Infamous Empath

Heroes and Villains : The Resistance (HAV : TR)

shit, i confused kinetic energy with static shock. i am not a scientist XD

Magic Realism

maybe interested, but will have to take more time to read it when i get off work

Heroes and Villains : The Resistance (HAV : TR)

@GeneralNox You know, when i looked at becoming Dream-scape's nemesis, i didnt consider that about you and the electricity user. Also....kinetic...electricity... all energy and sparks, so... thats pretty awesome.

Freeform Fantasy Roleplay (Anybody can just jump in.)

@Lucidnonsense would be funny if you attacked D'ren since he just escaped a swamp full of gators XD

Heroes and Villains : The Resistance (HAV : TR)

Name : Daren McDonnell
Alias : The Infamous (main alias), AKA The Widowmaker, The Warlord, The WorldWeaver, The Irishman (any variation of those), D'ren
Age : early thirties
Gender : Male
Allegiance : Villain
Theme Song: "Come Out and Fight (Ye Black and Tans)" - The Battering Ram
Image :

This is ROUGHLY what he looks like, but with a facial scar and green eyes

Written Description ( optional )(can be used instead of Image) : Shoulder-length black hair, facial stubble, facial scar along the side of his face, green eyes, usually wears black leather, including knuckle gloves, trench coat.

Power Set (only one power per character) : Invisibility; in addition to being able to turn invisible himself, he can make an object or person invisible by touch, but once he stops touching them, they will become visible again in under 20 seconds. If he stays invisible for more than a few minutes, he begins to lose his eyesight and/or go insane with heightened emotions.

Background story (where was your character born ? How did he become a hero/villain ? How was he caught ?) :

Daren Connor McDonnell was born in North Carolina to Elisa and Liam McDonnell. Though he was only 1/4th Irish, even at a young age Daren often passed himself off as being half, or full Irish, especially if it got him a discount on alcohol. When he was a boy, he visited Ireland with his family, which included two brothers and a sister. His parents were murdered, but he never found out who did it, or gave the order. He only knew that they had been doing research on aliens, and both MI5 and the US government did not approve. His siblings split up when they were teens and he still hasn't seen them to this day. Daren as a teen.

In his early years of life, Daren never understood why people ignored him so much, despite his crazy, sociopathic antics. His sister had a speech impediment and had always called him D'ren. It once annoyed him, but now that his siblings were gone, living in other parts of the world, he took on the name and continued to live in Ireland. He figured out that he was capable of turning invisible, which usually happened on accident. D'ren discovered that when people weren't paying him any attention, despite the fact he was standing right there, he would feel invisible, and so he would slowly turn invisible. Even if someone looked at him and saw him becoming transparent, their psychology would make up something to explain it away, like maybe they imagined it or were seeing things that weren't there. Or even that D'ren had simply walked away. The human mind can be powerfully self-deceptive.

The year was 2014 and D'ren had just turned 21. He went out for his first legal drink with a few unsavory fellows he called buddies. They literally back-stabbed him in a barfight with a biker gang. As D'ren was lying on the ground, paralyzed, he tried to call for help but nobody even looked at him. So he became invisible. The only reason why he noticed was because he watched his pooling blood turn translucent around him.

After the hospital patched him up, he left and immediately got into crime. Under the guise of several aliases, he made millions from bank heists and eventually was recruited by MI5 to help them catch IRA soldiers and officers. He pretended to help, but almost crippled the British intelligence organization before joining the IRA and quickly rising through the ranks as one of their leaders, at the age of 29 in 2022. In four years, D'ren had killed thousands of civilians, earning his reputation as "The Infamous Irishman," which later became just "The Infamous." It was during one of his raids on a police office he earned his facial scar.

During his time in the IRA, D'ren traveled to America often for missions or to look for his siblings. He once saw a young woman creating an illusion from her imagination, and interacting with it as if it were real. Mesmerized, D'ren spied on her and even had IRA operatives remain near her parents' house at all times.

In 2025, he was 32-years-old when he left the IRA to form a superpowered gang of villains that would take over Ireland; his ultimate goal was to rule the world, but he didn't get that far because in 2026, the Collective and The Dozen were formed. He refused to be part of either group. Instead, he and his small gang went rogue, aiming to take down both the Collective and the Dozen. Most of the battles usually ended in failure, or a draw. The Infamous only actually won one battle. During this conflict, he met Dreamscape again, though for her this was the first time.

As they fought, D'ren came to admire her even more. Whenever The Infamous went out to attack someone with his power of invisibility, the Collective sent Dreamscape, usually backed up by another hero with a more aggressive power. On their fourth encounter, D'ren killed the man who was supposed to be protecting her. His super-strength was nothing compared to the ability to become invisible. The Infamous tried to kidnap her, having become infatuated with her, but she was rescued by other heroes.

Two years later, at 35, D'ren became sick with the virus that only affected all super-powered individuals. He was near death when his sister Dinah showed up; she had a type of healing ability, but all she could do was take part of the virus, not eliminate it. So she died from the virus. D'ren discovered that he was immune to the virus so he felt really really bad about inconveniencing his now-dead sister by coming all the way out to heal him pointlessly. Hating the world even more, The Infamous went after everyone: the Collective, the Dozen, the governments, other criminals. But most powered people were being killed off by the virus, and that included his gang; plus, he spread his gang too thin and each cell was taken down by the heroes and armies of the world.

Then the aliens came. He smartly used his power to hide underground, but was captured and collared by the aliens and thrown into prison.

FORMER Nemesis (the alias and username) : Tamria/Dream-scape / @FantasyKitten
CURRENT Nemesis: Damon/The Host / @BlackPanther
Nemesis's story (how did they meet ? who won ? etc. This should be coordinated with the player that is your nemesis) FantasyKitten and I will discuss this, either here or PM. But for the moment, our story is what I put in the background.

Heroes and Villains : The Resistance (HAV : TR)

@GeneralNox
You know, I could've said the same thing General XD
I do think because our villain's antisocial temperaments are similar, we will clash very well :P

thanks Timemaster. yes, i cant wait to get into the thick of things! XD

The Gladiators of House Valens

i will be an alternate. if someone drops out, tag me in with a PM

Freeform Fantasy Roleplay (Anybody can just jump in.)

@Assallya

D'ren stumbled and slipped - both from exhausted carelessness and the fact he was still half covered in mud - up to the vardo wagon and collapsed to one knee, gripping the wheel closest to the tavern for support. He looked down, thankful that he still had a lot of mud covering his otherwise nude lower half. But he found it difficult to lift his head back up, or even care about the carnage going on inside, as memories of the last couple of weeks began to take their toil on him.

Tears welled up in his eyes as Samy screamed slurs and insults at him. She told him he was worthless and couldn't even save the woman he loved, Sora Lynn...

One Week Ago...

Where were the powers? The Badlands always had powers! The Leviathan needed the energy to live! He looked over to see the Leviathan dead, scorched and torn asunder. Someone had gotten to the powers before him. And there was no way to know who, since time here didn't really work normally.

D'ren scoured the desert as fierce lightning crackled overhead, as furious winds tore at his flesh and trench coat. He'd been there nearly six hours and most of the water in his flask was gone. D'ren was a glutton; warlords rarely thought on sparsity.

Just when he'd thought all was lost, and was ready to go find shelter again, he spotted bluish-green particles dancing a couple inches off the ground, several dozen meters away. He ran toward them, hoping that another Leviathan didn't pop up to devour them before he fell upon them. But that was his luck, wasn't it?

D'ren scoffed. There was no luck, not even luck of the Irish. There was only will, and his will to survive had always been strong...

Present

D'ren saw someone through a window at the back of the tavern, in the kitchen. But he barely cared. Instead, he struggled to stand, gripping a curtain on the wagon. But his knees weakened and he fell, tearing the multi-colored curtain. On his side, facing away from the tavern, D'ren started to tie the piece of fabric into a makeshift skirt.

"Now I'm fuckin' Scottish..."

But as Samy continued berating him, D'ren's weakness and fatigue got the better of him, plus he was hungry. His hands and arms drooped to the ground as he stared through listless, half-closed eyes at the trees on the other side of the wagon, prepared for death to take him.

Heroes and Villains : The Resistance (HAV : TR)

ok changed it so that Dinah's healing is even more tragic, making D'ren an even bigger mess because all she did was contract the virus from him when she tried to heal him :P

HALT! [Light Hearted, High Fantasy, Tongue in Cheek]

very interested. reminds me of Terry Pratchett's Night Watch of the Discworld Series.

also, would you be opposed to including the "If I Ever Became an Evil Overlord" list?