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[goingwrong]

〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Colin
AGE: 34
JOURNAL: thorhugs
IM / EMAIL: ThorHugs#5484 @ Discord
PLURK: thorhugs
RETURNING: Not currently in game. Previously Solider 76 and Crawford Sands.

〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Gabriel Reyes
CHARACTER AGE: ~50
SERIES: Overwatch
CHRONOLOGY: A few weeks after Retribution
CLASS: Chaotic hero. He's very much all for the good of the people, but screw laws and limits.
HOUSING: Totally open to anything

BACKGROUND: Not much is known about Gabriel Reyes before he joined the military, other than the fact that he hails from Los Angeles and was born somewhere around the year 2020. Even little is known about his early military career, other than the fact that he became close friends with a younger recruit by the name of Jack Morrison. This friendship was cemented further as they both chose to enlist in the Soldier Enhancement Program (SEP). This program was meant to create super soldiers, ala Captain America. Reyes, at the time, was given the designation Soldier 24.

Whether something went wrong then or somewhere down the line, canon doesn't say. But Reyes had some unexpected side-effects after that. Which will be discussed in a moment.

Reyes and Morrison continued to fight in the omnic wars across the world, with Reyes as the commanding officer. Soon their efforts were well recognized when they were chosen, along with other elite warriors and specialists to form the organization that would be known as Overwatch. Morrison was named the ultimate leader of the group, while Reyes became the commander of the strike team. After the end of the war, that strike team became the covert ops division of Overwatch, known as Blackwatch.

His team became a place for misfits, of a sort. A gunslinging orphaned teenager, a cyborg samurai from a Yakuza family, and a disgraced scientist shunned by her peers, specifically (canon is cagey so I don't know if it was just them or if there were others). Fitting right in with Reyes' general attitude, Blackwatch became the team that did what Overwatch could not. When action needed to be taken to keep people safe, but the various governments would not sanction activities.

Somewhere along the way, Reyes started experiencing difficulties relating to with the SEP did to him. He enlisted the help of his teammate Moira for this. The specifics are unclear on what exactly was happening, all we know is that Reyes--a war hardened veteran--was scared of what was happening. Was Moira helping him to control strange powers that had started to manifest, or were her experiments making them manifest? Blizzard won't tell us. All we know is that she certainly wasn't doing anything to stop them and was likely making the problem worse somehow.

Over time, a group known as Talon became a problem for both teams. A terrorist organization that was targeting them as much as other powers throughout the world. It seemed to come to a head when one of their agents managed to execute an attack against the Overwatch base in Rome while several pivotal members happened to be working on tackling a local threat, including Reyes, his team, and Gerard Lacroix, a high ranking member of Overwatch. Lacroix was not only a coworker for Reyes, but a good friend. Lacroix was grievously injured when a bomb decimated the base.

Reyes himself pulled Lacroix from the wreckage and sat by the man's bed as he recovered. This was what pushed him to demand he be given the mission rather than wait for the proper sanctions. They could drag the bastard in and start the process of dismantling his organization. It would be best for Blackwatch anyway, because they weren't publicly affiliated with Overwatch and that way Morrison and Overwatch could keep their hands clean. Morrison, a good man who wanted to keep the world safe, could not officially approve the mission. But he made it clear that he was turning a blind eye to allow Blackwatch to make it happen. At this time, Morrison and Reyes trusted each other to do the right thing, especially in the field. Thought sources after the fact claimed there was jealousy was at play because Morrison was Strike Commander and Reyes was not, that is very much not the fact. Just a mis-interpretation of events after the fact.

Now, Reyes expressly told hotter headed people than himself that the mission was to bring in the man, Antonio, himself. Because this was already a mess. That was the mission from the outset and Reyes had always been level headed, reasonable, and dedicated. Surprise, surprise, when he was the one who shot Antonio in the head and created all the chaos that followed as he and his team made quite a scene getting out when it was supposed to be a completely covert mission.

Blackwatch was semi-permanently shut down after that, and a poor light was cast on Overwatch. It was the first tremors that would lead to the fall of the entire organization and the laws that ensured their kind of work could not continue. But Reyes doesn't know that as he is being plucked from mere weeks after the mission.

PERSONALITY: Gabriel Reyes, in his own way, is a passionate man. Despite being a well renowned military man with prestige, titles, and an honorable history has managed to maintain his own ideals and passions that are typically squeezed out of such veterans. He even still has a sense of humor, and a certain disregard for certain rules. He is as close to chaotic good as someone can get in a military organization.

Up until recent events, he has been a reliable and reasonable man. Capable of leadership across multiple disciplines and more than able to hold his own in the heat of battle. Despite his passion he has never been considered impulsive or hot-headed. It takes a methodical approach in order to buck the rules and not end up court marshalled on a regular basis. What his battle-hardened experience couldn't protect him from, his sense of humor would cover. Not an easy man to goad into action he hadn't completely thought through. He sees things from all possible angles to find just the right weakness to strike.

However, that's started to rapidly fall apart. He's not just impulsive, he's reckless. On a mission where he expressly laid out all the reasons holding the man wouldn't work for long, and outright told his teammate to not shoot the man in the face, he was goaded into action by those very reasons to shoot the man himself. It seems along with manifesting his strange abilities, his mood and mental state is rapidly deteriorating. He's becoming irritable, irrational and impulsive. And it's only going to get worse. After his pull point, it culminates in a massive fight with Morrison, first, then builds until he just wants to outright murder everyone who had once been his friends. Whether this is Moira's meddling or just a breakdown of the SEP experiments are unknown.

POWER: The Full Reaper Set
Going Gothy Ghost: He can do over dramatic ghosty things. He can shift into a ghost-like wraith and drift through walls and flying around as if immune to gravity. Most of the time he looks like himself with his lower half becoming something like black smoke. If he pushes it hard enough, his entire form can become the smokey nonsense. In this form, he can't be harmed, but he also can't interact with anything. He is fully incorporeal. This ability also allows him to slip through shadows as if they were portals, but only across short distances--he has to be able to see where he's going.

Unconventional Never Ending Reloads: Who needs to restock or reload bullets when you're a creepy ghost man? No one's got time for that. So instead of even stopping to reload his short barrelled shotguns, all he needs to do is throw them on the ground as if they were disposable. An identical, but now reloaded, pair will materialize in his holsters, ready to be drawn again. The pair thrown to the ground will vanish when dramatically appropriate (or when no one is looking).

Life Drain Healing: While his ghostly form may render him impervious temporarily, he's still capable of getting hurt. And he has the capacity to heal himself, so long as another person is around. If he touches them, he can draw off their life force to heal himself. The exchange rate is terrible, though. If he borrows their life force to heal a minor fracture or otherwise minor wound, they might feel depressed or sick for a few days. If he does the same thing for something more grievous, he could easily kill them. Is trading someone's life for a non-fatal gunshot wound really worth it? What about when they can just come back to life?

〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[ His tone is incredibly serious. As if this is some super important, top-secret level matter he's discussing. ]

I know it's only May, we haven't even reached summer yet, let alone the fall. But I need you to be thinking ahead. Not just aware it's happening. I need you ten steps ahead, because I need every last one of you to bring your A-Game. We've all got our own ideas to bring to the table from nearly as many worlds as we have people. So I need you talking to each other. To me. I need brainstorming. I need you coming up with as many ideas as you can.

Because if I don't see you at my Halloween party in October, I'll be disappointed. And I fully expect every last one of you to show off whatever your world has to offer for such a day. If your world doesn't have Halloween, come see me. I'll show you the ropes.

Reyes out.

LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE: Two log-ish samples here

FINAL NOTES: Canon is an absolute mess. It's scattered across official comics and video shorts, information released by creators, random comments on twitter, and other random sources. It's all theory and no one knows what's going on. The wikis also are horribly out of date and don't include all sources (hence the lack of links).