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John Gray





Azrael, Sir John Gray.





Meta-Human / Demigod





27





3rd October





Vale of Glamorgan, United Kingdom





Male





Male

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"My inheritance offered life long idle luxury, and yet, needing nothing, I burned with the paradoxical urge to do everything. Do you understand?" - Adrian Veidt
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John is brilliant, well-spoken, with a plethora of knowledge and understanding underneath a very calm demeanor, but struggles with human to human communication. He does not tend to have a sense of humour, and his ability to reconcile with his peers is hampered by his arrogance and feelings of superiority over his fellow man. Regardless, he has an innate love for the rest of his people, and feels that due to his heightened status and ability, he has an obligation to follow through with helping those who are under-privileged or less fortunate. He has an absolute hunger for knowledge.

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John is not afraid to voice his opinion, but neither does he prefer to speak it unless required as he values his voice. John spends most of his time directing his focus on his present surrounding, whether listening to a conversation or attempting to resolve a crises, he retains a calm facade that underlies an intense mental process running through his mind on the optimal course of action at any given moment. Regardless, Azrael' greatest weakness is that he is incapable of understanding his own feelings or emotions as he attempts to suppress them, often times to the point where he intentionally sabotages relationships out of fear of opening up.



Azrael, known as John Gray, is the individual who re-created the Philosopher's Stone, and is wildly infamous for causing the Nephalus Event of 2008, a freak accident in the Vale of Glanmorgan, Wales, where a plant supplying Nephalus Energy suffered a cascade failure, causing a dimensional rift t0 split between the physical and the spiritual worlds, instantly causing strange, new life-forms and creatures to flood onto Earth. As a result of this failure, the world at large shunned John Gray's breaking scientific discoveries out of fear of its potential for significant further harm, and John himself was shunned by his scientific peers and portrayed in the media as an amoral monstrosity in human form.

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Despite being born into wealth and significant resources, John Gray decided to throw away his inheritance to charity so that he could prove himself onto the world. Even at a young age, the former bio-engineering quantum physicist turned vigilante proved to be a brilliant student. At the age of twelve, he presented his thesis upon the platonic forms and its proof of existence by the identification of imaginary particles thorugh a new substance that he theorized was known as the "Nephilim Particle." A name with which he found fitting, as it described the paradoxical existence of an immutable spiritual particle that connects with the physical realm. It was not until the appearance of the first multi-versal individuals that his research was accepted and gained significant traction.

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With the help of countless studies of individuals with unique meta-human abilities, John was capable of discovering a divergence in the multitude of powers which all stemmed from the same source: the Soul of the being. Understanding this, John and his team set out to study the connection between the soul and the Nephilim Particle. Eventually, John created a breakthrough, and through it created his first invention: the Philosopher's Stone.

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Using the Philosopher's Stone as the basis of his powers, Azrael conducted a high-risk experiment and transplanted the object to merge with his soul, thus allowing him the ability to transmute the laws of physics with his bare hands. With it, he transformed himself into a meta-human. While he spent a significant amount of time developing energy solutions with the power Nephalus Technology, he used his powers to hunt those within the United Kingdom and helped with peacekeeping duties within the United Nations. With newfound wealth and influence, he began the production of the Nephalus Plant, a limitless source of energy that would be developed into the United Kingdom across all its provinces. He also assisted with the operations of the British Special Forces under the codename of Azrael, which eventually developed into his alias.

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It was at the dawn of the opening of the Nephalus Plant that had ended John's scientific career. A cascade failure within the system that regulated the flow of Nephalus energy malfunctioned, which Azrael believes to be due to sabotage. This action caused the Nephalus energy to overload and tear open a multi-versal rift in an immense explosion, destroying the Vale of Glanmorgan, John's hometown, and causing an immense backlash and irreversible introduction of strange and uncontained waves of particles not bound by physics to travel across the globe. The event, thus known as the Nephalus Event, has since caused immense mutations to the local wildlife within the United Kingdom, and has put Earth in the crosshairs of the Galactic Universe.


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Azrael has since been shunned by the scientific community and has received significant and vicious backlash from the general public. Determined to track down the saboteurs, Azrael seeks to redeem himself by finding out the individuals who had committed the sabotage and bringing them to justice at court, thus, he travels to Kingsport after a clue leads him into the United States.

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The Philosopher's Stone provides Azrael the ability to transmute the soul, or platonic form, of any object thus shaping it's physical form. It is implanted in Azrael's own soul, allowing him the ability to direct his will into anything that he either touches or himself in order to transmute, change, or fundamentally alter the properties of that particular object. Mass, space-time, cause-and-effect and the laws of physics ultimately do not apply to what the Philosopher's stone allows due to the fact that it affects the soul of the particular object. However, since the Philosopher's Stone is bound to Azrael's Soul and thus his physical body, he can only interact this power with that he has direct contact with or himself. He is also limited by his own human intelligence, which while vast, cannot compare with many of the deities, life-forms or metahumans that exist.

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Users of this ability are more intelligent than most of their species, or at least able to use their brain more efficiently either by being naturally gifted or training themselves for the needed shortcuts. Some are able to perform feats of mind comparable to computers: remembering vast amounts of knowledge flawlessly, performing complex calculations or other similar tasks. Some are capable of learning a variety of combat skills in a day, which would take a normal person years to achieve mastery over.

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