Registry of the Evolved Database
File #18 Nov 2008 15:43
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 Joaquin Phoenix |
The southern tip of Miami Beach isn't the best place to raise a child, especially when you're a single mother with a cocaine addiction. Sure, it may sound clich, but Marilyn Mahoney was a slave to the nightlife scene. A cocktail waitress at one of the new clubs on the beach, she never planned on getting pregnant. It happened, though, despite what her friends led her to believe, and given her religious faith she was destined to raise what was growing inside of her. Guy would be his name, and he would go on to lead a complex and interesting life.
Guy was raised less by his mother and more by his aunt, who had taken the other path in the Mahoney family's fork in the road, becoming a prominent member in the nursing community. She couldn't have children of her own because of a genetic disease, so she was happy to have Guy in her life. Between the beach and the mainland, his mother and his aunt, Guy grew up with as good of a life as one can hope to get in such a screwed up position. Even as a young boy, he knew about his mother's drug addiction, but he loved her all the same.
He went to school and he made friends. He had crushes and a first date. He loved, lost, and loved again. It was all very typical pre-teen and teenage stuff. His grades were descent, and for the most part he stayed out of trouble. At the age of 15 he started smoking, which was his one real vice that stuck with him throughout his life. It's a nasty habit, to be sure, but one that got him through some tough times.
After graduating from high school, Guy didn't really know what he wanted to do. He figured college was in his future, but he didn't have any money. So, like so many other rash young men, he decided to look into the scholarship opportunities offered by the United States Army. He didn't feel like getting shot, though, so he signed up with the intelligence branch.
He was decently smart and in good physical condition, so they took him.
Boot camp was hell, but Guy made some good friends and didn't go crazy halfway through like some of the other recruits. Maybe having dealt with some heavy family issues helped to toughen him up. At the age of 19, he finally entered service as a communications officer. He dealt with radios that were beaming in signals from spy planes across the globe. It wasn't as interesting as it sounds.
For six years he worked in Army Intelligence. He went from being a low-level comm officer to an intelligence analyst and finally a lead analyst and consultant for all things communications-related. He got to travel the country and even the world. Through all of this, he still managed to keep in touch with family down in Miami, though he rarely was positioned in the city. This could very well have been purposely orchestrated, though there's no proof.
At the age of 25, Guy was approached by a fellow officer about a position opening up with the Central Intelligence Industry. It was a clandestine position, and something he had been interested in for a few months. He decided to apply, and was happy to have the approval of some fellow soldiers. The application to get into the CIA is only the first part. Next came the investigation into his friends and family. It was his mother that worried them. Still, in his interview, he managed to impress the interviewers. That, along with credentials, landed him the job.
He went through training for the next nine months and became Agent Mahoney.
As an agent, he was placed on many different assignments that involved complicated or high-level surveillance. This was because of his ability to operate complicated comm. Equipment and to work with radio, video, and satellite signals. It wasn't much of a different job, at least for the first year. After this, he began to do field work, and he went undercover often in Germany, Russia, and Eastern Europe. His training forced him to learn German, which he used regularly, along with the Italian he learned in High School.
He was a good agent, and he grew popular among his seniors. That is, until he turned 28. This is when he first experienced his ability. It was frightening and came when he least expected it and most needed it. He was in Moscow, tailing a dirty foreign minister to a brothel. He was caught, captured, and interrogated. The stress of all of this triggered his power, which apparently was to melt into a puddle of water.
This got him out of some tight binding and it wasn't long after the shock faded that he realized he could move in that form. After a crash course in his own powers, Guy finally made it out and travelled back to a main city where he could contact his superiors. They were happy to see him alive, but not happy to hear how he escaped. The CIA had known about evolved individuals for a while, but they always found them difficult or dangerous to work with.
Guy was treated differently from then on. His superiors questioned him on his gifts, but he had no answers. After all, he didn't even know what they were. He was assigned desk duties, which was the first step in pushing him out the door. He didn't mind this, though, because it gave him enough down time to practice his gifts. Then he forced to register to keep his job, which he did. He was still being pressured, though, by fellow agents and department heads, to step down. The distrust he received simply because he was evolved angered him, and he was about to quit.
That's when he was approached by a man from The Company.
They offered him a position in New York City, as an agent responsible for looking into activities involving the evolved. He took the offer immediately. It was a chance to work somewhere where his powers were wanted, and it would also give him the chance to understand more about the evolved, and about being evolved. The training was intense, but even after, he didn't seem to empathize with the other evolved he met. That may have made his job easier through the years.
He was assigned a partner, a fellow ex-CIA operative who pushed him hard and never let down. At first they clashed lie water and fire, but eventually they learned to trust each other. Rami had identity issues, too, and they connected on that level soon after partnering up. They made an excellent team, and worked diligently at each assignment handed to them. Then, three years into Guy's Company career, the bomb went off. They were interviewing someone in upstate New York at the time, but were called off the assignment after the blast.
Then they were told to help investigate the explosion, which had evolved activity written all over it. It was an assignment that many agents had. Since the bomb, he has more complicated cases than ever before. Now a senior agent, he is given the tough jobs, the jobs the new recruits wouldn't be able to handle. He's still not the most experienced, but he's good at his job and as loyal to the Company as anyone can get. As far as they're concerned, he's an asset.
Liquefaction
Guy has the strange ability to transform himself into water. This involves converting all of his cells into H2O. When he is in water form, the molecules that he converts himself into are bound by some unknown force. Perhaps it is closer to very heavy water, making the molecules stick together better, or perhaps it is something else. Either way, he will always stay as one mass of water, even if he transforms in a larger pool of water.
Biology
While he is in a liquid form, Guy does not need to breathe as a normal human might. This is because he is able to absorb oxygen atoms from what is around him, even from other water molecules. This means that he can be in a pool of water indefinitely, but he cannot be in a vacuum because of the lack oxygen to absorb. Nutrients can also be absorbed this way, though he does not prefer to eat like this, because tossing a steak into a puddle of water is just a weird way to eat.
Control
Guy can not only turn into a puddle, he can also control this puddle once in that form. It's a lot like Alex Mack, only he doesn't use his power to run from chemical factory employee. Yet. He can only control the water molecules that he is composed of. This ability does not extend to other water molecules, even if he is in liquid form.
Foreign Objects
Certain things that may end up in Guy's body will fall out when he liquefies. This includes anything inorganic, such as bullets, or anything that the body would not want in there, such as splinters. Let's just hope he never needs a pacemaker! Food that is mostly broken down already will transform into water along with him.
Insanity
Guy cannot stay in his liquid form forever without losing his grip on sanity. This is possibly because of brain-turned-water molecules separating through constant movement. After about an hour in liquid form, he can start to feel himself going, and after that it's a quick fall into madness. A full eight hours of rest is needed when he reverts back into human form in order to return to normal.