Bug

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## Biography

### Travis Cody: 1969 - 1987

Long before this colorful hacker became "the Bug", he was young boy named Travis. The son of a strict (and controversial) government agent and his wife, Travis was not a happy child. He often argued with his dad over the militaristic structure of their home life and his dad's aversion to music.

During his senior year, Travis dropped out of high school, unable to take living with his family anymore. Travis lived on the streets for several months, aimless and alone. Until he was nearly killed in the intrinsic explosion of Manhattan when an overpass collapsed on top of him.

### Bug: 1987 - 2004

Travis awoke six weeks later from a coma with severe spinal damage. Unable to walk or care for himself for several years, Bug had to go back to living with his parents. Though Bug stayed in his parents' home for the time being, he was determined not to let his parents affect his independence.

Convincing his mother to buy him a computer and provided him with internet access, Travis began socializing through online chatrooms and forums — in addition to other computer activites, such as gaming. When he was healed enough to move about on his own, Travis eagerly moved out — but agreed to stay in Star City in exchange for his mother providing him with his own apartment.

As part of the agreement made with his mother for the residence, Travis would need to pay his own utility costs and pay a portion of the rent. This required Travis to get a job. He spent several years "daylighting" as a barista at a S.C. Jitters internet café in Star City's Avalon Heights. Travis's main source of income became his work as a hacker. Travis became both a whitehat hacker testing and developing information security for corporations (using the handle Paradox420) and a hacktivist out to make the world a better place.

When Travis was 32, his parents died in a traffic accident. Rather than live in the house he had so many negative feelings toward, Travis sold his parents' house and bought a second house — well, a houseboat which he fittingly titled the Plan B.

With so much disposable income from his inheritance, Travis found little pressure to continue much of his whitehat work. Instead, he focused on his hacktivism. He became so engrossed in this lifestyle that he ceased to think of himself as Travis and became almost exclusively known as "Bug" by those that knew him. Though this work, Bug would befriend a teenage boy in his neighborhood named Michael Marks. Michael had parental difficulties that reminded Bug of his own traumatic childhood. As Bug took a shine to the boy, Michael would soon become Bug's apprentice, learning to become a full-fledged hacker and aiding Bug in his crusade against various government and corporate oppressors.

Hacking several military networks and leaking classified documents, the pair got caught. Rather than allow Bug to serve a lengthy prison sentence, Michael took the blame for the offense — claiming he had used Bug's equipment without Bug's knowledge or consent. As a minor with rich parents, including a lawyer father, Michael would be sentenced to little more than community service.

While Michael did community service, Bug got on his houseboat and skipped town, working his way up and down the coast. In exchange for Michael taking the blame, Bug left the keys to his apartment to his young friend, which contained all the equipment and data needed to resume Bug's whitehat career - thereby giving Michael the means to escape from his own abusive home environment.

### Bug: 2004 - 2015

Bug lived off-the-grid for eleven years before a request from his buddy brought him back to Star City. At the rendezvous, Bug was shocked to find two women waiting for him. When he asked about Mike, the taller woman said she was Mike. Though shocked, Bug quickly embraced his old friend, congratulating her on becoming her own woman. Bug then got to offering his services and houseboat to help his friend out — he was thereby pulled into a conspiracy that would forever change his life.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **World-Class Hacker:** Bug is an incredibly skilled hacker. Though he has had considerable commercial success marketing his skills, he prefers to use his skills for what he considers noble endeavors. He is also a world-class computer programmer and computer engineer.
* **Boating:** Bug is well known in the use, piloting, care, and maintenance of his houseboat and other common watercraft.
* **Disguise:** Bug claims to be a master of disguise.
* **Investigation:** Bug considers himself an expert internet sleuth and conspiracy theorist. He has made significant connections in fields related to investigative endeavors.
* **Linguistics:** Bug has a good head for linguistic patterns. This makes him an excellent encrypter, and gives him incredible insight into decryption. Furthermore, Bug is multilingual. In addiction to English, Bug speaks Spanish, French, Italian, and most other romance languages — calling them the "language(s) of love."
* **Pop Culture:** Bug is well-versed in a number of facets of popular culture. Though "Bug does not do fanboy" — he is a hardcore herophile, an avid fan of foreign cinema, and a diehard meta-music fan (his favorites acts being Hex Girls, the Clash at Demonhead, and Scare Tactics — though he does seem to be listening to Sex Bob-Omb a lot recently).
* **Subterfuge:** Bug has proven himself capable of living off the grid for long periods of time, becoming an untraceable ghost for all intents and purposes. He can this travel from one country to another without leaving paper trail that connects to him. The exact methods used by Bug remain unknown. Accordingly, he has a number of shady connections to go a long with these skills.
* **Technical Savvy:** Bug is familiar with high-tech gadgetry and cutting edge technology. Furthermore, he has connections in both government and private sectors that are willing to let Bug get his hands on various prototypes or restricted hardware.

### Weaknesses

* **Bad Back:** Bug has difficulty with certain physical activity due to his old spinal injury.
* **Drug Abuse:** Bus is (mostly) clean now, but he has a history of substance abuse that has left his mind a little fried. He can quickly develop new addictions.
* **Paranoid:** Bug lives in constant conscern of "the Man" coming to get him.
* **Socially Awkward:** Bug has a habit of not properly filtering his thoughts from his words. Bug routinely puts his foot in his mouth. While this makes him endearing to his loved ones, it often unsettles strangers.
* **Vice — Lust:** Bug regards himself as something of a classy ladies' man, a make love, not war" type and a total "lover-and-not-a-fighter." Bug has also spent way too much time on the internet and has been exposed to a lot of perverse sexual imagery, which he has trouble unseeing and can quickly revisit at the mention of related topics.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 1 — Paltry / Below Average
* **Occult:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Weaponry:** 1 — Paltry / Below Average
* **Expertise:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Ranged:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Strategy:** 2 — Basic / Typical
	+ **TOTAL:** 23
	+ **RANKING:** Minimal Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### General

* Nomi used his apartment, equipment and credentials to sell her services as a white hat hacker to various Fortune 500 companies, testing their security measures for profit. She also read some of his philosophical books.
* He is friends with Amanita Caplan, Lorin Hammon, and Chad Fuller
* He usually spends christmas with his "Virts" - online community of his friends.
	+ The virts consists of: P3RPL3X, R0B0T0, WH1Z, W41FU, CH4R4D3, DRB4D455, 4L4AK4Z4AM, J3ST3R, F4WKES, FR46MEN7, AND PETUNIAS4EVER.

### Expanded Personal Details

* **Blood Type:** A-
* **Zodiac Sign:** Taurus
* **Spiritual Paradigm:** Eldritch (Agnostic)

### Personal Preferences

* **Film:** "Justice League: Dawn of Justice"
* **Actor:** Lito Rodriguez
* **Song:** "Earth, Wind, Fire, and Air"
* **Hobby:** Online Gaming (Sentries of the Last Cosmos)

### Notes

* Bug is a character from the Netflix series *Sense8*.
* His appearance is based on the actor Michael X. Sommers, who portrayed him in the show.
* He's a composite character with Travis Cody, an ally of the Animal Man. In the TV show Bug's real name is unknown.

## Links and References

* Appearances of Bug

1. ↑ Network Files: Bug
2. ↑ Network Files: Nomi Marks 1
3. ↑ VOX Box: Holiday Special 4