User

Users can be defined as genetically modified humans resulting from the tests done within the ___ Facility leading up to the destruction of Earth. They come in multiple forms and may be granted powers beyond what a regular human is capable of. The majority of main characters within Ashes are some form of User.

History:
Users were stumbled upon during the attempts by French woman Alizee Lemoine to engineer a 'Miracle Cure' that was able to cure any sickness. The first kind of User discovered was the Juggernaut as the 'Miracle Cure Mk.2' proved to be able to create Super-Soldiers through a mutation of the individual to which it was administered.

Following this discovery, further testing was done on the 'Juggernaut' serum resulting in multiple 'Specialized' type Users including but not limited to the 'Tracker', 'Sharpshooter', 'Lookout' and 'Infiltration' as well as the generally 'Enhanced' Juggernaut User. Each of these types had a focus on a certain sense or aspect of the subject in order to specialize them to a certain role or utility.

Upon attempting to create a type of User with an enhanced mind, researchers stumbled upon a whole new class of User known as the Mental User. These Users had enhanced elements of brain functions including memory, logical thinking, emotions and reactions. Through this research, yet another class of User was discovered. The Elemental User.

Found through manipulation of Mental Users, Elemental Users came in multiple types and were found to be closely related to the emotions and mental state of the subject. Researchers managed to expand the scope of the Elemental Users to 'Fire', 'Ice' and 'Lightning'. A mutation in a specimen also led to the discovery of the Medical Class of Users.

Medical Users consist of three different types. Self-Regenerative, Healer and Soother. Each have the ability to heal wounds and manipulate both the feelings and certain bodily functions of themselves and their target.

Further testing on the Juggernaut-type Users also lead to the discovery of yet another class of User, the Ghost-Class User. These consisted of Users with an assortment of stealth-oriented abilities mostly regarding the reduction of visibility.

Types of Users:
Users abilities vary but can be split into five main categories. A User could have traces of each main category or they could belong solely to one group. The abilities that a User possess will be determined by which serum they were altered with. An Original User is the first generation of Users, the first successful test subjects, altered by the original serum, which was too strong for the government to control, so the Secondary User was designed. A Secondary User is decidedly weaker than an Original, but can still be very strong.

Original User Abilities:

 * Elemental
 * Medical
 * Juggernaut
 * Mental
 * Ghost

Secondary User Abilities:
 * Second-Generation Juggernaut

Full-Breed Original:
A Full-Breed User has only Original-Serum-User parents, making them the rarest Users (as the cross DNA projects were predominantly unsuccessful, with only a few survivors). Full-Breed Users can have a single ability or multiple, depending on the abilities of their biological parents.

Reaper
A Reaper, also known as 'Hybrid User' are any Users that possess more than one User ability, or are extremely powerful in a specific ability. Many of the Reapers are Original Users, because the original serum is the strongest and is able to control at least 2 abilities.