Name: Nikolai Hayes

Age: 19

Gender: Male

Appearance: Just around the height of an average teen, Niko stands at 5'7". He has an awfully pale, skinny body due to the lack of sleep and a nonexistent eating schedule. His white hair remains uncleaned for weeks, as Niko cares little to nothing about hygiene. For clothes, Niko wears his favourite oversized black shirt or simply anything clean from is laundry dump. He also wears a choker because he thinks it's aesthetically pleasing to see.

Personality: Cold, monotone, and a little bit sadistic. Niko is a mysterious figure. He is however, known by a lot of users in the internet. Many sees him as a comedic meme maker, but little do they know.

Background: Niko is the name, and the internet is his domain. He was once just a casual user, just like all of us, just like you, the one viewing this biography in this forum site. Then he makes his way to the dark web, risking vital information and data. After his embargo, Niko never surfaced the boards again.

Following this, friends and users alike started to ask questions about his disappearance. Niko's Redditer friend, FireDog, later decided to investigate the situation. He went to his apartment, only to find an empty room full of empty soda cans and a thrashed computer.

Before FireDog was able to process what's happening, his phone rang. An unknown number called him. As he picks it up, Niko's voice blared through his ears, popping his eardrums, killing FireDog in the process.

Two minutes passed since Niko's murder, FireDog's body rose from the dead and took the appearance of Niko, as if it was copy pasted. This was the day Niko became a mutant, a twisted ghost of technology. He then started to perform the same act all over the web, choosing innocent people to kill.

YouTube channels die without warning, websites left silent with no administrators running it, and users started to fear using the Internet.

Every disappearance done by Niko leaves a message to all,
"Everyone, and everything, is connected."

Ability: Glitch-Hop
Niko is a ghost, haunting the internet. He surfs the web as a line of code that starts to eliminate firewalls and purge one's private data to communicate with him. It always ends with someone dying.

Name:
Taka Keone

Gender:
Male

Appearance:
A piercing apathetic look greets enemies and allies alike. He has a pony-tailed long blonde hair, accompanied by a black tank top and the loose bottom half of a Gi. As for his defence, a light steel plate on both his elbows and lower leg proves to be a good balance between armour and mobility. Finally, once he extends his soul out of his body, it takes on an orange persona and forms a thin layer of focused energy around his body with a few spots leaking out said energy.

Personality:
This guy is straightforward and strong willed. He doesn't like to back out of fights and always looks up to challengers. Although inside he's soft and just wants to belong somewhere, he hides that deep beneath his facade. [tbh i gave up with this one]

Background:
A beginning shrouded in mystery, Taka first appeared as a beggar boy on the streets of a mutant city with no one to call family. The streets were cruel and unforgiving. He would be lucky to even gain a single penny in a days worth of begging. Yet, not for the city's fault, as itself was left by humanity. A child surrounded by hardship, incubated by hatred and torn apart by fear, the perfect recipe for disaster. However his deep seethed rage turned to determination. Did he do it From desperation, instincts, or maybe even will? Nobody knows. Whats for certain is that the pain he's been through, only made him and his will stronger.
That determination turned from a spark to a blaze. Which brought upon hope which then turned to ambition. The ambition to be able to make a change, the ambition to feel belonged, the ambition for equality all strived the beggar boy to be accepted into the fiercest rebellion against mutant discrimination.

Ability:
Soulbender:
A mutation with a recessive trait, giving the user an adept connection with the souls of living beings. Several perks, both for utility and offensive means, come with this mutation. For example, Taka's soul can be extended out of his body and becomes manifested as a spiritual attack, one that does no physical damage, yet still causes pain and damages the enemies mental health. Or the ability to enter and attach himself into an unconscious living being's soul and understand their conflicts and emotions. Theese are only a few of the things that he can do with his mutation, and there will be more as he grows.
However, these abilities seem to conflict with Taka's character as he is still unable to achieve his inner-peace which hinders his mutation's performance. Not to mention, his shallow care for souls and character in general worsens the problem.

Name: Phantasos

Age: 20

Gender: Female

Appearance: Having the height of 5’2, Phan sometimes uses her mutation to make herself look taller. Her pale skin, red eyes and long, black, silky hair helps her intimidate people at first glance. She likes to keep her hair tied at nearly all times. The red military-styled costume she wears is actually a cosplay outfit from a character she likes. She wears it as it reminds her that she is always waging war on society.

Personality: Phan is kind of unexplainable. She’s sly, cunning and untrustworthy. All of this done just for her sole amusement. Phan loves to lie, and she is also good at catching other people’s lies sometimes. It’s as if she doesn’t take truths seriously. Outside of truths and lies, she has a goofy side and doesn’t know when to actually show that part of hers, causing her to smirk and laugh in dire situations. Overall, there are many parts of her that remain a mystery, and it’s best to not take anything given by her for granted.

Phan suffers from PTSD after her experiments, but managed to somewhat get over it by constantly lying to herself that she’s fine.

Background: Phan grew up in San Francisco as an optimistic and caring person, a contrary to what she had become. She was pure and kindhearted, an angel of some sorts in the family. It all changed when her family was infected by the virus – through unknown means – and became a target to the military. Eventually, soldiers found Phan and killed her parents in front right in front of her very eyes. As for her, she was taken to a government laboratory along with her twin brother and became lab rats, forced to be experimented, tortured, and altered all in the name of science.
At that time, Phan had awakened to her ability to create illusions, and that same power backfired when the scientists caused her to start hallucinating. She was forced to watch her parents die repeatedly in multiple ways, watch the world as it became a barren wasteland, and many more, all in an attempt to brainwash her. Fortunately, Phan managed to escape from the hallucinations and get herself together again, enough to use her illusions to escape the lab and go into hiding. Now being the only member of her family who survived, Phan spent the next few years trying to regain her place in society, starting from coping with her PTSD and getting a job in Luxury Liquor.
Phan had suffered in many ways due to what the government did to her. She also knew there were many others who suffered the same fate all because of a virus. Now, she joins the rebellion in an attempt to find a chance to take revenge on what they did – both for her, and for her family.

Ability: Illusion
Phan’s mutation allows her to enter a person’s mind and toy with them. She can confuse them by tricking their senses, create feelings of stress and anxiety, even tricking them to kill. Phan can also make others hallucinate, creating objects in their mind that aren’t actually there. One of her common uses of this ability is to mask her expressions and make herself look taller.
The side effect of this ability is that it causes her to experience migraines. The longer she uses them, the more painful it gets. Her illusions can also create loopholes at times.

Name: Pace Philean

Age: 28

Gender: Male

Appearance: An obese, tubby person with more chins than the pop-star sensation Reilkonn has girlfriends. Though that might seem to not be saying much, trust me, it's really not saying much at all. He wears a matching shirt and bandana, they have white and green stripes that go down his body, desaturated white pants and goggles. He also wears a yellow cloak because he thinks it looks cool.

Personality: He's jovial and slanky, and he enjoys food. A lot. He's proud of his bouncing belly, and doesn't mind when people make fun of him for it. He likes to read books, mainly novels and recipe books, and is also very fond of fish. He dislikes dogs, however, because f*** dogs.

A bit on the childish side, Pace prefers to keep the serious side of life untouched. He does not like to hear about negative stuff such as loss or suffering, and turns a blind eye towards anything remotely painful. He does not take sides in a fight, and he prefers to not participate in a fight at all, if possible. Deep down, he knows that he has to change himself someday, but as long as that day is nowhere within sight, Pace will remain the fat, clumsy ridiculous guy that he always was.

Background: Once Upon a time, In the quiet of the night,
There walked a kindly mutant, with a heart as good as gold,
Who met a young boy who was lost and crying,
Who was angry at the world for lying.

The man gave the boy kindness and compassion, and led him the way home, he did.
He stayed with the boy, told him tales, of worlds of colors and dreams.
But it was time to go, the old man had said, as he bid goodbye, and left.
Leaving the boy not with sorrow, but goggles to remember him by.

The boy grown up, is once more lost and afraid. But cry he did not.
As the power he wielded now, would allow him to see that mutant again.
So off the boy went on a trip, with no clear beginning or end.
For the journey was not to find anything amazing, but just to visit a friend.

Ability:The Pacemaker System
The Pacemaker System (PM System) is a system inside Pace's body that has developed as a result of of the virus. it is able to create the physics-defying substance, Pacer. Pacer is a blackish viscuos cloudy substance composed of the mutation virus that is able to do two things. First, it is able to store energy. Second, it is able to multiply and then release that stored energy. There is an unspecified limit on how much energy Pacer can store and multiply up to, but luckily for the rest of the world, it is not able to create nuclear level explosions right on the go, or even a tenth of that power, as Pace had tried. Any excess energy just passes through the Pacer.

Pacer is not infinite. Everyday, the PM system will use Pace's body cells to create more viruses in order to create more Pacer. It will keep creating more Pacer until a certain amount of Pacer is reached. This is why Pace eats a lot, as the PM system uses Pace's fat cells to create the Pacer. In the absence of fat cells, the PM system will begin to harm Pace's body, which can be detrimental to his health. The viruses that make up the Pacer are telepathically linked to his brain, so he can control the Pacer at will. Pacer will stay in the outside world for about a day before deteriorating.

Name: Jacquelynn Peeves (Jack)

Age: 42

Gender: Male

Appearance: A war-torn soldier with a history filled with bloodshed, Jack has a very muscular body and stands at 6'5" in height and 150 lbs in weight. His attire includes a black plain t-shirt as well as military pants and boots. Jack equips himself with a metal chestplate on top of his shirt which extends to the shoulder pads. He lost his left arm after an assault and had it replaced with a metal one instead. It comes with two modes - one taking the form of a normal hand, and one being a built-in pulse rifle - and Jack can easily switch between modes to his leisure.

Jack lost his eye the same way he lost his arm, and it was also replaced with an artificially made eye. It comes with a built-in flashlight, which causes it to glow orange if needed. Otherwise, Jack often covers it with an eyepatch.

Personality: Jack has all the traits of a normal soldier. He is disciplined and focused both in combat and outside of battles. He doesn't like backing out of fights and enjoys rising up to challenges, although in fear he would overdo his opponent due to his great strength and stamina. Jack is also known for having a weird sense of humor, and his jokes don't always connect with his audience.

In combat, Jack gets extremely serious and never holds back. He also has a habit of mocking his opponents to draw out their temper and find openings to attack. He is ruthless, doesn't show any mercy, and overall someone you don't want to mess with.

Background: Jack, or Colonel Peeves according to his World War II biodata, is a ghost of the past - a person who wasn't supposed to exist in the 21st century. Originally thought to have disappeared somewhere near the Bermuda Triangle during a flight and never to be seen again, the soldier reappeared in New York through unknown means, not aware of how much the world had changed all around him. The shock from realizing just that sent him running down the streets, fighting through a barricade of police officers as they tried to apprehend him.

Jack was soon taken in by the military and given a place to stay at one of their camps, where he spent the next few months rebooting his body and combat mastery with constant training, all while he tries to become used to the new world he had found himself in. Now back to tip-top shape, he was enlisted by the government to join the United States Anti Mutant Division as the person in command. His goal? to eradicate every single mutant in the country.

Unbeknownst to him and everyone else, Jack had been infected by the mutation virus during his rehabilitation phase. It didn't become apparent to him until much later, to which he decided to keep hidden to the rest of the world. Until now, nobody knows of its existence.

Ability: Force Reversal
Jack can absorb kinetic energy from anything it touches, which can later be distributed to amplify his own blows. It can come from physical punches, bullets, falling debris, almost anything that moves towards his direction. This also means he can pretty much absorb most physical attacks (ex. punches, bullets, etc).