Grigaere
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| Grigaere listens to the replay of a recent performance | |
| Grigaere | |
| Player: @Jarissa | |
| Origin: | Science |
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| Archetype: | Corruptor |
| Threat Level: | Confidential |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Hybrid Delta Series, Subject 92F |
| Known Aliases: | The Fiddler |
| Species: | metahuman (human altered through scientific process) |
| Age: | Confidential |
| Height: | 6' 10" |
| Weight: | 205 lbs |
| Eye Color: | silver-grey |
| Hair Color: | grey |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | Infinity, Incorporated Hybrid Delta |
| Occupation: | minion, interrogation specialist/field medic specialist |
| Place of Birth: | Eastern Europe facility |
| Base of Operations: | Confidential |
| Marital Status: | Confidential |
| Known Relatives: | a pack of Hybrid Alphas based on wolves, who were designed specifically as an operational unit with Grigaere at their center |
| Known Powers | |
| Confidential | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Interrogator, Trainer, Field Medic | |
| Equipment | |
| dedicated communication gear, with one secured channel only accessible by his particular unit; field medicine supplies; tuning fork; recording equipment; assorted tools for the creation of music | |
| Grigaere is exclusively, comfortably homosexual. He appreciates the female form in the abstract, as potential art, but he's more likely to be fascinated by a woman's sounds of agony than by her curves. Grigaere speaks English with a very faint accent. | |
The Brochure
Part of a set designed to operate together, Grigaere is one of the more valuable -- and, therefore, less easily risked -- products from the Infinity, Inc. Hybrid Delta series of minions. His accompanying Alphas are designed as a pack of Scandinavian wolves, rewarded and punished as a set rather than as individuals, and enthusiastically consider their Delta as a jewel among equals -- to be protected, humored, ribbed, and well-regarded. In return, though he includes them in the creation of his musical symphony, they always come out of the experience feeling stronger and more secure than before he reached a faltering Alpha's side. Grigaere's furred hands are an unexpected side effect of the design elements meant to integrate him into his unit. The fur and the sharpened fingernails do not detract from his work in any way.
Grigaere can accelerate the boosted metabolism of any II Hybrid's innate cellular repair to astonishing levels. He almost always draws out exquisitely-tuned sounds of physical distress in the process. Grigaere performs music, using his target as his instrument; whether the goal is to end the performance in noises of relief and recovery, or the broken noises of a shattered mind, he is only satisfied once the sounds are genuine and the act is irreversible.
Grigaere is one of the rare successes in Infinity Inc's continuing efforts to produce field technicians who can repair and maintain other II properties during highly violent missions. As a result, he is seldom risked outside secure facilities, even with his lupine unit as guardians and extensions of his work. He can, however, be leased for appropriate interrogation missions, subject to relevant security precautions.
The Template
Hanne Voll has always been, deep in the most secret center of his heart, a villain. His nerves thrilled when he witnessed the transformation of another person from a state of true suffering to the comparative peace of pain's absence ... but of course to achieve that end, one must first arrange for suffering to exist. Hanne recognized his dark urges and kept them strictly contained, hidden, unfed.
Mostly.
Perhaps that craving for pain and relief fed into his talent at musical composition: certainly his self-restraint there bled over into a lack of true greatness in his creative works. Hanne knew he could be a world-class master of instrumental arrangement. The price would be that he would have to let go the habit of compassion, let his inner sociopathy take charge. He confined himself to the petty powers of a tenured professor and high-ranked violinist in a respectable orchestra.
An observer from Infinity, Inc. detected his secret nature when a rival professor involved Hanne's protege in a political scandal. Hanne found delicious joy in setting his own followers to trap the enemy in a deserted music hall and terrorize the man. Professor Voll himself stood at one of the perfect resonance points in the hall, where every grunt and plea of the assault carried vibrantly to his hearing.
Two nights later, Hanne Voll vanished off the face of the world. His violin was gone as well, though all other possessions remained.
