Flint Chaudhary

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The estranged father of the Chaudhary brothers. Before his incarceration, he was a powerful and well-respected first-responder, so he is currently held in an elite maximum security prison.

The only visitors he gets are similarly esteemed figures and his indignant first-born son, Maple.

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• Blackened permanently with soot are the tips of his fingers, including the fingernails. He claims this was an unavoidable consequence of both his Value and his field of work, leading to his typical fingerless leather gloves.
• As his Code would suggest, Flint spent most of his life in the firefighting profession. The interest was sparked when he was a child and only intensified as a teenager, leading him to beg for an internship at age 15. He would rise in the ranks throughout the decades, eventually becoming Chief of his department.
  • Even as Chief, he itched for the front lines. It was common to see him accompanying workers to fires, eager to demonstrate his expertise and experience.
  • His Specter typically hung back and scuttled around the survivors, ascertaining that their blankets were warm and comfortable.
• Cars are much too big and unwieldy, in his opinion. That’s why he relies on his Thermiko R 76, a retro motorcycle known for its power and sporty appearance. The flames that were painted on in his rebellious youth have long faded, though the deep red coat is carefully maintained.
  • He preferred it over firetrucks, as it allowed him to get to emergency locations quicker.
  • It is one of the few belongings he had requested stay with him in incarceration, despite him being prohibited from driving. Its current status is unknown.
• Known now for his plummet in reputation, Flint and all of his traces seem to have been laboriously erased from the public. This is in service to business moguls like Chunjie Zhou and politicians like Bashir Chakrabarti, to whom he was known to have strong bonds with. Their statuses, in contrast, managed to recover smoothly after the public seemingly forgot about and moved on from the news.
  • The maximum security prison he is kept in is only known to his family and close associates, further allowing him privacy.
• Full details of his crime were concealed by law enforcement. The few traces discernible to the public was the death of his wife, Ascelin Chaudhary, who was known and beloved at his workplace.
• In the absence of both parents, the Chaudhary children were taken in by Flint’s brother, Rudyard. Unlike Flint’s spacious, suburban brick house, Rudyard’s home was a log cabin surrounded by forest.
  • The Chaudhary brothers Senior couldn’t be more opposite to one another. Where Flint was sharp and thrill-seeking, Rudyard was soft and protective. Their parenting styles were radically dissimilar as well - enough for Maple, who was just entering elementary school when they were displaced, to have trouble acclimating for years.
• Rites of passage in Chaudhary men involve discipline in physical combat. While Rudyard trained just enough to become self-sufficient, Flint embodied it to the grueling and punishing extreme, even joking that it was necessary in order to ‘fight’ fires.
  • It made him all the more excited to have sons, so he can pass on the primary connection he had with his father.
• Even the slightest negative emotion is enough for oil to start collecting on his palms. This can be used to his advantage (frying, barbequing, attending an oil-wrestling competition) but is typically a hindrance. His unruly hair would calm down over the course of the day as a result of him wiping the otherwise harmless excess through it.