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Character Name: Khan Noonien Singh
Canon: Star Trek (Reboot)
Canon Point: End of Star Trek: Into Darkness, so frozen in his comfy cryo tube. Again.
Is your character Dead, Undead or Alive: Alive.
History: Memory Alpha page for Khan.
Personality: For all intents and purposes, Khan is better. Better than you, better than me, better than that guy you know down the street at the corner store. It is the main core of his being, as him and those also like him, the other Augments, have been genetically made to be better than any human. Raised and trained to be able to do anything and everything, to be the best, it's what he knows. He thinks it and he has the means to back it up. When he tells Kirk he is better and the captain asks 'at what' he doesn't even hesitate to answer back with 'everything'. He doesn't doubt it one bit, even after almost all of the Augments had been wiped out by normal humans and him and those remaining had escaped into space to avoid complete annihilation.
Even though he thinks himself better, he doesn't flaunt it like some would, he doesn't have to. Khan doesn't need to constantly remind everyone around him verbally that he's better, he eludes it merely with his presence and the way he speaks, the way he stands, the way he moves, there is little doubt that anyone who comes in contact with him will know that there is something dangerous about this man. Dangerous and cunning and he is not above using it against anyone, 'innocent' or not. Though Khan doesn't find regular humans innocent at all. Killing them doesn't bother him as as far as he's concerned humanity has wronged his people from the very start, though it doesn't mean he'll just slaughter people nilly willy, not for fun by any means. Even in the Eugenics Wars back in his original time before he went into cryo the first time, he was considered the best of the Augment tyrants who ruled. While human subjects were given less freedoms, he did not massacre them nor was there any internal warring between him and his own people where he ruled. Though eventually the Augment tyrants would begin to war among each other, eventually the start of their downfall, as the humans took advantage of it.
When it comes down to it, he will do whatever it takes to accomplish his goals, and after the defeat of his people in 1996, now in the future in 2259, he is more ruthless to assure their safety. He will kill anyone and do anything. The remaining Augments are his everything. When he thinks them dead he has little care for his own safety, crashing a starship into San Francisco from space, ultimately surviving, and while he does initially make a run for it, when confronted by Spock he does let his emotions take hold again and tries to kill the Vulcan as all he has is his revenge. Revenge is a huge driving force for Khan.
He does not care for being used, as that was the intention of his people all along. To be tools for normal humans and so when he's awoken in 2259 by Admiral Marcus and blackmailed into working for Section 31 of Starfleet, designing weapons and militarized ships, he has no intention of letting things stay that way. Though there are times he seems to let people use him, when mostly it is him manipulating them into helping him and his cause. Khan will find ways to get out on top and get what he wants, aligning with people and then stabbing them in the back when it suits his purpose.
On the outside Khan exudes a calm and cold exterior, always seeming in control. Though he has his moments of emotional outbursts, like when Kirk accuses him of killing innocent Starfleet personnel and he explains his reasons for it. That Marcus had his hands tied using the other Augments against Khan, getting quite openly emotional, weeping. There is no doubt he feels very strongly for his people, though there is some belief that he displayed such emotions to further manipulate Kirk into believing him, to being more on his side than Marcus'. His anger is another thing to not have turned on you, as he will take down any in his path, it consumes him, not listening to any reason, until he finishes his goal. Much like with the death of Marcus, he beats Kirk till he can't try to stop him, completely ignores any attempts to reason with him from Carol Marcus and stops only to push her aside and then break her leg so she can't bother him further. Once he has Marcus all rage and anger comes out and he doesn't even kill him quickly or painlessly. He takes the man's head in his hands and crushes his skull, killing him in front of his own daughter, having his revenge.
Khan is a man not to be underestimated, as it will only result in a lot of trouble and pain for those who do. Even those who are wary of him can still fall prey to his cunning. Though it can be hard to tell if it's better to work along side him or against him, as it seems either way, you'll end up regretting it in the end.
Items on your character at canon point: Just the clothing he's wearing when put into cryo again.
Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses:
His abilities and strengths are basically the same. He's made to be able to adapt at lightning speeds, to learn quickly and retain all information he learns. He has amazing combat skills, both hand to hand and with weapons. Khan can basically pick a weapon up and learn to use it fairly quick and efficiently. His aim is precise and if he misses, it's most likely he meant to, though no doubt there will be some chances of a slip up. He thinks he's perfect, but he's not.
A huge strength is his ability to manipulate people, even when they know he's not on their side, he tends to find a way to work it to his favor. He'll use any tactic to achieve his goal, do his own dirty work, or use others to do it for him. As long as he gets what he wants. Everyone is expendable to him and he won't hesitate to use every single person around him if he has to.
Being an Augment, he can take quite the beating. As mentioned in his personality section, he's first stunned, which really doesn't faze him at all, then crashes a space ship from out in Earth's orbit, and once he's done that he leaps and lands a 40 foot drop and runs off to try and make a get away from Spock going after him. No doubt the only reason they're able to take him in is because of those facts and Spock further wearing him down with a Vulcan nerve pinch, which he breaks out of, and a partial mind meld. After that he's stunned multiple times by Uhura which distracts him long enough for Spock to lay the final smack down, knocking him out. So yeah. He can take a bit of a beating. Even when he is wounded, his body is made to heal much quicker than that of a humans and can fight off any, or most any, illness.
So while he's a tough bugger, it's not impossible to hurt or kill him, but he'll not make it easy. At all.
As for weaknesses, the biggest weaknesses that Khan possess are nothing physical nor any sort of illness, it is a defect in the genes of his kind, or so the scientists who made them say. Because of this defect they are much more aggressive, arrogant and ambitious for their own good, plus their sense of morality is lesser than that of most humans. The three first traits can be a positive thing in some ways, especially one who means to rule and to rule in a way that demands and garners loyalty from those around him. For one who means to lead. Yet they can also lead to letting one's head get far too big to carry and becoming far too ambitious, taking on more than one can chew.
Khan lets his arrogant ways get the better of him, for example, when dealing with Spock, thinking he's out matched the Vulcan when he takes over the Vengeance and threatens to kill Kirk if he doesn't give him his crew. It ultimately backfires on him when it's shown that Spock had given Khan the torpedoes he'd wanted and armed them to explode, crippling the Augment's newly acquired starship. It's also his ambition and need to get revenge on everyone who slights him that in that same moment bit him.
After getting back his crew, or so he thought, he could have just done as he'd said, beamed Kirk, Scotty and Carol back onto the Enterprise and taken off with, presumably, his people, but he got greedy. He wanted to show just how much better he was and stomp out the Enterprise with his new ship. His aggression fuels his need for revenge, always having to have it, no matter what. He didn't have to kill Marcus, he could have let Kirk and co take him in as they'd planned, perhaps even worked something out for his crew in the process, but that aggression and hatred just couldn't let it go.
Obviously Khan is an extremely emotional being, when he lets it show. When he's not parading around the collected cold outer shell, coming off rather menacing at times, if not patronizing. When he emotes he emotes a lot. His anger is explosive, his love and devotion to his people a driving force that's the basis for everything he does in the context of the movie, revenge and all, and his suffering and mourning tends to loop right back to anger. As do much of his emotions. It seems to be the way he knows how to work them out, no doubt due to the way he'd been raised as a young boy and man.
In the end his family, the other remaining Augments, are his major weakness. The reason for everything he does. Though one could say his other major weakness is holding some pretty nasty grudges.
When it comes to him meeting and dealing with other species that could be stronger than him, other species or even other super humans, Khan will be interested, if not wanting to prove he can still stand up against them. If not respect them for being so powerful. He can't really respect normal humans as they're lesser than him, or so he thinks, though I think he could respect someone 'better' than him, even if he'd probably not admit they were better. In the movie Khan had had little interaction with alien species that were different from humans, his most major interaction being with Vulcans, namely Spock. Spock was a match for him in many ways, they were practically equal in their brawl, Spock able to weaken Khan with his nerve pinch and mind melding with him, even if the Augment was able to break out of both. Spock himself was able to take quite a beating, compared to any human, being a Vulcan and stronger than them.
Still, it will be difficult for him to come to terms with not being the best around any longer, but he will continue to learn and strive to not be left behind for long. If he can.
Samples
Network/Action Spam Sample: Heavy discussions with Captain Kirk about all the things.
Prose Log Sample:
It is the year 2015.
Or so he's gathered with a bit of research. Questioning the 'locals' and everyone else here with him. Another theoretical cage he's trapped in, though Khan can't be sure if there is blackmail keeping him here beyond the invisible walls that can't be broken, but he knows for sure that he has no idea where his people are. The rest of the Augments.
Instead of sleeping for hundreds of years this time, he's some how seemed to go back in time as well. The date is now much closer to when he'd originally left Earth with his people. Took exile from a world they could no longer live on. It reminds him of the Narada incident, with the Romulans. Khan was a nosy man after all, he learned everything he could, took in all information he could get his hands on or worm his way into without being caught while under Admiral Marcus' 'care'. Yet he needed to know, had to know. So behind from his years in cryo, he had to catch up or be left behind. Couldn't allow it, had to know everything to get out of Marcus' clutches. To save his crew, his family. His people.
While in the end all his knowledge and strength had been bested by the same crew of the Enterprise that had thwarted the Romulans he'd read up on. How ironic. The Enterprise and Captain James Tiberius Kirk. The little ship that could.
So far him and his crew aren't here with him, so he uses the name Marcus had given him when he'd first woke, to give a false sense of humanity to him, a smokescreen. Khan was sharp, dangerous, some may have heard of it only twenty years after his people left Earth. John Harrison seemed. Normal. Bland. Unassuming. Just what he needs to be right now. Until he can figure out what he can do here and who he can get proper answers from. He needs to find where the rest of his own crew is and free them and get out of here. Before the Federation some how shows up here too and ruins everything. Again.
Better to just assume they will. It'll keep him pushing forward, more so than his ambition and need already does.
The cell he's picked up is nothing like the technology he'd grown used to in the year he'd been awake in the Federation's future. It's meant to do the same general thing, and he's not unfamiliar with it. So he'll look through the network, going through the possible people he could use and manipulate to get what he wanted. Some had been here longer than others, obviously, he needed to speak with those who had been here from the very beginning, if there were any.
For now Khan will place nice until he can make his move.
Player name: Maus
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kinginexileCharacter Information
Character Name: Khan Noonien Singh
Canon: Star Trek (Reboot)
Canon Point: End of Star Trek: Into Darkness, so frozen in his comfy cryo tube. Again.
Is your character Dead, Undead or Alive: Alive.
History: Memory Alpha page for Khan.
Personality: For all intents and purposes, Khan is better. Better than you, better than me, better than that guy you know down the street at the corner store. It is the main core of his being, as him and those also like him, the other Augments, have been genetically made to be better than any human. Raised and trained to be able to do anything and everything, to be the best, it's what he knows. He thinks it and he has the means to back it up. When he tells Kirk he is better and the captain asks 'at what' he doesn't even hesitate to answer back with 'everything'. He doesn't doubt it one bit, even after almost all of the Augments had been wiped out by normal humans and him and those remaining had escaped into space to avoid complete annihilation.
Even though he thinks himself better, he doesn't flaunt it like some would, he doesn't have to. Khan doesn't need to constantly remind everyone around him verbally that he's better, he eludes it merely with his presence and the way he speaks, the way he stands, the way he moves, there is little doubt that anyone who comes in contact with him will know that there is something dangerous about this man. Dangerous and cunning and he is not above using it against anyone, 'innocent' or not. Though Khan doesn't find regular humans innocent at all. Killing them doesn't bother him as as far as he's concerned humanity has wronged his people from the very start, though it doesn't mean he'll just slaughter people nilly willy, not for fun by any means. Even in the Eugenics Wars back in his original time before he went into cryo the first time, he was considered the best of the Augment tyrants who ruled. While human subjects were given less freedoms, he did not massacre them nor was there any internal warring between him and his own people where he ruled. Though eventually the Augment tyrants would begin to war among each other, eventually the start of their downfall, as the humans took advantage of it.
When it comes down to it, he will do whatever it takes to accomplish his goals, and after the defeat of his people in 1996, now in the future in 2259, he is more ruthless to assure their safety. He will kill anyone and do anything. The remaining Augments are his everything. When he thinks them dead he has little care for his own safety, crashing a starship into San Francisco from space, ultimately surviving, and while he does initially make a run for it, when confronted by Spock he does let his emotions take hold again and tries to kill the Vulcan as all he has is his revenge. Revenge is a huge driving force for Khan.
He does not care for being used, as that was the intention of his people all along. To be tools for normal humans and so when he's awoken in 2259 by Admiral Marcus and blackmailed into working for Section 31 of Starfleet, designing weapons and militarized ships, he has no intention of letting things stay that way. Though there are times he seems to let people use him, when mostly it is him manipulating them into helping him and his cause. Khan will find ways to get out on top and get what he wants, aligning with people and then stabbing them in the back when it suits his purpose.
On the outside Khan exudes a calm and cold exterior, always seeming in control. Though he has his moments of emotional outbursts, like when Kirk accuses him of killing innocent Starfleet personnel and he explains his reasons for it. That Marcus had his hands tied using the other Augments against Khan, getting quite openly emotional, weeping. There is no doubt he feels very strongly for his people, though there is some belief that he displayed such emotions to further manipulate Kirk into believing him, to being more on his side than Marcus'. His anger is another thing to not have turned on you, as he will take down any in his path, it consumes him, not listening to any reason, until he finishes his goal. Much like with the death of Marcus, he beats Kirk till he can't try to stop him, completely ignores any attempts to reason with him from Carol Marcus and stops only to push her aside and then break her leg so she can't bother him further. Once he has Marcus all rage and anger comes out and he doesn't even kill him quickly or painlessly. He takes the man's head in his hands and crushes his skull, killing him in front of his own daughter, having his revenge.
Khan is a man not to be underestimated, as it will only result in a lot of trouble and pain for those who do. Even those who are wary of him can still fall prey to his cunning. Though it can be hard to tell if it's better to work along side him or against him, as it seems either way, you'll end up regretting it in the end.
Items on your character at canon point: Just the clothing he's wearing when put into cryo again.
Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses:
His abilities and strengths are basically the same. He's made to be able to adapt at lightning speeds, to learn quickly and retain all information he learns. He has amazing combat skills, both hand to hand and with weapons. Khan can basically pick a weapon up and learn to use it fairly quick and efficiently. His aim is precise and if he misses, it's most likely he meant to, though no doubt there will be some chances of a slip up. He thinks he's perfect, but he's not.
A huge strength is his ability to manipulate people, even when they know he's not on their side, he tends to find a way to work it to his favor. He'll use any tactic to achieve his goal, do his own dirty work, or use others to do it for him. As long as he gets what he wants. Everyone is expendable to him and he won't hesitate to use every single person around him if he has to.
Being an Augment, he can take quite the beating. As mentioned in his personality section, he's first stunned, which really doesn't faze him at all, then crashes a space ship from out in Earth's orbit, and once he's done that he leaps and lands a 40 foot drop and runs off to try and make a get away from Spock going after him. No doubt the only reason they're able to take him in is because of those facts and Spock further wearing him down with a Vulcan nerve pinch, which he breaks out of, and a partial mind meld. After that he's stunned multiple times by Uhura which distracts him long enough for Spock to lay the final smack down, knocking him out. So yeah. He can take a bit of a beating. Even when he is wounded, his body is made to heal much quicker than that of a humans and can fight off any, or most any, illness.
So while he's a tough bugger, it's not impossible to hurt or kill him, but he'll not make it easy. At all.
As for weaknesses, the biggest weaknesses that Khan possess are nothing physical nor any sort of illness, it is a defect in the genes of his kind, or so the scientists who made them say. Because of this defect they are much more aggressive, arrogant and ambitious for their own good, plus their sense of morality is lesser than that of most humans. The three first traits can be a positive thing in some ways, especially one who means to rule and to rule in a way that demands and garners loyalty from those around him. For one who means to lead. Yet they can also lead to letting one's head get far too big to carry and becoming far too ambitious, taking on more than one can chew.
Khan lets his arrogant ways get the better of him, for example, when dealing with Spock, thinking he's out matched the Vulcan when he takes over the Vengeance and threatens to kill Kirk if he doesn't give him his crew. It ultimately backfires on him when it's shown that Spock had given Khan the torpedoes he'd wanted and armed them to explode, crippling the Augment's newly acquired starship. It's also his ambition and need to get revenge on everyone who slights him that in that same moment bit him.
After getting back his crew, or so he thought, he could have just done as he'd said, beamed Kirk, Scotty and Carol back onto the Enterprise and taken off with, presumably, his people, but he got greedy. He wanted to show just how much better he was and stomp out the Enterprise with his new ship. His aggression fuels his need for revenge, always having to have it, no matter what. He didn't have to kill Marcus, he could have let Kirk and co take him in as they'd planned, perhaps even worked something out for his crew in the process, but that aggression and hatred just couldn't let it go.
Obviously Khan is an extremely emotional being, when he lets it show. When he's not parading around the collected cold outer shell, coming off rather menacing at times, if not patronizing. When he emotes he emotes a lot. His anger is explosive, his love and devotion to his people a driving force that's the basis for everything he does in the context of the movie, revenge and all, and his suffering and mourning tends to loop right back to anger. As do much of his emotions. It seems to be the way he knows how to work them out, no doubt due to the way he'd been raised as a young boy and man.
In the end his family, the other remaining Augments, are his major weakness. The reason for everything he does. Though one could say his other major weakness is holding some pretty nasty grudges.
When it comes to him meeting and dealing with other species that could be stronger than him, other species or even other super humans, Khan will be interested, if not wanting to prove he can still stand up against them. If not respect them for being so powerful. He can't really respect normal humans as they're lesser than him, or so he thinks, though I think he could respect someone 'better' than him, even if he'd probably not admit they were better. In the movie Khan had had little interaction with alien species that were different from humans, his most major interaction being with Vulcans, namely Spock. Spock was a match for him in many ways, they were practically equal in their brawl, Spock able to weaken Khan with his nerve pinch and mind melding with him, even if the Augment was able to break out of both. Spock himself was able to take quite a beating, compared to any human, being a Vulcan and stronger than them.
Still, it will be difficult for him to come to terms with not being the best around any longer, but he will continue to learn and strive to not be left behind for long. If he can.
Samples
Network/Action Spam Sample: Heavy discussions with Captain Kirk about all the things.
Prose Log Sample:
It is the year 2015.
Or so he's gathered with a bit of research. Questioning the 'locals' and everyone else here with him. Another theoretical cage he's trapped in, though Khan can't be sure if there is blackmail keeping him here beyond the invisible walls that can't be broken, but he knows for sure that he has no idea where his people are. The rest of the Augments.
Instead of sleeping for hundreds of years this time, he's some how seemed to go back in time as well. The date is now much closer to when he'd originally left Earth with his people. Took exile from a world they could no longer live on. It reminds him of the Narada incident, with the Romulans. Khan was a nosy man after all, he learned everything he could, took in all information he could get his hands on or worm his way into without being caught while under Admiral Marcus' 'care'. Yet he needed to know, had to know. So behind from his years in cryo, he had to catch up or be left behind. Couldn't allow it, had to know everything to get out of Marcus' clutches. To save his crew, his family. His people.
While in the end all his knowledge and strength had been bested by the same crew of the Enterprise that had thwarted the Romulans he'd read up on. How ironic. The Enterprise and Captain James Tiberius Kirk. The little ship that could.
So far him and his crew aren't here with him, so he uses the name Marcus had given him when he'd first woke, to give a false sense of humanity to him, a smokescreen. Khan was sharp, dangerous, some may have heard of it only twenty years after his people left Earth. John Harrison seemed. Normal. Bland. Unassuming. Just what he needs to be right now. Until he can figure out what he can do here and who he can get proper answers from. He needs to find where the rest of his own crew is and free them and get out of here. Before the Federation some how shows up here too and ruins everything. Again.
Better to just assume they will. It'll keep him pushing forward, more so than his ambition and need already does.
The cell he's picked up is nothing like the technology he'd grown used to in the year he'd been awake in the Federation's future. It's meant to do the same general thing, and he's not unfamiliar with it. So he'll look through the network, going through the possible people he could use and manipulate to get what he wanted. Some had been here longer than others, obviously, he needed to speak with those who had been here from the very beginning, if there were any.
For now Khan will place nice until he can make his move.