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Applicant Info Name: Miru. Contact: databomb , databomb Current Character(s): N/A. Character Info Character's Name: Jion Haru. Character's Canon: Original. Character's Age: Technically 16, physically mid- to late-20's. Canon Point: N/A. Background/History: » The setting: a damaged alternate-Earth, where World War III has already come and gone. Most of the world is still picking itself up after the damage wrought by WWIII, with the US still caught up in some skirmishes in Eastern Europe. » Sixteen years ago, Jion is made. The product of a military-funded experiment that started before WWIII and picked up its pace near the end of the war. Several hundred genetically-engineered humans are created as part of the ambitious Project Planaria -- an attempt to push regenerative medicine to its limits. The human embryos are modified to share key genetic sequences with planaria to facilitate super-rapid cell regeneration in case of injury. » Unfortunately, only a few dozen embryos survive, and don't even show signs of rapid regeneration. Further work on the project is immediately put on hold, with the surviving specimens to be monitored until the age of 18, then enlisted as regular soldiers. For a good decade or so, they seem to be regular kids. » Then, a twist. Turns out the planaria children do have regenerative abilities -- but they activate upon puberty, and permanently. Their bodies produce far too many stem cells that uncontrollably differentiate into other types of cells, causing their bodies to wildly produce extra organs, muscle tissue and teratomas. In fact, their bodies produce extra components rapidly enough that, without regular surgery, the resulting pressure in their bodies can cause tremendous damage. Not to mention, the constant regeneration also causes the children to age quickly, roughly four times that of a normal person. » There's a mad scramble as the scientists leading the project try to decide what to do. Now that it's been revealed these kids are special, it would be a huge financial waste to send them out as regular soldiers. But their constant regeneration and need for regular surgery would make them poor 'supersoldiers.' So, after much debate, it's decided these specimens will serve as specialized medics, instead. » So Jion, twelve years old and rapidly coming to realize that he's not a normal human, is placed in a crash course in military medicine. After eighteen months of intense training, he's shipped out to Eastern Europe as a medic. He's technically thirteen-and-a-half, with the body of an eighteen-year-old. » Products of Project Planaria are often given unconventional tasks due to their capabilities: providing emergency care under fire; helping evacuate individuals from hazardous locations; serving as blood donors on the spot; and -- in the most drastic cases -- serving as emergency organ farms. It's a tough job. » Jion spends two and a half years being shuttled from battlefield to battlefield, platoon to platoon. His lifestyle isn't particularly cruel or demeaning. He gets a healthy paycheck to his name that he can spend however he likes. He's treated nicely between skirmishes, and a lot of people appreciate what he does. He's saved lots of lives. But it's still a somewhat lonely way of living. » Enter Awash. Strengths: » RESILIENT | Even if he's ultimately a failed specimen, Jion was originally built to be a quick-healing supersoldier, and it shows -- he's stupidly resilient. Thanks to his rapid healing and pain resistance, he's able to keep functioning even after getting shot or breaking a bone; he's also more fit than he looks, and he's accustomed to venturing into dangerous territory to retrieve injured people. While far from invincible, he can tank his way through a substantial amount of damage and ultimately emerge only slightly worse for the wear. But physical resilience aside, Jion's also pretty mentally hardy -- despite usually being a little awkward and flighty, he's all focus once he needs to start working. He's used to dealing with chaos and bloodshed and has been trained to concentrate even in stressful situations. Though technically young, he's not easily traumatized or rattled, and even if he is caught off-guard, he can force himself to delay that anxiety until he has the luxury of freaking out. » ADAPTABLE | Partly because his life has been so weird, and partly because he's had to move around so much for the last few years of his life, Jion adapts to new circumstances quickly. He'll eat pretty much anything without complaint, he can sleep anywhere, and he'll do whatever work needs to be done under whatever circumstances he's placed in. Because he doesn't really have a home to be homesick for, nor a family to long for, he can feel reasonably comfortable anywhere, around anybody who's been friendly to him. Though he never really liked having to move between different battalions so often (and was honestly a little envious of platoons where everyone seemed really close), it taught him to quickly warm up to strangers and make himself available to them. While not the most capable individual, he's at least largely consistent in his efforts and attitude, regardless of where he ends up. » EMPATHETIC | Some wouldn't necessarily call it a 'strength,' but a notable facet of Jion's personality is that he's a deeply caring person. Jion is of the belief that no one ever deserves to suffer. Yes, there are some situations that can't be resolved without conflict -- but any person who's injured deserves to be cared for, no matter who they are, and Jion will always try his absolute hardest to provide that care to the best of his abilities. He takes pride in his job as a medic, and he's always genuinely relieved to see people recover. And even outside of life-and-death situation, Jion just ... cares about people. As awkward and flustered as he tends to get when talking to strangers, he's never insincere, and he really likes getting to know other people. As a result, he makes friends pretty easily, and he can usually depend on at least person to have his back in a pinch. Not that he makes friends to depend on them, but he certainly won't say no to it. Weaknesses: » IMPULSIVE | Jion's job and training make it easy to forget, but he's ultimately still a teenager, and has a lot of the flaws one would expect from a teenager. He's a little thoughtless, a little awkward, and a lot impulsive. If something sounds like a good idea, he'll move to work on it immediately, and if something sounds like a bad idea from the beginning, he'll promptly reject it. He's just as quick to blurt things out thoughtlessly at times, especially when speaking to people he doesn't know well, stumbling over his own thoughts when under pressure. Awkward in the way that a teenager doesn't quite know how to handle stressful social situations, Jion is the kind of guy who always tries his best but doesn't quite make the mark a lot of the time. » AIMLESS | Jion's biggest weakness, however, isn't one that's so obvious at first glance: he's almost entirely lacking in direction. So accustomed to taking orders from people -- go here, do this, stitch up these wounds, take care of this person -- Jion tends to flounder immediately when he isn't given an obvious goal to aim for. While it's not necessary to micromanage him once he's been given a task, he does function best when pointed in a specific direction and told to head that way. And he's not especially picky about who gives what orders, either. Because he's sort of been herded along one specific path for the entirety of his life, Jion isn't the greatest at discerning who can be trusted and who can't; for the most part, if someone seems reasonable and higher-ranked than him, he'll assume that they know what they're doing (at least, better than he does), and do as he's told. » INEXPERIENCED | Also of note is that Jion is incredibly inexperienced in a lot of ways. Having grown up in that laboratory, then immediately shuffled into life as a walking organ farm, Jion knows very little about normal life other than what he's seen on television. (Which is why he likes watching television and movies so much. Gives him a glimpse of what a normal, quiet life might be like.) As a result, he can be pretty awkward when it comes to unfamiliar situations -- he just doesn't have a lot of references about what he should do, how he should act, what would be the right thing to say. Though he doesn't exactly freeze up or panic, he does tend to second-guess himself pretty often. Powers/Abilities: » HYPER-RAPID CELL REGENERATION | Between the planarian DNA implanted in his genetic sequence and some additional specific genetic tweaking, Jion's body creates new cells and recovers from injuries at a frightening pace. Deep puncture wounds close up entirely within an hour, and a carved-out kidney can be replenished overnight. His body's also adapted to using two extra hearts and an extra set of lungs, making him surprisingly fit. This doesn't means Jion is invincible -- a clean shot through the skull that scrambles his brain would kill him instantly, as would a large-bore shot through the chest that might ruin all of his hearts. But the main thing is that Jion is pretty hard to kill and can shake off most injuries without difficulty. » PORTABLE ORGAN FARM | Of course, Jion's main schtick is that he functions as a convenient, portable blood-and-organ farm. He regenerates blood rapidly enough that he can lose up to five batches of 500mL (a total 2.5L, about 50% of an average person's blood volume) daily as long as he has a little breathing room in between batches. The fact that he's a type O Rh D negative "universal donor" means he can donate to just about anyone in an emergency situation. He's naturally got an incredibly powerful immune system and has also been built to withstand most diseases, making him reliably "clean." Jion also serves as a portable organ-tank, containing organs available for transplantation at any time. At the end of any given week, he'll usually contain duplicates of most organs within the chest- and abdominal cavity, and he can also regrow any muscle tissue, tendons, or skin taken from him. » REGULAR EXCAVATIONS | The downside of Jion's rapid cell production is that he can't control how quickly his body produces extra bits. So he has to "excavate" his body on a weekly basis -- slicing himself open from collarbone to navel in order to remove a number of extra internal organs. Neglecting to do so builds up a lot of pressure in his body, resulting in awful gut and chest pains and difficulty breathing. His body is marked with a permanent Y-shaped autopsy-style scar due to how regularly he makes that incision. Excavated organs and tissues are stored for future transplants if there's an available facility nearby, or are incinerated like standard biological waste. He also has to bleed himself out every other day if he hasn't given any blood those days. This usually consists of cutting a vein in his arm and sitting in the bathtub for a bit. Neglecting to do so tends to make him dizzy and headache-y from the buildup of incredibly high blood pressure. » MODERATE RESISTANCE TO PAIN | Though Jion does still feel pain, he's suffered through enough injuries that he's grown somewhat immune to lower levels of pain. He's especially accustomed to having his chest and abdominal cavities sliced open, and feels virtually no pain from that specific procedure, which allows him to handily operate on himself, solo, without the aid of any painkillers. Still, anything that breaks more than a few bones will be enough to take him out of commission until his body repairs itself. » PLAYING DOCTOR | All that gruesome nonsense aside, Jion's a pretty competent combat medic. Though not as good as a proper doctor, he's capable of conducting most first aid and trauma care procedures. He's pretty good with his hands and can deal with most injuries without too much difficulty; he's also got experience helping out with some more advanced surgeries, though it's not his area of expertise. » BASIC COMBAT | Oh, and he's ultimately a soldier. He has basic training in both hand-to-hand combat and handling firearms, though he doesn't really like either. His aim is just okay, and he tends to be a little reckless in hand-to-hand since he's so unlikely to suffer from serious, permanent injury. Other Noteworthy Traits: When he showers his extra dead skin sloughs off him in a visible manner and it's really gross. Also, he's surprisingly good at sewing. Weapons & Other Special Inventory: » Semi-casual outfit (on person): army slacks and boots, black thermal T-shirt, gray turtleneck sweater, slightly ratty army-style jacket, dogtags -- he was resting at the moment he was brought over, so he doesn't have his full uniform or gear » Emergency medkit (on person): contains a trauma kit (bandages and gauze, dressings, tourniquets, clotting agents, chest seals, scalpel, morphine), first aid kit (a bunch more bandages, water purification tablets, antiseptic solution, antibiotic ointment), airway tubing, bag valve mask, assorted suture needles and thread, and trauma shears » SIG Sauer P320 (on person): comes with its standard holster, already loaded with one magazine of 17 bullets, but with no extra bullets » MOLLE vest (extra item): harness/chest rig with a small rucksack (containing a few reusable splints, a pack of gloves, and a survival blanket), a hydration pack, three modular pouches (one containing three MREs), and an extra medkit containing a bunch of band-aids, orthopedic tape, some OTC meds (painkillers, allergy meds, an epi-pen), and his personal supplies (two scalpels, a large-bore syringe with several extra needles, and a loaded surgical stapler with one extra cartridge of staples) Color: Yellow! He's not really passionate enough for red (even if he's constantly in contact with a lot of blood), nor calm enough for blue, but a warm orange-ish yellow would reflect his sunny personality and warm disposition pretty well. Maybe something like #FDCC00?