Clipper

The Reluctant Blade

Clipper was forged for grit and efficiency—an Augmentum Prime built to neutralize threats with surgical precision. Yet beneath the titanium reflexes and protocol discipline lies a man haunted by the question of what those “threats” really are. In “Ground Zero,” he faces Tremor and learns humility from the enemy he was sent to destroy; in “Fault Line,” he saves a terrified pyrokinetic boy instead of terminating him; and in “Electronic Warfare” and “Role Reversal,” his unflinching faith in Augmentum technology collapses under the quiet power of human unpredictability. Clipper’s arc is one of erosion—his certainty chipped away by the faces of those he’s ordered to hunt. Once the perfect soldier, he now hesitates before pulling the trigger, not from weakness, but from awakening. Every mission leaves a crack—a fault line—between loyalty and conscience.

He distrusts the Originalis, yet cannot deny their humanity. He distrusts the Augmentum even more, sensing its leaders view him as a tool, not a man. Ember sees it too—his doubt, his defiance, his quiet need to understand the truth beneath the mission reports. His aim has shifted from victory to clarity. His ambition is no longer obedience but redemption—proof that precision and compassion can coexist. His purpose: to decide, finally, which side deserves his protection.

Clipper is affiliated with the Augmentum. He is a soldier unlearning blindness, a weapon learning restraint. He is the reluctant blade—dangerous, precise, and desperately trying to remember what it means to be human.