Void Empyrean

Not to be confused with Void from the same campaign.
Elex Xavier, better known Void Empyrean, was a player character from The Saviors of Sunset City, played by Grey. He was a fire genasi monk/warlock best known for taking charge of the Echelon Eight.
== Personality ==
Void was a strong, cunning individual who thought of creative solutions to all of life's problems, while thinking tactically to let all of his partners shine in their own unique ways.
== Appearance ==
Before his resurrection, Void was a masked, hooded man with dark purple eyes clad in red and white with a toned physique and long brown hair. He wore a device akin to a gas mask for unknown purposes.
After his resurrection, Void looked a lot more unkempt, with his hoodie torn and burned and his undershirt gone, revealing new, purple spikes coming from his chest and other places. His hair grew noticeably longer and he then sported a long beard. Void's eyes were noticeably brighter after this, his eyes glowing a bright magenta.
== History ==
=== The Saviors of Sunset City ===
Void accepted the offer given to him to become a temporary replacement for Silver Siren as she went with the Superiors to fight Sheh L'Grath. When it was his turn to speak at Hopkins House for Gifted Individuals, Void spoke of how the students were the on the right track to being the next step towards improving Sunset City and bringing it in line with what it strives to do, and to be proud of themselves.
Void was present for the incident at Bert Blythe's Super-Tailor Shop, but did not do anything of note there. When the squad went to Elm Tower Memorial Hospital, he manifested a first wall of flames to prevent Murmur from attacking the doctor, and later a second to prevent him from running from Oracle and Big Red, who were only trying to help him.
When it came time to fight Hindsight and Hot Rod, Void used his flames to prevent Hindsight from collecting the drugs he wished to acquire. Void was personally the one responsible for knocking out Hindsight, and later interrogated Hot Rod, using Big Red as his muscle to gain leverage. After this mission, the squad elects Void as their new leader, and he names the team the Echelon Eight. When they received an alert about Baghead harassing local hero Puck, Void elected himself, Spinflux and Big Red to help Puck directly, while directing Oracle, 10 and the Alchemist to focus on saving civilians, all the while having Terraformer keep watch on the prisoners. When Spinflux activated Vampirism, Void used his flames to blot out the sun to prevent Spinflux from burning. During the fight proper, Void attempted to light Baghead's bag on fire before pulling the bag suffocating Puck off of his head, and helping swarm Baghead after his failed dive on Spinflux. Void watched in horror as Baghead twisted his head all the way around both ways, the second being after he himself knocked Baghead out. Void later interrogates Baghead, thinking he might be part of the same scheme Hindsight was, but did not get much in the way of valuable information. He gave Puck Bert's business card before shrinking the flames to only cover Spinflux's head.
Void was present for the fight alongside Short-Circuit against Moth Mogul, but did not do much of note while there. Later on, he delegated more missions for his team to handle, sending Spinflux, 10 and the Alchemist to stop a hijacked Amazon truck carrying a PS5 delivery, himself and Big Red to save civilians from a burning building, and Oracle to do an anti-drug PSA.
When Void and Big Red got to the burning building, Void was the second to arrive, but found a majority of the survivors, only being able to save the last one thanks to Big Red holding the building up, getting the child out at the literal last possible second.
When Hindsight disappeared, Void used his flames to enhance Big Red's intimidation factor to get information out of him. Deeming Hot Rod out of information, he left to do the same with Moth Mogul. After the interrogation, Void used a spear of flames to injure Moth Mogul for unknown reasons. After 10, as Rath, accidentally beat Hot Rod into a coma, Void forbade him from using Rath without supervision, which 10 agreed to.
During the battle with Soulshaker, Void encased the wizard in a field of black flames before jumping into the battle himself, being the second one to attack Soulshaker's nose during the fight. Void took heavy damage from Soulshaker's area-wide spell.
Void was present for the antics at Chilly's, but did not do anything of note while there. For a brief time, Void gave Big Red the leader title while he handled some duties, later returning to aid local TV hero Flurpman in stopping an illegal gun shipment. Void used his flames to empower his teammates, Oracle and Spinflux, before charging at a robber, immediately knocking him out. Void later delivered a hefty face-punch to Heartburn and sidestepped out of the way of his fire breath. Later, Void was splashed by a blast of Purple Flurp from Flurpman accidentally.
During the battle with Matter Man at Hader Labs, Void burned a hole in the floor and took Matter Man inside to contain the potential damages to the laboratory. A few of the other teammates joined him in this pit, and even the civilians summoned by Spinflux. Everyone inside later witnessed as Spinflux unleashed a deadly Hollow Purple attack using Cursed Energy. Void, who was restraining Matter Man at that moment, was caught in the crossfire, getting disintegrated into ashes.
Void was later resurrected by a lucky roll from Spinflux getting God's Wrath. Angered by Spinflux's rash actions, he backhanded Spinflux. Later, when his team returned to base, they were shocked to see him. 10 was oddly suspicious of him. These suspicions were not answered, as Void soon left to handle unknown business, leaving White Lion to take his place during his absence.
The reasons behind his absence were later found, as when Spinflux brought Void back from the Abyss using God's Wrath, a parasitic soul latched onto Void and hitched a ride back to the mortal plane, one known as Phantasm. Phantasm slowly burned Void's soul away with the flames he weaponized, soon taking more and more control with every bridge he burned, every connection he broke. The Eight soon found Phantasm, who was controlling Void's body and powers, making a scene at a warehouse. After a long-winded battle with the Eight, Phantasm activated a desperation ability, Final Stand, using Void's soul as the cost instead of his own. With one last flicker of his face before his erasure, Void left one spark of his black flame in his old room, the last remnant of his will for any of his teammates to utilize to their liking.
== Relationships ==
=== Spinflux ===
Void and Spinflux had a strained relationship thanks to Spinflux killing and later reviving him, and Void was still angered by this event. It is unknown if Void forgives Spinflux for what happened, especially after the revelation that Phantasm's breakout was Spinflux's fault, though indirectly.
=== Silver Siren ===
Void and Silver Siren had a sort of friends-with-benefits-style affair going on, with them occasionally engaging in sexual contact.
== Notable Moments ==
* Cutting off Murmur's path in both directions
* Preventing Hindsight from trafficking drugs before knocking him out
* Interrogating Hot Rod and several others
* Being elected leader of the Echelon Eight
* Blotting out the sun using fire, something that is normally transparent
* Being grossed out by Baghead
* Knocking out and interrogating Baghead
* Saving a child from a burning building at the last second before collapse
* Making a spear out of fire and stabbing Moth Mogul with it
* Breaking Soulshaker's already double-broken nose
* Being possessed by a spirit parasite that took him over and erased his soul for extra power
== Trivia ==
* Void is so far the first and only genasi character of any element played in Flafa D&D history.
* Void is the second player character to die and be resurrected, the first being Moon Matt.
** Void is the first character to die twice, however.
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