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Character Info
Name: Abel
Canon: Starfighter
Canon Point: Chapter 5 (pg. 30) — After he finds out about Project Thebes, but before talking about it with Cain.
Age: 24

Background:
The Starfighter comic takes place an amount of time in Earth’s future, unknown to the reader though it’s likely closer to a couple centuries off, rather than decades. Terraforming and colonisation of Mars has been in place for long enough for things to go ass-up, by an alien race called the Colteron coming into the colonies to declare war over their holy ground of Mars being trespassed upon. Their first attack involved shooting an orbital by the name of Frontier out of the sky and letting it land where some colonists had been. It’s unclear if the Federal Alliance was created in response to the attack, or if they simply redirected themselves to focus on having a defense force out in space. In either possibility, this is when the fleet of fighter-and-navigator duos were formed, teams in which one flies the Starfighter spaceship and the other mans the guns.

In one battle, someone managed to capture an intact Colteron ship, and took it back to Earth for it’s components to be analysed. However, not long after it had been brought to the lab, several people began to act strangely. They experienced intense waves of emotions, some of which were obtrusive and not coming from within themselves. It was learned through research that there was a device within the captured ship, which was transmitting an emotional energy that affected only certain types of persons—it was only mothers working within the labs. The event began to be known as “Mother”, and to the current day in the comic, there are still a trusted collective of mothers whom advise the Alliance on the course of action to take through understanding the Colteron emotions the device still transmits to them.

Military intelligence found potential in the success of the technology, and began experiments to implement elements of Colteron ships into their own fleets. One such element is the “jump drive”, which is able to teleport a ship through space. Simply testing the device with elite soldiers and commonly skillful teams was not condusive to activating the jump drive, until one particular fighter-and-navigator team proved effective where all others failed. The catch? The two of them were lovers. While the Colteron are driven by a strong religious drive that allows them to connect to their tech, it was the human emotion of love, the intense need to protect their most important person, that allowed the navigator of the experimental ship to make use of the jump drive installed within.

Unfortunately the fighter died in battle and, with his heart broken, the navigator became useless to influence the jump drive. It had been such an effective tool in the fight against the Colteron that the Alliance was desperate to recreate the experiment as quickly as possible. And so, “Project Thebes” was born, an extremely classified mission in which several fighters would attempt to seduce their navigators, in order to trick them into having a love intense enough to make use of the jump drive.

This is where Abel comes in.

Ethan was his name back on Earth, and he was a politicians son, whose father demanded that he follow in his footsteps. This wasn't what he wanted for himself — he was the top of his class, stubborn as hell, and wanted to join the Alliance as a navigator to protect Earth and its colonies. Fresh out of Alliance training, he was assigned the task name of “Abel”, and given his first fighter, “Cain”. Abel didn’t know he was a participant in Project Thebes, but Cain knew all too well — he had his personal freedom on the success of his participation in Thebes.

The first thing Cain did upon them getting back to their room was corner Abel and bite a scar into his lip. He did so as a sign to other fighters to keep away from him, in order to help keep Abel isolated and more likely to fall for Cain. Abel was furious about the bite, and went to protest their assignment with the commanders, when the base came under attack. They were forced to go into battle on bad terms, but they pulled through, and even wound up saving the life of another fighter, Praxis, whose navigator had died in the battle. They slept together for the first time that very night, even though Abel had few kind words to say at first, still angry about the scar he’d been given amongst other issues he took with Cain. As Abel is someone who had actively pined for the sexual attention of another, it wasn’t a particularly challenging seduction.

The morning is met with a call to meet his commander — the Alliance required volunteers to go deeper into space to confront the Colteron forces more directly. Abel is the first to sign up for it, even though it's a dangerous enough mission that returning was not guaranteed. The troops quickly get ready to relocate to their new assignments, and instead of first telling Cain about the mission he'd been volunteered for, Abel combats his own nerves by telling Cain he wants to have sex again. They sneak off to do it in their Starfighter, the Reliant. Cain responds with anger when he finds out about the mission, but concedes to Abel's insistence that they will return safely from this, that he'll protect them both. Admittedly, this is in line with Project Thebes, and Cain didn't have much of a choice in the matter.

They move onto the Sleipnir together, into a cramped room, and bond over the next few weeks. Abel doesn't get to learn much about Cain's life, but they screw and bicker plenty, and every night Cain tosses their beds onto the floor for them to share instead of having their own separate bunks. The head navigator of the Sleipnir assigns a special task to Abel that involves coming up with a new engine configuration, and in working on it he nearly uncovers the alien tech that’s been implanted into his ship, but is ordered to go take a break before he looks too deeply into it.

There’s another battle against the Colteron, and in the fight Abel unknowingly activates the jump drive. He doesn’t know what happened, but another navigator (Phobos) saw the ship disappear for a moment and decides that some investigation needs to be done. Meanwhile, Cain and Abel celebrate the success of their battle intimately, and Cain shows some earnestness and vulnerability to Abel as he’d never done before (read: let’s Abel diddle his booty).

Later, in an unfortunate case of bad timing, Praxis pulls Abel aside and attempts to convince him that Cain is only using him. Abel dismisses it and goes about his day — only to be invited to a date with Cain. It might only be a blanket, view of the stars, and a bottle of vodka, but it means a lot to Abel. The two of them play a “drinking game”, in the loosest sense of the words, wherein they ask questions, get answers, and drink in between. Cain asks about Abel’s sexual fantasies, while Abel asks about Cain’s life on the colonies — leading Cain to over-share and tell Abel his given name. It freaks Cain out to realise his mistake in being so comfortable around Abel that he let loose, and has him back-pedaling and running away.

Cain doesn’t come to bed that night, and as the day goes on Phobos puts in some investigative work to find out what’s up with Abel’s ship jumping through space. He recovers a file about Project Thebes and makes plans to tell Abel about it, because he hates the success Cain and Abel have had as a team and wants to make Abel miserable. Even as a major battle is about to start, Abel gets pulled aside and the truth is revealed — Cain was assigned to make him Abel fall for him, and everything they’ve had is a farce.



Personality:
On the reveal of Thebes, it's told by one of his commanders that Abel was everything they needed for the project to succeed: he's motivated, idealistic, and isolated.

It's undoubtedly true on all fronts. At the start of series, Abel knew next to no one, and he didn't even get along with most of the navigators he did know, taking jabs at them as they made snide comments. He had to stay in the closet for most of his youth under his father, living richly as only a few families could afford to do, thus limiting how much he could reach out. While Alliance command likely wouldn't have known how 24/7-horny Abel is, but if his orientation became known, due to his fathers public presence and the massive falling out he and Abel had after revealing his interest in men, they'd possibly (correctly) guessed that he was a lonely virgin waiting for the right guy to come around.

His lack of experience in the world and colonies beyond it made him easy to trick, naive enough that he didn't look for ulterior motives in those he those he had the slightest reason to believe in — examples of which include but aren't limited to: Cain, his commanders, the quiet fighter following Cain around that was secretly watching Abel whenever Cain couldn't. Even when someone tried to warn him about the danger of trusting Cain, Abel dismissed it due to the misplaced belief he had in his partner. It's not that Abel is unintelligent, because he'd have accomplished nowhere near as much as he did in the Alliance if he were, but he isn't the best at reading people. It's something that, at his canon point, he'll be a little more cautious about doing blindly, having been so recently burned by truths.

In some ways, all that went over his head because he wanted to see the best in people. He is a very compassionate person, doing his best to protect those important to him, and even going out of his way and into danger in order to save the lives of those he doesn't know. When asked for advice by another navigator that he gets on with, Abel did his best to reassure the other that they were doing the right thing by taking the risk to go out into enemy space, and even though it was scary, their efforts could change the tide of the war against the Colteron. He wasn't lying to make the guy feel better; Abel really believes in what they're doing.

Abel tries to do what he believes to be right, and struggles when that doesn't match the ideals of others. His first impression of Cain was that the guy was psychotic, a depraved animal, a monster and a bastard. In Abel's defense, the guy had just bitten him. When they slept together, Abel had nightmares that first night about having involved himself with a "bad person". Despite his generally nice demeanor and sheltered outlook, Abel isn't a wilting flower — he'll throw punches even if he knows he's physically outmatched, or tell someone exactly where they can shove the insult they thought was clever. Abel can be remarkably stubborn and will dig his heels in on plenty of subjects to the point where he'll come across as moody and uptight. It actually took a little bit of time before Cain was able to see Abel laugh, since the fighter had only given Abel a poor opinion of him up until a point.

He works tirelessly to put his best foot forward in the efforts of the war, staying up late and trying hard to meet the expectations of his commanding officers. Abel studied hard in spite of his father's wishes for him to stay with politics, and doing so meant he placed well enough to gain a fighter fresh out of training, and was given important tasks such as his work on the new engine config. Command never would have made him a candidate for project Thebes if not for him already having been an exceedingly capable navigator — they were looking for a new ace in the hole, and having someone who couldn't fly as well as Abel wouldn't have had the same kind of impact.

Ultimately, Abel is someone with a lot of heart. He fell hard for Cain, contrived relationship or no, enough so that he was able to unconsciously activate the jump drive. With him having been recently hurt by learning of Thebes, he might lean on a fall-back that he started to use as soon as he could: sex. Upon signing up for the task on the Sleipnir, Abel was terrified at the thought of heading into that kind of danger, and consciously decided to ignore that internal struggle within himself and instead outright asked Cain to screw again and now.



Powers:
Abel has access to the “jump drive” alien tech installed in his ship, which is activated by the intense emotions he feels in relation to Cain. With the reveal of his faked relationship he will not be experiencing the same protective and loving emotions upon entry to the Nameless Island, and the jump drive will not work. He is also genetically modified (a common practise for his time) which gives him his pale-all-over appearance and allows him slightly faster healing and overall better health than someone without the mods.



Inventory: SIX ITEMS
— A tool kit, which contains things like wire cutters, a couple mixed lengths of wire, screw-drivers, various nuts and bolts, work gloves, etc. that all fit to his ship.
— The reliant, which is downgraded to no longer be space-worthy. The Colteron jump drive is still installed, but inactive.
— A laptop, which has its’ files saved on it but does not have a connection to any kind of wireless service.
— His navigation suit, sans headgear.
— The flash drive that contains information about Project Thebes.
— One standard issue uniform.


Samples:
TDM toplevel.


Augury

Opt-In Kinks:
— piercings, needle play;
— anonymity;
— bites, bruises;
— consent play;
— multiple partners;
— possessive, leaving marks;
— fighting, wrestling;
— fisting;
— blindfolds;
— bloodplay;
— oral fixation, oral sex;
— orgasm control, denial;

Opt-Out Kinks:
— gore, vore, guro;
— snuff, necrophilia;
— body alteration, injury;
— medical play;
— gender play;
— prostitution;
— mirrors;
— hurt, comfort;
— objectification;
— ritual;
— age difference, ageplay;
— food;