Post by Karl Lykos on Jan 31, 2008 13:01:24 GMT -5
Basic Stats
Name: Karl Lykos
Codename: Sauron
Gender: Male
Age: 31
Occupation: Currently: None. Formerly: Clinical Psychiatrist
Place of Birth:
Place of Residence: [ The Streets of New York]
Known Relatives: Felix Lykos: Father [deceased]
Eleonore Lykos: Mother [deceased]
Alliance: [Currently non-affiliated]
Physical Stats
Height: 5’10” (Lykos) 7’6” (Sauron)
Weight: 170 lbs. (Lykos) 293 lbs. (Sauron)
Eyes: Blue (Lykos) Red (Sauron)
Hair: Brown (Lykos) None (Sauron)
Avatar: [Cillian Murphy]
Abilities
Mutation: [Karl Lykos’ mutation is a complicated matter, in that it has several stages, which give the appearance of multiple mutations. Karl’s primary mutation is his ability to sense and absorb the “life-force” of other living creatures. What a “life-force” is has yet to be determined, although the current hypothesis maintains that a life-force is the invisible electrical field generated by all living cells as their mitochondria convert nutrients into energy.
Despite the little that is known about these life-forces, it is known that all beings apparently have their own, unique life-force, similar to a fingerprint, and that a mutant’s life-force is not only far more individual, but it is also a good deal larger than the life-forces of non-mutant humans, which are again another step above the life-forces of the “lower” animal kingdom.
To aid in his absorption, Karl is able to sense life-sources, making him an excellent hunter, able to pinpoint the location of living beings without the aid of any of the five physical senses. While hypothetically it would be possible to trace a mutant’s energy signal, but Karl has yet to master this technique. Karl’s ability to sense life-forces fluctuates depending on how much life energy he has consumed recently; the less energy he’s consumed, the hungrier he becomes, and the more attuned his sense.
Absorbing a creature’s life-force gives Karl a high unequaled by any drug, on the market or off, as well as providing him with some small boosts in stamina, speed, and strength. As Karl drains the life from a being, that person immediately begins to lose their grip on reality, quickly losing consciousness. A mutant being drained by Karl will lose his/her powers first, followed by their consciousness. Karl can drain energy from any portion of his body, the only criteria necessary being that Karl’s skin is touching the skin of whomever he is draining.
As a way of helping him overpower and drain beings physically stronger than himself, Karl’s mutation has also developed to give him a hypnotic stare. Any being who makes eye contact with Karl finds themselves unable to break the gaze, and after a short period of time (the exact length being determined by the hyponotize-ee’s will power and intelligence), Karl gains complete control over that person, able to make them do whatever he wants, or to simply trick them into believing whatever he wants. Karl’s favorite tactic is to convince his victims that he is their lifelong friend/lover, and that the victim’s friends are actually enemies, trying to hurt Karl. As this is a psychic ability, however, telepaths and other psychics are able to fight Karl’s gaze for far longer, and the most powerful psychics are able to defeat Karl entirely.
Finally, Karl’s mutation has one last effect. Should he absorb enough life energy (the lives of four or five humans, or that of a class 3 mutant), Karl will transform into a 7’6”ptyradactyl-human hybrid, complete with fourteen foot wingspan, razor claws on his hands, a wickedly sharp beak, dagger-like hooks on the ends of his wings, deadly claws, and a murderous personality. In this form, Karl gains superhuman strength and endurance, strong enough to recover from the full power blows of other mutants with superhuman strength, although nowhere near strong enough to attempt to subdue them with his own muscle. He is also able to fly with his wings at upwards of 70 mph, although he generally tends to move at much slower speeds, so that he can dodge and avoid any obstacles nearer to the ground.
Despite being physically much superior, mentally, when he is in his pterosaur form, Karl’s alter-personality, Sauron, takes over. Karl and Sauron inhabit the same body, and ordinarily Karl is in control. However, the more energy Karl absorbs, the more powerful Sauron’s psyche becomes, and it is only after Karl has lost control of his shared body to Sauron that his transformation takes place.
As a final note: because of the high Karl receives from his stolen life-energy, he has become highly addicted. Consuming energy prevents Karl from having to eat or drink, but the side-effects of this are that if he ever stopped consuming energy, he would find his digestive system unable to consume almost anything.
Skills: [Karl is a trained psychiatrist, with advanced knowledge of the human psyche. He is able to recognize and diagnose mental disorders, and has also become adept at using his knowledge to prey on the insecurities of the people he meets. Also, having lived both on the street as a homeless individual, and in the higher tiers of society, he has a good idea how to move in most social circles, particularly concerning whom to intimidate and whom to ingratiate himself with. During his childhood, Karl’s mother forced him to play the piano, and he found, after a number of years, that he enjoyed the experience, and so is now quite the accomplished pianist, adept at both classical and, more recently learned, jazz piano. Also, Karl has a developed love of chess and often likes nothing more than to pit his intelligence against that of others.]
Personality: [Karl’s personality is a complicated thing, the most blazingly obvious reason for which being simply that he has two of them. Karl’s two personalities act as entirely different individuals, who just happen to inhabit the same body. The first personality is Karl himself, a self-serving pragmatic survivalist, hardened over the years of having to fend for himself, and made a slave to his addiction to the life-forces of others. The other personality is Sauron, a maniacal, psychopathic megalomaniac, whose sharp intelligence is often hidden behind his love of slaughter and mayhem.
Sauron embodies, perhaps, the very definition of evil. He knows he is a malevolent abomination, and he revels in it. Sauron abhors seeing people happy, and draws his greatest pleasure from killing those he perceives have the brightest futures ahead of them, or those who have worked especially hard to gain what they have today, usually in a spectacularly bloody and violent fashion.
Karl, on the other hand, isn’t nearly as bad as Sauron. In fact, small vestiges of a conscience still linger on in Karl’s maddened mind. He is a torn individual, pulled by both darkness and light. He originally became a psychiatrist to help people, a drive that had been constant throughout his life. However, he also has a darker side, a need to destroy, which no doubt is drawn from his terrible experiences as a passenger in Sauron’s head, watching his transformed body commit atrocities he wouldn’t have been able to dream of. However, when it comes right down to it, Karl chooses darkness over light, simply because that is how he can feed his addiction.
Another part of Karl’s duality is his loneliness. He’s spent almost his entire life on his own, without support or love from anyone else, completely isolated, except for the madman in his head, always trying to fight him for control. Because of Sauron’s omnipresence, Karl has been unable to form close relationships with others, and these days keeps everyone at an arms length, choosing to view people as prey, just so that he remains unattached, and thus emotionally invulnerable.]
History: [Karl Lykos was born in the aftermath of a fairytale. His mother was the heiress of a large family fortune, his father was a poor boy with the whole world beating down against him, with only a dream to sustain him. After their story was finished, and they were married, they moved to the United States, to get as far from Eleonore’s family as possible. It was here that Karl was born, and for a few, glorious months, he could not have been more loved. But then tragedy struck, as tragedy does.
Karl’s father, Felix, began having headaches, and after going to the doctor, he learned he had an inoperable brain tumor. Disguising the fact from his family, he worked as hard as he could, earning as much as he could before he became incapacitated, and taking out a large life insurance. As his tumor was reaching its final stages, he left home, without a word to his wife, fearing that if he told her of his problem, she would go to no end trying to save him, and end up bankrupting them, destroying young Karl’s life in the process.
However, Eleonore, left alone and confused, withdrew into herself as the love of her life suddenly seemed to walk out on her, leaving her with only her few month old son to remember him by. Months went by, and Eleonore grew more and more distant from the world, hiring a succession of sitters to care for Karl. Karl grew up lonely, and without love, and to keep himself amused, the young child created an invisible friend, who, after a few months, informed Karl that his name was “Sauron”. The name came from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which was Karl and Sauron’s favorite book, and game as well. Karl would play Aragorn, and Sauron would play…himself.
Karl eventually became so enthused with Sauron that he stopped all attempts at making outside friends, and his mother was so detached from the world that she didn’t notice. Sauron was a great lover of pranks, and with his urgings, Karl took to playing small tricks on his mother, subconsciously blaming her, perhaps, for his lonely life. His mother tolerated it, and for the most part ignored it, refusing to give Karl the attention he so desperately craved.
As a result, Karl began getting more out of hand, growing wilder, and playing more dangerous pranks, until, in the summer before his freshman year of high school, one of his pranks went awry, and he sent his mother tumbling down the stairs of their large house. As the emergency response team arrived at the house and informed Karl that “it might be a while before she’s back on her feet”, Karl sat stunned, and rather than blaming himself, he thrust the blame on Sauron, forcing him away forever…or so he thought.
When the report from the hospital came, it wasn’t good. His mother was alive, but in a coma, with no way of knowing when or if she would ever come out of it again. Karl, now without an able guardian, was sent to boarding school, where he lived a relatively normal life. However, halfway through his sophomore year, he began to notice peculiar things, things that no one else seemed to be able to see. These things were a sort of aura, almost, something intangible, but beautiful, more beautiful than anything Karl had seen before. Slowly, a desire grew to obtain one such aura for himself. One day, while holding one of the cats that lived at the school, he imagined the beautiful aura seeping from the cat into his fingers, which were stroking the animal’s neck. And much to his surprise…the aura did.
Shocked, Karl jumped to his feet as the cat collapsed, mewing pitifully. He knew he should have felt terrible, but he felt better than he had ever felt in his life. Soon, he was experimenting, absorbing all the auras he could, learning quickly to stop before he killed the animals. However, what he really wanted was the aura of another being, and so, one night when he was with a girl he’d asked on a date, he began to take her aura. Quickly, although slower than the animals had, the girl collapsed. This was the point Karl knew he should stop, but for reasons he couldn’t explain, he continued, taking and taking until her aura was gone. The backlash hit him like a sledgehammer, sending him flying to an emotional high he’d never felt before. Barely able to keep himself from yelling with joy, Karl ran off, leaving the dead girl behind.
By the end of his junior year, he’d perfected his energy stealing abilities, and had learned of his hypnotic power as well. At this point, Karl had the school under his thumb. He held the teachers and headmaster in the palm of his hand, and he sampled the student body as he pleased. During one night of heavier than normal absorption, a strange sensation spread across his body. Confused and terrified, Karl watched as he changed into a terrifying reptilian form. And with the form came a voice, quiet, insidious, and very, very evil, chuckling the back of his head. Sauron had returned.
Karl awoke the next morning, unable to remember what had passed the night before. It was only when he saw the dismembered bodies and severed limbs around the school that he remembered the night, and he couldn’t help but scream as he remembered everything Sauron had done. The police arrived, eventually, and the whole event was blamed on a recently escaped convict. The surviving students returned to their homes, and life continued. Karl, meanwhile, had turned 18, and as he became a legal adult, he no longer needed a guardian. Instead, he was given custody of his mother, and responsibility for her, as well as access to the family’s considerable wealth. With his new money, Karl finished highschool, and went on to college and then medical school, becoming a clinical psychiatrist, and opening his own practice.
For a short while, Karl was wildly successful, as he used his hypnosis to achieve greater results than any conventional methods could achieve. However, while he had his patients in his thrall, he started stealing just small amounts of their life, nothing big. One day, he took too much life from an old man, who had a heart attack and died before the ambulance could arrive. Karl was sued for malpractice, and lost his license.
Deprived of the one thing he could do in life, Karl took to the streets, despite the fact that he had enough money in his family accounts to live comfortably without working his whole life. He preferred, instead, to live on the streets, indulging completely in his addiction. For a few years, Karl lived on nothing in the streets of New York, killing to survive and to get his unmatchable high.
And then, one day, after he’d lost control to Sauron for the umpteenth time, Karl decided he’d had enough. He wasn’t going let his addiction rule him any more. With this resolution, he went cold turkey, trying heroin and cocaine to try and replace his addiction. Neither worked. As, despairingly, he realized he couldn’t stop feeding, he noticed a band of powerful mutants coming his way.
Karl was aware of mutants, knew of the current mutant-human situation, but never gave it much thought. Instead, he preferred to see both humans and mutants as prey. However, as the mutants moved unerringly towards him, he tried to run, but was crippled by the powerful withdrawal of his addiction. The mutants found him in no time, and after a prolongued battle, convinced him to join the Brotherhood. To seal the deal, the Brotherhood’s effective leader and resident telepath, Bennet du Paris, often known as Exodus, sealed Sauron away in Karl’s head with a mental “one way door”. The door allowed Karl to choose when and if Sauron took control of his body, allowing him to absorb energy without worrying about going out of control.
Because, for the first time, Karl was alone inside his own head, he became genuinely loyal to the Brotherhood, and to Exodus in particular. As a member of the Brotherhood, he partook in a couple of operations, most notably a raid on a super-secret military base, where Karl used his aura-sensing abilities to hunt down anyone who might be trying to hid, and his hypnotic abilities to force his enemies to kill one another.
As the Decimation Virus began to get into full swing, Karl, like the rest of the Brotherhood, lay low. However, when Emma Frost, along with her protégés, the Stepford Sisters, defeated and killed Exodus in a telepathic duel, Karl, quite frankly, went mad. The door partitioning his mind vanished, and as a newly freed, and very, very angry Sauron burst from Karl’s subconscious, Karl’s sanity vanished as well.
Since that time, Karl hasn’t existed. Sauron, refusing to relinquish his control after being completely and utterly helpless, has bound Karl to his will, remaining in control even after shifting from one body to another. Because of his ability to transform, Sauron has been a perfect predator, and stalks the streets of New York, a mysterious and unbelievably deadly killer, baffling the police, and keeping people out of the streets at night.
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Player Information:
Name: Will
Age: 19
Contact Information: PM, or AIM craftysherpa
Other Characters: Nightcrawler
Name: Karl Lykos
Codename
Gender: Male
Age: 31
Occupation: Currently: None. Formerly: Clinical Psychiatrist
Place of Birth:
Place of Residence: [ The Streets of New York]
Known Relatives: Felix Lykos: Father [deceased]
Eleonore Lykos: Mother [deceased]
Alliance: [Currently non-affiliated]
Physical Stats
Height: 5’10” (Lykos) 7’6” (Sauron)
Weight: 170 lbs. (Lykos) 293 lbs. (Sauron)
Eyes: Blue (Lykos) Red (Sauron)
Hair: Brown (Lykos) None (Sauron)
Avatar: [Cillian Murphy]
Abilities
Mutation: [Karl Lykos’ mutation is a complicated matter, in that it has several stages, which give the appearance of multiple mutations. Karl’s primary mutation is his ability to sense and absorb the “life-force” of other living creatures. What a “life-force” is has yet to be determined, although the current hypothesis maintains that a life-force is the invisible electrical field generated by all living cells as their mitochondria convert nutrients into energy.
Despite the little that is known about these life-forces, it is known that all beings apparently have their own, unique life-force, similar to a fingerprint, and that a mutant’s life-force is not only far more individual, but it is also a good deal larger than the life-forces of non-mutant humans, which are again another step above the life-forces of the “lower” animal kingdom.
To aid in his absorption, Karl is able to sense life-sources, making him an excellent hunter, able to pinpoint the location of living beings without the aid of any of the five physical senses. While hypothetically it would be possible to trace a mutant’s energy signal, but Karl has yet to master this technique. Karl’s ability to sense life-forces fluctuates depending on how much life energy he has consumed recently; the less energy he’s consumed, the hungrier he becomes, and the more attuned his sense.
Absorbing a creature’s life-force gives Karl a high unequaled by any drug, on the market or off, as well as providing him with some small boosts in stamina, speed, and strength. As Karl drains the life from a being, that person immediately begins to lose their grip on reality, quickly losing consciousness. A mutant being drained by Karl will lose his/her powers first, followed by their consciousness. Karl can drain energy from any portion of his body, the only criteria necessary being that Karl’s skin is touching the skin of whomever he is draining.
As a way of helping him overpower and drain beings physically stronger than himself, Karl’s mutation has also developed to give him a hypnotic stare. Any being who makes eye contact with Karl finds themselves unable to break the gaze, and after a short period of time (the exact length being determined by the hyponotize-ee’s will power and intelligence), Karl gains complete control over that person, able to make them do whatever he wants, or to simply trick them into believing whatever he wants. Karl’s favorite tactic is to convince his victims that he is their lifelong friend/lover, and that the victim’s friends are actually enemies, trying to hurt Karl. As this is a psychic ability, however, telepaths and other psychics are able to fight Karl’s gaze for far longer, and the most powerful psychics are able to defeat Karl entirely.
Finally, Karl’s mutation has one last effect. Should he absorb enough life energy (the lives of four or five humans, or that of a class 3 mutant), Karl will transform into a 7’6”ptyradactyl-human hybrid, complete with fourteen foot wingspan, razor claws on his hands, a wickedly sharp beak, dagger-like hooks on the ends of his wings, deadly claws, and a murderous personality. In this form, Karl gains superhuman strength and endurance, strong enough to recover from the full power blows of other mutants with superhuman strength, although nowhere near strong enough to attempt to subdue them with his own muscle. He is also able to fly with his wings at upwards of 70 mph, although he generally tends to move at much slower speeds, so that he can dodge and avoid any obstacles nearer to the ground.
Despite being physically much superior, mentally, when he is in his pterosaur form, Karl’s alter-personality, Sauron, takes over. Karl and Sauron inhabit the same body, and ordinarily Karl is in control. However, the more energy Karl absorbs, the more powerful Sauron’s psyche becomes, and it is only after Karl has lost control of his shared body to Sauron that his transformation takes place.
As a final note: because of the high Karl receives from his stolen life-energy, he has become highly addicted. Consuming energy prevents Karl from having to eat or drink, but the side-effects of this are that if he ever stopped consuming energy, he would find his digestive system unable to consume almost anything.
Skills: [Karl is a trained psychiatrist, with advanced knowledge of the human psyche. He is able to recognize and diagnose mental disorders, and has also become adept at using his knowledge to prey on the insecurities of the people he meets. Also, having lived both on the street as a homeless individual, and in the higher tiers of society, he has a good idea how to move in most social circles, particularly concerning whom to intimidate and whom to ingratiate himself with. During his childhood, Karl’s mother forced him to play the piano, and he found, after a number of years, that he enjoyed the experience, and so is now quite the accomplished pianist, adept at both classical and, more recently learned, jazz piano. Also, Karl has a developed love of chess and often likes nothing more than to pit his intelligence against that of others.]
Personality: [Karl’s personality is a complicated thing, the most blazingly obvious reason for which being simply that he has two of them. Karl’s two personalities act as entirely different individuals, who just happen to inhabit the same body. The first personality is Karl himself, a self-serving pragmatic survivalist, hardened over the years of having to fend for himself, and made a slave to his addiction to the life-forces of others. The other personality is Sauron, a maniacal, psychopathic megalomaniac, whose sharp intelligence is often hidden behind his love of slaughter and mayhem.
Sauron embodies, perhaps, the very definition of evil. He knows he is a malevolent abomination, and he revels in it. Sauron abhors seeing people happy, and draws his greatest pleasure from killing those he perceives have the brightest futures ahead of them, or those who have worked especially hard to gain what they have today, usually in a spectacularly bloody and violent fashion.
Karl, on the other hand, isn’t nearly as bad as Sauron. In fact, small vestiges of a conscience still linger on in Karl’s maddened mind. He is a torn individual, pulled by both darkness and light. He originally became a psychiatrist to help people, a drive that had been constant throughout his life. However, he also has a darker side, a need to destroy, which no doubt is drawn from his terrible experiences as a passenger in Sauron’s head, watching his transformed body commit atrocities he wouldn’t have been able to dream of. However, when it comes right down to it, Karl chooses darkness over light, simply because that is how he can feed his addiction.
Another part of Karl’s duality is his loneliness. He’s spent almost his entire life on his own, without support or love from anyone else, completely isolated, except for the madman in his head, always trying to fight him for control. Because of Sauron’s omnipresence, Karl has been unable to form close relationships with others, and these days keeps everyone at an arms length, choosing to view people as prey, just so that he remains unattached, and thus emotionally invulnerable.]
History: [Karl Lykos was born in the aftermath of a fairytale. His mother was the heiress of a large family fortune, his father was a poor boy with the whole world beating down against him, with only a dream to sustain him. After their story was finished, and they were married, they moved to the United States, to get as far from Eleonore’s family as possible. It was here that Karl was born, and for a few, glorious months, he could not have been more loved. But then tragedy struck, as tragedy does.
Karl’s father, Felix, began having headaches, and after going to the doctor, he learned he had an inoperable brain tumor. Disguising the fact from his family, he worked as hard as he could, earning as much as he could before he became incapacitated, and taking out a large life insurance. As his tumor was reaching its final stages, he left home, without a word to his wife, fearing that if he told her of his problem, she would go to no end trying to save him, and end up bankrupting them, destroying young Karl’s life in the process.
However, Eleonore, left alone and confused, withdrew into herself as the love of her life suddenly seemed to walk out on her, leaving her with only her few month old son to remember him by. Months went by, and Eleonore grew more and more distant from the world, hiring a succession of sitters to care for Karl. Karl grew up lonely, and without love, and to keep himself amused, the young child created an invisible friend, who, after a few months, informed Karl that his name was “Sauron”. The name came from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which was Karl and Sauron’s favorite book, and game as well. Karl would play Aragorn, and Sauron would play…himself.
Karl eventually became so enthused with Sauron that he stopped all attempts at making outside friends, and his mother was so detached from the world that she didn’t notice. Sauron was a great lover of pranks, and with his urgings, Karl took to playing small tricks on his mother, subconsciously blaming her, perhaps, for his lonely life. His mother tolerated it, and for the most part ignored it, refusing to give Karl the attention he so desperately craved.
As a result, Karl began getting more out of hand, growing wilder, and playing more dangerous pranks, until, in the summer before his freshman year of high school, one of his pranks went awry, and he sent his mother tumbling down the stairs of their large house. As the emergency response team arrived at the house and informed Karl that “it might be a while before she’s back on her feet”, Karl sat stunned, and rather than blaming himself, he thrust the blame on Sauron, forcing him away forever…or so he thought.
When the report from the hospital came, it wasn’t good. His mother was alive, but in a coma, with no way of knowing when or if she would ever come out of it again. Karl, now without an able guardian, was sent to boarding school, where he lived a relatively normal life. However, halfway through his sophomore year, he began to notice peculiar things, things that no one else seemed to be able to see. These things were a sort of aura, almost, something intangible, but beautiful, more beautiful than anything Karl had seen before. Slowly, a desire grew to obtain one such aura for himself. One day, while holding one of the cats that lived at the school, he imagined the beautiful aura seeping from the cat into his fingers, which were stroking the animal’s neck. And much to his surprise…the aura did.
Shocked, Karl jumped to his feet as the cat collapsed, mewing pitifully. He knew he should have felt terrible, but he felt better than he had ever felt in his life. Soon, he was experimenting, absorbing all the auras he could, learning quickly to stop before he killed the animals. However, what he really wanted was the aura of another being, and so, one night when he was with a girl he’d asked on a date, he began to take her aura. Quickly, although slower than the animals had, the girl collapsed. This was the point Karl knew he should stop, but for reasons he couldn’t explain, he continued, taking and taking until her aura was gone. The backlash hit him like a sledgehammer, sending him flying to an emotional high he’d never felt before. Barely able to keep himself from yelling with joy, Karl ran off, leaving the dead girl behind.
By the end of his junior year, he’d perfected his energy stealing abilities, and had learned of his hypnotic power as well. At this point, Karl had the school under his thumb. He held the teachers and headmaster in the palm of his hand, and he sampled the student body as he pleased. During one night of heavier than normal absorption, a strange sensation spread across his body. Confused and terrified, Karl watched as he changed into a terrifying reptilian form. And with the form came a voice, quiet, insidious, and very, very evil, chuckling the back of his head. Sauron had returned.
Karl awoke the next morning, unable to remember what had passed the night before. It was only when he saw the dismembered bodies and severed limbs around the school that he remembered the night, and he couldn’t help but scream as he remembered everything Sauron had done. The police arrived, eventually, and the whole event was blamed on a recently escaped convict. The surviving students returned to their homes, and life continued. Karl, meanwhile, had turned 18, and as he became a legal adult, he no longer needed a guardian. Instead, he was given custody of his mother, and responsibility for her, as well as access to the family’s considerable wealth. With his new money, Karl finished highschool, and went on to college and then medical school, becoming a clinical psychiatrist, and opening his own practice.
For a short while, Karl was wildly successful, as he used his hypnosis to achieve greater results than any conventional methods could achieve. However, while he had his patients in his thrall, he started stealing just small amounts of their life, nothing big. One day, he took too much life from an old man, who had a heart attack and died before the ambulance could arrive. Karl was sued for malpractice, and lost his license.
Deprived of the one thing he could do in life, Karl took to the streets, despite the fact that he had enough money in his family accounts to live comfortably without working his whole life. He preferred, instead, to live on the streets, indulging completely in his addiction. For a few years, Karl lived on nothing in the streets of New York, killing to survive and to get his unmatchable high.
And then, one day, after he’d lost control to Sauron for the umpteenth time, Karl decided he’d had enough. He wasn’t going let his addiction rule him any more. With this resolution, he went cold turkey, trying heroin and cocaine to try and replace his addiction. Neither worked. As, despairingly, he realized he couldn’t stop feeding, he noticed a band of powerful mutants coming his way.
Karl was aware of mutants, knew of the current mutant-human situation, but never gave it much thought. Instead, he preferred to see both humans and mutants as prey. However, as the mutants moved unerringly towards him, he tried to run, but was crippled by the powerful withdrawal of his addiction. The mutants found him in no time, and after a prolongued battle, convinced him to join the Brotherhood. To seal the deal, the Brotherhood’s effective leader and resident telepath, Bennet du Paris, often known as Exodus, sealed Sauron away in Karl’s head with a mental “one way door”. The door allowed Karl to choose when and if Sauron took control of his body, allowing him to absorb energy without worrying about going out of control.
Because, for the first time, Karl was alone inside his own head, he became genuinely loyal to the Brotherhood, and to Exodus in particular. As a member of the Brotherhood, he partook in a couple of operations, most notably a raid on a super-secret military base, where Karl used his aura-sensing abilities to hunt down anyone who might be trying to hid, and his hypnotic abilities to force his enemies to kill one another.
As the Decimation Virus began to get into full swing, Karl, like the rest of the Brotherhood, lay low. However, when Emma Frost, along with her protégés, the Stepford Sisters, defeated and killed Exodus in a telepathic duel, Karl, quite frankly, went mad. The door partitioning his mind vanished, and as a newly freed, and very, very angry Sauron burst from Karl’s subconscious, Karl’s sanity vanished as well.
Since that time, Karl hasn’t existed. Sauron, refusing to relinquish his control after being completely and utterly helpless, has bound Karl to his will, remaining in control even after shifting from one body to another. Because of his ability to transform, Sauron has been a perfect predator, and stalks the streets of New York, a mysterious and unbelievably deadly killer, baffling the police, and keeping people out of the streets at night.
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Player Information:
Name: Will
Age: 19
Contact Information: PM, or AIM craftysherpa
Other Characters: Nightcrawler