Vector

Oscar O'Shea was an Irish alt who was to be the last experiment of Dr Alistair Crowe before he left Black Labs alive, he later learned to hone the power given to him by Crowe's experimentation, though it somewhat cost him a portion of his sanity, would use it to become one of the most dangerous assassins in the world, working for IRA fanatic Agent Ira, The Guild and other more sinister corporations such as the now-defunct SHADO.

### **History**

Originally born in the town of Tralee in Southern Ireland in 1985, Oscar's parents divorced when he was 12 and his father Paddy moved to Belfast, taking Oscar with him, however Paddy was a drinker, and was not kind to the boy; Oscar ended up bullied by his new schoolmates on the streets, where he learned to defend himself.

When he was 16, Oscar ran away, with no place to go and hate in his heart, Oscar began wanting to join the IRA, not least to get back at both his father and his bullies. By 2007 Oscar was an IRA member, but when one of his team members, notably John McCabe who had become a best friend of Oscar during his time, turned out to be a spy for the UK government, Oscar went to personally hunt him down, despite orders otherwise.

Oscar ended up killing McCabe's wife and unborn daughter, but was then himself hunted by the IRA who were working on a disarmament campaign and becoming more political and as such Oscar had become a wildcard and an issue for the IRA.

When Alistair Crowe found him near the house of a monetary contact in 2001 he was near-dead with a serious head injury, he took him back to Black Labs quickly with the soul purpose of using him as an experiment; Crowe, testing on his cells a pre-developed version of what eventually became the blood substitute amadan, and several other genetic modifications to his cells that kept him alive, as well as to aid in his later insertion of The Vector, a tiny artificial mezzite that was fused to a bone-based microchip housing, and inserted into Oscar's neocortex during the brain surgery that saved his life.

When the healing process begun, a combination of the amadan and cellular acceptance mods, Oscar's brain began successfully interacting with the chip, and when subjected to various frequencies of energy, the Vector began activating; this entire process took months during which time Oscar's mental stability degraded.

In early 2002 Oscar disappeared, teleporting out of the Labs and to his old, now unoccupied childhood home in Tralee and he remained there until estate agents came round to sell the house.

In the late end of February of 2002 Oscar encountered the mercenary Black Clover who was working for an IRA sub-group The Ire, led by the mysterious woman known as Agent Ira, whose goal it was to prevent the disarmament of the IRA, but when The Ire were shut down Black Clover began working for The Guild's Irish Wolfhound faction.

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### **Personality**

Before his alteration by Crowe, Oscar was a brooding and rebellious boy, he could focused on one thing intently that almost nothing distracted him, however this made him somewhat obsessive, and he hated leaving open ends and unfinished missions.

After The Vector was implanted in his brain, and was subject to further alterations and various wavelengths of energy, Oscar's personality slipped into something more sinister, though he had many of his old traits, including his brooding nature and focused attitude, became reckless and thrill-seeking, often endangering his own life just for the thrill; it is said that adrenaline, as well as alcohol, helps stop the headaches that sometimes occur due to his implant fluctuating.

### **Appearance**

Oscar is a well-muscled, tall man with long, brownish-red hair that he usually ties into a ponytail; this hair is loosely curled, spiralling naturally when loose and forms ringlets when tied. He has a beard that decorates his jaw and displays more reddish hair than his head, he has brown eyes that sometimes display a slight purple tint and faint freckles on his cheeks and bridge of his nose. He often wears the colour purple, and dresses in hoodies and combat trousers. On missions he usually wears an all-in-one outfit designed to protect him whilst being light and flexible.

### **Powers and abilities**

#### **Powers:**

**The Vector:** Oscar was implanted with an advanced techno-organic crystalline device created by Dr Alistair Crowe known by Crowe as The Vector. It was essentially an apparently non-functioning mezzite just over an inch long, dark purple oblong with rounded edges. The crystal had somewhat of a history with it; originally stolen from a dead magi who was part of the House of Seasons in the 60's, Crowe was put in charge of trying to understand it's energy. When he came across Oscar and noticing his severe head wound, Crowe immediately had an idea and took Oscar back to the Labs where he not only saved his life, but inserted the Vector and altered his cells; Crowe mapped the subatomic lattice of the crystal and attached it to a series of nanoscopic iron channels within an artificial bone microchip and attached this to the inside of his skull under his neocortex. After subjecting him to over four weeks of energy research, Oscar developed superhuman abilities. The successful channelling of the mezzite's properties without the use of magic nor apparently 'activating' the spirit within the stone, opened up new ideas about the capabilities of other mezzites.

* **Teleportation:** Oscar's bonding with The Vector gave him the ability to access a regimented molecular copy of what was the original mezzite's properties; the ability to teleport or 'vector' through space at will; This ability was difficult to control at first and required him to see or at least strongly know where he is going, but the teleportation also had affects of it's own. He can teleport extremely quickly in quick succession, making it look like there are briefly several of him in one area. He can also take objects and people with him, though the affect is jarring for others and may induce confusion, nausea and vomiting.
	+ **Kinetic Vector Redirection:** Any momentum and kinetic energy occurring to his body at the time of entering a vector is displaced with his appearance at his exit point; if traveling at great speed and he teleports, his vector will redirect that energy away from his body; not only does this allow Vector to appear at his location perfectly still, if he has a degree of momentum before he teleports he can exit a vector and release his built-up energy in a shockwave, this protects him and can damage nearby matter. Oscar has learned to finely control this ability, allowing him to choose when to or not to redirect his previous momentum and allowing him to retain momentum for longer-distance teleportation-jumping.
	+ **Temporarily Enhanced Agility and Reflexes:** Oscar found out that his neurokinetic activity functions quicker directly after an exit from a vector for at least a minute afterwards, and claims after the first second of appearing at a target location, the world appears to be moving in super-slow motion briefly.
	+ **Temporarily Accelerated Healing:** Another unusual effect of his teleportation is that he seems to heal faster for a few seconds briefly before he teleports, while this effect is only subtle, it is enough to fix light fractures and seal minor wounds and may be linked to an increase of adrenal chemicals.

#### **Abilities:**

**Highly Skilled Combatant:** He has been trained in various hand-to-hand and knife-fighting styles and guerrilla warfare during his time in the IRA.

**Stealth** **and Espionage Tactics:** He has learned to move quietly whilst being very aware of his environment and any obstacles and enemies in the field.

**Swordsmanship:** He learned to use short swords and daggers whilst in contact with Black Clover and is known for his preferred twin wakizachi or daggers; he also learned how to maintain their sharpness.

**Marksmanship:** He is highly skilled in the use and maintenance and repair of various firearms.

**Chemistry Knowledge:** He is adept at making various explosives, compounds and chemicals.

**Tracking and** **Hunting Skills:** He has learned to become extremely efficient at hunting down and tracking people or whatever is required to be found.

### **Skills and Equipment**

**Combat suit:** A simple leather-looking experimental suit created by Ira whilst researching new types of lightweight armour for The Ire, made of non-Newtonian fabrics his suit is designed to be highly resistant to damage, dissipating to kinetic energy and hard impacts and yet light and flexible at all times.

**Twin Wakizashi:** Two short Japanese blades he got hold of during a weapons shipment job, they have purple and white wraps and are extremely sharp, honed to a highly deadly degree. These are his go-to weapons and uses them often, strapping them to a x-shaped back holster. These were destroyed after an assassination attempt on Volt and has since been using kukri knives.

**Twin Bi Shou:** He also possesses two smaller Chinese daggers that he stole from a Tsang shipment in Dublin, though admits these are mainly just a collection.

**Twin Tactical Kukri:** After losing his wakizashi, Oscar now seems to prefer the use of these Indian machete-like weapons as part of a stolen Tsang shipment.

**Combat Knife:** A military-grade tactical and survival combat blade.

**Various Firearms:** He owns various pistols, an AKM assault rifle, an AG-3 and an RPG-7.

**Grenades:** Oscar has several types of explosives, from plastic C4, to manufactured and home-made pipe bombs.

### **Limitations and Weaknesses**

**Bipolar Disorder:** Oscar's sanity can sometimes fluctuate from merry to downright murderous; though usually he keeps himself busy and stable, admits that action, excitement and adventure helps sate his rage.

**Slight Vector Instability:** The device bonded to his cortex can sometimes fluctuate, causing random headaches that vary between easily ignorable to extreme migraines strong enough to bed him for days; though the later are extremely rare, has been known to ease the pain through various drugs such as alcohol, cannabis and the production of adrenaline. However as of yet this seems to be a relatively minor issue and haven't affected his powers.

**Nightmares:** Oscar believes The Vector gives him strange dreams, sleep paralysis and nightmarish visions regularly.