Aaron Cross [5]

player name: Bee
player journal: DreamsOfStarlightExpress
playing here: Mordred (Merlin), William Garrow (Garrow's Law)
where did you find us? Another Player
are you 16 years of age or older?: Yes.



character name: Aaron Cross (born: Kenneth James Kitsom / a.k.a. Outcome #5)
Fandom: The Bourne Legacy
Timeline:  During the Manila sequence
character's age: Not stated, Assumed to be late thirties.

powers, skills, pets and equipment: Through systematic medication, Aaron's physical and mental abilities have been enhanced to a level far beyond normal human capability. This includes heightened senses, cognitive reflexes and recognition, intelligence, muscle strength, and endurance. At this point in canon, he has been viraled off of both sets of medication (his green and blue pills) and their effects have become permanent. He is thus capable of feats such as scaling walls and steep cliffs, shooting down targets from near impossible distances, fighting with extensive injuries, etc. 

In addition to this, Aaron is also highly skilled with arms and ammunition, seen using all manner of guns, blades, and has an understanding of explosives and extensive hand to hand combat. Much of this derives from military and CIA training enhanced by the medicines given to him regularly.

For equipment Aaron is carrying a handgun and a blade. 

canon history: 
Much of Aaron's history is not revealed in canon, as all information about his existence is highly classified. 

What is known is that he was born Kenneth James Kitsom in Reno, Nevada, and as a young man was recruited into the army. His recruiter had to add a hefty amount of points to Kenneth's IQ results in order for him to be accepted. While fighting overseas, Kenneth is convinced by Eric Byer to join Operation Outcome, a black ops program which Byer refers to as a group of "sin eaters," a necessary evil during war. After this, Kenneth's official status is that he was killed by a roadside bomb, and he is publicly listed as a fallen hero. Nothing else about Cross's past is revealed except brief flashbacks to an interrogation in which Aaron reveals that he does not wish to leave the program. It is later implied that this is in part to the fear of having to go off of his medication and return to below average intelligence. 

The start of canon follows a gap between Kenneth joining Operation Outcome and becoming Aaron Cross. He is on a training mission in Alaska, being chased by wolves as he manages to make it over the mountain and to the base camp in record time. Once there he encounters a fellow agent, later revealed to be Agent #3, and despite his efforts to glean further information about the program from him (how many agents are there, what got Agent #3 in trouble and sent to the base camp? etc.) Aaron finds himself mostly ignored by the other agent and scolded for asking too many questions. During this time Aaron confesses that he has lost his remaining medication and that he is in dire need of more. Agent #3 says that he cannot help. 

The next day, Agent #3 and Aaron hear a strange noise approaching the cabin and decide to flee, yet quickly after Aaron makes it outside with a backpack of supplies, an automated drone blows up the cabin with a missile, killing Agent #3. This is a signal to Aaron that something very wrong is happening and he takes off into the woods. Unbeknownst to him, the drone had been sent as a part of a command to shut down and destroy any evidence of the Operation Outcome program following an appearance of Jason Bourne in New York. In desperation, Eric Byer orders all remaining agents killed along with the doctors and scientists who had aided in medicating and researching them. 

After stealing a plane, Aaron manages to return to the mainland U.S. and seeks out the only surviving scientist from the program, hoping that she can provide him with more medication before he begins withdrawal. He locates her in her home just as Byer's agents are attempting to kill her, and with his help she manages to escape. However, to Aaron's dismay, she claims to have no medication with her or knowledge of how to get any within the U.S. She does however confess that the company that makes the virus that would allow the pills' effects to become permanent is in Manila.

They then begin their escape out of the country.

personality: Aaron is focused, efficient, and clever, however is shown to be a more independent thinker than most of the other agents of Operation Outcome. He questions more about the program, is curious about the other agents, and shows frustration at the level of disconnect between the doctors that medicate and research him and their patients. He is outwardly angered to discover that he is referred to as "number 5" by a doctor he has seen 13 times and yet does not know his name nor ever wonder what the agents do after they leave her office. He states fervently that he is not just a science experiment. This attitude towards the program reveals a displeasure with it and a distrust in it. 

It is also brought to light that Aaron is terrified of going off his medication, stating that the he's seen the results of withdrawal before and it is not something he can ever forget. In addition to this, were he to go into withdrawal, he'd return to below average intelligence and average physicality and would be killed in a matter of hours. With what little he tells about his life, it is enough to suggest that he has no desire to return to who he was when he was Kenneth, an unintelligent soldier from Reno. It is also evidence that Aaron has a strong desire to stay alive, and where many of the agents are seen to take the medicine meant to kill them despite lingering suspicions, Aaron follows his gut instincts and refuses to be put down like an animal. 

However, despite his wish to stay alive, Aaron always has several possible plans thought out in his head during any given situation, including what would happen if he were to die. He instructs Marta, the doctor, that if anything happens to him to take his backpack with supplies and fake IDs and try and escape without him. 

why do you feel this character would be appropriate to the setting? Aaron is a surviver who is adaptable and curious. I feel this combination would make for a good click with a diverse setting such as Anatole. 




Network Post Sample:

[The audio crackles on the Forge a bit as Aaron breathes too heavily too close to the device. He is in a foreign room trying to suppress the blood from the wound in his shoulder, but still he is certain to only record his voice. He may not know where he is, but that doesn't mean that the ones hunting him didn't know. For all he knew they could be waiting outside. Or they could have put him in here, but that seems less likely given the presence of the phone and the lack of restraints. 

And also the simple fact that he was still alive.]

...Hello? [His voice is strained a bit] Look. I need a doctor...or bandages. 

[The fact that he doesn't know where he is goes unsaid, the need for directions would make it obvious and the less information given, the less room for error.]

Just directions to a pharmacy would be great. 

[Upon inspection, the wound to his leg appears a bad graze, and if necessary he could attempt to remove the bullet from his shoulder if he can get antiseptic and bandages. His eyes dart over to his blade nearby as he considers his options.]

The help is much appreciated. 

[The line is delivered off-handedly. It is truly a line. A performance to sound like whoever he would be today. James Saxon of Vermont, or Scott Hale from Seattle. Whoever it was he'd play he might get more help if they were a polite person.]

Third Person Sample:

Aaron gripped the bedsheet in one hand and tore with the other, effortlessly tearing it into thin shreds. He laid them out beside one another, beside a bowl of water and a towel that had seen better days, both already red with his blood. The effort to make the makeshift bandages made the pain in his shoulder flare, but he bit it back. Whether it was the enhanced endurance or the last dregs of his energy wiring him against the feeling of his flesh screaming in protest, he bit back the pain and continued his task. Meticulous. Systematic. One step carefully after the other. He needed to stop the bleeding first, then he would turn his attention to the bullet when he'd found a way to disinfect and close the wound once he'd dug the damn thing out. 

Worrying about where he was and why would come last. Secondary to staying alive.

He grunted a bit as he moved to begin wrapping the remains of the sheet around his shoulder, binding it tight. All the while as the fabric tightened around his skin, one part of his brain focused on the problem at hand while the other began running possibilities through trials and tests. Dream? Not likely. Kidnapping? It was a possibility if he could assume that he had blacked out in Manila. It would have been understandable given the blood loss. However the inconsistencies were troubling and most likely ruled out the men who had been hunting him to begin with. They would not have left him with the opportunity to patch himself back up. Besides, they didn't want him for interrogation, just elimination. 

Then what were the other options? Was he that valuable to anyone else? That was also doubtful, given the top secret nature of the operation. He was the next best thing to non-existent in the world. Hallucination? The evidence was slim for that. Amnesia? There were no major wounds to his head, those were concentrated on his torso and legs from the bullets and when the bike had skidded. 

Conclusion? Not enough information at this time to make any sort of conclusion. 

Plan of action? Close the wounds. Find Marta. Get conclusion. And thank fucking god that he'd already viraled off his meds or this would be a hell of a lot more problematic. 

Anything else? ...none!