Real Name: John Pantazis
Code Name: Deus
Age: 17
Skills: Electronic Warfare, Hacking, Countermeasure Commander (Fixed-Wing Aircraft, Navy)
Appereance: 5'9", Black Hair, Brown Eyes, White Skin, Athletic Build. Common apparatuses are futuristic visors or black edged shades. Only wears optical glasses or eye contacts when absolutely needed.
Powers:
Mechanopathy
Colloquially known as "Machine Empathy", John has the ability to feel and influence machines through physical contact or through means as radar and lasers (provided he performs Mechanopathy on those devices first)
Electrical Manipulation
John also has the ability to influence other electrical sources, such as control panels, capacitors, or even wires of large enough diameter.
Bio: John is the son of George Pantazis, a Greek immigrant working im conjuction with the US DoD. He was a teen genius by the age of 14. in which age he became an amateur hacker; his skills had reached almost professional level during the span of two years.
One day, he stumbled upon his father's files, and realised that some of the safeguards were down. His father did not realise that, which gave John the time to, after two weeks, break the rest of them and, ooverwhelmed by curiosity, open and copy the files to his computer.
Those files concerned the latest project his father was working on. Codenamed Project Space Odyssey, it concerned the development of the government's first fully functional Artificial General Intelligence. For security reasons, only a portion of the code was assigned to his father, but it still intriqued John. Three days later, FBI agents kidnapped both him and his father; each of then we're imprisoned and tortured in different sectors, and George Pantazis' fate is still unknown outside of the Bureau's agents.
John's name and history were erased from all official records- and presumably so were his father's- and eventually assigned to the Experimental Army agency, where he was exposed to an incomplete version of the AGI through the influence of certain drugs. The details are classified, but the result was the boy's ability to influence the programming of machines empathically, which was then augmented to also influencing the hardware of those through electrical currents.
He was allowed to choose his new name. He chose the name Deus, supposedly because of the phrase "Deus ex Machina", but actually because it was a highly convoluted attempt to keep his last name alive.