Post by HungryHunter on Dec 26, 2017 4:19:56 GMT
Flipside is one of the top technology companies in the world. They and their subsidiaries have market shares in electronics, pharmaceutical tech, and military tech. They are one of the most powerful corporations in existence, and like any corporation, they have a dark side. However, their hidden dark side is hidden even deeper than most, down in the Hidden World. There, Scorpion Coin is known to every kingpin and dictator as the ones to go to when you want a leg up on your competition. And even deeper than that lies their true goals to choke out the Hidden World, which they consider a threat to regular humanity and itself.
Flipside is designed for maximum secrecy and deniability. Every branch is completely independent, only reporting directly to the head of the company for funding requests. This keeps the various branches from competing and reporting on each other if caught. The only groups known to all are the Taurus and Libra branches, given the way they work with every group.
Head of the hunting task force, Aries captures high value targets for research.
Abital-Angelic Archer
Race: Cupid
Age: At least 5,000 years
Height: 5’9”
Alignment:
Occupation:
Origin of Power: Angelic
History:
Abital’s origins are as fuzzy as any angel’s. What little is certain is that he was created or born in ancient times with the intent of getting the proper humans to mate for angelic goals. He did his job of breeding desired pairs until he fell in ancient times. His story for his fall is that he paired Helen of Troy and Paris on his own whim. He was thrown from heaven for this insubordination and has since wandered the earth, sowing love and a good deal of chaos for thousands of years.
Personality:
Abital is a romantic first and foremost. Abital acts on emotions and feels them strongly. There’s never a calm moment for Abital- he’s always passionate about any subject. He has a deep care for the beings of the world, taking a deep interest in their personalities and differences to create proper matches, rather than simply vessels of souls.
Appearance:
Even in the guise of a human, Abital is not an ordinary looking man. He is extremely androgynous, his figures delicate. His skin is a deep brown and eyes bright gold. His hair is sharply divided in cornrows, alternating gold and silver. Each row is braided in back. He is prone to wearing robes in metallic colors, gold, silver, or bronze, but may also wear other clothes in similar colors. His quiver and bow are always opposite colors, one silver and the other gold. The bow is a folding longbow as tall as Abital himself. It can extend even longer when he flys.
Powers and abilities:
Flight- Abital can extend four wings, two silver and two gold, and with them he can fly. He is not strikingly fast, but rather incredibly nimble.
Heavenly senses- Abital can see souls
Holy- Anything Abital touches becomes holy for 24 hours. This causes it to become corrosively harmful to unholy beings, including demons and undead. The same applies to his body and clothing.
Archery- Abital has a supply of many different arrows, all with different traits. He is an expert archer who can fire over shockingly large distances with devastating power.
Taurus is the leader of security, in charge of making sure Flipside facilities remain safe from intrusion. The current Taurus is a heavily mechanized human cyborg named Gerard Mills. Gerard had a paranoid streak ever since his youth, and after a stint in the military, went on to work private security, obsessively arming his own home with all the best gear he had access to at work. When he discovered the Hidden World in his early 30s, he immediately knew that he had to improve. He joined Flipside and learned new security techniques of magic and technology beyond the means of regular humans. His paranoia grew the higher in the organization he gets, and now he is never seen in person, making calls and controlling robots from his comfortable secret sanctum. Such is his secrecy that nobody is certain how he became a cyborg or his full capabilities as one, but it is widely agreed that if he chose to enter combat, he would be one of the most dangerous beasts in the entire company.
As chemistry head, Gemini is in charge of industrial chemical research, including magical potions. Lending a century of expertise to this branch is Zhong Wu, an alchemist from China. According to him, he joined because he couldn't stand the loneliness of the hermit life anymore. He is a polyglot, having learned a dozen languages for the sole purpose of being able to carry a conversation anywhere he goes. His friendliness has earned him a powerful suit of power armor, decorated with vials and tubes holding his various potions. He can dose himself with buffs, spray weakening poisons, and cause another dozen unpredictable effects at will.
Head of the medical department, Cancer researches new pharmaceuticals and medical technology.
Cancer is a medical robot created by the brilliant Doctor Malvus. They are the kindest of Flipside's heads, and are nurturing to their patients even as they test new drugs on them and clinically record their effects. They can be condescending to organic beings, seeing them as fragile things that always need their care and protection; this is in fact why they joined Flipside in the first place, to spread the order they saw as necessary to defend humans from themselves.
Leo is in charge of electronics. Under their leadership, the main line of Flipside phones and other basic household products are created. On the more illicit end, Leo is in charge of Flipside's small arms program. Any weapons small enough to be handheld belong to their department.
Employees:
Sidney Arachne
A new hire, Sidney fits right into the Leo section with her proclivity for combining household appliances and weaponry. Her natural gravitational abilities help her in working on larger projects, which she is sometimes recruited for, but usually she spends her days under Leo, working on various weapons. A few of her devices have been placed in the hands of her sister Raven for field testing.
As head of the cybernetics department, Virgo is in charge of the fusion of living beings with machinery.
Name: Mei Morishima
Race: Human
Age: 37
Height: 157 cm/5’1”
Alignment:
Origin of power: Cybernetics
History:
As a kid, Mei already showed interest in technology. She fiddled with electronics and made simple gadgets like a small box with a rotor (a popsicle stick) that could be turned on and off. But when a kid with a prosthetic limb joined her class, she instantly knew what she wanted to dedicate herself to. As she grew, so too did her skill and ambition. But her ambition outgrew the ethic practices of Japan’s cybernetics community. While her work demonstrated that she had the knowledge, their morality meant that she couldn’t improve her craft as quickly as she wanted to. So she joined Flipside who could provide her with all the materials and study subjects she needed to ensure humanity breaks through the boundaries of evolution and becomes truly perfect.
Personality:
Mei is an inquisitive and intelligent woman as can be seen from the fact that she has degrees in both robotics (so she could build improvements) and medicine (so she could install her creations herself). She is very goal-oriented to the point where her aspiration to improve mankind caused problems in her old professional life and now she shows quite a low tolerance of failure for those who work for her. Still, after chewing them out, she gladly provides them assistance and she clearly has emotions under her business-like facade as can be seen from her interaction with her bodyguard.
Appearance:
Mei is a young doctor of average height and build. Her hair is brown and messy and it usually covers one of her purple eyes. She usually wears a purple dress shirt, a bordeaux skirt that reaches just under her knees and dark tights with black mary janes covering her legs and feet. Her outfit is usually covered by a white lab coat.
Powers and Abilities:
Cybernetic eye - Mei doesn’t have any powers and she doesn’t feel the need to greatly improve her own body. That is why she only installed two cybernetic upgrades into herself. The first is a cybernetic eye which can gather environmental data faster and more sharply than a normal eye.
High-speed processing neural implant - Her second upgrade is a chip in her brain that greatly increases her cognitive capabilities, letting her process all the data her eye provides her with and letting her think much faster than a normal human.
Trusted bodyguard - Mei once saved the life of a kid who lost everything he had to live for. Since that day, the kid, Makoto Yasushi, became extremely loyal to her. With the cybernetics Mei implanted in him to save his life, he now serves as her most trusted bodyguard and errand boy.
Libra heads Human Resources, making new hires and keeping cohesion in the group.
Head of AI research, Scorpio leads the coders of Flipside.
Name: Morgan (?)
Race: Human?
Age: Appears to be in his late 20s
Height: 185 cm/6’1”
Alignment:
Origin of powers:
History: Morgan’s history is largely a mystery. There are no recorded sightings of this man until he joined a certain organisation meant to capture and hold a certain type of people. His apparent goal was to hunt down a kill an extradimensional being. It is uncertain if he managed to kill it, but through some unknown means he managed to lock it out of this timeline. With his objective complete, he left his previous employers and joined the Flipside with a new undisclosed goal.
Personality:
Morgan tends to stay away from his co-workers unless it is necessary. He is a man of few words unless he’s in a fight where he taunts his opponents. With his previous objective complete, his greatest passion now appears to be taking care of his daughter, Elizabeth, whom he is very protective of. Harming her can throw him into a berserker rage.
Appearance:
Morgan has the appearance of a man in his late twenties, with black hair and green eyes. His face is hidden by a white mask with some purple streaks forming a strange rune-like symbol that he almost never takes off. His usual outfit includes a black cashmere vest over a white shirt and black jeans. If he leaves his office, he always puts on a bulletproof black trench coat. On his right leg is a sheath for his black dagger.
Powers and Abilities:
Protective gadgetry - His mask not only hides his identity, but also provides a HUD. He also claims to have some gadgets on his person that proved a moderate resistance to magic and mental influence.
Superhuman physiology - HIs strength, speed, endurance and durability greatly overshadow those of a normal human.
Unknown energy - He can produce a strange black-and-violet energy at will. He can control the energy as fluidly as water and can also crystallize it into whatever form he wishes.
Slayer blade - A strange black dagger that can be summoned into Morgan’s hand at will. Wounds caused by this blade will not heal for three days. Finally, the blade can change shape which replaces its wounding property with a new one and also appears to have an influence on Morgan himself.
Sagittarius is in charge of exploring and documenting other dimensions and universes.
As head of the genetics department, Capricorn researches the genetic material of known and unknown entities.
Power sources of any sort fall under Aquarius’ domain, from solar to ki to magic.
As psychology head, Pisces studies the mentality of humans and non-humans alike and how best to control them.
Name: Ophiuchus (real name unknown)
Race: ?
Age: ?
Birthday: ?
Height: 5'7”
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Group Affiliation: Flipside
Known Aliases: The Scorpion
Occupation: CEO
Location: Detroit
Origin of Power: ?
Very little is known of Ophiuchus beyond his public persona. Even internally in Flipside, information is limited. What is known is that he claims to have come the USA from Iran “long ago” and started working at Flipside an unknown period of time ago in the Libra branch. He rose to his current position from head of Libra (at the time only going by his title; his real name can’t be found on any official records) when the former CEO stepped down in the midst of scandal. Since then, he's kept his cards close to his chest. If he has goals beyond the company, nobody knows.
Flipside is designed for maximum secrecy and deniability. Every branch is completely independent, only reporting directly to the head of the company for funding requests. This keeps the various branches from competing and reporting on each other if caught. The only groups known to all are the Taurus and Libra branches, given the way they work with every group.
Aries
Head of the hunting task force, Aries captures high value targets for research.
Abital-Angelic Archer
Race: Cupid
Age: At least 5,000 years
Height: 5’9”
Alignment:
Occupation:
Origin of Power: Angelic
History:
Abital’s origins are as fuzzy as any angel’s. What little is certain is that he was created or born in ancient times with the intent of getting the proper humans to mate for angelic goals. He did his job of breeding desired pairs until he fell in ancient times. His story for his fall is that he paired Helen of Troy and Paris on his own whim. He was thrown from heaven for this insubordination and has since wandered the earth, sowing love and a good deal of chaos for thousands of years.
Personality:
Abital is a romantic first and foremost. Abital acts on emotions and feels them strongly. There’s never a calm moment for Abital- he’s always passionate about any subject. He has a deep care for the beings of the world, taking a deep interest in their personalities and differences to create proper matches, rather than simply vessels of souls.
Appearance:
Even in the guise of a human, Abital is not an ordinary looking man. He is extremely androgynous, his figures delicate. His skin is a deep brown and eyes bright gold. His hair is sharply divided in cornrows, alternating gold and silver. Each row is braided in back. He is prone to wearing robes in metallic colors, gold, silver, or bronze, but may also wear other clothes in similar colors. His quiver and bow are always opposite colors, one silver and the other gold. The bow is a folding longbow as tall as Abital himself. It can extend even longer when he flys.
Powers and abilities:
Flight- Abital can extend four wings, two silver and two gold, and with them he can fly. He is not strikingly fast, but rather incredibly nimble.
Heavenly senses- Abital can see souls
Holy- Anything Abital touches becomes holy for 24 hours. This causes it to become corrosively harmful to unholy beings, including demons and undead. The same applies to his body and clothing.
Archery- Abital has a supply of many different arrows, all with different traits. He is an expert archer who can fire over shockingly large distances with devastating power.
Taurus
Taurus is the leader of security, in charge of making sure Flipside facilities remain safe from intrusion. The current Taurus is a heavily mechanized human cyborg named Gerard Mills. Gerard had a paranoid streak ever since his youth, and after a stint in the military, went on to work private security, obsessively arming his own home with all the best gear he had access to at work. When he discovered the Hidden World in his early 30s, he immediately knew that he had to improve. He joined Flipside and learned new security techniques of magic and technology beyond the means of regular humans. His paranoia grew the higher in the organization he gets, and now he is never seen in person, making calls and controlling robots from his comfortable secret sanctum. Such is his secrecy that nobody is certain how he became a cyborg or his full capabilities as one, but it is widely agreed that if he chose to enter combat, he would be one of the most dangerous beasts in the entire company.
Gemini
As chemistry head, Gemini is in charge of industrial chemical research, including magical potions. Lending a century of expertise to this branch is Zhong Wu, an alchemist from China. According to him, he joined because he couldn't stand the loneliness of the hermit life anymore. He is a polyglot, having learned a dozen languages for the sole purpose of being able to carry a conversation anywhere he goes. His friendliness has earned him a powerful suit of power armor, decorated with vials and tubes holding his various potions. He can dose himself with buffs, spray weakening poisons, and cause another dozen unpredictable effects at will.
Cancer
Head of the medical department, Cancer researches new pharmaceuticals and medical technology.
Cancer is a medical robot created by the brilliant Doctor Malvus. They are the kindest of Flipside's heads, and are nurturing to their patients even as they test new drugs on them and clinically record their effects. They can be condescending to organic beings, seeing them as fragile things that always need their care and protection; this is in fact why they joined Flipside in the first place, to spread the order they saw as necessary to defend humans from themselves.
Leo
Leo is in charge of electronics. Under their leadership, the main line of Flipside phones and other basic household products are created. On the more illicit end, Leo is in charge of Flipside's small arms program. Any weapons small enough to be handheld belong to their department.
Employees:
Sidney Arachne
A new hire, Sidney fits right into the Leo section with her proclivity for combining household appliances and weaponry. Her natural gravitational abilities help her in working on larger projects, which she is sometimes recruited for, but usually she spends her days under Leo, working on various weapons. A few of her devices have been placed in the hands of her sister Raven for field testing.
Virgo
As head of the cybernetics department, Virgo is in charge of the fusion of living beings with machinery.
Name: Mei Morishima
Race: Human
Age: 37
Height: 157 cm/5’1”
Alignment:
Origin of power: Cybernetics
History:
As a kid, Mei already showed interest in technology. She fiddled with electronics and made simple gadgets like a small box with a rotor (a popsicle stick) that could be turned on and off. But when a kid with a prosthetic limb joined her class, she instantly knew what she wanted to dedicate herself to. As she grew, so too did her skill and ambition. But her ambition outgrew the ethic practices of Japan’s cybernetics community. While her work demonstrated that she had the knowledge, their morality meant that she couldn’t improve her craft as quickly as she wanted to. So she joined Flipside who could provide her with all the materials and study subjects she needed to ensure humanity breaks through the boundaries of evolution and becomes truly perfect.
Personality:
Mei is an inquisitive and intelligent woman as can be seen from the fact that she has degrees in both robotics (so she could build improvements) and medicine (so she could install her creations herself). She is very goal-oriented to the point where her aspiration to improve mankind caused problems in her old professional life and now she shows quite a low tolerance of failure for those who work for her. Still, after chewing them out, she gladly provides them assistance and she clearly has emotions under her business-like facade as can be seen from her interaction with her bodyguard.
Appearance:
Mei is a young doctor of average height and build. Her hair is brown and messy and it usually covers one of her purple eyes. She usually wears a purple dress shirt, a bordeaux skirt that reaches just under her knees and dark tights with black mary janes covering her legs and feet. Her outfit is usually covered by a white lab coat.
Powers and Abilities:
Cybernetic eye - Mei doesn’t have any powers and she doesn’t feel the need to greatly improve her own body. That is why she only installed two cybernetic upgrades into herself. The first is a cybernetic eye which can gather environmental data faster and more sharply than a normal eye.
High-speed processing neural implant - Her second upgrade is a chip in her brain that greatly increases her cognitive capabilities, letting her process all the data her eye provides her with and letting her think much faster than a normal human.
Trusted bodyguard - Mei once saved the life of a kid who lost everything he had to live for. Since that day, the kid, Makoto Yasushi, became extremely loyal to her. With the cybernetics Mei implanted in him to save his life, he now serves as her most trusted bodyguard and errand boy.
Libra
Libra heads Human Resources, making new hires and keeping cohesion in the group.
Scorpio
Head of AI research, Scorpio leads the coders of Flipside.
Name: Morgan (?)
Race: Human?
Age: Appears to be in his late 20s
Height: 185 cm/6’1”
Alignment:
Origin of powers:
History: Morgan’s history is largely a mystery. There are no recorded sightings of this man until he joined a certain organisation meant to capture and hold a certain type of people. His apparent goal was to hunt down a kill an extradimensional being. It is uncertain if he managed to kill it, but through some unknown means he managed to lock it out of this timeline. With his objective complete, he left his previous employers and joined the Flipside with a new undisclosed goal.
Personality:
Morgan tends to stay away from his co-workers unless it is necessary. He is a man of few words unless he’s in a fight where he taunts his opponents. With his previous objective complete, his greatest passion now appears to be taking care of his daughter, Elizabeth, whom he is very protective of. Harming her can throw him into a berserker rage.
Appearance:
Morgan has the appearance of a man in his late twenties, with black hair and green eyes. His face is hidden by a white mask with some purple streaks forming a strange rune-like symbol that he almost never takes off. His usual outfit includes a black cashmere vest over a white shirt and black jeans. If he leaves his office, he always puts on a bulletproof black trench coat. On his right leg is a sheath for his black dagger.
Powers and Abilities:
Protective gadgetry - His mask not only hides his identity, but also provides a HUD. He also claims to have some gadgets on his person that proved a moderate resistance to magic and mental influence.
Superhuman physiology - HIs strength, speed, endurance and durability greatly overshadow those of a normal human.
Unknown energy - He can produce a strange black-and-violet energy at will. He can control the energy as fluidly as water and can also crystallize it into whatever form he wishes.
Slayer blade - A strange black dagger that can be summoned into Morgan’s hand at will. Wounds caused by this blade will not heal for three days. Finally, the blade can change shape which replaces its wounding property with a new one and also appears to have an influence on Morgan himself.
Sagittarius
Sagittarius is in charge of exploring and documenting other dimensions and universes.
Capricorn
As head of the genetics department, Capricorn researches the genetic material of known and unknown entities.
Aquarius
Power sources of any sort fall under Aquarius’ domain, from solar to ki to magic.
Pisces
As psychology head, Pisces studies the mentality of humans and non-humans alike and how best to control them.
The Scorpion Himself
Name: Ophiuchus (real name unknown)
Race: ?
Age: ?
Birthday: ?
Height: 5'7”
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Group Affiliation: Flipside
Known Aliases: The Scorpion
Occupation: CEO
Location: Detroit
Origin of Power: ?
Very little is known of Ophiuchus beyond his public persona. Even internally in Flipside, information is limited. What is known is that he claims to have come the USA from Iran “long ago” and started working at Flipside an unknown period of time ago in the Libra branch. He rose to his current position from head of Libra (at the time only going by his title; his real name can’t be found on any official records) when the former CEO stepped down in the midst of scandal. Since then, he's kept his cards close to his chest. If he has goals beyond the company, nobody knows.