Agustin Gamarra

Iron Fist

Castro Gamarra (deceased)

Anassandra Gamarra (deceased)

*"They reviled me for not being a monster like them. Now they're dead."*

- Agustin recounting his experiences

*"With vast power comes the temptation of greed. Falling into this temptation leads to corruption, and corruption leads to cruelty to fellow men."*

- Page 27 of Agustin's memoirs

**Agustin Gamarra**, also known by the alias of Silent Fury, is one of the metahumans that have aligned with the Resistance in Australia. However, with the fall of Canberra, he has reportedly gone to the Kelvins, the rulers of the North American Union.

## **Personality**

Calm and methodical, Agustin seems to lack emotion on the outside, as shown by his usual neutral expressions. Inside, however, he is haunted by past memories and recurring nightmares. He does his best to shut out the terror, but it is always there, watching for the slightest mistake to remind him of what he was slated to be by his own dynastic family: a failure.

In Agustin's mind, the proper state of metahumans is to defend those who cannot lift mountains and boil oceans; in essence, what metahumans once did before the entire dynastic plot roused its ugly head on that fateful day. For him, for a new world to dawn, the old system must be cleansed, the oppressors thrown down and destroyed with extreme abhorrence. It is indeed difficult to imagine that this metahuman has such an ingrained dislike of his own kind, but it must be remembered that he was seen as a disgrace, and was pushed to the breaking point.

For all of this, Agustin deeply values human life. Should another meta gloat about the apparent weakness of mundane humans in his presence, there will surely be dire consequences. The first person that ever gave him a sense of belonging and worth was a mundane, and he has sent firsthand what kind of barbaric cruelty the lords of this world can impose. He thus protects the weak, often to his own pain and the mockery of other metas.

## **Abilities**

**Energy Projection**: Agustin is a living energy conduit, drawing eldritch energies from a parallel dimension. This energy has a wide variety of uses. It can be used as what is essentially a blast of lightning, causing destruction that scales with energy consumption. It ranges from a slight sting to someone's skin to a destructive firestorm that levels up to three building stories in an instant. He is able to vaguely manipulate the shape this energy takes, allowing him to curve his blasts to prevent friendly fire.

Another usage of this ability is the empowerment of weaponry; as such, he uses it to turn a specially crafted sword into a devastating weapon that can slice through armor plating with ease.

**Space Warping**: He can rip open wormholes in spacetime, allowing almost instantaneous travel through long distances. This ability is limited by the fact that he needs to either visualize or see where he is going; the former can be achieved through up to date photographs or memory of target locations, and the latter could either be achieved by line of sight or live footage. Distance scales with energy consumption, with a maximum limit of 400 miles before the incurred fatigue becomes life threatening.

Agustin is also able to teleport within a distance of four meters, up to four times a minute.

**Precognition**: Agustin is able to see incoming dangers and attacks between four seconds and 1 second before they land, usually giving him ample time to react. However, this can be easily overwhelmed with sheer numbers, or with excessive amounts of stimuli, the latter of which disrupts his focus.

**Cloaking**: By warping space around him, Agustin disrupts light waves, rendering himself invisible and anything on his person for up to ten seconds at a time.

**Durability**: While he cannot deflect space beams and nuclear detonations, Agustin is still more durable than a normal human. He deflects small arms fire and sharp, mundane weapons such as knives and axes.

## **Biography**

Agustin Gamarra hails from one of the metahuman vassal families that ruled over what used to be the Philippines. The Gamarras in particular lorded over a portion of the Cagayan Valley from their capital of Tuguegerao, where they looked down literally and metaphysically on the laborers that toiled in the lands. While many of the lords in the South East Asian region were known to be benevolent to their constituents, the Gamarras were bloodthirsty mongrels and dictators. Leo Gamarra, their patriarch, took the bloodthirst to a literal light, as he often had the temptation to drink blood. Thick was the pile of skeletons deep within the catacombs, where every single person whose lifeblood was mostly sucked away by the deranged Gamarra patriarch had been simply thrown away to be devoured by lions and whatever other exotic pets these crazed dictators had. For this reason he was called the Vampire of Cagayan.

Agustin was the oldest of three, but he never picked up the madness of his father, or the cold, calculating cruelty of his mother. The reason for this was that he had been all but cast out of the household, his pesky inability to control his own energy projection rendering him a disgrace in their oh-so-perfect eyes. He was always told that his younger brother and sister weren't just going to be better than him; they *were* better.

To complicate matters even further, Agustin, in his desire to have someone in his life that wasn't a psychopath, had grown close with a servant boy, whom he bonded over in the library. None of his power obsessed siblings bothered going there, so that was where he spent most of his days as a child and teenager, speaking only to the serf whose sole purpose for existence was to clean.

Agustin wasn't completely ignored, though. He was brought to North America at an age of 23, and would then be forcibly cybernetically 'enhanced'. His right hand was replaced by an unfeeling machine prosthetic designed to forcibly draw upon his eldritch energies through a network of nanomachines and spinal implants. The problem here was that each time it channeled energy, it was mind numbingly painful. Again and again he would be forced to use this damned piece of machinery to, as they said, 'be useful'.

He couldn't even fly like them.

Soon after that, Agustin was given the starkest choice: kill this library serf with a blast of energy, or be forever cut off from all the riches of their clan and from all the other metahuman families. He will be, as a still blood drunken Leo said, 'persona non grata'.

He had been numbed to the pain of the cybernetic hand. But this? This was far too much. He flatly refused, and his pyrokinetic sister then incinerated the serf anyway. All that was left of his only friend were ashes.

After what seemed to be an eternity, Agustin lashed out in a fit of white hot rage, a break from his usual quiet persona. In that moment, the pain of wielding his powers faded, replaced by this insatiable fury. In an instant, the mansion was completely demolished, and the Gamarra family assumed to all be dead. Unknown to all, though, Agustin Gamarra had escaped, teleporting away from the ash covered terrace to the plantations below. Before he made his way to Australia and the Resistance, though, he stole away the Terminus Est, the blade that his magical mother once wielded. He would, as he would always, cleanse the darkness from this world through the only way it can end: death.

Ever since being inducted into the Resistance with the alias of the Silent Fury, Agustin has been seen as an agent of bloody revenge. Those deranged lords he could kill, he kills with absolute abhorrence. He has never gone to missions without a mask, and to this day, his identity remains unknown outside the Resistance, as most believe that he too had died when the Vampire of Cagayan had died along with the Pyrophant, the Ebon Witch, and the Bloodletter.

Some know better.