Jayden "Blackout" Ross

Prince Jayden "Blackout" Ross, son of King Ursaryan Jiamen Ross and Queen Pierna Rothsengal, is the third and least sociable one of the Gular Royals. Seventeen years old and a senior in Marevine Exchange School, Jayden is the second-best is one of the top students and second-best of the Gular Royals, very narrowly being beaten out in intellectual knowledge by Melani but compensating with far more trivia-based knowledge and a greater expertise in bionics, engineering, and firearms in exchange for his ignorance in nuclear chemistry.

Jayden is also know by his Custom Suit Warrior alias, Blackout\*. Blackout is perhaps the single exception to the Custom Suit Warriors, being much more specialized about capitalization and compensation as opposed to overall balance and synergy. Whereas all the other Royal Knights had specially tailored abilities granted that also meshed well with their style and strengths, there was also a balancing factor of understanding and application knowledge. For the Gamma Mistakes, their tailoring was self-made, and treatment of balance was similar to that of the Royal Knights. In the case of Blackout, having more of less the mishmash creation & nanotech-based abilities of both Daniel "Data Zero" Ford and Dmitri "Mindkeeper/Xenomorph" Malekovelitch is such a powerful asset and understandable tool to give him, but because of his weaknesses in close-combat and lacking in quick-response options when needing ways to buy time, Blackout was also made about as invincible as Xenomorph, with certain specialized exceptions unique to Mindkeeper himself. Consequently, Blackout is seemingly the most difficult to kill in all of the CSW, and theoretically should have joined Ichento "Kinexus VIIR" Mercacio and Adaline "Vanguardia" Hunt among the ranks of the surviving Custom Suit Warriors.

Unfortunately, in *Code of Life*, his assumed immortality, combined with his (justifiably) ego-driven & stressed intellect, was what nearly undid him and his CSW comrades during what would later be called the Hunter's Massacre, and, in a last-ditch effort to buy time, aid escape, and perhaps even take someone down along with him, Jayden blows himself up after lining himself with counter-Beta coated fake Blackout armor and launching himself at Temptress and Huntress, quickly reprogramming Blackout as an AI with his backup mind copy in it to rush Viko and Esta to safety. He becomes the first of the Beta Survivalist Organization's Youth Officers to die in *Code of Life*, and starts the trend of killing off many beloved *Gen New* characters and even some hailing from *The Hidden Genome*. In total (chronologically), the pinball effect of Jayden's mistake in this one scene costs the lives of:

1. Metea "Metalla" Kyger, by defending against the attacks of multiple Ichor clones at once, as well as Plundergrave, before ultimately being melted by a spell from Huntress
2. Evel "Genemetal" Garcier, by being bent, broken, and ripped partially apart by Plundergrave, before very loosely reassembling herself and dying shortly after escaping, then being reduced to nothing but frozen particles by Raiko "Crimsicle" Harrows
3. Dmitri "Mindkeeper/Xenomorph" Malekovelitch, by the wounds he received attempting to protect the children and refugees from all three Hunters, primarily from Huntress and Plundergrave but the killing blow being dealt by Temptress' trident, before ultimately dying in Delanor's arms after downloading himself into the schematic of the original Xenomorph suit (updated, of course) and passing it and the Blackout Gridbot left behind by Jayden on to Jeven
4. Grajin "Gemdragon" Enticorium, turning into a pile of gemstones after his Lifestone Pact with Dmitri is nullified by the latter's death
5. The entire remaining force of 6 Havok members, being decimated and destroyed in an effort to defend the escapees of the Hunter's Massacre from the appeared Hunters who tracked them here
6. Isibel "Bella Braunz" Quinapiec & Drew "Minos" Melanas, being the only captured survivors of Havok and dying by being eaten bottom up & split in half while Minos(top-bottom) and hung to bleed out, respectively.

Melani "Organic Intelligence (O.I.)" Evasen experiences a terrified flashback (from Temptress' taunting) to when Jayden dies as she is about to confront and ultimately cure Temptress of her powers, with this moment of hesitancy leading to her demise via puncturing of chest followed by decapitation. Dyvone "Lycenion" Indurial dies himself due to yet another sacrifice play in the name of both avenging Melani and acting in her wishes to save those who mattered, claiming that she saw her better do it and would have done the same if presented with the situation. As both characters would likely not have suffered this fate without Jayden's mistake, it can be said that his actions cost them their lives as well, thus giving the grand total of 16 people dying by Jayden's reckless actions as co-captain of the CSW Royal Knights Subdivision.

\*Blackout is a name picked in reference to the ignorance of others, even with access to information, to the point that there could be a blackout and nothing would change about people's stupidity, which he finds infuriating