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Protogen - Noxious

The sweet and gentle biohazard himself, and boyfriend to the ever popular Bathysphere, Noxious could be said to have a lot going for him. Between his short lifetime aboard the Divine Intervention as it's youngest member, to his life outside working for The Forge as a consultant - Noxious has a busy schedule.

Noxious spends much of his time at the forge now, helping out with funding by creating different types of gasses to help test certain corrosive elements against new machines or tools invented by Axel, Scion, Carfield - really, any of them.

He still misses his boyfriend dearly, and when he is no longer needed for a few spins of the planet, Noxious steps onto his personalized space-cruiser, Sublimation (Named by Axel, as most things seem to be), and heads straight to Bathysphere, spending what little "break" time he has with him.

Noxious is one of the lesser appreciated members of the Divine Intervention, especially since many even at the forge think that Noxious was created there, with Axel being his maker, as most of the protogen and synth there are. Many don't recall him, or recall upgrading him.

Even still, Noxious is an invaluable member of The Forge. Between his ability to generate and create matter through using Boson-Energy, to controlling any form of gas with words and gestures - he's become a great tester for the stability of different gaseous elements and protection against those same elements.

Although Noxious sometimes has a hard time understanding Axel's inventiveness or Scion's... weirdness, he did appreciate having such out-there individuals working to further advance along science and technology. He also sometimes wished that he didn't have to be present for all of it, given his credentials.

Nevertheless, Noxious is an important and well-respected figure not only in The Forge, but among Protogen, Synth, among most people within the GPC. And that is not even accounting for the Black Letter safely tucked away in his room, nor the powerhouse of a boyfriend the man managed to be with.

Through cracks in reality man-made-faux-deities, the hardships and beauty of maintaining a relationship, and keeping up with advancements in technology in an already advanced age - Noxious has done well for himself, he thinks.

Story - Simulated Tests

There was something about this place that scratched that itch in the back of Noxious' mind. That trigger-finger itch, that need for destruction at times of peace, that need to advance while also to regress to baser instincts. There was no better place to see this exact thing than The Forge.

Chamber Hydrogen, as was the room that Noxious was in, was massive. A full scale replica of Axel's old hometown, or at least what the hyena remembered of it. Deep underground, it served as a testing grounds for destructive abilities, fighting styles, robots and tools, and all kinds of certain oddities and other ends.

Was Noxious a bit weirded out that Axel was using his old home town, albeit reconstructed, to do this in? Yes. But it also made it more real. As Axel put it.

Noxious stood in the center of a large asphalt road, winding and turning through curvaceous streets and boxy buildings. Brick and mortar constructions and wooden pools stood here and there - with words in a language Noxious barely understood (though he knew that Axel, Marissa, Mason and Hannah spoke it).

It was like being in an alien world that was not too dissimilar, or like being transported back in time.

But he wasn't there for leisure, no he was there to test a new invention of Axel's, one of his new series of Wicked Effective Explosive Bastions, or WEEBs. Noxious wasn't sure why or what significance that the acronym meant, since Axel laughed every time he discussed his project no matter how serious, or how serious people were talking about the WEEBs.