Mavus Shaw

"Without my powers, I'm essentially an average college guy, awkward, unathletic, and not fit for the real world."

Mavus Shaw is the protagonist of The Adventures of Mavus, and The Adventures of Mavus Part II. Mavus is a metahuman originating from Jason's Universe and was a classmate to both Jason and Junon during their college years. Mavus applies to the Inquisition and offers his services to Kyrael Prima and Darkstar some time after Blackflame leaves the team. He goes by the codename Maven.

One of Maven's robotic scouts pick up a job posting from Kyrael that was sent to all of Corinth, recruiting people to join their cause against the New Militia. Maven sends a bipedal scout unit to The Fortress, along with several other units containing some of his tech to showcase his services.

Maven is an extremely powerful technomancer. Most of his robots and "inventions" are created by extracting resources from his environment and repurposing them to form extremely complex and powerful alloys, these parts are subconsciously assembled within seconds, creating a vast array of mechanical weapons, robots, and structures. The variety of his technology is gargantuan, making him one of the most powerful and dangerous metahumans. Because of this, Mavus Shaw is classified as a Tier Zero Metahuman, making him one of the rarest, and most powerful metahumans to exists in society.

Appearance

Mavus is described to have an average build, with short black hair, brown eyes and is of asian descent. He often wears an open dress shirt, black t-shirt, and dress pants, and wears a pair of eyeglasses. Later in the story, Mavus receives an open black jacket with minimal arcane lines down the side and nanotech like weaving near the collar, which was a gift from Junon during their first date. Mavus wears this jacket on top of his outfit in the manner of an open blazer, giving him a business casual appearance.

Due to being mostly a technology-type, his mech units undergo frequent revision changes. However, the mech unit that he typically uploads into and commands other units from (denoted Main) (along with his other inventions) is usually black and grey in colour with green lighting. Main consists of three main modes.

Scout Mode: The mech possesses minimal armour, and resembles a skinny bipedal robot with a single robotic eye capable of producing holograms, which Mavus typically uses to project himself to communicate with others. The mech contains the bare essentials for travel, including jet boots, and a storage compartment in his chest. Later on, Mavus decides to give this form a synthetic skin, giving the mech a humanoid appearance. The only indications of the body being mechanical in nature are three noticeable notches on the left side of his head, and green android eyes.

Armored-Assault Mode: The mech possesses significantly more armour, with more weapons and utilities, which typically unfold from various mechanical compartments. These include a mounted minigun, micro munitions, missile launcher, hand and chest lasers, rocket propulsors mounted on his arms and legs. The face is cladded with armor from three directions, giving a green Y around the eye.

Golem Mode: The mech becomes even more bulkier, armour significantly enhanced to support significantly more firepower. His weapons become significantly bigger, and the mech no longer conceals them.

Personality

Maven is described to be lighthearted, frequently cracking jokes and commenting on the state of the situation with a comedic tone, but can easily give into his emotions and lose his temper. Maven tries to be respectful to his superiors but may occasionally crack a joke about their appearance or their actions. Despite this, Maven respects people's boundaries, and will give people space if they are going through an emotional ordeal.

Maven enjoys listening to various genres of music and watching comedic videos. His hobbies include coding and learning essential engineering skills, despite being able to create virtually any machine he wants with his powers, Maven wishes to be able to build machines with his own knowledge as well.

Maven is in love with his old college classmate Junon Gareth, dreaming about her, as well as going out of his way to get on her good side in an attempt to impress her. Maven outwardly admits these feelings without shame, but after consistently keeping it a secret from her, who is unaware of his feelings, Maven has begun to find it difficult to express these feelings properly.

Maven's feelings for Junon also cause him to be jealous or alarmed whenever she is with someone else that may pose a threat to her datability. These feelings have also caused him to develop rather selfish traits, such as prioritizing her above all others during missions. When the Inquisition was invaded by The New Militia, the first thing Maven did was check up on Junon, rather than assisting his comrades.

When Junon gave him a jacket for a gift, Maven put the jacket on, causing Junon to become momentarily traumatized due to how similar his outfit was to Blackflame's back when he was still in Darkstar. Maven immediately tried to take it off, thinking he had hurt her. Junon tells Maven that he should keep it on, as she liked his look, and that it inspired hope in her. Maven has worn this jacket ever since, a testament to his faith and loyalty to make her happy.

Powers

Master Technomancer: Maven's primary metahuman ability is his ability to create and manipulate machines from raw materials. Maven describes the machines as an "extension to self", and is able to interact with them through a psychic link. When creating his own machines, the only limit is his imagination. Maven is able to control multiple machines simultaneously, which was the case when he singlehandedly controlled a squad of robotic mech soldiers to drive off Calliope's forces that had tried to forcefully recruit him into the New Militia. When not being controlled, these machines are able to act autonomously. Maven is able to use this powerful to an extremely skilled level, as he was able to remotely assemble a gigantic cannon in mere seconds, that was capable of firing a massive beam of nuclear energy that decimated hundreds of soul beasts that had tried to attack one of his extraction units. Maven is also capable of fixing, controlling, manipulating and restoring mechanical units that are not natively his. An example is this was when he restored a barely operational Adam Blair from the brink of death.

Master Telekinetic: Maven's machines are made from resources, and these resources are often obtained by extracting raw materials from the environment. Maven's telekinetic abilities were so powerful, that he was able to modify the molecular structure of these materials to form complex alloys. These alloys make up the majority of his machines.

Upload: Maven is able to "upload" his consciousness or his body into his machines, whether be it one, or an entire platoon. He is able to control an army or his machines in a manner that he describes "similar to a video game". Micromanaging his machines becomes second nature, as a command is simply a matter of willing it to happen. Maven typically uploads a majority of his being into Main, and distributes the rest of his consciousness on a platoon of the robots that he wants to concentrate on. Upload extends a large range, and he will still be able to control his machines if they venture to other dimensions. However, Maven will be unable to use his other powers there, meaning if his machines are destroyed, Maven will not be able to access them, and must send more units there rather than building more units from that dimension directly. If Maven uploads his body, he will be able to re-manifest it elsewhere, but the usage of this power is costly. If Maven uploads his consciousness, there will be no stamina cost, but at the expense of leaving his subconscious body completely out in the open.

Weaknesses

Despite being an extremely powerful metahuman with seemingly incomprehensible powers, Maven's abilities are offset by a few major weaknesses.

1) Maven cannot move when using Upload consciousness or any of his technomancer abilities. When he is using his powers, he is essentially in his subconscious, meaning the simplest solution to defeating Maven is to locate his real body and eliminate that. However, Maven has since developed technology to protect his body, which he can move around with one of his mech's. If Maven uses Upload body, he won't need to worry about his real body. However, using this various of upload will drain his stamina.

2) Using his powers is costly, especially Upload Body, as a result, Maven typically sleeps for around 15-18 hours a day.

3) Maven is not very strategic, relying on simply overwhelming his opponents with sheer firepower or numbers.

4) All of Maven's machines run on a power source, which he supplies with his metahuman powers. As a result, the more distributed his machines, the less powerful they become. To achieve maximum firepower and effectiveness, this means that Maven must sacrifice all of his machines and channel it into one robot.

5) If Maven uploads his body into a machine, and the machine is destroyed, Maven will die.