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#52 - Lono
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A wolf in wolf's clothing.

The wild and untameable Lonos origins are shrouded in mystery, but one thing is for certain - he is absolutely, unequivocally dangerous. With more knowledge than he lets on, Lono found himself amused with the plight of Checkmate agents and decided to play along with their stabs at resistance. Pushing around his new acquaintances and roughing up Snapper, Lono offered to help Checkmate in their bid to destabilize Tampa, but he appeared to have brought down significant heat upon himself, with most of Tampa looking to cut his throat.

From here, the party was forced to go in hot, taking down a couple dozen Society mercs as they raced through a flooded parking garage, looking to rescue Lono and speed him to a hasty retreat. When they found him, however, they witnessed Lono in the throes of throttling more than one higher level villain, dispatching them with ease. Lono took control quickly, and soon enough, the party was driving to Miami, where they met Lono's employer, Constance von Hagen - a member of the Trust (thirteen families which largely control the world's financial community. However, with the Mobius Chair in Detroit a prize for so many factions, betrayals are inevitable, and Lono seems willing to play ball with Checkmate for the right price - which PATCH of all people discovered, offering Lono the equivalent of $20 million in weaponry and missiles (!) for help rescuing a cat named Isis.

So that's concerning.

There's no greater feeling that galloping spark of inspiration that drives a minor NPC into a position of prominence for me. I guess the excitement is similar to Linus as he describes playing his own character (Lenny Peppridge) in Ocean's Thirteen: "I am him." When you can see every mannerism, every microexpression, that's when you've got something special. Lono, for me, is the character that fits like a glove. Certainly, it helps that he's the sort of scenery chewing amoral mercenary that can thrive in a world like Earth during FInal Crisis, but, more than that, Lono lingers always on the precipice of unraveling. He's tightly bound and ready to burst, only containing himself with his sheer willpower. I like that restriction that almost feels like the opposite - the element of danger makes Lono one of my personal favorite characters that isn't at Z'onn Z'orr... yet.

#51 closes out the bottom half with a top-half draft pick.