Shahid "Shaw" Khan

Chesterfield Act Registry of the Non-Evolved Database

File #01 Mar 2018 08:15

Summary

Name Shahid "Shaw" Wesley-Khan Aliases Morris Morrison (Bright) Shahid Khan Status Unregistered Non-Evolved Gender Male Birthdate October 29, 1989 Age 32 Height 5'9" Build Lean Eyes Brown Hair Black Residence Cresting Wave Apartments Employment Co-Owner, Brenda's Bar and Grill Delivery Driver (part time), Pigeon Courier Services Flood Shipmate Wasteland Resistance Member Bright City Courier Virus Hub Scavenger Parents Azrah Khan (mother, deceased) Zahur Khan (farther, deceased) Faruq Mansoor (uncle, alive in Prime) Dima Mansoor (aunt, deceased???) Siblings Hasan Mansoor (Cousin, unknown) Hiba Mansoor (Cousin, unknown) Marital Status He Said Yes Children Namiko, Adopted Daughter First Scene The Last Lemon Last Scene Profile Shaw comes from the Virus timeline, where he was a scavenger-scout and jury-rigging handyman. In the Bright timeline he assumed the identity of a city courier and delivery driver, although his doppelgänger appears on a frequent local TV commercial for housing construction and flooring. In the Wasteland, he aided the Resistance and the Travelers to survive the harsh environment. After surviving the Flood, he's finally landed on solid ground and survived long enough to make it to the Prime time. In any timeline, he is a quiet and lonely-seeming eccentric spirit. Kinda creepy, kinda cool.

portrayed by Riz Ahmed

Background

Shahid, or "Shaw" as his schoolmates called him, was born in Vancouver to Pakistani immigrants. His otherwise normal life was turned upside down, literally, when he and his parents were involved in a terrible winter car crash that claimed the life of his parents and hospitalized him for several weeks. He was 13. Once recovered, Shaw was then sent to live with his aunt and uncle in New York. Their two-bedroom apartment was too small, their family already numbering four, and so he often tried not to get in the way within the living space crammed with too many occupants. But the teenager withered under the stern household, remaining distant to his several years younger cousins who shared the bedroom with him, and often disappeared into the city to explore and discover life on his own. Too often, he came back to the tiny apartment after curfew with cuts and bruises, disheveled clothes and one time, no shoes at all.

He had ditched class and was hanging out in Central Park when the Midtown Man struck. In the wake of destruction, he was once again homeless and family-less. His ability manifested in the midst of fighting off a few assailants one night, where his negation power lead the combatants to believe they'd gone blind. Shaw then took advantage of the confusion, brained a couple of them and managed to get away. He didn't have any answers to what he was or what he could do, but spent the next year slowly figuring out his power and how he could use it to help him survive. Later, he was inwardly horrified to think he was in the same category as Sylar, as an Evolved. But he kept practicing the power, which meant he used it on people to see what could happen. The results were ninety-nine percent of the time, a negative reaction.

When the virus struck, Shaw was one of the lucky ones as he had been living a transient life already. All the more reason that he went underground as the world collapsed. When the Hub was established, he made his way into the rank and file, working with the scavenging and exploratory teams in lieu of having any further academic knowledge or advanced skills to offer. As long as he was able-bodied, he helped. It was on one such mission that members of the Vanguard caught up to Shaw's 3-man team. In the fighting, Shaw was injured. Instead of helping him out, the other pair abandoned him with the assumption that Shaw was as good as dead and not wanting to martyr themselves. He turned up later in front of the airlock, bloodied but alive despite the odds, and after decontamination, determined to be clean of infection. It took a while before Shaw was able to go out again on scavenging missions, but he has continued doing his part in dutifully bringing back resources for the Hub.

A survivor now turned Traveler, Shaw was one of the 36 faces brought through from the Virus Timeline into the Bright Future. When the travelers were forced to flee into the next timeline, he was caught up in the Resistance efforts of those fighting the machines and machinations of the DoEA. After surviving the harrowing dimension where a great Flood nearly drowned the world, he's landed in the Prime timeline to start a new life with his chosen family and friends.

Psych Profile

Shaw is a man of eccentric, observant, cautious nature. It could come across as odd to most. Living through a desperate situation of facing an inevitable death has given him a dangerous emotion: Hope. He's got something to live for now, people he has come to trust, and will protect those things loyally. He might not understand as much about the new worlds as he ought, but the bright side has shown him there is so much more out there. He's eager to learn as much as he can about anything and everything. His folly may be that he trusts what others say more than he trusts his own thoughts, but innate survival instinct and intelligence will hopefully keep him alive and his wits about him as he learns to navigate through the uncertain future.

I'm not scared of the dark

I'm not running, running, running

No, I'm not afraid of the fall

I'm not scared, not at all

Why would a star, a star ever be afraid of the dark?

"Scared of the Dark", Lil Wayne & Ty Dolla $ign, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Appendices

Facts

Known to Most

• Prime: He lives at Yamagato Park with Isa and Namiko, currently an owner of Brenda's Bar in Sheepshead Bay. They have a small independent label of moonshine called WNK ("Wink" or Wesley, Namiko, Khan). He also works part-time as a courier delivering packages all through the Safe Zone and possibly beyond!
• Wasteland: Eve gave him one of her Desert Eagle pistols. He's got it on his person almost all the time along with a Beretta 92 pistol. Lose one and get two.
• Bright: Shaw's timeline doppelgänger is a home construction and flooring design man whose local TV commercial runs frequently. Let our flooring prices drop your jaw, call 1-800-YEE-SHAW!
• Virus: Shaw was in the Hub near the start of its establishment. He was a scavenger, scout, and handyman, and performed just about any task within his power to do if asked.
• Any: Shaw's non-material trading policy was well-known, where he would accept a good story, poems, songs, even a dance could suffice as payment. Of course, material items were also welcome.
• All: He. Loves. Waffles.

Known to Some

• Bright: Shaw operated under the alias Morris Morrison as a city courier and delivery driver. He doesn't work for any one company, but contracts services out and often times gets the job done quicker.
• Virus: His three-man scavenger team was ambushed by Vanguard members and while the two escaped. It took Shaw a bit longer to return to the Hub. He came back bloody, injured, but luckily uninfected. He was recovering in quarantine for a while and hasn't exactly been the same since. He's cagey about this event.

Known to Few

• All: The car crash that killed his parents and left him hospitalized for several weeks also resulted in some brain damage and thus is partly to blame for his being the way he is.
• Prime: His Prime alternate was recently freed during a Wolfhound op from being experimented on at the remnant of the Institute for nearly 9 years.
• ???: His uncle Faruq and aunt Dima were somehow involved with The Company.

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Relationships

The Prime

	Eanqa' - Phoenix. Isa is Shaw's guiding light and spirit of life that burns brightly, hotly, passionately, and pushes away the darkness. She is the Jessie to his James, the Bonnie to his Clyde. Without her, he might truly be lost.
	Ibnat - Daughter. Namiko isn't related by blood, but given Shaw's tendency to adopt his family, she's become part of it. She probably parents him more than he does her, though.
	Akhi - My Brother. By the strangest of circumstances has the man Shaw promised to love as his brother come to be. Many streams flow into one. Many paths within the garden.
	Okhti - My Sister. Just as with Mateo, Lynette's return has become something miraculous, full of wonder. Whichever version she is, Shaw embraces her as a sister.
	Elisabeth swooped down out of the void of space like a shooting star, and somehow is now by relation to Isa and Richard, also part of an extended family.
	The other of the travelers who is somehow also Isa's family. Though if he's real, Shaw's not entirely certain what Magnes is.

The Flock

	Shaw's immediate superior and owner of Pigeon Courier Services. Ever grateful for the work, and glad that Ande recognizes Shaw's freewheeling and somewhat eccentric mannerisms.
	Isaac Faulkner, the Friendly coworker. Also fellow trauma survivor of the PHARO project.
	Tibby Naidu, the Not So Friendly coworker. But maybe, eventually, possibly, they'll learn to get along.

The Hub

	Akhi - My Brother. Not even Shaw could precisely pinpoint at what point the nature of the bond with Ruiz and him slipped from friends to family. He was promised, Shaw will regard him as his brother in any timeline.
	Hamim - Close Friend. In the Qu'ran, a close and devoted friend is like the rain that falls after the intense desert heat, providing relief from the pressures and brutal situations. He admires her patience, strives to learn from her knowledge of the world, and thinks she looks good as a brunette too. He understands why she chose to stay behind.

The Bright

Okhti - My Sister. The Lynette whom Shaw knew from his original timeline was not like the Lynette he's come to know in from the Bright future. She is kind, caring, ever so patient (or at least more patient). She had known his double as the man who helped construct her house. Shaw hopes to continue this bonding experience. And with the children, Manuel and Evie, the family he's attached himself to is rather stuck with an uncle now.

Technically also a sister by way of being a part of the family with the Ruizes. There had been a mix-up somewhere, at some point, with the way she was. While he doesn't quite understand it, Shaw nevertheless has accepted Odessa as a part of the caretakers and protectors of their traveling group.

The Wasteland

	Ustaad - The teacher. Everybody appears to look to Eve as a defacto leader in the resistance. It stands to reason that she represents a learned mind for Shaw in this shaky, unstable period.
	Okhti? - Lynette in the Wasteland is a fearsome warrior without qualms of letting others know she resembles much of her storm-worthy powers. Definitely a scary type of older sister.

The Flood

	The woman Shaw wound up fighting in a pseudo-cage match. She was definitely the more skilled of the pair, but oddly fair.
	The only good teleporter he's ever encountered, let's be real. Miles technically saved Isabelle's and Shaw's lives in the Ark. For that he will be ever grateful.

The Lost

	Shaw's heart hurts for the loss of Lynette. The sharp words she had for him had spurred him to learn, to improve, to actively figure out the mysteries of people. It is a lesson he will not soon forget, even as she is gone.
	Though Shaw knew her mostly as the one with the dyed hair and Walkman, Peyton was never unkind to Shaw.

The Enemy

	The Huntress. Vör was part of the Vanguard, and in her service to Kazimir Volken, utilizing her teleportation power was a deadly enemy. Shaw had but a faint sense of relief when she was finally killed.
	The Huntress RETURNED, managed to steal him away for several weeks before his friends caught up.
	Once more the Huntress came into the lives of Isa and Shaw. A terrifying encounter inside the Ark left him physically scarred down his back with a sword slash.

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Logs

Aftermath Logs

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Icons

Virus	Bright	Wasteland	Flood	Prime
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PRIME	KITTY	COMPLIANT
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Miscellaneous

Gallery

Music

• Hamilton:An Americal Musical - Wait For It (Lyrics)

Life doesn't discriminate, between the sinners and the saints
It takes and it takes and it takes
And we keep living anyway
We rise and we fall and we break, and we make our mistakes
And if there's a reason I'm still alive
When everyone who loves me has died
I'm willing to wait for it
I'm willing to wait for it

• Sims - Burn It Down (Lyrics)

This window seat is loud in the city where
The weather is howling
Outside there’s wolves on prowl, in the
Belly growling
Me I’m just over the line, under the gun
Out of my mind
Everything in its right place
Watch me slice through the night
Race time and space alike
It’s mine to shape it, right?
Everyone stepping sideways to the
Cheapest sleight of hand
Play to your weakness, see the darkest side of man
And it’s up to you supply those hollow dreams
Or make your own Halloween
So how about that?
Off with their heads, make our own mask
Let’s howl on back

• The Lumineers - Nobody Knows (Lyrics)

Nobody knows how the story ends
Live the day, do what you can
This is only where it begins
Nobody knows how the story ends
Nobody knows how the story ends

Skills

Wheeled Transport	From bicycle courier and two-wheel scooters to motorcycles, standard passenger vehicles to commercial trucks to large delivery vans to an 18-wheeler truck. He learns to get around town. Learns from anybody who'll be brave enough to train him, but he seems to have a knack for it.
Water Transport	Someone let him behind the wheel, and then someone let him on the water. Getting from point A to point B via motorboat or sailboat is also something he's learning.
Scavenging	Quick and efficient in clearing areas, scavenging for useful resources is Shaw’s most practical skill learned from his time on the streets through present times.
Construction and General Carpentry	Having previously been handy around the Hub mostly through trial and error, now he learns more about construction and carpentry because his other self has this home construction and flooring installation business. A local TV commercial gives him unexpected recognizability. People ask him weird questions like about flooring choices and interior design, and he finds out he needs answers. So he learns how to do these things.
Jury-Rigging	He makes the most out of what he’s got, even when it’s very little. He likes to fiddle with things until they do what he’s envisioning them doing, and it might do the thing for a short moment. Then it might blow up, who knows. He’s not sure about it either, most of the time.
Scouting	Because scavenging rather requires extra awareness to avoid getting caught, he doubles up on being a lookout when he's on teams. Already quiet by nature, he's additionally stealthy when scouting.
Jammy Dodger	He's no well-trained fighter, just a dirty one. Hit-and-run, in-it-to-win-it, fight-for-your-life dirty. He's a go for the throat kind of guy, desperation driven for the most part when fists start flying.
Backup Sniper	He’s not much good in a fight, but he’s talented when given a long-range firearm. He just needs a good spot to camp in and a target.
Devil for the Details	Some people have trained their senses to recognize minutiae of things. Shaw’s main focus of training his ability was the exposure to varied stimuli, environments and other situations that would test and challenge his sensory capabilities. Even under negation, he continues this study.
Investigative Observation	He doesn’t have a photographic or supernaturally enhanced memory, but he retains information well in order to have a wide basis of comparison and be able to process and understand from multiple angles. His mental process is much like taking copious notes and filing them away. But it does take him a bit to find the right note, sometimes.
Languages	In his formative years, he grew up with Urdu and Arabic in the household. He speaks, reads and writes both at a level that’s native but not utterly fluent.
Lack-ademic Scholar	The tragedies of his life impeded much of his academic pursuits. Eventually obtained his TASC (GED) requirements. It took him a few tries. He also goes about learning as much as he can about pretty much anything that happens to catch his interest or attention at the time. The library is the best resource. He makes up for it with reading what he’s found where he can, but may have to ask someone to explain it so he can understand better. He’s particularly fond of philosophy and religion.

Alts

	Luther is the former Head of Physical Security at Raytech. He fought alongside extremist Pro-Evolved groups back during the Second Civil War, and has survived three nuclear level events over the course of his life.
	Cesar is a SESA field agent, formerly an NYPD Officer with a decade's worth of service behind the badge. He's doing his best to be the "good cop" when it comes to Evolved affairs. He is Non-Evolved but stands for the rights of the Evolved as much as an ally tries to. Find him around, he's probably working (or working out). Or finding some way to keep his ancient iPod full of music going.
	Marlowe is Director of Technology at Yamagato Industries, previously senior engineer but recently promoted. She was also in the Army Corps of Engineers. Her dreams to be Blasian Tony Stark are slowly coming around. Her matter manipulation ability and background of mechanical engineering are key factors of her skills, but she's also quite keen on that whole being well-off enough to just do whatever the F she wants - with a moral base, of course.
	Joaquin is a recent student of Brooklyn College and odd-jobber. His family were Ferrymen, and had been among those killed during the siege at Pollepel Island. He was a part of the group of Lighthouse Kids brought to Canada during the 2nd Civil War, but has since returned to live in the Safe Zone.