| Relatives | Piers - Dad
James - Grandma Gio - Friend Mom |
|---|---|
| Affiliations | Candela Obscura - Circle of The Prestige |
| Date of Birth | A year after the start of the Shiver |
| Place of Birth | unkown |
| Height | 6′ 0" 180 cm |
| Eye Color | Brown |
Steve Corden is a nineteen years old Muscle Explorer.
Intro
An orphan found by James while trying to live on the streets, being homed by James allowed him to go to school and live a normal life. Until he was near a phenomena on a walk to class where he may had encountered some bleed, Candela and OUP were on scene and they found some weird reaction from their bleed detector... he seems to be okay... nothing on him indicated bleed... but the detector still went off which forced Candela to welcome him into their rank.
Physical Appearance
Tall and fit, short unkempt brown hair, dark brown eyes. Is usually waring made to fit black jeans suit.
Personality
A himbo.
Doesn't have a lot of opinions but if he feels strongly about something, you will know. He can be rash and quick to anger, but thats why he has his circle, to rein him in.
History
Was born in the beginning of the shivers, --- to be exact, to a single mom who gave him a lot of affection, at least from what he remembers. She had a kind smile and whenever he tries to remember her, he feels her warmth. He doesn’t know how he lost her, but he knows why, the last great war.
His years from 4-10 are uncharted, he can’t remember anything, just that he woke up one day next to Newfaire central railway station and was lost and hungry. And he was like that until James found him and offered him shelter. From 10-18 he was raised like a family; James never made him feel like a charity case and gave him the same treatment one would give to kin.
After turning 18 and getting a scholarship (he's book smart sometimes, if he tries) to study archeology at Briarbank College, he decided to move out, although he keeps on visiting James and her two cats. In his first semester he got involved with a phenomena on his way to school which led to him being investigated and ended with an invitation into candela by Anastasia.
4-10 CHARTED years.
Emanation and its end. In Hale war pursuit to best otherwise.
Steve was experimented on from a young age by an EONs faction that were desperate for an edge over Otherwhere. He was not given a name, as he was a test subject. The EONs faction, called Emanation, goal was to create the perfect human body using magick. They tried to focus on the capabilities of the mind and how to enhance it, to see if it is possible to move subjects by their thoughts only; although this worked, the children were still fragile, they did not have enough physical power to even run. Thus, they began looking at the capabilities of the body, this, unlike the first experiment, proved to be hard.
Magick can give humans physical power, but this effect either lingers and deteriorates the body with time, or it renders the child mind to that of an animal. They went through multiple test subjects, the only subject to give a promising result was Steve. He took to their experimentation, giving him an elite body with little to no side effects; he kept his mind, and his body wasn’t breaking with time.
They tried to replicate the results of N—1 experiment to other kids, but nothing took hold. This led to a lot of abuse by Emanation.
They soon began focusing on N-1 to produce proof of concept of a perfect body and a sound mind, this stage in the experimentation is what led to Emanation demise.
‘The subject is talkative; nothing stops it from speaking even prof. Kenneth......'
‘N-1 still impossible to recreate, but proof of concept for our weapon is closer than we think.’
‘Kyle our new lab assistant, is calling it a ‘he’, I told him he can't have any sympathy’
‘...I’m worried, it is not as talkative as it used to be.’
‘...The look it just...I can’t sleep... ...His- its eyes are so angry yet he's so still’
As the pressure of producing something to help the war efforts increased on them, Emanation made a mistake. and this mistake costs them heavily. Something happened(?), Steve used all he had to destroy Emanation, his powers lost, or gone dormant.
EONs believe the incident was caused by an experiment gone wrong, it's unclear if EONs knew what Emanation was doing.
Relationships
Piers
Piers quick care and protectiveness over him surprised Steve. He admires Piers so much and believes he can do no wrong, and if he did it's for a reason! Being a magician's assistant with no understanding of magick is a hard thing to be and he makes a lot of mistakes, but Piers never got angry with him and always had the time to teach him. He's never had a father figure in his life but Piers is dad.
James
A large part of Steve upbringings, from age ten to eighteen, James raised him as another son, giving him the same affections if not more, after she found him lost and trying to get by (mostly by stealing). He respects James so much and will literally do anything to keep her safe. He has been advocating for her retirement since he knew of her involvement in candela, she has been telling him that she will retire for a year now. James’s son and his kids keep correspondence with Steve. He knows about her husband but just recently, after he got recruited into candela, did he learn that there's a mystery surrounding his death.
Gio
Gio and Steve can never be friends. Gio believes he can be
excused for his continuous support of EONS, since he was forced into it with no way of leaving, meanwhile Steve believes that anyone has the power to get away, or they can die trying.
In their history together: gio is someone he was close to and because of that EONS used him against Steve. He was tortured and beaten up whenever Steve wouldn’t oblige EONS. They grew up together and they tried to protect each other. Didn’t really work...
He got him back! They both need a lot of therapy but he did!
