[hider=Solomon Grundy WIP] [center]Basic Information ========= Superhero/villain Name: Solomon Grundy Civilian Name: Cyrus Gould Origin city/Planet: Hub City Hometown: Hub City Sex: Male Race: Now kind of a pale grey color, Zombie. His former identity was Irish-American. Height: 9'0" Weight: 400 lbs Age: Technically a newborn, his previous life was in his mid-thirties -------- Costumed Appearance: Civilian Appearance: Kind of impossible for him to have one. If he needs to be unknown or unseen he just stays away from the public. Icon: None Costumed Personality: Cyrus wanted to be an author or a professor of literature of all things before the family business got to him, and it shows. When he's not in a confused, newly reborn state he's surprisingly eloquent and fond of quoting Milton and both Percy and Mary Shelley among others in order to make his points and reflect on his new state of being. Part of him had always hated the mobster lifestyle he was caught up in, and between that and the legion of spirits animating him he's bent on reforming the criminal underworld of Hub City through force, fear, and any other means at his disposal. He's far from even an anti-heroic figure however, as he still intends to stay a behind-the-scenes criminal and control crime in Hub and force it to adhere to his standards rather than stop it at all. Civilian Personality: No difference from his costumed one. Super abilities: -Skills: -Powers: [b]Immense Super Strength[/b]- The combination of Grundy's massive zombie body and the cursed magics and vengeful spirits that animate him means he's near-immeasurably physically strong, capable of going toe-to-toe with Kryptonians and similar beings in terms of raw muscle power. [b]Magically Enhanced Durability-[/b] Solomon Grundy is incredibly physically durable, capable of withstanding blows of strength equivalent to his own without major damage as well as surviving similarly powerful attacks. He has no supernatural method of grounding himself however and if he fails to ground himself he can be moved by sufficient force. [b]Magically Induced Regeneration-[/b] On top of his already frightening durability, Solomon Grundy is capable of regenerating from wounds he does receive with surprising speed as the magic which animates him restores his form. He can reattach any part of himself that's severed in seconds, though if a limb is completely destroyed it takes several hours to regrow, and destruction of his head will kill him. [b]Undead Physiology-[/b] As an undead revenant, Grundy has no vital processes, nor does he require them to exist. Functionally this means he doesn't breathe, sleep, eat, get tired, require any of the blood or organ function of a normal human being, or ordinarily register pain as more than a mild annoyance. [b]Resurrective Immortality-[/b] If Solomon Grundy is killed, he will invariably rise again on the next Monday to occur in the same location as his first resurrection. Grundy himself has no idea as to why he specifically resurrects on Mondays, but it seems to be an immutable law of his existence -Gadgets: -Weapons: Civilian Occupation: None. Being dead makes it hard to hold down a job. Weaknesses [b]Fire-[/b] Perhaps because of its purifying associations, fire is able to completely bypass Grundy's enhanced durability and regeneration abilities, and damage from fire causes Grundy actual pain. While he doesn't burn any better or worse than you'd expect from a nine foot tall corpse and it doesn't stop him from being resurrected, it's still the surest way to kill Grundy. [b]Necromancy-[/b] Because Grundy himself is powered by necromancy, a powerful enough necromancer might be able to control him or banish the spirits that animate his body. The powerful curse that tethers Grundy to this world will likely eventually force him to return at some point, however. [b]Nth Metal-[/b]As a being animated almost entirely by magic, Nth Metal is highly disruptive to Grundy and can bypass all of his defenses or shut his body down with prolonged exposure. Biography--------- Character History/Origin: Cyrus Gould was the third and youngest son of a prominent Irish American mob boss in Hub City. However, Cyrus always wanted more out of life than petty crime could provide him and dreamed of becoming an author, or maybe a professor of literature, studying hard every day and trying his best to steer clear of his father's criminal empire. Eventually he achieved the first step towards dream of getting into a good college and majoring in English. Unfortunately for him, after about a year away from home Cyrus's father was assassinated by a rival mob and Cyrus was pulled out of school to help in a brewing gang war between Hub City's increasingly small but violent Irish mobs. He took to the violence of clandestine war reluctantly but well in the years that followed, eventually overcoming the deaths of both of his older brothers and responding with a series of reprisals vicious enough to bring the rest of the survivors to a negotiating table. The Gould family became the premiere Irish Mob organization in Hub for some time, but those Cyrus had forced into submission never forgot the losses he inflicted on them. Eventually, a conspiracy was formed to assassinate him. At a meeting allegedly held to discuss drug distribution strategies Cyrus was strangled with a garrote, severely beaten, shot twice in the head and dumped into the river with a length of chain double-wrapped around his body to sink him down to the riverbed. After that the fine gentlemen who did the killing considered their business concluded and went back to running their individual gangs. Cyrus Gould was supposed to be a footnote in the history of crime in Hub City, an interesting but brief and inconsequential uniting force for an often fractious branch of that city's criminal underworld. Unfortunately for criminals and law abiding citizens of Hub City alike, in the year 2020 the world was changing and those changes brought consequence. With the return of magic, ghostly apparitions that would normally lack the strength to affect the mortal world are once again free to wreak havoc. Being a place of endless violence, Hub City has more than its fair share of poltergeists remnants of dead gangsters who despised the life of violence they lead. The combined legion of otherworldly mafiosi, mobsters, gangsters and criminals laid a deadly curse on the world that corrupted and destroyed them. One of their own powered by their spectral energies and otherwise impotent fury, would rise from the dead and reshape the world to force the mortal underworld into something better, something they would approve. Out of this army of the damned, Cyrus Gold proved the most strong-willed and following his death, one of the most motivated. Now armed with a powerful new body formed from the ectoplasm of a horde of ghosts and fueled by their hatred and undead energy, he prepares to rise from the dead and bring order to the Hub City underworld. Optional information ---------- Nemesis: Allies: Team: [/center] [/hider]