Gabriel

Name "Gabriel" Age Unknown Affiliation Unknown Job Unknown Status NPC (Living) @PCs Patron (SP)

Real Name: Nicholas Davenport
Actor: Tom Cavanagh, Ref: Flash

Concept

Mysterious Director Voice-On-A-Screen

Tropes

Mission Control

Details

Key Abilities

Foreknowledge

• May be "super" or mundane
• Has curiously-accurate information about upcoming catastrophes, and supers (including, in some cases, their secret identities).
  • Includes knowledge of the upcoming "Blackout" event.
• Source of his foreknowledge may be time-travel, super-intelligence, mathematical/computer projections, genius AI, precognition, or something else.
• Occasionally surprised by some "unexpected" occurrence?

Digital Omnipresence

• May be "super" or mundane

Resources

• Access to Cutting-Edge (@TL) Tech
• Near-Unlimited Resources—can buy companies at the drop of a hat

Personality

• Plays everything close-to-the-vest; lots of secrets, and doesn't give up any.

Background

Virtually nothing is known about his identity or history. From time to time, hints may slip out:

• Possible government/military/intelligence connection.
• Possible research/science connection.
• No family.

Traits

Scientific Expertise; Strategic Expertise; Tradecraft

Special Projects

Appears to be gathering "supers" and putting them to work solving "problems," preparing them for "what's to come."

Project Proteus

• Operative: Uriel

Project Spectrum

Behind the scenes: the running idea is that Davenport was "rescued" by the Angel of Knight City shortly after his appearance; he was impressed enough with his performance and abilities that he immediately set himself to recruiting him to relieve the increasingly-overwhelmed Uriel. Aegis Courier Co. was purchased to be used as a front for the operation. Specific missions for the Project seems to be focused on white-collar crimes or corporate shenanigans, suggesting an "economic" end-goal.

• Primary operative: Raphael
• Later, Michael Fox will be unofficially incorporated (Ref: "Diggle", Arrow)
• Later than that, Rhett Mercatos and Samantha Marsh will be unofficially incorporated (Ref: "Arsenal"/"Speedy," Arrow)
• Keira Judge is an agent for the Project, though not fully in-the-know; possible intelligence background, specifically there to run the business and allow Raphael to do his "side work" unhindered and divert prying eyes.

Other Projects

Other Projects may be active in other areas, or in the process of spinning up.

For the GM

• Should eventually end up meeting PC(s) in person, but they should have to earn it. Until then, should be in question whether or not he's even "real."
• Original character was a time-traveler, gone back to prevent some supers-related catastrophe. A later version reversed that, predicting the future instead. Here the GM has some leeway to decide how he gets his info.

Notes

• Ref: Finch-PersonOfInterest plus Welles-The Flash—with maybe a bit of Morpheus-The Matrix