Age Unkown
Pronouns He/him
Species Sentient shadow
Home Planet Earth
Voice Claim Sasha Nein (Psychonauts)

Rodger was a decorated U.S. Air Force pilot and a sharp-witted trauma surgeon. Born in Chicago in 1928, he grew up during the depression, served in the closing years of WWII, and got caught up in Cold War military experimentation.

Recruited by Project BLACKFIRE, a secretive U.S. government initiative attempting to weaponize cosmic anomalies, Rodger volunteered for what he believed was an atmospheric test flight. Instead, he was exposed to a rift in space-time created by a dark matter implosion. Rodger’s body was vaporized and atomically scrambled, yet his consciousness somehow survived, reforming into a gaseous, shadow-like entity bound by willpower, rage, and some unknown quantum tether.

Rodger spent decades drifting as a half-aware wisp in deep space—learning how to shape himself, how to see without eyes, scream without lungs. His sense of time shattered. He thought he was a ghost, cursed or dreaming. Then came Zarla. Zarla’s ship passed through a collapsing wormhole fragment, and Rodger instinctively latched onto it like a moth to light. She detected a strange fluctuation in her ship’s gravity chamber and went to investigate, expecting mechanical failure—and instead found a sentient mass of living shadow trying to form the shape of a man. She didn’t shoot. She spoke. Zarla was the first person to treat him like a person, not a monster. Rodger’s voice—raspy, warped, but intact—emerged. He agreed to stay aboard under one condition: he wanted to be useful again.

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