Member
Name: Specter
Age: Whatever is considered as 20s in Human years to an ape? I guess?
Gender: Male
Canon: Ape Escape
Main Thread or Sandbox: Sandbox
Starting Location: Sandbox Only: Gotham; Location Unknown
Personality: Manipulative, arrogant and self-centered, Specter is a simian that has been gifted with high intelligence and psychic powers to boot, mostly as to the result of special experimental variation of the Pipo Helmet that has brought out not his innate aggression towards Humanity but also other factors. While he’s noted as playful and mischievous, he is malicious with a dark sense of humor. He also can be temperamental (as evident that he does have a short temper at times that can be akin to a temper tantrum) and is notably sarcastic.
To add, he has a superiority complex as he believes that nobody could beat him despite his recent track record of defeats by the hands of the Ape Catchers. Despite of circumstances, he is dangerously ambitious and always finding something, somewhere to use as an advantage to defeat them once and for all.
Despite these things, he cares about the likes of the Piposarus and the Freaky Monkey Five as well for other simians and can come off as genuinely friendly if not also subtly protective, holding a grudge against those that wronged them if need be.
While hidden away, he does have a gentle and kind side (as much as he doesn’t show it much around Humans due to his past) and can be a force of good if circumstances called for it, but only if he has a particular interest with mostly if it helps benefit himself that is.
Equipment: His hovering throne (as seen in picture above) as a means to use for offensive and defensive means. Offensive meaning it is weaponized in terms of missiles and is armed with armed-like extensions that can be brought out.
So help you if Specter uses it in combination with his powers, that's where he is most dangerous.
Attributes: As the result of the prototype (yet eventually) heavily modified Pipo Helmet boosting his innate potential, Specter is quick to adapt to said situation at hand. First starting with a familiarity of scientific and technological prowess and rapidly expanding out to other fields in time, he’s someone to take caution about.
His psychic powers developed as a result of a combined effort with not only the helmet but also with the exposure of the Time Station’s energy in his first attempt to essentially go through time-space to rewrite history. While he is a powerful telekinetic, he has branched out to different formats of said powers with several forms being more destructive than others over time.
Notably mind control, illusions (creation of false duplicates that can disappear once hit but also can attack on their as well), psychic energy manipulation (from explosive psychic blasts and other things), telepathy, teleportation, barrier generation and others.
However, even as it seems that Specter is powerful, his powers can be worn down over time especially when stress, aggression and other factors come in which it either always uses up more energy or elsewise and it’s even worse when he loses his sanity as he has been noted to do out of desperation. His physical prowess in itself, even though he’s noted as an acrobatic and speedy attacker, is a thing to also take note of but when it comes to someone bigger and tougher than him, he can be a pushover as he has been knocked aside before, mostly due to his small size.
Whenever he’s not using his powers or is physically fighting, he does have his mechanized hovering throne. In fact, he can freely summon it at any time, anyplace when needed as he uses it to not only conserve his energy but also to get around with long distances especially. Of course, it has been heavily modified and reinforced over time to ensure that it wouldn’t break unlike his first prototype and more weaponized with the addition of both offensive and defensive measures.
However, this doesn't mean he can't be knocked off the throne because if you give him a good enough force, he'll fall off of it but be warned because he'll be sure to make a quick recovery.
Backstory: Once the star attraction of Monkey Park as a circus act of a popular show, Specter was merely a small simian under the care of handlers, until one day, he stumbled across the likes of the experimental Pipo Helmet which when he donned on, thinking it was a hat, it awoke something inside him as it not only boosted his intelligence but it inevitably changed his worldview completely.
Later, he started an uprising with the likes of the other park simians, tracking down and raiding the Professor's lab but not without being interrupted by the likes of Spike and Jake, two Human children that got caught up in his scheme to essentially rewrite history by using the Time Station to his advantage.
Even if he managed to brainwash Jake, Spike was still out there and he would often send Jake through time to challenge Spike on his prowess while tending to his own plans in the background including mass production of the helmets and other things to prepare for the takeover.
Eventually, he was stopped by Spike and was again, back to a normal simian back to the park until the next time he would rise again. With each and every time he returned with a new scheme, not only his potential and prowess grew stronger but his plans had their special means of sinister (whenever it is the likes of involvement of the Freaky Monkey Five, by Jake (who ends up being essentially a brainwashed minion) or another potential ally, such as the case of Dr. Tomouki), he was criticized as extreme by the Ape Catchers (moreso in the case of the Double Paradise Plan where he threatened to chop the Earth in two using Space Station SARU-001's Chop Rocket to do so, which let's face it, would had been a total disaster for everyone, second to the entire Lethargy Laser in Ape Escape 2).
In instances to where he isn't the main threat, he turns out to be somewhat helpful in his own way and goes out of the way to help others but only for his own benefit (such as the time that there was an imposter (Ape Escape: Million Monkeys) that brainwashed his Piposarus (except 2) and even his own plans to take over the world), temporarily teaming up with Spike and the others to take out the threat and departing to their own ways afterwards.
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