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Name: Ghost
Age: 30+
Contact: PM journal
Timezone: GMT
Other Character(s): Hakkyuu (Guild Wars 2)

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Name: Victor Vale
Door: RIGHT - "Sometimes wrong is relative."
Designation: Submissive

Canon: Vicious / Villains Series
Canon Point: End of Vicious and before the start of Venegeful

Age: Early thiries
Appearance: Tall, slender, and willowy, Victor has a wraith-like appearance with pale skin and ghostly blonde hair. He often wears top to toe black and generally well-groomed and fairly Parisian in style. He also has three charming bullethole scars on his chest.

History: The history isn’t a very extensive on the wiki, but a whistle-stop tour is that Victor Vale is the son of two popular self-help writers and rather than follow in his parents’ footsteps and gravitate toward psychology, Victor enrols at Lockland University which boasts one of the best pre-med programmes in the country. While studying, he was assigned Eliot “Eli” Cardale (later to be known as Eli Ever) as a roommate. In Eli, Victor identified if not an entire like-mindedness, at least a like-naturedness of two people who were not normal, a shared darkness alongside arrogant ambition.

Brilliant and terrifying in their scope, the roommates’ senior thesis projects found common ground when Victor’s proposal centered around fight or flight biochemical thresholds in relation to adrenaline, and Eli’s proposal to investigate EOs—ExtraOrdinaries, a paranormal phenomena of people with powers. The question Eli and Victor came to ask was whether EOs were born with powers, or if they were made so through external factors, and then the question became what conditions may induce the latter. And then the questions moved from the realm of theory into practice. Eli and Victor deduced that the creation of EOs was liked to near-death experiences and set out to test the theory themselves.

They discovered that a person’s final thoughts before their “death” and coming back to life shape their powers when they awaken as a EO. Eli, the first to succeed, resulting in physical regenerative abilities, and Victor followed soon after, obtaining the ability to control pain in himself and other people. Where Eli’s near-death experience involved a bath of ice water and drowning, Victor’s experience involved enlisting the help of Eli’s girlfriend, Angie, to strap him to a table and run an electric current through him until he died and brought him back, but when it did Victor didn’t understand the nature of his power or how to control it, and in a burst of raw, unmeasured pain, Angie became Victor’s first victim.

A mixture of anger, grief, and trauma from their experiments lead Eli to betray Victor and call the police. Victor spent one night in jail, then broke out to return the favour to Eli. The two fight, but even being able to turn off his sense of pain, after Eli shoots Victor he passes out from bloodloss and is arrested.

Victor spends ten years in prison, four years in interrogation, five years in isolation, and in his final year he breaks out with a fellow inmate and hacker named Mitch. Having broken out together, Mitch finds himself attached to Victor, who is on a mission of revenge against Eli, who has dedicated himself to finding and eradicating other EOs with the belief that they are an affront to God.

On Victor and Mitch’s journey to Merit, they pick up a twelve-year-old girl who has been shot in the arm called Sydney. Sydney is also an EO with the ability to bring people back from the dead. Not only that, she knows Eli, because Eli is her sister Serena’s boyfriend. Also she knows Eli, because he tried to kill her. Serena is also an EO with the ability to control people through verbal suggestion, and the only reason that Eli has not killed her is because of her control over him.

Victor has Sydney resurrect one of Eli’s victims and then send the revived EO out to send a message to Eli—that Victor is out of prison, and he’s coming for him.

Mitch cracks the method by which Eli is finding EOs via the police database and officers who are working with Eli and under Serena’s control. Using the database to their own ends after Mitch hacks in, Victor seeks out an EO that Eli is targeting named Dominic with the ability to shift into another plane of time to move instantaneously in real time. He’s also in pain all the time from his time as a soldier. In exchange for taking away his pain, Dominic agrees to help Victor with Eli.

Baiting Eli to meet him at midnight after posting himself to the database, Victor uses Dominic’s power to get the drop on Serena and kill her while his ears are plugged. Removing that obstacle allowed Victor and Eli free to have their fatal meeting, during which Victor allows Eli to kill him with the police as witnesses. Eli is arrested and his final cries to the police to burn Victor’s body go unheeded, leaving Syndey free to resurrect Victor two nights later.

Oh yeah, and they also have a resurrected dog named Dol.

Personality: Victor Vale is a bad person. He’s a villain, really.

Victor is incredibly intelligent, possessing both an aptitude for detailed calculation and a adeptness for science and medicine. His parents are also both doctors of psychology who produce large volumes of self-help books. As a result, Victor knows a lot about human psychology, but purposefully defaces his parents’ works as both an act of defiance toward them and a sign that he finds the work they do farcical.

He is pragmatic to a extreme, which makes him incredibly cold and cruel at times. Simply put, if he doesn’t need to do something, he won’t, but if he needs to do something he will do whatever is necessary in the most direct way possible. If that means it would make more sense to kill or torture someone than find another but more complex way forward, Victor will absolutely kill or torture someone. While in a way Victor perhaps aspires to be a sociopath and seems to struggle to convey emotions, he does feel things and gains attachments to people, perhaps much to his chagrin. Despite not being an actual sociopath though, Victor is emotionally detached from a lot of things which lends to his general amoralism and ability to do vicious and brutal things in the pursuit of things he wants.

At times, Victor is quite sadistic and has periods, especially when he’s angry or agitated, when he has deep-seated desires to hurt people, either with his powers or a weapon, though generally he prefers inflicting pain from a distance where possible.

He is intensely driven and focused, plotting his revenge on Eli with care, patience and meticulous attention to detail, while also manipulates people without hesitation to obtain his goals. It also feeds into his general interests in controlling not only people and situations, but also master his own self-control and an overall desire to be the master of his own fate and not ascribe to some higher power or meaning.

Powers and Abilities: Victor can control pain, both his own and in others. While he can induce pain out of nothing, it is more effective when he is tapping into some pre-existing pain or wound that has been inflicted. He can both increase pain and entirely erase it, though Victor is often more inclined to inflict pain than take it away and he uses this ability with very little hesitation. In extreme cases, Victor can turn this ability right up to such a level that it overloads a victim and can be lethal. He doesn’t necessarily need to be too close to people to maintain this ability either—for example, he can be nearly across the other side of the country and maintain the pain-numbness that he offers to Dominic. This does stop if Victor is killed, however. He also cannot control his pain output when sleeping.

In addition, Victor learns to control nerves for things other than giving and taking pain away and develops his abilities in such a way that he can stop people from moving or control their bodies like they’re a puppet.

For Duplicity, because I know these are some pretty hefty controlling powers, I’ve got a opt-out post on his journal already and I’ll make liberal use of his powers not necessarily functioning as well as they should do as a result of Syndey bringing him back to life at the end of the first book—the second book maps Victor figuring out something is wrong with him and then seeking out people to fix him, so I want to play with that level of vulnerability for him and also give a reasonable IC out for players who don’t want Victor to have immediate and total control over their characters. I’m really not interested in god modding or in Victor getting to have carte blanche to control people just because he can in canon—any situations where he has total control will only ever take place with absolute express consent from other players and plotting.

If there’s anything else the mods would like me to do with regards his powers, please do let me know :>

Inventory: A black sharpie, the latest copy of the Vale's self-help book, and Dol the no-longer-dead black great dane.

Samples: TDM | second sample