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[Liaison]

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[Liaison]

Name: Merse Granstrum
Age: 34
Height: 6’1
Weight: 194 lbs
Occupation: The worlds greatest Information Broker
Affiliation: PRIME
Aliases: Liaison, The Black Cat
Theme: youtu.be/9JPn2P28D0o?t=21

Personality: This sly tongued businessman like most at the top of their craft was well versed in the art of deception. His job was to give facts and that you could trust, but if there was no transaction attached you really shouldn't’ trust the slightest gesture from this being. Not much is known about his past and his empire seemly rose from nowhere. Not many even knew what he looked like and when they did see not much could be said other than that he was literally a cat. Sleekly dressed in business attire, he never seemed to lose his cool or look disgruntled when faced with the dangers of his every day tasks. To resume with this type of work it wasn't a surprise he was far from a pushover.

Abilities

Omnilingualism: Merse can speak, write, understand and communicate in any language including computer codes, languages he’s never heard before, sign language (even lip-reading), illegible words, and even backwards speech and writing with little to no effort. He could even communicate with animals or read body language and the most convenient aspect of it was that he could become an expert of the chosen tongue in a blink of an eye. This ability not only helped him gather information but combined with his photographic memory it allows him to read physical movements and almost react instantaneously to anything.

Bullet Time: May be confused with superspeed, bullet time is the ability to slow down time perceptually, in order to fight at such extraordinary speeds that the he can't be hit or shot. When increased by Merse’s Nether output it can reach levels that defy logic.

Enhanced Senses: Merse has incredibly strong senses compared to the average being. Also what makes this so convient is that he is able to control each one individually to the point where he could completely shut one out. His hearing in particular is just off the level of echolocation at times.

Nether Manipulation: Merse at will can create, shape and manipulate Nether, the "Chthonian Element" that flows through the realms of the living, and the Dead. Nether is most known as the substance that makes up the Underworld, a subterranean dimension where all souls go when they pass on. Nether is very similar to Aether “the Celestial Element” in that is from a Plane that exists between the planes of both matter, and energy. However, although it can partake in the nature of either substance, Nether is neither of these things.

Despite often been seen as "Death-Force" Nether is more than the source of what drains life away from living things, it is the destructive aspect of reality, the source and very concept of entropy and destruction, disasters and all degeneration in matter, energy and concepts. It is the power that makes possible and ensures severing the soul's connection to their mortal body, so they can pass onto the after life. It is also the power that summons and controls the souls of the deceased. Users of this power acknowledge that Nether exists in Elemental, Cosmic, and Spiritual forces. Nether exists in the cosmos as sort of a gateway between the land of the Living and the Dead, stretching out to anywhere where death has the potential to occur.

Like Aether, Nether is a Spiritual Element, which means it cannot be perceived by any physical sense. The only way Nether can be seen is if it were mixed with an Element of the Physical Realm (Though he could manipulate other elements most often this ability would be used aside Darkness, Fire, or Earth, the elements Merse had a tight grip over.)He did know a decent amount of spells also but he did not rely on them as most were a hassle to cast. The easiest to cast for him had to be one with out an incantation that allowed him to enlarge or lengthen limbs which he’d normally use on his tail.

Psychometry: The power to perceive the residual information of an object by using senses. Merse obtains historical memories or sensations concerning beings objects they can observe by their senses. With objects he gains the knowledge including the makers, users, and even those who have on passing used the object, and what has been done with it. This ability is not also suited for battle but it is used almost daily by Merse.

Neuro-Residual Recollection: Where as he couldnt learn about a conscious being by touch he could for those recently deceased. He was adept at envisioning the cause of death of individuals by touching and/or sometimes retracing the path they took mentally. He couldn’t do this in an instant but nevertheless it made his job that much easer as it eliminated the need of taking live witnesses.

A cat always lands on his toes: Merse for some odd reason had the ability to swing and twist his frame unrealistically while in mid air. Where as the laws of the universe say this is impossible, Merse is able to alter his position and direction at will.

Ergonihilism:[This ability is currently disabled due to the Sui-generis Link Merse having currently broken] Merse is able to tap into a distant sufficiency of unique power similar to the green lantern called the Sui Generis. Instead of regular energy however he is given through a watch on his left wrist a source of corrosive energy. When amplified with his nether output he can deteriorate energy within including sentient beings, inorganic matter, nature, planets, etc. Since most powers require a certain amount of energy to work Merse is put to a major advantage when molding this element to his desire. Most known energy forms are vulnerable to this ability, whether Spiritual, Physical, Magical, Divine, Demonic, etc. This was one of the main staples of his strength. He can also use this element to warp and alter vectors. Some of the strongest shields have crumbled through his ability and some of the strongest forces derailed.

Accessories

Dark Paper and Metal Talismans - These worked opposite of the usual as seeing how it wasn't attached to a shrine. These were simple extensions of his abilities he already had, giving him the ability to place traps or store enchanted items in inconvenient places for his foe.

Sui Generis Link – In the form of an highly durable watch this link to the power source wasn’t his only access to it but the only one his carried with him.

M6D (2x) - The M6D Pistol is a semi-automatic, recoil-operated, magazine-fed, large-bore handgun that is controllable even during rapid fire, although at the cost of accuracy. By holding the trigger down the weapon will fire repeatedly without additional pulls of the trigger and depending on pressure could even create an effect similar to a shot gun. It is striker-fired, due to there being no visible external hammer. What It fires depends as he kept a large bundle of different rounds. Its default load is M225 SAP-HE (Semi-Armor Piercing, High Explosive) rounds from a 12-round magazine, usually strengthened by nether or another force of his choosing. Due to Merse’s increased eye sight and aiming ability it seems its never out of range.
Type of rounds in arsenal – Energy propelled, Photon powered, Tracker rounds, Erosion pressure.

[Liaison]

Name: Odis Lyndon Gallagher (Controlled)
Height: 6’3
Weight: 215lbs
Age: 39
Affiliation: Earth F67x

Odis Lyndon Gallagher was an idolized man for reasons he did not earn. He was a leech, a phony war hero, an opportunist. He rode his fabricated war story to become as famous as he is today. Unfortunately for him, he would spend the rest of his life fighting the terrors that would test his very much exaggerated combat expertise. Though this was true, when he did face individuals in combat Odis often found himself on the surviving end. Why? To his horror, his body currently housed an alien known as Panident.

Panident could only be identified as a group of property changing organisms that had complete control of their physical makeup. Each worked together as a single entity and where capable of legitimately creating and producing anything organic or inorganic if the makeup was known. It serves part time as a database for Merse Granstrums so it wasn’t much of a surprise that Panident has been spotted creating just about anything.

Because of Panident’s presence Odis’ otherwise slightly of above average build was more of a threat than he rightfully should be. He did have military experience but wasn’t particularly more skilled than your average soldier. He owed a lot to the symbiotic life force. The truth of the situation was that he protected this man simply to keep his body safe for an unnamed individual to use from time to time for political reasons. Odis was influential person on earth and because of that he was thoroughly exploited.

Ability

Cell Reproduction: This is Panidents main ability. All other abilities are a byproduct of this. The microorganisms that make up his mass can reproduce seemingly without limits and expand at a rapid rate allowing them to not only extend body parts but create objects by simply knowing how it's made. This includes anything from machinery to organic mass. Panident with this ability potentially could create objects in any of the known states of matter. These organisms appeared to feed off of energy.

Branch abilities:

--- Shapeshifting: This is exactly what it sounds like. Panident can change his size, face, body and even change his attire to the appearance of anything he can imagine with the multiplication of his cells.

--- Weight Manipulation: He can create objects with extremely high density and weight. He has the ability to do this to anything that his microorganisms are a part of by simply ordering them to multiply and increase their mass.

--- Can take the heat: As well as having the ability to take temperatures that allow him to escape flurries of fire with just burns and minor melting, he can increase and decrease his cells temperature to the absolute extremes of both sides.

--- Symbiotic tendencies: Panident’s presence in an individual’s body increases a wide number of physical attributes ranging from strength, healing, immunity resistance and even reflexes.

--- Processing Speed: Each microorganism is capable of above average coherent thought. As a hive, they can analyze millions of scenarios and calculate courses to follow as one of the most powerful supercomputers in the known galaxy. Panident can willfully merge with technology and intricately influence it at will.

--- Electro Impression: Panident can manipulate bio-electric currents that exist within all aspects of the body in the nervous system, heart, and muscles. He is capable of channeling the electrical energy into attacks or even drain the bio-electrical energies that may dwell within another being or object via contact.

--- Kinetic/Potential Control: Panident can manipulate kinetic energy, the energy created by any form of movement. Using this power, he is able to transfer energy from one object to another, thus potentially strengthening his attacks in a plethora of ways.

--- Signature Element: Panident’s cells can create an extremely durable mystery element by manipulating and combining the traits of several elements to generate of the most powerful metals every devised. It has the unique property to absorb vibratory waves such as sound in addition to kinetic energy by somehow storing this energy within its molecular bonds. The more energy it absorbs, the stronger the molecular bonds become. What makes this dangerous is that Panident often adds to the strength of the metal by generating energy on his own. It possesed an almost unreal level of hardness and durability and is a sufficient shield against many forces.

Odis hasn’t realized but bit by bit his entire skeletal structure has been replaced entirely by the signature element. Had he ever flown commercial perhaps he’d find out.