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==Childhood Incident==
 
==Childhood Incident==
 
<div style="text-indent:40px;">Cytos Atraxii developed technokinesis at a very early age, possibly in infancy. Temptress claimed in an interview that Cytos would give animation to his toys, depending on their electrical conductivity. As such, the parents had commissioned several metal toys for Cytos to play with. This would keep Cytos's very focused mind entertained.<br>
 
<div style="text-indent:40px;">Cytos Atraxii developed technokinesis at a very early age, possibly in infancy. Temptress claimed in an interview that Cytos would give animation to his toys, depending on their electrical conductivity. As such, the parents had commissioned several metal toys for Cytos to play with. This would keep Cytos's very focused mind entertained.<br>
''"We obviously weren't going to discourage him,"'' Temptress relates, ''"He was our special boy, and he needed an outlet. At the time it was harmless child's play. We never expected how things turned out."''  
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''"We obviously weren't going to discourage him,"'' Temptress relates, ''"He was our special boy, and he needed an outlet. At the time it was harmless child's play. We never expected how things turned out."'' <br>
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<div style="text-indent:40px;">Temptress is referring to an incident which occurred on a Sunday afternoon, when Cytos was 8 years old. He was playing at home while the parents had gone to a quick town-hall meeting about the neighborhood watch. Cytos entered the garage full of child-like excitement about his father's mech. He attempted to summon a mech of his own, but could not fully comprehend his abilities. Power tools, lawn care instruments, and even pieces of the family car responded to Cytos's commands and attempted to merge with his flesh. The trauma mutilated most of his body, and gave Cytos minor PTSD.
 
<div style="text-indent:40px;">Temptress is referring to an incident which occurred on a Sunday afternoon, when Cytos was 8 years old. He was playing at home while the parents had gone to a quick town-hall meeting about the neighborhood watch. Cytos entered the garage full of child-like excitement about his father's mech. He attempted to summon a mech of his own, but could not fully comprehend his abilities. Power tools, lawn care instruments, and even pieces of the family car responded to Cytos's commands and attempted to merge with his flesh. The trauma mutilated most of his body, and gave Cytos minor PTSD.
 
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==Enhancements and Early Hero Years==
 
==Enhancements and Early Hero Years==
 
<div style="text-indent:40px;">Dr. Synthia James, AKA The Doc, had been an old friend of the family and oversaw the operations to restore Cytos's life. Due to the overwhelmingly intricate merging of metal to flesh, the campaign to save Cytos's life took several long years. More than 60% of his body was amputated, including both legs, and his left arm. Several internal organs had to be replaced, including his eyes, voice-box, stomach, left lung, and heart. Keeping his torso balanced on his legs requires a unique harness. However, as a result of his abilities possibly, the conversion was a sweeping success, and two years later, he was restored from his medically induced coma.<br>
 
<div style="text-indent:40px;">Dr. Synthia James, AKA The Doc, had been an old friend of the family and oversaw the operations to restore Cytos's life. Due to the overwhelmingly intricate merging of metal to flesh, the campaign to save Cytos's life took several long years. More than 60% of his body was amputated, including both legs, and his left arm. Several internal organs had to be replaced, including his eyes, voice-box, stomach, left lung, and heart. Keeping his torso balanced on his legs requires a unique harness. However, as a result of his abilities possibly, the conversion was a sweeping success, and two years later, he was restored from his medically induced coma.<br>
 
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Cytos spent the remainder of his childhood at home, under a very watchful eye. His new implants helped regulate his abilities, but he was never quite the same. An article published in 2001 in the Queens Digest magazine mentions Cytos as a "Real Life Robokid." Despite his handicap, Cytos faded from public memory, and eventually found work as the sidekick "Cyberkid."
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==Cyberkid==
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<div style="text-indent:40px;"> As Cyberkid, Cytos mostly stayed on-base for the super-team "American Way" fixing any devices that got broken. The super-team operated on the assumption that being technokinetic meant that Cytos also UNDERSTOOD the tech, which was simply not true. The team juggled Cytos through several different jobs, but none suited him. Oddly, the team never took him into the field for their operations. This eventually led to a falling out, and Cytos leaving the group. Rather suspiciously the second-in-command, Freight Train, was assassinated shortly afterwards. Cytos was never blamed for the incident, but due to his history, it is very likely this was his first kill.
 
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=Contract Killing=
 
=Contract Killing=
==Origins with CETA==
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==Origins with CIERS==  
'''Super Strength -'''  - Much like telekinesis his mind projects signals to cause motion, but there is something of a translation barrier in the way. To date, Cytos has displayed no advanced aptitudes with technology. His mind thinks it, his powers do it. This is similar to mages creating golems; they cast the spell, but the spell interprets the directions and acts accordingly. While Cytos's powers are active, he exhibit.<br>
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<div style="text-indent:40px;"> Cytos personally registered with the "Contract Infiltration, Examination, and Reconnaissance Syndicate" ('''CIERS'''), and was accepted almost instantly. CIERS is actually a front company for what could best be described as an assassin family. Unlike the typical shady ninjas or rogues people associate assassins with, CIERS was very clean, very tight, and all above-board. CIERS would receive contracts from the government, or various political figures, and had (or has) a very strict set of rules on targets. They operate on a skeleton crew, usually employing a maximum of 10 assassins at once. Cytos is believed to have been amongst 8 others at the time of his joining. His training was focused less on subtlety, and more on effectiveness.<br>
'''Elemental Kinesis -''' Spiral claims that part of his physical being, is a gravitational force that can be manipulated on an atomic scale. This way he can condense minerals from the ground and air to produce rocks and boulders for physical weaponry. These minerals get re-used if they remain local, which considerably limits collateral damage.<br>
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Cytos developed his abilities significantly within CIERS, learning to coalesce strong suits of tech armor. He developed an affinity for a spider motif, presumably based on his weapon of choice, twin katars. However, after a few brief years with CIERS, he found many of their rules to be too hindering. He never severed ties with CIERS completely, but instead moved into freelance.
'''Compression and Decompression -''' Being made entirely of energy, he can compress his body to be smaller, or decompress to become larger. At smaller sizes, his body becomes made of an impenetrable ''"hard light,"'' much like what is used in ego constructs. This smaller form can be altered in appearance to resemble skin, so he claims the smaller he gets the less comfortable he is. In combat, damage done to his body required him to occasionally re-compress to his absolute smallest, expanding slowly over the course of physical activity. In social instances, he maintains a static height of nearly 30 feet.
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==Freelance==
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==Freelance and Tragedy==
<div style="text-indent:40px;">Due to the acquisition of a Soul Extraction spell, he has the power to suck out a person's soul, and consume it. Devouring a soul in this way adds all of the victim's strengths and knowledge to his own. Over the years he has consumed more than 3,000 souls, granting him enormous physical power, and a wealth of knowledge.
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<div style="text-indent:40px;">Working freelance gave Cytos considerably more freedom with his work. He began to openly and actively engage in Hero work, fully registered with UNTIL. However, he still took assassination requests steadily, usually very choosy with his targets. Most of his targets were former heroes or soldiers with significant intel, and unstable personalities. For example, if a popular hero suddenly turned out to be a sleeper agent for VIPER, Cytos would eliminate them quietly. Cytos continues this work for years, before an unfortunate tragedy struck.<br>
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One of Cytos more recent targets was a supposed villain named Miracleworker. He was apparently a former hero now in league with ARGENT to oversee their military operations. As Miracleworker had significant insider intel that could potentially destabilize law enforcement operations, Cytos was hired for a clean kill. However, it turned out the target was actually his own father, in deep cover, trying to sabotage a potential nuclear strike ARGENT had been facilitating. Because of the sensitivity of the operation, it was kept a secret even from the people who hired Cytos. This was a crippling emotional blow, and Cytos relocated to Millenium City.
 
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'''Interrogations -'''  - Mandus does not always need to break fingers or minds to get information he needs. Through a temporary soul extraction, he can learn privileged information without causing permanent harm to a victim.<br>
 
'''Soul Poisons -''' Since he typically only devours wicked souls, he is left with a limitless supply of malice overflow, which he can emit as a dark blue fog. This fog acts like a harmful poison, and is an alternative method of defeating foes without killing them, or extracting their souls.
 
 
==Current Operations==
 
==Current Operations==
'''Shadow Hood -''' Perhaps most important is an enchanted hood he is rareley without. It conceals all features of his face, making total identification impossible.That said, he's still over 10 feet tall, and built like a brick house, so he's not hard to spot in a crowd. <br>
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<div style="text-indent:40px;">Cytos currently operates out of Millenium City, as before doing hero work for UNTIL, and taking up assassin contracts. He is currently in the middle of a substantial emotional crisis, and is being exploited by CIERS agents. At present, he is on a mission to eliminate former hero American Star, as well as other contracts. He has become less picky about his operations, and more careless with his body. He is prone to pursuing whims as they come, even recently upgrading his body to a more human-like appearance.
'''Phylacteries -''' He keeps on his persons, small phials lined in ornate silver which are used to store souls he extracts in surplus. As he no longer has any desire for human food and drink, he'll keep plenty spares on hand.
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=Personality=
 
=Personality=
<div style="text-indent:40px;">WIP
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<div style="text-indent:40px;">This section is a work in progress.
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=General Perception=
 
=General Perception=
<div style="text-indent:40px;">Publicly he is known as Mandus when referring to himself, but he is less of a person, and more of a thing. He is not popularized in the media, but many arcane circles and researches will know who he is. Some may even refer to him a Oz without ever having spoken to him prior, owing to the various rumors and urban legends conjured about his mystique.
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<div style="text-indent:40px;">This section is a work in progress.
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<div style="text-indent:40px;">His 'Sparkly Aura' is not something everybody will actually see. Each of these blue lights is the flicker of a soul he has taken, and there are thousands. If you are an exorcist, you will probably recognize this phenomenon as "Soul Orbs." It is also said that spirit photography will show his face beneath his hood, but this has yet to be proven successfully.
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=Powers, Abilities, and Tech=
 
=Powers, Abilities, and Tech=
 
==Powers==
 
==Powers==
<div style="text-indent:40px;">Oswald's operations continued for a while, but with a very slow escalation. He only attacked rivals of the Circle of the Scarlet Moon, to make them appear to be gang killings. That, plus their sporadic frequency made it difficult to determine that the soul extractions were carried out by an individual. Naturally, Oswald's sense of loyalty to the Circle brought them the wrath of several other power players such as DEMON, The Infernals, and the servants of the Crowns of Krim. This caused heavy pressure upon the Circle which led to a review of its members.
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'''Technokinesis -'''  - Much like telekinesis his mind projects signals to cause motion, but there is something of a translation barrier in the way. To date, Cytos has displayed no advanced aptitudes with technology. His mind thinks it, his powers do it. This is similar to mages creating golems; they cast the spell, but the spell interprets the directions and acts accordingly. While Cytos's powers are active, he exhibit. This section is a work in progress.<br>
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'''Technopathy -''' This section is a work in progress.<br>
<div style="text-indent:40px;">At this point Oswald's already scant public record ends. No one knew where he was, what he was doing, or if he was even alive. Though suspicions were raised about Oswald being the Circle's saboteur, he was never formally accused. Many Circle members assumed he had simply become another casualty. No body was found that was definitively identified as him, but a toothless husk was eventually found wearing clothing believed to be Oswald's.
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==Tech==
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'''Armor Suits -''' - This section is a work in progress.<br>
<div style="text-indent:40px;">Years later, the appearance of a Black Ace as a withered husk, one stiff breeze away from being ash, was found in a warehouse with six others, still alive, but drooling, or vegetative. Arcane investigators identified the attack as being perpetrated by someone with a soul extraction spell. As more bodies began appearing across the city, amongst various other killings from other evils, rumors began spreading about what was first jokingly called 'Oz, the great and powerful.' This moniker was initially intended as a gag, with the actual culprit believed to be a narcissistic wizard-hater. As the soul takings began to escalate, the name 'Oz' began to carry significant weight. Oz was believed to be a sort of Boogeyman for the wicked, who found the blackest of hearts and the most vile of souls to take and devour.
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'''Electrical Projection -''' This section is a work in progress.<br>
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'''Questionite Blades -''' This section is a work in progress.
==Techt==
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<div style="text-indent:40px;">The name Mandus first surfaced when a survivor of the "Soul Taker" was discovered, shivering and alone, with a page inscribed with Percy Bysshe Shelley's '''''Ozymandias''''' poem. Though the find was presumably coincidental, its poetic romanticism in the mysterious ruin left behind at Soul Taker sites, accompanied by rumors of Oz the Boogeyman. The moniker was then heard lengthened fully to Ozymandias the Soul Taker, but eventually boiled down to just Mandus, or  Oz.
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<div style="text-indent:40px;">A mundane arcane historian by the name a Grimri caught wind of the rumors, and began assembling a collection of stories, notes, clippings, maps, sightings, and anecdotes regarding the Soul Taker, referring to the collection as the '''Mandus Project.''' Though his efforts he assembled a clear mental picture and profile of Mandus, and even ultimately determined that if Mandus was NOT Oswald the courier, he at least had known him on a personal level. His obsession with the criminal grew out of control, and his cataloging became increasingly erratic, up until his final journal.
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<div style="text-indent:40px;">''"Tonight I have met Mandus. He is both nothing and everything I have imagined. So mundane you would never notice him in a crowd. So otherworldly that even the sanest minds go mad at the sight. Beautiful and terrible. He questioned what I knew, and satisfied, gave me chance to pen a final entry. My soul shall become one with his shadowed Babylon. I shall sink into the warm, clear oceans of terror and melancholy. I looked upon his dark works, and despaired. He is a mighty, endless, empire. He is all shall dream of again; that dark maw which swallows up the congenial face of man. For he is no man; he is Mandus."
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<br>- Grimri''
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<div style="text-indent:40px;">Grimri was found dead a week later with the word "MANDUS" scrawled in charcoal across his wall, and a grayscale photo of a truly large and muscular male, wearing tattered jeans, and a sleeveless black hooded jacket. The hood cast and unnatural darkness over his face, making his identity indeterminate.
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Revision as of 15:44, 25 April 2017

Cytos
Player: @katoregama
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"Some computers NEED to be fixed. That's what I do."
Biographical Data
Real Name: Cytos Atraxii (Yes, Really)
Known Aliases: That Spidermech Guy
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Ethnicity: Hispanic/Caucasian Mix
Place of Birth: Queens, NY
Base of Operations: Millenium City
Relatives: Mother (Temptress/Rosita Atraxii - Active), Father (Barricade/Kolsyn Atraxii - Deceased)
Characteristics
Age: 26
Height: 6 ft 2
Weight: 326 lbs (Mostly Metal)
Eyes: Yellow
Hair: Black
Complexion: Tan
Physical Build: Heavily built, like a football player.
Physical Features: Out of Costume, he has mechanical legs, and a mechanical left arm.
Status
Fame:
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State

Alignment:
LG LN LE
NG TN NE
CG CN CE
Identity: Public
Years Active: 9
Citizenship: Earth
Occupation: Assassin
Education: Implanted College Education
Marital Status: Single
Known Powers and Abilities
Spiral's Powers
  • Technokinesis
  • Robot Strength
  • Electrical Discharge

Equipment and Paraphernalia
Often equipped with a number of tech-suits that have a variety of vestigial functions.
Physical Attributes
 
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   Speed
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   Reflexes
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   Resistance
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   Stamina
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   Dexterity
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   Combat
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   Regen
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Non-Physical Attributes
 
   Energy
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   Psionics
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   Telepathy
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   Willpower
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   Sorcery
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   Tech.
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   Intel.
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   Charisma
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Background and History

Origins

Records indicate that the superhero Barricade was not originally named Kolsyn Atraxii, and had his name changed at the age of 22, shortly before he met and married heroine Rosita Ceballos AKA Rosita Atraxii AKA The Temptress. Temptress is a well-known superhero with powers of flight, telepathy, and pheromone secretion. Simply put, Temptress enthralls foes, rather than fighting them. The father, Barricade, was a known mech pilot and sidekick to Temptress. Barricade was a defensive hero, utilizing a rare Questionite frame as well as powerful forcefields to protect Temptress while she worked. Their relationship was not entirely unknown, but the public seemed under the impression that Barricade was a robot. Together, Kolsyn and Rosita had a single child, and temporarily retired from hero life.

Childhood Incident

Cytos Atraxii developed technokinesis at a very early age, possibly in infancy. Temptress claimed in an interview that Cytos would give animation to his toys, depending on their electrical conductivity. As such, the parents had commissioned several metal toys for Cytos to play with. This would keep Cytos's very focused mind entertained.

"We obviously weren't going to discourage him," Temptress relates, "He was our special boy, and he needed an outlet. At the time it was harmless child's play. We never expected how things turned out."

Temptress is referring to an incident which occurred on a Sunday afternoon, when Cytos was 8 years old. He was playing at home while the parents had gone to a quick town-hall meeting about the neighborhood watch. Cytos entered the garage full of child-like excitement about his father's mech. He attempted to summon a mech of his own, but could not fully comprehend his abilities. Power tools, lawn care instruments, and even pieces of the family car responded to Cytos's commands and attempted to merge with his flesh. The trauma mutilated most of his body, and gave Cytos minor PTSD.

Enhancements and Early Hero Years

Dr. Synthia James, AKA The Doc, had been an old friend of the family and oversaw the operations to restore Cytos's life. Due to the overwhelmingly intricate merging of metal to flesh, the campaign to save Cytos's life took several long years. More than 60% of his body was amputated, including both legs, and his left arm. Several internal organs had to be replaced, including his eyes, voice-box, stomach, left lung, and heart. Keeping his torso balanced on his legs requires a unique harness. However, as a result of his abilities possibly, the conversion was a sweeping success, and two years later, he was restored from his medically induced coma.

Cytos spent the remainder of his childhood at home, under a very watchful eye. His new implants helped regulate his abilities, but he was never quite the same. An article published in 2001 in the Queens Digest magazine mentions Cytos as a "Real Life Robokid." Despite his handicap, Cytos faded from public memory, and eventually found work as the sidekick "Cyberkid."


Cyberkid

As Cyberkid, Cytos mostly stayed on-base for the super-team "American Way" fixing any devices that got broken. The super-team operated on the assumption that being technokinetic meant that Cytos also UNDERSTOOD the tech, which was simply not true. The team juggled Cytos through several different jobs, but none suited him. Oddly, the team never took him into the field for their operations. This eventually led to a falling out, and Cytos leaving the group. Rather suspiciously the second-in-command, Freight Train, was assassinated shortly afterwards. Cytos was never blamed for the incident, but due to his history, it is very likely this was his first kill.

Contract Killing

Origins with CIERS

Cytos personally registered with the "Contract Infiltration, Examination, and Reconnaissance Syndicate" (CIERS), and was accepted almost instantly. CIERS is actually a front company for what could best be described as an assassin family. Unlike the typical shady ninjas or rogues people associate assassins with, CIERS was very clean, very tight, and all above-board. CIERS would receive contracts from the government, or various political figures, and had (or has) a very strict set of rules on targets. They operate on a skeleton crew, usually employing a maximum of 10 assassins at once. Cytos is believed to have been amongst 8 others at the time of his joining. His training was focused less on subtlety, and more on effectiveness.

Cytos developed his abilities significantly within CIERS, learning to coalesce strong suits of tech armor. He developed an affinity for a spider motif, presumably based on his weapon of choice, twin katars. However, after a few brief years with CIERS, he found many of their rules to be too hindering. He never severed ties with CIERS completely, but instead moved into freelance.


Freelance and Tragedy

Working freelance gave Cytos considerably more freedom with his work. He began to openly and actively engage in Hero work, fully registered with UNTIL. However, he still took assassination requests steadily, usually very choosy with his targets. Most of his targets were former heroes or soldiers with significant intel, and unstable personalities. For example, if a popular hero suddenly turned out to be a sleeper agent for VIPER, Cytos would eliminate them quietly. Cytos continues this work for years, before an unfortunate tragedy struck.

One of Cytos more recent targets was a supposed villain named Miracleworker. He was apparently a former hero now in league with ARGENT to oversee their military operations. As Miracleworker had significant insider intel that could potentially destabilize law enforcement operations, Cytos was hired for a clean kill. However, it turned out the target was actually his own father, in deep cover, trying to sabotage a potential nuclear strike ARGENT had been facilitating. Because of the sensitivity of the operation, it was kept a secret even from the people who hired Cytos. This was a crippling emotional blow, and Cytos relocated to Millenium City.


Current Operations

Cytos currently operates out of Millenium City, as before doing hero work for UNTIL, and taking up assassin contracts. He is currently in the middle of a substantial emotional crisis, and is being exploited by CIERS agents. At present, he is on a mission to eliminate former hero American Star, as well as other contracts. He has become less picky about his operations, and more careless with his body. He is prone to pursuing whims as they come, even recently upgrading his body to a more human-like appearance.

Personality

This section is a work in progress.

General Perception

This section is a work in progress.

Powers, Abilities, and Tech

Powers

Technokinesis - - Much like telekinesis his mind projects signals to cause motion, but there is something of a translation barrier in the way. To date, Cytos has displayed no advanced aptitudes with technology. His mind thinks it, his powers do it. This is similar to mages creating golems; they cast the spell, but the spell interprets the directions and acts accordingly. While Cytos's powers are active, he exhibit. This section is a work in progress.
Technopathy - This section is a work in progress.

Tech

Armor Suits - - This section is a work in progress.
Electrical Projection - This section is a work in progress.
Questionite Blades - This section is a work in progress.