Maskerade

PERSONAL

Gender: Male

Kit: Eldritch

Location: Montreal, Canada

AFFILIATION

Alignment: Hero

Team: The Angels of Mercy

VITAL STATS

Strength: weak (rank 0)

Agility: standard (rank 1)

Mind: standard (rank 1)

Body: standard (rank 1)

Spirit: (rank )

Charisma: (rank )

RECORD

Fame Points: 0

Personal Wins: 4

Personal Losses: 9

Team Wins: 0

Team Losses: 0

Tourney Wins: 0

Tourney Losses: 0

STATUS

Status: Active

ClownWithAChainsaw

Kyle Karmen was an ordinary kid from an ordinary family. His dad owned an antique store, and Kyle became fascinated in history. He was entranced by ancient Egyptian artifacts, old cultures, and rusted junk. Kyle looked up to his dad, and he wanted to grow up to be a historian or an archeologist. His dad encouraged his curiosity and the two grew close.

One day, they went to a storage auction together. Sometimes, people rented out private storage space, but never returned to claim what was then. When people didn’t claim what was theirs, the owners of the storage spaces auctioned out the contents of the space to make room.

On this particular day, a refined looking man in a top hat came to bid. On one storage space in particular. But Kyle’s dad managed to outbid him. The man tried to offer him more money for what was in the space, but Kyle’s dad turned him down, and told him if he wanted it he could come by the shop and buy them when they came on sale.

Later that night, as Kyle and his father examined their purchases, Kyle found an old Italian crow mask. He put it on, but found he couldn’t take it off. Frantically searching for an answer, they discovered an old journal in the same package as the mask. They read that it originally belonged to an Venitian warlock, who trapped an eldritch demon inside of it and used it to assassinate his sister’s lover at a masquerade ball.

That was when the man in the top hat came again. He wanted the mask, but as Kyle’s dad explained, he couldn’t get it off. The man in the top hat decided to kill Kyle for the mask, and when Kyle's dad tried to stop him he killed him.

Enraged, Kyle used the power of the mask and the demon inside it to fight him off, but the man in the top hat escaped. Kyle became part of the larger magical underworld that day. He became an avenger of magical wrongs, fighting the Hat Family, and bringing members of the magical black market to justice. He became the Maskerade.

 

Kyle is a smart kid. He is very passionate about history, and is very curious about where things come from and why they are. He often imagines he’s a pirate, roaming across seas of knowledge for a hidden treasure. He’s enthusiastic about history, not giving much thought to the future, and holding grudges for a long time.

He’s not very physical, but he’s prone to bouts of anger. He can’t stand cowards and bullies, and when somebody insults his family, or his few friends, he gets very angry. He’s outgoing and adventurous, not prone to being introverted.

 

Chaos fragments.

     Eldritch Energy: superior (rank 2)

  • Ranged Attack

 

Kyle has the ability to fire fragments of pure chaos from his hands, in the form of crackling white bolts. The illogicallity of chaos makes this an ideal weapon against machines of all kinds, and unless they're shielded they will fail with a single direct hit from his energy.

While humans are less logical, it generally only takes one blast to cause extreme enough pain to make them double over, and another to render them unconscious. Strangely, this power seems to work proportionately to intelligence when it comes to humans. It takes several direct hits to incapacitate a completely exposed and unshielded genius, while a musclebound brute who's taken several direct gunshots in his life will double over after the first hit, feeling like he'd been hit by a cannon.

In terms of inorganic matter, the bolts completely shatter rock and glass, and softer substanses like drywall, wood, and papers. But the only effect it has on harder metals (diamonds, steel, plastic) is to make them hot temporarily.

 

Masqurade.

     Invisibility: standard (rank 1)

 

The mask is permanently attached to Kyle's face, even when he's a civilian. But the mask can make itself invisible to not draw attention to himself. The mask can also, briefly, extend it's invisibilty power to its wearer, but in a weakened state, not true invisibility. He can only blend in with the shadows around him, making it impossible to hide in direct light.

 

Demon mind.

     Mental Defense: superior (rank 2)

 

Anybody trying to penetrate Kyle's mind, will first have to go through a painful psychic haze, courtesy of the eldritch abomination inhabiting his mask.

 

Digging up dirt.

     Detective: superior (rank 2)

 

Due to his fascination with the past, Kyle has adjusted into a frame of mind that constantly questions how things came to be what they are, and why. This often gives him at least a small amount of insight into the people he fights, and he has a great amount of experience in research and detective work.