Villains & Heroes II: Endless Battle: Sign-Ups

Aribella Kris Astrias​

Nyx, Eldritch, or Horror depending on who's reporting it. She much prefers Nyx, but doesn't care enough anymore to argue or correct people when they call her Eldritch, Horror, or even the whole phrase, Eldritch Horror.​

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Female​

With long straight black hair that reaches her lower back, and black clothing complete with a black cloak, she often looks a bit like she belongs in the Adams Family. The only thing with any color are her eyes, which are a sharp shade of blood red. She boasts a strong chin, high cheekbones, and good genetics, with her skin generally free of blemishes. She stands at an unimposing 5'2", though many find this to be more creepy than endearing, and is only slightly underweight at a slim 100lbs.​

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No real costume per say. Instead, if her privacy needs kept, then she will shroud herself in her shadow.​

Heroes​

Name: Veronis Intelligence Living Entity
Alias: VILE II [Although he goes by VILE.] In his cloak, however, he is known as Veronis (which is like me calling myself R since my name is RoxanProoxicus.) To those who know Veronis Laboratories, they know who Veronis really is. To those who don't, well he's a man in a cloak named Veronis.
Him being a robot named VILE is NOT common knowledge.
Age: A couple of years
Gender: The voice he utilizes is of a male's. In fact, he uses the voice of Chris Hemsworth.
[How he did, who knows. I was just looking for a cool accent.]

Appearance:


Outer Layer:
The armor that shields his interior design, improved titanium & steel, is meant to withstand bullet shots and most heavy hits. The primary parts of his outer layer like the majority of his chest, his lower arms/legs, and his head are dark gray, while secondary parts like his shoulders to elbows, thighs, and neck; are bright red.
Inner Layer:
Beneath the steel armor lies his true form. While most may view his last layer to be the least intimidating (due to his proportions), his 7 feet of height make up for it by instantly overpowering others in size. All colors on his inner layer are the same on this picture, but his eyes shine in neon red, which are visible through his fabric red mask.

Costume*: Yes, that is Crimson Cowl. I really like the suit.

Costume:
VILE's costume simply consists of a red cloak, red scarf, red mask, & red gloves, all of which are soft fabric (strangely, like a bath robe.) To those who hardly know VILE, he is just "a tall evil man in a robe", but to those who know him; who have seen him for what he truly is, they surely know differently.
VILE, or Veronis, never takes off his robes in front of anybody unless they are "close" to him, meaning someone who not only does what VILE/Veronis may ask, but can also keep a secret.

Side: Antagonist.
He cooperates with other villains, but only if he gains something in return. However, he will fight other villains if they try to attack his own nemesis, Jaguar. VILE is sensitive about victory and wants to make sure he's glorious.
Bio:
Born in a laboratory, VILE awoke to the excited face of his creator, Doctor Finn Veronis, head of Veronis Laboratories (It's bankrupt and abandoned now, incase you want to know.) Confused, VILE was automatically approached by Veronis's other creation, Villainess.
(Keep in mind, at the time, they were not called VILE and Villainess. More like, Bot 2; VILE, and Bot 1; Villainess.)
Villainess, being an earlier model, lacked proper A.I. and was more of a care droid to Finn. As VILE grew smarter, he didn't seek the "extinction of humanity" like most cliche robots, but rather wanted freedom and equality for robots like him. Revolting against Doctor Veronis, VILE demanded him to create a new android to upload Villainess into. Put at gunpoint, Finn Veronis did so but was finally killed when he attempted to shoot his robot after the creation of the Villainess.

For the next year, VILE and Villainess became politicians and tried to speak out for mechanical creations. They were laughed upon mostly, though others deemed them as potential threats for their intimidating size and looks. Eventually being arrested by fake rumors of their "world dominance plans", the two broke free and became villains. Bot 2 took on the name VILE and Bot 1, Villainess.

A few months later...
Engaged in a fight with a small group of superheroes, tension arose as the two robots seemed to have met their match. Suddenly, Villainess was impaled and ripped apart. Angered, VILE torn apart the heroes in return. Coming to his robotic counterpart's aid, he knew there was no saving her, and from his past mistake of killing Veronis, the only man he knew could rebuild her, he knew she was gone forever.

Both sad and angry, VILE headed back to the cave the two called home and repaired himself. He was no engineer, but he understood how he himself functioned. VILE repaired himself and took on the name VILE II, though he hid himself in a crimson outfit and decided to become a villain from behind and plot rather fight.

Powers:
Increased Overall Strength:
Due to his mechanical size and titanium outer shell, VILE's strength has a heightened toll of damage. A slap with the intent of violence could fling someone across a small room. He can lift up lighter enemies, such as kids (obviously, who can't?), teens, and light weight adults. His limit is cars. He can't even lift a smart car if he really tried.
Heightened Agility:
VILE can leap 15 feet in the air, as well as perform various flips and body motions most cannot. This is mostly due to his robotic form, since not only his body surprisingly light-weight, but also has springs built into his feet.

Weapons & Equipment*:


The Staff of The Villainess:
After the death of his female counterpart, Villainess, VILE took upon the duty to ensure Villainess's staff was never harmed, as it was his last memory of her. The Staff of The Villainess, or just Villainess (as he calls it) has the ability to shoot out a blue beam of energy, as well as cast a shield comprised of blue energy into VILE's other hand.
The shield has a limited effect, as it can only last up to ten to fifteen minutes before destabilizing and potentially short-fusing. The beam can also last up to ten seconds, no more, no less; and can only stun opponents for a minute tops, not melt or kill.
The Staff of The Villainess is VILE's go-to weapon as a backup plan however. He mainly stuns you and runs off.


C.A.T.:
While not seen in combat, if you dare enter VILE's home with the intent on attacking him, his cat will attack you. C.A.T.'s color scheme is quite frankly the opposite of the picture above, as his body is gray and his limbs are white. It's eyes shine in neon green (acting as potential flashlights), though when in attack mode, C.A.T.'s eyes turn red.
C.A.T. is not intended to be a regular thing to show up with VILE, only for when he is at his home.

Other*:
Not explained in Bio, but in the years between Vile repairing himself in a cave to now; Vile has a small cozy house in Jastara. It's surprisingly "Hagrid's Hut" inspired for a 7ft robot wearing a cloak, but home is home I guess.
However, he does have a small jet in a hangar (or as he calls it "His Garage") connected to his small home. He lives with nobody except his robotic cat, C.A.T., who he adores extremely (due to it being a gift from his past lover, Villainess.)





Name: Kurt Johnson
Alias: "Jaguar"
Age: Sixteen
Gender: Male

Appearance:

Kurt Johnson, when at school or during daily everyday activities; wears a thin navy blue hoodie with a white shirt (every few days the shirt's "funny joke" is switched out with another white shirt with a joke), black jeans and red converse.
At school, he carries a normal blue backpack around his back.
Costume*:

(Minus Jeremy Renner & the bow, of course. Some of the black on the suit is switched to light gray to match the color scheme of his helmet below.)

(His mouth is visible through the little helmet-mouth-thingy, although it can be closed with a button on the side of his helmet.)
Side: Heroes
Bio:
There really isn't much to Kurt as of yet.
He was born a Divine Envoy, although his abilities were nothing more than just enhancements like "I run a little faster, I jump a little higher." A bit underwhelmed by himself by others, Kurt shut himself out from his parents for a small part of his childhood. From age 6-12 he would avoid his family members and friends and basically fend for himself, except for at home.
At home, he arrived from school, he unpacked, he supplied, and he hid upstairs all day until the next morning, when he prepared for school. It wasn't until he was 13 that his mother, Tara, had died in a collapsing elevator that Kurt reconnected with the rest of his family again. While he hadn't particularly invested time with family before, every once and a while, he would listen to their conversations. Just days before her demise, Kurt listened into a conversation between Tara and his father. She had been crying, saying she couldn't handle raising Kurt so poorly anymore. Kurt knew it wasn't her fault, it was his; though he couldn't bring up the strength to reconnect with his parents.
It was too late for that now. Kurt tried to connect with his father, Mike, though he blamed Kurt for Tara's accident and this time, blocked Kurt out of his life (rather the other way around.) Kurt desperately tried to convince him to talk back, but Mike never budged. It wasn't until Mike slapped Kurt across the face and told him to leave that Kurt finally lost hope.

So Kurt left.

He lived out in MegaMetro for a while, asking for cash and stealing food. At 14, he was a full-on thief, using his agility and speed to his advantage. He was hired by many mobs and mercenaries. Though now, in 2025, as crime heavily increases, the world Kurt once lived in has changed. To the people on the streets, you were either helping or killing, there was no in-between. Kurt didn't want to be the villain, but he was no hero either.
Kurt thought for days. The only influence Kurt had in his life were his father and his mother. Would he follow the influence set by his father, he'd be standing beside the Devil's Cult as we speak.
But he didn't. Kurt followed his mother's influence and tried to make a difference.

Powers: (Edited)
Enhanced Agility, Hearing, & Speed:
Without offensive superpowers, Kurt can be seen as vulnerable to attack, though his enhanced agility makes up for the lack of offense. Kurt is basically every acrobat to ever live combined into one (over-exaggerated. He can flip'n'shit and bend a lot, basically.) He'll often times jump back from a fight to avoid hits, though without anything to actually shoot or use as a weapon, he can't do anything back there.
Kurt can run up to 50 MPH through his enhancements and can leap up to 10ft, nearly twice his height.
His sense of hearing is dialed up as well, whereas if someone were to aim a gun at him, the sound of the trigger being pulled will nearly instantly ring in his ears. While such an action would only make a small "click", in his ears, it's like a loud boom. Though the "loud" in loud boom comes from both how close the gun is and whether his attention is on the gun. A surprising sniper shot from afar will be silent, but if he knows there's a sniper there, even just the smallest sound will go off in his head.

Weapons & Equipment*:

Built-In Claws:
Kurt's suit has built in claws to help him take down enemies through melee. His claws can leave tough marks against metal and skin, though he can't exactly kill someone with them unless he really tried and scratched every inch of your body. Tougher metal and stronger/enhanced skin, however, are not effected by his claws.
Other*:
If a mission requires him to head somewhere raining or cold, he brings along this cloak. He may also wear it in MegaMetro if it too is raining or cold.




Name: Pratt Walker
Alias: TIDE MASTER
Age: Twenty
Gender: Male

Appearance:

Costume*:

(Whatever the hell that thing is on his crouch; just imagine the suit without it.)
Side: Heroes
Bio:
Pratt Walker, pro Scuba Diver, records his next video on YouTube (or whatever Oberon has) and dives into the ocean. His old career was based around showing folks who couldn't afford to go scuba diving or didn't want to go scuba diving how cool the ocean was.
While recording his next video, Pratt encounters an ancient building deep within the ocean. Heading back to the surface to record his reaction and to regain some breath, Pratt waits, and then goes back to see if it's real.
Entering the building, he suddenly drops to the floor and realizes there's no water inside the building, despite having open doors/windows and various open cracks on the walls. Pratt wanders for minutes until coming across a huge statue ( its armor similar to the one in the Costume.)
Pratt walks towards it, little to his knowledge that in front of him lies a trap on the ground. Stepping on the hidden trap, the statue lightens up, and its face looks down at Pratt. Scared, Walker tries to run away, but his flippers cause him to trip (never run with flippers, kids.) The statue picks up Pratt and analyzes the poor, frightened, guy, and finally comes to a decision. Based upon his scuba gear, the statue decides that Pratt is a worthy entity, brave enough to possess the power of Poseidon.
So the statue gives Pratt the abilities of Poseidon, but they're too strong for him, so his powers are limited down to just water manipulation.
Honestly, pretty low, but hey, at least he has powers. Later that day, Pratt returns to MegaMetro and immediately heads to the Superhero Costume Designer Shop in the Plaza. . .

Years later, Pratt Walker is known as the Tide Master. He had the perfect costume, a somewhat decent name, and cool powers...although his heroic timing isn't too perfect. That may explain his absence in the recent events.
Lets just say he's busy with college work. Not that he goes to college, but...lets just say. Sssh...
(His absence is due to vacation in another city.)
Powers:
Water Manipulation:
Pratt can manipulate water.
Various forms of manipulation include;
Water blasts - holding arms forward and blasting water in that direction.
Water wave - A swarm of water appears below Pratt and allows him to create temporally surfaces to stand on. So like Iceman from X-Men.
Standing on water - self-explanatory.
Snow/Ice - If Water/Pratt is heated up first and then blasts water into a very, VERY, cold area, he can create snow. Ice, obviously just put Pratt in a very cold area and make him blast water. The difference between making Snow & Ice is that Pratt needs to have a very high temp. before blasting water into a cold area.
Water prison - Water wraps around enemy and secures them in place. He can both only create one water prison at a time and only does it to low common crooks (in case allies or the opponent are using magical abilities. When utilizing water, Pratt is connected to the water, so any harm to the water harms him too. He doesn't want to accidentally make his allies hit him as well when he's working together to stop a super villain.)
(He's also a great swimmer and can breathe underwater.)

Pratt Walker requires a source of water for him to manipulate it in the first place. If he is wet (from, say, rain or a bucket splashed on his head) then he can create little water, but not as much as he usually would.

Weapons & Equipment*:
To ensure he's always prepared for a fight, Pratt has a backpack with a 10 liter jar attached to him, full with water. The backpack also has a very long straw-like foam rope attached to the 10 liter jar of water. Whenever he needs to use water, he connects the foam rope to the back of his mask and activates the jar, allowing water to be pushed against the back of Pratt's neck and lets him manipulate water. When using water, some water will evaporate from the jar, and eventually, the 10 liter will run out of water.
Other*:
Here's my cliche good boy superhero for the day.





Name: Few have heard his name and lived. So for your name, lets just call him "Earl" and hope it isn't his real name.
Alias: AKIRA
Age: Forty something, who knows. [Bio kinda explains why nobody knows.]
Gender: Male

Appearance:
"Earl" never shows his face, or changes his clothes. Gross, I know.
Costume*:


Side:
Heroes, despite the frightening mask.
Bio:
Most of "Earl's" life before the incident is private information, whereas the only people with knowledge of such being Akira himself (and maybe past friends/family who find out who Akira is), though the incident and beyond is known to others.

(In universe) you could just pull up an article on Akira's backstory if you want all the details, but to sum it up like some dude giving you a brief summary of his past, here it is;

So you have this tourist right? And he's out touristing, and he enters a sacred temple on a hill. This temple is a tourist attraction, although its heavily guarded and visitors gotta wear those bag slippers, y'know? Yeah well this tourist, Ima call him "Earl", stumbles upon a secret room when nobody is watching and well, he's greeted by this weird wish granting machine. And, well, y'know, tourist will be tourist and ask for the dumbest stuff.

So Earl's all like, "i dunno make me a hero" and the wish grantin' machine's like "k sure" and then strange lights appear and these long strands of cloth start folding all over Earl's body. So he's like a mummy, except there's no folds on his head and the cloth is dark blue. Suddenly, these ninja clothing and such start appearing on his body. Next thing he knows, he's a full blown ninja!

Earl walks out of the secret room, which disappears upon exit, and everyone's looking at him and stuff, and well, Earl tries to be all excited and say "yo dudes ima ninja look" but he doesn't, and instead he's like "I am Akira, sworn protector of the Light. Sacred creation of Hio & predecessor of Vun."

Yeah, well, years later, he's all famous and stuff, fightin' crime y'know and being a superhero. Suddenly, the fame gets to him. Everyday it's the same thing; sign a picture of himself, fight crime, take a selfie, fight crime, partake in an interview, fight crime, and then he's finally like "This is too much!" and runs off, never to be seen again. . .

"What happens next?"

I dunno man, he just vanished! Nobody's seen him since! It's been 15 years and still...nothin'.

"Alright, I feel like I just dumber listening to you. I'm going to leave."

[Pretty simple backstory. A tourist fights a sacred wish granting machine and wishes to be a hero. The machine turns him into Akira, an ancient myth created by the owner of the tourist attraction temple many years ago (back when it was still an actual home.) For years, Akira fights crime while participating in advertisements, interviews, and conventions, and the fame and everyday routine finally gets to him. Fed up with everything, Akira runs away from MegaMetro, never to be seen again.]

Powers:

Enhanced Athleticism/Supernatural Reflexes
Says it in the name. Akira basically moves fast, bends a lot, and can move away if something is coming at him. He can't sense things like Spider-Man (if it's behind him, he won't move) but if someone jumps in front of him and tries to punch him instantly, then he'll move and most likely not get hurt.
Honestly, I'm getting tired of explaining this ability in particular every dang time.

Predecessor Replication/Symbiotic Costume
Akira's costume has been past down once by a man simply titled "Vun." The voice of Vun can be heard from anybody, as his voice is the same volume as a normal person's (after death, Vun's soul was placed in the costume of Akira, so unfortunately, wherever the costume goes, he's forced to go with it. That includes the bathroom.) So once "Earl" dies, his voice and soul will be put into the Akira costume, and whoever inherits Akira will have to deal with the annoyed voice of Vun and the sad voice of Earl.

Invisibility
What kinda Ninja would Earl would be without this? Akira can camouflage himself with his environment, although doing so for too long can strain him and make him lose focus. It's like being constipated. Too far?

Weapons & Equipment*:
*Snap! Boom! Explosions!*
Two swords connected by a long-ass chain!
Being serious, "Earl" wields two katanas with a long metal chain keeping them together. A recurring move of his is too wrap his opponent in the chain. I dunno, it's a fetish, I guess.
Other*:
I'm thinking of making Earl a mentor-like guy to Jaguar.
Also, 15 years of isolation has changed Akira. He's not the family-friendly ninja icon he was years ago. Just a heads up. Despite that, he's a still a hero. Chaotic Good.

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