Iris Fargon

The Esper Empress

**Iris Fargon** is a recently recruited agent of STATIC, and member of The Interparty. A cold and quiet young lady, she possesses extraordinary psionic energy, to the point it becomes very difficult to control if she becomes too emotional. For this reason she keeps herself restrained in both power and emotions, at the fear of severely hurting someone accidentally.

## History

Born into the noble Fargon Family, Iris was the daughter of Khamsin Fargon, a very influential man who was so occupied by his work that the rest of his family would rarely see him. Unbenownst to most of his family, Khamsin was a user of the Avalon Gene, a genetic trait that bestowed the user an overwhelming amount of psionic potential, to the point where most who weilded it would end up being destroyed by it before they could gain control of it. Those who could muster the ability to keep its power in check would often end up in high positions in life. Iris showed signs of inheriting the gene at a young age, and eventually, another family of nobles would take notice.

The Lazulis, a house of high nobles who saught to bring out the full potential of the avalon gene, would become aware of Iris and seek to arange a marriage between her and the heir who had shown the most potential, Maximillion Lazuli. The Fargons would agree to this, thus leading to the two being raised together. While their relationship was undramatic and about expected from what one would expect from children in an aranged marriage, Maximillion would grow more possessive, power obsessed, and heartless as he grew older and older, eventually doning a mask and treating Iris like an object, solely focused on seeing what their power could achieve.

Iris however, grew hesitant to develop her abilities with the avalon the more Lazuli began to obsess with them. She'd eventually refuse to use them outright, infuriating Maximillion. As the date of their marriage approached, the two would find themselves at a large family gathering in which a horrific argument would break out between them. Lazuli would go on to use his own power on Iris and force her to unleash her own abilities, causing the air to crackle, objects to shatter, and most in attendence to lose consienceness. This incident would lead to both Iris and Maximillion to be shunned by their families, with the marriage between the two called off as a result. Iris would be locked in her room, feared by her relatives. She'd don a blue blindfold to cover her eyes and supress her emotions to the point of appearing completley expressionless, as it seemed to be the best way to supress the mass of power flowing throughout her.

This however, lead to the Khamsin returning home after some time of absence. While the rest of her family had disregarded her entirely, Khamsin knew of Iris' plight and felt regret in allowing the situation with Maximillion to go as far as it did. Khamsin revealed to Iris the existence of STATIC, a secret orginization that used their psionic potential to alter the world unseen from the public eye. Knowing Iris was in great need of developing control of her powers, and also seeing the imense potential she carried, he'd offered her a position in hopes of helping her. Iris, with little else to use her life for, agreed to join STATIC, and would end up forming a squad with other strange new recruits.

## Crisis of Static Thoughts

Shortly after Iris' induction to the orginization, she would be sent with a large group of various squads to take on the very man who'd ruined her life, Maximillion Lazuli. In the time since their last encounter, Lazuli had begun using his power to spread his influence throughout the world, in an attempt to cease as much control of it for himself. Despite the heavy emotional baggage, she showed no hesitation to go through with the task of eliminating him. However, the assassination attempt within the dreamscape would go dreadfully wrong, as Lazuli, being a former member of STATIC himself, had already spread his influence to various members in advance, causing them to go berserk and start attacking each other. It was revealed that Lazuli used this scenario to try to force Iris into marrying him, blinded by his obsession of her and the power she held.

His scheme would be disrupted by two seperate forces however, with STATIC Chairman Zenolea Answer and the seemingly inoccuous Pandora used both of their powers seperately, trapping everyone present into Answer's own Mind that would take on a massive scale, replicating the Dreamscape as a whole. There he would start to test the abilities of the various STATIC members, at first with the intention of ensuring such an incident would never happen again. However, he would begin a decent into madness and loop the various simulations until only a few members remained as still having potential to grow, using the now trapped Lazuli as a final challenge in his twisted trials. Iris and her squad would continue to be subjected to these loops, along other members of Static, where she'd encounter Lazuli again and again in combat but forget upon every reset. This all lasted until a strage set of circumstances caused the loop to become broken, and Iris' squad eventually breaking past the moment of Lazuli's 'dimise'.

Upon uncovering the truth of their situation from a dying Lazuli, a concerned Judgement, and a distressed Voex, Iris would accompany her party to their "final test" upon Answer revealing himself. Iris would end up traveling to her own Dreamscape in this time, and would encounter the influence of Lazuli that had settled itself within her mind. Lazuli would show Iris a horrific cognition of herself, mindlessly obedient and taking on the role of his wife without question. Iris would fight her former fiance and nightmarish doppleganger, overcoming the influence that she's been subjected to for so long. While Iris had killed Lazuli many times previously in Answer's controlled simulations, the obliteration of her duo and overpowering of Lazuli this time around proved much more significant, as the image of Lazuli lost all composure and begged Iris not to leave him. Iris, more emotionless than ever, could only say goodbye as she departed to confront Answer.

Iris would confront Answer and, upon a disagreement to merely surrender their powers without question, engaged in a fierce battle with him and the remaining brainwashed members of STATIC. The battle would conclude in Answer and by proxy, STATIC's ultimate destruction as the Interparty layed their full power unto Answer at once, destroying the dreamscape they resided in and causing them to return to the real world. Twenty years had passed however in the time since they were trapped, and the world had begun to devolve in the horrific appocalypse of The Psion's Night. A short time later, Iris would be called back into the Dreamscape by Pandora, learning of his ultimate scheme, and reliving the events that trapped her in the first place. Most surprisingly however, was learning that Maximillion was still alive and entirely focused on destroying Pandora for "ruining everything". While his power was enough to obliterate Pandora's body, it was not enough to prevent him from regenerating and knocking him unconcious throwing his body to Iris. Despite all of this, Iris would not show any sign of emotional stress or even giving into her anger towards Lazuli, ignoring Pandora's taunts that he was at her mercy. Iris would last be seen sometime after this incident in the remains of an old manor, encountering a servant she recalled from her time spent growing up with Maximillion.

## Personality

Being driven to suppress her emotions to avoid losing control of her powers, Iris is very stoic and emotionless a majority of the time, often leading to her coming off as cold or disinterested. However, she does this to make sure those around her are safe, and often does not mean to be disrespectful with her lack of expression towards something. Her suppressed emotions lead her to being very calm and collected even in heated moments, and her mannerisms and movements tend to give of an elegant, almost mystic vibe to them. When pushed to her limits, Iris will show intense anger which seems on the edge of causing a complete meltdown, yet surpressed just enough to keep some semblance of control, and focused enough so only the target of her wrath will be subjected to it. While Iris is distant and has a hard time trusting others, she can show a softer side when with someone who she doesn't percieve any ill intentions with, such as with Spudley.

## Powers & Abilities

Iris' psionic powers stem from The Avalon Gene that her father had passed down to her, a gene that can allow one to awaken to incredible telepathic and telekinetic abilities. In Iris' case however, her power is immensely more than what the gene normally grants its user. This can lead to quite dangerous abilities, such as Iris causing others to lose consciousness or objects to shatter by getting too angry. While this has lead to her suppressing her powers and emotions in the real world, the Dreamscape allows Iris to hone these powers in an environment much more allowing for them. As an offensive fighter, Iris' powerset could be described as overwhelming, bombarding the enemy with brutal psychic attacks while binding their abilities, all from the sheer psionic force she exudes. Iris also possesses very versatile telekinesis, allowing her to casually levitate and manipulate those around her with her mind, as well as the ability to bind someone to the point they're incapable of manifesting in a physical space, effectively banishing someone from reality for a period of time. Her most dangerous ability however, comes from when she focuses one fatal strike of a colossal amount of mental energy onto a single target, overwhelming them to the point where they can be outright erased from reality.

## Trivia

* Iris' blindfold is an essential part of her attire, as covering the eyes is the best known way to surpress the avalon gene's overwhelming power. Should she remove it, her eyes will typically begin flowing tears and the energy she outputs will grow immensely. She has only ever decided to do this against the man she's felt the most resentment towards, Maximillion Lazuli.