Nyx Elis

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Nyx Elis is the captain of Team Reaper. She is one of the 12 current Level 5 Superhumans at H.E.R.O. and one of original members of M-Division. Her specialty is the elimination of extremely durable or regenerative monsters and superhumans. Positions on her team are highly sought after among H.E.R.O. recruits due to her ability to resurrect people she has marked with her power.

## Background

### Origins

Nothing is known about Nyx's early history, other than that she was an orphan. At some point in her early life she was brought into Tarnic Miliken's service at M-Corp. She also had a fiance, who was killed in a monster attack. Nyx says she quite broken up about it. During her tenure, Nyx survived a monster infection and ascended as a superhuman. The macabre nature of her powers and resultant constant proximity to death has given her dark sense of humor and morbid sensibilities. She's also a bit of a goth, enjoying hanging around in crypts and other dark places. Underneath her genial outward personality however, is an amoral, tough, pragmatic, and ruthless woman; capable of rapidly making cold hearted decisions in difficult circumstances.

Nyx was given the code name "Reaper". As part of M-Division Nyx helps end The Unification War in the United Republic's favor and then continues her work as a founding member of H.E.R.O.. She becomes a member of the controlling council and a captain in H.E.R.O. with her own squad. She handpicks her squad members from particularly hard to kill Superhumans to get the most out of her powers. Reaper Squad specializes in killing particularly durable or regenerative monsters.

### Current

During most of the early story, Nyx and other members of Reaper squad are out on monster hunts. At some point after the frat house massacre, she was given the Evolution Serum to achieve Level 5. She is first seen at the council meeting after S.I.N's public unveiling. She cheerfully greets Malik and responds to Lucius's typically narcissistic behavior with insults. She is also genial with the MC and seems eager to recruit him. She is interested in Nico's report and expresses specific interest in handling the extraction of Ella's young wards from the orphanage.

### H.E.R.O Arc

Nyx is one of the guests invited to Tiffany Miliken's wedding. The MC can find her wandering the catacombs below the church talking to the ghosts of the people buried there. She can have a short conversation with the MC about her being able to communicate with the dead and how to raise internal corruption. She is later seen during the ceremony where the MC and several captains engage in banter. After the chimera attack kills Alaric Howard, Nyx is surprised that her death sense didn't pick up anything.

Nyx is next seen during the Battle of Diamonds. She guides Reaper Squad to find and capture Ella while she attended to the battle in general. She arrives to personally deal with Ella when Malik is planning to use his most powerful attack. She stops him - saying that his attack would cause too much trouble for his allies - and proceeds to offer Ella another chance to surrender. When Ella refuses and explodes into another massive transformation, Nyx channels a huge amount of negative energy and simply kills her.

In the aftermath of the battle, the MC is asked to come verify Ella's corpse. He is unable to use his memory powers on it because of the negative energy Nyx channeled into it but confirms that the corpse is indeed Ella. As a reward for his performance during the battle, Nyx gives the MC one of her marks.

### Twins Arc

Nyx is put in charge of the mission to infiltrate Wilson Industries HQ to get more information on S.I.N. She instructs the MC to impersonate Karen, a secretary to a high ranking analyst, and get deep into the company before finding a secure mainframe and plugging in a data hack. She tells him that she cannot back him up since her very presence in combat mode would kill everyone in the building. If the MC succeeds in the infiltration, Nyx is pleased and offers warm words. She is also relatively calm if the MC screws it up.

In the post-infiltration council meeting, Nyx brings the MC in to show off his plan to infiltrate a S.I.N initiation as Nathan Foxglove. After the MC has left the room, Lucius wonders out loud as to how much H.E.R.O. should trust the MC. Nyx says she likes the MC and advocates for not worrying about his loyalty but rather relying on his self-interest, as - in her eyes - growing in power besides the Captains would be the smartest thing for him to do.

A few days later, Nyx invites the MC to witness Tiffany Miliken's and Michael Carlowe's second evolution. She observes the proceedings with interest and is able to snatch Tiffany out of the air when she tries to break out of the MC's restraining tentacles. The MC notes that Nyx's powers seem to deaden the very energy from the air as it radiates from both the evolving superhumans.

A little after that Nyx is seen during a controlling council meeting, debating on how to deal with defectors and general superhuman morale issues in H.E.R.O.. She has the idea to simply compel obedience from the lower ranks using Lucius's lieutenant Melody's powers. Both Malik and Bernhardt dislike the suggestion while Zack seems ambivalent. On hearing Bernhardt's violent disgust for his adoptive son Elijah's idealism, Nyx comments that Bernhardt is even harder on his lieutenants than she is. After the council meeting is over, she comments that "Being good is difficult" to Malik before leaving.

## Powers and Abilities

Nyx is a extremely powerful and dangerous superhuman. She is one of 12 Level 5 superhumans at H.E.R.O. and the captain of Team Reaper.

### Human Abilities

Nyx has decades of combat experience, both as a member of M-Division and H.E.R.O.. She also appears to be a great leader; her subordinates hold her in great respect and she is generally liked by the rank-and-file agents. Decades of hunting and killing dangerous monsters have made her quite knowledgeable and adaptable. She is also shown to be calm and level-headed.

### General Superhuman Abilities

As a Level 5 superhuman, Nyx's body is incredibly durable. This is especially magnified due to the supernatural components of her power. She also likely has the standard suite of superhuman senses and enhancements. She also seems to have an incredible reaction speed, being able to snatch Tiffany Miliken in her light-speed form out of the air.

### Level 5 Abilities

Nyx's powers appear highly Supernatural in nature. She manipulates "Negative Energy" which manifests in a number of different ways.

Passively she seems to be surrounded by an entropy or "death" field. She is able to suppress it to be around other people but has stated multiple times that were she to actually exert herself, she would kill everyone below a certain level around her. This field seems to effect energy as well; sapping way both Michael Carlowe's radiation and Tiffany Miliken's light during their evolutionary trances.

Nyx also seems to be able to see and interact with "ghosts" of the dead she is surrounded by. These ghosts (so far invisible to everyone else) can provide her with the knowledge of the deceased person and observe and report back information from the local area. It is unknown whether the ghosts automatically obey her or have to be convinced to help her.

   Nyx can also "mark" targets with her power. As long as they remain marked, she can resurrect them if they ever die. There seem to be some constraints on the resurrection itself. Her power can only restore the person to their last "alive" state; so if - for example - a marked agent was first turned to stone by M72: Gorgon's power and then shattered, Nyx's power would be unable to revive the agent because prior to dying they were a living stone statue. This constraint has also stopped her from curing Duncan Gillibrand's tree state by killing him since he would be resurrected back as a tree. Nyx can only give out a certain number of marks, and they need to be reapplied after every resurrection. At the moment it is not known whether she can resurrect herself.

When Nyx truly needs to go on the offensive she channels her "Negative Energy" into her targets, killing them outright, regardless of size, toughness, or any other resilience. So far, it appears that only some kind of Supernatural shielding or Nyx being unable to sight the target itself can protect the target. To quote Malik: "When Nyx gets you, you get got."