Art by  Herutastic

Name: Linus
Age: ??(It's assumed to be mid 20s)
Species: Cougar
Likes: Comics, movies, video games, anime, shit-posting, winning arguments,
Dislikes: Unfaithful adaptations, arguments in favor of inferior installments/sequels,
Personality Traits: Smug, deceptive, snide, flirty, perverted, apathetic, lonely
Special Condition: Mage
Elemental Proficiencies: Darkness, Metal, Psychic

Bio: There once was a mere orphaned urchin who scrapped his living off the cloistered streets of Houdini; it was a city based within The Magus Meritocracy -- a mage society that spanned all across the UTT. This urchin used what little scraps of magic he knew to swipe Meritokens off the more oblivious mages. Though never making enough to claw his way out of destitution, he nevertheless made enough to get by.

Eventually however, the orphan would make the smallest of missteps -- catching the attention of TMM's regulators. But instead of spending his time behind bars, hidden agents of the IEC(Intelligence Extraction Committee) planted within The Regulators saw the urchin's potential. They recruited the young cougar right on the spot, devoting the next years of their new investment to developing the youth's particular brand of arcane education: magical espionage. While most mages were encouraged within the TMM curriculum to become a researcher of arcane theory, use magic in martial applications, or extract resources for the sake of profit -- the cougar was instead trained in the secretive ways of subversion, obfuscation, and mimicry.

The fledgling was trained to cloak within the shadows, induce mental suggestions in the weak-willed, and to build up fatigue in targets by assaulting them with non-lethal shadow bolts. Subtlety was of the utmost importance to a spy, and thus the fledgling's abilities while generally unsuited to fighting or research, were designed for expert infiltration. As training and education proceeded, the fledgling began to display an aptitude for the element of metal -- and thus the superiors of the trainee began to plan out his eventual assignment: a monitor of the technological world the mages hid from. With his increasing skill in metal magic, the fledgling could thrive well in a dense, urban environment -- non electronic locks were easy prey, he could manipulate the environment to his own ends. The agents of the IEC considered adding an additional few years for the youth to study lightning magic, so that he could gain the asset of technopathy; but due to budgetary reasons, the fledgling spy was deployed to the field before he could learn such.

And thus, the newly minted agent was designated his pseudonym and first ever name: Linus. Linus spent most of his formative years in the field gathering information about the UTT -- it's cultures, technologies, figures, economy, and other such pertinent information. The young cougar conducted his duties with adequate precision, getting what he needed, but never quite standing out among the roster of spies operating in the UTT. Though, in particular -- technology, and especially media such as pop cultural phenomena relating to movies, tv, video games, comics, etc were of great interest to Linus. What began as academic curiosity, turned into a full-blown obsession. Linus had become what technological society would refer to as a nerd.

There was no mistaking-it, Linus would devote hours of free time to all-night video-game addictions, movie and show binges, arguing about supposed plot holes on public forums. In the process of discovering this unlikely love, the cougar had essentially become the most insufferable, pedantic, neck-beard variety of geek; though perhaps somewhat too pretty for the applied label. Regardless, Linus splits his time between being what amounts to an inquisitor and a zealous consumer of media.

Linus' superiors have become somewhat concerned with the cougar's fixation on technological pop culture, but are choosing to tolerate it...as long as the spy remains useful and not a liability.