Cole Yun

Cole Yun is one of Ella's four original adopted wards and a commander within S.I.N. His is an insecure, bloodthirsty, and violent pretty-boy who lords his powerful offensive capabilities over his other "siblings". He considers himself the strongest of Ella's wards but Ella does appear to harbor some disdain for him.

## Background

### Origins

Christie says that she first saw Cole as a depressed teenager (around 13-14 years old) when visiting Ella's house just after she had turned 18. It seems that Cole, along with with a couple of other kids, were staying with Ella. Ella says that she was taking care of them.

Bramon Xanthe does say that Cole was a prospective recruit for H.E.R.O. but that Ella had stolen him. It is not known whether that was before he became one of Ella's wards or during his recent work for her across the sectors searching for Effigies.

At some point before the story begins, Zara and Cole worked together to make Hex compliant and friendly towards them. Cole was also involved in the fight between Valravn and Ella and the rest of her wards. Despite defeating the monster, Cole and Zara were unable to make him compliant so Ella chained him up beneath Mt. Dehaka in the Diamond Mountains, next to where the Goliath lay buried.

### Valravn Arc

Cole is first seen talking to Ella after she releases Valravn while she completing the excavation for a new effigy underneath the Diamond Mountains. He brags about how many pieces he's found, but Ella brushes him off claiming that he just stole them from his siblings. He postures for a bit before realizing that they were above Valravn's prison. When Ella tells him that she released the monster, he is visibly shaken; asking Ella what exactly she was thinking in freeing it. Ella nonchalantly brings up his earlier bragging and tells him to get stronger.

He is present when the miners uncover and bring Ella the powerful Effigy that birthed the Goliath. Cole is apprehensive of its power and its effect on Ella and asks her to cover it up. He also witnesses the arrival of the Deryl-Rebis and watches as it collects and slaughters the miners for its experiments.

### H.E.R.O Arc

After the public unveiling of H.E.R.O., Cole is given the side project of building a public facing superhuman force to counteract H.E.R.O.'s influence. With Langdon Wilson's funding and Ella's help, Cole creates the Superhuman Independence Nation (S.I.N). Cole, Zara and Briar crash William Baldwin's talk show while the MC is discussing himself joining H.E.R.O. to announce the creation of S.I.N. Zara uses her mark to manipulate William into railing against the MC and superhumans and H.E.R.O. in general. Cole then murders the host in cold blood before decrying H.E.R.O. as frauds, pointing out the various crimes they had committed against humans and superhumans. Cole then allows the crowds in the studio to leave before menacing the MC and Brianna. He is about kill Brianna and engage the MC when Nico teleports in to help. Nico casually tries to teleport Cole and co. away but is surprised to see her powers have no effect. Cole reveals that they are protected by Hex. Enraged at being thwarted, Nico goes on the offensive but is quickly stymied by Hex. Feeling belligerent, Cole decides to try and kill Nico while she is trying to defeat Hex. The MC has a choice about whether to help Nico by engaging Cole or letting Cole try his luck against Nico.

If the MC engages Cole, he finds that his tail is barely able to penetrate Cole's abs before Cole disintegrates it with his heat powers. Cole then explodes the MC's head with heat. The MC rapidly recovers before growing his tail around Cole and getting Laurie Kernz to crystallize it with her powers. Cole is able to escape the trap before Del sets him and Zara, and Briar on fire with his gasoline. Nico uses this distraction to push back Hex before using her knives to severely injure Cole and Briar, forcing Hex to retreat with the three teenagers.

If the MC doesn't help, Cole shrugs off Laurie and Del's distractions and begins to burn Nico. The pain weakens her assault on Hex but she catches his arm and shatters it before throwing him away. This momentary lapse however lets Hex push its advantage even further. Briar heals Cole who then prepares to renew his assault, but Zara senses H.E.R.O. reinforcements coming and gets Hex to quickly pull them all out.

### Deryl Arc

Due to the public hubbub created by their antics at William Baldwin's show, Cole and the others have to lie low in Hex's dimension. He is unhappy with the circumstances, especially since Ella's other orphans are living in extremely posh quarters owned by Langdon Wilson. He is further irritated by Deryl-Rebis's created Chimera wandering the base. When he gets startled by one he furiously marches to Deryl-Rebis and attempts to take his frustrations out on the monster but is stopped by Charlie. Charlie uses her Taboo on Cole, severely hurting him when he attempts to disregard her and attack Deryl-Rebis anyway. Further angered, he attacks Charlie, but as he is about to fully exert his powers, Ella arrives. The wards quickly sort themselves out and after taking possession of the artificial Effigy that Deryl-Rebis was building for her, Ella ends the meeting, ordering them all to disperse.

Around this time Langdon Wilson also sends his son Jared Wilson to train his powers with Ella's orphans. Cole takes to the task with ill grace and is a relatively short and abusive teacher.

Cole also has little part in The Battle of Diamonds, only appearing near the end of the battle. He first augments Jared's arrow to allow it to pierce and kill Laurie Kernz and then tries force the newly evolved and healed Deryl Livermore to return with them alongside Jared and Charlie. However he is unprepared to take on the newly evolved Alice Alderman, MC, and Deryl Livermore and instead relies on Charlie Leicht to restrain the three before making an exit when Hex begins to collapse the dimension.

### Twins Arc

In the aftermath of Ella Vulpe's death at the end of the Battle of Diamonds. Cole has to try and keep S.I.N together and focused. However he isn't really up to the task and is seen to be rapidly losing influence to Langdon Wilson and Tanos Xanthe, both much more skilled and experienced manipulators and leaders. He is also unhappy as he's been upstaged by Shen Haoran as the first of the wards to reach Level 4. Cole is late to the S.I.N initiation since he was following around Eisheth; clearly enamored by her seductive appearance and behavior. When he does finally arrive, he introduces the tournament to the assembled new recruits and snarkily advises them to get started. Towards the end of the tournament he also points the last competitors towards each other to ensure they get to fight. Cole is also visibly subdued to see how powerful the Moon Twins and Met Freitas are; possibly because he has plateaued and has been unable to reach his 4th evolution.

He is presumably evacuated by Hex when Nico breaks into the dimension to extract the MC.

## Powers

Cole is a superhuman who has had his powers since he was quite young. According to Bramon Xanthe children who become superhumans tend to develop quite powerfully and Cole constantly brags about how powerful he is. However, there is evidence that he is a blowhard and may not be as battle tested as he pretends to be.

### Human Abilities

Cole has had many years of experience doing missions for Ella Vulpe. She has also ensured that he trained and developed his powers well.

### General Superhuman Abilities

As a level 3 superhuman with physically presenting powers, Cole's body is extremely durable. The Level 2 MC's tail were unable to get more than an inch deep into his abs. He also probably has the standard suit of superhuman senses and enhancements.

### Level 3 Abilities

Cole has some kind of fire or heat based power. He is able to create pin point bursts of heat from a distance powerful enough to instantly burst the MC's head. With physical contact he was even able to start burning through the Level 5 Nicolette Heart's skin. He is also able to "brand" his targets. This, coupled with Zara's abilities is implied to be able to render monsters compliant and helpful.