Bora

Artyom Chernyshevsky was a Russian neohuman mercenary and ex-Spetznaz agent who eventually worked for Slava Rossii, his DNA was used to alter the members of the group but was later betrayed by them as a distraction so that Voin could hack the Pentagon from a computer store.

### **History**

Born in Moscow in 1981 Artyom was orphaned when he was 3 after his parents spiralling debt cos them their marriage and were eventually sentenced to prison for child endangerment and neglect, young Arty, however did surprisingly well growing up, while never adopted, was always an outside and street-wise boy.

When he was 10 he joined the newly-created Federation of Scouts of Russia through which he attained an interest in the military, eventually joining the army and the Special Forces.

However when he was 18 Art's neohuman powers manifested among several witnesses who saw him as a freak before he could finish his specialist training, but when the Kremlin tried to contact him, Artyom ran, eventually finding work in the rebels of Ukrainian Crimea as "Bora", where he focused more on using his powers than his army training. nevertheless he provided a problem for the Russian military as he actively began to help Ukraine.

After the establishment of the Slava Rossii program the Russian Federation promised they would expunge his betrayal of Russia to lead a team of superhumans, of which he would provide vital neo DNA.

While he was always suspicious of Russia's intentions and never trusted the Kremlin, he couldn't resist the money offer and joined their operation; some of his first missions were to retake parts of the Crimea region he helped defend during his deserting of Spetznaz whilst Nestor Kuznetsov and Theodor Lind preformed months of extreme alterations to their team, and he did so surprisingly well, though during this time he was often disobedient and generally fowl-tempered and disrespectful, something the Kremlin took note of often.

By the time Slava Rossi was ready as a battle-ready team the Kremlin made the decision to make Sergei Grekov aka Voin Rossii's leader for his new abilities, exceptional performance in their tests and incredible resistance to what was essentially torture during his alteration process.

This angered Bora greatly as he classified himself as the leader, and saw himself in far superior lieu of the ‘broken’ alts that made up the team whose powers would regularly falter.

While Artyom claimed he *was* an ex-Spetznaz agent, he was usurped by the Kremlin with the alt Voin who told Bora that they could find no record of his time in any Spetsnaz outfit in the 80’s and 90’s, but Arty claimed the Kremlin had erased his service history because of his neonisity, Bora grew a bitter rivalry with Voin, but willing to take second-place Bora eventually held his tongue.

During a spying mission in the United States in 2015 Bora and Voin clashed and he caused havoc to a mall outside of Washington, this drew the attention of VALER during their early formation who had been made aware of a group of spies in the States thanks to intel by Drath and Robin. This, however was a ploy by Voin to draw VALER's attention away from his mission in accessing a computer in a computer store to hack the Pentagon, by the time the Drath and the CIA had traced the hack, the VALER HQ was attacked by the other Slava Rossii members and Voin was gone with valuable information. Although VALER had arrested Bora who was eventually sent to the Tartarus facility and headed to the HQ to help Anri and Robin fend off Rossii, the others, however got away.

### **Appearance**

Artyom was a tall but round-faced man, originally relatively well-built, he gained weight during his time as a mercenary as he seemed to rely on the use of his powers more than physical combat. He had light brown hair and eventually grew a beard that began showing flecks of white that Voin said made him look like Santa when he wore a red outfit.

### **Personality**

Chernyshevsky was known for his rebellious nature, bad-attitude and general contempt of authority figures, but was easily swayed by money and held no loyalty with sides, friends or romantic interests. He found doing things quick and easy to his liking and eventually even became rusty at physical combat, marksmanship and tactical skills that he previously began to excel at during his time in the army.

### **Powers and Abilities**

#### **Powers**

Bora was a neohuman who was born with a series of n-genes or neones that manifested when he was 18 during his time in the early special forces.

**Cryo-Atmokinesis:** Bora possessed the ability to create and manipulate cold weather in a verity of ways, while this ability was limited to negative temperature weather, mostly over cold air and atmospheric moisture, his power could cover large areas and from long distances.

* **Ice, Snow and Frozen Fog Creation:** He could create and direct snowflakes and ice crystals form atmospheric water at will, creating snowstorms, fogs of suspended ice crystals, blasts of ice shards or huge lumps of hail that can have devastating affects on various forms of matter.
	+ **Razorsnow:** He learned to enhance each snowflake he created and caused them to spin and attain a saw-like cutting motion capable of cutting through some forms of soft matter like wood and skin.
	+ **Icicle Projectiles:** He could create sharp icicles from atmospheric moisture that he could rain down upon a target area or propel in a direction like bullets to deadly degrees.
* **Freezing Rain/Fog:** He can create supercooled clouds of moisture droplets of varying sizes, or supercool existing cloud formations, letting him generate heavy rain to a fine mist, which instantly turns to ice upon contact with objects.
* **Freezing Air Manipulation:** He can lower the temperature of the air around him and control it's direction and movement at will, letting him form different effects.
	+ **Freezing Windblasts:** He can create focused blasts of intense freezing air that have both kinetic impact and freezing properties, freezing and throwing projectiles like bullets.
	+ **Ice Tornados:** He can create swirling updrafts of cold air that suck moisture from an environment and create and propel deadly shards of ice at high speed, creating devastating mass destruction.
	+ **Tactile Cryo-Aerokinesis:** He could simulate enhanced strength and durability by increasing the pressure around his body in a similar manner to his flight, though he had to concentrate to sustain it, the effect also created a layer of dense ice over his skin and clothes as armour.
	+ **Aerokinetic Flight:** Despite his weight gain Bora can still effectively fly by altering the pressures around his body to generate lift, although admits he is not particularly fast or agile, reaching around 70-80 mph

* **Negative Temperature Resistance**: He possessed a near-total resistance to extremely cold temperatures and their negative affects on his body.

#### **Abilities**

**Unarmed Combat**: He gained years of experience and fighting skills in the army but became lazy and self-centred during his time as a mercenary and became very rusty, to the point where he could be beaten in unarmed combat by all of his team members. Although he did later begin to re-establish his skills, was sent to Tartarus before he could prove himself once more.

**Marksmanship**: He was sufficient enough at the use of rifles and guns despite his rusty army training to survive in the wold by hunting animals without using his powers.

### **Limitations and Weaknesses**

While Bora was powerful, his laziness and self-centred nature meant that during his time as a mercenary he found quick and easy ways of making money or even stealing food, this made the tactics and skills he previously learned in the army rusty and lacking over the years.

Arty can be blunt, tactless, lazy, self-centred, entitled easily-ignited and prone to disobedience.