Matthew Hines

Heyday, real name Matthew Hines, is a violent and ruthless vigilante who is driven by his anti-government political views. He famously murders rapists brutally by neutering them. 
Heyday wears a blank cloth mask with an inkblot painting on it that resemble a Rorschach test as a mask. He considers the mask to be his "face." He had a brief team-up with Warden while searching for Giovanni, but for the most part, he wasn't in any superhero teams. 
== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
==== Abused as a child ====
Heyday's real name is Matthew Phineas Hines and he was born on the 5th of February, 1983 to Amanda Hines and an unknown father, who was most likely a client of Amanda. While Amanda was pregnant she attempted to have an abortion, but it failed and Amanda was convinced Matthew was born ugly because of this. Amanda considered Matthew a "mistake," and lied to him about his father, saying he left because he didn't want to have an ugly son.
Matthew grew up believing he was a person that God chose to humiliate. But he stopped believing that after realizing he had been gifted the gift of hyper-intelligence, having scored 100% on every test he was ever handed, whether it be A.P. Calculus or an explanation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. But Amanda never realized Matthew's giftedness, thinking he was "just another ." Matthew would give off multiple symptoms of Asperger's syndrome, as he didn't speak much and didn't have many social connections.
Amongst name-calling him, Amanda would hit and punch Matthew whenever she felt like it, also using him as an ashtray. He hadn't a comfortable life, sleeping on a mattress in the living room of his mother's apartment. His bedroom was mainly used as a place for Amanda to store drugs. Matthew heard Amanda having sex while asleep, thinking she was being attacked. One incident, where Matthew was around ten, he manned up and stood up to the men "attacking" his mother. He would use a crowbar on the man, having the man be sent to the hospital and cause him to go braindead.
==== Middle school and High school ====
Amanda's abuse calmed down, but it didn't stop. Matthew continued to prove his brilliance in school, getting all 100% on tests. The school district would test Matthew's IQ and find out he had an IQ of 185-205, the highest ever recorded. Despite this, Matthew would get in trouble a lot, fighting kids on the street that disrespected his family.
At 16-years old, Amanda got tired of Matthew and decided to kick him out and stop paying for his school, leaving him to live on the streets. Matthew would do odd-jobs, drive people around the city, etc. He was enraged, wanting to take his anger out, but he couldn't, he had to commit to his part in society, and that part was to be a bum working odd-jobs. 
=== Becoming Heyday ===
==== The disappearance of Joan Hanne ====
When a seven-year old girl named Joan Hanne was abducted, Matthew felt it was his responsibility, his part in society, was to rescue her. Matthew crafted a mask from white cloth and painted an inkblot on it. He wore a trench coat and fedora alongside the mask. He called himself Heyday. Heyday would stalk suspects and put his finger on Johnny Genovese, a man who had committed multiple sex crimes. He tortured Johnny for 6 months after finding Joan's naked remains in his cabin. What was funny to Heyday is that Joan's neighbours watched the abduction happen, and didn't do anything. From that day on he realized humanity was rotten.
==== Rise to infamy and struggles ====
After murdering Johnny Genovese, Heyday quickly became a feared figure in the New York City underground, killing criminals because he believed sending them to prisons that don't rehabilitate them would be pointless, given after they leave they will continue to commit crimes. Though, Hines still didn't have a home. He usually crashed at apartments that criminals he killed lived in when he didn't have enough money for a motel. Hines would also fight in underground boxing, his peak human abilities helped him win every single round, every single match. For each match he was paid $500, this helped him survive on the streets. 
Around 2014 was when he decided to throw away Matthew Hines, which he had already partly done. He felt Matthew Hines was a weakness and he wasn't going to accept weakness. He started wearing his "face", iconic trench coat and fedora everywhere he went, stopping criminals and killing other criminals. This was also the time he began to realize he was the only vigilante to do anything about crime. Over ten years crime rates in New York City dropped because of Heyday, not because of Liberty Prime, The Breeze or Donald Long, but because of him. In 2016 he started living in an apartment, which he bought it with his boxing money. This helped him be cleaner and generally safer. His landlady was fond of him, calling him a "respectful man that always cleans up after himself." He was also fond of his landlady, but he wasn't fond of her husband, who was a racist and far-right winger. Once, her husband went on a walk with Hines, who originally didn't want to but decided to go anyway. Her husband began to talk about the "hardships" of being a white male in the United States of America. Hines then killed him by bashing his head in a trash can. Heyday continued to do his duties, until one thing caught his attention.
=== Events of Phase 1 ===
==== Team-up with Warden ====
On January 11th, 2024, a member of the Giovanni Crime Family would be dealing drugs in an alleyway in Brooklyn, this would be a mistake as Heyday would attack him. Heyday broke his nose and his fingers. He took his M1911 out of his pocket and aimed it at the member of the crime family. But as he was about to pull the trigger, a vigilante known as Warden would stop Heyday. Heyday, feeling indifferent to heroes, would put on a standoffish demeanor. Despite having processed Warden's "wise" words, which sounded like bullshit to Heyday, he would shoot the man and the two vigilantes would part ways. 
When he was questioning the crime family member, a name had come up, a name of interest. "Don Giovanni." He identified the man to be Kenneth T. Giovanni, businessman and boss of the Giovanni Crime Family. Extremely feared. Heyday, in his apartment would investigate further, having tracked a phone to a location of Giovanni's, which would be a strip-club. Heyday wasn't fond of sexuality, but he still went, he couldn't drop the case. The strip-club would be crowded at his time of arrival, but he would spot a few mafia members talking to each other. He would make out their words through lip reading. They would be panicked, he guessed they heard of the death of their fellow family member. Sirens were alarmed as people stormed out. Heyday would move upstairs with a grenade in his hand to the manager's room. He wanted information desperately, and he wasn't going to beg for it. The manager would surprisingly give in and give enough info. He was useless to Heyday now and Heyday pulled the pin anyway. 
Heyday would spot three members of the crime family escaping in a car, he wasn't going to take that. He chased after them, he would shoot at them to try and immobilize them. But fortunately for them, Warden would show up and save the day again. The two would, to the displease of Heyday, interrogate the three without harming them. They gave good information, about a sex trafficking ring in California and much more. The two would then kick the three mafia members out of the car and drive to the abandoned house Giovanni did his dirty work at. Consider this the beginning of their partnership. 
On arrival at the abandoned house, the two would make a plan. Heyday would come to like Warden's way of thinking, calling it the thinking of a "true and genuine detective." But despite this he still wasn't fond of Warden's ways, not understanding why violence and ruthlessness aren't the answer to solving crime. It seemed to work for Heyday, since crime went down by 67% in New York City and the New York City underground was in fear of being caught by Heyday every day, every afternoon, every evening and every night. Heyday would jam the cameras and the two vigilantes would move inside of the abandoned house. Before this, though, Warden would ask for his name, he responded "Heyday." During the attack on the house, a member of the mafia would surrender, being killed by one of his brethren in response. Heyday couldn't fathom this, betrayal. The two fought 'til the last member was left standing. The last member would be killed by a mysterious woman. She would join in on the posse. At that moment, Giovanni would make a call to the house, requesting to speak with Heyday. Heyday would be invited to a meeting in a warehouse in Queens. He wanted to do it, he wanted to kill Giovanni. 
==== Hines's arrest ====
Upon arriving to the warehouse, Heyday would feel uneasy about it, something strange was pulling the strings on this one. He wasn't sure if Warden or the strange girl, identified as Mare, had followed him, but he didn't care much. He didn't need help while fighting crime, which is why he will never have a side-kick. Upon wandering more in the warehouse, he would realize it was empty and that he was most likely going to be framed for something he didn't do. At that moment, he saw on the ground a dead man. This would be 80s television host Michael John Querasy. He recognized him because his mother used to watch his show all the time. 
He would hear sirens outside of the warehouse, a man on the loudspeaker spoke, calling for Heyday to leave the warehouse with his hands up. He had realized that that coward Giovanni set him up. He wasn't going to take this. He would begin pouring gasoline everywhere. He planned to light the fire with matches when cops came marching in. Hell let loose when the cops entered, the ground was burned. Heyday would be safe given he was on a platform. Cops that clumb up to the platform would meet bullets to their heads. He would break a glass window in the warehouse, jumping out of it. Upon landing, he would be pinned down by Officer Arnold Zielinski. Before he would be arrested, though, they would take off his mask. Heyday would rip out Zielinski's eyes after that. He was enraged, but he couldn't do anything about it. He would be in hand cuffs. 
==== Prison ====
Hines would be admitted to the Metropolitan Correctional Center. There, he would only speak in vague sentences. During his interrogation he would make it clear that he "lost track of his kill-count." The cops round it up to 1895 murders. Hines knows it's most likely more.
In prison, Hines would be assigned to treatment from Hewey Little, who wanted to help cure him and help him find peace of mind. In their first meetings Little would examine Hines through ink blot tests. Throughout all of these tests, he would lie to Little and tell him he saw wholesome things, while he saw the opposite. 
In prison he was a feared figure, but that didn't mean people didn't try to mess with him. He would be taunted and attacked by prisoners, but these prisoners would meet quick punishments from Hines. One day, when being examined by Little, Hines would tell him the disturbing story of Joan Hanne, and the beginning of Heyday. Little would kill himself six sessions after that. 
==== Riot at the Metropolitan Correctional Center ====
With people that considered themselves to be in his "gang", he would start a riot in the Metropolitan Correctional Center, he couldn't stand being there. It stunk, the prisoners stunk. He was surrounded by far-right wingers that showed off their swastika tattoos and attacked Afro-American and Hispanic prisoners. He couldn't stand it. The posse devised the plan the night before.
During lunchtime, Hines would start attacking prisoners, and all his members would do as he does, attack and run. To become truly lethal, they would stab guards and steal their guns, shooting at prisoners. But it all got out of hand as cops started shooting at any prisoner they saw, and the rioters would shoot at any guards they saw. Hines, after the shootout in the halls, would be the last one standing. 
He heard cop cars and SWAT teams arrive outside of the prison. He would act quick, putting on armour from one of the more heavily-armed and protected guards. He would then start shooting at more prisoners and even cops that stood outside. Eventually, he decided to make a makeshift bomb. He put lit firecrackers and gas into a bag, which he would light, too. He lit it quickly and threw it at the legions outside. Many people on the outside died, and even Heyday would be hit, as well, but it wasn't as major. 
Eventually, he would decide to run out and make a last stand with the cops, deciding that he would rather die at their hands then be under siege in a prison, before this he would pick up his mask and trench coat. It was here that he saw Warden. He thought he was betrayed, and he began firing at everyone, shooting Warden in the arm. But he would be knocked out and abducted by an infamous Italian mercenary, Alfredo Chiesa.
==== Complete radicalization ====
He would wake up in an apartment in Brooklyn. He was met by a man that introduced himself as Alfredo Chiesa. Behind Chiesa was a trench coat and an ink blot mask, like Heyday's own. He guessed Chiesa stole the mask off from Hines's pocket, as the trench coat was already being worn by Hines at the standoff with the police. Chiesa said that he wanted Heyday's help in killing Giovanni. Heyday would make him think he agreed. After putting on his apparel, Heyday would shoot Chiesa. He then made use of his assistant, Dawson Garrisson, a smart man. 
With the help of Garrisson, Heyday would find out the identities of multiple vigilantes, but also dirty work in the system. He printed out multiple cheques made by Giovanni to judges. He had proof of bribery, murder, and paedophilia in the system and he wanted his voice to be heard. He would hang up Chiesa's body in Giovanni's lawn. 
Heyday would start murdering multiple criminals, hanging them up and carving messages into their chests like pumpkins. He thought that vigilante's were going to be wiped out and illegalized, and if that happened, chaos would reign supreme over order, this didn't sit right with Heyday. After threatening Dixon J. Lombardo's mother, Hera Lombardo, Heyday would realize that his attacks were useless and that it would be best if he just killed Giovanni now. 
==== Massacre of the Giovanni Crime Family ====
He grappled his way to Giovanni's mansion, armed. The gun was a modified pistol, Dawson having made it. He shot two guards and got through. Without any remorse, he would start clearing the entire mansion. This was his way of setting a stepping stone for the morally innocent socialist utopia. 
He would be shot two times in the thigh and stomach, but luckily he wore a protective vest. He would enter Giovanni's quarters and was met with immature taunting. But the taunting didn't affect him. He grabbed a crowbar and started beating Giovanni's head in with it, showing no mercy. But eventually, Warden would break into the house and try to stop Heyday. He respected Warden and thought he would understand, so Heyday spoke to him about his motives and the slow eradication of vigilantes. He would also take accountability for what he did at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. To back up his claims about corruption in the system, he would take out a cheque from Giovanni to a judge. 
Wardens response disappointed Heyday, after seeing everything, he would think Warden would agree and help bring total moral innocence to this world and start a socialist utopia, but Warden was a bootlicker after all. He thought Wardens rebuttal was an excuse, a bad one, an excuse not to help Heyday recreate society the way Karl Marx intended for people to. Wardens task to bring Heyday to "normalcy" would fail. A drunk Dixon J. Lombardo would enter the room, pointing a gun at Heyday and talking to Warden about his mother. Heyday realized the miscommunication and explained it all to Dixon, having not killed his mother, but instead left her alone and told her it was a harmless prank that Dixon planned. Manipulation? Perhaps, but that was the least of Heyday's concerns. 
Heyday realized Warden's new suit, it was designed by Dawson. As Donald Long sprung in, attacking Heyday, he would start thinking that it was a set-up. The Flame would also jump in and attack Heyday. Unfortunately, this meant Heyday would have to use hero killers on them. As he stood glorious, opposite to Warden, who he regarded as his enemy now, Liberty Prime would come flying in, trying to kill Heyday, but Heyday would jab the hero killer in his heart. He watced the "strongest man in the world" fall down to his knees. He then looked at Warden. He wanted to kill him, he wanted it all to be over. Moral innocence is coming. But he didn't want to kill him traditionally, he wanted to fight him. But Warden wouldn't budge. He would then shout "Get out of that suit!" He ripped off his mask, shouting "Do it!" Finally, Warden did it, but he didn't want to fight Heyday. Heyday attacked Warden, as he did, a picture fell out of his pocket. A picture of him and his mother. But Warden wouldn't attack back. They stood across each other again. But as it was going to commence again, he realized Lucas was sucked back into his suit by a magnet. He now realized that The Flame blew up, causing a supernova. The supernova would wipe out 200,000 people, and one of the 200,000 would be Matthew Hines.
== Appearance ==
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 152 lbs 
Hair Colour: Red
Eye Colour: Brown
Matthew Hines is a red-haired man who barely shows expressions on his face. He is in excellent shape and is 5'6". He is considered ugly by Hewey Little and the NYPD. Hewey Little also finds his expressionless face disturbing and his lack of social ability, too. It is hinted at that, except for when he washes it, that he wears his inkblot mask all day and all night.
When disguised as Heyday he wears a brown trench coat with striped purple business trousers. Under the jacket he wears a striped purple business suit and a white scarf. The right flap on his raincoat is flapping around. He wears a set of brown leather gloves. His fedora hat matches the colour of his gloves and trench coat, except the purple stripe on it. The most eye-catching part of his apparel is his ink-blot mask. He considers his mask "beautiful" and his true face.
== Personality and Opinions ==
When he teamed up with Warden, Heyday displayed many of his talents, them being tactical talents and physical talents. He had always been silent and grim. He considers finding Joan Hanne's dead remains his "turning point." The thing that made him realize the system is broken and will not work anymore.
Politically, Heyday is anti-capitalist, anti-conservative, radical, a strong anti-nationalist and a far-left wing person. His actions and his journal entries have always been left-leaning. His motive for murdering criminals is because the capitalist system of the United States is based on punishing criminals and not trying to rehabilitate them, so he sees no point in letting them live if they will continue committing crimes after being admitted to prison. He believes all races are human and that there is no difference between black, white or brown. In an entry he considers himself a "radical" Marxist. He is also anti-police and is a supporter of the idea that cops have to be defunded to make space for public housing for the homeless and poor. 
Heyday has a lot of left-wing propoganda taped onto his wall, his bookshelf is filled with books about leftism. He is an avid reader of the left-wing tabloid named Labor Defender. When it comes to his apartment's condition, it was quite clean. When questioned about his sanitation, his landlady said he was "clean, tidy." Heyday's routine was very simple. Wake up, wash, clean up room, go out on the streets to handle crime, come home, wash, clean up, sleep. Heyday had also handled a major amount of crime, having the NYC underground fear his presence. After his death, crime rose insanely.
== Abilities ==
* Peak Human Condition: Throughout his career, Heyday showed off immense strength, speed and reflexes that rendered him one of the most dangerous vigilantes in the area (coupled with his brutality.) In his youth, despite excelling at other subjects, he also excelled at Physical Education, being the best in his class in every subject at that point. When he did odd-jobs, he also boxed in underground leagues with the nickname "Thin Matt."
** High Pain Tolerance: He can tolerate high pain very well, deciding to just ignore it as it, in his own words, is just a reaction from the brain and that it isn't real. He tolerated the pain when falling out of a window, when being shot twice, and when being beaten by powerful superheroes.
* Master at Combat: In his aformentioned underground boxing careers, he beat men to near-death, those skills being displayed more in his career as a vigilante, with him beating actual criminals to death with his own fists in some situations. He is also good with weapons such as a crowbar, handgun, assault rifle etc. He uses his intelligence in combat to defeat people.
* Hyper Intellect: Having an aforementioned 185-205 IQ score, it's no wonder he is intelligent. He is tactically proficient with the use of his surroundings. At a young age he used to study books with political and religious meanings, and published them under the alias "M.F.H. Tolkien", the Tolkien coming from one of his favourite authors, J.R.R. Tolkien. In fact, Heyday wanted to be an author when he grew up, but decided not to.
== Relationships ==
=== Family ===
* Finn - Possible Father
* Amanda Hines † - Mother
=== Allies ===
* Warden - Friend and Partner
* Dawson Garrisson
* Noah Williams † 
* Nicolo Sanchez † - Partner
* Georgino Lopez † - Partner
=== Enemies ===
* Kenneth T. Giovanni † - Arch-nemesis
* Hewey Little † - Psychiatrist
* Tyrell O'Shea † - Victim
* Nicholas Lancer † - Victim
* Alfredo Chiesa † - Victim
* Dixon J. Lombardo - Attempted Victim
* Evan Phillips (The Flame) † - Victim
* Liberty Prime - Victim/Attempted Victim
* Donald Long - Victim/Attempted Victim
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