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[ineveraskedforthis]

Player Info

Name: Crystal
Age: 23
Contact: roomwithamoose
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Character Basics:

Character Name: Adam Jensen
Journal: ineveraskedforthis
Age: 34
Fandom: Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Canon Point: Just after being interrogated on the hidden/secret Bell Tower base.
Debt:

Class A: 100 years
Class B: 217 years, 6 months
Class C: 186 years, 4 months

Abandonment/Neglect, Blackmail, Bribery, Carrying Concealed Weapon, Conspiracy, Escaping Custody, Fleeing the Scene of a Crime, Ignoring a Direct Order by a Superior, Impersonation, Invasion of Privacy, Property Damage, Stealing Evidence, Substance Abuse, Trespassing, Drugging Someone, & Using Underhanded Means in a Fight

GRAND TOTAL: 503 years, 10 months

Note: Deus Ex: Human Revolution gives players the option to either be more pacifist and use nonlethal methods to accomplish their goals or go on a bloody rampage. Based on background information and what's considered to be more canon for Adam's personality (based upon NPC reactions to player choices), I've calculated his debt based on a more pacifist approach where most targets are knocked out and only a small handful die (by comparison). Most of his Class A crime is based on espionage.

Canon Character Section:

History: He found out he was adopted like a week ago and it's downhill from there.

Personality:

Adam Jensen is a man of very few words. That isn't to say that when he speaks, everyone shuts up and listens because he has some sage advice to bestow upon everyone that blows them away and makes them rethink all of their life's choices up until that point. He's generally just a quiet kind of guy who listens more than he speaks. When he does speak, Adam is sometimes a smart-ass and responds with dry humor, but oftentimes he tries to say the right thing. For example, when his ex-girlfriend is clearly nervous and upset about something, he reassures her that she knows what she's doing and she has no reason to panic. Adam is also much more likely to talk about the way someone else is feeling in a given situation than himself such as when discussing the Mexicantown Massacre with the former coworker who did take the shot, Adam absolves him of the guilt he's been carrying with him, but Adam doesn't really get into much of what he thinks and feels about what happened. There are times, however, when talk about himself is unavoidable and that tends to be when the smart-ass comments turn up. Adam does not like to dive into his own thoughts and emotions both out of the unique brand of machismo behavior that comes with being ex-SWAT as well as part of avoidance most experience after a trauma like Adam went through. But just because he doesn't talk about it doesn't mean it isn't there.

Adam experiences depression and a large amount of guilt over what happened at Sarif Industries six months ago because he is the sort of person who believes its his duty to protect people no matter what the cost. Part of this may be due to his adoptive mother's psychological problems that required a lot of care, but whatever the root that's who Adam is at his core: someone who cares, provides for, and protects everyone around him. And he isn't the type to discriminate who is and who isn't worthy of being protected. Adam's superior officer and former mentor advised him to shoot to kill in all circumstances, but Adam repeatedly went against that and instead would injure whoever they were trying to put down rather than take their lives. Adam does not revel in violence and he isn't someone who gets off on being more powerful than others. He has always seen his job as fulfilling a duty to protect others rather than to merely enforce the law or stand above it and that is the main reason he ended up quitting SWAT. The story was, of course, twisted that he had been fired as a result of his insubordination in not firing at the fifteen year old augmented kid that was shot by another officer and gave way to the previously mentioned Mexicantown Massacre, but Adam doesn't really care what the papers say or what people think about it because he felt he made the right call in the end.

As far as how all of this relates to the incident at Sarif Industries that nearly cost him his life, His emotional attachment to Megan Reed aside, Adam blames himself for not getting to Megan (and the others) in time to keep them safe. He often experiences nightmares of the incident, both of his (near) death and Megan's. Adam's psychological struggles are also rooted in his augmentations as well. He has a very hard time accepting his new physical appearance, going so far as to smash the mirror in his apartment's bathroom. Moreover, Adam carries with him a great deal of survivor's guilt. Although he is driven to find out what happened to Megan - and then to find her once he finds out that she and her team are alive - the rest of his life has somewhat come to a standstill. He isolates himself in his apartment, smoking and drinking as well as lamenting over the fact he can feel his lungs repairing any damage caused by the smoking and the fact getting intoxicated is a challenge with his faster metabolism.

Although Adam is definitely not one to smile and has a very wry, dark sense of humor that can rub people the wrong way, that doesn't mean he's entirely unpleasant to be around. There are some around him, of course, who blame him as much as he does for what happened six months ago, but he won't begrudge those that aren't as close to him and will often simply accept that responsibility and blame without complaint. Those that are close with him, however, are not met with such passive behavior. Adam is quick to anger when those he considers close bring the incident, particularly Megan, into the conversation. He isn't the sort to raise his voice, but his tone and words make it very clear what a dangerous line they're walking by bringing Megan (and essentially of his emotional and psychological problems) into it.

Beyond that, Adam is fairly laidback with other people and easygoing. It's obvious that his security team has a great deal of respect for him and other Sarif employees also appreciate what he does for the company and his general presence. Those that he has a closer relationship with trust him easily and know that Adam is loyal to a fault. His loyalty and devotion to the other people can occasionally blind him to what's really going on such as when his boss and ex-girlfriend were using his DNA in their research without his knowledge. There, of course, comes a certain point to which Adam will no longer fall in line, however. As mentioned earlier, he has no problems telling authority no if it's something that's going to violate his beliefs and he isn't a doormat. His loyalty comes with an extension of trust and he won't be used and taken advantage of once he's made aware of it, but generally speaking he's fairly submissive in most of his relationships and is content to follow the lead of others. Once his loyalty has been earned, there isn't much that Adam isn't willing to do for that person. For example, his pilot, Malik, believes that a former friend of hers was murdered by a boyfriend. Adam takes the time to help her out and solve the murder as well as see to it that justice is brought to the case by the local authorities. This is all the while trying to find a way to get inside Tai Yong Medical to figure out the conspiracy and reasons behind Megan and her team's disappearance. When Adam cares, he makes the time. And sometimes people don't need to be that close to get his help. Adam recognized an officer who was a rookie when he was still on the force and was willing to help him out with a problem.

And when faced with a problem, Adam is incredibly tenacious and driven to see things through to the end. Even though quite literally every bad thing in the book that can happen pretty much does happen to him in his journey to find the truth behind the conspiracy, Adam doesn't give up. There are some who tell him that it's probably hopeless and that he shouldn't get as deeply involved as he does, but Adam doesn't quit. Even when he knows that the truth may end up hurting him or other people, Adam has a strong sense of right and wrong and believes the right thing to do is to know the truth and allow people to make decisions for themselves from there. Of course, sometimes he's willing to work in shades of gray when it comes to the law. The law is there for a reason and it's there to protect people, but it doesn't always mean it's right and sometimes it can get in the way of what Adam feels is real or true justice. While he's not a full-on vigilante, he's willing to excuse transgressions he commits towards the law without having it weigh him down if it means justice in the long-run/big picture will be served.

Adam's tenacity, of course, isn't limited to bigger picture type things like that either. One of Adam's hobbies - that eventually became incredibly important to him after his augmentation as a way to learn how to control the strength of his grip - is tinkering with mechanical clocks and toys. Adam often visits antique shops and purchases clocks and toys to take them apart, clean them, and put them back together in working condition. Something like this requires a lot of attention and persistence as well as some degree of patience, all qualities Adam tries to display and hold onto past his augmentation.

Finally, as far as the issue of transhumanism or Humanity Front issue is concerned, prior to augmentations, Adam had mostly a very passive stance. While he wasn't exactly interested in the research Megan and her team were investigating or the other technological advances going on at Sarif Industries, Adam didn't really have a problem with augmentations either. Adam wasn't interested in them for himself at the time and he certainly didn't (and continues to) believe corporations should do as they please with human experimentation like what he saw at a Belltower base, but he views individuals with augmentations as human beings. Part of the reason Adam has not really formed much of an opinion on an issue that most of the country (and the world at large) is wrestling with is, as I mentioned earlier, Adam is very much a quiet and somewhat submissive person - more reactive than proactive - so he didn't exactly view augmentation as the next step in evolution or an affront to nature; he can hear and empathize with both sides of the argument. In the end, he felt those were bigger questions better left to society at large than really forming one of his own. He instead disapproved more of the bloodshed that resulted during protests and acts of terrorism more radical sections of the Humanity Front such as Purity First were engaging in.

After his augmentation, while it's true that he struggled with the changes in himself and what his life meant now that he was more machine than man, he didn't really change his views. While he continues to protect Sarif Industries' interests and secrets, that's because that's what he's paid to do and he doesn't feel that Sarif has taken steps that have gone too far (at least until he finds out he's Patient X; then things are a little shakier). He disapproves of the way Purity First and even Humanity Front will dehumanize individuals who receive augmentations, pointing out that individuals sometimes need the augmentations to have even a baseline level quality of life and that demonizing individuals with augmentations isn't the way to go about addressing the issue of what humanity being potentially sacrificed as science advances.

Powers/Abilities:
NATURAL.

Adam is adept with a number of firearms ranging from rifles to handguns to RPGs as even without augmentations he is a very good shot. His time with SWAT also trained him in tactical operations and infiltration as well as negotiating/talking people down. Adam has also been trained in hand-to-hand combat and is able to incapacitate targets both lethally and non-lethally. Adam also earned a Bachelor's in Criminal Justice prior to joining the force. Despite working for Sarif Industries for about a year, Adam is not very tech-savvy, however and leaves the science stuff up to other people.

AUGMENTATIONS.

Adam has a number of augmentations, some implants and some simply software. There are a few however that I would ask be left "on."

The Eye-Know Retinal Prosthesis is something that was implanted directly into Adam's eyes. Although its primary function as an augment is to provide a head-up display for targeting, radar, his battery/health, etc. as well as augmented reality, since it's been placed inside his eye (and therefore over the retina), I'd ask that it functions in a limited capacity by letting him see and also the monitor for his health/batteries.

Speaking of batteries, I would ask that his Sentinel RX Health System remain functioning as far as his Cardiovertor Defibrillator and Angiogenesis Protein Therapy are concerned. These are the in-game explanations for why Adam is able to take a million bullets to the face and then magically (or rather scientifically) regenerate health. However, as the information states, it's not something there to replace actual medical attention so in a more realistic manner these are what keeping his internal organs functional since some of them ended up on the floor when he just about died. It's implied that after six months, not only is Adam still getting used to his augmentations mentally and neurologically, but his body is still somewhat recovering from the trauma of both the incident and the surgeries. In Teleios, the health system would be online, but it would not enhance his ability to heal so much as keep his body sustained. He would have to re-acquire the ability to trigger his body's healing reaction to injuries and infections.

Adam also requires his Sarif Series 8 Energy Converter. This just basically allows for energy cells to power his augmentations so he can move/walk. This converts energy from food into energy that the augmentations can operate on. He wouldn't have all his energy cells, however, and be back down to baseline of 2 with a baseline recharge rate.

I would also request that Adam's InfoLink remain operational. This is essentially a fancy radio with a private channel that allows for Adam to communicate with those tuned into his frequency. It is a combination of a subvocal implant that allows him to speak at subvocal levels and therefore not have to actually talk out loud to use the InfoLink and a cochlear implant that removes the need for an earpiece or headphones and keeping received communications silent to anyone that isn't Adam. It will be on but it will essentially be as though there's a jammer where he can't actually receive or send anything unless there's some tech-savvy enough to hack his channel.

Beyond that, his limbs function at a baseline where it is a little more than what the normal human body can do/withstand but only because it's made out of metal and wires and his arms can still rearrange themselves for using the blades. However, the blades are currently removed and only the hilts are left behind.

Appearance:

Adam is 6'3" and approximately 182 pounds. He has dark brown hair. Prior to augmentation, his eyes were more of a blue-gray, but after they became more of green-yellow. Adam prefers to keep a beard and 'stache over being clean-shaven. Adam also has visible scarring on his forehead where he was shot/all the neural implants were crammed in there as well as some scarring on the left side of his mouth from the incident.

Adam lost both of his arms and most of his legs in the incident. Therefore, his arms and his legs from just above the knee and down are made of a black metal that is both lightweight and durable with cable and fibers acting as muscles. Adam's forearms are not completely solid, however, and two long blades can be extended from his wrists and elbows. In Teleios, they will have been removed and only the hilts will be left behind as mentioned above. Adam's fingers in both hands are also able to rearrange themselves.

The only other visible sign of his augmentations are small metal pieces on his cheekbones that are capable of extending sunglasses for protective eye wear (and hiding his augmented eyes) as well as a few bars and bolts along his collar bone that are parts of a support system for the augmentations.

Adam typically is dressed in a long black coat, black jeans, heavy boots, as well as body armor. When busy sneaking around women's bathrooms and crawling around in air vents, he ditches the coat.

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Samples:

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Test Drive Meme

Prose Sample:

Adam doesn't sleep most nights. Or rather, he tries not to. He works at his desk on a clock. The TV is on in the background, Eliza Cassan reporting more on the conflicts around the world as everything outside Adam's apartment heats up and roils in strife. It's white noise to his ears though. Words and names sometimes stand out to him, but it's no louder than throwing a pebble at a window. It's not that he doesn't care, it's just that he's one man. What can he possibly do for any of that? Or for anyone?

Adam works until his eyes start to feel tired, moving to the couch in front of the TV to have a cigarette, maybe a few drinks. It's strange how that works now. The organic and biological parts of his body still, from time to time, feel sore or tired. But the other parts of his body it's more like a phantom sensation of another life; a life he tries to forget. But it's not easy to forget what he's lost when it revisits him once his eyes are closed. Or worse, when how he lost it comes back to him. And it's not just limited to the incident. Sometimes when his eyes are closed, he can hear the monitors and hear the whirs and gentle hums of various machines and motors as they open him up time and time again. Sometimes he's paralyzed and supposed to be asleep.

Other times, he's more aware.

He doesn't know which is worse, but neither are things he wants to experience or remember. Losing his old life happens more often than anything about who he was and what he had. Adam jerks awake from his barely begun sleep. Sometimes he wonders if he even manages to get to sleep at all or if the memories just come back so strong and so vividly that he forgets where he is.

But for the time being, he's going to hold onto consciousness and his awareness. He focuses instead on Eliza's Cassan's voice at a low volume explaining and outline all of the day's worldly events - everything from the conflict in Australia to more lighthearted acts of kindness - while studying the blue shadows from the glow of the television against the orange ones cast from the streetlights outside his apartment's windows. When one cigarette is done, another follows. On and on through the night until finally, he can't keep his eyes open. But it's one of those rare instances where he stays in his apartment, not on an operating table or Sarif Industries.