This is my first story, told from first person about an Overwatch OC named Tobias I had created not too long ago. The prologue is just a monologue explaining Tobias as a character. If you want, you can skip to the next chapter. Any comments/criticism/ideas are appreciated. (Disclaimer: I do not own Overwatch or it's characters.)

I remember opening my eyes for the first time.

What a weird feeling that was. From the day I was created, not once had I regained consciousness. It was as if I opened my eyes for the first time after being born. It really was, if you think about it. But the thing was, I wasn't an infant child, I was already a year old.

And physically, mentally; I was almost 30.

I suppose before I go on, I should explain who I am in further detail. It's complicated.

I'm a clone. A carbon copy of a man who already existed. I was the result of a twisted Talon experiment that specialized in human cloning. A majority of Talon's operations are already shady and not well known, but the cloning program was on a whole other level of secretive. Not even high-ranking officers of Talon had knowledge, or at least were able to 100% confirm it's existence. Rumors had spread throughout the lower ranks, but no one could prove it for sure. Only the highest ranking Talon members and scientists knew of it.

Specifically, I'm a clone of an Overwatch agent. Tobias was his name, and supposedly, he was one of the best. He was well known by his fellow Overwatch agents for his skills with firearms, unarmed weapons, as well as hand-to-hand combat. He began his career in the U.S. military, where displayed considerable courage and dedication to his missions, and eventually caught the eye of the military brass. After serving his country for a year and a half, he was invited to join Overwatch, an offer he accepted.

Being able to train and fight alongside some of the world's most skilled soldiers and operatives did wonders for his own abilities. It wasn't before long when his reputation began to precede him; soldiers who met him immediately recognized him as one of Overwatch's most talented agents, rather than who he was as a person.

Tobias was someone reserved; a man of few words. It wasn't as if he was a dark and humorless stoic; he simply didn't have much to say. That being said, he did occasionally crack a joke with agents he got comfortable with. The funny thing is whenever he did talk, the whole room would go silent, and everyone would have a surprised expression on their face. Rumors were spread that he was victim of torture while in the military; they later turned out to be true, but he obviously never spoke of it. It didn't matter at the time, anyway; what mattered is that he was among the best of the best. He was offered promotions that many other agents would die for; and while he appreciated them, he turned most of them down. He was content with being a soldier; content with following orders, rather than giving them. Commander Morrison wasn't the only one who took notice of Tobias' skills; Blackwatch Commander Gabriel Reyes was just as impressed.

Tobias knew little of Blackwatch, but he found out that Blackwatch was the group that did the dirty work, the group that did what the public didn't want to see. Being a member of a group like Blackwatch appealed to him, so when Reyes gave him the offer to join, he gladly accepted. He still continued to fight alongside the other Overwatch agents, but he carried out black ops missions with Blackwatch on the side, with the same amount of skill. If he knew that Blackwatch would betray Overwatch, he might never have joined. He had heard rumors that Blackwatch was planning on rebelling, but he never believed them. But, in the end, Blackwatch betrayed Overwatch, and soon the Petras Act brought an end to Overwatch.

Tobias would never be there to witness it.

A week before the incident at Overwatch's Swiss headquarters, Tobias and a group of other agents went on a mission in Brazil, where they were lead directly into a trap. Luckily, the agents were able to retreat. Most of them, anyway. Tobias was seriously injured during the battle, but instead of his fellow Overwatch operatives coming to save him, they retreated to save themselves, leaving him at the mercy of Talon operatives.

Talon had learned about Tobias skills the hard way; he showed no mercy to any and all Talon operatives he came across. Talon knew he would be a valuable asset, but at the same time, they knew he'd rather die than ever work for Talon. They subjected him to neural conditioning, not unlike the same procedure used to brainwash Amélie Lacroix into becoming the assassin known as Widowmaker. They came close, but his will couldn't be broken. That's when the highly classifed cloning program came into play. They had dabbled in it for some time, experimenting on various animals, but had never actually tried to clone another human. When Tobias came into the picture, Talon's cloning sector knew they had their first human test subject.

Tobias was put into a vegetative state, and placed into a giant tank of liquid. The science behind it is honestly beyond me, but it doesn't matter. What matters is that he was put into a coma, and now that they had their first success (a.k.a., me), they didn't bother waking him up, which know for sure that they were able to do. I know very little of the science behind their cloning technology, and I don't care to know. It's not like I could learn everything about it anyway; it's probably way too complicated for even a professional geneticist to comprehend. I'll give it to Talon; it's impressive. Even identical twins are genetically different in some way. In my case, it's as if the world was a giant computer, and I am a literal copy paste. Physically, I am exactly the same; right down to the smallest freckle or hair follicle. Mentally, it gets a bit complicated. Through the genetic material/DNA they were able to extract from the original Tobias, they were able to create an embryo that was genetically identical to him. Thanks to Talon's insane technology, they were able to speed up the aging process to incredible speeds; to the point were within a year, I was physically and mentally an adult male in my late 20's. During this time (again, thanks to Talon's outlandish classified technology), my brain also developed at incredible speeds, so when I finally opened my eyes and awakened for the first time, I would mentally be very similar to the original Tobias. Any memories he would've remembered if he were awake, I would retain those memories. His intelligience and skills were replicated during my development. I completely skipped my childhood and a small chunk of my adulthood, but it was as if I lived through it all. But despite having the same memories and same intelligience as Tobias did, I knew that I was my own individual. An individual who is a copy paste of a man who already exists, but my own individual nonetheless.

Being a clone is torture. My mind is filled with memories of a life I never got to live. I recall experiencing them, but I know I never experienced them. The original Tobias was a respected soldier who was captured, held against his will, and experimented on. But as for me; I was a clone who never got to have a childhood or a chance to serve my country, despite having memories of experiencing both that still torture me. I was created to serve a terrorist group and kill innocent people knowing that I was working for the bad guys, that Overwatch was who the Tobias before me served, and that they were the good guys; the ones who I want to serve. But I had no choice. On top of that, I never got the opportunity to be my own person. I'm a carbon copy of someone who already exists. I have no family, no blood relatives, for I wasn't the byproduct of two people falling in love; I was the byproduct of a science experiment; it makes me feel illegitimate, like I'm just an artificial human.

I went way off track, but I suppose some explaining was needed as to who I am. Back to the first day I was awake; that's when my story really starts.