Amphibian Matteo Shanks

Cousins: Chopper + 4 unnamed dead cousins (2 male & 2 female)

Parents: Red Shanks (father); Shyera (mother)

Uncles: Ba'al; Hawkre; Rex; Kakashi

Half-Siblings: Train Scarlet (brother); Lira (sister) + 11 more currently unidentified

Partner: Numeria (former)

Children: Mary-Anne Blackloch; Damien Blackloch

Sister-in-law: Mati Lilain-Shanks

## Physical description

### Hair color

black (formerly dark brown)

Amphibian Matteo Shanks is one of the most recognized and feared figures in the galaxy. He, alongside Kevin Ethian-Fox and Ben together known as the *Trinity*, are responsible for the founding of the Amphibian Army, which became one of the most feared group of criminals in the galaxy. Additionally Amphibian is also considered to be the Army's supreme leader by outside forces, due to his title of First Emperor. But that is inaccurate, as he does not lead the Army by himself and always cooperates with the other Emperors, or at the very least the other members of the *Trinity,* when taking decisions.

### **Appearance**

Amphibian's original form was humanoid in nature with six extendable tentacles purtruding from his lower spinal column. In this form his skin had two different shades of blue, a lighter blue, which traveled along Amphibian's veins and arteries, and a darker blue, which covered the rest of his skin. His eyes were and still are blue and his hair was a dark shade of brown. He also posessed well-developed arm, leg, and abdomen muscles. With time Amphibian's body ended up covered in extensive scarring and tattoos. Some of his most notable scars are a deep scar in the chest area where the heart was supposed to be, another deep scar on his right shoulder and a burn mark on his right cheek. Later this burn mark was covered by the tattoo of a black flower, the insignia of the Amphibian Army. Some other tattoos of the First Emperor were a set of blue chains around his right ankle, a big green Z on his lower left abdomen, an orange claw in his right palm and a set of red and pink crossed daggers on the left side of his neck. Shortly before an event that completly changed Amphibian's appearance and biology, he also lost his left arm to a factory press, as he was trying to escape it. This led to a scar closing the stump below his left elbow, where his arm used to be and where he now has a mechanical golden arm attached to said stump.

When hiding this form behind one of Kev's masks, Amphibian looked like a young caucasian adult in his early 20s, with his hair and eye color staying the same and the tentacles retracted into his back. Most of his scars and tattoos are not visible this way.

Amphibian's body underwent radical changes when Mastermind subjected the Emperor to a procedure in which she fused the soul of a being knoiwn as *Queen of War Bellona* with Amphibian's body. After this procedure Amphibian's appearence and biology had drastically changed, later identified as closely resembling that of the Queen of War. He now looked like a tanned woman more muscular than he was before, with short messy black hair, he also lost the ability to use his tentacles without ripping open the skin on his back. An aspect that did not change was the scars and tattoos covering Amphibian's body, and with some more time a few more joined the collection. The most obvious example of this is the patch of artificial skin covering Amphibian's left shoulder and upper left arm. On top of that Amphibian also ended up losing his right hand, which was replaced with the hand of a deceased member of Damokles' Council which led to a scar located slightly lower than the stump on his left arm. The two pieces of his arm are connected through a thin wire, which was never removed post operation. The Emperor's new right hand also had its own tattoo on the back of the hand. This one depicted seven swords in the colors grey, blue, silver, gold, red, green and transparent (sorted from thumb to the little finger), with the tips of all of the swords crossing at the height of his wrist. Later a bigger version of the blue sword also ended up on the elektrian's back, with three dragons, a red, a blue, and a green one depicted flying around the sword. Alongside these dragons Amphibian also grew a pair of leathery grey wings allowing him to fly. Similarly to the three dragons the Emperor also possesses two red wyvern tattoos. One blood-red two-mouthed one that starts on the back of Amphibian’s neck and spiraled around his right shoulder and upper arm all the way to the right elbow and a wine-red shorter wyvern starting in the emperor's right palm spiraling all the way up to the same elbow with the tips of the wyvern tails only a few millimeters apart. The later one was cut off when the elektrian lost his right hand, but it returned a while later. After getting his orange claw also remade in his palm now holding the shorter wyvern, the last tattoo Amphibian got was a rust-golden anchor on the right side of his neck, with the low anchor point almost touching his shoulder and the top of the anchor being attached to a rust-greenish chain that ended behind his right ear.

As for Amphibian's clothes he likes to wear pair of dark-colored jeans. Before growing his pair of wings he usually went with a simple white t-shirt and a dark hoodie, he also used to wear a bulletproof vest under the hoodie, which he ditched due to it limiting his movement. After the growth of his wings Amphibian switched to a white tanktop with a wide enough opening on the back to fit the wings. In moments where Amphibian had to conceal them he folded them in and pulled a black leather jacket over them, eventhough he claimed this was less than comfortable.

### **Personality**

During his time Amphibian has shown a few different character traits, with his most dominant one having been a fairly calm and calculated personality, with only extreme situations being able to break his composed nature. Due to this calmness Amphibian often acts as the backbone of the Army in most crisis situations. But Amphibian could also show a lot of compassion making him the most sought-after contact person for Army members dealing with personal issues. But despite this Amphibian could also burst into fits of rage when provoked enough, which even though rare did happen, especially when his comrades were threatened. In cases like those the Emperor could start making irrational decisions, which brought him at odds with Kev, who never let his feelings influnce his decision making. From time to time, and mostly only in the presence of his *Trinity* companions, Amphibian could also been observed cracking jokes at Ben and Kev's expence, with them retaliating more often than not.

### **Powers & Abilites**

Due to Amphibian's constant presence on the frontlines of every single conflict and encounter he not only accumulated quite the considerable number of scars but also many different powers and abilites.

Starting off the list with the power he was born with, Amphibian had the power to absorb and redirect electricity at will. The elektrian was also capable of storing the electricity he absorbed, which he could then release at will. His storage capacity increased over the years, reaching their highest point shortly before his death, where he was able to store enough electricity to power 100 households for a week. Due to a variety of infections to his body and nervous system, Amphibian's electricity assumed six distinct colors over the years, with him having possessed two more of a different nature, he refocused the main six to serve different purposes. He mainly did this to give comrades fighting alongside him a clearer idea of what abilites he was using.

Going in chronological order, the first color, which is the one Amphibian was born with is blue. While in the past he used this one for everything, more recently, before his death, he used his blue electricity solely as an energy storage, which he could release to recover stamina as well as redistribute power to his other electricity colors with increased speed. This was the only color given a certain task for practical reasons. As blue was Amphibian's only natural color it was the one that flowed the fastest through his nervous system.

Amphibian's second color, black, was the result of Arakitos' attempt to plant a nerve virus fueled by magic into the Amphibian Army. This attempt failed as Amphibian had no magical potential to speak of, giving the virus no fuel to feed of. But the same lack of magical potential also led to the virus dealing a lot more damage to the Emperor and was also never able to be removed from Amphibian's nervous system leading to the side effect of turning his electricity black on a inconsistent basis until he gained more control over his nervous system. When Amphibian achieved this control he turned his black electricity to his defensive ability, using it to create shields and barriers, to either protect himself from melee attacks or zone enemies.

The First Emperor's third color, which was red, came after an attempt by Numeria to save his life, after Amphibian was fatally injured by Gangal in a fight. She attempted to save him by using one of her many numbers, Number 89: Powervirus Zernong, to recharge Amphibian's system. This failed as, while she did fully recharge Amphibian's electricity storage, which allowed him to fight a little longer, Numeria could not heal the physical damage dealt to the elektrian. After Amphibian was able to be saved, the recharge provoked by Number 89 had a side effect similar to the neural magic virus created by Arakitos, it infected a part of Amphibian's nervous system, the only difference was a less inconsitent output. Later, when he took control of his entire neural system he turned the red electricity into his primary long-range fighting ability.

Violet, the fourth color, came from an infection suffered during his brief time in hell. The Army got in to contact with a demon called Basilisk, causing a viral infection, which ended up almost killing quite a few members of the Army, after they left the realm of Satan. Yet they survived suffering some lasting effects, one of the ones Amphibian suffered from was another inconsitent change in color of his electricity. The violet electricity was used as an intrusion ability in more recent times. The elektrian uses it to take control of electricity and power grids as well as attacking a living beings nervous system if given enough time to concentrate.

His fifth color, orange, has its origins during a conflict between the Amphibian Army and The Cabal from Ireland. During this time Spidy ended up in an extended fight with Verena Coughlin. During the fight she infected the Overcommander with a non-lethal nerve agent, which was an attempt at mind-controlling the Army. The virus also infected Amphibian, who with another change of electricity color, was the only member of the Army to suffer any lasting side-effects. After taking control of his nervous system Amphibian decided to use his orange electricity as a propulsion mechanism, which allowed him to achieve speeds he couldn't otherwise.

Unlike the previous four colors, that were all caused by different nerve agents, the Amphibian's sixth color, green, was the result of an unexpected reaction between Zarc's powers and