Daedalus

Daedalus is a powerful rogue cape operating in Brockton Bay and the founding member of The Royal Guard. They are generally considered to be among the most diverse parahumans and most powerful tinkers on Earth Bet and have even been theorised to be related to Dragon, though both vehemently deny this.

## Personality

Daedalus is dispassionate and uncaring about the lives of others, and often described as a sociopath, though this is untrue. They expressed a tendency towards sadism and enjoyed causing harm to those they viewed as 'persona non grata'. They were a highly capable planner and strategist, being able to adapt in combat and adjust on the fly.

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## Appearance

### Civilian

Ozymandias stands tall for their age, approaching 5'9". They are fond of suits and formal clothing, often producing their own tailored clothing enhanced with tinkertech materials. They have short black hair, which is often kept slicked back so as not to get in the way, though they have been known to wear it loose when damp. Their expression is mostly cool and flat, though they can show emotion when necessary. Fair skin, high cheekbones, a straight nose, and subtly curved lips contribute to a perception of innocence and charismatic confidence.

### Cape

When Ozymandias goes out as a cape, they only do enough to conceal their face, often being seen in their same suit and a concealing tinkertech spartan helmet.

## Abilities and Powers

Daedalus is a powerful Tinker, whose abilities make them coveted as an asset and fearsome as an enemy. They are capable of building a wide range of gadgets in theoretically every tinker specialisation, with one massive caveat. The gadgets must be perfected in every aspect and can only be used by them or extensions of them. Apart from this, so long as they can perfect the technology, they can build anything. Their sheer versatility makes them one of the most dangerous tinkers on Earth Bet.

This status was achieved after only a few months of activity when it became evident that they could build and develop faster than could be kept up with. Daedalus is able to alter Corona Pollentias and has done so once through surgery on themselves, expanding their powers to what they are now from what they have described as a 'shrivelled, anaemic thing of a power'. As an extension of their desire for perfection, they often create gadgets and items that synergise well with other parahuman powers.

In general, Daedalus synergises well with other tinkers, elevating and enhancing their work. This is likely because their perfection specialisation is universal, extending to tinker tech as well as most other areas. In this way, Daedalus is much like Accord, seeking order and flawlessness in all things. They find working with imperfect tools and peopl irritating and slow, and have, on occasion, simply rebuilt tools from scratch and killed people because they were 'imperfect'.

Tinker Creations

### Body Augmentation

Daedalus has modified themself extensively, having gone so far as to upload their consciousness to a simulated superspace and converting their mind into a godlike digital intelligence. Their main body is a sexless human analogue patterned after their original body

subdermal mesh, reinforced more around the spine, organs, and major arteries, causing them to be much tougher than regular humans. The added protection was powerful enough to even allow members of the Nine to take shots from a sniper rifle. More recently, she installed artificial neurons into the Nine that were able to stay hidden from Cherish's emotion senses.

Bonesaw herself is considerably more augmented. Her body is reinforced like the rest of the Nine, and she has redundant organs, able to function even with her heart pierced. She has numerous contingencies in the event of grievous bodily damage, including a prehensile spine that effectively serves as a third arm when exposed. Her prehensile spine has the ability to extend needles, which can interface with another victim's spine through the mouth to pilot that person's body. She can turn off the pain she felt through an internal 'switch', and is immune to most diseases, venoms, and allergens.

Among her various tricks is her ability to deploy poisons from vents in her body, alongside mechanical traps and needles that can spring out on command. She is also loaded with lethal, potentially epidemic-causing plagues that are set to release into the air upon her potential death. She has capsules in her teeth that she can break to release and spit acid from her mouth. In the case of Master influence on her mind, she has a berserker mode that will automatically activate.

After Bonesaw reformed, Panacea removed everything Bonesaw had implanted into her body. Panacea did not turn off the pain while she was doing this, presumably to make sure she did not miss anything she was removing and because she was still wary of a potential relapse.

has two powers which are mutually reinforcing; firstly the ability to sense powers and secondly the ability to possess bodies and gain the parahuman powers of that body. Over time they become more powerful as they gather more and more powers.

analyse parahuman abilities on contact and produce isomorphic tinkertech (i.e. technology that can only be used by them personally) that can imitate the effects of those powers. These technologies and ideas do not diminish over time, but they may cause temporary sensory overload in the case of powers with many facets or potential expressions such as Panacea.

Ozymandias is not limited to a certain amount of powers they can implement into one piece of technology but more than five powers at a time causes "an uncomfortable prickle" in their brain. Additionally, powers may synergise and grow stronger, but they may also cancel each other out, e.g. Ash Beast's living explosion could not coexist with Alexandria's invulnerability. As such, there are certain 'one or the other' power combinations where a machine can only use one or the other.

If Ozymandias copies tinkers, they will receive that tinker's specialisation at boosted capacity. For example, Armsmaster's miniaturisation specialisation expanded into nanotechnology and Squealer's vehicle specialisation expanded into air- and seafaring vehicles as well as general vehicular maintenance and allowing them to code navigation and driving VIs.

### Creations

Ozymandias has designed and created a plethora of technological marvels up to and including a fixed mass driver cannon for use in Endbringer fights, abstracted heavily from Alexandria and Damsel of Distress' powers. They also weapon platforms and auto-piloted drone fleets to fight remotely and engage in search and rescue as well as gather materials and engage in espionage. More complex weapons included the Royal Guard, a small group of extremely dangerous androids built for Ozymandias' personal protection.

Other things Ozymandias has created include his pride and joy, the HMS Opus, the teleportation disks in each of their drones, and their hologram shield technology. They are also a master hacker, having stolen money from numerous crime groups and syndicates without being traced and being able to hack into a school database in seconds.

Their most valuable scientific discovery was their synthesis of what they called Element 0, a metal capable of absorbing and redirecting energy to the extent that it could be considered supernatural. It was with this metal that he constructed Host Instance: Deity, a body they possessed remotely to go up against the Behemoth.

### Skills and Abilities

As a skill based parahuman, Ozymandias possesses a number of trained skills. They think and reason faster than any ordinary human, matched only by Dragon and members of the Royal Guard. They are a hacker of terrifying capacity and understand electronics better than perhaps any non-Tinker on the planet, which allows them to exploit these systems masterfully. They are also a masterful engineer and architect in addition to having an understanding of tactics and strategy second to none.

They are a master of martial arts and most commonly available weaponry. Their stealth and infiltration techniques make them functionally undetectable to anyone not specifically looking for them and their brute strength is off the charts, with them being able to lift an entire train car.

A few other skills that they have acquired include linguistics, piloting, negotiation, manipulation, leadership, and various types of medical and first aid knowledge.

## History

### Background

Born Astrid Leif Jannsen, Odin has lead a spectacularly unlucky life. They triggered when they were three, after theIt was unfortunate for me, being the runaway that I was. Well, that was perhaps a harsh word for it. I had triggered very young, when the Ash Beast had passed through Cairo. Little three year old me had worked for three days and nights trying to dig up my family, imagining that I could still hear them under the rubble. Finding their bloodied bodies had broken me. It was only I had taken apart a search and rescue med-kit to make a solar powered air filter that I realised how badly.

The Smith family had taken me in, whisking me away to London where we’d had two glorious years. Warmth, the real warmth of a family, was so hard to come by here. The world was so cold now. It had turned cold and dark when the Angel had come. She had destroyed my family, killed my sister and made my mother kill herself. For the longest time I had hated her and the heroes that had failed to stop her, but a few very insightful conversations with a few now-very-dead people had led me to the realisation that the best revenge was a well lived life.