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[hider=Charon, Lord of the Dead][b]NAME:[/b] Charon 
[b]AGE:[/b] 45 
[b]GENDER:[/b] Male 

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[b]APPEARANCE:[/b] Charon is a man standing at 6’5” and weighing around 120 lbs. He is severely underweight, his bones showing through his skin. He is sickly pale, almost white as a sheet despite being of Mexican heritage. He is obviously severely malnourished, yet he never acts hungry. Charon is bald, and his entire head is painted to look like a white sugar skull, with red accents, face paint that makes his mouth appear like that of a skull’s. In Mexican fashion, the skull is decorated with red flowers, and there are black rings outlined in red around the eyes. He wears contacts that make his irises appear to be red. Clothing-wise, Charon wears a pair of black trousers, a black dress shirt, a black tie, and a long black leather trench coat which trails down to halfway down his calves. This trench coat is buttoned up all the way up to the collar, which hugs his neck like a priest’s collar. He also wears a pair of black boots styled to look like dress shoes. Obviously, everything which Charon wears is black, and everything is fully buttoned-up even when it’s incredibly hot. Charon never seems to feel hot, however, and he does not sweat (visibly, at least). 

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[b]PERSONALITY:[/b] Crazy, merciless, somber, Charon is a manifestation of Death itself. He is a registered psychopath, completely without remorse of any kind and is viciously sadistic, carving the faces of his victims to look like a smiling skull. He’s nuts, but not in the maniacal run-through-the-streets-screaming kind of way. Charon is more like Hannibal Lecter, viciously polite and courteous until he gets a chance to kill. He often cradles those whom he murders as they die and explains to them exactly what is happening to them, adding to the creep-factor. He has at least mild schizophrenia as well, and can often be heard having conversations under his breath with nobody. He is viciously intelligent as well, with a master’s degree in mortuary science. 

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[b]POWER(S)/CUSTOM(S):[/b] Entropy manipulation. Basically, Charon makes shit break. He has the ability to cause things to become less-ordered, essentially corroding and disintegrating whatever he attacks. A human body hit by Charon’s blast will show quick evidence of rapid decomposition, and the living target will die of organ failure quickly if they don’t die of shock from watching themselves decompose. Death comes to a living target of Charon within thirty seconds, and there is no cure. They just fall apart and die. Of course, you’re not fighting Charon with men. You’re fighting him with machines. Machines have a different reaction to the blast. Often they show signs of corrosion and rust, and prolonged exposure causes internal components to corrode and break. In the case of armor, Charon often exploits the weak points in armors, and can cause cracks in large metal sheets. Charon is also good at exploiting weaknesses in structures, and can easily bring floors or older buildings crumbling down (just before Exodus, he actually brought the Statue of Liberty crumbling down, killing dozens of people). His powers can be either discharged through touch, or through a unidirectional beam of rippling energy (appears like a beam of shimmering air). Physical contact is significantly stronger than the beam is. When Charon uses his powers, black and purple sparks shoot from whatever the power touches. Charon has become so good at using his powers that he can actually create force fields of it, protecting himself from physical attacks. Charon’s entropy powers have also made himself resistent to the effects of entropy. He does not age, and since his body does not sacrifice heat to entropy, he rarely needs to eat or sleep. His body is also kept cool at all times due to this (thus why he never sweats or feels hot). Charon is also immune to disease. He will never die of natural causes. Ever. Charon also has a very high pain threshold. He is by no means immune to damage, but he can take beatings that other people wouldn’t be able to take and not feel pain. 

 Oh, and as an extra measure, Charon carries with him a foot-long dagger (sheathed on the left side of his coat), and a MAC-10 machine pistol (which is kept in a holster on the right side of his coat). 

Now for weaknesses. Charon’s powers firstly don’t work on gases, liquids, or gels. Amorphous robots are immune to his powers (not that there will be many of those). Secondly, Charon’s powers are weakened by larger surface areas. Spreading out his blast weakens it. This is why Charon can practically disintegrate small things like bullets and small rockets effortlessly, but can’t just disintegrate a whole robot. The larger an object and the more surface area an object has, the less-powerful his effects become. Robots with large surface areas and self-healing polymers will find that Charon’s blasts are weakened to the point that they can put themselves back together just as fast as they are damaged. Charon’s powers cannot shoot through objects (though if he touches things they can travel along the object to things touching it like electricity can) and his powers are also pretty much useless against rocks (but not metals). Charon’s high pain threshold also makes him a bit reckless, and his overconfidence combined with this often causes him to make foolish tactical errors which put him in jeopardy. Charon’s powers also don’t work on crystals like diamond. 



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[b]HISTORY:[/b] Rafael Menendez was born in Mexico City. From a young age, it was obvious that the boy was quite different from others. So antisocial and, quite frankly, violent was he that he had to be taken out of classes and homeschooled through high school. His only friend growing up was his older brother, who acted more like a father to him than anyone else. Rafael discovered his powers at age fifteen, when his brother was hit by a car, which promptly kept going. The vehicle was found lying on its top in the middle of the road, all four tires dry-rotted and the body a grizzly mess. It was never able to be traced back to Charon himself, but those who knew him suddenly became quite wary. His brother, meanwhile, died a few weeks later due to poor medical care. The family was devastated, but Rafael didn’t seem to care much on the outside. On the inside, however, he was forever changed. 

Though Rafael had no people skills, he was very intelligent, often teaching himself, and so he wound up attending college in America on a full scholarship. He received a degree in biology and then a masters in mortuary science, hoping to be a mortician. His family wanted him to raise enough for them to come to America too, but when he thought about it, he didn’t really care about his family. They never heard from him again. 

It was the year after he started working at a morgue in Pittsburgh that he committed his first murder. People knew that there was something not right about Rafael, and many of his co-workers suggested that he go to see a psychiatrist. Rafael wanted no part of it, and he worked hard to conceal his differences. Often he would be seen having conversations with no one, and he talked to himself constantly. When confronted about it, he would often react violently, once punching a co-worker in the face for interrupting him rudely. Finally, this got to the point where Rafael was laid off until he got mental help. His boss even offered to take him to therapy and pay for half of it. 

Rafael’s boss (well, what was left of him) was found three days later in an empty cold chamber at the morgue. It was easy to trace it back to Rafael; he wasn’t as experienced with killing as of yet, and so he was quickly found and arrested. he went quietly and pleaded guilty for reasons of insanity in court. He was taken to an asylum in Baltimore, one which specialized in mentally-ill metahumans. He stayed there for a few months, until one day when his doctors found the lock on his door completely rusted out. Rafael fled the city and ended up in Chicago. He assumed a new identity and attempted to take up another job at a morgue using papers falsely printed for him by some professional criminals. He stayed there for about six months. Then someone tried to get him help again. This time, it was a girl by the name of Melissa who worked with him. He invited her over for dinner, and then, this time sure that he kept her body free of DNA, killed her, carved her face, and tossed her in the Chicago River. 

Not long after her murder, Rafael was walking down an alley when two goons ambushed him. Using his powers, he killed both of them and tossed their corpses in a dumpster. It turned out that the two men worked for the mob, and that a kingpin in Chicago had his eyes on Rafael. He approached Rafael later that night and offered him an incredibly high-paying job to be a hitman. Rafael accepted, and soon added a string of ridiculous murders to his track record. He was famous for breaking into even the most impenetrable rooms, once even breaking into a prison to carry out a hit by rusting the doors open. During this time, he was known as The Angel of Death, and would often wear an angelic mask stained with blood to hide his identity. He became so well-known that a vigilante known as The Watcher came after him. The Watcher defeated Rafael and he was locked back up in the asylum. This time escape was more difficult, but with the help of the mob he was able to break out. A few days later, Rafael’s body was found floating in the Chicago River. He was confirmed dead by police and the search ended. 

Buuuut they were tricked. Rafael had long since infiltrated morgues around Chicago, forming a network known as the Mourners. Most Mourners were insane like Rafael, and saw him as some kind of savior who would one day free them from their disease. Rafael had always been as paranoid as he was intelligent, and so he made a plan to fake his own death. He shaved his head and made it into a wig, which was sewn into the head of a corpse who happened to look very similar to him. He had the mob 3D print a skin graft of a hand with his fingerprints, and these were swapped for the cadaver’s hands. He had also been collecting his own blood, taking out samples a pint at a time until, over the course of a few months, he had an entire body’s worth of extra blood. He drained the cadaver of blood and injected his own. Then he shot the body several times in the chest and dropped it into the water. This was when Rafael took up his head paint and became known forever as Charon, Lord of the Dead. 

Charon quit the mob and dedicated his efforts to the Mourners, who had become quite an expansive organization that included several metahumans. When the mob didn’t appreciate his leaving to make a rival organization, the Mourners came after them. All of the mob’s old metahuman hitmen worked for Charon now, and so they hardly had a chance. The fighting caused widespread damage in Chicago, and once more The Watcher was on the case, this time working with police to take down the Mourners. 

For years, The Watcher and Charon were the worst of enemies. They had a Batman and Joker kind of dichotomy, neither strong enough to truly take the other out. There were wins and losses spread out across the midwest and east coast, and eventually The Watcher, combined with a unit of the FBI known as KINGFISHER, were able to defeat Charon and topple the Mourners. 

Then Exodus happened. Charon broke out of prison (this time solely with outside help since his prison was made of stone and quartz crystal) three days before Exodus and travelled to New York, where he celebrated the fall of humanity by destroying the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the Chrysler Building. Now that organized governments were no more, Charon was free to destroy as he pleased. He met up with others, and began to form a new organization of the most violent and dangerous metahumans. Serial killers, arsons, revolutionaries, outlaws, all of them flocked to Charon’s side. And he welcomed them. Together, several metas united and defeated The Watcher and what was left of KINGFISHER, destroying Richmond, Virginia in the process. The Watcher was killed, and Charon threw a party where he and his men watched his body burn. They celebrated the next day by destroying the campus of Georgetown University and crumbling the Washington Monument. They became known all over as The Coroners, the most dangerous of metahuman outlaws. Normally they kept to themselves, occasionally destroying do-gooders who threatened them and trafficking drugs into the new societies being built. They co-existed with the meta societies, not messing with them in exchange for being left alone to their own devices. Charon and his team of villains now roam the countrysides primarily, wreaking havoc and having fun being bad. 

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[b]OTHER:[/b] [hider=Charon’s theme: Hysteria by Muse][youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYWklAV_cwQ[/youtube][/hider] [/hider]


Hehehehe. Nobody puts the FUN in FUNeral like Charon. 
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He is, fucking, accepted.