Damian August

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## Damian Alexander August

### Relatives

First wife: Laura August (deceased)Second wife: Calondra AugustAdopted son: Mackenzie August

### Affiliation

August StaffingCronusMutant Freedom Fighters

## Appearances

### Debut

Heroes RP

Damian is Mac's adopted father, and a First Wave mutant. He appears in flashback scenes in Roachie's Mutant WIP and has divergent lore. In his main verse (same as Mutant WIP), Damian is killed by Mac after attempting to blackmail members of the Mutant Freedom Fighters into working for him. In his divergent lore, he survives the attack from Mac, though he loses his eye and his mutant abilities. Later on, he marries Anti's Calondra and attempts to repair his relationship with his adopted son.

## History

### Pre Cronus

Damian August was born in 1976. Prior to main story events, he worked as a photographer and reporter for a small-time newspaper in Winchester, Nevada. When Cronus built a facility close by, Damian went with the intention of doing a story on their arrival. During the interview, he was covertly exposed to mutating radiation and subsequently developed pyrokinesis and the unique ability to erase others' emotions. If he uses his fire to burn a photo of someone expressing an emotion (e.g. someone smiling / expressing happiness), that person will lose the ability to be happy.

Damian's wife Laura struggled with clinical depression and suicidal ideation, and so once he had discovered his powers, he thought to erase his wife's sadness. Unfortunately, Laura's negative emotions began to tend towards anger, once sadness was unavailable, and it led to her taking her own life. Damian did not have long to grieve, as he was "collected" by Cronus and subjected to experimentation along with the mutants of the second wave.

After months of torture, Damian staged an escape, and managed to free young Mac as well, using Mac's abilities as well as his own in offense against their captors. Once they were free and hidden from Cronus' attempts to reclaim them, Damian adopted Mac as his son. Henceforth, Damian held a grudge against Cronus, both for his torture and because Damian had come to blame them for his wife's death.

### Post Cronus

Free from his tormentors, Damian was unwilling to simply return to normal life. Using his background in information gathering, he set to work establishing connections in the criminal underground, seeking out any information on the higher-ups in Cronus' chain of command.

He established his own August Staffing in this time as well. Damian worked with both mercenaries and criminal organizations as a staffing agency of purely illicit nature, along with doing work as an informant, using his own mutant abilities as interrogation tools. His adopted son was also instrumental in this business, and Mackenzie grew to be his most talented employee (after some particular disciplinary measures, that is).

On the side of this business, Damian sought out and personally assassinated many Cronus executives. He worked alongside the Mutant Freedom Fighters during the war, but neither party considered themselves allies. As time went on, Mackenzie grew closer to the other freedom fighters, and made the decision to reject his adopted father.

There was a confrontation between Damian and Mac, which ended in Mac killing Damian and joining the freedom fighters to finish the war.

## Divergent Lore

Where Damian's main verse ends with his death, the extended universe includes an alternate storyline which has Damian survive with the loss of his left eye. In this storyline, he continues running August Staffing, and eventually meets Anti's Calondra Kit, who he goes on to marry. In some storylines, he does have contact with Mac, but it is always in a tense, strictly-business setting.