Vergil Bartholomew Kleas [WIP]

by **Capt'n Sinnarr** May 13th 2012, 1:40 pm

Real name: Vergil Bartholomew Kleas [Pronounced = Vur-gil Bor-fo-lo-mew Clay-as]
Alias: Spectre
--Nickname: Verg
--Nickname: the Steel Fist
Alignment: Renegade
Age: 20 years old
Gender: Male
Race: Human

Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Height: 1.89m
Weight: 80 Kilograms

As an Individual:
Vergil is a very driven man, which goes to show when he works on his Carapace, the suit he wears as the "Spectre". As a man with great knowledge in the areas of IT, Mechanics, Nano Robotics and Technology, he is constantly at work in shop located in the office building he got from his father to get him started in New York city. Despite being the head of "Steel Industries" in New York, and part of the world wide council, he spends almost all of his time in the basement, where his own equipment is running 24 hours a day. Keeping his body fit with daily exercise and heavy lifting of materials needed to enhance the suit, as well as practicing Taekwon-do, Krav Maga and having his own personal Shooting range. Due to his life long studies, he is very confident in the fact that he is one of the worlds top five most knowledgeable and skilled people in his area of work, even though the world barely knows anything about his own creation, the Carapace, also known as the Spectre suit.

Vergil enjoys socializing with people, as well as attending parties, whether they are thrown for big reasons such as anniversaries of some kind, or parties thrown by the president himself. He can always be found sexing up the ladies, sharing his stories with other important placeholders in today's business world or simply taking a seat and going on another alcoholic rampage. Being a man that loves to have a drink, he often forgets how many drinks he has already had, and can say more then he was supposed to in a conversation. Lately, this aspect of his being is very controlled due to the new Nano-bots that swim around in his blood stream, eating all the impurities that get in there.

As a Businessman:
Working as the Head of Steel industries in New York City, he is a very well known man among the people of New York and even World wide for his personal inventions and the fact that he is the son of the founder of Steel industries, Alexander Kleas, the man that changed the medical and the military world quite a bit. As a Businessman, he tends to joke around a bit during the conversation, but is in fact a very strict and accurate man when he intends to close a deal, as well as a man that runs his company with an Iron fist. Nothing goes in or out of the building without his say, and as such, he is well respected inside of the company and the people in the city that have to deal with him. This is one of the reasons why people gave him the nickname "the Steel fist", both because of his way of running the business, and how he negotiates and makes his deals with other companies.

As the Spectre: As the Spectre, he is an entirely different person. The Spectre is a childish and arrogant person and is hard to deal with to everyone. His suit allows him to do things the normal human would not be capable of doing, and as such earned him the right to be a bit arrogant. He believes that unlike the people who where born with powers of their own, he achieved a similar form of power through hard work, years of studying and never giving up on the goal he has in mind. As the Renegade few have ever seen or heard about, he tends to break into weapons manufacturers in order to steal blueprints or even prototypes that will allow him to secretly enhance his suit again. Unlike most other superheroes or super villains that have inborn powers, his power constantly grows with the amount of new technology and innovations coming from both his company and those of others he can get his hands on.

The Spectre does not do things in order to better Steel industries, but to set back other companies within range while stealing and erasing their hard work, and taking it for his personal ends. So far, he has been approached twice, once by a man who wanted to use his abilities to steal other, more important stuff, while another wanted to employ him in order to make sure none of their stuff would get stolen. Either way, he decided that the best way to keep himself on a low profile would be to stay clear of any organizations. Despite wanting to keep a low profile, he has been doing the moonwalk when guards caught him stealing things, or taunting people to come after him, followed by him outrunning people and hiding with camouflage just to anger the people he has been ripping off. Still, he does not simply kill someone if he does not have a good reason, nor will he enter a fight over a minor inconvenience.

History:

Ever since Vergil was still a young boy, he had been struggling with a disease that slowly shut down his body over time. It was said that before he turned five, his entire body would have shut itself down and he would either die or be kept alive as a vegetable. His father, Alexander Kleas was a very influential and powerful man that was in charge of one of the worlds most thriving mechanics and robotics industries. Switching from supplying the highest bidder, he had the company work on ways to kill disease and other impurities of the human body so he could save the live of his son. After three years, the young Vergil that moved around in a wheel chair was injected with a syringe filled with Nano-bots designed to kill the disease he had, and stop other diseases from forming, and regenerating the areas that had been shut down by it. Over the next week, Vergil regained the ability to walk on his own, and his father used him as a specimen that would show the world that diseases no longer had to be the end of life, making the company richer then ever. Supplying Nano-bots and weaponry to countries that offered the highest amount of money, Steel Industries became one of the top five most influential companies of the world.

As time passed by, Vergil put his body to full use, attending home schooling, as well as Taekwon-do and Krav Maga. Starting at the age of Six, he was a world champion of Mixed martial arts at the age of Twelve, and finished high school in that same year. After that, he filled his time with studies of Nano-Robotics, Mechanics and even IT. Learning how to hack into as well as create his own servers, constructing Robots on a normal and even a miniature scale, he became one of the most knowledgeable men in the business. As the prodigal son of the man behind Steel industries, he was to become part of the council in charge of leading the company, each one of these men having their own building somewhere, scattered across the world for top notch efficiency. Being one of the luckier ones, Vergil was charged with leading the newest buildings, Steel Industries New York, allowing him to run with the other big dogs in America. At the age of eighteen, Vergil's branch of Steel industries had created a new kind of weaponry, a small device used to use microscopic Nano-bots to enter a computer, overwriting it's firewalls and passwords and allowing someone to hack into anything it became attached to.

This was yet another game changing invention that allowed the worlds military easier access to other countries secrets, though it required infiltration and someone who knew how to handle the equipment. There was also a downside to the invention, seeing as how terrorist organizations sometimes intercepted shipments from one country to the other, and used these inventions for their own ends, thus keeping the war game going on. Creating specific defenses to counter their own inventions from being used against them, Steel Industries became the number one Unhackable building in the US. It was around this time that Vergil developed the Spectrium alloy by merging Tungsten, Titanium and Chromium on a molecular level, keeping it from anyone other thing himself. Knowing full well that other companies where also improving their own inventions, Vergil became all the more weary of the world around him, learning that nothing was ever as it seemed, and that the world was not a good place like some people claimed it was. As such, he took it upon himself to create a suit that would allow him to infiltrate, hack and otherwise break into any kind of terrain. This was what caused the "Mark I Carapace" suit to be born, Vergil's greatest invention ever that was a combination of Mechanics, Robotics and some of the worlds most Finest weaponry. Enhanced with several pieces of weaponry designed for stealth, a Nano-powered layer that can adjust itself to it's surroundings, activating a form of Camouflage unlike anything the world had ever seen before, allowing him to move around like a blur.

Using the new suit, he took on the alias "Spectre", while keeping himself and his company out of trouble, he would take it upon himself to keep improving his suit, and use it to make sure that if people stole his inventions, they would pay, if people made different forms of weaponry that he deemed the world not to be prepared for, he would break in, steal the blueprints and documents, and destroy every trace of it ever having come into existence. So far, he stole three of his own companies inventions from all over the world, while also working hard to keep track of every other company that had been known for creating dangerous weaponry that could mean the end of entire cities. Refusing to work with other organizations, he uses the Spectre suit for his own needs, as well as for the needs of others, making him less then a Super Hero, but more then a Super Villain. He does not like being put into a box like being good or evil, believing himself to be beyond such trivialities. Now, everything Vergil does is make sure the company keeps growing, his suit keeps becoming more powerful, and the world to keep turning.

Powers:
Eye for Detail
Vergil has a great eye for detail, gained from years of Nano engineering, training at the firing range and practicing different forms of martial arts. As such, he is capable of picking up the smallest details in both mechanics/technology and in combat. Picking up the smallest flaws in enemy movement, figuring it out the mechanism behind technology and weaponry, and even possible gaps in defenses. Given enough time, he can create perfect counters for hand to hand combat, and even work out technological counters for weapons and defenses used against him. This works together perfectly with his Mechanics Mastermind, Tech-Ninja and the Spectre characteristics.

Mechanic Mastermind
As a man that spent the better part of his life studying and working with computers, mechanics, robotics and nano technology, there is next to nothing he can not hack into, disengage or shut down within those areas of expertise. Because the Mark I Carapace suit has every piece of equipment and technological tool one can think of, allowing him to hack into every single piece of machinery or technological equipment ranging from something as simple as a remote control missile to a Drone and even super computers in very little time. Depending on what he hacks into, it can take only a few seconds to a couple of minutes for him to overwrite defenses set up before he can shut it down completely.

Tech-Ninja
As a martial arts specialist and at the same time one of the worlds most potent Engineers, Vergil is a very balanced Shinobi and Gunslinger that has no problem at wielding weaponry of his own creation. The swords, blades, guns and even power beam weaponry embedded in the armor. Having special Nano-bots in his bloodstream that keep his body in great shape and free of disease, it kills all forms of poison and disease, allowing him to keep going even if some form of trap is triggered. Together with his other characteristics of both Vergil and Spectre, he can adjust his weaponry to dent specific defenses, after analyzing the defense and the weaponry he is up against. Coming with his acrobatic movement and special cybernetics that allow him to hack into defenses, he can avoid detection and defenses with hardly any problems at all.

Mixed Martial Arts
Ever since he was still a young boy learning to use his body again, he has been practicing various forms of martial arts to use his body to the fullest, as well as regain his flexibility and control over it. What started with Taekwon-do at a young age, soon got enhanced with Krav Maga and eventually Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, something he learned on his travels to the other Steel Industries settlements. Despite being only twenty years of age, he learned various martial arts that allow him to disarm, quickly neutralize threats, move as flexible and unrestrained as a cat and even break or dislocate limbs in fractions of a second.

The Spectre
The Spectre is Vergil wearing his Carapace Battlesuit, his alias that allows him to break into other companies and buildings without anyone looking at him or Steel industries because of the suit covering his entire body. Applying Krav Maga, Taekwon-do and the art of weaponry he created himself, he can fight at the level of the mystical Shinobi from japan, and with the enhanced capabilities granted by the suit, he becomes the perfect infiltrator, capable of shutting down entire companies in mere minutes with the gadgets hidden in his suit, and the techniques in his mind that allow him to overwrite things manually if he has to. [/size]

Power Grid:
STR: 2
SPD: 3
END: 5
INT: 6
EP: 0
FS: 5

Character Image/Description:

Vergil has clear brown eyes, together with black hair of a decent length, covering his ears but just not long enough to reach down to his shoulders. When people meet him, they always see his clean shaven look, as well as his hair that is always looks as if he just stepped out of bed. Vergil stands at a height of 1.89m and weighs roughly 80 Kilograms, making him a fairly tall man that stands out in a crowd. Because most people are shorter then he is, he usually has an intimidation advantage in most discussions, whether they are at making a deal, or when he is speaking to someone as the Spectre. Having a fairly muscular body due to the fact that he works out a lot, though these muscles are all hidden from site due to him always wearing a tuxedo in public, and the fact that he is so tall, people do not notice it as much.

Wardrobe wise, Vergil is usually seen in a black tuxedo, coming with a white shirt and a red tie, something in which he feels classy and comfortable. Wearing black socks and leather shoes, he dresses to impress at parties and during council meetings, anything requiring him to dress up all fancy, showing that he is a wealthy man that knows the meaning of the word "Class". This particular suit was made in England by one of the most expensive tailors in the world, delivering only the finest suits to the richest of the rich. The Tuxedo was a gift to him from his father and the council when he was appointed to join the Steel Industries council, and has ever since been his most prized suit in his wardrobe.

Another piece of clothing that he is accustomed to wearing while in his own underground facility is a jumpsuit made out of Kevlar, covering his neck, his torso and his legs, keeping the arms free so he can practice his martial arts, fire new and old kinds of weaponry on his firing range, and work on his new inventions without his arms being restricted by it. Even though it gets hot while wearing it, it is how people are used to seeing him when he is walking around the tech-department, or is just working on his own in the solitary basement.

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