Elias Maine
The Meta
"Once one of the finest soldiers produced by Project Freelancer, now Agent Maine is something more than human, and yet something less at the same time. I wonder: How much of Agent Maine is behind that helmet, and how much is Sigma?" ~ Aiden Peace, Councillor of Project Freelancer.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Agent Maine is a mountain of a man. Standing at eight feet and five inches, Maine is one of the tallest humans ever recorded throughout history. He is incredibly muscular, has lightly tanned skin, brown eyes and a shaven, bald head.
There is a large scar on Maine's neck, thanks to a bullet wound that left him unable to speak or make noises besides grunts and animalistic growls.
Specialized Equipment
Agent Maine wears a helmet that covered his entire head that was made out of reinforced volcanic glass, granting him additional protection without decreasing his field of view. This volcanic glass was one way, and had a golden shine on the outside. His armour was painted white and had many areas on it thickened in order to maximize protection.
Agent Maine currently possesses three AI fragments, which provide him with strategy, information and manage his equipment. He is far more attuned to these AI than any other freelancer agent, at the cost of his sanity and sense of identity.
Agent Maine was given a Strength Enhancement Unit, which gave him strength that could match a giant or possibly even Heracles himself. He can easily bend metal, kill large animals with a single punch, lift carriages with only one hand and much more.
When Agent Maine strangled Carolina and took her AI fragments, he also tore the Speed Augmentation Unit from the back of her armour. This allows Agent Maine to run at blinding speeds for a limitted amount of time. This makes retreating against The Meta to be useless.
When Agent Maine murdered Agent Kansas, he stole the Adaptive Camouflage Unit from him, granting Maine the ability to alter the colour of his white armour as if it were a chameleon. While mostly used in order to hide, Maine can also use this to shift his armour's colours in order to give it the colours of a military faction, which can buy him a few minutes of confusion before the jig is up.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Born in Kardiá in the year 1287, Elias Maine spent much of his childhood helping his father tend to the carapaces of sand crabs so that it could be used to create armour. As Elias grew, it quickly became apparent that his size and strength were unusual, to the point were some questioned if he was secretly a demigod. As soon as he came of age, Elias Maine joined the Authenian military, seeing it as a career that he could truly excel in due to his incredible strength and stature.
Throughout his training, it became clear that Elias Maine had a great talent for combat, and he was quickly noticed by the higher ups in the AMC, who recommended him to Project Freelancer. Elias Maine passed all the extensive tests and training with flying colours, turning Elias Maine into Agent Maine. Agent Maine rose through the ranks, becoming the sixth highest ranking Freelancer Agent. The one thing holding Agent Maine back was his simplistic approach to strategy.
Agent Maine became a close friend and drinking buddy of Agent Wyoming, and they could often be found playing cards in the FOI. He had also made friends with Agent Washington and was on good terms with Agent Carolina.
During a mission to supress bandits from Clan Gansúil from entering Authenian territory, Agent Maine was shot in the throat, leaving him mute. When Agent Carolina was assigned to be implanted with the AI fragment Sigma, she insisted that Sigma be given to Agent Maine so that he could use Sigma in order to communicate with the other Freelancers. Agent Carolina later obtained two AI fragments called Eta and Iota. All Freelancers had to attend lectures performed by the Director and the Councillor about the capabilities of Arcane Intelligences. They learnt about the different stages of sentience that an AI could achieve, ending with Metastability, the stage where an AI fragment could be considered truly a person. Sigma became obsessed with the concept until he learnt that the last stage could probably could not be achieved by a fragment such as himself.
The despair that Sigma felt at the idea of never being truly alive almost broke him, and his way of coping was to overwhelm himself with his duties in order to occupy his mind. He spent much more time within Agent Maine's mind, and often spoke to him, with Maine having no way to respond verbally, he did so mentally. The amount of time that the two spent connected to each other led to their two minds becoming one, though to outside observers, they saw no change.
During the battle on the FOI by rogue freelancers, Agent Maine and Sigma remained hidden, only revealing themselves just as the battle was over. Agent Carolina was trying to recover on the topside of the FOI, unable to stand after her fight with Agent Texas. Maine walked over Agent Carolina, picked her up by the neck, ripped out her AI fragment implants from her skull and threw her overboard. Maine and Sigma added Eta and Iota to their consciousness, and Sigma named themselves "The Meta", as he saw that the only way to achieve Metastability was to combine the AI fragments together. The Meta left the FOI and has spent every waking moment hunting down other Freelancer Agents and trying to kill them so that he could steal their AI fragments and special equipment.
Mental Trauma
While Agent Maine was mentally sound, the thing he has become has a mind like no other. Almost a hivemind compiled of Maine's mind mixed with that of Sigma, Eta and Iota, the Meta does not think like a typical mortal, and has not attempted to communicate with others since he murdered Agent Carolina.
Morality & Philosophy
"A brute. Strong, unrelenting, fearless. He had no qualms when being asked to do the unpleasant, the morally questionable, because despite what many thought of him he knew he was, at his core, a soldier, and his actions inevitably served the greater good."~ Aiden Peace, Councillor of Project Freelancer, on the moral code of Agent Maine.
Alignment
Neutral Evil, Formerly Lawful Neutral
Age
39
Children
Current Residence
Unknown
Sex
Male
Eyes
Brown
Hair
Bald
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Tanned
Height
8'5
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