Spotlight Friday: Anders Chryse

Anders Chryse is the Alliance’s Scry, their precognitive. Scry is pretty damned important to the story, overall, on so many levels but I can’t say why!! Not without massive spoilers. So I’m going to be dancing around the subject a lot. Also, I think I like this set-up pattern template-y type thing for the characters. It makes it easier, I think. Anyway, here we go:


Name: Anders Chryse
Codename: Scry
Power: Precognition
Team Affiliation: The Alliance

Scry prefers to go by his codename. He doesn’t get called Anders by anyone except his best friend, Troy Parker/Breaker. Scry’s powers started popping up when he was 15, and he went a little crazy for a couple of months before he got himself back in hand.

(A quick aside: Precognition is one of two powers that brings about high levels of insanity and usually sends people to the side of evil. The other is telepathy. It’s hard to hold onto the idea that people are good and that normally they will make the right choices when you can See the future going to hell in a hand basket, or when you can hear the flitting, fleeting black thoughts that everyone has lurking in their heads. I’ll go more in depth with telepathy later. Like, when I cover one of the two telepaths in my world. The others are broken.)

Scry also has a bit of a legacy. He comes from a long line of precognitives, most of them chosen by Apollo to be his Oracle at Delphi. Scry’s Aunt is Pythia, and he is very close with her. As such, he also REALLY dislikes Apollo. The feeling is more than mutual. Apollo would have happily killed Scry years ago, but because he is Pythia’s favorite nephew, he won’t touch Scry. Scry’s family is rather large; all of them are encouraged to have as many children as possible so that they can continue to be Apollo’s favored. The Chryse line has been the Oracle at Delphi for over two centuries. Scry, however, when he lost it, left the floating city of Delphi (which is as close to where Greece was originally before it got wiped out from the Restructuring) and joined the Squad. It was there that he recruited Troy Parker (Breaker) when the other teen rescued him from getting a massive ass kicking, and also introduced Troy to his future wife, Serah Marks (Mimic).

Scry and Troy were a natural team, one able to See and the other able to Hear, and were able to ferret out a lot of information, bust plans, the works. Troy also kept Scry smiling and relatively normal. Of course, when bad things happened in 2030 to the Alliance that centered on Dean, that all changed. Troy’s mind broke under his telepathy and Scry lost his best friend and gained a whole lot of bad. Scry’s visions center on the threat that Dean poses, wanting the Alliance to kill him and get rid of the threat, no matter what the cost. His other visions, ones that see the darker things that the Alliance would rather pretend don’t exist, cause the Alliance to ignore his warnings. He is uptight and unchanging, Seeing everything that will come to pass and unable to do anything about it because no one will listen to him (even though Apollo hasn't cursed him or anything, this is just the Alliance being ridiculously stupid).

Things will change, though, and the change will be for the benefit of all. (More or less.)