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RP Profile: Vlad Argus-Cardei
By: Zorbak the Ebil Moglin Date: August 7, 2019, 10:22 pm
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"I'm what you would call... a 'specialist'. I specialize in
hunting those demi-gods and supernaturals which most hunters are
scared of."
"Yes, Mr Xeno. It's been... interesting. It seems you were
right. Genus went after Vin and Rei first. I believe his
creations will come for Maya and Jack too. Russian Special
Forces was beaten fairly easily. All three of their heavy
hitters are down. He has three clones, each of them is extremely
powerful and all of them have... unique... abilities, and they
seem to be very smart since they lured Special Forces to them,
instead of going straight to Special Forces HQ. It was actually
a brilliant tactic to attack other Russian military bases since
it drew Special Forces straight into a trap." - Vlad
Argus-Cardei after having spied on Special Forces after the
incident with the Triam Trio.
"You believe you have an advantage on me because I am human,
prietenul meu (Romanian for "my friend")... But you are wrong. I
am human, but you are going to find you don't have any advantage
on me. I am just... too good for you."
"One thing I learned in my years of supernatural hunting...
Animals are most dangerous when they are cornered. A good hunter
knows there is no guarantee that they will survive encounters
with an animal that can tear you apart."
"Anger is not a strength, child... It is a weakness. Yes, you
can gain power from it. And yes, it does work to make you
stronger... But it hinders you in battle, and it is nothing
compared to the power you gain from the focus of being at peace
or calmed."
"Du-te dracu, Bou (Romanian for "Go to hell, asshole"). Your
weakness wasn't even worth the time I spent hunting you down." -
Vlad Argus-Cardei after an enemy insulted his fighting style
"Unlike supernaturals, humans often refuse to acknowledge their
fear. That makes humanity weaker. If we acknowledged our fear
and stood fast, we could become far stronger than people
realize. That's why I pity supernaturals, gods, and humans
alike... Because none of them understand what fear is for. Fear
is a warning to the body. Fear drives us to avoid things that
might be dangerous to us. But it is not something that should
ever drive us as a species."
"Continue with the mission... I'm going to... take a nap." -
Vlad before collapsing after being shot through the head.
During a fight, Vlad's enemy, a vampire, took a hostage.
Enemy: Kill me... And the girl dies... Our life forces are
connected! He says as he tries to avoid Vlad.
Vlad: Oh? Is that so? He immediately throws a knife at the
enemy, to which the knife pierces his skull and he falls to the
ground dead. As he walks over, the girl looks at her head,
scared that she was going to die too based on what the
supernatural told Vlad.
Girl: What happened? I thought he said...
Vlad: He lied, darling... If you were connected like he said,
then he wouldn't have tried to use you as a hostage or he would
have died if I'd decided to kill you too, something he wouldn't
have wanted. That connection would have been a two-way street.
Girl: Oh... You sound pretty sure...
Vlad: Supernatural, god, or human... I know a bluff when I hear
one... At least, I was fairly certain it was a bluff. It was
about a 75% chance it was a bluff.
Girl: Wait... You weren't 100% sure?! She says, somewhat
surprised. Vlad just stays silent and walks away No seriously! I
could have died! She yells as Vlad leaves, running after him.
Vlad: Sorry, darling... But I was told to kill him by any means
necessary. I can't stop over every human in my path in this job.
Sometimes sacrifices are made for the greater good. One life can
save many lives in the long run. He says as he continues walking
away, not caring that the girl was following him in anger.
Girl: But you were gonna sacrifice me?!
Vlad: My only chance to save your life was to kill that vampir
(Romanian for "vampire") before he left with you in his grasp.
Because he'd have killed you anyway when he left so he could use
your blood to sustain himself after I weakened him. You would
have died either way, so my only chance was that to kill him and
hope it was a bluff. It was the only scenario where you lived.
During a fight.
Enemy: I'm going to kill you!
Vlad: Many say that... But none have been able to do it.
Enemy: Well I will even if I have to take you apart piece by
piece! He says angrily.
Vlad: Good... I like your spirit. Could you be the one to
finally finish me? He says with a smile.
"The way he moved... It... didn't seem human... That guy must be
a freak! He looks like some sort of vampire, but even a vampire
doesn't move like that!" - A supernatural who fought Vlad but
couldn't understand his fighting style.
Name: Vlad Argus-Cardei
Title: The Specialist
Age: Unknown
Species: Enhanced Human Supernatural Hunter
Gender: Male
Hunter Group/Team: Ragnorok
Weapons:
- Supernatural Hunter Knives: The first thing many people notice
about Vlad is how many knives he has on him at all times. He is
always prepared with weapons, and always as collections of
knives on him that he can use to battle supernaturals. He
carries these knives as his primary weapons in battle since he
doesn't use guns under most circumstances. These are fairly
simple knives, in which he has a few different kinds of knives.
The first are varanium knives, designed to interrupt
supernatural regeneration, which are fairly standard for
supernatural hunters in Ragnorok due to varanium's useful
nature. These knives are usually black in color, and varanium
generates it's own magnetic field to a degree, making it useful
against those vulnerable to magnetism abilities. His second set
of knives are stilled silver knives, which are designed to work
against supernaturals with supernatural abilities and
temporarily negates supernatural abilities if they are hit with
these knives. Vlad also has oceanstone knives, which are
designed solely to weaken gods, or those with godly power, which
works great against demi-gods and other deities. He also has
iron knives which are designed to fight ghosts or spiritual
beings, which is useful for certain kinds of hunts that he has
to go on to face off against lost souls, or hollows. Lastly
among his knives are special aura breaker knives, made of an
experimental material currently without a name being perfected
by Ragnorok.
- Other Supernatural Hunting Items (Case by Case basis): Vlad
has an entire armory of supernatural hunting items and weapons,
which he takes with him on a case by case basis based on what
he's fighting or what he might encounter. He has things like
holy water, blessed silver, mercury vials, and many other items.
He also has blessed sea salt, which is typically useful against
spirits and demons, including being useful against death
wraiths. Holy water, blessed silver, and to some extent mercury
can be very useful against unholy type supernaturals, since the
holy natures of holy water and blessed silver work well against
unholy opponents. His mercury vials are a great way to poison
almost any opponent, since most people don't have any real
resistance to mercury poisoning. He also has some unholy
substances, like some demonic gold, black water (water corrupted
by demonic power), and even has small amounts of darkstone, a
material that drains life energy from those it touches. Usually,
Vlad equips anything he might need in battle, usually preparing
before he goes on missions. Usually, items he uses are all
designed in some way for specific types of creatures, such as
using blessed silver on vampires or mercury on werewolves, and
having things like oceanstone for taking on demi-gods.
- Supernatural Hunter Cell Phone: This may seem like a normal
phone at first glance, but it is actually a special enhanced
phone designed with special functions. While he can make calls
to others using his nanomachines, he often uses this phone to
communicate with others, giving the appearance that he doesn't
have telepathic communication or nanocommunication, mostly as a
misdirection so people don't think of ways to try and jam his
nanocommunication. However, those aren't the only functions this
has, in which it has a number of gadgets in the phone as well.
The first is it has a DNA/fingerprint scanner, which can analyze
blood or finger prints scanned by the screen, and identify
specifically what type of creature they came from, even being
able to identify claw marks and other things hit by
supernaturals with extreme accuracy. This is usually designed to
help him identify from victims what he is facing when hunting
supernaturals, in which it is connected to Ragnorok's network
and able to identify almost anything. Anything that can't be
identified can usually be identified by the Metal Cooler squad,
who are usually also connected to the network. The phone also
has a stun taser, in which the phone can be used to stun people
with a small taser function that is built into it by simply
putting in a special code and bringing out the taser nodes. The
taser function is useful in that it also radiates energy
replicated to stun supernaturals instead of just electrical
energy, making it useful even against lightning users. The
phone's next function is that it has a lockpick set in it as
well, able to open almost any lock with a shapeshifting nanite
node that can open almost any lock that requires a key. This
phone also has a GPS scanner that is accurate no matter where on
earth he is, as it's connected to Ragnorok's network. The last
is that it has a scanner that can detect levels of air, being
able to detect things like smoke, carbon monoxide, and even if
an area is radioactive. These functions are all very useful
functions that make it a useful tool for Vlad, and even outside
of hunts, he can use it when needed.
- The Hunter Squad Robotic Companions: These are eight
companions designed for Vlad as his hunting companions each
modeled after a different animal. Currently, Vlad has eight of
these: a robot panther, coyote, jaguar, lion, tiger, rhino and a
raptor. Each is designed with a special stealth function to
avoid detection when not needed, and can come to Vlad's aid at
any time should he require it. Each of these are linked to Vlad
specifically through his cybernetic upgrades, and each has it's
own personality based on it's design. Each has their own set of
abilities and specialties, like the robot panther specializing
in stealth strikes, or the robot wolf specializing in agility.
Each also has unique weapons built into them, which are also
useful. These are designed to be supernatural hunting companions
with each having different uses based on different situations.
Vlad tends to treat them as his family, seeing them as his
closest friends. The robots all have their own AI mind, all
equipped with the latest anti-tech anti-hack/anti-virus tech,
and even if they are compromised, Vlad can override them and
shut them down due to his direct connection to them. The robots
are very skilled in their own right, learning from their hunts
and from Vlad's supernatural hunter experience. While they can't
talk, they can show their thoughts similar to other animals in
their actions, such as protecting Vlad if he were ever in
danger, or showing distrust of certain creatures with a growl.
There is also another function, in which any one of them can
shift and become an armor for Vlad to use in battle, such as his
robot wolf becoming an armor and granting him highly enhanced
ability and speed.
Cybernetics Upgrades:
- Project Dead Cell Enhancements: This project was based around
a group of supernatural hunters specifically upgraded to fight
dangerous supernaturals. After they were cast out by their
original superiors, they were found refuge with Ragnorok who
enhanced their abilities and turned them into specialist
supernatural hunters through special physical enhancement and
mind training in order to turn them into powerful supernatural
hunters that would be among the best of Ragnorok's forces. Vlad
is of the group that was enhanced, and was a Romanian that was
enhanced to take advantage of his unique combat ability and his
accelerated healing. This enhancement makes Vlad very hard to
kill, and enhances his physical stats so that he is among the
best supernatural hunting specialists that Ragnorok has, even
being able to defeat cyborg enemies and stronger supernaturals
that most hunters cannot beat. The group enhanced in this
project are among the best, with each one being able to take on
entire groups of supernaturals, despite them being human thanks
to their enhancements and natural combat talents. There are few
members of this group, but those that remain, like Vlad, are now
Ragnorok's best-kept secret and their best weapons for hunting
down threats, even taking on threats those like the Metal
Coolers can't handle on their own. Vlad was designed to be an
unkillable hunter, one that could keep hunting even if his brain
were destroyed. While he's not completely unkillable, his
ability to take damage and continue fighting is usually what
makes him the most dangerous out of the Dead Cell group, since
no one has figured out yet how to kill him permanently, and most
don't even know what keeps him regenerating, since he
out-regenerates a lot of supernaturals.
- Brain Enhancing Nano-cytes: These special nano-cytes were
designed by Reverse Ciel as her most advanced nano-tech to date,
something that was designed originally for Clone Jack and Maya.
Project Dead Cell's members were all enhanced with these special
nano-cytes, which don't appear on any type of scan and even have
special functions to be hidden from tech psychics. These
nano-cytes are designed to enhance the brain functions of the
Dead Cell project members, enhancing their thought processes and
adding specific functions to their minds. For Vlad, his
functions include his connection to his robotic companions, the
Hunter Squad, that are connected to Vlad through these
nano-cytes. This lets Vlad communicate with any of his
companions through thought alone, and allows Vlad to more easily
access his nano-communication without needing to divert his
concentration from what he's doing. These are designed to be the
equivalent of most cybernetic brain upgrades, but in a way that
is more natural to the mind, since the body doesn't register the
nano-cytes at all and doesn't move to attack them, letting the
nano-cytes act as they need to. This also enhances things like
reflexes and thought, allowing Vlad to react to signals in his
brain almost instantly, and process information almost
instantly, which helps him a lot in battles. This also enhances
his thinking and strategy capabilities as well, making him a
dangerous tactician. These nano-cytes are the backbone of the
Dead Cell cybernetics, and help the body integrate with the
cyberentics upgrades to the body, making them the most important
upgrade.
- Nanomachine Enhancement: During his previous enhancement, Vlad
was enhanced with nanomachines, originally invented by the US
government and used by a black ops group called Foxhound. The
Dead Cell members all have this upgrade, which was enhanced by
Reverse Ciel with a new upgrade to allow the Ragnorok members to
converse on their own unique "frequency" of nanocommunication.
In addition, the nanomachines also work to suppress certain
functions of the body, such as controlling pain to a manageable
level or suppress certain emotions that the person wants to
suppress to help them in battle. These nanomachines are also the
enhancement that makes Vlad almost impossible to kill, with him
being the result of an experiment to create an unkillable
supernatural hunter that could hunt down almost anything. These
nanomachines are very useful for a variety of reasons, and are
controlled by the nano-cytes in Vlad's brain. Through
interaction and deciding what he wants to suppress and what he
doesn't, he can suppress certain functions of his body, though
he rarely ever does this, since he enjoys battles that might
kill him. This upgrade does have a counter, in that a counter
nano-virus could be used to remove the function of his
nanomachines, which was designed to counter this should a day
come that Vlad or anyone with this nanomachine enhancement ever
wants to live a normal life, as it follows Garton Xeno's
philosophy that every enhanced human in his forces should be
able to return to being human at any time (with certain cyborgs
being an exception since the cybernetics maintain their life).
- Nanocyte Brain Function Backup: This enhancement is designed
for Vlad specifically, where his nanocytes keep his brain
functions going even if Vlad's brain is destroyed, using the
nanocytes to send the same signals to the body that Vlad would
normally. Essentially, the nanocytes in his brain act as a
backup for Vlad's mind, where his nanocytes can take over
running his body should his brain be destroyed, at least until
it can be regenerated by his nanomachines (more later). This
function is designed to handle a lot, in which Vlad can even
send the functions of his brain into Ragnorok's network to be
backed up until someone can put his mind functions in a new
body. This is a very useful ability, as it keeps his mind going
should his brain be pierced by an attack, and can even keep his
brain going if most of his brain is destroyed. However, while
this may seem impressive, if his brain were destroyed to a point
that he could only run on these nanocytes, his only hope to live
would be to back up his mind in Ragnorok's network and get an
artificial body from Reverse Ciel, who has Vlad's DNA on file
and can clone his body at any time, or even create an artificial
body if it should be necessary that Vlad needs a new body. If
his brain is destroyed, he would only have up to an hour with
the nanocytes in control before he'd lose his brain functions,
since these nano-cytes cannot stay in control forever, due to
the strain that would be put on what is left of Vlad's mind from
maintaining his body, keeping his connection to Ragnorok and the
Hunter Squad, and trying to keep his brain's thought processes
functioning. If Vlad doesn't back himself up, or enough of him
is destroyed, then Vlad will still die, though this takes a
pretty destructive approach to destroy enough of him considering
Vlad has survived sniper shots to the head.
- Adaptive Cybernetic System: As a whole, Reverse Ciel made the
Dead Cell group enhancements very adaptive, being able to adapt
to however they fight and how they operate. As a whole, the
cybernetics operate as one system for each of them, and all work
in conjunction with one another through communication of the
network generated by the Ragnorok network to which they are
connected. As such, the cybernetics are designed to keep that
one-system operating method, and adapt to each member of Project
Dead Cell's living and fighting styles accordingly. As each of
them learns and adapts, the cybernetics (nanomachines and
nanocytes) are able to adapt as well, making it so they don't
have to train has hard to adapt their body to move differently,
or fight differently. For the most part, the nanomachines adapt
based on how each acts and how each fights, without really
requiring much input. For example, if one's body were to
increase it's regenerative abilities, or increase it's magic
output, the body would focus less on defense and more on
regeneration. For the most part, the cybernetics are made to be
adaptable, since it's more or less how cybernetics are designed.
The Dead Cell members were redesigned after Genus was removed
from Ragnorok and now are designed to be the peak of
technological advancement that Ragnorok has, being far more
adaptive than many previous SOLDIER projects of Dr. Genus were,
which says a lot since the other SOLDIER members are quite
impressive.
- Unique Nanomacine Enhancement: Regenerative Nanomachines:
Vlad's own unique nanomachine enhancement is a rare one that is
purely regenerative in nature. Vlad's body, blood, and even his
bones are filled with regenerative nanomachines, which repair
and fix his body whenever needed and keep him alive. These
nanites even keep his brain functioning if his brain is pierced
by an attack (like a gun shot), using the regeneration to
regenerate while keeping his brain functions going through his
nano-cytes. These nanomachines are unique in that each one
carries material in it to rebuild tissue, in which the
nanomachines can actually convert and rebuild tissue using
what's stored in them, so that Vlad can regenerate even limbs.
If, for some reason, Vlad doesn't have enough substance left,
the nanomachines can manifest for what's missing and replicate
themselves so that they can cover what is missing in his body,
such as losing an arm and rebuilding his arm with nanomachines
if the nanomachines don't have enough organic material to
replace his arm. These nanomachines are the main thing that
makes Vlad so hard to kill, because one has to destroy most of
his body in order to kill him, or he will regenerate. This has
made Vlad a very dangerous opponent, and is the main ability his
cybernetics give him to help him fight against supernaturals
similar to other regenerative creature projects. However, Vlad
can still be killed, as there is certain damage that he wouldn't
be able to regenerate (such as his entire body being destroyed,
or a larger opponent crushing him into a bloody paste). This
also cannot be interrupted with power negation since this is a
purely artificial regeneration, and is also resistant to tech
disruption due to the design uprade (More later).
- Unique Nanomachine Enhancement: Toxin Counteraction: Another
part of his regeneration, in which his nanomachines can fight
and suppress any toxins in Vlad's body. Thanks to this, Vlad is
able to be poisoned and keep fighting, with him even being able
to survive areas that are radioactive, or survive areas that
most people couldn't survive long in. Poisons and other toxins
are immediately attacked and countered by these nanomachines,
which lets Vlad's body fight off toxins similar to how the
immune system fights infections, except this uses the
nanomachines to counter any toxins. This was designed mostly to
counter poison and other substances that Vlad might ingest, so
that he could prevent himself from dying to poison against
certain poisonous beings. Using this, the nanomachines act like
an extension of his immune system, and are able to be countered
once the nanomachines are able to detect any foreign substances.
Not only does this work against toxins though, but also works
against most supernatural infections and against other illnesses
as well. This counteraction is extremely useful, and usually
prevents most ill effects against Vlad. However, this only
applies to infections and toxins in general.
- Unique Nanomachine Enhancement: Van der Waals Force: This
nanomachine enhancement was based around a design that was
granted to Vlad's fighting style, using his nanomachines for a
somewhat strange purpose. By manipulating van der Waals force,
which are attractive and repulsive forces between molecules,
it's possible for Vlad's nanomachines to stick to objects that
he normally wouldn't be able to by exploiting and modifying
these forces. By using this, Vlad is able to stand on objects
sticking to walls, ceilings and even standing on the surface of
water. This force grants Vlad much more options during fights,
where he is able to stick to almost any surface he desires, in
which his nanomachines can be made to stick to almost any
surface that he desires. This can be very strange to most, as he
can move across ceilings and walls with ease, and makes his
movements even harder to predict when he has such movement
options. This can be used on any part of his body, though
usually it's his hands and feet that will usually stick to
objects. While this does grant a lot of options, it does require
Vlad to know that he wants to stick to the surface, and if he
doesn't know he's going to hit a surface, he might not be able
to stick to it right away. This is based on input from his
nanocytes, so it requires Vlad to know what he wants to do
before he can use this particular upgrade, as the nanocytes have
to communicate with the nanomachines to activate this particular
enhancement.
- SOLDIER Serum Jenova Cell Upgrade: This is the second
enhancement that Vlad has, granted to him by Ragnorok's super
soldier serums. When injected, this enhancement enhances the
body with Jenova cells, made from a being that was able to kill
gods. These cells are produced specifically for this serum, and
designed to enhance the SOLDIERs. Instead of enhancing physical
abilities, the Jenova cells alter the user's power, and the
cells empower the supernatural abilities and the cybernetic
energy of the user with the power of Jenova. By doing this, all
of the supernatural and cybernetic energy abilities of
supernatural beings enhanced with this become god-killer style
attacks, that can kill gods similar to other god-killing
weapons. This essentially is a way to allow even less powerful
opponents to be able to kill gods, since this enhancement
empowers anyone the cells are injected with. This makes enhanced
beings able to do more damage against gods and demi-gods, with
their powers being able to kill them if the enhanced being's
attacks strike the heart or brain. Depending on the god, this
may even weaken a god if they use this power correctly, though
most gods by now have some slight resistance to being weakened
since this serum has been in use for some time. For Vlad, this
most just works on his physical attacks being able to damage
gods, and if he were to stab a god or demi-god through the heart
with his hand or a kick (using martial arts), then it could kill
even a god or demi-god. This doesn't apply to his weapons, and
since he doesn't have any cybernetic energy, this would only
apply to physical attacks.
- Supersoldier Serum: Thanks to Dr. Genus's serum enhancements
which are still used by Ragnorok, this serum is given to most of
the SOLDIER progam subjects to enhance their physical abilities
immensely. This serum increases physical and supernatural stats,
granting users highly increased stats. In addition, this serum
also helps users heal more quickly, and enhances their mental
functions as well. This serum is designed as an all-around
enhancement, which is designed to take a normal being and make
them into a dangerous enhanced being. This enhancement increases
speed to allow users to keep up with faster opponents, strength
to be able to counter those with enhanced strength, stamina to
allow the user to fight longer, durability to make the user
harder to kill, and defense to make the user harder to damage.
When used, this serum is designed to also increase one's flow of
energy, also increasing their supernatural abilities, such as
increasing the flow and intensity of mana in a mana user to
allow them stronger mana, as well as more mana to use in a
fight. This serum is DNA enhancement, and is a very useful
enhancement. This is designed to help Vlad face off against
stronger supernaturals as a passive upgrade.
- Reactive Nerves Electrolyte System: With special electrolytes
in their nervous system, the Dead Cell member's nerves are
enhanced heavily, increasing communication to levels that make
it almost instant. Of course, nerve reaction is very fast, and
increasing that speed doesn't really seem like much, but this
makes split second reactions extremely useful. And when combined
with the nanocytes running through them, the electrolytes don't
just communicate with their brains, but are able to use the
nanomachines to move the body through reaction when something
comes within attack distance. This allows them to react
instantly without needing to think about anything that comes
within arms length. This makes sneak attacks extremely
difficult, due to them being able to move their body without
even knowing an attack is coming. Since their nerves are able to
react like this, it makes combat far easier, since their body
can react without them needing to do anything. However, just
because they can react instantly, doesn't mean their body can
always move fast enough to dodge an attack. For example, if they
are dodging bullets typically, they can only move so the bullet
doesn't hit anything vital if they can't move faster than the
bullet. And this doesn't help too much in physical fights since
the members has to rely on thought, which can conflict with this
system's reaction system, which can be a good way to take
advantage of the cybernetics if one can get the thoughts to
conflict with the reactive system's reactions, which typically
causes hesitation or loss of speed and/or power in a fight if
the cybernetics are exploited properly.
- Nanomachine Epidermis Enhancement: Through this enhancement,
this injects nanomachines into the epidermis, which is a special
enhancement to the skin. Since the epidermis is the outer layer
of the skin, this enhancement is designed to enhance the skin
and up the defense of the user against taking damage. These
nanomachines are designed to react to physical trauma, such as
cuts, impact damage or being attacked. When they react, they can
harden from physical trauma, reducing damage immensely when most
would take damage. This is an adaptable enhancement that is
designed more for hardening when attacked or in combat, rather
than just being a simple enhancement that is designed for simple
protection from the outer environment. This enhancement is
designed to take things like physical cutting attacks and
physical impacts, reducing the damage done to the body when the
nanomachines harden to absorb the damage done to the body. While
this isn't quite as strong as some enhancements that are more
defense based, this is designed to increase defense while not
weighing down the user due to having more material enhancing
their body. As such, this doesn't increase defense as much as
something like adamantite skin enhancements, but allows less
hinderance of strength and speed loss that normally plague other
enhancements.
- Gel Layer Enhancement: Beneath the epidermis layer of the skin
in the dermis and hypodermis is usually a layer of fat cells
which act as a protective layer. These enhancements include a
modification of this layer, where the fat cells become like a
gel layer that protects the body from impacts and acts almost
like a cushion when they take heavy impact damage. Due to this,
those enhanced with this take less damage from impacts and
physical hits, as well as taking far less damage from things
like falls and high jumps. This layer doesn't block attacks, but
reduces impact damage considerably, with this being a typical
cybernetic enhancement for those that want to grant better
defense to those with cybernetics. This doesn't help much
against cutting or slash attacks, but this does help with
impacts and concussive force. This dampens blows a user might
take, upping their defense so that they don't take as much
damage. This is most useful for absorbing hits from physical
attacks. However, while this gel layer is strong, it can't
protect them from everything, and usually opponents that get
through their skin can also get through this layer too. Since
this layer is really thin, it doesn't do as much to protect
someone as one might think, and depending on the strength of the
upgrade, is meant more to negate fall damage to a degree, since
some can use this and fall from two or more stories without
taking any damage.
- CNT Muscle Fiber Enhancement: This enhancement for
cybernetically enhanced muscles increases the muscle fibers, and
uses special cybernetic fibers to increase the user's movement
and strength. This is a very common artificial muscle fiber used
in cybernetic upgrades. Unlike some cybernetics, this doesn't
just increase strength, but also speed, as the fibers are based
on pink muscle tissue, which works great for mobility and
strength. With this enhancement, the user's strength and speed
are enhanced above that of typical supernaturals, with the
strength allowing some to lift cars and some user's speed
allowing him to disappear from view when in motion depending on
the design of the cybernetics and what they are focused on
doing. This muscle fiber even makes the muscles more flexible,
which helps reduce overstrain and overexertion to a degree. For
the most part, these muscle enhancements are just amps to a
user's strength, defense, durability, stamina and defense, but
are not to be taken lightly when combined with other other
enhancements. These enhancements are fairly simple, designed to
supplement other enhancements like working alongside the bone
and gel layer enhancements to help enhance the body rather than
risk damaging it through the enhanced ability.
- Anti-Tech Psychic Defense/Anti-Tech Disruption/EMP Resistance:
After the incident with Hyperion, Ragnorok started working on
anti-tech disruption software, and resistant to technology
manipulators (like technology psychics), and put special infused
energy generation in each Ragnorok member's nanomachines, which
generates an anti-tech wave that prevents tech disruption
devices and powers from affected those with Ragnorok
nanomachines and cybernetic upgrades, as this is generated by
all of Ragnorok's cybernetics. This was also designed to keep
Dr. Genus originally from accessing the nanomachines and
cybernetics he had access to with Ragnorok in order to prevent
Dr. Genus from taking control of any Ragnorok assets due to Dr.
Genus being a threat to Ragnorok after he joined Hyperion. As
such, this makes it so that tech psychics and other technology
disruption abilities don't work on anyone with this upgrade, and
is even resistant to EMP through the tech being designed with
nano-tech upgrades that help grant high resistance to EMP waves,
which requires a massive and condensed EMP to even affect this
upgrade. This is typically not a big deal for the Dead Cell
group since they are still very tough and are not upgraded to
the extent that most cybernetics users are, as they just have
nanomachines running through them and if they lose the effects,
they just revert to their normal human level (which is still
very impressive for a human), and have to fight using their
normal human level stats.
- Anti-Hack and Anti-Virus System: Most cybernetics and armors
have the latest in anti-hack and anti-virus systems, making
those with these defenses very difficult to hack or infect with
computer viruses. While they can be affected by some unknown
viruses or tech hack systems, they are easily able to overcome
this with some effort. While tech control users can make them
stop in their tracks with enough concentration, those with these
upgrades do gain resistances. And thanks to special backups and
controls, Reverse Ciel can also override virus and hack effects
with the cybernetic implants in the brain if need be thanks to
special backups she put in after the Ragnorok incident. If
someone does manage to hit someone Reverse Ciel has granted this
enhancement to with an unknown virus or tech control, they can
use their cybernetic enhancement in their brain to sense the
virus or tech control and use their cybernetics upgrade system
to fight the virus or presence trying to take control of them.
With the cybernetics' specifications, tech control knowledge,
hacking and viruses are mostly useless against their
cybernetics. And those that aren't are usually overcome quickly.
Those with this enhancement always ave to keep up with their
protections from these threats, always being updated regularly
with new known virus and hacking counters to avoid them from
being overcome by tech opponents.
Combat Abilities:
- Romanian Mixed Martial Arts Unique Style: Because of Vlad's
somewhat strange human physiology, he has his own fighting style
which he takes advantage of his unique physiology. This is a mix
of Shito-Ryu and other Romanian styles that Vlad has learned in
his home country of Romania, where he studied combat. This style
mixes multiple styles together to create one unique style that
is mainly focused around using momentum, and using it to attack
opponents. Similarly to the Shito-Ryu substyles that do this,
Vlad has learned other styles that do this too, and incorporated
a number of techniques into his style where he is able to use
the momentum of attacks to his advantage, and can use momentum
to either power a defensive movement, or he can use momentum to
attack an opponent. Through things like blocking a certain way,
or tripping opponents in motion, he can set up other motions
such as throwing motions, or motions that could move him close
enough to stab them with his knives, which is typically how he
uses this style in battles. These styles often have him
spinning, using momentum to build up his attacks, as well as
using his fighting style to build momentum from things like
ceilings and walls thanks to his enhancements to stick to
surfaces. Vlad's attacks in this style are usually based around
knife combat and throwing knives at opponents, in which he is a
close combat specialist.
- Romanian Martial Arts Stepping Method: Vizera: This
speed-based movement is part of Vlad's combat style where he is
able to move similar to other high speed step movements, where
he can appear to disappear from view and move closer to
opponents. Despite being human, Vlad's combat style can move
almost as fast as a supernatural's enhanced movement, where Vlad
is able to keep up with many other enhanced stepping method
users. This stepping method is mostly used the same way as other
special stepping methods like Flashstep and Sonido, where Vlad
simply moves using enhanced movement techniques to move at
higher speeds than normal humans are normally able to keep track
of. This normally wouldn't be able to move this fast, but Vlad's
unusual movement ability makes him able to use this much more
effectively than many other users would. This can also be used
to sidestep attacks, usually as a way of stepping around an
opponent when they get close so that Vlad can get into a better
attack position to hit someone from the or usually from behind
while taking advantage of an opponent's momentum.
- Shito-Ryu Styles and Substyles: Shito-Ryu is a combat style, a
style of Karate that is branched off into it's own style. This
style is focused around five Pinan kata, which are empty hand
forms. These forms are all based around their specific stances,
and focused around these five substyles. For the most part, each
substyle has it's own methods of countering and attacking
opponents. This style not only works in one style, but Shito-Ryu
has spawned many other styles over the years, with there being a
lot of spin-off style of this. As such, most of the styles
follow the same basic rules, in that there are 5 main methods
for blocking attacks and attacking opponents. This style is all
based around the same general style as Karate, in which the
style uses fluid movement and agility to create a fighting style
that is very flexible, is great for speed, and has good striking
capabilities. Most users of this style focus it on defense,
though there are plenty of attack options with this, thanks to
it's unique striking combat attacks, and it's methods of many
different types of stances and movement options to allow most
users to use this style in their own ways depending on what
stances and what those stances allow form combat techniques.
This style usually specializes in using opponent's momentum
against them, due to many substyles being about using an
opponent's attack in some way to their advantage. This style was
also taught in Romania, which Vlad learned and has based some of
his other combat skills in.
- Shito-Ryu Kusshin Substyle (Elasticity): This substyle is more
about durability and attack than anything. This style is all
about using the momentum from taking attacks from an opponent
and then redirecting that momentum to attack. This style
requires heavy durability, as it requires getting hit by a
physical attack, and requires solid movement to keep the
momentum they gain after being hit. This style essentially
requires the user to absorb the momentum of being hit, using the
momentum given to them by the opponent's attack, and then using
it to fuel their own momentum and attack, essentially doubling
the user's momentum from normal attacks. This is a very complex
substyle, since it requires taking a hit before it can be used,
but can be a very powerful substyle. Some advanced users can
avoid lessen damage they take by moving with the attack, and not
taking as much of a hit from the attack so that they can still
gain the momentum but not take as much damage. As one might
guess, this style is defensive, but requires being able to take
an attack. But if the user can take the attack, they can almost
always do damage even to stronger opponents since this uses the
same momentum as the opponent's attacks used on the user, but
with the user's added momentum. However, certain stronger
attacks cannot be countered with this style, since certain
powerful attacks might do too much damage. This also requires
reading an opponent, as one has to know not only the direction
of the attack, but know how to use the momentum to hit an
opponent since sometimes this requires split-second movements
and decisions in a fight, especially if this art is used in
response to being hit. The user also has to know the attack is
coming to use this, so this plays back into reading opponents.
- Shito-Ryu Ten'i Substyle (Transposition): This substyle is all
about movement. Rather than blocking an attack, the user uses
the movement of an attack to avoid the attacker and then attack
from other directions. This style is focused around taking
advantage of the opponent's attacking motions, since this uses
dodging attacks rather than blocking in order to make sure the
opponent's momentum isn't interrupted so that the user can move
around the opponent before they can change attacks or stop their
momentum. This style focuses around movement, such as moving
behind an attacker while they're attacking using a sidestep, and
then attacking them from behind while they're trying to change
direction to attack. This style is all about movement, using
movement styles and agility to get around attackers and attack
them from other directions. As such, this style is more about
dodging than blocking, and requires users to be able to take
advantage of attack motions without stopping an opponent's
momentum so they can attack from another angel before the
opponent can pull out of their attack momentum. This style is
defensive, but does require strength training in order to hit
the opponent. Usually this style is focused around speed over
strength, so tactics like attacking vitals with less strength to
hurt opponents is necessary compared to other styles that have
strong attacks. And since this style requires using an
opponent's momentum to keep them in motion, usually opponents
that can change momentum quickly enough can avoid a lot of the
attacks of this substyle. This style also requires the user to
be faster than the opponent in order to be able to use this or
the opponent can easily dodge or counter this substyle since
faster opponents can more easily change attack directions.
- Shito-Ryu Hangeki Substyle (Counterattack): This is another
substyle of the Shito-Ryu style that focuses around using an
opponent's momentum. This style requires a two stage movement,
in which users have to be able to turn defensive movements into
counterattacks in response to enemy attacks. Users that use this
style learn to deflect attacks, but then use the momentum from
the blocking motion that redirects their momentum to then attack
an opponent with the momentum they gain from the deflection of
the attack. This is perhaps the hardest style to master, since
it requires not only blocking an attack by deflecting it, but
also requires turning that deflection into an attack. One such
example of this style is deflecting a punch downward, then using
the movement upward after the deflection to attack the
opponent's chin. This style also requires reading an opponent,
knowing not only how they're going to attack, but how to take
advantage of the momentum of the deflecting block to make an
attack. This combines defense and offense into one swift motion,
where the attack is immediately followed up by the deflection in
a combo-like style and are not two seperate movements. As such,
this style can only be used in response to an opponent's attack,
and requires that the user know how to use the momentum they
will gain to their advantage. Users of this style can be
countered more easily by opponents who change their momentum, in
which some can try to change the momentum and change attacks to
throw this off, or users that can avoid being blocked can
usually avoid the attacks of this style fairly easily especially
if they know the attack is coming.
- Supernatural Hunter Close Combat/Weapon Style Specialist:
Thanks to his training as a supernatural hunting specialist,
Vlad is highly trained in supernatural hunter combat styles and
weapon styles, having combat based on many different sources
based on the combat he's seen. Typically, he is a close combat
opponent, who specializes in knife combat, whether it's cutting
opponents up close, or throwing knives from medium range. In
addition to being a combat style, this is also focused on
attacking different supernaturals, depending on what Vlad is
fighting. This could include things like avoiding a werewolf
claw slash by stopping the werewolves arm before they get into
the attack motion, strike a dragon's neck to avoid them using
their elemental breath or stop certain movements supernaturals
might use to signal certain other abilities, such as physical
movement that can activate certain magic spells. This style is
focused around the strengths and weaknesses of multiple
supernatural races, as well as being able to use certain races
movement and combat styles against them. Vlad is an expert in
many of these styles, having learned them not just from training
and watching supernatural hunters, but his own experience on the
other end of fighting supernatural hunters from the times he was
wrongly hunted as a vampire.
- Supernatural Hunter Expert Specialist: Thanks to the training
and nanocytes that access Ragnorok's main server, Vlad is
programmed and has researched all of the supernatural data and
information Ragnorok has on supernaturals, gods, and human
abilities. For the most part, Vlad has knowledge on just about
every type of supernatural creatures, including other
mythologies, other godly beings, and even supernatural human
abilities and has knowledge on some creatures most Ragnorok
members know nothing about. For the most part, Vlad can identify
not only each supernatural, but can usually analyze their
fighting styles and abilities. Not only does Vlad know how to
analyze them though, but he also knows most supernatural, gods,
and humans' weaknesses and strengths, knowing what to avoid and
what to exploit in many races. For the most part, this is always
being updated as Ragnorok members encounter more unique beings,
and is not always a complete database, since there are plenty of
things that Ragnorok have not seen. However, all of the data
that Ragnorok has been given to Vlad, with him being designed to
kill any creature he might come across that would be a threat to
him or Ragnorok. And since his knowledge comes from Ragnorok
servers, his knowledge increases as Ragnorok finds new data and
information that is stored on their server.
- Tracking and Hunting Expert: This is something that Vlad has
gained through experience, knowing how to track and hunt
supernaturals who are threats, as he has learned the best ways
to track down his opponents as well as how supernatural hunters
may track him in the rare instances where he is at the wrong end
of a supernatural hunter (which happens a lot to him). Vlad has
learned very subtle things through his experiences, like telling
whether a foot print is his target or not by things like the
shape of the boot and how deep the boot-print is, with him being
an advanced tracker that is able to identiy people by boot
prints, as well as also being able to tell where opponents go
thanks to things like walking on plants, and animals that are
unusually silent in a direction. Vlad typically even has a sense
of when opponents are near, and can often gain a sense of where
their opponents are going while tracking them. Of course, with
enhanced senses and his phone's functions, this becomes even
more effective as Vlad can do things like find traces of body
heat, traces of presences, or even just telling what's around
them more easily.
- Supernatural Exorcism, Weakness and Trap Knowledge: During
Vlad's time with Ragnorok, Vlad has learned everything he needed
to know about beating supernaturals, from exorcising demons and
angels, the weaknesses of almost every type of supernatural, and
how to hunt and lure out most supernaturals and dieties as well
as trap them, as well as different mythology godly traps and
items that would work more easily to kill opponents he might
face. Vlad has become an expert in these fields, having learned
almost every way his experience and training knows to kill
supernaturals, even knowing the different breeds of
supernaturals recorded by Ragnorok, which helped Vlad learn even
more about how to fight supernaturals thanks to Ragnorok's
database full of supernatural hunting information. With study
and training, this would further help Vlad to become one of the
better supernatural hunters in Ragnorok, to which he is
constantly updating information and learning new things as he
fights new supernatural types.
- Modified Silent Movement Method Assassin Combat Technique:
This is a special assassin technique that Vlad developed which
is part of his own combat fighting style where he essentially is
able to move without making a single sound. This lets him use a
varied Romanian combat stealth technique to essentially move
without a sound if he moves carefully enough, allowing him to
move without his opponents even being able to hear or sense his
movement. This allows him to often appear to vanish at times,
where he can make someone look away, then leave while they are
looking away. Typically, this is a very good technique for
stealth, and good when working alongside his deceptive nature
when he has to fight dangeorus supernaturals. Since Vlad is good
at deception, this often just becomes another way for him to
decieve his opponents or use this to sneak up on supernaturals
he's supposed to kill. This movement only masks his movement,
and if he moves something like glass on the ground, his movement
doesn't stop the object moved from making noise, though usually
Vlad is good at avoiding this since he rarely gets too close to
an opponent to be heard anyway.
- Stealth and Infiltration Expert: Vlad is one of the highest
trained people in Ragnorok when it comes to stealth and
infiltration due to his job often requiring him to take out
supernaturals in supernatural being hideouts or places with a
lot of people, and sometimes has also spied on groups like
Special Forces. Vlad is a very stealthy person, being very
skilled in avoiding encounters when he wants to, or manipulating
people into doing things for him so he can sneak around a group.
Unlike some members of his unit who kill everyone they
encounter, Vlad is an expert in avoiding encounters, making it
to the center of bases without being discovered by enemies. From
cover and objects to hide himself, and misdirecting opponents,
Vlad is a very skilled infiltrator, and even better when paired
with his Hunter Squad companions. This made him ideal for
stealth missions and taking out groups while hunting
supernaturals (Such as taking out vampire nests where groups of
vampires hang out), since most of the group tends to stay fairly
secretive. This also helps when he is using his ability to stick
to surfaces, in that he can walk on things like ceilings or
walls into places he knows in order to avoid forces he wants to
avoid. He almost always studies a place before he enters it on
missions, usually looking at floor plans and maps of a place so
he can plan the best route once inside. Often times, he also
comes up with backups if he needs them.
- Master Torture and Interrogation Expert: During his time
supernatural hunting, Vlad ended up having to learn how to
interrogate thanks to some of the missions he and his team had
to go on together (usually not a good idea to ask him about
these missions unless one wants to know just how ugly his job
can get). Over time, Vlad became a master interrogator, and has
become great at using words to overcome his opponent's wills. He
has even gotten really good at knowing how to torture some
enemies, and usually knows how to get under their skin through
torture or through words. Vlad tends to use whatever strategy
works best for certain scenarios, such as using force against
tougher supernaturals or opponents, or reasoning with people who
seem scared of him. He is great at playing games of
intimidation, and his training has left him with a knack for
figuring out his opponents. He even knows when it's best to make
deals with certain opponents, depending on the circumstances.
For the most part, Vlad is very skilled at making people fear
him, doing whatever it takes to get his job done, and this is
something he's had to do much more than people think, as his job
has required a lot of torture and interrogation.
Passive Abilities:
- Enhanced Natural Human Combat Potential: Despite being human,
Vlad's combat ability and physical combat ability are far above
most normal people. It isn't known how he was born with a
natural combat ability that rivals some supernatural beings, but
Vlad is a very skilled warrior, and before he became an enhanced
human through Project Dead Cell, he was a skilled fighter who
could fight supernatural opponents and human alike. Through this
combat potential, Vlad has managed to grow as a fighter more
than most other fighters, having a natural talent for combat and
growing through each fight he is in. Through each fight, he
better hones his combat techniques and comes up with new ways to
combat opponents using his fighting styles, since his combat is
mostly close combat or medium range combat if he throws knives
at opponents. This combat potential is very useful to him as a
supernatural hunter, and helps him alongside his natural high IQ
on how to keep himself improving as a hunter and fighter. This
makes Vlad a very dangerous fighter, and perhaps one of the more
dangerous humans in the world. He is dangerous enough that he
has even been known to parry bullets with his knives and avoid
bullets fired at him to a degree.
- Unnatural Appearance/Enhanced Varanium Bite: Vlad was born
with a strange appearance, one that seems more like a vampire in
a lot of ways. Among these strange traits are his pale skin and
overdeveloped canine teeth, making him look like a vampire.
Because of his appearance, he was hunted as a vampire for years,
despite being human, and soon started using this to his
advantage as he started biting the necks of his opponents to
bleed them out by bitting into their carotid artery. After Vlad
joined Ragnorok, he gained an enhancement through Reverse Ciel,
and gained varanium artificial fillings into his canine teeth,
designed so that Vlad could bite out his opponent's neck and
negate regeneration as they bled out, a tactic he uses at times
thanks to the fact his teeth appear almost like vampire fangs.
This unnatural appearance doesn't do much else for him in
fights, as his pale skin is mostly just a genetic defect where
his skin doesn't stay colored despite it having enough skin
pigments to protect it from the sun, but his skin is just paler
than a normal human. Overall, other than his teeth, his physical
appearance alone is not something he uses in battle. If one
wants to avoid his teeth, they just need to avoid getting bit by
Vlad, who sometimes will bite opponents limbs if it means
negating their regeneration, even if it's only temporary.
- Increased Blood Production/Temperature Resistance: For a
human, Vlad has an fairly unnatural blood production, where his
body produces more blood at a faster rate than most humans. This
gives Vlad more blood to work with, thus increasing his stamina
and durability since he can lose more blood than a normal person
would normally be able to before his life is in danger (though
his regenerative nanites can keep his blood supply up by
stimulating his blood production if he runs low on blood). This
blood flow is very useful for him, in that he is not only able
to keep his blood flowing and having it flow more easily, but
his increased blood flow also has another affect on him in that
Vlad is highly resistant to temperature changes, being able to
fight in extreme cold or extreme heat since his blood can more
easily maintain his body temperature thanks to his increased
blood flow acting like insulation in his body to grant him
resistance to temperature change. This also grants him slight
resistance to fire and ice abilities, and lessens burning or
freezing effects considerably on Vlad should he be burned or
partly frozen. On top of that resistance though, his
regenerative nanites typically keep him from taking too much
damage from burning and freezing effects as well. Typically,
this makes Vlad able to adapt more easily to environments thanks
to this unusual trait.
- Unnatural Flexibility: Another of his strange physical traits,
where Vlad has more flexibility than almost any other human.
Unlike most people, Vlad is able to move at almost unnatural
angles, in which he has been able to dodge in somewhat unique
ways when he fights due to this flexibility. Most never truly
figure out how he moves, in which Vlad is able to do things like
moving his joints in ways that seem unnatural, like when his
shoulders seem to move much farther than most people, or his
toes seem to be able to bounce Vlad off the ground with enough
force that he can jump in the air without much movement. Vlad's
strange fighting style and unnatural body makes him very hard to
predict in a fight, in which he has fought a number of groups.
This is a very useful tactic in physical combat, where Vlad is
able to use this to more easily dodge opponents and often attack
opponents from angles they might not expect. This flexibility is
somewhat unique to Vlad, in that the only supernaturals more
flexible than him are human form salamanders, since they have
more lizard-like bodies, or human basilisks and nagas which can
move like snakes in human form. Overall, his movement is
strange, but good enough combatants can still react and study
his movement to figure out how he fights, and how to predict him
if they are smart enough to understand his fighting style.
- Unnatural Human Strength and Speed: Vlad is very strong, and
very fast for a human, yet another trait that he gained from his
somewhat unique body. Vlad has strength and speed that is very
unusual for a human. Vlad is strong enough that he is able to
bend metal with his strength, such as bending metal bars, or
even breaking some swords with his strength. Vlad is strong
enough that he can even use his knives to parry bullets (as
bullets are not easy to deflect with physical force alone, not
considering speed). In terms of speed, Vlad is fast enough to
move at super human levels, and, as mentioned, is fast enough to
parry bullets fired at him, or even dodge the bullets fired.
This puts Vlad on a level with many supernaturals that most
humans don't have, and with his enhancements to his body using
the supersoldier serum and Jenova cells, this made Vlad a very
powerful opponent with unusual speed and strength that rivals
even most supernaturals. When combined with his experience
hunting supernaturals and running from supernatural hunters due
to his appearance, he has become a very fast, and very strong
warrior in order to survive as long as he has.
- High IQ/Tactician: While he might not seem it, Vlad has a very
high IQ, being extremely smart. He is smart enough that he can
do complex calculations and is smart enough to overcome a lot of
different situations through experience and strategy. Vlad is
one of the smarter humans of Ragnorok, his IQ only inferior to
those like Garton himself who make up the highest level of
Ragnorok. Vlad takes advantage of the fact he's not the highest
IQ though, and uses it to his advantage when his enemies don't
expect him to be as great of a tactician as he is. He often
seems like just a brute who doesn't care, but Vlad is actually
much smarter than most people think. He has proved this in
desperate moments where he has killed supernaturals with
hostages, knowing the supernatural would kill the hostage anyway
and manages to kill the supernatural before they get away, often
telling those he saves the truth in that their only hope for
survival was for him to not hit them when he attacked the
supernatural (which has gotten a few people killed, but these
are usually seen as acceptable losses). For the most part, Vlad
is always a few moves ahead, being great at learning and
adapting to his opponents through observation and figuring out
people through their reactions and movements. While Vlad isn't
the smartest person in Ragnorok, he is smart enough that he is
able to keep up with a lot of smarter opponents, and he is far
smarter than most supernaturals due to being human (with
exception of his cybernetics).
- Unnatural Momentum Reaction/Opponent Observation: Vlad is a
very observant person, and also great at reacting to opponent's
movements. Through observation, his mind and body learn how his
opponent's move, and is very good at reacting to momentum and to
opponent's attacks. This skill plays into his counterattack
combat style, where takes advantage of attacks in order to use
the momentum to usually attack back. Vlad has a rather unusual
ability to react to momentum, where he has been able to react
without thinking to momentum of hits without even needing to,
such as one time he was shot in the head and spun around before
catching his phone in his hand when he fell to his knees. His
reaction is great in battle, where he can use this in
conjunction with his fighting style to counter opponents more
easily, and makes him harder to overcome. Vlad is able to learn
how his opponents move through observation, where he is able to
read someone's movements by watching their muscle movements
closely, allowing him to know how opponents will move based on
how their muscles move before they actually start moving, which
allows him to react more easily to his opponent's moves. Thanks
to this reactive movement, and advanced observation of
opponents, Vlad is usually one step ahead of most of his
opponents when they move to attack, though most wouldn't ever
know it from how he is hit by them (since his fighting style
often gets him hit so he can use the momentum to attack).
- Murderous Intent Sense: This lets those with this sense when
an attack is coming. This is a skill experienced fighters got by
fighting constantly for many years, learning how to sense
someone's murderous intent. This technique lets the user read
his environment as well as the spirits of people around them in
order to see what attacks might be coming their way. This gives
them a passive sense of reading people who might try to hurt
them, as they can sense when someone is ready to attack by their
murderous intent. This gives the user time to dodge or avoid an
attack, and to some extent, helps the person predict what
opponents will do in a fight. However, this sense is not
perfect, and some opponents can't be read if they have similar
skills or can disguise their murderous intent or they learn
skills that can deceive this kind of sense. This sense is
usually pretty reliable unless one can suppress their murderous
intent, and can give away when someone who might want to kill
him is following him. For Vlad, he has been a supernatural
hunter, and had sneak attacks done against him for long enough
that he has this unnatural sense, which helps him to not be
surprised by surprise attacks (even though his reactive nerves
would also react more easily to surprise attacks).
- Multi-Lingual and Language Expert: While Vlad doesn't speak a
lot of dead languages other than Latin and Biblical Hebrew, he
does speak a number of languages including English and Romanian
as his first langages, with secondary languages of French,
Spanish, Portugese, Italian, German, Russian, Chinese,
Mongolian, Mandarin, and Japanese. Being a supernatural hunter
worldwide, Vlad has had to learn a lot of different languages to
learn to communicate with people he's had to work with, or help
during his time. As such, he knows many of the languages spoken
in the world currently, and knows a lot of languages most people
wouldn't think would be important. Due to this, he is very good
at learning new languages, and studies any langauge he has to.
Thanks to his higher IQ, he is very good at learning, and can
learn new languages mostly by picking up words spoken rather
than just simply reading words.
- Enhanced Nanomachine Senses: Using his nanomachines to boost
his brain, Vlad's senses are all enhanced beyond that of normal
humans, allowing him to see, hear, smell, and use his senses
much more efficiently than most people would be able to. His
sight is far more enhanced than normal humans, allowing him to
process what he sees faster, and can see even in pure darkness
thanks to his nanomachines being able to process what's around
him even without light, granting him a special dark vision he
can use. His smell is strong enough that he can identify people
solely by their smell, and often tends to have a sense of smell
almost as strong as a werewolf in it's ability to smell what's
around him. His sense of hearing is also enhanced, where he can
hear subtle things that most wouldn't be able to, like hearing
hearts beat around him and hearing the body's muscles move, or
hearing things from farther away than most people. Theses senses
are enhanced more than most people, though this is something
that can also be used against him, such as using his sense of
smell and overwhelming it with a strong gas that might overwhelm
his senses, or using high pitched sounds to hurt his enhanced
hearing, or a flashbang to hurt his enhanced sight.
- Nanomachine Soul/Body Change Protection: Vlad's nanomachines
protect his body and soul, designed to allow Vlad to not be
changed by other supernaturals. This protects him from things
like most corruption powers, or powers like vampire/werewolf
changes if an opponent tried to infect him. The nanomachines are
equipped with a special gene cleansor which can protect him and
expel gene cleansor as needed to keep Vlad's body from turning
into a supernatural forcefully. Typically, this works against
many kinds of corruption and certain other abilities like
hollowficiation and other soul corruption, which uses the gene
cleansor in a way to keep the soul pure of corruption by outside
sources. Thanks to the nanomachines gene cleansor, the soul is
kept purified of corruption by the nanomachines with the gene
cleansors, which releases purifying energy into the body and
soul as well. This helps him avoid things that most human
supernatural hunters can't avoid. However, there are certain
things that this can't protect him from, such as Zeus's blood
stones which infuse Zeus's power into someone, and only work a
limited amount before the nanomachines run out of gene cleansor,
requiring a does of nanomachines regularly to keep this
protection active.
- Nanomachine Mind Protection: Thanks to the nanomachines in the
body, a cybernetics upgraded person's nanomachines keep a
constant status maintaince on the mind, thanks to the
nanomachines being designed to suppress certain functions of the
body. This allows the user to protect their mind from psychic
beings that try to influence their mind with things like mind
alterations, and helps prevent special psychic powers from
influencing the body or mind by keeping the body in what it
refers to as a "normal" state. This state usually does things
like suppress fear, suppress pain but register injuries, and
even being able to keep certain emotions suppressed that might
interfere with their battles or daily life. This mind protection
can also be altered to suppress certain other emotions,
depending on what it's user wants. This protection is a result
of the nanomachines maintaining the mind, and can be used to
suppress emotions someone deems a hinderance, such as some
people who focus out battle rage, or certain adrenaline rushes
that might hinder them in battle. For Vlad, he rarely uses this,
mostly just to keep his mind protected from supernatural
abilities that might try to take over his mind, since he
actually enjoys the pain he feels in battle, and seeks to
overcome his emotions rather than suppress them.
- Enhancement Physical and Combat Enhanced Physical Stats:
Thanks to Vlad's unusual physiology, and his super soldier
enhancements, Vlad has rightly earned his title as a
"specialist" supernatural hunter. Vlad is strong enough that he
can stab people through most armors, usually stabbing people
with his knives and being able to cut through metal, to which he
can cut through many opponent's defenses. Vlad is also fast
enough that he can parry bullets with his knives, and can even
move fast enough to dodge bullets, and to disappear from view
using higher speed movement that usually is similar to faster
supernaturals. However, Vlad's most dangerous stats are his
durability, defense, and stamina, in which his regenerative
nanites make him very difficult to put down, often requiring a
lot of damage to knock him out until he can regenerate. His
durability is his biggest strength, in which he can take most
hits that would take out most supernaturals, to which he fools
many into thinking that he is immortal due to the fact that no
one has been able to kill him yet. Between his combat
experience, unusual physiology, and his super soldier
enhancements, Vlad is a very dangerous opponent for anyone to
face, and is one of the toughest, and typically one of the most
unusual human opponents one could ever face.
The Hunter Squad Robots (All designed by Reverse Ciel):
- Robot Panther: Pradicata: Pradicata is designed to be a
stealth fighter, using it's claws to stick to surfaces and climb
walls and ceilings. This robot panther comes equipped with a
stealth camouflage generator, which makes it completely
invisible as it moves around. This robot is designed for stealth
attacks, and designed to catch opponents by surprise. It comes
equipped with claws and stilled silver teeth, which are used to
bit down on an opponent and negate their supernatural abilities.
The claws are also made of stilled silver, making the panther's
claws just as dangerous. Not only can Pradicata move extremely
quickly, but Pradicata can move completely silently, without
making a sound, and even stops moving to avoid detection. When
Pradicata is in stealth mode, Pradicata cannot be sensed by
other beings, and cannot be sensed by things like cybernetic
senses (most of the time), or through radar technology. This
particular robot relies on sneak attacks, and can jump up to 15
feet when it goes for an attack.
- Robot Coyote: Sabie: Sabie is another dog/wolf type robot
which is designed to attack opponents. In addition to it's
normal coyote type combat using claws and teeth, Sabie comes
equipped with a jet booster on his back which can fire and boost
him in battle, granting him a speed boost. This booster can also
be used to fire blasts of pure heat at opponents, allowing Sabie
to fire the blasts of heat from the front if he wants to hit an
opponent, but can also be used to push him backward if he needs
to avoid an attack. The blades on his back can also be used to
attack opponents, usually when Sabie jumps in a spinning motion,
or can move the blades around to the front of his body so that
when he runs at someone, he can try and spear them with the
blades. The blades are made of an adamantium and stilled silver
combination, making them very strong and designed to pierce most
defenses when combined with Sabie's charge and jet booster.
Sabie is designed to spear opponents with his blades, and
designed to use the jets to grant him extra speed and power when
a normal attack isn't enough. He can also use his claws and
teeth in battle, but his primary weapon are the blades on his
back which are designed to be his main mode of attack.
- Robot Tiger: Tigrule: The robot tiger, Tigrule, is designed to
attack it's opponents with power and agility, where Tigrule can
use it's powerful body to overpower most supernatural beings.
The body's armor is made of adamantium, making it very hard to
destroy at anywhere other than it's joints. Tigrule is designed
to use it's claws and teeth, which are also made of stilled
silver to damage opponents. Tigrule also comes equipped with
powerful machine gun turrets that fire energy pulse shots that
are made of simple energy by using energy reactors in the guns.
The guns are designed to shoot at opponents, with the shots
being able to move faster than normal bullets to try and give
Tigrule an advantage on fast opponents. Tigrule can jump around
30 feet in battle, and can use it's claws to claw it's way into
walls and ceilings, though this doesn't last long due to
Tigrule's weight, which does slow him down in battle, but he is
designed for power over speed, making him a powerful opponent.
Tigrule is designed to fight larger and tougher supernaturals,
and his energy turrets are able to burn through most beings with
it's shots, with the shots being designed to kill beings with
concentrated mass like Leviathan and Grave.
- Robot Lion: Putere: Putere is a large lion robot designed to
chase down opponents and kill them with both speed and power. In
short bursts Putere can run 50 miles per hour, making him a very
fast opponent. Putere can also use his claws and teeth to attack
opponents, which are made of stilled silver like those like
Tigrule. Putere can also shift his "mane" to point at enemies,
where each part of his mane can fire a blast of elemental energy
depending on what Putere wants to do. Currently, Putere has a
fire beam, ice beam, lightning beam, light beam, and darkness
beam that he can fire from his mane. This beam weapon that is
fired from his main is designed to be fired at opponents like a
concentrated beam, enough that the beams can pierce many types
of powerful opponents. The main use though, is it's elemental
nature, where Putere is designed to counter powerful elemental
users with it's elemental beams, such as firing an ice beam to
freeze a fire opponent, or using a lightning beam on a robot to
short-circuit it. This is a very useful weapon, and Putere is a
very dangerous being, being modeled after a powerful lion.
- Robot Wolf: Lupula: Lupula is a robot wolf, designed for
attacking opponents in a classic wolf-like manner. When Lupula
attacks, it is able to create realistic holograms which look
solid in nature, in order to grant the appearance that it is
hunting as a group, making it able to confuse people, and make
people think Lupula is attacking them as a pack of robot wolves.
Lupula also has a special move where he is able to spin during a
jump and fire a slicing energy projectile from its tail,
allowing it to fire these slicing energy projectiles designed to
pierce opponents more easily. Similar to Tigrule's guns, this
energy slash projectile is designed to cut through objects with
it's pure concentrated energy, which makes it better for slicing
through opponents with concentrated mass or heavy armors, which
makes Lupula a great ally for fighting tougher supernaturals.
Lupula's claws and teeth are made of varanium, designed to cut
opponents and negate opponent's regeneration. Lupula's tail also
uses varanium magnetic fields to generate it's energy for it's
concentrated energy wolf tail slash, which can also negate
regenerative abilities as it is used to attack opponents. Lupula
is designed for agility and speed, along with the power of it's
wolf tail slashes.
- Robot Jaguar: Viteza: Viteza is a powerful robot jaguar
designed for speed over power, allowing Viteza to be a dangerous
weapon against faster supernaturals who focus more on speed than
strength. Viteza is equipped with varanium claws and teeth, and
designed to use these to battle opponents, as well as having a
chain that comes out of its tail that can be fired at opponents
to spear them with the chain or try to trap opponents using the
chain. When the chain is in contact with an opponent, Viteza can
send an electrical shock to try and knock out the person, though
the electrical energy is designed not to taser them, but to
interrupt their nerve communication, slowing them down immensely
in a battle as the nerve communication cannot move the body as
easily. While most supernaturals can restart their nervous
system with powers like lightning, this is a good way to slow
down faster supernaturals, to which Viteza is designed to catch
faster supernaturals and slow them down so that its robot
companions can finish off the supernatural. Viteza's varanium
claws and teeth can negate regeneration thanks to the varanium
used to make them.
- Robot Rhino: Corului: Corului is perhaps the only non-predator
creature robot in Vlad's group, but is still extremely strong
and designed to fight supernaturals. Corului is able to use it's
dense and hard body to protect itself from stronger
supernaturals, also being made of adamantium. Corului's horn is
made partly of varanium, and partly of stilled silver, so that
his horn can be used to interrupt both regeneration and powers
if he is able to stab someone with his horn. Corului is also the
only animal robot designed with a human like form, where it is
able to shift into a human-like form in order to be able to
fight opponents with it's extremely powerful body. Corului is a
powerful robot, and can keep up with highly enhanced
supernaturals, and can even counter the strength of concentrated
mass creatures like Grave thanks to how dense it's body is,
making it hard to destroy (though it's joints can still be
destroyed more easily similarly to Tigrule. Corului is one of
the more powerful robots of the squad, and can stand at up to 9
feet tall when it's in it's humanoid form. When in it's normal
rhino form, it is much larger than a typical rhino, showing how
large and dense this robot is, in which his size could be
compared to that of black rhino, which are typically between 9
and 12 feet long. For Corului, he is a dangerous opponent,
though not as fast as some of the other robots.
- Robot Raptor: Sareitora: The final member of Vlad's squad is
the robot rapter, Sareitora, who was designed with a slender but
strong body. Using a powerful lightweight metal, Sareitora is
perhaps one of the more dangerous members of the hunter squad,
as well as being the only one based on a dinosaur rather than a
normal animal. Similar to a raptor, Sareitora is strong enough
that it will often try to force it's prey to the ground, and
then use either it's claws to slice the opponent, or use it's
teeth to bite down and snap the opponent's neck. Sareitora is
also the smartest of all of the robots, where it is designed so
that it will wait for it's chance to attack while an opponent is
occupied with another of it's companions before it will jump in
and attack. Sareitora's claws and teeth are made of varanium,
designed for regeneration negation, and quickly killing an
opponent. Sareitora is designed to be fast and strong, where it
is able to run up to 40 miles an hour, and can exert enough
force to crush a metal rod with it's powerful body, despite how
slender it might appear. Should an opponent get behind it, it
can also use it's tail like a spear to spear an opponent thanks
to it's design. Sareitora is about speed, strength and agility,
however, Sareitora is more easily able to be destroyed than the
others, due to it's body being made of a material that can be
more easily pierced than some metals, and is not made of overly
powerful metals to keep the body fast and still strong.
Transformations:
- None
Weaknesses:
- Even though Vlad may sound unkillable, cutting off his head is
the best way to kill him. Cutting off his head, or cutting off
parts of his body can render him unable to move, and cutting off
his head will make it where he cannot interact with his body at
all. While Vlad can be hurt like a normal human, things like
bullets and swords aren't enough to kill him, nor are physical
attacks (typically). However, with the right strategies, one can
defeat Vlad, and if they defeat him, they could essentially
disable him so he can not move anymore. Removing his head will
result in him not being able to move his body, where he will
often retreat into Ragnorok's network to get a new body if he
cannot use that body. However, if an opponent were to prevent
him from connecting to Ragnorok's network, and then they manage
to cut off his head and completely destroy him, Vlad would then
be killable. The last good way to kill him is to use a
nanomachine suppressant on him, which can be injected to disable
his nanomachines, and make him able to die like a normal human
since his nanomachines are designed so that they can be
suppressed and expelled from the body the day Vlad doesn't want
to use these. However, it's not necessary if one just cuts him
into enough pieces.
- Usually, close combat is difficult against Vlad, since he
moves very differently compared to most people, so most
opponents typically try to rely on long range combat since Vlad
cannot really hit opponents long range without the help of his
hunter squad. While close combat is Vlad's specialty, long range
combat is a bit harder, since he only has knives he can throw at
opponents, and doesn't usually have guns on him unless he
specifically needs them for a job. Usually, guns aren't too
useful against Vlad, since he can usually parry bullets, but
long range attack skills, such as magic, might be a bit more
useful. If one does want to use close combat, one needs to be
aware of his ability to read opponents by watching their muscles
and how they move, which some opponents have been able to move
irregularly if they have certain skills and unpredictable
tactics, though this usually requires special skills or training
to mislead Vlad's normal combat senses which have been heavily
tuned through experience. However, those that can disguise their
movements and make their movements unpredictable can get around
a lot of his combat abilities, and often can get close enough to
actually hurt Vlad. The biggest thing about fighting Vlad is
being aware of his experience and his unusual combat abilities.
If one can account for that, they can usually beat him since
those are his two main abilities he relies on in battle, and all
of his combat is based around those two things. Opponents who
are more experienced can usually defeat him more easily.
- The Hunter Squad is a powerful group, but each robot is still
as vulnerable as any other robot is. The robots can be destroyed
should an opponent hit them with enough force, with the two
hardest ones to destroy being Tigrule and Corului since they are
made of adamantium. Usually, if an opponent knows what each one
does, it's just a matter of avoiding their attacks and hitting
them at the right moment. Usually, it's very hard to fight them
as a group, and most opponents usually have to separate them in
order to destroy them, since they work pretty well as a group,
since they are all connected to Vlad, and Vlad coordinates all
their combat strategies through their connections. They can all
be destroyed, and even Tigrule and Corului can be destroyed if
one goes for the joints rather than the adamantium body armor
that protects them. Since their joints need to be able to move,
their joints are weaker to attack, and each of the Hunter Squad
members have one physical stat that they typically lack, such as
Corului being very strong and durable, but not very fast, or
Sareitora being fast and strong, but not as durable. Each has
it's own weakness, though as a group, they tend to cover each
other's weaknesses, which is why separating them is the best way
to destroy them. Usually, the Hunter Squad is not too far from
Vlad, so it's difficult to get them alone, but doable if someone
is working in a group and can lure the individual robots away.
Personality: Vlad is very business-like in how he interacts with
others, and very professional. Typically, he is a pretty
respectable person, and is pretty polite to everyone around him.
Many are never meant to know he's with Ragnorok, and usually
just comes across as a polite bounty hunter. He does his job as
a supernatural hunter with pride, and takes pride in the fact
that he is human, despite his vampire-like appearance. Even when
called a freak, he rarely ever gets angry and will usually pity
people who don't understand why people fear others different. He
often considers himself a hunter similar to hunters that hunt
animals, and he hunts down supernaturals like he would animals,
but keeps in mind supernatural's enhanced intelligence and
abilities. He often compares supernaturals to animals, like
comparing werewolves to basically being wolves with human
intelligence, enhanced physical abilities, and sometimes even
abilities like magic. In battle, he is a very smart person, and
knows how to play his opponents into doing what he wants,
usually tricking them into revealing their weakness, or even
sometimes manipulating them into letting down their guard
against him. He shows his supernatural hunting experience, and
why he considers himself a specialist in fights, and even among
supernaturals, most question his fighting style and how he
fights the way he does, since he is human. He is also someone
who isn't afraid to do what it takes to win, even if it
sometimes means sacrificing someone. Though when he's with
Special Forces, he acts under their rules, though working with
Ragnorok, he works by Ragnorok's rules.
Bio: As mentioned already, Vlad was born a very unusual human.
He had a strange genetic defect, where he had the appearance of
a vampire, with pale skin and overdeveloped canine teeth that
looked like fangs. At one point, he was even crucified in his
home country, and had to survive by drinking dead family's blood
in order to survive after his mother and father died of their
injuries. Because of this, Vlad was often hunted down by
supernatural hunters for most of his life. Vlad learned from a
young age that his body seemed to have a natural combat talent,
where he excelled at predicting opponents and learning how to
adapt his movements to his opponents to use their momentum to
counter-attack opponents. After training in combat and learning
to utilize this with Romanian martial arts, he became an even
more dangerous fighter as he got older. Vlad soon turned his
attention to supernatural hunting, and started fighting both
supernaturals and supernatural hunters. Despite what he'd gone
through, Vlad never held any grudges against humanity or
supernaturals, but pitied that humans ruled themselves through
fear and supernaturals through anger, seeing both races as weak
because neither would acknowledge their faults.
Vlad tried to be a voice among humans and supernaturals alike,
trying to convince humans and supernaturals that fear and anger
was only going to destroy them. However, he was hunted down and
nearly killed by humans when he came to America, once again
being mistaken for a vampire due to his unusual appearance.
After nearly being killed by a group of supernatural hunters, he
was found by the US government, and made a part of Project Dead
Cell, a group designed to train supernatural hunters on how to
deal with fighting supernaturals, with all the members being
humans modified with special nanomachines in different ways to
make them similar to supernaturals. Vlad was enhanced with
regenerative nanomachines, which seemed to make him almost
unkillable. During his time with Dead Cell, he became a powerful
person who trained supernatural hunters, until the president of
the time, George Sears, was forced to retire after revelation of
the Metal Gear project was made public. Afterward, Dead Cell was
let go from their jobs in the government, and didn't know what
to do.
However, Garton Xeno, who was also let go from the government,
offered them a place in the nation he was planning to start, in
which the Dead Cell members became among the first members of
Ragnorok, though this was kept one of Ragnorok's most closely
guarded secrets after the Dead Cell members were enhanced with
Reverse Ciel's cybernetics to make them the most powerful
supernatural hunters Ragnorok had. The members of the Dead Cell
group became specialist supernatural hunters, and are among
Ragnorok's best kept secrets for times when they need someone
tougher than a normal Ragnorok member to handle a situation.
After Pavlovich seeked out Ragnorok for a counter to V, Vlad was
suggested as someone to get close to V, in which Vlad would act
as a spy to Ragnorok and Special Forces, relaying information
back and forth between the two as Pavlovich's "personal" spy.
Vlad now works as someone to keep an eye on V, and to monitor
Vin and Rei to watch how they develop, something Garton had
wanted to do so that he could find new ways Ragnorok could
upgrade the clones of Maya and Jack in case the day came when V
or Death (the younger one) ever became a threat to the world.
Theme: One More Reboot (
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Battle Theme: Sin (
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The Hunter Squad Theme: Unmanned Army (
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Images:
Vlad:
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HTML https://i.imgur.com/UgUrHZJ.mp4
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Hunter Squad:
- Robot Panther Pradicata:
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- Robot Coyote Sabie:
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- Robot Tiger Tigrule:
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- Robot Lion Putere:
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- Robot Wolf Lupula:
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- Robot Jaguar Viteza:
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- Robot Rhino Corului:
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- Robot Rhino Corului Human-like Form:
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- Robot Raptor Sareitora:
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Re: RP Profile: Vlad Argus-Cardei
By: Coolcat207 Date: August 7, 2019, 11:03 pm
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