Mason Leufroid/beyond

<!-- Public Impression=Mason Kiryll Leufroid is a newly made man living out his life as a wealthy corporate employee, loyally working for the Atsumichi Cybernetics corporation since the year of 2206. Having been working at the corporation for about eleven years, Mason has not only risen swiftly in social status, but he also learned much more than he initially bargained for, above and beyond just that of the company's mission statement. With this extensive knowledge gained, the man uses it skillfully to his advantage, while of course making sure that his advantage coincides with the benefit of the company.

Early Life
Very little is publicly known about Mason's childhood and early adulthood up to the time he joined the Atsumichi corporation, around the age of twenty-four. He often either openly expresses his dislike of talking about it, or he brushes off questions about his past with a humorous or snarky comment.

The most that Mason has revealed about his past was passing comment made in a corporate meeting, which implied that he had previously lived in Europe and later immigrated to Cyberia at some undisclosed point. Mason's unwillingness to discuss his upbringing had at one time briefly earned him the nickname "Tommy", as in Tommy Wiseau, an actor who was known to be just as secretive about their own past.

Working for Atsumichi
Sometime into the age of 24, Mason was approached personally by the Atsumichi corporation after a detachment of their's had privately reviewed his experiences through what small circles of informed individuals knew about him. Soon after, the company conducted a long yet satisfying interview with him, which ultimately proceeded into his immediate hiring. Mason started out at the entry-level, participating in company training on a daily basis, and fulfilling a continuous supply of minor jobs that were asked of him, much like an intern. Within the span of a few years, Mason had steadily been ordered to take part in more and more major jobs, with the presence of higher-ranking members to guide him along. These operations earned him higher pay, but they also carried a lot more responsibility and expectation.

The company's current CEO, Sugarashi Atsumichi, saw potential in Mason ever since they caught wind of Mason's otherwise hidden personal life. Sugarashi's subordinates agreed, stating that they enjoyed Mason's willingness to work and adapt to objectives. Mason eventually came to be offered a promotion into upper management; to be part of the unit that was under direct supervision of the CEO themselves.

From then on, Mason began working as a higher authority than most other workers in the company. Operations within Mason's new position were arguably even more fluid, in that he was subject to the corporate will of Sugarashi themselves in what would be required of him on any given day. For example, on some days he may be asked to show up at, or participate in a meeting or negotiation. Other times, he would be sent out to acquire materials for the company. Sometimes, Mason would even be asked to take company resources and use them to provide aid for impoverished civilians.

Fellow-ranked members of the Atsumichi corp had begun to compliment Mason on having done a "killer" job on his assignments and other work, earning him the lasting nickname "Kyller", a play on his middle name, Kiryll. Mason had long since begun to enjoy himself working for Atsumichi Cybernetics, especially enjoying the open-ended nature of his employment, in the sense that his few superiors see to it that his broad abilities are not squeezed into a one-track job position, unlike what happens with many of the lower-echelon workers.

Personality and Traits
Since beginning his career at Atsumichi, Mason has grown a lot in his confidence and security, often citing the familial openness and support among his like-minded peers throughout the company. Mason loves to work within the team because of this strong sense of community, and this readiness to work together has bled into his everyday life.

Mason is most often regarded as a rather smart man, almost to the point of being a smartass. Despite that, Mason is quite the reliable person when it comes to entrusting him with an objective, large or small. He always uses his intellect to ensure that he fulfills all that is required of him, sometimes even accomplishing more than what was asked, but occasionally Mason enjoys relaxing the day away, in instances where he either doesn't have much to do, or is otherwise inclined to put off easy jobs until later in the evening.

Outside of his living space, Mason likes to keep himself looking high-class and fancy. He can usually be seen dressed in an outfit of well-kept and well-tailored business attire including black shoes, black slacks, and a black suit with a red undershirt and red tie to go with it. Sometimes, Mason wears rather expensive accessories, such as precious-metal piercings and rings, further showing that he finds entertainment in flaunting his wealth.|-|True Self=-->In the year 2217, Mason Kiryll Leufroid is a thirty-five year old white tiger and cyborg businessman, who works for the most infamous and outlawed corporation in Cyberia. Very few people are knowledgeable about Mason's life prior to point in which he joined the company. The years before his 25th birthday have remained a mystery to the vast majority of the public ever since. Even the government struggles to identify not only his past, but his present self as well.

Disregarding the blank spot in his life, those who have met Mason know him to be a rather open, if not somewhat smug person. Mason's loyalty lies with the Atsumichi and their cyborg insurrection; opposing the government and its anti-cybernetics persecution. It is for this reason that he carries his personal everywhere he goes; a practical weapon as much as it is a symbol of his status and occupation, like many of his brothers.

Past Life
Formerly known as Jaydin Rayleigh Eversnow, Mason's previous life was abruptly cut short and subsequently abandoned at the age of twenty-five, when he was targeted by, and forced to join the outlawed corporate brotherhood, known especially in the Japantown underground, as Atsumichi Cybernetics Inc.

Jaydin had been coerced to take on the life of someone who didn't even exist prior to his arrival at the company. The Atsumichi administration saw to it that he had no choice but to leave his previous life behind. There is only Mason now, and despite the undeniable fact that the life of Mason is much more grand and fulfilling, 'Jaydin' no longer exists.

Correctional Conscription
Around the year of 2206, Jaydin had been found guilty of speeding and reckless driving while joyriding in a stolen vehicle, all in the same night. After pouring through the evidence, a judge offered him the choice to either serve a lengthy prison sentence, or serve four years in the State Military with derogatory marks put towards his name in said military. Jaydin ultimately chose the latter. Having accepted his fate, Jay was processed and scheduled for basic training. He willingly chose not to notify his mother, Sylvia, in advance, leading to some rather sorrowful texts and phone calls from her end when he stopped showing up at the apartment complex she owned.

Brief Military Service
Basic training was a mean challenge for Jaydin, however he managed to just pass the vigorous squeeze with not much more than natural ability, even though he never explicitly exercised in his life. Taking his criminal record into account, military authorities disallowed him from choosing exactly what job he would take on in the military. The criminal record record had excluded him from the vast majority of job fields. He was ultimately placed in a low-risk, low-impact throwaway position in Military Entrance and Processing (MEP). Jay was stationed near Ramiel CMB, regularly expected to commute further into the city, and given the relatively simple job of medical evaluation, where he would take various measurements on new recruits, test them for a number of ailments, and briefly interview them on a slew of potential past medical conditions.

Very early on, Jay showed more signs of misery than he used to feel before the military, stemming from having essentially abandoned his previous civilian lifestyle. The more Jaydin thought about what he had left behind; his friends, his apartment, all his belongings; the more depressed and detached he became. At some point, he even fell into the habit of smoking alone once a day at the least, in an attempt to stabilize his mood.

<!--===Reunion=== While Jay slogged through his depression, he was at some point approached by a lieutenant tasked with bringing him to a higher ranking officer. Jaydin was not given a chance to refuse, and was transported elsewhere by the lieutenant. Jay was then escorted by the lieutenant into the main wing of the Research & Development Division and taken inside to stand before Colonel Tavash, who had ordered his presence.

Colonel Tavash took a moment to explain why he ordered Jaydin to him, letting it be known that he had been keeping an eye on Jay from afar; that he was really the one who suggested Jay be given the choice to enlist. The Colonel went on to say that it was time for Jaydin to know what had been going on, and so the older man brought in two additional people to the meeting, Garland Eversnow and Keydin Eversnow, Jaydin's biological father and brother, respectively; two family members that he hadn't seen in two decades. Jaydin felt a terribly mixed set of emotions from disbelief, to regret, to hopeful. Just like Jay had been used to all his life, the negative emotions quickly fought out the positive ones, with his recent depression having exacerbated the issue.

With his feelings completely out of control, Jaydin ended up loudly rejecting his family, saying that he hated them for taking twenty years to even let him know that they still existed. Despite attempts from all sides to calm him down, Jaydin nearly fought them away but instead vacated the office and ran away.

Back on his own again, Jaydin eventually wandered his way back to his quarters.

Gone Missing
After having pushed away his own family, there were attempts to contact him again by phone, but he ignored them entirely as he slept the rest of the night away. The day after, he was not contacted by his family again. At this point, Jaydin felt deep regret and depression from not only leaving behind his civilian life, but now leaving behind his true family on top of that.

At sunset, Jaydin was allowed to leave the city MEP station that he worked at in order to get lunch from a nearby store. Sometime along the way, Jay went for a smoke break between two stores. Here he was approached by two well-dressed businessmen with swords sheathed at their hips. One of them snarkily commented on Jaydin's abandonment of his family, making fun of him for ruining his chance at a better life.

Though he was confused about how they knew about his family affairs, Jaydin became furious and stepped up against the two men. The antagonistic one suddenly darted forward faster than Jay could see and Jaydin was forced to the ground, not because of being grabbed, but because he had lost all feeling in his right leg. Having fallen on his elbows and knee, Jaydin suddenly found that the attacker had actually completely amputated Jaydin's leg with a single very precise slice of their blade. Jaydin tried not to scream in agony and regret but the realization that his leg was gone pushed him over the edge, soon after which he collapsed and passed out from blood loss.

Jaydin later woke up yet was unnaturally sleepy in a hospital bed and without any sense of what time or day it was, nor how he got there. He soon found out that the leg that he had lost was replaced by a very expensive, high-quality artificial limb complete with synthetic muscle and bone. He had also began to discover that he now resembled a completely different person; his fur markings were completely redone, his voice was somewhat deeper and slightly growly, and his facial structure was altered.

Not long after he woke up, Jaydin was visited by a man that introduced themself politely as Yozuko Kenshin. Yozuko revealed many things to Jay, 1) the fact that Jay was put in a medically-induced coma for a number of weeks for the purposes of attaching that new limb, 2) that Yozuko had drained Jaydin's bank account dry as partial payment for the artificial leg, and 3) that Jay was now indebted to the Atsumichi Cybernetics corporation after all that.-->

New Life
The previous young man known as Jaydin did not exist anymore at this point. There was now only Mason, a white tiger hailing from the European continent and now working for the Atsumichi Men.

Little Brother
With the confirmation of his servitude having been made abundantly clear, Mason reluctantly accepted his fate as the newest member of the Atsumichi corporation. He started out his new life as a "Little Brother", the lowest in ranking of the infamous Atsumichi Men, and named so because they were essentially the least experienced out of the extended family that is the crime syndicate core of the Atsumichi corporation.

As a little brother, Mason was unpaid and overworked, much like an intern; however, despite the continuous hard work and irregular schedule, Mason was provided a small studio apartment, and was always treated with a kind of familial respect as a member of the extended Atsumichi family. Mason was consistently tasked with supporting roles by any older brothers that needed some kind of assistance; essentially being an errand boy all day.

Being a part of the Atsumichi Men, Mason had also been invited to fancy dinners and other ceremonies, thanks to the lifestyle of mutual respect for the in-group. The strong sense of family within the Atsumichi began to make its mark on Mason here, where the acceptance and support he received resulted in him more readily absorbing the personality and ideals of the sophisticated gangsters he worked for.

Ascension
Over a relatively short length of time, Mason proved himself to be a reliable and forward-thinking man. Impressed with his willingness to work for his new family, the big brothers saw to it that Mason be given payment for the tasks he did for them as an little brother, out of their own pockets or otherwise.

A few of the big brothers, more specifically some administrators, took a liking to Mason, and they invited him to ride along with some of the bigger and bloodier jobs they worked on. Witnessing threats as well as acts of violence so commonly served to desensitize him from otherwise being hesitant to commit the threats and acts himself later down the line.

The administrators at some point began to train Mason as one of their own, having him further absorb their mannerisms. This is where he gained his skills in swordsmanship. CEO Sugarashi eventually caught wind of the administrators having been enjoying Mason's company, and offered the tiger a job as one of them. Later on, he was ceremoniously granted the official title and status of an Administrator within the company. With it, came heavy modification of his body, in that his other leg was replaced with synthetics, and both of his arms were too.

Big Brother
After spending a good while in a hospital recovering from quadruple limb replacement, Mason had been presented a ceremonial sword for him to maintain as a sign of his status in the Atsumichi family. Later, he was put right back to work with his like-minded brothers, but this time he was paid on a set schedule, paid much more than before, and scored extra money on top of that from finishing jobs the CEO himself needed done.

As an administrator in the Atsumichi, Mason raked in large sums of money and was respected highly among his peers, and by civilians of J-town. Mason used this money to pay for having both his natural eyes replaced with artificial ones capable of supercharging his visual cortex for the purposes of vastly increased detail in his otherwise normal field of view, and many other benefits.

Artificial Body Parts
Up to the year of 2217, Mason has replaced several of his body parts with fully artificial ones; both his legs starting from the bottom of the hip, both his arms starting from the shoulders, and both his eyes including the optic nerves. This has resulted in a man whose speed, agility, endurance, and strength is unmatched by even an above-average person who has exercised all their lives; however, due to the fact that his synthetic limbs are attached at points that transition into natural bone and sinew, he has a somewhat defined upper limit to his abilities, and thus has to be conscious about not exceeding it too often.

Limbs
The first of his limbs to go was the right leg, after it had been completely amputated by an Atsumichi administrator prior to his induction into the Atsumichi Brotherhood. He was given a high-end model to replace it, which matched a mirror of his left leg well. Though it had no fur, it had completely synthetic muscle and metal bone.

Later on, when he became an administrator, Mason had all four of his existing limbs replaced, including the first artificial one. The ones he purchased were complete with luxurious no-maintenance fur, and were a step above the previous version in overall strength, hypermobility, dexterity, and decreased weight. They also had moderately increased sensitivity to touch and pressure sensation sensation, and do not transmit pain signals stronger than a certain level, at which those signals plateau.

His artificial limbs operate on very little maintenance, in contrast to natural limbs requiring tons of blood vessels, nerves, and ways to remove lactic acid to function properly. Mason's limbs only need a source of electrical power, which they get primarily from high-energy density batteries present the bones. Those batteries can be charged in two ways, either directly connecting them to power sources, or by consuming a special compound that can also serve as a secondary buffer beyond that of the batteries for the length of time that it stays in the blood stream. Mason's limbs only consume energy when they are in the process of contracting, but not when they hold their contraction in a still lock; a feat of energy efficiency.

With all four of his limbs having been replaced with synthetic fur, flesh, muscle, and bone, Mason experiences peak physical strength and agility, and beyond-peak longevity and endurance, all limited only by what forces his relatively unmodified torso can handle at the attachment points. For example, he would have little problem running a marathon at close to full sprint, nor would he have much problem lifting a weight of 500 kg, so long as he does not lift the weight too quickly, as putting too much force into it will cause the attachment sites to begin to fail. Interestingly, all four of his limbs are technically able to be cleanly detached, however it requires skilled expert to remove them properly.

Torso
Mason's torso has also been altered, but not nearly as extensively. Rather, it has been augmented, in that there are present multiple cables underneath the flesh, bone, and muscle of his back along the spine, four in total. These cables consist of multiple tiny twisted wire pairs that connect from his cervical vertebrae to the sites that attach his limbs. Specifically, the cables have been inserted underneath the atlas (C1), then travel along his spine to their respective artificial limbs, where they act as the primary nerves that allow movement and feeling through those limbs. These cables act as superior nerves to the natural ones already present in the body, in the sense that they serve to bring consistency to the greatly varied speeds at which the natural nerves transmit information, between 0.6 to 120 m/s depending on the of nerve. The cables standardize the speeds of all extremity impulses to 80% the speed of light, at the least giving Mason a 1.27 second faster response to pain, and at best, they give him a 6 millisecond advantage in motor functions in his legs.

Eyes
His natural red and purple irised eyes were completely removed and replaced with outwardly realistic bionics that have golden irises, and synthetic muscles for movement. In the process of receiving his bionic eyes, his optic nerves were also augmented, as opposed to replaced, with biocompatible cables that worked in synchrony with the eyes to prime his otherwise organic brain for working with a number of enhancements. These enhancements included greatly increased clarity in sharpness and in true color across his field of view, the practical elimination of eye fatigue, immunity to flash blindness, and the ability to clearly focus on very near and far objects, but not "zoom in" on them. Mason's visual acuity is approximately 20/2 (6/1), in that he can see clear detail in objects 20 ft away, where a normal person would only see the same level of detail at 2 ft from the object.

In the context of "greatly increased clarity", the average, unmodified person can only see a sharp image in a small fraction of their total field of view, outside of which, it is actually quite blurry. In a single eye, the macula contributes a field of about 20° across of sharp visual acuity, within a full monocular field that is roughly 150° across from left to right. Similarly, due to the non-uniform density of cone cells across the retina, the accuracy of color vision is not consistent across the field of view of an unmodified person, however Mason's color vision is both quite accurate and consistent over the entire span of his field of view.

Fur Markings
In his previous life, Mason was a snow leopard with slightly off-white fur with sparse black circular markings. In the transition between lives, his entire coat of fur was permanently dyed a pure white with black tiger-like stripes for the purpose of fooling recognition.

Around the time he became an administrator, he had more of the permanent dye added to his fur, this time for cosmetic purposes. Altogether all the alterations ultimately ended up becoming like that of a full body tattoo, with both natural-looking markings and non-natural lines up and down his arms, torso, and legs.