Mistos

Mistos is a neurotic sociopathic narcissist, and Zander's head scientist. Thanks to Zander's training, Mistos is able to use his epithet to create "liquid copies" of other people's epithets, which is primarily used by Zander to create the titular Zander Juice that infects other people's epithets and allows him to control their growth remotely. Mistos also performs various experiments on Zander's students, thinking of it as "getting more use" out of them since "Zander would do this anyway", thus obsolving himself of any personal responsibility for the things he has done.
== Powers ==
Mistos' abilities are fairly limited. Through constant effort, Mistos can attempt to replicate small items. This process takes a significant amount of time since he has to do it cell by cell. Mistos can also create goo copies of himself which are linked to him, thereby avoiding the consequences of his actions by phoning in remotely.
Zander's influence is what primarily gives him his actually good powers. For one, Mistos' body is highly regenerative, meaning it's very hard to kill the bastard. He also has the ability to literally give someone's epithet cancer, making it significantly harder to use their powers. This condition gets worse and worse over months until the target loses their epithet or dies, however simply staying away from the bastard for a few days will break the effect.
Most importantly is Mistos' ability to create "liquid copies" of epithets. Drinking these causes a person's body to become linked with the original epithet, making it effect them in some way. It also seems to grant them some new abilities they can develop as if they had that epithet. These are somewhat inconsistent with the effects of Zander Juice despite being created the same way, implying that there's something special about Zander and his epithet that causes this discrepancy.
== Destruction Bench Agreement ==
=== Episode 159 ===
While Mistos was mentioned in earlier episodes of DBA, he makes his first appearance as a member of the Council of Ten Doctors. When investigating his bunker, Cheshire found his diary filled with narcissistic diatribes about his superiority and genius compared to others he met. However one entry revealed him to be working for Zander, having been given access to Id's "unconscious body" to experiment on. He also mentioned that Zander had given him explicit orders not to give anyone any Zander Juice, nor epithets of students, but despite this brought a copy of Zander and Id's epithets to use as potential bartering chips with the doctors. He also has three other miscellaneous epithets on the shelf: Intoxicated, Toxicant, and Nocturne, which were taken by various members of the party.
In the first combat, Mistos immediately broke rank with the other doctors and started acting only in his own interest. He created a copy of Lord PhD's epithet, and critically succeeded on giving Arezzo's epithet cancer, which ended up being the deciding factor in the DBA team's semi-victory over her. However, Mistos was eventually tracked down and captured by Arezzo, him being the apparent original target of Mercadia.
== Trivia ==
* Rob originally presented Mistos to Zanza as just "Zander's scientist who makes the Zander Juice". In an attempt to make the pseudo right hand man to the big bad himself more interesting, he decided to go away from competing with his outright evilness, and instead make Mistos as hateable as possible.
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