THEMIS DATABASE: 010 & 010.5

010 & 010.5

BIOMETRICS
FULL NAME: Jack and Gabriel Marlowe
KNOWN ALIASES AND TITLES: Hell’s Winter; Messer Gabriel Marlow of the Twilight Network of the Order of the Grateful Dead, Chapter: the United Kingdom
DATE OF BIRTH: January 17, 1967 (Jack) and August 31, 2002 (Gabriel)
AGE: 60
NATIONALITY: British
DISTINGUISHING MARKS:

• When he is not manifesting any ghostly powers as a geist, Jack looks exactly as he did while he was still alive.
  
• Gabriel has not physically aged over 25.
  

HUNTER DOSSIER
CLASS: Demonborn/Sin-Eater (Herald of Hell’s Winter)
HOME COMPACT/CONSPIRACY: The Thrones
RANK: Senior Operative
POSITIONS HELD:

• Founding Member
  
• Overseer of the Household
  

AFFILIATED COMPACTS/CONSPIRACIES:

• Netsach (Inquisitor of Behemoth and Cerberus, the Falner Estate {Britain})
  
• The Methuselah (Senior Operative, Metis {Arcis})
  
• The Rhiannon Group (Senior Agent, Human Resources Department {Rhiannon Towers, Britain})
  

OTHER AFFILIATED GROUPS:

• The Order of the Grateful Dead (Messer Sin-Eater, the United Kingdom’s Chapter)
  

TACTICAL DESIGNATION: Tactician, Administrator, Liaison
FAVORED WEAPONS: Sniper Rifle
COMBAT ASSESSMENT: Tactical long-ranged fighter that utilizes his knowledge of his enemies and of the territory in order to control the battlefield. Tends to use his abilities as a Sin-Eater to “lock in” a location of his choosing, and proceeds to keep his distance in order to pick off his enemies before they ever get close.

HISTORY
Alice Marlowe was the 010 of the Lucifuge following World War I. The Lady had made a mistake with her, and kidnapped Alice when she was already a teenager after killing the girl’s mortal parents right in front of her. This made Alice an incredibly reluctant Number within the conspiracy, and she constantly attempted to break away from the organization. In fact, she gave birth to Jack – her one and only son – on the run, following the murder of her lover.

Jack was 17 when the Lady – tired of Alice’s constant rebellious actions – tracked both him and his mother, dragged them back to Italy, and used her powers to seal Alice’s free will and psyche away. She then replaced the “original” Alice with a persona of her choosing: a woman who was blindly devoted to the Lucifuge with absolutely no instinct for self-preservation. The Lady then proceeded to make an example out of Alice by making her the resident sex toy and “stress ball” for the other Numbers, and also used Alice to keep Jack in line. By the time Jack was 21, the artificial persona that the Lady had implanted in his mother was starting to shatter under the strain of all of the abuse she was enduring. Alice died four years later. By then, she was a total incoherent wreck. Jack received the Legacy of Hell’s Winter only moments after, when his mother’s corpse was still barely cold.

Having learned from his mother’s example and become incredibly familiar with the inner workings of the Lucifuge, Jack played both sides of the field by presenting himself as a completely loyal Number to the Lady and using his charm and influence to throw people off of his trail. He managed to fall in love with a mortal woman, impregnate her, and protect her all the way until his son Gabriel was born. He then managed to keep the both of them safe all the way until 2012.

Jack was one of the first agents that the Lucifuge sent against 108 in 2012 – a cruel move on the Lady’s part, as Jack had been one of the only Lucifuge agents that 108 had been close to before he had abandoned the conspiracy. 108 killed Jack himself when they faced off. A little after that, the Lady managed to discover the hiding place of Jack’s family, and promptly had Gabriel’s mother tortured and executed. Fortunately, the woman – acting on instructions from her now dead husband – managed to hide her son away from the Lady’s prying eyes and never revealed Gabriel’s location.

Driven, perhaps, by his strong desire to protect his son and exact revenge upon the conspiracy that had stolen everything from him, Jack’s soul clawed its way back up from the Underworld in record time, and emerged on the Prime Material Plane yet again as a geist. He located Gabriel just in time to bond with him, and save the boy from dying: agents of the Lady had finally managed to track the child down, and had been ordered by the Lady to lock him up and starve him to death. Gabriel promptly awakened as the new 010 of the Lucifuge, and used his abilities to kill his captors. Jack then guided the boy towards Southeast Asia, where they soon came in contact with 108.

Jack and Gabriel were immediately welcomed into the inner coven of the Thrones. The pair became the conspiracy’s fixers and emissaries, negotiating deals between the different groups that the Thrones had become involved with, and built to at least try and smooth over potential problems with dialogue before bringing in the heavy guns. This made them incredibly busy during the First Reforms and the Darkest Vigil, and even though they were rarely on the front lines, their services were invaluable to the Thrones.


CURRENT STATUS
Gabriel now appears to be about 25 years old, and doesn’t seem to have aged a day above that. He’s still the most quiet member of the inner coven, although the amount of talking that his father Jack does seems to balance that out nicely.

PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE
This profile combines the psychological assessments of Jack and Gabriel, as it is difficult to consider the pair as separate entities.

Jack learned to shelve his emotions at an incredibly early age, and present an almost impenetrable mask of charm and mercilessness to the world as a defense mechanism. His experiences had left a lasting impression on him, convincing him that there was no actual way to attain happiness while one was on Earth: the closest one could get would be to make sure that one was comfortable, and the only way to get comfortable was to lie, cheat, steal and kill. Granted, Jack possesses a strong sense of justice, and an almost neurotic fondness for the underdog. He only ever feels the need to punish or destroy people who “clearly deserve it”.

Gabriel is similar to his father in the sense that he also highly values logic, intellect and pragmatism over emotion and intuition if only because he was acutely aware, at an early age, of how he completely lacked control over his own circumstances and had not been in a position to save himself and either of his parents when it truly counted. Control is paramount for him, and he measures others according to their perceived value and levels of importance to himself. Even members of his own family are not spared from his critical gaze, although he is unquestionably affectionate towards them. Nevertheless, he tries to maintain a certain level of distance between himself and other people, as though he is ever prepared for the possibility that he will have to disable or destroy them, or let them go for whatever reason.

As a rule of thumb, Jack and Gabriel are only truly honest to each other, and have the tendency to keep their comrades and family constantly guessing on what they’re really feeling during situations of duress. They “switch” dominant roles according to the situation, but Jack appears to handle things more regularly than his son does. This may be because Gabriel chooses to hang back and allow his father to feel around with their targeted parties, as he is certain that Jack will be able to push people in ways that he can study for future reference.


THREAT LEVEL
NOTABLE/NON-FACTOR. Powerful as Jack and Gabriel are given the fact that Gabriel is a Sin-Eater with demonic influences due to his heritage, the pair are at their most dangerous when they are not on the battlefield. Both are excellent saboteurs and black ops fighters, familiar with the many means through which one might keep secrets (or uncover them), play parties against each other, or dismantle entire organizations. At this moment, however, it appears as though the Marlowes have ruled that the actions of Pax Deorum are logical, and they must therefore devote themselves to Keeping the Vigil as according to the world government’s stipulations.


Reference pegs: Jack and Gabriel