Nero Torres

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## Appearance

Nero is moderately tall humanoid with a vantablack face and hair and bright white eyes. He wears a long, bluish-gray hooded jacket with various purple and lavender colored accents, including belts around his forearms and waist and embroidered patches that symbolize his connection to Q. Underneath, he wears a dark lavender waistcoat, baggy, dark gray pants, purple fingerless gloves, and bluish-gray combat boots.

## Personality

With a tongue of silver and heart of gold, Nero almost always maintains a flippant and laid-back attitude, often making witty comments and jokes in even the most tense of situations. Due to his habit of speaking without considering the consequences of his words, Nero tends to mouth off to anyone who opposes him, typically leading to a multitude of problems that he usually sorts out through brute force, or if that doesn't work, running away.

However, beneath his sarcastic and seemingly uncaring demeanor, Nero often feels insecure about various aspects of himself and sometimes doubts his ability to protect those he cares about. Because of this, Nero can tend to be overprotective of his friends and especially his sister, and willingly dives into harm's way if it means ensuring the safety of those close to him.

## Relations

### Q

Formerly the benevolent god who brought humanity back from the brink of extinction, Qliphoth has since lost their memory from their encounter with Nemesis including their name, remembering only that they have to make their way to the Tree of Qliphoth to have any hope of gaining their memories back. Problem is, they have no idea what the Tree of Qliphoth even is, but named themself Q after the only thing they can remember after their awakening. During the period between their supposed "death" and Nero's arrival, Q wandered the barren wastelands of the world they left behind, hoping to find clues as to how to reach the Tree of Qliphoth and regain their memories.

Q and Nero share a symbiotic relationship with one another. Q relies on Nero to act as a host, since without a host, Q will slowly become weaker until they can no longer support themself with what limited power they have. Nero, on the other hand, relies on Q to not only keep him alive whilst traversing the land, but to also enhance the weapons he creates using his body.

### AEGIS

During their travels, Nero and Solstice find the abandoned chassis of one of the Paragon's elite mechanical soldiers and decide to repair it, using a flashdrive containing the AI of a therapy robot. The result of this came to be the fourth member of their party: AEGIS (Automated Emotional Guidance/Instruction System), a highly proficient combat machine with advanced deduction and analysis skills, as well as the compassion and empathy of a companion robot.

AEGIS usually acts as a mediator for the many arguments that Nero and Solstice have along their journey, and are often the one thing keeping them from killing each other.

### Solstice

Nero's younger sister. After Nero's banishment from Elysium after he objected to their mass Daemon genocide, the Paragon increased the intensity of her Sentinel training to the point of almost killing her, as they were convinced she played a part in her brother's defection. As a result, she grew to hate Nero with a passion, something that she would take with her after becoming a Sentinel.

Because Nero blames himself for Solstice's trauma that she endured from becoming an Sentinel, he believes that it's his responsibility to undo what happened to her, so he takes it upon himself to kick Nemesis out of her body and free her from her influence.

As she travels alongside Nero, Solstice becomes more confident in her abilities, and upon defeating Nemesis and absorbing its power, she surpasses her brother in strength. Solstice and Nero behave like any normal siblings would, with Solstice acting as the straight-woman to Nero's more flamboyant personality, and the two often getting into fights that typically require Aegis to intervene and prevent them from getting out of control. In the end, Nero cares a lot about his sister, and never intended for her to feel inferior in the first place, but rather just wanted to protect her.

### The Paragon

Formerly a peaceful group of humans who acted as Qliphoth's ambassadors. However, after the Archon Council began sending scouts to Elysium, they were overcome with paranoia and fear that their benevolent ruler had some ulterior motive, leading to them turning Qliphoth's gifts against them in the form of the first Sentinel, leading to their defeat and near death. Since then, the Paragon has taken Qliphoth's throne and became an oppressive force that intends to become the sole authority of the universe after using the Sentinels as tools to extend their rule into other worlds and overthrowing the Archon Council.

During Nero's training to become a Sentinel, he was sent on missions to eliminate any and all Daemons that still lingered, as it made for good training and the Paragon didn't want their power to fall into any other hands than theirs. On one of these missions, Nero discovered that in ancient times, Daemons were hailed as the saviors of humanity, destined to rise in humanity's greatest time of need, yet the Paragon was sending him and all the other Nephalem to kill them. Upon discovering this, he immediately rushed to inform the Paragon of this, and in response, he was banished from Elysium, left to rot in its still-toxic landscape before fusing with Q. This confirmed his suspicions of the Paragon deliberately committing mass-Daemon genocide to make sure there existed no threats to their rule.

### Nemesis

The first Sentinel to have been created as a prototype that initially existed without a sentient host, and instead was contained within a machine. After defeating Qliphoth in battle and allowing the Paragon to usurp his throne, Nemesis went rogue, nearly escaping the control of the Paragon until she was captured and brought back. This made the Paragon realize that they required a sentient being to stabilize the Sentinels, as without one, they cannot be controlled and would go rogue. They proceeded to experiment on the Nephalem and eventually settled with Solstice, the first of her kind to be deemed Sentinel compatible. However, when Nero separated Nemesis from Solstice's body, Nemesis immediately fled, and began her conquest to not only seek revenge against her creators for trapping her inside the body of someone whom she hated, but to also rule the universe better than that Qliphoth pushover that she defeated ever could.

### Yaldabaoth

At the end of his journey, Nero must keep Elysium from seeing certain obliteration by confronting the Archon Council and attempting to convince them not to destroy his home in pursuit of the traitor Qliphoth.

## Abilities and Weapons

On the battlefield, Nero can be described as a glass cannon, in that he specializes in dealing the heaviest blows he can onto his enemy and can move at high speeds, which allows for him to dodge most attacks while being able to quickly dispatch most opponents. However, Nero doesn't have nearly as many defensive options compared to his offensive ones, and it doesn't take many successful hits for Nero to eventually fall.

Nero's laid-back attitude often bleeds into his fighting style, as Nero is known for going with the flow of most altercations he finds himself in, and often makes improvised weapons from the environment around him.

Nero's main methods of defending himself are typically to either counter enemy attacks by striking with equal if not more power, or to summon Q to absorb the impact of the attack. This can prove very exhausting for Nero if done for long periods of time, which incentivizes him to not spend too much time fighting his enemies, but still allowing for him to taunt his enemies wherever possible.

### Basic Abilities

* As he becomes more in touch with his powers, Nero is able to summon a wider variety of weapons so long as he knows what they look like and how they work.

* Nero can use his body as a weapon by imbuing his arms and legs with the same properties as his other weapons, including energy absorption, increased durability, and increased movement speed.

* Nero's wounds passively heal over time, but at a much slower rate than in his Equinox Form.

### Q

* Nero can bond Q to weapons he conjures.

* This bond allows for the weapon to absorb energy from its surroundings and turn it against his opponents.

* Releases energy by creating a large wave-shaped projectile from its blade or by superheating it and increasing its cutting ability tenfold.

* Nero can release Q for a short amount of time and use it as an extension of his body like a whip or grappling hook to get himself out of a sticky situation or to bring his opponents closer.

### Equinox

* Reveals itself after Nero ejects Q from his body and is consumed by the Daemonic side of his heritage.

* As Equinox, Nero's mind becomes extremely unstable, and will not hesitate to eliminate anything standing between him and his objective.

* Receives a dramatic increase in virtually all physical abilities, including speed, strength and endurance, as well as an extremely heightened sense of sight and hearing.

* Equinox can quickly travel long distances by what can only be described as ripping holes in the fabric of space and appearing out the other side, which Equinox can use to travel short-to-moderate distances to pursue their prey.

- This ability can be used to quickly close the gap between Equinox and its target, so long as it senses their presence or knows their location.

* All wounds that may have been suffered during an encounter quickly heal over a short period of time.

* Gains the ability to summon a very large variety of weapons, both melee and projectile, and has even been seen summoning an entire truck and throwing it at Solstice during their final encounter.

## RP Roles

* Squidward Tentacles (Spongebob SquarePants)
* Mondo Owada (Danganronpa V1: Trigger Happy Havoc)
* Teruteru Hanamura (Danganronpa V2: Goodbye Dispair)
* Miu Iruma (Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony)
* Sniper (Team Fortress 2)
* Captain Cuttlefish (Splatoon)
* Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid)
* Tobias (The Amazing World of Gumball)
* Yosuke Hanamura (Persona 4)
* Yamcha (Dragon Ball)
* Hornet (Hollow Knight)
* Box Ghost (Danny Phantom)
* Phone Guy (Five Nights at Freddy's)
* The Riddler (Batman)
* Modeus (Helltaker)
* Hu Tao (Genshin Impact) Favorite Role
* Glenn Quagmire (Family Guy)
* Burgerpants (Undertale)
* Berdly (Deltarune)
* jschlatt (Twitch)
* Jesse Pinkman (Breaking Bad)
* Red Guy (Don't Hug Me. I'm Scared)
* Netzach (Library of Ruina)
* Barack Obama (US Presidents) Favorite Role
* Chūya Nakahara (Bungou Stray Dogs) Favorite Role
* Fuzzy (Super Mario Bros.)
* Goro Majima (Yakuza)
* Sampo Koski (Honkai: Star Rail)
* Hobie Brown (Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse) Favorite Role
* Godot (Ace Attorney)
* Markiplier
* Captain Fiddles (Garten of Banban) Favorite Role
* Nicholas Wolfwood (Trigun Stampede)
* Gerbo (Bugbo)
* Batter (Identity V)

## Trivia

* Nero was originally named Torres, a reference to an image of Club Penguin user Torres126 looking at a black Puffle which resembled Nero's original appearance. (Suggested by Everyworld)

* Before being named Torres, Nero's very first name was Pringles, given to him by wackyjoke85. However, if anyone other than wackyjoke85 were to refer to Nero using said name, the punishment is death.

* Nero cannot die of natural causes.

* Nero eats food even though he doesn't have to, and his favorite food is a caramel flan.

* Nero was a cashier at a seafood restaurant once, but soon quit after his boss refused to give him a raise.

* In another life, Nero sometimes competed in Mario Kart tournaments at local bars as a way of making money on the side.

* Despite it being his favorite color, Nero refuses to wear purple business suits, often stating that it reminds him of someone.

* Currently has the record for shortest AMV.

* Nero is Australian.

* Nero died of a heart attack in an RV, muscles bulging, surrounded by shirtless men and protein shakes.

* Nero is 90,000 dollars in debt.

* Nero was not responsible for what happened in the United Kingdom on September 8, 2022.

* Before running for president, Nero used to work for a funeral home.

* Nero is a nymphomaniac.

* Whatever you're selling, Nero ain't buying, yo.

* Nero was once part of a biker gang.

* Nero lives in an actual nightmare.

* Nero is Kami's illegitimate child.

* Nero's grade school classmates used to call him Nerdo.

* Nero was falsely accused of tax fraud by the government and had to make a phone call to dispute their accusations.

* Nero is actually a nickname; his full name is Valentinez Alkalinella Xifax Sicidabohertz Gombigobilla Blue Stradivari Talentrent Pierre Andri Charton-Haymoss Ivanovici Baldeus George Doitzel Kaiser III.

* Nero works as the social media manager for the Scrub Daddy company and once went to Costco to buy more Scrub Daddies.

* Nero could have his Gucci on.

* Nero got really high once and made a custom playlist for making love to his (nonexistant) wife. Have a listen:

## Gallery

Torrescrab.pngNero meeting God while on an LSD trip.Pullstring.pngVince taking out his misplaced aggression on Nero.Sexualstyle.pngNero bussing it down sexual style as a guest-star in popular TV series She-Hulk.Hutorres.pngNero hanging out with his new pal, Hu Tao of Genshin Impact fame.Nerdo.pngHimSandler.pngBrilliant! Nero Torres is a genius.
## Notes:

Hello! Thank you for giving my story a chance! You might ask me, "Why did you write a novel-length story for a small fandom, for a character that isn't even the most popular?" The truth is that I might not be right in the head, frankly. I've been in the hills fuckin' dudes

hello this is baggans very good job sir torres i love you

Hello, this is Jackull. I enjoy this greatly.

hello, this is ivy. i deeply enjoy the nero torres lore.

File:Hiii.jpeghello this is nero what the hell are you guys doing in my house

Hello, Vince here. It's better than being alone.

Hello, it's Bob. One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do. Twoooooo can be as bad as one.

Hello, Maz here. IS it true that there's a ghost in yuor'e house? sounds... horrifying and beleaguered!