Player Name: Secret Police
Character You Wish To Play: Victor von Doom
Moral Alignment: Walking the Line.
Affiliation: CEO/President of Doom International, former Latveria citizen.
Character Origin & Backstory:
Victor von Doom's life began in 1982 as the younger son of two peasants in the Republic State of Latveria where the government was riddled with corruption and the economy was in a rapid decline. While the wealthy members of society splurged their country's funds on glamour and material wealth the common folk froze in the street and starved. The country would continue this horrid decline for most of Victor's childhood before men like his father started organizing and deciding something had to be done about the government and the way it treats it's people. This began a Separatist movement lead by Victor's father Werner von Doom. At first the Separatists demanded their own free state apart from the established Republic of Latveria only to be denied. When the people who supported this movement began demonstrating they became subject to strong arm tactics causing the state to erupt into Civil war between the Republic State of Latveria and the Separatists lead by Werner von Doom.
For the rest of his time in Latveria Victor was forced to go into hiding with his mother to avoid the attention of the government, they went from safe house to safe house for years until one night when the government successfully located them. A firebomb was thrown through their window and the resulting fire consumed his mother and left Victor's body partially scarred. For fear of his sons life, Werner von Doom shipped his son off to an English boarding school under the alias 'Viktor Vaughn' an alias that would stick for a long time. It was during this period Victor's mind was truly shaped, with access to more information than he ever had the boy never stopped learning. He was a prodigy is most of his subjects and the ones he wasn't naturally gifted in, he studied and conquered. Victor would grow to learn whatever he put his mind to, he could easily accomplish.
Victor eventually left school at the turn of the century as one of the highest achieving students they'd ever had and continued on into university while scoring a job in the now infant field of robotics working for a fledgling company tasked with constructing military grade prototype drones. This exposed Victor to a whole plethora of knowledge and experience working with military grade robotics and would later prove to be his first stepping stone towards power. As his skills developed Victor began proposing changes to the original design and was soon seen by his superiors as their 'golden child', full of ideas and constantly revolutionizing the robotic field. In a mere three years at age 21 Victor would find himself as one of the youngest and most respected minds in his field eventually given his own lab in America and the privacy to develop whatever he wished. It was during this time Victor began experimenting with the idea of cybernetics and augmenting his own body for future purposes.
While one could not doubt Dr Viktor Vaughn's (Doom's still active alias) advanced knowledge of robotics none expected him to be the cunning businessman he was, slowly arising through the business that had been expanding around him Victor von Doom would soon find himself in line to be the next President of the company and eventually renamed the business 'Doom International' after changing his name and revealing his true identity as the son of a former Latveria Separatist leader. This new bit of information attracted many potential enemies to Victor but they stayed their distance knowing how untouchable the man was now, he was earning well over a few million a year alone and had more than enough to help fund the now empowered Separatist movement in Latveria. Doom International was now becoming one of the most respected developers of military grade weapons, namely in robotics and cybernetics, with a young 25 year old Victor von Doom leading them in the right direction.
In the last five years between his take over of Doom International and the present Victor von Doom has subjected himself to experimentation that has resulted in astounding results. Victor has adopted a secret agenda to turn himself into a living weapon to help conquer Latveria for its people, while some may view this as some form of megalomania Victor believes ambition alone makes the man. Currently, he is a 30 year old single bachelor living as one of the richest men in Baltimore, Maryland. Under the guise of 'The Master' Victor von Doom funds the Latverian rebels and has proven to be the single largest impact in the last ten years, much like his father Victor has been able to lead the rebels to a slow victory over their oppressors.
Powers and Abilities:
Advanced Genius Level Intellect
Victor von Doom has proven to be one of the brightest minds on planet Earth to date. A world renowned scientist and businessman Doom has used his mind to get where he is today, he is constantly educating himself and picking up new skills. After enhancing himself with an advanced cybernetics system Victor's commutative abilities have multiplied massively, with a computer built in his brain visualizing theoretical situations and near instantaneous comprehension are only some abilities granted to him. Over the period of his life, Victor has used his great intellect to master a variety of combative skills.
Limited Technopathy
An unnatural talent Victor has allowing him to innately understand almost all forms of technology he encounters. This has allowed Victor to forge thousands of gadgets although he may not always have them on hand.
Progenitor Bias
An AI that is designed to serve Victor to its full potential, after completing cybernetic trials on himself granting him the ability to integrate with computers, Victor's next step was developing a system to operate it thus creating 'Progenitor Bias' one of the first self aware artificial lifeforms crafted by man. Running off a highly advanced quantum computing system, the AI runs a program that predicts what Victor's next actions could be and then prepares the suit for the most logical of them all with an accuracy of 98.95%. The AI has advanced protection system and backup directives designed to protect Victor at all cost from most imaginable situations. Since the system is hardwired straight into Victor's neural network it has been able to passively enhance his body to operate at its most peak physical level turning Victor into an Olympic level athlete.
'Doom Suit'
A one-of-a-kind suit of armor Victor has invented for himself the suit has a multitude of uses and is constantly being upgraded by Doom.
The doom suit is comprised of three different layers of defense. The outer most layer is an invisible fore-field emitted from the belt of the Doom suit, this barrier is generally a skintight shield that absorbs a variety of damage but can also be expanded to encompass those around doom at the expense of strength. The second layer is a thin yet highly durable layer of titanium alloy plates spread around his body covering the most vital points and held on by the final layer - a highly advanced one of a kind cloth mesh that covers most of his body. The mesh is reactive to the AI controlling it and uses an advanced electronics seal the plates to the mesh. The suit is equipped with a highly sophisticated life support system with reserves that can sustain Victor for lengthy periods of time and allow him to survive in the harshest of environments.
Magical Prowess
Although currently unknown to him, Victor von Doom holds a natural ability to utilize magic he simply lacks training in the field to do so.
Sample Story Arcs:
Victor von Doom's entire life has been built around a single desire, for Latveria and her people to have their own identity free from corruption and oppression. To create a Utopia for mankind is Victor's ultimate goal, his path to achieving this however may not suit some people especially those who already hold the power themselves.
Much of his abilities are still in their infancy, if he wants to have the power to help his people Victor may need to embrace his magical heritage.
Victor's father and brother have never been confirmed dead, simply disappeared never to be heard from again. Although he personally believes they are dead and gone, he still wishes to find out the story behind their death and who is responsible for it.
Victor has many political and business enemies who would love to see nothing more than seeing him buried six feet under, many of these enemies even have the power to do so. Exactly who the enemies he has are for the most part unknown. This can easily result in a power struggle between him and many outside forces for control of his country and his international multi-billion dollar business.
Latveria is a rather small and underdeveloped country with very little natural resources, Victor figures there must be a reason that it is being so heavily contested.
Sample Post:
"Yes well.. I understand that too all I'm saying is.. Fine. I'll get it done don't worry." Victor slammed the phone down absorbing the silence that now filled his office. Dilemma after dilemma, this had been Victor's life since day one. He had always overcome any issue he ran into but never anything on this scale, what he was considering doing was war. His enemies had more power, more money, more allies than he but Victor has never backed down and this would be no different. There was a solution to every problem, he knew that the only issue was figuring one out.
Currently the problem was with the foreign aid in Latveria, the rebels he supports aren't organized enough to break the stalemate. The only way he could get them to do that was if they unite under one leadership, specifically his, but without having a presence in that country the rebels may not obey him. Victor was required to be here in America to run his business and amass the wealth needed to fund his endeavor. There was no way he could operate in two places at once, was there?
Spinning in his chair to face the massive ceiling-to-floor windows in his office, Victor leaned back in his chair and sighed when a knocked echoed from the door. "Come in" he called watching a slender, dark-skinned woman in a simple maroon dress enter. His secretary Beth was new and still appeared nervous when she spoke him "Hello sir, I have your mail and that report you asked for from Dr. Anton Vanko." Victor nodded and continued looking out his window onto the sunny Boston city. As Beth approached his desk her clacking shoes echoed throughout the room and Victor felt them assault his ears with each step. Victor waited for her to place the stack of papers on his desk and begin to walk away before he calmly turned and addressed her.
"Beth do you enjoy wearing those shoes?" He said looking down at the papers, more crap mostly he thought to himself eyeing the manila envelop before he noticed a letter with the name 'Dr William White' written across the front the name seemed familiar but Victor ignored it and looked up at Beth.
Beth paused for a moment and appeared hesitant before she spoke "No.. not really?""Then don't wear them anymore, no more clicky-clack shoes they drive me insane. Get yourself a comfortable and preferably quiet pair." his voice was firm yet he meant nothing by it, she had thought before she spoke and most important was honest something he would remember. Looking up she nodded at him before quickly slipping out through the door, clearly fearing she had made a fatal error. As the door shut behind her a sly smirk appeared on Victor's face, he always enjoyed watching people squirm.
Lifting up the manila folder from Dr Vanko, he once more saw the letter from Dr White and Victor suddenly felt something click in his mind. His eyes widened and his head turned to face the computer, staring at the blank screen in front of him he allowed images to fill his head as the gears in his brain churned at full power. The name was familiar he knew that but now he knew who the man was, Dr White was an engineer and one of the members of the same team Victor was on to create the prototype drones all those years ago. He carefully opened the small letter and quickly scanned over the hastily written note.
'Dear Dr. von Doom,
I am Dr Bill White, we worked together on an unmanned drone prototype a couple years back. Through contacts of my own I have come to learn of your interest in history specifically eastern european history, eastern european history is something I am very good at you see. If you're ever interested in talking about it contact me. My number is enclosed.
- Bill White'
Victor looked over the note again and his eyes focused on the words 'eastern european history'. Something about them stood out to Victor as if Dr White was trying to infer something. Picking up the envelope Victor found a small business card of a laundromat located in Boston, it featured a phone number and address along with a little washing machine decal. Giving the note one last read over Victor grew even more curious of what he could be trying to say.
After a couple moments of consideration Victor lifted the phone on his desk and tapped in the number of the laundromat. The phone rung a couple times before the voice of an older man coughed out a raspy "Hello?""Hello this is Victor von Doom, President of Doom International. I was interested with speaking with Dr White?"
After a few moments Dr White spoke with a much more serious tone "Yes. Let's meet next Friday. I'll be at your office then." without waiting for a reply the phone clicked off and Victor noted the date in his mind. Victor pulled the phone from his ear and looked at it curiously. Something was beginning to unfold around him and the fact he didn't fully understand it yet put him on edge for the first time in years.
Hmm I already was intending to make him good in his own right, closer to walking the line but his intentions aren't evil at all. I sort of have part of it fleshed out if maybe PMing that to you might sway you? Otherwise I don't mind hopping onto another honestly.
