Elias Ward

:"We have a connection. I see what she sees. When you're 80 feet tall, you see a lot." - Elias on his relationship with the plant.
Elias Apollo Ward, also known as Solaris while on the job, is the 28th agent of the UNWD. He is used mostly on jobs that require surveillance and scouting, as he has a psychic connection with a giant sunflower.
==Character==
===Appearance===
Elias has tan skin and long gold hair pulled into a wavy ponytail. He has green eyes and dark freckles. His usual UNWD uniform consists of brown and green armour with a sunflower seed pattern on the breast. His armour is designed to protect him from his secondary ability:
* Brown 'legwarmer'-like plating can be activated remotely via the NEST, becoming extremely heavy.
* His arms are enclosed in translucent durable sleeves that can encapsule his hands and inflate, both protecting him and others.
* His mouth is covered by a grate that prevents biting.
He also wears a thick visor that allows him to project images viewed by the plant. His build is slight but muscular and he is fairly tall.
===Personality===
Generally amicable, Elias is an inquisitive type who's often up for a challenge. Friendly but slightly cynical in a sarcastic kind of way, he loves to spar verbally with other agents and engage in back-and-forth battles of wordplay and wit. A tough teammate, but a fair one, with little time for lone wolves or glory-seekers.
He is also known to be extremely responsible and cautious, rarely wanting to act without seeing the entire picture. He gets fretful and frustrated if denied full knowledge of a situation and will always champion communication and honesty as the crucial part of any team or friendship.
===Skills & Abilities===
Elias has a psychic connection with an anomalous specimen of Helianthus, an 80-foot tall sunflower. As the plant's location shifts and varies, he has full surveillance of any area within view of the enormous plant. Using the psychic link, Elias can also both predict and, to an extent, manipulate, the directions of the plant's movement.
If the plant is under serious attack, Elias will shut down and operate solely on the instinct to protect the plant. During these periods he has demonstrated extreme strength and agility, capable of throwing large vehicles out of the way and evading attempts to restrain him as he beelines towards the plant's location. His body will also ignore injuries sustained during this period, with reports saying he has run on a broken leg, with fractured ribs and a dislocated shoulder, with very little sign of impedement. Once the threat to the plant is neutralised, Elias gradually regains mental function over the course of 1-2 hours.
The plant's stem is remarkably durable despite only measuring around a 5ft diameter, which should by all means not support the plant's massive size, and is resistant to most conventional weaponry, so a 'threat' usually constitutes some form of fire, acid or explosives. Due to Elias's violent 'juggernaut response', the UNWD has (without Elias's knowledge) fitted hidden explosive devices at the plant's base to trigger this state and use him as a 'human bulldozer'. There are also protocol regarding how to weaponise his juggernaut response during missions, with allies directed to steer foes into his path to let him take care of them (as steering Elias in this state has proven to be near-impossible).
Aside from these abilities, he is very intelligent and has an acute eye for detail. He's also an adept survivalist, having been a fully-decorated member of the Couresbury Condor Scouts for five years.
==History==
Elias was born in Couresbury, UK. He had no connection to the plant until the age of 23, and had a fairly rough time up until then, having extreme difficulties with education and being removed from the Couresbury Condor Scouts after fighting with another member. He initially encountered the giant sunflower during a meteor storm while he was drunk in a wheat field, establishing the connection.
The experience of seeing life from 80 feet in the air bestowed Elias with a sense of 'vertigo, and then humility', and after much vomiting, he became a park ranger in a nearby stretch of woodland. This went well, with the vantage point of the plant's vision allowing Elias to guide lost guests with ease, but a few years in a group of campers started a wildfire from an unattended campsite. Elias's juggernaut response was activated and in the ensuing chaos he:
* Effortlessly tossed a fallen oak off a family of deer;
* Choke-slammed a bear;
* Left a human-shaped hole in a dense thorn hedge, creating a path for other fleeing guests;
* Traversed a lake;
* Scaled a 20-foot 90-degree slate ledge;
* Knocked out a wolf with a nerve pinch, saving a young boy and his father who were being pursued by the animal;
* Passed through several walls of flame, extinguishing some with his soaked clothing;
In order to reach the plant's location near the opposite end of the park. The other rangers and fire services succeeded in putting the fire out, and Elias's superhuman feats gained him massive recognition (despite his acts of heroism being the result of his single-minded path to the plant). After talking to several specialists, he was approached by the UNWD and enlisted for mostly scouting and surveillance-based duty.
The UNWD has since made adjustments to Elias - going under the codename Solaris when on duty - 's uniform, with both the safety of himself and his fellow agents in mind.
==Trivia==
* According to Elias, the plant has not 'spoken' and possesses no human-like cognitive function, but is aware and intelligent to some extent. He has described the communication between them as 'alien, electrical, animal', and that the only methods it has used are through images/shared vision and 'impulses, like screams' when under attack.
Category:UNWD
Category:Superhumans
Category:Psychics
Category:Humans
Category:Heroes
Category:Males