INFO (History, Personality, Crimes)

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Jet Link | 002

pronouns

He/Him

dob

02/02/1945

canonpoint

Call of Justice, Episode 11

callsign

TBD

specialty

recon, sharpshooter, flight, tactics

The aerial cyborg, 002, can fly at Mach 5. The majority of his human features have been replaced or enhanced between initial experimentation and a near-death experience. Jet is in a perpetual state of being 18-22, but he's chronologically almost 70

positive

Determined, Easy-going, Clever

neutral

Loyal, Impulsive, Protective

negative

Fiery, Stubborn, Distrustful

If you're familiar with the Toonami days of anime and Cyborg 009, you might be used to Jet looking like this. OOC, his RE: Design is just that, a design that was applied to him for the RE: and Call of Justice timeline for no explained reason. ICly, I've gone with the idea that the American government made the change when they 'upgraded' his cybernetics (and stole the technology). Jet's whole appearance changed overnight on the operating table.

height

6'

build

dancer/muscular

background;

009 RE: Cyborg wiki, the precursor to Call of Justice, Call of Justice, and The main canon both built on.

-1945, Jet is born to Italian immigrant parents in the Bronx, New York City.

-Jet leaves home at a young age and joins a gang, eventually becoming the leader.

-1963, Jet’s gang fights a rival gang, resulting in Jet killing the other leader. The cops appear, Jet gets cornered, and accepts help from mysterious strangers: agents of an organization called “Black Ghost.”

-Black Ghost kidnaps Jet for cyborg experimentation, replaces his bones, skin, and organs with synthetic structures suited for combat and flight, and Jet becomes the first cyborg experiment to survive and is labeled ‘001.’

-A year later, a baby born with psychic powers is donated to Black Ghost, his abilities are deemed more useful, and he is labeled ‘001,’ re-designating Jet ‘002.’

-The next couple of years, 002 is trained rigorously and inhumanely (along with 003 and 004) to test their limits as weapons and soldiers as technology further develops for the experiments of cyborgs 005-009.

-One of the scientists, Doctor Gilmore, begins setting in motion a plan to free the cyborgs and escape Black Ghost with them. During a training exercise, the cyborgs and the doctor turned on the organization and fought their way out of the base.

-The cyborgs settled with a friend of Gilmore’s in Japan to hide out, but Black Ghost continued to send other cyborg projects to assassinate them. The cyborgs were eventually recaptured, and in their resulting bid to escape, they seemingly killed Black Ghost himself.

-The group spent the next year or so in relative peace, cleaning up cells of Black Ghost and other corrupted scientists Gilmore knew, as well as different missions that came along.

-The cyborgs caught wind that Black Ghost might not be dead after all, and began investigating. Black Ghost lured them into a trap that led to the discovery of his rocket base. It took off, and 009 was teleported into the rocket to fight Black Ghost.

-Jet flew into the atmosphere to rescue 009, ran out of fuel by the time he got to him, and so they fell through the atmosphere. Jet protected 009 with his own body.

-Gilmore and the cyborgs found 009 and what was left of Jet, resulting in Gilmore salvaging and rebuilding Jet.

-Due to their increasingly high-profile missions, the cyborgs were discovered by the U.N. and ordered to break up, fearing Gilmore would have more power than some countries with the cyborgs on call.

-009 was chosen to stay with Gilmore over Jet, resulting in him having a fight with 009 and estranging himself from most of the others.

-Jet joined the American Air Force as a Captain and pilot.

-The NSA recruited him to join them as a secret agent to do missions that humans couldn’t.

-27 years after the cyborg team went their separate ways, skyscrapers were being bombed, and Jet was trying to learn who was behind it.

-Conversation with 007 clued him in on a common thread mentioned by all the bombers called ‘His Voice.’

-Jet followed ‘His Voice’ lead to a major CEO, who Jet discovered was behind the initial bombings, the rest were being carried out by followers of ‘His Voice.’

-Jet tried to tell his superior about the origins of the bombings, but his superior revealed he’d been setting Jet up to be a scapegoat for political fallout from the moment of recruiting him and intended to blame the bombings on Jet.

-Jet tried to attack his superior, but was taken over by the entity His Voice, and attacked part of the Pentagon, resulting in his superior’s death.

-After escaping the destruction, Jet learned there was a submarine full of nukes that had been lost to His Voice, and he warned Gilmore and the others

-Jet listened in on the mission to launch other missiles and blow the nukes up in the atmosphere. He overheard that one nuke was missed and that 009 intends to be teleported up to deactivate it manually.

-Jet flew up into the atmosphere, but the thin air was too much for his systems, and he broke apart after helping 009, resulting in his destruction in the atmosphere.

-009 realized His Voice is God and prays for God to make things right instead of punishing humans, resulting in 009 and Jet’s resurrection in Venice with the others.

-5 years later, Jet and the others have moved to a farmstead in Texas to lay low and live their lives when they’re approached by a journalist investigating a group of un-aging humans called ‘The Blessed.’

-Through their investigations, the cyborgs find out the Blessed aren’t human, but natural to Earth and intend to kill 98% of humans to ‘force evolve’ the surviving 2% to make them more directable under the Blessed.

-Jet and the others stop this plot and remove the leader of the Blessed, but not without sacrificing 004 and Jet, though both are rescued from their apparent deaths by 009 being able to move so fast he can travel in time.

Abilities

A full breakdown here!
A synopsis:

Up to Mach 5 flight speed

short bursts of accelerated speed

Stronger than average

Expert marksman

HUD in his vision

Digests food into fuel for his jets

Personality

>Determined- Jet, once set to a goal, will see it through no matter what tries to stop him. Even if that means killing someone who isn’t necessarily evil, if he perceives his goal as important enough, like shooting pilots out of the sky (and definitely killing them) who are just doing their jobs because they’re getting in his way as he tries to stop a bomber. Later, after he’s been shot up by a jumpy guard, he still pulls himself to his feet and makes himself fly out into the atmosphere to try and help 009 and when Ivan gets kidnapped, he flies after them at risk to himself to get his friend back.

>Easy-going- Most of the time, Jet’s a laid-back guy. He’s essentially immortal, already far older than he looks, and has seen a lot of the evil in life and humanity, and it’s made him adapt to how he reacts to injustices and frustrations around him. Even when he was younger, he was usually a ‘live and let live unless you’re being a dick’ kind of person, really only lashing out verbally when his annoyance with his team had built up without a chance to cool off. Time has only mellowed him more overall, so even when he’s angry about something, he’ll still keep his cool for as long as he can.

>Loyal-Nothing matters more to Jet than loyalty. Thanks to cases of abandonment from various sources he was supposed to be able to rely on in his life, having people who will stick with him no matter what means more to him than life. In exchange, if he thinks he has someone like that, he’ll do absolutely anything for them and stand by their side through anything. Jet’s loyalty to those he cares about is bone-deep. Even after nearly 30 years of estrangement with his family among the other cyborgs, he still lashes out at his boss the moment he threatens them. And when his team needs help, Jet comes flying in as soon as he can.

>Clever- Jet is shown to be incredibly intelligent and fairly perceptive, though wisdom doesn't always come so easily to him. He’s clever enough to figure out puzzles and secrets, intuitive enough to figure out when his friends are hiding something that’s bothering them, and intelligent enough that, when he knows he’s about to be left floating in space, he calculates and plans for his trajectory so his unconscious body can float to safety in what little gravity is left. It’s implied by the other characters that this isn’t an ability Jet has from being a cyborg; it’s simply something Jet did from his own personal capability.

>Stubborn- Just as much as Jet is determined, that determination can very easily slip into stubbornness. When he thinks he’s right, it takes a lot to make him change his mind. When people tell him ‘stop, what you’re trying to do won’t work’ he’ll often keep at it anyway to his own detriment until he either succeeds or is physically forced to stop, as is usually the case in a lot of the cyborg’s early missions.

>Fiery temper- The opposite of Jet’s easy-going nature, he also has a flashfire of a temper when it rears its head. These days, his anger can be a slow simmer, but after it’s simmered long enough or the heat’s turned on sharply, it’ll simply reach a boiling point, and then he’ll lash out into a snappish and potentially wall-punching outburst of anger, though it often burns out quickly. It’s something he’s dealt with since he was human and has lingered into his cyborg life.

>Impulsive- Jet is definitely a leap first, look later type of person. He jumps into the fray of things without hesitation and makes decisions based on whatever information he has. Multiple times through canon, he’s sent out to scout ahead thanks to his ability to fly, and often starts the fight early because he sees some target or negative act that he feels the need to step in and stop. As he’s gotten older, he’s gotten better at gathering information first before acting. Still, those efforts can burn out quickly if he’s suddenly presented with information he needs to pivot his goals around.

>Initially distrustful- Because of the times he’s been burned by the people around him (his parents as he himself states early in canon, his gang, the people who kidnapped him and turned him into a cyborg, the American government he worked for for twenty years, etc) he’s not a very instantly trusting person. He can acknowledge when someone’s a good person and respect them for that, but it takes time and shared experience for Jet actually to trust someone to have his back. He never once works with someone else over the course of 009 RE: Cyborg and all through canon prior, he’s one of the last to really warm up to working with others outside the cyborg’s immediate group. Even the group itself takes Jet a while to warm up to, and not without some interpersonal clashes (like more than one fight with either 009 or 004.)

Crimes

Aircraft Piracy - During the events of the manga, the 00-Cyborgs steal an amphibious craft from the private organization that made them and turn it into their base of operations.

Gang activity - In Jet’s backstory, he was the leader of the Blue Rose Gang, a group of Italian-Americans in the Bronx in the 1950s and 60s, where they’re shown to partake in various activities from turf wars to stealing to vandalism.

Destruction of government and private property - Both in the base manga and in RE: Jet (and the others) have been the cause of destruction of buildings, ‘property’ that was actually other cyborgs, and privately funded projects of war. He also definitely destroyed a section of the Pentagon during RE.

Murder - Jet has been the cause of several individuals' deaths, particularly other cyborgs sent to kill him and his group. During RE, he is the cause of more than a few pilots' deaths during an aerial dog fight. He also killed another teenager while he was part of his gang during a turf war.

Terrorism - During the events of the movie “RE: Cyborg 009,” which takes place before the series that serves as Jet’s canon point, “Call of Justice,” a nuclear bomb is set off in Dubai, and Jet and the other 00-Cyborgs are blamed for its detonation even though they were trying to stop it. So while he didn’t actually commit this crime, he is officially accused of it.

Assassination - Another case of an accused but only half committed crime, during Call of Justice, some of the Blessed come after the 00-Cyborgs, and they defend themselves and kill them, one of whom Jet has a direct hand in. Because these individuals are prominent members of society, their deaths are called assassinations.

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