OK here we go. [hider=Lucifuge] [b]Full Name:[/b] Cerasus Orion [b]Nicknames/Aliases:[/b] Some obscure religious and occult texts allege of a figure known as the "Seventh Son," "Death-Master," or "Lucifuge." Not knowing about any of this Cerasus often goes by "Ryan" in casual company. [b]Age:[/b] Cerasus has the physical form of a 17 year old boy. [b]Gender:[/b] See above. [b]Division:[/b] Suavity [b]Powers:[/b] Cerasus is an inhuman creature of the night, infused with supernatural power. While he may have been human at one point, he is now an undead abomination imbued with blackest magic. Being among the living dead, his body has no needs and does not age, as long as he fuels himself with fresh human blood, or other vital essences. He is also infused with unearthly power, granting him strength, speed, and regenerative ability far beyond that of a human being. Cerasus' entire body is capable of transformation, as he can can reshape his anatomy into many shocking and disturbing biological forms, least suspicious among them being various creatures of the night, such as wolves, bats, or swarms of vermin. His touch can reshape living (or unliving) bone and tissue like a sculptor, and he can manipulate blood with the power of his mind. Among his other mental powers are the ability to wield telekinetic force, to enthrall humans and other animals to his will, and to conceal his presence from observers. [b]Description:[/b] Having complete control over his physical form, Cerasus most often takes the shape of a tall, handsome boy in his late teens. Princely features, wild blond hair, and glimmering red eyes are his most striking features. His style of dress corresponds generally with the "death-rock" musical subculture of the late 70s and early 80s, and so he often wears leathers, mesh, an excess of makeup, and styles his hair in an outrageous fashion. It is alleged that Cerasus has a "true" form apart from his default human appearance, but even Cerasus does not know if this is true. [b]Personality:[/b] Cerasus is a surprisingly cheerful individual. He enjoys socializing, meeting new people, and spending time with those he makes friends with. He is surprisingly level-headed and well adjusted for what he is and what little he remembers of his past. Although there are some that say he shows a different side of himself in private, and that his amiable demeanor may be a facade. [b]Crush:[/b] Not presently. [b]Skills:[/b] Cerasus is not much of a fighter, preferring to settle his issues through distraction, manipulation, and deception. His social skills come in handy with these goals. Besides that, he fancies himself an artist and musician, and often paints, sings, and plays the guitar. He dreams of starting a band. [b]Weaknesses:[/b] The banes of a creature like Cerasus weigh equal with his powers. The sun shuts off his powers for as long as he is in direct contact with its light, key among them being the regeneration of his body. Fire and silver are both particularly damaging to his body when wielded against him, leaving wounds that are painful and slow to heal. He can be repelled by wielders of true compassion and religious faith, rare as they may be in the modern day. Piercing his heart does not kill him, but renders him paralyzed. Finally all of his powers, including his deathless state, are fueled by the stolen life essence of human beings, which he typically imbibes by drinking blood. Excessive use of his powers drains him more quickly, and if his needs are not met he falls into a catatonic state. [b]Brief History:[/b] Cerasus' origins are as mysterious to himself as they are to everyone else. Some years ago, the lord of an ancient castle in eastern Europe passed away in a tragic accident, and his effects were quickly sold off by his relatives at his estate sale. Among these possessions was an ancient coffin found in a sub-basement of the castle. The coffin was purchased by an anonymous bidder, who was secretly a member of an obscure local cult with ties to supervillain society. Once returned to their cult's lair, the coffin was opened to find Cerasus dormant inside. Once roused with blood, he claimed to have no memories of his life before he was locked in the ancient coffin, despite the cult's claims that he was their messiah risen. While they tried to conceal their activities, word spread among supervillains about the emergence of a new vampire with no known progenitor; a discovery that whipped superhuman society into a frenzy. Before the media circus could invade Cerasus' privacy, the Lanius school stepped in and offered Cerasus asylum and a place to peacefully recover his memories and develop his powers. [b]Other:[/b] He's adapting very well to the 21st century, though his tastes have been colored by the cult that awoke him, who have come to look after him like an extended family.[/hider] [hider=Typhon] [b]Full Name:[/b] A name unpronounceable with a human mouth, though there are some in this age that possess this knowledge. [b]Nicknames/Aliases:[/b] Obadiah Marsh is his current pseudonym, having dragged his feet on updating his name for the new century. He goes by Obie among friends, and to students he is Professor Marsh. He has no supervillain alias, finding the concept asinine, but superhero databases have codenamed him as "Typhon." [b]Age:[/b] Hundreds of millions of years old, but much of that time was spent dormant. He's been awake for only a matter of thousands of years. [b]Gender:[/b] While generally adopting a masculine persona, Marsh refuses to indicate what sex he is, considering it a personal matter. [b]Division:[/b] Smarts [b]Powers:[/b] Being a primordial creature that walked the earth before mankind, Marsh is imbued with strange abilities. Being an amphibious creature, he can breathe both water and air, is a powerful swimmer adapted to the cold, crushing darkness of the deep ocean, and is superior in physical power to humans. His body's structure is somewhat amorphous, allowing him a limited form of shapeshifting. He can alter his form in simple ways, such as when he adopts a human disguise, or adopt the adaptations of aquatic life (although some of the forms he takes on do not resemble animals known to modern science). He is also capable of prodigious regeneration, as he can regrow an entire limb in a day. In his life before his dormancy, Marsh was also an arch-priest of some bizarre antediluvian god, infusing him with occult power. He is capable of influencing the minds of others, wielding the elemental power of the sea, and spontaneously birthing abominations to serve him. [b]Description:[/b] Marsh's true form is that of a blasphemous fish-frog, a bipedal amphibious humanoid with fins, scales, and other picine features. Needle-like teeth fill his mouth and sharp claws tip his digits. However, Marsh spends much time shape-shifted into the form of a profoundly ugly human man, only seeming human at a passing glance. His presence is extraordinarily upsetting, as he constantly perspires thick, foul-smelling mucous, and he reeks of rotting fish. Even to higher senses Marsh is offensive, as his soul is a sick hybrid thing, a defiance of natural order. When in his human disguise, Marsh does his best to dress smartly, in bespoke suits to fit his unique physiology. [b]Personality:[/b] Having spent so much time among humans, Marsh has become very much like one. He is a somewhat foppish intellectual, with a great love of literature and culture. He enjoys the pleasures of human society, and spends much time studying the history he didn't live through. Even so, he can be a bit stuck in his ways, and so currently seems like a relic of the past. His speech patterns are often outdated, as society has begun to evolve much faster than he can keep up. As a teacher he is strict and professional, and only nominally associates with supervillain society, as he finds most of their crimes childish and meaningless. [b]Crush:[/b] With a human? You must be joking. [b]Skills:[/b] Marsh has lived many lifetimes among human society, and picked up many random skills along the way; some of them useful, many not. Chief among his interests is the study of history, particularly ancient human history, prehistory, and paleontology. [b]Weaknesses:[/b] Being an aquatic creature, Marsh has to rehydrate himself on a regular basis to stay healthy and vital. Prolonged deprivation from water can result in him asphyxiating as his membranes dry out. He also has a peculiar aversion to electricity, disliking electronics and most technology, and electrical attacks are particularly debilitating for him. Fluorescent lights give him migraines. [b]Brief History:[/b] Marsh was once part of a grand society of creatures like himself, who ruled the earth in an age before even the dinosaurs walked the land. Their society was thriving, but not to last, as Marsh was the oracle of their strange and fearsome god, who predicted that doom would befall their race. Marsh pleaded with their maternal deity to spare them, but instead she froze Marsh in time, and cast him to the bottom of a flooded cave, where he waited out the eons. Marsh awoke into a world he did not recognize. It was much colder and less humid, and furred creatures now ruled the world rather than scaled. He recognized that some of them, bipedal ones cloaked in furs and carrying spears, were intelligent, and did his best to study them from afar. Eventually he realized he could twist his form to walk among them, and carried on that way for a very long time. Marsh lived a thousand lives across a thousand generations, changing his identity every hundred years and wandering somewhere new to continue to learn from these fascinating ape-men. A constant in their society was a fringe of outcasts and ne'er-do-wells, which were the only ones to whom Marsh could reveal his true nature without being decried as a monster. In Marsh's most recent endeavors, he was asked by an old friend to assist as an instructor at the Lanius school. Owing this friend some favors from a disastrous recent scheme, Marsh accepted and assumed the role of "Professor of Antiquities," although the purpose of his class was to inform students of the "true" world history shaped by supervillains, which Marsh actively lived through. [b]Other:[/b] While ostensibly part of superhuman society, Marsh does not actively participate in villainy, except when convinced, lured, bargained with, or begged to join one of his villainous friends in some scheme or another. Marsh enjoys the finer things in life, and they aren't cheap, and so bribery is surprisingly effective on him.[/hider]