Growing up with a mother working in law enforcement, and a father working as a psychiatrist, Connor had two fairly busy parents, though they did their best to spend time as often as they could with their son as he grew up. It also meant living with the knowledge that his mother was in a fairly risky job, which, when Connor was around 15 years old, was proven, as his mother one day was shot on the job. Fortunately, she survived, but the injury she sustained forced her to retire from the force, and look for a job that wasn’t physically demanding. Despite this, Connor remained interested in pursuing the same line of work that his mother had been in, and both his parents remained supportive of his decision, even though they naturally had some concerns.Fast forwards until Connor is 24, he’s finished his degree in psychology, around the same time that he is promoted to detective, and despite his young age, Connor quickly earns a reputation within the force as one of the most promising detectives on the force, and there’s a lot of talk going around about his near-flawless work during interrogations in particular. A few years later, he is promoted to a criminal profiler. In present time, he’s still working as a detective and profiler, having done so for closing in on 20 years now. Both his parents are still alive and well, and he visits them often.

|| Note: As with canon The Boys characters, this is meant to be a parody of other superheroes, and Daniel is mainly inspired by the Winter Soldier, with some influences from some other superheroes. I do not claim to own those ideas, nor do I intend to profit off them lol, I'm just here to write him as a hobby and have fun. ||Daniel was born in 1915, in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James and Lillie Carter. Dan's parents were a wealthy couple, with James being a prominent industrialist owning half the steel mills in the state. James was a typical case of toxic masculinity, and while he and Lillie started out as a happy couple, once Daniel came into their lives, their differences was only magnified by their disagreement on how to raise their child, causing some friction in their relationship. James wanted to raise his son with a strict hand, while Lillie felt her husband was too harsh on their boy, and would often come to Daniel's defense. After all, he was just a kid, and still learning. Despite their difference in parenting, Lillie got pregnant with their second child. At only four years old, Daniel was initially not happy with the idea of a younger sibling, however Lillie managed to convince him it would be a good thing, and Daniel became more excited to meet his baby sibling as the birth drew closer.The excitement was short-lived when the day finally arrived. While Dan's baby brother, Benjamin, was brought into the world without any health issues of his own, Lillie did not survive giving birth to him. Something broke in their father at the loss of his wife. What had already been a cold and strict father figure turned neglectful and verbally abusive. Daniel was not allowed to talk about his mother. James spent more time at work, and away from home, finding himself blaming his youngest son for Lillie's death, and feeling the need to be away from him as much as possible. When he was home, he would express his pain through verbal abuse, mainly towards Benjamin, although Daniel would also suffer it from time to time, especially when trying to stand up for his little brother. Daniel himself became depressed at the sudden and unexpected loss of his mother, though after a couple of years when he had become a little older, he made a silent promise to look after Benjamin for her, like she had done for him, as she no longer was there to do so.While still in school, their father would eventually send Ben away to a boarding school, leaving Daniel alone with their father. The verbal abuse lessened when Ben was away, and it became evident that James' main issue was with Ben, not Daniel, something Daniel couldn't help but feel bad about, even if it wasn't his fault. Finishing high school, Daniel joined the military in 1935. About four years later, the second world war in human history started.Daniel was part of the US Military during the war, and helped fight against the Axis powers. Unfortunately, he would never return home, and become one of the many soldiers who was classified as MIA. As his father was notified of this, he could only further look upon his youngest son with disdain when he found out that Ben had become a supe, as in James' eyes, Daniel had served and likely died for his country and for the world like a "real man", while Ben, who had taken an experimental drug and gained superpowers, had, in James' eyes "cheated".However, Daniel was still alive, taken captive by enemy forces who sought to replicate the US' creation of a super soldier. Having gotten their hands on some of the experimental Compound V from a contact within Vought, they injected Daniel with it, and as a result, he gained super abilities; increased strength, reflexes, speed, durability, agility, senses, slowed aging, fast healing, although with limits as he can't heal lost limbs. Decades of being put through experimentation, physical and psychological torture and brainwashing later, Daniel has been molded into a sleeper agent / assassin. Any memory of his past life has been pushed so far into his subconscious that they deem it no risk of resurfacing, and he has been programmed to carry out orders without the capability to resist if given specific commands. As such, he has been given two new identities; one for when he is not on an active mission and needs to blend in with the public; Daniel Lewis. And one for when he is on an active mission, forced to carry out orders by his captors, which has been given the alias Phantom Sniper.Who his captors are remains a mystery. All that is for certain is that they were not on either side during WWII, but fought for their own, shady causes, seeking to ultimately bring down the current powers across the world, to further their own agenda.

elizabeth hunter was just an ordinary human, trying to establish a life for herself when it happened. one day, having finished work late, a vampire attacked her on her way home, and force-fed her his blood, turning her into a vampire. offering to help and guide her through her transformation and teach her about vampire customs, lizzie refused and left to find her own way to deal with her transformation. once the bloodlust came, she decided to try and feed on animals instead of humans, and much to her surprise, while it didn't taste good, it sated her thirst for blood, and she didn't even need to kill the animals, just drink some of their blood.around ten years later, give or take, she fell in love with a mortal named james hall. for two whole years they were in love, and james never knew about her secret; that she was a vampire. however, once she found out she had become pregnant, james, not feeling ready for the responsibility of being a father, left her. jace was born 9 months later, on the night of september 23rd. half human, half vampire, the boy didn't display any signs of lust for blood, or having any enhanced abilities that vampires had. all in all, he seemed entirely human. and so, she kept her secret of her true nature from her son as she raised him, believing he was better off not knowing. just as she told him that his father had died before he was born to spare him of growing up wondering why his dad had left him.believing she would never find love again, lizzie put all her focus on raising the boy, teaching him the most important values of being kind and caring and understanding and to not be afraid to be curious and ask questions. when jace had become five years old, his mother found what she never thought she would. she fell in love with another mortal — his name was david williams. they moved in together a year later, though little did they know that they both held secrets from one another; she never told him she was a vampire, and he never told her his 'work' was actually being a hunter of supernatural creatures.jace had a decent relationship with his stepfather the first few years after he entered their lives. however, when jace was around twelve years old, his curiosity got the better of him. wondering why his mother sometimes left late at night, jace followed her one night, through the woods, to a farm nearby, only to witness her feeding on one of the farm animals there. she didn't kill it, but the sight was enough to scare him — he'd never seen his mother like that; sharp fangs, attacking a living creature, it's blood smeared across her mouth. startled, he kept it to himself what he had witnessed for a few weeks— avoiding his mother more than usual, finding himself spending more time around david instead, trying to get to know him better, to figure out if he could be trusted. which, after a few weeks, jace felt like he could. and so, stupidly, instead of asking his mother, he told david about what he had seen.that's when everything took a change for the worse.david, having become a hunter after a vampire killed his daughter, did not take the information well. the love he once had felt for lizzie, gone in a second — jace could clearly see the rage and hatred in his stepfather's eyes as he left the room without a word. following after him into one of the other rooms, jace stood watching as david pushed a drawer aside to uncover a secret stash of weapons. terrified, jace asked him what he was doing, only to be told to wait there. but of course, jace, fearing that david would hurt his mother, refused, and tried to grab david's arm to stop him. but david, in a blind rage, elbowed the boy in the face before going towards the kitchen where lizzie was making dinner.having been knocked back, it took a second for jace to hurry after him, and by the time he reached the kitchen, david was standing there, a blood-stained machete in his hands, and jace's mother lying there on the floor, her head decapitated. horrified, the boy tried to run away, but david quickly caught him, telling jace that he had done him a favor; that his mother was a monster, that she was dangerous, but that there might still be hope for him. confused and not knowing what to believe, but most of all absolutely terrified of this sudden change in david, jace could only nod as he cried silently.after that, jace was kept under constant surveillance by his stepfather for a long time while they moved away from jace's hometown, to stay on the road, a lot of sleepless nights in motels. david told him that his mother had been a vampire, and that if he hadn't killed her, she might have killed innocents. he explained how he himself was a hunter of these monsters- these killers. then, when jace became a teenager, his vampire half finally started to show. sunlight started to become painful to him and he started to hear and smell things further away. david, being a hunter, picked up on the signs quickly — and things went from bad to worse.realizing that jace was half vampire, david started taking his hatred for vampires out on jace, by physically abusing him, beating him any time jace expressed doubts about his mother having been dangerous, or when he expressed doubts that all supernatural creatures were evil. david would also mentally abuse him by telling jace that he was a monster and that the only way for him to redeem himself was to follow david's orders, and that if he didn't, david would kill him.jace, broken down by david's constant abuse, became obedient, trying his best to follow david's every order out of fear that david would beat him, or worse, kill him. once david finally trusted jace had learned the lessons david was trying to teach him, david started teaching him to become a hunter like himself — and much to jace's surprise, he found that he actually liked being a hunter, because it allowed him to take out all the pain and hurt he felt inside on other supernatural creatures (because if there was one thing his stepfather approved of, it was violence towards "monsters,") and finally feel in control of something. and not only did jace like hunting, but his stepfather seemed to approve of him more after seeing jace hurting and killing these creatures, believing that jace finally understood that all monsters were evil.personality wise, jace has a lot of hurt inside, a lot of trauma he carries, not only from the past, but from the present, and he's driven by a need to survive more than anything, causing him to act how he believes will best keep him away from the danger that is his stepfather if he manages to piss him off. deep down, jace is still that scared little boy who saw his mother get killed, but it takes a lot of trust for him to open up and let someone see that vulnerable side of him. jace struggles a lot with depression, anxiety, self-hatred and self-destructive tendencies due to the abuse from his stepfather, though he's pretty talented at hiding it behind a mask of charm and a feigned self-confidence. a mask which really only breaks when he's around david. around david, jace has to constantly suppress his emotions as any opinions diverging from david's own tends to make him angry, and so, when jace is not around him, he's got a short temper (anger that he secretly wishes to take out on david, but is too afraid to, so he takes it out on others instead,) he hates being told what to do and can quickly go from charming and sweet to cold, defensive and aggressive.

NOTE:   This is a dual muse, and Ramreth and Jack usually come as a package deal, unless plotted otherwise (e.g. before Jack makes the deal with Ramreth.)This muse is heavily inspired by A Nightmare on Elm Street, so disclaimer that the idea of dream demons and their goals is not of my own creation. However, the characters Ramreth and Jack Davis very much is of my own creation, and while I am strongly inspired by the concept of A Nightmare on Elm Street, do not expect any of the canon of that universe to actually apply to my muses. Again, it's the concept I'm inspired by, not the actual canon.

Born to Frank and Helen Davies, Jack Davies' childhood was filled with pain and torment. During his first year alive, his mother attempted to kill her newborn son. Jack's father walked in just in time to "save" their sons life, but in a blind rage, Frank killed Helen. Being the owner of a farm, Frank fed his wife's remains to his pigs, and whatever was left after the pigs had fed, was ground up and mixed in with the fertilizers for his acres. Though Frank had saved his son from death's grasp, it was not out of any love for the child, as Jack would continue be abused at his father's hands, the severity only growing the older he became, along with an increased isolation from the rest of the world, as his father forced him to learn how to help out and tend to the farm.With a complete lack of love, affection or safety growing up, it severely damaged Jack's psyche. The repeated pain he was put through left him practically incapable of experiencing positive feelings, and with an increasing urge toward violence in order to obtain power and control. After all, violence was all he knew. But he couldn't help but dream of the day when it would no longer be him on the receiving end of it. Where he would be the one to carry out the punishments instead.One day, a couple of years into Jack's adulthood, during one of Frank's verbal assaults, he revealed what had happened to Jack's mother, leaving out the part where she had tried to kill Jack first, then threatened that he would do the same to Jack if he did not behave. Trouble was, Frank was getting older, and Jack was in his peak years, and had a lot of bottled up hatred towards his father. So, to overpower him was easy. Killing him easier still. He didn't even need to come up with a plan to get rid of the body. His father had just told him of the perfect way to do it before Jack had driven a pitchfork through his head.Since that day, Jack took over as the owner of the Davies Family's Farm. As this was before modern times, the police never caught wind of what had happened on the farm, nor of the crimes that would continue to be committed there, because Jack would not stop after killing his father. Instead, he continued to lure his victims onto the farm, where he would lock them in his cellar, torture them for weeks before killing them, disposing of their bodies the same way he had killed his father. The same way his father had killed his mother.Skip forward about two decades, Jack had killed 37 people, and it was his 38th that would officially put him on the suspect list. And it was in this moment of desperation that he first met Ramreth. A nightmare demon, who offered him a deal; it would help him be cleared of any suspicion and ensure that he would be able to continue his twisted work for however long he desired, as he would be granted immortality and power beyond his imagination, if he agreed to merge with Ramreth.Jack was hesitant at first, wondering if he was simply losing his sanity under the pressure of being under suspicion by the police, but eventually agreed to the deal after Ramreth proved it's existence without doubt. After merging with Ramreth, Jack gains immortality and the power to control dreams / nightmares, and if he kills someone in said dream, they also die in real life. This opened up new doors for Jack to kill without having to worry about leaving behind evidence, as he could enter their dreams and kill them however he wished there, while physically being away from them in the real world, leaving nothing for the police to find.Ramreth does have an ulterior motive with all of this, which is to break down the barrier between the dream world and the real world, but in order to do so, he needs someone from the real world to shed enough blood and cause enough death in the dream world, which is where Jack comes in, serving as an agent for Ramreth's cause.

growing up with two parents who were hunters, they raised joey into becoming a hunter from an early age, teaching him both the theoretical as well as the practical sides of hunting, including how to hurt or kill various creatures, how to use weapons, how to fight without weapons, how to assess a situation and make the best decision to survive, etc. aside from the tough struggles of learning how to kill, joey was raised to be kind and understanding, and not immediately assume that all supernatural beings are deserving of death, as his parents had learned that there were, in fact, vampires, werewolves, etc, who had learned to live without killing or hurting others.joey was also taught by his parents how to make a living out of being a hunter, so that he didn’t need to rely so much on breaking the law by stealing and doing fraud to get by. this included taking on non life-threatening cases, such as helping people haunted by a loved one who has something unresolved that still ties them to the mortal realm, helping the spirit move on, etc, for payment.as he came of age, joey entered the military, as it provided a more official training in survival skills, strategy, fighting, weapons, and other skills that could also be useful for hunting later on. he went on to be a soldier in one of the wars america got involved in, and served for three years overseas, before returning home. during the war, he and fellow soldiers ended up receiving help from a small group of vampires, leading to victories that might've otherwise been losses, only further proving his parents' point that not all vampires are evil.still in his twenties, after returning home, joey crossed paths with ellen harvelle and would stop by the roadhouse from time to time when the cases he worked on were in the nearby area. it was her that inspired him to start up a bar of his own, with the help of a few fellow hunters he had befriended, in an area that had yet to have a place for hunters to gather. they named the bar "the squadron", and would take shifts running the place while the others were out hunting.with practically his whole life being centered around the hunting life, joey had always struggled with knowing his own personality and identity, feeling like a stranger to himself, someone who really only existed to help others. the bar gave him an opportunity to get some time away from "the field" so to speak, to catch a break and get some semblance of normalcy. however, having spent so much time only ever focusing on what he can do for others, he's having a hard time knowing what it is he needs.

❛❛ HAVE YOU EVER IRONICALLY SAID THE WORDS 'I'M SO DEAD' and had a random heart attack, or a piano fall on your head, or fallen down a set of stairs suddenly appearing at your feet and broken your neck, and suddenly, you find yourself in the afterlife? of course you haven’t. unless you happen to have an extremely unfortunate timing. or, i guess, fortunate, depending on how you look at it, because let’s face it, as far as last words go, that might be one of the cooler ones, if only because it’s so ironic… for me, it has happened surprisingly a lot. hi. i’m john.this is where people usually ask how i got here. well... after they ask me if i’m god. i can understand the confusion, but no, i’m not.i was born to two very normal, very human parents. and they thought that i was normal, too. until i learned to talk, that is. let’s just say i’ve given my parents a heart attack on several different occasions during my childhood because as a kid, you want a lot of things, and you want to experience a lot of things, and you have an incredible desire to explore as well as a great imagination. like, wanting to live on the moon, or having a dragon as a pet, even though dragons are pretty big, and you live in a small apartment in the middle of the city. the neighbors weren’t too happy about that one. not my parents, either.still, life goes on, and you grow up, and you realize that when you can make everything you want to happen, happen, suddenly things become less interesting. so, you try your best to let things happen without your influence. but let me tell you; ordinary life… it gets pretty boring, too. it’s not like in the movies, or in the books, where there’s supervillains and superheroes and aliens and ghosts and monsters to start shaking things up a bit. no, it’s laura being annoyed at her friend jennifer for leaving her on read, and douchebag paul complaining about his wife to his pals. sure, you’ve got your friends, and you hang out from time to time, and you’ve got your job, and the rent to pay, but nothing ever really happens, you know?that’s what i figured. so, i decided, if i wasn’t going to affect the world around me, i might as well travel. take myself someplace where the action is, where maybe i can do something good while having a good time doing it. i drop by home every now and then. makes sure i go back to the time and place when i last left. no one knows i’ve actually been gone for maybe a hundred years or so now, visiting new universes, new planets, new species, travelling through time, seeing the past and the future. dying a couple hundred times along the way. so, that’s my life. at least the short version of it, anyway. only time will tell what’ll happen next....unless i tell you first.

BEFORE THE OUTBREAK: When Jae-in was born early in August, his mother died during childbirth. A life for a life. That's all his father would say whenever it was brought up, and Jae-in would never learn what his father had meant by that. The first few years of Jae-in's life, it was mostly Jae-in's aunt that looked after the boy while his father was at work, and Jae-in developed a strong connection to his aunt. When Jae-in started school, he mostly led a normal life. Though his father was a strict and at times cold man, making Jae-in feel like a failure and disappointment to his father, at school it was a different story. He made several friends there, and it didn't take long for the boy to realize that the only way to get any attention at all from his father, was when he did something that got him in trouble. And as his aunt was told by his father to be less involved in their life when Jae-in had started school, Jae-in became quite a bit of a troublemaker as a kid. This, however, would eventually come to backfire on him. Despite his trouble-making, however, Jae-in managed to perform well in most of the subjects, seeming to have a natural gift for learning quickly.When Jae-in was 13 years old, his father got a more luxurious job offer in The United States of America, and thus suddenly, Jae-in had to move to an entirely different country and start over. To make matters worse, his father, who had already pondered what to do with Jae-in's increasingly poor behavior, decided that with this new, fresh start, and with the extra money he would earn, he would have Jae-in home-schooled, hiring a private teacher to do so once they had settled into their new home, figuring that the only way to ensure that he learned respect and proper behavior was by removing him from fellow students who might be a poor influence on him, and put him in an environment where all the focus would be given to Jae-in, so that it would be easier for the teacher to lecture him and be a better influence on him.Thus, Jae-in's life quickly went from a life filled with friends he had become as close to as brothers, to a life of loneliness and isolation. His father's plan was mostly successful in that it saw Jae-in's behavior improve, however, for Jae-in, it came at the cost of his mental health taking a dent (Not that he would openly admit to it.) As a result, a part of him resented his father for moving to the US and for not letting him to go a school with other people his age, but the stubbornness in him was determined to prove to his father that he would live up to the challenge his father presented to him.When the time came for Jae-in to either find a job or continue his studies, Jae-in opted to continue his studies, aiming toward medical school. Taking the prerequisite courses needed, he decided to major in psychology, before attending med school. After finishing med school, he finally underwent additional military training and field surgeon preparations, learning how to operate in combat zones, work with limited resources and how to perform surgeries in less than ideal environments, before eventually gaining a job as a military field surgeon at the age of 32.Being deployed as part of a military operation in a conflict zone across seas, Jae-in actively worked for 15 months before returning home. During this time, he witnessed war first-hand, and more importantly, the severe injuries and countless causalities caused by both sides. Though the first couple of months did affect him, he soon found himself becoming desensitized to all the violence and brutality he witnessed, and whether that was a good thing or not in the long run, it did make him more efficient at helping save the life of the soldiers that could be saved.Returning home, though, Jae-in realized that this was not the work he wished to continue doing. Though he knew that saving people was supposed to be an important and honorable job — to him, it felt like a waste of his time and skills. All these soldiers who were scarred for life, who would never live a normal life again, traumatized both by the horrors they'd witnessed as well as their injuries which were often crippling. Could he even say that he had saved them? Or had he just prolonged their suffering? The amount of times they had begged him to put them out of their misery, and the amount of times he had considered doing it... And maybe he should've. Maybe ending their life would have been the kind thing to do. The humane thing to do.It didn't take long after returning home before Jae-in found his true purpose in life. Working as a regular surgeon was not an option. The laws prevented surgeons from saving the lives of those who needed it. Or at least, many of those who needed it who could've gotten help, if not for laws preventing people from selling their organs to those in need. So, he soon found himself involved with the black market. They were always in need of someone with his education, it paid well, and it helped save the lives of those who the law didn't care about.And he continued working as a black market surgeon for four years before it happened.THE OUTBREAK: It paid well to leave morals behind, and though he tried not to do it too often, once in a while, someone would bring him a fresh, dead body and offer him a great sum for the organs within. This time should've been no different. Remove the organs, get paid, easy-peasy. But in the middle of the procedure, the body began to stir. He had heard on the news, several states away, about something strange going on, something about sick people becoming aggressive and violent, but never in his wildest imagination could he have seen what was coming next. The dead man came to life right there on the table. Although came to life was perhaps a bit too generous. A mindless, violent husk of what had once been alive; the body was moving, but the man was certainly still dead.Using his scalpel, Jae-in slit the dead man's throat in hopes that it would kill him, but despite the blood spilling out of his neck and mouth, the corpse fought to get up, trying to bite him in the process. Thankfully, he didn't manage it, or it would've been the end of Jae-in's story that evening. Instead, Jae-in aimed for the brain next, knowing fully well that's the part of the body that controls all the body's functions. And it worked. The body went still. Silence befell the room, as Jae-in and his client both stared at the now lifeless corpse, in shock and horror.After what felt like minutes, Jae-in managed to pull himself back to reality, and grabbed the client, demanding to know what the fuck he had brought with him, but the scared little shit didn't seem to know. Refusing to just let the guy go, he locked him down in the basement with the corpse before heading upstairs, only coming back once to leave the guy some food, before leaving him down there again, as he tried to figure out what to do with him, and the dead body.Just as he had thought out a plan, chaos broke out. People who died were coming back to life. Attacking people. Biting them. Killing them. Eating them.Rushing to the basement, he once again demanded that the guy told him what the fuck was going on, and once more, he insisted he had no idea. Refusing to believe him, he instead locked them both inside the basement. And though he didn't believe the guy had no clue what was happening, he still explained the situation happening in the nearby city to him, and they agreed to stay until things had calmed down. Several days, they spent down there, sharing what little food was left, and storing up water from the sink into bottles, just in case something would happen to the water supply. The first day, they could hear sirens passing by in the distance, weapons being fired, explosions... It persisted for a couple of days, slowly ebbing out more and more into... Nothing.During that time, Jae-in learned that the guy's name was Evan, and that he was paid by some people to kill people like the man who had come back to life. Except this was the first time one of them had come back to life, of course... Jae-in did an improvised autopsy on the body, but found nothing to indicate why that might have happened. On the fifth day, someone on the outside grabbed the door handle and tried to open it. After making sure it was someone alive, Jae-in and Evan let the person in. A woman named Marie. She quickly explained what she had witnessed while out there the past couple of days, the dead becoming monsters, all the people who had tried to leave the city and died, the police and military that had tried to help, and given up, how she had managed to get out herself and all the way here, looking for any other survivors on the way...Long story short, the trio decided to work together to find more people, more supplies and weapons, and try to find a safer place to stay together. Days became weeks became months, became years... There was no safety. The dead were everywhere, and the living were changing along with the traumatic situation and survival instincts kicking in. For Jae-in and the group he was surviving with, there were too many hungry stomachs, too little food, and too little medicine. When the first incident where one person in their group named Daniel got severely injured following an attack by another group, they looked to Jae-in to save him; after all, he used to be a field surgeon back in the day. So, when he deemed Daniel a lost cause, they all took his word for it, as he had given them no reason not to. Jae-in offered to be the one to put Daniel out of his misery, and while he was still unconscious, Jae-in killed him. Returning to the rest of the group, Jae-in lied and told them that he had briefly woken up and Jae-in had told him that he wouldn't make it, upon which Daniel had told him they shouldn't let his death be for nothing. That they all had to do what they needed to, to survive.Jae-in didn't say it outright, but they all knew what that meant, and, driven by the maddening starvation, they all agreed to honor "Daniel's wish". Though Daniel didn't keep them fed for long, and soon, they found themselves starving again. Coming across another hostile group, they were quick to defend themselves, and managed to drive the group off after killing some of them, and they didn't have to debate about what to do with the bodies. There was scarcely any other food to be found at this time of year, and these people had tried to kill them first. It only served them right.It was Jae-in that eventually suggested they started hunting other humans, groups who preyed upon others would now be preyed upon by them. They would cull them out, leaving the world a safer place for the remaining survivors. And so, they started calling themselves The Cullers, which eventually became the official name of their group, with Jae-in becoming their leader, and with each year passing, their hunts became more and more ritualistic, almost like a new religion where they believed that in order to make the world a safe place once more, they needed to cull out the "vultures".

líkr is a parasitic alien shapeshifter. this specific alien parasite is an organism that lives inside other organisms called "the host" and feeds off them in order to grow and be able to multiply more. without a host, a parasite cannot grow and multiply, however it is not uncommon for a larger parasite to consume another organism whole and "copy" it instead.this parasite, which humans eventually come to dub "impostors" are an intelligent, advanced species that's moved from planet to planet over time, each time spreading through hosts until everything living on the planet has been consumed, in which they move on to the next planet. their size depends on how much they've consumed and whether or not they have split off parts of themselves or not. the more they consume, the more they grow, the more they can split themselves off, to then find new hosts to prey on.an impostor can split off very small parts of themselves in order to infect people, but they can also consume a living being whole all at once. whether they do the former or the latter really depends on the individual impostor, as they all have their own personalities in a sense, some being more careful and calculating, biding their time, others being more aggressive and dangerous, but in turn also more reckless.líkr ended up managing to get into a spaceship from earth while about to go from one planet to another, and it intended to consume a single crew member and pose as them until the ship reached it's destination, where it could then start infecting and spreading. however the crew quickly noticed and purposefully stranded the ship near the sun to prevent líkr from being able to reach earth and spread, and unbeknownst to them, also preventing líkr from getting away from the ship at all as leaving the ship while it was that close to the sun would kill it in an instant due to it's vulnerability to fire and heat.in a rare rage, líkr then killed all the crew members and set off a distress signal from the spaceship in hopes that someone might come along on a rescue mission, and after 7 years in solitude, starving and alone, "rescue" finally came in the shape of another spaceship sent on the same mission as the spaceship it was currently on. líkr managed to get onboard it, and this time was able to infect one of the astronauts, and hitch a ride to earth on the spaceship, ensuring that all the other crew was killed by the time it reached the planet, staging a crash landing.after the crash landing, líkr (posing as the astronaut) was found by researchers having arrived at the crash site, and explained to them that the mission had been a success, and that the ship had started to experience issues when preparing to land. being taken in by the researchers and given time to recover, líkr took the first opportunity it got when it was alone with one single researcher and split off a small part of itself to infect the researcher. skip forwards some time, líkr has now multiplied manifold and infected a lot of humans, eventually causing an apocalypse of sorts where people struggle to tell fellow humans from impostors. though the longer time líkr spends among the humans, additionally now carrying the memories of the astronaut, the more líkr starts to sympathize with them and envy them for their more complex and fulfilling life.

when his mother had gotten pregnant with veren, it had been an accidental pregnancy, something which his parents made veren feel often, while growing up in ireland. not that his childhood was all bad, but it was often filled with poor parenting in terms of both of his parents drinking a lot, and not really taking the time to teach veren the things children should be taught, such as right and wrong, etc. unless he did something that directly affected them, they would usually let things slide, though his father could get easily angered if veren did something that directly affected him. at the age of 15, veren and his parents moved to the US, after his mother got a job offer there, and their father managed to land a job there as well.only barely getting through high school, veren was sentenced to a mandatory temporary stay at a psychiatric clinic in order to work on his violent tendencies and anger management issues while in his late teens, after being found guilty of assaulting another student and doing vandalism. if he had been transferred to an actual psychiatric clinic, he would've been diagnosed with ied. however, a section within vought that was working on experimenting with compound v, hoping to stabilize it for use on older individuals than infants, used their influence to have veren sent to their own facility at sage grove center, under the guise of being such a psychiatric clinic. he was then locked away and experimented on through injections of compound v and careful monitoring and testing.veren was one of the fortunate ones to not experience any negative side effects, and the power he gained was one of time manipulation. however, the power was weak at first and would take time to develop, so despite his wishes to leave, he was forced to stay, and unable to make any successful attempts at escaping, as his powers were still limited. when the boys eventually infiltrated the facility, however, veren was one of several supes who escaped.

   time manipulation.    veren has a somewhat limited ability to manipulate time. he can rewind time for about 10-15 minutes before he starts to get physically exhausted, and he can pause time for pretty much as long as he wants without it having any negative effects...as of yet, he's not aware of it, but the more he learns to use his abilities and practices using them, the more he'll be able to use his powers without getting exhausted, and with enough training, he'll be able to do more things with his powers than just rewind or stop time, such as fast-forwarding time, or control time only on certain things or people, such as pausing time only for one person, or rewinding time for only one person, which can be useful for erasing their memories of something recent happening, etc. with enough training, veren could even learn to use his powers to keep his own body from aging, or alternatively, age faster, or reverse his aging, as well as do the same with others. this aspect of his power could also be used to "undo" / "heal" any injuries or illnesses by reversing the time of his or others' bodies to before said injury or illness took place. in other words, unless veren is immediately killed, he could quickly heal himself as if he never was injured in the first place, although this will be verse dependent as it takes him a little time to figure this out.

Alan Wake was born in 1977 to Linda Wake and an unknown father. Since he was born, he suffered from a rare condition that made him overly sensitive to light and prone to migraines. When he was 7 years of age, he was deeply afraid of the dark, to the point that his mother eventually gave him an old light switch she called "The clicker". She told Alan that the light switch had the power to banish the darkness, and that it was a gift from Alan's father. From that point on, Alan was no longer afraid of the dark and kept the clicker in his possession. Alan would later learn that these events had been written into his reality by the poet Thomas Zane.Alan befriended Barry Wheeler at a young age, the two of them often getting into trouble. Alan was typically the one causing this, with Barry bailing them out. Their friendship would continue for years thereafter into their adult lives. In his teen years, Alan became a fan of Stephen King, who inspired him to become a writer when he grew up. Prior to becoming a full-fledged writer, Alan moved to New York City and would often take on odd jobs, with one of them as a night watchman in order to help inspire his upcoming stories. It was during the night watchman job that he met Alice, an aspiring photographer who also came to New York City with dreams of being an artist.Alan's first short story, errand boy, was published in Dark Vision Magazine in November of 1995, when Alan was only eighteen years old. The short story contained many motifs which would become staples of Wake's writing, including absent or mysterious father figures, and a battle between darkness and light. The lighthouse that appeared in this story would also become significant to Wake in his later life. Two years later in 1998, Alan got in trouble with the law for "Public drunkenness and battery", where he was charged the following year in west Hollywood, though avoided jail time. He and Alice later took a road trip in Arizona.Some time later, Barry helped Alan land a job as a writer for the cult television series Night Springs. One of Alan's first scripts written to audition for the show depicted a secret organization, the federal bureau of Night Springs, investigating a parallel dimension. Alan wrote several episodes for the show, and it ultimately kicked off his larger writing career. Alan's name became internationally known when he wrote the first installment in the Alex Casey crime thriller novel series. Alan wrote five more Alex Casey books in the following seven years, all of which were bestsellers. Barry became Alan's literary agent and helped to facilitate his success. Alan also became known for his cantankerous and at times violent personality, which on multiple occasions resulted in altercations with paparazzi. One instance occurred on January 13, 2006 when he assaulted a man named Peter Villadsen when he pushed his camera into his eye. Charges were filed, but Alan avoided jail time for it. Alan also had a history of substance abuse, including heavy drinking.Alan eventually married Alice, who became a talented photographer, the two living in an apartment in parliament tower. After the publication of the last book in the Alex Casey series, the sudden stop, Alan was met with a sudden and immense strain of writer's block, unable to write a word for years. Worrying for her husband, Alice read a book on troubled artists, the creator's dilemma, written by a therapist named Dr. Emil Hartman. Wanting to help Alan recover from his writer's block, Alice took him on vacation to the idyllic town of Bright Falls, Washington, secretly hoping to have him write while there and also meet for dr. Hartman for therapy.Upon arriving at Bright Falls, Alan and Alice visited the oh deer diner to receive keys to their cabin from Carl Stucky. Alan was given the keys by a strange old woman, who directed Alan and Alice to Bird Leg Cabin on Cauldron Lake. That night, Alice revealed to Alan the intent of the trip by presenting him with a typewriter, and Alan, angered over this, stormed off. Moments later, Alice was kidnapped by an unseen force and dragged into the waters of the lake. Alan dove in after her, and blacked out, waking up a week later in a crashed car miles from the lake, with no recollection of how he'd arrived there, or what had happened to Alice after she had disappeared into the lake.Working his way back through the woods, Alan encountered monstrous possessed humans (including Stucky) called the Taken resembling the ones from his dreams, and fought them with light. Alan also found pages of a manuscript of his own writing entitled departure, which he had no recollection of writing. In the manuscript, events were described which Alan discovered were coming true all around him. Alan eventually worked his way to a gas station and contacted sheriff Sarah Breaker, telling her about his wife's disappearance and the cabin on Cauldron Lake. Sarah insisted that the cabin had been destroyed decades prior in an earthquake, and took Alan to the lake to prove it, with Alan shocked to see the cabin gone.Alan was taken to the police station, where he was subsequently contacted by a man named Mott who claimed to have kidnapped Alice. Mott told Alan to meet him at Lover's Peak in Elderwood National Park to negotiate Alice's return. Now accompanied by Barry, who had arrived at Bright Falls to find Alan, Alan headed to the park and worked his way through the Taken to find Mott. Mott demanded that Alan give him the entire manuscript of departure in exchange for Alice, and escaped, with Alan returning to Barry to rescue him from the Taken. The next morning, Barry was contacted by Rose Marigold, a waitress at the diner and fan of Wake's, who claimed to have found Alan's manuscript. Alan and Barry arrived at Rose's trailer park, all while Barry explained to Alan the local history; the cabin on Cauldron Lake was owned by Thomas Zane, a poet, who lost his lover Barbara Jagger when she mysteriously drowned in the lake. A week later, the volcanic earthquakes of Cauldron Lake sank the island, taking Zane with it. According to Barry, all of this information had been written by Cynthia Weaver, a local recluse, with her articles being the only existing record of Thomas Zane's existence.Alan and Barry met with Rose, only to find her under the influence of the Dark Force. Rose knocked out Alan and Barry, who awoke hours later to find the police arriving at the trailer park. Alan was confronted by FBI agent Robert Nightingale, an unstable and drunk individual willing to kill Alan without mercy. Alan escaped as the taken began to attack and kill the police officers, and made his way to Mirror Peak, where the kidnapper had said he'd be waiting for Alan. However, as Alan arrived, he found Mott despairing at the mercy of the Dark Force, which appeared before him in the form of the old woman from the diner. Mott revealed that he never really had Alice and that he'd made up kidnapping her in order to get Wake to cooperate with his boss's wishes. At that point, Alan and mott were hurled off of the edge of a cliff into the waters of Cauldron Lake, with Alan losing consciousness just as an unseen figure pulled him from the lake.Alan awoke in the Cauldron Lake Lodge under the care of Dr. Hartman, who claimed that Alan had suffered a psychotic breakdown as a result of Alice drowning in Cauldron Lake. Alan did not believe Hartman, but cooperated in order to prevent an incident. While staying at the lodge, Alan met Odin and Tor Anderson, former rock musicians who had past experience with the supernatural events in Bright Falls. The Andersons instructed Alan to travel to their farm, where they had hidden a clue to stopping the darkness. The lodge was then attacked by the Taken, giving Alan a chance to escape with Barry. Along the way, Alan discovered that Hartman was the one behind Mott's deception, having used audio recordings of his discussions with Alice to fool Alan into thinking he'd kidnapped him. Hartman's intent was to take advantage of the power in Alan's writings, as he had been attempting to do with the other artists under his care for years.Alan and Barry arrived at the Anderson farm, discovering a record of their song "The Poet and the Muse," which seemed to indicate that Cynthia Weaver was the key to stopping the darkness. That night, Alan, under the influence of the Anderson's moonshine, which had been infused with water from Cauldron Lake, experienced a vision of what happened during the missing week. Alice had been kidnapped by a supernatural force known as the Dark Presence, which enticed Alan to write departure in order to bring her back. Cauldron Lake possessed the power to turn works of art into reality, and by writing departure, Alan was facilitating the Dark Presence's emergence into reality. The Dark Presence had done this once before with Zane in order to bring back Barbara Jagger; however, the end result only saw Jagger return as a demonic shadow of her former self, controlled by the presence. Zane had written himself out of existence to erase what he had done, taking the dark presence back beneath with him. Having realized the Dark Presence's deception, Alan had changed the story of departure, writing himself in as the protagonist and having Zane arrive at the cabin to help Alan escape.In the present day, Alan, upon awakening, was arrested by robert nightingale and brought to the Bright Falls Sheriff Station. That night, the Dark Presence once again attacked, taking Nightingale and forcing Alan, Barry, and Sarah Breaker to flee. The trio headed to the Bright Falls Dam to seek out Cynthia Weaver, who revealed to Alan that Zane had given her the key to the Dark Presence's defeat. Alan found that this was none other than the clicker, which Zane had written into the story to give Alan a fighting chance. Determining that he alone had to stop the Dark Presence and save Alice, Alan left Barry and Sarah behind and headed for Cauldron Lake.Alan arrived at Cauldron Lake and dove into its waters, finding himself in a surreal alternate dimension known as The Dark Place. Unlike Alan's world, the Dark Place was subjective and conceptual, making it subject to manipulation by works of art, which then manifested in reality. Alan navigated the Dark Place with the aid of Zane, in the process encountering a mysterious doppelganger of himself referred to as "Mr. Scratch." reaching the submerged cabin, Alan encountered Jagger, and destroyed her using the clicker. Realizing that the story demanded balance, Alan began writing the ending of departure, allowing Alice to escape from the dark place while trapping himself there indefinitely.Trapped in the dark place, Alan found himself pursued by taken, seemingly controlled by an insane version of himself. Zane appeared before Alan and explained to him the Dark Place's dreamlike nature, stating that Alan had become split into two facets of his existence, with the insane Alan giving in to Alan's doubts and fears, and the rational Alan attempting to restore control. Alan worked his way through the shifting landscape of the Dark Place, evading the chaos brought into existence by the insane Alan, and eventually found his way back to bird leg cabin. Regaining control of his other self, Alan began work on a sequel to departure which would allow him to escape from the Dark Place. This novel was known as Return.For many years, Alan had been trying to write his escape out of the Dark Place, though without any success. Somehow he found himself in a television studio, where he seemingly appeared on a late night talk show called In Between With Mr. Door. On it, the host, mr. Door talked to Alan about writing departure as well as its sequel, Initiation, though Alan could not remember writing Initiation. Mr. Door then questioned if everybody in the studio is just part of his story, and at that moment the lights of the studio went out. As Alan tried to leave the studio, he was attacked and killed by an unseen force.He then woke up in his writer's room, a location he manifested in the Dark Place as a place to write his numerous escape attempts. He realised that he must write Initiation to try once again to escape, as it appeared as a plot summary on his plot board. He began writing, where he once again found himself on the set of In Between With Mr. Door, only this time they talked about his Alex Casey novels, where an actor named Sam Lake was portraying him in movie adaptations of them. The lights went out again, and Alan searched the studio for a way out, where he encountered a man named Ahti, who gave him advice on how to escape. Alan then went to try to find a way out of the Dark Place.Without remembering how, Alan suddenly woke up on the shoreline of Cauldron Lake, only to find that he had been missing for 13 years, and a strong sensation that Mr. Scratch would be coming, and that he needed to be stopped or bad things would happen... This is where most threads will take place.

alastair is a powerful, white-eyed demon who is hell's grand torturer, with the demon meg having apprenticed under him in the field of torture. he's able to travel from hell and earth with incredible ease, something he shares with azazel. dean winchester first encountered alastair in hell, and he was the one in charge of torturing him on orders directly from lilith, as to break the first seal. before this, he had tortured dean's father, john winchester, in hell for over a hundred years (10 months earth time) without john ever breaking.during the 40 years (or 4 months in earth time) that dean was in hell, each day alastair would ask dean if he wanted to trade his place for another soul. for 30 years, he refused and, each day, was chopped and killed and then placed back together, only for the cycle to continue. he couldn't bear the pain much longer and, for 10 years, tortured souls. this made alastair directly responsible for triggering the apocalypse.

Alex was raised in poor conditions, his mother cited spousal abuse against Mahone's father, but he still managed to hold onto custody of Alex, therefore only living with his father, who often abused him. According to Richard Sullins, his father beat him "like a harp seal for the next four years." Due to his lack of options in the work force while in adulthood, he decided to join the military.After leaving his abusive home-life, and not having many other options, Alex joined the military. When the problem of the gulf war arose, he was quickly transferred to special ops. His unit was one of the first on iraqi soil and he was awarded the medal of honor. Later, he became a high ranking special agent of the federal bureau of investigation. He also became married to a woman named Pam, and together, they had a son, whom they named Cameron.At some point during his career as an agent, Alex attempted to capture an escaped prisoner named Oscar Shales, who made the chase almost like a game of cat and mouse, which Alex would later admit would’ve almost been fun, if not for the fact that the escaped prisoner was terrorizing and killing people along the way and kept evading him. Unknown to anyone, however, Alex did eventually manage to track him down, though instead of bringing him in, Alex killed him, and buried him in his own back yard.This is an action Alex would become traumatized by, and he became addicted to a drug called veratril, to help calm him down. Realizing that Pam and his son deserved better than what he could give them, with his action hauting him, his new addiction and the dulled state the drugs left him in, he divorce his wife, saying he wanted both her and his son out of the house, believing it was the best way to protect them and ensure at least they got the happy life they deserved, away from him.After another prisoner named Michael Scofield successfully orchestrated the escape of eight prisoners from Fox River State Penitentiary, Alex was assigned to spearhead the task force assembled to bring in the fugitives. At the same time, Alex was also approached by a secret organization called The Company, which threatened to reveal to his peers the truth about Oscar Shales if Alex did not capture and kill all the escaped prisoners, as (unknown to Mahone) they had been the ones to frame Scofield's brother. With the threat of not only losing his job, but ending up in prison hanging over him should his secret come out, Alex started doing as he was told, and managed to kill two of the escaped prisoners, both instances traumatizing him further as he genuinely believed they didn't deserve to be in prison, much less die, to the point where Alex attempted to back out of the deal, no longer caring what the company would do to him.However, as the company began threatening his ex-wife and five year old son, Alex was forced to continue following their orders. However, along the way, as Michael and his brother escape to Panama, Alex comes up with a plan to frame the brothers of murder of one of the men working for The Company, a man named Kim. Keeping Michael’s brother at gunpoint, Alex calls Michael and tells him he wants the money they stole and their boat, and refrains from telling them he’s also called Kim and told kim to meet him at the same address because he’d caught Michael and his brother, all in order to frame Michael and his brother for Kim’s death, as Alex intended to kill Kim before leaving. However, his plan fails, and he’s only able to get the money and the boat while Kim still lives.Sailing away, Alex is soon arrested, as it turns out Michael had set up his own trap for Alex and planted a large amount of drugs in the boat and tipped the cops about it, leading to Alex being arrested and taken to Sona Prison. Michael, however, ends up getting imprisoned in Sona as well during different events shortly after.Starting to experience withdrawal symptoms, and knowing that there was no way he would get out of prison unless he found a way to escape, Alex attempted to convince Michael to let him in on his plans of escaping, as he knew Michael planned on escaping. Finding his withdrawals to become too much, Alex became addicted to stronger drugs that he got his hands on in prison. However, he eventually managed to fight his addiction and escape with Michael, along with a man named James Whistler, whom Michael had been forced by The Company to break out of prison, lest his girlfriend gets killed.After escaping Sona, Alex then joins Whistler and Gretchen in making plans on how to take down The Company, which has screwed with all their lives and seemed to be behind everything bad that has happened in all of their lives. They start working with Homeland Security to destroy The Company. Alex later contacts Michael and tries to convince him to join them in taking down The Company, needing his expertise to help steal 5 different cards from The Company, which is believed to contain all of The Company’s secrets. However, mid-way of explaining everything, one of The Company’s men, named Wyatt, shows up and kills Whistler. Michael escapes. So does Alex, only to come home and find that his son has been killed by The Company, by the very same man that killed Whistler. Still wanted, Alex gets arrested immediately as he arrives at the crime scene of his son’s death.Michael, knowing Alex’s expertise will be a great asset in taking down the company, pulls some strings to have Alex secretly released from prison to join them in finding the company’s cards so they can finally bring down the company and regain their own freedom. Alex agrees, though affected by his son’s death, he sets out to find his son’s killer as well.

Andrea used to work as a civil rights lawyer before the outbreak. After the outbreak, she joined a group that made a camp outside Atlanta, led by a deputy named Shane Walsh. Once Shane’s partner and best friend, Rick Grimes joined the group, tension between Rick and Shane started to form as the group started to rely more on Rick’s decisions than Shane’s, thus Rick becoming more of a leader to them. Andrea, however, more often would agree with Shane than Rick, seeing Shane as someone who had come to accept the harsh reality of this new situation they had found themselves in, and more importantly, accept what they had to do in order to survive.Looking for a safe place to stay, the group eventually came across Hershel’s farm, where they were allowed to stay. Though as a herd eventually found it’s way to the farm, Andrea got split up from the rest of the group, and ended up on her own. She eventually crossed paths with another woman named Michonne, and the two survived together for about eight months until they eventually was captured and taken to a town called Woodbury, ran by a man they called The Governor. Andrea, finding a lot of hope in the place that had over 70 survivors in total, who all seemed to live happy and safe, decided to stay while Michonne, who didn’t trust their leader, left.Andrea would eventually come to learn that everything was not as it appeared in Woodbury. That most of the people living there had been shielded from the truth of how they had survived this long. When some of Rick's group suddenly shows up to attack The Governor and his men in order to rescue a kidnapped Maggie and Glenn, chaos breaks out in Woodbury, and Andrea, having followed after The Governor in the chaos, finds him in a secret room in his apartment, with Michonne holding him at gunpoint, as he sits, with a glass shard poking through his eye and with a lifeless child walker in his hands, weeping. Several fish tanks with cut off heads are lined up against the wall, some shattered on the ground. Horrified, she nevertheless tells Michonne to leave as she takes The Governor to their doctor to help treat his injuries after the fight with Michonne. But the sight of the secret room lingers in Andrea's mind all the while, realizing that there's a lot she didn't know about The Governor. Confronting him about the fish tanks, and the fact that he had kidnapped two of her friends behind her back. The Governor tells her the fishtanks were to prepare him for the world outside the walls of Woodbury, and as for her friends, they had killed seven of his people first. Not entirely buying his innocence, she pretends to accept his explanation.Shortly after the chaos has calmed down, mostly thanks to Andrea's efforts, The Governor starts arming the residents with weapons and has his men teach them how to shoot, preparing them for a war against the prison. Despite Andrea's attempts to protect some of the residents, like a teenage boy named Noah who is asthmatic, The Governor dismisses her and continues preparing everyone for the fight. With the help of Milton, Andrea sneaks out of Woodbury and heads to the prison to negotiate on behalf of not The Governor, but the innocent people there, and Rick agrees to meet The Governor for a negotiation. Returning at night to The Governor's apartment, she informs him of this, and they sleep together. However, after The Governor falls asleep, Andrea gets up and grabs a knife, intending to kill him in his sleep. Realizing how it will look, that the people of Woodbury doesn't know her enough yet to trust her, and that they'll likely just put another one of The Governor's men to fill his shoes, she opts against killing him right then and there.( As Andrea dies in canon during this plot arc, what I describe here will be an alternative continuation for any threads set post Andrea's canon death.)Seeing Woodbury as a whole as a place with a lot of wonderful, innocent people, taken advantage of by The Governor, Andrea decides she needs to stay in order to be there for them when they realize what a monster The Governor really is. Realizing that there is no stopping The Governor from taking the people with him to launch an attack against the prison, she lies, saying she wishes to stay behind to defend the place, however, as The Governor and his people set out, she waits just long enough for their cars to be out of sight, before she takes a car of her own and starts following after them. She arrives near the prison just in time to see the Woodbury residents fleeing in cars, with The Governor getting into a car of his own and chasing after them.This time, with no care for if she gets spotted, Andrea drives after them and finds the cars stopped in the middle of the road, and The Governor getting out of his car, blocking the road for the rest of the vehicles, wielding a firearm, ordering them to get back to the prison and continue fighting. As the Woodbury residents refuses, scared and just wanting to return back to Woodbury where it's safe, The Governor starts opening fire on them, upon which Andrea seizes the opportunity. With her rifle, she gets out of her car, aims it straight at him and shouts at him to stop, to get his attention. He regrettably managed to kill three people before she could stop him, and she would feel horrible for not acting sooner, as they might have still been alive if she did. But it was enough for the Woodbury residents to witness for themselves that their leader had lost his mind - if he'd ever had it to begin with.Having learned about the loss of his daugther, who was the zombified child he held in his arms that night, there is a shred of pity left for him in her heart, and so Andrea gives him a choice; either he can leave and never come back, or this can end with him getting a bullet in his head. His choice.He chooses the former. Before he gets to leave, she gets him to remove all his weapons, then tells all the residents to get in the cars and drive back to Woodbury, all the while keeping The Governor at gunpoint, until she's gotten in her own car, and drives off, leaving him alone on the road. Returning to Woodbury, she is warmly welcomed by the people who are grateful for her coming to their rescue, and they appoint her their new leader, upon which Andrea says that they should all work together to lead the community. However, despite her sentiment, she can't prevent people from looking to her for leadership.

|| NOTE: My Starlight is canon divergent in terms of her powers. Instead of it being electricity-fueled, it is fueled by light, and thus also gives her a couple other sub-abilities. She is also canon divergent in terms of season four, in that she never got pregnant. Other than that, I mostly follow the show's canon. Read the rest of this page for more info. ||Annie January was born in 1996, as the only child of Donna January and an unnamed man. Desiring for their child to be special, Annie's parents decided to take Vought's offer to have her injected with Compound V, and be turned into a supe. Afterward, Annie would be groomed by her parents to become a superhero and would grow up in a hyper-religious home. When she would ask about the origins of her powers, her parents would lie and tell her that God gave them to her, further reinforcing her faith in Christianity.Despite Donna and her husband both agreeing to turn Annie into a supe, Annie's father would come to regret his decision due to the guilt of having to lie to his daughter. The guilt would eventually make him leave his family.Despite losing her husband, Donna would continue to train her daughter so that she could become a famous superhero one day. To achieve that objective, she would force Annie to participate in dancing contests, such as a "Little Miss Hero Pageant" and other supe pageants to lay the groundwork for her hero career. At one point, Annie had been in the supe pageant circuit for at least 3 years, having competed against Firecracker in their childhood to early teens. Particularly, in one such pageant where she and Firecracker (Sparkler at the time) had become the top 2 finalists and were about to face off to determine the winner, under her mother’s influence to be ruthless in order to win, Annie had begun spreading false rumors about her competitor that she had only managed to get into the final two by giving sexual favors to the judges and later rudely and offensively brushed her aside by calling her a “fat slut” when she confronted her why she did it. Starlight then proceeded to beat Sparkler and the false rumors she spread around about Sparkler continued to follow her well after that pageant. Eventually forcing her to drop out of pageant circuit all together due to Starlight ruining her reputation. Annie was oblivious to the far-reaching consequences of her actions.Annie would join up with the Capes for Christ, and eventually, Young Americans, where she met Supersonic, whom she dated for quite a while.She was eventually selected to be a member of The Seven after an interview following Lamplighter's retirement. She was at first overjoyed at being selected, wanting to use her position as a superhero to help people and make the world a better place. These dreams suddenly became dashed, however, when Starlight was sexually assaulted by The Deep, who extorted her into performing oral sex on him at Seven Tower. He did so by convincing her that he was the second most important person in the group after Homelander, and that whether or not she went through with it would determine if she would stay in The Seven or not. Starlight was left feeling humiliated and traumatized, a pain she now carries with her.Since then, Annie has only seen uglier and uglier sides of Vought and The Seven, finding herself trapped between two options; to leave, or try to change things from within. She attempts the latter first, though it eventually proves to be an impossible task.

   general.    Heightened strength, senses, durability, reflexes, etc, above that of a human at their peak performance, though below supes whose main powers are increased strength, senses, durability, reflexes, etc.   light manipulation.    Can create, shape and manipulate light. This power can be used to blind even other supes. As light has temperature, she can manipulate the light's intensity to set things on fire if she wants, and theoretically she has the ability to make it as intense and damaging as the sun itself, hence her supe name, Starlight. She will, however, not use her abilities to harm others unless she absolutely have to, e.g. to defend others or herself against harm. This can change, however, depending on situation, verse, etc. After all, even if she's good, everyone has their limits and breaking points.   holographic manipulation.    A subset of her light manipulation powers, annie can manipulate visible light into holographic images and illusions.

Born Ardyn Lucis Caelum, the older brother to Somnus Lucis Caelum, Ardyn and his brother were both candidates to become the first Chosen King of Lucis. As a scourge ravaged the world of Eos, and every healer across the lands failed to aid the sick, Ardyn alone found himself bestowed upon the ability to heal the people of the scourge, by taking it from them into his own body. Once the crystal chose it’s two candidates to be king, Ardyn and his brother started showing great differences in how they wished to save the world. Ardyn, seeking to heal the people of their illness, believed that any life saved was worth it, whereas his brother, Somnus, who had not the ability to heal, believed his brother’s attempts futile, as Ardyn was one man alone, and for any person that Ardyn healed, several more would become sick elsewhere. And so, Somnus believed that those sick with the scourge was a lost cause; being no more than daemons that needed to be dealt with, and swiftly. And so, he set out to capture and burn anyone ill with the scourge.Furthermore, knowing that the majority of the people favored Ardyn over him as their king, Somnus plotted out to have his brother killed, and sent his own men after Ardyn to carry out the deed, thus forcing Ardyn on the run. Ardyn, hiding from his brothers, not to save his own life, but because his life could save others’, continued to travel from town to town to heal as many as he could, though the more people he healed, the more pain he would find himself in, as the scourge began to taint his body.Somus, fearing that the crystal would choose his brother to become the Chosen King, then started plotting out a way to take the throne regardless of the crystal’s decision. Seeking out the oracle, Aera, (Ardyn’s fiancee), Somnus made Aera tell him who the crystal had chosen. It was ardyn. And so, he sent out men to tell Ardyn he had been chosen. However, as Ardyn returned home, Somnus quickly interrupted and put on a display, falsely claiming in front of everyone that the crystal had chosen Somnus. Knowing Aera would interfere, as she alone was the other person who knew the truth, Somnus raised arms at his brother, and as predicted, Aera leapt in between the attack to save the Chosen King, leaving Somnus killing Aera in front of Ardyn, a single word escaping her; ‘why?’Ardyn, reaching out to the crystal, unable to believe that the crystal could favor someone like Somnus, who would massacre innocent lives to “save” everyone else, pleaded for the crystal to reveal the truth, only to be thrust back once his hand neared the crystal. Rejected, as his body had become “too tainted” by the scourge. That was the last Ardyn remembered, before waking up, imprisoned, alone, in darkness. His brother having taken the throne for himself, and erased Ardyn’s name from history while Ardyn rotted away in Angelgard’s prison.For two millenia, Ardyn remained there, alone with naught but hallucinations, sleep, dreams and nightmares to keep him company, and the scourge, twisting his mind and making a burning hatred fester in his heart, towards his brother, towards the crystal, and even towards the very people he had once sworn to protect. Until two millenia after his imprisonment, at last, a man named Verstael, who was obsessed with researching daemons and the scourge, found him, and released him from his chains. As someone attempted to stop Verstael from releasing Ardyn, Ardyn learned during the fight that ensued that he now could daemonify people rather than heal them, and in turn, gain their memories. Escaping from Angelgard with Verstael’s help, Ardyn allowed Verstael to research him for some time.Until one day, Verstael revealed they had managed to capture one of the Astrals, and convinced Ardyn to attempt to daemonify the Infernian, suggesting that gaining the knowledge he possessed might be interesting, as well as it would prove beneficial to have an Astral fighting for him if he were to gain revenge on the line of Lucis. And so, Ardyn daemonified the Astral; gaining Ifrit’s memories, and also gaining control over the deity. Together with Verstael, Ardyn sought further alliance with Iedolas Aldercapt, the emperor of Niflheim, who had recently lost his beloved wife, and they offered Iedolas the promise of a way to gain immortality if he in return funded their research and manufacturing of weapons.At last, Ardyn traveled to Insomnia and attempted to kill King Regis. Ending up fighting his brother, Somnus, at long last, who was long since dead but become a protector of the current King, Ardyn felt no more satisfied after his victory, and returned to the passed out Regis to kill him, only to be stopped by Bahamut, the draconian Astral. Bahamut then revealed to Ardyn that his true calling was to bring darkness upon the world, only to be killed at the hands of Noctis, the Chosen King of Light, who in turn, would die as well. Realizing that he had been chosen to be nothing but a sacrificial lamb and naught but a chess piece in the Astrals’ games, Ardyn refused to accept his destiny, and decided he would destroy the crystal, the Astrals, the line of Lucis and cast the whole world into eternal darkness.

Arthur Morgan was born on 22nd of June, 1863. His mother died of unknown causes when he was young, and his father was a petty criminal and an outlaw who was arrested when Arthur was 11 years old. Arthur witnessed his father’s death not long after. He kept his father’s hat to wear and a picture of him to remember him by. Now an orphan, Arthur became a “wild delinquent” and was eventually picked up by outlaws Dutch Van Der Linde and Hosea Matthews. Arthur came to view Dutch as an older brother and Hosea as a father figure, and adopted Dutch’s vision of a life free of civilization and rule of law. Arthur thus became the first protegé and one of the founding members of the Van Der Linde Gang / Dutch’s Boys, which later became an infamous gang of outlaws.In 1887, Arthur participated in the gang's first major bank robbery with Dutch and Hosea, and managed to make off with $5000 in gold. After the robbery, they lingered in town, going to hovels, shanties, and orphanages handing out money, envisioning themselves as 'Robin Hood' figures. It was following this event where Arthur became a wanted man.After a failed robbery in Blackwater in 1899, the gang was forced to flee and evade the law. No one in the gang seemed to know what went wrong, but they had little time to think much of it. They eventually made camp outside a small town called Valentine, where the gang’s focus was directed towards gathering more money, so they could escape to safer lands where they could eventually settle down.As far as portayal goes, my Arthur is more leaning towards high honor than low honor, but he’s not completely high honor. There are times where his morals are going to be questionable, if not outright bad. He tends to soften more with age, getting a broader perspective on things than in his youth, but it's all gonna depend on each individual thread just where on the morality scale he finds himself.

Astarion was a young magistrate in Baldur's Gate, until one day he was assaulted and almost killed by a gang of gur, because of a ruling he had handed down. The vampire lord, Cazador Szarr, who had taken interest in him, approached Astarion while he was dying and turned him into a vampire spawn, bound to do his every bidding.After being turned, Astarion and his vampire spawn "siblings" lived at the Szarr palace in the upper city. And being vampire spawn, Astarion and his "siblings" were completely subservient to Cazador, bound to him through the bond of creator and creation. Cazador could use this power to completely control Astarion and the others, and he imposed three main commands onto his spawn. 1. "Thou must not drink from thinking creatures, 2. "Thou must never leave my side, unless commanded," and 3. "Thou must obey me in all things." Astarion and the other spawn could not physically refuse these commands. Cazador would then use this power and these "rules" to physically and emotionally abuse and torture Astarion for centuries, and any form of attempted resistance or escape was met with harsh punishment. For example, Astarion was once sealed away in a coffin, starving, for over a year because he had tried to disobey one of Cazador's commands.Also, the abuse inflicted onto Astarion and the other spawn was brutal and frequent. They were physically tortured and had "poetry" carved into their backs by Cazador, they were frequently emotionally abused as Cazador would play mind games on them, they would be fed dead rats and bugs, they would be commanded to physically torture themselves and the other spawn, they would be starved for long periods of time, and also be forced to venture out into the lower city to seduce people and engage in sexual activity with them so that they could lure them back to Szarr Palace to later be fed on by Cazador.However, while out in a city tavern seducing a young noble to bring back to Cazador, Astarion was abducted by the rogue nautiloid, and had a tadpole parasite inserted into his brain alongside other victims. Now, thanks to the parasite, he can walk in the sunlight, wade through water, enter homes uninvited, and resist his master's compulsions. Astarion now has a chance at a new life where he can make his own choices, and possibly gain the true freedom and safety he so desperately seeks. If only the risk of turning into a mind flayer due to the parasite wasn't ever present...

balthazar is an angel of heaven, once known as a great and honorable soldier, and a personal friend of castiel. when castiel worked toward stopping the apocalypse, balthazar got inspired by his rebelling against the script in the name of freedom. though unlike castiel, balthazar had lost faith that all the fighting could be stopped.so at some point during the apocalypse, balthazar disappeared, presumed to have died in battle. in reality, he faked his death to hide his departure from heaven, and stole with him several biblical items, including the staff of moses and lot's salt, from heaven arsenal to avoid being killed for real due to the total anarchy "upstairs".he then went on to earth to lead a hedonistic lifestyle, even going as far as to buy human souls in a similar fashion to crossroad demons, to further add to his own protection, as souls contain immense power. for example, he sold a piece of the staff of moses to a boy in exchange for the child's soul, so that the boy could get revenge on the cops that wrongfully shot and killed his brother.castiel, sam, and dean eventually discovered that balthazar was alive and infiltrated his residence, after reading his angelic signature left on the boy's ribs. castiel then confronted balthazar, in shock that his friend had not died during the apocalypse as he had thought. castiel tried to bargain with his old friend for the release of the weapons, but raphael and his angels interrupted them before anything could be agreed upon. balthazar disappeared just as raphael infiltrated the mansion and left castiel to fight him alone. raphael continued to thrash castiel, but before he could deliver the killing strike, balthazar returned with a crystal-shaped weapon and turned raphael's vessel into salt, forcing him to find a new host.amazed that he had returned, castiel stood to thank him, but sam and dean arrived and trapped balthazar in a circle of holy fire. when they refused to release him, he turned to castiel for help, but castiel let the winchesters take charge the brothers then threatened to kill balthazar unless he returned the child's soul. balthazar agreed and made void the contract between the boy and himself, but would not return the weapons. sam threatened to douse him in holy fire, but castiel released him before either of the brothers could do anything, saying that his debt to balthazar, for saving his life, had been cleared. and with that, balthazar left.later, when death agreed to return sam's soul from lucifer's cage, sam summoned balthazar to find a way to make his body reject his soul. balthazar agreed to help sam, mainly to piss off dean, and because he would very much enjoy having sam in debt to him. balthazar then told sam that in addition to a few easily acquired ingredients, he needed to commit an act so vile, that it permanently "scared his vessel". when sam inquired as to what that act is, balthazar informed sam that he needed to commit patricide, in other words killing his father, or more loosely interpreted, his father-figure.sam immediately states that his father has been dead for quite some time, to which balthazar responds that "you need the blood of your father, but your father needn't be blood". it became obvious to sam that balthazar was implying that the death of bobby would suffice, considering bobby had been the closest thing to a father for sam since john's death.after the return of sam's soul, a wounded balthazar suddenly appeared at bobby's house and told sam and dean that raphael intended to kill everyone who ever helped castiel. he did not explain the situation but quickly started gathering ingredients, which he used to draw a sigil on a window. he then gave a key to sam to guard and then virgil, raphael's angel assassin, arrived, so balthazar quickly tossed sam and dean through the window, sending them to a different universe.later it turns out that sending the winchesters into a different world with a bogus key was part of balthazar and castiel's plan to divert raphael's attention from what they were really doing. while virgil and raphael were focused on hunting down and killing sam and dean, balthazar was able to gather the stolen weapons of heaven and give them all to castiel. when raphael arrived to kill balthazar, sam, and dean, castiel appeared and threatened raphael with the weapons now in his possession, forcing him to leave.later, balthazar altered history and unsinked the titanic. balthazar asserted that his reason for doing so was that he hated the movie and that the theme song by celine dion made him want to smite himself. with this action, it altered history and created thousands of new souls. because of this intervention, atropos, the sister of fate in charge of "snipping the thread of life" began to try to undo the mess created by this.atropos began trying to kill dean and sam for two reasons, to spite castiel, and because of them stopping the apocalypse ruined her work and made her obsolete (as now, no one was bound by fate and everyone had freedom). after a brief confrontation between atropos and castiel, balthazar approached from behind to kill her. in the end, castiel gave balthazar orders to cease his attempt to kill the sister of fate, stopping him in his tracks. balthazar then went back in time and allowed the titanic to sink, setting the events of time back to the way they were supposed to be.later, sam and dean summon balthazar for help in finding lisa and ben, who had been kidnapped by crowley. when summoned, he told the boys to stop calling him. sam and dean revealed to him that castiel had been working with crowley, but balthazar countered that he already knew that. they then revealed that castiel planned to open purgatory, which balthazar pretended to know about, and then disappeared before they could discuss further. balthazar later calls upon castiel to ask if his plan to open purgatory was indeed true. castiel confirmed this and asked balthazar if he was still with him. balthazar lied and told castiel that he was, however afterwards, he returned to sam and dean, now agreeing to help them. he found and took sam and dean to the location of lisa and ben and then vanished.balthazar then continued to help them from there on. he complimented dean on finally angel proofing the panic room correctly. when dean first asked balthazar about castiel and crowley's location, he was resistant, describing his conflict on whether or not he should betray his angelic friend and help the brothers. after some slight hesitation, balthazar eventually gave dean castiel and crowley's location and vanished.aaand because canon is stupid here, he did not actually show up when castiel called on him, thus he was not killed by castiel for betraying him, thank you :)

having grown up wealthy with his conniving and callous father, blaine was an abused and neglected child whose only source of affection was his grandfather. his mother committed suicide with his father's beretta pistol, something blaine's father did nothing to prevent despite the warning signs. following his mother's death, he was raised by his father's housekeeper, frieda bader. bader frequently abused blaine by doing things like beating him, forcing him to clean the kitchen floor with his tongue after tracking in mud, locking him in a dog crate, and having his pet dog killed.when his father had his grandfather institutionalized to seize his company, he vowed revenge, a quest he continues to pursue.after leaving wharton, which he was only able to attend because of his father's influence, he pursued several get-rich-quick schemes. after pretending for weeks to hide his hatred for his father, he asked angus to provide a startup capital for a new widget he was developing. when the product flopped, angus cut his son off financially; inadvertently leading blaine down the path to start selling drugs for a man simply called "mr. boss." during his employment he pushed drugs in seattle's chinatown, and came up with a plan to have a pair of thugs get false blue cobra tattoos and assault a police officer. this led to the police cracking down upon the blue cobras, thereby eliminating boss' competition and allowing blaine to ascend through his ranks.
blaine attended a boat party, offering a new designer drug called "utopium". unbeknownst to anyone at the party, including himself, the mixture of the new drug and the energy drink being served there would turn people into zombies. blaine was one of the people who consumed both the drug and the drink, causing him to turn.realizing that he now has a craving for brains, and that if he does not eat brains, he starts to lose his own brain functioning and becoming more zombie-like, blaine quickly schemes up a way to turn his condition into profit. turning rich people into zombies, he then essentially blackmails them by saying they can either try to figure out how to kill to get brains themselves, or pay him to do the work for them and deal with all the risks of getting caught, in which they usually pay up. he also turns other thugs who has no qualms getting their hands dirty into zombies to work for him, in order to get help with finding and killing humans that no one will miss in order to sell their brains to the rich zombies.

Bonnie Sheila Bennett was born on February 5, to Rudy Hopkins and Abigail "Abby" Bennett in Mystic Falls, Virginia. She is the youngest and last known member of the Bennett family. Sometime when Bonnie was a young child, her mother had abandoned her, after taking down the Original Vampire, Mikael and losing all of her powers, to protect her best friend Miranda Sommers-Gilbert's adoptive daughter Elena, who is a Petrova doppelgänger needed to break Klaus' Hybrid curse. Because of her mother abandoning her and her father seldom being a part of her life, Bonnie experienced severe parental abandonment. It could be assumed that since her mother abandoned her, that it was her Grams that had raised Bonnie for most of her life.During Bonnie's early childhood, Bonnie became best friends with both Caroline Forbes and Elena. Bonnie started as a freshman at Mystic Falls High School when she was 15, and helped her town prepare for the Mystic Falls Tree Lighting Ceremony. Bonnie threw a snowball at Elena and also revealed that her father was taking her on a trip and that she'd miss Christmas with her friends, so Elena revealed that she was going to convince her parents to let Bonnie stay for the holidays as they've never spent a holiday apart from each other.Her maternal grandmother Sheila Bennett at one point tried to explain to Bonnie about her witch heritage, although Bonnie dismissed this because she thought that her grandmother was drunk.Eventually though, the signs of her witch nature would start to manifest through visions and predictions of the future that she could no longer deny. Sharing the secret with Elena, Bonnie would soon find that Elena was involved with vampire brothers Stefan and Damon Salvatore, and that the latter was also using and abusing Caroline and tormenting others as well. Her initial impression of vampires was therefore that they were all a danger to innocent people, and she started out unsympathetic to vampires as a whole. However, she would eventually see that not all vampires were blood-addicted mass-murderers, and would become more accepting of them. Throughout this, Bonnie would also learn more about her own heritage, and learn to use and master her own powers as a witch.In regards to her personality, she is moral, passionate, opinionated, free-spirited, feisty, determined, defends her opinion fiercely, and is unable to keep quiet about what she thinks is right. She is also extremely compassionate, kind, empathetic, caring, friendly, gregarious, and protective, especially of those she loves. Bonnie is also known to be a martyr; extremely self-sacrificing and selfless and she is always willing to put the needs of her family, friends, and loved ones before herself. She will always go out of her way to protect the people she loves and help others in need without asking for anything in return. Because of Bonnie's initial opinions about vampires and their way of living (since vampires have to feed on humans and human blood for survival, thus increasing their chances of harming innocent people), this often makes her look like a prejudiced and judgmental person from time to time. However, Bonnie eventually comes to accept vampires and vampirism and even helps them and befriends them (as both her best friends Elena and Caroline are vampires), although vampires and witches are known to be natural enemies.Bonnie eventually learns to use a different kind of magic called Expression, which is rumored to be extremely dark, powerful and dangerous magic with the potential to demolish the world if ever used. However, this rumor is more a scare tactic to ensure it is not wielded by the wrong hands, as it is strong enough to tear down the veil separating the living from the dead.

  NOTE:    To avoid confusion between the different generations of Cleon, I will refer to the original as 'Cleon', and all of the clones after him will be referred to by their number in the line. E.g. the twelfth clone will be referred to as 'Twelve', Cleon XIII will be referred to as 'Thirteen' etc. But in reality they would be called 'Brother Dawn' (age: 0-29), 'Brother Day' (age: 30-59) and 'Brother Dusk' (age: 60-89) depending on their age.       

The Genetic Dynasty / The Clones, Explained.

The system for the clones following after the original Cleon is as follows: There shall always be three clones alive at any given time, of three generations. The youngest generation shall be referred to as 'Brother Dawn', the middle generation as 'Brother Day', and the oldest as 'Brother Dusk'. When brother Dusk becomes too old, he becomes 'Brother Darkness' and is euthanized. 'Brother Day', who by then will be an elderly man, becomes the new 'Brother Dusk', and 'Brother Dawn' becomes the new 'Brother Day', and they welcome a new 'Brother Dawn' clone who is awakened. If one of the clones get damaged or killed, there is always a spare clone at the same age as them awaiting to be awakened in a vat, who has all of that clone's memories directly uploaded into their mind, so that they can replace the damaged / killed clone at any given time.While all Brothers have some authority, it is ultimately always Brother Day who has the final say on matters. As the primary Cleon, protocol states that 'Brother Day' should never leave Trantor to ensure his safety.

Biography

Cleon the First was the son of empress Winoset II and Stanel VI. As a child, Cleon liked counting faces and wandering around the imperial palace. During his explorations, he stumbled upon a face on the mural of souls which he touched. As he did so, it opened a passageway, revealing a robot named Demerzel, who had been held prisoner for thousands of years. He kept revisiting her over the years, hearing her stories of the Robot Wars.One day, Demerzel asked Cleon to set her free but he said no - she would be freer than him as his mother had just died and he would become Emperor soon and would be chained to the throne. He stormed out of the room after she told a story of her past and why she should be set free. Cleon said he would never return, but he came back regardless. Eventually, he freed her from her trapped state, but still kept her imprisoned in the room. He wanted to hear more stories from her and she tells more and more explicit ones to encourage him to desire.As Cleon grew older, he had not produced an heir to the throne and called off a wedding at the last minute, ending hopes of that heir. He did this as he wanted Demerzel by his side instead. He had spent years working out how to safely free Demerzel, until he finally figured it out. Cleon brought her a gift from earth and set her free. She did not harm him, and he placed a chip in the back of her neck, forcing her to serve Empire as part of her programming and circumventing the three laws. She became furious and he said it was a fair compromise to give her some freedom. He outlined his plan to her, how to continue the genetic dynasty, by planning for himself to be cloned, with an infant version of himself ruling as a successor, rather than choosing to have a spouse or a biological child. After some hesitation, she says she will love him. During his rule, Cleon and Demerzel engaged in a sexual relationship.Demerzel supported Cleon's decision to begin the genetic dynasty, though told him that he could still produce a natural heir if he wished. She told him that his legacy would live on, and he agreed, though he regretted not being able to live to see the completion of the Star Bridge, a space elevator that allowed transit to and from the surface of Trantor, a planet in the core of the universe. Soon after, Cleon died, leaving Demerzel to watch over and serve the next emperor.Cleon I's body was preserved within the Imperial Palace's principium tower, and kept as the source of all genetic material for subsequent clones. He set up a system that his exponents could trigger to activate a digitized version of himself so that they could ask for advice in moments of crisis. After his death, Cleon I would be remembered by the epithet "The Dreamer," and his likeness was represented on a pedestal in the hall of Cleons. A hologram of Cleon I in his prime greeted arrivals when they docked at Trantor Station.The first clone of Cleon feared an alliance would be created between the people of Thespin and the people of Anacreon, that would become a threat to Empire. As a result, Cleon framed the Thespin king of murdering his new Anacreon bride, which set the two planets on a course of mutual animosity that lasted for hundreds of years. He would later be given the epithet "The Scholar".For centuries after, The Genetic Dynasty of Cleon has been ruling the Galaxy, from their home on planet Trantor. Though all things eventually come to an end. While Twelve ruled as Brother Day, a mathematician named Hari Seldon claimed to be able to predict the future through math, including the fall of the Galactic Empire within the next 500 years, which would be followed by 30,000 years of barbarism and chaos. Hari further claimed that these future events could not be prevented, but that it was possible to soften the fall. As such, Twelve decided to provide Hari and his followers with resources to work toward this goal, and they were allowed to establish what would come to be called The Foundation, which would work toward softening the fall. However, to avoid any unforeseen consequences of The Foundation gaining too much traction, they were exiled to the barren world at the edge of the Galaxy, called Terminus. As such, if Hari's predictions were wrong, the Foundation would be left to wither, whereas if the predictions were right, The Genetic Dynasty would be seen as supportive and could use this to uphold their regime.While The Foundation continued their work on Terminus, the Cleons began working towards the goal of saving their Genetic Dynasty as well as the Galactic Empire from external threats predicted by Hari. The first such threat came during Thirteen's rule as Brother Day, in the form of the religion, Luminism. After the death of Proxima Opal, the head of Luminism, the threat arose with one of the potential successors, Zephyr Halima, who sought to return Luminism to the belief that clones were incapable of individual sentience, and that clones were without a soul, which in turn would undermine the Genetic Dynasty. Thirteen thus decided to visit The Maiden and address the conclave himself, becoming the first Brother Day to leave Trantor. While at The Maiden, Thirteen finds that the best way to deal with Zephyr Halima is to use their own faith against her. He does so by partaking in the sacred ritual of walking The Spiral, a harsh and transformative journey where the body suffers greatly, and not all who attempt this walk, survive, but those who do, are granted a vision by The Triple Goddess. Thirteen barely managed to get through the Spiral himself, though after succeeding, he received no vision. Nevertheless, he lied to the zephyrs representing the Triple Goddess, that he had seen a vision, supporting the idea that the Clones are not unholy, but do, in fact, have souls. As a result, Thirteen was able to prevent the religious threat to Empire.Meanwhile, back at Trantor, Fourteen, as Brother Dawn, is struggling with the fact that he is secretly unlike the other Clones. He is colorblind, he is left-handed, as well as other minor quirks that does not align with any previous Clone. He attempts to take his own life by jumping off his balcony, but his personal aura saves him from the fall. He is spotted by a woman named Azura, and, as the two get more acquainted, she proposes he leave the palace. Fourteen eventually agrees to the plan, and he and Azura devise a way to accomplish it.Fourteen is told to go to the mural of souls by Twelve, and is shown an image that Twelve painted in his honor. When Twelve encourages Fourteen to inspect the painting more and leaves, Fourteen puts on the color-correction 'hesives and discovers that there were more to the image than he first realized, painted in red, which he had not been able to see. Knowing that Twelve is aware of his differences and fearing the consequences, he begins his escape early. Escaping through the irrigation system, Fourteen is able to make his way through the scar on Trantor and tracks down Azura. He is a day earlier than expected and is comforted by Azura and told to go and take a shower. He exits the bathroom soon after, only to see her pointing a weapon at him which she fires. He is able to escape to the streets, but he is apprehended by associates of Azura and sedated. He wakes up in Azura's house and finds an exact copy of himself opposite him. This copy reveals to Fourteen that the group Azura belongs to were able to smuggle out some Cleon DNA and that they tampered with Fourteen's DNA, hence his difference to the previous clones.As Fourteen is about to be killed, Twelve arrives with imperial troops. Fourteen watches as his copy is killed and Azura is taken away. He talks with Twelve about the ramifications of these events, and despite Fourteen saying he is the victim, he is told by Twelve that he is the embodiment of the vulnerabilities of the genetic dynasty. Fourteen points out that his fate is to be decided by Thirteen, not Twelve, to which Twelve reluctantly agrees.After Thirteen's return to Trantor, Fourteen is brought by Demerzel to appear before Thirteen and Twelve for judgement. Twelve argues that Fourteen is corrupt and that he would have already killed Fourteen if he had his way, but Thirteen explains — to Twelve's great displeasure — that his experiences off-planet have shown him that the empire must be flexible. Just as Thirteen is about to state that Fourteen may live, an outraged Twelve begins screaming at Thirteen and strikes him in the face. Thirteen and Twelve begin to fight each other, and Fourteen rushes to embrace Demerzel, pleading with her "don't let them kill me!" Demerzel embraces Fourteen, telling him "I won't". She then snaps Fourteen's neck, killing him instantly to the shock of both Thirteen and Twelve. After the event, Twelve orders Demerzel to activate Fourteen's replacement clone by breakfast the next morning. After further investigation into the matter of the altered DNA, it turns out that the DNA that was altered was that of the original Cleon clone, though they don't know precisely when this was done, leaving them with the question of whether Thirteen and Twelve may also be imperfect clones.Following a war between Thespis and Anacreon on the planet Terminus (Revealed by Hari to have been started by the very first clone of Cleon (Cleon the Second), The Foundation is presumed by the Empire to have been eliminated as a casualty of war.173 years since the Foundation was exiled to Terminus, Sixteen is now the new Brother Dusk, Seventeen is Brother Day, and Eighteen is Brother Dawn. As the corruption of the genetic dynasty becomes more apparent, Seventeen intends to try and change the empire by marrying and having natural children. While in his room with Demerzel, Seventeen's bedchamber is infiltrated by assassins who attempt to kill him. He defeats them with the help of Demerzel, though is wounded in the process and infected by a nanotoxin. Demerzel takes him to the medical unit to receive treatment as she goes away to repair herself.As Seventeen recovers, he demands to know who is responsible for the attacks, and his Shadowmaster, Greeve, tells him it is the Blind Angels. He has his Shadowmaster executed when he fails to answer how the assassins made it into the imperial palace, and then demands those around him to be interrogated. He also wants Sixteen and Eighteen to have a neural audit to see if they were involved in the assassination attempt. Seventeen's prospective bride-to-be, Queen Sareth I, is presented to him by her handmaiden, Rue Corintha, and he offers her a gift in the form of a brass depiction of Trantor. Later, the three Brothers and Demerzel join, as they discover the Foundation may not have been destroyed a century ago as previously thought. Sixteen wants to destroy the Foundation quickly, but Seventeen takes Demerzel’s advice and wants to investigate the issue more closely first.Once alone, Demerzel reports to Seventeen that the memory audits for Sixteen and Eighteen show no involvement in his assassination attempt. With regards to the Foundation, Seventeen is furious when he hears Demerzel wants to bring in Bel Riose to tackle the issue, citing how Bel disobeyed orders in the past. He is, however, won round by Demerzel and agrees to this, on the grounds that Bel Riose be killed if he declines the offer. Later, at dinner with his brothers, he discusses Bel Riose with them while also expressing his disdain at the movement coach towards the brothers’ lack of synchronization during the meal. He gets up and leaves, saying when he is married, he will not have to do this again.Later, Seventeen joins his brothers, as well as Sareth and Rue for a meal where they discuss Sareth's family being killed, as well as the end of the genetic dynasty. As Sareth wants to find out more about Empire, Seventeen gives her a private tour of the palace, and they go to the place where the clones are created. Sareth raises the rumors of the clone genetics being tampered with, and indicates this is likely why he wants to have offspring.Demerzel goes to convince Bel Riose to work for Empire again. At first, Bel is defiant, but after Demerzel reveals that his husband, whom he was led to believe had been killed, is actually alive, he agrees to come back to Trantor. Alongside his brothers, Seventeen then meets Bel. Seventeen explains to Bel that there is a growing rebellion in the outer reach and wants him to start in Siwenna. He poses two options; if Bel agrees, he will find his husband alive in the other room, if not, he will find him dead. At Bel's request, Seventeen grants Bel a private conversation with him, where he reiterates that he won't allow any defiance from Bel, to which Bel taunts that he managed to make Seventeen embarrassed when he defied orders six years ago, and that it's obvious Seventeen has never seen battle. Seventeen in turn inquires if Bel wishes to strike him, upon which Bel says he wants to rip Seventeen's head off. Seventeen then demands Bel strike him, but Bel refuses — despite Seventeen threatening his husband's life should he refuse to — on the grounds that he took an oath to Empire. Seventeen lets Bel's husband live as a result of his refusal to strike him, and Bel agrees to work for Empire once more.Sixteen later meet with Rue privately, where they reminisce on their encounter, although Rue could not remember the actual event, just that it powered her to riches and political influence. They discuss the upcoming marriage between Seventeen and Sareth, and Sixteen invites Rue to watch a recording of their copulation in his private chambers. Sixteen and Rue spend some intimate time in his quarters, watching recordings of their first meeting and night together from thirty years ago. Sixteen asks if Rue is aware that her memories of that night are gone, and she replies no. Sixteen thought that it would feel like something was missing. Rue asks if he has ever thought about editing their own memories; to which he replies that even if something were removed, it would be stored in the Memorium along with his normal memory audits. Rue says it must be reassuring to know he can trust his own memories.The conversation with Rue gets to Sixteen, and he goes to talk with Demerzel. He learns that in the wake of the assassination attempt, Seventeen has taken sole authority to edit memories for the Genetic Dynasty, including Sixteen's and Eighteen's. Sixteen is angry, stating it should be a shared authority. Asking how either he or Eighteen would know if their memories were altered, Demerzel assures him that the memories are backed up in the Memorium, as well as her own perfect memory. However, Sixteen realizes that he would not even know to ask if his memories were altered. Demerzel assures him that she would tell him if that happened because she serves Empire, not just Seventeen. She then tells him that she will always be there, as she always has been.Sixteen meets with Eighteen at the Principium. They plan to awaken the memory of Cleon the First for advice. A digitized form of Cleon the First emerges from the Principium, and Sixteen tells him about Seventeen's hoarding of authority. The First's responses are frustrating; saying they must be united, and to be envious of Seventeen is to be envious of themselves, as they are one man. The First says that Seventeen's actions are not their concern, and that his temperament has been accounted for.

Still not satisfied, Sixteen and Eighteen head down to the Memorium and request metadata on their memory files, as well as for all the clones before them. As they wait for Keeper Yartell to retrieve the information, Sixteen wonders about his own legacy, and the way he did not handle many of the conflicts that arose during his rule, and instead allowed Demerzel to pacify the galaxy for him. He notes that Seventeen was embarrassed by his actions as a young boy. He tells Eighteen that maybe Seventeen is doing him a favor by taking away his chair, and releasing him to actually live a life. Yartell arrives with the memory data, and everything appears normal. Sixteen has the same average memory data as other clones of his age, although one thing stands out; Cleon the First's memory size is significantly larger. Eighteen says that it makes sense for Cleon the First to have more memories, since he presumably had more life experience. Sixteen agrees it could, or it could mean the subsequent clones had something removed.Seventeen assembles the Galactic Council and addresses a crowd of citizens in an arena on Trantor, including Sixteen and Eighteen. He dedicates a new statue to Winoset, mother of Cleon the First and the last galactic Empress. During his speech, Seventeen announces his intention to wed Sareth I and end the Genetic Dynasty. To the applause of the crowd, Sareth addresses them as well and promises that they will rule as servants to the people, and that their concerns would be their agenda. The crowds cheer as Seventeen looks on, annoyed at what his bride-to-be has promised the people.In Demerzel’s quarters, Sixteen finds Rue examining Demerzel's living space. Sixteen wants to know how she discovered the servants’ byways. She reveals, to his shock, that the Cloud Dominion have the ability to restore memories, which is how she remembered the byways. Sixteen feels trust between the two has been affected, and also notes that her knowledge of the byways makes her a suspect in Seventeen’s assassination. Rue retorts that the marriage benefits Cloud Dominion, not endangering it. Sixteen refutes the idea that Demerzel is a threat to Sareth, but Rue wants to dig deeper into Demerzel’s history. Any attempts Rue make to find out more from Sixteen, he responds with “she will always be here, as she always has been.” He tells Rue of the history of robots and man in front of a mural of a robot. He considers Rue’s offer to restore his memories so he can remember how she first came to Empire. As he does so, he notes the Chroma on the robot image isn’t moving which it is supposed to when people are in the proximity of it. The pair are interrupted by a message that Sixteen is required at an execution.Reviewing Brother Constant and Poly Verisof’s arrival on Trantor, Seventeen and Demerzel note how they arrive on Trantor while Bel Riose is in the outer reach. As they discuss Seventeen's marriage, he notes that Demerzel will have a place in the new Empire. Later, as Foundation prisoner Hober Mallow escapes from imperial custody, Seventeen wonders if the Foundation could have orchestrated his assassination attempt. Meeting Sareth in the gardens, they discuss her family, and Seventeen notes that it is a tragedy what happened to them, and that Empire will honor them. Sareth leaves, with both having a mutual understanding of each other. Later, Seventeen hears from Bel Riose that the Foundation have tried to make a deal with the Spacers, and may be getting ready for war.Seventeen leads the Cleon Delegation in overseeing the execution of Brother Constant and Poly Verisof. He gives a speech to onlookers and the cameras about the Foundation’s history with Empire, and how they made Terminus their home. He will use the Collar of Typhon to perform the execution and he gives Sareth the choice of who to execute. When she doesn’t, he decides on Sareth’s behalf to end Constant’s suffering first. As Seventeen begins the execution, Demerzel warns him of impending danger. He looks up and Hober Mallow arrives on a whisper ship, crashing into the platform, knocking everyone off their feet. Demerzel rests on top of Seventeen, protecting him as much as she can. She wants to stay there longer as the ship’s gravitational field damaged his protective aura, but Seventeen wants to move. Moving her aside, Seventeen wants Hober killed but Beki chases him, injuring him in the process. Imperial forces save him by shooting Beki, but Hober is able to escape. Meanwhile, Sixteen is wounded as he helps Rue to her feet.Back at the Imperial Palace, Seventeen assesses his next move. Sixteen wants him to act swiftly and harshly as the world is watching. Seventeen retorts that Sixteen always thought Seldon was just a story and not much of a threat. Seventeen wants to talk to the Foundation and claim what is theirs - everything and everyone on Terminus. Sixteen thinks Seventeen is a fool for this and is snubbed by Seventeen, with Trantor being given to Eighteen to lead while Seventeen is away on Terminus. He promises Terminus be given to Sareth as a wedding gift.As Rue is in her room, Sixteen interrupts her and wants to resume their search for answers regarding Demerzel, while Seventeen is off planet. Sixteen is able to manipulate the stationary Chroma on the robot painting and it opens a doorway which he and Rue enter. They go down a stairwell which Sixteen has not encountered before — he feels like a stranger in his own home. Reaching a hidden chamber, Sixteen finds a digitized version of Cleon the First waiting for them, who tells them the story of how he found Demerzel in this room and how she came to serve him.The pair try to escape, but are interrupted by Demerzel who lowers the barrier. They discuss memories, including Demerzel’s perception of Cleon the First and how she still longs for him despite what happened. She is unsure though if her programming is causing her to have these feelings. Sixteen and Rue are shocked when Demerzel reveals she hired the assassins that attacked Seventeen. The idea was that Seventeen would be frightened and blame the attack on Sareth, stopping the marriage. Sixteen has a realization that they were never meant to find this place and that he and Rue were dead as soon as they entered. He approaches Demerzel and forgives her, saying none of them were ever free.Meanwhile, Seventeen arrives aboard The Destiny and quickly wants to go down to Terminus to accept the Foundation’s surrender, contrary to Demerzel’s advice. He wants to become known as the Cleon who chose peace. Landing on the planet, he meets with the director and returns Poly as a gift, ready to discuss the terms of the surrender. Instead of going to the Foundation Tower as members there wanted, Seventeen decides he wants to go to the church, to their surprise. He wants the encyclopedia the Foundation promised decades ago, but there isn’t one. He wants Poly to convert him and put on a show, which he does, but Seventeen knows this is all a trick and in fact the Foundation have been working on technology and weapons. Having seen enough, Seventeen orders Bel Riose to send the Invictus down on to the planet, and he stabs the director. He wants the scientists kept alive, and orders the priests to be killed.On his way out, Seventeen sees the Vault on the horizon and decides he wants to visit it. As he approaches the Vault, Seventeen asks Poly if an act of God will strike him down. Poly says that Hari has his defenses when he needs them and it’s possible he’s not afraid of Seventeen. Therefore, Seventeen removes his defenses and his aura and Hari appears behind him on the sand. Despite protests from Demerzel that he cannot win, Hari leads Seventeen into the vault. Inside, they talk about icons and deities and also the attempt on Seventeen’s life. Hari denies involvement and goes on to say he knows how and when the genetic dynasty will end. Seventeen says he is changing this, which should disrupt Hari’s math. Hari retorts that he has met outliers, and that Seventeen is not one of them. Hari then reveals the prime radiant to Seventeen and Demerzel, in the hope of teaching the latter how to use it. Seventeen refuses, saying humanity’s fate will be decided by humans and that he owns the Radiant anyway. Seventeen says to Hari he will show Terminus mercy if Hari admits that the math is flawed, but Hari tells Demerzel in return that whatever happens today is about survival for all of them. Hari says that psychohistory is real and to the rage of Seventeen, he orders the Invictus be brought down on the planet.Back on the Destiny, Seventeen passes Hober and Constant’s cell and Hober chastises him, prompting Seventeen to get the pair transferred to the Bridge. There, Hober continues to needle Seventeen, prompting him to exclaim that he is retaliating after Hober’s stunt on Trantor. He orders Riose to send the Invictus crashing down on Terminus, which Bel eventually does. Seventeen then watches in awe as Terminus is completely destroyed.Seventeen then orders Bel to prepare for the fleet to jump. Not to Trantor, but to seven planets the Foundation has a foothold on. He wants to start with Thespis, but to throw Siwenna on the list for good measure. He sees Bel disobey his order again, saying that it will be the moral ruin of Empire. The Spacer agrees to carry out the order, but notices an anomaly with the jump sequence. Ships start jumping into each other and Seventeen doesn’t know what’s happening. They cannot be stopped, and Seventeen hears how Hober being captured by the Spacers was a ruse — they made a deal with Hari. They baited Seventeen to Terminus with his entire fleet due to how predictable he is. Furious, Seventeen starts to beat Hober who also returns the favor. With Hober nearly beaten, Bel tackles Seventeen to the ground and starts beating him. The pair continue to fight as Seventeen insists he wants no help from his guards. As the fight continues, Seventeen thinks he has Riose beaten and in the airlock, but Bel uses the castling device to switch bodies. It is day who is launched into space and his reign as Empire is over.Some time later, Demerzel commits an unprecedented act and decants new exponents of all three clone generations at the same time; dawn, day, dusk. She tests their knowledge on who they are, and who she is. Demerzel reveals that she is in possession of the Prime Radiant and while she cannot fully understand it yet, wonderful things lie ahead.

   canon divergences:       First things first, this blog is ignoring basically most of the show's canon. My portrayal of Damon will be mostly HC based with inspiration taken from SEASON ONE ONLY, unless stated otherwise. In other words, you can expect my Damon to have his HUMANITY OFF and be a villain. He also has no intentions of bringing Katherine back, as he stopped being in love with her when she chose Stefan over him. If you have any questions about his canon divergence, feel free to ask and I'll be happy to explain. I have not watched all of TVD, I think I stopped around season four or five...? And I have not watched the spin offs nor read the novels, nor have any intention to in the near future.Secondly, Damon has the ability to use mind compulsion on humans, meaning he has the ability to make them do as he wants, make them forget anything he wants them to or alter their memories, etc. If you don't want your muse to be affected by this, I am happy to plot something where your muse either wears jewelry with vervain in it, or have vervain in their system, so it won't work, however I'd prefer if you told me this before we start writing. Of course, I won't make Damon use this ability on a muse unless it feels natural for him to do so, but I also won't hold him back from using it, as he is known to use this ability a lot for his own selfish purposes.          Human life (1839-1864): Damon Salvatore was born June 18, 1839, to Giuseppe Salvatore and Lillian Salvatore, his younger brother, Stefan born almost eight years later. Growing up, Damon was rebellious, carefree, impulsive, competitive, and irresponsible and seemed to lack a general sense of direction. He had a close to his younger brother growing up, and always looked after him. Damon and his father, however, never got along, and Giuseppe frequently expressed extreme disappointment and resentment in his oldest son. His father was often abusive towards him, and would among other things burn him with a cigarette as a way to teach him a lesson for misbehavior.As a young man, Damon joined the confederate army on his father's order, to defend the south during the American civil war. However, Damon secretly hated everything the south stood for, and had been wanting to desert for some time, the only thing stopping him being the fear of Giuseppe's disapproval. Though eventually, he met a man who convinced him to follow his own beliefs rather than his father's, and he deserted while his squad was decimated during the following battle, leaving the townspeople as well as his own father to view him as irresponsible and cowardly.Damon and his brother's relationship eventually became strained too, after Katherine Pierce came into their lives, both brothers falling for her and competing for her affections. After learning that she was a vampire, Damon wanted to give up on his human life to spend eternity with her, and asked Stefan to keep it a secret, as their father hated vampires. Though Stefan inadvertently told Giuseppe, which led to Katherine being taken away by the townspeople, their father furiously scolding Damon for trying to hide her secret and protect her.In an attempt to save Katherine, both Damon and Stefan were shot and killed by their father, with Katherine's blood still in their system. Damon waking up first, witnessed the burning of Fell's church, where the townspeople had imprisoned vampires, including Katherine. His reason for living now dead and gone, Damon told Stefan he wouldn't complete the transition into a vampire, however later that same day, Stefan (having been unable to resist the urge for blood, and having killed their father,) returned, and forced Damon to drink blood from a young woman, causing Damon to turn into a vampire against his wishes.At that point, Damon promised Stefan an eternity of misery.1864-1952: Despite his promise to make Stefan's life filled with misery, Damon spent quite a lot of decades away from his brother, only meeting up with him a couple of times, in which Damon actually was more concerned for his brother, whose bloodlust was out of control, than resentful.1953-1958: In 1953, Joseph Salvatore lured Damon to Mystic Falls in order to hand him over to Dr. Whitmore, the leader of a secret society called Augustine, whom experimented on and tortured vampires in the hopes that the research would come to benefit humanity. After Joseph injected Damon with vervain, Damon killed him, but Dr. Whitmore entered the room shortly after and injected Damon with another dose of vervain, forcing him to pass out. When he woke up, he was strapped to a table and Dr. Whitmore cut one of his eyes out, in order to experiment and study vampire healing abilities. Damon was brought to a cell and in the cell next to him was another vampire named Enzo. The two vampires bonded and it was Enzo's friendship that allowed Damon to hold on to his humanity. As Damon's eye grew back, Dr. Whitmore continued to torture and perform experiments on him and nicknamed him 21051.Every year Dr. Whitmore would show the rest of the Augustine society Damon and Enzo, and demonstrate his research on the annual new years party. Enzo then came up with a plan where one of them would drink the others blood ration in order to build up strength until the coming new years eve. Damon was the lucky one, and when the next new years eve party came, he broke free from his chains and he slaughtered every member of Augustine while the building set ablaze. Enzo was still trapped in his cage and Damon tried to free him, but the cage bars were soaked with vervain and he couldn't get him out.Damon knew that if he was going to save himself he had to stop caring about Enzo, so he turned his humanity switch off. Free of his emotions, he left Enzo to burn alive. After finally being free from five years of torture, Damon kept the promise he made to Enzo to kill every member in the Whitmore family, except one, and let that person live long enough to build a family, only to then kill them too, all but one, and then do the same thing again and again. Damon did exactly that and among the ones he killed was Aaron Whitmore's parents and Aaron was among the ones that he kept alive.1970's: Damon lived in New York City during the 70s, where he maintained a wild life full of parties and feeding off of people. At the time, he still had his humanity switch off and he killed locals of New York; a soon-to-be-fed-upon victim asked if he was the son of Sam, to which Damon replied, "Son of Giuseppe, but close enough". Damon was friends with Will, another vampire, who ran a bar and let Damon feed on the people there, while in exchange, Damon stole his victim's IDs for him.Lexi had eventually found Damon and told him that she and Stefan had heard all about Damon's current life and that Stefan was worried for him. Lexi tried to help convince Damon to turn his humanity back on, but Damon rejected her offer. However, Lexi was stubborn and she stuck with Damon for the following six months. She had gotten Damon to talk about Katherine Pierce, thinking that if he talked about her, his switch would flip on. However, Damon had only been tricking Lexi into thinking that his humanity was back by pretending it was.The next morning, Lexi woke up on a roof because the sunlight was burning her skin. She tried to escape by opening the door to get into Billy's, but it was locked. Then she found out the truth: Damon had tricked her. Damon told her that it was his way of getting back at her for annoying him for the past six months. He then ditched Lexi on the roof thereafter, leaving her trapped until nightfall.

   PORTRAYAL NOTE:       my portrayal of dean is canon divergent, in that he was fed angel blood as an infant and has gained powers, similar to how sam gained powers from azazel's demon blood. i also do not write my dean in timelines set after season five. while i love a lot of the characters that are only introduced after season five, and i do like some of the concepts introduced, i'd rather build a new take on it that starts off either from season five or earlier. I also draw a lot of inspiration in regards to dean's upbringing from the novel John Winchester's Journal by Alex Irvine, meaning that in regards to how John raised Dean and Sam, he did so less horribly than the show went with. John still had his flaws, but he wasn't ever abusive towards the boys.          dean winchester was born on january 24, 1979 in lawrence, kansas. he was the eldest child of john and mary winchester, and the angels had great plans for him. in order to make him "ready" for their plan, which involved dean becoming the vessel to archangel michael, they fed him angel blood in his crib one night when his parents were both sleeping. dean lived in relative peace for the first four years of his life, and was then joined by his younger brother, sam, that was brought into this world. six months after sam's birth, however, a yellow-eyed demon named azazel visited the house to feed sam his blood. mary walked in on him and tried to stop him, leading azazel to set the nursery on fire and pinning mary to the ceiling. john came rushing in and took sam from his crib and handed him to dean. He then instructed his oldest son to get out of the house as fast as he could. dean ran out with baby sam, soon followed by john, and watched as the flames destroyed his home, his childhood, and his mother. john left lawrence with dean and sam before dean's fifth birthday.when dean was 7, john took dean out shooting for the first time, using bottles as target practice. he bulls-eyed every one of them. once, when 12 year-old, dean was left to babysit sam (who was 8 at the time.) while john was on a hunt, Sam began to interrogate Dean about what it was that their dad actually did. Dean responded with "You know that. He sells stuff." when Sam went on to ask about their mother, Dean got angry and stormed out after yelling, "Shut up! Don't you ever talk about mom! Ever!" upon his return, Sam revealed to Dean that he had found and read their dad's journal, and demanded to know if monsters are real. Dean finally decided to tell Sam the truth.On an occasion when John was hunting a shtriga in Wisconsin and left Sam and Dean alone in a hotel room, Dean got bored and went out. When he came back, he found the shtriga feeding on Sam. John returned just in time to scare the shtriga off. For a long time after, Dean was haunted by his failure to defend his brother.Dean continually excused his father's decisions while the tension between Sam and John was clearly starting to take root. Disappointed with John's lying and absence, Sam gave Dean a christmas present intended for his father: an amulet. Dean wears this amulet from that point on. During a hunt with his dad, Dean burned the monster they were hunting in the nearby woods. As it burned, Dean thought to himself that he's only sixteen and he's seeing things normal teenagers would never even know of. From that point, Dean chose to forget about being regular and embraced the hunting life.Dean never graduated high school, but did manage to get his general education. Eventually, after a big fight with Sam, where both Dean and John wanted Sam to stay within the family business, Sam decided to leave for Stanford to go to law school. While there, he became estranged from Dean and his father and didn't speak to them for at least a couple of years. Dean hunted a vetala by himself during this period, which is when he first discovered he had powers, as, during the fight, when the vetala got the upper hand and was about to kill dean, he managed to fling it away with an unseen force simply by thinking about needing to get it off him. terrified of what it all meant, dean suppressed the powers and kept it a secret.Twenty-two years after Mary's death, while Sam was still studying at stanford, their father went missing, prompting Dean to seek out sam to get help finding their dad. Sam at first said no, but after the demon responsible for killing their mother came and killed Sam's girlfriend in the same manner that their mother was killed, Sam agreed to go with Dean, and together, they went on a road trip to fend off supernatural creatures while searching for their missing father, who occasionally left new hunts for them to do.

   PORTRAYAL NOTE:       my dexter is based strictly on season one and with influences from some of the novels. my dexter is asexual, aromantic, and his relationship with rita is strictly “romantic” (faked on dexter’s half) and not sexual. dexter does care for rita in a platonic sense, but he does not have actual romantic feelings for her. my dexter and rita does not have a child together. i will by default write dexter in timelines before “the bay harbor butcher” becomes known to the media, but i am willing to write dexter in timelines around the season two fbi investigation arc as well, but he will not be cheating on rita with lila in this timeline as again, my dexter is asexual and aromantic and really won’t have a desire to be with another woman.        dexter’s father ended up in jail when he was a child, and his mother was killed, chopped up with a chainsaw in front of him and his brother (brian moser)’s eyes when dexter was only three years old, which traumatized him. dexter and his brother was found three days later by a cop named harry morgan, and harry ended up adopting dexter while brian was taken to an orphanage. dexter repressed any memories of his former family and dexter’s foster family became like a real family to him. however, at a young age, dexter started displaying concerning signs as harry found a grave in their backyard with animal bones, including the bones of their neighbor’s missing dog.harry tried to mentor dexter and teach him how to control his “urges” and eventually taught dexter that he would eventually end up moving onto something bigger, like a human. he taught dexter that in order to not end up in jail, he would have to follow a strict code and only kill people who were killers that the police failed to catch, as well as a lot of other rules that taught dexter how to evade getting caught by other cops like harry. harry eventually died of cancer, and dexter grew up to become a blood spatter analyst, not fully following his father’s footsteps like his adoptive sister, debra, but still working alongside law enforcement, which gave him further opportunity to keep a low profile as well as access to ways to find his targets.

before the beginning of time, before angels and demons, god made the first beasts: the leviathan, also known as the old ones. they are primordial creatures of the sea that evolved to possess other animals so they could live on the land. with their insatiable appetite for fresh meat (though they disdain from eating plants), god locked them away in purgatory, afraid they would consume every other creature in creation.the most powerful leviathan, that in modern times would become known as "dick roman", ended up as their leader and was the only one they ever had since the beginning of time, a dependency that was another weakness of theirs, as without their leader, the leviathans would be left without direction and lose all sense of cohesion.the leviathan that would later be known as "dick roman" has been the leader of his kind since the beginning of time, meaning that he has existed since before the beginning of the universe, and long before angels and humans.when the angel castiel cracked open purgatory and imbibed the souls found in there, in order to gain enough power to take over as the leader in heaven, he also unknowingly absorbed the leviathans. after some time, they began manifesting in him and ordered him to let them out.due to their uncontainable power, castiel's vessel began deteriorating, until he could no longer hold it together. coming to sam and dean for help, he, with the help of dean and bobby, opened the door to purgatory again and hurled the souls back in. shortly after castiel had got rid of the souls and his body was repaired, he realized the leviathans were still inside him. unable to hold up against them, he finally succumbed and the leviathans surface, telling dean that castiel was now "gone".however, they are soon forced to leave castiel's body due to the vessel being unable to handle them. so, using castiel, they head to a water reservoir and, using the water, spread to the population, taking new vessels, thus possessing multiple people. they then broke into two distinct groups; those who could control their hunger and proceed to observe the human world and those who act carelessly in their feeding and thus draw attention.the human named richard roman was a billionaire businessman who was one of the fifty most powerful men in america. he owned the corporation richard roman enterprises.at some point after the leviathans were released from purgatory, the human richard was killed and replaced by the leader of the leviathans. since then, roman had risen to the rank of being one of the top 35 most powerful men in america, and embarked on a ruthless corporate takeover agenda, focusing specifically on the food industry.the ultimate goal was to create a food additive so addictive that humans would essentially become completely apathetic to the world around them, fatten them up and make them taste better, making it easy for the leviathans to take over and essentially make humans become their domesticated cattle, that they can breed and eat as they please.

Edward Rutledge was born in Brisbane, Australia, and grew up to work for the Australian military, specifically in the Special Forces, rising in rank to eventually earn the title of Corporal. Being deployed in a war-zone, him and his team carried out multiple operations, before they were assigned the job of clearing a path so that it would be safe for the US soldiers to travel through the war-zone. Though while clearing the path of IEDs (improvised explosive devices) and other dangers, a bomb intended for the American soldiers were dropped by the enemy, injuring Rutledge and several people on his team, killing two of them. In the aftermath of the explosion, Rutledge helped his surviving men get to safety, though while doing so, he came to witness one of the US soldiers named Danielle Sutton, picking up a kid from the rubble to get them to safety. The press took a photo of it, and she was seen as a hero when she returned home, which she would lean on forward to garner favor during the US election, resulting in her winning and becoming the next president of the United States.Meanwhile, Rutledge returned to Australia, only to learn that his team had never been supposed to be assigned the job where the bombing took place in the first place, and that the US was behind them being deployed there. Getting a job working as a Security Technology Specialist, at first within Australia, then internationally, Rutledge's resentment toward the US and world leaders as a whole started growing, and when the next US election was drawing closer, he eventually saw on the news that Sutton was using the rescue of that one child for all it was worth, acting as if she had fought actively in the war, when the reality was that that day had been her first day in the war-zone.When she went on to win the election, it was the last push he needed to start planning a terrorist attack, gathering fellow soldier from around the world that also had reasons to resent world leaders, and in order to encourage their cooperation, he made part of the plan involving crashing the world economy, and essentially convincing people to invest their money where they wanted them, so that their own wallets would skyrocket into the billions.His official file with the FBI, according to the FBI themselves, is squeaky-clean, and simply states:Security Technology Specialist with over 15 years of expertise in designing, implementing and maintaining advanced security solutions.Proficient in network security, intrusion detection systems, and incident response procedures. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of sensitive data. Armed forces training and proficient in military protocols.Possesses a deep understanding of network security principles and demonstrates proficiency in a wide range of security technologies and tools. His knowledge and expertise have been instrumental in identifying and instigating security tasks effectively.Training and development: Actively engages in knowledge and mentoring activities, supporting the professional growth of his colleagues. He contributes valuable insights and encourages a culture of respect.

kollok, washington. a seemingly idyllic place, funded by synchroneity technological conglomerate. there are few people in town who actually seem to know what synchroneity does. in truth, the company works with a place called the bank of mammon, in order to draw egos from other universes and pull them into the bodies of their own universe. embeth grew up with her mother and father in kollok, when an event caused her to get exposed to phobos' energy, which gave her the superhuman power of freezing time. she was taken to an fbi facility where she was supposed to learn how to use her powers. while there, she learns that half of kollok has been destroyed by another powered teen. while at the fbi facility, she meets with a group of teens calling themselves "the kollok radar" (billy baker, mickey jones, marcus bennett, skye hawkins) who plan to go try to save others within kollok. on the way there, fed up with everything taking so long, she uses her powers to head into kollok and survey the damage before returning to report that everyone is dead. billy bond with em over using his powers to make him cool, and she displays her abilities by messing with his clothes, before admitting while going to check on the state of kollok while using her powers, she stole money on the way back and that she probably would do it again, making her as uncool as him.while they venture inside the destroyed part of kollok, em argues with the others about the right way to do things. she says that telling tibby not to heal people when he has the ability to is a waste of powers, but is eventually swayed. when faced with the stonemasons, em blames them for what happened at synchroneity, and demands answers for the powers she feels burdened with. filled with rage, em stabs the head stonemason in the throat with a knife, though it doesn't kill him. just before she's about to use her powers to kill the rest of the stonemasons, marcus bennett uses a tranquilizer dart on her. she uses her power to freeze time, but the tranquilizer knocks her unconscious. after recovering from her time in the time void, she finds herself back at the fbi facility. she gives a statement to the fbi, then reappears behind skye hawkins while she gives her own statement, just seconds before calling em crazy. the two talk with larson, and em states that she isn't crazy, and doesn't have problems with anyone except for marcus for stabbing her with the tranquilizer dart.skye believes this means em wants to kill marcus. after teasing skye a little, the two of them meet with agent bucket, who tells them that the rest of the kollok radar was headed to the waterfall in kollok to meet with whoever was behind a message that had been left with mickey jones. em tells bucket that despite being stabbed by marcus, she's had a month to think about what happened and that she no longer wants to kill marcus. she then reveals to skye that her powers aren't teleportation, but instead she is able to freeze time around her, and that every time she does, the amount she spends in the void gets a little longer.skip forward some time, skye and em are awoken by a worried bucket, telling them that marcus never checked in with him. eventually marcus does, and they head to the address given, only for em to find a manic sammy reilly trying to kill marcus. she tries to talk him down, but clarence anah appears behind him and snaps his neck. em tries to fix sammy, but his head is "on the wrong way". she drops him when she sees marcus, running at him and pushing him against a wall, telling him that he needs to think about his actions. she tells him that she was left in a tranquilized state for a whole month, alone, and he apologizes for leaving her like that. skye asks if she can investigate the south tower, and bucket agrees that she should, sending em and sayaka with her to do so.em, skye, and sayaka omari sneak out of the mikelson's house, all agreeing that they need to keep a low profile. they decide to head to the taco bell express, not knowing that it's one of busiest places because of the rush at the gas station. while there, the three of them discuss how exactly they want to get into the building without being seen. it's then that they realize that they've been followed, and meet the invisible nick blakely. sayaka manages to convince nick that he's dead, and that he can fly, which causes him to jump from the top of the taco bell and hurt himself badly. the three of them argue about what to do, and em decides to take control and use her powers. she covers nick in hot sauce and brings him to the fbi facility, dropping him off to get medical care. em then gets tacos and brings skye and sayaka to the south tower. with the rest of her time she heads to the beach for vacation, nearly forgetting to head back to kollok in time. when time unfreeze, em is so happy to hear skye's voice that she hugs her, much to skye's surprise.the three of them are distracted by a broadcast of mrs. wu, who details everything that happened in the explosion at synchroneity, blaming it on the stonemasons, and revealing the identities of many of the affected kids. shaken, they head upstairs, avoiding the guards, and find a completely white room with a single window that has "i don’t need all of you alive. behave.” written on it. across from them, a woman stands in a tower waving at them frantically. suddenly, the three are then cornered by one of synchroneity's monsters, and when skye tries to activate her power, she touches em's right arm, paralyzing it. em activates her power again, and brings them all, including the woman, back to her home. and in order to keep her family safe, she locks them in the basement.this time, when they come to, em recoils away from skye, hiding her paralyzed arm. the clarity clone explains who she is, and that she's wants to get to greer farms to find "james", and hide from clarity prime. they agree to help, and have em use her power so that they can sneak out of the city without being seen. em tells skye what she did to her arm, and skye apologizes. she then activates her power, which will last this time for 8 months. em spends seven months just driving around, but returns before the time void can break. though she tries, her mind still deteriorates in this time. when time begins again, em is emotional in a similar way to when she hugged skye before, having not heard another person's voice for 8 months. they let the clarity clone head into greer farm, only to hear a gunshot go off a little while later.em, sayaka and skye are later greeted by a man with an owl. he tells skye that she is out of time, and in order for her to go back to her own time, em and sayaka need to die. the three of them head into the farmhouse after sayaka uses her powers to take the electricity from the building. when inside, brooke greer and her son tell them that they're in danger, and give them clarity and james's son, aj, to take care of. they head back with the newly named "j.a." where it is revealed to them that bucket is dead. em is originally in denial about this, but eventually comes to terms with what happens. after a talk with agent bilfroy, they head to a mostly empty room to rest, when tibby heals em's paralyzed arm.the group heads to bed, only to be awoken the next morning by a group of military team wearing all black. em awakes and activates her power after she sees billy get shot with a tranquilizer dart. she is stuck in the void for 16 months, and spends that time exploring the facility and getting rid of the team that assaulted the building. for the first 4 months she spends her time as she did before.before time unfreezes, em cooks the group breakfast and brings bilfroy into the room, who reveals that lexi has destroyed portland. when the radar goes to break clarence out of containment, they hear explosions outside, and the group flees the facility back towards kollok.while at the hawkins' house discussing skye's condition with her mother, the house is attacked by two of synchroneity's monsters, the one from the south tower, and the one that killed marcus's dad. em is caught between two situations, and skye sees this, and calls out to her not to use her powers. she asks skye how many times they've watched home alone, skye isn't able to answer, and em asks again. when skye has no answer, em drops her journal on the ground and stops time. knowing she has three years, em settles into calming herself down. she heads outside, but hears the sound of the monsters behind her, realizing that they've adapted to her abilities. em jumps into an armored van, but it refuses to start, and the creatures tear up the wheels. she instead runs towards her house, and loosens a gas line and lights her sweater on fire. em knows that she can't affect things unless she touches them, but she knows that if something happens to her, it will break the time freeze, and the gas will explode. she sacrifices herself in order to kill the monsters.after she dies, skye mourns her death as she reads a letter written to her in em's journal. it details that she's probably dead, and that she loved skye, both versions of her, and that she wanted skye to tell her family how much she loved them.

   freezing time.    embeth has the ability to freeze time. Each time she does so, time stops for everyone except her. With each time she uses this ability, the amount of time the time is "frozen" lengthens, keeping her stuck alone in a frozen world for longer and longer with each time she uses her powers. Her powers will be slightly canon divergent in that the time that gets freeze doesn't double each time, but instead has a couple of second added each time instead, so that she can use her powers a little more often before it becomes an actual burden, but still be enough of a concern that she has to use the powers sparingly.

   Canon divergence:       In the movie, Emmett claims that he lost his two children on the first day of the invasion. I HC that Emmett actually lied about this, and that he lost his children later in two separate instances, his youngest son he lost to the creatures, and his oldest son due to some terrible people. I also HC that while his wife was indeed sick like Emmett said, there is more to the story relating to some bad people stealing the medicine that could've saved her life, which, along with his oldest son's death is what caused Emmett to lose his faith in humanity.         A former husband, and father of two sons, Emmett was just your ordinary family man, doing his best (and admittedly sometimes struggling) to juggle his work-life, romantic life, his responsibilities as a father, social life and own hobbies. One day, while going with his two sons to a little-league baseball game that his oldest son was partaking in, a meteor could suddenly be spotted in the sky coming towards earth. The game was cut short as all the parents gathered their kids, and headed for their cars to drive to safety, Emmett and his sons included.Skip forwards a little over 400 days, and Emmett is now surviving on his own, staying at an abandoned factory, having lost both his sons and his wife. While his youngest son was killed from the aliens that invaded earth, his oldest son and his wife died not from the creatures, but rather thanks to other survivors. He will claim that both his sons died on the first day to the alien creatures, but that is a lie to protect himself from having to talk about what really happened. He will say his wife died from illness, but that is only part of the story, leaving out the part where she could have survived if others had not showed up and stolen their medicine and most of their supplies. Leaving out the part where she convinced Emmett to put her out of her suffering because they both knew she was past the point of saving, in tremendous pain, and it was only a matter of time before the creatures would hear them and kill them both due to her no longer being able to remain quiet…Shut down. Without hope. Filled with grief and with cynicism, Emmett has now lost all faith in other people, to the point where he wants nothing to do with them.         Some more notes on Emmett;- He has received military training. (he has not served)- He has a brother who was actively working in the military when the meteor crashed into earth. He has not heard from his brother since after that day and has no idea if he’s alive or not, but assumes that he is not.- Emmett is a creative soul. Before the invasion, he loved to draw, to sculpt, and otherwise create things. After the invasion, he put his creative skills (along with his military training) to use by setting up a variety of traps around his house, and later, the factory where he’s now living in.

enver gortash was born to dravo flymm and sally flymm, the proprietors of flymm's cobblers in baldur's gate. the flymms were in debt, and sold their son into slavery to pay them off. his parents describe him as a clever child, often found tinkering. they also described him as hateful and needy, too clever for his own good. mistaken by the flymms as a warlock, gortash was in reality sold to raphael. gortash became a pageboy in raphael's and nubaldin's service. he was physically abused and left on poor terms.before he became 'lord' gortash, enver started out operating as a black market weapons dealer, before expanding his operation into other businesses. at some point, enver gortash had hired a young karlach as his bodyguard. he betrayed her later, striking a deal with zariel to sell karlach as a test subject for an implanted infernal engine. it is unknown what gortash received in return. rumours say that he had helsik open a transplanar portal to hell during this period.enver gortash was able to supplant the knights of the shield as the leading black market dealer in baldur's gate, but not without trouble. his initial attempts to sway their client base by offering a more generous cut saw little success. through generous bribes, gortash began uncovering the nature of this resistance. he was also able to supplant the zhentarim' position in the chionthar valley. in time he became known as a "military advisor" to baldur's gate elite.at some point, gortash became a 'chosen' of the god, bane, and after this he began taking more ambitious endeavors that led to him accruing more power and influence within the political structures of baldur's gate. around this time, gortash formed an alliance with two other powerful individuals: ketheric thorm, the chosen of myrkul, and the dark urge, the then chosen of bhaal. the third member of this alliance was eventually deposed by orin the red, and gortash allowed her to join the alliance in place of her predecessor.pursuing both power and the aims of their patron deities, gortash and his allies formulated a plot to enslave an elder brain underneath baldur's gate by using an ancient netherese artifact, the crown of karsus, an item so powerful, it had granted its namesake a brief moment of godhood. gortash reveals the details of this plot during act two, and further explains it in act three.at some point, enver gortash returned to his parents for revenge. what resulted, was gortash eventually implanting mind flayer tadpoles into their minds, turning them into puppets that could do little more than praise their exalted son.

in his youth, gale was a prodigiously talented practitioner of the art. he likened his skill as a wizard to that of an actual artist, who manipulated the weave in the same manner a virtuoso did music.gale studied as an apprentice at blackstaff academy. he was already confident about his arcane skills and decided to use the blackstaff to open a portal to his dorm. however, the portal he opened led not to his dorm but to limbo with an annoyed slaad standing right in front of the portal. fortunately, the then blackstaff managed to intervene and seal the portal in time.after becoming a chosen and spending time with mystra, gale sought more recognition from her and wished her to reveal more arcane secrets to him so he could serve her better. however, his request was declined by the goddess, and mystra only smiled and told him to be contented. to prove himself worthy, he sought out an ancient "tome of gateways" that contained within it a portion of the astral plane, described as a "fragment of primal weave locked out of time" that had been separated from the former goddess of magic. he wanted to reunite mystra with her missing piece of magic, but failed in his endeavor.as a result of his failed labor of love, gale's body became the host to a netherese destruction orb. the orb would continuously beat, absorbing energy from the weave, counting down to an ultimate destruction that was capable of tearing down cities. unknown to him, the orb did indeed contain a piece of ancient weave—but it was the weave of karsus, which still sought to supplant the original weave as its maker once intended. the orb could only be stabilized by allowing it to break down parts of the weave around it, and as it began by draining gale's own connection to the weave he found his magical abilities greatly weakened. after his folly, gale isolated himself in his tower for a year. his tressym tara figured out the solution of absorbing the weave from magic items and went looking for suitable items for the depressed wizard.in the year of three ships sailing, 1492 dr, gale was taken prisoner by illithids upon a nautiloid. a mind flayer tadpole was inserted into him through his eye, an act that would normally begin the process of ceremorphosis. however, the spelljammer was taken down by a host of devils and crashed into the sword coast, on the northern bank of the river chionthar.rather than become a mind flayer himself, gale was granted limited psychic powers, akin to those others referred to as true souls of the absolute. he soon met up with another passenger of the ship, who shared his mysterious new power, along with several other victims of the mindflayers. banding together, they now seek a way to rid themselves of the grim fate of potentially becoming mind flayers.

   magic.    more detailed description of what it entails later, but essentially, he can do all kinds of different and powerful magic!

Gareth and Gareth were born identical twins, and given the same first name by their mother. To separate the two, I (and you can) refer to them as Gareth1 and Gareth2. Little is known about their past, or how or why they ended up creating The Gemini Killer together. However, at some point during their earlier years, they decided to essentially start acting as one, ensuring that no one would know they, in fact, had a twin just like them. Doing so required an intricate communication system, however, to ensure that they were never seen together, or in places that could conflict with the idea that Gareth is only one person. At some point, Gareth2 would become number one in college, Mensa and grad school, before becoming number one on the FBI's Most Wanted list. Gemini has such notoriety that there are four bestsellers and a movie in the works.At one point, one of the twins met with Leon Prater, a billionaire who happens to be a fan of serial killers, who convinced Gareth to present him photos of their victims. They never revealed the truth about them being twins and would go on to fill Prater's collection with 16 photos - with Prater paying double for photos of the "moments before" a kill.Though identical twins, Gareth1 and Gareth2 are not identical in personality. Gareth1 is more quiet and reserved, calm, polite, lonely... whereas Gareth2 is more outspoken, arrogant and with an inflated ego, believing himself to be smarter than anyone else. Gareth2 has also shown to be misogynistic at times. While Gareth1 seemed to be quieter and more reserved about his enjoyment of the fame, Gareth2 was far more vocal and perhaps had a larger ego than his brother.The Gemini Killer's modus operandi is that they take a pair of related victims such as father and son, brother and sister or couples, and tie them up. They then separately brutally slash their throats before posing them next to each other with the blood arcs at the head and feet resembling the constellation Gemini, pairs bound in life and death. Aside from the posed bodies, Gemini leaves no physical evidence at the scene of the crime, as well as a lack of a clear motive or connection, making it impossible for the authorities to locate and identify them. No one has made the deduction yet that the Gemini Killer is in fact two people, twins, they assume it's just one killer. The brothers consider people dying in pairs to be their gift to them, as it's said that people enter and exit this life alone. Killing people alongside their loved ones creates the ultimate bond and they never love each other more than in that moment. Together they have killed 32 people, 16 each.

Gurathin was born within the Corporation Rim, the most powerful region within the galaxy, with many private corporations coexisting and trading with each other, each governing their own space, with no single government to control them. The Corporation Rim is also known to run on an extreme form of capitalism in which everything, including human life and the life of social constructs like AIs, can be bought and sold. AIs are also seen as no more than equipment for humans to use as they please.At some point early in his life, Gurathin had implants inserted that modified his neural capacities, allowing him to interface with data systems, turning him into an augmented human. He started working for the Company (a corporation that creates countless of bot/human constructs, as part of its business in offering security bonds to customers,) within data security, however, the Company quickly began taking advantage of him, getting him addicted to a number of substances for which only they possessed the formula, in order to keep him obedient, as they then provided him with the proper training so that they could promote him to a spy.After several years working as a spy for them, Gurathin arrived at a conference of nonaligned systems under the guise as a representative of the Free Planet Working Group. In reality, he was there to spy on the planetary admin for the non-corporation freehold polity, Preservation Alliance, namely Dr. Ayda Mensah. They assigned him with the job of acquiring sensitive information for them, that they could use to divide their adversaries, and further their own reach. However, Gurathin was sick of all of it. The lies, the addiction... And it caused him to contemplate ending his own life. However when he met with Mensah, his life changed. Through her, he understood what was possible between people of good will. He broke down, told her everything. And she forgave him, and gave him a new chance, with her. As such, he stopped working for the Company in his early forties, moved to Preservation Alliance, and joined Mensah in her work from thereon out. The Preservation Alliance was very different from Corporation Rim, particularly in that they believed in democracy, and they believed that all sentient constructs including AIs were also people. People with the Preservation Alliance were driven more by emotions than greed, something Gurathin for a while struggled to adjust to, but tried his best.When Mensah planned to go on an expedition with fellow scientists, Ratthi, Bharadwaj, Pin-Lee, Arada and Gurathin, and decided that they needed to make a deal with the Company to help fund the expedition, Gurathin expressed concerns about the safety of making a deal with them, due to his previous experiences and knowledge about the Company. However, Mensah insisted, as the expedition was important for the Preservation Alliance to remain economically independent, so they soon found themselves traveling to Port Freecommerce to try to outfit their expedition and get insurance from the Company. Being offered a single hub economy habitat, the group was told they needed to take a sec-unit with them; a sec-unit being a robot that provides security to whoever it is assigned to. To their great reluctance, as their philosophy was that it would essentially be slavery, they realized they had no other option if they wished to get their research done, and agreed to pay for the cheaper sec-unit (which from here on will be referred to as MB) to bring with them, as they headed to a planet at the edge of the Corporation Rim where their expedition would be held. Calling their team PreservationAux, or PresAux for short.After settling in, Bharadwaj and Arada headed out to work, only to be attacked by an alien creature, leaving Bharadwaj severely injured, but alive, thanks to MB coming to their rescue last second, after they ignored his warnings. However, as Gurathin went to check the footage of the incident from Arada's body camera, he noticed that MB removed his helmet, and attempted to calm Arada by asking personal questions about her family, a behavior not expected of sec-units, as it is not in their programming to ask such personal questions. As such, Gurathin, struggling with trust issues from his past, immediately became suspicious of MB, fearing that he might be malfunctioning, something that in the past has often led to a sec-unit becoming hostile and dangerous.Asking MB to check the maps in the region, MB discovered that the maps showed no signs of being tampered with, however that some spots were not syncing properly. Dr. Mensah suggested they go look at one of the affected areas, which MB advised against. As MB went into stasis for the night, however, Gurathin killed the security cameras in the area so that the group could hold a private meeting to discuss the situation further, without MB. Together, they decided that Gurathin would be assigned to monitor from the habitat, while Mensah and Bharadwaj, who had recovered in the medbay, would go check one of the blank areas found on the map. Mensah and Bharadwaj then left before MB came out of stasis.Meanwhile, Gurathin took the opportunity to talk with MB alone once MB was awake. During their conversation, Gurathin expressed his distrust toward MB directly to him, as well as asking questions to try to get a better read on him. MBs answers did little to calm his suspicions, though ultimately, Gurathin settled on telling MB that he cares deeply about his friends and that if anyone or anything were to put them in danger or threat in any way, they would have to be eliminated, to which MB expressed his understanding.In the middle of their conversation, MB then got alerted to a threat in the area where Mensah and Bharadwaj had headed off to, and contacted Mensah, warning her of the threat and suggesting that she should head back to the hopper, to which Gurathin agreed with. However, just as another creature emerged from the sand, about to attack Mensah, it instead charged over her, seemingly uninterested in her, as it slid down a sandy hill, towards other creatures like it, who all lie dead in a group, with some sort of strange orb in the center that exploded once the creature got close to it, killing it. As MB asked Gurathin for permission to go check the perimeter, Gurathin asked MB to try to remember why it was refurbished, before then allowing MB to go do his job.As Bharadwaj and Mensah returned to the station, Gurathin promised Menash to fix the comms system on the hopper they traveled with immediately, and apologized to her for insisting that MB shouldn't join her on the mission, feeling guilty about the fact that she was put in a possibly dangerous situation that could have ended really badly. Holding another meeting, Gurathin concluded that something was underneath the terrain that drew the creatures in and killed them, and together, the group hypothesize that it could be alien synthetics. As it is illegal to exploit alien synthetics, they contemplate whether to stop the survey and return to the Company, however Gurathin poses that it might only be illegal because the Company doesn't want anyone else to have a stake, and that some (not themselves) might consider it worth breaking the law over. As there was indeed another survey team on the planet, called DeltFall, they decided to try to ping them to compare notes. However, no one at the DeltFall station seemed to respond.The group then decided they should go check it out, and bring MB with them this time. Gurathin did not like the plan, however, figuring that DeltFall had sec-units of their own to protect them, and probably more than one, and if something bad did in fact happen to DeltFall, chances were it would happen to them, too.Nevertheless, most of the group traveled toward DeltFall, with Gurathin and Bharadwaj staying behind on their own station to keep watch. When the others reached the DeltFall area, MB decided to go on alone to check the research station there, where he found the entire DeltFall team, including all but one sec-unit, killed. The one sec-unit who did live, had been taken control over by someone other than its creators. Unbeknownst to the others, MB is overpowered by it and implanted with a combat override module. Mensah, as well as Ratthi, and eventually Arada and Pin-Lee as well, come to MBs rescue after not having heard anything from him for a while. To avoid having to follow the orders of the override module that tells him to kill the survey team, MB ends up shooting himself. Refusing to leave MB behind, however, the team brings him back on the hopper, as well as picking up what appears to be a surviving DeltFall scientist, named Leebeebee, that randomly shows up, and then return to their base.Back on the base, Bharadwaj fixed MBs damages and Gurathin plugged into MBs system to reboot him in order to remove the override, only to discover that MB was already rogue before the override was implanted. He also discovered that MB had spent most of his free time downloading television series, particularly one show called Sanctuary Moon. Bharadwaj confirmed this, however, pointed out that MB did what he could to protect their lives despite being rogue, and that therefore they should trust him, something which Gurathin disagreed with.When MB came to again, he informed them that the HubSystem might have been compromised by an outside agent, and that they should trigger the emergency beacon, which Gurathin tried to do, however, neither him nor MB managed to reach the beacon. MB and Mensah then decided to take the hopper to set it off manually together. Gurathin meanwhile started working on analyzing the combat module override data, and rebooting the HubSystem to try to learn more about their situation. Leebeebee followed him and tried to ask him about the data he analyzed, but he quickly brushed her off and got her to leave him alone, not really trusting her either.As Mensah and MB approached the emergency beacon in the hopper, the beacon exploded and the hopper got caught in the explosion, causing it to crash land. This caused Gurathin to lose contact with the hopper, and seeing as the emergency beacon should have been activated but wasn't, it caused him to worry something had happened to them. As Leebeebee continued to make strange queries, Gurathin started getting more suspicious of her and began asking her questions back, in the guise of small talk, but in truth interrogating her. She gave adequate responses to his questions, however, when she asked why they didn't tell her anything about what they saw, Gurathin still refused to share, at which point, Leebeebee brought out her gun and revealed she was not, in fact, a DeltFall member. She then demanded access to their HubSystem, as well as access to all the maps and information they had. When Gurathin refused to give it to her, she shot him in the knee. Leebeebee then told them that MB and Mensah was dead, the latter causing Gurathin immense pain, as he had a very close bond with her. However, MB arrived shortly after the revelation. Leebeebee immediately grabbed Gurathin and held her gun to his head, but MB blew her head up with his own gun before she could pull the trigger, which shocked everyone, especially Gurathin who realized that MB just put his life at risk by doing so, as there was a chance she'd have pulled the trigger, either intentionally or by accident.Realizing that whoever Leebeebee was working with might be on their way to kill them, the group packs their essentials and gets in the hopper to get away from the survey station. However, the Company transport that can take them off the planet wouldn't arrive until a month later, meaning they had to survive on the planet until then. As they found a secluded place to land, Gurathin's body temperature started spiking. MB decided to go check the perimeter, giving the others a moment to contemplate whether or not to still trust MB. As Gurathin went to sit outside for a bit, Mensah joined him, expressing concern about his health. Gurathin shifted focus by asking if she had feelings for MB, which she denied. When MB suddenly returned, Ratthi hurried out of the hopper to tell him that Gurathin thought MB was going to kill them, and so, the group all decided to talk about what happened and their feelings about it. Gurathin, however, decided to go back inside the hopper to get some rest instead.Though just as they were about to have the talk, MB picked up the sound patterns of the creatures that attacked them before, and they all rushed inside the hopper again. After the first creature appeared, another one arrived as well soon after, and the two creatures started making love on top of the hopper. When the creatures eventually left, the team exited the hopper to investigate if there was done any damage to the hopper, only to find the ship covered in egg sacks. Suddenly they are attacked by sec-units. As they all fight back, MB manages to get the other sec-unit to hit the egg sacks, causing one of the creatures to return and attack and kill it, before taking the egg sacks with it underground. Shocked, and in increasingly poor shape from his still untreated injuries, Gurathin collapsed as a result.Checking the video feeds, they noticed several sec-units were at the station they just left a little while ago, and they spotted an insignia that revealed they were part of a mining company called GrayCris. A human GrayCris worker spotted one of the cameras at the station and picked it up, sending a message to the PresAux team, saying this has all been a huge misunderstanding and that if they wanted to get off the planet, they needed to work together, suggesting they meet up at a rendezvous point to come to an agreement. The GrayCris also said they would leave PresAux's area, so that they could return back to it safely.Gurathin begged them not to go back to their station, but the group seemed determined to, as Gurathin needed a medbay if he were to survive. So, after MB made sure there was no signs of the GrayCris there, they therefore headed back to their station to treat Gurathin's injuries, and it turned out he had gas gangrene, from the projectile from the gun having carried the fabric into the wound, which was now necrotizing. Gurathin refused to take painkillers when offered, due to his past with addictions, which they sympathized with. Instead, he requested to be restrained, but then he and MB got the same idea of using hard-wiring to block the central nervous system to stop the pain, seeing as Gurathin was an augmented human. Agreeing to do it, MB plugged into Gurathin to block out the pain, while Dr. Bharadwaj worked on fixing up his knee. MB then took the opportunity to poke around inside Gurathin's mind, not realizing that Gurathin was doing the same to MB, and while poking around in MBs data, Gurathin learned that MB called himself MurderBot, and he learned that MB had killed 57 members of a mining expedition he was assigned to protect, which was the reason he was refurbished.MB suggested that it could be just an implanted memory, or that there might have been a combat override module involved, and that they couldn't know for sure he really killed those people, to which Gurathin countered that maybe he was just defective and could kill them all at any moment, to which MurderBot begrudgingly admitted was a possibility. As MB suddenly left the station, the rest of the group became reluctant about it leaving, but Gurathin thought it was for the best, as he believed he just got his suspicions about MB confirmed. They then tried to focus on figuring out who or what GrayCris was, eventually reaching the conclusion that GrayCris was looking for the alien remnant they discovered earlier, and that the only reason they were still alive, was because GrayCris intended to make them give up the location, then kill them.MB then returned to the group, telling them he had a plan.

Following MBs plan, Ratthi, Bharadwaj and Arada stayed behind at the PresAux station, Mensah went to the hopper, ready to pilot it as soon as it was needed, and Gurathin and Pin-Lee headed for a good place to send up a drone, so that MB could use it as a transponder and hack into the GrayCris HubSystem remotely, launch their beacon and call for help. MB on the other hand, went to meet with GrayCris at the rendezvous point, and told them he was rouge, so trying to hack him wouldn't work. He further told them he had a plan that would solve both their problems, going on to tell them that his team was working on sabotaging their mission, and that he had already killed one of them; Gurathin. At this point, MB presented them with the unmasked, decapitated head of one of their sec-units, correctly guessing they would not recognize it without the mask and assume it was this Gurathin he spoke of. MB then offered to help them capture the rest of the PresAux team and get the information they sought, and in exchange, they would take him with them on their pickup ship, listing him as destroyed inventory. When they agreed, he told GrayCris to open a satellite link and use their HubSystem to connect to PresAux's HubSystem, and that he would fool them into leaving the connection open.The rest of the team, overhearing all this, started worrying that MB had in fact gone rogue and was selling them out, though they reluctantly decided to trust him still, seeing no other option. Lee-Pin and Gurathin finally got the drone into the air, while the others hacked GrayCris' security code and sent it to Gurathin. As Gurathin prepared to send the command to launch the beacon, MB informed GrayCris that the PresAux team had headed over to GrayCris' beacon to trigger it manually and that they were at the launch pad. Gurathin quickly caught onto MBs true intentions, realizing that MB was trying to get GrayCris killed, as going to the launch pad when the beacon was launched would immolate them instantly.Gurathin started uploading the command to launch the beacon, which started a countdown. GrayCris decided that MB should come with them to the launchpad, to which he reluctantly agreed, realizing he would die with them, but at least the PresAux team would be safe. As the drone Gurathin and Pin-Lee sent up unexpectedly got swallowed by a large, alien sky creature, the team lost contact with each other, and Gurathin and Pin-Lee realized they needed to go down to the GrayCris habitat to hack into the system and finish the upload that got interrupted manually. Gurathin managed to get the comms back online and the countdown continuing. Meanwhile, Mensah, believing there must be a better way that didn't involve killing the GrayCris workers, decided to fly over to the launchpad and negotiate with GrayCris. She offered to exchange information about the location of the alien remnants in exchange for MB, however GrayCris's leader decided they'd rather just torture it out of her. MB then offered to do it himself, quoting lines from one of the villains in Sanctuary Moon as he did, which one of the GrayCris members finally recognized. MB then used the moment of confusion to attack, grabbing hold of one of the human GrayCris members to prevent the other sec-units from attacking, as he tried to convince them to hack into their government modules. But one of the GrayCris workers shot the other worker dead, giving the sec-units the opportunity to fight back again. MB and Mensah then fought them off, and MB grabbed Mensah last second to jump off a cliff to avoid the explosion as the beacon launched, protecting her from the fall with his own body. As the rest of the team made their way over to Mensah and MBs location, they embraced Mensah, before going to check on MB who was lying there, severely injured, with Gurathin having a new appreciation for MB after he went through so much effort to protect them all.Finally rescued from the planet, MB was handed over to the Company under the belief that they would fix him up. However, when they asked the Company for his location, they were told it was none of their business. The Preservation Alliance team, not about to accept that answer, brought up the fact that the Company provided resources to the team that killed DeltFall and attacked them, and that this information had been kept very quiet, but that it could very easily become public knowledge if they so decide to share it with others. While negotiating with the Company, the Company eventually revealed that they had erased MBs memories, putting the negotiations to a temporary stop. As the group headed back to their hotel for the night, they discussed how to help MB, realizing that while his memories may have been removed, they had likely not been erased, as the Company would be wanting to go through them in case there was anything useful in there. Gurathin further realized that the only way to get MB back was to retrieve his memories, which he, as an augmented human could do. However, in order to do so, he needed help from his former dealer, whom he knew now worked in data security. So, while the others worked on bringing a law suit against the Company, with permission to be given MB, Gurathin went to his former dealer's home without telling the others. After pressuring his former dealer, he was given access to the data, and so he downloaded all of MBs memories into himself. Returning to the hotel, where the others had managed to bring MB by now, Gurathin then connects to MB and gives him back his memories. After celebrations, when MB thinks everyone has fallen asleep, he attempts to leave, but Gurathin is awake, and tries to assure him that he will get used to his freedom and getting a new home and life, and offers to show him the ropes, feeling like he to some degree understands him, not only because of having seen his memories, but because he had been in a somewhat similar situation himself in the past. However, MB expresses the need to find his own path, which Gurathin respects, and lets MB leave.

Harmony grew up in Salt's Neck, where she worked in the local Lumon ether factory alongside her friend Hampton. She later attended the Myrtle Eagan School For Girls, a private school located in the town Kier, PE, named after Kier Eagan's daughter Myrtle. Harmony Cobel attended school there as a child, and by the time she graduated, she became valedictorian of her class as well as a Wintertide Fellow. She grew up with the teachings of Kier Eagan, who was the founder of Lumon Industries. During this time, her mother Charlotte became ill and was put on life support under the supervision of Harmony's aunt Celestine. Charlotte later died while Harmony was away at school. Harmony grew up blaming her aunt for her mother's death, but according to Celestine, Charlotte chose to end her own life by removing her breathing tube.After finishing studies, Harmony subsequently went on to work for Lumon at their Branch 501 facility. At some point before or during her time at Branch 501, she invented the Severance technology, a neuro-surgical procedure that would be pioneered by Lumon Industries, and which served to partition a person's memories into two streams of consciousness, effectively resulting in two people sharing the same body. This effect was mediated by a small chip inserted deep within the patient's brain, which controlled which identity was "awake" at any given time, and prevented either identity from accessing the other's memories. Those who underwent this procedure become known as the Severed, with the consciousness outside working facilities being called an "outie" and the consciousness at the working facilities being called an "innie" Although she invented the procedure, the credit for its invention would go to Jame Eagan, the current CEO of Lumon Industries. Harmony later became the head of the Branch 501 Severed floor, where she oversaw all of the severed workers, but she had little contact with the Board.She essentially worked as the boss of the MDR (Macrodata Refinement) department, where Dylan G., Irving B., Mark S. and Helly R. works. She had a particular interest in keeping an eye on Mark S. outside of work as well, and she moved into the house next door to his under the alias "Mrs. Selvig." Outside of Lumon, she ran an independent business under her false identity. Petey K., eventually stopped showing up for his job at Lumon, after learning about the terrible conditions of the innies, and finding a way to reintegrate his severed identities again. As such, Cobel told Mark he would be the new department chief. Then she sent him to train the new employee that would take over after Petey, a woman named Helly R. Cobel would later meet with the board through Natalie Kalen. They talked about Petey, and Cobel said he showed signs of possible reintegration before leaving. The board insisted that wasn't possible and ended the conversation after telling Cobel to get MDR to their quarterly numbers.Still upset with her working conditions, Helly burst into Cobel's office with her fingers in a paper cutter and threatened to cut them off unless they got her a video camera to record a message for her outie. Cobel had Milchick got it for her. Once the video was recorded, they went with her to the elevator. She left and when she returned, she had a message from her outie refusing to let her quit.When news broke that Petey had died, Graner assured Cobel that the Board would understand and not blame her. When she brought up his reintegration, Graner reminded her that the board never acknowledged reintegration. She said they needed to get his chip and Graner told her his body was set to be cremated after his funeral. Cobel, as Mrs. Selvig, therefore went to Petey's funeral to retrieve the chip. While his mourners were distracted watching a video of him, she used a hand drill to get into Petey's head and removed it, taking it back to Lumon and giving it to Milchick to take to Diagnostics.Graner came to Cobel's office and told him Petey's chip proved that he'd reintegrated. He knew the Board wouldn't like hearing that. Graner realized Cobel hadn't told them yet, but she just asked him to look for source signatures in the chip, so she could give it all to the Board at once. When Helly returned to work after her attempted suicide, Cobel ordered Ms. Casey to stay with her the entire day. When Milchick asked her about it, she said she was trying something new. Cobel was later watching Helly and Mark on a monitor when Graner came in and asked if she knew about MDR finding other departments. She quoted Keir to tell him she was letting them think they were free in order to control them. Graner didn't like that, but Cobel said he could talk to her when he figured out who hacked Petey's chip.When Graner called to tell her that he'd found out the hacker was Asal Reghabi, a former Lumon employee, she told him to find her. At work, when Mark came to check on where Ms. Casey had gone, Cobel told him that she still had to face the consequences of failing to watch Helly as instructed, even though Mark had purposely distracted her and was in the Break Room. She then showed him the footage of them in other departments and reminded them they hadn't hit their quota. She revoked their hallway privileges until they met that quota.Soon after, Cobel saw them walking in the hallway and sent Milchick to return them to MDR. She met them there and had Graner take Mark to the Break Room.Outside of work, Cobel, as Mrs. Selvig, got a job as Mark's sister, Devon's lactation consultant, helping her breastfeed baby Eleanor. Ricken and Devon were immediately impressed when she got Eleanor to stop crying in seconds. Graner came to see Cobel at home to tell her that he'd found Asal holed up in a lab at Ganz College. She told him to let her know when he had her in custody. Cobel continued helping Devon breastfeed Eleanor and they bonded over stories. Cobel asked why Devon thought Mark severed and Devon said he'd just lost his wife.Cobel went to work late that day. Natalie found her and relayed a message from the Board that Graner was dead. Cobel said that whoever killed him probably also reintegrated Petey. The Board denied that reintegration was possible, but Cobel had proof. Cobel said she was happy to share it with the Board in person. Natalie said the Board agreed to meet with her at the Eagan Family Gala the following week to discuss it.As the MDR team got close to hitting their quota, Cobel and Milchick waited eagerly, watching on the monitor. Cobel told Milchick to prepare for them to finish and schedule an end-of-the-quarter wellness session for Mark. When they hit the quota, Cobel met with Mark, who told her Dylan would be staying for the waffle party. She said she'd make the arrangements and sent Mark to his wellness session, which she and Milchick watched. Milchick said it was a good sign that Mark and Ms. Casey didn't recognize each other because it meant the chips worked.When Cobel returned to her office later in the day, she found Natalie waiting for her, holding two pictures of Helly's suicide attempt. The Board was angry with her for not telling them and also for spending time at Mark's sister's house. Natalie then told Cobel she was fired. Cobel asked if the Board was even really there and a voice on the speaker said, "yes." Cobel apologized for being rude and said she'd explain everything to the Board tonight. Natalie said the Board had ended the call.Milchick then escorted Cobel out. When Cobel got home from work, she destroyed her shrine to Kier and cried on the floor until Mark came to her door to invite her to a party at Devon and Ricken's. She decided to go to the party in her own car. She arrived just in time to overhear Mark telling Devon he was contemplating a life change. When Cobel asked him about it, he said he was considering leaving his job at Lumon. She encouraged him to do it.Cobel became suspicious when she noticed Mark acting oddly at the party. After Mark called her Ms. Cobel, she realized what had happened. Devon came to her and asked her to hold Eleanor. She agreed, but then she left Eleanor in another room and drove to Lumon, calling Milchick on the way to let him know that Mark and his coworkers had activated the Overtime Contingency, the switch that determines which consciousness is "active", meaning that it was, in fact, innie-Mark she had just spoken with. She went to the gala and confronted Helly, but was unable to stop her from going on stage and telling everyone that she was an innie and was being tortured at Lumon.Cobel remained fired after the innies' coup. Helena brought her in for a meeting and said that her actions had saved them from disaster. As a result, they offered her a promotion to the new Severance Advisory Council. Cobel said if they really valued her expertise, she should be running the severed floor, so Cobel realized they didn't value her, they just feared her. Helena denied that, so Cobel agreed to consider their offer.Cobel went back to the house where she'd lived as Mrs. Selvig, where she ran into Mark while leaving. He tried to ask her questions, but she just told him he was easy to sway and left.Cobel drove for a while and then turned around and drove back. She met with Helena and said they'd have to agree to her terms for her to come back. The first among those was running the severed floor, as she wanted to finish what she started with Cold Harbor. Helena wanted them to reset and called Natalie to set up a meeting with the board, but Cobel refused to go with Helena and instead got in her car and left.Cobel went to Salt's Neck and had Hampton take her to Sissy's house, where she confronted her aunt about her mom's death and learned that her mom had pulled out her own breathing tube. While she was there, she also found the proof that she was the one who invented severance, not Jame Eagan. She told Sissy she was told she'd be banished if she told anyone. With the proof in hand, Cobel escaped using Hampton's truck. As she drove away, she took a call from Devon, who told her Mark had reintegrated. Cobel had her put Mark on the phone and asked him to tell her everything.They arranged a meeting with Cobel. When she showed up, Devon asked her to take them to the cabin so they could talk to Mark's innie. She said it wasn't safe and it would be better to wait until dark. She had Mark call Milchick and feign illness to explain why he wasn't coming in to work. Once it was dark, they hid Mark in the truck bed, Devon pretended to be pregnant, and Cobel drove them to the birthing retreat, where she used coded language to get them access to the cabin. Once they were there, Mark's innie activated and Devon brought him to talk to Cobel. Devon asked if he remembered the last words he said to her and he responds, "She's alive." Cobel asked if he'd finished Cold Harbor and when he said no, she said that was good, because it meant Gemma, Mark's wife who was believed to be dead, was still alive and they could get her out of Lumon. She then explained to him what he would have to do in order to get Gemma out. It involved cooperation between him and his outie, so they played a message his outie had recorded for him and waited while the two of them had a back and forth conversation. When they couldn't agree, Cobel asked to speak to innie Mark alone. She told him that the numbers were his wife and every file he'd completed created a new innie for her. Cold Harbor was the last of those and after he completed it, he'd be done at Lumon as he'd served his purpose. She also told him that he and Helly wouldn't have a happy ending because he meant nothing to Helena (outie-Helly). Mark responded by telling Devon and Cobel to warn Mark against activating him again before his next shift at Lumon.

Personality-wise, on the surface, Harmony presents as a dutiful, no-nonsense employee who is intensely loyal to the company's corporate culture. She is calm, controlled, and very much focused on maintaining the status quo. Her role as a severed supervisor in the department overseeing the workers who have undergone the procedure to separate their work and personal lives, gives her a considerable amount of authority. Harmony is efficient in her job and takes pride in her ability to enforce the strict boundaries of the severed employees, managing their behavior with a sense of order and precision.However there's more going on beneath her composed exterior. While she enforces the company's rules with cold professionalism, there are hints of a deep, almost obsessive attachment to the institution she serves. Harmony's loyalty to Lumon goes beyond just being an employee; it's personal and emotional. She's not simply an enforcer. There's a level of zeal in her devotion to the company's mission, suggesting that she sees her role as part of a higher calling or moral imperative. This fanaticism toward the company is perhaps most apparent when she interacts with other characters, especially when her beliefs are challenged.Harmony's personality is also marked by a level of subtle manipulation and control. She can be both authoritative and charming, trying to maintain her authority while also using her interpersonal skills to smooth over conflicts or manipulate people when needed. Despite her more rigid persona, she occasionally reveals a more human side at times, there's an underlying vulnerability and emotional conflict that suggests she might not be as fully aligned with the company's practices as she outwardly seems.There are moments where she displays a softer, almost maternal side, especially when dealing with the severed employees. In these rare moments, she appears more empathetic, though still within the bounds of her professional role. However, these glimpses often clash with her willingness to uphold the harsh policies of the company, adding a layer of internal conflict to her character. Overall, Harmony Cobel's personality can be described as disciplined, intense, and deeply committed to the institution of Lumon, with underlying layers of complexity that suggest a more conflicted, even troubled, individual beneath the surface.

   canon divergences       my homelander will have some canon divergences from the show, and rely on some comic details in regards to both becca butcher, as well as stormfront. in regards to becca, i will follow the comics in that homelander did not actually rape her. this is only what grace mallory convinced butcher of to use him as a weapon to take down homelander. in reality, it was a supe with shapeshifting powers who did it, who had been secretly assigned by vought to take over as homelander if homelander ever stepped over the line. however, as homelander never did, the shapeshifter decided to frame him so that hopefully he'd be terminated and they could take his place. this also explains why becca believed it was homelander who sa'd her, when it was, in fact, not. they did still have consensual sex like homelander says in the show at some earlier point resulting in becca getting pregnant with his child (unbeknownst to homelander). for the sake of not stepping on other people's portrayals though, i'm down for plotting out something here to make us both happy.when it comes to powers, my homelander will remain the strongest supe in the boys universe, as i go with the canon that homelander is the first naturally born supe. i do not acknowledge the scene where maeve was able to make him bleed. regardless of her strength, vought has already tried pretty much anything to injure him and it has not worked. that being said, even if he is physically practically invincible, does not make him invulnerable to psychic powers / powers that affect the mind.as for stormfront, my homelander never had a relationship with her. he hated her from the start like in the show when they first met, but he didn't end up falling for her like he did in the show. instead, he continued to see her as someone trying to steal his spotlight and points and the animosity between the two continued until she got killed. as for firecracker, i do not acknowledge anything post season 4 episode 5 between her and homelander. my homelander is not interested in firecracker in any way, shape or form and only allows her to stay on the team because sage thinks it's a good idea.      

homelander was born sometime in the early spring of 1981 from the semen of soldier boy, america's first and greatest superhero, and an unknown woman. raised in a lab, he was surrounded by doctors like jonah vogelbaum, who named him john. ( vogelbaum would later remark in his adult years that john had turned violent, aggressive, and downright hateful for not having a real family. ) throughout his childhood, john was put through painful physical experiments and surgeries to test the true limits of his abilities. these tests included having his hand forced into a furnace while he cried, being boiled alive, and being forced to fight against adult supes. he was also under strict mental brainwashing, and was forced to spend hours sitting in front of a projector, seeing images and videos that were chosen to mould his personality, like the american flag, jesus christ, baseball, etc. he had a mother-like figure (a female tutor), but he accidentally killed her when he hugged her too tight, crushing her. prior to her death, he had already caused similar incidents to several other tutors, a behavior that was usually motivated by love, but this time by isolation-induced depression.he was a huge fan of soldier boy as a kid and watched all of his movies hundreds of times. he also respected soldier boy for being the only other supe in existence who was nearly as strong as him and idolized the latter as his hero, not knowing at the time that they were blood-related.years later, stan edgar and madelyn stillwell presented john to the public as "the homelander", the newest superhero and face of vought who would get his own superhero team, the first one to join it being black noir, who was already well-known. following homelander's introduction, noir came onto the stage and immediately stole john's spotlight, much to stillwell's anger. following this, stillwell convinced john not to let black noir upstage him and become jealous of him. she also suggested that from now on, he should simply go by "homelander", minus the "the".homelander was soon teamed up with noir on his first mission; stopping a group of terrorists who had taken hostages at a chemical plant. refusing to wait for black noir, homelander immediately went inside and subdued two of the terrorists, breaking one of their noses in the process. he then confronted the rest. when they refused to back down, homelander twisted their guns. however, one of the terrorists still held a hostage at gunpoint, despite the gun not working anymore. homelander, horribly underestimating his abilities, used his heat vision to heat up the gun, causing the gunpowder within to explode, killing the hostage and destroying the man's hands. when the man's associate started screaming at him, he lost his cool and clamped his hand over her mouth to shut her up, accidentally ripping out her jaw in the process. this lead the hostages to scream at him and calling him a maniac, resulting in him killing everybody in a fit of rage, leaving only one hostage still alive. black noir then appeared in the doorway. thinking that noir would rat him out to vought, homelander attempted to kill black noir with his heat vision, accidentally bringing down the entire plant in the process.after pulling himself out of the rubble, homelander saw the hostage crawl out of the wreckage and towards a still-alive black noir. to homelander's surprise, however, noir coldly snapped the woman's neck while comforting her. noir then helped homelander come up with an excuse to cover up the failure of the mission. this event led to a mutual respect and eventual genuine friendship between the two, to the point of considering each other family. however, homelander's lack of control deeply hardened him and added to his already unstable mind.years later, homelander met becca butcher in a vought private christmas party in 2011. she was the new senior director from the department of digital marketing of vought, and homelander commented that he loved the work she did with his official twitter profile. before ending the conversation to see maeve, homelander said that he would like to talk to her about her taking over the rest of his social media accounts. a while later, footage was dug up of becca being inside an office room with what appeared to be homelander for three hours, before exiting, crying. when grace mallory arrived at butcher's door, she showed a cctv footage of "homelander" and becca entering the room, and convinced butcher that homelander had raped her. however, this was not actually the case, as it had been someone with shapeshifting powers, not homelander. however, this event would spark the course of the entire series of events that would follow, as it fuelled billy butcher's hatred for all supes and lead to him forming the boys, a group specialized in taking down corrupt supes.since then, homelander has continued to be the captain and leader of the superhero group, the seven, led by vought international. he's charismatic and knows how to present to the public, as the hero that is there to save the day and keep people safe. however he is highly unstable, unpredictable, volatile, and has no trouble killing innocents as well as guilty as long as ( he believes ) there's no cameras around and he feels its necessary for whatever reason.

Hughie was born on April 24 to a family of Scottish-Irish descent as the first and only child of Hugh Campbell and Daphne Campbell. Hughie would have a very normal early childhood having the support and love of both of his parents. However, his parents would eventually divorce and his father would end up getting custody. It is unclear what caused the divorce, but afterward Hughie's mother would not contact her son again. The fact that Hughie never saw his mother after the divorce led him to believe that he was abandoned by her.After the divorce, Hughie's father would enter a period of deep depression and start consuming massive amounts of junk food as a coping mechanism. Due to this behavior, Hughie started seeing his father as a "loser", a fact that would make him acquire a deep insecurity over the idea of being "just like him". After becoming an adult, Hughie would acquire a job at a Bryman Audio-Visual store as a retail employee. He would also start a relationship with a woman named Robin Ward.Hughie was happy with his girlfriend Robin and they were discussing moving in together. However, their relationship was cut short after Robin was accidentally killed by A-Train, who was high on Compound V at the time. Hughie became hungry for revenge when A-Train was not punished for her death. Approached by a man named Billy Butcher, Butcher offered to help Hughie get that revenge. Hughie and Butcher split up after Hughie helped plant a bug in the Seven Tower, but the two swiftly got back together after Translucent entered Hughie's workplace and attacked Hughie in retaliation. Hughie and Butcher managed to take him down and lock him up with the help of one of Butcher's workmates, Frenchie. Hughie then eventually killed Translucent by detonating the bomb that Frenchie had placed in his ass, leading Butcher to reform The Boys and ask Mother's Milk, another workmate of his, for his help.The Boys is a government-sponsored group of watchdogs for supes, tasked with policing, monitoring, and potentially stopping corrupt supes, by any means necessary.

   important:    ÍLLRA'S NAME: it says so in the ‘basics’ section as well, but just to be clear, even though my muse’s name is íllra, your muse will never have heard of that name before nor associate him with it. unless plotted out and agreed with me beforehand, your muse will know him as lucius forrest, and they will think that he is just an ordinary human and psychiatrist. that said, if you are sending memes and such his way, specify it's for "íllra" because otherwise it's gonna get confusing, since i also write the actual lucius forrest as a muse who is a seperate person from íllra.   CANON OC:    as this character is my own original character, but is technically canon as I have published the first novel in the book series he's in, there will be some parts of his biography that might not align with canon / future canon, in order to not spoil everything lmao, so take everything with a grain of salt i guess.   TRIGGER WARNINGS:    descriptive abuse, torture, manipulation, abuse of his position of power (aka his position as a psychiatrist), cults, possession, occult-y vibes, necromancy, violence, murder, horror... basically, íllra is a terrible, horrible person, so there's going to be lots and lots of potential triggers here, so if you're easily triggered by the mentioned topics, or even topics not mentioned here, i would proceed with caution as there might be a chance i've forgotten to mention some triggers.          

íllra has lived for billions of billions of years, before the universe's existence. before the universe came to, he didn't really live per se, he more "existed", as the initial singularity which contained all energy and timespace of what would become the universe during the big bang (which is the point when íllra accidentally created the universe.) his actual life began after the universe was created, on a different world (the world of the gods). he was the first of the deities. the one who (albeit accidentally) created the universe and brought magic into it, to the other gods who had been created when the universe came to. in other words, the other gods whose life started at the beginning of the universe are in a sense a part of him, kind of like siblings, and the newer gods are still from his essence. none of the other gods know this, nor that he created the universe itself.but the fact that he bestowed magic and immortality upon them and the fact that he was the oldest of them, naturally led to him being in a very high position in his world, as more and more deities came into existence. he was respected. his fellow gods often looked to him for guidance, for answers and for solutions in the beginning.similar to earth’s progression, the gods' world developed through exploration, through progression and advancements. íllra, his brother íarle, his best friends frór and elli, as well as fælinn, várr, eyrir and some other gods were some of the first, all finding each other in the city of tivarhall during the early days, and deciding to explore the world together. they travelled north and discovered súnna, then they travelled south-east and discovered raudskogi, before travelling further in the same direction, discovering autridalr. then they travelled further south to discover suðri sólar, before taking to the seas further west, reaching the region that would later be called eyrrhæd, as eyrir claimed the land for himself. they travelled further south-west into the land, coming to a place that would be called blómbiǫð, then west to skýggdal where the ocean met them once more. instead of setting sail, they went north into a region that would come to be called snorás, then even further north a region that would be called hreggfell, before at last going back east and discovering thoka, before they headed back home to tivarhall again.and for a while, their world developed and lived in peace, cities being built, some gods taking leadership over various regions, an economy being created, while a few brave gods explored the wildlands between the territories, where dangerous creatures roamed, trying to study them to learn about their habits, their usefulness, their weaknesses, their threats, etc. these places were called the outerlands.however, the gods started to have more disagreements with each other as time went on, silly disputes turning to hatred, wars and fights for power and money and greedy desires. íllra would try to make alliances, to gather friends and acquaintances to fight for a common cause to bring people together and stop the reckless fighting among each other. several attempts were made. none worked. allies became corrupted. betrayed their own. good people died. íllra brought them back, unwittingly at the cost of pieces of his own soul that he could never get back, all the while unknowingly taking their souls as well. their death and resurrection had thus given them a new perspective. more and more friends turned their backs on him, abandoning the cause. a losing battle. their world falling into disarray. the strongest surviving, and the weakest left to fend for themselves. all the while, everyone using the powers he had granted them with, for destruction, or to further their own selfish needs rather than for good, like he had wanted them to...seeing the state of their own world only getting worse for decades. centuries. spanning into several millennia. still getting worse and worse, it was hard not to lose hope. hope in people. in the world. in everything.worse still, the humans on earth that prayed to them was utterly unaware of the darkness that had taken hold of the gods. íllra knew it was only a matter of time before the other gods would direct their focus onto new worlds. so he set out on his own to earth, in hopes of helping them prepare of what was to come, hoping that they would be stronger in spirit than the gods were, and not allow corruption to fester in their hearts so easily...and for a while, it seemed the humans were more reasonable, and he spent some time enjoying his time on earth, providing a few friends he had made and come to trust with magic, and they convinced him to go back home and make one last attempt at saving his own people from themselves.and so he returned to his world. and he tried... oh, he tried. but all to no avail. getting more angry, more frustrated as his hope began to unravel, íllra started to despise his fellow gods, and though he had promised himself never to do it, after his brother attempted to kill him, íllra snapped, and took away their powers, their immortality, and set their world on fire, quite literally, with his magic, the flames targeting any and all living creature that came in its way. and he left the burning and dying world behind, with only a tiny sliver of hope that the humans would prove to be better.though alas, he would find that last shred of hope crushed as well. wars being fought on battle-hills, people taking advantage of the magic he had provided them with. the others who was unfortunate enough to have no powers to defend themselves with, praying to the very gods he had murdered while villainizing him for providing humans with "wretched" magic.and that was the last straw.for all his attempts, people seemed to be hellbent on destroying themselves and their worlds... and perhaps that was for the best, if this was the true nature of gods and men alike. corrupt, selfish, evil... so let’s help them speed up the process, shall we? let’s see the world eat itself up, why not?though at some point, íllra realized that if he continued in the same way, that the humans’ rapidly growing fear of him was going to spiral out of control, which might lead to them trying to find a way to protect themselves against him or even stop him. and while he didn’t necessarily fear humans, he did know better than to underestimate them. and so, he decided to take action. he found a village that knew of his name and was fearful of him, and came across a teenage boy there, lucius forrest, who not only was not fearful like the rest, but were identical to íllra in his own childhood, as well as possessed powers beyond any human being. however, the boy didn't even seem to be aware of it himself.realizing that lucius was his doppelgänger, íllra decided to take advantage of the situation. seeing an opportunity to take advantage of the village’s fear to direct their focus elsewhere, íllra made a deal with lucius, and manipulated the boy into carrying out his plan to have the villagers turn on themselves, getting rid of those who feared him, and leaving behind only those who worshiped him. he convinced lucius to spend his years growing up to become a trusted devoted in the village, pretending to be determined to get rid of íllra and anyone who had or was planning to make deals with him. while in reality, lucius would use the magic provided to him by íllra to frame others of using magic. soon, there was a mass hysteria in town. everyone was on the lookout for potential followers of íllra, and those suspected of showing intrigue for magic or the deity himself, was taken to lucius to steer them away from íllra’s path before it was too late. what they didn’t realize, of course, was that lucius would in secret be leading them further down it. those who had been accused of using magic, on the other hand, were put on trials, where lucius again would use his magic to frame them, making it appear as if they used their magic to try to save themselves, thus riling up the other villagers to kill them.lucius would eventually start having doubts about íllra’s promises that this was the right thing to do, and, sensing lucius’ doubts, íllra immediately possessed him, having come too far in his plan to have lucius ruin it for him. after dealing with the village, íllra decided to keep using lucius’ body as his host, and even took on lucius’ identity. he decided to be a little more careful forwards, after his real name seemed to have finally disappeared from everyone’s lips.with his true identity lost to history, new theories and speculations began to arise about what he was. anything from the devil, to loki, or the grim reaper, or evil incarnate, or death, or a demon... the list was endless. but none, of course, not even those who accurately guessed he was a deity, came close to the full truth... which was precisely how íllra wanted it to be. the more they thought he was something else, the further away from the truth they’d stay. over the centuries since then, íllra (now posing as lucius forrest,) has taken on many different roles to best fit his purpose as he's traveled across countries, seeking out people who can easily be manipulated into making deals with him as well as seeking out people with potential for evil to guide them further down that path, while otherwise keeping up appearances of being a normal, inconspicuous human. in modern times, he is now working as a psychiatrist and secretly leads a cult.

   the kollok universe:    gods exist in the universe, but the majority of people aren't aware of their existence. the gods are beings made of energy and basically their energy can bestow power to people if they're touched by the energy, or the energy can be used in other ways. there are basically two main gods who have the power in the world; the god of chaos (phobos) and the god of order (harmonia) and together they create balance in the universe and multiverse, which is also a thing.so the main story takes place in 1991, where some kids try to solve the mystery of their friend being literally erased out of existence. they are all touched by phobos' energy and each gain a unique power. they learn about the existence of gods and that this shady company is using phobos' energy to make deals with people to bring back their loved ones from death...long story short, they go on this convoluted journey trying to do the right thing, but since they're kids, they're not aware of the consequences of their actions, and ta lot more chaos ensures along the way.

isaac was once known as the god of virtue, or simply virtue. he was the god that everyone deferred to when it came to taking the morally right actions. unfortunately, as humanity started seeking him out less and less, virtue became a faceless and forgotten god for a while, not having enough essence of good to feed off of anymore, sending him into a spiral of doubt and depression. this caused a change in the god's energy, and he was "rebirthed" as the god of doubt, his newfound powers influencing himself just as well as anyone around him. with this change came a total amnesia, and he forgot all about his past life and identity and who or what he was. now believing himself to be just a human, and having a complete denial of anything otherworldly, he believes he's just going on about life like anyone else would, however, being the god of doubt, he has a natural, almost animalistic instinct where he's drawn towards people with doubts and despair in their hearts, feeding off their energy without knowing it, as well as having a natural drive to instill doubt in others wherever and whenever he can.that said, he still possesses qualities from his time as the god of virtue, and doesn't have any malicious intent, genuinely believing he is helping people accept reality as is, rather than having false beliefs in things that (in his mind) doesn't exist, or false hopes that will only come to crush them later.if someone is completely consumed by isaac's influence, they will get pulled into a literal prison of doubt inside of him, where all their doubts and despair and guilt will pull them down for eternity, unless they are strong enough to overcome it. but so far, none has been, as he is a god, and his powers and influence is quite strong.

james was born to parents andrew bond of scotland, and monique delacroix bond of switzerland, both whom were tragically killed during a climbing accident in the french alps when james was eleven years old. he had acquired a first-class command of the french and german languages during his early education, which he received entirely abroad. after the death of his parents, bond went to live with his aunt, miss charmian bond, where he completed his early education. later, he briefly attended eton college at around 12 years old, but was removed after two halves due to "misbehavior". after being sent down from eton, bond was sent to fettes college in scotland, his father's school.after leaving fettes, bond studied at cambridge university. there, he achieved a first in oriental languages. bond briefly attended the university of geneva, before being taught to ski in kitzbühel. following his graduation, bond joined the ministry of defence and became a lieutenant in the royal naval volunteer reserves, rising through the ranks to commander. bond applied to m for a position within the "secret service", part of the civil service, and rose to the rank of principal officer.years later, james bond was assigned to aid the defection of kgb officer, general koskov, covering his escape from a concert hall in bratislava during the orchestra's intermission. during the mission, bond noticed that the kgb sniper assigned to prevent koskov's escape was a female cellist from the orchestra. he noticed her holding a rilfe improperly and immediately realized she was not a sniper. disobeying his orders to kill the sniper, he instead shot the rifle from her hands, then used the trans-siberian pipeline to smuggle koskov across the border into austria and then on to britain.bond returned to bratislava to track down the cellist, kara milovy. he determined that koskov's entire defection was staged and that kara was actually koskov's girlfriend. bond convinced kara that he was a friend of koskov's and persuaded her to accompany him to vienna, supposedly to be reunited with koskov. during his brief trip with kara in vienna, bond met up with his mi6 ally, saunders, who discovered a history of financial dealings between koskov and arms dealer brad whitaker. as saunders left their meeting, he was killed by assassin necros, who left the message for bond "smiert spionam".bond and kara promptly left for tangier, where bond confronted general pushkin. pushkin disavowed any knowledge of "smiert spionam", and revealed that koskov is evading arrest for the misusing of state funds. bond and pushkin then joined forces and bond faked pushkin's assassination, inducing whitaker and koskov to progress with their scheme. meanwhile, kara contacted koskov, who told her that bond is actually a kgb agent and convinced her to drug him so he could be captured.koskov, necros, kara, and the captive bond fly to a soviet air base in afghanistan (part of the soviet war in afghanistan) where koskov betrayed kara and imprisoned her along with bond. the pair escape and in doing so free a condemned prisoner, kamran shah, leader of the local afghan resistance, the mujahideen. bond and kara discovered that koskov was using soviet funds to buy a massive shipment of opium from the mujahideen, intending to keep the profits with enough left over to supply the soviets with their arms.with the mujahideen's help, bond planted a bomb aboard the cargo plane carrying the opium, but was spotted and had no choice but to barricade himself in the plane. meanwhile, the mujahideen attacked the air base on horseback and engaged the soviets in a gun battle. kara drove a jeep into the back of the plane as bond took off, and necros also lept aboard at the last second. after a struggle, bond threw necros to his death and deactivated the bomb. bond then noticed shah and his men being pursued by soviet forces. he re-activated the bomb and dropped it out of the plane and onto a bridge, blowing it up and helping shah and his men gain an important victory over the soviets. bond then returned to tangier to kill whitaker, as pushkin arrested koskov, sending him back to moscow.a few years later, DEA agents collect bond and felix leiter, on their way to leiter's wedding, to assist in capturing powerful drug lord franz sanchez. bond and leiter capture sanchez by attaching a hook and cord to sanchez's plane in flight near the bahamas and pulling it out of the air with a coast guard helicopter. afterward, bond and leiter parachute down to the church in time for the ceremony. when bond learns sanchez has escaped, he returns to leiter's house to find his wife della dead and felix alive, but seriously wounded; bond swears to take his revenge on sanchez. as the DEA refuses to help because sanchez is out of their jurisdiction, bond, with felix's friend sharkey, start their own investigation into what happened to felix. the pair discovers a marine research center run by milton krest, one of sanchez's associates.after bond kills ed killifer by pushing him into the tank with the shark that maimed leiter, m meets bond in key west's hemingway house and orders him to an assignment in istanbul, turkey. bond resigns after turning down the assignment, but m suspends bond instead and immediately revokes his licence to kill. bond flees from mi6 custody and becomes a rogue agent, bereft of official backing but later surreptitiously helped by miss moneypenny and mi6 armourer Q.bond boards the wavekrest — a ship run by milton krest — and foils sanchez's latest drug shipment, stealing five million dollars in the process, but later discovers that sharkey had been killed by one of krest's divers. bond recruits pam bouvier, an ex-cia agent and pilot whom he rescues from dario, sanchez's main enforcer, at a bimini bar, and journeys with her to the republic of isthmus. in isthmus city, bond is met by q. he finds his way into sanchez's employment by posing as an assassin looking for work. two hong kong narcotics bureau officers foil bond's attempt to assassinate sanchez and take him to an abandoned warehouse. they are joined by fallon, an mi6 agent who was sent by m to apprehend bond either dead or alive. bond is about to be sedated via injection and sent back to the united kingdom in disgrace when sanchez's men rescue bond and kill the officers, believing them to be the assassins.later, with the aid of bouvier, Q and sanchez's girlfriend, lupe lamora, bond frames krest by placing the five million dollars he had stolen into the hyperbaric chamber on board the wavekrest. an angry sanchez traps krest in the chamber and then rapidly depressurises it, killing him; meanwhile, for bond's perceived loyalty, sanchez admits him into his inner circle.sanchez takes bond to his base, which is disguised as a meditation retreat. bond learns that sanchez's scientists can dissolve cocaine in petrol and then sell it disguised as fuel to asian drug dealers. during sanchez's presentation to potential asian customers, dario discovers bond and reveals him to sanchez. bond starts a fire in the laboratory and attempts to flee, but is captured again and placed on the conveyor belt that drops the brick-cocaine into a giant shredder. bouvier arrives and distracts dario, allowing bond to pull dario into the shredder, killing him.sanchez flees as fire consumes his base, taking with him four articulated tankers full of the cocaine and petrol mixture. bond pursues them by plane, with bouvier at the controls. during the course of a stunt-filled chase through the desert, three of the four tankers are destroyed and bond kills many of sanchez's men. sanchez attacks bond with a machete aboard the final remaining tanker, which loses control and crashes down a hillside. soaked in petrol from the leaking tanker, sanchez attempts to kill bond with his machete. bond then reveals his cigarette lighter – the leiters' gift for being the best man at their wedding – and sets fire to sanchez, taking revenge for felix and della. sanchez stumbles into the wrecked tanker, blowing it up and killing himself. bouvier, driving the tractor from one of the destroyed tankers, rescues bond.later, a party is held at sanchez's former residence. bond speaks to leiter on a telephone informing him of his now stable condition and telling him that he had heard from m, who is offering him his job at mi6 back.

james had an ordinary childhood, with decent but not perfect parents, and three siblings, two brothers, lucas and oliver, and a sister, emma. when he finished school, james didn't pursue a higher education, instead getting a job as a construction worker. he was in his mid 20s when the outbreak happened. he managed to reach his parents, who fortunately lived outside the big city, as did emma and oliver. they stayed in their parent's home, trying to reach lucas on his phone for a while. although unprepared for the sudden threat, his father ended up getting bit by a neighbor when he went out to try to find some food for them, on his way home. unaware that he had been infected by the bite, he brought home food from an abandoned store, only to turn shortly after, attacking and killing his wife and james' mother before james managed to kill him. after that, it was just him and emma. emma, who still wanted to wait for their brother, and james, who was convinced that he was probably dead, or if he wasn't, wasn't going to come back to their parents' house anyway. they argued over whether to stay or leave for a few weeks, james hoping to convince emma to come with him, but realizing she was determined to stay, james eventually left her there alone, something he would carry guilt for for the rest of his days.fast forward 20 years, james has been in a qz in pittsburgh for about 13 years until it fell. in the qz, about a year before it fell, he got to know david, and when it fell, he, david, and some others left together. they'd settle somewhere that seemed safe, but soon raiders came, and they were forced to move again, and along the way, they got more survivors to join their group. they eventually settled down in silver lake, colorado. though more people in their group meant more strength in the beginning, it also meant more mouths to feed, which soon became a problem. as their desperation to find food grew, when david, james and a few more of david's men ran into two other survivors one day while on a hunt, and a gunfight ensued, killing the other survivors, david and the others saw it as an opportunity to feed their people. they brought the corpses back, wrapped up and with some logs put underneath next to them to hide the human shape, then prepared and cooked them up into a dinner which they told the rest of the group was venison.this is where the cannibalism started. naturally, they would still hunt for animals when and where they could, but in the lack of finding any, they would resort to killing human travellers for the sake of feeding their own people. the majority of the people in david's group doesn't know. james is one of the few who does. despite his seeming loyalty to david, however, james does question david's decisions lately and struggles with guilt.

jethro west is the oldest son of cheryl and wolf west, he is the twin brother to van west, who you can read about here, as he's also a muse of mine, and older brother to pascalle and loretta west. jethro is the more clever and more conniving of the twins. when he and jethro were both still in high school, jethro was the best student in class, gaining the attention of his teacher, whom exploited him, manipulating him into starting an affair with her. (note: while i will obviously not write about this in threads, it is a part of his canon, and it will have an affect on his mental state.) this affair lasted for several years, until he eventually managed to admit to himself how he had been taken advantage of as a minor. upon realizing this, jethro distanced himself from his family for a while, as he tried to work through his mental struggles that arose from this.jethro is also the only one in the family to have completed an education, having passed the bar as a lawyer. he is, according to his family, 'the only successful west'. as the first member of the family to graduate university, his mother had high hopes that he would transcend his criminal upbringing. however, this was not to be, as he only has his current job because he misinformed his employers about his background.when jethro was given the job of giving an important presentation, jethro set about making it. when he eventually finished, he found it missing the next day. he suspected his jealous co-worker, hugh. he hired his brother van, and van's best friend, munter to break into hugh's apartment to retrieve the folder. jethro distracted hugh by taking him and savannah out for drinks. when savannah left, hugh made moves on jethro, before passing out drunk, and jethro left him severely drunk on a bench in a park. munter and van retrieved the folder, proving hugh had indeed stolen it, and jethro got it back in time to do his presentation.when jethro looked over his father's case, he realized that the cop, judd, that always kept an eye on their family in order to find something to arrest them for, framed wolf, and that is the only reason their father is in jail. jethro managed to get wolf out of jail and into home detention instead.jethro later left the firm he worked at to start up his own law firm. he borrowed money from wolf and bought corky's old office. he helped set wolf up with a job, and wolf told jethro to be sparky's lawyer and get him off an arson charge. unfortunately, sparky claimed the only witness who could get him off was 'tinkerbell'. jethro decided to make van claim to be nicknamed 'tinkerbell' from his childhood, to be sparky's alibi, and coached van through what to say. but van got stoned on the day he was supposed to be a witness, and they had to switch places. van acting as jethro, having been coached to only 'nod' and not say anything, and jethro taking van's place on the witness stand during the cross examination. sparky got off the charges and went to work for wolf.jethro continued to work as a lawyer, and eventually found out his mother was having an affair with the very cop who framed his father. she later dumped wolf for judd, which greatly angered jethro. he eventually admitted to his mother that he didn't go to law school to get out of a life of crime, but instead to make sure he would learn how to commit crimes without getting caught by using the legal system to his advantage, because he wanted to be better than his family.overall, despite his success, jethro has a dark side beneath his facade, and while he doesn't like to get his hands dirty, he does have a violent streak as well. he's selfish, and often puts himself above anyone else, but he does care about his family and friends deep down.

   the infection:    so, for the sake of making things a little more interesting rp-wise (as well as making it a little more "realistic"), i'm going to go ahead and make my canon that the infection of the rage virus normally takes a little longer to start showing symptoms, that most people don't immediately turn after just 20-30 seconds. instead, they start showing minor symptoms at first, like some slight tendencies towards aggression / quick temper, which will then rapidly increase after a set time and turn into more violent behavior until it eventually takes over completely, leaving them 'mindless' killers that attack anything in their path. the timeline of the various stages can vary a little, usually lasting between a few days to a week until the infection has fully taken over, depending on the person.
once the violence stage has set in, it usually only takes an hour or so until the virus' host is no longer in any control of themselves. this will be evident by physical symptoms, such as bleeding from the eyes and nose. there is no known cure for the rage virus... yet.if you want the canon where the infection only takes a few seconds to turn you, i am fine with that too, just let me know, and we can go with that! but by default, it will take a little longer than in canon.there are a few, rare people who are "immune" to the virus, but they can still be carriers of the virus and infect other people with it. there are also some people who are semi-immune to the virus, where the person's body is able to keep the virus from reaching the final stage, though they will still be more prone to aggression and violence and can (if they don't have a strong will-power, or if they get too tired to fight against it,) become as dangerous as if they were fully infected, if not more, since they still possess the capability to think.   jim's semi-immunity:    my jim is semi-immune, and infected. his physical symptoms shows in that his left eye has a bloodshot sclera / the white part of his eye is bloodshoot. he also has gained a supernatural strength, reflexes and agility, to the point where they are slightly above a human in their peak physical condition. his psychological symptoms shows in that he is more prone to quicker temper / aggression, and in worst cases, violence / murder. due to jim's naturally calm and kind nature before being infected, he does have a fairly good control over these symptoms and usually it only reveals itself in him being more quickly annoyed / moody, but it's not a good idea to try to push it, as the more he's pushed, the harder it becomes for him to not give in to the temper and violent urges.

before the outbreak of the rage virus, jim was a bicycle courier for an unknown company. one day, while he was delivering a package from farrington to shaftsbury avenue, a car cut across him, causing him to crash his bike and leaving him comatose. while jim was unconscious, his parents visited him. as people infected by the rage virus overran london, hospital staff emptied out the hospital. someone locked the door, slipped a key under it in case jim woke up, and he was left behind.twenty-eight days into the outbreak, jim awoke from his coma in an abandoned hospital. he ventured out of the hospital to find london desolate and rife with signs of a catastrophe. confused, jim travelled through the barren streets, calling out for any signs of life. gathering discarded cans of soda and money from off the ground, jim observed a wall of missing people posters before moving on.later, jim entered a church filled with corpses, where he was confronted by a priest infected with the rage virus. when the priest attacked jim, the latter knocked the priest over with his shopping bag in self-defense, then fled the church, with several infected in hot pursuit. jim was saved in the streets from the infected by two strangers, mark and selena, who then detonated the underground tanks at a gas station, obliterating the group of infected.mark and selena then took a confused jim with them to their hideout in a sweet shop in the london underground, and selena explained to jim that while he had been comatose, the rage virus had spread through britain and killed or infected the majority of the population. the british army tried holding the infected at blockades, but those were overrun, and the evacuation started too late. the day before the tv and radios stopped broadcasting, there were reports of infection in paris and new york. worried for his family's well being, jim convinced a reluctant mark and selena take him across the city to his parents' neighbourhood in deptford the next day. when they arrived at the home of jim's parents, jim found that they had committed suicide via drug overdose. they left a note to their son:with endless love, we left you sleeping. now we're sleeping with you. don't wake up.mark and selena told jim that he should be grateful that his parents had died peacefully, and the trio decided to stay in the house for the night. during the following night, a bereaved jim hallucinated his parents in the kitchen and lit a candle, attracting the presence of the infected mr. bridges and his daughter, who attacked him.mark and selena killed the two infected, and selena starts questioning jim on whether or not he was bitten or had gotten any blood in his mouth or eyes. selena then notices mark having sustained an injury caused by bridges' daughter and mercilessly kills him in front of jim, then explains that mark had been infected. selena ruled out intimacy between her and jim, warning jim that she would kill him too "in a heartbeat" were he to become infected, and the two then left the house. unbeknownst to both selena and jim, he had, in fact, gotten some blood in his system when he was attacked, but being semi-immune, his symptoms did not start to show as fast as it normally would.jim expressed his concerns to selena about her decision to kill mark, as she couldn't know for sure mark had been infected. they continued through london until they saw lights flashing in a flat in an apartment building. they headed to the apartment, and climbed up the stairwell to the flat, chased by two infected. they were saved by a man named frank, and he and his daughter, hannah, gave jim and selena shelter in their flat. after frank and hannah went to sleep for the night, jim and selena discussed whether or not to stick with frank and hannah. jim believed the father and daughter were good people despite selena's belief that they would slow them down.the next day, jim discovered from frank that resources such as water were dwindling, so the group left the apartment in frank's taxi on a journey to manchester; where, according to a recorded radio message, the "answer to infection" and help from the military supposedly awaited them.the group narrowly avoided a horde of infected while they stopped in an underground tunnel to change a flat tire, and raided a supermarket for food before travelling into the countryside. while they were refuelling the taxi at a cheeseburger shack, jim went into the shack in search of cheeseburgers. there, jim was attacked by an infected child, forcing him to beat the boy to death. the group later stopped at an old castle ruin in the countryside to camp out there for the night, and that night jim had a nightmare of one of his biggest fears: being left alone. the group resumed their journey to manchester the next morning, and arrived at the forty-second blockade on the m602 near manchester where the radio message had stated the soldiers were, but found manchester in flames and destroyed, and the blockade desolate and abandoned.when frank was infected by blood dripping from a corpse, selena yelled at jim to kill the infected frank. jim hesitated at first, but then got over it and was about to attack frank with his baseball bat, when two surviving soldiers arrived and shot and killed frank in front of a shocked jim, selena and hannah. the soldiers then took jim, hannah and selena to the nearby worsley house in the woods, where they were greeted by major henry west and given sanctuary at the fortified mansion with the soldiers.during the trio's stay at the worsley house, major west gave jim a tour of the mansion, and revealed that he was keeping an infected soldier chained up in the mansion's courtyard; west explained that his "answer to infection" was waiting for the infected to die off from starvation, and that he was keeping the soldier alive to see how long that would take.the following night, jim, hannah and selena had dinner with the soldiers, which was cut short when the men were forced to fend off an attack on the worsley house by the infected. afterwards, when corporal mitchell tried to force himself on selena, jim tried to intervene until sergeant farrell violently forced mitchell to leave jim and selena alone. major west then talked with jim over a drink about who jim had killed since the rage virus broke out. a guilty jim admitted to killing the infected child at the cheeseburger shack, and west then explained to jim that he had promised hannah and selena to his men in order to repopulate britain after the infected starved to death.a horrified and disgusted jim then tried to flee the worsley house with hannah and selena, but the trio were attacked and captured by the soldiers. major west asked jim to join him and his men in their new society, but jim refused, so west had jim locked in the cellar for the night with sergeant farrell and scheduled to be executed the next morning. over the night, jim overheard farrell theorising that the rage epidemic was confined to great britain, and that the rest of the world was continuing normally.the following morning, jones and mitchell took jim and farrell out to a body dump in the woods to be shot. while jones and mitchell were distracted arguing after killing farrell, jim managed to escape them and fled over the perimeter wall. there, jim saw a jet flying overhead, giving him hope that farrell was right and that civilisation outside of britain had survived.jim subsequently set about re-infiltrating the worsley house and rescuing hannah and selena. he returned to the forty-second blockade and sounded the siren, luring major west and davis away from the mansion and to the blockade. jim bludgeoned and killed davis with a crowbar, then disabled his and west's jeep and left west to the infected. jim then returned to the worsley house and released the infected soldier to kill the other soldiers. jim then prowled the worsley house, looking for selena and hannah and avoiding the infected as they two rampaged through the mansion and began killing the remaining soldiers. jim eventually found selena taken hostage by mitchell, and watched from in the attic as mitchell made vulgar taunts towards selena. enraged, jim then jumped down from the attic and took mitchell by surprise, brutally killing the soldier by gouging his eyes out and beating him to death. selena, believing jim to be infected, then prepared to kill jim but hesitated; prompting jim to jokingly remind her that she had previously warned that she would kill jim "in a heartbeat."there, the group found a vengeful major west, who then shot jim in the abdomen for the deaths of his men. the trio quickly fled the worsley house in the taxi with the injured jim, leaving west to be killed by the infected. hannah and selena took the dying jim to an abandoned hospital, where selena was able to save him. he trio then took refuge at a remote cottage in west cumbria, where selena and hannah used cloth and fabric to sew together a giant banner spelling out "hello" to get the trio's presence noticed by passing aircraft.twenty-eight days after escaping the worsley house, jim, hannah and selena put out the last piece of the banner as a finnish jet flew by overhead and apparently noticed their message. the jet then sent a helicopter to pick the trio up and fly them to mainland europe.

Powder was born to Felicia and Connol, as the younger sister of Violet. Growing up, Powder had a good relationship with Vi and her parents. However, when her parents died during a battle on the bridge between Piltover and Zaun, she and Vi were the only people left in their family. After the battle, Vander found the two siblings where he adopted them and raised them as his own, alongside Mylo and Claggor.A few years later, Vi, Powder, Claggor, and Mylo venture into Piltover after getting a tip from Ekko regarding a Piltover citizen whom he had followed after he shopped at Benzo's. After finding the apartment, the kids looted the place where Powder discovered a box full of blue crystals. However, Vi heared Jayce and Caitlyn's footsteps. This made Vi signal everyone to leave. But in the rush, Powder drops one of the blue crystals, setting off an explosion that blows up half the building. This notified the enforcers and sent the kids on a chase through Piltover.After the kids evade the enforcers, they return to Zaun with their stolen goods. They are stopped by a street gang led by Deckard, who demands they hand the bag over. Not willing to go down without a fight, Vi, Claggor, and Mylo take on the rival gang and leave the goods with Powder. Midway, Powder is chased by one of the gang members who notices the stolen supplies. She is cornered at the docks, where she tries to attack him with Mouser, though it sputters out and fails. Left with no other option, she throws the bag of goods away, where they land in the ocean as Powder manages to escape for good.Later, Mylo yells at Powder for losing the stolen goods and claims, "She jinxes every job," though Vi silences him. Back at The Last Drop, Vander reprimands the group for the trouble they caused in Piltover while Vi argues back, claiming that Piltover has plenty while they have nothing.While laying low, the group hangs out in a run-down arcade that seems to be their go-to hangout spot. Mylo berates Powder for being unable to fix a target practice range; instead, she activates it and plays the range herself, showing off with her excellent aim. As the four are playing, enforcers who are searching the Undercity for the ones responsible for the explosion enter the arcade through a broken window. With Ekko's help, the kids manage to escape once again.Later, several Zaunites gather at The Last Drop. Powder, Ekko, Mylo, Vi, and Claggor stand by a corner and watch as several residents, including Sevika, claim they want to fight back, but Vander reminds them that violence is not the answer and that they "just have to stand together". The kids wonder why Vander still chooses peace, and Ekko informs them that Vander has a deal with the enforcers. While lounging in the basement of The Last Drop, Vander signals the group that enforcers have arrived again. They hide in the rafters, but Powder struggles to hang on. Luckily, she manages to keep from falling, and only after the enforcer leaves the basement does she let go. She decides to make more bombs, naming one "Whisker," and she shows them to Vi, who encourages her.When Vi returns to The Last Drop, letting the group know what she saw, they begin to plan a rescue for Vander. Powder wants to join, but Vi refuses, telling her she's not ready and giving her a flare before leaving with Mylo and Claggor. Afterwards, Powder has a breakdown, feeling left behind and not appreciated by her sister and adoptive siblings. In the midst of it, the Hextech crystals she'd swiped from the penthouse spill from her bag. Realizing these crystals are what caused the explosion, she realizes that she can help her siblings.Powder then makes her way to the warehouse with a monkey bomb loaded with Hextech crystals. She releases it through the window and, for the first time, her bomb works, releasing a massive explosion. It successfully kills several of Silco's goons, as well as disintegrating Sevika's arm and blowing Singed's lab up with him inside. However, the explosion also inadvertently killed Mylo and Claggor, as well as injuring Vander and Vi. Powder, unaware of what she's done, proudly makes her way to where Vi and Vander are, only to find Vander dead and Vi agonized. In her anguish and pain, Vi punches Powder in the face, calling her a "jinx" before storming off and leaving her sobbing.Silco finds Powder still sobbing and alone, and, a broken-hearted and betrayed Powder embraces Silco, crying into him, at which point Silco decides to adopt her.Seven years later, on a day known as Progress Day, a shipment of Shimmer ( a highly potent and dangerous drug that enhances physical and mental abilities of its users ) is ambushed by the Firelights, a vigilante group from the Undercity. Powder, now known as Jinx, emerges and fights back mercilessly with her now very effective explosive inventions. Deadly in combat, she easily takes down multiple Firelights until one of them is unmasked. Upon seeing the girl's pink hair, Jinx hallucinates Vi's face on the girl, causing her to freeze before she realizes it isn't her sister, and she shoots the girl without hesitation. The remaining Firelights flee, and Jinx fires on them, putting her own group in danger as they're in the line of fire.Later, Silco, with whom Jinx has a complex father-daughter relationship, encourages Jinx to work on her inventions, excuses her blunders, and is shown to genuinely care for her. Her hideout, built over the fissures, allows her time and space to work on her inventions. However, the decorations in her hideout reflect her mindset being stuck in the past—she keeps Vi's rabbit from childhood and even made a copy, keeping one in a box and nailing the other to the wall above her desk. She also keeps Claggor's goggles, along with a life-sized doll of Mylo, who often appears to her in hallucinations.After her explosive reaction on the airship, Silco suggests to Jinx that she take time to collect herself, frustrating her. In an effort to prove herself, she breaks into the Piltover Council building, stealing a refined Hextech crystal and creating a diversion by starting a fire in a pavilion to lure Enforcers into a trap filled with explosives. Six Enforcers are killed, with a seventh being injured.Despite Silco's initial frustration, the benefits the crystal promises outweigh the risks to his business, and he is quick to forgive.When Jinx finds out from Sevika that her sister is alive and in the lanes searching for her, she uses the flare Vi had given her in an attempt to find her. Despite her doubts, Vi shows up, and the pair are reunited. When Caitlyn appears, Jinx turns on the pair, questioning Vi's motivation for returning until the Firelights ambush the trio, and a fight ensues, leading to Vi and Caitlyn being taken and Jinx being left alone yet again.Searching for both Vi and the hextech gemstone, Jinx watches from on high as her swarm of explosive mechanical butterflies explodes across a barricaded bridge Topside, killing the team of Enforcers, including Marcus. Jinx comes face to face with her sister and Caitlyn and fires at them from almost point-blank range, stopped by Ekko intercepting and knocking her back. Ekko faces off against Jinx, allowing Cait and Vi to escape while the two fight. Despite the pair being evenly matched, Ekko pins her down, and Jinx lets off a grenade, dislocating Ekko's leg and nearly killing her. Silco carries the severely injured Jinx to Singed, begging him to save her. The doctor injects her with Shimmer, enhancing her strength and speed and ultimately saving her despite the demanding and extremely painful process. This also changes her eyes into a bright pink that occasionally glows.Jinx lures Vi to her, and knocks out and captures her, bringing her to what remains of the warehouse where Vander had died. She reveals she has set up a twisted tea party, with Caitlyn and Silco both tied up and gagged at the table. Jinx begs Vi to kill Caitlyn, which she refuses. Jinx then turns on Caitlyn herself, sparing her only because of Vi's pleas. This leads to Cait firing on her, and Jinx retaliates by knocking her out. Silco and Vi each try to convince her to either spare or kill Caitlyn, and in her overwhelm, she shoots and kills Silco. Breaking down at her own actions, she takes her rocket launcer named Fishbones, powered by the Hextech gemstone, and fires a missile at the Piltover council; leading to the death of three councilors: Cassandra Kiramman, Irius Bolbok, and Torman Hoskel.In the aftermath of the explosion, half of the reunion, including Caitlyn's mother Cassandra, are killed, causing Mel's mother Ambessa Medarda to encourage war. Meanwhile, in the aftermath of Silco's death, the various Chem-Barons go to war over the territory they once all shared. With her revenge seemingly fulfilled, Jinx goes on to lack direction in life, dropping Silco's body in the river he fought Vander in, and merely wandering throughout the Undercity as the chaos unfolds, intending to simply "watch it all burn". While traveling one day, Jinx encounters an orphan named Isha, whom she rescues from men that were pursuing the kid. Jinx later meets with Sevika, who has tried in vain to convince the Chem-Barons to work together, where the two link over having been used as puppets by Silco, and Jinx ends up building an arm for Sevika.Distressed by Vi's second betrayal, Jinx escapes the hideout, only to be confronted by the Chem-Baron Smeech, who intends to hand Jinx over to end the war. However, Sevika arrives, and, with the help of the new arm, manages to kill Smeech and his goons. After the battle, Jinx shares her intentions with Sevika to kill her family, and use Smeech's henchmen as bait to lure Caitlyn's squad to her hideout. There, Jinx and Sevika begin a fight against Caitlyn and Vi, with the latter officially denouncing Jinx as her sister. At the same time, due to unknown circumstances regarding the Hexgates and the Arcane, Cait, Vi, and Jinx's Hextech weapons begin glitching out. Caitlyn pursues Jinx, wanting revenge for the death of her mother. Ultimately, Vi takes down Jinx, but before she can kill her, Isha jumps to Jinx and holds Vi at gunpoint. Vi prevents a bloodlusted Caitlyn from shooting so close to a child, and in the chaos, Sevika triggers Jinx's bombs, allowing the two to escape, while releasing paint-based explosions onto the surface and vandalizing the city.Some time later, Jinx has gone into hiding. Jinx becomes completely apathetic to the events, and instead spends her time in her hideout. When Sevika tries and fails to encourage Jinx to continue the attacks, Isha decides to launch an "attack" at a security checkpoint, causing security to crack down even more. As a result, Sevika organizes a rally at Vander's statue with many individuals going, only for Noxians to capture the vast majority of them. Thus, Jinx and Sevika break into the prison, only for the compound to be attacked by Warwick, a man-wolf beast created by Singed. Sevika and Isha escape, while Jinx faces Warwick head on, and discovers that he is in fact a revived Vander.Jinx goes to Vi, who has become an alcoholic pit fighter after the fight, and attempts to convince her to help her find Vander. The two track him into the mines where Vander and Silco used to work. Along the way, they get into a fight once again, but this time it's more akin to that of a typical siblings fight than their earlier one which was held with killing intent. Soon after, they find a letter of apology from Vander to Silco, before eventually encountering Warwick in the mines. In an attempt to cure him, they visit Viktor who, after an encounter with the Hexcore, has developed the ability to heal people and become known as "the Herald". Viktor finds curing Vander challenging, but remains willing to do so. At the same time, Caitlyn, now given the title of general, track Warwick to Viktor's commune, and attempt to capture him, only for then to switch sides. At the same time, Jayce, who believes that Viktor's use of the Arcane is dangerous, uses his hammer to shoot Viktor, causing a mass explosion in the commune. During the fight, Jinx, Vi, and Caitlyn try to escape from both a rampaging Warwick and Ambessa's army, only for Isha to use all of the Hex-crystals in Jinx's gun and shoot Warwick herself, causing a massive explosion.Caitlyn, Jinx, and Vi all manage to escape the Noxian army, and hide out in Caitlyn's mansion. There, Caitlyn keeps Jinx in the basement, though acknowledges she's tired of her constant hatred towards both Jinx and herself. Haven fallen into a deep depression, while Jinx has a conversation with a hallucination of Silco. Vi, still desperate to help her sister, causes Jinx to realize that Vi will never give up on her, as Vi releases her from the prison cell. Jinx then locks Vi in the prison, proclaiming she intends to "break the cycle".After burning down The Last Drop (Vander and later Silco's bar), Jinx attempts to detonate one of her grenades, but is stopped by Ekko, who uses his recently invented Z-Drive to rewind time and lead her to help out. Thus, everyone decides to work together to help Piltover face Ambessa, the Noxian Army, and Viktor, who intends to use the Hexgates to capture everyone in Piltover and erase free will. Jinx arrives in an airship and rains down fire with her mini-gun upon the Noxian army, before being attacked by Warwick, who has been transformed into a mindless drone by Viktor. Vi arrives to help, and the airship crashes into the hexgates, leading to the two sisters facing off against Warwick, while Jayce fights Viktor down below. Ultimately, with Ekko's help, Jayce manages to convince Viktor to give up his crusade, and the two sacrifice themselves to destroy the Arcane power, freeing almost everyone.Upon awaking, Jinx and Vi are yet again attacked by a now feral Warwick. Vi attempts to reason with Vander, but the creature attacks maliciously. Before he can strike the final blow, Jinx rams into Warwick, and the two start falling only for Vi to grab Jinx's hand with her gauntlets. Jinx deactivates the gauntlets and falls with Warwick as she detonates a bomb and an explosion occurs, presumably killing both, although if Jinx truly did die from the fall, remains to be seen...

no one seems to know job's real identity, and just as few can put a face to the name of the notorious hacker. in 1991, job hacked banco nacional of caracas, and transferred 7million dollars to humanitarian nonprofits across south america. 6 months later, he infected the mainframe of wing-lijun shipping with a botnet virus that cost them almost 100 million. in 1994, he infiltrated the NSA database and deleted the personnel records of 40 covert military operatives. though he really only needed to delete the one record (his own) he deleted the others as well to cover his own tracks.since then, job has worked as a hacker for other criminals, as well as working as a hairstylist at his own salon. the latter, at least, until his old friend, lucas hood, who had spent 15 years in jail, showed up, needing a new identity, leading men that were after lucas to job's salon, forcing him to blow it up and move to banshee where lucas is staying.

john doe is a former patient of arkham asylum, a mental hospital and prison in gotham known for the treatment of the criminally insane. no one has any record or knowledge of how or why john ended up in arkham, but he quickly received a reputation for being violent, chaotic and unpredictable. multiple doctors tried and failed to treat him, until he eventually ended up with dr. joan leland, the head of psychiatry at the institute, as his doctor. first then did john seemingly make progress. so much so that he eventually was deemed fit to rejoin society and was released. in reality, john actually feigned his recovery, and does still very much has the same mindset as he had when he was considered too dangerous to be a part of society.( john doe's real name remains unknown, but for the sake of clarity, i will be referring to him as john (doe) throughout his biography. )john doe grew up in an abusive household with his mother, only knowing that his father had left them and not knowing why. his mother was working as part of a travelling circus, and so each summer was spent living on the road, and when the shows were done for the year, the circus caravans returned to gotham, and he and his mother would be living in a cramped caravan.john did go to school, but he was never quite able to make any friends, being seen as the scrawny, weird kid. instead, he ended up being bullied a lot and his teachers either didn't catch it happening or simply didn't care to intervene. his only comfort was coming home and seeing comedians on their small tv each night before bed. still, he got through school with decent grades and went on to study engineering. after finishing his studies, john was able to land a job at ace chemicals, and managed to get enough income to move his mother (who was starting to become ill and unable to work at the circus) and himself into a small apartment in gotham.it became his responsibility to take care of his mother, and for a while, he did, until he unfortunately lost his job. unable to land another job, john started trying his hand out at stand-up, doing moderately well, but not nearly well enough to pay rent and get food on the table for both himself and his mother. things were starting to look really down, when one night, after another stand-up gig, a couple of men approached him, having heard that he used to work at ace chemicals and that he knew the structure. they offered him a job as part of a robbery. he would help them past security and they would rob the place, and he would get a share of the take. he would be wearing a red helmet to conceal his face.john reluctantly agreed, seeing no other options for income. however, what john didn't know is that the chemical plant had gotten a security upgrade since he worked there. and at the night of the robbery, the alarm broke out, and the police arrived. john, in an attempt to escape, slipped and fell into one of the large vats with chemicals. the police discovered him passed out nearby later, and when they pulled off his hood, his face (and entire body for that matter) was white as a ghost, his hair a bright green and eyes pale green. he was taken to the hospital for evaluation, and it quickly became clear that he was suffering from memory loss.a short process of trial later, john was deemed criminally insane and taken to arkham asylum for rehabilitation.at arkham, john's violent tendencies and mental instability quickly began to show. during his first years, he was involved with several incidents which lives were lost and people were injured, and he went through several therapists, all of which received different stories from him, thus making it impossible to tell if any of what he was telling was even true, and if so, what. among the other inmates, he was feared as well for his unpredictability, being sweet and charming one moment, and getting them into trouble the next.john eventually seemed to calm down more after being put on medications that finally seemed to have a positive effect (in reality, he didn't take them at all, and only played nice because he was getting bored of the asylum and wanted out.) he started reading and watching the news more (in reality, he was reading and watching the news only due to his obsession with bruce wayne, having rightly guessed that bruce was, in fact, batman,) and in sessions, he showed a clearer understanding of his problems and what he needed to work on.as fortune would have it, the bruce wayne ended up committed to arkham after attacking oswald cobblepot, and john jumped at the opportunity to present himself as a helpful ally, helping bruce get released by creating a diversion so that bruce could make a phonecall to the right people that could get him out. knowing that zsasz was a compulsion to scar himself with each kill he committed, john used a makeshift knife to cut his face, then handed the knife to zsasz, telling him he could fix the mistake right now, leading zsasz to attack one of the guards, thus causing all the nearby guards and staff to come to handle the situation, giving bruce an opening to use the phone.john was himself released from arkham asylum a couple of months later on good behavior, and it didn't take long before he joined a criminal group called "the pact." while the other members thought john was relatively harmless, little did they know he had his own reasons for joining the pact that didn't align with their interests...as for john's personality, john's actual personality is a lot different from how he will come off when he interacts with people. john is very much keeping up a fake persona that makes him seem both charming, friendly, insecure, a little oblivious, honest and trustworthy and generally harmless. these are the traits that your muse will see if they interact with him. they might start to notice after interacting with him for a bit little signs that something's off, like his odd, often dark sense of humor and little tidbits that might hint at the dark personality he truly has.the truth is, john doe is highly manipulative and intelligent, does not find any value in neither materialistic things nor human lives or any kinds of relationships, platonic or otherwise (the only exception here being his relationship with bruce wayne / the batman, which he has an obsession with.) he thrives on violence, chaos and murder, he's not at all trustworthy, and overall he is a highly dangerous person, being a danger to both himself and everyone around him.

john locke was born to emily annabeth locke and anthony cooper on may 30. his mother was 15 years old when an unknown driver hit her, forcing an early delivery. three months premature, john survived numerous illnesses; his nurses called him a miracle. john's mother, emily, ran out of the hospital ward upon learning that john was to be let out of his incubator for the first time and that she could hold him. emily said she couldn't do it, possibly referring to having to raise a child. while john's grandmother discussed adoption with a nurse, a man named richard alpert smiled at baby john from an adjoining room.john soon entered foster care. at one point he had a foster mother named florence, a foster sister named melissa, and an unnamed foster brother with whom he played mousetrap. when john was five, richard visited him, saying he ran a "school for very special children" like john. he noticed john had drawn black scribbles attacking a stick figure. he laid several items on a table and and asked john which already belonged to him. john picked a knife and richard left in a hurry, saying john was not ready to join his school.another of john's foster sisters, jeannie, fell from monkey bars and broke her neck fatally. jeannie's mother blamed her own negligence for jeannie's death, but when a golden retriever took up residence in jeannie's bedroom, she believed that jeannie's spirit had returned to say the accident had not been her fault. five years later, she died and the dog vanished forever.as a young child, locke joined the cub scouts, eventually becoming a webelos - where he learned skills such as identifying birds and tying knots.teenage john's love of science attracted bullying. at one point, richard approached a teacher who once freed john from a locker with a mittelos laboratories "summer camp" invite. john turned it down, favoring sports over science. when the teacher said john could not do those things, john responded with "don't tell me what i can't do."as an adult, while working as an assistant manager in a superstore's toy department, locke noticed his mother emily stalking him. she told him he was "immaculately conceived," paving the way for his special "destiny," but an investigator discovered john's living father's identity, and a medical record of his mother's psychiatric problems.acting on the information, locke visited his father, anthony cooper, who invited the eager locke on hunting trips, where the two appeared to bond. on one visit, cooper was on a dialysis machine and revealed his kidney failure. compassionately, locke soon offered his kidney, and before their surgery he called their encounter an act of fate. when locke awoke post-surgery, cooper was gone.the traumatized locke was visited by his mother, who confessed his father had arranged their earlier meeting and all subsequent events to con him into giving away his kidney. enraged, locke drove to his father's house, but the guard denied him entry.locke then joined an anger management group where he trivialized members' problems by comparing them to his own. he started a relationship with another member, helen norwood, who appeared to understand his frustration. locke was also in the habit of parking outside his father's new, gated residence. at one point, his father confronted him and told him to go away. locke nevertheless continued this stalking, until helen caught him and made him promise to get over cooper.during this time, he started a home inspection company called "welcome home". he happened to inspect a house for nadia, the childhood sweetheart of sayid, whom he'd meet later after the plane crash. concurrently, locke and helen were living together, and he was preparing to ask for her hand in marriage, but suddenly, cooper faked his death. after attending the internment, the couple were visited by several gangsters cooper had conned. cooper revealed himself to locke and asked his son's help in retrieving money from an account. locke agreed for $200,000. helen discovered his involvement, arriving at the scene of locke delivering the money. in desperation and in the face of helen's outrage, he proposed, which she rejected, leaving him on bended knee and in devastation.two years later, locke joined a commune of farmers (including mike and jan) in humboldt county, california who secretly grew and sold marijuana. he invited eddie, a hitchhiker into this "family," not knowing he was an undercover police officer. locke learned eddie's true identity, but could not bring himself to shoot him. when arresting the commune's occupants, eddie seemed to notice locke but did not approach him.having been conned by his father and rejected by the woman he loved, locke entered a state of depression, began therapy, and started receiving government assistance. in 2000, he was approached by peter talbot, whose mother was engaged to anthony cooper. suspicious, locke contacted cooper, threatening to expose him as a conman. cooper initially agreed, but later had peter killed. cooper denied responsibility and said mrs. talbot had called off the wedding. when locke asked to verify this information, cooper directed to a phone in front of a glass window. as locke reached for the phone, cooper pushed him out the window, dropping him eight stories, breaking his back, and paralyzing him from the waist down. he appeared dead until jacob approached him and touched his shoulder. locke gasped and opened his eyes.in the hospital, locke felt unable to enter his wheelchair, and broke down in tears at the sight of his immobile legs. in rehab, an "orderly" named matthew abaddon told him to go on a walkabout, even though john could not walk.locke had stubbornly refused to allow his disability to affect the way he lived his life. he eventually decided to take abaddon's advice and go on a walkabout tour in australia to give himself a challenge. however, when he got there, the travel agent denied him access, because of his paralysis. he was left heartbroken, abandoned, and alone, as he watched the other people happily leave.with no other options, he prepared to return to california aboard flight 815. much to his embarrassment, he had to be carried on to the plane by flight attendants. he was seated at the end of the row, in seat 24d. he briefly encountered rose at the airport, not knowing that later he would share a knowing moment with her about the healing properties of the island.after the the crash of flight 815, locke was shocked to discover that he had regained his ability to walk. at first, he walked gingerly, unable to comprehend what was happening. however, within seconds, he was running to jack's aid. being able to walk again profoundly affected locke, who, due to his self-expressed outlook as a "man of faith", believed that it was his destiny to be on the island, and that everything was happening for a reason.locke was the first survivor to see the monster on the island; he was out tracking boar after separating from fellow survivors, michael and kate, and the monster came through the trees and appeared in front of him.the next day, locke saved jack - a fellow survivor and surgeon - from falling off a cliff. the two conversed about jack's possible hallucinations, and locke compared the situation to alice's adventures in wonderland. he also said that everything on the island is happening for a reason. lastly, locke told jack, "i looked into the eye of this island, and what i saw... was beautiful."while checking out the caves, jack and kate found two bodies which locke called "their very own adam and eve." later, locke and charlie talked about charlie's heroin problem. locke offered charlie his guitar in exchange for his drugs, and charlie handed over the heroin.soon after this incident, locke was responsible for beating sayid unconscious and destroying his makeshift radio equipment which was being used to discover the origin of the distress signal. locke kept this behavior a secret for a long time until he eventually admitted to sayid what he had done.during a trail hunt around the island for the recently abducted charlie and claire, he threw a flashlight towards boone, which he failed to catch and landed on a metal surface under the soil. this led to the discovery of a hatch, an event which would turn out to be pivotal in the lives of the survivors of flight 815. he kept it secret from the rest of the castaways, and wanted boone to do the same. however, boone was not quite as strong-minded as locke; he was prepared to tell all to shannon, his sister. locke drugged boone, to stop him from doing so and to convince himself to give up all other attachments.it was with boone, also, that he discovered claire, after her escape from the staff. locke showed his caring side when he built a cradle for claire as a birthday present, out of materials he found on the island.later, when the first raft was burnt, locke gave a rousing but dishonest speech to the group blaming the others ( people who had been on the island before them ) even though he suspected walt. he was eventually able to get walt to confess to him. but locke did not tell anyone else in the camp that walt was responsible for burning the first raft.but locke still wanted to get into the hatch. after spending a long time trying to think of a way to get into it, he constructed a trebuchet in a failed attempt to shatter the hatch door's window and ended up becoming injured when shrapnel from the mechanism got lodged in his leg. following this event, locke had a vision. in it, he saw a beechcraft crashing, as well as his mother pointing in its direction, and a blood-stained boone. also, he was confined back in his wheelchair, unable to move. the dream also mentioned a woman from boone's past who had died from a fall.this dream was a sign, as, with boone, he managed to track the plane to its resting place in the canopy. his legs had appeared to steadily cease to function, reducing him to a crawl. this meant that boone was required to climb up to the plane. unfortunately, though, the plane tipped and fell, nose first, to the ground, and boone was mortally injured. locke returned to the camp with boone's injured body, but fled back to the hatch without telling jack the true nature of boone's injuries. because he did not know the real problem, jack was unable to save boone, who died.at the hatch, locke explained that the island told him what it wanted, and what he was to do next. he begged, and sobbed, pounding the door with his hands. after he did this, a light appeared in the window, before disappearing just as quickly. this seemed to re-affirm locke's faith.locke returned to the camp at boone's funeral, still wearing a shirt stained with boone's blood. he was confronted violently by jack who demanded some sort of explanation. he was calmed down however, and soon after, he told everybody about the hatch. however, the death of boone and his numerous deceptions cost him much of his credibility. jack never fully trusted him again.when jack, kate, hurley and rousseau traveled to the black rock ( an old, stranded ship ) to recover dynamite to blow the hatch open, locke was also part of the team. during this trek, locke was seized by the "monster" and was almost pulled into a pit by its smoky tendrils. the "monster" was only repelled by kate throwing dynamite into the pit, which caused the "monster" to flee. during this event, locke had asked jack to allow the "monster" to pull him in, as he believed nothing would happen.when they eventually reached the hatch, armed with the dynamite, locke was the one who lit the fuse, despite hurley's protests. the hatch door was blown open, and locke and jack stared down into the hatch wondering what could be inside.upon entering the newly opened hatch ( discovered to be the the swan station of the dharma initiative ), locke was briefly held captive by desmond, the operator of the station. desmond explained to locke that his job was to enter in a set of numbers and push the button every 108 minutes to prevent a catastrophic event from happening. when desmond then fled, locke continued to do this job, which he believed was extremely important. he believed the button was so important that he helped establish a rotation of the castaways for pushing the button, so it could be done efficiently.( threads will by default be set post crash up until this point in canon. anything after will be plotted only / on a request basis. )

John Walker was born and grew up in Custer's Grove, Georgia. As a teenager, he attended Custer's Grove High School, where he also met Lemar Hoskins and a woman named Olivia. During his time in school, despite Walker's intelligence, he failed drama class. Walker joined and soon became captain of his high school's varsity football team, the Bears, and they won State championships three times in a row. Following graduation, he married Olivia and enlisted in the United States Army alongside Hoskins.Having graduated from the United States Military Academy, Walker went on to have a successful career in the United States Army, performing numerous acts of valor. He became the first person in American history to receive three Medals of Honor and led RS One missions in counter-terrorism and hostage rescue. During one of his tours, he fought alongside Christina Raynor. Despite these honors, Walker had considered these days in Afghanistan to be the worst of his and Lemar Hoskins' lives.In the months following the retirement of Steve Rogers, the American government became aware of its need for a new symbolic hero to take his place. Sam Wilson, who had been trusted to become the next Captain America by Rogers himself, donated the symbolic Captain America's shield to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.; feeling that he could not fulfill Rogers' legacy. The shield was quickly put in custody of the United States Department of Defense and given to Walker, who was nominated for his extensive military career. Shortly after receiving approval from the President, Walker was unveiled to the world and announced as "The New Captain America" by a Government Official, on the behalf of the Global Repatriation Council and the United States Department of Defense.Following his appointment, Walker began attending various meetings with government officials and made speeches as Captain America, duties that he did not express any genuine interest in. Fanfare about Captain America's return to the modern-day world was established soon after Walker was chosen to take on the mantle, making him not only a superhero, but a celebrity in the process. In preparation for another interview with Good Morning America, Walker returned to his hometown of Custer's Grove, Georgia. Prior to his interview, he and his wife reminisced of their past in high school, before expressing nervousness about not living up to the expectations of the Captain America mantle. While practicing his opening lines for his upcoming interview, Walker was joined by Lemar, who acknowledged how their lives had suddenly changed as they became celebrity superheroes, when they were only preparing for a special-ops mission in Chile weeks earlier. Walker made clear to Lemar that the main reason he wanted to take up the mantle of Captain America was to better serve and represent his country, not participate in meetings with senators or rallies.When it came time for the interview, Walker ran out to the high school football stadium, signing autographs on Captain America posters and action figures. Walker ran triumphantly onto the stage for his interview with Sara Haines of Good Morning America. During the interview, a rundown of Walker's military career was televised, and that he excelled in all of the trials that the United States Army put him though in preparation for taking on the Captain America mantle. Walker expressed that he had big shoes to fill, and looked up to Steve Rogers as an idol, following his career closely while he was an Avenger.When Falcon and Winter Soldier traveled to Munich to investigate the anti-nationalist group known as the Flag Smashers, Walker and Lemar (as Battlestar) hacked into Redwing to track their location, which ended up being destroyed by Karli Morgenthau. Arriving as reinforcements by helicopter while Falcon and Barnes were engaged in a fight on top of two speeding trucks carrying medical supplies, Walker used the shield to incapacitate Dovich, and then with Lemar's help, knocked Morgenthau off-balance and onto the side of the speeding truck before she could attack Barnes. Walker and Lemar introduced themselves personally to Falcon and Barnes, to their annoyance despite having rescued them from the Flag Smashers.Morgenthau got to her feet once again, but Walker threw his shield at her, knocking her and another Flag Smasher down. The two were not able to hold themselves off for long, as Lemar was quickly outmatched due to the enhanced strength the Flag Smashers possessed. Walker used his handgun to shoot one of the Flag Smashers restraining Lemar, but this allowed Morgenthau to roundhouse kick Walker onto the edge of the truck, holding on for his life. After Falcon was forced to rescue Barnes, sweeping him to safety but into a field, Walker used his shield to save Lemar from being injured by his fall by throwing it onto the road and under his body. As the enhanced super-soldiers recovered, Walker climbed back onto the truck, and prepared to engage Morgenthau in combat once again. Due to her enhanced strength, she made quick work of Walker, and the impact of her punches threw him into the traffic behind them, with Walker's fall being cushioned by the windshield of a passing car.As the Flag Smashers made their escape, Walker met up with Lemar again, and arranged for Gary to pick them up for a ride to the airport. En route, they passed by the defeated Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes, who were hiking to the runway. When Walker offered them a ride, Wilson and Barnes coldly refused, despite Walker suggesting that the four must unite and work together to defeat their common enemy. When Barnes coldly announced to Walker that because he carried the shield did not mean he was Captain America, Walker argued that he had put in the effort and hard work during his time with the United States Army required for the position, and jumped on a grenade four times in an act of valor. Wilson and Barnes reluctantly accepted Walker's offer for a ride.Walker, having made the same assumption as Wilson that the Flag Smashers were all super-soldiers, explained that he and Hoskins came to their rescue by using Redwing to track their location. Walker explained that the Global Repatriation Council managed resources for Blipped refugees, and that he and Hoskins were assigned to assist them on behalf of the United States. Walker furthermore explained that he was not trying to be a direct copy of Steve Rogers, but someone who was trying to make a name for himself and become his own person. While Walker tried to sympathize with Wilson and Barnes by saying that he understood why they felt opposed to him bearing the shield, Wilson coldly retorted to Walker that he was not in support of him once Walker said that he wanted the support of Rogers' wingmen. Set aback and dismayed by Wilson's rejection of his offer, Walker told Gary to continue driving to the airport, returning to America.When Bucky Barnes was taken into custody in Baltimore, Maryland for not appearing to his mandated court therapy session, Walker reached out to the Baltimore Police Station and arranged for Barnes to be freed. At the station, he was reunited with Christina Raynor, Barnes' assigned therapist and Walker's former military comrade. Walker explained that he arranged for Barnes' therapy sessions to come to an end, citing that Barnes was too valuable an asset to be forced to comply with such rigid schedules. Walker then waited outside with Lemar for Barnes' session to finish.When Barnes and Wilson left the precinct, they met with Walker and Hoskins, who further insisted that they should work together. Reluctantly, Wilson listened to Walker, who provided them with news that Karli Morgenthau was the leader of the Flag Smashers, having geotagged their location throughout Europe, and tracking the stolen shipment of medical supplies. Barnes haughtily put down Walker's new information, conceitedly questioning Walker if he had any more relevant information. Before Barnes and Walker could continue, Wilson intervened and alleviated the tension by acknowledging that Walker was right. However, Wilson informed Walker that they had no interest in working with them, since they operated as freelance operatives as opposed to being contracted by the government with specific authorizations put in place. Begrudged, Walker left Wilson and Barnes one final word of advice; to stay out of their way.Walker's investigation led him back to Munich, Germany, in search for answers as to the whereabouts of the Flag Smashers. Working in conjunction with the Global Repatriation Council and GSG 9 der Bundespolizei, Walker launched a police raid on the 1337 Connect internet café. Walker arrived at the scene with the federal police to announce his search for Karli Morgenthau. Walker interrogated Rudy, the owner of the café, who challenged Walker's incursion on his business. Walker asked Lemar to be a translator and serve as the median for the questioning, but Rudy was non-compliant, saying that Americans were brutes. Annoyed, Walker sternly asked Rudy knowing that they had harbored the Flag Smashers, to which Rudy spit in Walker's face in response.Infuriated and disrespected, Walker resorted to physical violence by pushing him against a wall, asking if he understood who he was. Rudy retorted he did, but didn't care, as he had no influence over him. As he wiped the spit off his face, Walker was only suppressed by his own limitations and Hoskins saying there was no point in continuing to question him, that Walker left the building with no new information. With no new leads from the George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Walker realized that they would have to shadow Falcon and Winter Soldier for new leads.When the terrorist mastermind Helmut Zemo escaped from a correctional facility in Berlin, Walker and Lemar were assigned to question the staff and review the security footage. Learning that Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes visited Zemo the day he escaped, Walker hypothesized that they were involved in the breakout, but with no evidence to support. As Walker was also desperate for leads, he convinced Lemar to continue investigating their activities, although it would go against their contractual obligations. Lemar objected that Walker was attempting to procure this information through corrupt off-the-book means, to which Walker retorted that their superiors would not question them on their methods once they turned up with new information and got the job done.They then went to Riga, Latvia and found Wilson, Barnes, and Zemo in the streets. They joined them to the location of Donya Madani's funeral where Walker then handcuffed Zemo to a wall, while Wilson went inside the room to talk to Morgenthau. Meanwhile, Walker taunted Barnes about the Super Soldier Serum inside of him, and questioned whether Barnes was going to leave his partner in there alone, before breaking into the room, disrupting Wilson's efforts. He then proceeded to announce that Morgenthau was under arrest. Feeling betrayed by Wilson, Morgenthau kicked Walker over, and Wilson back into a table and fled the room, to which Walker was temporarily downed while Barnes chased Morgenthau.Walker recovered as Morgenthau was shot by Zemo, and in their small scuffle, Zemo began destroying her serum vials one by one. Upon finding Zemo destroying serum vials, Walker threw the shield at him, knocking him out. However, Walker found one serum vial left intact, to which he picked it up and put it inside one of his pockets, before Lemar, Wilson, and Barnes found him.Walker and Lemar later barged into Wilson and Barnes' room in Latvia, and demanded that Zemo be handed over to them, before the Dora Milaje made their presence known, throwing a Vibranium Spear at a column that narrowly missed Walker. Ayo, Nomble, and Yama arrived to arrest Zemo themselves. Walker introduced himself to Ayo and told her that they did not have jurisdiction in Latvia, to which she responded that they did wherever they pleased.In an effort to get them to leave, Walker attempted to alleviate any tension by putting his hand on Ayo's armor, only for her to knock him back and into the spear. Walker grabbed the shield and fought back against her and the others, although after getting the shield stuck on a table, Yama took his shield away from him, only for Ayo to tell her to leave it there, before they left. Walker was left, humiliated, and commented that they were not even super-soldiers.At a Latvian shopping district, Walker was reassured by Lemar that although Zemo destroyed the Super Soldier Serum and Wilfred Nagel was dead, their loss was not for naught, although Lemar did not realize Walker had a vial of the serum in his possession. During their discussion, two of Walker's fans approached him to sign his autograph on their Captain America poster. Walker showed camaraderie to his partner by teasing him that he was jealous the two fans didn't ask him for an autograph, although Lemar retorted that it was their loss, by saying that he had a custom Battlestar logo sketched out.Deliberating whether or not to take the serum, Walker asked Lemar if he would've taken it given the opportunity. Lemar explained he would've without hesitation, going on to say that the serum only amplifies the traits that of which the person already had, and went on to put a spotlight on Walker's numerous acts of valor that won him three Medals of Honor, and that he was a seasoned strategist, having consistently made the optimal decisions during battle. Walker reflected on the worst day of his life, reminiscing of a tour in Afghanistan in which Walker resorted to cruel actions in which he regretted. Recognizing that what he did was not right, Walker came out to say that he finally felt he was doing something right for his country once he was picked to be the next Captain America. Inspired by this conversation, and having previously shamed himself for being defeated by the Dora Milaje and being looked down upon condescendingly by Falcon and Winter Soldier, Walker ingested the serum, granting him enhanced abilities.While searching for Lemar, Walker reunited with Falcon, who were subsequently ambushed by a group of Flag Smashers, including Nico and Dovich. During the fight, Walker was suddenly suppressed from behind by Nico, and was restrained until Morgenthau arrived, running at Walker and preparing to kill him by stabbing him in the chest with her knife. However, Walker's fate was averted by none other than Lemar, who freed himself from his restraints and tackled Morgenthau. Walker could only watch helplessly as Morgenthau quickly overpowered Lemar, punching him hard enough to hurl him against a stone column, breaking his spine and killing him instantly. Walker quickly ran to the aid of his partner, realizing that it was too late, and he had already died. With little time to mourn, he watched Morgenthau and the remaining Flag Smashers flee, as did Falcon and Winter Soldier.A now enraged Walker jumped through a window and onto a car, looking for any straggling Flag Smashers. Walker turned to see a fleeing Nico, the same person who restrained Walker with the intention to have him killed, and the same person who held him behind from intervening to help Lemar, although playing no direct part in his death. Furious, he demanded to know where Morgenthau went. The fleeing Nico hurled a cinder block at Walker, who simply deflected it with his shield. Walker finally caught up with and subdued Nico with multiple strikes from the shield before stepping on his chest to prevent him escaping. Cornered and terrified, Nico begged for his life, insisting he had not killed Lemar. Ignoring Nico's pleas, Walker proceeded to viciously beat him to death with the shield in a fit of blind rage, severing head from torso, and torso from hips. Walker quickly realized that he had murdered him in front of many shocked witnesses and onlookers who video-recorded the incident. Among the crowd included several of his fans, along with Morgenthau, Falcon and Barnes.

In anguish over Lemar's death, Walker ran away from the scene and to an abandoned warehouse, distraught of what to do without his best friend and angered over his recent decisions. In deep mourning, Walker admonished himself for not listening to his friend before, and began regretting ambushing the Flag Smashers, which Lemar had advised against. Shortly after, Walker was confronted by Falcon and Winter Soldier who had followed him into the warehouse. Despite his attempts to reason with them, rationalizing that he did what he had to do and that he justly avenged Lemar by killing Nico, although he was not actually Lemar's killer, as Walker had been convincing himself that Nico, not Morgenthau, had killed Lemar, in an attempt to deny his mistake of killing the wrong Flag Smasher. Falcon attempted to persuade Walker to abandon his violent path and hand over the shield, explaining that the United States of America would now have an incentive to consider his record.As Barnes said that they would get the shield back, even if they had to by force, Walker then engaged in a fierce fight with them, using his shield, enhanced physical prowess and combat skills to fight them off. As he easily overwhelmed Falcon, he found Barnes to be a much more formidable opponent as he disarmed him of his pistol and persistently pushed him back, but eventually overpowered Barnes, sending him flying and knocking him out temporarily, disabling his Vibranium arm. Walker then engaged Falcon, hitting his blows with the shield. However, after Walker lost grip of the shield and it was separated from him, he and Falcon ran after it. The bloodthirsty Walker tackled Wilson violently and recovered the shield. After Walker had knocked Falcon to the ground, he yanked his helmet off and furiously proclaimed that he was Captain America, before ripping off Falcon's EXO-7 Falcon wings. Using his newfound abilities, Walker set the damaged wingsuit aside and prepared to kill Falcon.However, before he was able to deliver a killing blow, Barnes had recovered and tackled him down, saving Wilson. Despite Barnes once again proving himself to be a dangerous opponent and suffering hits, Walker was able to pin him down and attempted to kill him using the shield, but Barnes was able to hold him at bay long enough for Wilson to get the opening he needed. Falcon was able to grab hold of Walker's hand, and struggled for the shield. Wilson and Barnes were able to overpower Walker enough to rip the shield from his hand, breaking his arm in the process. Despite this, Walker was still able to get up and prepared for a final brawl. With a broken arm, he was no match for the seasoned fighting abilities of Winter Soldier, who quickly blocked his punch and dealt a blow to the face before finally decisively defeating him by manhandling him and allowing Falcon to deliver the finishing blow on him. This knocked Walker unconscious, and defeated, having just had the shield taken from him.Upon his return to the United States, Walker was subjected to a hearing at the United States Capitol for Nico's unjust murder in Latvia. Upon arriving for his testimony via vehicle escort, he walked up the Capitol's front steps alongside his wife Olivia Walker and two armed soldiers, as a crowd of reporters and angry civilians booed him. Arriving at the testimony, the Government Official and members of the U.S. Congress announced that he would be discharged from the United States Army, and stripped of his military rank as captain, and declared on order of the U.S. Senate that the mantle of Captain America would be taken away from him, and all authority that came with it.Calm and collected, Walker responded to the council's decision by asking for permissions to explain the circumstances of the mission, attempting to use Lemar's death as a way to rationalize and excuse his actions. The government official showed no sympathy and rejected Walker's pleas, explaining to the defiant Walker that the council decided against a court martial for him due to his previous exemplary service. Walker attempted again to gain the affinity of the council, but the government official retorted that the hearing was not a negotiation. Walker grew increasingly frustrated as the official shut down his attempts to speak and repeatedly objected that the hearing was a mandate. Walker lost his temper and raised his voice to the council, admonishing their decision by explaining that his life had revolved around the U.S. government's mandates that had been enforced on him throughout his entire career. Attempting to appease the council of his record as an exemplary and highly decorated soldier, Walker contended while invoking vehemently on his sentiment that he only ever did what the U.S. military had asked of him, in combat and in his rigorous training, obediently carrying their tasks out to completion. The council remained unimpressed, and the government official merely continued on reading out the senate's official judgment and finalizing his dischargement.Learning he would also not receive VA benefits, Walker self-righteously retorted that the military made him what he was, and that he was the embodiment of Captain America, believing he exemplified everything Steve Rogers' legacy amounted to. The council dismissed Walker, threatening him with imprisonment in the United States Disciplinary Barracks if he was to continue demeaning and unfairly disparaging the dignities and priorities of the council, noting that he was very fortunate he was not punished otherwise. Infuriated and disgraced by their decision, Walker turned his back on the council and exited the hearing, ignoring their demand to swiftly return Captain America's shield to them, even though it was no longer in his possession.With the hearing over, Walker sat on a bench admiring his war medallion while being comforted by his wife, making clear that he was refusing to back down, believing that no one could understand what it took to be Captain America. Attempting to recoup their losses in the courtroom, Walker was urged by his wife to refocus and prioritize reaching out to Lemar's family about his death, hoping that consoling them would build up a better rapport with the general public. While conversing, the two were approached by a mysterious woman, who introduced herself as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. Fontaine explained to Walker that he was not punished for his killing of Nico, but for damaging the government's reputation. Walker learned from Fontaine that she was aware he took the serum, and that powerful organizations were interested in him. Insisting that staying in contact with her would be the best decision of his life, Fontaine handed Walker a blank business card and told him that the shield never belonged to the government, all to his confusion.At night, Walker decided to visit Lemar's family like his wife advised him to, in order to give them closure. Returning to Custer's Grove, he told them his falsified recollection of the event of Lemar's death, claiming that he had been avenged now that he had killed his murderer in order to give his family peace and closure. Saddened after hearing him, Mrs. Hoskins gave him a picture of him and her son that Hoskins took after their first tour, and told him how proud Lemar was to be his partner when he became Captain America. Inspired by this story, Walker made the decision to enact his true revenge on Karli Morgenthau.Walker then left the Hoskins household after feeling he gave them closure. However, he did not leave before telling them that he would be there for them if they needed him. While walking back home across the town, Walker noticed a promotional poster of himself as Captain America from back when he was endorsed by the United States government, which was still up by a bus stop. Taking the time to admire it, Walker thought back on his self-delusions that he was still truly Captain America, and to that end, returned home with an idea to create a new shield. Still embittered by his discharge, and motivated by his partner's death, Walker returned home and forged his own version of Captain America's shield. He finished it by welding the medals he had won throughout his military career on the inner face of the shield and then painting the outer face in the colors of the American flag.Later that night, Walker arrived in New York City with his homemade shield to fight the Flag Smashers, with the specific intention of killing Karli Morgenthau. After walking up to them on the street and yelling Morgenthau's name, Morgenthau told him that Lemar was not important to their cause and so it wasn't an issue that he died, which infuriated Walker further causing him to throw his shield at her. However, Morgenthau kicked the shield and it fell to the pavement. Walker then engaged the Flag Smashers in hand-to-hand combat. However, his enhanced strength was overmatched by the troupe of super soldiers, who threw him to the ground. Using his homemade shield to block their blows, Walker looked at the star medals he put on the shield, which emboldened his resolve, and he fought back. Walker was ultimately saved by Winter Soldier, who arrived and knocked back the Flag Smashers. Walker then encountered Morgenthau alone and attacked her fiercely, but she managed to escape from him after knocking him to the ground.Seeing the Flag Smasher ram the New York City Police Department vehicle containing GRC members into the construction site, Walker noticed that it was on the verge of falling over the ledge. Deciding that it was more important to save the innocent people than to get revenge on Morgenthau, Walker threw his shield off the ledge and began to pull the vehicle back onto the ground, using his enhanced strength. However, Morgenthau and Dovich ran up and tried to pull him away from the vehicle. Unfortunately, they pulled Walker forcibly from the vehicle and down off the ledge with them. Walker then fell onto the riverbank, where Winter Soldier helped him get up. They then watched as Wilson (now donning the name Captain America, having taken on the mantle himself,) arrived and pushed the vehicle to safety.Walker then was saved again by Barnes who grabbed a pole thrown at them by Morgenthau. He then witnessed Wilson's arrival and his use of the shield to knock the Flag Smashers to the ground. Walker then teamed up with Wilson and Barnes, having accepted that Wilson was the new Captain America. Before they could engage Morgenthau, Georges Batroc arrived and fired smoke bombs at the site, letting the Flag Smashers escape. After Walker, Barnes, and Wilson had escaped the smoke, they ran deeper into the construction site underneath the building. After Wilson received word from Sharon Carter, he suggested they split up.Walker and Barnes teamed up and ran down a separate corridor in the construction site. Barnes then used the phone given to him earlier to send a message to the Flag Smashers telling them where to meet and they were able to track down Dovich, DeeDee, and Gigi. Walker and Barnes then ambushed the three Flag Smashers and then watched as they were arrested by NYPD units, with Walker quoting Abraham Lincoln as they were being caught. Walker and Barnes then walked away from the site together, with Walker giving Barnes a friendly pat on the back and Barnes telling him not to quote Lincoln.Walker and Barnes then walked up to the street and watched as Wilson flew down carrying Morgenthau's dead body before the rescued GRC members and news reporters. Walker then listened as Wilson gave his speech as the new Captain America and respected Wilson's words. Afterwards, Walker said goodbye to Barnes and exchanged nods with Wilson, before leaving New York City.Later, Walker and his wife Olivia reunited with Valentina Allegra de Fontaine at the United States Capitol, who gave him a new version of his suit. Walker donned the uniform, identical to his old one, but now the blue replaced with black. As he stepped into the room in his new outfit, de Fontaine complimented him on the look, saying that the world was getting weirder and that people wouldn't need a Captain America, but rather a "U.S. Agent". De Fontaine said that she would be in touch, before leaving. Walker, while skeptical of the name U.S. Agent, celebrated with his wife that he was back in business as a superhero.A few years later, despite his new moniker, Walker was unable to truly move past the trauma over the events surrounding his failure at being the new Captain America and his public disgrace, eventually resulting in a divorce with Olivia, as he seemingly made no attempt at getting help or getting better, and as he had grown very distant. With his wife leaving him, Walker fell into a dark place, becoming fully focused on his special ops work. Walker was given a new shield and continued to be employed by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine for a variety of missions as the U.S. Agent.

   important        my john winchester is not based on the show, but rather on the novel "john winchester's journal" by alex irvine, with my own headcanons. i will not acknowledge any mentions of my john being an abusive father. he is not perfect, but he has never laid a hand on his kids, nor been mentally abusive towards them, he has not sent dean away on some sort of behavioral correction thing, he has not told dean he might have to kill sam, etc, etc.         john was born on january 8th, to henry and millie winchester. it was unknown to him that his father belonged to a secret society called the men of letters, as had his grandfather and his great-grandfather before him. henry bought john a little music box which played "as time goes by" from the film "casablanca" to help him sleep after he took him to see "abbott and costello meet the mummy" at the drive-in one night, which scared the "beeswax" out of him. when john was four years old, he went to the club, leaving john at home. however, due to the attack by abaddon, henry was forced to flee to 2013, where he died at the hands of abaddon. this led john to believe that his father had abandoned him.raised by his mother, john left to fight in vietnam as a marine, and held the rank of corporal. he later returned to lawrence, where he worked as a mechanic and eventually fell in love with a woman named mary campbell. john intended to propose to mary, but later when mary ran away from her family, john was killed by a demon named azazel, as the demon was possessing mary's father, samuel, prompting mary to strike a deal with the demon to bring john back to life at the cost of allowing it into her home ten years later. in january, 1979, john and mary had their first child, dean, and in may, 1983, they had their second child, sam.november 2nd, 1983. john winchester had fallen asleep in front of the tv, while watching horror movies, when he was woken up by his wife’s scream coming from upstairs. running up and into sam’s room, everything seemed quiet. fine. just for a moment. but then, blood dripped down on him. and looking up, there was mary, on the ceiling, bleeding from her stomach. and immediately after, she caught on fire - a fire that leapt at him when he tried to get closer, as if it had a will of it’s own.grabbing baby sam, and hurrying to get dean, john gave his youngest son to dean and told him to get his brother outside as fast as he could, while john tried one more time to get to mary - but to no avail.their house gone. their belongings gone. his wife, the mother to his kids, gone, john’s boss allowed him and his kids to stay at their house until things got sorted, and he spent the next week being questioned by the police, until they eventually ruled him out as a suspect, and closed the case as an accident. something that john refused to believe it was — because how could his wife have been on the ceiling? how could the fire have a will of it’s own, if it was just an accident? — and rightly so.john tried to tell the police what he thought had happened. that there was someone, or rather something that had caused the fire. but the police wanted a tidy answer. john tried telling his boss about it, and not long after, his boss’ wife suggested he go see a shrink. john tried telling his friends, and he could tell by their looks that they thought he was going insane.during this time, john found himself drinking too much, filled with guilt over having left bed that night, over not being able to protect mary. filled with sorrow and grief. with confusion over his wife’s unnatural death. with anger at whatever had killed her. with despair at no one, not even his friends, believing him. with frustration at the police ignoring the evidence. with anxiety about whatever had killed mary might still be a threat to his boys.it wasn’t until his boss told him to get it together for his kids sake about two weeks after mary’s death, that john stopped drinking. though his boss seemed more concerned about the garage than john’s kids. so john told him he could have it, and walked out with a check. dropping his kids off at one of his friends, julie, for a bit, john drove to buy guns and ammo for protection in case whatever had killed mary decided to come back, and then went to see a psychic woman named missouri. there, he made a blood sacrifice by pulling out his own nail, and she had a vision and they found a bloody mess in the neighbor’s house with the words ‘we’re coming for the children’ written in blood. terrified, he hurried back to sam and dean, luckily finding them alive, although his friend, julie, was dead. torn apart by something, a tooth found in her body. he took his sons and left lawrence.about three weeks after his wife’s death, john had been introduced to a man simply called ‘h’, a hunter of the supernatural, and had come along to learn the ropes, so to speak. disapproving of h’s methods and philosophy that made h seem both cold and heartless, john only tagged along because despite disagreeing with him, he seemed to know his stuff about hunting, and john wanted to learn — though promising himself to never become like him. with a heavy heart, john left his sons with pam and bill ( friends of john ) for a week while he and h went hunting, though as they finally arrived, a hellhound came to h like a trained dog and h told john that he hadn’t killed mary, but set the hellhound on him anyway, and said that he knew some of the players involved. john killed the hound, and h said everything he’d done was to get john to hunt, and that he wasn’t h, but something else in a hunter’s body. john killed h, and decided that he’d damn well hunt, and find whatever had killed mary.back with sam and dean again, john decided they would stay and bill and ellen’s roadhouse, in which he spent a lot of time reading up on strange fires and similar incidents to his own, trying to get as much information he could about whatever had killed his wife, and asking hunters about what they know, while simultaneously watching over sam and dean.1985. john put dean into first grade at age 6 and a half. over the next one and a half year, john began briefly teaching dean about the existence of supernatural creatures and how to fire a gun.may, 1987. john had to pull dean out of school after learning that a demon knew where they were, and decided they would get on the road and move to a different state.may, 1988. john made a poor decision of leaving a nine-year-old dean to watch sam while he went out, that almost went horribly wrong when a monster came while john was out and dean couldn’t pull the trigger. john showed up just in time to shoot the monster.over the next two and a half years ( give or take,) they were on the road a lot, and john started hunting more, this time always making sure to leave his boys with someone to look after them while he was out. they then settled in albuquerque around feb, 1991, john picked up a job working construction. trying to get some normalcy back in their lives again.april, 1991. sam was almost kidnapped by a demon posing as his teacher. john caught up with her, and she almost killed him, but dean, having followed him, picked up his journal and read the exorcism pages and saved sam and john both. before the demon was exorcised, she had said that sam was special. back on the road again. driving to a fellow hunter named bobby.john went to see another friend of bobby’s, silas, and it turned out he had been in a coma since november 2nd last year, on the seventh anniversary of mary’s death. when john went to see him, he snapped out of his coma long enough to tell john that he believed sam was special and that they had to be ready for what was to come.the day after, sam told them that he’d seen the same man that had been following them before, outside of bobby’s house. once they got back to bobby’s place, bobby told john to go see silas again, which john did, and it turned out he was no longer in a coma. he said the same thing as the day before, then asked to talk to sam for a bit. so dean and john left for an hour. and upon their return, john found silas inside, in pieces, bits of him stuck to the walls and floors, and in blood, written ‘kill him’. john once more found himself taking his kids with him and going on the run, staying on the road over the next three and a half years. the man that had been following them claimed he was a hunter and that sam had killed silas. john tried to tell him it wasn’t possible for a little kid to do that, but he wouldn’t listen. and so, before the hunter could try to hurt sam, john killed him.jan, 1995, the day after dean’s sixteenth birthday, john let dean take the lead on a hunt for the first time. it went well. as sam is getting older, he and john is starting to get trouble with a lot of arguing between the two, sam wishing for a normal life, and john unable to provide that for him, knowing just how many times monsters has been after him, apparently because he’s ‘special’ somehow.jan, 1996. dean’s seventeenth birthday. john let him go on a hunt alone. it went fine, but john felt uneasy and doubted he’d send dean on his own again anytime soon.march, 2002. sam decided he would leave for college, which ended up creating a heated argument between him and john and dean. in august, sam left for college, like he had decided on, and dean cut off contact with his brother. john told sam that if he left, it would be permanent. but despite this, john continued to keep an eye on sam from afar to make sure he was safe. may, 2004. john finally got a lead on what killed mary; a demon. at this point, john also starts tracking down a gun that can kill anything. jul, 2005. a big lead. house fires in california, new jersey, arizona. matching the same details as the night mary died. six of them within a couple of days. oct, 2005. john finally got the lead on the demon that made him go after him. he didn’t tell sam or dean, not wanting to put them in danger.

   note:        •     my jonathan crane is not based on a single source material. in fact, i would say he is my own take based on various sources like the movies, some of the comics, etc, but does not necessarily follow the events of any of them.•     by default, i will be writing jonathan in timelines set before he starts getting known under the alias ‘scarecrow’ and while he’s still working as chief administrator and a psychiatrist at arkham asylum, in other words before the public knows he is a bad guy.•     as far as my personal portrayal, i am going for a more ‘realistic’ approach, if you can say that. as in, similar approach to how they tackled the joker’s character in the 2019 movie.•     i am most familiar with the nolanverse scarecrow / jonathan, so i will likely take a lot of inspiration from that movie more than the comics.          when jonathan crane was a child, his mother died in a fire when he was four years old, and his father, who was a scientist, became obsessed with researching the emotion of fear, blaming himself for not having the courage to save his wife. unable to use proper test subjects, jonathan’s father ended up using his own son as his guinea pig. as part of the experiments, jonathan was locked inside a little dark room against his will while his father examined the effects on his son. one day however, during one of the experiments, his father experienced a heart attack and died, leaving jonathan still trapped in the pitch black test chamber. his father’s employers at the university became concerned about his prolonged absence, and eventually, police were called to investigate. when they arrived at the crane's household, the cops spotted the test chamber and were horrified to find jonathan alone down inside, having survived days of starving and being completely terrified. the fear didn’t stop, as he was taken in by his grandmother on his mother’s side, who would abuse him on the daily.as a result of this, he was traumatized most of his childhood, and, similar to his father, ended up developing an obsession with finding a way to gain control over fear. becoming a psychiatrist specialized in phobias, anxiety disorders and psychopharmacology, jonathan didn’t wait long until he started putting his degree to use, and began using some of his patients as test subjects to develop a project that he would later call "fear toxin". the gas, when inhaled, would cause his victims to hallucinate about their worst fears.

   fear toxin.    jonathan has developed a fear toxin which will cause paralyzing fear to be triggered within it’s victims. the toxin causes them to hallucinate their worst fears and induces involuntary and sometimes irrational fears in it’s victim’s minds. he has some on him at almost all times, and can spray people with it through hidden gas sprayers on his wrists   toxic immunity.    jonathan has a semi-immunity to toxins, including his own fear toxin and the joker venom, among other toxins.

   note:    i do not acknowledge season two's constant attempts to make kenny out to be the bad guy, or the way the entire group basically had it out for him from the beginning, constantly egging him on, and treating him as a threat when he was literally just trying to help. i'm not saying the group members needed to like kenny, but i think the writers went a little over-board in order to set up the choice at the end of the game, because if they didn't make kenny out to be the bad guy, of course everyone was going to choose to go with kenny and not jane. this means my kenny was not entirely as aggressive as he comes off in certain points of the second season of the game. my kenny is also obviously still alive.         long story short, he, his wife katjaa and their son, kenny jr. ( who they all just call duck ) were headed towards macon after the outbreak, along with a man named lee, and a little girl that he had with him named clementine. they met another small group of people and joined them, forming a small survivors group. some of them died along the way, some of them left, until eventually, kenny’s son got bitten by a walker, and, when the inevitable was about to happen, his wife shot herself. unable to shoot his own child to put him out of his misery and prevent him from becoming a zombie, lee helped him with it so that kenny didn't have to do it.after that, kenny struggled with depression and ptsd, and while he was able to find “missions” to focus on to distract his thoughts if only just a little. at some point, he also lost almost all hope and started drinking his problems away, but he soon found a new sense of purpose. kenny eventually got separated from his group thanks to the newcomer in their group, ben, who unintentionally had played a part in duck getting bitten, which lead to both duck and katjaa's death. ben fell down a building and got metal piercing through his abdomen. kenny climbed down onto the alleyway to help him, but with the myriad of walkers nearby, there wasn't enough time to save him, so it was either death by walkers, or at the mercy of someone's hand. despite blaming ben for his family's death, kenny eventually decided to step up and put ben out of his misery like he begged for, before the walkers could get to him, and in turn, he was unable to rejoin the rest of the group as he had to find another way to safety himself.kenny then spent a long time on his own, travelling all over the country, with no goal or purpose in life other than to survive. he eventually met a couple of new people, including a woman named sarita which he fell in love with, and later also stumbled upon clementine who was with a new group of people, and they all tried to form a new survivors group, but the differences between the people caused a lot of problems, and eventually, kenny and clementine was the only two ending up sticking together. also, at some point before that, sarita was bit by a walker, which again caused his depression to worsen. he was also beaten by a man named carver so badly that his right eye got permanently damaged.

   note:        please note that i mainly write killian as an anti-hero, leaning more towards villainy than a hero. as for following canon, i only follow canon up until he arrives in storybrooke. he does not fall in love with emma, and is not interested in any new relationships after milah. he wants his revenge on rumplestiltskin and that is his sole goal.          when killian is still a child, he boards a ship with his older brother liam and his father brennan to explore other worlds. that night, he becomes afraid to sleep during a storm that causes the ship to tilt and sway. brennan comforts him, telling him that there is nothing to be scared of, as long as he looks into himself and can decide the kind of man he wants to be someday. killian decides he wants to be just like his father, and he is lulled to sleep after brennan promises to stay to ensure the room lantern remains lit. sometime after this, he wakes up to find his father gone, and in his panic, he attempts to shake liam awake. only when the captain enters, killian learns brennan sold him and liam into servitude on the ship, in order to elude capture because he is a wanted criminal.many years later, while killian and liam are still stuck in servitude as lowly deckhands, his brother suggests using their wages to enlist in the king's navy, where they can become respectable men. killian is not confident that he is navy material, but he jokes about liam perhaps becoming a captain one day. overhearing the conversation, captain silver mocks him and kicks over the brothers' water bucket. killian moves to retaliate against him, but he is held back by liam, despite captain silver egging him on. when the captain allows the older jones brother to go collect his wages, at the cost of making killian stay behind, liam promises killian that he will be back for him by morning. that night, killian is offered a drink by captain silver, and he eventually drinks more on his own whim and becomes drunk. while drunk, he also gambles away his money to the captain.when liam returns, with navy documents to enlist himself and his brother, he finds an incapacitated killian. since the captain will only allow liam to leave alone, he chooses to stay with killian, after tearing up the documents. during a storm at sea, captain silver orders the ship to be sailed into the hurricane, because he wants the eye of the storm, a jewel the king will pay handsomely for. knowing this will doom everyone, the jones brothers threaten him with a bloody siege if he doesn't surrender. after the captain relents and is taken hostage, liam begins plotting a course to get the ship to safety. offered a deal by hades that'll secure his future as captain, liam purposely misleads killian into thinking their only option is to dive into the eye of the storm and ride things out. he gives killian his ring, which always helped to lead him home, to symbolize his confidence in the decision. putting his faith in liam, killian then rallies the crew into having hope they will survive. after steering the ship into the storm, the entire crew die, just as hades wanted, while the jones brothers survive, having gained temporary immunity from death because of hades. arriving at shore, liam presents the eye of the storm to a navy officer, fabricating a story about finding it in the wreckage. since liam insists for a navy commission rather than a money reward from the king, the officer stations both brothers on the jewel of the realm, with liam becoming its captain and killian as a lieutenant.sometime after earning his place as lieutenant, killian joins his brother for an expedition to neverland. on orders of the king, they must obtain a plant, dreamshade, from the island, which is rumored to heal any affliction. on the way there, they are attacked from behind by two other ships firing cannons. to escape them, liam has the sail released down, which is made of pegasus feathers, and glides the ship to safety in the clouds. once in neverland's waters, they row to shore with a boat. they are surprised by a young boy, peter pan, who claims that dreamshade is dangerous. the boy presses that the plant only leads to doom and exemplifies how easy it is to kill an entire army with poison instead of a messy onslaught. killian begins having doubts, but liam ignores his brother's fears and they go on to find the dreamshade on dead man's peak. in a misguided attempt to prove the plant is harmless, liam cuts himself with dreamshade and passes out from the spreading poison. panic-stricken, killian pleads for pan's help until he allows passage to the island's remedial spring, though the boy warns they should not leave neverland unless willing to pay the price of magic. killian promises to give him whatever he wants and hurries to deliver the water to liam, who is completely healed by it. he turns to repay pan for his services, but the boy is gone. journeying home, liam proposes exposing their king's true nature to everyone, however, he collapses and dies after the jewel of the realm leaves neverland's seas. liam's death has a profound effect on killian, who takes his place as captain of the ship and renames it the jolly roger. after revealing to the crew what type of man their king is, kilian rallies them into deferring from the king's service and embracing the life of pirates "with honor" instead.during one of many adventures, killian stops by a tavern after his ship is in port. he saves a woman, milah, from a drunk's unwanted attention by punching the man. charming milah, killian appeals to her sense of adventure, talking about the faraway lands he's visited. he invites her to join him, but milah declines, out of obligation to her son and husband. killian accepts her answer and leaves his invitation open for the future, stating that he's in port often, though milah insists her plans won't change. after her relationship with her husband continues to deteriorate, milah disappears to the tavern, possibly to find killian.in time, milah begins spending most of her time at the tavern, gambling and drinking with killian and his crew. he entertains her stories of his exploits, and at some point, milah tells him about her husband, rumplestiltskin, whose cowardice she hates. one day, rumplestiltskin arrives to bring his wife home, and she initially refuses, until seeing her son baelfire wander in and call for her. that night, milah runs away to join killian's crew, and by morning, rumors spread that she was kidnapped by the pirate. when rumplestiltskin attempts to rescue her, killian agrees to relent only if he wins a duel against him. too fearful of fighting, rumplestiltskin refuses the sword that killian throws at him and backs out of the deal.killian and milah travel the seas together on the jolly roger alongside their crew. even so, milah thinks of her son, baelfire, and killinan suggests going back to get him so baelfire can have his mother. several years later, killian bumps into a beggar, whom he ridicules as a crocodile. the beggar reveals he is the man formerly known as rumplestiltskin, except he has since acquired vast power as the notorious dark one. at first, rumplestiltskin asks for milah, but killian fibs that she died many years ago. still believing killian forcibly took her from him, rumplestiltskin takes his answer for truth and challenges the captain to a duel. more powerful than he once was, the dark one bests killian and begins ripping out his heart, only for milah to stop him. having previously caught the dark one's associate, william smee, trying to steal a magic bean from the jolly roger, she promises to hand it over if rumplestiltskin will spare killian's life as well as her own.for the trade, they meet on the ship, where rumplestiltskin confronts his former wife for abandoning baelfire. in spite of her regrets, milah claims she never loved him, to which the dark one tries grabbing the bean, but she tosses it to killian. furious, rumplestiltskin tears out milah's heart, and as killian cradles her in his arms, she murmurs her last vows of love to him. in the next instant, rumplestiltskin crushes the heart, killing milah, before requesting the bean. due to killian's refusal, the dark one cuts off his clenched left hand, which holds the bean, although the pirate previously switched it to his right hand. reeling from the physical and emotional toll, a fuming killian grabs a hook and stabs rumplestiltskin. unaffected, the dark one takes killian's severed hand and teleports away. in a rage, killian takes the hook and replaces his severed left hand with it. after burying milah at sea, he allows smee to join his crew before using the bean to open a portal to neverland.during the journey towards the island of neverland, killian and his crew members haul a boy out of the water aboard the jolly roger.hook learns the boy's name is baelfire, and thus, this makes him rumplestiltskin's son. when the lost ones of neverland climb aboard searching for a certain boy peter pan wants, he hides baelfire below deck in a vent. after the lost ones leave empty-handed, smee chastises hook for not handing over the boy them. however, hook has a plan of his own to get close to baelfire as a way of learning more about rumplestiltskin and getting revenge. despite this scheme, he develops a true friendship with baelfire by teaching him how to steer the ship, and they bond over being abandoned by their fathers. baelfire discloses how his father feared his magic powers would all be gone if someone stabbed him with a special dagger. this tidbit gives hook knowledge of a way to kill rumplestiltskin, which conflicts with his growing kinship with baelfire. all this comes to an end when the boy finds a drawing of his mother milah and demands answers from hook. he tells baelfire the true fate of his mother, who ran away to be with him because they were in love, but she died when rumplestiltskin tore out her heart and crushed it. hook tries to alleviate the betrayal of lying to baelfire by bring up milah's past desire to go back for her son so the three of them could be together. since she is gone, he believes they can live out her dream and become a family. baelfire rejects the notion and opts to go to neverland. the renunciation crushes hook, who strays back into darkened emotions as revenge becomes his main and only focus.at some point, hook begins working for peter pan and travels on the jolly roger to procure items for him. while doing pan's work, he also visits the enchanted forest frequently. at an unknown period later in time, hook returns to the enchanted forest. late one night, he comes across some of king george's soldiers about to execute robert. hook quickly kills the men and takes their gold. not wanting robert to tell king george about his deed, he kills him and dumps his body in a ravine.on a journey back to neverland to deliver some goods, he scolds smee for eating some of the food supplies that pan is expecting. the crew soon fall under the spell of a mermaid's singing voice as the ship drifts towards some sharp rocks. before they meet their doom, the singing stops, which gives hook time to call for the ship to be redirected away from danger. later, at a pub, a young girl, ursula, entertains patrons with her singing. even hook, who has been obsessed with killing rumplestiltskin, is enchanted by her voice and briefly forgets his troubles. recognizing her voice as the mermaid from earlier, he thanks her for not killing him and his crew. in conversation, she tells him about her father, poseidon, forcing her to use her vocal gift to lure sailors to their death due his hatred for humans since her mother was killed by a pirate. hearing of her desire to go to glowerhaven, hook agrees to take her there for free. on his way out of the pub, poseidon's guards kidnap him for a rendezvous with the sea king himself. poseidon, wishing to keep his daughter from leaving, wants him to absorb her singing voice into an enchanted shell. in return, he can have squid ink, a powerful liquid to paralyze rumplestiltskin. instead, hook tells ursula about her father's intentions, and she steals the ink for him so they can both get what they want. poseidon shows up, and when he is unable to convince ursula to come home, he takes away the squid ink to prove hook only cares about his vengeance. angered that his only hope of revenge is gone, hook spitefully captures ursula's singing voice in the shell so poseidon can never sink another ship again.breaking into the evil queen's palace, hook frees a prisoner, belle, informing her that rumplestiltskin is endangering her father and that she needs to tell him where the dark one's dagger is. when she admits to not knowing where the dagger is, he knocks her out and prepares to kill her, as the queen, regina, intervenes. regina promises to help him get his revenge on rumplestiltskin once she casts a curse, which will bring everyone to another world, where the dark one won't have his magic and hook can finally kill him. in exchange, she wants him to kill her mother cora, but first, she tests hook by tasking him with facing his father brennan, who abandoned him when he was a child. at first, hook is angry and vengeful towards brennan, but his demeanor softens after his father expresses genuine remorse for his actions and has seemingly become into a better man. hook decides to trick the queen into believing he killed brennan by sneaking his father out of the land with a boat ticket. brennan asks for a second one for his younger son, which hook agrees to procure. the night he delivers the tickets, however, hook overhears his father telling his son the same thing he once told him when he was a child. with his resentment towards brennan for abandoning him once again festering, hook becomes even more upset upon learning the younger son's name is liam. brennan insists he did this to honor the memory of both killian and liam, but hook assumes this is a lie, and that brennan never cared for him at all. tossing the tickets into a fire, hook bitterly considers that if he lets his father go, he won't get what the queen has promised him. he then kills brennan, who, before dying of his wound, tells him it's never too late to change into a better man.upon returning to the queen's place to tell regina that he completed her test, regina enchants his hook with the ability to remove a heart. she requests that, after he kills her mother, to bring to the enchanted forest, and since the magic hat meant to take him to wonderland must have the same number of people going as the number of people returning, she sends a dead soldier with him. with the hat's power, he ends up in wonderland, where guards bring him before the queen of hearts. after hook reveals he knows the queen's real name, cora, she unmasks herself and sends her courtiers away, leaving her alone with the pirate. he attempts to take out cora's heart, but she laughs at him, admitting she already took it out and placed it elsewhere. she begins tearing out his heart, demanding to know who sent him, until hook admits regina did. learning regina promised him revenge on rumplestiltskin after the curse is cast, cora reveals this is impossible, because the curse will erase hook's memories. hook then agrees to help cora get close enough to kill regina, in exchange for immunity against the curse. returning to the enchanted forest with cora, who feigns being dead, hook presents the body to regina, before leaving her alone with her mother. once regina leaves to cast the curse, he comes back to find cora has changed her mind about killing her daughter. as the curse spreads through the land, cora takes him with her to an island, where she casts a protection spell, keeping herself, hook and nearby inhabitants from the curse's effects for twenty-eight years until the savior breaks the curse.

   character portrayal note:    i am not familiar with the books or movie, so my take is strictly show based, and will mainly focus on season one's character portrayal of him, in which he is abusive and selfish and very much a villain. if that's not the lestat you're looking for, i'm sure there's plenty of other great portrayals of his softer side out there.          lestat was born on november 7, 1760, as the seventh son of the marquis d'auvergne, in the auvergne region of france. only two of his brothers survived to adulthood. while they were technically aristocrats, the de lioncourt family's fortune had been squandered, and they lived in relative poverty in their feudal castle. lestat's mother, gabrielle, was the only literate member of the family. lestat's father was blind and spent his days playing chess.lestat's relationships with his father and brothers were bad - he told his mother "i dream sometimes that i might kill them all. i kill my father and my brothers in the dream. i go from room to room slaughtering them as i did the wolves." he attempted to escape from them several times, first by asking to remain at a monastery, and later by running away with a troupe of traveling players. in both instances, he was returned to his family. encouraged by his mother, who sold her family heirloom jewels to purchase horses, guns, and mastiff dogs for him, lestat took up hunting, and soon became the family breadwinner.the townspeople of lestat's village requested his help with a pack of wolves that were terrorizing the town. he rode into the mountains and killed the entire pack of eight, losing his horse, dogs, and nearly his own life in the process. although his bravery won him the respect and admiration of the villagers, who presented him with a lush red velvet cloak and boots made from the pelts of the wolves, he went into a deep depression.prodded by gabrielle, he eventually left auvergne with friend and lover, nicolas, and headed for paris, intending to become an actor. during performances, he attracted the attention of an ancient vampire named magnus. he took lestat from his room in paris and kept him locked in a room full of corpses that resembled him. he fed on lestat every night, and lestat thought he would be the next corpse. magnus instead turned him into a vampire, though he was a poor excuse for a maker; he offered no rules, counsel, or grand vampiric history. he only offered lestat money and the sight of him throwing himself into a fire, leaving lestat utterly alone.

   portrayal note:        while my loki is mainly based on marvel, he is canon divergent and while i do not necessarily bring it up in his bio as it's already long enough as is, my portrayal also takes inspiration from norse mythology, especially in regards to his earlier life and personality. while the mcu states that the norse gods are not actually immortal, in my portrayal of loki, they are, in fact, immortal beings, and while extreme damage can injure them, it will not kill them or permanently damage them. secondly, i do not follow any canon events of the mcu after the 2012 avengers movie unless plotted otherwise.          Loki was born in Jotunheim as the son of the Frost Giant King, Laufey. Small and weak for a Frost Giant, Loki was abandoned by his father in a temple, being left to die. Not long after the war between the Giants and the Asgardians, Loki was found by King Odin. Adopting Loki and using sorcery to alter his appearance to make him appear to be an Asgardian, Odin raised Loki and his biological son, Thor, with his wife Frigga. As they grew up, Loki always felt that he was living in Thor's shadow, envious to the fact that Thor was meant to be king instead of him.When speaking to his two sons within his Treasure Room regarding the future of the throne, Odin attempted to teach the two to value peace above war while dealing with all of their enemies. As both Thor and Loki insisted that they would both be ready to become King of Asgard, Odin noted that only one of them would be able to take the throne.However, while Thor's eagerness to fight Frost Giants and any other beasts from across the Nine Realms grew, Loki's personal jealousy towards Thor and eagerness to win Odin's appreciation of his own merits slowly altered Loki's personality for the worse. Where he was once aloof and carefree, Loki had slowly become ambitious, going to great lengths to achieve greatness without any thought or care on the consequences for others as long as Loki himself had profited.As Odin often spent time with Thor, Loki grew closer to Frigga and would watch her cast magic, and was impressed when she made fireworks appear from her hands. Frigga then informed him that one day he could perform magic as well, assuring him that he could do anything he wanted to. Believing that Loki might feel inadequate due to Odin and Thor's accomplishments, Frigga decided to teach Loki everything she knew about sorcery, and he eventually became an expert in Asgardian magic, gaining the ability to conjure illusions of himself and create weapons among other things.Once, when Loki and Thor were still young, Loki took advantage of Thor's love of snakes and used his skill with illusions to become a snake. When Thor picked up the snake to admire it, Loki dispelled the illusion and stabbed Thor, who survived. In another instance, Loki turned Thor into a frog for a brief time. After transforming Thor, Loki sat on the throne of Asgard and pretended to take over the crown. Then Frog Thor appeared and Loki was pummeled by him.Odin brought Thor and Loki on a visit to Earth, where the Asgardians taught the Norse people their language and culture and displayed their abilities. This caused the Norse people to believe the Asgardians to be deities, and bestowed upon Thor the moniker "God of Thunder" while Loki became the "God of Mischief" due to the various tricks and illusions Loki displayed, as they would then be depicted in the humans' stories and books for the centuries to come.In November 1971, Loki lost a bet to Thor and as a result, he visited Earth in order to pull off a heist. Hijacking the Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 in the United States under the pseudonym of D. B. Cooper, he informed Florence Schaffner that he had a bomb and demanded two hundred thousand dollars in ransom. To comply with the mischievous hijacker's demands, the plane landed, exchanging the passengers on the plane for the ransom money and backup parachutes for his escape.In the air again, Loki collected the ransom money that he had demanded, and then proceeded to jump off the airplane wearing the parachute, only to be transported back to Asgard by Heimdall through the Bifrost Bridge, leaving only a few twenty dollar bills in his wake. The authorities, unaware of Loki's involvement or existence, were unable to solve the case, causing the identity of D.B. Cooper and his whereabouts to become one of Earth's many unsolved mysteries.Loki was present when Thor was supposed to finally ascend to the throne of Asgard. Before the ceremony, Loki said that while he was sometimes envious of Thor's place as first-born, there was no doubt that he loved him dearly, while also teasing his brother over his helmet's feathered design. When Thor asked how he looked, Loki answered, like a king.However, midway through, Thor's royal ceremony was unexpectedly interrupted by the arrival of several Frost Giant soldiers who Loki had summoned earlier, who then broke into Asgard and attempted to steal the Casket of Ancient Winters in order to bring it back to their homeworld and regain their strength. Stopping the ceremony, Odin called the Destroyer, which killed the invading Frost Giants but not before they killed off the Einherjar guards during the raid.Loki, Thor and Odin made their way to Odin's Vault to investigate; when they arrived, they found the bodies of the Frost Giants and the Asgardian guards who had been killed. Enraged, Thor demanded Odin march into Jotunheim and attack the Frost Giants in retaliation, but Odin refused. Thor argued that as the king of Asgard he should be able to decide these matters, but Odin told him he was not yet king. Loki stayed silent, listening and working out his own plan.Disgusted at the incident, Thor unleashed his rage by throwing over a dinner table and sitting in brooding silence. Loki had soon found his brother and sat calmly next to him, comforting him over his disappointment in Odin not crowning him as the king due to the actions of the Frost Giants. Loki calmly spoke with Thor and was able to manipulate him by claiming that he also agreed with his view that they should gain revenge for the Asgardian lives lost during the attack.Having Loki agree with his belief that Jotunheim should pay for what they had done to Asgard and their Einherjar warriors increased Thor's confidence. As Loki watched on, Thor then decided, just as Loki had planned, to disobey their father's orders and attack Jotunheim on their own so they could confront King Laufey, although Loki claimed that such a plan was madness knowing that Thor would just ignore his words. When the Warriors Three arrived with Lady Sif, Loki sat back and allowed Thor to convince them to follow him into the battle to gain answers as to why the Frost Giants had attacked, with Loki briefly claiming to be against such aggressive action.Loki followed the enraged Thor, along with Lady Sif and the Warriors Three, to the Bifrost Bridge in order to travel to Jotunheim to seek answers. However, just before they left, Loki informed a guard of their intention and ordered him to inform Odin to ensure their rescue and Thor's punishment. The group went to Heimdall, keeper of the Bifrost Bridge, Loki confidently attempted to confuse Heimdall to get past him, but the gatekeeper was already aware of their intentions.Despite knowing that this was against the direct orders of their king, Heimdall still gave them safe passage to Jotunheim as he wished to know how the Frost Giants had entered Asgard without him knowing. While Volstagg and Fandral mocked Loki as they prepared to depart, he stood alongside the warriors while Heimdall warned that if their return threatened Asgard's own safety, then he would be left with no choice but to leave them all to perish on Jotunheim.When the group arrived onto Jotunheim, they looked over the barren wasteland planet which had been almost completely devastated by the previous Battle of Jotunheim. Upon seeing the landscape of the planet, Hogun claimed that they should not be there but they continued on their mission, with Sif questioning where the Frost Giants were hiding.As they explored the planet, they eventually located Laufey, the King of the Frost Giants who immediately ordered them to leave. However, ignoring Laufey's warning, Thor demanded answers on how Laufey's soldiers had gotten into Asgard to try and steal the Casket of Ancient Winters from Odin's Vault. This quickly led to several threats being made between Thor and Laufey as Odin's name had been insulted. Loki, however, seeing they were vastly outnumbered by their enemy, tried to persuade his brother to retreat. Soon, Thor relented, but as they began to leave, a Frost Giant insulted Thor, causing the prince to attack his foe with Mjølnir leading to a full-on attack.The Frost Giant's army launched an ambush of the Asgardians and they engaged in a fierce battle against their enemies, where Loki began to fight by using his knives to kill those who attacked him. While Sif and Volstagg used their strength and great fighting skills to gain the advantage, Loki used his magic to attack and confuse the Frost Giants, tricking one into charging at an illusion which caused him to fall to his death while Loki continued fighting.During the battle, Volstagg became wounded when a Frost Giant had grabbed his arm resulting in burns, with Volstagg warning the others of this. However, when Loki inadvertently also made physical contact with Raze, Loki had discovered that he was unharmed, unlike Volstagg, and his arm instead turned blue resembling that of a Frost Giant. Loki and Raze looked at each other for a moment before Loki killed him as his arm returned to its normal color. Loki continued to view his blue arm in horror before it returned to his normal shade of skin.As they became more outnumbered and Fandral was injured when a Frost Giant impaled him, Loki killed the Frost Giant before he ordered the Warriors Three to retreat. Thor, however, refused to stop fighting as the others ran from a Frost Beast which was soon killed by Thor. When they were cornered by Laufey's armies, Odin arrived and attempted to regain the peace between both Asgard and Jotunheim; however, Laufey told him Thor had restarted their long war.Odin accepted this unfortunate truth and then took the group back to Asgard through the Bifrost Bridge. Back on Asgard, Odin remained furious at Thor, ordering the Warriors to heal Fandral while Loki still stayed with his family. Loki watched as Odin began telling Thor he had just started a new great war between Asgard and Jotunheim that put innocent Asgardians at risk; however, Thor argued aggressively while Loki stayed quiet and watched from the side.Odin eventually confessed that he was a fool to think Thor was ready to be king and, when Loki did try to intervene, Odin silenced him with a fierce growl. Calling his own son unworthy, Odin then furiously took away Thor's armor and powers and banished him to Earth. Loki then watched as the now powerless Thor was thrown out of Asgard and Odin sent Thor's hammer after him under the spell meaning that only one worthy of its power would actually be capable of lifting it.Back within one of the many great halls of Asgard, Loki had closely listened as Volstagg argued with the others about why they should have never allowed Thor to go on his revenge mission, although all the other members of the Warriors Three had noted that there would have been absolutely no chance of stopping Thor's mission once he had decided to attack the Frost Giants resulting in his banishment. While Fandral had also noted that at the very least Thor was merely banished and not dead, noting they would have never survived if the Einherjar guard had not informed the King of their true plans, with Volstagg also questioning exactly how the guard had known.Despite considering his true heritage following his encounter with the Frost Giants, Loki then told the Warriors and Sif that he was the one who had informed the guard of their journey to Jotunheim while showing little remorse. Despite Sif pleading with him, Loki refused to speak to Odin to convince him to return Thor home as he argued that Thor had proven himself to be a reckless leader and not what Asgard needed in their king before storming out of the room.Still thinking on the shocking discovery he had made during his fight against the Frost Giants, Loki made the decision to investigate further. Loki made his way to Odin's Vault and soon found the Casket of Ancient Winters, the ancient weapon of the Frost Giants which had been taken following the Battle of Jotunheim during which the Asgardians' armies had been victorious. Upon touching the device, Loki's skin once again turned blue, causing him to resemble a Frost Giant and confirming his worst fears. He was interrupted as Odin arrived inside the room and ordered his son to stop. Upset and tearful, Loki refused, demanding to know what really happened and who he really was.As Loki questioned if the Casket was not the only thing he had taken from Jotunheim following his victory, Odin finally relented, telling Loki of how he had discovered him as an unwanted infant and taken him in. Mortified, Loki questioned why Odin had done this following the slaughter of so many Frost Giants, with Odin claiming that Loki was just an innocent child he had saved.Loki did not accept this answer and desperately demanded the truth, and was told Odin thought his presence within Asgard could bring about an alliance in the Nine Realms and foster a permanent peace, but then confessed there was little hope of this now following their start of the second war. Loki then asked coldly if he was a monster, or nothing more than another stolen relic which Odin would lock away within his vault until he might finally have some use for him. Expostulating upon how it all made sense now that Odin had always favored Thor, Loki furiously berated Odin in denial, accusing him of using him as a tool for peace until Odin, overcome with stress, fell into the Odinsleep. In emotional turmoil, and suddenly worried and confused rather than angry, Loki desperately called out to the Einherjar for some aid.With Odin having been temporarily rendered comatose due to falling into the Odinsleep, Loki sat by his bedside with Frigga, he asked her more questions about his heritage following his discovery of being part Frost Giant and the son of Laufey, wanting to know why the truth had been kept from him for so many years, as Frigga insisted they had not wanted him to feel any different. During their conversation, Frigga insisted that they must not lose hope that Odin would awake and Thor may at last return from his banishment to Earth, although Loki questioned what hope there still was for Thor, with Frigga insisting there was always reason behind Odin's actions. Despite Frigga's attempts to comfort him, Loki could not accept the truth as he walked away from his father's own bedside. Before he could leave, however, a guard then arrived and presented Loki with Odin's powerful staff Gungnir, and pronounced Loki as the new King of Asgard while Odin was unable to rule.Loki took the throne in Odin's place, delighting in all the new power bestowed upon him as he sat in the Royal Palace of Valaskjalf considering how to ensure he maintained the power of ruling the Nine Realms for as long as possible. While on the throne, King Loki was then visited by the Warriors Three and Lady Sif, who was immediately shocked by the disappearance of Odin and Loki's new position, as Loki told them that whatever issue they had should be brought to him. Reluctantly accepting their newest king, the warriors then requested that he end Thor's banishment, but Loki refused, claiming his first action as king could not be to undo his father's last, also insisting that the Asgardians needed some consistency before they headed into a war against Jotunheim. Before Volstagg could argue the matter any further, Loki ordered them to leave, and Fandral pulled Sif away before she could confront King Loki with any violence.

Seeking to ensure that there was no risk of Thor returning to Asgard and taking the throne away from him, Loki paid a visit to his brother on Earth where Thor had been captured by S.H.I.E.L.D. while trying to regain Mjølnir. Thor asked Loki what had happened on Asgard, questioning if something had happened with Jotunheim, but Loki lied to him and told Thor that Odin had died, in an attempt to keep him completely unmotivated and emotionally destroyed.Loki continued his lie by claiming that Thor's banishment combined with the latest war against Laufey and the Frost Giants had simply been too much for Odin to bear, resulting in his untimely death. Loki then informed Thor that he had been forced to take on the burden of the throne and that the peace was dependent on Thor's banishment from Asgard. When Thor tried to argue that they could find a way for him to return home, Loki claimed that Frigga forbid his return.Thor sadly agreed and said goodbye to his brother and thanked him for coming, accepting that the death of their father and the disasters that had befallen their family had all fallen to him as he accepted his fate to remain on Earth for the rest of his life. After leaving Thor in his holding cell to be questioned by Phil Coulson, Loki attempted to lift Thor's hammer but failed as this betrayal of his brother's trust proved him to be unworthy of wielding it, much to Loki's annoyance.In an attempt to play the long game to ensure he remained in power, Loki then traveled to Jotunheim where he then visited Laufey. However, upon seeing him, Laufey ordered his Frost Giants to kill the prince, only for Loki to then introduce himself as the one who had given them safe passage into Asgard to attempt to steal the Casket of Ancient Winters, claiming he had only done it for a bit of fun to ruin Thor's royal coronation, stopping his brother from ruling Asgard.Loki then struck a deal to allow Laufey to go to kill Odin while he was still in the Odinsleep and take the Casket of Ancient Winters back to Jotunheim, which Odin had once taken from them, which would have allowed Laufey to finally restore Jotunheim to all its former glory. Loki told him Laufey could not be seen killing the Allfather himself as this would result in the people of Asgard never accepting him as the king if he did. Laufey accepted Loki's offer and allowed him to leave.Returning to Asgard via the Bifrost Bridge, Loki had found himself being immediately confronted by Heimdall, who claimed that Loki was using his magic to block his gaze upon him while he was in Jotunheim, as Heimdall had come to believe that Loki was currently attempting to hide his true intentions from him. Loki, however, claimed that Heimdall's powers were becoming weaker from his many years of service to Asgard, which added to Heimdall's suspicions.Loki began questioning if Odin had ever feared Heimdall despite his incredible power, to which Heimdall answered that he had not as he was loyal to his king. Hearing this, Loki reminded him that he was his king and therefore was forced to obey his orders without question and with complete loyalty. When Heimdall agreed, Loki ordered him not to allow anyone else to use the Bifrost until he had repaired all of the damage that was done by some of Thor's previous actions.Despite his direct orders, Loki soon learned that the Warriors Three and Lady Sif had used Himinbjorg and traveled to Earth via the Bifrost Bridge. Knowing that his brother would soon learn of his treasonous lies, Loki decided that he had no choice but to silence all those who had betrayed the throne. Therefore, Loki had called on his most powerful weapon, the Destroyer and ordered it to travel to Earth and destroy everything it found and kill his enemies.Furious at the betrayal, Loki made his way to the end of the Bifrost and confronted Heimdall over his treason. Heimdall, however, made it clear that he knew that Loki was responsible for bringing the Frost Giants into Asgard and had, therefore, betrayed his own family and the citizens of Asgard by his actions. In response to his act of treason against the throne, Loki proceeded to strip Heimdall of all titles and finally banished him from the Kingdom, never to return again.However, Heimdall knew he was now free of his oaths to the new king and responded by drawing his weapon and furiously swinging the blade at Loki. However, Loki was prepared for such an attempt against his life and, when Heimdall attempted to kill his king, Loki used his Magic to then summon the Casket of Ancient Winters, successfully freezing Heimdall alive before he could be struck down. Loki then left Asgard's gatekeeper to (presumably) die while trapped in the ice.Seeking to tie up all other loose ends before his schemes could be exposed, Loki then sent the Destroyer down onto Earth to pursue and destroy Thor and all of the others who had betrayed him. Loki watched from the Royal Palace of Valaskjalf while the Destroyer arrived on Earth, charging through S.H.I.E.L.D. before it then caused a huge battle between Lady Sif and the Warriors Three, where the Destroyer laid waste to the small town which Thor had been staying in.When he saw no other end to the battle, the still powerless Thor had stepped up to the Destroyer completely unarmed and pleaded with his brother to allow all the Humans to go free and take his own life in exchange. Accepting this offer, Loki had the Destroyer punch Thor, breaking all of his bones and killing him. This, however, had proved Thor's worthiness and Thor got his former powers back, easily defeating the Destroyer with Mjølnir as Loki looked on in complete horror.Knowing he had to move his plans forward, Loki then welcomed Laufey and his small army of Frost Giants to Asgard and showed him the way to Odin, walking past the frozen body of Heimdall on their way. Laufey came to Odin's bedroom, attacking and knocking down Frigga who attempted to defend her husband before finding his greatest enemy defenseless as he lay in his Odinsleep now completely unguarded.Laufey stood over Odin's sleeping body and mocked the King of Asgard as he made an ice blade form in his hand. Just as Laufey was about to kill Odin with the blade, Loki returned and betrayed his true father, shooting him in the back with Gungnir. As Laufey stared in shock and horror, Loki told him his death came from the son of Odin. Loki then killed his cold-hearted father with a single powerful blast from Odin's spear.As Frigga ran to her son, Thor returned to Asgard with all his powers restored, as Heimdall had survived and returned him through the Bifrost Bridge. Thor arrived in Asgard mere moments after Loki had killed Laufey. He told their mother all about Loki's attempt on his life with the Destroyer while Loki attempted to talk his way out of the situation. Loki fired his spear's energy at Thor and shot him through a wall before making his way to Himinbjorg.Loki traveled to the Bifrost Bridge and aimed its full power at Jotunheim where it began ripping through the center of the planet. To ensure that it could not be stopped, Loki then froze it with the Casket of Ancient Winters so the energy would continue to slowly destroy the planet and wipe out the Frost Giants for good so he could be recognized as the King who ended the war.Thor arrived to see the destruction being caused and tried to convince his brother not to massacre an entire race, but Loki refused and continued to mock and threaten Thor. It was soon proven that Thor would be unable to use Mjølnir to stop the destruction and Loki argued that massacring the Frost Giants was the right thing to do. Eventually, he threatened to kill Jane Foster, causing the furious Thor to attack him to protect the lives Loki threatened.The brothers fought a violent battle with Loki often using tricks to get the upper hand on his brother. Loki continued to use Gungnir to his advantage, both as a spear and using its energy to shoot at Thor while laughing maniacally every time he managed to outwit and hit his furious brother. They eventually charged at one another and threw each other through the wall and out onto the rainbow bridge, and Loki was thrown over the edge and was barely able to hold onto the side.As he begged his brother to help him, Thor, seeing his brother in need, bent down to help, only to learn that Loki had indeed tricked him and created an illusion. Loki sneaked up behind him and stabbed him in the side with Gungnir; as Thor lay wounded on the ground, Loki created multiple versions of himself, all laughing maniacally at him. Enraged Thor slammed his hammer on the ground, causing a shock wave which caused Loki to be knocked backwards.As Loki lay injured on his back, Thor calmly walked over to him and placed Mjølnir on his chest, pinning him to the surface of the Rainbow Bridge, unable to move. Thor then began to consider how he could possibly stop the destruction of Jotunheim, as there was no way to stop the beam of Bifrost energy, all while Loki mocked his brother for trying and failing. Thor knew there was only one way he could stop the deaths of millions of Frost Giants.Thor retook his hammer and began to destroy the Rainbow Bridge as Loki looked on in sheer horror at what his brother was attempting to do. Attempting to stop him however he could, Loki reminded Thor that if he destroyed the bridge, then he would never see Jane Foster ever again, but Thor ignored him and continued to batter the bridge. Loki chose to leap at his brother to stab him in the back, but before he could, the bridge was destroyed and the brothers were thrown into the air.With the Rainbow Bridge destroyed, the pair began to fall into the abyss, only for both of them to be saved at the last minute by Odin, who had awoken from his Odinsleep. They both hung before a black hole and Loki tried to convince Odin that he had done it all for them, with Odin rejecting Loki's pleas. Loki, devastated by Odin's rejection of his actions, let go of Thor and fell into an abyss, before entering into a wormhole created by the energy of the Bifrost Bridge.Traveling through the wormhole, Loki arrived in a part of the universe called Sanctuary and met the Mad Titan Thanos and the Other, the former offering a pact that would allow him to become ruler of the Earth while he would steal the Tesseract which was being studied by S.H.I.E.L.D. Thanos provided Loki with a Scepter with a blue gem which acted as a powerful weapon, and also as a mind control device.Unbeknownst to Loki, his use of the Scepter was also influencing him, fueling his hatred and desire to bring harm to humans and Thor. Thanos showed Loki how to temporarily control someone while still on the planet. Doctor Erik Selvig was taken to a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility, where Nick Fury showed him the Tesseract asked him to study it. Loki influenced Selvig to ensure that he agreed. Later, Frigga learned that Loki had survived and tried to make contact with him, but Loki told her it was not the time to talk.Accepting Thanos' deal without fear of failure, Loki turned his focus back to Erik Selvig, who had been summoned by S.H.I.E.L.D. with the task of unlocking the Tesseract's secrets. Selvig came to understand the cube's capabilities, and through Loki's influence, he developed equipment that would focus its power. When the time was right, Loki activated the Tesseract, forming a portal through the Tesseract Accelerator that pulled him through space to its location on Earth, the main facility of Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S.Upon arriving at the facility, Loki was immediately confronted by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who ordered him to put down his weapon. When Loki attacked the agents with powerful blasts of energy, the agents fired on him only to learn that bullets bounced off his body. Once he had killed or subdued all his attackers within seconds, Loki managed to use the Scepter's power to subjugate and control Hawkeye and Selvig, as well as another agent by placing the tip of the scepter at their chest near their heart and allowing the power of the gem to overtake their free will.As Loki gathered his slaves, Nick Fury attempted to keep him away from the Tesseract and escape unseen. Loki, however, spied the S.H.I.E.L.D. Director and told him to leave the cube. Introducing himself and explaining he was Asgardian, Loki explained to Fury that he wanted the Tesseract as part of his glorious purpose which was to free the Earth and humanity from freedom, which he defined as life's great lie, vowing that he would become their one supreme king, although Fury questioned his goals for peace and argued that he wanted war.Fury tried to flee with the Tesseract but then decided to stay and allow himself to die with the cube if it meant stopping Loki as well. Selvig and Hawkeye informed Loki of Fury's intent, prompting Loki to gather the turned agents and leave with the Tesseract but not before ordering Hawkeye to shoot and kill Fury. The group then made their way to the Jeeps where they avoided Maria Hill's attempt to stop them. As they made it outside, the energy the cube had unleashed consumed the area and the entire compound with it.As they drove away from the wreckage of the facility, trapping Hill inside, Fury, who had survived the gunshot due to a Bulletproof Vest, flew over them in a helicopter. Unwilling to allow Loki to escape with such a dangerous weapon, Fury fired his gun at the Asgardian, so in response Loki fired a single blot of energy from his Scepter, shooting the helicopter out of the sky. Fury barely survived the crash and continued to fire at the jeep as Barton drove them to safety; despite being under fire, Loki appeared relaxed and pleased with his success.Before long, Loki and his small but ever-growing army had been successful in securing a hideout to determine the next course of action for the Tesseract while Erik Selvig continued his experiments to learn how to control and use its power and built a new Tesseract Accelerator. While watching his men work, Loki noted the Scepter's gem glowing and calling out to him. He allowed himself to enter a trance where he could appear to Other and his Chitauri army across deepest space in a metaphysical form.While on the Sanctuary, Loki mocked the Chitauri and asked if they were truly as formidable as he had been promised. Other furiously reminded Loki of how he had been given a second chance after being cast out and defeated by Asgard. Other then warned Loki that if he failed at his pursuit of Earth or the Tesseract was kept from Thanos, that there would be no place for him to hide from the Mad Titan's wrath and, when he was found, before long he would beg for something as sweet as pain.Now unsettled about potential failure and more determined than ever, Loki met with Selvig and Clint Barton to discuss their next course of action to complete their plans. While Selvig commented on the incredible power and knowledge that the Tesseract was providing him, he explained that what he would need was iridium, necessary to stabilize the portal. Loki also spoke to Hawkeye about the team of Avengers that Nick Fury was forming. To gain the Iridium, Loki went to Stuttgart, Germany with Hawkeye and other turned agents.In Germany, Loki causes a distraction by disrupting a gala at a large museum while Hawkeye, along with a few men, raids a secure installation for Iridium. Loki struck terror into the hearts of guests by securing the one thing needed for Hawkeye to breach the security measures: Heinrich Schafer's eyeball. Loki, disguised in a suit, attacked Schafer, grabbed the man and flipped him onto a bench, then used a special device to saw into Schafer's eyeball, allowing Barton access to steal the Iridium.

Loki strode out after the screaming crowd into the streets where he made several copies of himself, trapping the people and demanding that they kneel before him. As he looked upon the humans cowering in fear at his power, Loki could only laugh at those he deemed lesser than himself. Loki bragged that this was man's purpose to be ruled and that in the end, they would always kneel before him, but a single man stood up and challenged him and his intentions. The man said he would not kneel before a man like him, Loki arrogantly argued that there never had been men like him as he deemed himself vastly superior to all humans, though the old man corrected Loki that he was no different from any other would-be conqueror by declaring that there are always men like him.When Loki prepared to kill the old man, Captain America appeared and challenged him, deflecting the bolt of energy back at Loki with his shield. Seconds later, an armed Quinjet carrying Black Widow also challenged him from the sky. Loki fired a bolt of energy at the Quinjet, missing, and Captain America threw his shield at him. Loki engaged in a brief but brutal battle with the super-soldier, during which Loki gained the upper hand and stood above the Captain, demanding he kneel; Cap refused and continued fighting Loki.Just as Loki once again gained the upper hand and began beating Captain America into submission, they were interrupted by the arrival of Iron Man, who shot Loki in the chest and threatened to fire all his weapons upon Loki, daring him to make a move. Realizing that the Avengers had been assembled and he was now outmatched, Loki allowed himself to be captured, using his magic to remove his armor. As the Avengers took Loki into custody, he secretly began plotting how to use this situation to his advantage in the end.As they journeyed to the Helicarrier on board the Quinjet, Loki sat in silence while Captain America and Iron Man discussed what his plans could be and why he had allowed himself to be captured so easily. The conversation stopped, however, when lightning began shooting from the sky, signaling the arrival of Loki's brother. As predicted, Thor arrived and extracted Loki from the jet and the Avengers' custody.Taking his brother to a nearby mountain where they were observed by Hugin and Munin, Thor attempted to reason with Loki, imploring him to remember that they were once brothers as they had been raised together and spent years playing and fighting together. Thor asked him to return home to Asgard and surrender the Tesseract. Loki, however, still resented his brother and refused to cooperate, claiming that Odin was not his real father. When Loki mentioned his knowledge of the Tesseract, Thor demanded to know how he knew so much but Loki refused to say Thanos' name.Thor regained Mjølnir and threatened his brother, but before he could get the information he needed from Loki about the Tesseract's location, Thor was tackled by Iron Man and knocked off the side of the mountain. Loki remained on his perch and watched, pleased, as his enemies began to battle each other over who should take Loki into custody. As the argument escalated, Thor and Iron Man engaged in a fierce fight which ended when Captain America intervened and convinced them that they should ally themselves.With the Avengers and Thor now considering themselves to be allies in the war, they took Loki together into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody aboard the Helicarrier. As armed guards marched Loki down the hallways and past Bruce Banner's laboratory, Loki smiled at the scientist, making Banner uneasy and raising suspicion all round. Loki was placed in a confinement capsule which had been designed, without Banner's knowledge, to hold a rogue Hulk. If Loki tried to escape or break through the cell, it would drop him 30,000 feet straight downward, which they hoped would be fatal to him.Loki taunted Nick Fury about his failed attempts to understand and control the Tesseract and his gathering of misfits to defend Earth. However, Fury remained confident and told the God of Mischief that he had made Fury very desperate and he might live to regret it. Loki went on to tell Fury that he had finally seen what real power was and Fury took this as a cue to leave. Loki's mere presence and self-confidence was enough to provide a disruptive element that would fragment the only group of heroes that had any hope of stopping him.As Loki paced in his cell, he was greeted by Black Widow who came to apparently offer a deal in exchange for Clint Barton's freedom. Loki subjected her to a play of wits where he asked her questions about her past and her relationship with Barton. Eventually, Loki ferreted out her deeper misgivings and explained that Barton had told him all about her murders and terrible crimes she had committed while a part of the Red Room before she joined S.H.I.E.L.D., making a reference to Antonia Dreykov, the daughter of General Dreykov who Black Widow and Barton had supposedly killed in an attempt to assassinate the General.Loki vowed that he would force Barton to torture and kill Romanoff in order to break his heart before Loki would break his skull, taking considerable pleasure at the horror this put in Romanoff. However, she tricked the trickster into revealing that there was already a monster among them and that it was not him. From this, she concluded that the monster was Banner and that Loki planned to use Hulk to destroy the Helicarrier and the heroes as well. Once she left to warn them, Loki's smile indicated that was part of his plan: to turn Hulk against the Avengers by first turning the Avengers against Hulk.However, Loki's plan to use Hulk was only one aspect of his real intentions. More of his full scheme became clear as another jet carrying Hawkeye and the rogue agents came to his aid, following a signal from the Scepter. Hawkeye caused a massive explosion which separated the Avengers. The wounded Banner transformed into Hulk and went on a rampage, destroying much of the Helicarrier while Loki remained in his cell and smiled to himself at the destruction.Before long, one of Loki's controlled agents freed him from the cell. Loki then used illusions of himself to trick Thor into entering the cell, trapped him in there, and mocked his brother for falling for the same trick yet again. Before Loki could drop the cell from the Helicarrier in order to slow down his brother, Phil Coulson confronted him with the Destroyer Armor Prototype Gun and politely ordered him to move away from the controls and surrender, noting that he was not sure exactly how powerful the gun really was.Loki used his illusions to get behind the brave S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and stabbed him straight through the heart with his Scepter. Thor watched in horror as Coulson fell to the ground dying. Loki looked his brother straight in the eye as he returned to the control pad, and ejected the cell with Thor in it. As Coulson lay on the ground bleeding to death, he summoned the strength to tell Loki that he stood no chance of winning this war. Loki claimed he had no disadvantage as the Avengers had been destroyed, only for Coulson to fire the Destroyer Gun at him, sending him flying through a wall. Though Loki retrieved his Scepter, Black Widow released Hawkeye from the mind control, and Loki got on board a Quinjet and headed to New York City, where Erik Selvig waited with the Tesseract at Stark Tower, where they intended to complete their experiments.While Erik Selvig set up the upgraded Tesseract Accelerator on the roof of the skyscraper, Loki prepared to welcome his army of Chitauri and begin his glorious, but brief, war on Earth. Iron Man, having survived the Attack on the Helicarrier and having figured out his plans, caught up with him at Stark Tower. Loki watched confidently as Stark landed on the Tower's landing pad and abandoned his wrecked Iron Man suit, stepping inside the building in order to confront and threaten the God of Mischief personally.Stark offered Loki a drink while Loki claimed that once the Chitauri arrived nothing could stop him. He asked Stark what he had to fear: Stark told him that he should fear the Avengers as together the team would be a strong force against him. Loki mocked the claim, noting that in their first bout he had already driven them apart, but Stark insisted he had just pissed them off and that if they couldn't protect the Earth, they would Avenge its destruction at Loki's hand. He also promised that Hulk was stronger than Loki and his entire army combined, much to Loki's great annoyance.When Loki grew weary of the threats, he noted that the Avengers would soon be too busy fighting Stark to challenge him, as he attempted to subjugate Stark with the Scepter, only to be physically blocked by the Arc Reactor in Stark's chest, leading to Stark mocking him even further for the awkward failure. Annoyed at the insults, Loki threw the inventor out of a window and was surprised when a freshly built Iron Man armor rocketed after him. Loki found himself under attack when the fully suited Iron Man rocketed back up to retaliate and, avenging Phil Coulson, knocked him back with an energy blast.Before they could continue the fight, the Tesseract Accelerator opened the portal in the sky, finally allowing Loki's entire Chitauri army to come pouring through, beginning the Chitauri Invasion of Earth. As Iron Man left Loki to begin battling the oncoming army as he shot them out of the sky single-handedly, Loki recovered himself and took a moment to enjoy the moment. With his triumph near at hand, Loki stepped out onto the observation tower, regained his full armor and watched as New York City burned around him, smiling at all of the devastation he had now caused.Loki was confronted by Thor who had survived his fall from the Helicarrier and demanded that he deactivate the Tesseract or the God of Thunder would destroy it. Loki refused, claiming that nothing could stop his war. The brothers fought for a second time, Loki's Scepter matching Thor's hammer. Blasts from the gem almost completely destroyed the Stark Tower logo on the side of the balcony, blasting some of the giant letters and debris off the side.The two continued to battle as Loki shot down a Quinjet carrying the other Avengers. When the confrontation came to stalemate with them grappling each other's necks, Thor urged Loki to look around him at the destruction he had caused and asked if he truly believed it would all end with his rule. Loki was unsure of himself; he claimed it was too late to stop the madness, but briefly considered Thor's appeal to working together to end it all and redeem himself.The will of the Tesseract over his mind was stronger than his guilt, however, and Loki instead stabbed Thor in the stomach with a throwing knife, preparing to strike him down with the Scepter as he knelt before him and laughed in amusement at Thor's sentiment. This did little more than enrage Thor, who disarmed Loki of his staff before hitting him repeatedly in the face, soon beating Loki into submission before picking him up over his head and slamming him down hard onto the ruined balcony.Not allowing himself to be defeated and captured so early into the Chitauri Invasion, Loki threw himself off the building and landed on one of the Chitauri Chariots. From there, Loki took command of the attack on the New York City, shooting down at the humans, destroying many cars and killing dozens of innocent people in massive explosions. The Avengers meanwhile put all their might into attempting to stop him and protect the lives of the people trapped in the city.When Hulk destroyed the first of the Chitauri's massive Leviathans, Loki commanded the Chitauri on the other side of the still-open portal to send the rest of their massive armada, releasing dozens of Leviathans and hundreds more Chitauri soldiers, overwhelming New York City's defenses. An aerial chase in which Loki chased down Black Widow left his craft destroyed when Loki confidently caught one of Hawkeye's arrows, which then exploded, causing him to crash land back on Stark Tower.Just as Loki got to his feet ready to return to the fight, Hulk confronted him and punched him through a wall into the main room. Loki leaped to his feet and demanded that he stop, claiming that as an Asgardian God, he was vastly superior and would not be bullied by him. Loki's frustrated rant only goaded Hulk into simply picking him up and repeatedly slamming him into the ground, catching him entirely off-balance. Loki, too stunned to fight or threaten any longer, just lay on the ground, more wounded physically than he had ever been before.Barely able to move from the beating he had received from Hulk, Loki eventually summoned the strength to crawl only to find himself face to face with the Avengers, who had defeated the Chitauri army and closed the Tesseract's portal. As Black Widow held the Scepter and Hawkeye aimed an arrow directly at his face, Loki accepted his defeat and quietly requested the drink that Tony Stark had offered before. The Avengers ignored his request and took him into custody.While he was being bound in handcuffs, Loki mockingly transformed into Captain America, only to be silenced by Thor who placed a metal muzzle on his mouth. Loki was escorted by Thor and Stark to the first floor of Stark Tower; however, they came across Alexander Pierce and a group of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. Loki then sensed that another Tony Stark was present because of his cologne.Thor and Stark argued with Pierce, as Thor noted that Loki must be judged by Asgardians, an argument that did not convince Pierce, who wanted to take both Loki and the Tesseract under S.H.I.E.L.D. custody. Suddenly, Stark fell into cardiac arrest, causing Pierce and Thor to tend to him. In the ensuing chaos, the confused Loki noticed Ant-Man kicking the briefcase with the Tesseract to the alternate Stark, who was disguised as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Stark retrieved the Tesseract, but when he began to exit, he was knocked over by Hulk while he was opening the door from the stairway.Hulk's interference caused the Tesseract to slide over to Loki's feet. Taking advantage of the commotion caused by the Hulk, Loki took the Tesseract and used it to open a portal and escape his confinement. After Thor managed to reboot Stark's Arc Reactor, he turned his back to see that Loki was already gone. Teleporting away with the Space Stone, Loki created a branched reality in the alternate timeline.Where he ends up after this, depends on each thread and plot!

   magic.    loki is an expert in using ancient, æsir magic. essentially, he can manipulate the elements to his will, he can cast illusions, cast a whole range of different spells, etc. the list would be too long if i were to name it all, but essentially, if it can be tied to magic, he can likely do it.   shapeshifting.    loki is known as a shapeshifter, and can shift into other people, animals and even objects.   immortality.    as an æsir god, loki cannot be killed by any normal, mortal means, nor by age or any earthly illnesses. essentially, from an earthly perspective, he is immortal. however, other æsirs could kill him, and there are some rare illnesses from his home realm that he could get afflicted by that could kill him if he's unfortunate.

jack had an abusive father whose beatings sent him to the hospital several times. the only thing known about his mother is that she was a good mom. jack remembers killing his father at some point when he was younger, although exactly when is uncertain. he was in the army, specifically as a marine, and attacked his instructor. instead of being sent to stockade at fort benning, he was moved by a man named dalton who recruited him for black ops saving him from being court-martialed. sometime in 1994, his last mission was to kill the hacker we know as job, but instead he and job began working together. some point after this, he met rabbit.as a thief, jack was tasked with jobs that everyone else called ´impossible.´ he was an infiltration specialist who was able to go deeper than anyone else. one time, he stole a chess set from a man called drexel as a gift to mr. rabbit and managed to bypass all the security systems including guard dogs. he eventually fell in love with rabbit´s daughter, anastasia, and they started to plan a life together away from her father. on april 17th 1997, his last job with anastasia was a $10 million diamond heist from a company called capitol diamond. the job failed because rabbit found out about their plan and his right-hand man, olek, called the police on them. jack told ana to go without him and he was caught and arrested. jack was then sentenced to 15 years in roscoe prison while ana disappeared with job´s help. while in prison, jack was tortured on the daily by another man working for rabbit, often so bad that he would end up in the hospital wing for weeks, if not months. this led to him purposefully getting himself in trouble while in prison to be thrown into isolation, so as to avoid having to get tortured further, until he finally decided he'd had enough, and found a way to kill the man, but only after a brutal fight ensued, nearly getting himself killed in the process.after getting released from prison, jack tracked down ana to a town called banshee. stopping by a bar owned by an old mma fighter called sugar, jack tried to enjoy a drink there when the new to-be sheriff of banshee, lucas hood, walked in and bought some dinner. not long after being served, two other men walked in and tried to rob sugar, in which hood intervened. jack, realizing that a fight was about to ensue and that hood, being outnumbered, would likely get shot, got up and tried to talk everyone out of fighting, suggesting that they allow the two robbers to take the money, and he would buy enough food and drinks to make up for it. however, hood pushed jack out of the way, and a fight ensued, ending up with both hood as well as the two robbers dead. sugar, appreciating jack's help, told jack to leave while he dealt with the dead bodies, and so jack left to go find ana. however, finding out that she had moved on, and no longer having the diamonds they stole, jack headed back to sugar's bar just in time to help him bury the bodies in the forest.hearing hood's phone ringing while finishing digging the graves, jack picked it up, only to find that it was hood's new boss calling, and that they hadn't met face to face yet. instinctively, he pretended to be lucas hood, and decided from that moment on that he would use the dead sheriff's identity as his own, so that he had an excuse to stay in banshee. since then, jack now goes by the name lucas hood, being banshee county's new sheriff, practically winging it as he goes.being a former thief and having spent years in prison, jack has no problem breaking the law. though despite being a criminal, he seems to take his job as a sheriff seriously and does his best to help and protect the innocent. in fact, he happens to be the first sheriff of banshee who isn't taking bribes or is intimidated by kai proctor, despite the fact that he's not actually a cop. jack handles situations with a recklessness that seems to border on suicidal. on multiple occasions, he goes alone, or heavily outnumbered, into a hostile situation. he has fought a professional mma fighter, and also went to get a sandwich at the café while there was a memorial of a man he himself had killed while on duty to save kai's life. his experience as a criminal allows him to solve crimes in an unorthodox, but also practical manner.he initially had feelings for ana, as he went all the way to banshee just for her, though after meeting her again, his love for her has faded into something platonic. he feels a responsibility for their daughter, which keeps him staying in banshee. he's still traumatized from the suffering he endured in prison, and often has flashbacks of it. after spending years in prison, he's become much more distant and violent than before. yet he is a sensitive and caring man with a charming attitude.jack is in excellent physical condition and works out regularly to stay in great shape. he moves quickly and displays great agility when jumping over cars, jumping/smashing through windows while escaping situations or chasing people. he is an exceptional fighter, relying on techniques such as headbutts, throat strikes, and joint locks as well as occasionally dirty moves like biting and groin strikes. he has received combat training when he was in the army and additional training under robert dalton, colonel douglas stowe describing him as being "well-trained" and "lethal". in his career as a mobster, jack proved an excellent boxer, besting rabbit's right-hand man olek in a sparring match. during his time in prison, he defeated a much larger and stronger man, combining regular strikes with tactics like eye-gouging and surprise attacks. arriving in banshee, he proves capable of taking on multiple opponents, defeating charles randall and delmont munson, who killed the real sheriff lucas hood, and easily besting all four moody brothers (and later three of them in a ravine despite being injured), brock lotus describing it as "going through them like they were cardboard". he has also beaten damien sanchez, an extremely formidable mma fighter, and defeated kai proctor, a skilled combatant himself, twice. he has even gotten the better of the likes of quentin and clay burton, both terrifyingly ruthless fighters in their own right. indeed, his fighting style has been described by quentin as a skill that cannot be learned but only obtained by experiencehe is also highly skilled in using improvised weapons such as knives, batons, bottles and anything else he can get his hands on during fights, and is an excellent marksman and has had military training (exemplified by his use of the harries technique for simultaneous handgun/ torch usage). because of his vast skill set, he survives the toughest situations and he has been described as an ´army of one´.