[DOSSIER] VANGUARD // CLASS: P1
THE KID
DER-X.1 // DISTILLED EMERGENCY RECRUIT // NON-NII
[ AE PERSONA // FORWARD VECTOR ]
THE KID
FIFTH POINT // UNRATIFIED
↳ BRIEF
Civilian name: Mateo Cruz. PR / AFR · 6'2" · 178 lb · NAD. Nineteen years old — the age is canonically fixed.
Trax's spotter. Young kinetic-intelligence specialist; movement-side battlefield support.
Interrupted civilian future: school, athletics, first adult freedom. The Echo invasion ends that path and Vanguard absorbs what remains.
The moral pressure point of emergency recruitment — youth, malleability, contaminated consent. Old enough to choose the war; young enough that the choice still reads as obscene.
At 6'2" he may look adult or imposing while remaining psychologically categorized as 'The Kid'. Lower weight relative to height reads unfinished.
↳ KNOWN ASSOCIATIONS
TRAXHOUSEKEN
↳ CANON LOCKS // P1 // DO NOT BLEND
- ▌Lock: P1/37 taxonomy — DER-X.1, non-NII.
- ▌Nineteen. Twenty is too old for the function he serves. Never age him up for convenience.
- ▌Never sentimentalize the recruitment. Consent is contaminated, not heroic.