Randomly I'm going to suggest getting Avira over AVG as I've always liked it better but I know a lot of people prefer AVG so *shrug* it's your choice there. Now for the important post of this post, my character;<br/><br/>Athena Nine.<br/><br/>Age: He appears to be in his lower twenties. And although his body ages at nearly three times the normal rate he'll never show his age as his skin continually regenerates when exposed to sunlight. His true age is only known to a few higher ranking scientists in GenCorp.<br/><br/>Sex: Male… ish. Technically he is a hermaphrodite as they gave him both a penis and vagina but he looks entirely male until you strip him down and actually inspect him as he is lacking breasts.<br/><br/>Orientation: Bisexual<br/><br/>Height: 6'0"<br/><br/>Weight: 120 lbs<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">General appearance:</span><br/><br/>Jet black hair, fair skin that hints at him not ever getting quiet enough sunlight, very skinny. Without his special contacts in his eyes are yellow and very obviously cat-like. He also sports a tail that he usually keeps hidden beneath clothes. Very muscular and lithe. A bright smile, with cat-like sharpened teeth, if he ever cares to show off his smile. His ears are slightly pointed at the top.<br/><br/>Athena prefers to be called Nine due to the female connotation of the name Athena and as such I will also be referring to him as Nine from now on.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Design process and features:</span><br/><br/>Nine is the ultimate product of a long process of trial and error. In an attempt to make the ultimate spy/assassin they made quite a few prototypes and spent many a long hour trying to fix the continual problems that popped up. The first of these came up in the very idea of making the ultimate spy/assassin. How do you control a person that you're inherently making to be unstoppable? They considered crippling his mental capabilities to insure his blind obedience but quickly decided against that as a dumb spy would only get himself caught continually. So, since they couldn't physically or mentally overpower him without leaving him open to the enemy they needed a different way to handle him. They then considered implanting him with an abnormally loyal personality that would do anything for the company but they knew given enough time he would see too much and eventually question his loyalty. But they were determined and eventually came up with a plan. They would implant the loyal personality and then wipe his memory after each mission, ‘resetting’ him, so to speak, each time so that his loyalty was reaffirmed.<br/><br/>They first of many hurdles covered they started on choosing an optimal physical body. They considered hundreds of designs ranging from nearly pure cat (only bigger and more intelligent than the average breed) to nearly pure human (with heightened reflexes and senses) and eventually made a few prototypes. They quickly found that while having cat ears, a cat nose, or other obviously cat-like part was highly impractical as it ruined his ability to blend in to a crowd, which wasn’t worth the slight increases to his senses the parts gave. However some parts, like cat eyes and a cat tail, they found to be easy to hide, beneath clothes or contacts, and so were left as such. Still other parts were made into a hybrid of the two species, like his claws which extend from all his fingertips (the thumb is a finger) about a quarter of an inch, just enough to grapple a wall or slit a throat, whatever needs to be done. His ears are also of hybrid design, made to reflect the shape of a cat’s ears without being obvious beneath his hair. Other parts of his body were wholly human, such as his mind, which was made to be able to outthink any opponent, very analytical and with a very high IQ.<br/><br/>Then there were the parts of his body that were so experimental they required whole tests of their own. His skin was one of the bigger hassles; they had lots of interesting design ideas. They prototyped only three at first. The first was a skin that blending into any surface the user touched but they couldn’t solve the issue that whenever he touched more than one object the skin would simultaneously attempt to take the appearance of both causing some parts of his skin to be one pattern while others were a different pattern. The second was skin was highly sensitive, capable of sensing it’s environment using wind to the point where it could sense a moving person that came within 10 feet. This one also failed as they couldn’t find a way to make the user less sensitive to pain while maintaining the skin’s purpose, as it was the person would feint from a slap and died instantly from shock from the pain a bullet wound caused. The third skin was a type of composite armor that was capable of stopping bullets but yet again they ran into unforeseen problems when they found the unusually tough skin was obviously abnormal to the touch, causing anyone who ever touched the subject to instantly figure out he was abnormal, plus the skin wouldn’t allow his claws to come through, rendering them useless.  Finally they expanded their tests and found one that worked a type of synthetic plant-based skin that was capable of rapidly regrowing when exposed to direct sunlight, allowing for a limited type of regeneration when outside or in direct sunlight. It usually left him dehydrated to use the ability but it also helped with his claws as he was able to use them, retract them, and then the wounds would heal so he didn’t have to try to explain how he’d cut all his fingers at once when undercover.<br/><br/>They also developed special synthetic super-muscles and used a composite material for his bones. The muscles gave him strength beyond normal human levels, if only slightly. He’s still not half as strong as some of the rhino-hybrid guards that GenCorp uses to protect some of its more secret operations and he’s still not punching down walls but he doesn’t have much problem hurling the average person across the room and in to a wall. (For those comic book nerds here think about Warpath level of strength, or close to that at least). His bones, while slightly stronger, were actually made to be extremely lightweight, taking nearly 20 pounds off his body weight and causing his abnormally low weight. In addition they made small modifications to his senses, adrenal glands, and nervous system. Thereby greatly increasing his reflexes, senses, and the amount of adrenaline his system usually carries as well as giving him greater control of when the adrenaline is used. This allows him to keep an adrenaline rush for longer than normal as well as choose whether or not to have adrenaline rush his system, a trait that’s proven useful to stop the unnecessary waste of adrenaline to simply reflex movements. They even gave him vocal cords that were capable of producing both female and male voices simply to make it easier to impersonate a female.  Similarly they made him bisexual (whether by manipulating his genes or personality is your choice) and a hermaphrodite so he could sexually seduce either sex if necessary. Not that he’s ever used either part but there was no reason not to do so.<br/><br/>Having pinned down the body type they gave him the best equipment money could buy and the best training in the entire world in all forms of infiltration, stealth, tactics, and assassination techniques. He was trained to do anything from lead a rebel guerilla warfare campaign to disguise himself for infiltration. Anything from hitting his target from a mile and a half away with a well placed sniper bullet to charming a higher up into his own bed. He was even taught to be an expert demo man and an even better safe cracker. They even taught him a great deal of history, math, science, as well as every language in the book only so he’d be easily able to speak with anyone anywhere about anything.  If they thought even for a millisecond that it might, could possibly ever, be useful, they taught it to him.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">History:</span><br/><br/>The project turned out even better than they expected, Nine came back with more information then they asked every single time. They would ask for their next project information and he’s come back with three prototypes, two schematics,  holes in their file data system, blackmail on a CEO, or something else of equal importance, and best of all he did it all with ease, grace, and absolute happiness. There were zero problems for years. Until, that was, he took three bullets and was forced to hide out for a week in a small shanty town. During that time an elderly man took him in and helped him recover, only to find out of Nine’s secret, that he wasn’t human. In turn Nine found out the men’s secret, that he was a rebel. They argued for hours but Nine couldn’t bring himself to hurt the man who’d taken him in and probably saved his life and nor could he leave until he was fully heal so for the next few days they continued to argue. Eventually Nine started to question his loyalty and it wasn’t much longer before he turned against GenCorp entirely. In fact he quickly grew to hate GenCorp. Although he saw their corruption quite easily, he didn’t hate them for it, after all that was all he’d seen in the world, corruption. Except for the one old man he knew no one he could say wasn’t corrupt. He hated them because they’d used him and he wanted revenge. He knew it was evil to kill for revenge but he didn’t care, he’d take down the whole company if he could solely to sate his revenge.<br/><br/><br/>P.S. I'm also thinking that GenCorp would eventually make a Athena Nine v2 and send him after Athena Nina v1. Maybe they find a way to make v2 more loyal, like implanting memories of a family and threatening to kill of the family if he fails, they could just reset him and pull the same ploy every time if they wanted, but I don't think I'm going to make a v2 quiet yet. I'll at least let him meet the rebel crew before he gets a rival. We'll see how it goes.