ELEMENT/Characters

The Characters of ELEMENT.
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The Entire Team
"Sun: "Straight? In the ELEMENT chatroom? Ha. Ha. Funny joke.""
 * Badass Crew
 * Body Horror: Think about it.
 * Mr. Fanservice: Let's see... We've got someone who can morph into anything, resident male dominatrix complete with gas mask, someone who can slink into (and out of) shadows at will, a cool old yaoi guy, an adorably innocent Cloud Cuckoolander, Topaz, the cool old guy's on-again-off-again boyfriend (?)... and a cute kid.
 * Even the Guys Want Him


 * Phlebotinum Rebel
 * Sanity Ball: Everyone's sane / insane on at least one occasion, though there are some people who catch it more often than others.
 * Except maybe for Sky.
 * Turned Against Their Masters

David Shalsett

 * The Captain: The founder and commander of ELEMENT.
 * Couldn't Find a Pen
 * The Fettered
 * Guilt Complex: He takes every death personally and never seems to get over anything.
 * Necromantic: Did NOT take Arsenic's death well.
 * Shoot the Dog: If it means keeping his subordinates safe, he does what he has to do.
 * He Who Fights Monsters: Or, at least, he thinks so.
 * Shapeshifting
 * Humanshifting

Charlie

 * Cool Mask: A gas mask prevents him from spewing poisonous gases with every breath.
 * Vader Breath
 * Combat Pragmatist
 * Crazy Awesome doesn't even BEGIN to describe it.
 * High Octane Nightmare Fuel:
 * Honor Before Reason
 * Memetic Badass
 * Badass
 * Mind Screw: Everything Oxy does is intentional. And even when Oxy doesn't do something intentionally, it really looks likes he does. Think about it.
 * Paranoia Fuel

Leonidas daSilva
Leo was one in a series of experiments intended to create a being who did not require gas exchange for survival. He was being tested in Legion for more than 14 years, but even with the long amount of time committed to him, his experiments still resulted in failure. However, some side effects of his experimentation included his fingernails turning into sodium metal, hence his operative name. He isn't very helpful in battle, so he has become Captain of Support. Moreover, he developed hemophilia which means that, even if he wanted to fight, if he so much as got shot once, he'd pop like a water balloon filled with blood.

Personality-wise, Leo is very... "very". He can be a little much at times. Leo's boisterous, loud, flamboyant, speaks his mind, laughs all the time, makes jokes... if you were to assign labels to each member of ELEMENT, Leo would be "class clown". When he teams up with someone on his wavelength, watch out; shit's about to go down. Leo enjoys drinking a lot, and he describes himself as a "funny drunk", which means ''get away, everybody. For your own sakes.'' However, he's surprisingly temperate, and knows his limits far better than one would assume at first glance. Though he doesn't really seem like he ever calms down, he can be introspective at times. Due to the dormant paternal instinct inside him (he's always wanted kids, but after joining ELEMENT, that dream is fading farther and farther into the fog), Leo sees pretty much everyone under the age of 30 in ELEMENT as his sons and daughters. He's the kind of father-figure that you can just pull up and have a beer with, have a talk, and end up feeling good about yourself. He's a genuinely nice person when he's not drunk or on one of his "practical-jokes-are-awesome" streaks. I cannot stress this enough: Steer clear of Leo when he's on one of those streaks. If you don't, you--and the physical pain inflicted upon you--will regret it. He seems to have a sort of masochistic streak in him, and, though he can't stand the sight of his own blood or misery, he seems to have a penchant for seeing that of others'. However, this side of him is mostly harmless, but, again, the opportune word there is "mostly".


 * All There in the Manual: His backstory.
 * Adult Fear: He sees the rest of ELEMENT as his "children", but as Mission Control, he'd be the first to know if they go down.
 * Ax Crazy: He can be... irrational when pushed to the limit.
 * Badass Driver: Though he Drives Like Crazy, there's still a badass behind the wheel.
 * Butt Monkey
 * Cast From HP: His experience at Legion left him with fingernails made of sodium metal. The only way he can fight like the other operatives is by making makeshift bombs using the metal in his fingernails and putting them in water bottles, which doesn't do much, or by dunking his hand in a basin of water and letting good ol' exothermia do the rest.
 * Cool Old Guy: So far, the oldest operative in ELEMENT, and still manages to be pretty awesome.
 * Cute and Psycho: In his own special way.
 * Dirty Old Man: Played with.
 * Flamboyant Gay: He has his moments.
 * Ho Yay: Invoked with Dylan and Smith.
 * Mission Control
 * Nerds Are Virgins: Even though everyone has body modifications based on the periodic table of the elements, Leo averts this. Hard.
 * Obfuscating Stupidity: He's Mission Control, but he acts like a total idiot.
 * Only Known by Their Nickname
 * Sensei-chan: A rare male, non-teacher example.
 * Shipper on Deck
 * Superpower Lottery: Lost this. Hard. His so-called "superpower" is not breathing and having exploding fingernails.
 * Team Mom: He attempts to invoke this, but due to the fact that he's Plucky Comic Relief and the overall lack of respect for his authority, it doesn't go over so well.
 * Trauma-Induced Amnesia: He doesn't like speaking about his time at Legion... because he doesn't remember it.

Tesla /
Tesla (or, as she's called around base, Tess) was a subject designed to control magnetic fields and alter its molecular composition into biological metal. This means that she's able to attract metals to herself, as well as adhere herself to metal surfaces and adhere metal objects to herself. Because of her complete mastery over magnetic fields, she can also sense when metals, alloys and metal compounds are getting closer to her, which is a great asset for recon, future or not. Unfortunately, whenever she lets her emotions run away with her or tries to push herself too hard, her powers are relatively inhibited.

Overall, Tess is extremely goal-oriented. She devotes herself entirely towards the completion of tasks and needs a strict order of importance of goals--this one's primary, that one's secondary, this other one's tertiary, etc, etc. In that sense, Tess's personality is pretty situational. She's been raised and trained to fight dirty, use underhanded tactics, and strike from the shadows. When the effort is going towards completing a mission, she is very devious and resourceful, both in fighting and deception. Tess has a lot of sharp edges to her, both in the stark view she has of things and the little ways she moves. Physically, she's very deliberate and moves smoothly, but the small, unconscious movements Tess occasionally makes are often jerky and almost bird-like. She also relies heavily on being the one 'holding all the cards', feeling balanced only when she has power over the circumstances and people around her, either literally, emotionally or mentally. To that extent, Tesla likes finding people's sore spots, both to have that knowledge 'on file' as part of a mental profile, but also be be able to poke at.


 * Aesop Amnesia: With her bitchiness. It comes and goes between people temporarily breaking through to her (like Oxy).
 * Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Topaz.
 * Break the Cutie
 * Combat Pragmatist: Brutally realistic in combat.
 * Defrosting Ice Queen
 * Flechette Storm: With anything metal.
 * Heroic RROD: If anyone pushed Tesla to the point where she loses it.
 * Hypocritical Humor: Occasionally.
 * Insistent Terminology
 * Jade-Colored Glasses: Totally. Especially on stuff like power and control, the law, and bureaucracy.
 * Let's Get Dangerous: Inverted.
 * Primal Fear: A lot of her triggers fall into this category.
 * Sarcasm Mode: Usually, any conversation with Tesla is in this.
 * The Snark Knight: In spades.
 * Trauma-Induced Amnesia
 * Rhetoric: Her very detailed relationship with the English language is comprised of all of these:
 * Will Not Tell a Lie
 * Half Truth
 * Loophole Abuse
 * Suspiciously Specific Denial

Sky V. Richardson

 * Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny
 * Cloudcuckoolander: He is very... odd, even by ELEMENT's standards.
 * Too Dumb to Fool

Topaz Dorian Grey / Ratna Xillia Czempaka

 * Proud Warrior Race Guy

Paul Heretti / "The Kid"

 * Precocious Crush: On Irwen.

Smith

 * Ambiguously Gay
 * Bi the Way
 * Cool Old Guy: Not as old as as Leo, but is the second-oldest member of ELEMENT.
 * Crazy Awesome
 * Team Chef
 * Supreme Chef
 * Chef of Iron