Shadow Knight (lost in action)

Superhero Shadow Knight

Shadow Knight was lost in action, fighting evil. Please remember him with love as we all do.

I used to be Dr. James Crae. I was an adventuring archaeologist. I was part of Laura Croft and Rey Muldoon’s crew. Good times.

Now I’m a Ghost. As nomenclatures go, that one is far too close to the mark. This suit keeps me alive. Never quite figured out how – I’m an archaeologist – not a medic.

I don’t have a chest of my own any more. 50 calibre machine gun rounds will do that to you. I dived into one adventure too many on that score – our last trip turned out to have some old automated defences that were faster than we were. Well – faster than I was anyway.

Laura and Rey saved me. They put this suit on me, and it took over doing what my lungs and heart and ribs used to do. We tried to get it off when the powers that be realised that the suits were all programmed to make us slaves to Ghost, but frankly the choice between walking talking, being active and alive and laying there on an artificial heart and lung machine – well – really – it’s not all that much of a choice. I think I had mine back on even before Laura got to hers. I guess she actually had to think about it. I sure didn’t.

And actually – it’s not a bad gig now. We help people. That feels like a good step up from stealing stuff out of holes in the ground.