Post by nogitsune on Mar 3, 2017 4:27:46 GMT
Real Name:
Alice Mordrake
Nickname:
[Placeholder/will add later]
Age:
28 (Physically 19)
Nationality:
American
Occupation:
Business Magnate/Genetics and Physics Researcher
Base of Operations:
Worldwide, but her current pet project (and thus base of operations) is in Millan
Affiliation:
Mordrake Family Buisness Empire/Vishkar (via Investments)/Chronos
Voice:
[Placeholder/will find later]
Personality:
To Alice, the world is nothing more than a series of games, and she intends to win them all. A gifted mind, Alice is a genius a head for science and technology. Utterly fascinated by the deep mechanics that underpin life and reality, Alice delights in finding out how things work on a fundamental level and, perhaps even more, breaking them down and then re-arranging them according to her designs. This is largely due to her unique mentality. Due to her understanding of biology and reality, she has the philosophy that there is no right philosophy and that the world is nothing more than a pointless, albeit very elegant, set of equations and values that have no higher intelligence or no larger meaning. To Alice, there is no afterlife...there is no grand design of reality. Just the cold, harsh truth that everybody is little more than a collection of cells and quantum data that will inventively cease to exist as the unfeeling universe races closer to it's own entropic heat death. Thus, Alice chooses to give her "pointless" existence a purpose, and that purpose is simple: to play games until she can't anymore.
Alice's vast intellect often leaves her bored with the more mundane aspects of being a human, and as a result she is in a constant need of stimulation and excitement. At a young age, she found this in games...whether it was simple videogames or more complex strategy games such as chess....however, she quickly found out that reality itself had it's own rules...and was a "game" all it's own...and as a result she now has an obsession with mastering the rules of reality, the laws and science of biology and physics, so she can, in her words "beat the universe at it's own chess game." Her love of the research she does borders on obsession, yet one thing all her projects share is a total disregard for their consequences and often depraved and outright illegal components.
The thing is, Alice isn't exactly a stable young lady. The textbook definition of a psychopath, she was always "kinda off." Lacking in any kind of empathy and utterly narcissistic, Alice could care less about what others think and feel. Spoiled in the extreme, her vast privilege with her vast intellect has given her an ego large enough to generate it's own black hole if it had mass. Alice sees herself as completely above the "peasants" and "filth" that "degrade the human gene-pool with their mere existence"...aka everybody except her, and as a result has no qualms about doing horrific things to them in the name of her research. In fact, it goes beyond a simple disregard...Alice actually delights in the suffering of others. In Alice's mind, the "soul" is a myth...people are nothing more than walking sacks of cells...a bundle of quantum equations...objects. Objects she can play with. Objects she can take apart and put back together. Objects that have no point to their existence and, thus, are best used as playthings and toys to keep her mind occupied.
However, despite her truly disgusting personality, Alice is very skilled at hiding her true nature. An adept manipulator, Alice treats social interactions as yet another game to be won. She sees social interaction as a logical, game-like process in which certain actions lead to certain results in specific situations. Thus, by studying psychology and what motivates others, Alice has become a adapt manipulator. Alice knows all the rules of the influence economy and plays the game of social interaction just as well as she "plays chess with the universe." A person who leads a life of masks, Alice never acts like herself outside the comfort of her laboratories. Instead, she will put on whatever face gets her what she wants. Whether that be a friendly, innocent young lady, ruthless businesswoman or inspiring intellect pushing towards a brighter future, Alice can "shapeshift" into whatever she needs to appear to be. Telling lies and obscuring the truth come as second nature to her, and as a person she thrives on secrecy and nobody truly knowing what she's actually like.
Yet despite all her smarts, all her manipulative, Alice has quite a few fatal flaws. The first is the fact she is exceptionally immature for her age. Being brought up as a spoiled princess, Alice has a petty, entitled, self-centered and childish mentality that more often than not ends up being her downfall. A girl who has to get her way in everything and sees no faults in herself, Alice is often blinded by her arrogance or desires for instant gratification. The latter in particular has gotten her into trouble on several occasions; while she is incredibly smart, she is often quite reckless and doesn't always think through the consequences of her actions. Also, her "gamer's mentality" also tends to get her in sticky situations from time to time. Due to fun being her primary motive, she will often purposely set herself back or put herself at a disadvantage just for the thrill of trying to maneuver her way out of a challenging situation.
Back Story:
Some people are lucky. To have the blessing of just a genius mind or just a wealthy family is something that seems so distant for most of the world's people, yet Alice was privileged enough to be "blessed" with both. That blessing was sadly wasted. Alice's father, Damien Mordrake, was one of the most wealthy and influential old money business magnets in the world. A shadowy man with a reputation for secrecy and corruption, the Mordrake Financial Group, a massive banking and financial empire, had a long and glorious history of being the money behind companies and other groups up to no good. The Vishkar Corporation in particular is a fairly infamous example of a company in which the Mordrakes have significant funds invested, but there are countless industries in which the family has stretched it's slimy tentacles, and Alice, the "blessed" child, was born into this world of privilege, power and decadence.
From day one, Alice fit right in. As a child, she was "a bit odd." On one hand, her brilliance shined even as a youth.. Far ahead of her peers, it was quickly discovered Alice was a child genius. Skilled in mathematics, science and technology from a young age, Alice surpassed many expectations as a child and the fancy private school she attended came to bore her. Thus, she took to games to occupy her mind. At first, videogames; she would spend hours on end doing nothing but gaming...until, like her studies...that became too easy as well. Venturing out, she began do more......strategy games....and then the game of social maneuvering. She found that while she didn't really need any friends, if she acted the part of a friendly girl she could get things from people in school....and even pit them against each other. She particularly enjoyed that...seeing friendships broken, other kids crying. She became quite the bully even as a small child, and this played into her other disturbing behavior.
Other than to manipulate other children she was distant and aloof. She had no real friends, and spent all her time in her own world...studying science and technology or playing games. She would often horribly mangle her stuffed animals, hanging them from nooses in her room, cutting them open and using markers to make them look deranged and twisted. She'd carve their faces into twisted smiles, ring their eyes in black scribbled circles, draw horrible bloody gashes all over them and even steal knifes from the kitchen to stab right through them. Her father was quick to take notice of her disturbing behavior and rather than be concerned by it, decided to foster it along with her intellect.
Being a twisted man himself, he saw his daughter's own twisted nature and vast intellect as an opportunity to create something of use to his agenda. Already well past her private school, Damien withdrew her from it and called in favors from several companies he funded, including Vishkar, getting some of the world's top researchers to educate Alice in a grueling and challenging academic regime. Meanwhile, he saw to it that his daughter was thoroughly spoiled. From day one Alice was always a spoiled brat, as a small child her father assured she got everything she wanted and was constantly surrounded by servants and yes men who existed only to stroke her growing ego. As she got older, it only got worse. Her father's indulgence only became more over the top and ridiculous, to the point where she was treated to lavish parties and mountains of gifts almost daily. Her father wanted her to know she was better than everybody else. He wanted her intellect to be hone. He wanted to create a monster...a ruthless heriess who would be worthy of inheriting the empire he built atop a mountain of impoverished people and shattered lives.
Little did he know the monster he created would one day turn on him.
As Alice grew older, she became very interested in genetics and physics and in particular became obsessed with extending her own life, Disappointed with the fact her fun would eventually end due to the aging process, Alice had labored endlessly over thought experiments into altering human genetics to "turn off" aging, much like Turtles and several other animals could. Seeing this as an extremely lucrative opportunity, Damien decided to let Alice turn her thought experiments into reality, so long as he worked on some other projects that would have more immediate results. Absolutely extactic at the idea of getting to get her hands dirty herself, Alice took her father's opportunity and she was given full access to the labs of the company that would one day be re-formed into Chronos to translate her thought experiments into reality. Unknown to Alice ''tis was not because he lacked his own labs...on the contrary, he had desgins on taking over the Gorbe's company from within, and his promise of "sellable imortality" was something he did to gain the absolute trust of Gregory Forbes. It was a carefully laid plan...starting with the staged plane crash of the Forbes family patriarch and his wife and now moving to manipulating Gregory Forbes enough to get leave the company in Mordrake ha de should he die, which he did indeed commit to doing after several years of manipulation.
Things, at first, went extremely well for Alice and her research. She was delighted in getting to test her various mutagens on human subjects. Slowly but surely perfecting them. Gregory saw what she was making as a valuable weapon system...one of many shady and illegal projects that would bring him profit. Damien meanwhile saw it as the first steps to her greater ambitions, finding the "holy grail" itself and making a cure for death that he could monetize and sell to the world himself. Both Gregory and Damien had high hopes for Alice, and they eventually did come to fruition. Her mutagens had been perfected into a form that could be loaded into a round, and thus used on a battlefield...and more importantly...she had found what she thought was a way to halt aging. After many dead patients and horrific tests, Jeff's uncle had grown tired of the excessive and often needlessly messy way Alice worked and the sheer amount of subjects she required. Wanting efficiency, Damien suggest he cut her off from access to human subjects for her eternal youth project...claiming that necessity would test her limits and breed results...and it did just that.
With nowhere left to turn, she was forced to experiment on herself and since she only had one life to live, messing up was not an option. She succeeded in granting herself eternal youth, but at the same time, she failed. While her aging halted, she also had started to suffer from a strange malfunction of her genes. She was constantly wracked by sickness, and would cough up a vile green sludge. Sporadically at first, but eventually it became profuse and nauseating. Even further, her irises had turned an unsettling, bloody red, and her eyes where constantly bloodshot. physically she felt constant, wracking pain, and more and more the tell-tell signs of a life-threatening illness started to rear their ugly head. Each day she felt more and more like she was going to die and she had found out that, in fact, her own death was imminent if she could not do something. So she studied her condition with the same vigor she had studied eternal youth. While she could not find a cure, she was able to create a drug that stabilized her condition if taken regularly. While she remained uncomfortable, she had prevented her seemingly imminent death. Her eyes retained discolored, but where no longer bloodshot. Now she only coughed up sludge on occasion. Yet to maintain this she had to inject herself with her medication daily, or she would quickly fall back into her decline.
While she had been entertained by all of this for a time...like everything it eventually grew boring. So she desired a change of pace. She wondered...what if she was the one running the show? She began to contemplate how enjoyable trying to topple her father and his partner would be. How challenging taking down one of the most established, ruthless and powerful business magnates in the world...the one who made her what she was. That would be a fun challenge....she thought. That would be a game worthy of my time.
So she planned her father's assassination. It was simple, elegant. It was staged as an accident. She had done the work to assure it could not be traced. She smiled and laughed when he died. It was quite fun and yet absolutely hilarious, at least in her mind, that such a powerful man could be brought so low. She delighted in killing her father....but she was not done. There where loose ends to be tied up. Gregory would surely catch on to her schemes, so Alice went after him shortly after. She had once overheard that he was going to leave his company to her father's estate should he ever die, as a thanks for everything he had contributed....so she figured she'd pick up another company to add to the massive collection she had inherited from her father after his untimely demise.
Yet, in just as with her immortality experiments, her recklessness would be her downfall a second time. Alice suceded in staging another well-crafted, "untraceable" assassination, but had failed to find out that Gregory had changed his will after growing leary of the Mordrake family and just how far they may go. The company was to be left to his young nephew, a man he could trust to do the right thing. Alice was furious at her defeat, yet at the same time sensed opportunity. When news of the new leadership went to the shareholders, the bottom of the company dropped out. The "old guard" slowly pealed away, either weary of such a young person leading the company or dropping off once Jeff and his gang decided to reshape the research firm into a hero group known as Chronos. Mordrake Financial and all it's holdings, now Alice's personal business empire, was the only backer from the "old guard" that stayed with Chronos....and her reason was far more insidious that she let on.
She had the perfect cover story. She had scrubbed all the company documents after the assassinations to support her claims and hide all involvement she had in the company's darker dealings, even if they where minimal in the grand scheme of all the experiments the company was doing. She claimed that the science she created, Damien had commissioned to be used *on her.* She played the part of the innocent daughter of a ruthless businessman who saw her used as a test subject, and to disastrous results. She claimed that she stayed on when the other backers dropped because she believed in the mission of Chronos. Her actual goal? To tear apart these young heroes from within and get revenge against Jeff for stealing the company from her.
Role:
Support
Abilities:
[Placeholder will figure them out later]
Weapon(s):
Mutagen Blaster: A rather large, high-tech gun that can be loaded with rounds that pump allies and enemies alike full of the mutagens she created. It is primarily used to to heal and add allies, giving them beneficial properties such as a lizard's regenerative qualities, but can also be used to inflict baleful mutations on enemies. All her mutagen rounds are temporary, thankfully, and while they are a potent support tool they do little in the way of actual damage.
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(Will add appearance infomation at a later, but see the pic at the top of the bio for what she looks like for now)