Subject 23

> *"You ever wonder if we're gonna get out of here?"
>  "Of course we are! We're strong, right Ezekiel?"
>  "Right."*
>  -Subjects 23, 24, and 19 talking.
>
>

## Biography

### Laiston Experimentation

Kibera Quade, or Subject 23, is one of the 30 children within a division of the Laiston Experiment Program. His division was focused around the channeling of magic, in an attempt to create either a sustainable power source where the fuel is magically adapt individuals with plenty of raw potential, or to create super soldiers.

Due to 23's complex and deep roots with Dark Magic, he was the perfect candidate for this experiment. Along with subjects 24 and 19. These three all had vastly conflicting abilities, but when put together they created a force to be reckoned with.

23's Experimentation specifically was an attempt to refine his Dark Magic. Even if it meant causing him severe amounts of pain and discomfort. Surgeries, drugs, virtual reality, the whole nine yards were used to try and complete this task. The goal with him, due to the raw Dark Magic within him, was to create a power source comparable of that to every currently running nuclear reactor combined.

The Experiments were long and hard for him. While the others would stay in for a few hours at least, and at most a week, 23 on average was in a simulation for 2 weeks. The longest being 5 months. The researchers were convinced that if they broke his mentality, that they could go in and force a refinement of his Magic.

Instead, all it gave him was more and more time away from the guards to master his magic himself.

### The Incident

Subject 23 was a very cold and distant person. He didn't care much for the other subjects, saw them all as poor souls who should just end their own suffering. Except for two, Subjects 24 and 19. Otherwise known as Klara Lavigne and Ezekiel Deliora. The three subjects had all grown very close to each other, and trusted each other greatly. Which was put to the test time and time again within experiments.

But, during one, 23 and 19 had begun to get on each other's nerves. So much so that even once they exited the experiment, they continued bickering. To the point where they began getting violent with each other.

A couple of blows had been delivered to one another, but nothing extreme. Until Subject 19 summoned his metallic arm, a side effect of his heritage and experimentation. He knew Kibera could take the blow, even if it were to draw some blood.

A person who couldn't, however, was Subject 24. And she was the last person he expected to appear in front of him right as he swung the punch. Putting Subject 24 into a coma.

She died shortly after, when a different subject accidentally shorted the power. Killing off her life support.

Subject's 23 and 19 blamed themselves for the death of their friend. 23 felt that if he had not instigated 19 so much, he would not have delivered the blow. And 19 felt as though if he could manage his anger better, the whole fight could've been avoided in the first place.

### The Escape

Before arriving to Highdal, 23 had finally mastered his Magic enough to plot an escape- with the help of his Experimentation, of course. During transit he had killed his guard escort, and the researcher assigned to him. Then he broke through the truck door, killing the drivers of Subject 19's truck. But, to his shock, 19's guard escort and researchers had also already been dead.

The two of them ran off, spending roughly a year in the shadows. Watching everything unfold, before enrolling to Highdal as a cover story for themselves.