Theo

Dr. Theodore Lind, also known simply as Theo, was a Swedish scientist, transhumanist and entrepreneur who founded the private fringe technology and experimental biogenics think tank, Argent Scientific. He had an obsession with finding the secrets of immortality with the ultimate goal of saving himself from death. Along the way he managed to slow his aging using secret Nazi formulas developed from Von Braun Industries and began discovering the secrets of Aeon DNA and teamed up with Dr Alistair Crowe, notable as perhaps the smartest person on Earth.

### History

Born in the city of Gävle in 1911 into the Lind Estate, Theo's wealthy father, Edvin Lind was also a scientist, but as a devout Christian Theo found that much of his father's research was stifled by religious exemptions and found the deeper understandings to be attributed to more than any god; Theo was often berated and reprimanded by suggesting that his father had given himself limitations and the concept of biological immortality that greatly offended Edvin and his family, Edvin himself, also simply believed that it was wrong to meddle in the nature of things too much without consequences.

Theo grew up a gifted student of science and music, successfully mastering the piano, violin, cello and flute and even writing his own music, however Theodore excelled even further in business and graduated the Högskolan i Gävle in 1928 where he was quickly recruited into the freshly-founded German Von Braun Industries to help mediate several science and technology firms from across Europe. When the Second World War broke out in 1939 VB Industries became a Nazi asset, Theo was regarded as one of the best, and was first introduced to early forms of biochemical engineering; during this time he worked on many secret projects, for both the Nazi Regime and for himself, one of these projects, the Ganymede Serum, granted Theo a temporary but incredibly slowed aging process so long as he regularly drinks the formula he created; several variations of the Ganymede Serum have been created by Theo, though none that have yet granted him permanent immortality, and all of which have had a detrimental effect on his body and mind.

Post-WWII, Theo tried to start a family back in Sweden, only to be unable to conceive children; one of the side-effects of the Ganymede Serum, and later became disinterested in sex entirely, instead focusing on his work in the 60's. Theo began on smaller scientific studies, overtaking small biochem and technology companies in a very similar manner to the creation of Von Braun Industries, amassing their collectives into a single scientific effort using the Lind fortune overt he decades, which he called Argent Scientific. Here he developed newer versions of his serum, most of which used the stolen work of Dr Grant Thomas to aid his development of the chemical.

At first many scientific academies disproved strongly after he violated several ethical and moral codes and for years Theo's work was pushed out of the main scientific limelight throughout the 70's. To this end Theo became moreso a businessman, working his company on simple but profitable forms of technology on the surface; but this lie essentially split Argent into two aspects; the surface organisation developed new forms of technology and preformed medical research. The 'secret' side of Argent was Theo's true version of the company, where only the best and most trusted scientists and allies would work; here Theo could carry out his research unimpeded by moral codes or judgement of dogma.

It was around this time that Theo became aware of Black Labs, though his attempts to find them were always fruitless.

The early form of Argent developed new forms of household technology and medical equipment; Theo often states that he invented the designs for flat-screen plasma televisions and high-speed internal wifi himself long before it came onto any market, and made the biggest profits selling these concepts to companies like Sony and AT&T in the 80's where Argent remained a small and unassuming company in the background of bigger businesses.

By 2002 Argent's secretive sub-labs were developing advanced cybernetic systems that other shady organisations such as Augustine Corporation and certain other secret government labs, who also wanted to remain anonymous, wished to participate in; the main purpose of this was to develop cybrids, alts and cybernetic and robotic research on animals and Humans; one of these may have very likely been System-12.

Theodore was in contact with Clay by 2002 to purchase one of his old mines in Mongolia and turn it into a secret research lab, Theo paid Clay a substantial amount to keep quiet about the technology being used here and to keep Clay's secret that the mine, set up in the 60's to find kinzium deposits, was both relatively fruitless and illegal, but witnessing Clay's enormous strength Theo became interested in him and the two became dangerously close. When Clay and his daughter Elliot had a major falling out and she and Clay almost destroyed a town in Scotland, Theo enticed her to come and live with on the promise he would help her fluctuating power.

Theo, however used her as an experiment to extract her alien DNA to help stabilise his alt projects.

In 2015 Theo and Crowe worked on creating accelerated-growth altered-clones of various superhumans.

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### Appearance

Theodore Lind is a tall, well-built man of obsessive self-image, describing himself as "of exceptional fitness" in most aspects, with his only self-stated "negative quality" being his short-sightedness, which he only accepts because he believes his yellow-tinted glasses are an integral part of his personal image; his eyes of which are a pale blue.

He sports blonde, often slicked-back hair that is short at the sides and back, his face mostly clean shaven with the exception of a short, neat, well groomed beard, moisturised, with any rogue hair on his face plucked daily, his jawline and nose is angled and chin slightly cleffed, pointing to the fact that he may have undergone cosmetic surgery to improve his facial structure.

Theo is also likely the bearer of a subtle spray-tan as he finds going to public gatherings of any kind repugnant, preferring to be within controlled environments.

Volt described him as "unnervingly symmetrical" during his first encounter with him whilst rescuing Ellie from his Mongolian base, dressing in sharp, freshly-pressed clothes, often changing three or four times a day.

### Personality

Theodore, while a veritable genius in many aspects of science and business, has a highly narcissistic personality that manifests through extreme levels of hypochondria driven by the side-effects of his serum, even describing himself as a "self-admitted germophobe", his obsession with ensuring that his body is as clean and free from infection as humanly possible has pushed him into a state that now fears for his own mortality; this has led to him to delve into personal projects that search for the possibility of biological immortality for his own benefit.

Theo is also a stickler for cleanliness and order, hating asymmetric patterns; though he never said it out loud, Theo found it extremely difficult looking Volt in his heterochromic eyes.

He respects calmness and logical discussion and despises argumentative and loud speech or aggressive conflict, despite his physique, has never taken part in physical combat at all, and will utterly refuse to do business with anyone who displays anger or violence, even getting too exited or passionate about something may put him off; Theo's brain seems to work in ever-analysing patterns, extracting the potential of his future investment and time with people and assessing it as beneficial, or not within moments.

### Powers and Abilities

#### **Ganymede Serum Enhancement**

Theo spent decades working for Von Braun Industries during WWII where he developed the base of what would become a biochemical formula to essentially repair his telomere strands within his cells; granting him a temporary rejuvenation effect; this effect originally lasted for around a month until he has to take more of the serum. The serum has bluish hue and is extremely bitter, to the point where Theo struggles to drink it; the rejuvenation effect is initially jarring, sending him into unconsciousness and bodily pain for hours, even days afterwards, but the effect fixes a month of aging and repairs any strain and stress on his body. It does not make him immortal, and even when the serum is fully active, it only slows down his aging process and fixes age-based issues and those caused by weakening of the previous serum fading.

* **Initial Enhanced Healing Week:** For around five or six says after taking the serum Theo's body will heal much faster than normal humans, however this fades with each day, until he heals like a regular human for another week, after the second week Theo's own healing process actually slows further, by the end of the month, as the serum wears off, he will not heal properly at all, making any cuts or nicks sustained in the final days before his serum is to be taken, potentially deadly, and the same goes for his immune system; Theo tries to stave off these last few days without being tempted to take the serum early, as this would only increase his already dangerous addiction and metabolic need for the serum.
* **Improved Ganymede Serum:** As of 2018 Theo has improved the viability of the Ganymede Serum to last almost two months and two weeks while slightly reducing the severity of the side effects in the last few days, it still has not made him permanently immortal and Theo is still, very slowly, aging.

**Vast Intellect**: From an early age Theodore became quickly proficient at a number of complex studies and achievements, has a natural understanding of the complexities of business, mathematics, chemistry, physics, electronics, robotics, computer science, and biology as well as that of writing and preforming music. He has also being described as having an astounding and near-prefect memory.

**Brilliant Speaker**: Despite his disposition for self-isolation, he has a natural gift to rally and draw the attention of large crowds with no nerves or worry, he can clearly and concisely communicate and accurately recall memorised lines from days in advance.

**Genius Businessman**: Described as one of the most brilliant minds of the science of business, Theo has made the front pages of a few magazines such as Forbes, Entrepreneur and Fortune, possessing an acumen described as 'near-superhuman'.

**Brilliant Scientist**: Theo is one of the top-tier scientific minds on the planet, particularly specialising in electronics, computer hardware and software, biorobotics and biochemistry, breaking barriers (often illegally) and discovering new forms of biotech largely unknown to the general scientific community.

**Biorobotics Pioneer**: Theo is one of the few individuals actively funding and researching electronic and mechanical interfaces with human biological systems.

**A.I Pioneer**: Theo likely developed one of the first fully-aware computer programs in existence, Lady Argent, that now runs both sectors of his business.

**Peak Health and Fitness**: Despite his busy work schedule, Theo has an obsession with his own personal health and wellbeing, and over the years has brought his body to what he believes to be 'perfection', although admits there is always room for improvement. His absolute fitness and health has contributed to his survival of the final week of his now bi-monthly serum in which his body begins to deteriorate, keeping it as healthy as possible until he has to again take the serum.

### Inventions

Theodore claims to be the inventor of numerous forms of technology, some of which is taken for granted today, although he has made incredible technologies with the aid of his scientists, some of the claims that he alone is responsible many modern forms of ultramodern household technology may be wildly exaggerated.

* **ACD-Series Cryopreservation Systems:** Includes various cryogenic storage dewars, and biological preservation pods that use Argent-patented artificial cryoamniotic fluid systems.
	+ **ACF:** Also knowns as Artificial Cryoamniotic Fluid, the thick liquid was created to help preserve organic life at extremely low temperatures and was intended to pave the way for long-term space travel, however Theo used this to cool and preserve humans after failed experimentation and was sold to the US government along with ADC units to aid in containing neohumans at Tartarus. Though the systems were hard to maintain and control.
* **Blastic:** Fireproof, shock-proof, bullet-resistant and yet lightweight and highly flexible plastic used for his own ASC units, but also sold in small amounts to various governments and government military supply contractors.
* **EBN:** An EBN, also known as an Electromycilium Brain Network or simply a 'brainbox' are artificial brains created by Argent that almost-accurately replicate the thinking patterns of human brains by using artificial, modified mycelia within solid carbon processors to carry electronic and digital data. Theo uses these in his synthoids; they can be highly finicky, expensive, time-consuming and at the moment still prone to malfunction due to their delicate nature.
* **Electromycilium:** Genetically-engineered organic mycelia similar to that found in mushrooms and fungi, designed to carry electronic and digital information; these are usually imbedded into carbon-shelves within EBN, forming long, partly organic microchips, these fit together to make up a brainbox that can fit within the skull of a synthoid.
* **Ganymede Serum**: Named after a young mortal made immortal by Zeus to be his cupholder, Theo believed that further study and continued alteration of the serum would eventually make him immortal; While several variations of the serum have been developed, each time trying to limit the side-effects, has not yet made him fully immortal.
* **Lady Argent:** An early lean to artificial intelligence, the Lady Argent system was developed, and continually improved for decades, eventually Theo claimed that the AI was one of the first self-aware programs ever created by mankind.
* **NHX:** Neoneic Helixid Xenostemicide, also known as "Neohelix", is a chemical-base taken from neohuman stem cells and neones, created by Theo that acts as the main gene-altering component of creating Alts and to a lesser degree splicers when combined with RMS. However the early process was actually first displayed by Black Labs, and it was thought that the Labs purposefully leaked the info to Theo (along with several other persons of interest) to see what he'd do with it.
	+ **Alt/Splicer Experimentation:** He was known to create altered humans, most infamously in the form of the Guardians of Ükhliin Zam, as well as several splicers created in his Brazilian branch, notably Dr Eva Bocaiúva.

* **PIC-Series Microchips**: He, and his early Argent team claim to have created this family of chipsets that are commonly used in a verity of modern computer technology the world over.
* **Plasma Displays:** Theo claims to have personally invited the processes by which plasma gasses interact with phosphors and project image pixels onto a screen as part of his very early work in the 90's. Today he has made screens so clear and full of depth that they can be mistaken for windows.
* **Synthoids:** Semi-organic robotic organisms developed by Theo and Argent scientists by combining artificial organic components, such as muscles, some organs and skin, with mechanical systems such as skeletal structure and actuators, sensory functions and Electromycelium Brain Networks or EBN.
* **Clones**: With help from Crowe Theo created several, somewhat failed accelerated growth clones of various superhumans, and altered them. Much of the current clones were too unstable for use as bioweapons and have since been destroyed, but to future cloning projects are on the tables once his technology and research improves.
* **Wi-Fi:** He also claims to have created early wireless broadcasting systems, and was using it as part of Argent's intranet for years before it came to the public.
* **Rebots** With biotech research still ongoing, Theo looked to create and sell AI robotics to various governments, one of his ongoing and highly advanced robotic systems were known as "rebots", highly-adaptive partly self-aware machines in the form of small humanoids with internal and highly experimental nanotech fluids, capable of enhancing themselves by "eating" metallic and electronic components; the idea was that the Rebots would assimilate enemy technology to be used against them, however unforeseen circumstances, even by Theo saw several of these Rebots escape from a lab near the city of Cheyenne in Wyoming and cause chaos, and steal and eventually consume vehicles and weapons in an effort to continually improve themselves. The Rebots were too much for the ASC to deal with and began developing the ability to resemble the tech they consumed, transforming into vehicles at will. . He wanted VALER to shut down the machines before StarForce traced it back to him. While at first the group denied Theo's request, telling him that if StarForce found that he made these machines, that was his problem. Theo, however, explained that if VALER didn't stop them personally, they would detonate with tremendous explosive force; The machines were actually based on stolen CORE technology developed by Robin and only Robin's cores had the ability to stop them. Furious, and believing it was a trick to steal the core marbles themselves or further updated information and data about CORE systems, Robin initially refused. But when the rebots began getting bigger and more complex, the team decided to dispatch them before StarForce were notified. The team destroyed several of the machines alongside ASC units, much to the group's annoyance, but were met by StarForce's Aquila, Gunblane, Tern, Wyre and Gamma.

### Limitations and Weaknesses

Despite his enormous intellect and broad array of successful scientific endeavours under his belt, Theo suffers from a form of narcissism that threatens to crush all of these efforts at once; he is terrified of sickness and death due to the side-effects of his serum; he believes that death itself is a disease that has to be cured and will break moral and ethical codes to do so.

The Ganymede Serum is not permanent and Theo does still age, simply very slowly, it gradually wears off within a few months, his body deteriorates in an attempt to revert to it's original age; this can only be cured by more serum, and as such has developed both a need and addiction to taking it. The effects on his cells over the decades have rendered him both infertile and unnaturally asexual.

Theo has no problem lying and has created a shadow-version of Argent Scientific where he works in secret and underground labs where he has experimented upon both animal and human subjects, one of the most horrific incidents was during the accidental near-death of British cellar biologist Sandra Ellis who was crushed when a large nitrogen cylinder fell onto her, Theo "saved" her by transmitting her mental activity to an artificially-grown brain and placed it inside a human-like synthoid body but admitted he had to alter her memories in the process to erase the trauma of both the accident and the entire procedure that said to have taken nearly a month. These synthoids are one of Theo's top personal projects that he hopes will let him transfer his own mind to a body immune to disease and death.

His lack of compassion for living things only amplifies his selfish and egotistical need for immortality and betrays his science altogether.