Editing XCOM: At Any Cost: Faidon Pan (section)

==Faidon Pan==
'''CATHAR''' <br>
Country of Origin: Brazil <br>
Faidon Pan was probably human at one point; his first concrete memories are waking up in an ADVENT Forge, with vague memories of being physically frail and tormented by occasional visions he now recognizes as uncontrolled telepathic reads. He doesn't think it matters, even now; it matters that his first clear days were being given white armor and a comforting mental voice telling him he was the first of a new breed of hybrid, the future of the human species as the Gift was amplified and kindled to become the embodiments of the Void. He would be the voice of the new species, he was told; that was why his brow ridges were small and largely unnoticeable, his eyes built like human ones. He would be among the first true Priests; not just Officers, but embodiments of the beneficence of the Elders instead of just their emissaries, able to serve as foundations for a new psionic network rather than just disseminating information effectively.

As it turns out, part of the reason he was a prototype was controlling the unfortunate (for the Elders) tendency of psionics to develop empathy for those they repeatedly interacted with. The more he administered to the flock of followers, the more he started to notice faults in the logic of the "benign" intentions of the Elders. Really, it was the mission to investigate possible Skirmisher spies that resulted in his own flipping over; he learned the extremely delicate art of extracting deeper memories, and upon realizing that the Skirmishers included people who had no trace of being human, he understood the true purpose of the hybrids was not uplifting, but eradication and replacement. The sheer hypocrisy of the sentiment, especially with his indoctrination of "all are equal before the Void", broke his conditioning and caused him to resent the Ethereals and their lies; he secretly had his chip removed and leaked the identity of several moles to the Resistance in exchange for extraction. From there, he found his way to XCOM and became their "token heroic Priest", as a nickname he's since come to enjoy.


'''Appearance'''
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Deliberately made to look like a bald but mostly normal human of mixed Indian-African ancestry, his most obviously hybrid traits being his prominent eyebrow ridges and some scales that are easy to confuse for cheek tattoos; in the dark, his violet eyes turn slightly phosphorescent, but that's the extent of his ocular mods. Most people generally describe him as what ADVENT wants people to think hybrids generally look like, or a heavily but expertly modded human (which is true, but besides the point). He generally favors armor tending towards white, the same he did when he was still loyal to the Elders.