Lee Oxford

"Faith exists only in part to death. All beliefs are born from the fear of death. Religion is born from those to mitigate the fear of death. The 'survival instinct' is made to avoid it completely. A man who does not fear death does not need to believe in anything and it's because I don't fear death, that people should fear me." - Lee to Lazarus
Lee Oxford, The Silent Killer, (born Ashura) is a New God originally born as a human on Earth at an unknown date. He is considered the best fighter by many to come out of Earth and has several thousand lives of experience as a fighter and a soldier. In his final life as a human, he was a 40-year military veteran serving in the conflicts such as the Desert War, the conquest of North Korea, and the war between China and the U.S in the 1970's. He was infamous amongst his peers for being superhuman, having extreme precision and strength when fighting and shooting weapons.
== History ==
Lee Oxford was initially Ashura, though it seemed even in his first life, Lee's life as not without hardship. His mother died during childbirth and his father was so distraught by his wife's death that he had committed suicide. Born in the Middle East, in a time beyond human recording--though Lee's journal states this was around 7,000 years ago--Ashura was a pariah amongst his peers and village as a whole as he was quite the troublemaker. Although clearly gifted, Ashura did not enjoy his studies at all. However, the neighbors of the country Ashura lived in had come to attack, they were a war tribe planning to spread their own religion and faith to their neighbors and while this attack mostly succeeded, Ashura never stopped fighting which impressed the war tribe so much, that they had abducted him and brought him to their chief. After the chief beat down the young Ashura, he then declared he be trained according to the practices of the war tribe. In due time, Ashura would become a great warrior, and would help the war tribe conquer Ashura's own country. When Ashura led the attack against his own village, the elders were surprised at his treachery and demanded why he would lay a hand on his own village. Ashura then coldly explained that he had had virtually no attachment to his own home, and that everyone in the village cast him out anyways, he did however explain that he had no intention of destroying the village, only its people. The attack left everyone in the village dead, and cemented Lee's legacy as Ashura as a terrifying soldier called "Thabr's Son." The amount of death and destruction that followed in Ashura's wake was unprecedented for even the most legendary warriors. However, it all came to a sudden end when one day, a being murdered the entire army and Ashura futilely attempted to stop it, while the being complimented his ferocity, Ashura too, was killed. However, Ashura awoke, seemingly unharmed until he then realized: he had reverted to an infantile state. He had realized he was a different man entirely. The war tribe had found the baby in the spot where a witness had seen Ashura die. Despite, to their knowledge, having believed Ashura had no children, they believed that the now-infant Ashura, was actually Ashura's son. Given that "Ashura's son" was actually Ashura himself, he had best figured to go along with the explanation. While he had Ashura's memories, and even looked inside the urn that would've contained his remains that would turn out to be empty, Ashura could only come to one conclusion: he was a god. The supposed "son of Ashura," was then christened Dasim, with respect paid to his original heritage. Dasim would eventually grow up to fight for the war tribe again, however, he would betray them and stand against them on the side of his birth country. Eventually, he would become the same fearsome demon as Dasim as he was as Ashura. The people hailed him as the "Man of War." Through each individual lifetime, he fought for many different people, countries, and established many new nicknames, personalities, and record-shattering feats. In the present time, he had been reborn as Lee. Born in Salem, Lee had fought in the greatest wars. Compared to Ashura though, Lee was just as young and spry, but mentally, he was tired. Lee despised the battle, while Ashura would yearn for more. During the Shenzhen Scourge, with his protege Harrison Blackmoore they fought in a 20 year long stalemate. However things changed when Harrison and Lee stumbled upon the documents for HUNT-6, a plan the U.S Government had planned to enact against the citizens of Shenzhen. The plan was the use of a Prion called Spongiform Encephalopathy, which possessed a 100% mortality rate upon those who caught it. The Prion had been genetically modified to be spread through the air, making it the most deadly bio-weapon ever conceived. Lee and Harrison knew that this was the start of an extinction event. Lee told Harrison to burn the document and save lives. However, Harrison insisted that the Chinese should receive the document instead because with the document they could turn public opinion against the war. Lee told Harrison that if that didn't work they'd be back to square one and Harrison would be branded a traitor, and explained that if public opinion for the war didn't change and Harrison was branded a traitor, he'd be put to death and be putting his family's lives on the line. Harrison explained that it was much more likely the government possessed copies, so not only would burning the plans not work, but if the US enacted HUNT-6 him and his family would be dead anyway. They could hear Chinese soldiers nearby. Lee had lived through plenty of lifetimes and knew that the fate Harrison was going to consign himself to was worse than death. Lee drew his gun and shot Harrison in the brain stem, giving him a painless death. Hoping Harrison wouldn't have to live life as a traitor and that his family would stay safe, he hid the truth of what happened, but allowed the Chinese to acquire the HUNT-6 document per Harrison's wishes. It can be said that this was the event that shattered Lee's perception of war and made him misanthropic. Not long after the end of the Shenzhen Scourge, Lee was dishonorably discharged. It turned out, that a American spy with the Chinese soldiers had witnessed Lee kill Harrison and informed his CO of this. Due to Chinese acquiring the documents for HUNT-6 near Harrison's body, Lee was forced to assume blame for both the Chinese acquisition of the HUNT-6 documents and Harrison's death. Having been given a month before the trial, Lee knew it was inevitable he would be put to death. As he returned home, he found the bodies of his family. Lee was distraught and asked the police what happened, but the police officer simply said: "You're a traitor, General. If I had to guess...Citizen's arrest. At least for the child. We're still investigating the circumstance's behind your lady's death, Mr. Oxford." Lee's son was killed by pro-war residents of the town. After a month of waiting, Lee received his summons to court, without a conclusion to the investigation of his wife's murder. Full of hate for himself, the government, and his country, Lee faked his own death and decided to rebel against the most powerful government in the world. After founding the Vermilion Men with his old friends, Lee began his fight against the government, and in his fight against the government, he found that a lot of criminals in the now torn-up country of America were pushed into crime from the work of the popular politician, James Costello. Having heard of him a few times, Lee simply blew him off as another politician not to trust. However, he couldn't help but look deeper due to his involvement with the underworld of new criminals in the US. What he found was shocking, James was the culprit behind his wife's murder and furthermore, James's real identity was that of a man who had given him trouble lifetimes prior, Andrey Zbyszko. Having finally met each other in person, James asked Lee if he knew what he did to make James hate him so much. Lee only explained that whatever it was he had to assume guilt for, was something he couldn't remember, explaining that that was the nature of the immortality he received. James explained to Lee, that the death of his wife was meant to be vengeance for someone Lee killed in front of him a long time ago. Lee explained that he thought it was idiotic James could call himself the good guy making a different person suffer for another's deeds. James retorted that him and Lee were the same individuals as they were years ago and that despite the different names and residences, the only real difference was that he himself was cursed to remember. James explained that if he had to kill every spouse Lee had since then to feel the pain he felt then that's what he'd do. Lee lashed out at James, talking about the pain he had been through and wondered why James was so intent on hating the only person who could relate to him and then ended by saying that he'd kill James so he could die happy while Lee himself would live miserably. In their final confrontation among many, Lee and James beat each other down heavily before Lee eventually beat down James to a state of near-death. Sickened of killing and battle, Lee made the ultimate choice to let James live. The two men on Earth who hated each other most, felt one shred of pity for the other at that moment, and both had a conversation on their views of life before they passed out. 
== Personality ==
Lee often appears aloof, cold, and misanthropic. Lee's external nature though, is one formed of years of experience on the battlefield. As a victim of constant loss, war, and misery; Lee was forced to close himself off to the rest of the world to try and cope. In reality, Lee is no different from the ordinary human, but the loss of all of his friends has led Lee to perceive himself as a destroyer. While Lee despises the life of the warrior, he is often the first to jump into the fray should war ever come his way. While some who have noticed this behavior have called Lee hypocritical, or perhaps someone who's trying to convince himself that what he does isn't bad, the truth lies a lot deeper. Centuries of fighting and war have estranged Lee from the rest of mankind. None at all relate to him on Earth, as a person or to his experiences. Lee is also someone who seemingly doesn't trust anyone, but once again, the truth behind that is also much deeper. The truth is that Lee doesn't actually despise people, he fears attachment. A lot of the people he grew close to, such as his wife, Harrison, or James, have all died or betrayed him. It is because of this, that he silently fears anyone he grows close to will be lost to him. 
== Physical and Mental Analysis ==
An analysis was done on Lee/Osbourne by Physicus and Mech. Here is what they have concluded:
* Lee has an infinite lifespan but is still largely human. As a result of 7,000 years of living, Lee tends to have an unserious demeanor when fighting.
* Lee's body is on a clock. When he dies he is reborn with only his past life's memories. He only remembers all of his lives' memories thanks to Chaos giving him the memories back.
** He is currently stuck in his life as Lee due to becoming a New God. He no longer is capable of dying unless he is killed with the Eternity Sword. However, instead of a "true death." He is reborn in a new life again.
* Lee was once known only by the mantle of the Silent Killer. As the Silent Killer, he not only became wanted by many countries and governments, but even extraterrestrial civilizations, such as the Seraphs, in his time working for Hell. Human targets of Lee who survived an encounter with him would even become celebrities in the criminal underworld.
* In nearly every life, Lee was regarded as the world's most dangerous soldier. In 7,000 years of living, Lee amassed a kill count of around 26,000,000; possessing 3,000+ confirmed kills in each lifetime.
* While he is not the best hand-to-hand combatant physically, he is easily the universe's most technically-versed fighter, holding mastery over several different fighting styles and having innovated several different fighting styles. He often switches stances several times mid-fight, relying on keeping their opponents on their toes and overwhelming them with switches from striking to grappling to countering.
** Like Chaos, he also fights extremely brutally in spite of his composed nature, opting to fight by draining the opponent's stamina and then breaking their bodies down by targeting muscles, breaking bones, and various other things making use of submission holds, grappling, joint locks, and punches to organs instead of simple and effective strikes. It is because of this that Lee often refers to himself as a "snake fighter."
* While Lee doesn't appear smart, he has multiple decades of experience in psychology, ballistics, pyrotechnics, forensics, explosive engineering, and weapon engineering.
* Another alias Lee went by was as an interrogator, where he became known as the "Human Polygraph." It is said that Lee's deduction, methodology, and reasoning are so amazing that not a single person he interrogated had ever gotten away with a lie.
*His main fighting style, the Street Fighting style, possesses four different stances.
**The Soldier stance is his offensive stance, where he breaks down the enemy by destroying pressure points and bones. This is the style he uses to wear down enemies over time until they collapse from their own wounds.
**The Beast stances is his defensive stance where he soaks up damage and relies heavily on grappling. This is a grappling-based fighting style where he uses throws and submissions as opposed to other moves.
**The Villain stance is his evasive stance where he uses the enemy's impatience and anger to land retaliatory shots. The stance is much more crude and relies on informal fighting techniques such as taunting.
**The Silent stance consists of Lee's most brutal techniques that he innovated and stopped using after his tenure as the Silent Killer. He came up with these techniques when whispering to himself the many ways he would hurt his family's killers once he found them.
*Lee is one of very few, and the only New God to possess the Chaos Power, having it gifted to him in his life as Ashura. Chaos's respect for Ashura as a "destroyer" is ultimately what led him to gift Lee this power, having correctly predicted an immortal Ashura, would result in the deaths of countless others. Being naturally composed, Lee's control of the Chaos Power is excellent, but it also serves as a double-edged sword as often times, Lee has trouble invoking the power if need be, especially given his more nonchalant and blunt views of fighting in his later lives.
* He was the Tactician and the Leader of four different divisions in Hell under the Disorder Legions service.
** He was also the former leader of the now-disbanded gang Vermillion Men.
*Lee is older than most of the New Gods. Only Olteus, Azazel, Orochi, Tenebris and Lux are older than he is.
== Relationships ==
Lazarus (Positive) - One of his friends when he was still living, Lazarus and Lee had been partners in crime for a short time before both of their untimely deaths. They would come to figure out the both of them had returned to life somehow and both eventually ascended to godhood.
James Costello (Despised) - Lee's main enemy. James claimed in their encounters that like Lee, he had also acquired a form of Immortality as well. This might have been a result of dealing with Lux, granting him immortality.
Malignagon (Negative) - Lee never liked any of the deities. He claimed that none of them were ever good and that Malignagon was just like most of Earth's politicians int he regard that "everyone is their stairway." After forcing Malignagon to break the contract to his soul, Lee peacefully retired, but as he would discover, he never could retire in peace.
Tenebris (Negative) - When Lee had begun working for the Tenebrites, it is likely that deep down, he knew that Tenebris had exaggerated his promises to Lee to take advantage of his vengeance. Tenebris was the first of many examples to Lee that deities were taking advantage of all the people they could get their hands on. After Lee had finished his tenure with the Tenebrites, he had hoped to have never had been pulled back in again.
Chaos (Negative) - Lee's description of Chaos can be summarized in two words: "Crazy Bastard". It is clear to Lee that a person like Chaos is unstable to the point where even Lee finds himself not wanting to be around Chaos, not out of fear, but out of the fact that he knows he won't be back in one piece if he does. He also claims he is "thankful" for Chaos giving him his immortality, regardless, he does not approve of Chaos's mindless killing and he has no interest in serving him.
Annihilus (Positive) - Lee finds himself resonating with Annihilus very well. The two in their civilizations have had similar paths, including toppling their governments. While both have become numbed to emotion. Lee notes that Annihilus's big problem is that he can't seem to figure out whether he should live with having nothing or fight to gain what he did have back.
Lux (Despised) - Lee considers Lux equally responsible for the deaths of his family as if he had not granted James immortality, then he would not have lived to kill his family. Lux also tried to sway Lee into joining his ranks to which Lee refused.
Daemon Sultan (Negative) - According to Lee, the type of person the Daemon Sultan is is the exact type of person that pisses him off. Lee heavily dislikes how condescending he is, and he dislikes him due to his nature as a Primordial. The feeling is mutual as the Daemon Sultan is not fond of any of Chaos's proteges.
Nexon (Neutral) - Lee has been recruited to join the new Nexus Council multiple times. While Lee has expressed interest in doing good, he refused as at the time, he had been retired from action. Nexon did not hold Lee's decision to join the Disorder Force against him, which made Lee heavily respect him, but not trust him.
Olteus (Positive) - Lee and Annihilus both are responsible for helping Olteus expand his shop's wares as Lee's gift with munition crafting and pyrotechnics have allowed him to make and distribute special ammunitions to Olteus.
== Quotes ==
"Sorry Barry, but I think the guy at the top of the list is gonna be the one who was saving an ass-whooping for several centuries. Maybe someone down the line can continue this thing, but speaking from experience...Don't. That being said, if you're just gonna ignore me I'd find someone soon...You're already 44..." - Lee to Barry after massacring the Black Skulls
"What are your words meant to mean to me exactly? You never had a silver tongue. It was just shit covered in silver, the only thing similar to us is that we're dishonoring our families by continuing this fight. But fuck...They're dead, and I know from above, they don't want me to do this but the only friends you'll be talking with are whoever you get to rest with in the mass graves. I will bury you with this grudge, for the final time." - Lee to James, moments before their final battle
"'Where are Heaven and Hell?' Is a good question isn't it? Truth is, they're here on Earth and always have been. Whether it's North of Hell or South of Heaven, it is Heaven and Hell that exist on Earth through mankind, their good and evil. It is why the texts talk of spreading good deeds and Seven Virtues and temptation through 'sin.' There's your Heaven...and your Hell and as someone who's lived as a soldier...I've been in Hell since birth." - Lee to Lazarus
"A lotta bad guys wanna have faith in the fact I'm some sort of hero with a moral code, but the reality is, anyone who's stupid enough to think that is in for a rude awakening. Only the truly experienced understand that a soldier and a hero are not the same thing. Heroes act on principle and on the superficial shit they call 'justice,' which is a fancy and optimistic way of fighting bad guys without feeling the guilt of putting someone who was inevitably pushed into what they did. They think I'm the guy who will let them go, cuz it's not too late for them...Truth is, I don't know that, and if I don't know that the choice simply comes down to faith or deterrence."
"I'm confused, you think I'm a man without losses? Without pain? Losing my memories each life forced me to relive the misery of loss each life. I've already suffered plenty for what injustice you think I'm guilty of. When he gave me the chance to remember everything...I thought for a long time. More than anything, I wanted to know if the memories were real...When I felt several centuries of misery, grief, and anguish as a result of those memories returning. It numbed me."
"We're just two men without amything to lose at this point. We're men that are about to make the other's last living moments absolute Hell. For one of us, there won't be a tomorrow, but there will be a now full of physical suffering and hatred. I just wanted to let you know that in the next few minutes, you'll be living through everything I just described to you."