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16. Kobra (Jason Burr)
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This motherfucker.

Jason was introduced as Pawn 905. One of the characters who is just at Z'onn Z'orr. He quickly acquired a quirk - has been there the whole time. He remembers things that the party has done, conversations with the PC's (that maybe didn't happen?). He was a bit of a sweetheart, and early on asked Lush for help with Saoirse. This will become a thing.

Jason was sort of just around for a bit, and eventually Saoirse gave him the time of day. Now, normally, it would just be a friendly how-d'yeh-do, but then he showed that he had discovered a cave filled with glowing multi-colored moss and Biologist Saoirse just lost it. After some other meetings and flirtations, the two hit it off.

Now, part of what was great about this relationship was that Saoirse was upfront about wanting nothing more from it and Jason seemed okay with that, though he'd lament to Roz'etta about it, he'd lament that he wasn't Lush. He always seemed to be surprised by Saoirse in one fashion or another.

Truth is, he wouldn't be around forever. Scar let me know that. So I had been poking other players to interact with him a lot. "Surely, we can get him to win one gauntlet before he goes" I said. Oh, poor me. Poor me from the past. See, after things had been taken care of for long enough, it was Jason's time to go. And he didn't die in an OMAC attack on the base, or anything like that I may have predicted. No.

He bit off Saoirse's lip, poisoned her, and proceeded to launch an attack on our base. Kali-Yuga.

And so, his transformation into Kobra complete, we were set to deal with the quick fallout. Middle of the night, Saoirse dying, Fastbreak and the president got shot, robots ALL OVER THE PLACE attacking people. Two fan-favorites, Abe and Jack, were revealed to be turncoats as well. A little girl, Helen Jordan, Hal's niece, got SHOT. Cheetah and Jesse Custer teamed up to defend the med bay. The Secret Six fended off 60 of these things until they blew up, and Bane was the only one who could go. The Body Doubles decided not to side with him, and excusing Bonnie getting shot in the process, had a time to shine.

Luckily, Spirit (Hombad's character) has the superpower of healing so my Saoirse didn't DIE and we could team up together and march to Castling to confront Jason. Now, Jason, competent, cutthroat, and successful, he managed to fuck us up bad. Waller got suffocated. All of Oblivion was trapped as they stole the doorknob to the bar... AND Star Sapphire Ring. And yet, we marched up to them in Castling, watched as Captain Lash was being hung in defiance to Kobra, then died due to Pepper accidentally killing him, and there was at least some surprise in Kobra as he saw Saoirse alive.

I got to wing him with a Pink energy beam and summon a giant Indian Mongoose to tussle with him.

It wasn't enough to beat him, but in the process, we killed Jack, captured Abe, recovered most everything, and he only managed to get away aboard one of our ships giving a little salute.

Now, everything Jason was was fun. Everything Kobra just did was mind-blowing and I loved the idea of having an actual archenemy. But everything since, all the fall-out? That's mattered as well.

Saoirse suffers from guilt issues, so I had more opportunity to play that up in the wake of this attack, especially since she had been working through them. After all, she had been sleeping with the guy and did not see this coming. People got hurt. A little girl got shot. Things were really fucked up.

We've about gotten to the point where the specter of that attack is passing by and we're able to move forward, but I think it will hang with us for awhile. Vengeance is something that can be put off, but make no mistake - at some point, we're gunning for Kobra. And Saoirse plans to kill him.

Hint for 15: This character does not reside in Z'onn Z'orr(or Oblivion or Castling).