Phantom Skull

Template:Longer Infobox Character**Phantom Skull** is a character role-played by Phantomsky.

Phantom Skull (real name Victor Mullins) is a citizen of San Andreas and the state’s self-proclaimed “Community Superhero.” He is a well-known figure in the community both as the owner of SecuroServ and the 6th elected mayor of Los Santos.

## General Description

Phantom is an eccentric self-proclaimed “superhero” who more realistically acts like an armed community service volunteer who dresses like an off-brand Punisher. Despite his heavily armed and threatening appearance he’s ironically one of the goofier and kinder citizens of San Andreas, usually seen chilling at businesses in tac gear in peace and offering to help people with their problems no matter how small. He owns and operates SecuroServ, one of the biggest and most well-known security companies in San Andreas, and has made a name for himself as a professional when it comes to “friendly, but effective private security.”

## Physical Description

Phantom is a decently built young man with combed back blonde hair and blue eyes who often has a love of orange tinted sunglasses. He often prefers wearing slightly “tacticool” styled outfits or his SecuroServ uniforms.

He is best known for his “vigilante” uniform consisting of a heavy black ballistic helmet with a skull painted on it, black SWAT-styled tactical shirt and pants, combat boots with leg armor, a tactical Kevlar vest, and a duty belt and handgun leg holster.

He’s also known for wearing typical SecuroServ uniforms along with his iconic skull mask when on duty.
When performing his mayoral duties he’s often seen wearing a black dress shirt and pants, red tie, with a dark gray overcoat, and (of course) his skull mask.

## Personality

Phantom is known for being a little off, but good natured. He has a kind heart and a gentle soul, but is not afraid to get sarcastic or violent against bullies or overly rude or abusive people (especially those picking on others). He can be a bit socially oblivious, often not registering the fact that walking around in full tactical gear and a terrifying ballistic skull mask is not a normal thing nor something a “friendly superhero” should be wearing. Despite his gentle nature and eccentric antics he has a deep sense of justice and a drive to help people in need.

Phantom has a bit of an obsession with keeping his face covered in his skull mask, suffering quite a bit from identity and self-confidence issues he hides with his bombastic superhero persona. His many friendships and relationships he built during his time in San Andreas have helped build up his confidence and now takes off his mask more often, though he still wears it for fun and branding purposes.

## Background

Victor was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma to Jerry and Maria Mullins, the youngest of their children with his older brother Colt. Young Victor was always a little off and lacked more than a handful of normal social cues, something in an old school conservative state like Oklahoma left him open to ostracization and bullying.  He was frequently protected by his older brother Colt and had a small handful of friends, but he never let the teasing wear him down. He had a deep love of comic books, particularly superhero stories. He was enamoured with the colourful masked do-gooders who helped those in need no matter the cost.

Tragically his father died due to cancer when he graduated college. After mourning him and trying to figure out his path, he decided to try and follow in his father and brother’s footsteps by becoming a police officer. However, due to Victor’s gentle and eccentric personality he was deemed unfit for duty. Same issue cropped up when he tried joining the army (though later information would reveal that his brother Colt, then in the army, greatly exaggerated Phantom’s issues when asked about him to ensure he would be denied out of fear for his brother)

While discouraged, he was not deterred, and instead looked to his superhero icons for inspiration. While spray painting a skull on a simple helmet, Victor Mullins would become the masked vigilante Phantom Skull for the first time.

### Early vigilante Days (Oklahoma)

Phantom Skull’s early attempts at crime fighting were not particularly successful. He often got himself hurt and almost killed a number of times, and after a disastrous attempt at shutting down an locally infamous meth dealer’s operation ended in a fiery explosion that almost got him killed and earning the ire of the local police, he found himself needing to find a new home if he wanted to continue his superhero adventures. Finding an opportunity in San Andreas, he moved there around November of 2021.

### “Community Superhero” of Los Santos

Phantom’s early days in San Andreas were about the same as his early attempts at crime fighting, but marginally more successful. Phantom learned from past mistakes and was far more passive in his “patrols,” often favoring visiting businesses and helping in small community outreach and helping people in need and sometimes stopping violent crimes nearby and performing citizens' arrests. In truth despite claims of being a vigilante, Phantom rarely (if ever) performed any actions that could be (legally) considered vigilantism, hence his eventual title as “community superhero.”

Despite some being wary of him due to his full tactical gear and frightening skull mask, the goofy and good-natured Phantom slowly won over a number of San Andreas’ citizens and even earned a somewhat tolerable reputation from LEO. He would gain friends and a few enemies while cruising around Los Santos and occasionally Blaine County on his motorcycle helping those in need and (often) getting badly injured attempting to stop criminals and the occasional (dream related) supernatural horrors in the state. Despite this he rarely let it get him down.  He would slowly make friends in a number of notable groups within the state including the Junkyard Boys, The Lost MC, former Governor Bruce Damms, Bagman and his detective agency, Flux Technologies, current Governor Meek U Long, USSS Director Chris Handsome (along with a number of USSS agents) and many others.

## 141 Security

Phantom’s life and usual routine would be changed by the arrival of a new company into the state: The One-Four-One Security Contracting. While lacking compared to his many ex-military and ex-LEO co-workers, 141 owner Johnathan Price took an interest in the “vigilante” and offered him a spot in his security company. While he struggled, the military-like training given to him greatly increased his competency and skillset.

While he had some resistance to it, he begrudgingly chose to not wear his mask while working for the company due to state laws about security companies and masks. He eventually got over this problem.

Phantom was a long term and loyal member of the organization, rising up to become a second lieutenant before the company’s shut down in late  2022. While 141 did not have the best reputation due to its militaristic styled way of running and allegations of running illegal military operations against a number of criminal organizations, they still had their fans, and often did what they could to help those in need and stopping dangerous criminals within reason. While Phantom did not always agree with their more brutal ways of dealing with criminals on the job, he still considered the hardened ex soldiers dear friends, and did what he could to support them.

Phantom went on many adventures with 141 Security, including numerous security jobs and protection details he helped them in their hunt for the Russian terrorist Makarov, protecting the Braford Family and Flux CEO Ruby Construe from their many enemies, evaded the explosive traps of the criminal mastermind The Riddler, along with many other explosive encounters.

## SecuroServ

As 141 began to slowly shut down due to the loss of its leader Captain Price (who had returned to the UK to deal with the loss of his brother) and its ever souring reputation, Phantom was at a loss at what to do with himself. While perusing the business section of the government website, he noticed that an older security company SecuroServ was now available for purchase. While he lamented leaving his former company, he felt it was time to spread his wings, and create a security company that would better fit his superhero ideals. Gathering up a group of ex-141 members along with new members (including former secretary for the old SecuroServ Erin Grace), he put in an application.

Phantom admittedly had a number of hurdles to jump through to get his company off the ground, particularly trying to calm fears by State officials concerning past issues with security companies becoming aggressive and quasi-legal PMCs (including 141). After many struggles and building up massive community support, he was able to get full business privileges and freedom in August 2022 (and even got permission to wear his vigilante mask while working there).

Under his leadership Phantom took the best aspects of his previous job and hammered out their image problems to create a popular and well-trusted security company that is considered a trusted third party security company used by the United States Secret Service.  He currently still works at this position.

## Mayoral Run

While doing several security details for Governor Meek Long and other would-be candidates with SecuroServ, Phantom has a growing interest in the mayor of Los Santos position. He always enjoyed helping people, and felt he could help the people of Los Santos as mayor. So he added his name to the ticket and campaigned heavily against fellow candidates Mop the dog, Tony Wumbo, Mark Sheets, Raj Das, and current 5th mayor Jimmy Carter. After a wild campaign trail he was voted and sworn in shortly near the beginning of 2023. He currently works as mayor of LS doing what he can to help the city.

## Relationships

Synum Monet: A friend and co-worker, Phantom and the 4’10 ball of sunshine hit it off well due to their similarly bubbly and eccentric personalities and care for others. Funnily enough Sy was also a huge nerd and happened to be a fan of the eccentric superhero before officially meeting. After getting to know each other more and growing closer they eventually began going out and officially became a couple in early 2022.

Jack “Joker” Napier: The (former) Clown Prince of Crime, the much more mellowed out ex-supervillain became good friends with the would-be superhero, often hanging out and going on many adventures and eventually joining SecuroServ to help his friend. Although he sadly left San Andreas to move back to Gotham permanently, they still consider each other dear friends.

Chris Handsome: The director of the San Andreas branch of the United States Secret Service, he was mildly amused but wary of the tactically armored masked hero when he was hired as third party security for Bruce Damms. But after getting to know each other they became very good friends on and off the clock. He greatly trusts Phantom and his SecuroServ agents, considering them trustworthy security to help in their tasks.

Rachel “Raven” Clawfeather: A friend and fellow 141 co-worker, the two went through training together and became good friends. While they were unlikely friends given her sarcastic and tough as nails personality, she became something of a big sister to the goofball superhero, and the two looked out for each other constantly. While she sadly needed to return to Liberty City, the two still keep in touch.

Erin Grace: While they knew each other in passing through the Junkyard Boys the two would become good friends over time and eventually went in together in reviving SecuroServ, functionally acting as his right hand woman and more or less the sensible leader who handled the logistics and finances since Phantom (while good at public relations and security work) could not be trusted with the company budget due to his poor math skills and impulsive purchasing decisions. The two are very “ride or die” friends when it comes to situations.

Bagman: Phantom and Bagman make for an unusual pair. Phantom greatly admires the masked detective for being a fellow superhero (though Bagman denies this title) and loves teaming up with him on cases. Bagman, while usually keeping the eccentric and optimistic do-gooder at arm’s length, does consider him a friend and does what he can to look out for the somewhat more naive vigilante.

Ruby Construe: Phantom and Ruby have worked together on a number of jobs, often Phantom acting as security and extra muscle for the maverick scientist during a number of her adventures. While some of the situations Ruby finds herself in tend to go way over Phantom’s head, he does his best to keep up and remains very “ride or die” to keep Ruby and her family safe. Although Ruby has (like bagman) tended to keep others at arm’s length, she has shown some fondness for the eccentric masked bodyguard and is always looking to help him out when needed, and tends to trust him with her most guarded secrets.

Field Officer: Being a similarly masked tacticool eccentric, the two hit it off well when they first met. While Field was far more militaristic in his interests and sometimes gave off concerning supervillain vibes, he and Phantom would become good friends and co-workers in SecuroServ.

Graeson Sheets: Phantom and Graeson have always been good friends, Graeson doing what he can to keep tabs on his superhero buddy while on as LEO and trying his best to steer him out of legal problems, and Phantom usually trying his best to help him during his numerous injuries and kidnappings while patroling as LSPD.

Deirdre O’Malley: Phantom and Dierdre were almost instant friends when they first met, the two eccentrics bonding rather easily. Deirdre always looked to cheer Phantom up when he was in a bad mood, and Phantom always looking out for the young blind girl against the many unkind and downright cruel individuals who attempted to trick and bully her on multiple occasions.

Johnathan Price: Phantom has a deep admiration and reverence for his ex-141 boss, someone he treated as a mentor during his time with the questionable security company. Price to his credit trusted Phantom greatly for his loyalty and willingness to lay down his life for his fellow 141 members despite lacking the same hardened ex-military training and mentality. Much of Phantom’s success at leading SecuroServ he credits to what Captain Price taught him.

Jeffrey “Sandman" Pierce: Another 141 supervisor (who also gave Phantom a run for his money in the eccentric dept), the two were good friends and squadmates who often got up into some very silly adventures together. While he is sadly gone Phantom fondly remembers his memorable (if somewhat deranged) advice.

Colt Mullins: Phantom’s older and more straight-laced brother. While he can be exasperated by Phantom’s eccentric quirks and obsession with being a superhero, he’s always looked out for his brother, specifically taking his assignment in San Andreas with the United States Secret Service in order to keep an eye on him.

The Junkyard Boys: While he never officially joined the group, Phantom was good friends with a number of their members, often providing security at some of their businesses and in generally offering to help where he could with some of their many problems and threats.

The Lost MC: Phantom has been friends with a number of Lost MC Members. Like above he was never an official member of their club, but enjoyed hanging out with them at their many events and doing security for their parties and concerts. While he’s a bit ignorant to the Lost’s more unsavory actions he still maintains them to be good natured folks and enjoys their company.