Post by Mr. Sinister on Mar 8, 2010 13:40:57 GMT -5
Character Information
Real Name: Nathaniel Essex
Mutant/Hero/Villain name: Mr. Sinister
Nick Name: Sinister
Canon or custom: Canon
Age: 180
Place of Birth: East Sussex, Hastings England
Nationality: British
Affiliation: Unaffiliated Evil
Rank/Occupation: Geneticist
Gender: Male
Height: 6’5”
Weight: 285lbs
Hair:Black
Eyes: Red
Build: Muscular
Markings: Ruby Diamond on Forehead
Known Relatives:
Rebecca Essex (wife, deceased), Adam Stanislaus Essex (son, deceased)
Powers:
-Cellular Shapeshifting: ability to control every molecule of his body, allowing him to assume the form of any one he wishes. He once reduced himself into a semi-liquid state.
-Regenerative Healing Factor: Mister Sinister is able to rapidly regenerate damaged or destroyed tissue with much greater speed and efficiency than an ordinary human. Sinister can fully heal from injuries that result in massive tissue damage or loss such as multiple gunshot wounds, slashes, puncture wounds, broken bones, and severe burns within a matter of moments.
-Superhuman Stamina: Mister Sinister's muscles produce considerably less fatigue toxins than the muscles of ordinary humans. He can exert himself at peak capacity several hours before fatigue begins to affect him.
-Superhuman Strength possesses superhuman strength, which may be a product of his shapeshifting. Sinister is able to press lift 10 ton range.
-Superhuman Reflexes: Mister Sinister's reflexes are enhanced to levels that are beyond the human body's natural limits.
-Telepathy: He can read minds and project his own thoughts into the minds of others within a radius of 250 miles. With extreme effort he can greatly extend that radius some known powers connected to this are:
Mental Paralysis: ability to induce temporary mental or physical paralysis
Mind Control: capable of controlling the minds of others but only one at a time and if the target is in his physical presence.
Dilate Power: ability to mentally paralyze a foe he's touching and the ability to psionically "turn off" the superpowers of any mutant.
-Telekinesis: possesses telekinetic abilities enabling him to levitate and manipulate living beings, inanimate objects, and to some extent energy, psionically. He can “lift” as much as 10 tons of weight and possibly even more and can enable himself to “fly” at great speed.
Abilities:
Genius-Level Geneticist: Sinister is a genius and a geneticist of the highest order, able to predict genetic mutations and splice DNA. It is quite probable his powers are the result of self-experimentation - his shapeshifitng power is due to a procedure he performed on himself with help from a time-traveling Gambit. He can also produce large amounts of clones; he has done so with all his Marauders, and with Jean Grey.
Master Surgeon: He is a master surgeon, having excised a portion of Gambit's brain, only to later restore it (although from Sinister's point of view, he restored a portion of Gambit's brain and later excised it, as Gambit was traveling back in time when the restoration was completed — possibly a predestination paradox)
Skilled Mechanical Engineer: having created devices that seem to have been taken from the tales of Jules Verne.
Master Manipulator: He possesses a good deal of knowledge in psychology, and is a skilled manipulator.
Weakness:
Is susceptible to damage like most individuals but is able to regenerate almost all such damage within seconds.
Paraphernalia and Equipment:
Genetics Lab, Equipment and Weapons all created by himself or bought on the black market.
Weapons:
See Above.
Uniform:
Personality: Sinister has been described by sadistic yet coolly intelegent. Due to his exceptional intelegence he is seen as a cold unfeeling, most often analytical yet there is the seething hatred of his enemies and his will to achieve his goals which brings the dark emotions and personality he is known by to the surface, the same personality which he has resulted in his title of Sinister. Sinisters goals to bring into existence the peak of mutant eveolutionary advancement and his continuing inability to do so has resulted in the unhinging of his sanity to an extent. He will do things seen as completely unethical and often pure evil and even insane to meet said goal and those who get hurt in the process are only seen as casualties of a greater purpose and perhaps even failures to be examined closer. Unknown to any however there is still a man underneath all the darkness that has enveloped him. A man still able to love and want and show, at rare occasions, compassion and tenderness, This is a sight few if any will ever see in this generation.
History: Nathaniel Essex was a biologist in Victorian England who developed advanced theories on human evolution and was obsessed with Darwin’s theory of evolution, though he felt Darwin and his contemporaries were shackled by too many moral constraints.
While pursuing his own research in 1859, he discovered that humanity was undergoing increasing mutation, due to what he called “Essex Factors” in the human genome. His theories were mocked, making him bitter. His son’s death at the age of four from numerous birth defects, including crooked bones & hemophilia drove him deeper into his work. He approached many groups in search of funding, including the Hellfire Club, though all turned him down. He hired a group of thugs, whom he named Marauders, to kidnap people off the streets of London so he could perform experiments on them; he even went so far as to dig up his dead son and experiment on him.
His unorthodox experiments resulted in his ouster from the Royal Society and caused his wife to shun him. These rejections led him to ally himself with Apocalypse, an immortal mutant who has witnessed virtually the whole of human history. Apocalypse transformed Essex into an ageless being of extraordinary pallor at the cost of what remained of his humanity. With his new abilities and dispassionate outlook, Essex took a new name—Sinister, the last word his wife spoke to him as she died.
Apocalypse’s first command was to create a plague to destroy the weak of the world, but Sinister would not do it—he had clarity of purpose, and destruction for its own sake was not part of it. The plague Sinister created attacked only Apocalypse, driving him into hibernation.
In 1882, Sinister was present at Darwin’s funeral, reveling in the irony that the man who was once vilified was being buried in Westminster Abbey, the highest Church of England. Soon after, he left for The United States.
Sinister has conducted numerous experiments in his time. He operated an obstetrics clinic in New York in the late 19th century and performed side research on society's deviants. Renamed Nathan Millbury, he had unrestricted access to an abundance of generational genetic material to study, including that of the adult Daniel Summers and his wife, Amanda Mueller.
It was in 1891 that Sinister came across another pair of time traveling mutants from the future, the X-Man Gambit and a shape changer called Courier. Using his scientific equipment, Sinister managed to replicate the shape shifting abilities of Courier; before that, he’d hidden his pale complexion with common makeup. Gambit needed help getting back to the present, and to do so had Sinister re-implant a piece of tissue into his brain. Once the piece was restored, Gambit’s powers increased exponentially and he was able to return himself and Courier to the present. A century later, Gambit and Sinister would meet again.
In the 1920s, Essex encountered a man named Herbert Edgar Wyndham, who dreamed of doing what Sinister had already accomplished—breaking the genetic code for human DNA. Essex worked side by side with Wyndham, who would later become better known as the High Evolutionary. By 1928 Wyndham had begun crude experimentations on lab animals with radiation exposure with little success. During a trip to an international conference on genetics in Geneva, Switzerland, Wyndham suddenly felt ill. Stumbling out into the street he met the hypnotic gaze of a man in a top hat and coat, shrouded in darkness. From this stranger Wyndham was handed a gift that should not exist in that time—a blueprint for breaking the genetic code. Whether Wyndham's benefactor is Sinister or not remains unrevealed.
In the 1930s, Essex spent some time in California, gathering subjects for his experiments; while in Los Angeles, he met and fell in love with radio comedienne Faye Livingstone, though he never admitted his feelings. Discovering his secret laboratory one night, Essex confronted her with the truth—she carried the x-factor in her genes, and her offspring would produce special children, children that would be more than human. Horrified, Faye tried to leave, but Essex kept her prisoner.
Months passed, filled with degrading examinations; affected pity gave way to foul contempt. Essex broke her in mind and spirit, and made her see behind the illusion that was Nathan Essex. Then, in the middle of a raging storm one night, Essex flung the door open and released her, without speaking or gesturing.
In time, Faye was brought to the Carlysle Nursing Home in San Diego, California, her mind & body falling to cancer. Due to her love for Essex, Livingstone had never married, and never had children. The offspring Sinister so eagerly anticipated never came to exist. Once a year, a Mister Essex would come and visit her, though he would never admit to anyone (not even himself) why. Genesis forced Sinister to confront both her and himself about the relationship, but Sinister refused, adamantly maintaining that she was nothing more than a useless husk to him. After sharing a telepathic dance with Essex, Faye died in his arms.
In the 1940s Sinister worked with the Nazis, earning at Auschwitz the nickname “Nosferatu,” due both to his pale visage and his habit of taking blood from everyone; he frightened even the Nazis. He often gave children candy in exchange for their blood as a means of bribery. Young Magnus, who one day would become Magneto, witnessed Nosferatu's actions. During this time, Essex created Experiment N2, a clone of Namor the Sub-Mariner, which could forcibly suck the water out of Namor and use it to douse the android Human Torch’s flames. To Sinister’s considerable surprise, though, Captain America was able to defeat N2. It was also during this period, in 1944, that Essex came across a man named John Greycrow, who would become Scalphunter, his first “new” Marauder.
In 1968, Sinister was present in Vietnam, where he and the ever-loyal Scalphunter kidnapped both soldiers and villagers to perform experiments on. Sinister became known as the White Devil. Sabretooth was hired to investigate the disappearances. However, his employer was beheaded by Scalphunter, who gave Creed a large sum of money to buy him off and to recruit him as one of Sinister's "enforcers".
For decades, Sinister secretly observed the development of mutant children as they grew in the State Home for Foundlings in Omaha, Nebraska. He cruelly manipulated their childhood developmental processes and even tried to control their adult lives so they might become his minions.
The hero Cyclops was among his subjects; one of Scott’s roommates in the orphanage was named Nate, and another alias of Sinister’s was Mike Milbury, neighbor to Scott’s grandparents (Phillip & Deborah Summers), in Alaska. It was from his laboratory under the orphanage that many evils issued
Sinister is responsible for the Morlock Massacre, ordering his band of Marauders to kill all of the sewer-dwelling mutants. It was later revealed that Gambit was the one who had assembled Sinister’s Marauders. Gambit did this, and many other tasks, for Sinister because he owed the geneticist a huge debt. When Gambit’s powers first manifested, they were largely uncontrollable. He heard through underworld contacts of Sinister, and approached him, asking for help. Sinister agreed, and removed a portion of Gambit’s brain, which reduced Gambit’s power but allowed him a greater degree of control over his abilities. In exchange, Gambit had to perform many tasks for him, such as assemble the Marauders for the Morlock Massacre.
It is possible that Sinister recognized Gambit from a century prior, and agreed to help him in order to insure the series of events that lead to Gambit (and Courier) going back in time—which allowed Sinister to gain Courier’s powers—occurred. As for the reason behind the Morlock Massacre—due to various twistings of time and dimensions, the Dark Beast from the Age of Apocalypse timeline arrived in the mainline reality twenty years prior. Many of the Morlocks were experiments of the Dark Beast’s. Since the Dark Beast had learned genetics from his reality's version of Sinister, and that Sinister’s methods were similar to those mainline reality's Sinister, Sinister could see his “signature” in the Morlocks.
To prevent further unauthorized usage of his theories, he had the Marauders wipe out the Morlocks. He considered a similar course of action for the Genoshan mutates, who were created by the Sugar-Man using his Age of Apocalypse counterpart's technology as well, but decided against it because the process had turned the mutates infertile; consequently, he didn’t consider them a contamination of his work.
Though some of his Marauders died during the Massacre, Sinister’s mastery of genetics and cloning technology has enabled him to recreate his Marauders again and again and again.
Sinister is obsessed with the Summers genetic line, which includes Cyclops and Havok, and has taken a proprietary interest in the family because Daniel Summers is a direct ancestor of Scott & Alex Summers. For a time, Sinister continued to advance his master plan to serve Apocalypse (and his own ends), but in general prefers to let bloodlines breed naturally (rather than hastily transforming them) in order to produce the most racially-supreme beings.
Sinister eventually believed -- or realized -- that Scott Summers’ and Jean Grey’s mingled genelines would create a mutant of unparalleled power, one that could destroy Apocalypse and thus free him from the yoke of that ancient tyrant.
To this end, he created Madelyne Pryor, a clone of Jean Grey, though he was disappointed that the clone manifested no powers at adolescence and he considered the whole project a waste of time and effort. Upon “Jean’s” death on the Blue Area of the Moon (at the culmination of the Dark Phoenix Saga), the Phoenix Force left her body and entered Madelyne’s, much to Sinister’s delight. He arranged a set of false memories for her, and left her where Scott would eventually encounter her.
Eventually the two wed and produced a child, Nathan Christopher Charles Summers. Madelyne convinced Scott to move with her back to Alaska and live out their lives there, a subconscious suggestion implanted by Sinister—the remote location made it easier for him to study and if need be abduct the child. Sinister eventually took the child, then lost it to Madelyne (now the Goblin Queen), briefly regained it (following her death), then lost it to Cyclops, who blasted him with a supercharged Optic Blast and reduced him to a skeleton. But
Return though he eventually did, now safe under the cover of presumed death.
Before Sinister could re-claim young Nathan, however, Apocalypse awoke. Sensing the threat posed to him, he infected Nathan with a technorganic virus which threatened to consume him. The only hope of saving him was for Scott & Jean to give him to a woman known as the Askani, who spirited him away to the future. Nathan survived, and came to be the man better known as Cable.
Sinister later unwittingly unleashed the Legacy Virus upon the Earth, a plague engineered by Stryfe, a clone of Cable. Sinister revealed to Cyclops Stryfe’s trick, and mentioned Cyclops’ “brothers,” something Cyclops picked up on and dubbed by many fans as the “third Summers brother”—though, technically, it wasn’t said that the brother was a Summers.
Sinister later took in the mutant Threnody, and used her unique powers to track down victims of the Legacy Virus, which he could then study and work on to develop a cure. Moira MacTaggart, long-time ally to the X-Men and one of the top genetic immunologists on the planet, eventually developed a cure for the Virus. This cure was released thanks to the sacrifice of the mutant Colossus. Sinister offered to clone him to his fellow X-Men as a form of gratitude, but they refused.
Fortunately for Sinister, Magneto also had a deep grudge against Apocalypse, and when Apocalypse destroyed Genosha with a nuclear attack, the master of Magnetism tracked Apocalypse to Mount Everest. Magneto fought wish Apocalypse and though almost losing his life was able to defeat the ancient mutant and throw him from the mountain to his apparent death. This gave Sinister the freedom he’d long sought, as Apocalypse had always kept him on a tight leash.
While Sinister had succeeded in his quest to eliminate Apocalypse for a time, this has by no means ended his task. Mister Sinister desired research above all else in his world of genetics; bloodlines and gene pools are his chess pieces. Apocalypse was a threat to this work. Now without hindrances, Sinister could truly begin his work in genetics, no matter the cost in lives or suffering.
RP Sample:
Sinister looked up at the Xavier Mansion from afar. Inside were some of the most powerful mutant specimens of all time and now instead of the most powerful psychic ever to grace gods green earth they were now protected by the Master of Magnatism, Magneto who he owed his current freedom from Apocalypse too.
Would that stop him from what he had planned?
No…
No soon enough he would have all he needed from those within and with any luck Magneto would be none the wiser.
His eyes glowed brightly for a moment as a sadistic grin crossed his lips. “Yes X-Men… soon enough.” He growled low and then turned to the shadowy figures behind him. “Prepare yourselves Marauders, soon you will face them all… but not this night… no this night…”
Sinister turned again to watch as a young woman stepped into a cab then drove away in it towards New York City. “This night we track a special prey… follow the cab… do not attack… do not get caught, follow and report back all the young woman’s movements.”
His eyes continued to follow the cab till it was out of sight. He did not move as those behind him moved silently into the darkness of the night to follow the cab on their own paths. “Yes child… soon… soon you will belong to Sinister and you are only the first.”
Code word: Flimsy
Player Information
[/u]First Name: Martin
Country/State: USA, Minnesota
Age: 26
Have you ever RP’ed on a Forum before?: Yes
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