Subterfuge

== Appearance ==
Artie Hall is a teenage boy of Cuban descent. He has tan skin, brown eyes, and long wavy blonde hair. He is medium height and rather skinny. He tends to dress comfortably, often wearing sweaters, sweatshirts, and/or parkas. He is short sighted (figuratively and literally) and wears a pair of square reading glasses.
His villain outfit is a a tailored suit with runic markings, a pair of large high tech gloves, and a masquerade mask with opaque green eyes.
== Background ==
Artie Hall is a local radio host and conspiracy theorist in Halcyon City. Shortly after accompanying the team on a heist to steal from the Black Magic Club he appeared as Subterfuge while attempting to rob the Halcyon City Museum of Culture and History after a string of other robberies, but revealed that he was only doing it to give Big Team a fun and flashy villain to fight. Ernest convinced him that he didn't actually need to be a real villain in order to have fun with his persona, and ended up convincing him to collaborate with him on his B-tube channel.
After collaborating with Ernest for a while Subterfuge attended a music festival at which Friðr, Libra, Signal, and Lavish were intended to help stage a fight between himself and Ernest. However his identity as a fake villain was nearly revealed when the team went extremely off-plan and also Hotshot made a surprise appearance. After this he decided to start doing actual crimes again as he was no longer satisfied with pretending to be a villain and feared for his reputation if people found out he was faking it.
Subterfuge then began taking jobs doing minor crimes on the iSupe app. This eventually led to him getting blackmailed into continuing his crimes by Chelicerae. He enlisted Big Team's help to get him out of it twice, but the team was unable to help him escape from the blackmail and threats of violence. He was however able to uncover some of the Chelicerae's plans. After a particularly harrowing mission at his behest however Ernest yelled at him and chastised him for his actions and bad decision making. After this Subterfuge gave up on his hunt for Chelicerae and on taking jobs from the iSupe app. He has not been seen since and his whereabouts are unknown.
== Powers and Abilities ==
X-ray vision- Subterfuge has a masquerade mask decked out with top of the line sensors that allow him to see through walls, even seeing through a thick metal bank vault in his first appearance. This enables him to target items with his substitution powers even without direct line of sight.
Substitution- Subterfuge has a pair of high tech gloves that when snapped can swap two objects with each other, including himself. He can use this to teleport and to move objects around. They link with his mask to enable targeting.