Midas

Midas, also known as King Midas, and Leader Of GHOST, is the current leader of The Agency and has the ability to turn anything he touches to gold. After being given these powers, Midas was soon able to build up a fortune and make a name for himself, taking after the myth of King Midas. This seemed to draw attention to one faction of a secret organization known as E.G.O. After being recruited, Midas soon became leader of E.G.O and molded it from being GHOST, to The Agency, where he uses his power to try and find others like him.

### ***Origins***

#### ***Early Life***

Midas' early life and his origin is unknown. Keeping his past a secret was a personal thing for him, but some things are known throughout time. Midas lived by himself in a hut on the beach. He was known as a treasure hunter and was only able to supply for himself that way after his wife died from unknown causes. His main goal was to one day find something so expensive that he would never have to live so poor ever again.

   One day while he was hunting, he came across an unknown temple that was massive in size. His ambition got the best of him and he decided to go searching within. After a few minuets, we was lucky and found a room filled with gold coins and other golden artifacts. His excitement was overthrown by a sudden scream he heard that echoed throughout the cave. At first, he thought he was hearing things and simply chose to ignore it but the scream echoed again.

   Midas wasn't sure if he wanted to leave the treasure but chose to do so, knowing he wouldn't be able to live with himself if he allowed someone else to be hurt. Exploring more of the temple, Midas was able to locate the origin of the scream and saw a woman fighting a ghoul-like being. Midas was threatened by the ghoul to leave at once but Midas chose not to. The Ghoul grew upset and fought Midas. He was defeated afterwards thanks to Midas' skills in hand-to-hand combat.

   After the fight was over, Midas saw that the woman was replaced with a golden light. This golden light explained that he was put in a test to see if he would be worthy to wield a power that many mortals would die to have. Midas' seemed intrigued and asked what the power was. The Golden Light didn't seem to want to tell him unless he was willing to accept its offer, to which Midas did. In a painful transformation, the scrawny, sand covered Midas was rebirthed into something else.

#### ***The Rise Of A King***

Midas' explained that when he had exited the temple, his whole appearance was changed. He was slim and almost skinny. His body was covered in black tattoos that seemed to just be random shape and symbols. His skin was pale and his long black hair was cut. Both of his irises were beautifully golden. The main feature that was a huge change was his hands. Both of his hands seemed to be made out of pure gold. Each finger was covered along with his palms. When going up his wrists and arms, the gold trailed along but stopped at his elbows.

   Midas continued to explain that he was confused but once he got home, he knew. Suddenly, everything around him began to turn gold to his touch. This made him extremely happy and was able to become rich, to which he did. Although his newfound power was exciting, it was also upsetting. For years, he couldn't become close to anyone or anything. He had to fed by others because anything he would touch would turn to gold, including food. For a long time, Midas slept his hands suspended in the air to keep his bed from turning to gold.

   For a short time, Midas pleaded to whoever that they could take away the "curse" he was given but no one answered. During that time, Midas grew dark and used his touch to threaten people, to which he did. He turned dozens to gold and was able to sculpt their frozen bodies into his own likeness and this began his trip as an Ego maniac. He built an empire and was able to use this empire to get whatever he wanted. He was named "King Midas" and soon afterwards, he stuck with that name.

   Of course, he learned to control his powers after being given a prophecy of others like him. Midas told us that he was given this power by a God known as Chrysos, to which others called Oro and that there would be seven others with the same gift. Since then, Midas has made it his life mission to find these seven, and given that Midas is immortal, he has more than enough time.

#### ***Recruitment & Leadership***

Back in the early 1900s, Midas owned a Yacht and was very rich. He was able to bless a lot of people favors and if those favors aren't returned, well, they had to answer to him. Midas was given the attention of a secret shadowy organization known as E.G.O and came to him, offering him a spot within their ranks. Midas accepted their offer and it wasn't long until he became leader of E.G.O, which at the time was evolved and known as G.H.O.S.T.

   After accepting his role as Leader, Midas changed and shifted the worldwide network of GHOST into a secret, information collecting organization. GHOST's rival known as A.L.T.E.R, then known as S.H.A.D.O.W began to also collect information on valuable things, lead by a being known as The Chaos Agent. Midas didn't like having rivals but wasn't able to get rid of SHADOW or The Chaos Agent, so he decided to enact a private war between both factions. It wasn't soon afterwards that GHOST started to call their recruitments "Agents" and chose the name of GHOST as The Agency, to which Midas rules from.

#### ***Present***

Today, Midas continues to lead The Agency in the hope of finding those with The Golden Power, in the hopes of uniting them against Oro. So far he's found all six except one and with the war going on between The Agency and SHADOW, Midas doesn't know if he'll be able to find the last one with The Golden Power. But one thing is for sure, Midas will stop at nothing to gain the power to kill a god.

### ***Personality***

Not much is known about Midas' life before he joined E.G.O. We can guess that he was very task oriented and had a merciful side before The Curse. Afterwards though, Midas was driven to be an Ego Maniac, with his Base of Operations and his yacht being surrounded with statues of him. He's known to be quite a manipulator when it comes to others and also shown to pick favorites. He's cold and never laughs, not having much of a sense of humor. He's known for being known of having a sense of business.

### ***Appearance***

Before The Curse, Midas described himself as being a little buffy, with a normal skin tone and long black hair that was always braided into a ponytail. He said that he wore baggy clothes and was overall disgusting looking since he didn't own a shower. He also said he had brown eyes and was only 5'5".

Afterward The Curse, well, you know the rest.

### ***Powers & Abilities***

#### ***Powers***

***Chrysokinetic Hands -** Although the origin of how the power is controlled, Midas has the ability to turn anything his hands physically touches to gold by being given The Light Of Oro. This process only takes nearly two seconds depending on the will of those that he touches.*

* **Auric Manipulation -** Midas has been shown to be able to manipulate the objects he changed to gold. He mainly uses this ability to turn his subjects into golden statue of him that he keeps in his collection.
* **Immortality -** Due to The Golden Power, Midas has been shown to be granted immortality, as nothing can kill him. This also shows that he doesn't age, which also makes it impossible to determine his age.
* **Durability -** Midas' skin is incredibly durable and he's able to withstand any heavy or big impacts placed on him. The only thing that seemed to break through his durability are extremely sharp objects.
* **Shapeshifting -** Midas has the ability to shift his entire body, including his clothes to gold and in this form, he is impervious to harm. Although powerful, this form drains a lot out of him at times and in this form, he cannot control what he can and cannot turn to gold.

#### ***Abilities***

* **Intelligence -** Midas has lived for a very long time and has shown to be very calculating and smart. Many people find it annoying how he's able to calculate things with ease.
* **Manipulator -** Being known as a 'king', Midas has been shown to being a good manipulator and always ends up getting what he wants.
* **Bi-Lingualism -** Midas is known for having the ability to speak multiple languages, including Russian, French, and German.

#### ***Strength Levels***

* **Cursed Human - (OMEGA LEVEL) -** It is unknown whether people would call Midas a mutant, or Mutate, but he hates being called that. Instead, he says he cursed. Which ever way he sees, it, Midas is known to be classified as an Omega Level threat due to his immortality and durability, his deadly golden touch and gold form and his power from The Agency.
* **Human - (INTEL/MANIP) -** Midas is known for being very smart and is good at getting what he wants. Even without his powers, he can still find a way out of situations that others would get stuck at.