Linus Agron

Registry of the Evolved Database

File #04 Feb 2010 05:07

Summary

Name Linus Agron Aliases None Status Registered Evolved (Tier 2) Ability Heliokinesis Gender Male Race/Eth. American Birthdate January 10th, 1984 Age 27 Height 6'4" Build 184 lbs Eyes Brown Hair Brown Residence Room 303, Siann Hall, The Bronx Employment Unemployed Parents Enver Agron Shelley Agron Siblings None Marital Status Single Children None First Seen Tried to Get the Nuns Number Last Seen ???? Profile Linus Agron is a shy, socially awkward individual who happens to be a real life Peter Parker. Great power, great responsibility, and rotten luck. The only thing he's missing is his Mary Jane. After a series of stressful situations, and taxing his ability to the limit, Linus slipped into a coma for months. He has just recently woken up to discover a world on the brink of ruin.

portrayed by Zachary Levi

Background

Born Linus Agron in Scottsdale, Arizona to an Albanian computer programmer and an American school teacher, Linus was surrounded by knowledge and education his whole life. Thanks to his father, he always had the latest in computer developments at his fingertips before they hit store shelves. Thanks to his mother, he was reading and writing well ahead of schedule. He spent his Elementary school days either at home, tinkering with computers or doing his homework, or at school. What his parents weren't very capable at teaching him were social skills, and he was noticeably shy and awkward even then. In Elementary school, the kids mostly left him alone - verbal bullying was the worst of it.

This changed come middle school, where the kids started to get more physical. By the time he was in eight grade his parents had enough, and pulled him out of public education and sent him to private school. While not a top notch school by any means, their income allowed them to give Linus what he needed. The right environment. There, amid the high class bullies of private school, he found people like him who shared his scholastic interests. He enjoyed success with his grades, made friends - for four years he finally felt like he had a complete life.

Then graduation came, and it was time to go to college. With his grades, he afforded a healthy scholarship and was accepted into MIT. His parents had never been prouder. Linus, however, turned down the acceptance and decided to take a year off. He moved in with a friend from private school, Benjamin Cole, and helped start a business repairing computers. Having breezed through all of his primary and secondary education, he convinced himself he wanted to try the real world. But within nine months, the business tanked, leaving Linus with a mountain of debt.

At the end of the year he went to MIT, and took up a part time job at a local electronics store to help pay off his debt. MIT was harder than anything he'd done before, and his studies struggled as he picked up more and more hours at the store trying to work the debt off. With little time for friends, he again began shy and awkward - hurting his job performance. With work not going well, his studies began to slip as well, and in his third year he dropped out of MIT.

He returned home, waffling about wasting his life while his parents watched in a mixture of sadness, anger and disappointment. It was during this year of wasteful adolescence that he started discovering he had more energy than usual during the day. A week after that, he was heading to his car after buying the latest video game that he accidentally burned a hole in the parking lot. Scared out of his mind, he returned home and started flipping through his comic book collection and surfing the internet, looking for an explanation.

He found one, a book called Activating Evolution by Chandra Suresh. He saw that the man was living in New York, and without much of an explanation to his parents, he got a job at a video game developer in New York testing games and moved. By the time he got there though, this Doctor Suresh was nowhere to be found - all his leads seemed to disappear. Little did Linus know, however, that he picked a bad place to move. A little over a year after moving to New York, and finally starting to settle in, his power not manifesting for months, the bomb went off.

Everything changed. People with abilities were everywhere. Amidst the chaos Linus finally discovered why he had what he had. The government was hunting them down. Things settled, people were registering - it didn't take long, and people were starting to settle into the idea. But not everyone. Linus read too many X-Men comics as a kid to be comfortable with ousting himself as a freak, and instead read up as much as he could, attempting to figure out his ability on his own.

It's been some time since the bomb, and in the two years since the explosion, things are slowly going back to normal. But how long can someone stay hidden right in the center of it all, in the eye of the storm? Is it only a matter of time before he gets swept into the raging winds of change, or can he keep sheltering himself?

Psych Profile

Linus would probably be described by most people as brilliant, but lazy. While lazy may not be totally accurate, as he actually has a lot of energy and gets a lot done during his day, it's nothing important. It would be more accurate to say he lacks any true motivation. He had a lot of goals growing up, dreams, aspirations. They all got shattered by the shocking weight and reality of the world. Since, he has retreated into his own brilliant mind and plays it all safe and close to his chest.

While normally shy and awkward in social situations, particularly when it comes to girls, there are many positive traits in him. He's generous, willing to stick his neck out there for people he's barely met or known or offer them the proverbial shirt off his back. He's kind, and almost never utters a bad or foul word about anyone unless they truly deserve it - and in that case he's more likely to keep it to himself.

But then there are the bad qualities. Everyone has them. You couldn't say Linus is brave. In fact, he's the epitome of cowardice, flinching at anything that may hurt him. He's jaded, made cynical by a world that wasn't what he expected. He gets jealous easy, even going so far as to read into something too much and make himself jealous over nothing. This stems from his paranoia that the world is out to get him and bring him down.

In terms of the Evolved, Linus has many different feelings going through him. For one, it's freaking awesome. Laser beams, mind control, it's everything he read in comic books growing up. On the other hand, it being real is something else entirely. And for that matter, the fact that he's one of them both delights and scares the living daylight right out of him.

Evolved Ability

Overview

Simply put, Linus power is heliokinesis - the manipulation of solar energy. At all times, Linus' body converts and stores ambient solar power like a battery, giving him a store of energy. This energy has a lot of potential to be used in numerous ways, though Linus has only figured out two of them - and one he's not even fully aware of, since it is active all the time.

Absorption, Storage & Capacity

While any part of his skin is exposed to direct ultraviolet light, assuming he has not already absorbed as much energy as he can, Linus' body automatically absorbs potential energy without him thinking about it. There are a number of factors that determine how quickly he absorbs this energy - how much of his flesh is exposed, how close he is to an ultraviolet source and how powerful a source. Standing naked on the top of a tall building with the sun at its zenith will charge his battery from zero to full in a matter of hours. Being clothed in his usual jeans and t-shirt will add several more hours. Being further from the sun, on the street, will add even more time. While he can charge his battery from other ultraviolet sources, they are not as efficient, multiplying the length it takes to store up a full charge exponentially the weaker the source.

At full capacity, Linus' body stores enough energy to maintain a functioning level of excess energy to keep him awake, fit and vibrant for three days. Using other functions of his ability (discovered or not) drains the charge much faster. Unfortunately, Linus doesn't have a fine enough control over his ability to keep charging when not in use - so he very rarely has a full battery. Add in the fact that as his body goes dormant - unconscious, sleeping, whatever - the charge starts to dissipate.

Always Going

The primary benefit, and one that is always on whether he wills it or not, of his ability is that while his body is charged with energy, it functions like a renewable source of energy that keeps him awake, fit, healthy and vibrant. Since this happens unconsciously and reactively to this solar power being in his body, it doesn't count as 'using' his power for the interests of interrupting his charging process. If he were to work outside all day, he could go for days before being tired and needing rest under the best conditions.

Solar Blasts

So far, the only other way to expend this absorbed energy that Linus has discovered is to expel it from his body in the form of brightly hot beams of solar power. The intensity of these beams varies on his level of control and the current charge in his body. At full storage, this beam can reach temperatures nearing twenty-five hundred degress Celsius, well more than enough to melt steel. Such a blast would immediately drain his entire reserve, however. This is not a total maximum degress he can work with, however - while at full charge he can make a single blast that hot, smaller and less powerful ones drain his battery much slower, allowing him to make a number of them totalling more than twenty-five hundred degrees. The finer control of these blasts allow him to expel solar 'warmth' from his hands, with a similar effect to that of a tanning bed. Constant exposure to such an effect could lead to skin cancer or second and third degree burns.

The other factor is distance. While theoretically his maximum range is anything within his line of sight with an unobstructed path to the target, the power of his blasts tapers off over distance. Targets within three to five meters would feel the full effect, while the effect lessens over this distance to about half effectiveness at six to eight meters and almost no effect at nine to fifteen meters.

Always A Downside

There is, of course, a downside to his ability. Much like Birdman, if he is unable to have contact with any sort of ultraviolet source, Linus will eventually get very sick. How ill he gets depends on how long he spends out of contact with solar energy. This ill feeling will only start once his already stored energy is gone, but once it is, he will almost immediately start to feel groggy and sick. After a few hours he'll be as weak as a kitten until after ten to twelve hours, he won't even be able to move. Exposing him to ultraviolet light will almost immediately reverse his condition, depending on how bad off he was, taking anywhere from fifteen minutes to an hour to recover.

"Not everyone is meant to make a difference. But for me, the choice to lead an ordinary life is no longer an option."

Appendices

Now the boy, whose childish thoughts aspire
… to loftier aims, and make him ramble high'r

October 2010

Date	Title	Summary
9th	One Of Those Talks	Linus has a serious conversation with Elaine.
12th	Operation Goliath, Part I	The team arrives in China, where Bennet explains the plan and gives Alia a present from Rebel.
13th	Operation Goliath, Part II	Half of the China team makes their way to the shuttle, only to meet with several interesting problems.
13th	The Second Sun	The launch that sends four people into space starts off bad, and just gets worse.

September 2010

Date	Title	Summary
3rd	Light Bulbs	An old subway station gets another work-out as a training site for Evolved. Linus is frightened by his potential.
7th	Good Shoulder	Elaine needs a shoulder to lean on, and Linus is there to oblige.
9th	Pretty Bright of You	Linus willingly registers and finds that it's not as bad as he thought it would be, but unfortunately, there's more than one step to the process.
10th	Everything Will Work Out	Elaine stops by Linus' apartment with cookies and good timing. They both cheer each other up some.
11th	Stalling For Amazing	Elaine and Linus get out of Siann Hall and talk about life, friendship, and Shakespeare.
11th	If I Was Less Mature	A convergence of three in the lobby of the Suresh Center.
20th	I Killed Someone	Elaine shows up at Linus' door after a nightmare.
25th	Taste Testing	Elaine brings a friend when she visits Abby and Delilah only to find a job offer and not more temporal shenanigans.
27th	Where Rebels Dare	People from Messiah, Endgame and the Ferrymen come together to meet Rebel and hear his plan for their survival.

August 2010

Date	Title	Summary
14th	Not Just A Girlfriend	Linus stops by Magnes', but gets Elaine and Quinn instead. A small amount of geekery ensues.
17th	Social Butterfly	Linus follows up on his promise to come see Quinn at work, and Quinn seems determined to get him to open up a bit.
18th	Authorian Answers	A Q&A with author Savannah Burton made interesting by Diogenes and Lola's.. antics.
19th	Buy a Date	Linus puts himself up for auction at Tartarus. He's actually bought by Peyton.
21st	Friendsies, For Realsies	Quinn and Linus discuss registration and other things after nearly being shot for no reason.
24th	Dance Machine	Linus finds the nerve to go on the date Peyton purchased with him, and they share a dance. Sort of.
31st	Definitely Not A Hero	Ygraine and Linus bump into one another looking for Quinn. They talk registration and about Linus' ability.

February 2010

Date	Title	Summary
3rd	Tried to Get the Nuns Number	Linus makes a giant fool of himself at Old Lucy's before causing three (!) people to pull firearms and then promptly runs away like a girl.
4th	Everyone Wants to be Peter Parker	Linus bumps into Magnes at a local comic shop. They talk about having abilities and how it isn't exactly turning out to be like a comic book.

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Notable Skills:

Computers

Linus has grown up with computers his whole life, even before they were a modern part of every household. He knows how to build them, he knows how to fix them, and he knows how to use them better than 99% of the American population. He knows how to hack other ones too, finding back doors into systems and other fun illegal activities. Not that he ever uses them! Perhaps the only people better with them are technopaths and people who make a living off of them.

Knowledge

Growing up around a teacher has its benefits, so does studying hard all the time. Reading everything he can get his hand on doesn't hurt either. Years of this has turned Linus into a walking wikipedia, able to provide insight in a number of topics both important (like chemistry) or trivial (comic books). Most times, this knowledge is general - he knows a little about a lot of things, but he's not very specialized in many areas.

Gaming

Tried and true, Linus spends a lot of time with a game controller in his hands, both at home and at work. This has turned him into quite the gamer, raising his hand-eye coordination and letting him pwn noobs without much of a sweat. He's probably not good enough to make it profitable with tournaments, but he's about on that level or a notch below.

Healthy

Linus is surprisingly vital for a man who doesn't work out or do any kind of physical activity, blessed with an abundance of energy from his ability. This doesn't mean he's going to be any sports star anytime soon, but it does make him healthy - he keeps a trim figure no matter how much fast food and snack food he eats.

Fighting

This is here not to represent that Linus can fight. It's here because he totally can't. If there was a better phrase than 'completely inept', that would describe Linus in a fight. He doesn't know the first thing about throwing a punch, and any attempt to do so would just make him look like a fool or worse, hurt himself in the process.

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Trivia & Notes

• Linus' favorite beverage of choice is Sobe Green Tea. He'll take Sobe Citrus Energy in a pinch, though. His alcohol of choice is Dos Equis, though he can't handle it very well.
• His XBOX Live Gamertag is Not From Peanuts. It doubles as his Playstation Network ID.
• Favorite artist? MC Lars.
• He hasn't kissed a girl since he was in MIT, and she defected to North Korea shortly after. He kissed Elaine! Go Linus!