Art and colours by Mel.

Written by Mel, June 2004.

Updated, December 2006

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Code Name: Kayn
Real Name: Nathan Christophe McCreigh

Nicknames: Nate
Occupations: Thief, terrorist, AMM and FOH advocate. Nathan's occupations before the Next-X era remain unknown.
Legal Status: Kayn has no known criminal record as he has been, as of yet, impossible to catch or obtain under police custody.
Identity: Unknown
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Aliases: Nathan has often and will adopt any alias needed in order for him to reach any one of his intended goals.
Place of birth: Unknown.
Age: Exact age unknown. Kayn is thought to be centuries old. He appears to be around 45.
Marital Status: Single. Kayn was married once, centuries ago. When his wife was murdered, he became adamant in never marrying again.
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Known Relatives: Kayn is the original genetic glitch of Mankind, the original Mutant, and the Father of Homo Superior.
Group Affiliation: Although Kayn advocates many anti mutant coalitions, he is part of no set team or organization, and refuses to work with any of the like, as they would do little more then get in his way.
Base of Operations: Vertigo
First Appearance: Nexus #17 "The Wrath of Kayn," part 1, "Rantings of a Nutter".
Origin: To be revealed over the course of the Nexus "Wrath of Kayn" story arc.

Height: 6 foot 7 inches
Weight: 167lbs (11 stones and 13 pounds)
Eyes: Steely grey. White when powers active.
Hair: Wild, fly-away, moppy brown hair, with brightly colored bangs, which are naturally purple on the right and green on the left.
Distinguishing Marks: Kayn does not, in any way, resemble your average stereotypical super villain. He is tall, thin and fairly lanky, with very little muscle tone, but is agile and resilient nonetheless. He has rather grodey facial features, worn from centuries of a bitter, angry life, with a Steven Tyler-esque mouth. Nate also has a red "X" mark across his face that he had tattooed on over a century ago in an outward showing of his hatred towards Mutant Kind.
Strength Level: Kayn possesses the normal strength of an immortal who engages in intensive regular exercise.
Known Superhuman Powers: Nathan is a very powerful mutant with the ability of time displacement. He has the ability to transport himself and\or any one or group of individuals or objects to any exact point in history, whether in the past or future. He can physically slip in and out of time, and take someone with him if he chooses, or simply thrust a number of different people into any number of points in time that he chooses. He's been known to find it incredibly amusing to thrust one's head into twentieth century B.C. whilst leaving the rest of his victim's carcass to twitch and die in the present time.
Kayn is capable of manipulating and viewing all of time in Vertigo - the literal epitome
of all of time in which he resides. Through his studies in Vertigo and his own seemingly endless life experiences, Kayn has become widely intelligent, knowing all there is to know about earth's complete history, from the dawn of life on the planet to the last days of the Apocalypse.
Kayn is also an immortal of the highest elite, who cannot age, and cannot be killed by any mere mortal. He has an impeccable healing and regeneration factor, as his body mends wounds within seconds of their infliction, and can regenerate most if his appendages if her were to lose one. To him it is a curse, both in his discrete inability to end his ancient life, and the fact that he is literally the father of all mutants, a race that he despises, as openly as he despises himself.
It is specified that the only true way to kill this dangerous and comparably psychotic mutant is either by the removal of his head or heart from his body, and the complete destruction of the removed organ, as they are the only two objects that he is unable to regenerate.
Abilities/Special Skills: Kayn's a jack of all trades, having picked up just about every survival skill one could think of over his immensely long life. He's a rather talented thief and even better stalker - not that those special skills are beneficial to anyone but himself. All said, however, Kayn is not too terribly skilled at hand to hand combat. He's far better at alluding conflict or utilizing weapons of any sort.
Weapons Used: Kayn will utilized anything he can pick up and beat people with as a weapon. He's definitely not picky in how he inflicts pain. The result is always the same, after all - "ouch".
Personality: Nathan is a complete head case, is sadistic, sardonic, cynical and highly intellectual. He's often the quiet pondering type, is inquisitive at times, but has an extremely short fuse, and is one mean son of a bitch when he's mad. Despite his brilliant mind, he is often highly irrational and illogical, harebrained, flighty, and has an undeniably sick sense of humor, for what little humor he has to spare.
Personal Interests: You don't even want to know.
History: As stated, Nathan McCreigh, Kayn, is the father of all mutants. The original deviant genetic glitch that started the formation of an entirely new race of people. He is immortal and centuries old, very spiteful, bitter and hardly sane. Nate wants nothing more then to be human, to be mortal, and at this point, to be dead, a wish he will unlikely ever be granted. He hates the genetics with witch he has been cursed, forever seeing himself and the race he has spawned as little more the a hierarchy of genetic freaks. This spite is one that has built up over time, and one that was sparked to its greatest extent when he first found that he was to be cursed with an unending lifespan when he was murdered at the age of 45. He has spent his lifetime watching Mutant Kind evolve into a large and thriving race and continues in an endless and comparably unsuccessful attempt to advocate the end of his Children, Homo Superior. If he cannot end his own treacherous existence, he figures, he will simply end the lives of his offspring instead.