Judas Iscariote

*"I have ascended past the heavens, and I have exalted my throne above the stars of God. Do not look away, for you witness the rise of a new supreme being!"*
―Judas during his coronation
**Judas Napoleón Iscariote Amador** is the main protagonist of *Poison of the Heart*.

## Biography

### Early life

Judas was born to the aristocratic Iscariote family on August 15, 2069, at the Casa de Iscariote in Nueva Esperanza, Mexico. His father, Simon Iscariote, taught him about the works of different philosophers, such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Stirner and Niccolò Machiavelli. Conversely, his mother, Sofía Amador, showed him the beauty of life. However, they gave a combined effort to educate him of foreign lands and their cultures, with contrasting ways of doing so, in the hopes of broadening his worldview.

He frequently visited the local catacombs to escape the outside world, finding solace in the silence of the dead.

Following the death of his parents, Judas was adopted by family friend and physician Enrique Sastre, then moved to Mexico City. At age 14, he joined the malfunctional Special Forces Corps.

### Military career

During this period, Judas quickly rose through the command hierarchy, ultimately acquiring the rank of general.

#### Coup of 5-Ocelotl

Owing to his control over the armed forces, Judas managed to consolidate his power in a coup, reestablishing the Mexican Empire and crowning himself Emperor of Mexico.

## Appearance

Judas is an androgynus man of unique and diverse genetic ancestry. He has dark brown hair that cascades to his shoulders, a set of piercing eyes that are blood red in color, and light, warm-toned skin. He stands at 176.098 centimeters and weighs 76.204 kilograms, with a lean, muscular physique.

## Personality

Judas is a highly charismatic, ambitious, and self-confident man, who exudes a commanding presence that inspires awe in those around him. He ordinarily behaves with proper manners and treats others respectfully, but expects a greater degree of devererence in return.

As a child, Judas was curious about the world around him, asking more questions than most people cared to answer. He easily became enthralled by the simplest of things so long as they were new, but would get bored rather quickly and lose focus. It charmed his mother, but frustrated his father.

## Abilities

**Overview**: As the product of military bioengineering, […]. He is further augmented with state-of-the-art cyberware that grants multiple technological abilities.

* **Enhanced Strength**: TBA
* **Enhanced Speed**: TBA
* **Enhanced Durability**: TBA
* **Enhanced Stamina & Endurance**: Judas is able to tolerate a hellish amount of pain and remain constantly active for days without tiring or slowing down.
* **Enhanced Regeneration**: Judas has recovered from innumerable gunshots, broken bones, burns, bite wounds, gashes, and torso impalements, even regenerating his entire left hand after it had been cut off. He completely regenerated after having most of his body incinerated in an explosion and the subsequent conflagration, which left only his skeleton, bits of flesh, and cybernetics remaining.
* **Enhanced Senses**: TBA
	+ **Omnispectral Sight**: Judas can "tune" his vision to interpret the different frequencies and wavelengths of the EM spectrum, including radio waves, microwaves, infrared, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays.
		- **Thermoception**: Judas can see the temperature variations within organisms and the environment, allowing him to spot people through thick smoke or complete darkness. Cold temperatures appear as green or blue while warmer ones appear yellow to dark pink or even red-orange-yellow.
* **Enhanced Acclimation**: Judas can rapidly acclimate to maintain fitness across a range of different environmens, including the vacuum of space.
* **Biological immortality**: TBA

**Enhanced Intelligence**: Judas is a political, military, artistic, and technological genius.

To ensure victory, Judas makes full use of his resources to set up as many long-term contingencies and fallbacks as he can think of, so that no matter what happens, he'll always have a card up his sleeve even in the worst-case scenario.

* **Perfect Memory**: Judas is able to remember large volumes of information in more detail and for much longer than normal.

**Indomitable Will**: Stemming from his deep-seated convictions, Judas has a remarkably strong will, even bringing himself back from biological death without medical aid.

### Skills

**Combat Mastery**: Judas is a consummate special forces operator with tremendous mastery over both armed and unarmed combat, deserving of his status as the finest combatant in the world. Due to years of military service, Judas has become very adept at strategy, able to read his opponents or current situation and create an effective plan from the gathered intel.

According to […], Judas' combat skills are so keen because they were honed through brutal, life-or-death experiences.

* **Weapon Expertise**: Judas is able to wield several different weapons, such as knives, swords, sickles, scythes, bows, and a wide variety of firearms. He can also wield ancient Mexica weaponry. He can throw knives, hatchets and spears with pinpoint accuracy, and even operate two weapons simultaneously.
	+ **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.
* **Horsemanship**: Judas learned how to ride horses and perform mounted combat from his father.

**Survival Mastery**: Over the course of his life, Judas has acquired the necessary skills to subsist within natural or built environments, and he exhibits the ability to smoothly join foreign biospheres/ecosystems. Examples include the jungles of Mexico, albeit with help from native tribes, and the Sonoran Desert.

In addition to his earned skills, Judas seemed to possess an intuitive knowledge of organic tracking methods when he was younger, even understanding how to entrap and kill prey simply by instinct without any formal training. He also has an incredible sense of direction.

**Polymathy**: Judas procured a broad education within biology, world history, medicine, mathematics, physics, chemistry, toxicology, engineering, psychology, cryptography, religious studies, art history, aesthetics, etc., though he cannot be viewed as comparable to an authority on the aforementioned fields. Furthermore, he learned how to cook from his mother; he fully understands chaos theory; and he can hack most computer systems.

* **Multilingualism**: Judas can speak most languages fluently, in addition to his mother tongue Mexican Spanish, as well as use their signed variants.
* **Poisoning**: Judas is familiar with many different poisons and venoms.

## Equipment

**Weapon arsenal**: Judas may wield various weapons when engaged in combat, but he favors the following:

* A customized FX-05 *Xiuhcoatl* assault rifle.
* A customized Glock 17.
* A bush machete.
* Drugs, poisons, and venoms.

## Trivia

* Judas is ambidextrous, but he prefers his left hand.
* Judas dislikes the nickname Judy.
* Judas wears high-compression boxer briefs.
* Judas holds his phone by wrapping his middle, ring and thumb finger around it while sticking out his remaining digits, similar to the sign of the horns.
* Judas likes wearing black eyeshadow and eyeliner.
* Judas bears a strong hatred for religion.
* Judas' favorite food and drinks:
	+ Vino de pathos.
	+ Raw meat, especially blue sheep, ibex, venison, or fish.
	+ Black coffee with honey.
* Judas habitually whistles.
* Judas is a gray pansexual.
	+ He appears somewhat uncomfortable with romance or sex, but only when it’s being directed at him specifically.
* Judas loves horror movies, especially those with exaggerated gore, such as splatter films. He also enjoys FPS games.
* Judas' medical details:
	+ Judas is allergic to dust.
	+ Judas reflexively sneezes when exposed to sunlight.
	+ Judas has persistent thoughts and dreams about violence, including homicide.

## Quotes

* (To Angelo) *"War is a terrible thing, isn't it?"*
* *"In myself I trust."*
* "I don't make predictions. I make promises."

## Footnotes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 In this Spanish name, the first (paternal) surname is Iscariote and the second (maternal) surname is Amador.
2. ↑ Larned from Thanatos
3. ↑ Learned from Nikolaos Kontos