Info/permissions post, or why the scarab makes Jaime's life interesting.
SEVERELY REVISED on 2 April 2008 due to Blue Beetle #25 blowing a lot of assumptions out of the water. JOHN ROGERS ILU WHYYY DID YOU HAVE TO LEAVE THE BOOK WHYYYY ...anyway.Jaime's powers come from the Scarab - originally thought to be a magic artifact, then a piece of sentient alien tech (more on this below) that went and embedded itself in his
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As for the origins - the "alien construction" one will freak Jaime out 'cause that'll remind him WAY TOO MUCH of the aliens who created the scarab in his head. (Which I will now explain at length since Lain will be able to scan him...)
The Reach originally created the scarab as an infiltration device - when a planet reaches a certain level of technology, it attaches itself to a host and is supposed to control said host as the planet's "protector" and allowing the Reach to subtly take over while posing as benefactors. They've been doing this for years. They have to be subtle about it due to a truce with the Guardians and the Green Lanterns. They say their purpose is to "save humanity from itself" which is total BS.
Thing is, Jaime's scarab is "broken." It has free will, and despite everything, Jaime has more control over it than he thinks. He's still working on teaching it that killing = bad, although he's been able to stop it from doing so even when he was first bonded to it. The Reach can't control the scarab or Jaime, nor can they fix it or get it out of him. And it only works on one per planet, so they can't just send down a working scarab and make a proper infiltrator.
Nevertheless, finding out where the scarab came from and what its intended purpose was did NOT comfort Jaime in the slightest. So the idea of aliens trying to "further" humanity's evolution doesn't sit well with him at all. Either Lain should be able to tell that the scarab is not controlling Jaime, but that it's the one who's gung-ho to attack/kill/RUN THE HELL AWAY.
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Ok, the Alien origin is mentioned off hand but most of the details are given over the last few episodes.
I picked W-Lain in the end because she's rather blunt whilst Lain is still playing the part of 'sweet school-girl' W-Lain will just start asking about anything that interests her without any regard for her own privacy. (Not that I've always been completely consistent with either. ^_^b)
In a scan of her it'll find she isn't human. It may see she's an alien construct but the aliens are never developed in detail and are simply shown as the all too familiar 'grey' alien. If DC has any equivalent feel free to make comparisons.
Lain Iwakura will also turn up, if you don't mind both of them.
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Right now I need sleep, it's two thirty in the morn and I can barely even type this. See ya in twelve or so hours.
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P.S Don't mind my typos, I suck a proof-reading and my auto-spellcheck tends to make things worse.
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Nothing universe altering, just a basic idea of how he ended up bonded to it. (More or less just what's in his Wiki entry.)
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