Well in all honesty, considering what those Vials are actually going to do, stopping him likely would have been worth killing several hundred people if you are purely looking at a cost in lives for each result. But he didn't stop the vial distribution either, so.... lol
Vorian is not a particularly impressive specimen physically. His average 5 feet 10 inch height is thin but not muscular by any means. His hair is a pale faded brown and rather short and his face is slightly rounded with faded blue grey eyes and a rather thin lipped mouth. He has the sort of face that is easily overlooked in both a crowd and in person, though should you focus on his face there is something vaguely unsettling about it, a coldness that is the only element that really lingers in the mind. His body is average at best and weak at worst and the fact that he is constantly coughing and wheezing without his respirator does not help things. The other notable thing is that in terms of age he appears to be in his mid 30s at the oldest rather than the withered old corpse he should be by rights at his age.
OCCUPATION
Formerly Scientist.
LOCATION
Vorian is holed up within the compound that was formerly the research and development center as well as the arsenal for the past division teams. As it was his building and complex and is protected by all manner of weapons and technology such as defense drones, force fields, ect, the man has been left alone to his grief despite the events at the end of the war.
FAMILY/FRIENDS/OTHER
None, his only family was killed off in the invasion and few of his 'friends' are on speaking terms after the horrific casualties he inflicted on the human inhabitants of the city during the war.
ABILITIES/STRENGTHS
Genius- Vorian is beyond what most would expect in terms of raw intelligence even for a genius, he dwarfs most people by such a vast amount that they cannot truly comprehend the works that he is capable of doing.
Synthesis- Almost anything that Vorian can conceive is capable of being done through the use of a compound or device that he can create. Even if something should be impossible to create he is able to make it and once he has done so it can be mass produced or created again by another who could understand his incredibly complicated formulas and notes. So far almost no one has proven able to decipher and understand these things however. A note that many of his oldest compounds dating back to the First World War could be understood by highly gifted minds, however over time as he has delved deeper and deeper into his work and it has become more and more difficult for anyone else to even begin to comprehend what he is doing.
Immunity- Vorian is immune to all diseases and poisons ever devised by god or man. He cannot get sick, he cannot be poisoned, he cannot be irradiated, ect. This is a notably double edged sword as it also means he is immune to all forms of medication that could have beneficial effects. One that is particularly unpleasant is his immunity to painkillers.
VICES/WEAKNESSES
Half a Lung- Vorian has practically no endurance and is quickly exhausted after mere minutes of strenuous physical activity. He literally does only have half a lung remaining after several catastrophic injuries to his chest caused extreme damage. Even with his respirators and suit that aid in reducing the stress of physical activity he can only keep up strenuous physical efforts for perhaps a half hour at most.
Off Center Moral Compass- Vorian has a questionable understanding of what is right and what is wrong. His methods are often extreme and his testing and research methods have at many times in his long life been on the darker side of grey to say the least. While he made an effort to change and avoided such things for nearly 90 years, following the invasion and the death of a certain individual he has been slipping again to some degree.
BACKSTORY
(Warning, his history is very long. It's not all relevant but since I have it and chopping it down was proving difficult I have put it in a hider so as not to stretch the page.)
Vorian von Traupitz was born in 1887 in Berlin to the von Traupitz family. He was raised primarily in the family estates some distance outside of the city. His parents were not the sort to be particularly involved in raising their son. Though they were mystified at their only child's seeming inability to become ill when illnesses frequently swept the household. As time went on his other more bizarre tendencies drew more of their limited attention. Among them were habits of dissecting animals and a fascination with how things fundamental things in life really worked. And perhaps the most revealing of his future was the way the youth had an intense interest in diseases and afflictions. When individuals on the estates took ill he would always want to examine them, though in his childhood years he did not yet do more than record what he saw.
When he reached the appropriate age, Vorian was enrolled in a rather prestigious school of higher education in Berlin. His education at his own volition focused primarily on the areas that could be referred to as natural sciences. He was easily the most gifted student in that area at his school and was the top of his classes. After completing his education and being qualified as a doctor of medicine in addition to degrees in numerous other subjects such as chemistry and biology he, funded by university grants began to work on private projects.
These projects soon attracted government attention after an accident in his lab released a toxic yellow gas that killed several assistants leaving them blistered both outside and in. Immediately seeing potential military applications for Dr. Traupitz's research the Imperial German government promptly moved to fund his research, giving him a new facility in which to perform his experiments in hopes they could use the compounds that the man had begun to work on creating. Being a nationalist as well as a scientist Vorian was more than happy to assist his nation, the generous funding and private lab facilities also had something to do with it. Within a month after the government took over funding on his research and he was relocated to a private facility there was an accident. Officially Vorian was recorded to have died when a train he was supposedly riding derailed. In reality the Imperial German government, seeing the progress and potential of his work decided that he was an asset that had to be protected and no one would go hunting for a dead man. In a moment of irony he was referred to in communications as The Good Doctor given his propensity for developing lethal substances rather than healing. This coded way of referring to the man who was officially dead became official and persisted for years through several regime changes.
Prior to the outbreak of World War 1 the majority of Vorian's research and experimentation went unused and while the government had been eager to scoop up the potentially valuable resource little funding was directed in his direction. The Kaiser's grandiose dreams of a navy that would wrest dominion of the seas from England and other projects that were given far higher importance were prioritized. In the early stages of the war as well he was largely ignored and continued his experiments within the lab facilities provided for him. However this would change with the outbreak of chemical compounds and agents in the form of weapons during the war. While the initial use of tear gas first by the French and then later Germany as well was not related to him it's ineffectiveness led to the high command looking over its resources relating to the matter at hand. The Good Doctor's early research had focused on such things and the regular reports and experiment logs filed with them by the man made it clear his talents could be of great use in the war effort.
Of course he was willing to use his skills and creations to aid his nation and if there was some enthusiasm at the chance to finally test his early compounds on humans rather than lab animals his superiors overlooked it in light of the potential value and the fact that the stalemate was dragging on with no sign of ending. The Good Doctor was not the only individual to be brought in with this decision, others included Fritz Haber, who aided in the creation of designs for the early dispersal systems for gases and later Wilhelm Lommel who provided insights allowing his early blistering agent to be stabilized and mass produced more easily. Prior to the first large scale use of any of his compounds and his first real appearance on the stage of history Vorian devised what would become his signature mask and for the first time donned it. Though this was merely the first iteration of it and without all the revisions that would later be designed in.
He first was directly employed when high command ordered a test of the dispersal system he and his by this point subordinates had designed. On January 2nd 1915 the Good Doctor oversaw the first test of his dispersal system using a more dependable and less experimental gas, chlorine. While the initial test was effective it took several more months to fully prepare for wide-scale usage. In April of that year widescale use began, first at the second battle of Ypres where the Good Doctor personally oversaw it's use again.
Following these successes he petitioned high command to grant him access to prisoners for testing as he needed to further refine his own compounds for use. Due largely to his earlier success and the increasingly negative state of the war effort they agreed. The other eminent scientists who had worked with him previously disagreed violently with his methods but he carried on and from his facility came the first samples of what came to be known as mustard gas and other less publicized compounds. The Good Doctor's star continued to rise as nothing he created did not function and more resources were allotted.
As the war began to wind down a prisoner was brought to be experimented on. Exposed to a far more potent and difficult to refine version of the earlier mustard gas compound the man appeared to expire and then reappear unharmed. Vorian was surprised by this unexpected turn of events and set about investigating what he initially believed to be cellular regeneration. This theory however was debunked when samples from the man did not regenerate, though interestingly they also did not appear to age. While investigations into the nature of the man's strange ability continued, the Good Doctor rapidly began to use him as a control test for compounds. This did eventually end when in the process of a test with a member of high command present to observe the man somehow slipped his bonds as he healed and managed to escape, impaling the Good Doctor with the high command officer's sword.
While this event might have spelled death for a lesser man the Good Doctor did recover, his own knowledge of medicine and the human body allowed him to perform self surgery in an extreme feat of will and while he would forever after be plagued by shortness of breath and constant bouts of coughing Vorian von Traupitz did survive the encounter. Due to the injuries he sustained he preformed extensive modifications to his mask and using methods only he could work and understand created a method by which the mask could constantly feed him heightened amounts of oxygen to enable him to function at his earlier levels physically.
It did however take the Good Doctor months to fully recover and in those months the Entente powers or the WWI allies had forced the capitulation of Germany and its allies. With the end of Imperial Germany and the declaration of the Wiemar Republic in its place Vorian abruptly found himself a forgotten remnant of the old regime. In the light of the extensive restrictions placed on the German military and the reparations the government was forced to pay very little funding would find it's way to the Good Doctor's facility.
It was during this period of scarce resources, limited projects, and a long, slow, recovery from his grievous injuries that made a lot of his work difficult at best that he began to change to some degree. He had moved beyond the norm to the point that very few provided him with any meaningful stimuli. In truth he had begun to become rather aware of how alone he really was in the world. This sparked a new project, an effort to create another like him, whose mind was unbound and who had the ability to be an equal.
This project would consume nearly a decade before he finally succeeded at something that few would have imagined outside of fringe science fiction. Using his own DNA and select alterations he created an artificial human, a daughter of sorts who in time would come to become very important to him. It was soon after this breakthrough that the Nazi party rose to prominence in Germany. In time he was sought out by those who sought to use the weapons he had created previously. The Fuhrer himself even tasked Vorian with the creation of the perfected human.
While he did not agree with the Nazi views on things funding was funding and research was research and after such a long period of making do with scraps Vorian was more than willing to channel his research down the desired avenues.
(WW2 history block WIP)
Following the end of the Second World War, he along with his teenage daughter were brought to the United States and he narrowly escaped charges of war crimes by offering to put his services to use and bargaining away many of the secrets that allowed the construction of his early compounds and inventions. For many years after this trade that preserved his life and a degree of freedom he worked largely in secret with the companionship of his daughter who shared his gifts.
It was the rise of the 2nd Division in 1994 that first dragged him back into the light. He was informed that his participation was not voluntary and that he was to provide the team with his resources, to equip and arm them and to serve a supervising role due to his experience. A role that he would reprise many times as the various Divisions came and went up until the successful one. This one endured and as it endured he became more involved taking on something of an actual leadership role as the world came to view him as a hero instead of the threat he had been in the past.
His daughter was even inspired enough to enlist in the Division as a combatant, armored in a high tech suit of power armor and outfitted with weapons they had built over the years. Things were positive and even if the organization was somewhat corrupt and many did what they did for less than altruistic reasons Vorian had never been one to care much about the reasons so much as the science and the work itself, work that was facilitated by his position.
The alien invasion changed everything. The forces of the Division met the invaders, and it was a bloodbath. While he cared little about the other casualties there was one that struck him to the core, the one true companion he had in the world, his daughter. She died in the initial stages of the conflict, torn apart despite the shields, armor, and weapons that were supposed to protect her, and the others who had relied upon his technology fared no better.
It was enough to make the old man snap back to basics. Donning his own old suit and mask from the days of the World Wars and armed with the terror weapons of the old wars, and the updated versions he had worked on in secret he took to the field himself in the city. Horrific mutated monsters, strains of plague that killed in mere hours, nerve agents, and all manner of other horrors were unleashed indiscriminately upon the city and the aliens that had landed within it. But for all the human casualties, and all the twisted science of man's darkest wars unleashed, there was little effect save torpedoing the already sinking ship of the Division's credibility as one of the chief members slaughtered thousands in an attempt to damage the invaders.
Following the fall of the city Vorian retreated into the compound that had been reserved for his and his daughter's work and barricaded himself within. He has not been seen since.
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SUPERHERO PERSONA
NAME/TITLE
The Good Doctor
APPEARANCE
As the Good Doctor Vorian dons his signature mask, created to his exact specifications nearly a hundred years ago. It in truth has some resemblance to a helmet rather than a mask and covers the entirety of his head. It has a total of 6 visor slits that glow red, there are three of these visor slits in front of each of his eyes. The mask itself is matte black in color though there are a few silver lines that mar the perfection of the paint, presumably from impacts over the years. He also wears a version of the uniform that was created for him during the second world war. It has some resemblance to a dress uniform of the time and has an officers cape that reaches the floor. This attire is crimson and black in color and includes black gloves and boots as well.
TOOLS/WEAPONS
To list all of the Good Doctor's weapons would take far more space than is available. But he has a vast repertoire of resources at his disposal, some legitimate, many not so much.
TRADEMARKS
The Good Doctor is the generalist creator, apart from his now deceased daughter Roswitha von Traupitz or Arsenal as she was known to the public, there was no one who could match his skill in creating things that really should not have been. While there have been others over the years with some gifts in creation none have been able to match his depth and skill. His technology is the best on the planet.
Good, I do actually look forward to getting to make another post with one of my main characters. He's been waiting for another chance to post since the demon invasion arc.... lol
