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Subject's Name: Yoshirou Naomichi.
Subject's Alias: Roan Mitchell.
Sex: Male.
Race: Hengeyokai.
Age: Unknown (looks to be in his early twenties, estimating 100-125).
Height: 5'6.
Weight: 143 lbs.
Hair: Black, short.
Eyes: Green.
Special Characteristics: Achieved the Genesis Rank: First Specialist, CID 633774.
Typical Garb: Black clothing, black shades, tactical gear, and trench coat.
Status:
Alive.Combat Assessment:Extremely
dangerous. Roan's skills started at an early age through marksmanship
training with his father and grew steadily as he involved himself with
the gangs of Babylon. His combat training was rapidly developed under
the tutelage of Genesis. I find that hengeyokai's natural alacrity
translates well to firearm usage; they're quick to pick up on it and
Roan is certainly proof of that.
Roan is first and foremost a
sniper. While he will use other types of firearms, he mostly relies on
his sniper rifle. His accuracy is on a level that most people can't
match; especially if he has time to line up his shot. I've taken a look
at his old marks from Genesis Training and they were some of the highest
ever recorded. It seems Roan has gotten his hands on an illegal rail
gun; much more potent than a standard sniper rifle. Roan also possess a
wide armory; carrying grenades of several types (incendiary, sleep,
etc).
His shots are powerful; capable of killing VIPs from a
distant. Those who manage to survive his shots find his attacks to be
debilitating; I have observed enemies feeling weakened, dazed, stunned,
or slowed after being shot. Roan has no qualms about killing, but goes
out of his way to not kill innocents.
His one weakness tends to
be his distaste for melee combat. He's more interested in fleeing than
standing and fighting if he is attacked up close. Though, this is more
of a 'tactical retreat', as Roan resumes firing upon his target once
he's clear of danger. Recommend dealing with him in close quarters while
ensuring methods of retreat are cut off.
Skill Assessment:Roan's
primary attributes are his wisdom and his dexterity. He is highly
perceptive, athletic, and acrobatic. He has developed intimidation and
bluffing skills from working closely with ROGUE despite not being
particularly charismatic. His natural inclination to bluffing a target
stems from his desire to hide his true identity while the intimidation
techniques started when he ran with gangs.
He has an adept
knowledge of urban warfare and the city itself. He is able to identify
the best route and vantage points for various scenarios. Roan's stealth
skills are unparalleled which plays into his combat role (finding a
roost and sniping from it). His natural talents combined with rigorous
training from Genesis has made Roan an excellent field agent. It is
likely that he would have been promoted from his security position to
ROGUE had he stayed within Genesis.
Background:Roan's
pre-genesis history is difficult to determine on paper, but I was
thankfully able to skip through all the hoops when I dove into his mind
for the first time. Roan Mitchell is the cover identity of a cat
hengeyokai named Yoshirou Naomichi. Roan's parents came over to Ezra
with the Oni Caravan. Roan himself never really lived in the caravan. It
seems his father was a weapon's merchant and quickly found the
potential in firearms offered by Genesis. Yoshirou's father and mother
moved to Babylon to become representatives of the Oni Caravan. In
Babylon, Roan's father began striking up deals in order to provide the
Oni Caravan with the best weaponry available. It seems the Oni Caravan
had plenty to offer Genesis.
I imagine Roan's parents hoped that
Babylon would provide Roan with greater opportunities than the caravan's
nomadic lifestyle would. The dream of many hengeyokai who would later
be dubbed 'city henge'. I find parents are often misguided, but with
good intentions. As Roan became of age, he quickly fell into the 'city
henge' archetype. It seems Roan largely ignored his own cultural
background despite his parent's attempts to integrate hengeyokai culture
into the boy's life, from what I have observed of his parents and after
speaking to family friends.
Roan and his parents were subjected
to a great deal of racism from both humans and hengeyokai. Humans felt
that the hengeyokai were dangerous foreigners and should be avoided
while the hengeyokai viewed his parents as race traitors, despite having
the blessing of the Oni Caravan to conduct business with Genesis. Like
many young 'city henge', I imagine Roan wondered why his family didn't
just pretend to be humans.
It seems Roan's parents were too
proud to pretend to be human; even if many other caravans did have their
liaisons pretend to be humans and then smuggle the weapons back to the
caravan without Genesis knowing that the weapons would be used by
hengeyokai. I imagine Roan's family was meant to be the 'official' face
for the Oni Caravan, even while these secret deals went on with others.
From
what I could tell, despite the rampant racism, Roan seemed enamored
with the bright lights and the technology Babylon had. I reviewed some
surveillance video on several deals and determined that Roan and his
father went to the shooting ranges together often to 'test' the product
before agreeing to buy it for the Oni Caravan. It looks like Roan and
his father followed proper firearm safety, but I imagine Roan's father
wanted to have his boy familiar with a firearm just in case...
Around
this point in the timeline, Roan went into his rebellious 'teen' phase.
A part of me thinks he never outgrew that by the trench coat he still
wears, but who am I to criticize fashion? In this 'phase', Roan
developed a human identity (Roan Mitchell). He began running with small
time gangs and doing small jobs for the human populace to build up
'street cred'. Roan managed to keep his human persona separate from his
hengeyokai persona such that no one could figure out that Roan and
Yoshirou were the same person.
Overtime, Roan figured out that
the gangs he was running with were small-time, and that Genesis was the
real power in the city. Roan seemed to be driven by a need for respect,
but I also sensed in him a latent desire to make a difference in the
city. At this time, Roan made the decision to join the armed forces
division of Genesis. I've heard of other hengeyokai doing this, though
Genesis finds it difficult to root out a person's true identity since
Genesis protocol prevents them from diving into the memories of their
employees. A privacy issue, if I recall.
To join Genesis, though,
Roan would have to give up his hengeyokai life. Genesis doesn't hire
hengeyokais out of 'national security'. A nice label for the company's
prejudice. Roan approached his parents with the age old hengeyokai
excuse of 'wanderlust'. His father saw through Roan's ruse and
interrogated his son until Roan finally admitted that what he really
wanted to do was join Genesis, and that meant leaving Sector 8 for good
and taking on a human life.
His father was furious, and his
mother was not exactly supportive either. Roan and his father had a huge
argument, one where neither side would back down. Roan's father forbade
him from joining Genesis, and said if Roan disobeyed him, then he would
be disowned by his family and the clan. Roan didn't care for that
ultimatum. He ran away from home, shed his hengeyokai skin, and became
Roan Mitchell full-time without any regrets.
Roan was able to use
the Man With No Name (a common underground contact for hengeyokai) to
draft a birth certificate and other documents to support the history of
Roan Mitchell. From there, he applied to the Genesis Military and began
boot camp. Roan quickly set himself apart from his peers; enough to
attract the attention of a young and budding Gwen Morrisson. In Gwen's
formative years as a ROGUE agent, she was scouting the talent for her
future machinations. She had hand picked Roan, even if he didn't know it
at the time.
Roan was accepted into a security role and was
given the luxuries all soldiers receive: company housing and salary.
Roan bounced from team to team for awhile; acting as a recon, scout, and
sniper. He eventually rose to the rank of First Specialist. Despite his
persona of a lone wolf, Roan actually had several close friends and
relationships within Genesis Security. It may have just been
comradeship, but these are social connections that Roan still maintains
even outside of Genesis.
The deepest connection he made was with a
woman known as Kimberley Meyer. She was a recon specialist that he
often worked with. Meyer was an orphan; no family and no friends. She
lived for her job, though that changed as her bond with Roan grew. The
two were physical with one another, but I sense that Roan had real love
for her. For his sake, I won't detail their relationship further, but it
is clear that Roan would do anything for Meyer. She quickly became his
world.
Gwen Morrisson became the main handler for Roan's security
team. While many of their missions were sanctioned and handed down from
the Genesis Corporate ladder, Gwen actually used Roan and many of his
teammates in several black ops missions underneath the nose of Genesis
executives. These missions were always presented as official missions,
but the outcomes of the missions generally benefited Gwen and not the
entire company.
The final mission Roan participated in with his
security team was the attempted apprehension of Leonhardt Nacht. Nacht
had broken into a testing facility and was acquiring sensitive
information to use against Gwen Morrisson and Genesis. During this
mission, Meyer, who had been performing recon, had been captured by
Nacht. As the security team closed in on him, Nacht took Meyer to the
roof and held her hostage.
Gwen told Roan not to take the shot.
Frustrated, and believing himself capable of saving his lover, Roan took
the shot on Nacht. His sniper round killed Meyer instantly and missed
Nacht. The impact of the shot sent Nacht and Meyer tumbling off the side
of the building they were on. Nacht wasn't found. Meyer's corpse was
splattered across the pavement.
On the official books and in the
news, Gwen changed the story to claim that Nacht kidnapped Meyer (and
still has her kidnapped to this day). Roan was awarded several medals of
honor and valor for his service, then honorably discharged from Genesis
service. In reality, Gwen had been keeping Roan imprisoned for weeks;
interrogating him and psychologically challenging him. Gwen would
eventually release Roan to turn him into a weapon against Nacht.
Ultimately, Roan's background is a tragic one. A family that disowned
him, and then accidentally killing the person he cared for most. No
wonder he is so somber and serious.
After being released, through
his leads and contacts, Roan began a one-man hunt for Leonhardt Nacht.
He found it difficult to get any information on the man as it seemed
like Genesis was protecting him. However, Roan's desire for revenge
against the man brought him to my doorstep...
Runner History:After
defeating several of Nacht's contacts and preventing an EMP from
falling into his hands, Roan learned of the Middleman and sought
employment with him. The Middleman could provide Roan with the answers
and questions regarding why Nacht was protected by Genesis and how to
kill Nacht. I thought this to be some trick or trap by Gwen Morrisson or
Genesis, but after sifting through Roan's minds, I felt it safe enough
to take a risk on him. After all, Roan has a good history of service and
excellent skills that lend himself to be an incredible asset in the
Runner lifestyle.
I assigned Roan to a team of rookies. I
believed that Roan's professionalism would temper the group and keep
them on track for their missions. He would never forget what the task at
hand was because his desire for revenge depended on it. Roan excelled
as a 'controller', eliminating enemy effectiveness while maintaining a
calm and cool professionalism.
The first mission at the testing
facility assured me that Roan was capable of handling combat situations
in both urban and rural environments. This was important as his second
mission would take him to the rural area of Quiet Mountain. He developed
a professional relationship with the client, Dr. Vesper Klein. Klein
and Roan might have potential business dealings in the future.
His
third mission would be his hardest as the Olympians used the identity
of Roan to kill the First Lady of Genesis. It forced him briefly into
his hengeyokai identity (exposing his cover to the group and to many
others out there). While Roan's human identity will always be stained
because of the Olympians' use of it, Gwen Morrisson managed to legally
absolve Roan of all crimes thanks to his cooperating in the capture of
the Olympians.
Roan's relationships with the other runners on his
team straddles the line between friendship and professionalism. I
believe he might care for many of them, though doesn't allow himself to
get too close in order to protect himself. Then again, Roan is capable
of up keeping an excellent mask, so that assessment might be off base.
Roan's
questioned involved how he could kill Nacht, why Genesis was protecting
Nacht, and then finally... the truth of the Middleman's identity. I can
lure out Nacht by taking away Gwen's leverage against him and offering
it in a place where Roan could set-up an ambush. Genesis protected Nacht
since he had black mail against them. And I'm always amused when people
ask that last question...
Motivations:Roan
lives by a creed. "Nothing worthwhile is given; it must be earned. Not
everything earned is desired, or can be cast aside. Everything that is
earned, can always be taken away."
In his early days, Roan was
motivated by his desire for respect. Later on, he may have been
influenced by his lover, Kimberley Meyer. However, at this juncture in
his life, Roan is primarily motivated by revenge to the point where he
has little to no concern for his own welfare. Roan has no end game plan
beyond killing Leonhardt Nacht. He has been approached by several people
attempting to assure him that there are options for him after killing
Nacht, but Roan doesn't think he'll live that long. Given that he is
going up against one of the most dangerous men alive, Roan might be
right.
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