Mole

Dan Rowley, also known by his alterego Mole, was a cybrid and founder of the Genetic Victims Society. While claiming himself a rights activist for the "genetically abused" was actually an anti-government and anti-human power supremacist who aided Zeroth in his goals of slowly infuriating and influencing the western governments during his recovery time. Much of the previous GVS members disbanded, being made to feel like they had been used and betrayed.

### **History**

Born in Boston in 1985 Dan's parents were one of the few who opted for early artificial insemination programmes conducted by PGI Research in Britain, and would later become a cybrid when he hit puberty.

Much of his early life before then was in fact a fairly average one for any Boston youth at the time; a member of his school's soccer team Dan excelled in the sport until he was 11 when his cybridism began slowly taking a hold; the first mutation was his sensitivity to light; this made it increasingly difficult for him to play soccer.

Like many potential cybrids Dan was covertly watched by government agents, in his case the NSA operative Margaret Brooke who was still working with the FBI at the time and was later assigned to handle Volt's recruitment with DHS agent Rodriguez and MI6 agent Stuart.

Margaret and her associates watched Dan from his early days of independence and when further cybrid abilities began to manifest by the time he was 12, Brooke came to him to avoid the boy entangling himself in criminal activities, however, already paranoid and reeling from the divorce of his parents, Dan ran away, living homeless for almost two months.

When found by the police, he accidently killed the officers, but was tasered and sedated and was quickly taken off of the hands of the police by Brooke who kept the boy in a secure compound until his parents could be notified, but the agents at the compound were used to handling hardened criminals and killers and treated the boy rough, leading to him being shot in the leg.

Contained further, the FBI and Homeland Security warned his parents that the boy was dangerous and that incarceration was perhaps the best place for him; faced with unbeatable odds and with the DHS not wanting to take it to court where cybrids would become fully public and draw further attention to the government, Dan agreed that he would hide his mutations.

For almost 7 years Dan tried to live a normal life under constant surveillance, taking college courses in political science, but the FBI nor later NSA would not help; even when he was mugged, and faced with a need to use his powers for self-defensive Dan didn't in case he was taken away once more, and the frustration and fury about what exactly his purpose in life was growing.

In truth the FBI had no choice but to keep him and other emerging cybrid on a normal life-course, at the time prisons like Tartarus had not yet been developed fully and to keep him locked away in a normal prison would cause their parents to speak out, damming the government and their homeland security agencies, something they didn't want in the wake of such a breach of ethics despite the creation of the first-generation of cybrid not actually being their fault.

When he was 18 he moved out of his mother's apartment quickly; his relationship with his parents had gone steadily downhill, and free of their restrictions, Dan found his life even more monitored, finding a bug in his apartment's phone. When Dan saved the life of a man being kidnapped, he was surprised that the FBI did nothing, and he wondered if they were even still watching; To test this theory Dan took on the role of a vigilante, using his powers to scour Boston's outskirts for criminal activity; and he apprehended 14 criminals that were all part of the same syndicate.

It was during a battle with a gang when Mole encountered Ox, who was being used as a living battering ram and to take cash machines, when faced with fighting the massive cybrid Mole actually decided to talk to him to try to understand his predicament; While distracted Homeland moved in. It was as Dan had suspected; the FBI were using Dan to take down the gang to get at Ox, however when Dan helped Ox escape, he led him to an underground safehouse.

TBC

### **Personality**

Mole was often a serious but charming man and was excellent at diverting attention, he was a natural public speaker, after eventually embracing his cybridism was unafraid of public speaking in lieu of his mutations.

### **Appearance**

Dan was a tall, well-muscled man with a wide jaw and short, cleanly-shaven hair; he later grew a short and neat beard and moustache. He usually wore sensible, everyday clothing and shoes, but on personal missions had a black and brown leather biker's outfit he wore for added protection.

Dan was known to wear small round sunglasses over his brown eyes with shielded sides or goggles due to his light blindness, and sometimes wore leather gloves; the tops of his hands and fingers were hairy and slightly gnarled due to the thick bones of his arms and hands.

He had a thick covering of hair over his back and arms, although it was no more than a particularly hairy man, this hair was fur-like and unlike the hair on his head.

### **Powers and abilities**

#### **Powers**

Dan was a first-generation cybrid with animal genes that seem to have come from some species of mole, these manifested during a puberty-based mutation which occurs to 95 percent of first-gen cybrids.

**Part-Talpidae Cybrid Physiology:** Dan developed a number of mole-like abilities and characteristics thanks to the mutation caused by his cytoplasmic hybridisation.

* ***Light sensitive vision:*** His eyes became adapted for underground sight, although in the dark they were just as average as a normal human's vision in the day, but had to wear shaded goggles or sunglasses during the day, even in cloudy conditions.

* ***Enhanced olfactory senses:*** He developed an incredibly sensitive and chemically accurate sense of smell way beyond the sensitivities of regular humans and even many other animals, letting him differentiate between a multitude of different scents at once and analyse their direction.
* ***Enhanced Touch:*** His sense of touch upon his hands and fingers enabled him to "see" what he felt and detect minuscule vibrations.

* ***Enhanced hearing:*** His hearing was also enhanced, although to a lesser degree than his senses of smell and touch.
* **Enhanced respiratory functions** His lungs could extract oxygen from environments with very little in it and could also naturally filter out various small particles of dust and dirt usually harmful for normal humans.

* ***Enhanced reflexes:*** Although not as graceful as some cybrid, had quicker reactions than the average human, enabling the edge in hand-to-hand combat.

* ***Enhanced strength:*** Mole had a degree of strength above the norm, particularly focused in his upper limbs and his hands, enabling to press almost 800lbs.
* ***Enhanced stamina*:** He was able to preform exercise and strenuous physical activity over twice the amount even the best athlete could manage.

* ***Retractable nail-claws:*** He could extend his nails into long talons between 5 and 6-inches long; these claws grow thick and brown and even when fully retracted take up a good portion of the tip of each finger and toe. He can quickly repair or regrow them, even if removed at the root and they were strong enough to scratch the surface of some forms of metal and concrete and so can easily pierce and gouge flesh.

#### **Abilities**

* **Natural combatant:** His increased reactions and senses enabled him to learn fighting skills with ease and become a highly-skilled combatant in a very short time.
* **Adept speaker:** He could rally and convince others to his cause with some degree of skill.
* **Aspiring politician:** Before his disappearance, he was learning the ropes of becoming more and more political.

### **Limitations and weaknesses**

Mole had some physical mutations that included thickened dark-brown brown nails, even when fully retracted, protruded at least half an inch from his finger, and had a layer of short hairy fur on his back and the top of his arms, hands and shoulders, forcing him to wear gloves when he was younger, although now fully embraces his mutations.

His light-sensitive eyes require him to wear protective goggles or sunglasses at all times, even in low-light cloudy daytime environments.

Dan hid a lot of his own resentment for the way he was treated by the government and secretly wished to form the GVS as a kind of army to stand up against the ill treatment of anyone considered "nonhuman", in particular he wanted to help hidden cybrid come out into the open, thusly thwarting the government's attempts at hiding cybrid from the public, originally not wanting a real war with 'normal' humans. However Zeroth easily turned his opinion to essentially became his pawn, starting riots as distractions whilst attempting to rile-up the growing altered-human and neohuman populations, Zeroth, recovering from coming back from the dead, had the idea of forcing governments to become totalitarian and then manipulate them to his whim.