Background: Psycho Mantis is, by and large, a victim and cause of severe trauma. His mother died giving birth to him and not too many years later, he found out his father hated him when trying out his telepathy for the first time. The response he had to this is not one he has very clear memories of, but he does remember that it ended with the entirety of his village set on fire and its residents killed. Following this, he was picked up by the Russian government of the late 1960’s and put through a series of parapsychological experiments that tested and developed his abilities beyond the simple telepathy that he had first employed. Then he caught a taste of freedom while on a plane ride towards Western Europe where he caught the mind of none other than Big Boss. His psychological was such that he could feed off of the anger the man carried, which led to Mantis escaping the Russian government in favor of being swept up in the plans of Cipher to kill Big Boss. Even as he became a kind of puppet to Skull Face, tethered either to him or the Burning Man, he managed to retain enough sense of self in his parasitic state to find a much clearer mind to attach himself to. This mind was that of a young Liquid Snake, then known as Eli, and he two of them forged an alliance to help Eli flee away from Big Boss’ capture and head out into Northern Africa, where their plans eventually failed and they managed to find passage into the United States.
What happens after that is not entirely known, but it is suggested in other parts of the canon that Mantis eventually returned to Russia and became a prominent member of the KGB, only to flee back to the States following the collapse of the Soviet Union. While in the USA, he became a member of the FBI and used his to become a criminal profiler in the name of finding criminals and bringing them to justice. Sometime during this stint, he dove too deeply into the mind of a mass murderer, and this person’s anger became a different kind of parasite in his mind that fueled a new and permanent source of homicidal rage that led him to leave the FBI and work freelance for a few years before being picked upby FOXHOUND as a new member. There, he met Eli once more, now Liquid Snake, and made a new name and reputation for himself as the lethal and hate-fueled member of FOXHOUND: Psycho Mantis.
Abilities: Mantis is a gifted psychic with three distinct powers at his command and mastery: telepathy, psychokinesis, and pyrokinesis. He was trained from an early age to control these abilities and takes great pride in having them under as much control as he has. In addition to this, he is a decent seamster and can mend/make his clothes when the situation calls for it. He can also bake and cook, although his baking skills are limited to things like cookies and simple cakes and bread.
{ [CANON] Psycho Mantis || Metal Gear || No Reserve || 4 of ? }
Psycho Mantis is, by and large, a victim and cause of severe trauma. His mother died giving birth to him and not too many years later, he found out his father hated him when trying out his telepathy for the first time. The response he had to this is not one he has very clear memories of, but he does remember that it ended with the entirety of his village set on fire and its residents killed. Following this, he was picked up by the Russian government of the late 1960’s and put through a series of parapsychological experiments that tested and developed his abilities beyond the simple telepathy that he had first employed. Then he caught a taste of freedom while on a plane ride towards Western Europe where he caught the mind of none other than Big Boss. His psychological was such that he could feed off of the anger the man carried, which led to Mantis escaping the Russian government in favor of being swept up in the plans of Cipher to kill Big Boss. Even as he became a kind of puppet to Skull Face, tethered either to him or the Burning Man, he managed to retain enough sense of self in his parasitic state to find a much clearer mind to attach himself to. This mind was that of a young Liquid Snake, then known as Eli, and he two of them forged an alliance to help Eli flee away from Big Boss’ capture and head out into Northern Africa, where their plans eventually failed and they managed to find passage into the United States.
What happens after that is not entirely known, but it is suggested in other parts of the canon that Mantis eventually returned to Russia and became a prominent member of the KGB, only to flee back to the States following the collapse of the Soviet Union. While in the USA, he became a member of the FBI and used his to become a criminal profiler in the name of finding criminals and bringing them to justice. Sometime during this stint, he dove too deeply into the mind of a mass murderer, and this person’s anger became a different kind of parasite in his mind that fueled a new and permanent source of homicidal rage that led him to leave the FBI and work freelance for a few years before being picked upby FOXHOUND as a new member. There, he met Eli once more, now Liquid Snake, and made a new name and reputation for himself as the lethal and hate-fueled member of FOXHOUND: Psycho Mantis.
Abilities:
Mantis is a gifted psychic with three distinct powers at his command and mastery: telepathy, psychokinesis, and pyrokinesis. He was trained from an early age to control these abilities and takes great pride in having them under as much control as he has. In addition to this, he is a decent seamster and can mend/make his clothes when the situation calls for it. He can also bake and cook, although his baking skills are limited to things like cookies and simple cakes and bread.