1. Yes, sorry for not clarifying. He will be 25 in game, being taken from canon at age 20.
2. Hopefully this rewrite meets specifications a bit more. If not please let me know.
While other experiments of this type were carried out, they were eased down quite a bit upon the subjects that came after Ryner. He is currently the only successful Company experiment from this particular round of trials in existence with the ability to analyze all manner of technology interfaces instantaneously. While others have scanning systems and are able to analyze people for programmable matter (as does Ryner), he is the only one able to analyze all technology and its workings at such an instantaneous level. While this can be a very useful skill to have, it is not without cost, and he is plagued by severe migraines on a regular basis (nearly constant). There is also the distinct and very real possibility of an overload of information, causing something akin to him going berserk in canon. In Overjoyed, this would translate to him simply erasing any sort of tech, not destroying or saving any of it, merely making it disappear. This would, fairly obviously, be Very Bad News for everyone. It would also be a major ability, of course.
3. I just reworked the AU history section entirely. I hope this is better/more fitting with the specifications.
AU History: A child of Leithians who have long been against the Company and supporters of the Resistance, they felt it best to give their son a life free of the very high chance of being caught as a traitor and punished along with them. They felt that the best way to do this was to entrench him in the Company they were so against, putting him in at ground level by selling him as a human specimen to the Company’s military branch to be a vessel for biological manipulation and experiments. To do this, they changed his name through a contact in the Company and erased all records of him before that point. Through a series of modifications that distorted him so much that he can no longer be said to be human, the intense pain he endured erased any memories prior to the age of five.
The first memory Ryner has is waking in the Company’s R&D facility as a young boy. There, he was trained for many years in combat skills, along with many other human experiments like him. However, his modifications led him to be trained in a very elite branch of the facility, with specialists who did their best to hone his modifications in a way most efficient to the Company. He was still able to see and interact with some of the other “recruits”, but for the most part, his training was extremely specialized and he was kept fairly isolated due to the possibility of his modifications endangering others. This led to a feeling of nearly constant loneliness for Ryner, and the feeling has remained with him all his life.
It was during his time at the R&D facility that Ryner started to display his more lackadaisical nature, a direct response to what he knew the modifications had been meant to accomplish: destruction. While greatly skilled not only by his enhanced genetics but his own intelligence and determination, he lacked the ambition to advance, often skipping classes and drills when he thought he could get away with it.
When he was 12, he moved to the Company-funded training academy to be trained for more overt combat tactics and techniques. It was there that he met Sion Astal, someone destined for the top from the beginning. Ryner was initially reluctant to join up with him, due to his lack of motivation as well as his intense dislike of battle and killing, but as Sion was the next person to undergo extensive modification, Ryner felt a responsibility to him. A bond formed between them, aided by their enhanced biometrics, and the two soon became good friends. Ryner did his best to protect Sion, but it wound up being the other way around, since Sion quickly advanced through the ranks and was promoted easily while Ryner continued to show no real motivation for anything, but most definitely not anything Company-related.
Leading to the present day, Ryner is an Enforcer currently on the ground in Westerly, under Sion’s direct command. He does very little while in the field, but Sion is one of the very few people able to make him put forth a little effort, mainly so Sion won’t carry all the work himself.
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2. Hopefully this rewrite meets specifications a bit more. If not please let me know.
While other experiments of this type were carried out, they were eased down quite a bit upon the subjects that came after Ryner. He is currently the only successful Company experiment from this particular round of trials in existence with the ability to analyze all manner of technology interfaces instantaneously. While others have scanning systems and are able to analyze people for programmable matter (as does Ryner), he is the only one able to analyze all technology and its workings at such an instantaneous level. While this can be a very useful skill to have, it is not without cost, and he is plagued by severe migraines on a regular basis (nearly constant). There is also the distinct and very real possibility of an overload of information, causing something akin to him going berserk in canon. In Overjoyed, this would translate to him simply erasing any sort of tech, not destroying or saving any of it, merely making it disappear. This would, fairly obviously, be Very Bad News for everyone. It would also be a major ability, of course.
3. I just reworked the AU history section entirely. I hope this is better/more fitting with the specifications.
AU History: A child of Leithians who have long been against the Company and supporters of the Resistance, they felt it best to give their son a life free of the very high chance of being caught as a traitor and punished along with them. They felt that the best way to do this was to entrench him in the Company they were so against, putting him in at ground level by selling him as a human specimen to the Company’s military branch to be a vessel for biological manipulation and experiments. To do this, they changed his name through a contact in the Company and erased all records of him before that point. Through a series of modifications that distorted him so much that he can no longer be said to be human, the intense pain he endured erased any memories prior to the age of five.
The first memory Ryner has is waking in the Company’s R&D facility as a young boy. There, he was trained for many years in combat skills, along with many other human experiments like him. However, his modifications led him to be trained in a very elite branch of the facility, with specialists who did their best to hone his modifications in a way most efficient to the Company. He was still able to see and interact with some of the other “recruits”, but for the most part, his training was extremely specialized and he was kept fairly isolated due to the possibility of his modifications endangering others. This led to a feeling of nearly constant loneliness for Ryner, and the feeling has remained with him all his life.
It was during his time at the R&D facility that Ryner started to display his more lackadaisical nature, a direct response to what he knew the modifications had been meant to accomplish: destruction. While greatly skilled not only by his enhanced genetics but his own intelligence and determination, he lacked the ambition to advance, often skipping classes and drills when he thought he could get away with it.
When he was 12, he moved to the Company-funded training academy to be trained for more overt combat tactics and techniques. It was there that he met Sion Astal, someone destined for the top from the beginning. Ryner was initially reluctant to join up with him, due to his lack of motivation as well as his intense dislike of battle and killing, but as Sion was the next person to undergo extensive modification, Ryner felt a responsibility to him. A bond formed between them, aided by their enhanced biometrics, and the two soon became good friends. Ryner did his best to protect Sion, but it wound up being the other way around, since Sion quickly advanced through the ranks and was promoted easily while Ryner continued to show no real motivation for anything, but most definitely not anything Company-related.
Leading to the present day, Ryner is an Enforcer currently on the ground in Westerly, under Sion’s direct command. He does very little while in the field, but Sion is one of the very few people able to make him put forth a little effort, mainly so Sion won’t carry all the work himself.