Met Freitas

Met Freitas is a boisterous, battle-hungry, and powerful mercenary superhuman. He is the younger brother of Michael Carlowe. He is first introduced during the MC's infiltration of S.I.N's initiation and - depending on the player's decisions - can become a powerful ally or enemy agent of S.I.N

## Background

### Origins

Met is the youngest son of the feared and highly skilled mercenary and assassin couple Raph and Ur Carlowe. His father was obsessed with physical strength and determined to raise his children to be as physically powerful as possible, convinced that being "strong" was the ultimate reason for being. Therefore Met was raised from birth with harsh physical training and a cutting edge drug regime; though his experience was noticeably softer than his elder brother Michael's experiences. Since his parents were close to other prominent families like the Aldermans and the Milikens, Met grew up knowing both Alice Alderman and Tiffany Miliken.

Met loved his family but held his older brother Michael in particular awe, keenly aware that his brother was an unequaled combat prodigy. When Met was 10 and Michael was 13, Raph Carlowe made the decision to send Michael to live alone with no resources in the Sector 23 Wastelands; a war-torn area suffering terrible deprivation. He was to either survive alone for a year, or kill the local warlord of whatever town/settlement he was dropped in. All to teach Michael the meaning of "True Strength". Raph gave him nothing but a year's supply of Human Augmentation Drugs and a few weapons. Michael succeeds and seemingly thrives on the experience so Raph decided to make both Met and Gabe go through the same experience together when they reached the age of 13. As it can time for them to go, the two boys desperately pleaded for Michael to convince their father not to send them. Michael - in the throes of his Human Augmentation drug addiction - refuses, telling them that the experience (and the drugs) will be good for them. Gabe is later killed during his trial and this creates a rift in the Carlowe family. Met never forgave his family and particularly his brother for abandoning him and Gabe. He changes his last name and stops taking the Human Augmentation Drug; though the drugs had already ensured that he developed to near peak human physicality.

Like Michael and his father before him, Met both serves in the clandestine armed forces and in various mercenary groups. By the beginning of the game he is a seasoned and deadly solider, well versed in all types of combat operations and with various weapons and tactics. Around the same time as the MC first becomes a Superhuman, Met is working as a mercenary with the Steel Hook Brotherhood. The mercenary company is attacked by an M59: Leigong that kills almost the entire group. Met is severely injured but is one of the few survivors of the attack and is infected by monster, surviving to ascend into a Superhuman.

He rapidly adjusted to his powers and took work as a mercenary rogue superhuman. His exact activities during this are unknown but he does not respond to H.E.R.O.'s declaration that all Superhumans need to register with the government and continues his rogue activities. He also does not directly take S.I.N offer of joining by inscribing Zara's mark on himself. At some point however, the strain of being a solo superhuman seems to have been enough for him to reach out to S.I.N for help. He is asked to join and invited to their induction ceremony. Where he is first introduced into the story.

### Twins Arc

Met is first introduced during the MC's infiltration of the S.I.N induction ceremony as Nathan Foxglove. He seems to be in a boisterous mood and apologizes for making a loud entrance before quickly introducing himself to Rina Mori and "Nathan". He quickly probes the two's experiences before moving off to meet other new recruits. The MC can later find him excitedly talking to Charlie Leicht and inquiring about her brother Oscar Leicht, who Met was apparently close with. He's saddened to hear about Oscar's death and asks whether Charlie needs help avenging the matter. He then suggests he could look out for Charlie but is cursorily rebuffed by her saying that she was much stronger than him. Met is unsure but likes the attitude displayed regardless and agrees to the idea of talking orders form Charlie if he joins S.I.N. He meets back up with Rina and "Nathan" as the ceremony starts and is relatively indifferent to Langdon Wilson's speech. However he is immediately enamored when Eisheth takes the stage and is even more excited when Langdon explains the tournament system S.I.N uses to sort its Agents' pay rates and positions. All the recruits are then teleported deeper into the mansion to begin the tournament. Met easily defeats his first opponent before beginning to roam the mansion's halls.

*----------------- Plot Divergence - Not Fighting in the Tournament-------------------*

If the MC chooses to crash out of the tournament to go spy, he lets Rina Mori defeat him. Met then defeats Rina immediately afterwards before defeating multiple other opponents. He is the confronted by Evander Moon and the two engage in a massive clash that ends with them both taking each other out of the fight - leaving Devana Moon as a last woman standing and the winner of the tournament.

*------------------- Plot Divergence - Fighting in the Tournament-----------------------*

If the MC chooses to fight in the tournament, he teams up with Rina Mori after she fails to kill him. Met ambushes the two and takes out Rina and on seeing who exactly he had attacked, he offers to partner up with "Nathan" till they were the last fighters. If the MC refuses, Met's lightning attacks reveal that he isn't "Nathan", leading Zack Zaman to restart the time loop after warning the MC not to directly fight Met. The MC and Met team up and continue to explore the manor and eventually get involved in a grand melee. Met rapidly takes out several fighters before focusing his attentions on a Superconductive Superhuman with magnetism powers. The Superconductive Superhuman proves immune to lightening but Met shows some creativity and instead floods him with his charge. He is the able to bodily manipulate the superhuman since he can manipulate any object he charges. He uses this ability to literally tear the Superhuman in two, ending the fight. Eventually the MC, Met, and the Moon Twins are the last fighters and face off against each other on the roof of the mansion. Devana decides to test the duo by trapping them in her created bomb chains. Met immediately jumps into his lightning form to escape and attacks Evander. He decides to focus on Evander but is unable to do any significant damage with his physical attacks Thinking quickly he switches to energy attacks, unleashing the enormous amounts of electric charge in his body into a devastating lightning blast. Evander counters with his own "Breakdown" attack. The two collide head on in a massive explosion that collapses the roof of the manor - coincidentally providing an easy way for the MC to take himself out - and severely injures the both of them. Due to their injures both Met and Evander are considered defeated and Hex returns them to Briar's healing garden.

*------------------------------------ Plot Divergence Ends-----------------------------------*

Briar quickly heals Met and Evander and two quickly jump back to posture at one another. Devana is then crowned the winner of the tournament before the party to welcome the newcomers begins. Met browses around the party, meeting a few other people. He meets Jared Wilson and is immediately disgusted by him. Before the actual induction begins, the MC has the option to tell Met and Rina about what the induction actually entails. Depending on the player's decisions Met either goes through the induction or tries to leave with the MC. If the MC doesnt tell him Met goes through the induction as normal and becomes a member of S.I.N.

If the MC does tell Met and Rina about the induction, they both ask to leave the ceremony with the MC. Langdon agrees and Shen Haoran escorts the three superhumans away from the ceremony. While being escorted out by Shen, Eisheth stops the group and asks them why they are "leaving her". Her mood swings violently, and she quickly dismisses Shen before advancing on the party to kill Rina, who Eisheth accuses of "seducing" the others. She is interrupted by Nico breaking into the dimension, and in that moment of distraction, both the MC and Met immediately attack only to be instantly smashed away into the ballroom floor. Met is critically injured but Rina is able to conceal and drag him away. It is unknown how but Met and Rina are able to get out of the dimension.

A little while later, Met and Rina Mori can be seen at Shopkeep's shop in the mall to get Rina new glasses. They are discussing preparing a big mission.

Regardless of the MC's choices, Met and Rina Mori accept an assignment from the Aldain Syndicate and Dietz Aldain to kill Alice Alderman and Michael Carlowe, both for vengeance for the death of Klaus Aldain and to further the Syndicate's rebuilding efforts.

## Powers and Abilities

Met received his powers from the M59: Leigong that attacked the Steel Hook Brotherhood. He was one of the few survivors of the attack.

### Human Abilities

Met is a battle-hardened veteran mercenary. He was also raised in an environment of constant physical and combat training. This combined with a Human Augmentation Drugs regimen from his early teens has made him the absolute peak of human physical capability. Presumably like Michael, he has received training in multiple martial arts forms, weapons handling, explosives, demolition and so on. Unlike Michael who uses anything on hand, Met shows a clear preference for physical brawling with fists.

### General Superhuman Abilities

As with most superhumans with physically presenting powers, Met's body is enormously durable. He is able to shrug off an assault by multiple lower level superhumans and seems generally unafraid of direct physical confrontation. He is also now significantly stronger and faster than a baseline human and has the standard suit of superhuman senses and enhancements. He is also very good at discerning opposing Superhuman power levels; he was easily able to tell that the MC - even hidden as "Nathan" - was much more powerful than he seemed.

### Level 3 Abilities

*Note: While it is not confirmed in-game, Met is assumed to be a Level 3 Superhuman. He was both unfazed by Cole Yun's display of power and the MC questions whether he might be a level 3 as well. His ability to take on swathes of lower level superhumans with ease also implies significant power disparities between him and rest. Given that Level 3 is usually where such a disparity develops this wiki will continue under that assumption.*

Met's power is called Controlled Charge. At it's base level. Met's body builds up electrical charge which he can then use in a variety of different ways. He can feed it into any electrically conductive objects (including people) and then move them around. For example, he charged the roof detritus from his battle with Evander to place it under his control before using this control to hurl it at Evander. He can also electrocute organic bodies by channeling his charge into them. According to Met its more energy efficient to keep the charge he builds within himself to augment his physical abilities. It also makes his attacks extra dangerous since anyone he touches (or touches him) is instantly electrocuted. The charge also seems to protect him from Supernatural powers; his arm wasn't destroyed on impacting Evander's destruction field. He can discharge the built-up energy as extremely powerful and destructive bolts of lightning but it is very energy inefficient to do compared to his other abilities.

Like Tiffany Miliken he can also transform into an energy form. He can transform into and move about as a lightning bolt. In this state he is as fast as a lightning bolt and almost completely invulnerable to damage but it requires significant energy to maintain. His most powerful attack involves building up and using all the charge he can to transform into and strike as a massive lightning bolt. He calls this attack the "Lightning Dragon".

## Relationships

### **Klaus Aldain**

Met expressed that he liked Klaus although he wasn't friends with him but he was nice enough.