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*"I, with the speed and destructive power of a falling star, shall bring you a most gruesome death."*
―Judas Wormwood
**Judas Wormwood** is a vigilante known as **Avaddon**.

## Personality

Judas is characterized by his grim demeanor, genius intellect, bitterness, and flagrant disregard for the basic rights of other people.

## Abilities

**Overview**: As the hybrid son of a fallen archangel, Judas is supernaturally powerful.

* **Immense Strength**: Judas possesses a godlike degree of physical strength, which seems to grow during times of intense rage and hatred.
* **Immense Speed & Reflexes**: To match his strength, Judas possesses meteoric speed and reflexes that have allowed him to dodge rapid gunfire at close range, maneuver through falling debris, keep up with gifted speedsters, and take down entire groups of enemies before anyone saw what happened. It was nearly indistinguishable from teleportation at times.
* **Immense Durability**: TBA.
* **Immense Stamina**: Judas has demonstrated significant staying power, being able to tolerate tremendous pain and remain constantly active for days without tiring or slowing down. During his military career, he was able to travel several dozen kilometers while critically injured, sleep-deprived, dehydrated, and suffering major blood loss, albeit visibly unable to properly think and on the verge of collapsing; nevertheless still managed to fight off countless enemies under these harsh conditions.
* **Enhanced Regeneration**: Judas has recovered from innumerable gunshots, broken bones, burns, bite wounds, gashes, and torso impalements.
* **Enhanced Senses**: Judas possesses extremely acute senses that allow him to perceive things outside the normal range of perception, which he displayed by discerning the presence of enemy forces instantly, even when they were scattered all around a mountain. He has been documented hearing, seeing and smelling near-imperceptible stimuli from remote locations, as well as easily detecting faint vibrations in the air. It was stated that only *grand veneur* Bloodhound outclasses him.
	+ **Night Vision**: Judas retains unhampered eyesight in darkness, attributed to the fact he possesses a variant of the tissue *tapetum lucidum* found in some nocturnal and deep-sea animals. This is also assumed to be the reason for his luminous irises.
* **Natural Weaponry**: Judas possesses fangs and sharp, retractable nails. He naturally secretes a deadly neurotoxin, dubbed "Nerveracker," that heavily impairs the nervous system to cause paralysis, among other things; the same properties can be found in his blood.
* **Accelerated Growth Rate**: Judas is a particularly fearsome opponent both in the short and long term because he can evolve fast enough to transcend his enemies midbattle. It was noted that his body is trying to seek an "ideal form" to accommodate his desire to destroy the world, hence the constant shapeshifting.
	+ **Adaptation**: Judas is able to reactively mutate to counteract new threats. This first manifested as desert locust-like wings used to escape a minefield, which he later detached and regrew on command. He also sprouted eight, red-violet tentacles to defend and fight for him while being restrained. Judas seemingly has partial control over his mutations.

**Genius Intellect**: Judas possesses an incredibly sharp mind, displaying enough observational and analytical skills to infer an opponent’s abilities simply by watching them in action; he can perform deductive, inductive. and abductive reasoning of the highest caliber. He was able to calculate the variables for jumping between two advanced fighter jets, as well as figure out where a teleporter would most likely appear, completely neutralize a railgun, orchestrate multiple espionage missions, and allude the prying eyes of the public. He mostly relies on *ad hoc* plans that utilize lateral thinking, intuition and lightning-quick wit to outsmart adversaries, but employs "vertical" logic when it better applies, or even a mixture thereof.

Thanks to his flexibility, Judas can quickly adapt to foreign environments or situations that normally impede his abilities. He has regularly shown himself to have extraordinary versatility and improvisational skills when put under intense stress, changing directions in mere moments to better suit the occasion, even for simple reasons such as persuading someone.

* **Enhanced Memory**: Judas can remember great volumes of information, in more detail and for much longer than the average human; he can read books, listen to song lyrics, encounter people or experience events and recall a vast amount of the fine points involved.

**Indomitable Willpower**: Stemming from his traumatic life, Judas has a remarkably strong willpower that presents itself whenever placed into onerous situations. Even during fights where his powers were disabled, he stubbornly refused to back down since yielding meant he would be forfeiting his objective. Despite the onslaught of many successive paid assassins, Judas pulled through their debilitating attacks and completely dominated them each time, all the while being exhausted from his previous twelve-dozen confrontations. Judas had even brought himself back from clinical death, refusing to die when he still had “so many more people to kill." Additionally, he shows to be capable of resisting mind control, or ignoring it completely, as shown with his struggle against Ayin’s multiple attempts at possessing him.

**Intimidation**: Judas' hostility manifests as a malefic aura so intense that it can instill hallucinations of death into others, with his gaze being frightening enough to paralyze twenty-seven soldiers. When he sensed their presence, the assassins Blade and Viper were able to feel his murderous intent from several kilometers away, too.

### Powers

**Destruction**: Judas can disintegrate whatever he touches with his hands. The speed at which it progresses has developed from slow to almost immediate, eventually permeating a person's whole body if the afflicted section isn’t somehow separated from the rest. It also no longer requires him to maintain constant, five-fingered constant, since briefly brushing against his target or using less than five fingers will provide the same results. It has been shown to capable of affecting masses as large as the city of Ayalec and later Protivník in one fell swoop, and spreads throughout groups like wildfire, infecting anything they come into contact with even when he himself isn’t touching them.

By nature, this power forces Judas to always engage his opponent in close quarters, though he needs only to make minimal contact with his enemy in order to kill or heavily injure them.

Judas was usually careful with his hands whenever touching objects he didn’t want to destroy, letting at least one of his fingers free from use while holding things, but later gained enough control to freely interact with items without accidentally disintegrating them. This disciplinary achievement was accompanied by a new look for the power, appearing as mechanical lines akin to a circuit board that shoot across the intended targets, allowing him to leave certain obstacles completely unharmed. Through continuous precision training, Judas had even learned how to manipulate the speed at which it progressed and would have it very slowly eat away at victims’ bodies as a form of physical and psychological torture, forcing them to watch as their body became devoured by the gradual putrefaction.

**Unnamed Goetia**: Judas is able to steal the powers of others by making physical contact, but often needs to maintain it for a few seconds because prematurely letting go will lead to an incomplete transfer. He can also redistribute these stolen abilities to someone else should they prove worthy. His multiple Goetias grant him a very wide variety of options in combat, and he can combine them to perform compound attacks with devastating effects. Unfortunately, the strain it has on his body hinders him from using them in continuous quick succession, leaving him exhausted after only a short amount of time. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the powers that are stolen depends on his own skills, requiring necessary training if it isn’t inherently straightforward.

Following the basic nature of Goetias, they may begin merging together to create stronger versions that have higher chances of mutating and evolving. This can equally be a downside, where he cannot properly handle the advancing strength.

* **Physiognomy**: This enables him to learn someone’s personality and intent by looking at their face.
* **Sixth Sense**: This enables him to detect oncoming threats.
* **Nerveracker**: This enables him to generate toxic smoke from his body.
* **Air Walk**: This enables him to float and suspend himself in midair.
* **Nuclear**: This enables him to create powerful explosions.
* **Wind Cannon**: This enables him to release pressurized wind.
* **Hellstorm**: This enables him to precipitate and control severe weather. He regularly calls down explosive lightning capable of destroying large buildings instantly, or blocks out the Sun with dark clouds.
* **Electrogenesis**: This enables him to generate electricity, which he used in conjunction with his Nerveracker Goetia to electrocute anyone caught inside the electrified smoke.
* **Super Regeneration**: This enables him to greatly accelerate cellular regeneration. However, it can also worsen any malignant growths present.
* **Rupture**: This enables him to purposely detonate any part of his body at will.
* **Scanning**: This enables him to identify powers and gain a read on their mechanics through an infrared-like vision.
* **Mind Control**: This enables him to telepathically exert his will onto others. However, a sufficiently strong willpower can resist or negate the effects.
* **AEM Waves**: This enables him to generate "anomalous electromagnetic waves," able to emit pulses of energy intense enough to physically damage objects such as buildings and aircrafts while disrupting communications.

### Skillset

**Combat Specialism**: Judas is an extremely accomplished special forces operator with tremendous mastery over both armed and unarmed combat, retaining his status as one of the finest CQC combatants in the world. He is shown to know various different martial arts, even developing a personalized system called Street Style. Due to years of taking notes on many battles, he has become very adept at strategy, capable of accurate scrutinization of his enemies or current situation and creating an effective plan from that information. Additionally, he can almost perfectly react to attacks by analyzing an opponent's body language (e.g., line of vision, posture, muscle tension, and center of gravity), including those meant to be unforeseen.

Judas' combat skills are so acute that “they could only be achieved through brutal, life-or-death training”; he's extremely agile, precise, proprioceptive, astute, and requires little to no windup whenever executing physical actions.

* **Ninjutsu**: Judas learned ninjutsu from the seasoned ninja warrior Chie Minami.
* **Horsemanship**: Judas learned how to ride horses and perform mounted combat from the Four Horsemen.
* **Weapon Mastery**: Judas is able to operate several different weapons, such as knives, swords, scythes, bows, and rifles. He can throw knives with deadly precision and accuracy, and even wield two weapons simultaneously.
	+ **Chain Weapon Mastery**: Judas is highly proficient in using chains or chain-based weaponry, easily taking down opponents with them and masterfully handing his spiked chains for not only combat, but also parkour.

**Survivalism**: Over the course of his life, Judas has acquired an assortment of skills focus on subsisting within natural or built environments, and exhibits the ability to very easily gather information about foreign biospheres/ecosystems to almost perfectly assimilate its “do’s and don’ts.” Examples include Kismet Island, the Tacez Jungle, albeit with help from the native tribe, as well as the distorted imitation of a tropical forest when he temporarily visited the Underworld.

In addition to his earned skills, Judas seems to be particularly predisposed to inhabit alpine locations and arctic climates that the majority would actively need to pursue experience for. This natural aptitude extends to intuitive knowledge of organic tracking methods, even understanding how to entrap and kill prey simply by instinct despite never having formal training. He also has an incredible sense of direction.

**Special Operations Expertise**: Judas underwent intense training during his time with the FSR. He is well-versed in espionage, special reconnaissance, direct action, counterintelligence, infiltration/exfiltration, sabotage, assassination, deception, interrogation, manhunting, operation deep behind enemy lines, unconventional warfare, and asymmetric engagements. He can also hack most computer systems.

* **Stealth**: Judas has repeatedly shown the ability to almost completely obscure himself from conventional senses, demonstrating extraordinary control over his body to profound effect, breaching into high-security buildings without being detected and suddenly disappearing out of sight the moment he’s looked away from. This includes social cloaking, disguise, acting, and camouflage.
* **Polymathy**: Judas procured a broad education within biology, general history, medicine, mathematics, physics, advanced chemistry, toxicology, metalsmithing, mechanical engineering, psychology, cryptography, religious studies, etc, though he cannot be viewed as comparable to an actual expert of the aforementioned fields. He learned how to perform magic tricks, sleight of hand, card throwing, and tarot reading from Null. He also knows how to sew.
	+ **Multilingualism**: Judas can speak English, Spanish, Russian, French, Arabic, Mandarin, Greek, and Latin, in addition to his mother tongue Pathonian, as well as use their signed variants.
* **Poisoning**: Judas is familiar with exotic poisons and sedatives. He specializes in neurotoxins.
* **Makeshift weapon creation**: Judas was taught how to manufacture IEDs, smoke bombs, improvised firearms, acid packets, rudimentary incendiary devices, phreaking boxes, booby traps, and related weapons.

**Parkour**: Judas is an amazingly talented traceur, capable of deducing the fastest, most efficient way to maneuver throughout any terrain and executing complex techniques without any issue.

### Weaknesses

**Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder**: According to Doctor Herūpa Shimadi, because Judas experienced a great deal of physical and emotional trauma all throughout his childhood, it affected his body's ability to respond to stress normally; this resulted in him reacting to new stress as though his life were in serious danger and subconsciously perceive trivial inconveniences with disproportionate concern, such as when he nearly melted down due to being unable to remember where he had left his scarf.

**Unnamed Headache Disorder**: Judas suffers from recurrent headaches that are often moderate to severe, which cause symptoms such as nausea, sudden fatigue, body spasms, hives (especially around the neck), and sensitivity to light, sound, and/or smell. He has dealt with it since puberty. They can be triggered by emotional distress, and he describes them as "feeling like his head is splitting."

Headaches are sometimes accompanied by visual and/or auditory hallucinations or visions of Samael, who usually tempts Judas into committing acts of violence and destruction, but also provides cryptic advise or an opinion that is relevant to the situation.

## Equipment

**Costume**: Judas wears a tattered black jumpsuit, mask and cape that presently retain a great deal of damage from scuffing, tears, and burns, as well as being covered in dried blood and grime. Additionally, he employs a metal, diamond-shaped respirator designed to protect him from inhaling hazardous atmospheres, including fumes, vapors, gases and particulate matter. He also has a belt designed with a series of pouches to carry smaller items, such as caltrops, a lighter, a pencil, his cellphone, etc. The gloves are stout and elbow-length gloves with metal claws. They are primarily used for climbing vertical or diagonal surfaces, though he can easily weaponize them by slashing at opponents.

**Field supplies**: Judas owned a yellow backpack that he filled with useful gear. This included a first aid kit, a 60-meter rope, a canteen bottle, a tinderbox, a flare gun, a handheld transceiver, and survival rations. He also packed two large smoke grenades that were used to completely screen areas or signal for help.

**Weapon arsenal**: Judas may wield various weapons when engaged in combat.

* Spiked chains.
* Two VEE Knives; a standard edition and a smaller one, the latter stuffed down his left boot.
* Toe-spiked combat boots.

## Footnotes

1. ↑ Judas' mother originally wanted to name him Citlaltemoc because "a twelve-winged star fell from the sky" in a dream she had the night he was born. This was revealed to be Samael.
2. ↑ Learned from Thanatos
3. ↑ Learned from Nikolaos Kontos