Lucius Valentine

Lucius Valentine is the captain of Team Oberon. He is one of the 12 current Level 5 Superhumans at H.E.R.O. and an original member of M-Division. He is an eccentric, narcissistic, and corrupted Superhuman whose powers are used to ensure H.E.R.O's general omnipresence in different areas.

## Background

### Origins

Nothing is known about Lucius's early history, other than that he was fostered by couple that he described as "barely middle class". At some point in his early life he was brought into Tarnic Miliken's service at M-Corp. He also had a daughter who he seems to have a strained relationship with. During his tenure, Lucius survived a monster infection and ascended as a superhuman. The strange nature of his powers and resultant constant proximity to himself have given made him an eccentric narcissist - constantly obsessed with his own looks and physical perfection. He is quite rude and condescending towards those he considers "ugly", even his M-Division comrades. He is also the voice of general status quo on the council, uninterested in Bernhardt's overbearing aggression, Malik's optimistic cooperativeness, or Xanthe's obsessive trans-humanism.

Lucius was given the code name "Oberon" and was the "Face" of M-Division. His 10,00 clones of himself were what the public saw as M-Division and he was the cover for the supernatural powers of his comrades. As part of M-Division, Lucius helps end The Unification War in the United Republic's favor and then continues his work as a founding member of H.E.R.O.. He becomes a member of the controlling council and a captain in H.E.R.O. with his own squad. He handpicks his squad members from Superhumans with powers he finds "beautiful". Oberon squad doesn't have a revealed specialty yet.

### Current

During most of the early story, Lucius and other members of Oberon squad are out on monster hunts. At some point after the frat house massacre, he was given the Evolution Serum to achieve Level 5. He is first seen at the council meeting after S.I.N's public unveiling. He calls the MC ugly and tells Nyx that she's got new wrinkles before being insulted right back by her. He also shows off his extravagant custom monster based equipment. He doesn't contribute much to the meeting beyond basic questions.

### H.E.R.O Arc

Lucius is one of the guests invited to Tiffany Miliken's wedding. The MC can find him talking to a clone of himself in the gardens near the cathedral. He can have a short conversation with the MC about his own abilities and about the MC's position as H.E.R.O.'s representative.He tells the MC that he sees potential in him and then dismisses him. He is later seen during the ceremony, trying to seat both himself and a clone before Nyx tells him to dismiss the clone. The captains and the MC can engage in a short conversations before the ceremony begins. After the chimera attack kills Alaric Howard, Lucius is quite surprised that no one detected the monster.

### Twins Arc

Lucius is next seen 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 and receives several different answers from the captains and Dexter.

A little after that Lucius is seen during another controlling council meeting, debating on how to deal with defectors and general superhuman morale issues in H.E.R.O.. Lucius is not really surprised at the low morale of civilians being made to fight monsters and doesn't seem to like the idea of restarting the old training modules. Nyx 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 and Lucius 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. Lucius expresses his dislike for Elijah as well.

Lucius can again be encountered in the library taking to another clone. They're commenting on how out of the way their biography is on the library bookshelves. They are called out by Lisa Corven for being too loud and disruptive but they promptly turn it around on her and begin criticizing her appearance. They continue this till Lisa threatens violence, at which point the 2 Lucius instances leave.

## Powers and Abilities

Lucius is an extremely powerful and dangerous superhuman. He is one of 12 Level 5 superhumans at H.E.R.O. and the captain of Team Oberon.

### Human Abilities

Lucius has decades of combat experience, both as a member of M-Division and H.E.R.O.. He is likely very knowledgeable and experienced.

### General Superhuman Abilities

As a Level 5 superhuman, Lucius's body is incredibly durable. This is especially magnified due to the physical nature of his powers. His powers give him a huge flexibility of approach and since every clone can be the real Lucius, he has an inbuilt protection against unexpected circumstances and mental or supernatural attacks.

### Level 5 Abilities

Lucius is able to create clones of himself. Based on in game dialogue, he needs to "fuse" a clone with a given amount of energy, after which they expire. While the clones exist they share all of Lucius's knowledge, experience, and equipment. At Level 4, Lucius could create 10,000 clones. According to Bernhardt Gunvald, at Level 5 Lucius can create even more that. Given that his power is called "Unlimited Fission", its theoretically possible that he can truly create unlimited clones, though they may not last very long.