face, for instance), he becomes invulnerable to that specific stimulus...those who would engage him must vary their tactics with each attack if they hold any hopes of besting him. And given his great durability, such a task is imposing even for the most creative tacticians.

Origin of Powers: Rook is a mutant by birth and damn proud of it. He takes every opportunity to lord the origin of his powers over any "lesser" post-humans he encounters

Skills/Talents: Having lived his entire life on the streets, Rook is extremely streetwise, talented in the art of misdirection, fast-talking, and using subterfuge to get his way. When all else fails, he's certainly not above intimidation. In fact, he's quite fond of it. Rook is skilled with a lock-pick, can steal in plain sight, and has a strong knowledge of who's who among criminals.

Weakness: Though Rook makes himself out to be invincible, he can only hold a limited number of invulnerabilities at one time. Once he has reached this limit, he can either achieve no more invulnerabilities or must give up the least recent one he acquired. His invulnerabilities also leave him each time he sleeps, forcing him to start each day fresh.

On top of that, he has a temper, a predilection towards rash, violent action, and a problem with authority which has landed him in hot water with more than one employer and made him quite a few enemies in the process.

Background: The criminal known as Rook doesn't talk about his upbringing with anyone. He grew up on the streets, running away from the orphanage that his mother gave him up to almost as soon as he was able to walk. He once worked for the mob, rising in the ranks as he grew into adolescence from pick pocket to messenger to drug runner to low-ranking enforcer. When his powers manifested, he gave up the thug life to start an empire of his own. Unfortunately, his lack of business talent and his short-sighted nature caused this endeavor to fail from panning out. From there he went mercenary, hiring himself out to the highest bidder. Among super-human law enforcement agencies, he is a well-known offender, though he is not currently on any "most wanted" list due to his slippery talents for exploiting the limitations of the legal system.

Played by Mercurius James

Name: "Zanzibar"
Age: 20
Height: 6'0
Weight: 165
Hair: Black (white)
Eyes: Brown
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Occupation: Soldier

Powers: Density Control: Zanzibar has complete control over the density of his own body; and not just his body as a whole, but specific body parts down to the very tips of his fingers. By increasing his density, he becomes an immovable object, capable of smashing through walls, crushing the ground like a canonball, or resisting great quantities of damage. By decreasing his density, he can pass through solid matter and become weightless enough to simulate levitation.

Origin of Powers: Like the rest of the Choosen, Zanzibar was born a mutant.

Skills/Talents: Zanzibar is physically fit, naturally athletic, and possesses a wide array of combat skills such as grappling and hand-to-hand combat. His natural charisma makes him a born leader, though he lacks the tactical genius to be truly brilliant.

Weakness: Altering the density of multiple points on his body at once requires a great degree of concentration, an art which Zanzibar has yet to truly master. He is very self-assured, to the point of great arrogance and often pushes himself beyond his capacity, believing his powers to be greater than they actually are. He has aspirations to be a leader in Eden's community some day but is not one to bow and stoop to his superiors. What he lacks in tact, however, he more than makes up for in charisma and his popularity has, unfortunately, made him more than a few enemies within Eden.

Background: Sync and Zanzibar were born Megan and James Howell. Their parents were outspoken mutant rights activists who were accidentally killed in a protest some time before the 7 Day War. The children were sent off to live with their aunt, an abusive woman who exploited the children for her own gain. After his powers manifested, James took his sister and ran away from home...it was only a few days later before Megan discovered she had the same abilities as James (or so she thought). The two returned to their old home in Empire City and sought out some of their parent's old pro-mutant friends who turned out to be post-humans themselves. They informed the children that an inevitable war was coming in which post-humans would rise up and create a peaceful world. They spoke of a great superman named Omni who had shared his ideals with them and from that point on the two have counted themselves among the Choosen.

Name: "Icarus"
Age: 21
Height: 5'6
Weight: 120
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Brown
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Occupation: Inventor, hacker, technology specialist

Powers: Technological Integration: Icarus mentally controls several strands of unbreakable fiber which come from inside his body (originating from somewhere within his spine). These strands can break down existing machines within seconds, reintegrating them onto his body as armor, weapons, or useful gadgets. This, of course, destroys the original source item though, if Icarus wished to do so, he could dismantle his new modifications and use the pieces to reassemble the broken items in question. He keeps a number of useful devices integrated onto his body at all times, including an artificial arm with a miniature super-computer built into it.

Technopathy: Icarus may also use his strands to delve into a technological device, operating it in any way he sees fit so long as his strands remain connected to the machine. He may extract data from computers, upload viruses, and destroy or restore an entire network as he wishes.

Origin of Powers: Though he lies about being a mutant and is able to manipulate gene tests to verify his claims, Icarus' powers are completely based on nano-technology. His genes are as mundane as the next human beings.

Skills/Talents: Icarus is a certified genius with an IQ of 195 and an unsurpassed grasp of electrical, mechanical, and computer engineering. He can reason through complex equasions in seconds and uses his keen mind to guide his technological tendrils towards building complex devices from raw materials in seconds. Even without his powers, Icarus would be a formidable mind able to invent new devices and push the limits of existing technology.

Weakness Like many geniuses, Icarus is a complete a*****e with reprehensible social skills. He is arrogant and a hostage of his own mind which refuses to find joy or goodness in anything, citing that such emotions are without logical base and reserved for "lesser" beings. He lost his right arm, leg, and lung in the accident which gave him his powers and if his abilities were somehow neutralized, he would become quite helpless apart from his astondingly brilliant mind.

Background: Dr. Algus Holstein was one of the world's top scientists in the field of nanotechnology and his laboratory was responsible for a number of breakthroughs in nano-applications. The doctor was obsessed with creating nanotech which was artificially intelligent; a field of robotic research which has always been taboo at best. While working on a strain of nano-bots far more advanced than any previous model, there was an accident; instead of retaining the synthetic intelligence (a much more tame version of AI) they had been programmed with, the machines became self aware and attacked the lab, disintegrating the staff, equipment, and the entire building in a matter of minutes.

Legion (a name the entity gave itself), however, left Dr. Holstein's young son Algus II, who was only 4 at the time and living on the laboratory campus with his father, alive. Algus II was the doctor's genetic twin; a clone he had created of himself and enhanced in utero with gene treatments to stimulate the boy's mental facilities. For whatever reason, Legion took the boy's arm, leg, and lung as payment for a lifetime of service and the two became one. Algus cast off his father's name, taking up the mantle of Icarus, a mythical figure he had always been fascinated by, and set out on his own.

After the 7 Day War, the young lad pledge himself to Omni's service, throwing in his lot with the dictator under the belief that he was joining with the future of mankind. He used his technology altering abilities to forge gene test results verifying his claims of being a true mutant and now lives on Eden, serving the community as a scientist and inventor of many of the advanced technological marvels the island nation lords over the rest of creation.

Played by L is for Loser