Jonathan "Courier" Holme

### Dislikes

People insulting them as "Bad Batch", people trying too hard to recruit him away from Unit 9, the Martyrdom, people disturbing his sleep

## Magic

### Gate Quantity/Quality/Output

B/B/B (Latent)

**Jonathan** **H. Holme**, alias "Courier" is a member of the Snake Tong's Unit 9, the Bad Batch, and a former victim of the Martyrdom's experimentations in the hands of their Ordinators. His body have organic, half cyborg, he is the only one with the enhanced reflexes to constantly handle the **"Courier 6"**, a highly dangerous prototype bike filled with magical enchantments and tech. The ever pragmatic rider of the Bad Batch, expect to see him as the advanced scout, or the one chasing foes with his steed of steel.

## Background

Jonathan was orphaned at a young age, the circumstances of it are unknown and Jonathan never got to know the true fate of his parents. Whether they died or simply disappeared from his life, he was never told. Instead of having a normal childhood, Jonathan was raised in an orphanage run by the Martyrdom in a sleepy town in the United States. This orphanage wasn't big, neither was it prominent to the public, but it functioned as a church, school for the occupants and dorms for the children. There rarely was any adoption from it weirdly, the only kids who were adopted were those that just arrived. The rest that stayed for longer. Jonathan was the oldest in the orphanage during his time, since soon after he arrived, most of the older kids left for other horizons. The rest were taught many things. How to defend themselves, the grace of God, prayers and basic education. It was still quite stressful due to the pressure the strict teachers were putting on the students. They wanted Jonathan and the rest to be the best they could and pushed the kids to their limits. Due to that, Jonathan picked an habit of leaving the orphanage to buy cigarettes and hang out in town to relax from his life. He somehow managed to keep it a secret from the Sisters and Priest by bribing the other kids with candies. It kept him from a burnout at least. Jonathan, the older brother of the group was protective toward the younger kids and played with them often. He was somewhat cold toward the sisters and priest, already having a cool persona but toward the children, he was very affectionate.

However under that normal looking orphanage, was an Ordinator base that used the children as experiments to further upgrade the Martyrdom's technology. Each child was slowly turned into a sort of cybernetic-enhanced human when their teenage years ended. Soon enough, it was Jonathan's turn. Due to actually wanting the children to stay alive as future human weapons for the Martyrdom, the cybernetic changes were made over a long period time. However some died during the experiments, even with Ordinators' technology it was still dangerous. Everyday Courier feared that he could no longer be breathing . One day, when they were experimenting on his right arm, the Orphanage was attacked by the Unit 9. The faction of Ordinators who were against cybernetics sent a hit on the cybernetics operation (although they would deny this publicly), and the Shiai-shi took the job. Jonathan was rescued by Cap and Isa before the Ordinators could hide the cybernetics on his arm. Jonathan and the children that were left were taken in by the Shiai-shi. Naturally most were sent for training or sent somewhere to live normal lives, but Jonathan insisted on working for the Unit 9. His insistence got him into the Bad Batch. And as the most advanced cybernetically enhanced of the group was given the prototype bike after showing how his cyborg body could reach inhuman levels. Jonathan, with his new codename of "Courier" due to his great delivering abilities with the bike, quickly got used to the Bad Batch, and for the first time in his life found people he could call family.

## Personality

"Courier" is the opposite of Cap, despite the both of them being best friends. Where Cap is an easy going idealist, Courier is the cold blooded realist. Which seems to make the both of them often butt heads about the direction a mission should go. Courier prioritizes efficiency over everything while Cap prefers to take the least risks for the unit. Despite them fighting very often about such thing, it mostly stays polite. As soon as voices are raised, it wakes up Isa who goes into immediate bear hug. Despite everything their relationship can be summarized to "Fuck you and I'll see you tomorrow." Because Courier is actually extremely grateful to Cap and the rest of the enforcement unit. Despite them being called a Bad Batch, he prioritized joining them over any other units. Even over the Valkyries (who proposed sexual favors but that's another story). The fact that they saved him back in the US made him owe his life to the Unit.

Courier quickly got accustomed to the antics of the group, often being experimented on by Grim and being bear hugged by Isa. Isa actually played a big part in Courier's rescue, and as such the cold man couldn't help but develop some feelings for her. Though due to his entirely aloof and clueless nature he hasn't realised it. Courier has been rather popular for his looks to women in the organization, and even some men, but like a dense protagonist from a romance anime, he is so clueless and every hint of flirtation flies past him. Very obvious sexual advances never fazed him. Courier, no matter what, stays levelheaded and does his job as he is told. It's actually what his friends tell him all the time, "always finish a job properly". His cool persona as someone that was trained to be a perfect tool for the Martyrdom makes of him a perfect person for dangerous jobs.

Despite being more of a calm person compared to the normal person. Courier isn't so much a man of a few words. He talks as much as the normal person, able to engage in discussions. Especially when it's about bikes. Although it started due to the prototypehe was handed, Courier quickly grew fond of bikes. He finds it a very useful mean of locomotion and he asked Grim to teach him more about magical crafting and technology so that he could perform his own maintenance on his bike. That along with the knowledge he has from the church makes him a seasoned mechanic. Also, there is another part of Courier outside of his normal cool self. Due to being taught only how to fight using his weapons and body, Courier has slight yandere tendencies. He is protective of Unit 9, even though his strategies and battle plans always even some risks. He trusts the fighting capacities of his teammates and even without Cap, he could act like a good leader for the team. But if anyone touches them, they will have to pay one way or the other.

Courier has some bad habits which his fellow squadmates often tells him off on, to no avail. For one, he has always been a smoker. In his teenage years it's been one of the rare sources of relief he was able to get from all the experimentation done on him. The habit he picked up in secret is now close to an addiction as he smokes between 5 to 10 cigarettes a day. They are hardly anything magical except that they are specifically prepared by the Snake Tong to have less toxic effects on the lungs and other parts. Courier also has a tendency to become a workaholic. He just get into jobs after jobs with little rest because he doesn't know much except for that. If he is not careful, he could stay up for 3 days straight because he is doing odd jobs left and right. He personally despises the name of Bad Batch since a "bad batch" back in the Ordinator lab meant a lot of children were going to be put to death as failures of the experiment.

## Abilities

"Courier" possesses latent circuits of good quality but doesn't actually have proper magic training, until joining Unit 9. The man is a cyborg thanks to experiments by the Martyrdom's Ordinators who were trying to further enhance the cybernetics of the church who has one of the best technology in the world. His cybernetic improvements aren't all too obvious despite making up most of his body, only his right arm, which was in the middle of being concealed when he was saved, is visibly cybernetic. He is somewhat versed in hand-to-hand combat to the point where, when coupled with his cybernetic improvements, He can defensively fight against opponents who are superhuman to an extent. His cybernetics enhancements are a bunch of Artifacts notably his eyes who may not look like it but are able to change his vision like binoculars or others. It also serves to increase his firearms accuracy by being his own scope. Courier is more an expert in firearms than hand-to-hand so he prefers to keep his distance and rely on his many mystic codes. One of such is blades that extend out of his arms or he can launch "rocket punches" with his hands. Due to being cybernetics from the Martyrdom, most of the hardware in his body is suited to fight against undead like vampires. Courier still has superior computing power and technological advantage compared to most robots, thanks to the Ordinator tech on his body. He is one of the rare person to be able to endure a full on Isa bear hug thanks to his cybernetics.

    **"Courier 6"**

Courier 6 is the sixth version of an experimental Magic Motorcycle, and was given to Courier. This bike can be controlled through his cybernetics so he controls it silently as if it was a part of his body. It is a bike filled to the brim with tech and magical equipment. It was designed as a prototype , but would be too hard to control without cybernetic reflexes, so Courier is the only one with a copy. The bike possesses a notable anti-gravity enchantment which allows it to float and glide a few feet above ground. Other gadgets includes hooks to both attack and to maneuver around difficult spaces, wheels that transforms to be able to stick to any surfaces, enabling it to drive on walls. Different magical weaponry make up its arsenal, combined with UI and screens to calculate magical energy level, lock onto targets and send messages. The strongest weaponry of the bike is achieved by concentrating and converting all the magical energy to a sort of canon on the front. The magical energy is converted into plasma beam laser strong enough to slice a building in half. It is a bit of an overkill weapon made for dire situations. But he can at most shoot it twice in a row, using it a third time would deplete the magical energy of the bike and render it unusable for at least an hour. Unless replenished by using it's electricity converter.

**Other Equipment**

As an agent of the Snake Tong, Courier is armed with the standard Snake Key, a balisong variant, and the standard issue suit for magical and physical protection. He also wears the standard issue Shroud Tie mask, colored black and covering his entire face since his enhanced eyes can see through it as if there was no obstruction in the first place, causing him to be an intimidating faceless opponent.