[center][h1][color=BFEFFF][b]Aquaman[/b][/color][/h1][color=BFEFFF]42[color=BFEFFF] ♦[/color] Arthur Curry [color=BFEFFF]♦[/color] Chaotic Good

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[sub][b]“Now it's your king's turn to hunt.”[/b][/sub][/color][/center]

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[color=BFEFFF]Son of Land and Sea ▲ 1974-1985[/color]
[color=darkgray][indent][b]Arthur Curry[/b] is the product of a chance encounter between two people from entirely different worlds. [b]Philip Curry[/b], a world famous marine biologist and [b]Atlanna[/b] Queen of Atlantis. Atlanna had fled from the grasp of her husband [b]King Trevis[/b], the current ruler of Atlantis. Philip found Atlanna walking up on a beach in the middle of the harsh Maine winter. So he brought her back to his home to help her get warm and as days became weeks the pair ended up falling in love. The product of their love was Arthur, a child of land and sea. Half Atlantean and Half Human. Soon after though when the boy was still young, King Trevis sent out forces to the surface world to 'rescue' his wife and bring her back to him. Atlanna urged her husband to take their young son flee  for if they found Arthur they surely would of killed him.

So Philip bundled up his young son and together they fled as Atlanna was dragged back to her king. When Arthur was older his father would tell him that his mother died when he was young of illness, in an effort to protect his son from the same monsters that had taken his mother. Thanks to Philip's work, as a young boy Arthur never stayed in one place for too long, he spent most of his youth at sea on his father's research vessel named the Atlanna in memory of the Queen he once loved. Together the two sailed across the world. When he was not working Philip home schooled his son in many subjects: math, the sciences, English, et cetra. In short it was a good life if not a conventional one and by the time the boy was ten he had already seen more of the world than most see in a lifetime.

Of course even as the boy was young his abilities began to show through, his Atlantean blood giving him  strength, speed and endurance far beyond levels of Olympic athletes let alone other boys of his age. His father only began to realize the true extent of the boy's abilities when he slipped off of their boat in shark infested waters off the coast of Papua New Guinea; rather then kill the boy, the sharks actually helped push the boy back up to the surface and to his father's boat. Finally coming to understand that he couldn't go around pretending that his son was just a normal boy like everyone else, he made it his life goal to help train his son and help him come into mastery of his powers.

Fate would have different plans of course. 

They got caught in a terrible storm. The waves streching taller than buildings came crashing down upon their little research vessels and the very water gnashed and whipped around them. The Atlanna would end up in pieces by the end of it. As he tried to reach his father struggling to stay afloat in the rough water, floating debris carried by a wave hit young Arthur. Knocked out by the force of the blow, his lifeless body drifted slowly down into the ocean depths. Philip Curry would die during that storm and when the coastguard found the wreckage they assumed his young son had perished as well.[/indent][/color]

[color=BFEFFF]Lost ▲ 1985 - 1994[/color]
[color=darkgray][indent]Arthur evidently would end up being saved by a pod of dolphins and there they would give him his second name [b]Swimmer[/b]. Arthur would spend his pre-teen years with the dolphins and in return the dolphins taught him the ways of the world below the surface. At first the Dolphins rightfully thought him as a lost Atlantean but when Arthur proved to have no knowledge of Atlantis or the people that dwelt their, they realized they had stumbled upon something much different. 

The world first found out about Arthur after one of the dolphins was killed by illegal fisherman off the coast of Japan. In rage and anger, Arthur hunted after the ship and when he found it assaulted the fisherman aboard easily beating them back and destroying their equipment, threatening to take their lives if they harmed the creatures of the sea again. After several other events such as that, the press caught on and soon headlines were appearing talking of the mysterious [b]Aquaman[/b] fighting back against illegal fisherman. And just like that Arthur gained his third name.

He could feel the disturbances in the ocean and from what he could gather form the other creatures was that something was happening out in the sea. The waters had become dark and lifeless for miles, and no matter where Arthur went he found dead creatures. Eventually he would find the culprit of these crimes, a man who would become know as [b]Black Manta[/b]. Manta was Arthur's first real taste of a so called supervillan, a man who grew to come to hate the sea after events he could not control in his childhood. So in return he wanted to make all the creatures within suffer.The two would engage in combat and Arthur nearly perished but the young man was able to outwit Black Manta and in the process make a life long foe.

Soon afterward Arthur began having dreams of a beautiful women telling him to go and save Atlantis...[/indent][/color]

[color=BFEFFF]Birthright ▲ 1994 - 1998[/color]
[color=darkgray][indent]Upon arriving at the city, he discovered that King Trevis had gone mad and put all of Atlantis underneath his totalitarian regime. He kept his Queen tucked inside the palace and the people were kept in check only by fear of death.  Arthur sneaked his way into the palace where he discovered that the woman haunting his dreams was none other than his own mother Atlanna.

Atlanna would tell him the true story of his heritage, and give him a new task to free Atlantis from the grasp of King Trevis. And so that was how Arthur ended up leading a rebellion against the king. It was during this period that Arthur met [b]Orm Marius[/b]. Orm was the son of Atlanna and King Trevis borne after the Queen was dragged back to Atlantis after her small getaway with Philip Curry. Hated by his father for being weak and hated by his mother for being a child that she was forced to bear, Orm had always felt like an outsider and an outcast. Seeing his chance to change his position in life he allied with his new half-brother to fight against his own father.
 deep into parts of the ocean long since abandoned to find the tomb of [b]Atlan[/b], ruler of Atlantis once lo
Together the pair traveledng ago and  the one who eventually brought it sinking beneath the sea. It was in this ruin that they found the lost Trident of Neptune, once the symbol of the royalty of Atlantis and an object of great power. With the power of the Trident at his hand Arthur was able to rally an army to his cause from those oppressed by King Trevis. While the war was costly for both sides, in the end due to Arthur's might and Orm's tactical brilliance they were able to dethrone King Trevis. The king dying by the hands of his own son. who 

Among the casualties of the war were Atlanna. The good queen was killed in the final siege of the royal palace, sacrificing herself to save her sons. Atlantis finally free from the rule of Trevis made the one that had freed them their king and Arthur Curry received his fourth and final name that day, Orin King of Atlantis taking the name of one of the first great kings of Atlantis. This fact angered Orm greatly as the young man believed that he as the 'rightful heir' should of taken the throne, but he kept his anger to himself and in return from his service his half-brother even made him the High General of Atlantis.[/indent][/color]

[color=BFEFFF]Love ▲ 1998-1999[/color]
[color=darkgray][indent]Atlantis was not the only kingdom to survive the wrath of Atlan, two others did and in time Orin would come to know the first of those [b]Xebel[/b]. The Xeblians much like those of Atlantis and assumed they were the only ones to survive the great sinking by Atlan. They were a peaceful and prosperous people compared to the more warlike and aggressive Atlanteans. In a bid to secure his own power, a lesser noble known as [b]Leron[/b] lead a revolt and forced the then[b] Queen Mera[/b] into exile. Mera traveled the oceans alone until she heard talk of the city of Atlantis. Desperate the young queen made her way to Atlantis chased all the way by Leron's forces. Eventually she would be saved from the clutches of death by none other than Orin himself.

Orin defeated Leron's thugs and took the injured Mera back to Atlantis. Swayed by her tale Orin along with Orm and several Atlantean soldiers made the dangerous journey back to Xebel. Using some clever tactics and great courage, Orin and company were able to displace Leron and restore Mera's place as Queen. After the fact, Atlantis and Xebel came closer together as the two monarchs believed that their peoples would do better as allies than enemies establishing both political and trade relations. Though eventually the two cities would become unified even further than just by politics.  

A man by the name of [b]Professor Hadley[/b] became fascinated by the old Aquaman tales on the surface. A talented biological engineer, he created a serum which allowed him to gain the powers of the mythical man beneath the waves, essentially becoming Aquaman's doppelganger. Hadley in his extensive research had discovered that Atlantis did exist and soon wanted it for his own. So the Professor ambushed Orin and Mera when they were out on an excursion together and trapped them in his own secrete underwater base, while he went on to pretend to be Orin and take the throne of Atlantis for his own. Together though the King and Queen were able to break free from Hadley's base and stop Hadley before his was able to do any harm. Hadley himself perished when he tried to hold Mera hostage only to have the sharks he tried to call down upon Orin attack him instead.

The incident brought Aquaman and Mera closer together and planted the sparks that would eventually flame  into romance. A year after the incident the two were married and the cities of Xebel and Atlantis were untied as and the kingdom that was shattered long ago seemed to slowly come back together.  
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[color=BFEFFF]Trench Warfare ▲ 1998-2005[/color]
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A third city survived the sinking one forgotten by time, a kingdom which would become known as [b]Trench[/b]. Cast into the darkest depths of the Mariana Trench by the rage of Atlan, they were once people but overtime evolved into something much more monstrous to survive the dark depths. For generations upon end they remained in the darkness following the will of their King and Queen. But then Black Manta found the Scepter of Atlan, the very same scepter that had brought ruin to all of his kingdoms. Upon being touched, the Scepter was activated and the Trench were drawn to it like a magnet. Black Manta controlled an army and with it he set his sights on Orin his old foe.

Orin would come to learn of the threat from a youth by the name of [b]Garth[/b]. Garth was born in a forgotten colony known as Idyllists. The colony of pacifists and builders was entirely wiped out by the Trench lead by Black Manta. Garth was away when the attack happened and manged to avoid the Trench and find his way to Atlantis. Taking Garth underneath his wing to help avenge his people and protect his own, Orin began a great quest to defeat the Trench and save those that he cared about. The Trench devoured all that stood in their wake and in the darkest hours it seemed as if Black Manta would destroy them all.

It was not Orin would saved the day, but young Garth who was pushed aside by the Manta as nothing but a mere boy. Garth saved Orin from being devoured by the Trench by sneaking up upon Black Manta and knocking the Scepter out of his hand. With the Trench now in state of confusion, Orin was able to break free and help Garth take down Black Manta before taking the scepter and leading the Trench back into the depths. Unable to destroy the scepter because of its magic, Orin threw it down into the depths with the people that it controlled hopefully to never be found again.
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[color=BFEFFF]Namor ▲ 2014-2015 [/color]
[color=darkgray][indent]Time passed and life return much to normal with Orin and Mera ruling over a time of peace and prosperity. When trouble approached the city it was fought back by Orin and Garth who had become his prodigy. Yet all the while Orm was at work spinning his plot to take the throne that he deserved. His chance would come with the arrival of a new face in Atlantis. Namor. Namor was a young upstart, much like Orin himself had been sharing the blood of both Atlantis and the surface. Namor's mother an Atlatiean princess and younger sister of Atlanna haaving escaped the grasp of King Trevis much like her older sister and having escaped to the surface where she fell in love with a human man known as Leonard McKenzie. The two were killed though some time later by sleeper agents left on the surface by Trevis to deal with such issues. 

Namor would spend his time alone growing up and get in his own host of adventures and problems and on an occasion was even confused himself for the Aquaman that had been sighted time and time again. Eventually following the rumors and stories of mysterious happenings in the ocean, Namor went out in search of the lost city of Atlantis to find those that had killed his parents and to take revenge. It was here that he met Orm. After telling him of his tale, Orm saw an opportunity. He whispered falsehoods and lies in Namor's ears telling him it was Orin that had sent out the order to kill his parents like he did with his own father, the last good king of Atlantis. And that he ruled the people through brainwashing and fear. He told him of an old prophecy of a true son of Atlantis would come and save them from the yellow king.  

And so Orm secretly began shaping Namor into the tool he would use to usurp his half brother. He presented Namor as his own son and brought him into the royal court. Orin was cautious but accepted the boy into the palace. Namor earned the respect and love of the people of Atlantis for his skills and abilities, becoming a hero of the people. At the height of his popularity with the help of Orm he raised a rebellion against Orin calling himself to be the true King of Atlantis. That Orin himself was weak willed and corrupt, that he shared too much love for the surface world and that he would only lead them to ruin. Many flocked to the young mutant's cause. 
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[color=BFEFFF]War ▲ 2015-2016 [/color]
[color=darkgray][indent]And for what seemed like the fiftieth time, Orin had to defend his throne once again. Namor proved himself to be a tremendous foe though with not just great skill but inherit tactical supremacy. His forces first seized Xebel making it into their own base of operations and conscripting the citizens superior building abilities to create great weapons of war. Orin with his allies including Orm (still pretending to be on his side) brought together their own army and fought against Namor time and time again. While Orin's force was bigger, Namor used guerilla tactics to strike out against his supply lines and severally damage his morale. Deserters became a common occurrence with many of them switching over to Namor's side. 

Eventually Orin's forces were pushed back to the walls of Atlantis were a great siege began listing months. While Namor's forces continued to assault the city the defenders held on with all their might and kept them back. Many lives were lost in the process and the great city was nearly destroyed in the process. Seeing his people suffer and the city he had come to love turned to ruins, Orin knew that he had the war and end it soon. So he did it in a way which he saw could end the bloodshed once and for all So he challenge Namor to single combat to the death, whoever one would be the rightful king. Mera tried to stop him and so did Garth but Orin had already made up his mind and knew what he had to do.

Before he left he gave The Trident of Neptune to Orm to watch over and protect as up to this point his half-brother had seen him through thick and thin. And Orin left the city to meet Namor on the field of battle. The battle was long and bloody with the two would be kings fighting with everything they had. It continued for hours, and the hours turned into days and yet they continued to fight. The survivors on both sides could only watch the horizon in baited breath feeling the earth shake as they saw columns of dust rise in the distance. The two beat each other to near death in the process and in the last moments of the fight Orin had gained the upper hand. He saw victory, he saw peace finally. 

It was then when they were both weakened the Orm struck. Using the power of Neptune's Trident he thought that he had destroyed both of them bringing an entire section of the seafloor down with them. Orm then returned to Atlantis and with his own forces hiding among both Orin and Namor's armies rose up and took control of the defeated city, crowing himself as [b]Ocean Master[/b]. He imprisoned Mera and [b]Arthur Curry, Jr[/b], the couples young child in the royal place dungeons. And with the ocean under his control he soon began to set his sights on the surface world above.
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[color=BFEFFF]Exile ▲ 2016 [/color]
[color=darkgray][indent]Though little did Orm now that the pair had survived his treachery. The pair would wash up ashore on the coast of California, weary and beaten. Namor realized he had been tricked by Orm into believing was filled with rage and anger. Orin was once again a king without his kingdom, separated from his family and those he cared about. Unable to do anything about his half-brother's treachery. Now stuck with Namor wither he liked it or not he had to gather up allies once more, warriors to help him fight Orm who held the power of Neptune in his hand and had an army to do his beck and call.[/indent][/color]




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[*][b]Namor[/b]: Technically cousins, one time enemies and now allies more out of necessity more than anything else. Namor of course blames Orin for everything that has happened and refuse to admit that he was fooled by Orm. Can they get over their differences. Maybe.... Maybe not. This Namor is much younger than the one in the Marvel verse of course probably in his mid to late twenties if anything.
[*][b]Mera[/b]: Aquaman's wife, Queen of Atlantis and mother of his children. A powerful being in her own right. Currently imprisoned in the dungeons of the Royal Palace by Orm.
[*][b]Garth[/b]: The Original Aqualad, a young, bright youth from a doomed colony joined up with Orin to fight the Trench the first time. 
[*][b]Lorena Marquez[/b]: A teenage girl from Monterey Californa, just happened to be on the beach when Orin and Namor washed up.
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[*][b]Orm:[/b] The Ocean Master, Orin's half-brother. Kind of a dick. Currently in Possession of The Trident of Neptune, ruler of Atlantis.
[*][b]Black Manta:[/b] Orin's longest nemesis, holds a hatred towards everything in the sea. Wants nothing more than to watch Orin die.
[*][b]The Trench:[/b] Evil fish man that live in the depths of the ocean, tend to mind themselves but the Scepter of Atlan can be used to command them. The Scepter was cast away by Orin into the depths of the ocean but Orm has sent teams into the furthest reaches to try and find the scepter. 
[*] Many More but Hex is too lazy to list
 
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