Brainiac 5/Reboot
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Contents
Biography
Birth
At the moment of his birth, Brainiac 5 experienced what would be his last truly happy memory before his Legion membership: his mother holding him, for what would be the first and only time, before she realised she didn't care about him, like everything else she had done. She summarily left Colu immediately afterward, and the scandal resulted in all records of her being purged.
From childhood onwards, he was forever impatient and superior, babysat by robots while politicans planned to use him to their own ends - robots which he would take apart to study. At night, bored by the Sleepnet, he would lie awake, thinking of themother whose face he could not remember.
At the age of eleven, he would reach what the Coluans decided was the final straw - he was undertaking an unapproved energy experiment, when his overseers discovered this and intervened. Despite his warnings, they had their robot guards pull him away and attempted to shut it down, despite his warnings, leading to the death of one of them and the explosion of the experimenting chamber - albeit high above Colu after the survivor belatedly allowed him to shut it down as safely as he then could.
They then "donated" him to Brande Industries to be rid of him. Eight months, five laboratories and a seven-figure repair bill later, even R.J. Brande had to admit he couldn't afford him, and found him an internship at the Time Institute's training centre on Talus alongside Rond Vidar.
Legion
There, a few years later, he would receive his Legion draft notice - and promptly ignored it, slapping it into his mounting pile of unread correspondence. His absence was only noticed after Kid Quantum's death, and Brande needed to make at least two calls to him to finally have him report.
Team 20
Upgrade
Lost
After the Great Rift Disaster, Brainiac 5.1 was one of the Legionnaires thrown through the Rift itself, and thus trapped in the Second Galaxy for a time.
During this time, he felt under great stress, as his teammates all believed he could devise a way of getting them home, in addition to all the other responsibilities forced upon him by their circumstances. As he eventually confessed to Saturn Girl however, he didn't have a clue how to get them home - or even where "home" was, relative to their location. In the same conversation, he also complained that he'd "always hated [his] name upgrade," and on the way out, as well as reassuring him, she made a point of redubbing him "Brainiac Five," and he dropped the ".1" from his name thereafter. Eventually, using his teammate Shikari's tracking skills and an interdimensional doorway they'd earlier found but been forced to leave, he did get them home.
Son
Powers and abilites
Brainiac 5 possesses a "twelfth-level" intellect, placing him well beyond double the intellect of humans. This manifests himself partially as twelve parallel thought-tracks, meaning he can concentrate on multiple topics at once, or bear an even greater level of intellect on a single problem.
After his "upgrade" by the Anomaly, his force-field apparatus was bonded to him, allowing him to control and shape it mentally.
