From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe

Blue Firebrand
Player: @Darkshot Avenger
Basic Data
Origin:
Archetype:
Security Level:	50
Occupation:	high school student, emancipated
Personal Data
Real Name:	Mario Salvatorre
Known Aliases:	"Blue"
Identity:	secret
Species:	Human
Age:	18
Height:	5'8
Weight:	155 lbs.
Eye Color:	blue
Hair Color:	black
Blood Type:	B Rh+
Biographical Data
Birthplace:	Founders Falls, Paragon City, RI
Birthdate:	April 1, 1993
Citizenship:	U.S.
Current Residence:	Steel Canyon
Religion/Faith:	non-religious, technically Roman Catholic
Sexual Orientation:	default
Marital Status:	single
Known Languages
English, some Latin
Known Relatives
Alfred Salvatorre (deceased father), Geneva Salvatorre (deceased mother)
Known Powers
fire sorcery, agility
Training / Abilities
spell-casting, flight, concoctions
Equipment
no equipment to speak of, but he keeps a certain book...
Footnotes
none

Blue Firebrand is an 18-year old high school student in his senior year. His parents were active members of the Midnight Squad, researching what actually happened between the Rikti War and to Dream Doctor. His parents began training him in the arts of the arcane, but training unfortuantely fell short. He was a member of Teen Phalanx out of requirement from his school but due to several altercations, he left the group for the sake of his well-being and was recruited to The Young Watchers, which has now disbanded. He is currently second-in-command of Occult Magician's Guild, is an emancipated teenager, and is now a high school graduate.

Contents 1 Short Stories 1.1 As a child... 1.2 As a teenager... 1.3 A demise... 1.4 Aftermath 1.5 Departures and Arrivals 1.6 Mirror Image 1.7 Occult Magician's Guild 2 Characteristics 3 Powers 3.1 Pyromancy 3.2 Agility and reflexes 3.3 Flight 4 Friends 5 Music 6 Other things 7 Journal 8 Comments 9 Attributes

Short Stories

As a child...

Blue Firebrand was born as Mario Salvatorre on April 1st in 1993 in Mason Harvey Medical Center located in Founders Falls. He is the only child of Alfred and Geneva Salvatorre, who are both natives of Paragon City. For the first few years of his life, Mario was just a normal kid and raised fairly well by his parents. They kept the first several years of his life dedicated to raising him and once he was old enough to walk, talk, and gain certain understandings and concepts, his parents returned to being active members of the Midnight Squad.

At the age of 6, Mario had grown considerably smart and adept in advanced subjects and had expressed interest in what his parents were doing. Unfortunately for him, his parents wanted to keep it a secret at first. Hiring a babysitter didn't work and he began to be a rebellious kid. In order to cease the behavior, his mother suggested that they take Mario with them in the libraries of the Midnight Squad. It is here that Mario became some sort of reader as he became fully aware of the history of the Midnight Squad and how they came to be.

Because of their involvement with the Squad, he and his parents moved to Steel Canyon when Mario was 10 years of age.

As a teenager...

At the age of 14, Mario's parents slowly began teaching him arts of the arcane. In the beginning, they wanted to do a few tests to see which element he would be more aligned to. His father began teaching him simple spells like casting very small lightning bolts. That didn't work very well. His mother then began teaching him beams of blue energy blasts. While it worked a lot better, they both felt that there'd be another element which he was aligned to. Finding a book within the Midnighters' library, Mario discovered that he had an affinity for fire. He immediately showed his parents and they were pretty impressed. A few books had also allowed him to make a Dao sword out of his flames. But an oddity was that the flames he casted were also blue in color. Being expert domestic mages, even this oddity left them both puzzled on whether this actually meant something or not. For the time being, they decided to help him with his studies as his parents attempted to raise him with the knowledge they both possess, and also to train him on becoming a hero.

A demise...

Unfortunately, things were not meant to be. On June 17, 2008, they were to travel to Europe to hopefully gain knowledge on Dream Doctor. While they were unable to gain actual knowledge of his origins and how he came to be, they gained other outworldly knowledge. Knowledge that came from the Renaissance period circa 1650. The Circle of Thorns received word of this and planned on taking action. A few days after Alfred and Geneva returned from Europe, they were attacked by the Circle of Thorns on their way to the Midnighter Club in Steel. Immediately Alfred and Geneva knew exactly what they were after. They threw the book over to Mario and instructed him implicitly to go inside the Midnighter Club and stay there until they had taken care of this Thorn problem.

Sadly, that was not to be the case. His father had underestimated their prowess and overestimated his own abilities, and his wife's. Before the unthinkable happened, Mario decided to step outside to see what was going on. Just then, a powerful energy pulse was blasted to his parents. Screaming in agony at seeing this, he took a chance at looking through the book. To him, it looked like a lot of Latin text but little did he know, these were spells that were way beyond him. He flipped through a page that had text on one side and a picture of a wolf on the other. In italicized and quoted text, he decided to take a chance and read it as best as he could.

"Ignis supervenio beluae venificium, valde lupus!"

Just then, from the palm of his hand, a blue powerful blast of flame emerged and from it, a giant wolf engulfed in Mario's blue flames ascended and attacked the Thorns that had assaulted his parents. It decimated everything in its path and killed all the Thorns presently in the immediate area. Unfortunately, his parents did not make it. Mario could curse his parents for thinking what they did all he wanted, but the fact remained that they are now gone...

After he had cast this destructive spell, Mario fell over backwards in utter fatigue. The other mages in the Midnight Squad deduced that he was barely able to contain the strength of this spell and should not have attempted to cast it in the first place.

Aftermath

After the deaths of his parents, he was granted pension from the state government in a probably absurd amount of money and the judge granted him emancipation with the help from the rest of the Midnighters. He also insisted on keeping the book that his parents have entrusted him with. Deciding to live up to what his parents have started doing and to continue with his studies with the arcane, he has learned quite a bit and even learned how to hover off the ground. With that, he registered to be a hero and even got a costume made for himself, and went under the guise of Blue Firebrand, highly requesting that this public identity and hero identity be kept separate. With City Hall honoring this request, they never attempted to link the two identities together.

He currently attends Rabinowitz High School located on the northern end of Steel Canyon, a mere few blocks from the Green Line train station. On 24 February 2010, a group of football players started to mess with him for reasons Mario himself did not even know about. After being pushed far enough, Mario proceeded to punch the star quarterback of the school who goes by the name of Doug Wehrholtz. In the process, his fist flared up blue and sent the star quarterback to the hospital with first degree burns. School officials determined that he had superpowers that he had no control over. Instead of expelling him, the school decided to suspend him for 7 school days and for him to be in touch with someone who can either help him control it or find an outlet for his powers.

Mario consulted Azuria inside M.A.G.I. in Atlas Park City Hall and that's when he was referred over to Teen Phalanx. In essence, he is in this supergroup out of requirement and Azuria feels that they will be able to help him with his powers (as she is also aware of the events that took place a year ago, unbeknownst to him).

He would go through some grueling events whilst in Teen Phalanx. Taking into consideration his nature and his personality, he would find it difficult to actually make friends here. However, he would befriend Kid Cannonball, Charging Tiger, French Kiss, Johny Goodwin, and Boyce Crane. While he considers himself to be a very crappy friend, he did all he could to protect them at all costs. Mario would take a trip to Egypt with Boyce in order to help him with his curse. Evie (French Kiss) would also help along the way. He then later took a trip to China to find Charging Tiger and help him suppress his "feral side".

However, Mario would find himself with numerous altercations with one named Psyche Charm, or Zhen. It all started as a small argument between cooking dinner and what not. Mario would then hold her in contempt, avoiding her at all possible times. It would then evolve into mind control attempts, Mario's life being threatened, and his actions being seized, and his sight being removed by her. A senior member, Oscar Shawe, would also be affected by this with one incident.

Mario would later be told that things would be taken care of, and yet Zhen's unfavorable actions would continue. While not necessarily towards him, he felt that she was completely out of control. He was also told that she was formerly a soldier of Arachnos and it would be at this point where he would completely remove all trust and faith in her.

In the past week, he would be told that Zhen was being controlled by a 'Shakiri' but he could not find it in him to believe it. He felt as it she had not been punished for her actions and then acts like nothing wrong had happened in the past. That was something Mario could not forgive.

Departures and Arrivals

On 6 May 2010, Mario would then leave Teen Phalanx for feeling disconnected with the group. But more importantly, not wanting to put up with Zhen any longer. He feels that his safety would be compromised if Zhen remained a member and felt that the management had done nothing.

He would later then be found by a man with a black trenchcoat and be persuaded to join his group in order to help the magically-inclined people there as he somehow found out about his prowess. After some deliberation, Mario (as Blue Firebrand) would agree and he became member of The Young Watchers.

Mirror Image

While being a member of The Young Watchers, Mario (as Blue Firebrand) would be contacted by a man named Keith Nance, who works as an agent for some organization he's never heard of. In utter anger, he decided to confront him due to the accusations that this agent made from him. He would later find that Mario seems to have a double running around in Paragon City. In fact, a triplicate. The triplicate, however, would be an evil version of himself. Mario would then find himself working with his double. Looks exactly like him, talks like him, and acts like him. At first, it was very disturbing to Mario but found himself getting used to it, and even getting attached to himself.

He would later find out that, by working with Keith Nance and his partner Jenni Adair, that Protean was behind all of this. And unfortunately, all these events would result into his good double having to risk his life into stopping Protean's invasion. It would leave Mario detached from the rest of The Watchers, but eventually he does return. Though, he hasn't spoken as to why he was gone in the first place. It seems like the other members are having problems at the moment and he's more concerned with helping them through it.

Occult Magician's Guild

With The Young Watchers disbanding, Mario was once again left to fend for himself. While the condition for his suspension has been lifted at this point, he was rather getting used to working with people. This was when he was approached with former supergroup mate, Jayden. It would seem that Mario classified up there with "non-stupid people who knows their shit" and Jayden thought Mario fit the bill. Of course, Mario accepted this offer and is second-in-command of a new magic-based supergroup, the Occult Magician's Guild.

Unfortunately, recent events would have him at odds with the leader of the supergroup.

Characteristics

Mario is someone you'd call emotional. He has no fear in expressing his feelings or emotions by way of his tone of voice or his facial expression or by actions. Challenges. Mario adores them. He is of the belief that any challenge sent his way, he will overcome. Especially now that he is on his own. Also, he is very responsible. He had to learn how to if he was to live by himself and be declared as an adult. He also has an adventurous side to him but because of what had happened to his parents, he had become very cautious about it. The most recent part of his past, he also refuses to talk about. To absolutely anyone but . You'll notice him avoid the subject, and probably just walk out on it the more anyone tries to pry into it.

Powers

The following are the powers that Mario is capable of. It should be noted that when Mario casts his flames, he constantly has a blue aura surrounding him.

Pyromancy

With the way Mario has developed and constructed his powers, he has been able to cast upon the powers of the blue flames into his fists, and even going as far as constructing swords and possibly other weapons with them to strike down his opponents. He has also learned to conjure up flames and just toss them at his foes to damage them.

Agility and reflexes

With the help from the powers of the arcane, he has also developed quite agile skills that have allowed him to quickly dodge and altogether avoid certain attacks towards him. It is this that also gives him some sort of natural speed boost though not in the same degree as kinetics version of the ability.

Flight

With his self-study, Mario has mastered the art of flight.

Friends

While he is fairly bad at making friends, he's gained quite a few. And he will protect them at all costs.

• Kid Cannonball
• French Kiss
• Boyce Crane
• Charging Tiger
• Johny Goodwin
• Brand-X
• Oscar Shawe
• Jayden Michaels
• Plum Whine
• K Index
• Serena Strange
• Solar Oracle

Music

In his mp3 player:

• Spin Doctors - Two Princes
• Lifehouse - Halfway Gone
• AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
• Kings of Leon - Sex On Fire
• Jason Mraz feat. Colbie Caillat - Lucky
• Black Eyed Peas - Meet Me Halfway
• Orianthi - According To You
• Pink - So What
• Maroon 5 - Wake Up Call
• Bon Jovi - You Give Love A Bad Name
• Evanescence - Bring Me To Life
• Cranberries - Linger
• Hinder - Lips Of An Angel
• Goo Goo Dolls - Black Balloon
• Rob Thomas - This Is How A Heart Breaks
• Duran Duran - Ordinary World
• Black Eyed Peas - Rock That Body
• Jason Mraz - Butterfly

Other things

Some things to consider about Mario.

• Because he lost his parents and was emancipated at 16 (and having to live on his own), Mario has a twisted sense of independence. While he will go out of his way to help others, he prefers it that you didn't help with whatever it is he wishes to accomplish.
• Mario is the type of guy to hold grudges. Getting on his bad side usually means you're in it for a long time. Fortunately, he is not entirely heartless and will come around if the other person decides to patch things up.
• Because of the two things above, Mario is usually found to be a loner. In school, and in public places.
• Due to being emancipated at 16, Mario lives by himself in an apartment on the northern end of Steel Canyon.
• While the game says that Mario is a scrapper, he is actually more of a magic summoner. All his spells must begin with "Ignis" for them to work. Mario also has the ability to do other things with the blue fires. (i.e. shields to protect from harm, shields to prevent escape, etc.)
• Mario can align most fires to his affinity. When he does, it turns blue and he can use them as he likes.
• As his full name implies, he is of Italian descent.
• Mario claims that his family is your stereotypical Italian. He says they have short fuses and will flip tables when they are infuriated.
• And on that note... When Mario becomes frustrated, angry, or upset, his speech somehow gains the Italian flair to it.
• Mario can actually cook very well. However, he's only used to cooking for himself and will occasionally cook for others.
• When Mario does cook, he does not use the fire on the stove. He uses his own fire to save on his gas bill.
• In television or movie media, Mario would be played by actor Michael Trevino.

More coming soon.

Journal

Mario has a personal blog located here.

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Attributes

Power Grid
	Statistic	1 2 3 4 5 6 7
	Intelligence
	Strength
	Speed
	Durability
	Energy Projection
	Fighting Skill