Rachels Dreams by soulkarma

City of Villains

My characters from the on-line multiplayer role-playing game (Which I'm very addicted to it seems) Some are heroes, and of course villains. You'll be seeing a lot more of them soon I hope.

Madame Joey

Name: Josephine ‘Joey’ Bedeau
Origin: Natural
Gender: Female
Age: 24
Description: 5’ 0", 120 lbs. With the classic hour-glass figure, very ‘busty’, with white shoulder length hair, and usually wears round smoked colored sun-glasses, and a black western duster hat.

Background: Born in Elko Nevada, Josephine, or Joey as she’s normally called, came from what called old stock. The Bedeau first came to the territory in the mid 1840’s, when French trapper Barthelemy Bedeau settled in the area with an Indian wife, and for the next 160 years the Bedeau’s stayed, stayed in the area and stayed poor. In fact it was Barthelemy Bedeau that seemed to have started the family business, when he offered his wife’s services for a pair of passing cowboys for a pound of bacon. Since then the Bedeau’s been in the business of prostitution, passing on generation to generation. Joey herself after a basic education went to work in the local brothel but unlike many of the past women who seemed satisfied with their lot in life, Joey used her body and mind to break free.

Manipulative, Joey played to the customer, always getting them to relax and talk about themselves, their stock deals, investments, any little boast that she could use to her own advantage. In a few years she went from working the brothel, to owning it, which is where she took on the pseudonym of Madame Joey. Yet, that was not enough, she wanted more and having been a prostitute she knew she could not get it by legal means. So knowing that she needed muscle, she started to scan the magazines, i.e. Soldier of Fortune, in order to hire a man that she could use. After many interviews, where using her ‘talents’ she finally settled upon a mercenary to hire, the first of her new stable. Starting small with plain hold-up’s se quickly learned the tricks of her new trade, moving up from small times stick-up’s to stealing technology, kidnapping, and even hired killings. Now, with 4 merc’s that steadily work for her, Joey is slowly becoming a name in the Rouge Isles.

Marbas

Name: Marbas
Origin: Magic
Gender: Male
Age: Immortal Demon
Description: 8’2", 520 lbs. Huge, with blue skin, forward tilted horns growing from the sides of his head, with three smaller horns atop his shoulders. Straps around his chest and stomach with priced nipples and cloven hoofs.

Backstory: Marbas, angel-general of the 36 legions of infernal spirits that fought to take over heaven. When defeated, he joined his master and the other angels cast down from heaven into the underworld. There for ages he served his master, the ruler of the underworld, yet like his master he desired more, until one day he escaped from the rulers dominance and fled to the surface world, where weak from his escape, he was captured by the mortal humans and placed in a cage, until freed once again when the prison was assaulted. It was then that he realized how weak he was, an arch-demon now barely able to fight the humans that captured him. Now he works to once again build his power, and when ready build his own kingdom on earth.

Personality Traits: Very intelligent, evil, finds good in murder, chaos, rape, untrustworthily unless its to further his own ends, but bound by his word when given, he may try to twist and turn to his desires, but will not break an oath.

Powers: Ice/Ice, once powerful beyond human imagination, his escape has left him severely weaken, and only by feeling on the souls of those he kills does he regain his powers.

In-Game Archtype: Dominator
In-Game Powers: Ice/Ice

Mafdet

Villains Name: Mafdet
Age: 2
Race: Human/Cheetah and others hybrid
Hair: Blond-gold
Skin: Gold
Eyes: gold
Height: 5.0
Weight: 125

Archetype: Stalker
Primary/Secondary: Martial Arts/Ninjitsu
Origin: Science

Origin Story: WARNING: The following is classified as TOP SECRET (Foxtrot), NEED TO KNOW ONLY. Reading by non-listed personal will result in arrest and imprisonment not to exceed a maximum of 20 years imprisonment and/or $1,000,000 fine.

From: Daniel C. Sterk, Director of Special Budgetary Operations.

To: James W. Dickinson, Brig Gen, USAF. Office of Covert Operations

Subject: Cancellation of the Mafdet Project.

James, now that we got the bullshit out of the way, this is to review the failure of the Mafdet project with a lessons learn for our next attempt at such a project. As you know the advancements from this project have been astronomical, yet if word ever gets out of what has been created, the firestorm of negative publicity would be severe.

In review, it was during our meeting right after B took office in his first term that I first brought up the Mafdet Project, so named after Egyptian Goddess of power. Briefly, it was during our meeting with C that we informed him that with current technology it was impossible to create an artificial life-form that could react, move, or think like a human, to operate in an independent combat environment. Upon his request to ‘Think out of the box’ it was brought to his attention that the company that he used to head had many subsidiaries that had advanced the science of cloning, DNA reproduction/engineering. And with a ‘no-bid’ contract it was possible to create a human hybrid, stronger, faster, deadlier than any machine. C was immediately intrigued, while stipulating that B would not be informed for ‘Plausible Deniably’.

After receiving the funding to proceed on a prototype with C’s former company, it was decided after much debate that the embryo be female with cheetah DNA, to take advantage of its natural savagery, speed and agility. Further dialogue determined that such a creature should have some kind of stealth, injury resistance, jumping, to name a few abilities. In the end it was decided that a total of 13 species DNA slices would be required.

After 3 years, and 215 prototype failures, the first embryo was successfully brought to term; it lived for 11 hours before its system failed. But with that achievement, a successful prototype would not be far away. In fact it took only 9 months and 5 more attempts before we had Mafdet.

Its cheetah traits were obvious, as also very surprising, as we had expected a much more human appearance. We decided to continue with the current creature, as we were unsure how to reverse the appearance and determined to go on with the current living form. Also surprising was how fast it started to grow, we had determined that while it had human intelligence, the feline construction was dominant, which we found was to be a bonus, as it would reach full working function in as little as two years, with a estimated 15-20 year life span.

Training started at the 6th month having already reached a height of 3 feet, equal to a human 10 year old in intellect, speed and learning we used its instinctive prey behavior by using live fowls (Chickens, ducks, gooses, etc) to train it in hunting. We were amazed the first time it seemed to disappear from sight, only to have it reappear attacking and killing a chicken. As a reward we allowed it to play with the dead carcass after which time it took several bites out of it. Using this as a device, we found that allowing it to feed on the prey improved its desire to hunt and kill more. As it grew, and became intelligent, the need to feed soon left its behavior, but the seemingly thirst to hunt stayed.

After its first year, the training increased as it showed a talent to learn quickly, yet it was my mistake not to take into the fact that it was female, something the guards did not miss, though I have difficulty in seeing how they could find a sexual interest in the creature, as it’s more feline than human. Apparently the guards been entertaining themselves with the creature for about 2 months, and since the creature seemed willing, the security relaxed.

Now at 2 years of age, the creature stood at 5 feet and everything we wished for, it killed at our command, it resisted damage, healing fast, with no limits to it abilities in sight. It was at this time period that our training advanced to live humanoid targets. Prisoners from Paragon City, gang members that been convicted and sentence to life imprisonment. Now in an attempt to win full clemency they volunteered to rid the city of a creature. In a carefully constructed maze, both the prisoner and Mafdet were released inside. We were proud that the first prisoner never knew he had been killed, Mafdet appeared behind him and death was instantantious. What had meant to be the start of a new type of combat soldier was now a perfect assassin, as feline stalker.

It was after the 7th test that Mafdet disappeared, we have forgotten the instinct of freedom, and it seems the human instinct of anger, revenge? It just walked out of its cage leaving 3 naked and dead guards behind. If it had left, I would have understood its desire to be free, but instead it stayed within the facility hunting the guards, scientist, any one it could catch. Attempts to leave at first found doors, stairways, elevators blocked or non-operational. It seemed we vastly underestimated its intelligence, and its savagery, from what I can now guess, it enjoys killing, and I wonder what will happen when the last of us are dead.

There’s only 6 of us alive now out of a staff of 57, my door is locked with 5 guards outside, while I hope this report will find you, about 5 minutes ago there was considerable firing outside my door which quickly stopped, no one answered my voice, so I now suspect I’m the only one left.

I believe that this project while seemingly successful was doomed from the start, while we maybe able to control human minds, the hybrid is still too strange for us to understand, it seemjaslsns

Note from rescue team leader:

Sir,

The document above was found by the body of Director Sterk. As instructed after you were alerted by e-mail, we flooded the complex upon arrival with D-3612, which rendered anyone alive comatose upon inhalation. Regrettably we were unable to find any survivors when we entered the complex but for the Mafdet project which we secured, and transported to the local maximum security facility known as the Zaggurat in Paragon City. Unfortunately 24 hours after her arrival, a massive prison break accrued with the prisoner among the escapees. At this time its location is unknown, request instructions.