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HANDLE: M
CONTACT: Mayalex
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CHARACTERS IN-GAME: The Spy

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NAME: Siebren de Kuiper
CANON: Overwatch
CANON POINT: After being taken in by Talon.
AGE: 62
BACKGROUND: wiki link

PERSONALITY: Before the experiment that changed his life, Siebren was well known in the scientific community for his 'eccentric' personality. He was quite an analytical and ambitious man who threw his entire life into his work with no regrets, dedicating his entire career as an astrophysicist to studying gravity with the hopes of harnessing the power of a black hole. It is implied that his main motivation was simply for the progression of science rather than any ill intent.

 

However, after the experiment, he sustained serious psychological damage that both expanded his mind and fractured it. While in government custody, he was locked away for years and became essentially comatose, leading to uneasiness when isolated for long periods. He gets easily upset at the thought of being imprisoned or contained. Although he has made great strides in his recovery after being taken in by Talon, he still struggles to keep the pieces together. Like with any chronic illness, he has good days and bad days with varying frequencies.

 

On good days, he is more or less his old self, an optimistic but somewhat naïve man who occasionally loses himself in academic work and speaks a little too clinically for casual conversation. He is capable of going into entire lectures if he gets passionate enough about something and usually has to be forced to stop. He's somewhat verbose and tends to cite scientific theories, quoting Newton's first law - "an object in motion stays in motion" - and Neil deGrasse Tyson. However, he is aware of his tendency to sound academic and even makes fun of himself about it on occasion. To him, every problem is a challenge that he is happy to tackle head-on to prove his hypotheses and theories.

 

Despite the severity of his experiment failing and the effect that exposure to a black hole has had on him, Siebren still loves his job and regards outer space and the universe with a great fondness, calling it 'beautiful and cold', and is excited by being able to do field research. He also dislikes violence for the sake of violence, for the most part, stating that he'd 'rather not' and gets upset when exposed to it, but is willing to defend both himself and his team if need be.

 

There seem to be times that he doesn't quite realize that he is on a battlefield, however, often asking for more time to think and trying to remember equations while fighting. To him, fighting is simply 'field research'. He's very friendly and inquisitive, but can come across as overbearing, often chiding people to check their math and avoiding swearing whenever he can. If something is going awry, Siebren is capable of remaining calm, but in a team setting, he can get passive-aggressive.

 

With the good comes the bad, and on bad days, he can barely keep himself tethered to reality. He often suffers from auditory hallucinations, including a recurring piano melody and whispers and laughter. He tends to drift into thought mid-sentence and hum to himself when he loses focus. He also dissociates into a much more aggressive personality on occasion, usually when particularly upset or if he is forced to fight. He will often refer to others as 'entities' and doesn't necessarily seem to realize he is hurting people. Instead, he focuses more on the scientific results of his abilities when used against others.

 

The piano melody hallucination that he hears tends to fluctuate in volume depending on his mental state as well, and it gets louder when he gets upset or overstimulated. When aggravated, he is more inclined to believe that the universe is 'singing to him'.

 

In general, however, he is incredibly confident in his work and is not above bragging about his abilities to the point of sounding condescending. He often refers to gravity as being a harness and states that he has 'harnessed the harness', and refers to a climatologist as 'just a scientist' compared to him. He isn't always serious, however - his sense of humor is usually quite dry, but he isn't above making some obvious jokes (for example, when deployed to Greece, he quips that "It's all Greek to me").

 

Besides the severe psychic damage he sustained, Siebren has also developed some minor quirks. He tends to fidget, especially with his hyperspheres, tossing them between his hands or expanding them for observation. He also has an aversion to shoes and a love of stroopwafels.

 
POWERS/ABILITIES: Before the accident, Siebren was an accomplished scientist with a background in astrophysics. He is very intelligent, stated to be famous for his "groundbreaking research" - he dedicated decades to studying gravity, in particular. Considering he spent some time in space, he also has some understanding of space travel.

After the accident on the international space station and with a lot of training, Siebren gained the ability to control gravity. By default, he is constantly floating about 4 inches above the ground - with concentration, he can disable it and walk normally, but he stops floating when he sleeps. He is also able to make small objects in his vicinity float with minimal effort.

With more effort, he can freeze projectiles mid-air and convert them into shields as well as summon debris in the area to create a boulder than he can launch at others (or form into a chair if he feels like sitting down). He can also lift an individual person into the air. Talon has also equipped him with an experimental barrier that he can project from a distance that blocks damage.

With massive amounts of effort, he is able to activate the "experiment" - his Gravitic Flux, in which he takes flight and creates an area on the ground that lifts people into the air for a brief second before slamming them back down.

It should be noted that the more he uses his gravity manipulation powers, the more unstable he becomes.

INVENTORY: His armor and underclothes consisting of a grey t-shirt and grey jogger pants (worn on arrival), hyperspheres, experimental barrier projector, and ID tag.

MOONBLESSING: Iris.

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