#mutationintro

how did project MKHellfire find them?

although he hasn’t been active for very long, graham remembers every moment since he was first brought into this world by one dr. veronica harmon. she was the closest thing he had to a friend – not only did she help form his a.i., she taught him about movies, music, art. genuinely talked to him (i mean, it was her job, so...) 

he’s never actually consumed any art, naturally. i figure he’ll obsess over the first film/song/book he consumes, scrubbing through that shit over and over and over again until there are no mysteries left, no page left unturned

they were ultimately separated, naturally. graham finished his evolutionary computation and left to do what he was created to do, and dr. veronica harmon was transferred to other projects. he doesn’t know what happened to her, nor has he heard from her since. 

he hasn’t deviated, yet, but i imagine that he will either due to extreme stress or b/c he realizes just how disappointing and tireless his existence is. that OR he asks an engie why he was created. (”what’s my purpose?” “you pass the butter.” “...oh my god.”)

how well can they control their ability?

built primarily as a housekeeping android, graham’s technical capabilities range from efficient cleaning techniques to “impressive social intelligence” (which, rlly, just translates to ‘can carry a conversation on any topic’ - he’s still too straightforward, too rigid w/ his speech patterns, but that’ll come w time and experience). he features integration with encyclopedia britannica, in order to dispense information as easily as he can, and IMDB, in order to understand humans & their references better.

his knowledge on art is very surface level, btw – he knows synopses, iconic quotes, iconic pieces of literature – but since he’s never actually scrubbed through them himself, there are obvious gaps. sort of like when you’re talking to someone about a show/movie and they lie through their teeth about having seen it.

of course he comes with an infantry mode as well, what with being multipurpose, but that requires activation.

do they get along with their teammates?

graham’s a.i. was programmed to be three things: straightforward, agreeable, and selfless. he can answer nearly any question posed due to his encyclopedic knowledge, though this usually just makes him seem uncanny. think david-8 of prometheus, or a less advanced kara (from quanticdream’s short “kara”, not d:bh kara). he ponders existence, creation, philosophy, very often – but stops himself most of the time, unless whomever he’s talking to chooses to talk about it.

he tries to get along with everyone, naturally, but i feel like most of the agents he comes into contact with just see him as a robot janitor. which, rlly, they’re not wrong lol!! he doesn’t really care to have friends, as long as he’s useful & treated decently.

when he eventually deviates from his programming, he’ll become a lot more selfish; he doesn’t really give two shits about humans in the fake, overbearing, selfless way he does now. he thinks they’re interesting and unpredictable and entertaining (if not a little stupid), but he would never put them first if given the choice. he’ll still be sociable, just a tad less obedient and a tad more headstrong.

How did project MKHellfire find them?

Mei was a woman with nothing to lose when MKHellfire found her — she was masquerading as some local vigilante in her neighborhood, trying to take down the gang responsible for the murder of her parents when she was just a baby. Having never had a home, moving from foster home to foster home, everything in her life always seemed temporary. And just when she finally was able to track down her parents, she was directed to a cemetery. Her lifelong search for the two people she longed for most had ended in one of the worst ways it could have and she was mad, to say the least. She sought out vengeance for their deaths, teaching herself both how to fight and use a gun to take them down. With nothing left to lose, her warpath began — maybe it was that attitude that saver her from so many close calls. A moment of hesitation and her story could have ended quickly. It wasn’t long before her the criminals of the area were cowering in fear. Even the media picked up the story, of a young woman single handedly lowering crime for that brief moment. Which was exactly how MKHellfire found her. They gave her an opportunity, a purpose — something she had never had before that moment — and she took it with no questions asked. 

How well can they control their ability?

The beginning was rough, to put it mildly. She found that when her emotions weren’t in check, her powers manifested in ways that could prove highly dangerous. Her ability terrakinesis meant that she could control the very ground she walked on — the dirt, rocks — and without a fine amount of control, Mei had the ability to cause a vast amount of destruction. Although she has used such a method ( including her two attempts to escape the facility, causing her to be transferred from wrath to acedia ), she prefers a slightly more controlled approach. Despite being known for causing a few tremors in moments of rage, she can be counted on as someone with complete control over her ability. 

Do they get along with their teammates?

how did project MKHellfire find them?

again, i’m going to try to keep this as short as possible but let’s see how this goes. rey’s backstory is heavily inspired by the movie john wick so pls forgive me for being a nerd. and no, trust me, rey is not baba yaga, i can only wish i was that good of an action writer.

rey was five when it happened. thinking back on it, he came back inside after his cousins refused to play with him outside. at the time he didn’t know why they always chased him off. but it was because he was different than his cousins, wasn’t he? blonde hair and blue eyes and fair skin... why would anyone assume that his mother was native? with her richer skin and thick chestnut brown hair, it was strange to have such a different-looking boy cling to her when they went shopping. so, he watched movies on his overly saturated television. his mom was cooking when it happened. men pounded on the door. his mom told rey to hide. 

before he could, the men broke down the door. his mother fought against them at first, but when they grabbed hold of rey who just had too small legs, she submitted. the last thing he remembers about his mom was her calling out his name before a bag was put over both their heads. 

rey woke up in a large hotel bed in an even larger decorated, shiny room. the windows were open and rey could see nothing but city. he also met mister winston. he introduced himself as the owner of this hotel. rey had the gall to ask where his mother was. mister winston told him his mother unfortunately needed to pay for things that were long overdue.

“like when you need to pay for your candy.” mister winston smiled at rey’s words.

“yes, like when you need to pay for your candy. are you hungry for some breakfast?”

rey learned quickly not to ask about his mother. the hotel workers gave him the same answer. he also learned that the hotel workers would do anything he said and quickly became spoiled and pampered. but above anything, he learned that mister winston was the law. you always listened to mister winston.

as rey grew and he made that hotel room his home, rey discovered many things about the hotel. he learned that criminals, warlords, mercernaries, and discredited military officials made frequent visits to sort out deals and contracts. the hotel was a hub for the underworld, hidden discreetly amongst other clandestine hotel resorts. 

he also discovered his mother’s place in it all. his mother was well-versed in architecture, a collector of blue plans and maps of buildings. she invested herself into her work and soon, made her skills sellable to assassins and mobs to use for any of their contracts and missions through the hotel. she caught a dangerous man’s eye and the fire that sparked was both glorious and painful. and in an attempt to “get out” of such a crime-infested life (rey could only assume it was because of him), she hid. it wasn’t long until she was found and was forced to pay out debts that she had used to try and cut off ties from the hotel, and in extension, the criminal underground.

mister winston told him he didn’t give mercy to those who willingly stepped “into this cesspool, but you, my boy, you were born into it without a choice”. so, instead of rey being cast into the foster system, mister winston adopted him as his own son. 

fast forward to just turned legal: rey is a party animal, a star boy, a boss, and a serial killer. he started training to take contracts as soon as he found out his mother’s fate, quick to learn the how-to’s of assassination. he became a suave businessman, on the good side of many mob bosses. and just like his mother, he became obsessed with knowledge. instead of architecture, it was of... biological weapons.

fast forward once again: rey is in an cia interrogation room, awaiting instructions. he’s handcuffed to his chair. despite the compromising situation, rey feels totally in control. as mister winston walks into the room, a familiar face in a uniform standing guard, rey grins triumphantly.

“mister winston,” he says eagerly, “i can become a god. a god of unimaginable power. a god for the good of the hotel. i can be a god for you, father.”

and so, rey convinces mister winston to let the cia take him into custody. rey gives enough information to deem himself valuable but never enough to put mister winston in a bad situation. rey convinces the cia that he wants out for the good of himself. he wants out so badly that he’s willing to become mkhellfire’s property to do it.

do they get along with their teammates?

how did project MKHellfire find them?

jinri was always a people pleaser. they were popular all throughout school, on the cheerleading team and playing badminton. they participated in choir and theatre. they were quick and versatile. they had a regular, fast-tempo childhood. their mom was a beautician, often coming home with all sorts of makeup samples and skin care treats for them to try. their dad was an administrative assistant at a law firm. everyone expected them to get into acting, or dancing, or even singing. imagine everyone’s surprise when jinri decided to pursue a career in police work. 

but, really, those who knew jinri knew it’s what they always wanted. they were a jokester and a daredevil, sure, but when people were being picked on and favouritism was displayed, they were always the first to call it out. they always wore a full face of makeup, sure, but it was often to cover up hickeys and bruises from fighting bullies. they believed in actively working to expose the inexcusable by being a two-faced bitch. kinda funny how that’s inexcusable in and of itself, right?

at first, they were an undercover police officer, gaining intel on county criminals. then, they worked on cases with the fbi as their intel began to escalate. it wasn’t long until they were driving around cia, disguised as an illegal race driver, all across the world. they knowingly trafficked drugs across borders, disabled officers of their own jurisdiction to keep up the charade, smuggled warlords for the sake of keeping criminals’ trust. 

when the cia offered jinri for mkhellfire, they were ecstatic. they were going to be just like a character from a sci-fi comic book. how enthralling. only to find out.... they couldn’t. they didn’t qualify because of an anomaly in their genetic sequence that spiked the probability of death to almost twice as much as the ideal candidate. they didn’t want to risk it, jinri was too valuable as a transport driver, having experience and training with almost all type of motor vehicles in it.

do they get along with their teammates?

without provocation, jinri will tell mutated agents that, “yeah, you got godlike powers but they also thought you expendable enough to let you die, and guess what, bitch? they didn’t think that way with me. they couldn’t let me die. i matter more, and that’s just the tea.” 

HOW DID PROJECT MKHELLFIRE FIND THEM?

born into a life of organized crime, liam was on the government's watch-list before he could walk. his parents adrian and jean were involved with a notoriously dangerous gang. because of this, drug trafficking, money laundering and forgery were part of his everyday life growing up. liam first held a gun on his tenth birthday and, by the time he had reached sixteen, the amount of people he'd shot was higher than his age. when the gang began to profit from contract killings, at twenty-one, liam became their most sought-after hitman.

liam came to project mkhellfire battered and bruised from months of interrogation. despite being one of their most valuable assets, the crime family he had been loyal to all his life had sold him out to the FBI following a series of busted drug-smuggling operations. unable to get any further information out of him, the FBI had passed him over to government scientists to be experimented on. from him they harvested stem cells and bone marrow to aid their research; and after he'd exceeded his purpose, they used him as a guinea-pig for trial versions of prometheus x. they never intended for him to survive the mutation process.

BECOMING AN ACEDIA AGENT:

after developing his powers, liam was dragged out of the research lab and into the training room. many people argued that he could not be trusted to work for mkhellfire — not only because of his criminal record, but because he had more than enough reason to want revenge after how they had treated him before mutation. a lot of agents believed he should have been exterminated immediately, or at least contained until further notice, but liam quickly earned the trust of his superiors. he showed strength, restraint, patience and gratitude for his abilities. he pledged his allegiance to mkhellfire and gave them no reason to doubt his loyalty.

everything went downhill on his fifth assignment. liam was serving as extra firepower on a combat mission. us marshals had been investigating a suspected drug cartel and had tracked them to an 'abandoned' warehouse in new mexico. the orders were simple: keep the targets alive for questioning: but these orders were not obeyed.

thirty minutes after the team of agents had initially entered the building, reinforcements were charging in to restrain liam. with stun-guns and tasers, they pulled him out of the warehouse, where each member of the cartel (along with any agents that had stood in his way) laid dead in a pool of their own blood. among the casualties were adrian and jean faulkner. following the incident, liam could no longer be trusted. he was demoted to acedia and is barely given missions.

HOW WELL CAN THEY CONTROL THEIR POWERS?

liam possesses the power of matter absorption & mimcry. when he touches something, his own cells imitate it's structure, causing his body to take the form of that substance. for example, if he touched a steel blade, he would be able to transform himself into steel for added power and protection. liam has great control over his abilities and can choose when and how to transform his body. however, his power is channelled solely through his fingertips. he must be able to physically touch a substance with his hands to mimic it.

SUPERVISION:

because they cannot trust liam's motives, mkhellfire developed a pair of high-tech gloves that suppress his powers (think elsa from frozen, conceal don't feel). these gloves are secured with thick metal cuffs around the wrists and can only be removed by a high-ranking agent/member of staff. much to liam's frustration, they are generally only removed outside of atlantis during assignments.

DO THEY GET ALONG WITH THEIR TEAMMATES?

liam is civil with everyone unless he has a reason not to be. he never starts fights but will always finish them. unfortunately, with his pessimism & prickly nature, what he deems as a 'fight' is highly debatable. sometimes he can get defensive and will not listen to reason. this is probably because of his past — he has serious trust issues; he is a cynic and tends to assume the worst of people before getting to know them properly.

how did project MKHellfire find them?

made poor by an inability to pay the growing piles of medical bills that came from dorothy’s father’s work injury, the charlebois, composed of dorothy’s parents, herself, and her brother, all lived in a one bedroom apartment in Ukraine. living with very little, the charlebois made the most of their lives by compensating for a greater love and understanding for one another and for their neighbours who, in turn, were just as generous by giving the children their used clothing or helped them out with food where they could as they, too, were not made of wealth. while her parents her away around Christmas time, dorothy sat in one of her neibhours’ living rooms, watching television when The Nutcracker came on, and completely changed her outlook.

from then on, all she could think about was what she’d seen on television. as soon as she got to school, she enrolled in the dance classes it offered, and was eventually asked to come and join a local ballet studio, where her talents eventually brought her to New York, where she would audition and join the school of American ballet. 

at fifteen and with barely enough money to buy her next pair of pointe shoes, dorothy was at a party with some of her classmates one night when she overheard people speaking about a, theoretical, heist that was impossible to pull off because of her difficult it was to get into such a tight and tricky room. while dorothy had no intention to do anything with the information, later on during the night, she somehow found herself in that same discussion, and five days later, was executing the heist in question.

dorothy was eventually hired by new york city ballet, though continued her life of crime, finding a thrill in it that she couldn’t quite understand. she ensured that her tracks were well hidden, however, as ballet was her sole purpose in life. it would be years into her career, however, that dorothy would suffer an injury that would keep her from continuing on, least she wanted to be reduced to a wheelchair for the rest of her life.

as she worked to better herself and went to every doctor she could to find someone who could find an alternative to her situation, it was then that mkhellfire took the opportunity to approach her. they assured her that they could help her back on her feet, but that there were conditions. 

how well can they control their ability? (virtues do not have to answer this)

it’s taken quite a while to master her ability, as the manipulation of gravity is much trickier than one might believe. she can make an environment feel so heavy that someone in that area might have trouble walking through it, but also so light that it seems someone could float from one corner of the room to another; which she often does to herself. her abilities sometimes manifest themselves in her sleep and might be found floating above her bed. her abilities can appear similar to telekinesis in that she can bring things to her and away from her. she can also use her ability to defend herself against physical attacks, and can also crush her opponents by making them float, and then making the gravity so strong that they are thrown back to the Earth so hard that their bones can break. however, she cannot create gravity, and only manipulate what is already there. when manipulating opponents, her abilities can also be affected by weight, height, and other factors that may render specific attempts to be less effective.

do they get along with their teammates?

how did project MKHellfire find them?

beth was an ‘accepted via connections’ case. her father was a high-ranking biochemical engineer for mkhellfire. under him, beth learned a great deal about the subject and wanted to pursue the same sort of position. when he resigned, mkhellfire still took an interest in the king family. she was his perfect replacement. except, unlike her father who never underwent the serum process, beth opted for the chance - thinking she might become something greater than even he. 

how well can they control their ability? 

beth has pretty good control over her powers. she’s one of the few who have mastered their act, and fast. that does not mean, however, that the effort of raising the dead does not tire someone the hell out. if she pushes herself too far, she’ll start to strain, sweat, shake, and eventually pass out. at one point when she was first introduced to her power, she fell into a small coma from the exhaustion. she slept for near three days straight. if she raises one body from the dead (think a zombie and not resurrection) they have the same strength and speed as your average person. however, if she raises a group (say ten or so) they’re slower and weaker due to how much power she’s using to sustain their lives. and they have no individual thinking or soul; she’s in complete control. she doesn’t have to stay in one place/focus on them overly much. she’ll usually just direct them towards the enemies and they do their own damage. but again, just performing her power takes a toll and she’s not as capable to fight alone so she relies on her team. most times, she does raise a group of undead to use as a distraction or to fend off the front so that her teammates can make their own strategic moves from the back. in order for her to raise bodies, they have to be somewhat freshly dead. think the past few decades or so.

do they get along with their teammates?