Yay more peeps. So here is my little child who will bring you all pain. Meet Plague. [hider=PLAGUE] [u][b]Basic Information[/b][/u] [b]Name:[/b] [INDENT]Darrick Trenton[/INDENT] [b]Nickname/Alias/Etc:[/b] [INDENT]Plague[/INDENT] [b]Gender:[/b] [INDENT]male[/INDENT] [b]Age:[/b] [INDENT]25[/INDENT] [b]Height:[/b] [INDENT]5’10”[/INDENT] [b]Weight:[/b] [INDENT]130 lbs[/INDENT] [b]Home District:[/b] [INDENT]Union Point Hills[/INDENT] [b][u]Appearance[/u][/b] [b]Hair Color:[/b] [INDENT]Bald[/INDENT] [b]Eye Color:[/b] [INDENT]Bright Green[/INDENT] [b]Ethnicity:[/b] [INDENT]Ukrainian/English[/INDENT] [b]Physical Appearance:[/b] [INDENT]Plague looks generally sickly. Tall and extremely thin, Plague looks like someone who spends a lot of time in the hospital. His skin is sickly pale with a touch of yellow, and his skin is stretched so tightly on his torso that his bones show through. His arms and legs are thin and bony as well. He is quite obviously malnourished. There is a large black tattoo of the biohazard flower on Plague’s right shoulder, and a tattoo of a caduceus on the left side of his back. Plague’s skin is almost constantly covered in sweat, and occasionally sickly-looking boils will appear sparsely on his back and sides. Plague’s head is round and bald, with not a strand of hair on it. He has rather large ears and a crooked nose. His teeth are awful; crooked, chipped, and yellowed. His face has a yellowed pallor to it, and there are bags under his eyes. The only intense part of his face are his eyes, which are intense and bloodshot. In every other way, he is pretty much indistinguishable from a zombie. The inefficiency of his respiratory system rivals that of Darth Vader, and Plague is almost constantly heard wheezing. His voice is weak and strained, like it causes him pain to speak. He walks with a narrow gait and his shoulders sagged. [/INDENT] [b]Attire:[/b] [INDENT]Ghetto. Plague generally wears a white wife-beater with a pair of sagging cargo shorts. All of his clothing hangs loosely from his body. He wears a grey painter’s mask on his face (basically a gas mask without the eye protection). The mask contains a microphone and a small amplifier, making Plague’s weak voice sound louder. He can turn the volume of this up and down via a button on the knob on the underside of his mask, allowing him to “yell”. Plague also wears a pair of blue latex gloves on his hands until he goes into battle (when the gloves come off). He carries two vials of Fiend mutagen with him. [/INDENT] [b][u]Personality[/u][/b] [b]Innate & Outward Personality:[/b] [INDENT]Cynical and misanthropic, Plague is not a guy who you’d want at your party. He generally exists in a state of irritation, and acts as if all situations annoy him equally. He prefers to keep to himself as opposed to being with a group, but “antisocial” isn’t quite as accurate as “elitist”. Plague generally believes that he’s better than everyone else in most rooms that he finds himself in. Because he’s a lieutenant of the Fiends (which he does solely because the pay is good), the people who are generally around Plague drive him absolutely crazy. He himself doesn’t take drugs like the others, and so he is the one stuck watching over the crazies as they tear each other apart. Not only that, but Plague is more-or-less the most intelligent Fiend, so intelligent that he generally looks down on those less-intelligent than he as inferior. If he were in an environment more catering to his intellectual needs, he’d probably be a tad less unpleasant. As a leader, Plague is efficient but risk-taking. While Fiends under his command have the highest success rate of completing a task, they also have the highest mortality rate of all Fiends. This is because, quite frankly, Plague doesn’t care if they die or not. Once upon a time he did, but after you watch enough drug-crazed burnouts bite the dust, it becomes much easier to send them to their death. [/INDENT] [b]Hobbies/Interests:[/b] [INDENT]Outside of being a maniacal warlord, Plague’s hobbies include reading, listening to classical music, and occasionally playing video games. Though his home isn’t exactly in the best neighborhood, Plague keeps a fairly large library in his bedroom. He enjoys biographies of famous biologists as well as science fiction novels. He enjoys animals, and has two pet rats named Hershey and Chase. [/INDENT] [b]Skills/Talents:[/b] [INDENT] Not many. Being sick all of your life tends to make you kind of a shut-in. The one thing Plague has going for him is his intelligence. He’s quite smart, and probably knows as much about biology as your average doctor. He is absolutely abysmal at hand-to-hand combat. [/INDENT] [b]Prized Possession:[/b] [INDENT][/INDENT] [b]Quote(s):[/b] [INDENT] “You make me sick.” [/INDENT] [b]History/Bio:[/b] [INDENT]Darrick was born in Baltimore City. From the moment of his birth, he was sick. His mother died shortly after giving birth to him, due unfortunately to some kind of bacterial infection, and his father fell ill with the disease not long later. Due to the fact that Darrick seemed to have some sort of incurable disease, he spent most of his childhood at a children’s hospital, where he was unsuccessfully treated. He nearly died several times after being injected with antibiotics, and when it was discovered that Darrick was allergic to every known antibiotic, attempts to cure him were basically abandoned. Due to his highly-infectious nature, he was often quarantined, and when he would come to school with a surgical mask and gloves on, he didn’t exactly make friends. All through school, he was bullied and beat up. Then at age twelve, somebody went too far. Darrick went to a private middle school, and there was one particular boy named Chuck who simply would not leave Darrick alone. Every day, he would make fun of the poor sickly child, and he pulled the meanest pranks on them. Then one day, the boy took Darrick’s lunch money and attempted to drown him in a fountain. As Darrick struggled to get away, a giant bacteriophage appeared and attacked Chuck, tearing his face up. The boy was hospitalized with a bad case of a little-known bacterial disease and died. Darrick’s family moved to Black Fall and was homeschooled for two years. It was then that he was offered admission to Sparrowdale Academy in Nebraska. At Sparrowdale, Darrick felt more at home than he did anywhere else. Here, people understood the pain that his power gave him and helped to make it better. Unfortunately, Sparrowdale Academy was a bit of a failure, and the school was abandoned with a few people still inside. Darrick was one of them, and while he escaped the monsters haunting the school, some of his friends did not (for the record, this was part of the plot of an old rp Allen and I were in on another site). Plague had finished high school before the disaster, though, so he finished his education at Academy 16 in Virginia. Here, he received a BS in Biology, hoping to make it into medical school and become an infectious disease specialist. Unfortunately, that’s when his accident happened. It happened that one night, Darrick was at a party and got completely trashed. He somehow got out of the apartment and began to wander the halls, drunk out of his mind. His gloves had gotten taken off, and as he walked everything he touched got a little coating of disease on them. He walked to a courtyard, where a professor saw him and attempted to take him to the dean of discipline. Drunk Darrick didn’t appreciate that, and after a bit of a tussle, he summoned several phages, who attacked the professor. The professor in question died a week later of said bacterial illness, and twelve other people in the dorms were infected. Two died. Darrick got away and was hunted down by authorities for months. He eventually wound up in Verthaven, where, with nowhere to go, he joined the Fiends. His intelligence and power quickly made him a force to be reckoned with, and he became one of the six lieutenants. [/INDENT] [u][b]Relationships[/b][/u] [b]Family:[/b] [INDENT]Daniel Trenton: father Chiara Trenton: Mother (deceased) Martha Trenton: Step-Mother : half-brother. [/INDENT] [b]Dynamics:[/b] [indent][b][/b] | [b][/b] | [b][/b] | [i]""[/i] |[/indent] [b][u]Abilities[/u][/b] [b]Power Class:[/b] [INDENT]Super-System Biological[/INDENT] [b]Power:[/b] [INDENT][i]Disease manipulation[/i] Plague is a carrier of a rare and deadly bacterial disease. He was born with it, and it permeates every part of his body, from his breath to his blood to his skin. Simply touching Plague gives you a mild chance of becoming ill (if you don’t sanitize and shit). The disease has the following effects: -nasal congestion -malaise (generally feeling really shitty) -vertigo -nausea -vomiting -fever -diarrhea -headaches -severe back pain -abdominal pain -Acute respiratory distress -Difficulty breathing -Appearance of small, painful boils on the skin which make the skin feel as if it is burning This disease is bacterial, and can be extremely deadly if not properly treated. While Plague’s breath and contact will spread the disease, he has a secondary (and much more dangerous) mode of infection; the phages. Plague can synthesize giant bacteriophages, about 18-inches tall. For those who don’t know, a bacteriophage is a virus which generally looks like [url=http://www.3dscience.com/img/Products/3D_Models/Biology/Viral/t4-bacteriophage_icon.jpg]this[/url]. The phages have the capability to fly through unknown means, and obey only Plague. They are composed primarily of calcium and iron, with a glasslike head. When attacking a target, the phages will slash with their claw-like appendages and attempt to get a strong hold onto a target’s body. Once they get a grip, the phages use a sharp, needle-like appendage which extends from their base to inject a concentrated dose of the disease into a target. The phages’ disease is much more dangerous than Plague’s touch is, as the combination of the sheer dosage and special enzymes present make the disease act much faster. While a victim of Plague’s touch will fall ill in maybe twenty-four hours, victims of the phages feel the effects in minutes. [/INDENT] [b]Limits:[/b] [INDENT]Plague can only make up to eight phages at one time, only up to two at a time, and making them takes up a lot of energy. The phages themselves are fairly frail, and can be easily killed with a hard enough blow to the capsid (head) or a bullet. If a phages’ capsid is broken, the infected fluid on the inside of it escapes quickly and the phage becomes incapable of infecting targets. [/INDENT] [b]Weaknesses/Drawbacks:[/b] [INDENT]Plague is sick. While he’s not as bad-off as his victims, Plague has a dose of his own disease inside of him, and it makes it so that he is constantly sick. He is allergic to every known antibiotic and antiseptics burn his skin. While eating a healthy diet can help Plague lessen his symptoms, he’s never deprived of them, and he lives his life with a fever, general feeling of sickness, and bad respiratory problems. Plague has essentially no endurance whatsoever, is terrible in hand-to-hand combat, and is very frail due to his sickliness. Plague’s bones are rather brittle since he was so sick during his development, and so if someone is able to get up close with him, they can easily take him down in a few punches. As far as the disease itself goes, it is treatable. As it is a bacterial infection, it can be treated and cured using antibiotics. It is a rather vicious disease and is immune to a few antibiotics (ampicillin and amoxicillin), but if given proper medical care the death rate is relatively low. [/INDENT] [b][u]Other:[/u][/b] [INDENT] [/INDENT] [b][u]Sample Post:[/u][/b] [INDENT]Optional[/INDENT] [/hider]