Evolutionist

Evolutionist
Author	/u/TheTowerIV
Alignment	Villain
Affiliation	None (Devilfish)
PRT Classification	Trump
Status	Active

Character Sheet

Appearance

Tall and intimidating are certainly the words to describe him. Often wears neck coverings, such as sweaters or scarfs. Can be caught constantly looking down and fidgeting with his hands. Fairly forgettable looking if you saw him in a crowd, if he wasn’t hiding behind something.

In costume he seems something like a dark cleric. The mask is makeshift from an old worn scarf, thin enough to see through. Gold pieces adorn him, the staple being an ‘eye’ with a delta symbol in the middle of his face.

Has a third persona; a trench coat wearing bystander that sits by cape fights. He uses this ‘costume’ to hide his normal costume and later changes to join the fight after amping capes enough.

Equipment and Resources

Wealth Level: 5

Has an average college job, doing custodial work for the campus.

• Costume: Made from stolen stageroom materials
• Cell-phone: Research purposes
• Antique gun: More for show than actual usage. still has some ammo + blanks.

Skills and Specializations

Obsessive knowledge on parahumans and the cape scene. Is a major in Parahumans studies Learned how to act from taking acting classes. Only shows this in cape identity Good at keeping a low profile. Hides well and keeps out-of-sight. Tall. His lankiness seems unsettling, probably disturbs most people in and out of costume.

Mentality

Not right. A recluse and relentless stalker. Often lost in fantasy while hiding away or watching others from afar. Not one to talk with others unless talked to, or if it's something related to his interests.

Is more charismatic, or at least louder than others, once in costume. Putting on this ‘persona’ lets him take out all the bottled emotions from his own lifestyle.

Power

He’s the worst type of Trump. A power granter with a Master effect. Though, it’s a bit more unique.

His power can target a handful of parahumans in the area. Those capes start to have their powers slowly grow in strength. The catch is; The more a power gets boosted, the more likely the cape will start to lose control of the power. (Brutes lose their carefulness and shatter what they're holding, or a Thinker would start to see too much and get a migraine.)

Of course, he himself does not control the victims, but he can choose when to stop boosting a power. Boosting powers can go onto a scale, at a certain point the powers become unstable. Eventually, Evolutionist himself will be affected and all targets slowly regress in the scale. (A 1 can be the base power, 5 is almost out of hand, and 10 is ‘Oh God I’m burning everything.’)

The time it takes to go up one notch is around a minute, but starting at 7 it would take +5 min every time. (1-2-3-4-5-6-7: 1m each, 7-8: 5m, 8-9: 10m, 9-10: 15m)

Some cases of being buffed could lead to manton limit breaks, good and bad. Maybe you start to hurt when you’re a durability brute and punch hard. Maybe your aim is being thrown off by your own blasts recoil. Maybe you telefragged a friendly when teleporting. Limits start to tear around 6-7, then passed that it gets worse.

The range is about 40ft. Takes less than a minute to begin to climb up when in touch range. Within 20ft it would be less than 3 min. Then in 40ft around 5 min, but after 5 minutes it will affect everyone without discrimination. When the effect stops, capes will slowly dwindle back to normal in 10 minutes.

(I could ask players how they'd think their powers would be affected. I noticed that the bot can choose from a list, so maybe a 1/5 chance to mess up when power is at 5 then 1/4 at 6, and so on til 10, where powers are wack. Though, It would probably be a last resort in a fight to have people passed 8.)

Backstory

Height: 5’6. Hair color: Auburn Brown. Goes out in costume at around 3:50pm on Monday-Wednesday, and classes end at 3:30pm. It’s obvious: Casey Williams is Reprisal.

Chauncey did heavy research into this heroine for days. Hours of figuring out who she was while passing the girl in the halls. He memorized her schedule and routines so that they could ‘bump into' each other, then start a relationship. Months later they became close friends, and Casey had no idea of his true intentions. She honestly thought that he was a nice person, despite what everyone said.

He wanted to test and experience her power in person. It was late at night when Reprisal would answer an average store robbery. Chauncey ‘staged’ the event, by playing as the robber. Reprisal confronted this masked criminal and he fired a warning shot. His heart sank when the hero was accidentally hit. Killed by nobody, a human thug.

His rage of the site was uncontainable. He scrambled to get to her, removing his mask he scolded her with tears in his eyes. “HOW COULD YOU DIE? YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE A GOD!” Her eyes of surprise then turned into eyes of betrayal, and finally faded. He fled the scene dragging her corpse.

He now had the power to make sure they stayed gods.