Rapidity

**Bartholomew "Barry" Wyatt** is a half-man, half-demon anti-hero known as **Rapidity**, stylized as the **Speed Demon**.

## Biography

### Early Life

#### Becoming the Speed Demon

Barry Wyatt had an extremely challenging childhood. After killing his brother Damon as a teenager, his father brought him to Hell where the Devil himself transformed Barry into his new Speed Demon," an individual with demonic heritage granted superhuman speed. Barry was the third Speed Demon after Maggie's sister and his brother. Barry was given a formula, which took decades to perfect, and was the first person to positively respond to the drug. However, he was required to feast on the blood of others in order to maintain stability. Additionally, his personality split due to battling his homicidal urges for his own survival while simultaneously resisting the chance to hurt innocent people.

### Adventures

#### Fighting Zeus

Barry would join his father on a mission, where they fought against Zeus and he inherited his power of lightning. His girlfriend, Maggie Smith, was shocked that he and his father returned unharmed.

#### Return to Earth

Unbeknownst to Barry, Maggie was responsible for his mother's death. When she revealed the truth to him, Barry was sent into a frenzy and challenged her to a duel in the Devil's Ring. Barry was victorious and returned to the overworld where he reunited with his former best friend, Austin Silver. However, he had no control over his cross-species genetics, and asked Austin for help. However, Barry took off after years of him and Austin failing to gain control his dark urges.

#### Becoming a God

Not wanting to harm the innocent, Barry returned to the underworld and formed a community in which humans and demons alike praised him for protecting the land. A golden monument was built of himself for his efforts, and eventually Maggie and the Devil named him the God of Lightning, establishing him as one of the Gods of the Underworld. Barry eventually abandoned his human side, seeking more power to protect his new home, the very far northwestern district "the Badlands." Surprisingly, Barry forgave Maggie for what she did to his mother and settled down with her, even getting married.

In 2021, Barry was summoned to San Francisco to stop Lilah’s path of destruction. Along with his long lost twin sister Vixen and Austin, Barry stopped Lilah Springs' reign of terror as "Bloodlust." Barry also met Ava Acer, who designed gadgets for Vixen.

### Rapidity vs. Shadow

#### Earth-2

In 2022, Barry caught the attention of his Earth-2 counterpart, who was two years into his career as a crimefighter and was impressed by his methods and results, since he managed to keep the peace in his world. At his core, Barry was an anti-hero who took matters into his own hands, acting as a protector of both worlds, but his darker methods were not widely popular.

Barry's counterpart was morally conflicted, but invited Barry to his world in hopes of better fighting crime. On Earth-2, they tried to battle Thomas Wyatt's corruption within Siren City, but ultimately disagreed on their ideas. Barry viewed his counterpart as slow and ineffective. In a display of his true character, Barry killed a squad of corrupt policemen in front of Austin Silver and threw him off the skyscraper on which they stood. Barry's counterpart caught Austin with his grappling hook, and they found an unconscious Lilah Springs. Barry and his counterpart fought for their beliefs, with Barry ultimately losing and opening a portal to the Underworld, dragging Austin down.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

*"Power limit isn't a concept to me, there's no limit to power when you're a God."*
—Rapidity
* **Transcendent Cambion Physiology:** Barry is a half-demonic god and half-human, specifically the son of the God of War, and he is also known as the God of Speed and the God of Lightning. As such, he had extraordinary athletic abilities even before achieving incredible power.
	+ **Superhuman Strength:** Barry's demonic strength allows him to throw around fully grown men and tear off their limbs, even enhanced humans such as Captain Nazi. He becomes even stronger when he drinks his own blood.
	+ **Superhuman Durability:** Barry is extremely tough and resilient as a result of his demonic heritage. His muscle and bone tissue hardened even further to compensate for his superhuman speed. During a bar fight, he was unharmed when a man slammed a steel chair over his head.
	+ **Superhuman Agility:** Barry is incredibly agile, allowing him to catch his enemies off guard with how quickly he can move and contort in battle.
	+ **Superhuman Senses:** Barry's senses are heightened compared to those of a human's, as he was able to hear police sirens from a distance.
* **Superhuman Speed:** Barry can travel at superhuman speed, being known as the God of Speed in the underworld. He is able to run on clouds and even lightning. Barry is immune to inhibitor collars not from his universe. According to his counterpart, Barry has "the speed of Hermes." He becomes even faster when he drinks his own blood.
	+ **Superhuman Reflexes:** Barry was able to catch all of the bullets fired at him by a squad of police officers.
	+ **Extreme Force Generation:** Barry body checked Austin and Kidlat (a combined weight exceeding 450 pounds) across the Devil's Ring.
	+ **Time Travel:** Barry is able to move so quickly that the resulting kinetic energy buildup smashes a hole in the space-time continuum.
	+ **Dimensional Travel:** Barry is able to create breaches that lead into the multiverse from his super-speed. He brought his counterpart home to Earth-2, and once opened a portal to a random universe simply to kill one of his own counterparts to drink their blood.
* **Electricity Manipulation:** Barry possesses the power of Zeus, having inherited it. He creates energy when he runs, leaving behind a trail of black and white lightning which he can manipulate for a variety of effects, such as creating daggers out of bolts of lightning. He repeatedly electrocuted Thomas Wyatt when he saved his counterpart.
	+ **Flight:**
	+ **Electrical Immunity:**
* **Weapon Calling:** Barry can summon his knife to his hand due to an enchantment placed upon the weapon by the Devil. He can control his knife in a manner akin to telekinesis, although this only applies to his knife.
* **Blood Empowerment:** Barry becomes stronger and faster when he drinks his own blood.

### Abilities

* **Expert Combatant:** Barry has some experience in hand-to-hand combat, having been trained by his father. He killed his brother when they were teenagers, and received further training from Kidlat Ballesteros to become a gladiator in the Devil's Ring. He became known as the "Demon Slayer" for having killed hundreds of thousands of demons during his time in Hell. However, Barry is not as skilled as his counterpart and relies more on his advanced speed in a fight. He uses techniques from Professional Wrestling, Boxing, Balintawak, Taekwondo, Capoeira, Silat, and Wushu. With his father, Barry defeated Zeus. He killed dozens of corrupt police officers and gangsters in one night and he easily defeated Lilah Springs from his counterpart's world, but he lost to his counterpart. In the Devil's Ring, he defeated and executed Captain Nazi before his duel with his counterpart.
	+ **Knife Mastery:** Barry is a master of fighting with his knife. He can throw it with enough accuracy to split a bullet in half. He can also improvise his bolts of lightning as daggers.
* **Photographic Memory:** Barry was able to perfectly draw Austin from memory.

## Weaknesses

* **Personality Disorder:** As a result of his mixed genealogy, Barry struggles with a psychopathic personality disorder. He is indecisive and irrational, and he is cold blooded and unstable in his actions. He was willing to kill a counterpart of his from a random universe simply to drink his blood and become stronger.

## Techniques

* **Professional Wrestling:** One of Barry's techniques is a jumping cutter, better known as an RKO.
* **Boxing:** Barry was trained by Austin in the basics of boxing.
* **Balintawak:** Barry learned how to hunt animals with a knife from his father. He received further training in knife-fighting techniques from Kidlat Ballesteros.
* **Taekwondo:**
* **Capoeira:**
* **Silat:**
* **Wushu:**

## Equipment

### Weaponry and Gadgets

* **Knife:** As a child, Barry was given a knife by his father and used it to go hunting with him. He used it to kill his brother, and kept it with him as his signature weapon. The Devil enchanted it, allowing him to summon it to his hand. On Earth-2, he used his knife to kill 35 gangsters in a short time.

## Relationships

* Sarah Wyatt - Mother
* Damon Wyatt † - Brother and Victim
* Vixen Wyatt - Sister
* Maggie Smith - Wife
* Julia Wayne - Step-Daughter
* Frank Wyatt - Future Son

Allies* Devil
* Naberius
* Captain Nazi † - Victim
* Lilah Springs (Earth-Prime)
* Barry Wyatt/Shadow
* Lilah Springs
* Kidlat Ballesteros