Codename:Neptune
Real Name: Unknown, close friends call him Holden (he has no friends)
Appearance:
Skills-
Specialty:Martial Arts
- Agent Neptune specializes in hand-to-hand combat, his martial arts style is reminiscent of Wing Chun and Taekwondo with a focus on short bursts of the hands and kicks. His movements are sharp and precise, like himself, he doesn't leave room for much error and uses his honed reflexes to process information around him and react accordingly. His skill level is high enough that he doesn't require his stream ability.
Others:Weapon proficiency, stealth, acrobatics.
Stream-
Manifestation: Super Speed, Enhanced Strength and Enhanced Intuition.
- Agent Neptune's abilities manifest in the form of super-human speed, allowing him to reach up to 300 Mph before causing cell deterioration. To keep this in check, his body is stronger than normal and the stream developed a form of low level clairvoyance so he can stop and go without hurting himself or crashing. Unlike most stream users, Neptune is “defective”, and is unable to use his ability very often at all. It's for this reason that he hones his martial arts abilities to such a degree, to make up for his lack of raw power.
Purity: Speed(6) Strength(1) Clairvoyance(1)
Equipment-
- Armor:As pictured above, Agent Neptune's armor differs from the standard gear. As required for his method of combat, Agent Neptune's armaments are lighter and sleeker than the original design, taking away the resistance that the standard uniform can cause. The suit maintains some of the original features but mainly acts as a support for his combat techniques. For whatever reason, despite the need for one, Agent Neptune's suit lacks a stream stabilizer.
- Weapons:Throwing knives
- Other: Grappling wire device.
Personality:A skilled agent and powerful combatant, Holden can keep a perfectly cool head in any dangerous situation. While in the midst of combat, he is an aloof killer, always staying on mission and doing whatever it takes to complete the objective. This cold attitude changes when faced with the charges of communicating with his teammates. When not fighting, Holden speaks very little, replying to most things with a quiet nod or few words to get his point across. It's not because he thinks he doesn't need to answer it's just that he's not use to talking to people and prefers silent operations. A bit of an introvert and just a little shy, don't expect to hold a conversation with him.
History: Holden has always been Neptune, more than anything else.
Not much is known is about his life before the Director, he was born on a planet that had been left behind by Earth during the colonization era. Abandoned by his parents, he survived through theft and luck, managing to stay one step ahead of death through desperation and a cool head. Life for everyone was like that, people walked with the reaper and no one expected to live for very long. The child's fate seemed to be a forgone conclusion.
And then
he came.
A man with blonde hair who said he was “giving out second chances”. He needed someone young, someone sturdy, resilient, and he saw that in the black eyes of the dying youth. From that day on, that child was Agent Neptune, he'd always be Agent Neptune, he didn't have a past anymore. All that mattered was the mission.
His training started with conditioning, both mental and physical, to bring him to the peak of his abilities. He was monitored every day with tabs being kept on his mental state throughout the process. He felt so much stronger than when it was over, and calmer. It felt like his mind had been “fixed”
After the conditioning came the martial arts, training against bullets and knives and men twice his size. Olympus' medical staff was one of the greatest in the universe, capable of repairing broken bones should anything go wrong, and in the beginning things often went wrong. But he learned and soon his margin of error began to grow smaller. Day after day, night after night, they put him through his paces and then some to forge a blade as cold as ice, as fast as lightning.
By twelve years old, he was going on missions, simple at first and then gradually growing in danger with each passing year. He never questioned what the training was for. He never wondered why he was being asked to do the things he did. He, the boy who once faced death, only knew he had to get faster, stronger, better than he was before, and he had to do it for his savior's sake. He was Neptune, it was simply how he had to live. But he didn't care. “Negatives” and “positives”, “good” and “evil”, “cruelty” and “kindness”, those things didn't exist, they were just words, pointless fades of an emotional species that lets them do horrible things for reasons they think are “right” or “wrong”. What the Director was doing, Neptune was supporting it, and he would live with that choice because that is the debt he owed.
Eventually, after a decade or so of pushing himself, the next phase of the Director's plan was put in place and Neptune was paired with another, someone who was his opposite in personality. They were at odds at first but Neptune slowly came to accept his presence and began to understand the wild one's importance to their dynamic. He began to see a lot of things differently with each mission they went on before he was faced with a choice he wasn't willing to make and they parted ways.
That was the first me he had ever been betrayed.
It was also the first time he had started thinking “what's on that person's mind” so was born his curiosity concerning human emotion and his apparent lack of it.
Time moved on, obviously, and the Director eventually assigned him a new team. The Olympus Project was going to be "a whole new experience" as the director told him, it was going to require even more of the raven haired agent than the last missions. Neptune was told he would have to do what needs to be done now more than ever and he agreed. He would always agree.
Because he would always be Neptune...
