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Name: Isaac Clarke
Fandom: Dead Space
Age: 49 (Biologically around 47-48 due to stasis confinement on The Sprawl)
Gender/Sexuality: Male/Heterosexual
Appearance:
Personality: Isaac Clarke is a calm, slightly optimistic, and overall caring individual. Circumstances have changed his worldview for the worse, but in most circumstances he tries his best in the situation (though he lacks a choice, the situation is usually life-or-death).
Clarke can be fairly abrasive, however. When met with excessive negativity or when someone challenges him, he often responds in kind.
Clarke does not wish well for his enemies, and sometimes finds it hard to forgive. He is very hardened, and does not show softness except when alone or with a loved one.
Skills:
Resourceful: Isaac has a knack for finding ways out of situations, and can usually be counted on to have a plan, even if its the plan he just made up on the spot.
Engineering Know-How: Isaac was once an engineer, and as such has a way with machines and tools. He once even created a plasma cutter from nothing but a flashlight and a surgical laser. Thus, he can repair and upgrade most machines around him.
Abilities/Powers:
Marker Blueprint: Isaac Clarke is a Builder, a person with the ability to create or destroy Markers. He has a resistance to mental damage, and is unusually resilient to attacks of this kind as a result.
Weaknesses:
Isaac is not a soldier, and while he can use his weapons well, he cannot fare well in a firefight. Loved ones and close friends are also one of his greatest weaknesses, as he can and will be lured into traps and bad situations with them. He also knows next to nothing in terms of First-Aid, aside from how to apply a somatic gel medkit.
Gear:
RIG (Arctic Survival)
-a RIG (Resource Integrated Gear) allows those around Isaac to monitor his health and current supply of stasis energy via readouts on his back, and Isaac can catalog his current inventory, journal, and a local topographical map of the area around him using the holographic projector on his chest. It also allows for video and audio calls, and can record them. It can also apply a somatic gel medkit, providing the user has one.
-while Isaac has worn many permutations of the RIG, his current is the Arctic Survival model emplyed by S.C.A.F. troops 200 years ago. It allows for up to seven minutes of air while underwater/in vacuum, has thrusters that allow for movement underwater or in Zero-G, gravity boots that can latch onto any surface provided there is no gravity, and has classified microfibers that allow it to retain the user's body heat even if the built in life-support fails.
Model 211-V Plasma Cutter
-A small yet powerful weapon once used to mine ore that can easily slice through metal, bone, and flesh.
-Has a clip of 20, a middling fire-rate, and a slight amount of kick
-The weapon cannot be fired unless it is engaged and ready, otherwise pulling the trigger will not do anything
-Can rotate its "barrel" to fire vertically or horizontally.
-Has a small holographic readout that displays its current supply of ammo.
Kinesis Module
-Built into Isaac's RIG
-Allows the user to grab items from far away, operate heavy machinery, or throw objects with great force using a projected field.
Stasis Module
-Built into Isaac's RIG
-Allows the user to slow the targeted person/being/item/machine to a crawl, and can be used to bypass certain hazards
-While it does recharge slowly over time, it can only be used four times before a recharge is mandatory, though this can be bypassed via a Stasis Pack.
Quotes:
"Good men mean well, we just don't always end up doing well"
"HEY! I've paid my dues! Unless you don't think I'm fucked up enough already?"
Theme:
Fandom: Dead Space
Age: 49 (Biologically around 47-48 due to stasis confinement on The Sprawl)
Gender/Sexuality: Male/Heterosexual
Appearance:
Personality: Isaac Clarke is a calm, slightly optimistic, and overall caring individual. Circumstances have changed his worldview for the worse, but in most circumstances he tries his best in the situation (though he lacks a choice, the situation is usually life-or-death).
Clarke can be fairly abrasive, however. When met with excessive negativity or when someone challenges him, he often responds in kind.
Clarke does not wish well for his enemies, and sometimes finds it hard to forgive. He is very hardened, and does not show softness except when alone or with a loved one.
Born on June 5, 2465. Isaac was born to two parents, Poul Clarke (a ship designer) and Octavia Clarke (who was a devout Unitologist). Isaac was raised by his mother for most of his life, his father leaving early in Clarke's life on a mission.
Clarke followed in his father's footsteps, having gone into education as an electrical and mechanical engineer, and was selected to be a candidate for a prestigious engineering school. That was until Clarke's mother spent most of the family's money in pursuit of a higher vested rank in the Unitologist religion.
Furious with his mother, this incident sparked a hatred of Unitology and those who worshiped the Marker.
Despite a lack of money, Clarke was able to obtain a higher education at a lesser school, and graduated with honors. Afterwards, he enlisted into the Merchant Marines in order to prove himself in original engineering circumstances. Succeeding in impressing his superiors, Isaac was promoted to work in better jobs on more heavily trafficked shipping lanes, eventually culminating in a short stint working on the Ishimura, which was the oldest and largest planet-cracker class vessal the Concordance Extraction Corporation could muster.
Isaac lived with Nicole Brennan, but by the time she was assigned to the Ishimura, his career had stagnated. This was all forgotten when the ship went dark after a shock into the Aegis system, over Aegis VII.
Isaac volunteered to be part of the emergency response team and was present when the team's shuttle, the USG Kellion, crash-landed on the ship.
What he found was the stuff of nightmares. Necromorphs, creatures created from reanimated and remade dead flesh, stalked the ship and killed everything in their path. Only when Isaac found a doctor assigned to the ship, Dr. Kyne, did he discover its source: the Marker. The Marker was indeed real, and it was horrifying. When removed from the planet, it awakened a plague of monsters that destroyed the colony on the planet and the crew aboard the Ishimura.
After a long series of tasks to find a repair a shuttle, Isaac managed to reach the planet and restore the Marker. However, the other remaining member of the team, Kendra Daniels, had revealed to be an agent of EarthGov in search of the Marker. She revealed that Isaac, who had thought that Nicole was indeed alive and well, was insane. Nicole had committed suicide before Isaac could arrive on the scene.
Isaac soon after escaped, destroying most of Aegis VII, the Marker, and presumably, the Necromorphs on the planet. However, a hallucination of Nicole soon attacked him, marking his descent into madness. He was later picked up and spirited away by EarthGov, and awoke on the Sprawl without any memory of getting there.
Franco Delile, a Unitologist, had awoken Isaac in order to safely escort him out of the Hospital on the station, when a Necromorph stabbed him and infected him, transforming Franco into a monster.
Once he had gotten away, Isaac was contacted by a woman named Dana -Franco's sister-, who told him of his condition: Isaac was suffering from a form of dementia he had contracted on Aegis VII. After arriving at Dana's location, the truth was revealed; Isaac was able to build and create markers. This was confirmed by a fellow patient, Nolan Stross, once Isaac escaped from her.
Now on a mission to destroy the Marker, Isaac, Stross, and a woman named Ellie that Isaac had encountered, headed towards the government sector of the station. On the way there, they had to restore power and reconnect the tram lines mostly due to the actions of the station's director, Tiedmann.
Upon arriving in the mines under the government sector, the same dementia that haunted Isaac had consumed Stross, leading him to stab out one of Ellie's eyes and attack Isaac, leading to his demise. Then, with only Isaac and Ellie left, they arrived at the outside of the Government Sector. After discovering a docked gunship, Isaac tricks Ellie into leaving, and continues on, alone.
After an arduous journey through the remainder of the sector, Isaac finally encounters Tiedmann and the Marker. After killing Tiedmann, Isaac embraces his hallucination of Nicole, who then attempted to kill Isaac. Furious, he retaliated and destroyed the hallucination and the Marker.
Assuming death was imminent, Isaac was surprised when Ellie contacted him and blasted through the roof of the chamber, rescuing him.
They formed a relationship afterwards, having formed a bond over their struggles on the station. Much like his forgotten career, Isaac's relationship with Ellie stagnated, and she left him due to the fact he could not move past his own experiences. She soon met Robert Norton and John Carver, who helped her form the Marker Ops team. The mission was simple: find and destroy the source of the Marker plague. Ellie, due to Unitologist involvement, had to abandon Norton and Carver with her team, leaving one single instruction: find Isaac.
Thus, began the last of Isaac's adventures. At this point, he was on the verge of being evicted, having lived alone and unable to find a job. After being subdued and confronted by Norton and Carver, Isaac agreed to join the mission to find and destroy the source of the Markers. After the Marker containment facility was destroyed, Isaac, Norton, and Carver escaped via one of EarthGov's last remaining ships: the USM Eudora. They arrived over a then unknown planet, at Ellie's last known coordinates. They had to quickly abandon the Eudora as the area was seeded with mines from the ships in the area, 200 year old hulks formerly crewed by members of the S.C.A.F., a group formed from an ages-ago civil war.
On board one of them, the CMS Terra Nova, the crew finds Ellie and her Marker Ops team on top of the control tower. Isaac soon learns that not only had Ellie formed Marker Ops with Norton, she had formed a romantic relationship with him, something Isaac and Norton would butt heads over many times. As Isaac watched, Ellie soon noticed him and asked him to translate a Marker script written by the insane admiral of the navy. Isaac does so, and reveals that there is a machine on the planet that would 'turn it off'. After locating the only shuttle, they descend to the planet below only to crash. Isaac wakes up alone, cold, and freezing to death; they had thought him dead, and left him.
Isaac follows the trail left behind by a hopeful Ellie to a small bunker with snowsuits inside, and a dying member of Marker Ops tells Isaac the others had gone ahead. There weren't any suits on the surface level of the bunker and the team was too terrified of what might lurk below to find anymore. Isaac braved the depths then, and successfully finds a suit after fighting off a horde of Necromorphs. He then located Ellie, Carver, and Norton, at the remnants of a S.C.A.F. base. They form a plan to find the location of the machine by using a presumably dead Necromorph. Once found, the Necromorph proves to be what they needed, until they are attacked by Unitologists not long after and forced to fight the presumed dead Necromorph. After killing the monster, Isaac and Carver find out that Norton had betrayed them to kill Isaac and save Ellie.
A brief confontation led to the death of Norton, and as Isaac reeled with the death, Carver urged him onward. They followed another lead, about a scientist named Rosetta, whose presumed research was integral to figuring out how to activate the machine. Isaac, Carver, and Ellie (by then the only ones alive) had found Rosetta, who was an Alien native of the planet, frozen and cut into parts. Once they had figured out how it fit, Isaac saw a vision of what the machine really did. It froze the planet. However, the Unitologists had found the group, and forced to activate the biohazard containment, Ellie was trapped in the room as the hazardous material filled the room. Before Isaac and Carver left, Ellie once again professed her love for Isaac. Grieved over his loss, Isaac went after the codex (the last tool needed to finish the mission) and the leader of the Unitologists, Jacob Danik. Once close, Danik revealed he had Ellie in his possession, and Carver (wishing to repent for the suffering he had caused his family prior to the incident) gave Danik the codex in order to save Ellie.
Isaac and Carver sent Ellie away, right before the platform containing the machine began to crumble. The two then destroyed the beginnings of a Brother Moon, which was the source of the Markers and the Marker signal, and activated the machine. They were then presumed dead, and as Ellie tried desperately to contact them from a Unitologist ship in orbit, she was finally relieved once she saw the signal was offline.
The two then had one problem. They weren't dead, but that meant they had to find a way off planet. Isaac and Carver then stole one of the remaining Unitologist ships and made it to the Terra Nova, using it to return home. Once home, they tried to contact Earth and Luna, before the ship was attacked by one of many Brethren Moons.
Clarke followed in his father's footsteps, having gone into education as an electrical and mechanical engineer, and was selected to be a candidate for a prestigious engineering school. That was until Clarke's mother spent most of the family's money in pursuit of a higher vested rank in the Unitologist religion.
Furious with his mother, this incident sparked a hatred of Unitology and those who worshiped the Marker.
Despite a lack of money, Clarke was able to obtain a higher education at a lesser school, and graduated with honors. Afterwards, he enlisted into the Merchant Marines in order to prove himself in original engineering circumstances. Succeeding in impressing his superiors, Isaac was promoted to work in better jobs on more heavily trafficked shipping lanes, eventually culminating in a short stint working on the Ishimura, which was the oldest and largest planet-cracker class vessal the Concordance Extraction Corporation could muster.
Isaac lived with Nicole Brennan, but by the time she was assigned to the Ishimura, his career had stagnated. This was all forgotten when the ship went dark after a shock into the Aegis system, over Aegis VII.
Isaac volunteered to be part of the emergency response team and was present when the team's shuttle, the USG Kellion, crash-landed on the ship.
What he found was the stuff of nightmares. Necromorphs, creatures created from reanimated and remade dead flesh, stalked the ship and killed everything in their path. Only when Isaac found a doctor assigned to the ship, Dr. Kyne, did he discover its source: the Marker. The Marker was indeed real, and it was horrifying. When removed from the planet, it awakened a plague of monsters that destroyed the colony on the planet and the crew aboard the Ishimura.
After a long series of tasks to find a repair a shuttle, Isaac managed to reach the planet and restore the Marker. However, the other remaining member of the team, Kendra Daniels, had revealed to be an agent of EarthGov in search of the Marker. She revealed that Isaac, who had thought that Nicole was indeed alive and well, was insane. Nicole had committed suicide before Isaac could arrive on the scene.
Isaac soon after escaped, destroying most of Aegis VII, the Marker, and presumably, the Necromorphs on the planet. However, a hallucination of Nicole soon attacked him, marking his descent into madness. He was later picked up and spirited away by EarthGov, and awoke on the Sprawl without any memory of getting there.
Franco Delile, a Unitologist, had awoken Isaac in order to safely escort him out of the Hospital on the station, when a Necromorph stabbed him and infected him, transforming Franco into a monster.
Once he had gotten away, Isaac was contacted by a woman named Dana -Franco's sister-, who told him of his condition: Isaac was suffering from a form of dementia he had contracted on Aegis VII. After arriving at Dana's location, the truth was revealed; Isaac was able to build and create markers. This was confirmed by a fellow patient, Nolan Stross, once Isaac escaped from her.
Now on a mission to destroy the Marker, Isaac, Stross, and a woman named Ellie that Isaac had encountered, headed towards the government sector of the station. On the way there, they had to restore power and reconnect the tram lines mostly due to the actions of the station's director, Tiedmann.
Upon arriving in the mines under the government sector, the same dementia that haunted Isaac had consumed Stross, leading him to stab out one of Ellie's eyes and attack Isaac, leading to his demise. Then, with only Isaac and Ellie left, they arrived at the outside of the Government Sector. After discovering a docked gunship, Isaac tricks Ellie into leaving, and continues on, alone.
After an arduous journey through the remainder of the sector, Isaac finally encounters Tiedmann and the Marker. After killing Tiedmann, Isaac embraces his hallucination of Nicole, who then attempted to kill Isaac. Furious, he retaliated and destroyed the hallucination and the Marker.
Assuming death was imminent, Isaac was surprised when Ellie contacted him and blasted through the roof of the chamber, rescuing him.
They formed a relationship afterwards, having formed a bond over their struggles on the station. Much like his forgotten career, Isaac's relationship with Ellie stagnated, and she left him due to the fact he could not move past his own experiences. She soon met Robert Norton and John Carver, who helped her form the Marker Ops team. The mission was simple: find and destroy the source of the Marker plague. Ellie, due to Unitologist involvement, had to abandon Norton and Carver with her team, leaving one single instruction: find Isaac.
Thus, began the last of Isaac's adventures. At this point, he was on the verge of being evicted, having lived alone and unable to find a job. After being subdued and confronted by Norton and Carver, Isaac agreed to join the mission to find and destroy the source of the Markers. After the Marker containment facility was destroyed, Isaac, Norton, and Carver escaped via one of EarthGov's last remaining ships: the USM Eudora. They arrived over a then unknown planet, at Ellie's last known coordinates. They had to quickly abandon the Eudora as the area was seeded with mines from the ships in the area, 200 year old hulks formerly crewed by members of the S.C.A.F., a group formed from an ages-ago civil war.
On board one of them, the CMS Terra Nova, the crew finds Ellie and her Marker Ops team on top of the control tower. Isaac soon learns that not only had Ellie formed Marker Ops with Norton, she had formed a romantic relationship with him, something Isaac and Norton would butt heads over many times. As Isaac watched, Ellie soon noticed him and asked him to translate a Marker script written by the insane admiral of the navy. Isaac does so, and reveals that there is a machine on the planet that would 'turn it off'. After locating the only shuttle, they descend to the planet below only to crash. Isaac wakes up alone, cold, and freezing to death; they had thought him dead, and left him.
Isaac follows the trail left behind by a hopeful Ellie to a small bunker with snowsuits inside, and a dying member of Marker Ops tells Isaac the others had gone ahead. There weren't any suits on the surface level of the bunker and the team was too terrified of what might lurk below to find anymore. Isaac braved the depths then, and successfully finds a suit after fighting off a horde of Necromorphs. He then located Ellie, Carver, and Norton, at the remnants of a S.C.A.F. base. They form a plan to find the location of the machine by using a presumably dead Necromorph. Once found, the Necromorph proves to be what they needed, until they are attacked by Unitologists not long after and forced to fight the presumed dead Necromorph. After killing the monster, Isaac and Carver find out that Norton had betrayed them to kill Isaac and save Ellie.
A brief confontation led to the death of Norton, and as Isaac reeled with the death, Carver urged him onward. They followed another lead, about a scientist named Rosetta, whose presumed research was integral to figuring out how to activate the machine. Isaac, Carver, and Ellie (by then the only ones alive) had found Rosetta, who was an Alien native of the planet, frozen and cut into parts. Once they had figured out how it fit, Isaac saw a vision of what the machine really did. It froze the planet. However, the Unitologists had found the group, and forced to activate the biohazard containment, Ellie was trapped in the room as the hazardous material filled the room. Before Isaac and Carver left, Ellie once again professed her love for Isaac. Grieved over his loss, Isaac went after the codex (the last tool needed to finish the mission) and the leader of the Unitologists, Jacob Danik. Once close, Danik revealed he had Ellie in his possession, and Carver (wishing to repent for the suffering he had caused his family prior to the incident) gave Danik the codex in order to save Ellie.
Isaac and Carver sent Ellie away, right before the platform containing the machine began to crumble. The two then destroyed the beginnings of a Brother Moon, which was the source of the Markers and the Marker signal, and activated the machine. They were then presumed dead, and as Ellie tried desperately to contact them from a Unitologist ship in orbit, she was finally relieved once she saw the signal was offline.
The two then had one problem. They weren't dead, but that meant they had to find a way off planet. Isaac and Carver then stole one of the remaining Unitologist ships and made it to the Terra Nova, using it to return home. Once home, they tried to contact Earth and Luna, before the ship was attacked by one of many Brethren Moons.
Skills:
Resourceful: Isaac has a knack for finding ways out of situations, and can usually be counted on to have a plan, even if its the plan he just made up on the spot.
Engineering Know-How: Isaac was once an engineer, and as such has a way with machines and tools. He once even created a plasma cutter from nothing but a flashlight and a surgical laser. Thus, he can repair and upgrade most machines around him.
Abilities/Powers:
Marker Blueprint: Isaac Clarke is a Builder, a person with the ability to create or destroy Markers. He has a resistance to mental damage, and is unusually resilient to attacks of this kind as a result.
Weaknesses:
Isaac is not a soldier, and while he can use his weapons well, he cannot fare well in a firefight. Loved ones and close friends are also one of his greatest weaknesses, as he can and will be lured into traps and bad situations with them. He also knows next to nothing in terms of First-Aid, aside from how to apply a somatic gel medkit.
Gear:
RIG (Arctic Survival)
-a RIG (Resource Integrated Gear) allows those around Isaac to monitor his health and current supply of stasis energy via readouts on his back, and Isaac can catalog his current inventory, journal, and a local topographical map of the area around him using the holographic projector on his chest. It also allows for video and audio calls, and can record them. It can also apply a somatic gel medkit, providing the user has one.
-while Isaac has worn many permutations of the RIG, his current is the Arctic Survival model emplyed by S.C.A.F. troops 200 years ago. It allows for up to seven minutes of air while underwater/in vacuum, has thrusters that allow for movement underwater or in Zero-G, gravity boots that can latch onto any surface provided there is no gravity, and has classified microfibers that allow it to retain the user's body heat even if the built in life-support fails.
Model 211-V Plasma Cutter
-A small yet powerful weapon once used to mine ore that can easily slice through metal, bone, and flesh.
-Has a clip of 20, a middling fire-rate, and a slight amount of kick
-The weapon cannot be fired unless it is engaged and ready, otherwise pulling the trigger will not do anything
-Can rotate its "barrel" to fire vertically or horizontally.
-Has a small holographic readout that displays its current supply of ammo.
Kinesis Module
-Built into Isaac's RIG
-Allows the user to grab items from far away, operate heavy machinery, or throw objects with great force using a projected field.
Stasis Module
-Built into Isaac's RIG
-Allows the user to slow the targeted person/being/item/machine to a crawl, and can be used to bypass certain hazards
-While it does recharge slowly over time, it can only be used four times before a recharge is mandatory, though this can be bypassed via a Stasis Pack.
Quotes:
"Good men mean well, we just don't always end up doing well"
"HEY! I've paid my dues! Unless you don't think I'm fucked up enough already?"
Theme: