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History & Background

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SPECTRE [Age 17 - 36]

- Spectre was more or less raised by Shadow, having joined as a teen he didn’t have one of the best starts in life.

- He was trained primarily by Brutus, an agent who wasn’t much older than he was but was nonetheless incredibly experienced. Where Brutus was incredibly skilled at open combat, Spectre excelled with more covert skills.

- He could handle himself in fights exceedingly well thanks to Brutus, but his Codename Spectre was granted to him due to his ability to disappear just like a ghost. Tracking individuals, leading private investigations and even kidnapping and assassinating was second nature to Spectre.

- Although Spectre never had any intention of finding a partner, he perhaps wasn’t careful enough sometimes which led to the birth of his daughter, Jules. Jules’ mother was another Shadow agent who gave her to the organisation to raise as their own. Spectre went along with it - he wasn’t the best father and Jules was raised to be an agent just as much as anyone else was. She never got to know her parents real names and didn’t get along with them very well because of the environment she grew up in. Spectre did care for her, but it certainly wasn’t in the way you’d expect a father to care for their child.

- Spectre was rivals with another agent in Shadow - Redux. Redux was well known for producing results and flaunting his ability to perform. He and Spectre bumped heads constantly, somehow in competition with one another to climb ranks and earn some sort of veneration. Redux was often quick to palm Spectre off as he was a little younger, but that meant that Spectre could show Redux up quite easily.

- Spectre and Redux were charged with an operation to search for an ancient, cursed power by Shadow. Whilst they both thought it was complete rubbish, neither of them were willing to give up the opportunity to show up the other. Redux assessed their mission and Spectre collected what they required. This included kidnapping TNTina - an explosives expert. It wasn’t easy obtaining her cooperation, but he got there in the end.

- The operation itself was the investigation of the Tomb of Oro - TNTina’s explosives made easy work of any hidden entrances but of course it was riddled with traps and the remains of others who had failed before them. Before travelling too deep inside the tomb, Spectre urged Tina to get out - unsure of what lay before them and assuring her that her life was not worth risking when she wasn’t even an agent of Shadow.

- When Spectre and Redux reached the central chamber of the tomb it was decorated entirely with gold - piles of unimaginable treasures untouched for ages. Redux took his moment, attacking Spectre so that he could earn the glory himself. This ruckus awoke Oro, who subsequently attacked Spectre and Redux. Redux was convinced that if he killed Oro he would obtain his power. First, he had to get rid of Spectre. Neither of the two agents were a match for Oro, there was little they could do without the possibility of being turned to solid gold. Oro took his scepter to Spectre, managing to pin him and mimicking the scar that the skeleton had over his eye. This passed on the curse and Oro lost his bright golden colour - Redux took this opportunity to “kill” Oro, as much as you could kill a skeleton, or so he thought.

- Spectre was blinded in his right eye and his fingertips began to turn to gold - it was then that Redux knew that Spectre had obtained the power. He tried to kill Spectre, but Spectre, whilst trying to push Redux away, began to turn him to gold. Redux knew then that in order to survive he had to remove the gold from himself - so he cut off his left arm and Spectre took this opportunity to escape. He used TNTina’s remaining explosives to collapse the tomb with Redux still inside, hoping that he would perish there.

GOLD BEGINNINGS [Age 36-38]

- It didn’t take Spectre long to realise he couldn’t return to shadow. It seemed like a fifty-fifty chance if he happened to turn something he touched into gold or not. He didn’t want the power, not at all - in fact it felt a little like a burden when he was trying to keep himself alive after fighting off Redux.

- It took Spectre a lot of time in solitude to understand how to control his golden touch. He went without human contact for quite a while before he felt remotely safe enough to go near anyone after what he had done to Redux. He thought a lot about Oro and sought to understand what the power was and why Oro had granted him it. Spectre discovered that it was in fact a curse and that Oro had needed to pass it on in order to finally die.

- Shadow had by this time declared that Spectre was MIA, and Jules as well as the rest of Shadow was convinced that he was dead.

- Spectre began to use his power to get around - just about anyone would take gold. Of course a lot of people seemed to think it was all fake, but it didn’t take much to prove the legitimacy of Spectre’s claims. He seemed to get what he wanted or needed fairly quickly due to his new powers. He learned how to change the shape of the gold on his hands and morph it into different tattoo-like images on his arms.

MIDAS [Age 38 - 48]

- After understanding his new power, Spectre decides it is time to finally get back into the world. Whilst he couldn’t return to Shadow there was only one world he knew. He abandoned his codename “Spectre” and took on the name “Midas”.

- Thanks to now being half-blind and having a glowing-golden eye, Midas seemed to look nothing like his former self, and he reinvented himself entirely. It didn’t take long for him to create a reputation in the underground when you could turn anything or anyone to gold. The training he gained from Shadow and his experience as a covert operative only made him more savvy to the world he was climbing back into. Nobody seemed able to get in his way.

- Midas began to gather his own collection of agents. A group of individuals dotingly labelled as “The First Shadows” and his long-time friend Brutus from Shadow. He began to build the Ghost organisation from the ground up - and it was built to rival Shadow entirely. This angered Shadow greatly, and many Shadow agents tried and failed to take Midas down. Some were even convinced to change sides like Brutus.

- When Ghost was well-established Midas sought out TNTina. He was aware that, after her involvement in the mission to Oro’s tomb, she was in danger from Shadow and sought to offer her security after his hand in the situation. He didn’t tell her that he was Spectre - he kept this secret well capped save a select few individuals. He became aware that Redux was in fact still alive as he had been seeking her to take care of her and hunt Spectre, discovering that Redux had taken TNTina as his own captive. Of course, when Midas decided to recover her himself on a solo operation Redux confirmed his suspicions - that Midas was Spectre. Midas then took TNTina from Redux, and Redux seemed to back down knowing that he was outmatched by Midas - he simply let the golden ghost take her. Midas brought TNTina back to the Ghost base of operations, the Agency, after keeping her blindfolded and transporting her discreetly. He then allowed her freedom. Midas offered TNTina security and the opportunity to fight Shadow if she wanted to accept it, speaking with her one-on-one to prove he was trustworthy and doing what she seemed to ask for with a steady compliance.

- Midas somewhat gets wrapped up in his fabricated persona, seemingly unrecognisable to his former self and even Brutus over time. At times his golden touch gets out of control and he has to hide away until he returns to a more manageable state. This raises a few questions among the ghost agents, namely TNTina.

- TNTina and Midas begin interacting beyond Agent-to-Agent protocols and become somewhat acquainted. Of course, Midas already knew a fair amount about TNTina, but to her she knew next to nothing about him at all. After an unfortunate drinking session Midas manages to loosen up a little, but keeps his lips tight on his secrets still. He and TNTina begin to see each other more often behind closed doors and in the dark. Midas, slowly but surely, realises that he cares for TNTina.

- Midas, after training Tina quite closely initially, takes her on as a personal agent - more to keep her safe above all else. Brutus begins to notice how close Midas and TNTina truly are. He excellerates his plan to return to shadow, luring TNTina out with him on a false mission before handing her to Redux. When Midas is fed the information that TNTina has been stolen away by Brutus he flies into a fit of rage. He attacks Shadow himself, tearing through safehouses and agents like paper windows. His golden touch is uncontrollable, leaving a mess of gold and discarded agents in his wake. After confronting Brutus and Redux, Midas successfully fights them off and leaves with TNTina. This was of course at the cost of her discovering his previous connection to Shadow as Spectre, causing a rift between them. Midas practically throws himself into his work, completing several operations himself that he likely didn’t need to in order to blow off some steam. When he recklessly disregards his own safety and returns injured he begins to rethink that strategy and contemplates actually confronting Tina.

- After some time of conflict and issues between Midas and TNTina they gradually begin to resolve the issue, mostly through honesty and the realisation that they both care deeply for one another regardless of their broken history. A short time after their make-up he does propose to her. But it wasn’t quite so easy to get her to accept given the type of person she was.

SHADOW MIDAS [49+ ??]

- Midas, as the years go on, perhaps got a little too comfortable with the life he crafted with his golden touch. He felt invincible and with Tina at his side he felt nothing could tear them down. Shadow for the last year or so had begun to move in the underground against Ghost, cutting their ties as discreetly as possible. Finally, Shadow began to make their move. The opposing organisation began to attack Ghost routes, safehouses and covert locations to cut off their network. Midas was at last caught off guard, jumping to the defensive and moving against Shadow in turn. It was far too late to stop it, he could only defend what he hadn’t already lost.

- He soon discovered that it was none other than Brutus at the spearhead of the strikes against Ghost and Midas took it far too personally. He began to plan an operation to take down Shadow once and for all. He kept many of the details a secret, unknowing of who he could trust among his own agents anymore. He mentioned the occasional thing to Tina, but even she was shut out of the details.

- Midas set out on the operation himself. He’d earned the name “the Golden Ghost” over the years by Shadow, given the fact that if he turned up made entirely of gold he was practically unstoppable. Midas tore through Shadow once again, making his way to where he was led to believe Brutus was manning his operation from. The information fed to Midas had been largely false, and taken over by the idea of defeating Brutus and Shadow he hadn’t checked his intel as much as he might have in the past. Midas was finally apprehended by Shadow who had spent years finding ways to trap him and his power thanks to the involvement of Redux.

- Midas was kept prisoner by Shadow. They hoped to exhaust him before even attempting to finally take care of him so that he was of little threat, even entirely chained so that he couldn’t use his power to escape or kill any of Shadow’s agents. This took months, and in the time that Midas was gone Ghost began to fall into chaos trying to defend itself. Midas refused to allow himself to release his power, knowing that Shadow wouldn’t hesitate to kill him. As a last resort, Shadow brought Jules forward. She had been made entirely aware of who Midas was - from the tomb of Oro and so much more. They threatened to have Midas turn her to gold, knowing that he would not be able to stop them or his power. He gave in, refusing to allow Jules that fate and at last letting his gold recede. Redux then took this opportunity to remove Midas’s hands so that he had no opportunity to turn them to gold and proceeded to interrogate him about Ghost and all of its assets. He refused to comply even then and Redux grew enraged. He took Midas out of the Shadow base to a location known as the Grotto - a covert operations hub set up by Brutus - a place where Midas had originally trained with Brutus. There, he fed Midas to the sharks after shooting him multiple times.

- Shadow uses the severed hands of Midas to finally send a message to Ghost of their intentions to take back the top spot. They begin to move into their endgame to destroy Ghost, knowing now that Midas was no longer in charge. Jules, in the chaos, fled Shadow. Ghost fell into ruin.

- In the coming weeks, Midas was resurrected by Oro’s curse at the tomb where it had all begun. He was a shade of his former self, a mere shadow in the world. His memory was a little fractured to begin with, not remembering much of his capture or anything of the moments before he was killed. All he knew is that he needed to return to the Agency. Each time he tried to leave the tomb the sun reduced him to a shadow and he couldn’t escape. It wasn’t until long after dark, when even the light of the moon was obscured, that he could step out of Oro’s tomb at last.

- Midas, upon leaving the tomb, met a mysterious hermit. One who seemed to know all about him, his power and the struggle between Ghost and Shadow. More importantly, he seemed to know about the curse itself. The man tried to help Midas understand what had happened to him, and that he had died and been tied to the world of the living still by the curse. In order to die at last he would need to pass the curse on. Midas began to remember fragments of his capture at Shadow, slowly but surely, as he travelled in the dark and the shadows to get back to the Agency, and more importantly Tina. When he at last got there it was in ruins. Everyone had long fled and Ghost was on the verge of a complete wipeout. Midas searched for any sign of Tina, finding only remains of everything he built raised to the ground.

- He discovered the remnants of Tina’s resources to find Splode, then turning to Shadow for more information. Midas then finds out that Shadow has been under attack since Ghost had begun to fall apart and he knew then that there were only two people capable of such operations. Using Shadow’s intel, Midas discovered where the organisation expected Tina and Splode to strike next, and struck first. He turned the base upside down and reduced it to ruin in a fit of rage - attacking any Shadow agent in sight and corrupting them into a dark shade - like mindless violent ghosts. The shades finished off the rest of the work for Midas. There, he waited, so that when Tina or Splode came to commence their operation there was nothing left to destroy but thick mist and dark shades. When Tian infiltrated the base to plant her explosives she found nothing but shades, and Midas.