Thane Krios

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〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Heather
AGE: 30
JOURNAL: adeolucror
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PLURK: canmaketheshot
RETURNING: Yes! I play Isaac Clarke from Dead Space!

〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Thane Krios | The Assassin
CHARACTER AGE: 39 (Drell have lifespans comparable to humans)
SERIES: Mass Effect
CHRONOLOGY: Post Mass Effect 2, just after successfully getting back to the Normandy after killing the Human-Reaper Larva (Endgame)
CLASS: Anti-hero; His soul means well, but his body is a trained assassin, and he views his body as a weapon used by his employers. He doesn't really think about the people he's hired to kill. (More about that whole body vs. soul dichotomy later!)
HOUSING: RANDOM IS FINE

BACKGROUND: Here is way more than anyone ever needed to know about Thane. And stuff about the Drell as a species.

So, basically, Thane's people were saved from certain destruction about a hundred years ago by the Hanar and taken to their homeworld of Kahje. Kahje is covered in a lot of water (we're talking like 90%), and the Drell evolved in an arid environment, so their biology doesn't react well to it. The leading cause of death among Drell is a disease called Kepral's Syndrome, which deteriorates the lunges over time, making it more and more difficult to breathe. It's caused by a bacterial infection that has proven terribly resistant to all treatment. Currently, there is no cure and it's terminal.

ANYWAY, so, the debt of gratitude the Drell owe the Hanar is called the Compact. Basically, the Hanar call upon the Drell to serve in rolls the Hanar can't do themselves. They are sort of giant jellyfish, after all. A lot of races outside the two in question think it's slavery, but any Drell has the ability to deny the call to fulfill the Compact. Most just don't. It's considered a huge honor. So, when Thane was 6, the Hanar called upon him and his family was more than willing to comply. Thane was honored. For the next six years, he was honed into the perfect assassin. At the age of 12, he took his first life for the Hanar. He was in what he refers to as a battle sleep (that's when his soul isn't paying attention to what his body's being asked to do) until much later in his life, when a beautiful and fierce Drell woman by the name of Irikah stepped in front of his laser sight.

She woke him up, and he realized what he did for a living, and he hunted her like he did his prey, saved her from some bad guys who happened to be breaking into her lab when she was there, fell to his knees before her and begged forgiveness. At first she thought he was creepy and weird, but she got to know him, eventually she forgave him and they fell in love. He talked his Hanar handler into releasing him from the Compact and they got married, had a kid, and lived happily ever after.

Okay, actually, they were fine, even though Thane was really distant. He ignored his son a lot, not really knowing how to be a father. That and he wasn't really good at doing anything besides assassinate people. Finally Irikah had the idea he should freelance his skills, so he did. He tried to keep his personal and professional separate, but he got sloppy after a while, and some associates of a target paid for information on him, tracked his family down, and killed his wife. He saw her funeral through, left Kolyat in the care of aunts and uncles, and ruthlessly hunted down the Batarians who killed his wife. While normally Thane made his kills quick, fulfilling a contract but taking no pleasure in the suffering of others, he let those responsible for Irikah's murder suffer, torturing them before finally killing them. They were the first, and to date only, people Thane has ever killed by his own choice, and while he wouldn't take it back, the decision still weighs on his conscience.

He went home only to find his son had grown up a lot without him, and instead of rejoining his life, Thane made the decision to just let him stay with his aunts and uncles. He spent the next several years, somewhere along the line being diagnosed with Kepral's Syndrome, making an infamous name for himself in the underworld as an assassin without equal. This got the Illusive Man's attention when he was putting together a list of potential operatives to travel through the Omega 4 relay to stop the Collectors. He was recruited by Shepard, who also ended up accompanying Thane to save his son from a very bad decision. The last thing Thane wanted to see was his son follow in his footsteps. They got there in time, saved the day, and did the same with the Collector Base on the other side of the Omega 4 Relay. Every member of the crew survived, also.

PERSONALITY: When Thane was very young, he was taken from his family, albeit willingly, and began his training as an assassin the service of the Hanar under the Compact. His skills and senses were honed to a razor's edge, and he was mostly oblivious to the tasks he was being trained for. The Drell religion is polytheistic, several gods and goddesses govern different aspects of daily life and the afterlife, but the reigning belief that sets the Drell apart from other cultures is the belief that the soul and the body are two different things, and one does not always have control over the other. This belief led to what Thane calls his "battle sleep". For a very long time, interrupted only briefly by a beautiful and striking woman, Thane existed in this state. His body was hired to fulfill a contract and his soul took little note of the tasks his body was hired to perform. As Thane put it to Shepard, "when a gun is used to kill, do you blame the gun?"

Guilt was a foreign concept to the assassin, having never considered his kills in the service of the Hanar his own, but that all changed when one day, tasked with executing a Salarian scientist, a beautiful Drell woman with "sunset-colored eyes" stepped into the sight of his scope, putting herself between the unseen sniper and the unwitting Salarian in the laser sight. "How dare you," she said soundlessly, the distance being too great for him to hear it. He ran that day, but her eyes and those words had haunted him in his perfect memory. He'd never considered right and wrong before that moment. Has Thane describes, it woke him from that battle sleep and he had to meet her. He sought her out the only way he knew how, as a hunter, beseeched the god Amonkira the Lord of Hunters, and finally found her. She introduced him to an entirely different world, gave him a family, and a friend.

Being raised to be an assassin, cold and calculating, from such a young age, until then, Thane had spent far more time among the Hanar priests that were his handlers than among his own people. The Hanar, reputed to be the most polite beings in the galaxy, instilled much of that politeness in Thane as well. In conversation, though he can be curt and direct, he is always at the least civil, if not outright courteous, but reserved and quiet. His years of intense training have become nature, and he prefers to watch rather than converse, more comfortable in meditation than in crowds.

The mistakes he made, his quest for vengeance after Irikah's murder and his abandonment of his son, Kolyat, weigh heavily on his conscience. A deeply spiritual man, Thane recognizes that the galaxy is a very dark place, and he acknowledges his role in that darkness that he played for a very long time. He holds himself responsible for the torment he subjected Irikah's murderers to, as well as the path in life Kolyat chose to walk to follow in his father's footsteps. Thanks to Shepard's assistance, he's reconnected with his son, something he'd hoped to do before he died, and he's glad for the time he has left to know him. Their defeat of the Collectors, too, has brightened his soul somewhat, as one of the things he wanted to do before he died was to help leave the galaxy a little brighter after all the darkness he brought to it.

In demeanor, Thane is sometimes curt, but polite, quiet, introspective, and kind, but recognizes the mistakes he's made in the past. He abandoned his family, leaving Irikah to die. He abandoned Kolyat when he needed him most. He even abandoned the children who were his eyes and ears on the Citadel all those years ago when he hunted Irikah's killers, after they'd served their purpose. They'd looked up to him, but he'd left when his business was through. Now, with what time he has left, he means to find forgiveness in the next life by reconnecting with his son, and by helping those in need as he can, all in trying to wipe out some of the darkness he helped create.

Because of this steadfast desire to be a better person than he had in the past, some people have observed he's very difficult to amuse. This isn't because of a lack of humor, he does have a subtle sarcasm to him, but out of his intense focus. Everything Thane does, he does very purposefully, and it can make him come off as severe at times. It's all done with the best of intentions, though. That coupled with his limited social skills and lack of friends make him seem cold and distanced from people. After Irikah's death, though, he let himself slip back into his battle sleep, and as such, has only recently begun making friends again, among the crew of the Normandy.

Until joining the crew, making new friends and getting the opportunity to reconnect with Kolyat, Thane had prepared himself for his death. He meditated often, awaiting his time to embrace the sea with patience acceptance. Now, though, with so many things left to do and so little time left to do it, a new emotion has blossomed of which he's ashamed after all his prayer and preparation: Thane is afraid to die. He feels that fear is selfish and undeserved, but try as he might, he can't shake it. After so many years of isolation and sleep, he's finally awake and sees so much he has to live for.

POWER:
01 Drell Physiology; This means he keeps the appearance of the Drell, has an eidetic memory, and muscle tissue that's a little denser than a human's, making him a little stronger than the average human his size. He can also expand the red area on the underside of his chin and throat a lot like a lizard. This capability gives his voice a strange, vibrating quality.
02 Biotics; Biotics are the ability of some people to generate small mass effect fields using their own nervous systems. Mass Effect fields are fields of dark energy that can be used to manipulate themselves and their environments in a way similar to telekinesis. Thane's biotics are moderate in operation. He's able to use fields of energy to hurl things, levitate things (but nothing weighing more than three to four people), and to tear at peoples' flesh, causing deep wounds. Using biotics has a massive strain on the body, though, requiring him to consume more food than those without biotics. None of the effects are sustained without constant effort, either, and normally only last a few to several seconds.

〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:

[The voice in this particular audio post is a deep baritone, and has a strange vibrating undercurrent. Though the words spoken are quiet, they carry well enough to be heard.]

I've been told many different things about this Earth, and have heard more than one theory about why we're here. [There's a pause as he contemplates his next words.] Some of them sound like conspiracy theories, but from what I've heard, they may not be far from the truth.

[Another pause, but whether it's for dramatic effect or more gathering of thoughts, it's difficult to say.]

I'm interested in hearing more. Every piece of a puzzle can change the whole. Without all your perspectives, we can home to paint an accurate picture of our abduction. [A beat.] Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE: TEST DRIVE MEME

FINAL NOTES: Thane will be bringing with him an M-97 sniper rifle and a M-6 Carnifex hand cannon with 10 thermal clips each.