Marco Verratti

The Hangman, Marco Verratti is a Junior Legionnaire with the rank of Brigadier General, currently serving within S-One as a part of Oculus. Not much is known about his history or goals but he's noted as being reliable but his colleagues and superiors. According to Matthew Constantine, Marco is a former Master Sergeant of Sentry. 
==History and Backstory==
===Early Life & Familial History===
Marco Verratti was a man born with no name, no family and seemingly no future. He was born in a turbulent time for the Kingdom of Valour. Before he was born, Marco's family resided in the Valorian City of Oriscay, a densely populated area in the southern region of Valour that was troubled by it's enormous class divide. The southern region of Valour in particular was seen as a sanctuary for those across the world who sought to escape their lives elsewhere seeking better opportunity. Being the largest city in the entire region Oriscay became home for a lot of these so called "peace seekers". 
As a result of the class divide and perpetual influx of people, jobs became scarce and criminal deviance picked up in the area. Certain individuals received the backing of the former King of Yan in the summer isle, and organized crime began to form. Dominance in Oriscay was fought over by the ruling Valorian Class and the Mafia backed by the Yan King. The city became chaos for many years and the Military Police engaged in a totalitarian almost, martial law war on organized crime. Eventually the MPs made a proposition for the southern Lord of Valour to create "hot-spots" in the form of underground cities where lower class people experiencing anomie were pushed out of Oriscay.
The growing crime organization was forced to split up as a result and sub-sets quickly formed, taking the cities as their main territory. All according the the Military Policy's plan, what was once a large dangerous organization unified against the ruling class quickly became several smaller groups fighting among each other for scraps of territory that the ruling class had no interest in, it became gang warfare among the underground cities. 
Marco's family ended up in a city which would eventually become known as Mazarano, unfortunately for them it was one that the one of the main crime families the Di Pietro's controlled. The Di Pietro's were the sole faction that continued to receive support from the Yan King following the Mafia's initial split. They waged ruthless war on the other underground cities which made life in the Valorian underground a living hell. Marco lost both his parents early on in his life, and starved as a child on the bloody streets of Mazarano. For him, life became kill or be killed. 
When he was 14, Sentry enacted an operation within Mazarano that saw several members of the population killed, many were spared and placed into custody of the Hounds of Dark Justice, Marco among them. 
===Ministry of Darkness===
Several awakened kids from Mazarano were sent on ships to the Maluhia where they were made to join the Ministry of Darkness in order for them to eventually become ranks in the wider S-Zero section of the Legion. The idea was that the MOD would cleanse them and force them to become the ultimate killing machines that would obey orders regardless of morality. It was essentially a mystical indoctrination Church of malice that S-Zero had been using to raise soldiers outside of traditional scouting means. 
Marco was trained viciously and succeeded in every aspect of his training, he abandoned all that he was and rose through S-Zero eventually joining Sentry proper as a Master Sergeant. Eventually Marco would eventually abandon his position in Sentry after being recruited by Jorah Dustan. He joined the Legion proper starting in S-Two before eventually becoming an S-One Legionnaire and member of Desperado Hunter's Oculus.
==Powers & Abilities==
===Physical Prowess===
*Monster Level
*Psionic Energy Manipulation
**Telekinesis
===Psychosis===
Marco is an incredibly skilled Psychic, and one extremely powerful in all facets of the awakening. One facet he has displayed tremendous ability in his his Telepathy, the ability to manipulate minds. He has an acute ability to materialize physical sensations within others, with waves of psionic energy Marco can make someone experience things that have never happened. The cue for this is usually a visual cue Marco makes with his hand like a finger gun to make someone feel like they've been shot, a cutting motion to make them feel as if they've been shot or his infamous choking motion which leaves his enemies gasping for air. These traumas he puts on people can cause them a mental breakdown so overwhelming that it can result in death. A battle with Marco is psychological warfare put to the extreme, the longer the battle draws on the more his Psychosis will take effect. 
===Frankenstein===
Frankenstein is Marco's ability to break down and isolate the stages of healing granted to him by his psionic ability in order to inflict them on others and create adverse effects. He can break down the biology of living things be they monsters, wildlife or human and then "heal" them in grotesque ways in order to create biological monstrosities that barely resemble the original. Using Frakenstein allows Marco to do things such as hinder mobility, disable body vital organs and even mutate Beast Cores among many other things. He's also demonstrated the ability to use Frakenstein in a way that benefits the recipient, having used it to grant physical buffs to animals.
Category:Male
Category:Characters
Category:Oculus
Category:S-One
Category:Brigadier General
Category:Awakened
Category:Valour
Category:Junior Legionnaire