The Enhanced

The enhanced are a group of people that have gained special abilities after being genetically modified through heavy experimentation in the world of The Kaines Project. They are typically sold in the black auction. The only confirmed enhanced characters Eric Kaine and Rura.

Origin
It is unknown when the first enhanced person was created or if this information will ever be revealed. In fact, much of the process behind enhanced experimentation is shrouded in mystery at this point.

To become enhanced, a test subject must go through a heavy amount of painful experimentation intended on modifying their genetic code in order to give them special abilities. While it isn't certain how long experiments last, it can be assumed to be around one year but the flexibility per test subject isn't known. Another thing to note is that during experimentation, the test subject's reproductive systems are altered to render them infertile.

Most if not all test subjects are "undesirables" of society like orphaned, homeless, and undocumented people and are taken off the street by enhanced scientists. This makes the process easier to keep under wraps if the test subjects die in the process, as there is less likely going to be a police investigation or legal action taken. In most cases, these test subjects won't even be missed once they're gone.

Only 1 in every 25 people (or 4%) of test subjects survive experimentation. It leaves physical scars on the survivor, as seen through Rura. Interestingly enough, the ability of a person seems to adapt to their body. For example, Rura, an enhanced girl with pryokinesis, is noted to be warm and the fire she creates does not make skin contact with her when being summoned. There seems to be no other physical changes to the enhanced.

Nobody can have a second ability or become enhanced twice, as the human body cannot handle that amount of experimentation without completely failing.

Treatment
The enhanced are treated poorly. Shortly after experimentation is over, they are trafficked into the black market where people of power, like politicians, billionaires, and mafia heads, participate in underground auctions to buy the enhanced as their own personal slaves. They are commonly used as servants, killers, and, despite their value for their rare abilities, some enhanced are simply used as "pleasure dolls". It is not uncommon for the people who buy enhanced individuals to sell them quickly afterwards once they become bored with them.

Enhanced people are tattooed with a slave mark on visible spots on their bodies (for example, Rura's is on the back of her right hand). The only known enhanced person not to be put through slavery is Eric. Although it is not confirmed at what time he became enhanced, he was never put through this type of slavery.

Places like The Organization revolve around enhanced people. People working as executors find information about the whereabouts of enhanced slaves and take them away. While it is unknown what happens to them once they are brought to The Organization, Sara has stated that they "safe them away to acceptable locations", implying that rescued enhanced are given a new life away from their former masters.

People
Known Enhanced People


 * Eric Kaine - Regeneration.
 * Rura - Pyrokinesis.

People Theorized to be Enhanced


 * Ella Kaine.
 * Elli Kaine.
 * Antonio "Anton" Crawford.

Not Enhanced, but Associated with the Enhanced


 * Sara C. Williams - One of the heads of the Organization that specializes in information regarding enhanced people.
 * Lucas Kaine - Theorized to have been working on enhanced experimentation.
 * Raymond "Ray" Williams - Theorized to have been working on enhanced experimentation.

Confirmed to be NOT Enhanced


 * Sara C. Williams.
 * Matthew "Matt" Williams.
 * Raymond "Ray" Williams.

Trivia

 * Sara, her brother, and her uncle, are the only characters to be confirmed not to be enhanced. Other characters like Ella, Elli, Leo, and Anton are neither confirmed nor denied.
 * On the Discord descriptions of the characters, Ella, Elli, Leo, and Anton are listed as "unknown" under enhanced, while Eric and Rura are a confirmed "yes" and Sara is a confirmed "no".
 * Enhanced people cannot have children because their reproductive organs are altered during experimentation.
 * Alezziart has said that it is possible to leave the reproductive systems unaltered in an enhanced experimentation. It is unknown if this will ever happen in the story.
 * When asked if the blood of an enhanced person can be put into a non-enhanced person to give them their ability (like if Eric's blood was transferred inside of an injured person to heal them), Alezziart replied that while it could be attempted, success would be nearly impossible.
 * In fact, the genetic changes to an enhanced person's blood makes it toxic was more likely to backfire and kill the person completely. The chances of it succeeding are 1 in a million.
 * Eric has stated the tells of an enhanced person is if they have a slave mark and a lack of will to live.
 * A popular fan theory is that Lucas Kaine was experimenting on his children with the help of Sara's uncle. This would explain how Eric became enhanced and why he and Elli want to protect Ella from the truth.
 * Another popular theory is that during experimentation, a person need to become enhanced they have to be brought to death's door first.