Varian, Athen

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Varian, Athen

Post by MizuJakkaru » February 22nd, 2020, 12:08 pm

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If I go crazy will you still call me Superman? wrote:Name: Fourteen
Nickname: Athen Varian, Cruo
Age: 22 (Appears), 7 (Actual) (March 21st)
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Cinnabar Island, Kanto
Family: None

Trainer Orientation: Lawful Neutral
Trainer Class: Experiment, Wanderer
Starter Pokémon: Espeon
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We are one... after all... you and I. Together we suffer; together we exist and forever will we recreate each other. wrote:
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Lucian [Male Espeon]Light of the heart.
Lucian is the epitome of a regal Espeon. He knows he's strong and sleek and powerful, and he's not afraid to show it. He is also incredibly loyal to Athen, seeing his human as almost a brother he never had. Lucian is capable of mentally conversing with Athen and he is also the reason Athen is not completely insane. Lucian will almost never leave Athen's side and he sleeps curled up next to the boy he's know for almost ten years now. Lucian is calm and thoughtful in battle, never getting ahead of himself, and is very keen on dodging and hitting before the enemy can react.
—Received in Blackthorn City from Anthony Varian.

Ability: Synchronize
Nature: Calm
Move Pool: Calm Mind, Hidden Power (Ground), Light Screen, Morning Sun, Psychic, Reflect, Shadow Ball, Signal Beam, Substitute, Trick

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Nike [Female Sneasel]Goddess of victory.
A show off and a bit of a know it all, Nike is definitely still a good fighter. She's rather fast on the field of battle and she can be pretty stealthy about how she fights. Still, she is a bit rash, and she takes winning a bit too well, getting somewhat of a big head from it all. Nike is named after the Greek goddess of the same name, and she takes the meaning of her name seriously; she'll win, no matter the cost.
—Captured on Route 28.

Ability: Pressure
Nature: Bold
Move Pool: Beat Up, Blizzard, Faint Attack, Ice Punch, Icy Wind, Protect, Quick Attack, Rock Smash, Slash, Thief

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Pholus [Male Smeargle]Of the caves.
Quite and calm, Pholus isn't much of a fighter at all. Rather, he is simply a companion of Athen's that chooses not to fight in battles and prefers just to accompany the boy. Pholus is quite the artist, as is normal for his species, and often when Athen and the team are relaxing, he will paint scenes or portraits of the team and Athen. He doesn't fight much, if at all, despite the versatility of Smeargles, and Athen sees no need to force him to.
—Captured in the Ruins of Alph.

Ability: Own Tempo
Nature: Docile
Move Pool: Sketch

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Tiamat [Female Dragonair]Queen of dragons.
Like Nike, Tiamat is rash and battle savvy. She, however, is a bit more brash than Nike is. She's willing to run herself into a pulp just for the sake of battle. She is incredibly fond of Athen, however, and she sometimes rides curled around his shoulders. She's a bit small for a Dragonair, roughly half the size of normal. She was bred by the Dragon Clan, and as such, knows ExtremeSpeed, as most of the Blackthorn Dratinis do.
—Received in Blackthorn City from the Dragon Clan.

Ability: Shed Skin
Nature: Rash
Move Pool: Agility, Aqua Tail, Dragon Dance, Dragon Rush, ExtremeSpeed, Hidden Power (Fire), Ice Beam, Outrage, Safeguard, Slam
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. wrote:Athen stands roughly six feet tall with a lean, toned build from physical labor. He has a strong jawline. His ashen brown hair is heavily layered and falls roughly to his shoulders. it is styled to cover his left eye completely, as well as most of his left cheek. His eyes are naturally a hazel-blue mixture, but given the events of his history, his left eye is now a glassy computer-style neon green and lacks a pupil. This eye is mechanical in nature and allows Athen the ability to see in darkness beyond human perception and also allows him to see in infrared. His human eye glows blue in darkness, similar to that of a Sableye.

Scarring is prominent on Athen's body, the most iconic of which is the large amount of scarring surrounding his left eye. From under it up to his hair line stretched a broad amount of atrophic scarring. Criss crossed over that are scratched marks that run down his cheek and also across the inner region of his eye. His right eye also has a small scar running over it. Athen typically keeps the entirety of his left eye covered with bandages or an eyepatch in addition to his bangs.

The scarring on his eyes are not his only ones. He also bears a number of scars across his collar and chest. The most prominent is a burn scar over his left hip and the atrophic scar at his collar. Various hypertrophic scars mar his biceps and arms, caused by heavy restraints and chains.

The last of Athen's physical attributes are the mechanical device on the left side of his chest. An artificial heart, it takes the form of a broad panel over his left pectoral. The silver device is fitted with a glass panel and a pulse read out. The metal of this device is fitted partially down his rib cage and it also wraps over top his collar to where it is fastened to his chest. It is impossible to remove, as it technically is his heart (in addition to a reconstructed part of his ribcage over lying the organ). In addition, he has gemstones on his chest resembling that of a Sableye's.

Clothing-wise, Athen typically wears long sleeves, though he is not by all means shy at making his scarring public, he just prefers to given that people ask questions. When he is not wearing long sleeved shirts, he wears a t-shirt and jacket combination or just a plain t-shirt. He does not (and likely never will) go topless or wear a tank-top. He doesn't mind the scarring, but he would rather keep the device and gemstones private.

On his wrists, Athen wears a pair of matching leather bracers and also dons an assortment of silver rings on his fingers. His belt at his waist matches his bracers, and his wallet chain is silver just like his rings. Athen's belt also bears an embroidered pouch, depicting traditional eastern architecture and dancing Dratini and Dragonair, courtesy of the Dragon Clan of Blackthorn. His legs typically are clothed in jeans (or slacks) and his boots are generic leather work boots.
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Artwork by Murata Renji (front and right).
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing there is none. Cruo is cruel and strives only for the fear of others. wrote:Athen has two distinct personalities, Athen and Cruo. The former is his natural personality, while the latter is one that arose due to rejection of the experimentation done on him. His natural demeanor is undeniably fragile. Lucian, his Espeon, is perhaps the greatest factor in maintaining this personality. Lucian and Athen have a mental link and can talk telepathically, but Lucian also is the one that is constantly suppressing with psychic power the split personality that is capable of taking over Athen otherwise.
Athen wrote:Athen is a laid back, calm and collected person. He is somewhat introverted in that he prefers to be approached rather than approaching others. He does prefer his solitude, and he typically prefers the company of his Espeon Lucian to any other human being to date.

Once you get to know him, he's a very gentle person, perhaps overly so. He has a good sense of humor and can be a bit of a joker, too, and could be described as "suave" by those that really get on his good side. A quirk, but because of the Sableye DNA within him, he sometimes chews on gemstones out of habit. He doesn't actually ingest them, though.

Without Lucian, Athen will slip into Cruo's mindset completely and with little he could do about it. He simply can not control it. For this reason, Lucian has to remain within roughly one hundred yards of Athen at all times. That is not to say Lucian can make Cruo's mindset vanish for a time, just that Lucian can submerge it into Athen's subconscious. Athen can still feel the impulses caused by Cruo, he can just control them with Lucian's help.
Cruo wrote:Without Lucian's help, he shifts into his Cruo mindset. Cruo, conversely, is mindless, a war machine gone wrong. Cruo is cruel and has no tactic, his only instinct is to destroy life before him. He has no method in the mayhem of destruction. In fact, unlike more developed subjects under the influence of the experimentation he was subjected to, his rage for battle does not quell once the "battle" has ended. Instead, he'll seek out more things to end, innocent or not.

Cruo does not feel remorse, shame or even pain (his mind can shut down from pain overload, but his nerves do not transmit the sensation of hurt/discomfort to his brain). He will fight until he collapses from exhaustion. Cruo's weapon of choice are piercing type implements (spears, lances, sharpened pipes, staves, etc.) and he has the strength to back up such things. Cruo does have a sort of fail safe, it can abused by striking his right infraspinatus (the thick muscle found across the shoulder and below the trapezius). Striking this pressure point will cause him to black out without resisting.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to a man. wrote:
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Name: Dr. Bile — Stand back. I'm going to try science.
Age: 45 (Deceased)
Gender: Female
Relationship: Creator
Trainer Orientation: Lawful Bad
Trainer Class: Scientist

Dr. Bile is the human Athen grew most familiar with, and was the only one he saw on a normal basis. Athen has no love for her, hating her guts. She is the one who made the call to turn Athen into a guinea pig for all the formulas they wanted to test. The leader of the Ten to Nineteen division, she presumably died in the explosion that took out the laboratory where Athen was made.
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Name: Anthony Varian — Never go to med-school. It's like Hell, only with scapels.
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Relationship: Savior
Trainer Orientation: Neutral Good
Trainer Class: Doctor

One of the two men that saved Athen's life, he later came to see the boy almost as the son he never had. Anthony is a damn good doctor, spending his days traveling around and making various house calls to rare case diseases. He was at Cinnabar by chance, the day he found Athen, and he thanks his lucky stars he was there for the poor boy. Athen loves the man like a father.
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Name: Yaeger Veloce— Also, never join the Air Force.
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Relationship: Savior
Trainer Orientation: Chaotic Good
Trainer Class: Mechanic

The other of the two that saved Athen's life, Yaeger share's Anthony's sentiment; Athen is the son they never had. Yaeger was once a pilot for the Sinnoh Air Force, having since left the forces. He now works as a mechanic on odd jobs, traveling wherever Anthony goes. He actually is deathly afraid of most Pokémon and has yet to capture one of his own.
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I don't think we can get there without any pain. wrote:As with the thirteen projects before him, Fourteen is the product of what was known as the Mutant Project. A cluster of scientists who worked voluntarily or were hired for the work spearheaded the entire project, using the DNA from a male Rocket Grunt and a female Rocket Grunt who were lovers and agreed to be the hosts for future creations, as long as they were not created in a womb.

A pseudoclone, if you will, in that he is not a real human but also not a clone or exact copy. As a result, Fourteen was "born" not as a child but as a full grown human being. In fact, they do not age, but merely last for a while and then die of natural causes, or so scientists think.

Fourteen is the product of experimentation and the genetic mixture of human and Sableye DNA. Unfortunately, as a result of his genetic build up and chromosomes not matching up correctly, Fourteen is not the most stable creature on the block. Given that he was not very stable, those in charge of his block of the Mutant Project deemed him unfit for extensive testing and decided to use him more or less as a guinea pig, testing all formulas and procedures on him before on the other clones in his block.

He was injected with numerous test samples of developing formulas and was put through testing and subjected to the trials of battle against Rocket's Pokémon and other such creatures. During these trials, he developed two distinct personalities; one was clam and complacent and perhaps a bit lost and depressed, the other was down right insane. And, unfortunately, the second personality was the most prominent.

Driven insane by the unbalanced DNA and testing, and taken over by by the stronger of two developing personalities, his lack of reason caused him to rebel against his captors on a number of accounts. Even after testing for a day was finished, he would still attempt to butcher anything in front of him. Some of his scaring is from heavy restraints and chains put on him, others from the weaponry used to beat him back or knock him out.

While being studied and tested on, he was injected with various other serums and compounds in attempt to alter his personality. Team Rocket went through various other experimentation to try and make him more complacent, one such method included the injection of altered DNA from human bred Pokémon in an attempt to imbue Fourteen with some of the obedience found in Pokémon. Though this didn't succeed fully, it allowed Fourteen a small bit of his sanity (and coincidentally is the reason for his quiet, subdued nature out of his Cruo personality). Cowering in the far corners of his consciousness, Fourteen slowly began to nurture his mind as the testing on him continued.

Following Team Rocket's trials, Fourteen began to test the limits on Cruo's control. Finding he could rebel during his body's exhaustion post testing, Fourteen was able to briefly regain control of his senses. Though his stronger personality would rebel against Fourteen and vice versa, the two sides of Fourteen's sanity would begin to develop. Fourteen would begin to know his stronger side as "Cruo", which is actually derived from one of the few words Fourteen could speak at the time, and is a slurred form of "cruel." Cruo was a side that wanted to destroy, Fourteen a side that wanted to flee the compound they were in.

During his testing, four years after his "birth", Fourteen managed to make a run for it, as he was being handled by a newly recruited Rocket Grunt. Fighting off Rocket grunts, he did not make it far before collapsing due to the exhaustion of tests and flight and, given that he had never been outside the compound he was born in, utter fucking confusion at the outside world.

It was here that Lucian found him. Lucian, an Espeon belonging to Anthony Varian, who had been exploring the area. It was a blessing, really, because Lucian was able to help Fourteen in the most important of ways. Due to Lucian being a Psychic-type, the Espeon was able to mentally link with Fourteen and quell some of the madness inside of the boy. Anthony, in the mean time, came across the two, shocked at the sight of Fourteen.

Struggling to his hands and knees, disgusted with what he had become, Fourteen embraced the sleek purple form of an Espeon. In tears and body still racked with pain, Fourteen concluded to end his life. With the voice of Cruo taunting him inside, Fourteen clawed away at his left eye, determined to drive the voice of madness out of his mind. To this, the darker self of Cruo taunted, "Madness lies not in the head, but in the heart."

One can easily conclude that the next organ Fourteen sought to rip from his body was the heart beating in his own breast. He was not successful in the venture, thankfully. Anthony managed to stop and restrain Fourteen, knocking the boy out. Taking the mortally wounded boy away from the area and sneaking back into his warehouse and workshop, Anthony made a swift phone call. Calling his surgeon comrade Yaeger to his house, the two men got to work repairing Fourteen's body, while Lucian develed into Fourteen's mind and made to repair that.

The result? Three weeks later and Fourteen bore a mechanical eye and heart of Anthony and Yaeger had devised together. Unfortunately, there was nothing Anthony's Espeon could do to heal Fourteen's mind, other than to remain beside the boy and bind Cruo down. For the next year, Yaeger and Anthony took turns helping Fourteen learn how to function as a real human being, never once questioning what was wrong with him. Thankfully, with Lucian there to correct the imbalances in Fourteen's mind, the boy was successful in his effort. He learned how to talk and write and everything he might need. (He also adopted the name Athen and the surname Varian.)

He wound up, as irony would have it, in Blackthorn City, given that's where Anthony actually lived. At Anthony's actual behest, the Dragon Clan took Athen in for training and they helped the boy regain his strength and offered him room and board with no charge. He remained with the clan for a number of month, living and helping out the people of the dragons and, during that time, also discovering his limitations.

Athen simply can not function as a normal human without a constant link to Lucian. As such, given Athen's dependence on Lucian, Anthony gave the Espeon to the boy as his own. Lucian cannot go very far from Athen at all (in fact, the furthest is about a hundred yards (basically a football field)). Lucian also does not ever get put inside a Poké Ball. Pholus and Nike, however, are contained in one, for their own protection, and the Dragonair (called Taimat) he received from the Dragon Clan is also in a Poké Ball.

After recuperating in Blackthorn for a couple of years, until he was biologically seven, Athen got it in his head to seek retribution on Team Rocket for their errs. With Anthony's request that he not go, Athen left once again to return to Cinnabar... the place of his abhorrent birth.
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It's not like I have x-ray vision or something... wrote:Martial Abilities______________________________________
└-Weapon specializations and fighting styles.

Spears: In both of his mindsets, Athen shows experience with a spear. Able to wield the weapon such as a well seasoned warrior might, Athen has honed his abilities during his time with the Dragon Clan. He caries a small, collapsed spear (similar to a policeman's night stick) that can expand to a full length weapon with a barbed point.


├─Classification: Physical
├─Category: Weapon Proficiency
└─Power Level: Expert

Supernatural Abilities_________________________________
└-Psychic, aura or astral abilities.

Darkvision: The fixture on Athen's left eye is a mechanical eye that greatly perceives beyond normal human eyesight. On par with feline eyesight in darkness, it can also switch to infrared vision, allowing Athen to see thermal imaging for enhanced night vision capabilities.


├─Classification: Talent
├─Category: Perception, Misc.
└─Power Level: Inherent

Pain Tolerance: Athen's abilities as a Team Rocket subject greatly enhance his ability to bear with pain, especially when in his Cruo state. As Cruo, his nerves temporarily shut off their pain receptors and stop transmitting such feelings to his brain, effectively making him invulnerable to pain during his time as Cruo. He can overload eventually should he take enough harm, but this can vary based on adrenaline output in his body and damage retained.


├─Classification: Talent
├─Category: Misc.
└─Power Level: Inherent

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Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people. wrote:The man and the Espeon made a strange duo. He stood tall, his hair shielding his eyes and a cloak over his shoulders, its hood up. The Espeon was sleek, well groomed, its fur glistening in the rain. The feline Pokémon trod along side the man, sometimes ducking under the hem of its Trainer's cloak for the dryness found there. Finally, the man reached down and scooped up the Pokémon into his arms, covering it in the warmth of the cloak.

They had set out from Cinnabar's actual settlement an hour and a half ago. Now on the most remote outskirts of the island, Athen was combing the area. He couldn't rightly remember where it had been... It didn't help that a storm darkened the land and rain blurred his sight. Even the enhanced vision from his cybernetic eye barely cut through the torrential downpour.

As he crested a small slope, Athen paused. Something about this area at least seemed familiar. Maybe it was the growing smell of the salt of the ocean. Maybe it was the way that hill nearby sloped down at an easy angle. He tilted his head, scanning the area.

Then he saw it.

It was certainly the same place. But it was not as he remembered it. A gutted, slaughtered version of the perverse facility he had been born and grown up in, all that remained of the building now was a skeleton. Rubble surrounded it, partly stone, partly steel. The stone could be attributed to the rock and cliff side that the facilities had been half built into for secrecy, the steel from the framework of the structure itself.

Athen felt his heart clench in his chest, its mechanical devices pinching inside him in a way that sometimes happened when he held his breath. Letting go of the breath he didn't even realize he had held, he exhaled shakily. Inside his cloak, Lucian nuzzled him comfortingly, the Espeon's nose burying into his chest. He took a step forward, his boots sinking into the mud. But while that first step was the hardest, the second one came with comparative ease. At a pace that was slow and steady, Athen headed for the place of his birth.

"C'mon, Lucian..."

He reached it in due time, ducking into the overhang of a partly destroyed entrance way. Lucian leapt down from his arms and began shaking himself dry. Stepping into the remains of the building warily, Athen pulled his cloak off and let it drop to the floor. His hair dripped moisture down the arch of his back, chilling him. He reached to his waist and unbuckled a small cylinder of metal found there. It was no longer than a ruler, but he brandished it like a weapon. Granted, he held it at a safe position... for now.

The boy scanned the area, his gaze running over the wreckage of the place. Judging from the state of things, it looked like whatever had ended the production here had been some sort of explosion... and then a resulting fire. The fire had done the most visible damage, though he was certain the explosion had been the cause of the building looking like it had been eviscerated.

He shifted forward, on edge. He had escaped this place once before, and he refused to be detained by any staff that might remain. Anthony had told him he was unwise to come back. Yaeger had almost knocked him out. It frankly chilled his blood that he had returned.

But still... Athen had to know... He had to know the reason behind the twisted experimentation that caused his birth. And he had to know if there was a way... to tear that voice out of his head for once and for all.
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