Name: Anthony 'Tony' Ashe

Gender: Male, bisexual

Age/DOB: ~20, aged, 2023

Origin: Repurposed Earth, AAEC

Family: Unknown splices, though may be related to some he's likely distant; part of the Reborn Pantheon; He and Katharine have a son Kain

Other: He has chosen to live in Rapture, he loves the old styled clothing and how there's actually water around him all the time... the ghosts, not so much.

Height: 6'1"

Weight: 130* Icarus lightened, though he would hardly be over 150 anyway his build is very slight and long

Hair: medium brown, silky and flyaway, will have some pattern baldness; does keep a full but well trimmed beard and mustache

Eyes: haunted coppery brown, usually as shown with significant sleepless dark circles below them

Appearance: fair skinned but with a lot of scarring from before he learned how to control his powers over fire. Because they were effectively Vortally inflicted, and by himself, no one, not even Sandy, has been able to heal the scars away; he really likes vests and 'professor style' coats, jackets, and sweaters

Icarus Processing: Yes, at the age of 3, though he and Melissa both kind of regret it. It did strengthen his joints and muscularity, lighten his weight considerably, so he's at least as durable as a typical Pantheon member. He's no faster or healthier, but he does seem to be able to work his way through narrow or difficult places with ease. His Vortal sight was dramatically improved by the processing, and may have had the side effect that now the things he sees... see him back.

Image Credits: Garry's Mod / Call of Cthulhu

Genetic Abilities: Though he is more known for his name being why he's scarred (ashes, after all) and does have a minor but unpredictably strong pyrokinesis, he is quite a bit stronger with his Vortal sense. The reason he hardly gets any sleep is that he sees and actually attracts ghosts. And in any world, there are lots of ghosts. His pyrokinesis can be used for lighting small items on fire, igniting any flammable gas, or to extinguish small flames (up to, say, a kitchen fire). He can do this reliably at close range, within a single room or around 10 meters, but unreliably or if he's been startled by a ghost it can bloom to literally exploding things, working at distances over 30 meters, and causing even protected items to burst into flames, including himself, other people, or water. His Vortal sight is basically 'always on', and cannot be trained into a softer state. Within around 100 meters, he can see, hear, and in some cases interact with 'physically' (Vortally) any dead life form that has a self-awareness or consciousness. So, Vorts, Grunts, Humans, invasive wildlife that may or may not have names... Of note, even if the creature was self-aware and has other Vortal abilities, if it was machine-created (so, ARRISA or GLaDOS) he cannot detect it. He also cannot detect or interact with the psionics of the Combine, which is likely a blessing. His power is exclusively on Vortessence. Over 100 meters, he can still see or 'sense' them, but not interact. At around 20 meters, if he doesn't have anything else going on, ghosts will come to him and start chatting, they're very noisy. He has the usual psychic suite of empathy and telepathy with other Vortal people, and can easily be seen by anyone with Vortal inputs because there's always a haze of other minds hovering around him.
Skills or Profession: Trained with the typical implanted skill sets of a Pantheon being prepared for the future, he has a good amount of math, science, and engineering under his brain. He's sought out history and philosophy, mostly at the suggestion of some of those people that talked to him - he knew them once, or is it they knew him? His old Keepers? The nurse at the Enrichment Center? Turns out they're ghosts, too, but he didn't realize it until much later. He's quite good at multitasking with conversations, he can keep up a real-live discussion as well as brushing off whatever Vortal ones are going on near him. Down in Rapture, he's setting himself up to work with the bathyspheres, and though he's not a plumber or civil engineer by any stretch, he has access to tons of the dead people's experiences there too. He's not really strong enough to work on some of the bigger machinery so he calls in others for that duty, instructing them with the words directly from the guy who installed them originally...
Personality: He knows perfectly well that he will never be free of these ghosts. But at least down here in Rapture, they are both interesting and of a specifically limited quantity. Though he tries to put on a cheerful face, he would love to just get a good night's sleep at some point. Keenan has helped instruct him with how to deal with not sleeping, but also has offered to try and find locations around the world (either Repurposed or Rookery) to let him get a little rest. In fact it'd be nice if he could just make a door to one of those spots, he likes that one hotel near Seattle - Hoyle's place? * Dear lord no, please not that one in Aperture. No. Maybe just the ranch.

Events or History: Reborn from spliced materials and notes from the original scientists who built the Paragon students, Anthony would have had a strange life anyway. But since he died as an infant in the nursery at the Enrichment Center when the Events occurred, he's among the weird Vortal minds that clung to a form of existence without his body - until Melissa recreated it. He does have a bit of a connection to Marline and Zach, the weird ghost-like minds that now have bodies just like him, though he rather envies them for being better able to deal with it all.

For the moment he remains at Rapture, but he's been eyeballing Iceland and Greenland for potential 'not many ghosts there' inhabitation areas. If he could convince some of the stronger-Vortal lifters, maybe they could put an entire city somewhere, that no one's ever died in.

Dragon

Name: Beachfront
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: medium 10'9" s / 70' l / 100' ws
Colors: body from face, neck, limbs, wing arms, and tail nearly-white with very pale beige-pink tone; belly and all armor peach; face and dorsal scales, neck frill spines pale tan; wingsails and fins pale tan to pale buff-pink, but with heavy texture speckling; eyes peach, claws black and graphite
Features: Leaf Sandwing Hybrid, Leaf dominant, only the mid-back fin and coloration are really Sandwing
Powers: Winged Flight, with a good stiff wind below her wings, Beachfront can soar and sail for days. She likes to cruise low over the waters, over the beach, and along shorelines, looking for fish, wreckage, or scavengers to aid. She has a nice strong wing beat that is lulling to those who ride her, and tends to set down much more gently than taking off, with her wings fully extended. She isn't great at maneuvers, save for if she spots a fish just under the water (well, 'fish', whatever is big enough to be more than a snack) where she'll just fold her wings back and spear it with ease. Getting out of the water is a little more of a chore, but sometimes she'll just ... float, with her wings outspread, looking for all the world like a broken and bleached part of a boardwalk building.
Communication, she has a chipper, shrill voice, rather a lot like a seagull, and can be heard quite some distance - her call is distinct and when she cries out it's to alert others to danger, supplies, or refugees in need. She mainly speaks English and Draconic, but she does know how to 'sign' in Aquatic though she lacks the bright flashing colors of a Seawing or Rainwing for that purpose. She has a gentle Vortal presence, which Tony appreciates, she can snuggle up to his mind and body, protecting him.
Sun, Sand, and Sea(weed), she fuses her parents features and powers beautifully, being able to root around in loose sand either at the beaches or inland in deserts, as well as being powered by the sun. She hardly needs to eat, or drink, soaking up sunlight in addition to those fishies - why does she even bother hunting? She likes the exercise, silly! With her wings outspread on the water, not only is she 'eating' but recharging her overall energy. She can affect water-based plants and those which reside in and around bodies of water, be they salt, brine, or freshwater plants. Seaweed grows quickly around her, and she's been able to affect it to 'taste better', apparently some humans don't care for it? She's studied banyon trees, with their huge root systems arching over the tidal areas, and all manner of reef-based systems too. She enjoys planting small bits into the sandy soils around lakes and seashores, knowing that they will grow and help reduce erosion there. Also her Leafwing abilities can affect plants in Rapture, so she has taken tours of the Arcadia areas where oxygen is very important.
Heat and Light, though she cannot actually make fire, she is quite well adapted to extreme temperatures like most Sandwings, even chill nights and roasting days. Folks have sometimes joked that if she was human they'd worry about her 'burn and peel white skin', but she loves just basking and saving up that energy to be used for planting or long flights around the sea.
Parentage: Unknown but may be related to Topaz through their Sandwing side
Origin: Adopted from Moonshimmer981 on Deviantart, Wings of Fire by Tui Sutherland
Other Info: Beachfront would love to travel to other places, at times Tony and she have gone out for days at a time, so he can rest his mind, but she senses that he can always feel the dead, there were so very many, many dead.