Name: Zilas Black
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Race/Nationality/Species: Human Psychic, US Born, but he himself does not recognize any government or corporation having authority over him.
Orientation: Fun
Personality: Unstable, fun loving. To be honest, he is a complete sociopath and probably a psychopath to boot. These are only technical terms, as he can care about others, but he is extremely selfish and thinks in ways normal people, or even crazy people, wouldn't. He tends to be able to laugh quite a bit, even when slaughtering people left and right.
Occupation: None, unless you count "Trickster", "Thief", and "Assassin".
Education: He never finished, but records indicate he had genius levels of intelligence.
Factions: His own.
Religion/Philosophy: His Philosophy is simple. So long as he can have fun and do what he wants, everything is good. But, on that note, he views this new group that is forming as something of a nuisance. If the world gets thrown into too much chaos, he thinks it might be difficult to do what he wants, and be able to enjoy breaking the rules if no one is there to enforce it, so he might as well take them down a few if he gets a chance.
Political Ideals: Politicians are fun to tease, but horrible to deal with long term.
Biography: Zilas Black was originally born to a normal family, who wanted to escape to a normal part of the world. However, he and his family ended up getting kidnapped by a mad scientist secretly funded by a corporation that was doing experimentation into psychic abilities, and their new "Psychic sensor" that their scouts had used nearby the family when they went to the store had sensed great potential from Zilas.
Because of that, he was experimented on and tested for most of his early childhood he couldn't really remember, and possibly due to those experiments, he showed high levels of intelligence and cognition and absorbed knowledge like crazy. His growth stunted a little as a result, so he was a runt, and his physical development was low, but the experiments were ultimately a success. Too much of a success, for that matter.
After all, when Zilas learned they slaughtered his parents, and planned to keep him trapped here forever as a lab rat, he decided to escape. Violently.
So he did. He outsmarted them, overcame his restraints and containment, and then systematically wiped out each and every member of the lab. He even stole their prized airship, one that was designed to be the most advanced stealth craft ever and could stay operation for a decade without needing to be refueled or recharged at least, the Moonray, from the head scientist...after torturing the passcodes and ways to disable all the tracking devices on him and the craft.
No one had realized it, as he himself had kept it hidden, but Zilas had been driven insane and then back again. He became re-sane as his mind figured out how to escape, but as its questionable if one can really become re-sane after all that, it might be better to say he is in a state between sanity and insanity.
And that was at age nine. After that happened, for the past six years, Zilas has committed large scale crimes as well as acts of generocity. He currently lives aboard the Moonray, keeping it in constant stealth mode and never settling down in one region due to heavy distrust of any Government. Although it was a corporation that did this to him, it is Governments that are supposed to oversee them, so in his eyes they are all responsible.
Generally speaking, he is not a good guy...but, to simply call him a bad guy is also wrong. He just wants to live his life the way he wants to, and he sees the ruckus being created by this new group that seems to practice canabalism to be potentially problematic for him too. After all, he has to live in this world! He cant just risk letting these morons end it! He cant have fun if they do!
It should also be noted that Zilas has a bit of a sweet tooth, and hates to be called "runt" (even though he is, and even girls his age are taller then him usually).
Skills: Psychokinesis, Telepathy, Clairvoyance, Shooting, Deception, Irritation, Intimidation, Strategic thinking and predictions, Barriers.
Transportation: Generally speaking, he gets around either through his teleportation or by using his home.
Home: As Zilas is not interested in being tied down to one place, or by being broken into easily, his house is not a place a normal person can reach.
Likes: Helping children, having fun, being a psychopath, being free, chocolate, destroying labs, destroying labs that do immoral experimentaiton (especially on children), doing what he wants.
Dislikes: Being called runt, being denied or blocked, scientists that experiment on kids, crimes committed against children, being experimented on.
Weapons: He does have some skill with shooting, for reasons of his past, and so he has a firearm, but he usually just uses his psychic powers.
Clothing/Armor: A black hoodie, round glasses, some blue cargo pants for the pockets, and black sneakers are what people usually see him wear. A white T shirt is under that, but he keeps the hoodie on.
Powers: His powers are of the Psychic variety, being able to create projections, sense incoming danger, attack and interact with objects using psychic power, projecting barriers and ethereal objects, and even some form of teleportation. He can also sense emotions to an extent, but mostly only if they are negative or positive and how strong they are. He cannot read minds or communicate telepathically, unless he made you a thrall or stares into your eyes at close range for several seconds. There are limits to his abilities, but he would never let anyone learn them so long as he can help it.
So your characters should not know or easily learn, but could potentially learn over time by watching him:
-There is a delay from when he teleports to when he teleports again, the delay depending on the distance teleported. He can only instantly teleport to any place he can see, and even then there is a range limit. He often uses this ability to also get on and off the Moonray.
-When using a barrier, he cannot teleport or make direct psychokinetic attacks. He can however still use telekinesis to attack.
-For him to telepathically interrogate someone, he has to directly look into their eyes for several seconds without moving. Obviously this means he cant do this until combat is over, for it would be way too wide of an opening. He also cant use other psychic powers while doing this.
-While his Psychic Projections can be made to be physical and do damage, they can be easily destroyed before they are finished. They can still be destroyed after they are finished with enough force. He can create illusions a lot faster however, but they wont do any real world damage or interaction.
-To make someone his thrall, he has to first perform a psychic interrogation on them, and then maintain that state for a period of time. How long it takes depends on the mental resistance and willpower of the one he is doing it on. Once that is done, he can program them with a set of orders they will have to complete before the madness takes hold of them, or for a more stable, long term thrall, several days to weeks may be needed of repeated Psychic Interrogation sessessions.
-He has one last telepathic ability, which allows him to induce large scale madness in an area around him. However, he cant use any other abilities while doing this, and he cant be attacked or interracted with or it would break his concentration. Furthermore, he cant tell those who go mad to not attack him, and others with higher willpower might resist...though they will likely get attacked by those suffering from madness. So in truth, this ability is actually quite weak and not something he would use...almost ever. But he has used it in the past, and it caused quite the stir when the executives of the company that kidnapped him started to go crazy and kill everyone...and each other.
-If someone kills, seriously hurts, or threatens to kill or serious hurt children in front of him, Zilas may lose control and go into a berserk state to kill them. However, the alternative is usually him maintaining control, but still trying to kill them. Zilas has a zero-tolerance policy like that.
-As expected, if he pushes himself too far, he gets headaches. He has been enhanced and trained for sure, but a limit does still exist.
Augmentations: He has serious genetic modifications to enhance his psionic abilities, as well as enhanced healing and resistances to drugs, chemicals and poisons.
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Appearance Description: He is a bit short for his age, and wears glasses. Some people think the glasses are purely for aestetics, but he does always seem to use them...however, it should be noted he does not appear to have much physical strength. Its possible his psionic abilities are so adept because he wouldn't last long if attacked directly.
Theme Song: Hey Kids by AmaLee