Nine

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**Nine**, also referred to as **King**, is a blind fighter who resides in the future.

## Background

King prior to his attack lived a regular life as a convenience store worker, letting his sister and niece reside in his apartment.

## Personality

Nine is deadpan in his words, turned dull from years of rest before his awakening. The heat of battle bringing forth a personality filled with murderous intent. Through friendship and therapy he has opened up and his murderous tendencies are calmed down before his appearance in DBNG. The only thing that hasn't changed is his frustration in a battle dragging out.

Trying to reconnect with original personality, Nine does on occasion make jokes, though they are usually at a bad time.

## Synopsis

### (Pre-DBNG)

In a city full of powered individuals, known as Altered Humans, (Redacted) King is attacked by an unknown figure. Having only his regeneration to defend himself it quickly turns into a fight for his life. Using his wits and quick legs he thought to have escaped. In a sudden eruption of flames his vision is ripped from him, having no way to resist his life is put in the hands of the assailant. Disappearing from the world. . .

### (DBNG: Ninth Story)

50 Years after the events of DBNG, the future is secured by the Ops Police Force as Jaden and Justin have left earth. New criminals are appearing in spades, and the power of these foes are growing fearsome to the public. The testing of Subject Nine is finally approved by Cylestia Corporation, and is awakened from cryosleep. Given new sight in the form of vibrations, touch, and sound, his arms having been replaced with the strongest alloys built for an ongoing war.

## Powers and Abilities

### Abilities

* **Stealth**
* **Tactical Analysis**
* **Body Reading Ability**
* **Peak Soldier Condition**
* **Investigation**

### Powers

* **Superhuman Speed**
* **Superhuman Reflexes**
* **Superhuman Agility**
* **Superhuman Strength**
* **Superhuman Stamina**
* **Superhuman Durability**

* **Regeneration**

Nine can regenerate most damage at a supernatural pace.

* Limbs can be regenerated through willpower or reconnection.
* Nine can easily grow tired after healing too much.

* **Null-Sense**

Loss of his sight has reinforced his remaining four senses, enhancing them to a superhuman level, resulting in them becoming radar-like. Feeling numerous sensations around him to navigate, including balance, direction, minuscule changes in air density, vibrations, and blankets of temperature variations, that are usually imperceptible to temporal beings.

* With his intensified senses, one could use this to their advantage and overload them in order to turn the tide of battle.
* One of the benefits of this way of taking in sensory inputs, it is not limited to field of vision as he can view all details from a full 360 degrees.
* This ability can be exploited if the attacker avoids giving out sensory information, such as having no scent, making no noise, and heart rate is absolutely controlled.

* **Kinetic Absorption**

Nine can absorb all forms of kinetic energy to make himself more powerful as long as it has direct connection to him. This also includes self-generated energy.

* **Time Impulse Control**

Implanted into him before his awakening and lost after the events of Ninth Story, Nine had the power of the Time Impulse inside him.

* The only documented use of this unknown power was to remember previous loops and when pushed towards the end, see where the Jackal would be.

### Equipment

**Cy Gauntlets**
These are gauntlets which cables connect to the nerves in his stumps, which not only serve as a functional prosthesis but also contain the abilities of:

**Tractor-Beam**

It is a beam created from a powerful crystal inside his gauntlets in which it can pull and push objects at will.

* This beam can pull anything as long as it isn't blocked by another object.
* It takes time to reach a target.
* The only escape from this attack is teleportation.

**Tekko Kagi**

Claws retract out of Nine's stubs of metal, shredding anything in its path.

* These claws can stretch up to 5 meters.
* Though the intention of this is to give Nine a quick range attack in battle, those that are more durable than the blade can quickly turn this advantage into a disadvantage.

## Trivia

* It is unknown how long Nine has been asleep, but his allies from the future call him a boomer.
* Nine listens to hyperpop, though in the future it's referred to as normalpop.