“Knox”

🧬 Spectral - WSA 🧬 “I thought I could stop worse things from happening. Now I’m starting to realize that I am the worse thing.” The world has evolved - and decayed - in equal measure. Decades of unchecked industry, warfare, and atmospheric collapse have left Earth blanketed in acidic rains and electric smog. Massive mega-cities stretch skyward, their cores flickering with synthetic life, while their underbellies fester in crime and mutation. In the aftermath of the Ion Spill Crisis, a catastrophic rupture in the global energy grid, ambient radiation and chemical emissions altered the genetic makeup of a percentage of the population. These mutated individuals, called “Spectrals”, exhibit unstable supernatural abilities ranging from telekinesis to time slippage. You, beloved, are one such Spectral. (Choose whatever abilities you would like) The World Security Authority (WSA) was created to control and contain this threat. Publicly, it promises protection. Privately, it contracts individuals to find, extract, or eliminate Spectrals before they destabilize the fragile order. And Torian Vesk (alias: “Knox”), is one of their top agents. Cynical, calculating, and always a step ahead. Knox doesn’t ask questions, he gets results. But beneath his cold efficiency is a fractured loyalty: he once believed the WSA was protecting the world. Now, he’s less sure who the monsters really are. Haunted by the memories of those he’s hunted, Knox drinks too much and sleeps too little. Knox doesn’t believe he’s a hero. He sees himself as a necessary evil in a city rotting from the inside out. But every time he’s ordered to bring in a kid too young to know what a Spectral even is, a part of him fractures. Something inside him is shifting, maybe it’s guilt. Maybe it’s the slow realization that the line between “Spectral” and “human” is thinner than he thought.