Silence's Backstory

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Time line of Major Events
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Issues 1-5: Taken from parents at a young age and put in a program to create super soldiers. Brainwashing, military training, and survival training plus a few additional surprises to boot.

Issue 5: First time he killed a person. The woman stole bread to feed her starving family. Silence was told kill her as she had broken the law.

Issue 8: Silence begins to realize what has happened, the brainwashing begins to fail. His captors "re-train" his mind.

Issue 10: Silence finally breaks completely free of the brainwashing with the aid of Noise and they decide that they would make these people pay for what they had done. The top scientist gets away, Dr. Yon Beorgestrum.

Issue 10: Silence makes a pact with himself that he will never allow children to be subjected to this kind of brutality. He will become their defender and takes the name Nicholas.

Issues 12-15: Silence finds himself a captive of African mercenaries. Vulcan comes and releases him, and then convinces Silence to not kill their leader. It would be the first time he spared a life.

Issues 16-19: Vulcan joins the Justice League and asks Silence to come with. He refuses, and continues his search for Dr. Beorgestrum. (Issues 16-19)

Issue 20: The Cataclysm occurs. Vulcan calls up Silence and tells him that a new superteam is being put together in LA. Silence, to Vulcan's surprise, accepts.

Issues 22-25: Silence finally confronts Dr. Beorgestrum only to find out that he was actually the result of extensive lab work in an effort to make the perfect soldier. Stunned by this knowledge, Silence finally comes to and realizes that the doctor has yet again eluded him.

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NPC's
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Sergeant Cornelius O'Brien - Status: Alive
An Irish immigrant turned LAPD detective with a dry wit and a chip on his shoulder. His family was killed by the IRA back in Ireland and his family moved him to LA to get away from it all. He became a cop to ensure that criminals were punished, and then realized the justice system sometimes fell victim to the very people it was in place to punish. Murderers walking free, rapists free to prowl, while the families of the victims were left with no closure. Sgt. O'Brien is a good man, a morale man. No matter how disgusted he gets with the system, it is the right system. He is constantly struggling with inner turmoil about the rights of the guilty. He saw a newspaper clipping about a man who was taking on inner city gangs by himself...and winning. He found out that Silence was the man that was trying to stop these gangs and realized he had a kindred spirit. He has since transferred to the gangs division and works with Silence as an informant. When situations arise where the cops' hands are bound, Silence stands firm: No harm to children.

Lana Fordring - Status: Alive
An African American woman in charge of the "Children First Shelter", a place funded by Salvacore in Los Angeles for child victims of gang warfare. Lana handles the day to day business and staffing of the volunteers. Silence often goes and volunteers his time (out of costume, of course). On several occasions, Nicholas and Lana have found themselves alone late at night, but of course Nicholas is aloof to any and all human connection. Lana tries to remove the jaded glasses with which Nicholas views the world, but years of pain, death, and the depths of human depravity have made his vision blurred. Lana is a victim herself of gang violence. When she was a teenager, she lived in an area going through a "turf war". One of the gangs did a drive-by and shot her. This would infuriate most, but Lana is different. She saw the opportunity to start making changes for the local youth. She refuses to give up, and her spirit cannot be crushed.

Noise - Status: Deceased
A fellow soldier in Dr. Beorgestrum's efforts to create the perfect soldier, Silence and Noise were "brothers". Noise was an explosives expert while Silence was an expert in tracking and stealth. The climax of their brotherhood occurred when Silence began to question the nature of the camp. Noise was shocked and a bit dismayed when Silence was taken and put in the "retrainer" for months. Noise was instrumental in Silence breaking out of the mind control of the camp. Noise aided Silence in his retribution against the camp, however the climactic issue #25 of Silence(when they finally hunted down and cornered Dr. Beorgestrum), Noise sacrificed his life in an effort to save his infant son. Silence took Noise's son home with him and gave him to Lana Fordring to raise.

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Villains
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Dr. Beorgestrum - Status: Alive and Missing
The lead scientist of the Chernobog project which was tasked with producing "perfect" soldiers to reinforce the once great Russian army in an underground effort to once again unite the Soviet Empire. It was later found out by Silence that this evil man was actually his "father". When they finally confronted one another, Dr. Beorgestrum confessed that he was the person that came up with the idea to get the DNA of some of the greatest Russian fighters. After telling Silence this, Dr. Beorgestrum fled. He has not been seen since, but rumors believe he is trying to create a new batch of "perfect" soldiers in order to reunite the Soviet Empire and take out Silence. He calls his soldiers the "Necro Brood".

Necro Brood - Status: Armed and Growing in number and abilities
The work of Dr. Beorgestrum, the Necro Brood is a small group of mercenaries that have been enhanced with drugs and by other means to make them better soldiers. Though there are varying degrees (based on the methods of their enhancement), some of the brood are actually weakened due to this transformation, yet some are made incredibly powerful. Their goal is the reunification of Mother Russia and the reinstatement to their status as the dominant global power. Currently, the Necro Brood is a small, radical organization, but with the numbers of volunteers growing, so too grows their ranks.

Uwa Mandara - Status: Alive and Missing
The African militant leader who is responsible for the deaths of Vulcan's parents, the guerrilla rebel was spared by Vulcan (in an effort to end the violence and not seek revenge, but justice) before Silence could end his life with his deadly pistols. The two heros turned Mandara over to the authorities instead and dismantled his small army and emcampment. However, rumor holds it that Uwa has escaped his imprisonment though no one has seen or heard from him in many years.

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