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aberrantangelsHow the hopping hell did I miss this first time around? I'm just as in the dark as you are, believe me. (I thought I said it was coming, but for the life of me, I can't find when.)
His family had ties to both the Jordanian business community and the PLO, ties that gave him a great deal of temporal power even as a baseline. He erupted as a result of getting HIV into his bloodstream (how is not specified).
His main power is the ability to control the immunodeficiency virus in his system, and the other opportunistic virii that followed it in (ranging from yellow fever to hantavirus); his secondary powers are offshoots from the primary. As a result (or macroscale reflection) of his body's ability to alter the intruders in his bloodstream, he can alter his facial features. In addition, he can extend small spines from his skin that let him spread any virus he chooses to any target of his choosing, and maintain control over the progress of the disease even after it leaves his system. He gives a brief demonstration of the infection to his target, then basically says "Do as I say and your condition won't get any worse."
By now, he's built a web of viral blackmail that stretches across Jordan and into Saudi Arabia and Egypt. One of his favorite vectors is his HIV (which, although cured by Utopia, still carries enough stigma in the TU's Islamic world that the key Arab politicos he infects fear going to Utopia for the vaccine).
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[Aberrant] Tarik ibn'Mahmoud, later the founder of the Companions of Allah, is born into a prominent family in Amman, Jordan.
His family had ties to both the Jordanian business community and the PLO, ties that gave him a great deal of temporal power even as a baseline. He erupted as a result of getting HIV into his bloodstream (how is not specified).
His main power is the ability to control the immunodeficiency virus in his system, and the other opportunistic virii that followed it in (ranging from yellow fever to hantavirus); his secondary powers are offshoots from the primary. As a result (or macroscale reflection) of his body's ability to alter the intruders in his bloodstream, he can alter his facial features. In addition, he can extend small spines from his skin that let him spread any virus he chooses to any target of his choosing, and maintain control over the progress of the disease even after it leaves his system. He gives a brief demonstration of the infection to his target, then basically says "Do as I say and your condition won't get any worse."
By now, he's built a web of viral blackmail that stretches across Jordan and into Saudi Arabia and Egypt. One of his favorite vectors is his HIV (which, although cured by Utopia, still carries enough stigma in the TU's Islamic world that the key Arab politicos he infects fear going to Utopia for the vaccine).
