Omnin
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Omnin's history
Excerpt from the UNTIL database:
File 1781 : Folder 'Summary of history'
1993 - 2009 : Lived in the Dairy Oaks Orphanage. Reason unknown: boy was found on doorstep one day. Never adopted. Applied for early leaving of the institute, which was accepted. No known misconducts or conflicts with police forces.
2009 - 2012 : Studied night courses on IT technology. Passed with some effort. Got accepted at Telocom as an IT employee. Was approached by Unknown R-14 in MC park near Club Caprice.
(Speculations surrounding this entity are still that. Warped plants and materials implies unstable magic-user or reality warper. Possibly a 'divine' entity, but mages assure me that this is unlikely.)
Received a magically-charged (presumed magically) Orb, which gave him his powers. Quickly decided to be a (part-time) superhero. Had a brief and mostly solo heroic career, until the Orb stopped working. Returned to civilian life after a brief minor conflict in UNTIL headquarters.
2012 - 2013 : Delved back into his normal life. Quickly worked himself up as Assistant Manager. Had kept the Orb for sentimental reasons. Turned out to be a mistake, as the thing exploded two months, showering him in unknown energies. Mutated him extensively. Approached UNTIL for a cure. Minimal success. Got fired from day job after powers misfired and wrecked a sizable quantity of office materials and space. UNTIL now provides him with a modest stipend in exchange for 'services' and 'research rights'.
Physiology
Excerpts from the UNTIL database:
File 1781 : Folder 'Make-up body'
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......I can't even begin to determine what he's based on. Certainly, his defaulting state of locomotion is definitely biped, and he certainly looks human. But only on the outside.....
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....After agreement from the patient, we'd taken a deeper look into his interior, after his X-rays proved to be blurry. What we found was disturbing. It looks like something ,or someone, tried to mimic bones, organs and meat from a human. But they only had a vague comprehension of the human body.
The skull was accurate enough, but the brain was definitely off. For one thing, a brain isn't pink. Secondly, the inner connections and brain stem were far too simplistic to support the subject's intelligence. His chest-frame had a similar theme : The ribs and spine were fairly accurate, but the organs. There were too few of them. A 'stomach','lungs' and 'heart' were there. However, the stomach seemed more like a fleshy bag. The lungs were certainly pumping air. But it didn't go anywhere. No veins, no nothing. It simply pumped. The heart just looked like a red tumor, pulsing to the beat of a normal heart. All in all, I'm certain that none of these mockeries are actually vital to the subject...
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...Substance does not seem to be needed. However, it does seem to promote cell growth. The greater the quantities, the faster the growth speed...
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...Astounding! The subjects thinking processes are spread over every cell of it's mass. This makes the subject incredible durable to most conventional forms of harm, save perhaps fire or....
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...The subject's mass is incredible flexible and durable. A third arm, different bone structures, nothing wasn't impossible. So long as we asked things that his current mass could handle. His absorbing capabilities are incredibly useful for further testing: any matter can be 'sucked' up with contact, adding to the subject's mass...
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...Jenkins theorizes that the faulty human design is caused by the subject himself. When he got hit by the Artifact's fallout, it gave him these newfound powers. But an explosion of that magnitude would have reduced him to a smear. Likely, he managed to patch himself together into the form he was most familiar with: himself. He just doesn't remember, because of the sheer trauma.
A frightening thought comes to mind. Were the powers bestowed before the explosion hit..or were the subject's remains granted these powers, and we're interacting with an entirely new entity?
Of course, this is all theoretical, so we won't bother the subject with this troubling theory...
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...Reversing this mutation to a true human has proven to be impossible so far. While the subject does tend to absorb and retain aspects of whatever is consumed, it doesn't change the core aspects of the subject's newfound DNA...
