Exi - Reluctant Villain

Backstory: In a world with superheroes and villains, William Wallace (codename Exi) was born to a human mother and a villainous father, whose power was shapeshifting into powerful beasts. His father left before he was even born, and the entire world watched his birth, it being a major news event. William came out of the womb with some animalistic characteristics, but power readers were used and determined him to be otherwise perfectly ordinary.

This high level of attention placed on William continued through his childhood. He was picked on mercilessly by the other children, and even by teachers who blamed him whenever his father was in the news doing something despicable. Due to this, William became increasingly antisocial, preferring to study on his own, and it turned out that he was a brilliant mind. His favorite field of study was robotics, and he was a prodigy; not that anybody else would know about it.

When William became a teenager, he was already building autonomous drones, but due to poor grades in school nobody realized it was him when they began targeting and injuring those who bullied him. But the turning point came when he was 16, and William managed to create a self-replicating drone with a rudimentary artificial intelligence. The issue he did not foresee is that the AI found it could incorporate organic matter into its copies, and each copy learned from its predecessors and also was self-replicating.

The result was a bloodbath, with over 100,000 people dead. It took over a dozen of the country's top heroes to put down the robots to the last, and several heroes were killed by the weapons the drone army was using, their bodies and powers incorporated into the army's repertoire. Each hero that was killed and subsumed made the army that much more deadly and vicious. When the drones were finally wiped out to the last, there was only one structure left standing in a 400 mile radius, and inside they found William, crying about what he did, covered in the blood and remains of his mother and siblings.

William was sentenced lightly due to being a minor and due to the accidental nature of the crime, but many heroes still hold a grudge against him to this day. At the same time, it was made clear by the justice system that any further creation of self-replicating drones would put him on a "kill-on-sight" list. It was when he was in the juvenile detention facility that he adopted the moniker of Exi. It was a statement, short for "Extinction", what the event he was known for became colloquially known as, and it did not help hero perceptions of him. Now, years later, Exi is a fairly successful villain, using his sharp mind to create robotic threats (usually non-lethal now) and take on the society that he feels failed him since before he was even born.

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Physical description: Exi is a 25 year old male, 5'11", with yellow eyes and long grey hair. A cat-human hybrid, he has fluffy grey cat ears on top of his head instead of human ears, and a long sleek tail coming from his rear end. Arms and legs are covered in fine, light grey fur. Fairly muscular.

Costume: Skintight black spandex, with purple and yellow highlights, and chunky gloves with exposed circuitry.

Powers: Nobody knows if Exi actually has any powers, or if he's just a genius in the field of robotics. He does have some control over electricity, but it might be due to the gloves he wears with his costume. Exi can also fly thanks to some robotics built into his costume. He does have a large variety of flying drones that he can control, some of them manually and some with rudimentary AIs that can operate independently. Exi also has the ability to fashion tools and powerful drones and weaponry using very little in the way of raw materials. The last time he was imprisoned, he broke out using a drone that could fire cutlery from the kitchen at over 200 mph and busting down the walls, created in under a day from what he was able to scavenge up in his cell. Most of the robots use non-lethal weaponry (ex: electrical shocks, paralytic gasses, sonic blasts, concussive force)

Personality: Exi is extremely intelligent, and tends to prepare as much as possible for every situation he can imagine. He is also arrogant, having a longer career than most villains without any major setbacks. Exi is abrasive towards heroes, blaming them for many of his problems. He is very slow to trust anyone, since heroes have attempted to kill him many times. Still, he acts overly polite as a defense mechanism. He has been a villain for a long time, and grew up watching them on TV, so he likes to monologue and reveal his plans even before they are completed. Exi does not have any close friends or family, and he's jealous of other villains who have friendly relationships with their heroic counterparts in the Nemesis program. Exi is a master of his emotions, able to smile sweetly at someone as he drives a knife into their back. However, he is very careful not to kill unless its a last resort, and is especially remorseful if he accidentally causes any civilians get harmed. He feels very guilty at his past, but doesn't like to show it, feeling like its a weakness that others will try to exploit in him.

Crimes: Exi prefers to do crimes which will draw a lot of attention. Things along the lines of bank robberies and kidnapping high-ranking government officials. He does not mind losing and getting caught; Exi doesn't believe any prison can hold him. He views going to jail as a challenge, figuring out a unique way to break out each time.

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Terminology: The Nemesis program. It was designed to reign in the destructive nature of villains, and most villains around the world have opted into it. In the Nemesis program, a hero will volunteer to be a villain's Nemesis, focusing almost exclusively on stopping them. The hero voluntarily gives up the ability to be able to get backup from other heroes, except for the most dire circumstances, but the villain is similarly handicapped by agreeing to rules of engagement that prohibit excessive property damage and attacks on civilians. The result is almost a game of cat-and-mouse, with the villain pushing the limits to see what they can get away with, and the heroes trying to stop them while tacitly allowing the villains to get away with much more than a civilian would be allowed. Often, the relationships formed by a hero and villain pair become cordial, even friendly over time, and many civilians root for heroes and villains like they would sports teams in our world. With many villains announcing where and when their next crimes will take place, conflicts can turn into highly televised events, drawing spectators and even resulting in sponsorship deals with corporations for popular heroes and villains both.

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