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

• Krista Lively (Elf Female, 27) (Loyalty 3, Connection 2)

Krista is a college friend and fellow UCLA graduate. The two met their first year on campus and remained friends through graduation finding they had quite a bit in common besides their elven nature. When Krista completed her undergraduate degree in journalism at UCLA she moved to San Francisco, taking a job with one of the small companies in the CFS media. Her job is primarily behind the scenes of the media outlet, though their smaller nature allows her to have slightly more freedom than working for one of the megacorps would have allowed. She maintains a rather popular independent blog under an anonymous alias so that what she posts does not affect her job or her company, she mostly publishes somewhat underground information regarding megacorps in Cal Free. The two briefly lost touch while Gideon attended graduate school at UCLA, but reconnected when he moved to Sacramento, though contact was relatively limited. Now that they live in the same city again their friendship could possibly grow closer, though she is still very much unaware of Wex's position in the CFS government.

• Balin Kingus (Dwarf Male, 38) (Loyalty 3, Connection 3)

Balin runs a Talismonger's Shop on the outskirts of Standford (Between San Fransico and San Jose), though the shop is relatively small due to its location it is well known for is custom work. Balin is an incredibly gifted enchanter and makes some of the finest arcane goods around, though he is known to be fairly selective in his customers. How exactly he decides who he will and won't serve is tough to pin down, and he doesn't like to talk about it much. (A good way to get off the list of customers would be to ask.) Balin was a contact used by the shadow-group he worked for after his arrival in CFS and made Wex's Katana Focus for him while he was working there. Balin insists on getting to know anyone he makes a focus for before crafting it, in this time the two struck a light friendship and found they both enjoyed classic films. The two have been in contact since Wex came to work for F.A.T.E. and Wex still prefers to make the drive to visit Balin rather than find a new Talismonger in the city.

• Patrick Coughlin (Human Male, 53) (Loyalty 1, Connection 4)

Patrick Coughlin is an influential businessman who has worked for Horizon for almost his entire career. Originally he worked in the accounting division of what was then a rather small media company, now that it has grown into a megacorp he finds himself in a position of increasing importance. He moved into Public Relations for the company about five years ago when he was relocated from Los Angeles to Sacramento, taking on a very different mission. He now heads the department that looks after the corporations investments in the eyes of the public. Most people are at least aware that megacorporations spend and invest their money in a variety of different ways; be that bribing a politician, funding a shadowgroup, or helping the community. Patrick makes sure their investments receive the proper attention from media outlets and other sources, sometimes that means publicizing a good deed and other times it means making sure less legitimate funding goes unnoticed. Patrick and Gideon were introduced by a recruiter in Los Angeles who had been attempting to recruit Gideon into Horizon, Gideon however was looking for a change of scenery, that is where Patrick came in. The two of them met and discussed what Gideon might like to do in his future, after the conversation Gideon had agreed to move to Sacramento and begin working for Horizon. To what capacity was still unsure. They found a good fit for Gideon in one of Horizon's sponsored shadowgroups, but Patrick came across a unique opportunity that seemed a perfect fit. F.A.T.E. was looking to expand to Sacramento and Patrick knew just who to recommend, the meeting with JP Redman was set up and the rest is history.