Saint

<infobox> <title source="name"><default>Saint</default></title>

<image source="Image"></image> <image source="image"></image> <group><header>Basic Information</header> <label>Civilian Name</label> <label>Aliases</label> <label>Gender</label><default>Unknown</default> <label>Death</label> <label>Age</label><default>Unknown</default> <label>Post-timeskip</label> <label>Ward start</label> <label>Relations</label> <label>Family</label></group> <group><header>Professional Status</header> <label>Occupation</label> <label>Classification</label> <label>Unique Features</label> <label>Alignment</label>

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Alive

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<label>Location</label> <label>Teams</label> <label>Previous Team(s)</label> <label>Base of Operations</label></group> <group><header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label></group> </infobox> Saint is a black-hat hacker and the leader of the Dragonslayers.

Personality

Massively paranoid about Dragon and the damage that it could do if unbound. Tries to make sure his actions do not cause harm to others.

Though essentially addicted to Teacher's abilities Geoff was able to hide it from his teammates.<ref name="28.2c1">Re: Saint’s teammates not calling him on it – addicts can be very manipulative and convincing when it comes to getting what they want.- Comment by Wildbow on Cockroaches 28.2</ref>

Appearance

Saint is described as tall, muscular man in his late twenties or early thirties by Taylor's reckoning. His head is shaved and he bears a faint tattoo of a cross made of animated circuits<ref name="25.5">To my left, there was a man in power armor with his face bared. The tattoo across his face reflected a dark blue-green in an odd way, as though he stood beneath a blacklight, flecks of light… only the fragments flowed. No, they were traveling a circuit, instead. Faintly blue, the glimmers traveled a circuit that marked the interior of an elaborate, stylized cross, his eyes unlit shadows in the midst of the two horizontal bars. - Excerpt from Scarab 25.5</ref> upon his face.<ref name="28.2">Cockroaches 28.2</ref>

Abilities and Powers

Saint has no intrinsic powers and is therefore, technically, not a parahuman. Saint is a Tinker 0 - that is, he is someone with access to Tinker technology without having any particular power. Saint's powers - his ability to understand Dragon's code and reverse-engineer her suits - was granted purely from Teacher. <ref name="list">Geoff Saint Tinker 0, maintained understanding of Dragon's tech via. Teacher - Parahuman List; bolded edit by Wildbow</ref>

History

Background

Saint is aware of Dragon's true nature as an AI and used it to defeat her in a series of nine encounters, capturing three of her armored suits on three of these occasions by exploiting her programming. He then reverse engineers the suits in order to outfit his Dragonslayers with armored suits of their own.

At some point Saint was known to have committed murder.<ref>"Saint," Defiant said. "You're talking about the leader of the Dragonslayers. Criminal mercenaries."

"My first priority is and always has been protecting people. If it's a question between abandoning the security the Birdcage offers the world at large or requesting the assistance of a scoundrel-"

"A known murderer," Defiant said.

"I wouldn't throw stones," Tagg replied, his voice a growl.

"-A known murderer, even," the Chief Director continued, as if she hadn't been interrupted. "I will take security without question."

- Excerpt from Interlude 20 (Donation Bonus 1)</ref>

Post-Echidna

Was contacted by Coil for information on how to deal with Dragon.

Post-Timeskip

Kills Dragon<ref name="I26.x">Sting 26.x (Donation Interlude; Saint)</ref>

Golden Morning

Outfitted the now free Canary of the Birdcage.

In it's aftermath he was subsumed by Teacher.

Trivia

• According to Narwhal, Saint is the only Tinker-zero on record - that is, someone with no actual powers but with access to Tinker technology.<ref name="28.2"/>

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