Kailin King

Kailin King is a wanderer who goes wherever the winds take him.  His talents allow him to provide for himself sufficiently wherever, usually as some form of security.  He relies on the necessities of others, but isn’t above taking what he needs in order to survive, even at someone else’s expense.  He’s a hard case that has seen dark times and made it through while watching so many others succumb to the shadows of the ever darkening world.

Born in Wakanda in 2015, Kailin had a front row seat to the end of the world.  While cut off from most of the outside world, Wakanda itself had long been in decline under the yolk of the White Gorilla cult leadership, but the writing was on the wall for the rest of the world as well.  Kailin didn’t necessarily favor the isolationist stance, but he did believe in the reckless and fickle nature of the people of the world.  He was taught histories of how Genosha had attacked Wakanda while the rest of the world stood and did nothing for nearly three months while Wakanda suffered terrible losses.

Kailin’s abilities began to manifest when he was 15, just around the time the genetic arks were being discovered.  This also meant that he was immune to the Genophage. At the hormonal age of 15, this meant many different things to a teenage boy in a world whose population had stopped producing children. He had fantasies of long lines of women lining up at the chance to be impregnated.  This didn’t last long, however, as the seriousness of the world situation would quickly be made apparent to him along with the seriousness of his own role in it.

Project Repopulation started to be whispered as rumors that got stronger and stronger.  These were not harm dens for horny young boys but cold, sterile laboratories where mutants were poked, prodded, and experimented on, then frozen like popsicles to be thawed until such time as more experimenting needed to be done.  It was a sobering thought, but one that was just a story to Kailin.  Wakanda had disassembled its advanced technologies and the country itself was devolving into primitive ways so he was not in danger of being snatched up and shipped off to one of the arks, but the stability of the country itself was fragile.  Corruption had already grown rampant and he did not trust his own country not to sell him out to the highest corporate bidder.

When Wakanda and Africa in general finally fell to chaos, Kailin was an adult and had prepared himself for many years that at some point he would have to leave and fend for himself.  He made his way to Western Europe where he eventually linked up with the Transhumanist Movement, pretending to be “enhanced” in Prague, then London. Being around so many powers so suddenly for the first time in his life, Kailin began to fully explore and develop his ability to manipulate powers.  The Transhumanists around him were a wealth of new experiences and he soon became addicted to borrowing powers.  He also began to learn that the more he learned about the supernatural possibilities of abilities, the more he was able to understand the breaks and fractures in reality around him and more importantly how to manipulate them.

Kailin became fairly self sufficient with the experience he picked up along the way, but he continued moving along, always looking for a better situation for himself.  His stay with the Transhumanists only gave him a thirst for powers that made him a dangerous target when the Purists began to form.  His default setting was to escape to a new city where no one knew his name and start again.  He found his way to the US and eventually settled in as an assistant at the Institute in Chicago.  He had plenty of experience to offer younger students and they had plenty of powers for him to feed on.  He even began to develop a potentially lucrative side business recruiting from the school for corporations who needed particular skillsets from stable, reliable employees on their payroll.