Revenge
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe


NAME: Dexter Davidson
ALIAS: Revenge
EYE COLOR: Blue [Formerly]
HAIR COLOR: Black
AGE: 35
OCCUPATION: Vigilante
BIRTHPLACE: Kings Row, PC
POWERS:
- ECHO LOGIC
Perceiving reality through sound, vibration, and patterns.
ABILITIES:
- Police Training
- Skilled in unarmed and close-quarters combat
Born in the heart of Paragon City, Dexter Davidson always held onto the belief that things could get better. Growing up in one of the most impoverished areas of the city, Dexter saw his fair share of crime and injustice. From an early age, he displayed a rare ability to see patterns where others saw chaos, reconstructing broken objects, analyzing behavior, and intuiting outcomes with uncanny precision. This talent led him to a career as a forensic reconstruction artist, piecing together crime scenes, reconstructing faces from skeletal remains, and uncovering truths hidden in fragments.
In his late twenties, Dexter met Marina, an investigative journalist dedicated to exposing the city’s criminal underworld. Their connection was immediate: his analytical mind complemented her fearless curiosity. Together, they became a quiet but formidable team, uncovering corruption in financial networks and illicit operations. Their love was a sanctuary in a city built on lies and violence.
That sanctuary ended the night Marina uncovered the operations of The Glass Saints, a boutique criminal syndicate led by Domenic “Father” Karas. Karas, a former explosives engineer obsessed with spectacle and control, saw Dexter as the real threat: while Marina’s exposés could be suppressed, Dexter’s forensic expertise could unravel the syndicate completely. He orchestrated a car bomb meant for Dexter, killing Marina instantly and embedding metal shards into Dexter’s optic nerves. The last thing he saw was her terrified face reflected in shattered glass.

Dexter’s survival drew the attention of Dr. Elias Trask, an experimental neuroscientist conducting unauthorized and illegal experiments, specializing on sensory prosthetics and neural resonance. Trask saw in Dexter the perfect test subject: a man with an extraordinary mind, surviving a trauma that could push experimental techniques to their limits. Through a risky procedure, Trask stabilized Dexter’s optic nerves while leaving the metallic fragments intact. Over weeks of recovery, Dexter discovered he could “see” through sound, vibration, and environmental cues. His forensic intuition amplified this ability, allowing him to reconstruct reality from echoes, footsteps, and subtle shifts in the air—a phenomenon he called Echo Logic.
The experience reshaped him. Every silence became threatening, every echo a map of danger. Consumed by grief and a need for justice, Dexter vanished from the world. When he returned, he returned as Revenge, a black-clad vigilante moving with near-supernatural awareness. Guided by his Echo Logic, he stalked the city’s criminal underworld, dismantling those responsible for Marina’s death and punishing anyone who thrived on violence.
👁️🗨️Echo Logic
Echo Logic is Dexter’s unique sensory system that allows him to perceive the world without sight. Through the resonance of metal fragments in his optic nerves and his hyper-forensic intuition, he interprets subtle vibrations, sounds, air pressure changes, and environmental cues as a dynamic three-dimensional map. His mind reconstructs reality from these inputs, translating echoes into spatial awareness, predicting movements, and discerning intent. Combined with his obsession for patterns, Echo Logic turns every sound and motion into a piece of a larger puzzle, letting him operate with near-prescient precision.
- Combat Anticipation: Detects opponents’ movements before they act, allowing preemptive strikes.
- Environmental Mapping: Reconstructs rooms, streets, or terrain purely from echoes and vibrations.
- Pattern Detection: Recognizes behavioral or environmental patterns to predict criminal activity.
- Stealth Tracking: Can follow targets silently using footsteps, breathing, or even shifts in air pressure.
- Emotional Resonance: Interprets micro-changes in voice and body movements to sense fear, deception, or intent.
- Silence Vulnerability: Absolute quiet leaves him disoriented; Echo Logic relies on ambient feedback.

👁️🗨️Police Training:
Before becoming Revenge, Dexter underwent formal training with law enforcement as part of his work as a forensic reconstruction consultant. He observed and occasionally participated in tactical operations, learning investigative techniques, evidence handling, and criminal profiling. Over time, he supplemented this with advanced hand-to-hand combat instruction, firearms handling, and tactical planning, often studying elite units’ procedures. Though never a full-time officer, his training gave him a disciplined, methodical approach to confronting criminals, blending investigative patience with operational precision.
👁️🗨️Fighting Abilities:
Dexter’s combat style is an extension of his Echo Logic. He relies on anticipation, timing, and environmental awareness rather than brute strength, striking where opponents are weakest or most exposed. He is proficient in multiple martial arts, combining fluid motion with close-quarters tactics, and improvises weapons from his surroundings. His speed, precision, and spatial awareness make him a ghostly adversary; he can disable opponents silently and efficiently, often predicting their actions before they move. Every fight is a controlled reconstruction of movement, turning combat into a deadly, almost chess-like engagement.