Nestor Carbonell

Background:
Nestor, when he was a child, became conditioned by the one who adopted him, Ricardo (Nestor's former mentor) to be a beholden. Nestor turned Genius sometime during his service to Ricardo, a man whose name is a pseudonym for one that has been abandoned for some time — and that it is also shared with others of "his" organization. Since there is no Ricardo, but a legacy under such a name, it is difficult for Nestor to determine whether the one who raised him, was sincere in his parental affections for him.

The collective Aesthetic all Ricardos share is "White Rabbits", based on a psychedelic and Grimmified interpretation of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's (more renowned under his pseudonym: Lewis Carroll) written work on Alice in Wonderland. It also draws influence from other media heavily inspired by the same animal motif such as of Mice and Men, Watership Down, Monty Python the Holy Grail, Donny Drako and so on. Examples include psychoactive materials that force one to perceive their persona with animal metaphors, or make them as compliant as the animal it was designed after. Rabbits with a preditorial diet that include larger animals, such as humans.

All of them serve the inhabitants of a fairy-talesque bardo, its Mane-overlord, prefers to take the form of a jackalope Therianthrope named Frith. Their bardo of origin came to be when the scientific community disproved cryptids (both zoological and botanical) of Western European and North American folklore's existence. Overtime other disproven or untested theories in conjunction to their respective fallacies in the mold of a Narrative Causality to sociological and physiological dynamics. The merging of these mania storms inevitably imbued their inhabitants with an intelligence rivaling or surpassing their human counterparts. Their mannerisms mimicking humans to an Aesopican extent.

The purpose for these Warrens, as they themselves euphemistically phrase it, is dependent on the fickle whim of their overlord. It could be argued there is none except to test each branch of their cells through perpetual conflict (through any probable theater of cold warfare,) Before being culled for another Wild Hunt. Frith is a psychopath with no care whatsoever for humanity (he's darn close to Illumination levels at this point). He sometimes releases drugs he and the Manes of his bardo are immune to into the air, and it causes the beholden to go into a berserk frenzy and tear each other apart. Frith's servants eat the remains, or use them to turn them into living rabbit-human hybrids, as well as a variety of other creatures. Imagine plucking an apple from a tree, starving for days in the bardo, and biting into it — only for the apple to bleed, scream, and taste like a sweaty person.

In exchange for this tribute, Frith repays his Ricardos with competent beholden that can not only survive in the harshest conditions bardos can offer before being outsourced to the Peerage or Lemuria (depending on who bids higher) as mercenaries. In addition, a wide variety of resources are made available (beyond trained personal) to those willing to cooperate with Frith: a relatively safe haven from clockstopers or prying mere mortal eyes. Biological mane matter that can be recycled and repurposed into a thriving psychoactive drug market, be it wondrous or mundane. Thirdly the favor of a powerful mane willing to agree to any request beyond the resources of mere mortals to acomplish a desire (or wish in this case) in exchange for either genius or beholdenship.

At the end of this culling cycle, the remnants of this branch are compelled by their mediators to survive and revive their tribe, be it literally back to life or through the creation of a new family. In either case: If their population returned to the same number or greater then its former branch then a Ricardo is appointed to reign in that remnant's leader (El-Ahrairah) and his pack back into Frith's bardo to repeat the process over again. And this hour had finally arrived to Nestor's warren. most of his comrades were either dragged into the brier leading into Lord Frith's court, or slain during his Wild Hunt or from each other in the fumes frenzy. It was then Nestor survivor's guilt inspired his catalyst, amplified by an already rising El-Ahrairah complex. The "El-Ahrairah Complex", as Ricardo had termed it, was a failsafe to keep Nestor away from anything too damaging or too dangerous for him to handle. Traumatic conditioning, sometimes under the influence of potent psychoactive drugs, amplified Nestor's fight-or-flight reflexes to temporarily extreme levels so that other impulses could not get in his way. The fight trigger would make Nestor unstoppable in killing or destroying whatever Ricardo found too dangerous to exist, and the flight reflex would cause the opposite. The extreme stresses on Nestor's body led to irrationality and a host of other mental issues, including PTSD, which Ricardo "fixed" with generous doses of Epikrato. Frith, too, often supplied mental conditioning and potent drugs made from the native plants of his bardo. These treatments have led to severe memory loss, making his recollection of past events prior his adoption or irrelevant to the warren altogether repressed. Needless to say, these "treatments" have only amplified his fears in getting caught, which Ricardo has affiliated with death.

Hence forth Nestor lived off the fat of the land, nourishing his hunger for food, drink and lore for a year before an Artificer cell recognized him. In exchange for aid to repair his prosthetic left arm and help him learn more of the axioms, he cooperated with them until his restlessness forced him to move off their radar, excluding the occasional thesis or two. From there he honed his survivalist tendencies in preparation for futures he preferred to prepare instead of hope not come to pass. All of which preserved in disposable toilet paper shoplifted from nearly every rest stop he visited before reaching the Atlanta State 400 Gateway.

Physical Description:
Ironically the most identifiable feature of the Nestor, is incidentally the most concealed from purview now. Surgically attached to his left Subclavian s a Hemodynamic combustion engine that powers his prosthetic via Merging the circulation to this new pathway which in turn redistributes the flow of oxygen & hydrogen enriched blood cells to be distilled via electrolysis & converted into kinetic energy. Neighboring veins are also filtered into the engine, especially if large concentrations of either oxygen & Hydrogen can be spared without severely harming its host. Remaining Nerve clusters & Muscle tissue are reattached to an array of copper wires & ball & socket joints capable of simulating a wide variety of fine motor skills. All of which are sealed off from prying hands by a remolded iron & plastic casing with its title inked in cursive font: [i]Götz von Berlichingen[/i]: with a screw or two in the advent of an emergency modifications to the above. All of these parts (among others yet to be described) are covered with a separate yet distinctive article of clothing for each one. For instance, a worn pair of leather gloves helped eased the conscious of the worries of havoc or the owner's finger prints. The former of which also covered in more than one sense of the word with a long sleeve shirt and a larger light raincoat. Both of which sharing a sickly pale green dye. His mouth and eyes are often covered with a pair of goggles and a face-mask respirator.

Despite Nestor Carbonell's efforts to conceal his disheveled appearance, practicality demands that he sheds his apparel in order to perform tasks requiring him to do so. Without this respirator, his facial features resembles that of a Catalan youth reaching his 20th year. The divergence from the norm begins with his sickly pale complexion, likely born from growing up in an environment without much if any natural sunlight. Worsened somewhat as of periorbital dark circles envelop his eyelids from sleepless fatigue and bruising. Under them, his eyes share the distinctive oval three dimensional shape as rabbits. A shaggy mess of dark brunette hair hangs overhead, complementing the hazel color of his eye's irises. Excluding muscles, Nestor's build is relatively thinner than the average adult male in the United States (190.9 lbs) due to being unable to maintain a consistent diet. In spite of this Nestor is able to compete with those in a greater weight class as he from years of physical labor and willpower. Ignoring this, Nestor has approximated his current weight to be 155 lbs, and height 5'9" at the moment.

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