Regiscide
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| Regiscide | |
| Player: Dyne | |
| Origin: | Technology |
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| Archetype: | Corrupter |
| Threat Level: | Confidential |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Jamie Salladon |
| Known Aliases: | Regicide |
| Species: | Human cyborg |
| Age: | 30, ca. 2008 |
| Height: | Confidential |
| Weight: | 180 lbs. |
| Eye Color: | Orange |
| Hair Color: | N/A |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Archvillain |
| Place of Birth: | Praetorian Earth |
| Base of Operations: | Rogue Isles |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Known Relatives: | Confidential |
| Known Powers | |
| Flight | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Inventive genius | |
| Equipment | |
| Rocket Boots, various twisted inventions | |
| No additional information available. | |
Regicide (also spelled Regiscide) is a Praetorian villain, the analogue of the hero Usurper Dyne.
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Arachnos Intelligence
- Paradimension ID Code: Virtue
- Subject Name: Regicide/Regiscide
- Origin: Technology
- Arrival Date: 2005/02 (Earth), 2006/06/16 (Breakout)
- Group Affiliations: Black Rust
- Known Enemies: Praetorian Clockwork King
- Theme Song: After the Flesh (My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult)
- Status: Semi-Active
- Quote: "Usurp this!"
- Holographic Costume Data: Regiscide/Costumes
Additional Data
Background and Origin
On Praetorian Earth in 2001, Jamie Salladon was a brilliant but erratic Ph.D. student in the fields of robotics and physics. His friend and sometimes-rival was the man that would eventually become known as the Heroic (Praetorian) Clockwork King (known hereafter as HCK).
Dr. Salladon was mortally wounded in an explosion caused by his own action: the malicious sabotage of one of the pair's experiments, which was motivated by a feeling of intense jealousy and rage towards his friend. Unaware that Jamie was responsible, HCK used his skills to install Jamie's brain in a prototype robot body they were building in order to save his life, thereby unleashing a new villain onto his world.
Jamie's brain had been damaged by the experience, resulting in partial amnesia and the steep decline of his moral compass. Enraged by his newfound condition, Jamie parted ways with HCK.
HCK, due to his developing psychic abilities, would eventually abandon his efforts at developing the technology they had worked on, ultimately opting to create the Clockwork and use them to fight for good. An encounter with a notorious Secret Police agent that was tracking the Clockwork back to their source led HCK to undergo the same transformation Jamie had. He then took up the heroic identity of the Clockwork King, using his robotic friends as knight-protectors and defenders of the weak and innocent.
Jamie had been brooding on his change, growing ever more angry, well before he finally encountered the Clockwork. He was struck by certain familiar design elements of the tiny robots, and quickly deduced that they were the creations of his friend. As whispered tales of the noble mechanical paladins grew, Jamie used his own inventive genius to modify and improve his mechanical body, giving himself powers uniquely suited to fighting the heroic mechanical men. He renamed himself Regicide, to display the seething hatred he now held for his former friend.
Villainous Career
Regicide was almost immediately a menace to society. He cared for no constraints or laws save his own, only obeying Tyrant's orders when it suited him. Tyrant tolerated this for exactly one reason: Regicide's inventive genius rivaled that of Neuron and Antimatter, so he was occasionally very useful in manipulating or assisting the two former friends.
On a chance visit to Gemini Park, Regicide met and was quite taken with a very sweet, young, and insecure girl named Evelyn. She had been bred to serve as a magical champion for the weak and innocent. Regicide decided that he must possess the girl, body, mind, and soul, so he played the part of the suave gentleman hero named Regulator, over time becoming her mentor and role model.
Following his first major conflict with HCK, Regicide seduced the innocent girl. Having by this point completely won her affection and trust, he took great delight in slowly corrupting her, mercilessly employing manipulation, emotional blackmail, and eventually, even outright torture. Finally, he viciously betrayed her trust, and Evelyn's innocence and resistance was shattered. She had been forged by the abusive villain into a violent, sadistic killer named Virulynne (the Praetorian analogue of Malevelyn).
Eventually, Tyrant grew tired of their uncontrolled fits of violence, and exiled them from Praetorian Earth (largely at the urging of Antimatter). Regicide and Virulynne then spent some time in Paragon City causing mayhem, until Regi was sued for trademark infringement by someone else using that name. After blatantly ignoring the court's injunction against his use of the identity, the Praetorian was subsequently arrested for contempt of court and imprisoned in the Zig. Lord Recluse learned of the his presence and he was freed during the "Chosen One" breakout.
Spurning Recluse's insulting tests to determine whether he was "worthy" to join Arachnos, the newly renamed "Regiscide" (sic) went to ground immediately upon arriving in the Rogue Isles and began operating independently. He has been slowly building plans for his own organization with the stated goal of seizing power in the Isles and using it to spread mayhem and destruction across our world ... when he can tear his mind from salivating over the prospect of meeting up with Virulynne again.
