Sol Mathonwy (Rescue)

Sol wakes up in a weird lab with scars he doesn't remember having and his skin+internals suddenly bright blue. things go downhill from there.

the most he can remember of his life before waking up is that he moved away from home on an impulse decision. after that, things get.. kinda blurry. that doesn't explain where he is now, though, or the physical changes, or just about anything about the situation he finds himself in. the weird part is that the more he explores the facility, the more he gets a sense of deja vu. it's almost as if he's been here before - or that he's been here longer than he remembers.

another person in the same situation as him, Zyd, fills him in: he's a test subject for immortality. however he ended up here, he's been genetically modified with sped-up healing and regeneration that makes him nearly immortal, although he still has to put up with his pre-existing chronic pain as well as lingering pain from the operation. that doesn't explain some of the scars, though, but Zyd's not helpful with filling in the other gaps in his memory. she does offer to help him find a way out, though, as long as he helps her rescue her friend Monty who's also an experiment. with nothing to lose, Sol agrees, and the two begin their daring escape that quickly goes off the rails.

after several run-ins with android staff, a hostile virus that's overtaken the computer network, and an overly-helpful liger that's in way over his head, Sol finally gets the answers he's looking for: he's dead. or, well, he died, and then got better. after leaving home, he got himself into a dangerous situation that eventually ended in his death; his body was "donated" to the facility, and promptly used in experiments to see if the "immortality serum" - also the cause for his sudden dye job - could bring people back to life. against all odds, it worked, but left Sol as a dissociative zombie under Sandblast's care until he snapped back into full awareness (and with massive gaps in his memory) 7 months later. Zyd had been skirting around the details to try and avoid giving him a crisis, but after seeing the damage done by sweeping Cy's own tragedy under the rug there was an eleventh-hour plot bomb.

despite everything, though, Sol was able to reconnect with his family and return home in an attempt to restart his life. the whole "genetically modified" thing is a bit awkward to explain, and he keeps the joking-about-being-a-zombie thing limited to when he's around close friends, but it's a start.