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Jack (CHI)

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    A mysterious man. Information on him is scarce. His identity is debatable. Those who know the man behind the mask trust him. Some are even too devotes, few are also very dependent. He looks secure and safe, self-reliable. Strong and smart, but not less sociable. Not cheerful enough, but perhaps too sarcastic. Regular athletic stature, perhaps too agile for his port. Calls himself "Jack", his ID says "Jack Black", born 9 November 1980 in London. Despite having some white hair (not uncommon by some men in their 25 years, right?) he seems fine to be from such an age. He denies any accusations of mystery. After all, one should forgive his lack of interest in general details of pop-culture and celebrity life, as he's a busy soldier. So busy, he didn't earn a place in army, he made himself a secret agent career. They went after him.
    His services are unique, as he's the oldest regular of the AXIS Military Academy program, being 5 years older than the original first class (to which at time, by 2005, had a few handful, no more than 10 alumni still alive). Times were though and a generation of petty aristocrats was lost in the first 5 years of the century. Good enough that powerful people had big families, so losing a sibling just made the number of millionaries decrease. Monopoly resumes. People cries the death of a son or daughter, but forget it when other siblings start planning their own empires and either menace or make proud a father or mother.

About the institute
    As one could see, such an institute was founded in the turn of the millennium to deal with a problem which became apparent to the Interpol, but they had no guts to face (or to let the public face). The most known know the ancients weren't stupid morons. They didn't worship demons and their gods weren't literal, but that didn't avoid them to having contact with "hybrids", diverse caste of almost immortal highly sentient, sapient, intelligent species. Usually the contact was a brutal one, but some of those "demons" had sadistical inventions. Slavery and abduction became more acceptable with contracts.     
    By the time of the great wars, however, the tides changed. Demons and their economies turned against them, they saw their self-indulgent isolation and they had no longer contracts with most powerful people. In order to secure the allegiances of "their masters" to "our masters", slave-masters of the monopolies in Africa (throughout Ethiopia and the Great Lakes region), to the Caspian Range (extending underground through the Black Sea) and also bases in the Northern Sea (both in Finnish to Russian territories) and as far as in Inner Mongolian plans, came to agreement to explore "tension areas", from slums to war-torn cities, as sources of the work-force so needed in their slave pits. This demon enterpreneurship, however, was made to expulse lower demons from the working of the magnates. They accepted lesser powers, humans' terms sometimes. One of these 'sometimes' came under the guise of satellite independent states declaration in the 90s, throughout old African continent. But demons, hybrids, or whatever name that declares their condition, are too diverse and perhaps more self-conscious than human themselves. To some it became clear that there wasn't such a thing as "them".
    Magnates could deal and accept "few shit" from humans. But it was obviously understood as a power-grab. Free demons created their own black markets, ranging in places far beyond the treaties with humans, in South American Jungle, Arabian deserts, Canadian frozen ground and Australian billabongs. "Demand" was highly induced, through side-powers such as mafia and drug cartels, essential to the functoning of UNA. To that concern, Interpol was sure reports weren't mere cryptozoology. Thus was born the AXIS Military Academy. Select orphans, or high-class individuals of age 15+ were trusted with very interesting "toys", secret weapons rescued from veterans on failed missions historically associated to demonic hunting (but not less related to 'terrorist hunting' and other kinds of interventionist militias). There was too much behind this, but it was easy to sooth teenages with such promising aparell, even more than with tall tales of economical nature.

Becoming Agent CHI

    Five years passed, some people got on the seriousness of it, and no matter how lesser aristocrats ranted about the lack of security of their dead children, for it was secret and assignment could come through invitation only, signing no responsibility for that but paying a generous tax if the soldier perished in demon hunting. That wasn't a spineless institution, they had best professors on all degrees, from military to private security, astro-physicists to biologists and nano-engineers. They were top-notch, the school-grounds were some beautiful gardens in Avignon and in the vacations they could rather spend a time with their families or visit the sponsors in Hawaii. But those which were too involved in the "demon-hunting" procedure came too close to a secret committee, with the intent to finish the production of such "toys" (Alpha-Omega series of nano-technological symbiotic synthetical armored suits which manifested enhaced unique powers) with something able to backstab even the greatest demon magnates, if possible ending the comensalism that they represented for busy human powers.
    One of the results of the committee was the Oraklyte Project which had as intent use the xnobius element, akin to demons and to Haijianese industries, for self-generating energy with military purposes. The first step was SIGMA, but in the five years after it became un-bearable to test new tech. Sigma was self-sufficient, but had less than desirable energy, losing too much power for the surrounding environment. What lacked were the micro-organism dubbed Fire Ushabti, those were however alien to the so far developed tech, and when new tech was developed, it was found (through human testing in slave-trade acquired individuals) they were as well more proportionally toxic as they were capable of producing energy. To solve that, they came with yet another demon-related substance, duzkoplasm, that dwindled the toxicity effect of the Ushabti, through another toxic acting as antibody. The CHI armor was developed based on an individual which sustained such duzkoplasm effects, and having the trade-mark symbiotic enhacement, one could believe the armor would be rendered a "safe usage" after some time.
    However, vitalicious contracts were given to the Alpha-Omega users. The "miraculous subject", took away from some dark prison beneath the school grounds and in possession of principal Ephraim Frére, re-acted to the exposure of the tech. He was re-vitalized. As if a "super-soldier", "Jack" was reborn, his consciousness aligned, his perceptions improved. He took on the "mantle" of Agent CHI and took a role based on his estimated biological age, as a 25 year old soldier-student serving in AXIS. Despite scientists assuring the safe usage of the armor, his true origin was still a mystery. Principal Frére, however, seemed to have the right clue, and maybe even a biography of the mysterious man. Who or what he was, however, didn't matter anymore.

Life as Jack
    From the moment, he'd play major roles for the secret committee, become an ambassador between the students, their secret brotherhoods and sororites (to which he had conection through libertine affairs, some of abusive nature), and would be a role model for those who were less diplomats and more bounty hunters, an idea gaining support in distaste of the effort on endoctrination of morale. Agents ALPHA (Marvin Chad) and ETA (Daniel Phawkes) would more or less follow his footsteps, some say in his shadow. He wouldn't believe as well that he'd actually fall in love with Agent LAMBDA (Anna G. Whitaker), regretting no less than having few memories to share with someone as loving as her. That earnt enmity from his 'pupils' since she was the most 'coveted' of all the AXIS' girls. Not that he cared for jealousy of low-esteem Agent SIGMA or the clumsiness of Lance Walker. He worked better in solo missions, but once in teams he didn't lose the chance to show bounty-hunter and black-ops professionalism. That also stained his relationship. Anna was the daughter of an officer and had some misjudgements, believing in some kind of merit or high morale of an agent to be in service. Jack was a bounty hunter, he knew all assassins were equal. Ann couldn't deny that, after a year and a half in the institution, she realized how in fact all of her colleagues and her weren't heroic liberators of slaves, but rather war-mongers and pawns of corporate secrets. That was a shock, and from the impact, Jack lacked the means to comfort her psyche, maybe that gave her equality to break from the dependence she created towards him.
    He followed his misadventures with other students, keeping more than one relationship at once, never caring about the feelings of the other subjects. None of them were like Ann. He also shared views on assassination and the thrill of the missions with one of Ann's colleagues, the estranged orphan Klaus Neumann, at time christened the Agent DELTA. He'd follow serving group and covert missions until Agent YPSILON (Mariah Roberts) died in 2008. The newcomer Nina Roux, the new agent YPSILON, became close friends with Ann, who was avoided for the good of both of them.
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As part of my APKALLU Mythos project on the behalf that Apkallu's protagonist is a human who can becomes a Triton, which the institute consider as a demon hybrid subspecies of most rarity, and even so when the Triton works with Minotaur Miredrinn (who's confirmed to be a slaver sometime after), some agents comes into conflict. Jack's to appear at one such a conflict. His detective skills leads to find out the human self of the Triton, but his reckless assault was met with severe backlash from his unknown protector, Coelacanth (a thousand year old warrior full of names and epithets unknown to most, an assassin). Even though AXIS didn't receive report on the mission, implying he was dead, no one could ever be too sure...

*This character is inspired in one of my oldest creations, Jack (or "Dark Shock") was the first boyfriend of longtime character Ann G; even though he was soon discarded in less than a year. The typical womanizer, he's the stereotype based of the common (at least common based on what I've saw from my 7 years to now) trait of older guys dating younger girls.
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