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Valence Vaillant, the Techmaturge
Alias:
Techmaturge, although Machine God was a recent villain name he tried to push for, without much success.
Most heroes just refer to him by name anyway, since his identity is far from a secret.
Nickname(s):
Val and ViVi are recent nickname some heroes gave him.
He hates them.
Age:
16
Gender:
Male
Powers:
Underline - Main power/source of power.
Italics - Sub-powers derived from the main power/source of power.
Transcendental Genius
Valence's power is, interestingly enough, his intellect. He is significantly smarter than the average human, so much so that it can be considered unnatural. This heightened intelligence normally manifests itself in his ability to build complicated machinery with ease.
In addition to his mechanical prowess, Valence also has an expansive understanding in the field of science - which he uses to augment his inventions, be it with science-based weaponry or the like.
Hyper Inventing
Stemming from his high intellectual capacity, Valence is able to manufacture complex machinery with ease. Things such as armour, vehicles, mechas, aircraft and more. For the most part, Valence uses this power to create various types of robots to do his bidding, sometimes dubbed the "Valence Bots" although he is also able to create destructive weapons (that he himself normally doesn't use) and scientific devices.
Of course, Valence can't pull things out of thin air, and his bigger constructs tend to require more time than the smaller ones do.
Skills/Abilities:
GIANT ROBOTS!
Alone, Valence has little to no proficiency in hand-to-hand combat. Instead, his fighting style revolves around using his various robots to try and overwhelm a target. Of course, Valence will occasionally fight using his own gadgets and mechanical weapons, although these moments are few and far between. Valence has multiple types of footsoldier robots, normally following a sort of "knight" motif, wielding technologically enhanced medieval weaponry: energy blades, crossbows and the like. Still, Valence doesn't limit himself to these kinds of robots alone, and creating robots that use guns or blasters of some sort is not out of the question - but still pretty uncommon. The variation between these robots can prove to be a challenge to overcome, and although the average robot can quite easily dispose of a normal human, heroes can generally fare much better against them.
In situations where Valence does have to fight without his machines, he normally just picks up the nearest pipe or stick and swings it around some. It's about as dangerous as a 16-year-old holding a makeshift weapon. Huh.
Weaknesses:
He has no physical enhancements, and has the average strength of a 16 year old.
...
There are a lot of things stronger than the average 16 year old.
For some reason, a lot of his strongest machines, robots and devices have a self destruct button. He's not sure why he even adds them.
Equipment:
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.
Nah, just some devices and machines that may or may not actually work.
Costume:
Valence generally only wears a black hoodie, so he doesn't really have a costume - aside from the red face paint under his eyes.
He's been asking both heroes and villains for opinions on what it should look like though, so it's k.
Personality:
Unsurprisingly, Valence has all the personality traits that would befit a stereotypical villain. Arrogance, hot-headedness, loudness put alongside just the right amount of ineptitude to keep him from coming out as victorious pretty much ever. Valence is known to be both selfish and manipulative to some degree, using his gift in order to further his own plans and desires, normally disregarding the populace of Archer City in the process. He's lazy, and generally avoids doing most of the physical work inside and outside of his plans, opting to let his machines do work for him, even menial tasks, although he frequently gets enraged when they even fail at that. As one can imagine, he gets particularly angry when his more powerful and larger robots are destroyed by superheroes, especially if said robots had some significance in his plot-of-the-week. Valence has also become pretty good at snarking superheroes, throwing sarcastic remarks and various insults their way, even in defeat...
Especially in defeat.
Despite his apparent superior intellect in comparison to most, Valance is prone to making fatal flaws in his plans which lead to his defeat, which makes people question if he's even that intelligent at all. For some heroes who fight Valence frequently, his defeat sort of comes across as a routine. Most of his situations tend to be comical as a result, as his defeat is normally brought about by self-destruct buttons or just general lack of foresight, in spite of his ability to extensively plan in advance.
Valence is also quite complicated when it comes to his social life. He's a typical Villain, sure, but that doesn't seem to prevent him from cutting loose and having fun with "friends." These friends can be basically anyone - even superheroes for some reason. Hell, if villains had some kind of weekly get together or convention of some sort, he'd attend it in a heartbeat.
He also doesn't like magic very much. Go figure.
History:
Becoming known within several months of his arrival as one of the youngest "super villains" to strike Archer City, it was only natural that the populace created theories regarding his origins. Things like:
- He was raised by a sentient AI seeking revenge on humanity.
- He was bitten by a radioactive scientist once or something.
- Valence is actually just a robot that wants supremacy over humans.
None of these are true. In fact, Valence's led a much more normal childhood than that (or not, depending on your point of view). His parents were villains. A magical elemental duo of water and lightning. Not quite what you'd expect from them. Valence's parents were the kind who had no particular villain agenda - they simply wanted to cause trouble for the populace by stealing, vandalizing and the like. And that they did. However, when Valence was born, their villain escapades led to a temporary halt until Valence had reached the age of six. During which they had filled him with their villainous ideals and views. It was also around the age of six that Valence displayed his heightened intelligence, he took an interest in creating new things out of parts of toys that his parents stole bought in a completely legal manner. Unfortunately, Valence displayed zero proficiency in anything magic-related - something which his parents poked fun at from time to time, seeing the whole intelligence deal as less useful. That's probably where Valence's dislike of magic came from.
Time passed, and the family trio decided to move their base of operations to Archer City to continue their crime spree, however, Archer City was packed with a lot of superheroes, whereas Valence's parents were used to having to deal with one or two most of the time. Their efforts were quickly (and easily) shut down. Their crimes tended to be pretty minor, and they generally didn't hurt that many people, but the sheer amount of crimes they had managed to commit over the course of years was almost legendary, leading both of them to be sentenced for life. Valence was around 14 at the time, and his supernatural intellect had shown itself in its entirety. However, he was still pretty young, and a combination of childlike anger amped up with his incredible planning abilities led him to decide that world domination was the key to success. Of course, he'd rather set his goals small first, so instead, he'll take over Archer City, then take over the world. He's been at it for two years already, but the amount of superheroes in Archer City makes it really hard to make any meaningful progress with seizing the city, much to his frustration.
What a spectacular life he leads.
Time passed, and the family trio decided to move their base of operations to Archer City to continue their crime spree, however, Archer City was packed with a lot of superheroes, whereas Valence's parents were used to having to deal with one or two most of the time. Their efforts were quickly (and easily) shut down. Their crimes tended to be pretty minor, and they generally didn't hurt that many people, but the sheer amount of crimes they had managed to commit over the course of years was almost legendary, leading both of them to be sentenced for life. Valence was around 14 at the time, and his supernatural intellect had shown itself in its entirety. However, he was still pretty young, and a combination of childlike anger amped up with his incredible planning abilities led him to decide that world domination was the key to success. Of course, he'd rather set his goals small first, so instead, he'll take over Archer City, then take over the world. He's been at it for two years already, but the amount of superheroes in Archer City makes it really hard to make any meaningful progress with seizing the city, much to his frustration.
What a spectacular life he leads.
