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Joseph Gustav Newton is a prominent character from the Roma Federation who serves as an officer in Annex I. He is appointed as the leader of the Euro-African Squad #6 following their crash landing on Mars. At twenty-four years old, Newton stands 187 centimeters tall and possesses a muscular physique with mid neck-length blonde hair and clear blue eyes.
Newton's background is extraordinary even by the standards of the Terraformars universe. As a seventeen-year-old high school senior, he earned a gold medal in the decathlon, a competition known as the King of the Athletes, earning him the nickname Speedy Joe on television. After leaving track and field like any ordinary high schooler, he took entrance exams and gained admission to the European Union's best university. Simultaneously, he attended an Air Force Command Academy, graduating with record-high grades. With master's degrees in both Biology and Aerospace Engineering, he became an Air Force officer. His intelligence is exceptional, with an IQ of 186.
Newton is the culmination of six centuries of selective breeding conducted by the Newton Clan, an organization that originated from a branch of an American business conglomerate and began their eugenics project in the 2040s. The clan views themselves as true cosmopolitans who eschew attachments to nationality and family names, though they faced persecution for their practices before rebuilding their wealth over generations. Newton's own birth resulted from his father contracting a Lithuanian prostitute to produce a viable child for the purpose of improving the family's genetics, specifically facial features. He and his father stayed with her for three months after his birth, and although his mother loved him, she never married into the clan.
Newton's personality is complex and contradictory. On the surface, he appears flirtatious and romantic, even stating that love is a legitimate form of infection. He is somewhat laid back and once considered running away from the Terraformars. He strongly opposes the idea of hitting a woman, becoming very angry when another character attempted to use a female team member as a distraction, and he stated that someone who would hit a woman would not understand his objection.
Beneath this romantic exterior lies a ruthless and even brutal individual. This darker side emerged from his upbringing in the Newton Clan, as when he was young he learned he was the result of a loveless contract. Since then, he has adhered to the belief that love does not exist and feels envy toward those who do possess it. Newton has demonstrated sociopathic and extremely narcissistic tendencies. He impregnated his best friend Jack's girlfriend after staging an event to send Jack to jail, and these were described as his only real friends. He has a child approximately seven or eight years old but has yet to meet him or her.
Newton's role in the story is significant from the beginning. He holds the number one ranking on the M.A.R.S. ranking system. After the crash landing, he orders his team to hide while he scouts the area. When ambushed by a legion of Terraformars, he demonstrates his incredible combat abilities, defeating enough to create a mountain-sized pile of their bodies without showing any visible signs of transformation. He later finds a newly regenerated Eva Frost and kills her, stealing her mosaic organ, which grants him the powers of the planarian and the electric eel that she had absorbed from Adolf Reinhard's DNA.
Newton's abilities are formidable and derive primarily from his selective breeding heritage rather than an M.O. operation. As a human bred to be the pinnacle of Homo sapiens, he can subsist on just a few seconds of rest per day, dodge gunfire at pointblank range, see long range attacks, maintain a reaction time of 0.1 seconds, exhibit fine control over his muscles, control his sense of pain, and move his eyeballs in opposing directions to react to danger. He can run a marathon in less than an hour. He wields the same type of sword used by George Smiles forty-three years prior, and despite training with it for only about two years after joining U-Nasa, he wields it with efficiency and accuracy.
After acquiring Eva's abilities, Newton gains planarian regeneration, allowing him to regrow missing eyes and limbs and even recover from being decapitated or bisected. He also gains electric eel abilities, including the capacity to generate electricity from his muscles, direct it through his fingers, and create an electromagnetic barrier capable of dispersing lasers or redirecting metallic projectiles. He is tied with Akari Hizamaru for having the most bases, and he is tied with Tatsuhiro Someya on the Terraformar combat score. He also has a scar from the time Shoukichi stabbed him in the head but has no scars from his previous bisection or other attacks.
As the story progresses, Newton eventually becomes the leader of his clan after his older brother Hannibal Von Vinland declares he is no longer interested in running the family and their father dies in an accident. His second in command is Elone Shinkai, who believes Newton has too much attitude and does not want the job, though others insist he should take the position. Newton has been shown to be able to subsist on eating Terraformar flesh for sustenance. His hobbies include reading and rice farming.
Newton's background is extraordinary even by the standards of the Terraformars universe. As a seventeen-year-old high school senior, he earned a gold medal in the decathlon, a competition known as the King of the Athletes, earning him the nickname Speedy Joe on television. After leaving track and field like any ordinary high schooler, he took entrance exams and gained admission to the European Union's best university. Simultaneously, he attended an Air Force Command Academy, graduating with record-high grades. With master's degrees in both Biology and Aerospace Engineering, he became an Air Force officer. His intelligence is exceptional, with an IQ of 186.
Newton is the culmination of six centuries of selective breeding conducted by the Newton Clan, an organization that originated from a branch of an American business conglomerate and began their eugenics project in the 2040s. The clan views themselves as true cosmopolitans who eschew attachments to nationality and family names, though they faced persecution for their practices before rebuilding their wealth over generations. Newton's own birth resulted from his father contracting a Lithuanian prostitute to produce a viable child for the purpose of improving the family's genetics, specifically facial features. He and his father stayed with her for three months after his birth, and although his mother loved him, she never married into the clan.
Newton's personality is complex and contradictory. On the surface, he appears flirtatious and romantic, even stating that love is a legitimate form of infection. He is somewhat laid back and once considered running away from the Terraformars. He strongly opposes the idea of hitting a woman, becoming very angry when another character attempted to use a female team member as a distraction, and he stated that someone who would hit a woman would not understand his objection.
Beneath this romantic exterior lies a ruthless and even brutal individual. This darker side emerged from his upbringing in the Newton Clan, as when he was young he learned he was the result of a loveless contract. Since then, he has adhered to the belief that love does not exist and feels envy toward those who do possess it. Newton has demonstrated sociopathic and extremely narcissistic tendencies. He impregnated his best friend Jack's girlfriend after staging an event to send Jack to jail, and these were described as his only real friends. He has a child approximately seven or eight years old but has yet to meet him or her.
Newton's role in the story is significant from the beginning. He holds the number one ranking on the M.A.R.S. ranking system. After the crash landing, he orders his team to hide while he scouts the area. When ambushed by a legion of Terraformars, he demonstrates his incredible combat abilities, defeating enough to create a mountain-sized pile of their bodies without showing any visible signs of transformation. He later finds a newly regenerated Eva Frost and kills her, stealing her mosaic organ, which grants him the powers of the planarian and the electric eel that she had absorbed from Adolf Reinhard's DNA.
Newton's abilities are formidable and derive primarily from his selective breeding heritage rather than an M.O. operation. As a human bred to be the pinnacle of Homo sapiens, he can subsist on just a few seconds of rest per day, dodge gunfire at pointblank range, see long range attacks, maintain a reaction time of 0.1 seconds, exhibit fine control over his muscles, control his sense of pain, and move his eyeballs in opposing directions to react to danger. He can run a marathon in less than an hour. He wields the same type of sword used by George Smiles forty-three years prior, and despite training with it for only about two years after joining U-Nasa, he wields it with efficiency and accuracy.
After acquiring Eva's abilities, Newton gains planarian regeneration, allowing him to regrow missing eyes and limbs and even recover from being decapitated or bisected. He also gains electric eel abilities, including the capacity to generate electricity from his muscles, direct it through his fingers, and create an electromagnetic barrier capable of dispersing lasers or redirecting metallic projectiles. He is tied with Akari Hizamaru for having the most bases, and he is tied with Tatsuhiro Someya on the Terraformar combat score. He also has a scar from the time Shoukichi stabbed him in the head but has no scars from his previous bisection or other attacks.
As the story progresses, Newton eventually becomes the leader of his clan after his older brother Hannibal Von Vinland declares he is no longer interested in running the family and their father dies in an accident. His second in command is Elone Shinkai, who believes Newton has too much attitude and does not want the job, though others insist he should take the position. Newton has been shown to be able to subsist on eating Terraformar flesh for sustenance. His hobbies include reading and rice farming.