The Defender of...Evil?!

• Villain Name: Phume.
• Real Name: Dakota Egun.
• Height: 6'4".
• Age: 27.
• Rank: B.

APPEARANCE: Athletic build. Tanned skin. Long black hair and dark blue eyes. His villain outfit consists of a white jacket with black accents, a black combat vest with white accents, white pants and boots, white mask with black wolf fang pattern, white combat gloves with black knuckles and black fingertips, white hi-tech helmet with a transparent blue visor.

PERSONALITY: Phume is aggressive and ill-tempered, lacking patience with things he finds boring or unimportant. His voice is deep and gruff, the effect of which is further accentuated by his informal speech. In battle, he frequently taunts his opponent, and threatens levels of violence that he's very unlikely to actually carry out unless he knows his opponent can take it. He doesn't like to take off his mask in public, and will be incredibly annoyed by any request for him to do so. Since heroes aiding heroes is almost expected, and villains who are singled out often fall alone, Phume figured he'd best make a name for himself by filling the unspoken niche of being the "Defender of Evil", one who swoops in at just the right moment to save a villain in peril, much like how a hero would save a civilian or other hero typically. He's aware that his particular role is strange, but in his mind, it's a lot weirder that sadists and narcissists get to be legally acknowledged heroes these days. Not every villain approves of his meddling, but that's rarely enough to stop him. Phume deeply values the absurd culture of Pacific City, viewing it as a haven within which people are free to live out their darker desires under the "protection" of mutual agreement that this is basically one big violent game. He finds many heroes appallingly dishonest, claiming they are too sadistic and manipulative to truly embrace the "hero fantasy", and are thus easy targets for him to vent his frustrations.

ABILITIES:

• Toxic Evolution: Phume possesses superhuman strength, speed, and durability, all of which are directly enhanced by the amount of toxins in his body, which can be toxins inhaled, ingested, injected, or soaked through his skin. At his base level, he's at the lower end of superhuman capabilities, barely comparable to a D-tier brick. With a small amount of toxins, he enters Stage 2, bringing his strength just above the average C-tier Brick. With a large dose of toxins, he enters Stage 3, where he can rival B-tier Bricks in raw physicality, and also develops claws.
• Poison Attacks: Phume can alter the properties of toxins in his body, and release them in various forms, such as secreting toxic sludge or hallucinogenic gas. He can't make the toxins any more powerful than the most potent one in his body, and releasing too much can lower the current stage of his Toxic Evolution.
• Beast Mode: When Phume overdoses on toxins, he temporarily enters a power state that drives him feral. In this state, gains physical attributes that rival A-tier capes, and his body will rapidly release all of its accumulated toxins as a chaotic poison gas with unpredictable effects. This state lasts until all the toxins are expelled, which can take between ten minutes to an hour, depending on the extent of the overdose. Bleeding and general physical damage will rapidly accelerate the rate of toxin release and shorten the duration of this state.
• Enhanced Recovery: While Phume's not completely immune to toxins, he possesses a high tolerance to them, and is capable of recovering from their effects with no permanent damage, even if the toxins brought him to the brink of death.
• Martial Prowess: He's also incredibly skilled in martial arts, and is comfortable with pretty much any weapon he wields, though he prefers weapons he can throw, as he likes to keep his hands free, and he can coat such weapons with poison from his hands prior to throwing them. While he's no genius, he's very adaptable.

EQUIPMENT:

• His mask contains a special respirator, from which he can inhale poison gas to power up.
• He carries a wide variety of throwable weapons (shuriken, knives, etc.), smoke bombs, remote bombs, and plenty of other similar kit.
• He carries a dose of a highly lethal neurotoxin that he uses for emergencies only, as it's enough to immediately enter Beast Mode for at least ten minutes. He only carries one dose at a time.

BACKSTORY: Dakota didn't have a particularly eventful life growing up. He gained his powers from exposure to an inter-dimensional being that entered his apartment after it took a "wrong turn" on its errand run. Unable to understand the situation and having little desire to question it anyway, Dakota decided to roll with it and use his powers become an official villain.

OTHER NOTES:

• He's very bad at flirting, and he knows it, so he just avoids it entirely. Sexual advances are by far the easiest way to get him flustered.
• He secretly follows a lot of villain streamers, which take up a large chunk of his freetime, but he'll never admit it.
• He has a soft spot for underdogs, whether they're heroes or villains. This makes him particularly defensive low-ranked villains, and more likely to go easy on low-ranked heroes (unless they piss him off).
• Despite being a villain, Phume's actually very defensive of civilians. As a result, he heavily telegraphs if he's about to enter Beast Mode, usually through a particularly threatening monologue to give people time to back away. He hates it when capes blatantly disregard civilian safety, and won't hesitate to beat the hell out anyone who endangers them or lets them die.

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