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human - 46 yo. # - he/him - bi - vigilante WORLD #19999 - London, England The chosen avatar for the Egyptian god of the moon, Khonshu. Moon Knight works as a vigilante and assassin to "protect the travellers of the night", which can mean anything from taking down criminal organizations to stealing back historical artifacts that may or may not potentially end the world, though he has had a difficult time being able to cope with these "duties" and has repeatedly had moments of great strife with the god he is supposed to be working for. There is the other aspect of his issues— or, their issues, really— which would be the dissociative disorder that makes for Three people sharing this head rather than just the one. Each of them, Marc Spector, Steven Grant, Jake Lockley, and even Khonshu himself all have their own ideas about how this body should be used and how best to help the world around them, leading to misunderstandings and confused feelings all over. ▴ protective, loyal, determined, selfless, well trained, intelligent, charming, friendly, assertive, polite, playful, smooth, resourceful, down to earth, steady, efficient. ▸ stiff, independent, wary, impulsive, defensive, lonely, emotional, cautious, analytical, dorky, awkward, mysterious, distant, closed minded, blunt. ▾ irritable, hot headed, stubborn, makes decisions for other people, self deprecating, paranoid, bossy, finicky, stubborn again, easily frightened, inexperienced in combat, cold, extreme, lacking agency, difficulties with empathy, and would you look at that! Still very, very stubborn. Typical Appearance 5'9" - 169 LBS - DARK BROWN EYES- BLACK(GRAYING) HAIR The body has an athletic build due to Marc's regular exercise and Jake's assassin escapades. Typically, when not wearing their suit, they wear a variety of casual wear (usually some combination of a thin shirt and then a patterned over shirt with jeans and combat boots, though Steven enjoys putting them in sweaters and Jake likes his leather bomber jacket with his ivy flat cap). Marc has a tendency to brush their hair back when in front, Steven wears it messy with a mop of curls hanging a bit over his eyes, and Jake tucks all of it under his cap when he's not masking his presence with a few curls hanging out from the front. Each of their suits is unique in design. Marc's looks like something straight out of a cheesy Egyptian adventure movie, stylized to have a more "ancient" look connected to mummies with bandage wrapping covering his body to wrap around golden metal accents. A white hood hangs over his head and extends down into a cape. Steven's look is far more simple, looking like a modern white business suit with a mask over his head that has a crescent moon symbol and a stitching that etches over the middle of his face. Jake's costume is the only costume to have a secondary color scheme, this time largely being black, with white silver metal armor plating that gives a more futuristic look. He also has a cape, though it's folded in a way that looks more traditionally like a head scarf wrapped over him. Gear & Extras Luckily, they've actually just come from another dimensional situation, and they already had a bag full of items with them. A gray worn out duffel bag is with them, and in it contains: One metal water bottle One 9mm semi-automatic pistol with two magazines of ammo (20 bullets each) One survival knife One multi-tool One lighter One flashlight One field medical first aid kit (gloves, adhesive bandages, antiseptic wipes, gauze pads, adhesive tape, scissors, tweezers, surgical sutures, stitching needles) One bottle of tylenol One travel size toothpaste, one travel size conditioner and shampoo, one soap bar, two face towels, one body towel, one hair comb One thin black athletic shirt One gray green over shirt One white sweater Two pairs of jeans Two pairs of socks Underwear One worn out pair of steel toed combat boots Three MRE packets of various flavors One package of jammie dodgers A handheld leather journal covered in notes Two pens, red and blue One brown ivy flat cap hat One pair of leather gloves
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Abilities & Weaknesses Italics means ability is only available with the suit, which means it is only available at night. ⋗ Combat Skills Marc and Jake are both trained ex-military, later going on for further work as mercenaries and utilizing a variety of techniques for both self defense and offensive tactics. They carry skills in hand to hand combat, which seems to be their favorite way of fighting, but they are also well adapted to throwing projectile blades and shooting guns. Steven is not as well versed in these things due to the memory barrier he is still working on figuring out, but he is getting the hang of "borrowing" some of these abilities by fronting at the same time as Marc. They also have skills in survival, escaping, hiding and some basic medical aid that they would have picked up from these experiences. ⋗ Extensive Knowledge of History While Steven may not be as talented in fighting, he excels in another area: information. Having a deep fascination with world history, cultures and religions since he was young, Steven has amassed a large amount of knowledge of civilizations and events of historical importance, especially when related to his favorite culture: Ancient Egypt. Not only is he extremely in tune with the mythology and "lore" of the gods and demons they work with, but Steven is also very capable of figuring out puzzles, problem solving and looking at the bigger picture for solutions that Marc or Jake might miss. ⋗ Mechanical Prowess Jake Lockley is well versed in a variety of machinery, with a special interest in cars and vehicle modification. He also has decent knowledge of aircraft due to his close relationship with their getaway pilot, Frenchie, and enjoys messing around with customizing weaponry. Jake is often a getaway driver himself and is very skilled at driving most vehicles. ⋗ Street Smarts Each of the system members has their own part of the world they grew up in and are comfortable around. They each know english, but more languages are added on depending on whose memories are at front. Marc grew up in Chicago and became very familiar with multiple middle eastern countries, with knowledge of spanish and passable amounts of arabic. Steven only knows London and is partially fluent in French, though he is also capable of reading ancient Egyptian coptic heiroglyphics, latin and modern day arabic. Jake is fully bilingual in Spanish and English and will often mix Spanish sayings into his conversations, but finds himself most at home in New York, where he spent his only years alone and grew to have extensive knowledge of underground illegal operations in the area. ⋗ Suit Summoning At night or when the moon is visible, Moon Knight is capable of summoning a suit tailored to his imagination that will give him supernatural abilities. While wearing the suit, his body becomes much stronger with higher stamina and agility, as if gravity has loosened. He is able to jump great heights and glide with his cape on Khonshu's winds if he has his hands free. The cape can also be used to shield and protect others due to its extremely durable fibers capable of stopping bullets. The suit itself is not quite as durable, but provides a very fast healing factor similar to Deadpool when wearing that allows the wearer to heal from any wound. The suit's abilities and strength will depend on the phase of the moon and mental state that they are in. Melee weapons can also be summoned from the suit for use by the wearer, technically any kind but Moon Knight tends to summon his "crescent blades", batons and staff the most. ⋗ Mental Fortitude Due to Khonshu's warping done to their mind, Moon Knight cannot be possessed or swayed by mental spells. Moon Knight is also able to now see beyond the veil, being able to see gods, demons, ghosts and other beings that are typically naked to the mortal eye. This can both be good for threat assessment and make him seem completely off his rocker if he isn't careful with how he interacts. ⋖ Disordered Thinking The symptoms of their many mental health issues catch up with them regularly. They will often lose track of what's going on, zone out, forget details or have trouble figuring out what is real. While they typically keep thoughts to one another internally, they may carry out strange or unusual responses to themselves, Khonshu or reacting to things under the veil in public if surprised or overwhelmed. Memory barriers between one another means that they often switch in the middle of something from triggers and don't have any idea what is going on, or one of them may end up doing things that the other alters don't agree with. ⋖ Moon Limitations As described before, the suit and magical abilities rely on their connection to Khonshu. It must be night time for them to be able to summon the suit and Khonshu must be present with them unless there is some kind of magical interference that still connects them. With lower moon phases, their strength and connection to Khonshu wanes, leaving their healing slower and their defenses lowered. ⋖ At War with God Khonshu and the system rarely get along, often times stubbornly butting heads depending on what the god orders them to do next. His brash ideals often lead the body to over exerting itself and force them into doing things they don't morally agree with. While Steven especially attempts to fight back against these issues, any time they work against Khonshu they will lose his favor, meaning that he will not provide them vital information he can seek out as a god and their abilities may fail them. ⋖ Novice in his Field Most Moon Knights are given all the knowledge and fighting skills of the previous warriors before them. Due to Marc's DID and memory issues causing difficulties with this transfer, they never received this, leaving them at a huge disadvantage that they have to struggle to figure out on their own. Marc has only been under Khonshu's wing for about six years, and the bird has hardly been helpful in figuring things out. Steven has had even less time in the driver's seat, having only been fully conscious and aware for the past year and only being knowledgeable about their work with Khonshu for a couple of months. This means the system is woefully under experienced in working as a vigilante and knows very little about their own abilities, having to often "bullshit" away bad situations and coming up with frankly ridiculous solutions to problems that may have a better way. 
History Steven Grant worked as a gift shopist in London, England out of his mum's flat. His life was lonely, sure, and he clearly had some kind of mental issues he was afraid to get checked out— he often found himself plagued with nightmares that made him get up and wander about in the night, and he often struggled with figuring out what was real, much to the chagrin of his coworkers and the discomfort of most people he met. But that was okay. He had his books, he had his passion in egyptology, and he had his one finned goldfish. That was all he needed. Except, when he wakes up one day with the sand around his bed and the ankle monitor he wears undisturbed, yet somehow...his fish seems to have Grown Back a fin. What's worse, somehow he's lost almost half a week of time, and he swears his last dream of waking up in another country and being chased down by men with guns felt too real to be in his head. Things come to a head when a cultist man from his dreams shows up to his place of work and attempts to kill him by sending some kind of jackal monster after him, something only he can see that nearly destroys the museum. He's fired from his job when the cameras only show him bumbling about and messing up everything, but he swears that he can't be crazy. He's proven right when he finds the key to a storage unit and a throw away cell phone hidden under part of a wall in his flat, full of numbers he doesn't know and followed by a voice in his head warning him not to continue. Turns out, that voice in his head is another man sharing his body, someone having lived a double life separate from him and trying desperately to keep him from learning about it. Marc Spector is what all of his alternate IDs say, and apparently he has gone so far as to literally be married to someone, a woman named Layla who hunts Steven down and is deeply confused by his strange London accent and tenative demeanor that looks so wrong on her husband's body. Marc had kept many secrets from both Layla and Steven, one of those being his involvement in working with an Egyptian god as a mercenary and getting them wrapped up into a mess with the Cult of Ammit, which planned to commit mass genocide across the world. The god, Khonshu, is irritated by this interruption in his plans and harshly criticizes this "parasite" that's interrupted them, pressing him to continue their mission to save lives despite the extreme circumstances that have rocked the man's world. Steven has to learn to fumble his way through these new abilities that he doesn't understand, figuring out how to share his own head with a stranger and trying to get his motivations as Marc continually pushes Steven and Layla out of his life. Things come to a tipping point when Khonshu and his abilities are ripped away from them as the other gods of the Ennead falsely imprison the moon deity. Steven and Marc attempt to continue the mission without his abilities only to be shot to death at the long lost tomb of Alexander the Great, whisked away to the Egyptian Afterlife on the Duat where they must contend with their past if they want to have a chance at returning to life. Marc attempts desperately to prevent Steven from seeing what has happened to them, ashamed of the blood on his hands and the pain that he's suffered, only for it to be revealed that Marc was partially responsible for their brother's death, a brother that Steven hadn't known about until now. Steven's memories are challenged when the warm and kind mother he thought he knew turned out to be a false memory, the real mother happening to be a horrid tyrant fueled by grief who abused Marc regularly. Steven is revealed to have been "made" by Marc in an attempt to deal with the pain, a light shining in the dark that protected them when he needed it most. Steven and Marc are able to connect and forgive one another for their mistakes, and their reconciliation allows them to return to their body where Layla has managed to free Khonshu to bring them back to life. Now with both of them on the same page and Marc no longer running from his past, both men utilize their ability to switch as a way to fight together and defeat the cult before thousands of more lives can be lost. Steven fights for Marc against Khonshu and attempts to get him out of their current exploitative deal, supposedly freeing them from their service to him and finally being able to reunite with Layla to live life as they truly are without hiding from one another any more. A month after the show's events, Marc and Steven have both begun to settle into their newly shared life together and what that means for them. They haven't yet moved out of Steven's old apartment due to believing that the Ammit threat and the cult related to her have fizzled out completely, though Marc has been insistent that they need to soon for safety reasons. Their situation with Layla is tenuous, but hopeful— Layla has expressed that she is by no means letting Marc walk away and has full intention to come back to figure out their future together soon, but she needs time to think, and as such is staying in Cairo to continue the clean up of the tragedy that befell the city from the final events of the show. There have been bumps and difficulties along the way (all the same problems you might expect with a "new" roommate), but having to figure out what they should do next now that they're officially off of Khonshu's list is the real hard part. No more vigilante work in the middle of the night to occupy Marc's mind, he must make due with being reintegrated into the quiet domesticity of Steven as his alter tries to put the pieces back together of his shattered illusion, attempting to pick up a part time job as a book sorter and even potentially attempting therapy, much at the bristling of Marc. The only problem was, despite them both moving on from Marc's previous life, its secrets continue to be uprooted, ones that neither of them are prepared to handle. Secret bank accounts, car keys, and really, I thought we had finished with the sneaking out at night! The nightmares should be gone, the barrier between both of them long since bridged, so why can they so vividly remember the dreams of their hands around a trigger, and why the hell are news reports coming out of a shooting with their face plastered on it?! Arthur Harrow is *dead*, and apparently, it's by their hand. Of course, it's never that easy. At some point, they do contact Khonshu, and Khonshu isn't telling them anything. He does make one thing very, very clear: they were never truly off the hook at all, and they are still 100% wrapped around his finger. Steven can't figure out how, and Marc refuses to let him try to contact Layla to make a plan. This was their burden to fix, and they needed to do it before it became her problem again. Familiar patterns. Doomed to repeat. Answers are revealed when Khonshu's actions end in them getting torn across dimensions, landing on a foreign space station for a far away moon with many other dimensional travellers. It is eventually revealed by a man that knows another version of them that they have another alter, Jake Lockley, who is hiding within their system, forcing the man who actually made their deal with Khonshu to come forward and face the others in his body properly. This is where we meet them now, estranged from their world and grappling with trying to get along with a mysterious other man in their body that has a dark past and ruthless mindset. Will they be able to pull together to help defend the universe from a new multiversal threat, or will they fall apart under the strain of their mind continuing to fracture? Moon Knight will have just arrived, likely through a rift in sanctuary, very confused and uncertain about what to do next. Khonshu will want them to work as an agent in an attempt to get home in the future, but they will have only just gotten here without a full understanding of what's going on or how to even pursue that. |
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