Ben Daimio

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
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### Background

The Axis agent known as the Crimson Lotus was considered a myth by contemporary sources. However, she was very much real. The Crimson Lotus' true name was Yumiko Daimio — a member of the Safinat Dakhma's Inner Circle. As a highly skilled assassin and a witch of remarkable power, Yumiko was responsible for the capture, torture and execution of hundreds of American troops. By the end of the war, a pregnant Crimson Lotus was captured by the American costumed crimefighter known as the Comedian and put on trial for her war crimes.

In prison, Yumiko Daimio gave birth to a child, a son named Masaru. The child was claimed by her sister and her husband, who had moved to the States several years prior to the war. Masara Daimio was raised in Gotham as Max Hasigawa.

When Max was a teenage, his uncle lost his job as the docks in Gotham Harbor but found work with the Yakuza. The criminal associations began to consume the entire Hasigawa family. Max felt this was hypocritical behavior as he had heard his aunt and uncle constantly criticize his mother for her choices. Disgusted by this, Max left home when he was sixteen and eventually ended up in the United States Armed Forces.

Max returned to using his birthname. He married Himari Okamura, the daughter of Japanese immigrants while he was in flight school. Max passed flight training and became an accomplish helicopter pilot. He flew countless missions over Vietnam, even meeting Eddie Blake, the man who had captured his mother and thus resulted in giving Max a life as an American. The two had a good relationship.

### Ben Daimio: 1970 - 1988

Ben was born while his father was overseas. Though most of Ben's childhood, Max was absent and unavailable for many of his son's activities. Ben's mother Himari tried to offset this by telling Ben a lot of stories that painted his father as a war hero, a man of action, and role model worth idolizing. Ben eagerly consumed these tales, desperate to have any kind of relationship with his father.

When Ben was a teenager, his father retired from service. He spent most of his time drinking at the VFW. When he was home, he had trouble relating to civilian life, and was seen as reclusive and unengaged. Max only came to life when people asked him about his work in the military — in which no one could get Max to stop talking.

Ben was a senior in high school when he saw the intrinsic explosions wipe out the nation's capital along with several other American cities. Ben was horrified by this, but his father took it much harder. Max tried to find comfort at the bottom of a bottle and got into a bar brawl which resulted in two men being crippled. Max avoided prison by merit of his military service, but the experience broke him further.

Straight out of high school, Ben applied for officer's training with the U.S. Marines. Though this was Ben's dream, he was also motivated by the idea that his own military service and the resulting stories would help draw his father from his shell.

### Ben Daimio: 1988 - 1996

Ben was an excellent cadet, graduating at the top of his class. While in the Marines, Ben took part in several missions before he was selected to serve with an elite off-the-books strike team, known as Team 7. Ben accepted the position and gained clearance to the covert organization called I.O. (International Operations). Ben was a good fit with the crew, but he butted heads with his commander, resulting in Ben being dismissed from duty.

Due to I-O. clearance issues, Ben could not return to military service and because he had been blacklisted by Team 7's commander, the commanders of I.O.'s other Teams were unwilling to take a chance with him. But someone in I.O. had a soft spot for Ben and gave his file to Tom Manning who pulled some strings and had Ben reassigned to the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense.

### Ben Daimio: 1996 - 1998

Tom Manning was so impressed by Captain Daimio that he made Ben the new field commander for the BPRD's Enhanced Talents Task Force, much to Hellboy's chagrin

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Ailuranthrope Physiology:** Captain Daimio is a were-jaguar. As with most therianthropes, werejaguars' powers wax and wane during the lunar cycle (being at their most potent the closer the moon is to the phase of the Full Moon and at their weakest near the New Moon).
	+ ***Immortality:*** While werejaguars may continue to age for a time after they been bitten, most tend to stop aging somewhere between the age of twenty-five and forty-five. Regardless of when they stop aging, werewolves possess bodies that are not affected by common disease or ailments associated with aging.
	+ ***Regenerative Healing:*** Werejaguars regenerate rapidly, recovering lost limbs or removed organs within a day of rest. Ben's healing is even more effective when he is in his human form. Notably, Ben facial scars and damaged ear are not affected by this ability as these injuries were caused by the injury that initially turned him.
	+ ***Supernatural Senses:*** Werejaguars are supernatural creatures thus their senses are attuned to perceiving ghosts and astral beings.
* **Werejaguar Transformation:** While this transformation is usually mandatory on the nights before and after a full moon, as well the night of, Ben's strict military discipline allows him to transform at any time, including during daylight hours. That said, his transformation often comes at the cost of much of his own sentience, losing much to his inner beast.
	+ ***Cursed Venom:*** Werejaguar's bites secretes an infectious venom.
	+ ***Enhanced Resiliency:*** Werejaguars cannot be harmed by conventional weapons. Only a silver bullet of magic can pierce a werejaguar's flesh.
	+ ***Enhanced Running Speed:*** Werejaguars are incredibly fast with great reflexes and agility. A typical werejaguar can run at around 150 MPH (240 km/h) for hours on end without exertion. Under a Full Moon, werejaguars can reach sprinting speeds which break the sound barrier (~700 MPH/~1300 km/h) for very short distances. Under a New Moon, most werejaguars' sprinting speed is just around 300 MPH (480 km/h). Werejaguars can also jump and climb at remarkable speeds.
	+ ***Enhanced Senses:*** Werejaguars have incredibly acute senses of sight, smell and hearing even outside of their transformed state. Ben can even see part of the infrared spectrum, giving him remarkable nightvision.
	+ ***Enhanced Strength:*** Werejaguar are powerful beings — even more physically powerful than most werewolves. As such, Ben has Class VIII Enhanced Strength when transformed under the power of the Full Moon and Class III Enhanced Strength when transformed under a New Moon. On average, Ben's transformed strength is in the area of Class V Enhanced Strength. When not transformed, Ben's strength is Class I, with minor variations based on the lunar cycle.
	+ ***Magic Fangs and Claw:*** Werejaguar's claws and teeth can rend just about anything: fabric, wood, cinder block, and even steel.
* **Military Training:** Ben is an exceptional soldier whose talent is only amplified by his transformation into a supernatural creature. He is a master marksman, an excellent strategist and world-class hand-to-hand and close-quarters combatant.

### Weaknesses

* **Lunar Cycle:** Ben has to transform during the night of the full moon. Even during the daylight hours under a full moon, Ben will be on edge and can easily transform without intention of doing so. When transformed during a full moon, Ben will not be able to revert to human form until the beast's hunger has been satisfied (usually requiring the spilling of blood) or several hours passed.
* **Self Control:** When stressed beyond his limits, Ben finds it difficult to resist "giving in to the beast" — especially during the full moon. This may cause a transformation or it may cause Ben to act out with violence, binge-eating/drinking, or sexual activity.
* **Vice — Wrath:** Even before his 'incident' Ben was angry and violent. He has gotten better, but he'd still rather punch someone before he would talk about his feelings.
* **Vulnerability — Silver:** Ben can be hurt by silver weapons, even by touching them.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Occult:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Weaponry:** 7 — Legendary
* **Expertise:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Range:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Strategy:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
	+ **TOTAL:** 110
	+ **RANKING:** Elevated Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* During the course of Hellboy's unwillingness to accept the death of his father figure and the overall rusty performance of a stagnant BPRD would lead to a lot of mistakes without Bruttenholm's leadership. Manning, unsatisfied with Hellboy's distracted performance on a past assignment, benched the nigh-indestructible cambion in favor of sending in Captain Ben Daimio, a battle-tested Marine on a mission with little actionable intelligence on what he would be facing. Prepared to capture a live chupacabra plaguing a Bolivian village, Daimio instead found himself up against a werejaguar.
* Ben barely survived but was severely maimed in the process. He would make a miraculous recovery days later, aside from the grisly scar on his face where the creature first bit him. That is when he was given the bad news that he was now cursed to become that same creature he had killed. After years spent coming to terms with this new side of himself and mastering the feral spirit that now resides in his body with him, Ben has learned to harness that power for the benefit of the BPRD.
* Roger keeps following him, hoping he would learn to be a better agent thanks to him. Though Ben found Roger obnoxious at first, the two somehow became best friends.

### Notes

* Ben Daimio is a character from the *Hellboy* series and its related media.
* His appearance is based on the actor Daniel Dae Kim, who portrayed him in the *Hellboy* 2019 film.

## Links and References

* Appearances of Ben Daimio

1. ↑ Network Files: Ben Damio 1
2. ↑ Roy Reimagines... Hellboy
3. ↑ Network Files: Roger the Homunculus