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HISTORY
PERSONALITY
APPEARANCE
ABILITIES

Stats

NAME. Talmai
AGE. 21
HEIGHT. 6'0"
HAIR. Black
EYES. Brown

Player

NAME. Chels
TIMEZONE. CST
PRONOUNS. she/her
PB. D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai

CODE

HISTORY

2182 — Talmai is born in containment, in an underground Project Cherub facility on the Texas-Mexico border, with his mother reportedly dying in the process.

2183 TO 2185 — Classified as viable: early neural scans show strong psychic resonance activity; his blood is identified as anomalous.

2191 — Ordered to eliminate defective nephilim, to "stress test" his psychic abilities and absorption capabilities.

2194 — Tal has his first overcharge event while being introduced to multiple kill subjects at once, triggering the formation of the Black Choir. He kills a handful of Project Cherub personnel before he escapes containment, but is eventually recaptured after an extended pursuit.

2196 — Second overcharge event. Tal kills numerous Project Cherub children to escape.

PERSONALITY

bitch

APPEARANCE

brb

ABILITIES

PSYCHIC ENERGY ABSORPTION

PERK: As a nephilim of Project Cherub, Tal's core ability allows him to absorb the memories, skills, and personality tics of anything he kills.

COST: PERSONALITY ECHOES come with a risk of inherited tics, compulsions, and fragments of identity that bleed into his own. Extended use leaves him fragmented, with "passengers" hitched to his mind.

PERK/COST: If he absorbs too many echoes at once, his psyche fractures, and he hits an involuntary OVERCHARGE state, briefly granting him psychic superhuman power at the cost of his stability or, potentially, his life or permanent identity loss.

While absorption without killing the subject is (reportedly) possible, Tal has not yet mastered that specific art.

SHARED ARSENAL

PERK: Tal's blood can be WEAPONIZED by nephilim capable of forging blood weapons (see: Nel, Sam). Each weapon stays alive and anchored to Tal's body in a psychic TETHER.

TETHERED RESONANCE

PERK: Force-feeding power through the tether, granting the weapon user a surge of buffs (accelerated healing, boosted reflexes, heightened perception).

COST: Every surge siphons energy from Tal's body. He feels every hit his weapon user makes or takes, absorbing their kills through the tether.

FEEDBACK LOOP

PERK/COST: Reversing the current of the tether, pulling energy back to Tal. He can also OVERLOAD the bond as a last resort (or on accident), killing his weapon user.

Comments

LORE: THE BLACK CHOIR.

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MANIFESTATION REPORT
SUBJECT: ██████ / TW-X
SECONDARY CLASSIFICATION: "BLACK CHOIR"

THE PHENOMENON DESIGNATED "BLACK CHOIR" IS THE UNCONTROLLED PSYCHIC EXTERNALIZATION OF ABSORBED CONSCIOUSNESSES WITHIN SUBJECT TW-X. WHILE FIELD IMPACT ON ALLIED AND HOSTILE PERSONNEL IS SEVERE, LONG-TERM OBSERVATION INDICATES THAT THE CHOIR IS PRIMARILY DESTRUCTIVE TO THE SUBJECT HIMSELF.

OBSERVED MANIFESTATIONS

• MIMETIC VOCALIZATION
  • VOICES REPLICATE THOSE OF KNOWN PERSONNEL, OFTEN RECENTLY DECEASED.
  • INDUCES HESITATION, DISORIENTATION, AND FATAL MISIDENTIFICATION IN COMBAT SCENARIOS.
• SILENT TRANSMISSION
  • AFFECTED PERSONNEL INSIST THEY HEAR COMMANDS INTERNALLY.
  • LONG-TERM EXPOSURE RESULTS IN PARANOIA, INTRUSIVE THOUGHT LOOPS, AND SUICIDAL IDEATION.
• VISUAL DISTORTIONS
  • SEMI-VISUAL MANIFESTATIONS OF FEATURELESS SILHOUETTES, REPORTED TO MOVE "OUT OF SYNC" WITH BASELINE REALITY.
• TECH INTERFERENCE
  • COMMUNICATION BLACKOUTS AND WEAPON MALFUNCTION IS COMMON WITHIN AFFECTED ZONES.
  • SUBJECT SOMETIMES TREATS DISTORTED RADIO STATIC AS IF IT WERE SPEECH DIRECTED AT HIM.
  • RESONANT INTERFERENCE APPEARS NOT AS A DELIBERATE WEAPON BUT AS A BYPRODUCT OF SUBJECT TW-X'S COLLAPSE.

SUMMARY

• THE CHOIR IS NON-LETHAL IN CONTAINMENT BUT PRODUCES CATASTROPHIC BATTLEFIELD INTERFERENCE.
• AFFECTED PERSONNEL DEMONSTRATE INCREASED FRIENDLY-FIRE INCIDENTS, DECREASED ACCURACY, AND DECREASED COMMAND RESPONSIVENESS.
• AVOID PROLONGED ENGAGEMENT WITHIN ACOUSTIC/VISUAL RANGE OF SUBJECT TW-X DURING CHOIR EVENTS.