Rancid

Marc Stojanović was a neohuman from Chicago who led an abused life of crime and murder, he became friends with Joe Lett when the Genetic Mistreatment Agency was formed.

###  History

Born in Chicago in 1987, Marc was a second-generation American, with his grandparents being Slovenian who moved to the US shortly after WWII, his parents came onto hard times and his mother ended up dying in 1999 after his father beat her to death for an extra-marital affair. The event caused 12-year-old Marc's powers to manifest which caused his father's death.

He spent years in and out of orphanages or homeless altogether, relying on street kitchens or simply using his powers to rob convenience stores, where he began calling himself Rancid.

At some point he did some jobs for local gangs and ended up contacting Dan Rowley to be part of his organisation, where he became best friends with the British alt known as Mendax but often ended up partaking in illegal money-making schemes and robberies unknown to Mole.

He was later responsible for paying off some gangsters for a warehouse that became the Genetic Mistreatment Agency's base, but when Hue and Varana found out about his gangster links and continued criminality, and his treatment of normal humans, they threw him and Mendax out. Angry at both them and at Mendax for letting his girlfriend Ros into their community, despite failing to prove she had real abilities, Marc hunted down a chapter of Redemption and provoked them, causing one of them to murder Varana as revenge.

Rancid was recruited into the Pestilence sect of the Harbingers as it's potential Acheron.

### Personality

Marc was a depressed and angry man, often liking to brood quietly, he is something of a nihilist and anarchist he often thought of no one but himself in most situations. He grew to hate normal humans seeing them as inferior. His indoctrination into the Pestilence gang only made him more sure of his convictions and became a self-professed "power supremacist", believing he existed to bring about the apocalypse.

### Appearance

Marc often dressed in dark, frayed clothes, pertaining to the 'emo' subculture, he wore a beanie hat and had long brown hair that he died black and sometimes streaked with dull burgundy colours, often combing it over one of his brown eyes. Rancid has several piercings including his septum and ears, wearing large gauges, he also has tattoos around his wrists of black flames.

### Powers and Abilities

**Powers**

Rancid was a neohuman born with a series of 'n-genes' or 'neones' that granted him superhuman abilities; these manifested when he was 12.

**Rancid Gas Creation:** Marc had the ability to produce and manipulate a highly toxic dark brown 'smoke' by altering the chemicals of the atmosphere around him, this produces a form of organically corrosive nitrogen dioxide combined with other chemicals such as methane and sulphur dioxide that had severe negative effects on various forms of biological matter. He could form this smoke-like gas into blasts or clouds of dangerous toxicity.

* ***Rancidification Inducement:*** Anything biological the gas strikes begins an accelerated form of hydrolysis of the fats and oils within, upon items such as various forms of food, plants and meat the effect essentially starts an accelerated rot; upon non-plant living beings such as humans and animals the effect can be horrifically painful and leave anything from scarring to prolonged infection, but overall can be survivable. Breathing in this gas, however is extremely deadly and causes the living rancidification of lungs and other organs, this can result in organ failure and suffocation within moments.
* ***Rancid Blasts:*** He usually focuses the smoke into blasts of this gaseous material from his hands or mouth that can have some kinetic force, enough to knock people off their feet whilst causing physical pain and damage, and to a degree can use it it propel himself through the air short distances or enhance his leaping. These blasts do corrosive damage to non-organic material, especially metals, but nowhere near as fast as organic tissue, and will leave a corrosive brown soot on objects. He has used this ability to blind cameras or block exhausts and air ducts.
* ***Smoke/Soot Constructs:*** He is learning to create more solidified constructs of the smoke, forming thicker, soot-like material that has a higher corrosive value, including melee weapons or even animal-like golems.
* ***Rancidification Immunity:*** He is immune to the effects of his own smoke, and also immune to the effects of various other forms of chemical vapor, although to what extent is uncertain.

**Abilities**

* ***Martial Artist:*** He partook in various forms of self-defence including judo and karate.
* ***Thieving skills:*** He learned to steal and use his powers to rob convenience stores.
* **Negotiation:** Despite often being broody and quiet, he is surprisingly savvy in talking to large groups, particularly gangsters.

### Limitations and Weaknesses

Marc is dangerously elitist when it comes to superhumans and how he views the world, thinking that he, being a neohuman, is far superior than others, he often succumb easily to jealous and revenge.

As with most neohumans, his powers are affected by his emotions, lashing out can have a deadly impact on those around him.