Slade Wilson (Deathstroke)

# Deathstroke

## Slade Wilson

Deathstroke

*Description here ~ Justinian*

## History

### Early Life

Slade was born to his parents in 1926. He went through a normal boys life until America joined in to fight the Second World War. At the age of 17, in 1943, Slade was assigned to a troop near the front where he fought hard and well. It didn’t take long for his superiors to witness his skill for close combat and all sorts of weaponry. Only a year later a rumor made the course through the lines that volunteers were sought to take part in an experimental test for a new serum that should work as an anti-serum for enemy truth serums. Slade volunteered as soon as he heard of it and got accepted immediately, the serum injected only a day later. Though, it did not fulfill its real purpose to fight truth serums. It failed, in its prior purpose, but offered something even better in the long run. It worked as some kind of superhuman serum, enhancing Slade’s strength, reflexes, stamina and much more. Though he was the perfect weapon, he was kept a secret, and forced to keep his mouth shut about it when in the field. Around the near end of war in 1945, Slade ignored an order from his general and infiltrated an enemy camp to save his best friend who was held hostage. He wasn’t allowed back in the military and sent home, working as a hunter from then on. Though, with the ego he built during his many successful missions, being a hunter wasn’t enough. At least not that kind of hunter. Slade built himself a reputation as Deathstroke, world’s most deadliest hitman who never failed a mission.

Connected to one of his missions was the name of a group, what he first thought it only was, but later found out to be much more, much bigger. He made it his personal mission to find out more about this so-called League of Shadows, leading him all the way to Nanda Parbat where he demanded their leader Ra’s al Ghul to join them. Ra’s, being intrigued by his zeal, took him in and made him the personal protector of his daughter, Talia. This wasn’t what Slade had in mind at all, who was striving to replace Ra’s as king one day. He accepted the job as bodyguard of the beautiful daughter of the demon, but got impatient pretty quickly. It was then when he approached Ra’s directly, who said that he’d never be king, that Slade decided to turn his back on the League and start anew.

He met his later wife around 1995 and had two wonderful children with her, Joseph and Rose. Their life was practically perfect, only that he never told them about his real job, the Deathstroke. He often had to stay away overnight, which was the reason why he could not prevent an hired mercenary from breaking into their house and kidnap his by then 18 year old son. Once he returned he found his wife devastated, eventually opening up about his secret identity to her. She didn’t react the way he suspected, boiling with rage. In her aggression she stabbed him in the face but didn’t kill him, only taking his eyesight on one side. The inevitable divorce came, and Slade was again alone after his wife took their daughter with her. Unable to track the mercenary or his son, Slade gave up on the search and accepted his fate. He accepted that he was not meant to live a normal life.

His former life had been better, even though he was just a bodyguard, he could be himself. Slade returned to Nanda Parbat and asked for a second chance which was granted by Ra’s. Siding with Talia for the second time, he was let in on her plans to take control of the throne, even though neither of them would ever physically sit on it. Ra’s had taken a liking to a new student who joined them a while ago, but Talia didn’t like the idea of him taking over the lead. Slade helped her with her plans wherever he could, until Talia eventually had a son with the favored student who used these circumstances to escape. With a suitable replacement for him on the way, both Talia and Slade would be in control of the throne through this child, controlling his every decision. Talia was eventually forced by Ra’s to give her son up, which caused her to hand him over to his father, Bruce Wayne. Now the time had come that he needed to return to his mother and the League, to be prepared for his time as the king. Slade stood by Talia’s side till today, as he always would and will furthermore.