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Chapter 26 - KAC-444-A: Thanatos

File ID: KAC-444-A

Designation: "Thanatos," "The Dead Survivor"

Threat Level: Category 5 (Omega Threat)

Status: Contained (Conditionally)

Discovering Officer: Commander Lila

World of Origin: Earth (Variation #761263412)

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[DESCRIPTION]

KAC-444-A, designated "Thanatos," is a formerly human entity originating from Earth (Variation #761263412). Prior to exposure of the Thanatos Strain, KAC-444-A was an ordinary female civilian with no recorded anomalous traits, combat training, or metaphysical aptitude.

KAC-444-A became unknowingly infected with the Thanatos Strain, a multiversal virus of unknown origin capable of preserving identity, cognition, and memory while amplifying adaptive and anomalous traits to extreme degrees but leaving the infected in a state between Life and Death. Unlike typical infected hosts—who progress into "Zombies," KAC-444-A entered a stable state, retaining personal identity while internalizing the virus' core function. However, her physical appearance also altered to her having white silver hair and golden eyes.

KAC-444-A does not exhibit symptoms of infection. Instead, the subject functions akin to Constants, capable of interfacing with anomalous systems, entities, and realities without undergoing physical, conceptual, spiritual, and even metaphysical collapse.

Analysis confirms that KAC-444-A's physical, cognitive, and metaphysical influence are on par with or exceeds multiple Category 5 entities, despite retaining a human physical form.

Notably, KAC-444-A has been directly responsible for the elimination or neutralization of several Category 5 entities, including beings previously classified as:

 - Non-local

 - Conceptual

 - Self-defining

 - Regenerative across timelines

 - Resistant to narrative or ontological erasure

It has neutralized the following Category 5 entities:

 - KAC-271: I Am What Lurks

 - KAC-7123: The Unkillable Demon King (although temporarily in all attempts)

 - KAC-2132: Light and Dark (physical manifestations)

 - KAC-8721: The Astronaut in the Ocean

These eliminations were not achieved through brute force, but through adaptive denial, continuity disruption, and recursive exploitation of the targets' defining principles and purpose.

KAC analysts conclude that KAC-444-A represents a new classification of personnel in the KAC:

Omega Agents. Entities/Anomalies that cooperate with the KAC to combat, contain, or understand the deviations of reality.

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[CONFIRMED CAPABILITIES]

Adaptive Continuity:KAC-444-A can selectively reinforce, weaken, or sever causal and narrative continuity in local spaces, foreign spaces, and most notably in herself as well.

Echo Retention:Complete retention of personal identity, memories, emotional frameworks, and moral reasoning despite her full infection of the Thanatos Strain.

Pattern Recognition:She demonstrates instantaneous comprehension of anomalous structures, entities, and behaviors, even when such understanding should be cognitively impossible.

Erasure of Condition:She has neutralized Category 5 entities by identifying and invalidating the conditions that allow them to persist, rather than attacking the entities directly.

Conceptual Resilience:Shown to be immune to erasure of the mind, body, soul, concept, narrative continuity, and her very information.

Abnormal Physicality:Despite the human biology still being present in her, KAC-444-A's physical capabilities have skyrocketed to an immeasurable degree. All forms of physical attacks were also rendered nullified. 

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[BEHAVIOUR]

KAC-444-A is calm, articulate, and highly self-aware. The subject does not display hostility toward the KAC and has, on multiple occasions, voluntarily cooperated with containment efforts and entity neutralization operations.

However, behavioral analysis also indicates that KAC-444-A does not operate under KAC authority in a traditional sense. Instead, KAC-444-A evaluates situations independently based on criteria that include:

 - Stability of reality

 - Risk of uncontrolled adaptation and continuity

Why the subject expresses this is unknown. Analysis presumes it's a side effect of being infected by the Thanatos Strain, or how it even began in the first place.

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[CONTAINMENT ATTEMPT]

Temporary containment is achievable only through voluntary compliance and carefully maintained psychological equilibrium. Containment measures include:

 - No isolation protocols

 - No forced restraint

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[FINAL NEUTRALIZATION]

Not authorized, not advisable, and not theoretically survivable. KAC-444-A is classified as functionally necessary to contain and neutralize world ending threats.

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[NOTES BY Commander Lila]

"She isn't a weapon. She was just a girl who was unfortunate to live in a reality destined to fall and succumb to the rules of the universe. Her existence may just be one, but there are surely more to come. More just like her."

 - Commander Lila

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