AGENT #0028
full name: Lewis Simon
age, birthday: 30, 4/4/88
gender, pronouns: Cismale, He/Him
species: Organic Mutant
ability: Resurrection
occupation: Field Agent
faceclaim: Jeremy Jordan
ABILITY
Lewis’ ability first revealed itself while he was deployed as an Army Ranger. He was a rather late bloomer, not ever having a reason to bear knowledge of his true identity as mutant until his convoy was ambushed and he was killed. Or, at least, that was what he thought until he awoke covered in his fellow comrades’ blood, perfectly intact and healthy. The fatal wound above his heart healed to form a faint scar, nothing more. Lewis pulled himself from the carnage and made his way back to the base, deciding to keep this incident to himself and stating that he was the sole survivor of the ambush.
From what he does understand about his abilities, he cannot be killed, though he can still be injured. Thus, if the wounds are not fatal his body heals like a regular human’s would (i.e. if he were shot in the shoulder and the wound was not fatal he’d have to wait for it to heal naturally). If killed, however, Lewis is revived with a minor scar/reminder of the incident not ten minutes after his heart stops. He hasn’t tested how this would work in various instances (such as if he were caught in a burning building) since he’s more scared of his abilities than anything else.
Another element of his resurrection capabilities is the ability to revive another from the dead, which he has used maybe twice on fellow Army Rangers. He cannot revive anyone that has been dead for more than five minutes, however, or if their physical body is not intact. Lewis is far more interested in figuring out this ability than his own self-regeneration.
BACKGROUND
cw: child abuse/neglect
Lewis Simon was born to an alcoholic mother and an abusive father, and grew up learning to take a beating. His mother often didn’t care what happened to his well-being and was prone to forgetting her son was in another aisle in the grocery store and beginning to leave without him. Lewis had to take care of himself more often than not and despite the care he did feel for his parents, he also resented the fact that the other kids at school got to brag about their parents’ jobs whenever they came in for Parent Day. His father was an Army Ranger too and the only real income the Simons gained came from his veteran’s pension and his mother’s job as a waitress at a local diner. When Lewis was in high school he started looking into joining the Army himself, more so as a way out of his parent’s house than anything else.
The night he left to join, his father accused him of abandoning them both and nearly beat him to death had his mother not stepped in for the first time in her life. Unfortunately, his father wound up backhanding his wife and she hit her head on the tiled floor, killing her instantly. Lewis left as his father came after him next, but the guilt has stuck with him ever since.
Thinking everything would wind up turning normal once he was on his own, Lewis was unprepared for his first deployment where he and his men were killed. He awoke covered in their blood with only a scar over his heart. Realizing that his abilities would not be thought of as normal and scared of himself, Lewis didn’t dare tell anyone else about what he could do and hasn’t spoken a word about what he can do to anyone else, opting to lie when he found out that he could revive other comrades if he was quick enough. The only person who knew something was up was his ex-boyfriend who got into a car accident with him on one of Lewis’ first days back from deployment, though he doesn’t know the specifics. Lewis got transferred to becoming a field agent for the government and hasn’t bothered to correct their assumption that he remains human.
HEADCANONS
i. Lewis is bisexual, with a preference towards men, and only became aware of this within the last few years.
ii. Lewis is terrified of Initiative X deep down, not that he’d let anyone know this. He doesn’t know how he feels about mutants being controlled and doesn’t want to think about what might happen if anyone found out about his capabilities.
iii. He has PTSD and gets panic attacks sometimes from his experiences with war. He also has nightmares about his father killing his mother and people he was unable to save.
iv. He has a bit of a temper, especially when it concerns those he’s loyal towards, and it scares him a little that he might be turning into his father if he can’t control it.
v. Lewis is surprisingly good with kids, however, and used to babysit his neighbor’s kids often to get easy money.