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11-09-2005, 01:47 AM
Villian Name: Merciless
Real Name: Vincent Devon
Identity: Secret
Aliases/Nicknames: Merc, Ex
Occupation: Assassin for Hire
Legal Status: Deceased
Age: 35
Place of Birth: Fremont, California
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Mother - Deceased, Father - Deceased
Base of Operations: The Rogue Isles
Origin: Natural
Archetype: Stalker
Primary Power: Ninja Blade
Secondary Power: Ninjitsu
Power Pools: Leaping, Speed, Fitness, Fighting
RP Explanation of Powers: Trained in the ancient art of Ninjitsu grants Merciless many abilities and skills that some would call "Magic". He doesn't disappear into the thin air, he blends into whatever background is available and becomes the shadows. To the untrained eye, he simple vanishes. Along with his stealth techniques he also learned advanced hand-to-hand combat, multiple defensive techniques and became an expert in the use of many different swords.
Height: 6'-5"
Weight: 235lbs.
Build: Lean and Agile
Eye Color: Grey
Hair Color: Black
Race/Ethnicity: Mixed
Strength Level: Olympic level athlete
Likes: The pain of others, combat and money
Dislikes: Honor, police and small enclosed places
Personality: Very blunt and to the point, calculating and at times sarcastic
Quirks: Avoids casual physical contact whenever possible due to his childhood. He also has a very rough and gravel-like voice, he avoids speech unless absolutely neccessary
Timeline:
October 1970 – Vincent Max Devon is born to Max & Lucy Devon.
March 1976 – Vincent’s natural abilities begin to manifest themselves as he chases a ball into the street and narrowly avoids getting struck by a passing car by leaping onto the hood and rolling over the roof. He escapes with minor scrapes and bruises, but gains the attention of his parents who fear he may be a mutant.
September 1976 – The infamous “Night Stalker” kidnappings ravage the city of Philadelphia. The kidnapper prefers small children, he leaves no clues and the hideously mutilated and raped bodies of the kidnapped are usually found weeks later
February 1977/1979 – Max Devon is shot and killed when a mugging went wrong. Lucy Devon spirals into a 2 year long bout of depression. Vincent becomes withdrawn and anti-social at school.
April 1979 – Lucy forces herself to be strong, for Vincent’s sake. She sells off their belonging for cash, packs up the rest and takes Vincent to Philadelphia where an old high school classmate is currently selling a house. Lucy buys it outright as she and Vincent begin to pick up the shattered pieces of their life in a brand new city.
May 1979 – Another young boy is kidnapped, not even 2 blocks away from Lucy and Vincent. The Philadelphia Police attribute the kidnapped victim to the elusive “Night Stalker”. It is believed that this is his 6th abduction in 2 months.
July 1979 – After coming home from the state fair, Lucy puts an exhausted Vincent to bed before heading off to sleep herself.
In the morning, Lucy finds Vincent’s bed empty and his bedroom window open. Vincent is nowhere to be found.
December 1979 – Lucy Devon has a mental break and loses what is left of her sanity. Her husband murdered, her only son kidnapped and most likely dead, her fragile mind snaps. In the twilight hours of December 25th, Lucy takes 13 Vicodin and slits her wrists. She dies at 6:23AM on Christmas morning.
January 1980/1985 – Vincent is kept shackled in a small, dark and dank basement for multiple hours a day. Like most children, Vincent is extremely afraid of the dark, as well as the numerous rats, ****roaches and bugs that he shared the basement with. He developed an intense case of claustrophobia as he screamed and cried himself to sleep every night.
When he wasn’t shackled down in the basement he was enduring vicious and brutal beatings at the hands of his captor. Day after day, sometimes long into the night he would fight for his life before his tormentor finally grew tired of the one-sided beatings and threw the exhausted, bloody and broken boy back into his makeshift prison.
Months turned into years, and the beatings and imprisonment continued. Vincent would often be bound and gagged as he is forced to watch the brutal rape and murder of numerous women and children. Talking results in physical pain as Vincent’s vocal chords become permanently damaged by the nightly screaming he does as he is locked in the basement.
Over the years, Vincent’s natural gifts multiple in ability. His naturally fast reflexes and awareness double, triple and continue to multiply in sharpness as he is forced to fight for his life day in and day out. His tormentor is extremely skilled in multiple martial arts techniques and he takes great pleasure in practicing them on the seemingly helpless boy. Over the course of many years of physical torture, Vincent is gradually able to learn and master several martial arts techniques. Soon he can see the blows and kicks coming faster than his abductor can throw them. It becomes all to easy to deflect and dodge the most painful of the attacks and only take the least painful ones to keep up the façade that he is still weak and frail. It is almost as if he is taking an extremely brutal martial arts class for years and years.
Vincent’s voice grows worse until he is reduced to low grunting to respond to anything asked of him. He becomes callous to the pain of others, death and mental anguish have been his only companion for 5 years. He eventually starts to enjoy his daily fights with his captor, he has grown skilled enough that he could win anytime he wishes, but his steadily growing darker side wants to see how long he can toy with his tormentor. Plus he subconsciously enjoys the pain.
He becomes accustomed to the dark in the basement, it doesn’t scare him anymore, in fact he gets comfort from it. He is more at ease in darkness than most people are in light.
December 1985 – Vincent pulls his thumbs, one by one, out of their sockets and slips his hands out of his shackles. Silently, he slips upstairs and into his kidnappers room. Instead of a quick and painless death that he now has the skill to deliver, Vincent beats the man to death with a heavy metal candlestick holder that he found on his way to the bedroom.
Responding to neighbor complaints about the smell, Philadelphia Police found Lenny Travis 8 days later. They later identified him as the “Night Stalker” kidnapper. He died at 5:32AM, Christmas morning.
Vincent was nowhere to be found.
December 1985/1988 – Using the money he stole from Lenny, Vincent leaves the United States by way of a cargo ship that is headed to China. He convinces a deckhand to let him stow away in the cargo hold. He later kills the deckhand, taking all his money and identification as the ship reaches the Shanghai port.
Vincent maks a decent living by hiring himself out to small time Chinese gangs, as an enforcer, collector and sometimes hitman. His reputation grows, as does his prices as he routinely takes the difficult jobs that no one else wants. He soon drew the attention of Miyamoto Musashi, the most feared and respected hitman in all of China. He approached Vincent and offered to take him on as his apprentice, in exchange Vincent swore an oath of allegiance to Miyamoto, bonding them together in partnership for the rest of their lives.
Vincent is trained in the ancient art of Ninjitsu, his enhanced and battle tested reflexes allow him to learn and progress at an astonishing pace. He learns hand to hand combat, weapons mastery, cutting edge surveillance techniques and gains extensive knowledge of high tech gadgets and equipment. All of which go way beyond anything he had previously known. Vincent’s quest for knowledge and power soon drain Miyamoto of all his knowledge and experience. Having used Miyamoto for all he is worth, Vincent breaks his oath and slits Miyamoto’s throat as he sleeps. Vincent stays long enough to watch Miyamoto die in the darkness, before he takes his meager belongings and leaves the deep woods of North China.
February 1989 – Vincent returns to the United States and travels to Paragon City. His reputation overseas has reached far and wide, he is quickly overwhelmed with contracts. On the streets, he is referred to as Merciless due to his violent and brutal ways on men, women and children. His name is always spoken in whispers, it is shrouded in mystery.
His largest client, Frank “Knuckles” LaRusso, extends a generous offer to work for him full time. Merciless accepts his offer.
July 1989 – Merciless becomes one of the most feared assassins on the east coast, if not the country. He is promoted to become LaRusso’s personal bodyguard as well as his most feared and prominent assassin. LaRusso begins to intensify his “Protection” money collections in his territory. Salvatore DeMarco, a local Kings Row store owner, refuses to pay collections.
November, the evening of the 18th/morning of the 19th, 1989 – Merciless and some of LaRusso's men finally visit DeMarco’s Kings Row storefront, after several not so friendly warnings have been sent their way by some of LaRusso’s lowly thugs. DeMarco’s daughter is the only one there that night, after she closes up her and a man walk away through an alley.
Merciless easily subdues the man, while the other men brutally rape Maria DeMarco while her fiancé, Robert Black, struggles and watches on. Because of his defiance and partly just because Merciless wanted to watch her die, he kills Maria. Merciless then knocks Robert Black unconscious with his quarterstaff before throwing it down to the ground and leaving.
May 1994 – With the help of Merciless, LaRusso and his crew slowly but surely take over Kings Row and South Independence Port. LaRusso rises to Underboss status in a very short time. Merciless indulges his sadistic and violent nature on anyone that stands in their way to gaining more power, much to LaRusso’s delight.
June 1995 – For the next 5 years, Merciless devotes much of his time assassinating dozens upon dozens of heroes that Frank LaRusso deems meddlesome.
April 2000 – Merciless kills dozens of average citizens in Galaxy City to draw attention away from a Casino Heist that LaRusso planned to hit. 3 heroes somehow track Merciless down to a nearby hotel where he had planned to go door to door and kill as many people as possible. Caught by surprise, Merciless is for the first time in over 13 years overwhelmed in battle. A hero calling himself Charon, knocks him unconscious and drops him from a 30th floor window. Against all odds and by shear force of will, Merciless survives the fall and manages to crawl his way to safety.
Merciless vows to remember the name Charon for the rest of his life, promosing to seek revenge.
March 2002 – Having been contacted by some of LaRusso's men that members of the Bone Squad, including Charon were attacking the house, Merciless quickly leaves to extract his revenge on Charon.
Another Bone Squad member, Mr. D, intercepts Merciless at the property. After a long drawn out fight, Merciless is defeated and left tied up with LaRusso for the police to find. Along with numerous records and files that eventually help put both LaRusso and Merciless in the Zig. LaRusso recieved 20 years without the possibility of parole. Merciless recieved 40 years due to the brutal and savage nature of his crimes.
Merciless was put in general population, but the loss of inmate life was extreme, he was separated and put in the very bottom level of The Zig, the place where only the lowest and most dangerous prisoners in the state were sent. It was beyond solitary, there were no windows, and no lights in his 4’X6’ cell. It was exactly like the basement that he frequently had recurring nightmares about. He started having hallucinations, he dreamed that his childhood kidnapper, Lenny, had survived and now he was back. Lenny could get in and out of the cell anytime he wished, although he seemed to only come at night.
Merciless descended into a insanity that few living beings could ever experience and hope to tell about. Night time was like a living hell, that took you to the brink of human tolerance, then he had all day to reflect on it before it started all over again that night.
Merciless screamed each and every night. As loud as ripped, strained and shredded vocal chords would allow.
Real Name: Vincent Devon
Identity: Secret
Aliases/Nicknames: Merc, Ex
Occupation: Assassin for Hire
Legal Status: Deceased
Age: 35
Place of Birth: Fremont, California
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Mother - Deceased, Father - Deceased
Base of Operations: The Rogue Isles
Origin: Natural
Archetype: Stalker
Primary Power: Ninja Blade
Secondary Power: Ninjitsu
Power Pools: Leaping, Speed, Fitness, Fighting
RP Explanation of Powers: Trained in the ancient art of Ninjitsu grants Merciless many abilities and skills that some would call "Magic". He doesn't disappear into the thin air, he blends into whatever background is available and becomes the shadows. To the untrained eye, he simple vanishes. Along with his stealth techniques he also learned advanced hand-to-hand combat, multiple defensive techniques and became an expert in the use of many different swords.
Height: 6'-5"
Weight: 235lbs.
Build: Lean and Agile
Eye Color: Grey
Hair Color: Black
Race/Ethnicity: Mixed
Strength Level: Olympic level athlete
Likes: The pain of others, combat and money
Dislikes: Honor, police and small enclosed places
Personality: Very blunt and to the point, calculating and at times sarcastic
Quirks: Avoids casual physical contact whenever possible due to his childhood. He also has a very rough and gravel-like voice, he avoids speech unless absolutely neccessary
Timeline:
October 1970 – Vincent Max Devon is born to Max & Lucy Devon.
March 1976 – Vincent’s natural abilities begin to manifest themselves as he chases a ball into the street and narrowly avoids getting struck by a passing car by leaping onto the hood and rolling over the roof. He escapes with minor scrapes and bruises, but gains the attention of his parents who fear he may be a mutant.
September 1976 – The infamous “Night Stalker” kidnappings ravage the city of Philadelphia. The kidnapper prefers small children, he leaves no clues and the hideously mutilated and raped bodies of the kidnapped are usually found weeks later
February 1977/1979 – Max Devon is shot and killed when a mugging went wrong. Lucy Devon spirals into a 2 year long bout of depression. Vincent becomes withdrawn and anti-social at school.
April 1979 – Lucy forces herself to be strong, for Vincent’s sake. She sells off their belonging for cash, packs up the rest and takes Vincent to Philadelphia where an old high school classmate is currently selling a house. Lucy buys it outright as she and Vincent begin to pick up the shattered pieces of their life in a brand new city.
May 1979 – Another young boy is kidnapped, not even 2 blocks away from Lucy and Vincent. The Philadelphia Police attribute the kidnapped victim to the elusive “Night Stalker”. It is believed that this is his 6th abduction in 2 months.
July 1979 – After coming home from the state fair, Lucy puts an exhausted Vincent to bed before heading off to sleep herself.
In the morning, Lucy finds Vincent’s bed empty and his bedroom window open. Vincent is nowhere to be found.
December 1979 – Lucy Devon has a mental break and loses what is left of her sanity. Her husband murdered, her only son kidnapped and most likely dead, her fragile mind snaps. In the twilight hours of December 25th, Lucy takes 13 Vicodin and slits her wrists. She dies at 6:23AM on Christmas morning.
January 1980/1985 – Vincent is kept shackled in a small, dark and dank basement for multiple hours a day. Like most children, Vincent is extremely afraid of the dark, as well as the numerous rats, ****roaches and bugs that he shared the basement with. He developed an intense case of claustrophobia as he screamed and cried himself to sleep every night.
When he wasn’t shackled down in the basement he was enduring vicious and brutal beatings at the hands of his captor. Day after day, sometimes long into the night he would fight for his life before his tormentor finally grew tired of the one-sided beatings and threw the exhausted, bloody and broken boy back into his makeshift prison.
Months turned into years, and the beatings and imprisonment continued. Vincent would often be bound and gagged as he is forced to watch the brutal rape and murder of numerous women and children. Talking results in physical pain as Vincent’s vocal chords become permanently damaged by the nightly screaming he does as he is locked in the basement.
Over the years, Vincent’s natural gifts multiple in ability. His naturally fast reflexes and awareness double, triple and continue to multiply in sharpness as he is forced to fight for his life day in and day out. His tormentor is extremely skilled in multiple martial arts techniques and he takes great pleasure in practicing them on the seemingly helpless boy. Over the course of many years of physical torture, Vincent is gradually able to learn and master several martial arts techniques. Soon he can see the blows and kicks coming faster than his abductor can throw them. It becomes all to easy to deflect and dodge the most painful of the attacks and only take the least painful ones to keep up the façade that he is still weak and frail. It is almost as if he is taking an extremely brutal martial arts class for years and years.
Vincent’s voice grows worse until he is reduced to low grunting to respond to anything asked of him. He becomes callous to the pain of others, death and mental anguish have been his only companion for 5 years. He eventually starts to enjoy his daily fights with his captor, he has grown skilled enough that he could win anytime he wishes, but his steadily growing darker side wants to see how long he can toy with his tormentor. Plus he subconsciously enjoys the pain.
He becomes accustomed to the dark in the basement, it doesn’t scare him anymore, in fact he gets comfort from it. He is more at ease in darkness than most people are in light.
December 1985 – Vincent pulls his thumbs, one by one, out of their sockets and slips his hands out of his shackles. Silently, he slips upstairs and into his kidnappers room. Instead of a quick and painless death that he now has the skill to deliver, Vincent beats the man to death with a heavy metal candlestick holder that he found on his way to the bedroom.
Responding to neighbor complaints about the smell, Philadelphia Police found Lenny Travis 8 days later. They later identified him as the “Night Stalker” kidnapper. He died at 5:32AM, Christmas morning.
Vincent was nowhere to be found.
December 1985/1988 – Using the money he stole from Lenny, Vincent leaves the United States by way of a cargo ship that is headed to China. He convinces a deckhand to let him stow away in the cargo hold. He later kills the deckhand, taking all his money and identification as the ship reaches the Shanghai port.
Vincent maks a decent living by hiring himself out to small time Chinese gangs, as an enforcer, collector and sometimes hitman. His reputation grows, as does his prices as he routinely takes the difficult jobs that no one else wants. He soon drew the attention of Miyamoto Musashi, the most feared and respected hitman in all of China. He approached Vincent and offered to take him on as his apprentice, in exchange Vincent swore an oath of allegiance to Miyamoto, bonding them together in partnership for the rest of their lives.
Vincent is trained in the ancient art of Ninjitsu, his enhanced and battle tested reflexes allow him to learn and progress at an astonishing pace. He learns hand to hand combat, weapons mastery, cutting edge surveillance techniques and gains extensive knowledge of high tech gadgets and equipment. All of which go way beyond anything he had previously known. Vincent’s quest for knowledge and power soon drain Miyamoto of all his knowledge and experience. Having used Miyamoto for all he is worth, Vincent breaks his oath and slits Miyamoto’s throat as he sleeps. Vincent stays long enough to watch Miyamoto die in the darkness, before he takes his meager belongings and leaves the deep woods of North China.
February 1989 – Vincent returns to the United States and travels to Paragon City. His reputation overseas has reached far and wide, he is quickly overwhelmed with contracts. On the streets, he is referred to as Merciless due to his violent and brutal ways on men, women and children. His name is always spoken in whispers, it is shrouded in mystery.
His largest client, Frank “Knuckles” LaRusso, extends a generous offer to work for him full time. Merciless accepts his offer.
July 1989 – Merciless becomes one of the most feared assassins on the east coast, if not the country. He is promoted to become LaRusso’s personal bodyguard as well as his most feared and prominent assassin. LaRusso begins to intensify his “Protection” money collections in his territory. Salvatore DeMarco, a local Kings Row store owner, refuses to pay collections.
November, the evening of the 18th/morning of the 19th, 1989 – Merciless and some of LaRusso's men finally visit DeMarco’s Kings Row storefront, after several not so friendly warnings have been sent their way by some of LaRusso’s lowly thugs. DeMarco’s daughter is the only one there that night, after she closes up her and a man walk away through an alley.
Merciless easily subdues the man, while the other men brutally rape Maria DeMarco while her fiancé, Robert Black, struggles and watches on. Because of his defiance and partly just because Merciless wanted to watch her die, he kills Maria. Merciless then knocks Robert Black unconscious with his quarterstaff before throwing it down to the ground and leaving.
May 1994 – With the help of Merciless, LaRusso and his crew slowly but surely take over Kings Row and South Independence Port. LaRusso rises to Underboss status in a very short time. Merciless indulges his sadistic and violent nature on anyone that stands in their way to gaining more power, much to LaRusso’s delight.
June 1995 – For the next 5 years, Merciless devotes much of his time assassinating dozens upon dozens of heroes that Frank LaRusso deems meddlesome.
April 2000 – Merciless kills dozens of average citizens in Galaxy City to draw attention away from a Casino Heist that LaRusso planned to hit. 3 heroes somehow track Merciless down to a nearby hotel where he had planned to go door to door and kill as many people as possible. Caught by surprise, Merciless is for the first time in over 13 years overwhelmed in battle. A hero calling himself Charon, knocks him unconscious and drops him from a 30th floor window. Against all odds and by shear force of will, Merciless survives the fall and manages to crawl his way to safety.
Merciless vows to remember the name Charon for the rest of his life, promosing to seek revenge.
March 2002 – Having been contacted by some of LaRusso's men that members of the Bone Squad, including Charon were attacking the house, Merciless quickly leaves to extract his revenge on Charon.
Another Bone Squad member, Mr. D, intercepts Merciless at the property. After a long drawn out fight, Merciless is defeated and left tied up with LaRusso for the police to find. Along with numerous records and files that eventually help put both LaRusso and Merciless in the Zig. LaRusso recieved 20 years without the possibility of parole. Merciless recieved 40 years due to the brutal and savage nature of his crimes.
Merciless was put in general population, but the loss of inmate life was extreme, he was separated and put in the very bottom level of The Zig, the place where only the lowest and most dangerous prisoners in the state were sent. It was beyond solitary, there were no windows, and no lights in his 4’X6’ cell. It was exactly like the basement that he frequently had recurring nightmares about. He started having hallucinations, he dreamed that his childhood kidnapper, Lenny, had survived and now he was back. Lenny could get in and out of the cell anytime he wished, although he seemed to only come at night.
Merciless descended into a insanity that few living beings could ever experience and hope to tell about. Night time was like a living hell, that took you to the brink of human tolerance, then he had all day to reflect on it before it started all over again that night.
Merciless screamed each and every night. As loud as ripped, strained and shredded vocal chords would allow.