Baihu

The leader of the KRN Bad Boys, Baihu is a ruthless parahuman. He controlled nearly every aspect of Oakland's Chinatown and was involved in a number of illegal activities including: protection rackets, drug trafficking, theft, prostitution and human trafficking. He was also responsible for a number of murders including parahumans, civilians and law enforcement.

## Abilities and Powers

Baihu's exact powers are unknown, though he is most certainly a Brute and Striker. He has a potent regeneration factor that makes him incredibly hard to permanently injure, barring perhaps the most lethal weapons. He was/is able to shrug off many injuries, or at least push through them. He is likely immune or at least severely resistant to pain.

In addition, Baihu has considerably enhanced strength. It is likely at least a portion of his strength comes from his muscles ability to quickly repair themselves after breaking. His upper limits of athleticism is unknown, though he has vertically jumped thirty feet with a running start in the past. His punches are hard enough to cause minor shock waves when meeting equal resistance. He is strong enough to lift a normal person by their neck, something he did often.

In addition to his general durability and strength, injuries Baihu deal far more damage than one would expect with even light touches causing catastrophic injury. It has been widely speculated that this ability slows or even nullifies certain types of regeneration and flat protective abilities, as evidence by him killing Smudge and Alke.

During his arrest, his left arm was reportedly removed during the confrontation with Baneslayer, in addition to a number of should-have-been-lethal injuries.

## Appearance

Baihu is a tall, muscular, overly pale man. He is instantly recognizable, even in plainclothes. When in a fight, he removes his shirt and shoes and wears a pair of worn jeans and a metal mask reminiscent of a tiger. His back and ribs are tattooed with a number of Korean characters that radiated out over his torso. A forward facing, pouncing tiger takes up the bulk of his chest. The Korean letters are a number of names, Korean proverbs as well as traditional Kkangpae markings.

## History

Baihu appeared in Oakland sometime in the early 2007s where he immediately began to kill the parahuman leaders of the gangs and organization in Oakland's Chinatown. Throughout his entire tenure as leader of the KRN Bad Boys, he showed a willingness to kill capes and civilians who caused trouble for him inside his territory. It is widely believed that the only thing preventing a kill order being signed for him was that he remained in Chinatown and didn't push outside of it.

Despite his initial violence, crime statistics show that under Baihu, violent crime dropped by 32% in Chinatown. However, nonviolent crimes including prostitution, human trafficking and drug dealing rose by almost 50%.

### Arrest

On January 5th, Baihu left Chinatown for unknown reasons and pushed into the greater Oakland area. The city was put into a PRO directed lock down and PRO agents attempted to subdue Baihu but proved ineffective. He killed a number of agents before retreating.

The next morning, Baihu was found in a East Oakland neighborhood with a number of injuries. He was destroying homes, vehicles and other property with reckless abandon until Baneslayer, Scape and Showdown of the Oakland Peacekeeper team arrived on the scene. Despite their best efforts, both Showdown and Scape proved unable to contain the raging the Baihu though he was eventually restrained by Baneslayer.

Gateway from the Santa Lucia PRO department was called to the scene to quickly transport Baihu to the Harper Parahuman Detention Center.

## Known Allies

The Boxers

Punji

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