Menace Alpha

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Alpha
Player: Vheks
Origin: Magical mutation
Archetype: Corruptor
Threat Level: Classified
Personal Data
Real Name: Alpha
Known Aliases: Menace Alpha, Archon Alpha.

Laurin Broadhurst

Species: Human/Infernal hybrid
Age: 22
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 145 lbs.
Eye Color: Pale blue
Hair Color: White
Biographical Data
Nationality: Caucasian (human side)
Occupation: Paramilitary group commander
Place of Birth: Classified
Base of Operations: The Rogue Isles
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: See "The Menace X Project"
Known Powers
AR/Dark
Known Abilities
Skilled with guns, and can use Abyssal energy.
Equipment
Confidential
No additional information available.






Contents

Affiliations

Personality

Character History

(Spoilers... if you are interacting with these characters and don't wish to know the truth just yet, you have been warned)

Backstory

Alpha was the fist success of The Menace X Project. As such, he was left in relative peace when he was young. He was the control specimin, he was the baseline. His early childhood seemed happy to him; after all, he had his brothers Beta and Gamma. As time passed, the scientists began other cultures in preperation for Broadhurst's return, and some of those didn't turn out so well. And so, Beta was taken away from him for testing, and Gamma was taken away for enhancements. For nearly eight years, Alpha watched as Beta became more withdrawn, more sullen, and less and less willing to speak even to him. And for nearly eight years, he watched as Gamma grew, and became stronger and more beautiful. And, for eight years, Alpha found himself trying to balance Beta's moods, reassure the younger expiraments, and learn everything he could about the project, their goals, and their enigmatic missing leader, Broadhurst. The time came, when Alpha couldn't ignore that something was -wrong- with what was happening to Beta. Using all of his training, and every secret he'd learned about the base in his time growing up, Alpha snuck into the oberservation room over looking the chamber where they tested Beta. He was horrified. And enraged. He bolted from the observation room, determined that he'd get Beta out of there, now. The soldiers guarding the door caught him, and beat the boy down; landing him in the medical wing. When he was finally able to speak to Gamma, he confronted his brother, furious, needing to know if he'd been aware of what they were doing to Beta. Before Alpha was well enough to consider launching another escape attempt, though, it was too late. Beta had already snapped, taking matters into his own hands and killing several of the scientists on a rampage. The remaining interns ran to Alpha, hoping that his relative calm, and Beta's respect for him would be enough to calm down the monster they'd created. Alpha went into the test room alone with no qualms, and tried for hours to comfort Beta, but his brother was inconsoleable. Desperate, exhausted, he asked them to call for Gamma, hoping that he'd be able to succeed where Alpha had failed. This hope cost Gamma his life. Beta looked at their brother and saw everything he could have, and -should- have been, everything the scientists had torn and mutilated out of him; and he snapped. By the time Alpha made it back to the lab, Gamma was dead and Beta had gone to ground somewhere in the base. Alpha had all night to think, and what he decided was that enough was enough. There would be no more scientists, no more tests, no more project; unless it was on their own terms..

Past Events

Alpha, at 16, along with a small group of even younger and then Nameless soldiers, siezed control of the project in the weeks after Gamma's death. However, once under their own power, Alpha realized they really had no idea why they'd been made. Broadhurst's directions should he vanish; as he had; only covered the span of a few months, not decades. Determined that no one would hurt the creations of the project again, Alpha became the leader; but to protect them he had to lie. He swore to the younger Menace that Broadhurst would return soon, and once he did, everything would make sence; even as he himself realized the stark truth that they'd been abandoned. He hid the secrets of the Feinds in the underbase; even as Beta fed the project failure's to the unquenchable thirst for blood of the feinds. Most of all, Alpha did everything he could to try to find a way for Beta to heal his wounds. He would have sacrificed the entire project to somehow free Beta from the guilt of Gamma's death and the changes that had been forced upon him. Alpha has shouldered the hopes of the younger Menace's, and so has assumed the guilt of every failure, injury, and death that has come as a casualty to the project. And then, in May of that year, the Rikti invaded. The base was burried under the ruble of a burning city. The Menace collapsed most of the tunnels leading to their base to control access to it, and fought any aliens who entered their territory. And the Menace X Project was assumed destroyed by any left living who knew of its existance...

Alpha and Beta consider their next move...

After several years in hiding, Alpha decided to move the base to a secondary location in Port Oakes. The advance team included Menace Adjutant Tau, Menace Force Kappa, and Menace Forces Mu and Nu. However, it wasn't long before Tau and Kappa began to be changed by their experiences in the field. Alpha may have been shocked when he discovered that Tau and Kappa had mutated spontaniously, without the efforts of the Menace Scientists. He wasted no time following Beta to the Rogue Isles to try to get a handle on the situation. One thing he found, among other things, was that Kappa had began to contact a group of suspicious outsiders; most notably Lyo Xion and the enigmatic Dark Xion. As well, the project was discovered by an other dimensional Nictus, Galaxy Archon Kyriakos, Alpha refused to trust him easily, but took the risk of asking for his help to find this worlds version of their father, Broadhurst.

Current Story

Praying that the Xions were indeed linked to their own history, and hoping that Kappa's initial mistake in assuming Dark Xion was in fact the long dead Gamma was a good sign, Alpha let Beta know just enough about the outsiders to ensure that he would make every effort to find them. At the same time, sencing that there could be more to Beta's relationship with Tau than fear and hatred, Alpha did his best to push those two together. These tenative plans to save Beta backfired, though, when shortly after Beta seemed to have professed his feelings to Tau, she was captured and beaten badly by an enemy soldier. Beta wasted no time tracking down the offender, with Alpha on his heels. The frustration and rage Beta felt reached a breaking point, and as Alpha watched in horror, his brother regressed into a form very similar to the Feinds locked in the main base. Fearing at the very least that his brother's mind had snapped, and that he'd be stuck in the same rage that had led him to kill Gamma, Alpha locked Beta away. He refused to allow Tau to see her commander, pleading with her and finally resorting to desperate threats and violence. When Tau realized that it wasn't Beta who'd been destroyed by events so much as Alpha, she slipped into the locked Lab against his wishes, and took Beta away from the base; hoping that once he'd calmed down they could return in time to save Alpha from the pressures threatning to break him. While they were AWOL though, with no indication within the Project of if they'd ever return or not; Kyriakos reported to the base and found Alpha dangerously on the edge... Things spiraled from bad to worse for Alpha; despite and partially because of Kappa's determination to close the distance between them. After Kappa was mutilated by the Ninja Tanshin, Alpha foolishly swore he'd never let anyone grow close enough to him to be damaged for his sake again. This, of course, overlooked the obvious fact that all the younger Menace care about him fervently. Alpha did everything he could to make Kappa hate him, so that Kappa wouldn't risk his life for Alpha's again. Almost immediately, Alpha got into a fight with Kyriakos about this; which ended when Kyriakos suggested Alpha go speak to someone he trusted. What Ky didn't realize, of course, is that being Broadhurst's son, Alpha saw him as something like an older brother, and -did- trust him. Left with few other people to speak to, Alpha began seeking out the singer Myriael more often, but Myr was inceasantly concerned about Alpha's repression of his evident mutations (wings, or at least the marks on his back where wings should have torn out) and his inability to delegate. Luckily, even the darkest night can't last forever. Beta returned home. Kappa was stubborn. And, after speaking to Strikeshadow, Alpha tested Kyriakos's DNA. Now, with Kyriakos's position in the Project secured and understood by both parties; Alpha just needs to learn to relax...

Powers

Alpha is a trained soldier, skilled with guns and devices. Recently, his guilt over Beta's condition has led him to attempt to alter his own physiology as well, and he's began to develop dark powers as a side effect.

Vulnerabilities

As a side note, Alpha is about 80% blind in his left eye. The magnitized target glass over his right helps him compensate for this in combat; however, his vision on the left side is still severely limited. He claims it was from an injury sustained taking over the menace base, but sources close to him suggest otherwise...

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Rogue Gallery

Tanshin--Completely. Broadhurst--Maybe. Strikeshadow--uncertain.

Creator Notes and Trivia

/blame @Vheks

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