Anyway, this time the character should not be an expy or anything worn out. I was initially going for a Reverend Stryker/Hate Monger, then went over to Scarecrow, then went to Doctor Doom etc.
Should be alright and original enough.
Name: Medusold Dietrich Hotzenplotz alias Kommandant F.E.A.R. (Furcht, Entsetzen, Angst & Rachsucht)
Age: 48 years
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Appearance: Kommandant FEAR
Young Blood?: No
Bio: Medusold's birth was no happy birth, no, not happy at all. In fact, the only thing that preserved his life on the day of his birth was the love of his mother. Why? Well, he had been born quite literally with a face that only a mother could love. The face had apparently been so terrifying that the operating doctor suffered from a heart attack while the present nurse tried to kill him with a metal tablet which she had been holding during the procedure. His mother reacted abnormally too, her eyes widening in fear as she looked at her baby and tears streaming down her cheeks. But unlike the doctor and the nurse, the motherly love and feeling of accomplishment of having brought a child into this world helped her to overcome the initial shock and she protected her baby from the mad nurse by hugging the little crying child tightly so that no one could see it and taking the brunt of the nurse's attacks.
Eventually, with the baby out of sight, the nurse regained control of her senses, and, horrified by what she had done to the mother as well as by the doctor's obvious symptoms of a heart attack, rushed out of the room to get help. In the corridor she bumped into the unlucky father, who had already worried about the commotion inside, and in fear about possible retaliation from him for her mind thought that he knew what she had done to his wife, she backed away and accidentally fell backwards through an open window. A window in the fourth floor. Yeah, she was dead. The father, by now completely clueless what was going on, jumped into the room, just to see all the chaos inside there, and his wife weakly smiling at him, the marks of the metal tablet clearly visible and the tablet just magically drawing his sight, coated in the blood of his wife. She showed the newborn to him too and his reaction was similar to hers, only fatherly feelings and love for his wife, who had sacrificed so much for her child, keeping him from absolutely trashing the the newborn.
Being law abiding citizens and loyal followers of the Prince, the parents of course filed a report against the medical staff at the hospital. Of course, things didn't go so easily there as well, the police asking to see the child because they wouldn't believe what the two parents were telling them. Let's put it this way, young Medusold had immense luck that his father was quick enough at disarming the police officer else he and his mother would've been shot on the spot. Anyway, once the police officer had calmed down, he decided to overlook the existence of the boy and told the parents to cover his face in some way, lest they wanted the same event to happen over and over again when someone saw the child. The parents had by now realized that something definitely wasn't normal and they were not imagining things. At first, the newborn was covered with a paperbag with holes cut out for his eyes, later his mother sewed a mask for him that would be more comfortable to wear. But they still hand't given their baby a proper name. So, considering the fact that nobody could look at his hideous face, they thought of Medusa. Everyone who looked at her directly was turned to stone while everyone who looked at their son directly was gripped by fear so great that they succumbed to either fight or flight. But Medusa was a name for a female and they had a son and not a daughter. So they went for Medusold. Yeah, weird name. Another reason for him to be picked upon in school apart from constantly wearing a mask.
Moving on, the family life was actually rather normal. Medusold received all the love he could wish for from his parents. But sadly, the love from them could never truly compensate for the harassment he received in school and so dark feelings began brooding deep within him. One day he would make them all pay!
Those feelings were of course only further amplified when his parents died mysteriously in a skiing accident, only for the usual suspects among his school bullies to show up hours later to "finish things once and for all". But they had made the worst mistake of their petty little lives. Filled with rage and sorrow over the loss of the only people in this world who had loved him and cared for him, even the last boundaries of his self control, of the polite and shy facade he had worn for so long fell. The screams of the young men, for young men they all were by then, haunted the people of Steg for many years to come. As for Medusold? He disappeared that night and no one knew where he could have went.
But years later he returned to the public spotlight and that in a rather explosive way. It was unknown from where he had taken the money but together with a small band of mercenaries he effectively launched a coup in the tiny Principality of Saminia, executing the ruling Prince and his entire family and establishing himself as the new military crackpot dictator of the country. A goal easily accomplished since the Principality did not have such a thing as a military. But the foundation of his power was by far not secured. The mercenaries were a problem. They were bought and they could be bought by anyone else. He needed loyal men, loyal to him and him only. Ready to die for him. During the years he had spent abroad, he had started using his face in his favour. He had scared people into submission, broken them, killed them. He had gotten quite good at using the fear he caused to make the people do what he wanted. Adding a bit of good acting and careful whispering into their ears and they would do anything he wanted of them.
In a night to which he later jokingly referred to as his "Night of the long Forks", his new henchmen attacked the mercenaries who were allied with him and although casualties were high, they succeeded in the attack. Following this night, he cemented his rule in a brutal regime of terror and rage. But even like this, he probably would've never posed any kind of threat. Well, that was untill a chinese expedition found oil and gas deposits in the Samina valley. Coupled with the terrific find of Uranium beneat the Stachlerkopf, Medusold now finally had the ressources to make something out of this country. Of course attempts were made to replace him with a more benevolent and pro-western leader but he got lucky several times and avoided death untill he had formed a militia of sufficient strength to protect him. Eventually the greater powers gave up, silently accepting his oil rather than butting heads over his style of leadership.
Nonetheless Medusold realised that he and his country would forever be in danger. He needed an arm, an instrument whose reach could stretch far beyond that of Saminia to strike at his enemies while they could not strike at him. For that purpose he secretly founded the terrorist organisation "NIGHTMARE", an organisation hell-bent on spreading fear and terror over the globe and aiding their leader, Kommandant FEAR, in anything he desired.
Powers:
Limitations:
Weaknesses:
Likes: His parents, Fear, Sadism, Control, Power, Mountains
Dislikes: Skiing, Weakness, Liechtenstein, Human Rights
Additional Information
Birthday: 11.11.1969
Theme song: https://youtu.be/rQym6uQcUmA
Favorite food: Spätzle
Greatest fear: Another skiing Accident coming out of nowhere.
Age: 48 years
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Appearance: Kommandant FEAR
Young Blood?: No
Bio: Medusold's birth was no happy birth, no, not happy at all. In fact, the only thing that preserved his life on the day of his birth was the love of his mother. Why? Well, he had been born quite literally with a face that only a mother could love. The face had apparently been so terrifying that the operating doctor suffered from a heart attack while the present nurse tried to kill him with a metal tablet which she had been holding during the procedure. His mother reacted abnormally too, her eyes widening in fear as she looked at her baby and tears streaming down her cheeks. But unlike the doctor and the nurse, the motherly love and feeling of accomplishment of having brought a child into this world helped her to overcome the initial shock and she protected her baby from the mad nurse by hugging the little crying child tightly so that no one could see it and taking the brunt of the nurse's attacks.
Eventually, with the baby out of sight, the nurse regained control of her senses, and, horrified by what she had done to the mother as well as by the doctor's obvious symptoms of a heart attack, rushed out of the room to get help. In the corridor she bumped into the unlucky father, who had already worried about the commotion inside, and in fear about possible retaliation from him for her mind thought that he knew what she had done to his wife, she backed away and accidentally fell backwards through an open window. A window in the fourth floor. Yeah, she was dead. The father, by now completely clueless what was going on, jumped into the room, just to see all the chaos inside there, and his wife weakly smiling at him, the marks of the metal tablet clearly visible and the tablet just magically drawing his sight, coated in the blood of his wife. She showed the newborn to him too and his reaction was similar to hers, only fatherly feelings and love for his wife, who had sacrificed so much for her child, keeping him from absolutely trashing the the newborn.
Being law abiding citizens and loyal followers of the Prince, the parents of course filed a report against the medical staff at the hospital. Of course, things didn't go so easily there as well, the police asking to see the child because they wouldn't believe what the two parents were telling them. Let's put it this way, young Medusold had immense luck that his father was quick enough at disarming the police officer else he and his mother would've been shot on the spot. Anyway, once the police officer had calmed down, he decided to overlook the existence of the boy and told the parents to cover his face in some way, lest they wanted the same event to happen over and over again when someone saw the child. The parents had by now realized that something definitely wasn't normal and they were not imagining things. At first, the newborn was covered with a paperbag with holes cut out for his eyes, later his mother sewed a mask for him that would be more comfortable to wear. But they still hand't given their baby a proper name. So, considering the fact that nobody could look at his hideous face, they thought of Medusa. Everyone who looked at her directly was turned to stone while everyone who looked at their son directly was gripped by fear so great that they succumbed to either fight or flight. But Medusa was a name for a female and they had a son and not a daughter. So they went for Medusold. Yeah, weird name. Another reason for him to be picked upon in school apart from constantly wearing a mask.
Moving on, the family life was actually rather normal. Medusold received all the love he could wish for from his parents. But sadly, the love from them could never truly compensate for the harassment he received in school and so dark feelings began brooding deep within him. One day he would make them all pay!
Those feelings were of course only further amplified when his parents died mysteriously in a skiing accident, only for the usual suspects among his school bullies to show up hours later to "finish things once and for all". But they had made the worst mistake of their petty little lives. Filled with rage and sorrow over the loss of the only people in this world who had loved him and cared for him, even the last boundaries of his self control, of the polite and shy facade he had worn for so long fell. The screams of the young men, for young men they all were by then, haunted the people of Steg for many years to come. As for Medusold? He disappeared that night and no one knew where he could have went.
But years later he returned to the public spotlight and that in a rather explosive way. It was unknown from where he had taken the money but together with a small band of mercenaries he effectively launched a coup in the tiny Principality of Saminia, executing the ruling Prince and his entire family and establishing himself as the new military crackpot dictator of the country. A goal easily accomplished since the Principality did not have such a thing as a military. But the foundation of his power was by far not secured. The mercenaries were a problem. They were bought and they could be bought by anyone else. He needed loyal men, loyal to him and him only. Ready to die for him. During the years he had spent abroad, he had started using his face in his favour. He had scared people into submission, broken them, killed them. He had gotten quite good at using the fear he caused to make the people do what he wanted. Adding a bit of good acting and careful whispering into their ears and they would do anything he wanted of them.
In a night to which he later jokingly referred to as his "Night of the long Forks", his new henchmen attacked the mercenaries who were allied with him and although casualties were high, they succeeded in the attack. Following this night, he cemented his rule in a brutal regime of terror and rage. But even like this, he probably would've never posed any kind of threat. Well, that was untill a chinese expedition found oil and gas deposits in the Samina valley. Coupled with the terrific find of Uranium beneat the Stachlerkopf, Medusold now finally had the ressources to make something out of this country. Of course attempts were made to replace him with a more benevolent and pro-western leader but he got lucky several times and avoided death untill he had formed a militia of sufficient strength to protect him. Eventually the greater powers gave up, silently accepting his oil rather than butting heads over his style of leadership.
Nonetheless Medusold realised that he and his country would forever be in danger. He needed an arm, an instrument whose reach could stretch far beyond that of Saminia to strike at his enemies while they could not strike at him. For that purpose he secretly founded the terrorist organisation "NIGHTMARE", an organisation hell-bent on spreading fear and terror over the globe and aiding their leader, Kommandant FEAR, in anything he desired.
Powers:
- [Nightmare Imagination]: Whoever looks at his uncovered face is confronted by his worst nightmare instead of his real face. Everybody sees something different but it is equally frightening for everyone. Their greatest fears in facial form, speaking, talking to them. It often causes fight or flight reactions almost immediately, only the bravest of heart not losing their senses to it. People in bad medical condition might also suffer physically and people in good health who decide that it is a great idea to face their greatest fears might find out just how badly their body responds to being put under this much stress. People in fight or flight situations will lose control and rarely put all their skills or powers to use instead just desperately trying to kill him or get away from him. Untill the fear breaks them, makes them beg to spare them, that they would do anything for it to end.
Limitations:
- The face works only when people are directly looking at it, not through some kind of screen, not through a mirror, not through a thick panel of glass.
- The face does only work if you can properly make it out. People with a great eyesight will be affected by it at far greater ranges while people with terrible eyesight will need to be very close to be affected. Blind people will be completely unaffected.
Weaknesses:
- [Uncertain Outcome]: I told you, that the face usually provokes fight or flight reactions...followed by worsening physical state due to the stress put on the body. However, a fight reaction can be very unpleasant for him, even if the victim cannot fully control himself and go at him full power, nobody would want...I don't know a raging Superman for instance to go after him, regardless of how unfocused he is.
- [Wounds of War]: In the years he was gone, Medusold actually served as mercenary in Africa and South America. During this time he suffered a nasty wound just below his ribcage on the left half of his body. It has of course been treated properly and healed enough to not bother him any longer if left alone. However, pressure applied to it while cause excruciating pain to him and strong pressure will cause the wound to open once more which could prove fatal.
Likes: His parents, Fear, Sadism, Control, Power, Mountains
Dislikes: Skiing, Weakness, Liechtenstein, Human Rights
Additional Information
Birthday: 11.11.1969
Theme song: https://youtu.be/rQym6uQcUmA
Favorite food: Spätzle
Greatest fear: Another skiing Accident coming out of nowhere.
Faction Name: Nightmare
Faction Location/Territory: Headquarters or Areas of Operation? HQ is in Saminia. They do operate worldwide. But limited to only this world.
Tech Level: Modern Tech backed up by the occasional genius of mad science or captured equipment from governments or other organisations.
Description/Lore:
Founded in 2008 by the Dictator of Saminia, Nightmare has but one purpose: To strike fear into the hearts of the people of the world, especcially those who would oh so happen to have something against Saminia.
Initially Nightmare started out as little more than a Secret Service of Saminia, acting only as spies and agents to help gather information outside of the country and do the dirty work of the dictator. They were of course largely unsuccessfull with the main reasons for this lack of success being the fact that they were chronically underfunded, undersupplied, understaffed and completely inexperienced. Agents of Nightmare were regularly captured and after some diplomatic quarrels sent back to Saminia with some harsh words. The agents rarely caused any harm to make them more than a tiny nuisance.
However, by 2011 its leader, Medusold Hotzenplotz, decided that there should be a change in the organisation's alignment, organisation and goals. The organisation was not inclusive enough, which he deemed to come from the fact that they were nothing more than a national secret service. They needed to serve a greater goal than simply protecting Saminia, a goal that would draw more people from all nationalities and ethnicities to the banner of Nightmare. Nightmare had to become independent from Saminia, atleast officially. And its new goal should be to terrorize the world, to make the leaders, nations and people of the world cower in fear before the mighty Nighmare. Mighty optimistic but we'll see how it played out.
Of course first the very public connections of Nightmare to Saminia had to be severed. An ingenious plot was created together with Medusold to overthrow him on the throne of Saminia, a plan which would of course come to his ears. In a show trial he officially disbanded Nightmare and ordered the executions of its leaders. In truth though, Nightmare moved its headquarters to a new compound and the character of Kommandant FEAR was born, an alias that Medusold took for himself to continue the leadership of Nightmare. And then Nightmare was free to act, with no one in the world having any evidence to tie the "new" Nightmare to Saminia.
At first recruitment and spread of Nightmare went only slowly. But it went forward, people were flocking to the banner of Nightmare. Far more than had worked for it ever before. Still, it remained a regional, loosely organised organisation at best.
It all changed in 2015. The rise of the refugee crisis, the terrorist attacks. Nightmare was suddenly swarmed with recruits who were all for striking fear deep into the hearts of the western world or anyone else really after some persuasion. With the new recruits also came new experience, new men to organise the countless operatives that Nightmare had gathered over the years. Actual bases were built, weapons distributed, operatives received actual training. Over the last two years Nightmare has risen from something that existed mostly in bad internet jokes and chatrooms into an organisation that threatens public safety on a large scale and is well tied into existing terrorist organisations, trading weapons, informations and material with them.
Population Size: 358.920
Army Size (If any): Theoretically all of them are part of the army. But for the sake of balance we will make a distinction between informants and terrorists. 60.000 people are ready worldwide to spread terror with anything ranging from kitchen knives over bombs and pistols to actual tanks and the results of weird science projects. Nightmare operatives on a mission are usually easily recognisable by the masks they wear, those often being any kind of mask you can find in the shop around Halloween. Less serious or more individualistic members also tend to wear all kinds of other Halloween related stuff like Jack O'Lantern patches, batwings etc.
Races that are part of the faction: Any who sign up. Nightmare does not care about how you look and merely about your committment to spreading the organisation and causing havoc to reap and sow fear.
Additional Info:
-A preferred weapon among Nightmare Operatives is the CZ2000
-Nightmare does not strike in Saminia or has any offensive capabilities there
-Nightmare does not have a firm grasp over all its cells or even knowledge of them
Faction Location/Territory: Headquarters or Areas of Operation? HQ is in Saminia. They do operate worldwide. But limited to only this world.
Tech Level: Modern Tech backed up by the occasional genius of mad science or captured equipment from governments or other organisations.
Description/Lore:
Founded in 2008 by the Dictator of Saminia, Nightmare has but one purpose: To strike fear into the hearts of the people of the world, especcially those who would oh so happen to have something against Saminia.
Initially Nightmare started out as little more than a Secret Service of Saminia, acting only as spies and agents to help gather information outside of the country and do the dirty work of the dictator. They were of course largely unsuccessfull with the main reasons for this lack of success being the fact that they were chronically underfunded, undersupplied, understaffed and completely inexperienced. Agents of Nightmare were regularly captured and after some diplomatic quarrels sent back to Saminia with some harsh words. The agents rarely caused any harm to make them more than a tiny nuisance.
However, by 2011 its leader, Medusold Hotzenplotz, decided that there should be a change in the organisation's alignment, organisation and goals. The organisation was not inclusive enough, which he deemed to come from the fact that they were nothing more than a national secret service. They needed to serve a greater goal than simply protecting Saminia, a goal that would draw more people from all nationalities and ethnicities to the banner of Nightmare. Nightmare had to become independent from Saminia, atleast officially. And its new goal should be to terrorize the world, to make the leaders, nations and people of the world cower in fear before the mighty Nighmare. Mighty optimistic but we'll see how it played out.
Of course first the very public connections of Nightmare to Saminia had to be severed. An ingenious plot was created together with Medusold to overthrow him on the throne of Saminia, a plan which would of course come to his ears. In a show trial he officially disbanded Nightmare and ordered the executions of its leaders. In truth though, Nightmare moved its headquarters to a new compound and the character of Kommandant FEAR was born, an alias that Medusold took for himself to continue the leadership of Nightmare. And then Nightmare was free to act, with no one in the world having any evidence to tie the "new" Nightmare to Saminia.
At first recruitment and spread of Nightmare went only slowly. But it went forward, people were flocking to the banner of Nightmare. Far more than had worked for it ever before. Still, it remained a regional, loosely organised organisation at best.
It all changed in 2015. The rise of the refugee crisis, the terrorist attacks. Nightmare was suddenly swarmed with recruits who were all for striking fear deep into the hearts of the western world or anyone else really after some persuasion. With the new recruits also came new experience, new men to organise the countless operatives that Nightmare had gathered over the years. Actual bases were built, weapons distributed, operatives received actual training. Over the last two years Nightmare has risen from something that existed mostly in bad internet jokes and chatrooms into an organisation that threatens public safety on a large scale and is well tied into existing terrorist organisations, trading weapons, informations and material with them.
Population Size: 358.920
Army Size (If any): Theoretically all of them are part of the army. But for the sake of balance we will make a distinction between informants and terrorists. 60.000 people are ready worldwide to spread terror with anything ranging from kitchen knives over bombs and pistols to actual tanks and the results of weird science projects. Nightmare operatives on a mission are usually easily recognisable by the masks they wear, those often being any kind of mask you can find in the shop around Halloween. Less serious or more individualistic members also tend to wear all kinds of other Halloween related stuff like Jack O'Lantern patches, batwings etc.
Races that are part of the faction: Any who sign up. Nightmare does not care about how you look and merely about your committment to spreading the organisation and causing havoc to reap and sow fear.
Additional Info:
-A preferred weapon among Nightmare Operatives is the CZ2000
-Nightmare does not strike in Saminia or has any offensive capabilities there
-Nightmare does not have a firm grasp over all its cells or even knowledge of them
Name: Saminia
Type: Principality (Country)
Location: Europe. Alps. Tiny Country mostly occupying the Samina valley so basically eastern Liechtenstein and going all the way up to Feldkirch in Austria, with Feldkirch being the capital.
Population: 43.283
Notable features: The most notable feature of the Principality of Saminia are the plethora of high mountains. What else to expect from an alpine state? The Samina Valley as well as its side valleys are however barely inhabited, the largest settlements being the villages of Malbun and Steg. Nearly all of the population is packed in the capital of Feldkirch and the city of Frastanz which are located at the end of the Ill Valley. Despite a relatively high GDP due to the trade with natural oil ressources, many of the people prefer to stick to old and traditional timber-framed homes, creating a rather medieval atmosphere in the settlements of Saminia.
Year founded:
Active heroes/villains of note:
-Kommandant FEAR
-(Organisation) Nightmare
Type: Principality (Country)
Location: Europe. Alps. Tiny Country mostly occupying the Samina valley so basically eastern Liechtenstein and going all the way up to Feldkirch in Austria, with Feldkirch being the capital.
Population: 43.283
Notable features: The most notable feature of the Principality of Saminia are the plethora of high mountains. What else to expect from an alpine state? The Samina Valley as well as its side valleys are however barely inhabited, the largest settlements being the villages of Malbun and Steg. Nearly all of the population is packed in the capital of Feldkirch and the city of Frastanz which are located at the end of the Ill Valley. Despite a relatively high GDP due to the trade with natural oil ressources, many of the people prefer to stick to old and traditional timber-framed homes, creating a rather medieval atmosphere in the settlements of Saminia.
Year founded:
Active heroes/villains of note:
-Kommandant FEAR
-(Organisation) Nightmare
