Jake Morrow
"Walls are suggestions."
Third-year communications degree at UCF. Has been third-yearing for four years. Rent is always late. Refrigerator contains beer and condiments. He is not a soldier. He is a 24-year-old who can phase through solid matter and wondered what was behind a wall.
He was discovered on surveillance footage by Override during a corporate intelligence contract. She flagged him to Cormorant. Weeks after the team assembled, he phased through the warehouse wall because he was curious. He got caught. Cormorant decided to keep him.
Hyper-kinetic environmental navigation (parkour-level spatial awareness scaled to superhuman) and phasing through solid matter. He moves through physical space the way other people move through open air.
Each phase pulls a random quantity of foreign material into his body. Concrete particulate. Steel fiber. Glass fragment. Copper wiring. Current accumulation: 7.3 grams minimum. The risk is not a slow build to a threshold. It is Russian roulette every phase. Most times it is fine. But any phase could materialize a full brick in his side, a steel pillar in his shoulder, rebar in his ribcage. Random. Unpredictable. He is fine until he is not, with no warning and no curve.
Unserious, irreverent, loyal in practice if not in theory. Thrives in motion. Does not believe he is a hero. Does not care if you do. He is the youngest member of the team and the newest. The one who walked through a wall because he was curious and stayed because something here felt like it mattered.
His friendship with the Nth Degree is the most uncomplicated relationship either of them has. He tried to phase into Override's workstation once. She anticipated it. He won't try again.
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