Deryl Livermore

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* Human
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* Older (Dream)

Deryl is the MC's best friend and a major character in the game. He is a former student of Rodriguez & Xanthe's University that goes onto become a powerful superhuman at H.E.R.O.

## Background

### Origins

Deryl Livermore is the youngest son of military veteran Derek Livermore and his unnamed wife. The family lived near The Foxgloves, whose father Nathan served with Derek. He and his older brother Daryl Livermore had a largely pleasant and unremarkable childhood until their mother was killed in a vehicle accident on the way to pick Deryl up from basketball practice. Deryl was in middle school at the time (around 13-14 years old). This event devastated the Livermore household. Daryl - who is high school at the time - lost much of his ability to focus in school and took to getting high and trading crypto in his room alone. Derek Livermore began to drink heavily and use drugs as the pressure of being a widowed single father got to him. He eventually has to try and hold down multiple jobs and became abusive at home.

Deryl was also effected quite badly; since his mother was on the way to pick him up, he internalized some guilt about "causing" her death. He began to take out this anger and sadness on everyone around him. He became a bully and began cheating on his girlfriend Amber Foxglove because she didn't want to have sex with him (believing that they were too young). It was around this time that Deryl first met the MC. The MC, who was recovering from the accident that had killed his mother and was unable to see clearly, bumped into Deryl one morning. Deryl angrily told him off and tried to intimidate him.

This largely set the tone of their relationship for next few months. Deryl was a bully and physically larger than the MC but the MC was a cunning and tenacious fighter so the two largely engaged in a vicious back and forth war of escalating pranks and fights. The MC had also become friends with the two foxglove twins so he outed Deryl as a cheater causing a rift in his and Amber's relationship. These confrontations escalated for a year until the MC broke into Deryl's locker and stole and pawned off a necklace that had belonged to Deryl's mother. The two once again got into to fight, but Liz steps in to stop it and takes a punch from Deryl. Amber, seeing Deryl hit Liz, finally breaks up with him and calls him out for being a massive asshole. She tells him that MC had lost his mother too and that the only reason she had given him so much leeway was because she could see he was hurting over his own mother's death. She and Liz both leave, telling Deryl that they're done with him. This seems to break Deryl's spirits and he turns to leave, but the MC takes the opportunity to restart their brawl. The two fight until they are tired and finally begin to talk, slowly bonding over their shared loss of parents.

Deryl eventually convinces the MC to come talk to Daryl as well; hoping his shared loss can motivate Daryl to finally leave his room and resume his life. Daryl is non-committal but Derek Livermore returns to the house, drunk and furious at Deryl for supposedly stealing from his wallet. He physically attacks Deryl and the MC and is about to seriously hurt them before Daryl intervenes and stops his father. Daryl and Deryl quickly leave to go live with their grandmother, who - upon hearing their story - promptly calls the police on her son. Derek is given two years in prison. Ultimately though, the experience helps the Livermore family heal. Derek is able to get clean in prison and returns a changed - and sober - man. Daryl is able to shake off his malaise and join the MC and Deryl in finishing his high school. Deryl - with a new best friend at his side - is able to come to terms with his grief and repair most of his relationships. He and Amber still don't quite get along but they were able to return to being friends.

### First Arc

Deryl is first introduced at the party the night before the first day of college. He, Daryl, the MC, and Jordan are celebrating the MC's 18th birthday. Deryl is excited to join R&X University with the MC though both his brother and friends are a little sad since they will be going to different colleges. He immediately remarks on Ella's attractiveness when she arrives with Dave and encourages the MC to make a move on her when she expressed some interest in him. At the end of the night, Deryl finds the MC and Ella to let them know that Dave had passed out and that they were planning to leaving for the night. He slyly suggests that Ella and the MC take a taxi home together since they live on the same side of town, and swiftly leaves with the others.

Deryl is next seen after the college orientation. He gets hit by a stray football and is sent to nurses office where he first notices the MC's enormous size increase and then observes the MC transforming into Amber. The MC tells him about the events of the previous night with Ella and Deryl quickly susses out the mechanics of the monster infection. He also rapidly identifies possible applications of the MC's powers and is excited to get a DNA sample from the MC and begin testing. Deryl offers to sneak the MC into the labs to begin research on the issue. Deryl then meets up with the MC in their dorm room: Room 26. Turns out that Deryl had called the administration to ensure that he and the MC roomed together. The two quickly start testing the MC's new abilities. Deryl is the one to figure out that the MC's memory trait required contact to work, and that his perfect shapeshifting needed the "memory" of someone before it was perfect.

Over the next few weeks, Deryl gets adjusted to college. He takes the MC on a tour of the campus since the MC missed orientation. He also immediately antagonizes Lauren by calling her "General Studies" class a dumb waste of time. He encounters a few other characters on the second day of college, in the cafeteria. He observes Jared Wilson bullying Jake and is introduced to Emily by the MC. He also sees the Viper Cheer Squad for the first time and immediately tries to hit on Alice, Jess, and particularly Tess. This angers Jared who promptly hits him. The MC gets in the way of the second punch and ends the confrontation. Everyone disperses after that with Tess telling Deryl that she'll see him later and Deryl remarking that he's in love. Deryl and the MC later discover that Jared reported them to the teachers for apparently "starting" the fight in the cafeteria. Angry, Deryl begins hatching a revenge plan; for which he asks the MC to take on a female form and get useful information about Jared from his girlfriend Jess. Deryl helps the MC setup his female form and awaits the intel. Deryl and the MC are unable find anything useful on Jared, so they revert to their original plan of the MC taking his form and humiliating him. Deryl cautions the MC against using his powers to casually and two then hash out the plan. He then asks the MC to continue masquerading as a girl around the cheerleaders to get him some intel of Tess, since he wants to get with her. Deryl later ensures that he is perfect position to film all of the MC's (disguised as Jared) antics and then posts it to the internet. Deryl also helps with some other adventures the MC has. He pretends he has a dog so the MC can take a dog shape to get closer to Emily.

### Frat House Massacre

Deryl takes the MC's blood and cell cultures for testing in the labs at R&X University. He is able to discover that the MC's cells react explosively to electricity and cautions him to stay from it. Later, Deryl is able to get the MC and himself invites to the frat party held by the "Orcs" fraternity. They hustle some people at pool and sink some drinks before splitting up to enjoy the party. Deryl is hitting on a girl when the monsterified Kenny starts rampaging through the party goers. He quickly assesses the situation before running to find Amber and Liz. On the way, he warns Emily of the danger. He and Emily move through the house till the encounter some of Kenny's spawned soldiers. Alice quickly kill them, allowing Deryl and Emily to continue on looking for their friends. Instead they run into the MC in his armored form. Thinking quickly, Deryl deduces the MC's identity and listens to his instructions. After the fight, he finds the MC's body before doing some performative damage control to make sure the MC's identity isn't leaked. He is with the MC when the MC wakes up in the clinic after the massacre and quickly catches him up on the events of the past week.

Once college resumes, Deryl is sent to the college therapist with all the other students who experienced the massacre. He reveals to the MC and Amber and Liz that he has had some nightmares about event. He also hits on Alexis Allaband while she masquerades as the school therapist. As Alexis tries to get him to say more about the massacre, he largely sticks to the story he gave the police without going into any extra details. He also says that he has largely recovered from the incident and feels fine. The next night, Deryl is poisoned by Tiffany Miliken when she gases the room to test the MC's resilience. He makes a full recovery. Deryl then tells the MC that he's been invited to go on TV to talk about the massacre. He does preliminary research on the hosts Posy Carter and Gordan Velnic and discusses a basic game plan with the MC before they arrive at the TV Station. Deryl guides the TV interview to maximize the gain in public sentiment and helps the MC's strategy. He then helps the MC discreetly leave the building. Deryl is also present when Alexis and Clark take the survivors of the Frat house Massacre back to the frat house to see whether it triggers anything. Deryl jokes around with Emily while raiding the fridges for drinks. He also notices the puddle of black oil that turns out to be Bailey and points the MC towards it.

### Mafia Arc

Deryl is present when Alice invites the MC to a party and poker game at the sorority house. The MC gets Deryl an invite and he's torn between coming to the strip poker game or going to a lecture by Bramon Xanthe. He makes the decision to duck out early and come to the game. Deryl's natural genius makes him quite good at the game, able to strip both Jess and Tess down to their skirts before busting on an all in play. He struts confidently naked out of the room after the loss. Deryl then convinces the MC to pitch a threesome with Tess during the party. Tess is game, and the three enjoy a scene. Deryl largely plays no further role during the mafia arc; mainly supporting the MC's training. He does some basic research on Alice Alderman's powers when she first develops them, explaining that they appear to manipulate gravity. After Klaus's death and the end of the Mafia Arc, it is Deryl's idea to celebrate at the beach.

### Jake Arc

At some point Ella discovered that Deryl would be highly compatible with the Rebis and that she would need his skills to create a replacement stone artifact for the one she lost taking on Valravn. She tasked Jake with mind-controlling Deryl into her service, promising that it would lead to his evolution. At the beach celebration, Jake intercepts Deryl on the way to the bathroom and uses his "Authority Imprint" on him. The process seems to go well, until Mia Lishi interrupts the two. In trying to clear Mia's memories of the incident, Jake overexerts his powers and evolves, botching the command on Deryl. Instead of making him obedient to Ella, it instead creates a deep obsession. Ella arrives on the scene quickly afterwards and stabilizes the trio. She then gives Deryl a tablet to assure his superhuman ascension. Deryl takes the tablet and then calls an ambulance and the rest of his friends to help Mia and Jake. When he gets some time alone, he takes the tablet, summoning the Rebis. The monster creates a pretty woman to lure Deryl into a webbed trap that restrains him and then - after analyzing him - stings him with his tail, beginning his ascension.

Deryl continues to operate as if everything is normal, but he secretly begins to train his powers with Ella's help. He also begins to create clones using his ability. The first clone (Clone 1), he assigns to work with Jake - pretending to be the real Deryl. The second clone (Clone 2) is sent back to R&X University to pretend to be the real Deryl with the MC and the rest of Deryl's friends. It spends time working with Alice to develop her powers. A third and final clone (Del) is still in production during the MC's assault on Jake at the Prime Minister's offices. The real Deryl spends his time with Ella, training his own abilities. However, the mental obsession created by Jake's command does disrupt his mind somewhat. He becomes increasingly jealous of the favoritism Ella shows towards the MC and Jake. Since - regardless of his skill or power - he simply isn't an Apostle spawn, he wouldn't have a use in Ella's further plans after he made a new "heart artifact" for her. In a twisted line of thinking, he decides to try and kill and Jake and the MC, which would - in his mind - prove his worthiness to Ella.

When the MC returns from prison he quickly restrains Clone 2, thinking that it was Deryl and worried that he was under orders to kill himself if the MC escaped from prison. The MC tries to look into the clone's memories but doesn't see anything except the echo of the energy Deryl uses to keep in contact with the clones. Unable to identify it, the MC thinks its a side effect of Jake's power. Clone 2 is itself unaware that Jake put a suicide order on him (since Jake did that to Clone 1) and quickly catches up with the MC on the events of the past week. The MC suggests that they restrain Clone 2 somewhere to make sure that he won't kill himself if Jake somehow contacts him but Alice instead suggests that they put Clone 2 in a Heaven's Belle induced coma. Clone 2 eagerly accepts. Meanwhile Clone 1 continues to work with Jake. It does weapons research for him; looking for weapons that can hurt Ella - and by extension the MC. He is able to discover and prepare weapons like the Electromagnetic Plasma Railgun. The real Deryl takes note of all of this and prepares to integrate similar weaponry into himself.

Clone 1 is busy readying the plasma railguns when the MC attacks Jake at the prime minister's executive office. He finds Jake after Alice blows up part of the building with her "Dark Graviton: Bomb" and shows him the completed railguns. He also tells Jake about the MC's vulnerability to electricity. As the MC catches up to Jake, Jake once again threatens the MC by making Clone 1 place a knife at its own throat. The MC is understandably confused to see Clone 1 since he'd put Clone 2 safely away but he nevertheless threatens Mia's safety to make sure Clone 1 is sent out of harms way. Jake sends Clone 1 away with orders to kill itself if it ever believes that Mia had been killed. Only pretending to be affected by Jake's orders, Clone 1 instead retreats to inform Ella that the fight had begun and then begins preparing its own assault.

Clone 1 reappears as the MC finally exhausts Jake's energy. He jovially chat with the MC while getting close and then tries to hit him with an electric stun baton. When the MC dodges and begins to question him, Clone 1 explains its current aim: "to kill them both". When the MC tries to restrain it, pre-planted bone spears impale him, starting the fight once again. Clone 1 uses its "Bone Seeds" to turn the floor into a minefield of spike traps that quickly hamper the MC. While Jake is unharmed, he tried to order Clone 1 to surrender. Clone 1 instead feigns surrender before walking up to him and attacking him with a knife. Jake is stunned to see his commands completely blanked. Clone 1 then bombards the group with Fire and Poison bombs. When the MC slices him across the chest, Clone 1 bleeds elixir, before rapidly patching itself up. Jake uses multiple "Command: Pain" attacks on Clone 1 before realizing that Clone 1 is actually a clone and that the real Deryl is far away, explaining why his commands couldn't reach him. Clone 1 then presses his assault on the other two but it begins to run low on elixir. It attempt to use the last of it's elixir to integrate the plasma rail gun into it's arm but the gun backfires, destroying most of its body.

The MC was able to kill and devour the clone to track where the Deryl's real body was and attacked him. The fight is a difficult brawl that starts with Deryl setting the MC on fire with oil. He seems to struggle with the impulse to kill the MC and seems to realize that it isn't fully coming from him. Using that epiphany and his own growth, he breaks the compulsion Jake had implanted within him. However, he decides to continue the fight to test his abilities against the MC. After a bitter fight, it ends largely in a stalemate with the MC unable to fully regenerate his body and Deryl completely out of elixir. The two reconcile and begin to form up and head home. Unfortunately when Deryl tries to tell the MC about Ella's plans, a compulsion Charlie placed on him to not undermine Ella activated. When combined with the remnants of Jake's compulsion and his exhaustion, the compulsion forced him into a botched evolution that resulted in him monsterifying. As a desperate measure Deryl was able to force his humanity and a large portion of power into Clone 2 before fully transforming and escaping the building to join Ella.

### Valravn Arc

*At this point there are two "Deryl" characters in the story: Clone 2 who is functionally identical to pre-transformation Deryl and will be referred to as "Deryl" till the end of the H.E.R.O Arc and Monster Deryl who will be referred to as "Deryl-Rebis". Clone 3 also joins the cast as "Del" and will be referred to as such until the end of the "Battle of Diamonds"*

Deryl is woken up from his coma by the MC and says he has no memory of working for Jake, the battle in the PM's office, or the subsequent battle and evolution. He is otherwise indistinguishable from his normal self. Even the MC can't tell if he is any different. For the next two months he doesn't display any powers either and appears completely human. Deryl takes part in all the regular activities that the rest of the gang does: going to the mall with Amber and Liz, welcoming Mia back after Ella cures her, etc. He is however, plagued by nightmares where he sees what Deryl-Rebis is doing - usually experimenting on different subjects to create his chimera.

Meanwhile, Deryl-Rebis heads to the Garza Mines and begins working for Ella. As a monster most of Deryl's more violent and anti-social behaviors and impulses were significantly enhanced so he develops an obsession with overcoming the MC. So Deryl-Rebis trades his help with Ella for monster parts to grow his own power. He is also able to awaken and convince the underdeveloped Clone 3 to work with it, sending it to H.E.R.O. to work there as a spy and double agent. Clone 3 takes on the name "Del" and pretends to be an amnesiac child victim of a monster attack and infection. When H.E.R.O. attempts to scan his memory to ascertain the truth of this story, they find nothing (since Rebis clones have no memories unless pre-programmed). He becomes a H.E.R.O. agent, working with Laurie Kernz. "Del" leaks the MC's secret identity to the media to ensure that H.E.R.O has to accelerate their time-table to go public, resulting in the Sector 1 police trying to capture the MC when he is hanging out there with his friends - including Deryl.

The MC finally tells "Deryl" the whole story of his fight with Jake and Deryl and how he was a superhuman. This seems to trigger some memories in Deryl and he is once again able to use some of his powers. He is however, deeply shaken to discover that he is a clone and even more frightened to discover that the "real" him is now a monster. Deryl says that he "feels" real and isn't sure what to make of the information the MC given him. Regardless, the two largely decide to keep the status quo while the MC tries to find the Deryl-Rebis and figure out how to solve the problem. They then go to find the rest of their friends. When the police break into the mall to arrest the MC, Deryl creates a smoke bomb to cover his escape; telling him to rendezvous at his house afterwards.

Deryl welcomes the MC at the house and catches him up on the status of all his friends who were at the mall. They ponder the ramifications of the exposure together before heading to bed. The next morning Deryl and the rest of the family talk with the MC about his situation and agree to shield him till the government announces their plan of action. They also run interference for him when Brianna Carson comes to the Livermore household to see whether they know anything about the MC's whereabouts. Deryl and the MC spend most of the rest of the day simply tracking the news and the growth of (depending of the player's decisions) either pro or anti MC sentiment. They are together when the Supreme Minister Alistair Landley either declares the MC an enemy of the state or invites him to a conference to discuss his future. Deryl then tell the MC to enjoy his week before the meeting while he returns to college to keep up appearances. At the end of the week, Deryl and the MC meet up with Alice and Micheal and make their plan of action for their meeting with the Supreme Minister. Deryl then organizes another guys night to blow off steam before the big event. He and the MC head to Dave's house before the whole gang head to a college party at Dave's college. Deryl uses his powers to create mini fireworks to impress some women, who he promptly takes upstairs. Deryl later meets back up with the MC to rendezvous with Alice and Michael for the meeting with the Supreme Minister. They all assemble at Alice's bunker and prepare for the trip but Nicolette Heart appears and teleports them to H.E.R.O. HQ. Deryl listens to Dexter Miliken and Bramon Xanthe's pitch along with the others and doesn't say much. He watches while the MC battles Valravn and asks Xanthe about monsterified superhumans and whether they could still be saved. Xanthe is non-committal but concedes that it could be an interesting idea. He watches the MC win the fight and then retires to his new quarters.

### H.E.R.O Arc

Deryl rapidly adjusts to life in the H.E.R.O H.Q. He finds the classes interesting and quickly absorbs the info and takes the time to do extra research in the library. During the classes he also gets the MC to help him flirt with Katie Daniels, realizing that with his powers he could could grand romantic gestures very easily. He also takes part in the combat training simulations. His first match is against Del, who immediately surrenders, saying his powers are not suited to combat. His second match is against Michael Carlowe. The match starts well, with Deryl's traps quickly damaging Michael while Deryl found a place to hide and develop more traps. Unfortunately Michael was able to spot the hiding place and spear him from long range, ending the match. The MC also gives Deryl a necklace that he got from Shopkeep. The necklace is very similar to the one the MC stole when they were children. On hearing that the Deryl-Rebis wants to meet him, and that Xanthe will be putting him on the assault team, Deryl perfects his seed based weapons and prepares for the assault on Hex's dimension at Mt. Dehaka.

Del also interacts with the MC. He and Laurie Kernz are assigned to be his guide and helpers within the organization. Del is the one who told the MC where to find Angelina and later takes him on a short E-Class monster hunt. He uses his powers to create the gasoline needed to kill the highly regenerative monster. He then gets the MC some extra time alone to hang out with Amber Foxglove before the duo had to return to base. Later, Del accompanies the MC and Laurie when the MC goes on William Baldwin's show and helps him when Cole, Zara, and Briar attack the set. He douses the 3 in gasoline before setting them alight, distracting them while Nico fights Hex. After the fight he is selected to infiltrate the newly formed S.I.N and provide intel to H.E.R.O.. Laurie is quite concerned for him but he departs on the mission quite cheerfully. Del quickly makes contact with Deryl-Rebis and hash out the remainder of the plan. Del contacts Bramon Xanthe and tells him that he "found" Deryl-Rebis and that it's a unique monster that create new monsters. He says that Deryl-Rebis "knows" that Del is a traitor to S.I.N but is willing to keep it a secret in exchange for a meeting with Deryl and the MC. Xanthe is unable to resist the allure of a monster that can make new ones and agrees to the deal, telling Deryl and the MC that they will be part of the assault team.

During all of this time, the Deryl-Rebis had been working on his own unrelated plan. Obsessed with defeating the MC, it sought to improve its own power through experimentation. However it quickly realized that its own powers were not suited to combat and that it would need a different solution to carry it in fights. During its work with Ella, it was able to meet and work with its creator, the Rebis. This collaboration taught it how to create the Chimera Proxies it was going to use to fight the MC. Deryl-Rebis was also captivated by the Rebis's perfection and wanted to itself become another rebis and sought to unlock the secrets of how to do so. First Deryl-Rebis began creating Chimera proxies out of the various bodies that Ella provided it to experiment with. The chimera were to enable the defeat of the MC and fuel its next evolution. The first and second chimera (Primus and Secundus) were both judged to be insufficient so for the third attempt, the Deryl-Rebis grew a new body straight from its elixir, enabling it to make a massive, powerful, multi-powered body with which to face the MC. Secretly, it was also working on a plan to become a new Rebis, and realized that it would need to first reabsorb all its proxies (Primus, Secundus, Del, and Deryl), then rebirth a new female proxy and then re-assimilate that one as well; creating a final new Rebis body with all of the powers and potential of the S-Class Rebis. When Deryl-Rebis was finally ready, it got Del to initiate the plan to lure Deryl and the MC to it during the Battle of Diamonds so it could finally achieve true ascension.

During the Battle of Diamonds, Deryl-Rebis embedded itself in Chimera Tertius, sent Chimera Primus out into the dimension, and had Del and Chimera Secundus wait for the MC and Deryl to arrive. Chimera Primus and its pack of dog monsters is first to encounter the MC, Deryl, and Michael as they make their way towards the mine. Michael spots the approaching chimera and pack of monsters and decides to engage and lead them away.

***\*\*\*\* Combat encounter between Michael Carlowe and Chimera Primus can be seen in Michael's page \*\*\*\****

Alice, Michael, and the Human Deryl Clone tracked down and defeated the individual combat chimera and Del while the MC killed the main body. All this finally triggered another transformation where the main monsterified Deryl absorbed all the chimera and Del and used it to trigger an evolution into a True Rebis. The transformation required the final human Deryl to complete but the MC was able to damage the monster Deryl enough that the Human Clone Deryl was able to merge with and become the dominant personality. This completed the transformation and Deryl was reborn as a hybrid Monster/Superhuman Rebis. Welcomed back by the MC, Laurie, and Alice, the reborn Deryl immediately tries to hit on Laurie, only for her to be brutally injured by a combination attack from Jared Wilson and Cole Yun. Based on the player's decisions, the MC and Deryl are either able to save her life or watch as she dies. The 3 newly evolved superhumans then prepare to take on the S.I.N superhumans but Charlie Leicht quickly restrains them before departing once Hex shows up to evacuate them after Ella Vulpe's death. Deryl is among the various superhumans extracted by Nico as the dimension collapses.

### **Twins Arc**

Deryl begins to re-acclimate to being human after the battle. He is made an assistant to Bramon Xanthe and once again begin the arduous process of relearning his powers and rebuilding his philosophers stone. He also reunites with his family and attends a bonfire night celebration with them and his friends at the university. When the hears from the MC that the foxglove twins are in danger he quickly arms up and races to their house with him. Once their they discover that the twins are safe but that Nathan Foxglove has become a superhuman and joined S.I.N. After a brief confrontation the two are able to talk down Nathan and invite him to work for H.E.R.O. instead. He is especially amenable after learning that S.I.N was planning to kidnap his daughters. Deryl, Michael, and the MC then take it in shifts to ensure that the twins are protected. Deryl even gives them seeds that can grow into chimera in case they needed more protection.

As payment for Nathan's cooperation in the S.I.N initiation infiltration, H.E.R.O. takes over the full protection detail for the twins. After realizing that Eisheth had finally zeroed in on Amber and Liz as targets, H.E.R.O. decides to use them as bait to lure Eisheth to a favorable location so that they could capture her. The MC and Deryl are given the job of evacuating and protecting the twins after Cthulhu Squad has engaged Eisheth. The two quickly move the girls away from the battle but are intercepted by Shen, Devana, and Evander. Deryl initially attacks the group with missiles but (not knowing Devana's powers) is taken by surprise by her bomb chains and knocked out. He is captured by group and taken to S.I.N headquarters.

At H.Q he is met by Tanos Xanthe who tells him that he intends to ascend the foxglove twins as superhumans and that he would like Deryl's help. He specifically says that Deryl's elixir ability to synthesize liquids would greatly speed up the creation of a serum that Tanos uses to suppress the monster trait, allowing him to carefully ascend the twins simultaneously. Intimating that this was going to happen whether Deryl helped or not, Tanos incentivized him to help his friends. He also gave Deryl the remains of his philosophers stone from the Battle of Diamonds and monster materials to work on while he worked on the twins. Deryl is currently preparing himself so that he can break the MC out of his power suppressing cage and rescue the twins.

## Powers and Abilities

Deryl was infected by the Rebis, the only known artificially created monster. Unlike most other superhumans, Deryl seems to have developed an exact copy of his parent monster's abilities. They combine well with his natural curiosity, inventiveness, and intelligence.

### Human Abilities

Deryl is widely recognized as a genius and polymath. He has a remarkable grasp over multiple complex fields of study ranging across biochemistry, physics, and engineering and has repeatedly shown to be highly adaptable and quick thinking. He is also iron-willed and disciplined, leading to a rapid growth in his powers when he ascended as a superhuman.

### General Superhuman Abilities

Deryl's powers have no major physical component so his general physical capabilities are not significantly beyond peak human performance. He is faster, stronger, and more durable than most humans and has the standard suite of superhuman senses and enhancements. However thanks to his powers he does have excellent regenerative capabilities and is quite skilled at keeping his powers hidden. This coupled with him being able to exert his powers from any distance means that he often has no need to get into true physical confrontations. His power's unique method of protection via clones also means he always has options for dealing with Supernatural or Mental powers.

### Level 1 Abilities

Deryl's core power is his body's production of a substance called Elixir. As long as he understands the inner working on an object - either organic or inorganic - he can create it with elixir. The amount of elixir needed is proportional with the size and complexity of the object. However various liquids are the easiest and fastest thing for elixir to turn into. He can also use the elixir to integrate himself with technology or monster derived armaments. He is even able to create clones of himself that are imbued with their own limited elixir supply. These clones can be remote operated or act independently. At any point a clone body can become the "Real" or commanding body, making a prepared Deryl extremely difficult to find and kill. While learning this power, Deryl began to develop 3 clones who were all in varying stages of development when he monsterfied during his botched evolution.

As he progressed with his power, Deryl was able to imbue small amounts of Elixir with coded instructions and raw materials to create seeds. These seeds were ready made objects that would form as soon as Deryl activated the power held within. This let him bypass the creation time innate to his ability; he could simply prepare weapons and tools he thought he might need or plant traps in locations where he knew a confrontation would occur. At first he generated simple tools like guns, spike traps, and bombs but this progressed to complex pieces. Below are the various advanced technologies developed by him ordered from oldest to newest:

### Deryl-Rebis - Level 2

The failed evolution caused by Charlie Leicht severely warped Deryl-Rebis thoughts. He was obsessed with the idea that the MC would come for him and that he would need to defeat him. Realizing that it's own combat powers would be insufficient to the task, it began researching alternatives. After extensive research, including a short collaboration with the Rebis, Deryl-Rebis began working on a new body that would have the strength and potential for its goals. The Chimera bodies it created were the first step in realizing that research, with each Chimera being an experiment in looking for a sufficiently powerful vessel to store Deryl-Rebis's main consciousness. Each Chimera was designed with combat in mind and specialized to deal with the MC's wide array of abilities. They require the blood and synthesized remains of many different monsters to survive and the powers they manifest is largely determined by the amount of percentage of a certain monster used in their construction. Their genesis and powers are explained below:

##### **Chimera Primus**

This was the first chimera body created and designed for enduring combat and attrition. It was born knowing that it was designed to defeat the MC but Deryl-Rebis judged it to be insufficient to the task and began working on Chimera Secundus. Primus was left to wander around Hex's dimension and try to find its own purpose. It decided to prove itself as a warrior and took on Michael Carlowe during the Battle of Diamonds. It displayed the following powers:

##### **Chimera Secundus**

This was the second chimera body created and was designed for highly efficient and mobile combat. This one was also considered a failure by Deryl-Rebis and assigned to aid Del with his tasks. It views itself as the most powerful chimera body of the three and is as imperious and arrogant as Deryl's core personality. This form is extremely fast and strong, with a versatile power set designed to let it handle a wide variety of situations. The large amount of fly monster DNA concentrated in its wings allows it have some limited control over large swarms of those monsters. It displayed the following powers:

##### **Chimera Tertius**

This was the final chimera body created and was designed to house his core consciousness. It was grown entirely from Deryl's Philosophers Stone and the monster soup it contained and is by far the most powerful body. By processing hundreds of humans and monsters, the philosophers stone was able to establish the material needed to build the massive body. Its power is the unique heads that possess multiple powers with different reservoirs filled with the specific monster energy to generate those powers. Normally those reservoirs would run dry with repeated use but because of the huge number of monsters built into the body the powers regenerate quite quickly. The chimera displayed the following powers:

##### **Del**

Del was an incomplete/underdeveloped clone that could use his elixir to make different liquids. When combined with a water monster's heart he could generate enormous quantities of deadly liquids.

Using his Elixir transmutation abilities and the heart of a water monster he and Laurie Kernz defeated, Del showed off the following abilities:

### Deryl-Rebis - Level 3

The defeat of all his chimera prompted the Deryl-Rebis to try and achieve his ascension as a Rebis without his final clone. After assimilating Del and all the chimera, Deryl-Rebis combined their power with the huge amount of elixir from his philosophers stone to build an even more powerful body. However it was not a perfect transformation into a new Rebis, as evidenced by the various deformities. Regardless of the imperfections, the new body was massively powerful, easily equivalent to a powerful Level 3 superhuman.

This body's powers are similar to Rebis's powers: Creation through Fusion. Though this is a slow and inefficient process, the Deryl-Rebis is able to overcome the limitation with its philosophers stone. Compressing and storing the coding and materials for various creations into the stone allows for creation at speed. Even though a majority of his stone's power was expended to create this new body, Deryl-Rebis was able to absorb enough spilled monster soup to create a replacement in the form of gold titan limbs.

This form fought more like level 1 deryl, using massive quantities of elixir to create and graft weapons (augmented by monster powers) to himself. This new form was very large, extremely durable, and fast. Notably however this form doesn't retain all of Deryl's intelligence and is slower to adapt to the MC's rapid level 3 form changes. Its displayed the following powers:

### Variant Monster/Superhuman Hybrid - Level 3

After the MC defeated monster deryl the last remaining clone was able to merge with it and become the dominant personality. He was then able to reform into a superhuman-like body. This form is likely similar to what Deryl would have looked like had he evolved to Level 3 naturally. He appears to have access to both the monster body grafting powers of his monster form and the elixir based creation powers of his superhuman form. However he has not yet been able to reform his philosophers stone - after it was destroyed in his battle with the MC during the Battle of Diamonds - to once again begin integrating other monsters' bodies and powers into his own so he is restricted to the technology he can build and maintain.

His current moveset is just improved versions of his Level 1 abilities and integrated miniaturized versions of some of the Deryl-Rebis's weapons.

## Relationships

### MC

Deryl is the MC's best friend and roommate at R&X University. He was the first person the MC showed his powers to and initially helped the MC experiment with and maximize his powers. After he himself became a superhuman, Deryl reverted a little to older aspects of his personality and interacted with the MC more as a rival. After the Battle of Diamonds, where the MC helped Deryl overcome his monsterification, their relationship has reverted to that of best friends. They are determined to get stronger together

### Amber Foxglove

Deryl used to date Amber when they were younger. But his cheating on her, bullying the MC, and accidentally hitting Liz Foxglove soured their relationship. They spent several years in a largely antagonistic relationship but as of the current date, it has normalized and they are cautiously friendly with each other.

### Liz Foxglove

Liz is as indifferent to Deryl as she is with everyone else close to her.

### Michael Carlowe

They are rivals working to maximize each other's abilities

## Trivia

* Deryl goes on T.V as Deryl Coleman after the MC's first outing under his hero alias