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Alcatraz
The main character of Crysis 2, a U.S. Force Recon Marine sent to New York City by submarine on a mission extract Gould, but his sub is ambushed by the Ceph, most of his teammates are killed, and he is fatally wounded. Prophet finds him and gives him his Nanosuit.
Upon saving New York, Alcatraz wakes up on Remnant with no idea how he got there or how to get back home.
- Berserk Button: Do NOT hurt Team RWBY, or Alcatraz WILL hunt you down.
- Big Brother Instinct: Alcatraz has this towards Ruby, who reminds him of his little sister, and, to a lesser degree, the rest of Team RWBY.
- Body Horror: Alcatraz's Nanosuit isn't pleasant to look at, and multiple times people are disturbed to see Alcatraz's "blood" get sucked back into his body.
- Dead Man Walking: Moreso than any other Nanosuit wearer. The injuries he sustained in the movement tutorial would have and will kill him if he takes the suit off, and the suit itself is harvesting his failing organs as fuel to keep him alive.
- Deadpan Snarker: His narration makes it clear he is a very snarky bastard, with Remnant giving him plenty to work with.
- Empowered Badass Normal: Though he was essentially dying throughout the incident, he can wipe out an entire CELL force thanks to a combination of his experience in the Marines & the 'Suit.
- Featureless Protagonist: Since Crysis 2 takes place entirely from an uninterrupted first person perspective, and since Alcatraz is interred inside the Nanosuit anyway, you never get a look at what he looks like. At one point in one of Prophet's flashbacks he's briefly seen in his Marine uniform, but his face is completely concealed by shadows.
- Handicapped Badass: An extreme example. Due to his injuries, if the suit fails, his time left is measured in SECONDS. This is displayed a couple of times where his nanosuit is disabled and he can only stumble forward at best, is paralyzed, helpless, and dying on the ground at worst.
- Heroic Mime: Justified heavily. In the beginning of Crysis 2, he's hungover, and then his lungs are injured beyond repair. However by the beginning of the fanfic, this is averted as the Suit’s voice synthesizer is back online and as such he is talkative. Very talkative.
- Only Known By His Code Name: Unlike the other Nanosuit wearers, his name isn't even mentioned at all, nor his rank. When Ruby asks for his name, he simply goes by his callsign because a That Man Is Dead mentality.
- Pop-Cultured Badass: His narration is riddled with pop culture references, some of them quite subtle.
- Semper Fi: He's a Force Recon Marine. His narration show that his personality is very much what you'd expect from such a person.
- Spared By Adaptation: In the Crysis games, Alcatraz died immediately after saving New York. Here however, he survived and instead somehow ended up on Remnant.
- Stealth Expert: While Alcatraz can't compete with the Remnant natives in a straight fight, he is an infiltration expert capable of sneaking into a White Fang rally.
- Transhuman: In a way, the "original" Alcatraz died soon after being interred in the Nanosuit 2.0, as its pointed out later in Crysis 2 that most of Alcatraz's thought processes are performed by the suit, not his own brain.
- Troll: Alcatraz has a unique sense of humor. Even more so in the omakes.
- Weak, but Skilled: Alcatraz in comparison to the citizens of Remnant. Because he lacks Aura, he is very squishy and can't fight people one-on-one. However, he is an expert at covert ops due to his training as a Marine.
