Viral
Dec 29, 2012 23:36:04 GMT -5
Post by viral on Dec 29, 2012 23:36:04 GMT -5
Viral
[/font][/size][/color]{Huddle under your desks, hold onto your legs, and pray.}
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Full Name: Viral
Code Name: The Gas-Mask Man
Age: 34
Date of Birth: September 1st
Sexual Orientation: Pansexual
Species: Mutant
Alliance: Brotherhood
Citizenship: Metropolis
Canon or Original?: Original/Marvel
"Victory is MINE Baldy!
And if you had any hair I'd take that too!"
And if you had any hair I'd take that too!"
Hair: Cut very short or shaved bald.
Eyes: Bright lime green, glowing.
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 180 lbs
Distinguishing Marks: None.
Appearance: Often seen dressed in an old WWII German officer's uniform, or at other times simply a black hoodie and black jeans, the one thing that remains the same: he always wears a pitch-black gas-mask, his eyes glowing behind the eyepieces, preventing anyone from seeing his mangled face.
Speaking of his face, if he was to remove his gas-mask, his face appears grimy and unshaven. His eyes grow bright lime green, and when he smiles his teeth are yellow and unclean. The biggest feature of his appearance, though, is his hair: short, but a youthful blond, with a glistening texture, as if it isn't like normal hair.
Face Claim: N/A
"I’m not interested in making new friends,
I don’t even like the ones I have”
I don’t even like the ones I have”
Likes: WWII, Gas-masks, Warm Temperatures, Villain Societies, Fascism.
Dislikes: American Patriotism, Superheroes in General, Cold Temperatures, Disease Control Personnel, Hospital Staff.
Personality: Viral hates all heroes with a passion that few villains can really compare with, especially any from America or who represent American ideals. Heroes who oppose American ideals or capitalist don't get off any easier: Viral hates anyone who disobeys their superiors, and such heroes often get a beating from him as well.
It sounds odd that Viral would hate America AND people who hate America, but the only heroes he treats fairly are FEMALE heroes. This stems from a childhood obsession over protecting his mother, who taught him to treat women with respect. As he grew up around evil, he fought mentally with how to treat "good" women even when they appose him, and came out of it with the concept that women are greater than men at many things, but even good powerful women can choose the wrong side. As such, he will always try to convince heroines to switch sides.
"With great power comes great responsibility"
Powers:
Disease Control: Viral has the ability to control and manifest a number of diseases, ranging anywhere from the common cold to cancerous infections and major epidemic diseases. In addition, he can remove disease from an individual, as well as prevent infection from occurring. He cannot, however, heal individuals with this ability. Additionally, he can only pass on a disease that he has personally contracted.
Enhanced Healing (Bacteria): Viral is in fact made up of mutated bacteria who mimic the makeup of the human body. As such, he can repair damage to himself at a higher rate than normal human beings, but at the cost of how his environment affects this change: very hot or very cold temperatures impair this ability, while room temperature allows him to self-repair.
Weapons
Longsword: As silly as it may seem, Viral wields a one-handed steel longsword; he explains it as "a little surprise, like finding out you've been infected." Etched on the blade are the letters V.I.R.A.L.
Needles: Not to be confused for surgical or medical needles, these 6 inch long spikes are often left at the scene of a death committed by Viral, to cause either confusion or extra pain. When lacking needles, carpenter's nails are also found, painfully or not.
The "Viral Army": A small alliance of minor powered mutants (ranging from the ability to change their own skin color to make their fingernails and teeth grow slightly larger) who swore to take over the planet under the guidance of Viral. The exact size is about 50 mutants.
Strengths/Abilities:
Disease Immunity: The mutant bacteria that make up his body can adapt to any disease on the planet, preventing the disease from taking over his body and killing him.
Military Tactics (Nazi Germany): Viral was trained to perform as a greatly skilled general if the war came down to it. Instead, his mother took him away from the military and hid him in America until her death. He now uses them to manage the Viral Army.
Medical Knowledge (Antibiotics): Viral has taught himself about a small number of antibiotics, and knows how to mutate the diseases he controls to adapt to most of them, but not all of them.
Weaknesses: (at least 2)
Feminine Charm: No matter how hard he tries, Viral has difficulty fighting heroines, so any heroine could easily charm him away from doing his villainy as long as they don't mention their allegiance to American ideals.
Hot/Cold Temperatures: Because of his bacterial makeup, Viral acts out violently in very hot temperatures and will try to escape as quickly as possible. Very cold or freezing temperatures will cause him to curl up and hibernate, impairing his healing ability and otherwise disabling him.
"All it takes is one bad day to reduce
the sanest man alive to lunacy,"
the sanest man alive to lunacy,"
History:
In 1942, Nazi Germany began designing a weapon known simply as the Wunderwaffen. Designs that reached the United States many years after the war show a bell-shaped object. Some suggested UFOs or time-travel, but in fact it was a housing cell for the real Wunderwaffen: Viral.
Taken away from his parents as a small infant, he was experimented on, changing his genetic makeup into pure bacteria. As a side effect, Viral learned how to control the bacteria to infect his captors and escaped, through the assistance of his mother who he was allowed to keep in contact with. Together they escaped to Allied-occupied France, and then to New York City. Ridiculed for their German heritage, they lived there, impoverished and alone, mother and son.
Many years passed, and Viral grew up to be a smart young man, the bacteria slowly allowing him to age. His mother, while looking for food for them, was mugged and rushed to the hospital, where she later died from her injuries. Rather than killing the muggers, who they both knew well, Viral made them submit to him, and they became the first members of the Viral Army.
Now, with a strong faction under his heel, having become the enemy his mother wished to escape, he seeks to recreate the Brotherhood of Mutants in Metropolis, and strike fear into all American heroes.
"Next time guys, we should just
rebuild this place outta Lego."
rebuild this place outta Lego."
Writing Sample:
"So, hier Rushmin, you seek a loan from the great Viral?"
Viral stood in his abandoned factory headquarters, with a groveling Mr. Rushmin at his feet. The fool had thought he could swindle the Wunderwaffen from under his nose, but that has been lost years ago. At least, his sense of smell.
Rushmin shifted his eyes around, looking at the crowd of Viral's army, their gasmask lens flaring at him...one completely green one in the middle of them all, too. Weird.
Viral stepped forward and motioned for Rushmin to open his mouth. However, once the fool did so...a cloud of green-black mist shot down the fool throat from under Viral's mask, and quickly the foolish mortal man was dead.
"Burn the body, mein army. Burn him, then return. We have work to do."
"I'm through talking, get out of my cave,"
Your name/alias: Viral
Timezone: Atlantic
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