𝓥ictor 𝓥ale

[Fade Rift:

2023-04-08T11:52:05Z

Memory 1.

[ooc: folks are welcome to either see this from Victor's side and know that he's controlling other people's pain levels around him, or have no knowledge of what's going on at all and just see the effects of his powers without context.]

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The memory starts in a library. Not a nice library with high, grand ceiling and varnished wooden shelves, but an austere grey and white set-up covering every inch of the room--a prison library.

Victor (a few years younger and comparatively healthier than he looks now) has a book in his hand, reading and musing aloud while another, much larger man, Mitch, is busy trying to short out a security camera with a gum wrapper, a cigarette, and a small piece of wire that probably had a former life as a paperclip.

“Did you know," Victor says, "that when you take away a person’s fear of pain, you take away their fear of death? You make them, in their own eyes, immortal. Which of course they’re not, but what’s the saying? We are all immortal until proven otherwise?”

"Something like that," is Mitch's distracted reply, then shortly followed by, "Got it!"

Victor has just reached the section in the book on nerves, which feels hilariously ironic, before he claps the book shut and starts to push his powers out into the surrounding air, feeling for the presence of guards heading down the aisle outside the library.

"Shall we?" Victor asks casually, starting to use his powers to turn up the sense of pain for anyone around who isn't him or Mitch.

With a nod, Mitch says, "After you.”

Guards drop in all directions, screaming and writhing in pain from some invisible agony, as Victor and Mitch effectively stroll out like they'd been visiting a museum, with `Wrighton Federal Penitentiary` emblazoned on the front of the building as they leave.

Memory 2.

[CW: Brief reference to dog "death" but I swear the dog never stays dead, it's a rule that the dog is ALWAYS fine!]

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It's a short memory, Victor (a few years younger and comparatively healthier than he looks now) stepping into a hotel room accompanied by a blonde girl, Sydney, wearing an over-sized red coat and rainbow tights and looking around twelve or thirteen, and even then is on the small side. A big black dog, probably a Great Dane, trots along behind them.

Adopting a casual sense of the dramatic, Victor drops a self-help book (the name VALE is printed on the spine and front cover in a Very Important-looking font) heavily onto the counter as he sweeps in.

"It’s time to send a message," he says to the large man, Mitch, who is already inside the room, "To Eli Ever."

Mitch looks up, frowns, then says, "Where the hell did that dog come from?"

"I get to keep him!" Sydney answers, helpfully.

"Is that blood?" Asks Mitch, and a back-and-forth between him and Victor while the latter is shuffling through through his papers, "I shot him,"

"Why would you do that?"

"Because he was dying."

"Then why isn’t he dead?"

"Because Sydney brought him back.”

Mitch turns to look at small blond girl in the middle of their hotel living room. "Excuse me?"

As her eyes go to the floor, she offers a quiet, "Victor named him Dol."

"It’s a measurement of pain," Victor clarifies.

Mitch frowns then says, "Well, that’s morbidly appropriate. Can we get back to the part where Sydney resurrected him? And what do you mean you’re going to send Eli a message?"

Memory 3.

[CRAU Memory | cw: vague references to building destruction, terrorist imagery, illness, and dramatic super villain silliness]

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All around, there is a low-level thrumming sensation, an unseen engine keeping the Samodiva--a massive aircraft--floating among the clouds. It's a view that can be seen from virtually any angle on the may deck of the ship, as well as many other levels.

Victor stands at the helm, bent forward slightly over the control panel, both hands braced against the console. From the back, he looks deeply engrossed in thought, but when approached, he actually has his eyes squeezed shut and is forcing his breathing into a level rhythm. He looks sick. Very sick.

"Boss?"

The voice is from Joseph "Joey" Kavinsky, a skinny kid in his early twenties and is enough to make Victor take a deep breath in without opening his eyes.

"What is it?"

"So they're playing your broadcast over and over, calling you--" Joey mock-scowls and pushes his lower lip forward to approximate a squaring of the jaw as he lowers his voice, J. Jonah Jameson style, "'The dangerous meta terrorist Victor Vale, once a reeeeessspected member of the medical community, now turned violent meta resistance leader--!'"

Victor snorts at the newscaster impression as he brings a hand up to rub his eyes, "So they didn't like our impromptu demolition of the government communications building? I think we were doing the city skyline a favour: it was ostentatious."

Joey simply shrugs. Then goes quiet a while. Then scuffs his foot against the floor. The noise is inoffensive to most, but it grates on Victor's every nerve and shows in the way his shoulders coil upward.

"Spit it out."

"I mean, you know it, right? You're coming up to mass time."

Victor sighs, pushing himself heavily away from the console.

"Critical mass... Don't shorten it like that, it sounds like I'm going to pray."

Joey beams, clapping a hand on Victor's lower back to help steady him, despite the wince he receives from Victor, as he tips his head back to cheerfully recite scripture.

"'But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings! You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall!'"

Victor groans audibly, making some of the other metahumans on deck glance over, then shoves the younger man away from him to walk, shakily, by himself, "Fuck off, Joey!"

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INBOX: Fade Rift

2023-04-02T11:32:35Z

VICTOR VALE

[ crystal ◆ mail ◆ in-person ◆ misc. ◆ etc. ]

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2023-04-02T11:29:22Z

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ABOUT PERSONALITY ABILITIES BACKSTORY CODING

ABOUT

NAME

Victor Vale

CANON

V.E Schwab's Villains

PREVIOUS GAME

mask or menace

AGE

37 (44 mentally)

GENDER

♂

HEIGHT

EYES

blue

DIVSION

research (eventually)

ABRIDGED

Victor's canon world is ostensibly like the earth and America we know; same level of technology, politics, world powers, and so forth. The only difference is that it also contains ExtraOrdinaries/EOs, who are people who have undergone some kind of near-death experience (NDE) and gain some kind of superpower.

It's Schwab's version of X-Men, basically.

Victor has gone through the events of Vicious and Vengeful, followed by roughly a year and a half spent in the Mask or Menace universe, including an in-game AU event which Victor experienced as a seven year period where he both lived as a skilled neuroscientist, then ultimately participated as a metahuman resistance leader, which he retains the memories of.

And now, he's in Thedas.

PERSONALITY

A PRICK.

he's a prick.

ABILITIES

PAIN CONTROL

he's a real good anaesthetist. except when he's not. :')

NERVE CONTROL

he's like magneto with wolverine, except with everyone's nerves!

BACKSTORY

content warning: self-harm, manipulation, death, resurrection, religious extremism, childhood abuse, substance abuse/overuse, suicidal themes, physical and psychological torture, animal injury/death¹, and sexual assault via mind/will-control², medical experimentation, imprisonment, fascist authoritarian states, brain implants, discrimination themes, etc.

VICIOUS / VENGEFUL

• Victor attends university as a pre-med student and meets Eli Cardale.

• Eli suggests studying ExtraOridinaries and while Victor makes the first attempt, it fails.

• Their next hypothesis is the NDA additionally needs a huge amount of adrenaline, fear, or an extreme will to live in order to successfully create an EO.

• For Eli's turn, they succeed and Eli returned as an EO with full regeneration powers.

• Victor asks Angie (an engineering student, Victor's friend, Eli's girlfriend) to help him try again.

• Angie has access to devices that send large electrical charges through objects in a controlled environment, which Victor convinces her to use on him by steadily dialling the amount of electricity up until he blacks out.

• When Victor wakes up, he's also become an EO with the ability to control pain in himself and other people, but as he's unable to understand or control his powers yet.

• Victor accidentally overloads Angie with pain, killing her in the process.

• When Victor and Eli next meet, they argue about Angie and the status of EOs in general. Their fight turns violent, and Eli shoots Victor. When Victor blacks out from bloodloss, he's arrested.

• Victor is incarcerated for ten years where he plots his revenge against Eli.

• Victor spends five years in solitary confinement and the following five years in general subtly practising and honing the use of his abilities on other inmates.

• He befriends his cellmate, a hacker innate named Mitch, and they orchestrate their escape.

• Newly freed and on the run, Mitch and Victor encounter and rescue a 12-year-old EO while driving who has been shot named Sydney; she can bring living things back from the dead.

• After tracking down and luring Eli into a fight, Victor baits Eli into killing him in front of the police, which leads to Eli's arrest and containment in an EO facility.

• Sydney then uses her powers to revive Victor two days later.

• While Sydney's resurrection abilities bring Victor back, he hasn't come back entirely the same--he now experiences being overloaded with pain and inconsistent control of his abilities. Eventually, the build up of energy amasses so much that it kills Victor... temporarily.

• When Victor wakes up, his head is clear again and his control of his powers have returned, but these death episodes are happening more often (approximately once every two months) and the length of time before his revival is steadily increasing. Victor's goal is to find a solution to this problem and fix himself.

• When Victor and Eli meet next they fight, but Victor has gained access to an EO-nullifying serum that he uses on Eli.

• Sydney shoots Eli while his regeneration powers are inactive, killing him.

• Victor steals six remaining vials and leaves the city solo.

MASK OR MENACE / CNC2020

• After the events in Vengeful, Victor is snatched into an another dimension and wakes up in a government facility, injected with nanites, and welcomed as an imPort hero.

• There is no way back that the locals know of, and the nanites grant Victor some additional powers alongside his pre-existing abilities: healing and emotional intensification.

• Five minutes into his arrival, Victor wakes to Eli trying to kill him.

• Eli and Victor immediately fight and test their new abilities on each other--Eli using his forced tranquillity ability to make Victor placid, and Victor using his emotional intensification to make Eli feel more emotion than he's ever felt in his life.

• They hit a stalemate and opt into a truce with the shared goal of finding a way to make Eli human so he can die.

• Victor doesn't tell Eli he already has six samples of the EO-nullification serum.

• Victor takes the opportunity the new world to close the door on his old life.

• Superhero-scale events take place in imPort cities that he sometimes, either begrudgingly or tangentially, gets involved in, but overall he's a fairly minimal presence as he works as a doctor and medical researcher, searching for a more effective solution to his death-cycle problem.

• After the conclusion of an event that threatened to destroy both the MoM world and the multiverse at large, weak spots appear in time and space, allowing for an insight into what could have been, ushering the in-game AU event Cape and Cowl 2020--a dark dystopian version of Earth where resistant metahumans were rounded up by a fascist government.

• The event opens as the metahumans stage mass rebellion.

• In this AU setting, CnC2020 Victor spent 7 years in this universe, establishing himself as a highly respected name in the field of neuroscience and medicine due to his nerve controlling and healing abilities before the metahuman crackdown.

• Victor vehemently, then violently, resisted registration, and after two years of resisting was imprisoned by the government.

• Victor was implanted with a chip to contain and control his powers and subjected to a range of experiments in an attempt to find ways to replicate his nerve-control abilities.

• For the next five years, Victor gathered information and formed a carefully curated network to set the pieces in motion for a mass meta breakout at his facility.

• After the breakout, Victor operated as an open enemy to the state, participating in grand acts of terrorism and sabotage and staging large-scale extraction missions for especially powerful metahumans in maximum security. He also had a massive air-ship fortress, the Samodiva. It was very Fox-verse X-Men.

• When the CnC2020 concluded the MoM timeline resumed and anyone who was CnC2020 AU'd during the event returned. Some retained their CnC2020 memories and experiences, including Victor.

• Victor, then falls through a Rift...

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strikesthrough @ 2023-03-26T12:17:00

2023-03-26T15:18:04Z

PLAYER

Name: Ghost
Age: 30+
Contact: kralkatorrik
Other Characters: N/A
Interests: Begrudging alliances, manipulation stuff, grey morals, complex relationships especially slow-burn back-and-forth "we're pals, oh you left your knife in my back" relationships, "if anyone touches you, I'll kill them" relationships, "if we make it out of here alive, I'll kill you myself" relationships... I like mess :')

CHARACTER

Name: Victor Vale
Canon/OC: Canon, V.E Schwab's Villains series
Last Canon Point: Vengeful, Exodus I
Previous Game: maskormenace
Arrival Point: Point of drop, June 2020
Journal: strikesthrough
Age: 37 (44 mentally)

Canon World

Victor's canon world is ostensibly like the earth and America we know; same level of technology, politics, world powers, and so forth. The only difference is that it also contains ExtraOrdinaries/EOs, who are people who have undergone some kind of near-death experience (NDE) and gain some kind of superpower.

It's Schwab's version of X-Men, basically.

Canon History

Wiki Link / "What Happened In" Vicious / Vengeful summaries

cw: suicidal-adjacent actions, injury, drug use, pain infliction, torture, death, resurrection
• Victor attends university as a pre-med student and meets Eli Cardale.

• Eli suggests studying EOs and while Victor makes the first attempt, it fails. Their next hypothesis is the NDA additionally needs a huge amount of adrenaline, fear, or an extreme will to live in order to successfully create an EO.

• For Eli's turn, they succeed and Eli returned as an EO with full regeneration powers.

• Victor asks Angie (an engineering student, Victor's friend, Eli's girlfriend) to help him try again.

• Angie has access to devices that send large electrical charges through objects in a controlled environment, which Victor convinces her to use on him by steadily dialling the amount of electricity up until he blacks out.

• When Victor wakes up, he's also become an EO with the ability to control pain in himself and other people, but as he's unable to understand or control his powers yet.

• Victor accidentally overloads Angie with pain, killing her in the process.

• When Victor and Eli next meet, they argue about Angie and the status of EOs in general. Their fight turns violent, and Eli shoots Victor. When Victor blacks out from bloodloss, he's arrested.

• Victor is incarcerated for ten years where he plots his revenge against Eli.

• Victor spends five years in solitary confinement and the following five years in general subtly practising and honing the use of his abilities on other inmates.

• He befriends his cellmate, a hacker innate named Mitch, and they orchestrate their escape.

• Newly freed and on the run, Mitch and Victor encounter and rescue a 12-year-old EO while driving who has been shot named Sydney; she can bring living things back from the dead.

• After tracking down and luring Eli into a fight, Victor baits Eli into killing him in front of the police, which leads to Eli's arrest and containment in an EO facility.

• Sydney then uses her powers to revive Victor two days later.

• While Sydney's resurrection abilities bring Victor back, he hasn't come back entirely the same--he now experiences being overloaded with pain and inconsistent control of his abilities. Eventually, the build up of energy amasses so much that it kills Victor... temporarily. When he wakes up, his head is clear again and his control of his powers have returned, but these death episodes are happening more often (approximately once every two months) and the length of time before his revival is steadily increasing. Victor's goal is to find a solution to this problem and fix himself.

• When Victor and Eli meet next they fight, but Victor has gained access to an EO-nullifying serum that he uses of Eli. Sydney shoots Eli while his regeneration powers are inactive, killing him.

• Victor steals six remaining vials and leaves the city solo.

Past Game History

MoM Game Navigation

• After the events in Vengeful, Victor is snatched into an another dimension and wakes up in a government facility, injected nanites, and welcomed as an imPort hero.

• There is no way back that the locals know of, and the nanites grant Victor some additional powers alongside his pre-existing abilities: healing and emotional intensification.

• Five minutes into his arrival, Victor wakes to Eli trying to kill him.

• They immediately fight and test their new abilities on each other--Eli using his forced tranquillity ability to make Victor placid, and Victor using his emotional intensification to make Eli feel more emotion than he's ever felt in his life.

• They hit a stalemate and opt into a truce with the shared goal of finding a way to make Eli human so he can die. Victor doesn't tell Eli he already has six samples of the EO-nullification serum.

• Victor takes the opportunity the new world to close the door on his old life.

• Superhero-scale events take place in imPort cities that he sometimes, either begrudgingly or tangentially, gets involved in, but overall he's a fairly minimal presence as he works as a doctor and medical researcher, searching for a more effective solution to his death-cycle problem.

cw: medical experimentation, fascist authoritarian states, brain implants, imprisonment, discrimination themes
• After the conclusion of an event that threatened to destroy both the MoM world and the multiverse at large, weak spots appear in time and space, allowing for an insight into what could have been, ushering the in-game AU event Cape and Cowl 2020--a dark dystopian version of Earth where resistant metahumans were rounded up by a fascist government. The event opens as the metahumans stage mass rebellion.

• In this AU setting, CnC2020 Victor spent 7 years in this universe, establishing himself as a highly respected name in the field of neuroscience and medicine due to his nerve controlling and healing abilities before the metahuman crackdown. Victor vehemently, then violently, resisted registration, and after two years of resisting was imprisoned by the government.

• Victor was implanted with a chip to contain and control his powers and subjected to a range of experiments in an attempt to find ways to replicate his nerve-control abilities. For the next five years, Victor gathered information and formed a carefully curated network to set the pieces in motion for a mass meta breakout at his facility.

• After the breakout, Victor operated as an open enemy to the state, participating in grand acts of terrorism and sabotage and staging large-scale extraction missions for especially powerful metahumans in maximum security. He also had a massive air-ship fortress, it was very Fox-verse X-Men.

• When the CnC2020 concluded the MoM timeline resumed and anyone who was CnC2020 AU'd during the event returned. Some retained their CnC2020 memories and experiences, including Victor.

Personality

In canon, Mitch notes "[...] there were people you stood beside because it meant you weren't in their way [...] the only thing Mitch knew was that he did not want to be in [Victor's] way."

This is a pretty decent summary of Victor: he's dangerous if you're in his way, but if you're not he's more like a sniper rifle than a grenade.

Victor's personality overall has remained fairly consistent from canon through MoM and CnC2020, it's mostly his scope of motivation that's changed.

In canon, Victor's life motivations focused solely on revenge against Eli and then trying to resolve his death-cycle problem. In MoM, Victor's scope for new motivations widened. While still very self-focused and self-involved, Victor has a greater chance of getting involved in something that doesn't directly involve him if he feels he can gain something for himself in the process--alliances, favours, leverage.

Victor is cold, detached, not very nice or likeable as a person and he makes very little effort to be personable unless he wants something, and even then he'd rather just lie than pretend to be nice.

Extremely pragmatic, Victor believes that ends justify the means in the most strategic manner possible to him. If it would make more sense to kill or torture someone than find a different but more complex way forward, Victor will just kill or torture someone.

While sadistic and ruthless, Victor doesn't seek out opportunities to cause harm just for harm's sake; he reveals in ruthlessness within context, but doesn't seek out opportunities to hurt others just to generate pleasure for himself. Like everything else he does, there has to be a reason associated with it.

He's very intelligent and a keen schemer and manipulator, content to take his time to plan as well as react quickly and pivot as needed. He could have escaped from prison any time he wanted, but instead opted to stay for the time and quiet it afforded him in plotting his revenge on Eli, meaning he is very patient indeed.

He's dry and dark humoured, downright excitable when he's working on something that has sparked his interest, and when he does make allies they are solid and he will go to great lengths for his people (if it ultimately benefits him). This became especially true in his late-CnC2020 days where he found himself leading his resistance group.

While he doesn't care so much about positions of power for the sake of it, Victor does like being in control. He's generally indifferent at best toward hierarchies and actively hostile toward authority figures at worst. However, if he has a project that interests him, Victor is intensely driven and focused.

Prior CR

• Eli Ever - Friend, enemy, friend again, then eventually complicated lover, Eli remains the most important person in Victor's life even when he isn't present. Their time in MoM allowed them to bridge certain gaps with each other, and their new powers produced a mutual addictions where Eli's induced calming was euphoric for Victor, and Victor's emotional enhancement allowed Eli to feel a twisted version of love for the first time. They partner up to find a way to kill Eli's as Eli has grown tired of both their conflict and the threat of immortality, but along the lines, Victor began to sabotage that project without telling Eli, instead selfishly wanting Eli to stay human and alive with him.

• Apollo - Victor and Apollo forged a tight alliance in CnC2020 when Victor broke Apollo out of a maximum security facility and brought him into his resistance group as their "big gun." Victor also offered to assist with the damage done to Apollo's husband, Midnighter. When Apollo and Victor returned to MoM with their CnC2020 memories in tact, they pledged that at the earliest signs of imPort registration they would be ready to act.

• Joseph "Joey" Kavinsky - Another CnC2020 resistance member and Victor's right-hand man. As someone who can literally dream things into existence, Joey dreamt up a massive floating airship, the Samodiva, and the two were intimately involved in a weird way. Kavinsky didn't hold onto his CnC2020 self like Victor did but they maintained an odd, non-sexual relationship.

• Kaz Brekker - Their shared sense of humour and pragmatism lead to a friendship with mutual benefits. Kaz reached out to Victor for help when he was jumped by members of a rival gang and badly injured, seeking out Victor's healing abilities, which Victor provided.

Strengths & Weaknesses

• A lying liar who lies

• Has an incredible sense of knowledge and awareness of the human body, even before becoming an EO

• An very skilled physician ~~even if he's never formally completed any medical school or residency in any of the worlds he's been in~~

• Not even a bit squeamish

• Pragmatic

• Patient

• Tactical and strategic

• Mistrustful, sometimes paranoid

• Ruthless and remorseless

• Low emotional capacity, both in terms of his own feelings and caring about the feelings of others

• Sometimes dramatic, sometimes just a drama queen

POWERS
In Mask or Menance at the time, all characters could have up to three powersets. These three powersets could include canon abilities, MoM-specific abilities, or a combination of both. Victor had his canon Nerve/Pain control as one powerset, then two additional MoM-specific abilities.

• [Canon] Pain/Nerve Control

As an EO, Victor gained the ability to control pain intensity, both his own and in others and he tends to use his powers with very little hesitation and even less remorse.

It's suggested these abilities work on anything living with nervous system and it is experienced as being able to sense of electrical pulses within others. In practical terms, this means Victor can feel if someone is present without directly seeing them by the electrical pulses their body sends out and he can also tell if someone is dead without even touching them.

While Victor can induce pain out of nothing, he's more effective when he is tapping into some pre-existing pain produced within his target. He can both increase or decrease the intensity of pain in himself and others.

In extreme cases, Victor can turn this ability up to such a high level that it overloads a victim and can be lethal. On the other end of the spectrum, he can remove the sensation of pain entirely.

He doesn’t necessarily need to be too close to people to maintain this ability. Canonically, Victor nullifies the chronic pain experienced by another character and is able to maintain this pain-killing effect across several cities (and implicitly several states), however he is unable to alter the intensity in either direction at long distances--he can only maintain it at a fixed level or stop using his ability entirely. Any pre-set pain/numbness level cease if Victor is killed and resume as soon as he's alive again.

Similarly, he is absolutely unable to cause long-distance fatalities with his abilities and he must be in relatively close proximity in order to initially inflict or remove pain.

He also cannot control his pain output while sleeping, meaning it's potentially dangerous to wake him, though it's suggested that pre-set pain control levels maintain their consistency while he sleeps.

Later in canon, Victor develops his ability to control nerves for things other than altering pain, enabling him to control other people's nerves enough to stop them from moving or manipulating their bodies like puppets.

This is a fair bit more technical ability involved with his nerve control and it takes a lot more concentration than pain alteration.

• [MoM] Healing

Victor's healing can only be performed on other people and Victor cannot heal himself in any shape or form.

Healing must involve physical contact with the person he's healing and the location of the wound; he absolutely cannot perform any kind of remote healing.

He also cannot heal mental or damage done to magical abilities and is only able to heal damage related to the physical body and nervous system.

Whenever Victor uses his healing ability on someone, there is a recharge period before he can use the ability again, depending on the time spent using the ability and the level of concentration needed and may range from a few hours to a day or two.

• [MoM] Emotional Intensification

By making physical contact with others, Victor can forcibly enhance whatever the most prominent emotion someone is feeling at that particular moment. He has no control over what that emotion is, can't pick or choose one particular emotion to enhance over another, and he can't feel their emotion himself.

I'd opt to keep his canon abilities.

Suggested Nerfs
Canon already has a baked-in aspect where periodically (roughly once every two months), Victor loses control of his own abilities, gets overloaded with pain that he can no-longer control, and then he dies for short periods. He's still actively searching for a cure for this and I would like to keep this as an not only an on-going personal plot, but also make it so he effectively gets a month of his powers working as well as they're ever going to in this setting, then a month of decline where they're inconsistent before he dies and the cycle resets.

I would also suggest a time limitation on how long he can maintain control someone else's nerves especially, maybe a maximum of 5-10 seconds for each use and pushing beyond that he has to fight against swiftly mounting dizziness and nausea, and ultimately passes out if he keeps going.

As the distance limit is never defined in canon for when he is inducing or changing pain levels or controlling nerves, I might suggest a limit of a 10-15 meter radius and, again, trying to push beyond that will involves him experiencing dizziness, headaches, nosebleeds, collapsing, and so forth. I'd also suggest a line of sight condition for pain/nerve control.

In canon, he can control multiple people's nerves/cause them pain at once, but I would suggest this be limited to a single target, with diminishing effectiveness and accuracy the more targets he's trying to impact simultaneously and, again, all the dizziness and eventual passing out if he tries to push beyond.

Arrival Inventory

• His CnC2020 Outfit--a long black trench coat with deep red lining, pale grey leather gloves, dark pants, dark boots, with the dream addition of his forearms and hands being covered in black sharpie lines with some written text periodically escaping the strikethrough which will take him a while to wash off

• A kid's lunchbox with a cartoon of Joey Kavinsky's face on it full of vials of blue EO-nullifying serum, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and a bottle of Cool Blue Gatorade. It's hard to tell which vials are real and which are just more blue gatorade

• A toy model of the Samodiva

• A classic-looking black bible full of things said by Eli Ever at some point in time

Humanization

Victor is human. An EO human, but still human.

Fit
I've opted to bring him in as a CRAU rather than straight from canon is that he's already gone through a lot of development that decouples him from his canon motivations and obsessions that otherwise make him very myopic and disinterested in the affairs of others. In his CRAU state he's still got a "what's in it for me?" kind of attitude, but he's had a lot more experience of doing things for others in exchange for something that he doesn't just flat-out decline.

I'm very much hoping he can be someone who brings some interesting friction, but can also ideally establish himself as useful as a doctor, someone who can Get Shit Done, and who can also be in the field in a backline supportive capacity.

With his memories as a resistance leader, he also has more hands-on experience leading and participating in mission-based affairs and in having a wider-scope goal that isn't necessarily have a quick or easy to access. It's a general set-up he's now used to and can more easily slide into even with new and different players on the board.

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• MoM Sample
• Fade Rift TDM

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CnC2020

2019-12-27T14:27:36Z

everybody wants to rule the world

Ported in around 2013, Victor had enough time to acclimatise to the City before the crackdown began and before then established himself as a highly respected name in the field of neuroscience due to his ExtraOrdinary/EO nerve controlling abilities he brought to the City from his home world.

While not terribly warm or nice, Victor was known for his meta ability to control and read nerves as well as control pain. Within the field of neurology, Victor was something of a controversial figure with some claiming that Victor’s research could not provide objective analysis due to his methodology behind too linked to his abilities, thus making his studies impossible to replicate. However the unique insight Victor could provide on nerve-related conditions and abnormalities was nevertheless impossible to fully jettison. It was also well-known that Dr. Vale was just generally a bit of a standoffish asshole. Victor also provided consults on specific cases, but only if they provided additional knowledge, furthered his research, or brought particular brands of prestige.

During this time, Victor was also desperately seeking a cure of his own “illness” in which he dies for short periods of time at increasing intervals. He had not yet succeeded.

When the crackdown began, Victor vehemently resisted registration and after increasing pressure from government agents was forced to use his abilities in a more offensive manner, creating extreme pain to anyone who threatened him with incarceration.

Victor was eventually subdued (this is open to anyone who wants the dubious honour and Victor’s undying vengeance) in 2015 and imprisoned for three years. A chip was implanted in him to contain and control his powers, which in turn stunted his cycle dying. During this time, Victor was also subjected to a range of tests and experiments in an attempt to find ways to replicate his nerve-control abilities.

Being a highly manipulative person even before becoming an EO in his own world, Victor took his time soaking up information and forming a carefully curated network and set the pieces in motion for a mass meta breakout at his facility.

Victor now operates openly as a enemy to the government and government-loyal non-metas, and does not shy away from grand acts of terrorism and sabotage toward the government. How extreme his hatred of non-metas is concerned sometimes fluctuates, but as Victor strongly adheres to the belief that his ends justify the means, sometimes civilians get caught in his war against the government.

Victor has established himself as an incredibly well-connected figure in the underworld with a reputation for showing no remorse for people who cross him. While he is open to alliances as long as they benefit him, Victor does not consider himself part of the resistance, and he has been known to take out rebels who get in the way of his goal of taking out the government and non-metas. He also doesn’t consider himself leader of a movement in any direct way, but when you’re being an extra af terrorist you can’t help but pick up a few fans along the way; Victor prefers to keep his inner circle very tight though.

He is also getting pretty desperate for a cure for his periodic deaths and is actively and aggressively on the look out for anything that might help stop the process and he doesn’t care if that comes from government studies, metahuman abilities, anything.

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2019-10-08T16:05:27Z

VICTOR VALE

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2019-09-12T10:44:59Z

〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Ghost
AGE: 33
JOURNAL: jesters
PLURK: kralkatorrik
RETURNING: N/A

〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Victor Vale
CHARACTER AGE: 37
CANON ORIGIN: Vicious
CHRONOLOGY: Vengeful: Exodus, After I
CLASS: Villain...? Anti-hero?
HOUSING: Random is fine

BACKGROUND: Victor Vale was not a fucking sidekick

PERSONALITY: Victor is a bad person. To some people, it's all just a matter of perspective.

The child of two self-help writers, Victor grew up in a stable if lonely environment where many of his teenage years at least were spent by himself in the Vale's family home while his parents went on extensive book and speaking tours. Finding the work they do to be farcical, Victor orientated him toward medicine and science, something of a middle-finger to the discipline of the doctor's Vale as Victor rejected the field of the psyche and instead opted for the bio-medical world with sights set on becoming a suregon. He also took to purposefully defacing his parents’ works into strike-through poetry as both an act of defiance toward them and an act of self-expression where he can't find the words himself.

Incredibly intelligent and possessing both an aptitude for detailed calculation and a adeptness for science and medicine, Victor is ambitious, arrogant, and self-serving.

He is pragmatic to a extreme, very much of the doctrine that the end justifies any and all means which can make him cold, cruel and utterly ruthlessness when the need calls on it, but always with logic and reason at the core. Simply put, if Victor doesn’t need to do something, he won’t, but if there is something he wants to achieve then 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 a different but more complex way forward, Victor will absolutely kill or torture someone.

In his own self-assessment, Victor views himself as a sociopath, believing he is above feelings-based decisions and emotions. In reality, this is a self-aggrandising view on Victor's part and while he does seem to struggle to convey emotions, Victor does feel quite intensely and does develop attachments to other people, perhaps much to his chagrin. Despite not being an actual sociopath though, Victor is undeniably emotionally detached which enhances 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 angered 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.

Initially handling himself as something of a lone wolf, Victor met Eli Cardale while the two of them studied pre-med together at Lockland University. In Eli, Victor found a kindred spirit, someone whose darkness reflected and complimented his own. But where Eli may have been able to fake normality, Victor dug in, purposefully pulling both their inner monsters to the surface. Eli's senior thesis project related to researching EOs, or ExtraOrdinaries, urban legends of people with amazing abilities. Together, with Victor's methods of persuasion, the theoretical project of how to create EOs turned practical and Victor's desire to pull out the darkness in Eli saw their senior year end prematurely, both of them changed forever through becoming EOs.

Their success in cracking the EO code was not without casualties. Victor's jealousy, hubris, and blind ambition in pursuit of results came to a head with the accidental death of his friend and Eli's girlfriend, Angie. This was ultimately be where Victor Vale and Eli ~~Cardale~~ Ever became enemies as Eli turned his once-best friend over to the authorities.

Intensely driven and focused, Victor was arrested and spent ten years in Wrighton Federal Penitentiary, where he plotted his revenge on Eli with care, patience and meticulous attention to detail, while manipulating the people around him without hesitation in order to obtain his goals. This feeds into Victor's general interests in controlling not only people and situations, but also as a master of his own self-control fate without ever ascribing what happens to him to some higher, unseen power or greater meaning.

POWER:

Pain/Nerve Manipulation
As a ExtraOrdinary, Victor gained the ability to control pain intensity, both his own and in others. He tends to use his powers with with very little hesitation and even less remorse.

While Victor 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.

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. He can maintain pain-numbness or pain-infliction over long distances, but when he is not nearby Victor can only turn off or sustain the level of pain (or numbness) he has already preset and to alter it he must be closer. This does stop if Victor is killed, however and he cannot control his pain output while sleeping.

In addition, Victor has taught himself to control nerves for things other than giving and taking pain away. He develops his abilities to enable him to stop people from moving or control their bodies like puppets. This is a fair more technical ability which takes a lot more concentration than pain alteration.

Healing
Victor is able to heal others' physical injuries, but is entirely unable to fix any part of himself. While this ability could and should be used in benevolent ways, Victor is not a kind person, preferring to use this ability as either a means to bargain with others, or torture and torment through means of over-healing. And just because he can heal people doesn't necessarily mean he will heal them. Victor is, in effect, the worst person to have healer capabilities.

Emotional Intensification
By making physical contact with others (which he hates to do), Victor can forcibly enhance whatever the most prominent emotion someone is feeling at that particular moment. He has no control over what that emotion is and can't pick or choose one particular emotion to enhance over another.

〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉

COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE: [Before, Victor would probably have opted to avoid using public networks and social media as much as possible, trying to ensure he didn't leave anything traceable that he can't control. Back then, any online activity was carefully handled to act as a guiding arrows: follow me, I'm here.

Back then, Victor also had an expert hacker, but he doesn't have that here. All Victor has is a dog that shouldn't be with him.

He has questions though. Questions that are hard to gain answers from bumping into people on the streets. The camera isn't settled on Victor when it turns on though and is instead focused on a large, all-black great dane, ears forward with interest and head cocking adorably. It's a nice enough visual.]

I have a problem I've been trying to puzzle through for quite sometime, and given the circumstances and the audience here, I figured perhaps this is one to put out into the public and source some additional insight.

[There's the sound of footsteps behind the camera, the impression of a man dressed in dark colours passing by briefly behind the dog, whose head lifts and cranes back to watch as a pale hand brushes the animal's massive, dopey skull.]

Does anyone have any thoughts on how to deal with dangerous individuals with regeneration abilities?

[After a pause, Victor leans down for one, purposeful shot of himself: blonde hair, cold blue eyes, pale skin.]

I'd like to exchange notes with anyone who has thoughts they're willing to share. It's a matter of-- [His eyes flicker down, like he's ashamed of what he's about to admit] ... Safety. For myself. And for others. Please.

[Sure. Safety. That's what this is about. Victor has creative ways of spelling 'revenge.']

LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE: TDM
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VICTOR VALE

There are no good men in this game

The absence of pain led to an absence of fear
The absence of fear led to a disregard for consequence

PROFILE PERSONALITY APPEARANCE ABILITIES

ABOUT
Victor Vale was not a fucking sidekick

STATISTICS
NAME victor alan vale
SERIES vicious
CANON POINT post-exodus, i
CNC 2020 INFO: here
ALIAS n/a
STATUS unregistered
CLASS villain
AGE 37
ETHNICITY caucasian
HOUSING nonah #002

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Victor is not a warm or inviting person, preferring to keep to himself and presents an intimidating, strange shape of a man, often swept in blacks that draw out his pale skin, hair and eyes. He pushes out an impression of someone who is unapproachable and dangerous, both of which turn out to be entirely true.

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.

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PERSONALITY
All Eli had to do was smile. All Victor had to do was lie. Both proved frighteningly effective.

DEMEANOR
Victor doesn't put much effort into being personable unless he needs to perform it for specific, practical reason (ie, to get what he wants) and instead often comes across as distant, cold, detached, and generally standoffish. He lies flawlessly, acts with ruthless intent, and possesses very little in the way of remorse. He's calculated and cruel, and generally is an uncomfortable presence to be around with very few exceptions.

PSYCHIC IMPRESSION
Victor likes to pretend he feels nothing at all and has no attachment to others, but that isn't entirely true. In fact, Victor feels very intensely and tries to act like he doesn't because sociopaths feel nothing and that is what he believes himself to be. In reality, Victor longs for true connection to others which it what made his break with Eli something he could only process by seeking revenge at the cost of everything. It's also why Victor ended up with a little crew of misfits including a hacker, a soldier, a teenager, and a thrice re-alive dog. Victor is not nearly as emotionless as he wants to think he is.

SUPERNATURAL IMPRESSION
Victor is broken on the inside, like the fabric that holds him together is frayed and flickering on and off. He's like a lightbulb burning too high and too hot that will eventually burn out.

Victor is a bad person. To some people, it's all just a matter of perspective.

The child of two self-help writers, Victor grew up in a stable if lonely environment where many of his teenage years at least were spent by himself in the Vale's family home while his parents went on extensive book and speaking tours. Finding the work they do to be farcical, Victor orientated him toward medicine and science, something of a middle-finger to the discipline of the doctor's Vale as Victor rejected the field of the psyche and instead opted for the bio-medical world with sights set on becoming a suregon. He also took to purposefully defacing his parents’ works into strike-through poetry as both an act of defiance toward them and an act of self-expression where he can't find the words himself.

Incredibly intelligent and possessing both an aptitude for detailed calculation and a adeptness for science and medicine, Victor is ambitious, arrogant, and self-serving.

He is pragmatic to a extreme, very much of the doctrine that the end justifies any and all means which can make him cold, cruel and utterly ruthlessness when the need calls on it, but always with logic and reason at the core. Simply put, if Victor doesn’t need to do something, he won’t, but if there is something he wants to achieve then 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 a different but more complex way forward, Victor will absolutely kill or torture someone.

In his own self-assessment, Victor views himself as a sociopath, believing he is above feelings-based decisions and emotions. In reality, this is a self-aggrandising view on Victor's part and while he does seem to struggle to convey emotions, Victor does feel quite intensely and does develop attachments to other people, perhaps much to his chagrin. Despite not being an actual sociopath though, Victor is undeniably emotionally detached which enhances 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 angered 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.

Initially handling himself as something of a lone wolf, Victor met Eli Cardale while the two of them studied pre-med together at Lockland University. In Eli, Victor found a kindred spirit, someone whose darkness reflected and complimented his own. But where Eli may have been able to fake normality, Victor dug in, purposefully pulling both their inner monsters to the surface. Eli's senior thesis project related to researching EOs, or ExtraOrdinaries, urban legends of people with amazing abilities. Together, with Victor's methods of persuasion, the theoretical project of how to create EOs turned practical and Victor's desire to pull out the darkness in Eli saw their senior year end prematurely, both of them changed forever through becoming EOs.

Their success in cracking the EO code was not without casualties. Victor's jealousy, hubris, and blind ambition in pursuit of results came to a head with the accidental death of his friend and Eli's girlfriend, Angie. This was ultimately be where Victor Vale and Eli Cardale Ever became enemies as Eli turned his once-best friend over to the authorities.

Intensely driven and focused, Victor was arrested and spent ten years in Wrighton Federal Penitentiary, where he plotted his revenge on Eli with care, patience and meticulous attention to detail, while manipulating the people around him without hesitation in order to obtain his goals. This feeds into Victor's general interests in controlling not only people and situations, but also as a master of his own self-control fate without ever ascribing what happens to him to some higher, unseen power or greater meaning.

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APPEARANCE
When the sunlight hit him, it didn’t bring out any colors, but only accentuated the lack of color, making him look more like an old-fashioned photo than a flesh-and-blood student.

DETAILS
HAIR blond
EYES blue
HEIGHT 6'
BUILD tall, slender, sometimes gaunt
FEATURES three bullethole scars
PB eamon farren

HOME

ABILITIES
Victor felt gingerly along the lines of his power, searching for frayed threads, interruptions in the current, but felt—unchanged. Unbroken. Whole.

SUMMARY
Victor can manipulate the electric pulses that move through nerves which allow him to manipulate movements and control pain on either end of scale. He is also recently obtained the ability to physically heal others and enhance their emotions--both require physical contact.

EXTRAORDINARY
EOs were urban legends until Victor and Eli cracked the EO creation code: a combination of traumatic near-experiences that heavily impacts the victim physically and psychologically. It requires a tremendous amount of fear-based adrenaline and personal willpower on the part of a victim who wants to survive in order for them to become an EO. Victor had himself strapped to a table and asked his friend Angie Knight to torture him with an electrical charge. When Victor blacked out from the pain, he awoke changed and with the ability to alter the experience of pain in himself and others. His transformation from human to EO also came with a permanent fatality: Angie had died from a massive pulse of electricity from Victor when he blacked out.

MUNDANE SKILLS
Victor is pragmatic, patient, and highly intelligent. He also has an innate aptitude for understanding the human body, which is part of why he went into medicine as a per-med student. He retains the belief that the human body is ultimately a machine made out of flesh and provides fuel that drives his interest in fixing broken aspects of people, though he does it for the sense of control and personal accomplishment, not to save anyone.

Pain/Nerve Manipulation (canon)

As a ExtraOrdinary, Victor gained the ability to control pain intensity, both his own and in others. He tends to use his powers with very little hesitation and even less remorse. While Victor 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, and he can both increase pain and entirely erase it. 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. Canonically, Victor nullifies the chronic pain experienced by another character and is able to maintain this pain-numbing effect across several cities (and implicitly several states), however he is unable to alter the intensity in either direction at long distances--he can only maintain it at a fixed level or stop using his ability entirely. Any pre-set pain/numbness level ceases if Victor is killed. Similarly, he is absolutely unable to cause long-distance fatalities with his abilities and he must be in relatively close proximity in order to initially inflict or remove pain. He also cannot control his pain output while sleeping, meaning it's potentially dangerous to wake him, though it's suggests that pre-set pain control levels maintain their consistent level while he sleeps. Later in canon, Victor teaches himself to control nerves for things other than giving and taking pain away and he develops his abilities to enable him to stop people from moving or control their bodies like puppets. This is a fair bit more technical ability which takes a lot more concentration than pain alteration.

Emotional Intensification (MoM)
By making physical contact with others (which he hates to do), Victor can forcibly enhance whatever the most prominent emotion someone is feeling at that particular moment. He has no control over what that emotion is, can't pick or choose one particular emotion to enhance over another, and he can't feel their emotion himself.

Healing (MoM)
Victor's healing can only be performed on other people and Victor cannot heal himself in any shape or form. Healing must involve physical contact with the person he's healing and the location of the wound; he absolutely cannot perform any kind of remote healing. He also cannot heal mental or damage done to magical abilities and is only able to heal damage related to the physical body and nervous system. Initially, Victor didn't have much of a handle on what he could and couldn't do and some early attempts to heal failed entirely and accomplished sloppy or only partial success. Other times, Victor's early attempts to heal went unexpectedly overboard and out of control, producing too much new flesh and so on. After the CNC2020 AU event where he got to experience his full villain / resistance leader fantasy, he returned wit seven years of advanced knowledge and hands-on experience of his healing abilities and for all intents and purposes Victor considered himself a highly skilled doctor with unique neurological insight through a combination of his nerve control ability and healing abilities. Whenever Victor uses his healing ability on someone, there is a recharge period before he can use the ability again, depending on the time spent using the ability and the level of concentration needed and may range from a few hours to a day or two.

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2018-12-31T12:32:02Z

« ▮ Alliance ⏐ ▮ Respect ⏐ ▮ Trust »

ELI
EVER

fucking die. everduring

ADAM PARRISH

ugh. gdi. must you? ~complicated~ aseity

DORIAN GRAY

dorian u little shit. capturingeternity

GANSEY

adam's all-american labrador. disentombs

JONATHAN REID

totally not a vampire. hungerneverfed

NERIA SURANA

a+ benefactor. unabatedly

WAVER VELVET

this brat. tryhard

[ Memory: “Where the hell did that dog come from?” ]

2018-12-16T16:19:00Z

Warning: Blood, violence, dog "death" (the dog is fine, I promise)

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It was after lunch and the people had almost all slunk back into their offices, leaving the streets strangely bare. Victor seemed to be leading them farther and farther away from the crowds, onto narrower streets. Quieter streets.

“Sydney,” Victor said some time later, “you don’t have to tell me your power if you don’t want, but I need you to understand something. I’m going to do everything I can to beat Eli, but he’s not an easy opponent. His power alone makes him nearly invincible, and he may be crazy, but he’s cunning. Every advantage he has makes it harder for me to win. The fact that he knows your power, and the fact that I don’t, puts me at a disadvantage. Do you understand?”

Sydney’s steps had slowed, and she nodded, but said nothing. It took all of Victor’s patience not to force her hand, but a moment later, that patience was rewarded. The two of them passed an alley, and heard a low whine. Sydney broke away and turned back, and when Victor followed, he saw what she had seen.

A large black shape stretched on the damp concrete, panting. It was a dog. Victor knelt just long enough to run a finger down its back, and the whining faded. Now the only sounds it made were shuddering breaths. At least it wouldn’t be in pain. He stood again, frowning the way he did whenever he was thinking. The dog looked mangled, as if it had been hit by a car and staggered the few feet into the alley before crumpling.

Sydney crouched down by the dog, stroking its short black fur.

“After Eli shot me,” she said in a soft, cooing voice, as if speaking to the dying dog instead of Victor, “I swore I’d never use my power again. Not in front of anyone.” She swallowed hard, and looked up at Victor. “Kill it.”

Victor arched an eyebrow. “With what, Syd?”

She gave him a long, hard look.

“Please kill the dog, Victor,” she said again.

He looked around. The alley was empty. He sighed and pulled a handgun from its place against his back. Digging in his pocket he retrieved a silencer, and screwed it on, glancing over it at the wheezing dog.

“Scoot back,” he said, and Sydney did. Victor took aim, and pulled the trigger once, a clean shot. The dog stopped moving, and Victor turned away, already dismantling his gun. When Sydney didn’t follow, he glanced back to find her crouching over the dog again, running her hands back and forth along its bloody coat and its crushed ribs in small, soothing motions. And then, as he watched, she went still. Her breath hovered in a cloud in front of her lips, and her face tightened in pain.

“Sydney—” he started, but the rest of the sentence died in his throat as the dog’s tail moved. One slight swoosh across the dirty pavement. And then again, right before the body tensed. The bones cracked back into place, the chest inflated, the rib cage reformed, and the legs stretched. And then, the beast sat up. Sydney backed away as the dog pushed itself to its four feet, and looked at them, tail wagging tentatively. The dog was... huge. And very much alive.

Victor watched, speechless. Up until now he’d had factors, thoughts, ideas about how to find Eli. But as he watched the dog blink and yawn and breathe, a plan began to take shape. Sydney looked cautiously his way, and he smiled.

“Now that,” he said, “is a gift.”

She petted the dog between the ears, both of which stood roughly eye level with her.

“Can we keep him?”

* * *

Victor tossed his coat onto the couch as Sydney and the dog wandered in behind him.

“It’s time to send a message,” he announced, dropping the Vale self-help book he’d bought onto the counter with a flourish and a thud.

“To Eli Ever.”

“Where the hell did that dog come from?” asked Mitch.

“I get to keep him,” said Sydney.

“Is that blood?”

“I shot him,” said Victor, searching through his papers.

“Why would you do that?” asked Mitch, closing the laptop.

“Because he was dying.”

“Then why isn’t he dead?”

“Because Sydney brought him back.”

Mitch turned to consider the small blond girl in the middle of their hotel living room. “Excuse me?”

Her eyes went to the floor. “Victor named him Dol,” she said.

“It’s a measurement of pain,” explained Victor.

“Well, that’s morbidly appropriate,” said Mitch. “Can we get back to the part where Sydney resurrected him? And what do you mean you’re going to send Eli a message?”

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2018-10-26T08:39:15Z

VICTOR VALE

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strikesthrough @ 2018-10-25T23:16:00

2018-10-25T22:20:59Z

𝕍ictor 𝕍ale
Plenty of humans were 𝖒𝖔𝖓𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖘,
and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being 𝓱𝓾𝓶𝓪𝓷.

BASIC

NAME:	Victor Vale
CANON:	Vicious
AGE:	Early thirties
GENDER:	Male
SPECIES:	Human/EO
DOMINANT:	Eli Ever
OCCUPATION:	Doctor / "Anesthesiologist"
APPLICATION:	Here
OPT-OUT/IN:	Here

PLAYER:	Ghost
CONTACT:	PM journal
TIMEZONE:	GMT

APPEARANCE

VISUAL:	Link
HEIGHT:	Around 6'
BUILD:	Tall, slender, almost gaunt at times
HAIR:	Pale blonde
EYES:	Blue
FEATURES:	Three old bullet holes through his chest.
DRESS:	Often in top to toe black, trenchcoats, turtle necks; Parisian fashion sense and well-groomed.
VOICE:	Silky and smooth, even and quiet-leaning, but not warm.
PB:	Eamon Farren

PERMISSIONS
Hover over ‼ for details

BACKTAGGING:	✓
THREADHOPPING:	‼
FOURTHWALLING:	‼
ROMANCE:	‼
MINDREADING:	‼
MANIPULATION:	‼
INJURY:	✓
FIGHTING:	✓
KILLING:	✓
THE DOG:	‼

YES

MAYBE

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IC Kinks*:
✓ Pain kink (opt-out/in)
✓ Physical control (opt-out/in)
✓ Torture
✓ Sadism/Masochism
✓ Non-contact play
✓ Sexual apathy
✓ Manipulation
✓ Powerplay

OOC Kinks*
✓ UST
✓ Dub/non-con
✓ Orientation play
✓ Oral/deep throat/face fucking
✓ Rough/fight sex
✓ Roughhousing
✓ Size difference
✓ Restraint
✓ Consensual
✓ Dub/non-con
✓ Consent play
✓ Barebacking/internal cumshots/creampie
✓ Handjobs/fingering
✓ Hairpulling
✓ Frotting/hotdogging
✓ Rimming
✓ Scratching/bruising/abrasions
✓ Intercrural
✓ Xeno/monster/non-human
✓ Teasing
✓ Magic play
✓ Edging/orgasm control
✓ Dirty talk
✓ Public/Semi-public
✓ Other gross stuff I'm forgetting right now

In general, I can become interested in anything that's not on the hard no list if the conditions are right, so if in doubt just ask.

✗ Pregnancy themes
✗ Scat/Bathroom kinks
✗ Gender/sex swap
✗ Marriage/Family themes
✗ Feminisation

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2018-10-25T21:08:00Z

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strikesthrough @ 2018-10-25T16:19:00

2018-10-25T15:20:03Z

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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

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Warnings, Permissions, Opt-In/Out & HMD

2018-10-14T23:46:28Z

Warnings, Permissions, HMD & Opt-In/Out

↬ CONTENT WARNINGS

Victor is from V.E.Schwab's Villains book series which contains several dark themes including, but not limited to (hover on footnote numbers for some specific notes):

self-harm, manipulation, death, resurrection, religious extremism, childhood abuse, substance abuse/overuse, suicidal themes, physical and psychological torture, animal injury/death¹, and sexual assault via mind/will-control², medical experimentation, imprisonment, etc.

↬ VICTOR'S ABILITIES

As an ExtraOrdinary (EO), 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 and can both increase pain and entirely erase it.

In extreme cases, Victor can use this ability with lethal consequences.

In addition, Victor learns to use his abilities to control nerves and develops his abilities in such a way that he can stop people from moving or control their bodies like they’re a puppet.

Since these are some pretty hefty controlling powers, I’m down to let Victor's abilities be as effective, or not, for any given player, character, scene, or plot as needed; I'm not here to "win" at RP and I only really want to play these themes of control with express consent from other players.

↬ DEAD/"DEAD" CHARACTERS

Victor's abilities, along with his uncanny knowledge and adeptness around human bodies and biology, mean that he can tell if someone's body temperature is unusually high or low, if their pulse is too quick, too fast, or if it's not there at all.

If your character is something like a vampire, (technically) dead, or would generally feel different to a regular human on a nervous system level, it's possible for Victor to pick up on this if you would like.

If you would like to opt in/out of this, please see below.

↬ OPT-IN

In canon, Victor uses his ability very liberally, it has some very disruptive potential in a RP setting.

I will always check in with other players before having Victor use his powers at the higher levels and will find some excuse to make sure they don't work if you'd prefer to avoid/stall/plot around Victor's stupidly OP X-men knock-off bollocks.

On the flip side, if you would like Victor to liberally inflict/take away pain or control your character, please let me know!

I've got some general permissions in the text box below to fill out if you'd like, but do feel free to hit me up any ol' time to chat details and specifics!

↬ OPT-OUT

If you would prefer not to tag with Victor at all, for any reason, please leave me a comment below! Comments are screened and I don't take opt-outs personally!

↬ HOW'S MY DRIVING?

You can also use this post as a HMD. Again, comments are screened, anon is on, IP tracking is off.

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