Lazarus by Scoopey
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Description
As a man who cannot die Dion Gardner was once known and feared as the ultimate mercenary. In recent years though he has changed side, forming an unlikely alliance with the Grey Man
CLEA DATA FILE
Identity:
Dion Gardner
CLEA Classification:
Alpha Superior
Special Skills and/or Abilities:
Alpha Ability - Can return from the dead. Every time he is "killed" after his heart stops his body recovers until such time he reawakens.
Limitation(s)/Weakness(s):
In order to stabilise his body after he awakens he needs a transfusion of blood from a donor which results in the death of that person. Scientists reckon if he is denied the blood it will result in a permanent death.
Due to his means of coming back to life, he tends to get sloppy in his work.
Cannot restore severed body parts - if anyone beheaded him it would be fatal
Rap Sheet/Criminal Traits:
Assault/Aggravated Assault
Homicide
Mercenary
Muscle for hire.
Notes/History
Dion Gardner aka Lazarus is an Alpha like none other for he seems unable to be killed, or rather unable to remain dead. For as long as CLEA has records on the man his chosen career is that of a ruthless mercenary. In fact CLEA had been interested in Dion before the organisation found out he was an Alpha Superior.
Intelligence gathered from people that had contact with Dion reveals that perhaps he was unaware he was an Alpha until his abilities triggered for the first time. The actual occurrence of this can only be based on pure speculation since it was believed his abilities must have kicked in when he “died” for the first time.
If this is true then the actual trigger event happened during a contract to kidnap the daughter of a government minister in the Far East country of Khirana. Like most mercenaries who had gone to Khirana during the civil war, Dion had chosen to perform jobs for the anti-government forces. The kidnap attempt was supposed to have been a means for the rebel forces to end the war sooner by obtaining leverage over the country’s leaders. However what Dion was unaware of was that the government had planted one of their own people in Dion’s mercenary group. As soon as the mission was in the final phases the inside man turned the tables and handed the other mercenaries over to government forces.
For the kidnap attempt Dion and the others were sentenced to death, a show trial to discourage other mercs for joining the rebel cause. However after being shot by firing squad, hours later Dion suddenly “woke” up on the slab in the morgue. He then attacked the worker. The commotion was soon overheard but when the armed troops arrived all they had was a mystery on their hands, a dead pathologist and a missing body. When a post mortem was performed on the man that had been killed they found all the blood had been drained from his body.
From that moment in time onwards whenever Dion appears to “die” and come back to life he often leaves behind another body, drained of blood but with no puncture wounds. CLEA scientists have theorised that as soon as he awakens Dion has to obtain fresh blood to stabilise his cells and he seems capable of drawing what he needs by absorbing it through his skin.
Being able to survive death has meant the Dion can take far more chances that the average merc which makes him extremely dangerous. Sometimes he is known to deliberately kill himself in a manner that avoids his body being recovered, that way when he next awakens he is free to find a victim to restore his body to full health.
Interestingly, though Dion can certainly survive death his body does not seem able to fully repair external evidence of old injuries, hence he is covered with scars and marks that remain permanent. Perhaps the strangest injury he has is at the edges of his mouth which is held together with permanent stitching after someone tried to garrotte cut his throat in a bid to prevent Dion coming back to life afterwards. Dion had managed to deflect the wire upwards where it cut into his mouth. His attacker might have succeeded if Dion had not jumped off the top of a building and took the assailant with him.
For a long time Dion maintained his "career" as a mercenary before growing tired of being hunted by the law. A chance encounter with the Grey Man was both of their means to be seen as something other than monsters. With his ability to survive death, Lazarus is able to "feed" the Grey Man life source thus sustaining his partner without the need to feed off other victims.
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