"Our organization, Seraphim, searches for superheroes and offers them a job at our industry. They can work for money if they want, or they can work because they just want to help people. But they have to be dedicated about their work, because there's a lot of villains roaming around the country. I'm Christopher Adelbert, head of Seraphim, and we want to offer you a job putting down those villains. But it won't be easy. Some of them are too powerful for one hero. Some of them work together to create a powerful duo or even trio or more. And others are enough to sneeze at and they'll be blown away. Assuming you've got enhanced breath, at least. Should you refuse, we'll leave it at that. But know this. There will always be evil doers, villains, scum who want to ruin other people's lives for their own selfish gain. And we want you to stop them. We need you to stop them. If you'd like to come in person, our address is as follows."
An address was displayed along with a phone number. Seraphim had enough on their hands trying to assemble heroes to deal with all the villains who were terrorizing the city, so they had to put up an ad for them. In TV, on the Internet, everywhere and in every way they could think of. They had a few interested ones, but most just seemed to want to go their own way, which was unfortunate, but such was life. Christopher believed it was better to gather the heroes under one roof and organize them into a group who could go on missions when there was the need for it. He didn't trick anyone into joining, because he knew well enough that they'd rebel if they found out, and having former members of Seraphim attack the organization with all the secrets they'd learned would be catastrophic. No, he'd allow the people to choose. It was easier to earn the trust of someone who was honestly offered to come join them and not tricked in any way.
What did Seraphim offer that the heroes wouldn't be able to do on their own? Being a hero might be easy when normal humans can't attack you, but they need sleep like anyone else. And should the villains learn of their dwelling place, they'd be easily killed in their sleep. Seraphim offered a safe haven for anyone who joined, along with all the people they could meet and join in on missions. There wasn't a safer place for heroes, Christopher thought. He'd been in this business for a long time, and the heroes who had joined weren't disappointed. He had mages who were specifically trained in protection spells, taking turns to ensure that there isn't a weak spot or a downtime on them. He had scientists working at all times to make sure their computers and equipment were unharmed, because he'd had his share of technological problems, either due to just the equipment failing or villains harming them in some way. And he also offered anyone who joined a chance to simply live there. He'd had some heroes join and not go out on missions unless it really interested them, so he basically offered them a home and a job should they choose to accept.
The year is 2012. The city this organization is located in is New York. No matter where Seraphim looks for heroes in the world, the heroes will be found so that they can be offered to join Seraphim. They do not wish harm upon the heroes, only hoping that they can make the world a safer place to live in.
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Welcome, one and all, to this superpower RP that I've created. I'm your GM, Lambi, and I'll try my very best to make this RP a fun one.
If you're not sure what kind of powers you want your character to have, feel free to look it up here. Just don't pick anything too overpowered, whether as a single power or a combo.
List of banned powers:
- Teleportation
- Telekinesis
- Gravity manipulation
- Invisibility
- Telepathy
- Clairvoyance
- Any kind of luck based power
- Magic, though only if it's just explained as magic. If you specify what your magic power does, it's alright. I don't want to see just a magic solution pulled out of your character's ass. They have to know what they're doing and be able to do specifically that.
Another thing I'd like to add is that while the Seraphim organization is stationed in New York, the RP will not only be taking place in New York.
I'm thinking about having around eight - ten people, with a balance of heroes and villains. I'm not going to disallow having six heroes and four villains or vice versa, but I'd like to see no less than three or four of both.
I do hope that you all have fun, and will enjoy the RP.
If you have any questions, I'll be more than happy to answer them.
My own character:
An address was displayed along with a phone number. Seraphim had enough on their hands trying to assemble heroes to deal with all the villains who were terrorizing the city, so they had to put up an ad for them. In TV, on the Internet, everywhere and in every way they could think of. They had a few interested ones, but most just seemed to want to go their own way, which was unfortunate, but such was life. Christopher believed it was better to gather the heroes under one roof and organize them into a group who could go on missions when there was the need for it. He didn't trick anyone into joining, because he knew well enough that they'd rebel if they found out, and having former members of Seraphim attack the organization with all the secrets they'd learned would be catastrophic. No, he'd allow the people to choose. It was easier to earn the trust of someone who was honestly offered to come join them and not tricked in any way.
What did Seraphim offer that the heroes wouldn't be able to do on their own? Being a hero might be easy when normal humans can't attack you, but they need sleep like anyone else. And should the villains learn of their dwelling place, they'd be easily killed in their sleep. Seraphim offered a safe haven for anyone who joined, along with all the people they could meet and join in on missions. There wasn't a safer place for heroes, Christopher thought. He'd been in this business for a long time, and the heroes who had joined weren't disappointed. He had mages who were specifically trained in protection spells, taking turns to ensure that there isn't a weak spot or a downtime on them. He had scientists working at all times to make sure their computers and equipment were unharmed, because he'd had his share of technological problems, either due to just the equipment failing or villains harming them in some way. And he also offered anyone who joined a chance to simply live there. He'd had some heroes join and not go out on missions unless it really interested them, so he basically offered them a home and a job should they choose to accept.
The year is 2012. The city this organization is located in is New York. No matter where Seraphim looks for heroes in the world, the heroes will be found so that they can be offered to join Seraphim. They do not wish harm upon the heroes, only hoping that they can make the world a safer place to live in.
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Welcome, one and all, to this superpower RP that I've created. I'm your GM, Lambi, and I'll try my very best to make this RP a fun one.
Name: The name they were given as a child
Alias: Their superhero/supervillain name
Gender: Should be obvious, though there can be some exceptions.
Age: No younger than 16. Anything above is fine, but no one should be younger than 16.
Appearance: What your character looks like. Be it their normal clothes, superhero/villain clothes, their hair, eyes, facial features, body type. Anything that describes what they look like. Be as detailed as you can.
Personality: How your character acts, whether it's just them alone or among others. Are they passionate, violent, easy to make them smile or easy to get to cry? Anything you can think of, and be as descriptive as you can.
Alignment: Mention whether your character is a superhero or a supervillain.
Superpowers: Your characters can have up to three powers that can work together and doesn't make them massively, or at all, overpowered. Do describe what each power does. A list of superpowers that I don't want anyone to have should be viewed carefully.
Weaknesses: What is their limit? What makes them weak and vulnurable? I don't want just some minor weaknesses or only one or two. Find something that makes sense and doesn't just slightly annoy them.
Biography: How was your character raised? How did they acquire their powers? I want a decent backstory with lots of details. I want to see at least three to four paragraps in the bio. More is better, but I want no less than three or four.
Other notes: Anything that doesn't fit anywhere else and you want to add about your character, put it here.
Alias: Their superhero/supervillain name
Gender: Should be obvious, though there can be some exceptions.
Age: No younger than 16. Anything above is fine, but no one should be younger than 16.
Appearance: What your character looks like. Be it their normal clothes, superhero/villain clothes, their hair, eyes, facial features, body type. Anything that describes what they look like. Be as detailed as you can.
Personality: How your character acts, whether it's just them alone or among others. Are they passionate, violent, easy to make them smile or easy to get to cry? Anything you can think of, and be as descriptive as you can.
Alignment: Mention whether your character is a superhero or a supervillain.
Superpowers: Your characters can have up to three powers that can work together and doesn't make them massively, or at all, overpowered. Do describe what each power does. A list of superpowers that I don't want anyone to have should be viewed carefully.
Weaknesses: What is their limit? What makes them weak and vulnurable? I don't want just some minor weaknesses or only one or two. Find something that makes sense and doesn't just slightly annoy them.
Biography: How was your character raised? How did they acquire their powers? I want a decent backstory with lots of details. I want to see at least three to four paragraps in the bio. More is better, but I want no less than three or four.
Other notes: Anything that doesn't fit anywhere else and you want to add about your character, put it here.
If you're not sure what kind of powers you want your character to have, feel free to look it up here. Just don't pick anything too overpowered, whether as a single power or a combo.
List of banned powers:
- Teleportation
- Telekinesis
- Gravity manipulation
- Invisibility
- Telepathy
- Clairvoyance
- Any kind of luck based power
- Magic, though only if it's just explained as magic. If you specify what your magic power does, it's alright. I don't want to see just a magic solution pulled out of your character's ass. They have to know what they're doing and be able to do specifically that.
#1: No trenchcoating, god-modding, Mary Sueing or Marty Stueing, character control, or anything of the sorts. You may be superheroes or villains, but you're not invulnerable or god.
#2: I don't want to see anyone copying anyone else. Try to create a unique character for yourselves.
#3: When you're making your sheet, keep them in third person. Make sure that you use proper grammar and finish the sheet before you post it.
#4: I don't want to see short posts. No one or two lines in posts. Keep them to at least a reasonable length if you can't think of anything more to add to them.
#5: I'll be allowing romance between two characters if anyone should be interested, but I want things to be kept to a minimum. Any mature content should be kept out of the RP and taken to PMs, especially when the Escapist tries to remain PG-13 at all times.
#6: This should go without saying, but what I as the GM say, is the ultimate. I can discuss things if there's something you disagree with, but in the end, what I say should not go further. I'd rather not have to argue with the players in my RP.
#7: Should you be accepted, it would be quite good if you got yourself Skype if you don't already have it. It's worked well for me, my Escapist friends and others that I've RPed with, working better than the Escapist groups themselves in terms of communication between players and how fast the communication can happen.
#2: I don't want to see anyone copying anyone else. Try to create a unique character for yourselves.
#3: When you're making your sheet, keep them in third person. Make sure that you use proper grammar and finish the sheet before you post it.
#4: I don't want to see short posts. No one or two lines in posts. Keep them to at least a reasonable length if you can't think of anything more to add to them.
#5: I'll be allowing romance between two characters if anyone should be interested, but I want things to be kept to a minimum. Any mature content should be kept out of the RP and taken to PMs, especially when the Escapist tries to remain PG-13 at all times.
#6: This should go without saying, but what I as the GM say, is the ultimate. I can discuss things if there's something you disagree with, but in the end, what I say should not go further. I'd rather not have to argue with the players in my RP.
#7: Should you be accepted, it would be quite good if you got yourself Skype if you don't already have it. It's worked well for me, my Escapist friends and others that I've RPed with, working better than the Escapist groups themselves in terms of communication between players and how fast the communication can happen.
Another thing I'd like to add is that while the Seraphim organization is stationed in New York, the RP will not only be taking place in New York.
I'm thinking about having around eight - ten people, with a balance of heroes and villains. I'm not going to disallow having six heroes and four villains or vice versa, but I'd like to see no less than three or four of both.
I do hope that you all have fun, and will enjoy the RP.
If you have any questions, I'll be more than happy to answer them.
My own character:
Name: Unknown
Alias: Virus
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Appearance: Virus has gray skin and empty looking eyes, white as snow. He's got short white hair on the top of his head, but no hair anywhere else. He's tall, being around 7 feet, but weight is always changing due to his assimilating powers. He does not wear clothes, but he doesn't have any distinquishing features in his nether regions. He looks to have some form of muscle on him, not looking like a wrestler on steroids, but not looking frail either. His skin has hardened over time due to all the technology assimilation he's done, but you can still wound him, just not with conventional melee weapons. He's got some kind of lines all over his body which show something moving along them which is green in color. He's usually seen with whatever latest technology he's assimilated into his body. When he needs to charge, his fingers and back open up to reveal charge-slots which he inserts the chargelines into. The charge slots in his fingers also double as a technological key, giving him access to most technology aside from the higher level locked ones.
Personality: Virus is as cold as can be. He doesn't care what happens around him so long as he makes sure others know he's the one in charge around. He never allows himself to show any kind of emotion or expression when around others, his eyes giving a cold look towards everyone. He doesn't hesitate to kill, though he does seem to take some sick enjoyment out of making others suffer with his disease mimicry. Not that he'd allow anyone to see it, of course, but you get the feeling he does once you see him do it. He will show emotion should you hurt him, but aside from that, he remains as emotionless and cold as he can. He likes to speak in Royal We, that is to say, referring to himself in plural, as if he were a part of some sort of legion, thinking very highly of himself.
Alignment: Supervillain
Superpowers: Virus is capable of agility which surpasses most, if not all, other humans. It allows him to dodge almost everything thrown his way, and to scale anything he can so long as he's able to get a grip. He sprints quickly and should he be faced with an obstacle, he'll leap over it like it was nothing. In a fight he'll be able to dodge easily due to calculating where the hit will go, but this isn't fully accurate, so he is hittable. He just evades most things well.
Virus is also able to assimilate most technology he can find and use it immediately due to training his skill well. So long as he's able to touch it, at least. If he were to assimilate a computer, he would go over all the files in it at a great speed in order to find what he wanted. If he were to assimilate a tool, he would be able to use it without direct electricity as it would have been intended to, but it would use up his charge a bit faster than if he didn't use it. Almost everything that he's assimilated over time he is able to use again so long as he remembers he has it.
Virus doesn't call himself Virus for no reason. He is able to mimick and spread various diseases, illnesses and viruses. He does need to be in close range to even spread it via air, but he will do it and he will not hesitate. He's also able to combine his technological assimilation and disease mimicry abilities to create devastating computer viruses.
Weaknesses: Virus is not without his limits. Due to being part technology, liquid is not friendly to him. He can't be completely soaked in it without it fucking him up and making him helpless, but he can withstand a small amount for a short time. Should it rain, he would stay inside rather than risk it outside.
Again, due to being part technology, he mostly needs to charge in order to be any sort of threat, and that charge can last him a very long time, three or four days at least if he uses it a lot, a week at best if he does little to use it. That however is a problem for him. He relies so much on his technology, that when his charge runs out, he has to rely on his human side. While his human side is strong and agile, it isn't as strong and agile as his technological side, and if he has to use his human side, he will only use it to get back to his station as quickly as he can to charge again.
He is also vulnerable while charging, because it takes around 24 hours or so if he's run out of charge. He has taken measures to ensure that he's safe while charging, but if anyone would get through those measures, he'd be at his most vulnerable, though only at first while charging because he has such low charge when he's run out of it and has to wait until he's at about 10% before he can do anything else.
Biography: Anything after Virus was made into what he is today is unknown. It got deleted from his memory because of a certain event that he doesn't remember now. But what he has forgotten is certainly interesting.
Virus used to be just a normal man, living a normal life, working a normal job. Or as normal as can be, considering he worked as a test subject for various experiments at a laboratory. It was never anything lethal that the scientists there did to him, at least not at first. Some pills that made you grow scales, but retracted them along with all your nails after a few minutes. That was a painful day in his job. Another experiment involved a drug that enhanced your speed, but problems with it was that you couldn't sleep. Had to stay like that until he could eventually urinate the drug out. There were other boring experiments, like growing hair all over his body, giving him laser-shooting eyes, which was only boring because of how much they'd done that before but were never able to not make the eyes of previous subjects burn out literally, although that ability disappeared after a week, and making him grow horns on his head, which strangely made him also grow longer and stronger nails, apparently a side effect.
You might wonder why he did such a thing. The truth of the matter was, he had nothing to risk. He was alone, having moved away from his parents at the age of 20 and living well enough for a while. Until five years later when a tornado went over his parent's small hometown and everything was destroyed. He was never the same after that. He'd been an only child, since his mother had only been able to birth him before she became sterile. It was a disease in her family that she'd hoped wouldn't happen to her, but even so, they had treated their son with care. He didn't know what to do with himself now that he was alone in the world. He wasn't bad looking, but he hadn't found a woman who he'd fall for, though he'd met a fair number of women who he was certain would never be able to make him happy.
He roamed around the streets, wandering aimlessly while knowing not what to do. What could he do? He'd lost the only family he had. He was willing to do anything to bring them back, but sadly, he couldn't find a way. And even if he could, they might not even be the same after that, so what was the point? They were gone. No longer a part of this world. The sorrow filled him all over, not letting him get a moment's rest. Finally, he had had enough and was willing to jump off a building when a man stopped him and offered him to become a test subject, since they could always need more subjects and he would get handsomely paid. The money he didn't care for, but if he could help society in some way, even a little, he'd do it. With that, he started his life as a test subject.
One day after around two decades since he became a test subject, however, they started to take bigger, more lethal risks. The scientists injected yet another drug into him that they felt was perfected for the purpose of the experiment, and it proved to be right of them to do so. He now had enhanced agility, which he tested out against numerous obstacles that the scientists had made for him. He ran quickly over a spiky field, avoiding all spikes that came out of the walls and floor. He dodged lasers with ease, bullets were a bit of a problem, but not unavoidable, and he could climb walls so long as he could get a good grip. This, however, was the start of his mutation. You see, what no one knew was that the drug was messing with his brain, slowly yet effectively. It wasn't making him crazy, but it did slowly make him uncaring and foul. However, the scientists didn't notice because the effect was going over so slowly, they just kept with experimenting.
They tested his agility again, but this time he got hurt badly on one of the lasers. They brought him a drug that made his skin heal, but it had a nasty side effect they didn't anticipate. The skin healing effect lasted for about a week, but in the meanwhile, he gained another power. He gained the ability to assimilate technology. He found out when he touched one of the computers and started to fuse with it. He wasn't scared, since he figured it was just another effect of one of the experiments, but he still found it interesting. He tried it with one of the laser machines, and found that he now had a laser on his hand. But since this was a new thing for him, he couldn't control the laser. The scientists found out, and found it really interesting. They gave him different sets of technological equipment, and with each of them, he became more and more able to control his power and use the equipment he was handed. Once the skin healing went away, they thought his technology assimilation would as well. Imagine their surprise when he assimilated one of the fridges by accident.
Still he became more uncaring, never bothering to do small talk with the scientists like he had done before, just doing the experiments because he had to. He and the scientists noticed that whenever he assimilated, his skin got a little more shade of gray. Interesting, but totally useless to him as of that moment. Yet another experiment they had for him was to expose him to radiation, not just for the heck of it, but they wanted to see how long he could withstand it. They didn't anticipate that most of the experiments they'd done on him over the years would rebel against his body, making his body develop various diseases which would kill any ordinary man. When they got him away from the radiation, they had to put on suits to not get exposed themselves, because Virus was now glowing. They got him to a room which was safe and kept him there, trying to find a way to cure him. They kept an eye on him occasionally, but what they didn't know is that he was planning to escape and used every opportunity he could to control this newfound power. With time, his diseases seemingly disappeared and they let him out of the room.
However, he wasn't as happy to see them as they were to see him alright. He managed to grab one of the scientists and inject him with one of the many diseases he had inside of him, causing the man's throat to swell up at an alarming rate and made him suffocate because he couldn't breath. The others tried to hold him down while one of them looked for a way to detain him, but they couldn't. One touch of him meant that they were endangering themselves and thus he could spread more diseases towards them. Once the two that were on him were out of the way, only two remained. They were scared of him. They fled, not looking back to see how close he was. However, they'd forgotten his enhanced agility, which made it easy for him to catch up to them. He grabbed one, mimicking an illness that made his eyes bleed and his head to feel like it was exploding. He was as good as dead, yet he wasn't allowed to die just yet. The last one managed to escape outside, but realized what he'd done in his fear. He'd let out a monster. Virus quickly caught up with him and fired the laser he had previously assimilated when he first discovered his assimilating power. The scientist couldn't escape and with a few shots from the laser, he was killed.
He was free. He could do what he wanted. He had new motivation. He would assimilate all the technology into his body in order to take revenge on the world for what had been done to him, having forgotten because of the agility enhancing drug why he was there in the first place. But, there was something he would do before doing that. He went back into the lab to assimilate all he could, his skin turning more and more gray, and the clothes on his back being torn apart because assimilating technology is not friendly to clothes. Side effects of the assimilation were showing, as his gender became unclear, his nether region becoming like that of a plastic doll, his eyes whitening more until there were no signs of irises or anything other than the whites in his eyes, and his hair becoming white. Once he was done assimilating all he could, he was practically more machine than man. But it came with a price. He now had a charge slot in his back and fingers and he was aware of the energy that flowed in him, like he could see a percentage in his mind. He secluded himself inside the building, working for hours and days on making a charge station for himself so that he wouldn't need to worry. Once he was finished, he sat down on the charging throne he had made for himself, because he wanted to charge in style, and sat there for a long while. He wouldn't need to worry about intruders, since he had also made sure to put traps and devices that would hinder any and all intruders from getting to him and putting an end to him. The world would soon learn to fear the power of Virus, were his last thoughts before his long charge...
Other notes: Virus talks like a mix between a man and a machine, with a constant mechanical monotone which is rarely raised or lowered unless aggravated or hurt.
Alias: Virus
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Appearance: Virus has gray skin and empty looking eyes, white as snow. He's got short white hair on the top of his head, but no hair anywhere else. He's tall, being around 7 feet, but weight is always changing due to his assimilating powers. He does not wear clothes, but he doesn't have any distinquishing features in his nether regions. He looks to have some form of muscle on him, not looking like a wrestler on steroids, but not looking frail either. His skin has hardened over time due to all the technology assimilation he's done, but you can still wound him, just not with conventional melee weapons. He's got some kind of lines all over his body which show something moving along them which is green in color. He's usually seen with whatever latest technology he's assimilated into his body. When he needs to charge, his fingers and back open up to reveal charge-slots which he inserts the chargelines into. The charge slots in his fingers also double as a technological key, giving him access to most technology aside from the higher level locked ones.
Personality: Virus is as cold as can be. He doesn't care what happens around him so long as he makes sure others know he's the one in charge around. He never allows himself to show any kind of emotion or expression when around others, his eyes giving a cold look towards everyone. He doesn't hesitate to kill, though he does seem to take some sick enjoyment out of making others suffer with his disease mimicry. Not that he'd allow anyone to see it, of course, but you get the feeling he does once you see him do it. He will show emotion should you hurt him, but aside from that, he remains as emotionless and cold as he can. He likes to speak in Royal We, that is to say, referring to himself in plural, as if he were a part of some sort of legion, thinking very highly of himself.
Alignment: Supervillain
Superpowers: Virus is capable of agility which surpasses most, if not all, other humans. It allows him to dodge almost everything thrown his way, and to scale anything he can so long as he's able to get a grip. He sprints quickly and should he be faced with an obstacle, he'll leap over it like it was nothing. In a fight he'll be able to dodge easily due to calculating where the hit will go, but this isn't fully accurate, so he is hittable. He just evades most things well.
Virus is also able to assimilate most technology he can find and use it immediately due to training his skill well. So long as he's able to touch it, at least. If he were to assimilate a computer, he would go over all the files in it at a great speed in order to find what he wanted. If he were to assimilate a tool, he would be able to use it without direct electricity as it would have been intended to, but it would use up his charge a bit faster than if he didn't use it. Almost everything that he's assimilated over time he is able to use again so long as he remembers he has it.
Virus doesn't call himself Virus for no reason. He is able to mimick and spread various diseases, illnesses and viruses. He does need to be in close range to even spread it via air, but he will do it and he will not hesitate. He's also able to combine his technological assimilation and disease mimicry abilities to create devastating computer viruses.
Weaknesses: Virus is not without his limits. Due to being part technology, liquid is not friendly to him. He can't be completely soaked in it without it fucking him up and making him helpless, but he can withstand a small amount for a short time. Should it rain, he would stay inside rather than risk it outside.
Again, due to being part technology, he mostly needs to charge in order to be any sort of threat, and that charge can last him a very long time, three or four days at least if he uses it a lot, a week at best if he does little to use it. That however is a problem for him. He relies so much on his technology, that when his charge runs out, he has to rely on his human side. While his human side is strong and agile, it isn't as strong and agile as his technological side, and if he has to use his human side, he will only use it to get back to his station as quickly as he can to charge again.
He is also vulnerable while charging, because it takes around 24 hours or so if he's run out of charge. He has taken measures to ensure that he's safe while charging, but if anyone would get through those measures, he'd be at his most vulnerable, though only at first while charging because he has such low charge when he's run out of it and has to wait until he's at about 10% before he can do anything else.
Biography: Anything after Virus was made into what he is today is unknown. It got deleted from his memory because of a certain event that he doesn't remember now. But what he has forgotten is certainly interesting.
Virus used to be just a normal man, living a normal life, working a normal job. Or as normal as can be, considering he worked as a test subject for various experiments at a laboratory. It was never anything lethal that the scientists there did to him, at least not at first. Some pills that made you grow scales, but retracted them along with all your nails after a few minutes. That was a painful day in his job. Another experiment involved a drug that enhanced your speed, but problems with it was that you couldn't sleep. Had to stay like that until he could eventually urinate the drug out. There were other boring experiments, like growing hair all over his body, giving him laser-shooting eyes, which was only boring because of how much they'd done that before but were never able to not make the eyes of previous subjects burn out literally, although that ability disappeared after a week, and making him grow horns on his head, which strangely made him also grow longer and stronger nails, apparently a side effect.
You might wonder why he did such a thing. The truth of the matter was, he had nothing to risk. He was alone, having moved away from his parents at the age of 20 and living well enough for a while. Until five years later when a tornado went over his parent's small hometown and everything was destroyed. He was never the same after that. He'd been an only child, since his mother had only been able to birth him before she became sterile. It was a disease in her family that she'd hoped wouldn't happen to her, but even so, they had treated their son with care. He didn't know what to do with himself now that he was alone in the world. He wasn't bad looking, but he hadn't found a woman who he'd fall for, though he'd met a fair number of women who he was certain would never be able to make him happy.
He roamed around the streets, wandering aimlessly while knowing not what to do. What could he do? He'd lost the only family he had. He was willing to do anything to bring them back, but sadly, he couldn't find a way. And even if he could, they might not even be the same after that, so what was the point? They were gone. No longer a part of this world. The sorrow filled him all over, not letting him get a moment's rest. Finally, he had had enough and was willing to jump off a building when a man stopped him and offered him to become a test subject, since they could always need more subjects and he would get handsomely paid. The money he didn't care for, but if he could help society in some way, even a little, he'd do it. With that, he started his life as a test subject.
One day after around two decades since he became a test subject, however, they started to take bigger, more lethal risks. The scientists injected yet another drug into him that they felt was perfected for the purpose of the experiment, and it proved to be right of them to do so. He now had enhanced agility, which he tested out against numerous obstacles that the scientists had made for him. He ran quickly over a spiky field, avoiding all spikes that came out of the walls and floor. He dodged lasers with ease, bullets were a bit of a problem, but not unavoidable, and he could climb walls so long as he could get a good grip. This, however, was the start of his mutation. You see, what no one knew was that the drug was messing with his brain, slowly yet effectively. It wasn't making him crazy, but it did slowly make him uncaring and foul. However, the scientists didn't notice because the effect was going over so slowly, they just kept with experimenting.
They tested his agility again, but this time he got hurt badly on one of the lasers. They brought him a drug that made his skin heal, but it had a nasty side effect they didn't anticipate. The skin healing effect lasted for about a week, but in the meanwhile, he gained another power. He gained the ability to assimilate technology. He found out when he touched one of the computers and started to fuse with it. He wasn't scared, since he figured it was just another effect of one of the experiments, but he still found it interesting. He tried it with one of the laser machines, and found that he now had a laser on his hand. But since this was a new thing for him, he couldn't control the laser. The scientists found out, and found it really interesting. They gave him different sets of technological equipment, and with each of them, he became more and more able to control his power and use the equipment he was handed. Once the skin healing went away, they thought his technology assimilation would as well. Imagine their surprise when he assimilated one of the fridges by accident.
Still he became more uncaring, never bothering to do small talk with the scientists like he had done before, just doing the experiments because he had to. He and the scientists noticed that whenever he assimilated, his skin got a little more shade of gray. Interesting, but totally useless to him as of that moment. Yet another experiment they had for him was to expose him to radiation, not just for the heck of it, but they wanted to see how long he could withstand it. They didn't anticipate that most of the experiments they'd done on him over the years would rebel against his body, making his body develop various diseases which would kill any ordinary man. When they got him away from the radiation, they had to put on suits to not get exposed themselves, because Virus was now glowing. They got him to a room which was safe and kept him there, trying to find a way to cure him. They kept an eye on him occasionally, but what they didn't know is that he was planning to escape and used every opportunity he could to control this newfound power. With time, his diseases seemingly disappeared and they let him out of the room.
However, he wasn't as happy to see them as they were to see him alright. He managed to grab one of the scientists and inject him with one of the many diseases he had inside of him, causing the man's throat to swell up at an alarming rate and made him suffocate because he couldn't breath. The others tried to hold him down while one of them looked for a way to detain him, but they couldn't. One touch of him meant that they were endangering themselves and thus he could spread more diseases towards them. Once the two that were on him were out of the way, only two remained. They were scared of him. They fled, not looking back to see how close he was. However, they'd forgotten his enhanced agility, which made it easy for him to catch up to them. He grabbed one, mimicking an illness that made his eyes bleed and his head to feel like it was exploding. He was as good as dead, yet he wasn't allowed to die just yet. The last one managed to escape outside, but realized what he'd done in his fear. He'd let out a monster. Virus quickly caught up with him and fired the laser he had previously assimilated when he first discovered his assimilating power. The scientist couldn't escape and with a few shots from the laser, he was killed.
He was free. He could do what he wanted. He had new motivation. He would assimilate all the technology into his body in order to take revenge on the world for what had been done to him, having forgotten because of the agility enhancing drug why he was there in the first place. But, there was something he would do before doing that. He went back into the lab to assimilate all he could, his skin turning more and more gray, and the clothes on his back being torn apart because assimilating technology is not friendly to clothes. Side effects of the assimilation were showing, as his gender became unclear, his nether region becoming like that of a plastic doll, his eyes whitening more until there were no signs of irises or anything other than the whites in his eyes, and his hair becoming white. Once he was done assimilating all he could, he was practically more machine than man. But it came with a price. He now had a charge slot in his back and fingers and he was aware of the energy that flowed in him, like he could see a percentage in his mind. He secluded himself inside the building, working for hours and days on making a charge station for himself so that he wouldn't need to worry. Once he was finished, he sat down on the charging throne he had made for himself, because he wanted to charge in style, and sat there for a long while. He wouldn't need to worry about intruders, since he had also made sure to put traps and devices that would hinder any and all intruders from getting to him and putting an end to him. The world would soon learn to fear the power of Virus, were his last thoughts before his long charge...
Other notes: Virus talks like a mix between a man and a machine, with a constant mechanical monotone which is rarely raised or lowered unless aggravated or hurt.
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