| Cytos
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| Player: @katoregama
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| "Some computers NEED to be fixed. That's what I do."
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| Biographical Data
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| Real Name:
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Cytos Atraxii (Yes, Really)
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| Known Aliases:
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That Spidermech Guy
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| Gender:
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Male
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| Species:
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Human
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| Ethnicity:
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Hispanic/Caucasian Mix
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| Place of Birth:
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Queens, NY
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| Base of Operations:
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Millenium City
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| Relatives:
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Mother (Temptress/Rosita Atraxii - Active), Father (Barricade/Kolsyn Atraxii - Deceased)
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| Characteristics
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| Age:
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26
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| Height:
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6 ft 2
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| Weight:
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326 lbs (Mostly Metal)
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| Eyes:
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Yellow
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| Hair:
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Black
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| Complexion:
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Tan
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| Physical Build:
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Heavily built, like a football player.
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| Physical Features:
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Out of Costume, he has mechanical legs, and a mechanical left arm.
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| Status
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| Fame:
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State
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| Alignment:
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Template:MaekadaLawful Neutral - Lawful Evil
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| Identity:
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Public
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| Years Active:
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9
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| Citizenship:
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Earth
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| Occupation:
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Assassin
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| Education:
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Implanted College Education
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| Marital Status:
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Single
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| Known Powers and Abilities
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Spiral's Powers
- Technokinesis
- Robot Strength
- Electrical Discharge
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| Equipment and Paraphernalia
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| Often equipped with a number of tech-suits that have a variety of vestigial functions.
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| Physical Attributes
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Speed
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Reflexes
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Resistance
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Stamina
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Dexterity
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Agility
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Combat
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Regen
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| Non-Physical Attributes
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Energy
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Psionics
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Telepathy
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Willpower
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Sorcery
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Tech.
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Intel.
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Knowledge
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Background and History
Origins
Records indicate that the superhero Barricade was not originally named Kolsyn Atraxii, and had his name changed at the age of 22, shortly before he met and married heroine Rosita Ceballos AKA Rosita Atraxii AKA The Temptress. Temptress is a well-known superhero with powers of flight, telepathy, and pheromone secretion. Simply put, Temptress enthralls foes, rather than fighting them. The father, Barricade, was a known mech pilot and sidekick to Temptress. Barricade was a defensive hero, utilizing a rare Questionite frame as well as powerful forcefields to protect Temptress while she worked. Their relationship was not entirely unknown, but the public seemed under the impression that Barricade was a robot. Together, Kolsyn and Rosita had a single child, and temporarily retired from hero life.
Childhood Incident
Cytos Atraxii developed technokinesis at a very early age, possibly in infancy. Temptress claimed in an interview that Cytos would give animation to his toys, depending on their electrical conductivity. As such, the parents had commissioned several metal toys for Cytos to play with. This would keep Cytos's very focused mind entertained.
"We obviously weren't going to discourage him," Temptress relates, "He was our special boy, and he needed an outlet. At the time it was harmless child's play. We never expected how things turned out."
Temptress is referring to an incident which occurred on a Sunday afternoon, when Cytos was 8 years old. He was playing at home while the parents had gone to a quick town-hall meeting about the neighborhood watch. Cytos entered the garage full of child-like excitement about his father's mech. He attempted to summon a mech of his own, but could not fully comprehend his abilities. Power tools, lawn care instruments, and even pieces of the family car responded to Cytos's commands and attempted to merge with his flesh. The trauma mutilated most of his body, and gave Cytos minor PTSD.
Enhancements and Early Hero Years
Dr. Synthia James, AKA The Doc, had been an old friend of the family and oversaw the operations to restore Cytos's life. Due to the overwhelmingly intricate merging of metal to flesh, the campaign to save Cytos's life took several long years. More than 60% of his body was amputated, including both legs, and his left arm. Several internal organs had to be replaced, including his eyes, voice-box, stomach, left lung, and heart. Keeping his torso balanced on his legs requires a unique harness. However, as a result of his abilities possibly, the conversion was a sweeping success, and two years later, he was restored from his medically induced coma.
Contract Killing
Powers
Super Strength - - Much like telekinesis his mind projects signals to cause motion, but there is something of a translation barrier in the way. To date, Cytos has displayed no advanced aptitudes with technology. His mind thinks it, his powers do it. This is similar to mages creating golems; they cast the spell, but the spell interprets the directions and acts accordingly. While Cytos's powers are active, he exhibit.
Elemental Kinesis - Spiral claims that part of his physical being, is a gravitational force that can be manipulated on an atomic scale. This way he can condense minerals from the ground and air to produce rocks and boulders for physical weaponry. These minerals get re-used if they remain local, which considerably limits collateral damage.
Compression and Decompression - Being made entirely of energy, he can compress his body to be smaller, or decompress to become larger. At smaller sizes, his body becomes made of an impenetrable "hard light," much like what is used in ego constructs. This smaller form can be altered in appearance to resemble skin, so he claims the smaller he gets the less comfortable he is. In combat, damage done to his body required him to occasionally re-compress to his absolute smallest, expanding slowly over the course of physical activity. In social instances, he maintains a static height of nearly 30 feet.
Soul Magic
Due to the acquisition of a Soul Extraction spell, he has the power to suck out a person's soul, and consume it. Devouring a soul in this way adds all of the victim's strengths and knowledge to his own. Over the years he has consumed more than 3,000 souls, granting him enormous physical power, and a wealth of knowledge.
Interrogations - - Mandus does not always need to break fingers or minds to get information he needs. Through a temporary soul extraction, he can learn privileged information without causing permanent harm to a victim.
Soul Poisons - Since he typically only devours wicked souls, he is left with a limitless supply of malice overflow, which he can emit as a dark blue fog. This fog acts like a harmful poison, and is an alternative method of defeating foes without killing them, or extracting their souls.
Gear
Shadow Hood - Perhaps most important is an enchanted hood he is rareley without. It conceals all features of his face, making total identification impossible.That said, he's still over 10 feet tall, and built like a brick house, so he's not hard to spot in a crowd.
Phylacteries - He keeps on his persons, small phials lined in ornate silver which are used to store souls he extracts in surplus. As he no longer has any desire for human food and drink, he'll keep plenty spares on hand.
Personality
WIP
General Perception
Publicly he is known as Mandus when referring to himself, but he is less of a person, and more of a thing. He is not popularized in the media, but many arcane circles and researches will know who he is. Some may even refer to him a Oz without ever having spoken to him prior, owing to the various rumors and urban legends conjured about his mystique.
His 'Sparkly Aura' is not something everybody will actually see. Each of these blue lights is the flicker of a soul he has taken, and there are thousands. If you are an exorcist, you will probably recognize this phenomenon as "Soul Orbs." It is also said that spirit photography will show his face beneath his hood, but this has yet to be proven successfully.
Powers, Abilities, and Tech
Powers
Oswald's operations continued for a while, but with a very slow escalation. He only attacked rivals of the Circle of the Scarlet Moon, to make them appear to be gang killings. That, plus their sporadic frequency made it difficult to determine that the soul extractions were carried out by an individual. Naturally, Oswald's sense of loyalty to the Circle brought them the wrath of several other power players such as DEMON, The Infernals, and the servants of the Crowns of Krim. This caused heavy pressure upon the Circle which led to a review of its members.
At this point Oswald's already scant public record ends. No one knew where he was, what he was doing, or if he was even alive. Though suspicions were raised about Oswald being the Circle's saboteur, he was never formally accused. Many Circle members assumed he had simply become another casualty. No body was found that was definitively identified as him, but a toothless husk was eventually found wearing clothing believed to be Oswald's.
Years later, the appearance of a Black Ace as a withered husk, one stiff breeze away from being ash, was found in a warehouse with six others, still alive, but drooling, or vegetative. Arcane investigators identified the attack as being perpetrated by someone with a soul extraction spell. As more bodies began appearing across the city, amongst various other killings from other evils, rumors began spreading about what was first jokingly called 'Oz, the great and powerful.' This moniker was initially intended as a gag, with the actual culprit believed to be a narcissistic wizard-hater. As the soul takings began to escalate, the name 'Oz' began to carry significant weight. Oz was believed to be a sort of Boogeyman for the wicked, who found the blackest of hearts and the most vile of souls to take and devour.
Techt
The name Mandus first surfaced when a survivor of the "Soul Taker" was discovered, shivering and alone, with a page inscribed with Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias poem. Though the find was presumably coincidental, its poetic romanticism in the mysterious ruin left behind at Soul Taker sites, accompanied by rumors of Oz the Boogeyman. The moniker was then heard lengthened fully to Ozymandias the Soul Taker, but eventually boiled down to just Mandus, or Oz.
A mundane arcane historian by the name a Grimri caught wind of the rumors, and began assembling a collection of stories, notes, clippings, maps, sightings, and anecdotes regarding the Soul Taker, referring to the collection as the Mandus Project. Though his efforts he assembled a clear mental picture and profile of Mandus, and even ultimately determined that if Mandus was NOT Oswald the courier, he at least had known him on a personal level. His obsession with the criminal grew out of control, and his cataloging became increasingly erratic, up until his final journal.
"Tonight I have met Mandus. He is both nothing and everything I have imagined. So mundane you would never notice him in a crowd. So otherworldly that even the sanest minds go mad at the sight. Beautiful and terrible. He questioned what I knew, and satisfied, gave me chance to pen a final entry. My soul shall become one with his shadowed Babylon. I shall sink into the warm, clear oceans of terror and melancholy. I looked upon his dark works, and despaired. He is a mighty, endless, empire. He is all shall dream of again; that dark maw which swallows up the congenial face of man. For he is no man; he is Mandus."
- Grimri
Grimri was found dead a week later with the word "MANDUS" scrawled in charcoal across his wall, and a grayscale photo of a truly large and muscular male, wearing tattered jeans, and a sleeveless black hooded jacket. The hood cast and unnatural darkness over his face, making his identity indeterminate.
