Malachi Saltzman

Ability Name: Biokinesis

General Description: Biokinesis grants the user the ability to manipulate the body of themselves and others in various ways. They can manipulate life on a cellular level, including but not limited to genetic alterations and physical distortion and/or augmentations of biological functions. They can cause cells to augment to induce advanced or declined biological healing, induce and cure diseases like cancer, induce appearance alteration, manipulate pheromones, and even increase physiological maturity.

D-Rank: The user possesses a regenerative healing factor, meaning that they can rapidly heal and get restored to their optimal and full health/state at an extremely fast rate. Unlike Healing, regeneration/healing factor is a process that happens unconsciously without the need for activation, resulting in a constant state of optimal health. Regeneration is a process that occurs in all biological entities, but a regenerative healing factor is much more efficient, seamless, and powerful. So much so that users can recreate lost or damaged tissues, organs, and limbs, sometimes slowing, or even stopping aging, something natural regeneration can never accomplish (or does so extremely slowly). As long as a limb is reattached after being lost it can be reattached and will regenerate. The user is in very good physical shape, as their bodies are constantly reverting to a healthy state, granting them nigh-inexhaustible stamina and vitality. This also allows the user to be immortal, or at least age in a much slower process.

C-Rank: The user can make themselves stronger or faster, to superhuman levels. They are also capable of controlling their own body temperature or other’s, through touch. The user is or can become extremely malleable and elastic, allowing them to stretch, flatten, deform, expand, and contract their whole body, including limbs, torso, neck, etc. They can control how elastic/flexible they or parts of them are. They are also able to move, control, interact and manipulate bones in themselves. They are able to use their bones for combative purposes, with them regenerating immediately when removed. They can turn bones into spears that brutally skewer enemies, use them as projectiles, etc.

B-Rank: The user can shape and manipulate the cells of any sort of organism, including the functions of the cells in the organism. They can help to circulate oxygen in the body, make cells heal any sort of wounds, or fight off disease. They can even rejuvenate their cells, thus preventing them from growing old as long as they can regularly treat the being through touch. They can shape and manipulate their blood, an essential body fluid in humans and other animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells. They are able to indirectly control the movement of objects by leaving traces of their blood on them, and manipulating that blood in order to move said object. The user is able to cause their body movement to become linked and/or synchronized with another person or group of people whether naturally or not. This causes another person near them to do the same motions with their body that the user does. They can even synchronize one's heartbeat or bodily functions with another person.

DEMONIC FORM ABILITIES

Malachi has red eyes when he goes into his demonic form.

Super Strength - The Cursed become supernaturally powerful, able to perform feats that most humans could not. They can match the strength of some vampires but not quite as strong as a werewolf.

Pyrokinesis - The Cursed is able to manipulate fire and create it with their minds. They are about as strong as a level 2 Burner.

Thermokinesis - The Cursed is able to drop the temperature around them, enough to allow people to see their breath.

Malachi was an unplanned teen pregnancy, after his mother met a man who she had a one night stand with in Indiana. The darkness in the stranger's eyes allured her and before she knew it, she was going back to his hotel room with him. During the pregnancy she always had a sickening feeling about the thing growing inside of her. She had thought about aborting the baby, multiple times, but her parents would not allow it. The decision was taken from her and she would always regret it, which she would even tell Malachi that later on in his life.

He was a normal baby for the most part, but he didn't seem to like playing with other children much, even as a toddler. When he was 5 years old, his fascination with blood surfaced. His grandmother had been cutting up some vegetables for dinner when she accidently sliced her finger. It wasn't that bad, and when she noticed how Malachi stared she just tried to reassure him that she was okay. She bent over to show the boy the cut, but to her shock he grabbed her hand and then leaned forward to try and lick the blood up. This freaked his grandmother out greatly and she never acted the same around Malachi again, she believed the kid was evil or possessed. She actually brought him to church many times and had him prayed over, to have the darkness taken out of him but no one ever knew that.

Malachi's grandfather however, loved the kid. He taught him how to be a man and everything else he'd need to know growing up. He taught him small things like how to wink, how peel an orange, and how to mow the grass. He taught him more important things as well, like how to ride a bike, how to drive, how to swim. Truly, David was Malachi's only parental figure in his life as both his mother and grandmother wanted nothing to do with him. Malachi struggled a lot growing up, he was always a bit of a troublemaker and he hated going to school. The only reason he stuck it through was because his grandfather, he didn't want to let him down. He always sought his approval, as he gave up trying to get his mother's or grandmother's. The day he graduated was meant to be special, he was actually proud of himself but he was even more proud of the fact that he managed not to let his grandfather down. His mom couldn't be there, she had left Indiana at some point and had a baby girl who she named Ashlynn and he was left with his grandparents. His grandmother acted devastated that she couldn't make it, that she had an important appointment she couldn't change. Malachi knew she just didn't want to come, but he didn't care. All that mattered to him was that his grandfather would be there. As his name was called, he walked out onto stage to grab his diploma and he turned to smile to the camera but the smile faded when he saw his grandfather no where to be seen in the crowd. It turned out that David died in a car accident after suffering from a heart attack on his way to the school. This was the first, and only time that Malachi ever experienced heartbreak.

His grandmother kicked him out of the house, and she blamed him for David's death which she did not have a problem saying. It was one thing the women in his family definitely had no problem doing, speaking their mind. He didn't bother going to college, and instead did a bit of traveling. Around 19 years old, he found himself in Crawford City. He did a lot of side jobs and hustles in order to make money, but typically didn't ever have much. He did his fair share of criminal activity and was arrested for assault, theft, grand theft auto, and breaking and entering. He spent quite a few years in prison, which during it his sister sent letters and talked to him on the phone, against her mother's wishes. She especially reached out when her father died mysteriously, and she believed something strange happened to him. Malachi was the only one who didn't actually judge her or make her sound crazy, which was a big deal because she was dealing with her own issues of becoming a witch.

Malachi was released from prison early due to good behavior, and he went on to try and find himself a life in the city. He didn't even know where to begin, getting a janitorial job. It was only a week after his release that he was approached by a mystery man who knew about Malachi's darkness, his powers, and he offered him a job. There was an organization in the government called SIA, which knew about the supernatural and took care of it. He wanted Malachi to hunt them down and take care of them, do basically whatever he ordered and if he agreed he could erase Malachi's record of everything. That and the SIA itself would have no idea what Malachi truly was, he'd be under the radar. So, the cursed man took the deal and joined the SIA. For the longest time he worked on his own, just being a solo agent but recently it seems like the HR division found out that he was working alone and he was ordered to have a partner due to regulations. So now he is being forced into working with someone that he really doesn't want to.