cruelty of the beast.

⇛ BACKGROUND !!

nikolas black was born harbringer of death . born in the cold outskirts of russia in the family home , his mother passed away in childbirth , leaving his father furious , drunk and pointing the blame towards a young thoughtfully innocent niko .

what nobody knew , of course , was that everything niko touched --- disease would follow . his own father suffered from a horrific tumor on the lung that spread throughout the body but there had previously been zero signs of cancer in the family .

constantly being around the young boy was slowly killing the already irate drunk of a father and with that anger his own sickness seemed to flourish and niko was naive to the idea that he was making his own father sick with his hatred .

years pass and as does his father , the disease irreversible and it delivered an incredibly slow , painful death for the man leaving niko an orphan at only fourteen years old .

with that , he grew up in a small russian orphanage run by nuns who would often tease him for his constant ability to be healthy . that is ----- until one day one of the younger children at the orphanage grew sick , a close near sibling like figure to niko and he mourned ---- assuming she would die just as his father did .  he didn’t realize that it was ultimately his fault that the young girl caught remnants of an age old plague , something not seen in the country for one hundred years or more .

the little girl passed and the nuns prayed to god , realizing the uprise in sickness that spread through their orphanage , how some of the children would survive , but many of them wouldn’t . all but the lonesome boy nikolas black , who was as healthy as ever . they began to believe they held in their quarters the soul of one of the four horsemen , pestilence .

their hearts too pure to simply kick the boy to the curb , they locked niko in a quarantine room and simply prayed that the other three wouldn’t be coming for them as well . once he was eighteen however , they couldn’t keep him in isolation , and the now somewhat twisted nikolas black was released to the world .

that was when he’d heard about a city called crystalline , where many others like him lived and thrived . he’d never quite intended on becoming the villain of this story , but society ostracized him far too many times for him to be forgiving .

onto his work as a mercenary , he works for a company called equinox who will often give him targets to make seemingly innocent deaths occur at his hand . beyond that though , he is a soldier for them working with a team of people that do not have powers --- though they are often switched out often to avoid their own sickness .

⇛ PERSONALITY !!

nikolas black comes from not only an abusive home life , but an abusive orphanage as well , because of this he often comes off as aloof , carefree in the feelings of others and at times cruel .

paranoid by default , he has an addictive personality which has gotten him involved in many things , including drugs and other dangerous habits .

he prefers to keep his distance from others , as people discover that he not only causes disease but can take them away as well ---- he would rather not become one of those walking preachers ‘healing the ill ‘ . especially considering there is one trick . not only does he feel the pain of the disease he absorbs , but he cannot heal a sickness or ailment that he placed upon someone and that disease will only strengthen the longer they are near him .

he is very controlled , emotionally as he’s found it’s the only way to be around people without hurting them , or spreading a sickness at this point in his life he can make physical contact with someone without gloves if need be and not hurt them ... hopefully .

the truth is , however , niko spent so much time cut off from not only society but emotions as well that it doesn’t bother any longer when others get sick from being around him .

i’m going to reiterate this , nikolas black is cruel by nature , if he infects someone he has no problems sitting there and watching to make sure the job is done .

⇛ APPEARANCE !!

he stands at about 6′1 , often seen wearing proper fitted suits and leather gloves .

has a warm , welcoming smile , which is a dangerous thing to have when someone is a walking disease .

OOF he is covered in scar tissue honestly , all the way down his back and his arms from not only his father but the overzealous nuns who truly believed he was one of the four horsemen .

⇛ WANTED CONNECTIONS !!

i’m so bad at coming up with connections ?? but give me the opposites attract , friends , lovers whichever . unlikely friendships are my jam.

give me the ULTIMATE brotp please , niko needs someone he can trust hands down , someone he can talk to . it’s no secret that he is evil as hell , but on the outside he gives off a very neutral vibe ( right before he slaughters your insides with disease anyway )

lovers etc fwb who knows , i sure don’t .

people from his past , maybe ?

⇛ BACKGROUND !!

some would say lightning struck the mother in pregnancy , others could say a radioactive spider . no matter what the case ---- shay bradley was born with her powers , and they were activated far too young for even an infant to handle .

born of a mother with superpowers , some were quick to believe that shay shared the same ability to teleport upon her own childish will . the mother , defiant , held her daughter close only for her to disappear .

time went on and the little girl grew into contact with many other children that were just like her , and it became clear upon the first mishap ---- she was not just some teleporting tot , but a dangerous mirror image of whatever power belonged to the person she’d touched last .

it was all fun and games for a while , a testing game just to see how far she could go when it began to become ... clear . remnants of such abilities seemed to linger , but it was hardly something that she could unlock ---- instead her mind began to fragment . shay bradley at the young age of even five years old was starting to grow MAD , often seen talking to herself , slipping into her own mumbling mess . god help anyone that she took their powers from because she would use them VISCOUSLY just to see what she could do .

for that alone , she was locked away ---- stowed , tied up and left to speak only with the demons in her head as powerful superhuman abilities continued to eat away at her mind , like a poison but addictive she only craved more .

she’d grown up within an institution , a nonsensical plan to break out if need be --- until someone showed up with the sole purpose of taking her away from such a place, offering her a taste of their power ( again ---- to see what she would do with it , perhaps ! )

from that point forward she chose to wreak HAVOC upon the city , stealing powers meant to do good and using them for her own destruction and she is a monster wrapped up in a small ball of psychosis , battling her own addiction and looking for her next fix .

what nobody knew , was that the whole time she was locked away ---- she had her own powers , someone she’d touched last leaving her with the ability to read minds . people weren’t always so careful when they were in the presence of a madwoman ---- so she learned plenty .

⇛ PERSONALITY !!

shay bradley is definably psychotic . nothing of sense will come from her as she often gets lost in her own thoughts , she sees things that others can’t and will talk about them as if the rest of the world is on the same level as she .

a coffee addict by nature , she dresses herself well enough to be out in public , though when she approaches if she is in a poor mood , it’s best she get her hot beverage for free .

honestly , incapable of making friends ---- and not in the way that means she is untrustworthy , she just simply forgets people over and over again .

OOF did i mention she’s a little bit of a demon ? shay likes to take things apart just to see if she can use some mystery power to put them back together .

⇛ APPEARANCE !!

teeny tiny gremlin , stands at 5′2 ,

bright silver eyes , but when she takes a power --- they momentarily shift to black.

she wears a lot of black clothing , think new age goth style

⇛ WANTED CONNECTIONS !!

the person who broke her out of the institution !!

a friend that she can raise hell with , preferably someone with destructive powers that she can feed off of  

there’s always that one person who tries to help her . they likely know it’ll never work but... there’s to trying !!