Victor Fries (Mr. Freeze)

## Mr. Freeze

Victor Fries DCWW

"You don't understand. I cannot complete my work without it. I must have it. Everything depends on it. Everything." - Victor Fries

## History

### A Crazy Kid

Born in Gotham City, Victor Fries, pronounced freeze not fries, was a curious but troublesome child. His favorite activity as a young boy was drowning small animals in tupperware containers and then freezing them to preserve them so they could live in the future. His parents were worried by this, but they took no action other than talking until he tried freezing the family cat after drowning it.‎

Because of this, Victor’s parents sent him off to a strict boarding school where they thought his behavior would be normalized, however he was shy making him stand out among the more troublesome students. He fell into depression until he met a young rebellious Elinor Grace Faria, who insisted on him calling her Nora. She was his first real friend and she stayed a friend for many years, causing him to have small on and off crushes on her.‎

### Young Adulthood

Eventually before having to graduate from the school, Nora revealed she shared these feelings for him, the two began dating long distance while Victor went off for college to study cryo-biology, an interest he had ever since childhood, wanting to prove he wasn’t crazy about it as a kid, though knowing very well he was.‎

Victor studied hard, but only barely passed the classes he had to take, however after trying to find a job which proved near impossible, Victor had to go back to schooling for something else, engineering, potentially becoming one of the world's first cryo-engineer, some viruses couldn’t survive in the cold, perhaps he could make cures for illnesses?‎

Still it proved hard for Victor to find a stable job after he moved back to Gotham with Nora, now living happily together and eventually getting married only on Nora’s salary. The two had a rocky relationship, Nora was still rebellious and full of energy while Victor was more calm and content. Eventually this led to a fight where Victor had to settle to get a low-paying job to support Nora, working at a drugstore while doing research on his own time in the basement, mostly on rats, the same animal he mostly froze as a child. Their relationship stayed stable enough for them to get married.‎

### His First Subject

To Victor’s surprise, he actually managed to freeze and bring back multiple rats, even being able to enhance them while in his frozen state. Finding a human volunteer was the next step, eventually paying off a homeless man in private, as he knew his now wife wouldn’t approve. Building the tank was the easy part, the hard part was the experiment. It didn’t pay off. The homeless man ended up dying, to which Vic now had to dispose of the body, freezing it and chopping it into small pieces to melt it down a drain, exposing the larger pieces in trash bags.

### All For Her

It was about at this time where Nora started to get very sick from one of the gasses leaked from one of his experiments, Victor only figured this out due to coming home to Nora almost unconscious in the living room, running downstairs to find an experiment leaking gas. He turned it off and at the time didn't know how dangerous it was, but he still did take her to the doctors. The doctors were unable to find anything that made it seem like Nora had anything serious, but Nora only kept getting worse and worse over time. After a few more doctor visits where the doctors insisted that nothing was wrong and with a few cold-pills everything would be fine, Victor took matters into his own hands, trying to find something to cure his dear wife, resorting to robbing and getting fired from the drug store he worked out. Now running his experiments full time in the basement, Victor invented something very close to his modern day freeze gun, but much smaller and less powerful to try and freeze the virus in Nora.‎‎

After an almost fatal heart attack from Nora, Victor decided it would be better to freeze Nora until he could find a cure later, to which he did, storing her in a tank in the basement. Victor started kidnapping homeless men off the streets, using a now upgraded freeze gun, and injecting them with Nora’s virus, trying different methods to cure them, almost all of them ended fatally.‎

Victor, now trying to recreate the gas in which Nora got ill from to see if he can find a cure via there, accidentally ended up giving himself the virus, however he figured out that in an intense cold it was unable to spread. Freeze began crafting a cryo-suit after figuring this out, as quickly as he could before the virus spread far. This was a success and before Victor had any serious symptoms he had created a prototype cryo-suit that would allow him to work on a much better one. However, to get in it, he had to inject himself with an unfinished experiment he was testing, making him invulnerable to freezing temperatures by heating his blood to an extreme.

‎ Surprisingly, this worked and Victor was able to put on the suit and survive. He kept on upgrading it and his freeze-gun while he continued to try and find a cure for his beloved wife and now himself.