Edward Chase

Edward Chase was a man who was experimented on by his parents since his childhood in order to treat a neurodegenerative disease, but the treatment ended up giving him the new ability to control people's minds at his will. Assuming the name **Mindgrip**, he began to use his powers for personal gain and developed a cruel nature, eventually coming across Charles McLance who was forced into being his personal killer. One day Chase overused his powee on Charles after a year of constant use and Charles walked away. Later, Chase came across Jasmine Chen whom he kept as his personal sex slave for several months.

He eventually went to Scotland and kidnapped Ariana McLance for a year for no other reason than to enrage Charles.

## Biography

Edward Chase, born in the 1980’s to parents Albert and Louise, Chase quickly developed a serious brain malfunction which required a great deal of treatment. Chase spent much of his young life going through seemingly never-ending tests alongside extremely painful treatments, including spinal fluid extractions. These experiences caused Edward to hold a great resentment towards his parents for never showing him affection and instead concentrating purely on their work. Eventually, he developed the power to control people's wills and make them do as he commanded with ease.

### Controlling Parents

Still not aware of the powers he had, Chase began throwing a tantrum forcing his parents to obey his every command, using them as his personal slaves and slowly developed a complete lack of empathy for human needs, focusing entirely on his own desires and pleasure from other people's suffering. Eventually, at the age of ten, he forced his mother to burn her face with an iron, permanently scarring her. Due to fear for their own lives, his parents abandoned Edward and left him to fend for himself for the next twenty years, using his powers to force others to give him food and shelter. Eventually, Chase renamed himself Mindgrip to hide his identity.

### Saltire killing his father

One day Saltire came across Albert Chase and killed him. He was on his fathers list due to unethical scientific practices. Chase held this as a grudge.

## Personality

Edward Chase lacked any form of moral compass or conscience, showing traits of sociopathy. Unlike Malcolm Hunter or Carter Matthews, who relied on brute force to get what they wanted, Mindgrip embraced a more psychological approach when enforcing his will on others. If someone annoyed him, he would frequently go out of his way to order them to do something vicious to themselves. An example of this was when he ordered a newspaper salesman to throw his hot coffee over his face simply for telling him to stop loitering. This was only a mild example; he had been known to order people to remain motionless for hours on end or even to commit suicide in the most brutal of ways. He also had little, if any, self-control, with a tendency to overreact to even the slightest insult.

Ironically, despite being child-like himself, Chase immensely disliked children, believing they should be "seen and not heard, or better still not seen and not heard". Without batting an eyelid, he put the children of a family into a closet and told them to be quiet, not caring that the family's daughter needed the toilet. He also told a man he controlled to become his chauffeur to leave his child on the side of the street.

One of his most defining traits was his complete refusal to take responsibility for any of his actions, often twisting events and finding reasons to make it sound like others were to blame or that his victims deserved the horrible fate he gave them. He went so far as to say Isabelle didn't love him because she was incapable of loving another person, not even considering the possibility that it was because he turned her into his personal mind-slave.

Mindgrip never once considered using his powers for genuine good. He was utterly self-obsessed about his own needs alone and had no feelings for another human being, nor did he show remorse for any of his actions. However, he was intrigued by Charles’ desire to help people upon first meeting him and even asked his “superhero name”. To his surprise, he found rescuing a hostage family from the father rewarding having never experienced gratitude that was at least genuine in his life before and momentarily considered the idea that he could be a hero. Unfortunately, Chase’s lack of morality and narcissism prevented him from judging between right and wrong.

## Powers

* **Mind Control**: Mindgrip had the ability to control another person's mind through literal verbal commands and make them completely obedient to him, thanks to a virus that he emits through microparticles in the air. His power was revealed to be a side-effect of the viral treatment used to cure his childhood degenerative disease. His ability is always active as he cannot stop his body from producing the virus and anyone within his immediate proximity is affected but don't realise it until he issues a command. The nature of Edward’s viral mind control required him to be physically present for his commands to have an immediate effect. Speaking over a phone or through a physical barrier like a sealed room did not enthrall his victim. Once his thrall left his vicinity Chase’s power had a time limit of ten to twelve hours before the victim began to regain his or her own will unless he reestablished control before the time limit was up. Until the time limit was up, the victims would continue to follow Chase’s commands unless he interrupted them and gave them a different order to follow.

## Appearances

### Season 2

* “Fallout”
* ”Family”
* “Beyond Redemption”
* ”Suffering”
* “Way of the Master”
* ”The Trials of Charles McLance”
* ”Mindgrip”
* ”Goodnight Mister Wentworth”

### Season 3

* ”Leap of Faith”
* ”Acceptance”
* ”A Crisis”

### Season 4

* “Reminiscence”
* "Checkmate"
* "Multiversal War part 2"

### Season 5

* “Justice’s End”
* ”Heroes Join Forces Part 2”
* ”Aces, Charles”
* “Multiversal Chase”