Terry Akers

*- Akers' twisted believe in one of his audio logs, further spiraling into madness.*

*- Terry presumably towards the player when giving chase, as well being one of his cut dialogue lines.*

## Character Overview:

### Alias:

Boss
Akers
Mr. Akers
The Head Diver
The Maniac Man
The Mindcoral Puppet
The Proxy

### Occupation:

Chief Factor PATHOS-II Scientist.
Occupant Servant for the WAU.
(Both Formerly)

### Powers/Skills:

High-Intelligence
Manipulation
Superhuman Speed
Superhuman Durability
Superhuman Stamina
Superhuman Endurance
Superhuman Persistence
Superhuman Strength
Immense Stealth
Pain Tolerance
Technology Knowledge
Heightened Sense Of Hearing
Skilled Human Senses

### Goals:

Purposefully Mutate himself.
Kill Maggie's Diver team.
Kill Brandon Wan.
Kill anyone nearby or forcibly mutate them.
(All Succeeded)
Kill the rest of Theta's crew.
Kill Simon Jarrett.
(Both Failed)

### Hobby:

Playing chess.
Photography.
Working at PATHOS-II.
Consuming Structure Gel.
(All prior to his mutation)
Killing People.

### Crimes:

Mass Murder
Homicide
Torture
Mutilation
Psychological Abuse
Assault & Battery
Stalking
Vandalism
Trespassing
Property Damage
Theft
Hacking
Blackmail
Kidnapping By Proxy
Harassment
Breaking And Entering

### Type of Villain:

Brutish Mastermind

**Terry Akers** is a major antagonist and deuteragonist in the psychological survival horror game *SOMA**.*

He was a very respected scientist working at an underwater scientific facility known as PATHOS-II, when he willingly offered to stay behind instead of move working areas, he eventually lost his sanity and became an entirely different person where he constantly consumed "Structure Gel", a vicious infectious disease which was know for drastically changing a person physically. Later, when Simon Jarrett (The Player) meets him, he's an incredibly mutated and hostile man, even then it's implied he's still smart enough and aware of what he's done and will willingly continue to murder those who cross him. His true human appearance, past personality, and most of his background is a complete pure mystery. Simon Jarrett can find various voice recordings of what was left of Akers mental sanity, many of which further imply how Akers purposefully wanted himself infected.

While in his semi-sane state with his audio logs, he is voiced by Brian Protheroe.

## Appearance:

Akers, due to the WAU infection, is highly disfigured and eyeless. He has highly mutated arms, hand-like appendages across his body, and a recognizable face with exposed eye sockets, though other features such as the nose and mouth have long since shrunken away.

Much of his body is encrusted in bulbous, cancerous growths, where his skin is visible at all, it is discolored and leathery. Many Growths resembling a third arm and third foot protrude from his upper and lower abdomen, and a single large gash cleaves through the front of his head and torso, making Akers appear vertically bisected. His limbs are visibly deformed, and the scans found in the medical room reveal a twisted, misshapen skeletal structure of his entire bone system.

Despite his emaciated appearance, Akers is monstrously athletic and powerful, able to smash through heavy doors and to easily outrun and overpower Simon, and is shown to easily pick up a person easily and even mutilate them with pure ease.

## Biography:

Not much is known about Akers' past and history, other than he is an older man, whose accent indicates that he would be from what is today known as the Southern United States via his audio recordings. He is one of the oldest people at Delta, if not the entirety of PATHOS-II, being 66. While Akers' true human appearance is never seen, both light and dark skin can be seen on his mutated form, which give an idea as to what his skin tone could've been.

He seemed to have a stable working relationship with the Delta crew, with them usually respecting him due to his age and position. He seems to have played a lot of chess while off of work (Simon can even find various chess tables at Theta, where Akers' had beat an AI opponent over 1,000 times), one of the games provided on the PATHOS-II computer network, with Javid Goya saying he's never going to play chess with Akers ever again due to how skilled he is at it. He continued playing chess when the Delta crew were relocated to Theta, likely what he did most of the time during his isolation at Delta, with one of the terminals revealing he had won 1,000 games against the computer opponent before leaving for Theta.

Akers also seems to have been an avid photographer, as evidenced by the pictures of various corals and other marine life plastered on the walls of his office at Delta.

On August 14, 2103, fearing the growing threat of the WAU and the site's general state of deterioration, the rest of the site's crew relocated to Theta. After being told by Dorian Cronsted that he couldn't keep his position as Chief Factor, Akers willingly stayed behind.

Sometime during the period of isolation that followed he began ingesting large amounts of structure gel, undergoing a brief period of reconstruction and plummeting into insanity. In one intense psychotic episode, Akers heard a voice telling him that he did not need his eyes to see; this voice, coupled with gel-induced light sensitivity, convinced him to remove his own eyes.

On January 15, 2104, Akers called Theta claiming that he wanted to relocate as his crew did months prior. Theta dispatch technician Peter Strasky, pleasantly surprised at this request, informed Akers of a team of divers (Maggie Komorebi and Shawn Evans among others) who were in the area, and directed the team to the site to retrieve him. Akers ambushed them upon arrival, overpowering the entire party and cutting off their communications before they could warn Theta. Akers' viciously and violently murdered, and mutilated the entire team leaving no trace of them left.

As the Zeppelin was preparing to leave Delta, Terry Akers recorded a transmission on one of the Zeppelin transmitters, in which he talks, presumably to the WAU, about the peaceful, derelict state of Delta and elaborates more on his plans to go to Theta to "tuck them in" and "watch them sleep".

Theta's crew later spotted the Zeppelin near their complex. Finding Akers disfigured and in a comatose within the vessel, they unwittingly brought him to the site's medical ward. The on-site doctor (Nadine Masters) took several scans and performed an examination, and started writing a report on her office terminal declaring that, due to the heavy mutation and gel infestation ravaging his body, he was unlikely to ever awaken. Akers', from the unexpected scans, rose from the examination table in consciousness, and bashed in her skull before she finished her paperwork; Simon later finds her body slumped in her chair, bled out to death before anyone could reach in time.

The details of the ensuing battle between Akers and the remaining humans on Theta are unclear, but it appears to have been fairly one-sided. Several Proxies teamed up with Akers, created either by the WAU or by Akers himself (or even both). Though a report by John Strohmeier claims the crew were able to kill one, the decision was made to evacuate the remaining staff to Omicron. Eventually, Brandon Wan deliberately trapped himself in the laboratory level with Akers by sabotaging the elevator, allowing the other survivors to escape to the basement, Simon later finds his rotten corpse in the panel control room, where Wan bled out to death due to Akers' vicious attacks.

### Behaviour In-Game:

Terry Akers will shamble around aimlessly, making shrieks and gurgles at random times. He cannot see Simon, but can easily hear anything he does, and can also open doors easily. Due to his increased sense of hearing, the slightest noises, even the faint clicking of the Simon's flashlight, is enough to get Akers' attention. This means Simon must stealthily crouch-walk the entire time when in Theta.

When Akers is out of the Simon's view, he can then be heard shifting through the vents, and will escape these vents near Simon if he hears any kind of sound or after enough time has passed by. This means Simon must be silent even when Akers is not even seen. He searches more aggressively once the power to Theta is shut down.

After losing the DUNBAT vessel to the WAU at Theta, Simon decides to head to Omicron and search it for an alternate method of transportation to the Abyss. He first needs to use the elevator near the laboratories to escape the complex, but Akers is roaming through the area, and when Simon does reach the elevator he finds its connector chip missing. With Akers stalking him through the halls, he manages to find the chip on Brandon Wan's corpse in one of the nearby rooms and format it, returning to the elevator and repairing it. Akers rushes to investigate as the elevator activates, but Simon narrowly escapes as the doors close.

Akers later catches Simon off guard in Theta's maintenance level, capturing him and temporarily knocking him unconscious, wrapping his body in mind coral and wandering away. (Several re-animated people in Theta appear to have received similar treatment, all moaning and unconscious.) Simon later awakens and breaks free without much difficulty.

Akers makes one final appearance following Simon's escape through Theta maintenance. After Simon activates the drainage system, he backtracks to find that Akers has followed him, but both are swept away by a flood of seawater as Akers attempts to chase after Simon. Akers' bashed-in corpse can be seen once Simon exits the drainage system, Akers' skull and overall the rest of his head can be seen with a huge crack in the left side, Akers bleeds out and dies once after this.

## Trivia:

* There are similar enemies in the game known as "proxies", which are blind but have an increased sense of hearing. Though Akers is technically a proxy himself through behavior, Akers is the strongest, most dangerous variant.

## Gallery:

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