Hexblade
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| Hexblade | |
| Player: @Slid | |
| Origin: | Magic |
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| Archetype: | Stalker |
| Security Level: | ' |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Alexa Kang |
| Known Aliases: | Hexblade |
| Species: | Human |
| Age: | 27 |
| Height: | 5'10" |
| Weight: | 139 lbs. |
| Eye Color: | Green (red when wielding the Hexblade) |
| Hair Color: | Black |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Villain |
| Place of Birth: | Unknown |
| Base of Operations: | Paragon City |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Known Relatives: | None |
| Known Powers | |
| Claws/Dark Armor | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Chosen wielder of the Hexblade, a shapeshifting, sentient, magical weapon. | |
| Equipment | |
| Hexblade | |
| Can morph the Hexblade into numerous forms, most featuring an impossibly sharp blade and armor. | |
The Hexblade is a shapeshifting Rularuu symbiote created or spawned with an unknown purpose. It is capable of bonding to a human or humanoid creature, granting its "wielder" drastically increased reflexes, agility, durability, strength, minor regenerative capabilities, and several enhanced senses including infra-red vision and the power to track "prey" by scent. Wielders can also shape the living weapon into its signature arm-length blade, a supernaturally sharp weapon capable of slicing through nearly any material, from impervium to some force fields. The wielder can communicate directly with the weapon telepathically while they are bonded together, and their mind is protected from most forms of mental intrusion.
The Hexblade can conceal itself under a wearer's clothing in most situations, but cannot be removed entirely from a wearer without killing them. The two are inseparable once the bond has been formed.
Alexa Kang was once a PPD cop, later a private investigator, and finally a disgraced junkie and ex-con after several instances of brutality tipped her fully over the side to vigilanteism and ended in the wrongful death of one of the criminals she'd been investigating. It was during her time on the streets as a junkie that she found the Hexblade. Crawling up in the corner of a warehouse while strung out on various drugs, she was unable to notice the Rularuu cultists entering the building. She was discovered by the cultists who gleefully dragged her out for a human sacrifice to their insane, godlike master so that they might summon a mighty ally from the insane reality of the Shadow Shard. As the ritual reached its climax, the fiendish entity summoned was not a Natterling or Observer, but a formless, barbed mass that enveloped the drug-addled woman before coalescing into a bloody blur of movement, wielding her body like a puppet as it eviscerated the cultists with sadistic glee.
Over the next few weeks, the damage the drugs had done to her body was repaired by the living weapon as it rebuilt her into a more efficient killing machine, restoring her to her physical prime. Now wholly abandoning the pretences of good and swearing vengeance on the system and the city that had ruined her life, Alexa and the alien weapon had become one, working as a single entity in dark harmony.
