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Since its emergence, the story of the Kaiten family never came across the stage of History until the events of the last world war. It was during this period that this name started to be transmitted by word of mouth, among all the people who were interested in the little stories and portraits of this conflict. Over time, the name of Ezekiel Kaiten became known, not as a great figure of this atrocious period, but as a strange and unusual detail that looks so unrealistic that many historian societies still ask themselves if what is said about him is true.
Ezekiel Kaiten was in his thirties when he was forcibly recruited as a soldier to defend his country. The details of his career path inside the army from a simple soldier to his promotion as a team leader are unknown. However, his means to achieve his missions are what made his story intriguing. A couple of years after the beginning of the conflict, Ezekiel was leading a team specialized in search and destroy missions on European ground. His ability to lead his team, hide, survive and achieve his objectives allowed him to act with a certain flexibility despite the disapproval of his methods by some of his superiors.
Indeed, Ezekiel Kaiten was following this philosophy: the goal is not to kill, but to make sure that the opponent doesn’t come back on the battlefield. Following this mantra, Ezekiel became well-known for letting his defeated adversaries choose between two options: coming back home with a disability that would expel them from their own army or being kept as a prisoner, knowing that once they will be captive, he will have no power to protect them from his superiors fantasies. If they chose the disability, Ezekiel was letting them choose what they were ready to lose for a chance to stay alive and to come back to civilian life. Once the choice was made and applied, he used to take the dog tags of his victims, showing symbolically to them that they were lost for war.
The story of Ezekiel could have ended here and not been transmitted over the years, but his legacy prevailed despite his demise on the battlefield. After his death, his personal belongings were sent to his family who received all the dog tags he collected as well as his notebook in which he noted the identity, job and other personal details of all the opposing soldiers he met. In his final letter, he asked his family to find each of his victims family to bring them back these dog tags and to discover what they became after they quit the army, once the war would be finished.
Following his final wish, local journals of many countries involved in this war started to talk about this family from the opposing country, who were trying to make a duty of remembrance. Following Ezekiel's journal and dog tag collection, his family as well as future historians, managed to document many stories and profiles of soldiers, helping the name of the Kaiten’s family to stay in the collective memory of all the people who wanted to better know this war, beyond what is usually described in History books.
Three generations later, the Kaiten family has kept this story alive among their descendants. As a large family with many brothers, sisters and cousins, quite a few Kaitens embraced a career in military forces, while as many others decided to make their life far away from this familial tradition. Among them, Drew Kaiten decided at the age of the optional military service to join the army of his country. At this period, the young Drew didn’t find the inspiration that would guide him on the path of his life yet. Despite being not very inspired by his ancestor's legacy, he decided to try this career, hoping that it would help him to discover the person he is deep inside.
Unfortunately, a few months after he was enrolled, his country became engaged in an economic conflict which escalated to urban warfare requiring the deployment of troops in a foreign country. Drew’s unit, mainly composed of new recruits, was sent on the field to reclaim a strategic position. However, none of them was aware that this mission was in fact supposed to be a distraction in order to increase the chances of success of a more experienced unit of soldiers. Being used as a bait, Kaiten’s unit was wiped out, leaving only three survivors without any extraction procedure.
After a couple of days, Drew and his injured teammates managed to reach the real objective of the experienced unit, discovering their true goal and the fact that they succeeded in their mission at the cost of Kaiten’s companions. But this truth was not the only terrible thing they found in this newly acquired strategic place. A teenager, living here for years, was held captive and was tortured by the experienced unit in order to obtain some informations on the opponent army positions.
Drew and his remaining companions took some time to make appropriate arrangements to warn their family that they survived and that they needed some help to save this young man. The following day, they threaten their superiors to reveal everything that happened here, from the suicide operation they prepared to the illegal torture of a young local. If at the beginning, their hierarchy didn’t buy it, the pressure from their respective family and lawyers, aware of these facts and having various proofs to support their story, decided to make a deal with them. In exchange for their demobilization from the army and the status of protected foreigner for the teenager, Drew, his teammates and the young boy would stay indefinitely quiet on the events that happened here.
Accepting this deal, Drew came back safely at home and started a new life through the study of psychology. Indeed, his particular experience in the army and the psychological consequences that he and his colleagues underwent, inspired him to study mental illness in order for him to draw a line under this horrible chapter of his life and to help other veterans suffering from similar psychic conditions.
Years have passed and Drew Kaiten became a famous psychologist, recognized by his peers for his works on mental stability and the psychological consequences of traumatic experiences. Drew managed to build a balanced life with joys and disastrous losses that he prefers to keep for himself, far away from his country's military services up until some months ago. On a rainy day, a few weeks after the most painful chapter of his life just closed, an unknown officer came to Drew’s house, demanding for his services as a psychology consultant for a secret project. When asked why he had been chosen for this task when plenty of other specialists, more competent than him, would be much more appropriate for this task, the officer answered that none of them kept a dirty military secret for 30 years, in accordance with their past deal.
Understanding that this secret may be the most important thing he would ever work on and knowing that he would not come back to the army as a soldier but as a consultant, Drew accepted to see more about this project. This is how Drew discovered how scr*wed the humanity was. Drew Kaiten was asked to be a consultant for the mimeosome project, in charge, with many neurologists, a couple of psychology peers and some technology experts, to make sure that the procedure was safe for human minds. After a couple of months of work, the recruitment of the first batch of test subjects started without much success. The army had trouble finding people who could both risk their life and stay silent whatever would happen to them. Thus, only five test subjects were found until Drew proposed one by himself.
The old man remembered without difficulty the young man his teammates and himself saved many years ago. Tortured for many days, he suffered from many permanent disabilities at his arrival in his new country. Drew never tried to stay in contact with him, preferring that this horrible experience stay away from their respective minds. However, contrary to him, Drew didn’t have to bear the physical scars of these events for the rest of his life. Knowing that the mimeosome project could be his chance to get reparations from the same army that condemned him to this life, Drew decided to find this person again and to propose him to participate in this project. Despite the direct link between the two men, the army accepted, knowing that the young man stayed silent for all these years just like Drew, and confirming that Drew would stay objective as they never met again after all these years.
The following months, the mimeosome project was advancing at lightspeed and the first test batch saw their minds transferred with a large success. Drew and his colleagues were monitoring the consequences of such transfer on the psychic balance of the test subjects, checking if they were accepting easily their new life conditions and if their personality and reflexion abilities were preserved. In fact, the young men proposed by Drew started to show some little signs of unbalance: difficulties sleeping, a tendency to get easily angry and some signs of nervousness. However, the level of these troubles was so low that all the team, including Drew, considered that these signs were negligible and pretty standard for someone who suddenly switched to an entirely new body.
However, during one of the psychotherapy sessions, Drew spotted a strange detail. When his patient was asked to speak again about their common past, his way to describe these events didn’t match at all with Drew’s own memories. The more the session progressed, the more Drew got convinced that it could not result from a simple difference of perspective as many details couldn’t fit with what happened in reality. The memories of the mimeosome started to disappear and his consciousness was trying to fill the blank as best as possible to keep some semblance of stability.
Drew couldn’t alarm his colleagues as discussing these events would break his pact with the army. Trying to make them aware that something was going wrong, Drew investigated deeply the case of his patient, trying to make his peers understand that the little signs they observed were the consequences of something more dangerous which was slowly developing inside the mind of this person. He even tried to show the presence of memory defects by using various tests dedicated to this goal. Unfortunately, as this man had no family left and as his new relations couldn’t come to confirm his affirmations without breaking the secret around the mimeosomes, only his short-term memory could be reliably tested, revealing no defects that could alarm the psychology team.
Despite his efforts and the continuous reports written by Drew in an attempt to underline the slow but visible degradation of his patient, the tests on the mimeosomes continued as planned until this special day. Six months after the first transfer, Drew’s patient’s sanity collapsed, making him enter in a bloody rage that killed a large number of the mimeosome development staff. As the majority of the team was made of civilians and the body of the mimeosome being more resistant than a classical human, the persons present this day were unable to survive until the arrival of the security. Killing many of Drew’s colleagues without letting them activate the security alarm, the patient left a trail of blood and corpses behind him until he crossed the path of his doctor.
Drew confronted his patient in a single combat. Indeed, despite having left the army many years ago, Drew never stopped to practice the military training he had during his services. Being already close to a professional boxing level before he entered the army, he learned close-quarters combat and the art of combat with a knife during his training as a soldier. The years following his retirement, he continued to practice and got used to mixing these three martial and self-defense arts to never feel as defenseless as he was on the battlefield during the worst day of his life.
Using the knife of the sole guard that was in the laboratory, lying on the floor after being pushed away by the mimeosome, Drew managed to activate the alarm and to gain a sufficient amount of time against this inexperienced fighter to let the reinforcements come to find him. As a full range of rifles was appearing in front of the two fighters, Drew managed to find cover before they fired, letting him survive until the guards had to reload their weapon. Heavily damaged but still alive, the mimeosome started to walk over them to end their lives, but was suddenly stopped by Drew who managed to hit a decisive strike on a weak point revealed by a bullet impact.
The following weeks, the survivors of the project were back to work with new specialists who were enrolled to support their progress. As the only psychologist who survived and as the only one of the original team who predicted the disastrous outcome of this experiment, Drew gained the confidence of his superiors who started to consider him as the only one good enough to detect the potential shortcomings of this technology, unaware that Drew only managed to make this prediction due to his common past with the victim.
With the time and the perfectionning of the mimeosome technology, the whole team in charge of the mimeosome project managed to sensibly reduce the occurence of this phenomenon that Drew decided to call “Maledeiter” in reference to ancient culture describing man-made persons who received in their body a fragment of an evil mythological god, losing their sanity to become killing monsters. Thus, with the hard work of these scientists, this phenomenon's occurrence shifted from 1 out of 6 to an undetermined frequency. However, the origin of this defect is still unexplained today.
As the time of the departure was coming close, the army decided to give Drew an opportunity to be part of what could be the last journey of humanity. During the progression of the mimeosome project, Drew proved himself to be able to detect within a reasonable advance the development of Maledeiters as well to be able to handle them thanks to the fighting skills he never ceased to improve throughout his life. If Drew was skilled enough to stand against a mimeosome in the body of a human, they had no doubts on his ability to manage one of these defective transferred consciousness as a mimeosome. Having no more attachments on Earth, Drew accepted to join.
Thus, Drew became a member of the crew in order to monitor and prevent the emergence of potential future Malideiters. In order to keep the highest level of secret on this mission, Drew was integrated as a member of the Interceptors, using his past as a military as a cover for this affectation. However, as his profile was still dissimilar to the one of his new teammates, many of them asked themselves questions on the legitimacy of this man to be part of this journey for the salvation of humanity. In order to propose an answer to these questions, Drew used his ancestor’s story to lure them and justify his presence, making them think that he obtained his place only by nepotism in favor of the historical link of his family with the army. This excuse was believed, but poorly accepted by his teammates who decided to mock him using the story of Ezekiel and his own. His resignation from the army at a young age, the past of his family, the fact that he managed thanks to his connections to escape to the war on the Earth and his low interest to fight monsters on Mira despite his role as an Interceptor; all these details stick a “Lost for War” label on him. With the time and the bad jokes, his Interceptors teammates deformed “Lost for War” to give “Lowar” and finally “Lower” to illustrate the bad reputation he has among the team.
Despite being lost on a whole different planet, everything seems to be fine for Drew as no Maledeiters have been spotted in NLA since his awakening. However, after a couple of weeks, the psychologist started to detect some symptoms of Maledeiters transition on random people of NLA and... on himself. Unable to confirm his own diagnosis, to share his secret mission with anyone and to know how much time he and the others will have left, Drew has no other choices than to resolve the origin of the Maledeiters apparition and to stop them before they repeat the same tragedy that happened on Earth.
Fighting style
Drew is using a mix of traditional boxing, close-quarter combat and knife martial arts. Being used to do his business with his bare hands, Drew will often prefer to fight weaponless. His punches and kicks are known to be devastating to the point that many of his coworkers started to hesitate to mess with him after tasting his now famous "Kaiten's Kick". However, as Mira decided to make him confront strange and oversized creatures, he had no other choices than to equip himself with adequate material. Drew choses to stick with a knife thanks to the regular training he followed day by day since he became a soldier. Despite the small size of his weapon, the psychologist usually proved himself more efficient than many of his teammates using oversized shiny weapons, more designed to hide personal insufficiencies than to actually hurt the opponent.
Drew is well-aware of his physical limits, notably concerning his strength which is similar to the one of any average mimeosome. This is the reason why he specifically put more weights on his speed, evasion and critical rate. As the battle progresses, Drew wants to make the strike which will turn the tide in his favour and will allow him to surpass his opponent. Once his enemy is weakened or when Drew managed to gather his strength, he can start to unleash his wrath until one of them hits the ground. To further supports his fighting skills, Drew tends to equip himself with Orphean Technologies armours to resist Gravity and keeps his movements as fast and swift as possible.
True to his familial legacy, Drew will always aim for the withdrawal of his opponent rather than killing him. Drew has no problems to cut through the flesh and to see the blood flowing as long as he is able to determine the outcome of the fight. For him, finishing a fight with two souls alive is better than loosing one, whatever in which state is one of the two at the end.
For his ranged weapon, Drew chose to equip Dual Guns in order to preserve his freedom of movement. Moreover, despite having been trained to shoot in the army, he his somewhat lacking of accuracy when it comes to guns. Using the fast firing rate of his weapon, he still manages to easily land a couple of hits to weaken whatever Mira is presenting in front of him. Since Interceptors are usually facing large monsters or groups of small ones, his lack of talents with guns had no real consequences so far.
For his Skell, Drew choose to use an Infernal Skydon model. While highly contrasting with his fighting style on the ground, Drew prefered to design his Skell to stay intact for longer time rather than spending huge amount of money to repair it after every fight. Thus, in his Skell, Drew tends to play the role of a tank or a support unit, focusing on binding the opponent or breaking its appendages while his partners continuously empty their fuel tank with oversized and high damaging weapons. This way of using his Skell also allows him to keep a more traditional face-to-face way of fighting, helping him to carefullly observe the reactions of the creature they fight. His ability to warn his teammates of an incoming death strike already saved many of their missions.
Personal Arts
Bloody Wall: Drew adopts a defensive posture similar to the one of a boxer with his arms in front of him. Blades emerge from his armour gloves, from the back of the hands to the elbows. The blades are sharp enough to make the opponent bleed at each contact. For all the duration of this art, Drew will gain a Barrier buff and inflicts Counter Spike damages. If the opponent keeps attacking despite the Spike damages, this art inflicts Physical Res Down.
Lost for War: Drew draws his knife and prepare a multi-hit strike to slice an appendage on the body of the opponent. As the flesh is removed and the bone is weakened, Drew launches a final blow with a punch or a kick to break the targeted appendage. Damages deal by this art increase by 10% for each buff on Drew and each debuff on the target. If the attack has failed or was stopped, Drew suffers no cooldown. If the attack was a success, Drew has to take some time to recover and to observe if his target still has the will to keep fighting.
Favourite Arts
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Early Bird [Dual Guns]: Aura. Activates Critical Power + Critical Up + Evasion Up.
Ghostwalker [Dual Guns]: Support. Grants Decoy, allowing total evasion to a certain number of attacks.
Zero Zero [Dual Guns]: Ranged Attack. Boosts TP in melee combos.
Sky High [Dual Guns]: Deals physical damage. Inflicts Stun and Launch. Damage Up during a melee combo.
Black Butterfly [Knife]: Deals ether damage and inflicts Ether Res Down. Decreases the target's Aura duration.
Dispel [Knife]: Deals ether damage and randomly removes one buff from the target.
Screamer [Knife]: Inflicts Sleep on enemies.
Secondary Speed [Knife]: Reduces secondary cooldown and reduces auto-attack intervals.
Favourite Skills
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Inner Search: Boost Potential.
CQC Master: Boost critical hit rate during a melee combo.
Dismantler: Melee Arts may deal more damage to appendages.
Fleet Feet: Boost evasion while wielding a melee weapon.
