Acetyl/Introduction

A native Storm Dragon full of paradoxes and conflicts. Loves reading, science, art and culture and technology, yet invariably goes around barefoot and has a deep love of Nature and the wilderness, too. He is a computer scientist, head of the Xanadu R&D subdivision of Zephyr - and he also smokes weed and surfs. He is the agent responsible for the maintenance of Xanadu Gardens. He is an accomplished crafter, specializing in chemistry and edibles. When not employed in the field by Zephyr, Acetyl works as a nanomagic and supernatural researcher in Clairmont. He is also prone to savage outbursts, even cannibal acts, thanks to the weird impulses caused by his infection, and other oddities swirling around his Dimensionally Touched mind. Although he does his best to resist his darker urges and devote his life to being a useful, primarily scientific Zephyr agent, his undeniable talent for violence gets him sent out into the field over and over, where he struggles to remain in control of the darker, wilder parts of his personality, especially when he is badly hurt or overwhelmed in battle. He also finds himself slipping down into the darkness in other ways, having mostly set aside his once-exclusive focus on the skills of the Nanite Adept in favor of the occult knowledge of the Necromantic Acolytes. Still, he does the best he can, muddling his way through life. He is very intelligent, but cynical. He is prone to alternating periods of intense guilt feelings and the amoral freedom of an apex predator. He was a male before P-Day, but became neuter when first infected and remains so most of the time except for unusual incidents and the occasional use of his Nanite Adept abilities to shift himself into a male (or, much more rarely, a masculine herm.)