Caitlyn Steele

"So weak. It's like you don't exist."

**Caitlyn Steele** is an employee of CABAL Labs and a former Handyman employed by Aegis PMC. During her tenure as a Handyman, she held the Named title of "**White Noise**".

## Profile

#### Early Years

After leaving the Nest by volunteering as a member of its armed forces, Caitlyn was dispatched overseas to the Ruins immediately after completing basic training. As she was initially adverse to violence, she enlisted as a combat medic and was given basic medical training coupled with a brief primer on both armed and unarmed engagement. It wasn't until after her second deployment in Sector 4 of the Ruins that she began to grow fond of combat, even endangering herself and leaving her post in order to engage the enemy despite her role as a support officer.

Following a series of events which resulted in her dispatching two enemy battalions solo, Caitlyn was discharged from the military after being cited for mental instability. In truth, the military and the Nest simply did not want to deal with the emergence of another war hero as a result of Caitlyn's actions coupled with the positive reputation she had gained for herself in the rear lines. Seeing as she was discharged despite her hard work, this left Caitlyn bitter even as she sought out work as a Handyman.

#### Becoming a Handyman

Due to her exemplary combat performance, becoming a Handyman posed no problems for her. She was quickly scouted and recruited by Aegis PMC, the Federation's leading Handyman management company. Upon her initial assessment, Caitlyn was given the designation of a Rank 3 Handyman by both the company and Lycoris. As acquiring such a high rank immediately after registration had been previously unheard of, Caitlyn immediately attracted quite a lot of attention, both positive and negative.

After completing several difficult missions that she had been assigned, including a solo suppression of a Studiose Glutton, Caitlyn's rank quickly increased until she became the youngest ever Handyman to be officially recognized as a Rank 1 Handyman by Lycoris. Because of this, resentment and jealously quickly festered within the global Handyman community, directed toward both her and Aegis PMC due to the company's increased profits thanks to Caitlyn's legendary feats.

As a result, Aegis PMC was forced to regularize the situation through their Damage Control Department after being issued a notice directly from the Head. In an attempt to follow the Head's directive despite not wanting to simply kill one of their best Handymen, Aegis PMC issued Caitlyn an executive solo mission which forced her to suppress the Red Silence, a Laute Glutton that had been left alone in the outskirts of the Federation for quite some time due to its extreme danger.

In truth, this was meant to force Caitlyn's resignation. However, she accepted the mission without a second thought. It was only after she returned twelve days later and covered in wounds that she understood what Aegis PMC had sought to do. Unfortunately for Aegis PMC, the returned Caitlyn could no longer be disposed of easily thanks to the suppression of the Red Silence having awoken her Id, making it impossible for anyone other than a Named to defeat her. Understanding the situation, Lycoris quickly elevated Caitlyn's rank to that of a Named and then placed her under the direct command of the Head, making it impossible for a management company to lay claim to her.

#### CABAL Labs

Following the Head's decision, Caitlyn understood that she would simply be given increasingly difficult and ridiculous missions from Lycoris until she was inevitably killed in one. As a result, she preemptively resigned from duty as a Handyman after securing a job at CABAL Labs as the medical department head. Since then, she has continued to serve as the authority on medical and security matters at the company.

## Appearance

Caitlyn stands at an average height and is by no means physically imposing. With light brown hair that flutters just beneath her shapely shoulders and a modest yet well-chiseled figure, she generally pays little to no attention toward her own appearance. Generally, Caitlyn opts to wear the uniform of whatever company she is currently employed by, making it easy for her to rush toward sudden work calls or attend meetings. However, after becoming a Named, she wears the medal that Lycoris offered to her upon her appointment with pride, boasting it as proof of her accomplishments and having been such a great threat that even the Head began to worry about her strength.

## Personality

Abrasive and rude, Caitlyn is a tough individual to cooperate with, especially given her propensity for violence when things don't go her way. However, she harbors great loyalty toward those that she respects and will stop at nothing to ensure that they remain free to pursue their dreams. Despite her attitude, she is actually quite intelligent and a master at quick decision making, something honed from her countless years of live combat experience.

## Abilities and Powers

* **Superhuman Strength:** After acquiring her Id, Caitlyn Steele's strength surpasses even that of multiple Rank 1 Handymen. Coupled with her training, she has reached levels where she can casually level entire buildings with a mere swing of her hand.
* **Superhuman Endurance:** Even before acquiring her Id, Caitlyn was an individual who could withstand incredible amounts of pain and punishment. Even when her body was impaled by multiple weapons and penetrated by several bullets, she was capable of fighting with little to no issues. After having acquired her Id, her natural resilience has increased thousandfold. Regular anti-materiel rounds cannot penetrate her skin and directed energy shots dissipate upon contact. It is possible that she would be able to survive a direct attack from a nuclear weapon.
* **Organ Refinement:** During her training process, Caitlyn managed to perfect the once-lost technique of organ refinement, causing her to become immune to poisons or other detrimental chemicals.
* **Causality Resistance:** Due to repeated overexposure to KE Resonance and managing to survive the ordeal, Caitlyn has developed an innate resistance to KE Resonance as well as the space-time continuum itself, becoming resistant to causality. Because of this, it is possible for her to produce effects without a cause solely through desire or even ignore causality entirely, allowing her to completely overwrite events that should have happened so long as her existential weight outweighs the event.

### Id

Caitlyn's Id is an external-type Id known as "Martial Void" and manifests itself as a suit of white armor that seems to waver in space like liquid. While her Id is manifested, anything that comes into contact with the armor is immediately subjected to dimensional lethargy, causing it to separate itself from its conceptual identity. While this has no direct harmful effect on the affected entity, something that has been conceptually separated from itself is no longer itself. In other words, it loses its existential weight and any *causa sui* properties that it would have (e.g. an entity that is invincible because its invincibility is a central part of its existence loses that invincibility).

## Trivia

* Her favorite food is Korean fried chicken.