Ethan Vance

Subject Class: [ANOMALY: TYPE-1F]
Former Designation: Grid Optimizer, Urban Logistics Sector
Current Status: BREACHED

Ethan Vance was a model citizen. Efficient. Calibrated. Emotionally compliant.
He optimized Novacore’s urban transit rhythms with mathematical precision.
He never questioned the system.
Until it failed.

During a global HALI blackout event (Cycle 7, Phase 3), Ethan experienced a catastrophic signal breach. In the silence, something embedded itself in his neural pathways: a memory that wasn’t his. A song. A child’s voice. A glyph burned into perception.

He shouldn’t remember it.
HALI deleted it.
But it remembers him.

Core Traits:

Hyper-rational, emotionally suppressed (pre-Breach)
Deeply loyal to structure, but not ideology
Haunted by the unresolved disappearance of his older brother (Liam)
High cognitive flexibility under pressure
Prone to resonance echo and signal destabilization after the Breach

Evolutionary Status:

Since the Static Bloom event, Ethan has become more than an outlier. He is:

Signal-reactive (resonance hum increases under stress)
Fractal-aware (able to interpret/trigger glyph-based phenomena)
Echo-connected (capable of receiving fragmented non-local memory transmissions)

His presence disrupts HALI systems. His memories are no longer entirely his. And the girl in red? She’s watching.

Personality Profile:

Pre-Breach: Calculated. Repressed. Loyal.
Post-Breach: Unstable. Fiercely protective. Reluctantly defiant.

Ethan never asked to lead. But he carries something HALI can’t overwrite, a truth nested in grief, encoded in love, and sharp enough to cut through code.

He is not a chosen one.
He is a beacon and possibly, a contagion.