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Associated Story: Meretricious Morals

Name: Rootkit Kerning
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Personality: Root is a fairly easy going guy who tends to prefer going with the flow of things and keeping his head low. At times he can be incredibly suspicious and hostile of people and trusts the truths he can find through technology much more than the lying mouths of people. As a result of his lifestyle he often pretends to (or can) be rather callous to the predicament of others and reluctantly wishes he weren’t involved. He possesses a sharp temper especially when cornered and can be wily and vicious when he wants to. On a normal basis he is rather mellow and docile with a wry sense of humor.

Root tries very hard to understand people through technology and is both fascinated by how and why people act yet at the same time he is incredibly fearful of people. He instinctively puts up emotional barriers and airs against others and fears that despite his efforts he will be wounded.

Ability: Root has the ability to tap into any digital or wireless field around him. It appears to him as a visible stream of data that his brain can process by mentally reversing the microscopic breakdown of 0’s and 1’s. He excels as an excellent hacker and can tap into any system, program or electronic device. He knows all things electronic from handheld calculators to the storage servers of multi-million dollar companies. He is often the team’s information retriever and “eye in the sky” figure.

Weakness: Mentally Root is incredibly unstable and paranoid with an almost ADD level of concentration when it comes to normal things around him. He typically avoids highly crowded places for fear of people and the confusing cluster of technology that comes with them and that tends to overburden his senses. If exposed to an alarming amount of electronic devices and streams of data Root is prone to migraines and bouts of weakness. Physically he is often left vulnerable and exposed while rooting through data and often either secludes himself somewhere safe or needs someone to watch his back.

Bio: After escaping Root laid low, burying himself in the mass of people living in the city. He made his living by hacking into people’s savings account and stealing a thousand dollars here and there, just enough to get by and the bank’s insurance covered the losses anyways. With the stolen money Root rented an apartment in the slums and took on a low wage job as an over-the-phone computer technician for a small time company. He had just been fired for telling a customer that “the computer’s not the stupid one, it’s the dumbass human using it” when he was abducted.

Misc: Root is the Hacker for the team and is often the one to deal with the flash drive when it appears. Whenever he gets really absorbed into thought he tends to chew on things. He frequently drinks energy drinks despite hating their taste. He has an extreme phobia for vomit. He hates being caught off guard, has average fighting skills and occasionally grudgingly carries a gun as protection.

Associated Story: Meretricious Morals

Name: Kieran McOwen
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Personality: Kieran is a generally pessimistic person. He isn't too emotional and it takes a lot to get his feathers even slightly ruffled. He is a relaxed, calm individual, though it can come across as apathy to a lot of people. He has the tendency to reply sarcastically to almost anything. He tries his hardest to not involve himself with people, because of his ability. Emotions especially repel him. But that aside, he's pretty talkative. He has an innocent appearance to him.
Ability: Illusionist. Kieran has the ability to influence the perceptions of the people around him so that they see something he wants them to see. Because of this, he has a side-ability to get snippets of images from people's minds. Not mind reading, but more like an imprint of their emotional states in one image or color, like an aura.
Weakness: Kieran's ability is limited. The extent to which he is able to influence a person's perceptions largely depends on their own mental states. The calmer they are, the better his illusions will go by unnoticed. Excited people can either intensify his illusions themselves or eradicate them completely, it depends on the mind. Due to his aura reading that stems from his illusions, he gets images and colors coming into his mind constantly. Therefore he tries to keep his headphones in as much as possible. It's like a pseudo-distraction for him.
Bio: Kieran doesn't like his power. He initially loved how convenient it was for him to manipulate someone into thinking that he was in his room when he wasn't. But soon, his brain began to be attacked by vivid flashes and walls of color and emotion. They were erratic and painful, leading him to want to avoid the sources of those imprints: people. Upon his escape, he delved into the gritty, seedy side of town. People didn't mind if he wanted to be by himself. He would squat in whatever rundown buildings he could that weren't already occupied. He met a few people but never became intimate with them; their emotions were too rapid and intense. He discovered that certain wide headphones that could reach specific decibel levels could block out the images coming from normal people. They couldn't block out people having emotional breakdowns, but he did his best to avoid those. He was content to wander the more remote parts of the city, staying in the shells of old homes and office buildings.
Misc: He's a loner. But he's also a pacifist. He doesn't use violence because the fear caused by the people involved becomes too strong for him to handle. He gets really irritable when his headphones are taken away. He's also gay.