Darwin's Chainsaw
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| Natural selection works, but it is slow, Darwin's Chainsaw is not. | |
| Darwin's Chainsaw | |
| Player: Blue Mime | |
| Origin: | Natural |
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| Archetype: | Scrapper |
| Security Level: | 50 |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Sydney Williams |
| Known Aliases: | Dark Justice |
| Species: | Human |
| Age: | 29 |
| Height: | 5'8" |
| Weight: | 130 |
| Eye Color: | Green |
| Hair Color: | White |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Super Hero |
| Place of Birth: | Detroit |
| Base of Operations: | Detroit |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Known Relatives: | No Known |
| Known Powers | |
| Katana Super Reflexes | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Kendo, | |
| Equipment | |
| Impervium Katana, Talsorian Katana, Impervium Ninja-to, Rikti Sword | |
| No additional information available. | |
There are dregs in every society, they naturally fall into the gutters. When the gutters get full they clog the system and someone has to clean them out. Natural selection works, but it is slow, Darwin's Chainsaw is not.
Character Background
Sydney Willams was born to a poor family in the ghettos of Detroit. Her father was a sanitation worker and her mother a nurses aide. They didn't have much but her parents made their own humble way without any government assistance. Sydney was always taught to pull her own weight. When she wanted new running shoes for the track team, she took a paper route to pay for them, when she wanted to study ballet, she took a part time job to finance that. It was a humble but happy home and when Sydney got a full scholarship to Michigan State her parents were incredibly proud, and saw the chance for the family to pull itself out of the ghetto.
Things were looking up and Sydney was enjoying her first semester in school when tradgedy struck. Her father had seen mobsters dumping a body at the old city dump and called to report it. A mob informant at the police headquarters tipped off the mob and they sent a gunman to take care of the witness. Both of Sydney's parents and her baby brother fell victim to a spray of bullets.
Sydney was devasted and left school. As she gathered up her family's belongings her eyes fell on the old Japanese katana that her grandfather had brought back from World War II. Her father would not allow a gun in the house but kept the old sword in good condition as a trivbute to the memory of his father. When her eyes locked on the blade, something in the 18 year old girl changed and a voice inside her head told her "Only the strong survive!".
How she learned to use the blade is uncertain, but 5 years later the Detroit press began to report a strange series of grisly deaths of men believed to be affiliated with the mob. All of them having cuts from a very large blade of some sort, some also pushed from rooftops, crushed beneath heavy objects, etc. The only thing eyewinesses reported seeing was a female figure in a dark trenchcoat leaving the area of the deaths. After 6 months of investigations the police had still not been able to find the vigilante but gangmembers had joined the list of victims. The local people and press began referring to the vigilante as "Dark Justice" and many petty thugs retreated from the streets. Then came the Rikti.
The Rikti invasion saw millions die and "Dark Justice" was put on hold. Sydney used her abilities to fight the invasion where she could but her blade was no match for Rikti technology. Humanity was being pushed back and exterminated. She was lost without hope or direction until she heard word of Statesman and his achievements in the fight, and knew if there was a rallying point for humaanity, it would likely be found in Paragon City. Sydney joined the fight against the Rikti but was assigned by the Paragon City officials to work as an ambulance driver and she began to realize the value in saving lives and not just executing criminals.
During one of the final Rikti onslaughts of the initial invasion, Darwin watched her medical evacuation team survive attack due to the sacrifice of the hero Musashi, who held off a platoon of Rikti after a Rikti blast had damaged their ambulance. He refused to retreat and held the Rikti off until help could arrive, but suffered mortal wounds. Never had Sydney seen such brilliant swordsmanship or bravery and she refused to leave his side. The medics could do nothing for him as he had only minutes left after Sydey carried him off the battlefield. Mushahi was aware of this and although in great pain he managed a smile as he looked upon Sydney. "Continue the fight" he implored her, "continue to surive". With that he held aloft his Impervium Katana and she took it and promised him that the fight to survive would continue.
Sydney then unsheathed the sword and was no more, Sydney Williams was gone, "Dark Justiuce" was gone, Darwin's Chainsaw remained. She took up the fight against the Rikti and those elements that made human society weak. To survive the Rikti humanity must be strong, only the strong survive. Her past experiences had fused into an overriding purpose, protect society to make it strong, and show no mercy to those who would weaken it.
Her resolve and her efforts were noticed by the Angry Angels as she made headlines by defeating streetgangs that preyed upon the citizens of Paragon City. And although more grim than most of the group, they saw the compassion that lay hidden beneath that she had developed working with the medics during the war. Decidining it was better to take her under their wings and nurtue that rather than let her return to being a vigilante, they offered her membership in the group. Darwin accepted the offer and now has something she hasn't had in years, a family.
