Gideon Wexler

Basic Info

Name: Gideon Wexler
Alias: Wex
AKA: Robert Neville & Eli Carnegie
Race: Elf
Sex: Male
Height: 6'3"
Weight: 170 lbs
Age: 28
Eyes: Grey
Hair: Black
Gideon Wexler: Character Sheet

Background

Gideon Wexler was born in the city of Los Angeles when it was still an independent city in the Califonia Free State, always the black sheep of the nation it was largely left on its own. As a result there were only a couple of livable regions of the city, the rest were considered slums even among the relatively low standards of city living. Luckily for Gideon he was born into one of the livable regions, though not quite the super high class sanctuaries that modern movie stars occupied. His parents lived and worked in the hospitable Downtown District of LA, where land was mostly corporate opened and controlled. In this case it was certainly a good thing.

Both of Gideons parents were engineers for Lockheed and hey lived on Lockheed property, it was a comfortable life to grow up in and the facility was large enough to keep him entertained and protected. To the surprise of his human parents he experienced a change in high school, he was the only Elf in the family but both parents handled the transition well. Just as important was Lockheed's acceptance and general lack of racism against metahumans, little changed for him right away. However, when Lockheed discovered he was showing signs of magical ability they were far more interested. All of a sudden he was looking at a corporate scholarship to attend UCLA, assuming he would work for Lockheed coming out of college. Initially he was planning to take the offer, but to his surprise his parents advised him not to. They would help him pay to attend UCLA without signing a contract they had both worked their entire lives for; discovering his parents loyalty to the corporation only ran so deep was an eye opening sight for him.

Tragedy struck shortly after, with CalFree almost completely ignoring the city, Pueblo seized their opportunity and moved in, taking control of all of southern California. The invasion meant very little for the Wexler family, but during some of the commotion gang violence spilled into the streets of Downtown LA, Gideon's father was caught up in it and killed as an innocent bystander. Despite the turmoil Gideon went off to UCLA to get his undergrad degree in engineering, following in his parents footsteps; meanwhile his mother continued to work for Lockheed. Though she privately suspected her husbands death was not entirely random, and that Lockheed had been partially responsible as an act of retaliation for Gideon's refusal of their contract.

While attending UCLA is magical ability did not go unnoticed, though he did not chose to major in Thaumaturgy during his undergrad he didn't ignore his awakened self either. Gideon regularly attended a club for adepts hosted by the Thaumaturgy school for students not enrolled in it, here he trained to harness and control some of his adept potential. He began to get more passionate and showed increasing potential later in his college career, eventually the School of Thaumaturgy took notice when he applied to do graduate studies at the school. His mother was glad he did not immediately chose to follow the path of his parents and start working for an engineering firm and was happy he chose to stay at school, between her salary and the work Gideon was able to do at school they managed to pay the hefty tuition fee for The UCLA School of Thaumaturgy.

His graduate studies at UCLA were cut woefully short however when the terrible earthquakes of 2069 shook and all but destroyed the region of southern California. The earthquakes and the ensuing flooding claimed thousands of lives in the region, LA was hit particularly hard and only the areas that had been previously walled off weren't devastated. Though UCLA was protected from most of the damage, Gideon's mother in LA was killed during a tsunami that struck downtown. In his mother's will he was given a letter that she had drafted years earlier, it expressed her concern about Lockheed and his father's death and urged him to make his career elsewhere if she too died. Though no foul play could be suspected in her death Gideon was outraged by the possibility of corporate involvement in his father's death.

With his mother's death he had no means to continue his graduate studies at UCLA, the price was very nearly too steep for them before, and now it would be impossible to pay. Scholarship money was obtainable, he was approached by to separate recruiter offering to pay for his continued education in exchange for a corporate contract. Lockheed approached him for a second time, though he refused them without even hearing the offer. The second was from an emerging megacorporation, Horizon, who worked primarily in public relations and show-business, at least as far as Gideon knew. Deciding he no longer wanted to be in southern Califonia he turned down the second offer as well, and left UCLA to move north into the CFS.

The Horizon recruiter in LA connected him with his counterpart in Sacramento, offering to find Gideon a job where he could put his skills to use and avoid some of the corporate bureaucracy that had dominated a major portion of his life to this point. Even UCLA had basically been like living on the grounds of a megacorp and Gideon desired to experience freedom from all of that, however difficult that would be to find. His recruiter in Sacramento connected him with the leader of one of the corporation's shadow-groups that performed corporate intelligence work in the California Valley region. This group gave Gideon the majority of his training and used him as a field operative over time on various missions, his knack for going unnoticed became of particular use to the organization.

When F.A.T.E. was looking to expand from it's San Francisco Headquarters into the Sacramento region it spread out it's net of connections to bring the very best candidates from the area in to be interviewed for the secretive position. That same recruiter happened to be within FATE's net of connections, though an anonymous source of course, and sent J.P. Redman a recommendation if he was looking for a Mystic Adept with covert operative skills, knowledge of the area, and few personal connections Gideon was his man. Several meetings and interviews later Gideon had been hired as one of the field operatives in the comparatively smaller branch of FATE in Sacramento.

Gideon was transfered to The San Francisco HQ shortly after The Golden Gate Heist, JP wanted to add some experienced manpower to the SanFran office, sensing the situation would get worse before it got better. Gideon's engineering background and abilities as a Mystic Adept made him an ideal choice for the temporary transfer to lend HQ a hand.

Contacts & Associates

• Megacorp Blogger (Elf Female, 27) (Loyalty 3, Connection 2)
• Talismonger (Dwarf Male, 38) (Loyalty 3, Connection 3)
• Horizon PR Man (Human Male, 53) (Loyalty 1, Connection 4)

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