Name: Blackjack Pleasant, Semania Pain, Jack Hammer, Hugo Rothbane, etc.
Given Name: Shane Mark
Age: 37 Earth-years
Powers:
- Kineticism: Through extensive training, Shane has learned to redirect kinetic energy through his body. Any kinetic force that touches him can be stored within him, and then redirected in a variety of ways. He can also manipulate the kinetic energy of anything he touches, meaning he is practically immune to most physical attacks. However, in order to use this power offensively, he must have a source of kinetic energy to draw from.
- Riftwalking: After fighting his way through hordes upon hordes of demons, Shane was able to confront the Black Prince in a duel. He subdued the Black Prince, and forced him to grant Shane the power to walk between worlds, named Riftwalking, which allows Shane to move to different planes of existence. While all those who are destined to face one another in HCL have the ability to move to other dimensions, Shane's power is more specific, allowing him to move through most Dimensional Locks, as well as moving into alternate planes of existance within any specific dimension.
- Demon Soul: After making his pact with the Black Prince, Shane left his homeworld, and, in face, his home dimension, in search of fame and glory across the multiverse. However, he carries within him the soul of the Black Prince, taken as a trophy of victory. Unexpectedly, however, the Black Prince lives on in this soul, and, depending on the rules of the dimension, he can become a dangerous force in and of himself. While Shane does not actively control the Black Prince, their souls are tethered, and the Black Prince fears Shane, who is the only one to have defeated him in his ten thousand years of rule.
Bio: Shane's home dimension was a medieval universe, rife with magic in many forms. Mostly, those within his realm worked as men do, towards a variety of ends, as Gods and Demons fought in the background. However, one particular God, known as the Black Prince, betrayed his fellow Gods. Instead of fighting the demons, he granted them the relics of the Gods, and opened the gates of the Overworld to the Demon Princes. He, however, afterwards subjugated the Demon Princes, for he had absorbed the souls of those Gods that were slain. Driven to madness by the many souls clamoring within him, he lost his true name, known forevermore as the Black Prince.
For ten thousand years and 3 months (exactly) nobody could challenge the rule of the Black Prince. All of the realm was subject to his merest whims, and all of mankind and demonkind served him. Yet, one day, a prophesied child was born of a mysterious, unknown parentage. Some say he fell from the sky, others say he came from deep within the earth. According to some, he simply grew, like a plant. However, all knew that Shane was a special child, for soon the tales of his deeds went far and wide. He wielded an unknown magic with great power, as no demon could stand before him, and as he grew he became more and more proficient. Soon, he managed to defeat even one of the Demon Princes that acted as the Black King's generals.
Shane had never wanted more than to win. He was not a particularly gentle, kind, or heroic man. However, he was powerul and dangerous, and determined to use his abilities towards his own gain. The Black Prince stood in the way of that. When Shane tread into the Overworld, which had once been the home of the Gods, and defeated the Black Prince, he believed he would have achieved all that he had been born to do, and somehow, in that act, his reason for being born would be revealed. However, the Black Prince told Shane that there were untold universes out there, infinite different realities with quests such as Shane's, and that no matter what he tried to achieve, he would never be able to live up to his self-proclaimed destiny of achieving everything.
Challenge accepted.
Taking the Black Prince's soul as a trophy, Shane began walking different worlds, working a variety of jobs for large amounts of money. He toppled empires and killed Gods, performing every act imaginable. And, still on this quest to achieve all there is to achieve in the multiverse, he has found his way to Hell's Coffee Lounge. undoubtedly, here he will discover his true ancestry, and just why he was born. For is that not the way all these stories go?