Aldrich

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> ### Name
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> Aldrich Yang
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> ### Alias
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> Bruce Vane
> Master
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> Death Walker
> Thanatos
> Dearest Usurper
> Armored (Volantis)
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> ### Race
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> Human (former)
> Undead (Ch 10) (former)
> Lich (Ch 87)
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> ### Ability
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> Necromancer of Legion
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> 44
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> ### Age
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> 17
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> 2m+
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> Black (former)
> Glowing Green
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> ### Hair
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> Black
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> Fair (former)
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> Father (deceased)Mother (deceased)
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> As a Necromancer, death has always been by your side. It has creeped by your shadow. It has lurked in the depths of your being. It has shaped who you are. But unlike many who face death and break under its abyssal gaze, you stared back and took control over the darkness.
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> Wielding negative energy toxic to life but nourishing to undead, you commit yourself to a path of dark magics where under your masterful touch, death is never the end. Or perhaps, to you, death is merely a beginning.
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> Raising undead armies, summoning rotted and bare boned monstrosities, and spreading necrotic misery and the cold of the grave all fall under your domain. - Chapter 10
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Aldrich is the main character of Super Necromancy System. He is a Lich and the Kindred of Death Lord.

## Appearance

Aldrich was a handsome young man with black hair, black eyes and a lean, muscular physique, chiseled through years of intense training. After becoming undead, Aldrich's retained most of his appearance, but gained a ghostly pale complexion.

Following Aldrich's ascension into a true Lich, his form changed entirely. A bare skeletal spine of steely dark grey shade, almost as if made of metal, emerged from the center of the green mist sphere, forming into the skeletal upper half of a human, standing nearly seven feet (2.1m) tall. The ribcage formed around the Phylactery, the ribs curling around it in a defensive matrix. Strands of energy shot forth from his ribs and tethered to the Phylactery in a web of energy strands that kept it suspended in place and thoroughly protected. The lower half of Aldrich's skeletal body was not visible for it melded into his now permanent spherical aura of green energy. Spikes jutted out of his metallic dark grey bones, curving out from his shoulders, forearms, and in the form of horns around the crown of his skull. His voice rung out in echoing, thunderous peals that no longer sounded remotely human. It was deep, threatening, and chilling to the core.

This form of energy and bone was his Aspect Base, his fundamental appearance as the Death Elemental known as a Lich. On top of this, he could create what was known as a Materius, essentially a far more physical form that Liches used to appear similarly to other mortals and to reduce any weaknesses they had to attacks that targeted spirits. Aldrich's Materius looked mostly as he had in his human form, though scaled up in size to his new height of a bit over 2 metres. Aldrich's Materius wears spiritweave clothing made by Wai'Ki, which takes the form of a sleek all-black suit.

## Personality

Aldrich was initially a bright eyed young boy who idolized justice and heroes like his parents. After he was made to watch as they were horrifically tortured to death, his mind broke, the cracks being filled by something cold and sharp rather than the warmth he had once possessed. What was left of Aldrich was an unfeeling, stoic, silently murderous young man, so mentally distorted and broken that a telepathic Alter who attempted to read his mind to assess his mental state experienced a mild seizure and was left traumatized. After the deaths of Adam and Elaine, and himself, Aldrich's repressed, bloodcurdling levels of hatred and resentment resurfaced.

## History

Aldrich was a child of two D and C rank heroes, and as such grew up admiring heroes and idolizing justice just as his parents had taught him to. Even though Aldrich turned out to be a dud, his parents love did not stop loving him, which was rare, as most of the time that a hero realized their child was a dud, they would abandon the child into the Wastelands without a second thought. One of the things Aldrich liked doing during his childhood was playing an old video game he had found, called Elden World. In this RPG game, he had played as a Necromancer and sunk countless hours into it, making his character as overpowered as possible.

Aldrich's comparatively happy childhood came to an end when, while his parents were out on a mission going after a dangerous criminal organization called the Trident, the TV switched on by itself. On the TV was his parents, beaten and bloody, tied to steel chairs. A man in a red mask addressed Aldrich by name and informed him that this was happening because they got in the way of Trident. In the couple of hours that followed, Aldrich could only watch as his beloved parents were burnt, cut, dismembered, electrocuted, poisoned, flayed, taken apart piece by piece and butchered alive, punctuated by their bloodcurdling screams. It only ended once they finally gave out and died, soon after which the authorities rushed into the house to pull him away from the TV and take him to the hospital. Aldrich did not cry or scream on this night, nor ever again, as something deep inside him had become thoroughly and profoundly broken.

As he was a dud, Aldrich spent the next decade or so ceaselessly training his own body and attempting to get into academies through the Frame initiative. Though Aldrich topped all of his entrance exams, his mental evaluations did not go so well. He expressed a concerningly high level of desire to murder villains and criminals, and when a telepathic Alter attempted to read his mind to assess his mental state, he was so profoundly disturbed and mentally broken that the Alter experienced a mild seizure and was left traumatized. Due to this, he was not able to get into any top or even mid-tier academies, but did manage to get into a low-level one called Blackwater. Unfortunately, as predicted, Blackwater was a horribly discriminatory place that only took in duds such as them in order to receive extra government funds, without any intention of actually training or even protecting them. Aldrich was aware of this but was fully prepared to suffer through the torment, as it would mean getting his license and becoming able to go after Trident.

Predictably, Aldrich and the two friends he made, cheerful Adam and technically talented Elaine quickly became the torture toys of the chief bully, Seth Solar, and his friends. Aldrich himself was targeted the least as he did not react to them and was thus boring. After a year of regular torment, there was an incident when Seth barged into their dorm, drunk and angry, as his position as rank 1 in the academy was occupied by a talented woman named Mel. He had wanted to drag Elaine away and sexually assault her in order to blow off steam but she held her phone up, threatening to leak his behavior to the internet and give his family a huge PR mess. Adam attempted to stand up to him, however, Seth lashed out, snapping Adam's neck, killing him. Knowing that even he was screwed now that he had killed a person, he decided that in order for him to get away with this he needed to kill the others, and he did just that. He put his fist through Elaine's chest cavity and then through Aldrich's stomach. Before Aldrich lost the last tether of his vitality, he crawled toward them through sheer force of fucking rage, eyes wild with the soul curdling hatred he had been repressing, declaring that they do not deserve to live, that whatever hell he ends up in, he will crawl out and drag them down with him, that he will be their judgement.

In the depth of the abyss, Aldrich saw a screen appear in front of him, one akin to the screens he saw in his favourite video game, Elden World. The screen was asking him to choose his class. Instinctually, he chose the Necromancer class. He was then asked to choose his Occultation, that is, the specific vein of necromancy he wished for. of four options, he chose Occultation of Legion.

## Quotes

1. *For seventeen long, long years, Aldrich had faced nothing but abuse. He had been beaten, spat on, called worthless, and told to die for the sake of humanity's evolution. The world had torn his parents away from him without a second thought, torturing them and breaking them apart when they were some of the only precious lights of good left in this dark world.* *The world had torn his friends from him under a merciless, uncaring fist. All because Aldrich was powerless. But now, he had power. He remembered his last words to Seth Solar and his gang before he died. He swore he would be their judgement. This would be the first trial. His first judgement.* - Aldrich thinking to himself, chapter 15.
2. *He was going to die. Everything he had worked for, all those years, the death of his parents, the death of his friends. All of it for nothing. Gone in just one pathetic moment. One casual punch. All for these privileged Alter fucks to escape the consequences of their actions. All to escape judgement. The thought of it was so agonizing, so unfair. He had thought that when he saw his parents butchered like animals, he had lost any capability to feel strong emotion. But emotion, maybe all the hatred and bitterness that had bottled up in him over the many agonizing years, welled up for one final moment before it all ended.* *"You…you miserable fucks," said Aldrich, coughing blood. It was a miraculous effort that he could even speak, that he did not just drop dead, but somehow, through sheer force of will, he did. He raised a shaking, accusing finger at Seth Solar and his group. "You…none of you deserve…to live. All of you-all of you-I swear, I swear I will make you suffer." Aldrich's breath began to wheeze, and he started to crawl forwards, his eyes bloodshot, his expression wild, deranged.* *Everyone in the group except Seth Solar instinctively cowered backwards even though Aldrich was a dead man walking. There was something about a corpse crawling through sheer force of fucking hatred that chilled them to the bone. "I swear…whatever Hell I go to, I'll craw my way back out, then I'll drag you all in. I-I will be your judgement."* - Aldrich, Chapter 9