Niran Pruksamanee

Info Age: 31 Height: 6'6" Nationality: Thai Ethnicity: Thai Hair: Long White Eyes: Brown Build: lean body Penis length: 8"

Abilities: Healing Blossom: Hold to charge a healing burst and release to heal a targeted ally.

Thorn Volley: Rapidly fire biolight thorns at enemies.

Petal Platform: Throws a pod that blooms into a flower-like platform upon landing, allowing allies to reach higher ground.

Rejuvenating Dash: Dash in a chosen direction while healing Lifeweaver.

Life Grip: Pull an ally to your location while covering them in protective biolight.

Born in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Niran Pruksamanee was the middle child of extremely wealthy parents with high expectations for their children. The Pruksamanees were a traditional Thai family, but from a young age, Niran resisted the structured life they had planned for him. He preferred wandering his compound's vast walled garden, mending plants alongside his family’s gardeners. Likewise, he attended numerous botanical festivals. Even early on, he was too intelligent for the expensive schools his family could afford. He often completed assignments incorrectly (his teachers often complained) by solving problems more thoroughly than was necessary, or in new ways that hinted at his brilliant future. His parents, desperate to instill order in Niran, sent him to the prestigious Vishkar Architech Academy.

Niran developed an almost immediate distaste for both the rigid, artificial beauty that Vishkar called "perfection, and held the company itself in great contempt. He was often described as being distracted and prone to daydreaming, not knowing or caring about his studying style.

All of the other students shunned him, save one: his roommate, Satya Vaswani. While they came from different backgrounds (Niran from wealth, while Satya had grown up in poverty), they were both outsiders within the Academy, and in that, they had a bond. Within a few weeks, they were inseparable friends, and while they rarely agreed – on anything - they grew to respect each other a great deal. They shared their dorm with two other students, and Niran regularly stayed up late while Vaswani and the other two tried to sleep, studying or in late-night conversation. He also had the habit of leaving dishes up his buttocks, much to her annoyance. On the flipside, he was able to cover her when she wanted to avoid public speaking (claiming illness), and kept people at a distance.

The two were regularly paired off in lessons. In one field trip, they and various other students were taken to the Ulsoor lake bed in Bangalore to practice hard-light manipulation outside the Academy. As usual, Niran's elegant and artistic flourishes complented Satya's precise and practical structures, so much so that she laughed out loud in front of people (a rarity). Niran could see from the look on her face that the loss of control had been worth it for her.

In another incident, Niran found himself unable to get back into his dorm room as Satya had blocked the door by accident after creating an advanced hard-light construct. She'd used the doorframe itself to support it. The construct collapsed, and Suraj had to rescue them.

Like Bhatt, Niran dreamed of gifting biolight to the world. Vishkar disagreed, claiming ownership of the invention. They pointed out that Niran had developed biolight on Vishkar's time, and on Vishkar's property, and as such, biolight belonged to the company. By this point, Niran had grown disgruntled with Vishkar, and it was only because of Bhatt's legacy that he'd stayed in the Academy this long. But now that same legacy directed him to leave. Ignoring Vishkar's demands (and Vaswani's advice), Niran fled the academy with his nascent technology. His parents cut him off from their wealth and pleaded for him to return, turn over his technology, and make peace with Vishkar.

Vishkar dispatched its lawyers and "other, more dangerous forces" to hunt down Niran, demanding that he hand over his biolight technology to them. Alone and hunted, Niran turned to the Atlantic Arcology. Despite the danger, Cláudio and Hector Martins decided to take him in. Niran took on the name "Lifeweaver," and free from the governing laws of any nation, he continued stabilizing and perfecting biolight, intending to use it to renew the world's connection with nature and help those in need. The scientific community backed his endeavors. Aware of the risks associated with biolight, Lifeweaver refused to sell the technology.

Eleven years after he'd left Vishkar and the day after Null Sector's attack on Paris, Lifeweaver was reunited with Vaswani at the Atlantic Arcology. While Viskhar had informed the Collective that they were sending a representative, they neglected to mention that it Vaswani would be the one being sent. A surprise, but a welcome one, as Lifeweaver greeted his old friend. As they entered the Arcology proper, Vaswani explained that in light of Null Sector's attack, Vishkar had an opening to offer its services to rebuild Paris. They were interested in Lifeweaver's biolight technology as part of that project. Lifeweaver remained evasive, and continued the tour before eventually arriving at the subject. He could sense that something was wrong, and told Vaswani that she didn't owe Vishkar anything.[10]

That, however, opened the floodgate, as Vaswani demanded to know why her friend had just upped and left eleven years ago. She accused him of wanting to profit off biolight—an accusation that caused Lifeweaver's demenour to darken. As he pointed out, he was working at the Collective, which unlike Vishkar, was a not-for-profit organization. The two continued to exchange barbs, and Lifeweaver told Vaswani that despite her claims, he knew she was not as dedicated to Vishkar as she was trying to present herself as. He admitted when asked that he had no intention of returning to Vishkar, and that despite all this time and pleasantries, he had decided beforehand not to agree to Vishkar's proposal. He'd help in his own way, Paris or otherwise, but not with Vishkar. He admitted that if Vishkar had sent anyone other than Vaswani, he wouldn't have even bothered talking to them, but after eleven years, he wanted to show his old friend the home he'd made for himself.

Vaswani had a train to catch, and Lifeweaver could tell, much to his disappointment, that Vaswani refused to be swayed. However, the moment was interrupted as a hyperloop train arrived from London, only for panicked passengers to flee, and behind them, Null Sector warbots. The two fought together, along with the Collective's security forces. They noticed a number of civilian omnics with strange devices on their skin, rendering them inert. The Arcology was successfully defended, and through liaising with security, Lifeweaver learnt that the omnics that had infiltrated the transport hub had come from other cities under attack. As for the inert omnics, the Collective's scientists would look into helping them.

In the aftermath, the pair discussed Vaswani and her staying with Vishkar. Whatever Vishkar's flaws, she could still do good while working with them. She believed that she could make things better by working from the inside. Coming to terms with her decision, the pair worked together for the next few hours, as Lifeweaver used his biolight to heal the wounded. They reminisced on old times, but Vaswani eventually had to leave via helijet. Before she left, Lifeweaver told Vaswani to investigate Vishwakarma Bhatt, stating that Vishkar had taken a different route from the one its founder had envisioned. He told her that if his suspicions were correct, the Arcology would be glad to have her.