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| Adrien Brody as Akiva Ben Avraham |
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| Name: |
Akiva Ben Avraham |
| Birthdate: |
{$birthdate} |
| Faction: |
SHIELD |
| Codename: |
Surgeon |
| Position: |
Nazi Hunter |
| Hometown: |
Jerusalem, Israel |
| Partner(s): |
Single |
Height: |
6'4" |
| Father: |
Avraham (deceased) |
Weight: |
180 lbs |
| Mother: |
Esther |
Hair Color: |
Black |
| Siblings: |
Muriel (deceased), Sarah (deceased), Ruth (deceased), Saul (deceased), |
Eye Color: |
Brown |
| Children: |
None |
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Background
Akiva was born the son of a chemist and a clockmaker, immigrants both who settled into university at Geneva to raise a family. When the Nazi regime rose and annexed Austria, they were trapped, Jews confined to the ghetto. Their neighbors began to vanish one by one. While his mother and youngest sister were smuggled out thanks to his father's academic friends, Akiva, his father Avraham and three other siblings were all sent to the camps - separately.
Akiva's brightness and aptitude in school didn't matter much at first. He huddled among strangers, worked to near starvation. But one German officer with ties to Hydra noticed him and he was eventually shipped to a specialized lab for experimentation purposes. The medical experiments lasted for years, including mental conditioning, surgeries, drugs and, of course, tortures. By the time he was rescued, he was no longer a normal human. Luckily, his mother, now a commando with the French resistance, had been part of the team that liberated him. Using the notes of his tormentors, she devised a means to stabilize his condition and abilities. Of his other siblings, no trace was ever found. His father died a year before the end of the war, worked to death in a Nazi factory. All Akiva had of him was the golden pocketwatch Avraham had sent away with his mother, a watch he still carries.
Akiva was twelve years old.
Akiva's mother had joined with the Zionist movement and so, after a few years in England, they moved to the nascent nation. Teenager or not, he quickly found himself part of the army, finding to liberate their new land and establish a safe haven. More brutality, more danger. His abilities also made him extraordinarily deadly despite his youth, quickly moving up the ranks and becoming a key intelligence agent. When the war ended, he went back to England, to study at Oxford. Despite his lost years with no education, his superhuman intellect made him a top student, eventually acquiring a medical degree along with Ph.D.s in psychology and philosophy. But conflict called him home again and, while working for Israeli intelligence, he realized that this was his true calling. He loved medicine and his graduate studies, but he could not forget. Ever. Every night, he'd remember them, the ones who victimized him, the ones who tortured others. He could remember all their faces, better than anyone ever could. He would have to be the one to find him.
And so he became a Nazi hunter, travelling the world in covert on behalf of the Israelis. He mastered the art of assassination, especially of slitting throats. His precision and love for blades earned him a nickname: The Surgeon. With the rise of Hydra activity in the New World, Akiva has recently been placed on loan to the agency known as SHIELD. He is still getting to know his new colleagues. But he is used to being a stranger in a strange land - he'll make do.
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Traits
- Precision: As a result of Hydra experiments performed on him in the camps, Akiva has a variety of disparate but effective abilities. The most prominent lies simply in his precision. He possesses unerring, steadfast physical and mental control of his faculties. He can throw or shoot with terrifying accuracy. He can measure distance within less than a millimeter by sight alone. He possesses an eidetic memory, laboriously organized and catalogued as well as any library. He moves exactly how he wants to move, always, no further and no less. He can draw effortlessly whatever he imagines in his mind, wielding a pencil or a brush as well as he wields a scalpel or a dagger. He's totally aware of his personal space, his movements, his reflexes and is generally extraordinarily difficult to hit himself or to make miss. Skills based in physical dexterity and control come to him as easily as water going downhill on a steep slope, often through simple observation. When combined with his martial training, he's a rather formidable combatant indeed.
- Reflexes & Speed: Akiva's physical reflexes and speed are around ten times that of an ordinary human. His rapid-fire reflexes, combined with his precision, enable him to become a whirling dervish in combat situations and capable of engaging multiple opponents simultaneously. His top running speed is around sixty miles per hour, although he does not possess superhuman stamina and will tire rapidly after less than a minute of full speed running or exertion at maximum speed.
- Combat: Akiva grew up in war, both WWII and the war to establish Israel. He's received extensive combat training in firearms and hand to hand weaponry. He's expert in a wide variety of armaments and has equivalent training one would expect of a Mossad operative with over a decade of experience. He has a special fondness for blades, both as throwing and melee weapons - his accuracy and predeliction for edged tools earned him the codename Surgeon.
- Medicine: Surgeon is also accurate because he is a fully trained medical doctor, specifically skilled in field medicine and wound treatment. He's done surgery live in the field, in makeshift conditions, of men and women alike blown apart by bombs, torn up by bullets, burned alive by chemicals. He is Oxford-educated and, of course, excels in his field. His anatomical knowledge is also fairly useful as a killer.
- Manhunter: Outside of his academics and active work on the battlefield, most of Akiva's adult life has been dedicated to finding an exterminating agents of Hydra and veterans of the Nazi regime on behalf of Israel and the world. He's an excellent investigator, capable of sorting through piles of evidence with terrifying rapidity. He is skilled at shadowing, identification and spycraft on the international stage and could easily be a star agent at Interpol or a law enforcement organization - or pass for one.
- Psychology: Akiva's accredited in psychology and has extensively studied human behavior and the human mind. He understands a wide variety of psychological theory (and disagrees with a fair amount of it, as it exists at current). His insight into the mind assists him as an investigator and interrogator.
- Polylinguist: Akiva speaks English, Hebrew, Yiddish, German, Russian, Latin and Arabic.
- Dual Agent: The Surgeon is a longtime asset of the Israeli intelligence service and retains his rank of Colonel and his authority within its structure. He is currently on loan to the agency known as SHIELD, specifically to combat the entity known as Hydra and expunge it from the face of the earth. He can call upon the resources of SHIELD, its agents and allies in its name.
- Never Forget: Akiva spent the ages of eight to twelve in the custody of the Nazi regime, either in concentration camps or in Hydra-controlled experimental laboratories. He experienced things there no human being should experience. He lost most of his family and everyone outside of his family that he knew. He has an eidetic memory, thanks to those experiments. He will never forget the screams. He will never forget the pain. He can't.
- Different: Akiva does not fit in particularly well in America or with SHIELD. He is a radical, foreign socialist atheist Jew, intellectual in temperament, European in accent and education. He understands Americans from a psycho-sociological perspective, but finds them very strange and tends to regard them with a certain detached bemusement. McCarthyism wasn't so very long ago, however, and those with conservative sympathies likely will have a negative reaction to Akiva - especially because he is utterly unapologetic about his difference.
- The Limits of his Control: While he has utter control of himself, the world beyond him is not under the same discipline and influence. However well he can control his own action, circumstances beyond his control happen. Interference, probability, environment and the actions of others can all spoil things. And, even though he is utterly accurate, hitting where he aims doesn't always mean he aims in the right place. He's precise, not infallible.
- Injections: Akiva's brain chemistry and metabolism were seriously thrown off-kilter by Hydra's work. As a result, his cells would potentially eat themselves alive without proper counter treatment. Akiva's mother, a brilliant scientist in her own right, devised the formula that maintains his stability. He must inject himself through a port installed in the back of his neck once every three days, directly into his spinal column. For each day beyond three he fails to inject, he will begin to experience increasing fever, hallucinations and loss of mental control and faculty. Within a week, his brain would start to cook inside his skull. Within two weeks, he would be dead. If circumstances were to leave him unable to take his regular cocktail, he would be in very big trouble.
- Marked: Along the flesh of his left forearm, from elbow to wrist, he bears the serial number the Nazis placed on him. He is also heavily scarred from experimental surgeries and procedures, although not on his face or hands.
- Israeli National: While on-loan to SHIELD and possessing a valid visa, Akiva is here at the sufference and invitation of the American government. That hospitality can be withdrawn and he can be subject to deportation as an alien agent.
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