Gideon was created by Raphael Blosser when he accidentally misread the genetic code for abomination. Gideon was since trained to be a weapon for the U.S. government. After learning the story of his origins and realizing that he wasn't conceived by natural means, Gideon furiously destroyed the research and science division, Daedalus. He since sought out the life of a nomad, wandering from country to country learning about the world and fending off super soldiers from The Agency. The Agency, Howitzer, and Molotok all monitor him in secret.

It started with a dreamer. His name was Raphael Blosser, a Swiss man who was a scientist employed by a secret agency, simply known as The Agency, in the United States. Daedalus was the name of the science and research division of mentioned agency during the Cold War. The United States had learned that the Soviet Union was developing a secret weapon, and Raphael was tasked to come up with a secret weapon to counter it. After eliminating the possibility of the weapon being nuclear in nature, they learned of it being genetic and assumed that the Russians were creating super soldiers. Raphael was tasked to create a similar project, but Raphael had something else in mind. Daedalus gave him free reign to conduct his experiments, promising that his project would be completely confidential. Raphael wondered if he could create Adam. Through selective gene coding, could he design the perfect human? He didn’t know the codes right off the bat, and so acquiring the codes required him to acquire specimens.

Several humans went missing around the world, but not just any humans. They were select humans who displayed unique characteristics and abilities. They were kidnapped for a molecule worth of information, and were not returned to the world for several days. Their codes were stolen and inputted into a machine that rapidly matched the codes through a series of algorithms. When Raphael achieved a complete strand, in his haste to complete the project, he duplicated the strands and successfully created an embryo. The embryo developed rapidly in the nutrient-rich broth it bathed in. In an hour, the embryo grew into a full adult, but it didn’t stop. It grew old and shriveled into nothing. The failure was a lesson learned, and it made Raphael realize that he would need patience. Even though he had managed to create a complete strand, he did not yet have the sequence right. The process took years. He spent those years deleting and substituting codons. He even sought out more subjects.

Several experiments were fruitless and Daedalus was exasperated with funding the project. Raphael knew that if he didn’t come up with a new one, then he would not only lose funding but the freedom every scientist dreamed of. Daedalus gave him freedoms no other research facility would. Why wasn’t his project working? Raphael suspended the project and returned to Switzerland to rest for thirty days. During the thirty days, he learned that his granddaughter, Lea was pregnant. He went with her to the hospital to view the ultrasound of the baby, and it was the ultrasound that spurred his epiphany. That had been it!

In a mad paroxysm of inspiration, Raphael returned to his home to begin researching about the uterus. His research led to the blueprint of an artificial womb. Instead of “The Womb,” the machine that simulated it was called “The Cauldron.” Due to its size and the amount of various chemicals that went in it, other scientists jokingly saw Raphael as a witch when he returned to Daedalus. He was ridiculed for making “an easy-bake oven for super soldiers.” Providing the U.S. with super soldiers was the last thing on his mind. This wasn’t about the U.S. or scientific breakthroughs. It was about creating a human; about being God. The idea fascinated Raphael to no end. He became obsessed and what other scientists believed, mentally ill the closer he drew to The Cauldron’s completion. After a year, The Cauldron was completed. Raphael tested the machine and what came out of it was no “easy bake super soldier.” It was an abomination!

The abomination destroyed the lab and endangered several brilliant minds and killed several agents. The creature resembled a mound of malformed flesh and bone, stomping around on its massive ape-like fists and dragging its shriveled legs. It had taken several bullets to take the creature down and its body was burned. Raphael was fired and deported back to Switzerland. The notes for his project were said to have been incinerated so that no one could ever reproduce them. The failure weighed on Raphael’s heart. Perhaps he was too old. His story wasn’t over yet.

Around the 1980s, Raphael was approached by a mysterious man named Rex Howitzer. The man was an American weapons developer who knew Raphael from when he used to work for Daedalus. Rex had also worked for Daedalus, but they both had specialized in different areas. Rex revealed to Raphael that after he had left that he too had left Daedalus, having saved up enough money to start his own private business. Rex reminded him of The Cauldron and the abomination, but he didn’t do so to insult him. Rex had been morbidly fascinated by the creature, and he wanted to give Raphael the chance to recreate it. Rex loved power, and he relished how the creature had instilled so much fear. They almost had to call the Army to take it down. Raphael suspected Rex’s sinister ideas, but his aching desires to return to the lab were greater than the money Rex offered him to recreate The Cauldron. Rex told him that he had built an underground lab for him beneath a software firm called Gluckweich (Lucksoft (German)). He wanted him to continue his work there in secrecy.

While in the U.S., Rex continued to contract with Daedalus and was approached one day by a beautiful woman by the name of Claire Richards. He and Richards had a fling, and the following day, he never saw her again. Rex was frightened that he might have disclosed The Cauldron to her and made a phone call to warn Raphael.

Before the phone call and before Rex’s fling with Richards, Raphael had completed the Cauldron and was in the process of recreating the abomination. Rex had salvaged a few of Raphael’s notes, but the code for Abomination had been too smudged and warped from the document being damaged that he could barely read it properly. He typed into The Cauldron the sequence he thought was written on the paper. A cell was created from the genes and within The Cauldron’s amnion broth, they rapidly began to multiply. Raphael watched the cells form into an embryo and grow not into a creature but a humanoid fetus. The scientist was in awe. This was the birth of man. In a white light within a chamber full of red fluid, he watched the fetus grow into an infant, child, adolescent, and then a man. He had done it! Adam! He had made Adam! Raphael celebrated for a moment before he realized that Adam hadn’t been what Rex wanted. Rex had wanted an abomination and not a human.

For days, Raphael monitored Adam’s formation, while also pondering on a way to remove him from The Cauldron. He was afraid to release Adam, fearing that he would perish. He had finally done it, and he didn’t want his hard work to vanish. Raphael soon received a call from Rex warning him about a spy by the name of Claire Richards who may visit soon. Raphael knew then that he had no choice. To protect Adam, he would have to release him. Raphael drained and opened the cauldron. Adam was like a newborn babe when he awoke in the world. The world was completely alien to him and Raphael, pleased with his creation, almost named him Adam. No; Adam had been the name Daedalus wanted him to have. Raphael named him Gideon, a name he would have given his son if he had one. Raphael initially had to teach Gideon how to bathe, feed, and clothe himself. He didn’t have much time to teach him more things before the Black Swan infiltrated the lab.

During their exchange, Raphael revealed that he knew her pseudonym Claire Richards, which had led the swan to believe that the scientist knew more than he should. She attempted to take his life only to be stopped by Gideon. Raphael, surprised by Gideon’s reaction, introduced him to her. Right after, Gideon surprised him even more when he killed her. A mere punch to the woman’s face had caused her head to snap backwards harshly with blood streaming from her shattered nose. An explosive ki burst out of the back of her skull. The swan’s sudden death had not only horrified Raphael, but it had also terrified Gideon. The heavy-handed buffoon didn’t know his own strength!

When Rex returned and learned what happened to the spy and the abomination, at first he was disappointed. Raphael’s Adam was an idiot, who somehow killed a spy who had taken out every security officer in the lab. Raphael explained to Rex that Adam was just young and needed time to mentally grow. Rex, eager to make profits off The Cauldron and Adam, sold them both to the U.S. government. Raphael’s past sins were forgiven by Daedalus who happily welcomed him and Adam/Gideon. Gideon, under the name Adam, underwent several combat and reaction tests. He failed every test to Raphael’s disbelief. He deduced that Gideon was too mentally young to understand the purpose of the tests. He saw them only as punishment and Raphael volunteered to educate him. Daedalus, however, used an instructor from The Agency, Victor Ramos, to train Gideon, believing Raphael to be too old and soft.

It was Victor who revealed that the technique Gideon used was a supernatural form of Qigong. He pushed Gideon further, allowing him to unlock his first potential: Red. Raphael watched how Gideon and Victor grew close. Victor was manipulating Gideon to believe that his calling was to serve the United States in war. He was a hero and he was special, and that they would need him. Daedalus, one day approached Raphael and told him that he wasn’t needed. They had found a way to reproduce his research and that Gideon was no longer his property but property of the U.S. government. Raphael was furious. Ever since Victor came into the picture, he hadn’t had any interaction with Gideon and now they were planning to just cut him off completely? Raphael desperately sought out Gideon one last time before The Agency could remove him from the premises.

Gideon was already calling himself, “Adam” and believing himself to be the U.S.’s saving grace. Raphael told him his true name and told him that he was his son. His last words to him were to seek out the truth and he’d find it. Daedalus removed Raphael from the premises and deported the doctor back to Switzerland. The Agency planned on keeping an eye on him to make sure he couldn’t re-contact Gideon.

Victor tried to dissuade Gideon from growing curious about his origins. He wanted his focus to only be on the U.S. and its missions. Gideon one night went behind Victor’s back to the Daedalus research division. He saw The Cauldron and saw the beings they were trying to create with it. Was this how he was created? There were so many kidnapped individuals, and it didn’t seem right that he was created through such methods. Victor had followed him and tried to give Gideon a choice to accept the life of Adam or be labeled a genetic failure. The Agency would do everything in their power to do away with him if he chose the latter. They didn’t need him anymore now that they were able to replicate Raphael’s technology.

Gideon boldly chose the latter and was forced to fight Victor. Victor was confident he would easily best Gideon for he was the one who taught him what he knew. He knew all of his moves. In desperation and in his determination to not give up, Gideon activated his second potential: White. He swiftly took down Victor and activated his third potential: Blue to destroy the lab. Gideon fled the country. As much as he wanted to see his father again, he suspected The Agency would be expecting him to return to Switzerland. Gideon was forced to wander…alone.

Daedalus was able to rebuild the lab, and though they lost some data in the destruction, they were able to recreate Project Adam. They used it to create super soldiers and they send the soldiers after Gideon to test their strength against The Original. Gideon has so far remained undefeated, and it could have possibly been because they couldn’t completely recreate the same code Raphael had used to create Gideon. Servants of The Agency was what Gideon called them or simply Agents, and they were his sworn enemy for as long as they continued to seek him out. Howitzer tries to persuade Gideon to work for him. Every now and then, Howitzer will approach Gideon to try and recruit him; however, Gideon refuses. Gideon hopes to be able to meet Raphael again someday, but until then, he’s been traveling to better himself and to experience the world in the life that was given to him.