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Klaxon
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Mary Celeste Deveau-Briggs (mother)
Mama Lazarus (grandmother)
Kamen (spirit guide)
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Origin
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Kaz "Klaxon" Briggs begins his story as a minor, background antagonist for hometown hero Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes), until an offer to help John Constantine lands him an occasional mission with Justice League Dark. It is with this revolving-door team that he meets his untimely end during the events of Blackest Night—only to be resurrected as an anti-hero vigilante with the new Seven Soldiers of Victory.
Klaxon is biracial Creole, with dark eyes that have a chestnut highlight and black-brown hair. His hairstyle is worn short, cropped close to the scalp with more spiky locks on the crown of his head. The most notable part of his appearance is his body modifications: facial piercings (a lip ring, two ear plugs and an industrial on his right ear) and tattoos (a full left arm sleeve, Evil Eye on his throat, sewn-on buttons on both his eyelids, Ouija board planchettes on the backs of both hands, and a Voodoo doll heart with pins on his chest, over his heart).
Later in life, after his death, Klaxon is resurrected but not entirely healed; he carries through the rest of his life a large torso scar, the Y-incision shape from the autopsy.
He has a fondness for alternative street style of clothing, and is often seen in dark colors with punk splashes of color or texture. A lot of tall boots and belts with straps, grommets, buckles, chains, and other silver hardware. Accents of black leather are not unheard of. He will wear shirts to specifically show off his sleeve tatts, even if he has to tear that arm's material off. Klaxon is never without his red headphones.
When resurrected, his anti-hero costume is not designed so much to hide his identity, but elaborates on his Voodoo religion—for it was the Loa who ultimately gave him life again, and he is now in their service to atone for past sins and help the Invisible on the earthly plane. He wears a black bodysuit with purple piping and armored pieces; black and purple are the colors of the Ghede Loa family, the Loa of the underworld. Further, a cross is on his chest, symbolizing the Crossroads between Life and Death. A hooded, vaguely patchwork sleeveless cloak, held on by a silver chain, adds a magical touch. Boots with good treads and adorned with mice skulls, and fingerless gloves providing grip and hiding his tatts, finishes the bodysuit. He uses black leather belts to carry small satchels of Voodoo aides, as well as colored glass bottles (another Voodoo trick) containing his poltergeist fighters—these are broken open as he needs them. Finally, a jawbone mask provides some facial armor, as well as psychological intimidation, while Klaxon uses face paint to complete the coverage. The circle-and-dot symbol is always on his forehead, a sigil of the sun and protection.
Klaxon has a very slight presence and is not vocal, not one for conversation. By outward appearance, the quiet young man seems to be a loner, aloof even, and very withdrawn. He has a habit of "zoning out" and staring off into space as if lost in thought—it can come across a little creepy to some, and sad to others. In reality, Klaxon stays within his own mediumship bubble and is very empathetic towards the supernatural.
Growing up surrounded by the dead, Klaxon doesn't differentiate between the souls trapped on this plane and the living. In fact, he tends to prefer the company of his ghosts, so he is not socially outgoing. Which is fine as his back-and-forth between the planes leaves his physical body always cold, as if perpetually in a morgue, and most folks don't even like to shake hands with him. He's learned to let go of all earthly distractions and tends to stare or blank out often, ignoring Visible conversations for all the Invisible ghostly chatter around him. However, this also makes him a focused and hard-worker when it comes to the mundane job, because he knows if he doesn't focus he could get distracted, and then it won't get done.
Open-minded, a believer in everything, Klaxon is very much an accepting "it is what it is" type and doesn't hate on much. He's more connected to the spiritual plane, has seen the world through countless souls, so he has a lot of apathy towards the Visible plane. He doesn't judge, and therefore doesn't consider things either "right" or "wrong". To him, it doesn't matter what the living does, because everybody dies the same in the end.
On the streets still, Klaxon is not necessarily "good" or "bad", although his part-time job for Warehouse 13 is questionable—running the streets, he locates and recruits those with super-human (meta-gene) abilities for La Dama's gang. (This also makes him an antagonist to the local superhero, the Blue Beetle, by profession.) On one side, he is often asked to break the law by Diviner; and on the other, he sometimes works with grieving families, and even the police, as a Medium-for-Hire to find missing children, bodies, and even murderers. Working with the police gives him a "get out of jail free" card since he is a gangbanger.
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, with a sixth sense, Kaz Briggs had the spirits of the dead around him even as a baby. He grew up acting as if he were in a whole other world, constantly letting his mind cross back-and-forth, and seemingly talking to the air. Really, he was talking to his ghosts, most often his Spirit Guide, a little boy named Kamen. His parents were two "normal" people, who, at first, hoped their distant and disinterested child merely had imaginary friends. Yet when his social interactions with real, living children kept taking a backseat to ghosts, his parents began to worry. To them, their child had weird mood swings, either becoming increasingly quiet to the point of mute, withdrawn from the world, or acting completely out of character (his OOC-ness came when a ghost entered him, taking his child's body for a spin). His mother quickly forced Kaz into therapy, treating him for Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Syndrome).
Without really understanding the reasons for it, Kaz's childhood was full of family tensions, most of it directed towards his paternal grandmother, a local Voodoo Queen and soon-to-be ordained Mambo called Mama Lazarus. His Maw Maw was the only person to support Kaz's gift, encouraging him to use his Mediumship and helping him focus through Voodoo and Hoodoo arts. His parents, unfortunately, wanted nothing to do with her cults and religions, vehemently blaming her for Kaz's "mental state".
Then Hurricane Katrina hit and the levees around NOLA broke, flooding the entire historic city and killing well over a thousand dead in Louisiana. The Briggs family left before the tragedy struck, taking shelter in Houston, Texas. However, Kaz still felt the death toll visiting him and went into spiritual seizures. Worse, they left Mama Lazarus behind, and the Voodoo Queen vanished. Everyone thought the older woman died in the floodwaters, one of the many bodies still never found. Eight-year-old Kaz knew better, believing if she had died her spirit would visit him, or one of the other many, many ghosts would tell him she had journeyed over the Crossroads. To him, it was a mystery, one that left him without his caring support. The little family returned to the French Quarter to rebuild their lives, but now Kamen became his primary teacher in controlling the other ghosts—and his resentment towards his parents began.
At 13, Kaz decided to run away from the suffocating living world he was stuck in, and left to find what happened to Mama Lazarus. He went back to the only city he knew: Houston. From there, without the restraints of his parents desperately begging him to "act normal", Kaz freely experimented with his powers, reigning in malicious spirits and actively seeking out paranormal problems. He also continued his search for his Maw Maw, and while slumming the occult underground he was found by Diviner.
As soon as the gangster-magician discovered the boy was Voodoo potential, he offered him a place at Warehouse 13—the hidden magical training facility operated in secret by the crime boss La Dama and backed by Intergang weaponry tech. A collector of magical artifacts and various spells himself, Diviner oversees the Warehouse, itself a collection of magic-users and meta-humans (to act as a superhuman "edge" for La Dama's criminal underworld). Kaz accepts employment as its headhunter, and sometimes apprentice and errand-boy to Diviner. Not only for the steady pay, but for the hope of finding new leads in the magic circles on his Maw Maw's whereabouts.
On the streets Kaz became known as Klaxon (klak-suh-n, meaning a loud, siren-like wail, a warning signal) as he's often blaring music through headphones when he wants some "alone time", to drown out the voices of the ghosts around him—who sometimes communicate back just as glaringly. This, rather jokingly, earned him the nickname 'Klaxon' because: "It's always the quiet ones you have to watch out for..."
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As a headhunter for Warehouse 13 Klaxon works under his mentor Diviner—though "mentor" is a loose word for it: one minute he's the gang's lieutenant in Diviner's absence, but then a mere "gopher" who fetches his boss a coffee the next. Despite Diviner's arrogant treatment, the two have a somewhat solid working relationship.
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