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# 1 Villains everywhere! Help with a concept!
06-09-2012, 09:42 AM
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Hi folks!

Currently I'm working on my own personal supervillain team and making pretty good progress, so I want you to meet (From left to right):

1. Genesis Zero

Born into a small eastern European village, Arlan Damaskinos was a normal child and led a normal life, not being unusual in the slightest. At least not on the outside: Arlan was a mutant, but not the kind who shoots energy from his eyes or crushes boulders with his mind. Arlan's mutation was more subtle: His DNA was highly resistant to hazards, while being adaptable and flexible at the same time. The first one to discover this was the mad geneticist Teleios, at that time still at the start of his villain career. He raided Arlan's village for test subjects for his twisted experiments. As soon as he started to experiment on Arlan, Teleios realized the genetic treasure in front of him.

He used Arlan to test many dangerous substances and conducted various experiments, all aided by Arlan's unusual DNA. As soon as he couldn't learn anymore from Arlan's DNA, he gave him to VIPER as a token of good will for their partnership. The VIPER scientist carried on where Teleios stopped and used Arlan for even more experiments and testing. And again, after they were done, they sold Arlan to another mad scientist, Dr. Philippe Moreu this time.

This circle went on and on, Arlan being sold, bargained and stolen from scientist to scientist. Over the course of over 15 years, Arlan served as a test subject for almost every experimental treatment and supersoldier project in existance. He has been injected with Cyberline, exposed to Radium X, received Draysha treatment and much, much more. His body absorbed all these serums and treatments and granted him super-strength and almost supernatural speed, agility and reflexes. One night he broke free from the most recent lab.

His body was absolute perfection, but his mind had been broken under the constant experiments long time ago. Viewing himself as the pinnacle of humanity and prophet of a new age, he named himself Genesis Zero and went on to reshape the world in his image...

2. Crossroads

Living in the shadow of your family is never easy. It's even less easy if your family is a coven of backstabbing and conspirating mages. Kaspar von Schneider, born into this old and wealthy German family is the youngest descendant of a line of black mages and necromancers which goes back to Heinrich Faust himself. To say that his childhood was unhappy, wouldn't be quite right. He had everything he wanted, but it came at a price: Not only did his father pit him against his siblings at every occasion to determine who would lead the family one day, the fact that he simpy was not as talented at summoning the undead, curse innocent people and creating all kinds of magic potion drove his father to madness. His interests were more in partying, spending the family fortune on frivolities and enjoying every luxury of life.

Of course his siblings also noticed Kaspar's lack of talent for everything the family stood for. When he turned 18 - the traditional age in which members of the von Schneider clan get officialy introduced into the coven - his siblings realized an elaborate plot to get him exiled out of the family. They wanted to eliminate him as competition for the lead and his father was happy to have his talentless offspring out of the way.

So he was exiled from the ranks of the von Schneiders, left to fend for himself. Unfortunately Kaspar did inherit something from his family: Pride and arrogance. He swore revenge on his family for this kind of treatment and started to travel the world, searching for every kind of magic which could help him get his revenge and show his worth to his family. He studied the Book of the Dead with old eremits in Egypt, walked the Dream with the shamans in Australia, meditated with Buddhist monks and learned from voodoo priests in Haiti.

Now, many years later he has returned on the stage. Kaspar von Schneider, the mage who has the Necronomicon next to pile of Playboy issues has returned as Crossroads, the master of the afterlife to show his family and everyone in the world his superiority and meet a lot of chicks on the way.

3. Captain Blitz

Capt. Maynard Vincent Alexander Blitz, the terror of the seven skies! Coming from a long line of pirates, bandits and other ne'er-do-wells, Maynard Blitz decided to take the the 'family business' to new heights. The time of pirates seemed to be gone for long and the 'new pirates' cruising the seas were nothing more than worthless thugs in Blitz's eyes. He needed something new... Using the vast family fortune to build a giant flying fortress, Blitz took to the skies as the world's most dreaded air pirate. He and his crew were feared and admired at the same time, for their ruthlessness as well as their grandeur. Blitz considered himself as the king of the skies. And with the skies conquered, how could the world not be at his feet?

But it was not enough for him. Even though his high-tech flying fortress allowed him to come and go, plunder and pillage at his will, he felt that the world still did not show him enough respect. He was the king of the skies! When one UNTIL spy plane stumbled upon his flying fortress by chance and dared to attack it, Blitz couldn't take it no more. He ruled over the skies and the world would feel it now! Stealing the appropriate technology and kidnapping the right scientists from all over the world, Blitz started to build a weather-contol machine to finally enforce his will over the skies as it should be!

When the machine was finally operational and the hour of his triumph should come, superheros attacked his air fortress and foiled his plans. In the battle between the heros and his crew, his flying fortress was destroyed, just like his weather-control machine and he himself was thrown into the reactor core of said machine. He should have died, but he didn't. He emerged from the wreckage of his flying fortress, changed. Wind, thunder, snow, rain, all at his command!

Now he truly was the king of the skies and ready to prove it to the world! He 'worked' long to build a new air fortress, various gadgets to augment his powers and to form a crew of the most ruthless individuals he could find. 'Project: Hail to the King!' could start...

4. Eraser

Warren Kethlyn is a name almost no superhero knows these days, even though they have every reason to loathe it just as much as any supervillain. He was a talented weapons designer for ARGENT and responsible for the development of the ARGENT Combat Grenade MK. II, used by every combat engineer of the company today. The board of directors praised him for his design back then and piled reward over reward onto him for the development of this devastating new weapon. Unfortunately for Warren, he had something unusual in the ranks of ARGENT: A conscience. He saw the pain and suffering his new invention brought into the world and begged the board of directors to stop the production of his grenades and destroy the blueprints.

The board of directors was less than happy. At first they simply buried Warren in paperwork regarding his wish, but when they saw his determination in stopping his invention, they arranged a little accident for him. His house, family, his friends and finally himself bloew up in terrible explosions. The board of directors found it quite ironic. But Warren Kethlyn did not die. At least his body didn't. Driven insane from the loss of everything he held dear, he somehow managed to carry his almost dead body out of the ruins of his house and into the night... After this incident, his trail blurs for a few years.

Recently a man has appeared. A man equipped with modern cybernetics, all kinds of explosives, grenades and bombs, modern gadgets and a burning hatred for the whole world. A man who will sell his insanity, his desire to see the world blown up and his sills at making it happen to the highest bidder, no questions asked. A man who got his codename from the fact that nothing more than a few particles of dust remain of his enemies when he is done with them. A man called Eraser.

...so there they are. The 5 members of this yet unnamed supervillain team.

Wait, 5? Yes, 5. Here's the part where I need help. I'm stuck at designing a fitting costume for the last member and I want YOUR help for it!

So here is number 5: Night Raid

Marika Humboldt's life was a mess. And it had looked so good until recently: She was young, beautiful and she had this totally cool job as a 'waitress' at a totally exclusive club in Vibora Bay. Then she met Jack. He was so handsome, so classy, so intelligent so... perfect. He was also a vampire and a high-ranking member of the vampire gang New Shadows. When she carelessly allowed him to turn her into a vampire too, she didn't realize how it would be for her. She missed her human life so much it almost hurt. She refused to drink blood, she she rejected her vampiric powers and tried to be as human as possible. One night she stumbled upon a baby someone had left in the streets of Vibora Bay. The parents were nowhere to be found, so Marika took the child home with her. It reminded her of her old life, it was so cute, so full of life and it felt so right to care for it.

Jack Frederickson, her boyfriend was not really happy about it, but allowed her to keep the child. Maybe it would keep her attention away from her condition and help her accept her new life better. All in all he did not care and ignored the baby at any chance. So the child - Marika named it Lawrence after her grandfather - grew up among vampires. It was not a happy childhood, not only because the only thing which kept the vampires from draining the boy was the word of Jack. Lawrence was shunned, ignored and ridiculed for being human at every occasion. The only one which showed him a bit of kindness was Marika and even she grew less and less human as the years went by. Somehow the boy managed to live among the clan of vampires though and pretty soon it became apparent that Lawrence was a scientific genius, no matter if it was technology, biology or any other subject. He built his first inventions at the age of 10 and many of them helped the vampires in various ways.

Disaster struck when a vampire hunter killed Marika and Jack. Lawrence was in his early 20s and now nothing protected him anymore. The New Shadows didn't kill him. To thank him for his helpful gadgets they just exiled him. Lawrence was furious. All he wanted was to be accepted or finally be a vampire. But if the world wanted to be hard on him, he'd be hard on the world. Using his inventions for various little crimes, he amassed enough wealth to begin his work on his own tranformation. He'd be the ultimate vampire, completely without use of magic. Using his scientific skills he modified his body to a vampire-like appearance and built himself various gadgets to emulate vampiric powers.

Naming himself Night Raid, he went out into the world to complete his transformation and be the ultimate vampire. Many people, vampires and superheros regard him as a joke, until they meet fangs reinforced with Questionite and biologically enhanced swarms of bomb-carrying bats...

So, there it is. I need help with a fitting costume for Night Raid. BTW, critique on the backstories and the other villains are also appreciated. :)
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