Lee Oxford

"*Every time I stray away from killing...it just pulls me back in. Can't a man have his peace and his family? Am I destined to fight forever, even in a world with no fate...?*" - Lee

**Lee Oxford**, **The Silent Killer**, *(born Ni Abdi-Ili)* is a New God originally born as a human on Earth at an unknown date. He is considered the best fighter by many to come out of Earth and has several thousand lives of experience as a fighter and a soldier. In his final life as a human, he was a 40-year military veteran serving in the conflicts such as the Desert War, the conquest of North Korea, and the war between China and the U.S in the 1970's. He was infamous amongst his peers for being superhuman, having extreme precision and strength when fighting and shooting weapons.

## History

Lee Oxford was born in the Middle East several millennia long before industrial human civilization. In his first life as Ni, he was said to be a troublemaker and a fighter, during this time he had accidentally ended up in an explosion caused by someone resulting in Infinity energies coating his body. Like any normal mortal, he could die normally and would eventually succumb to natural causes as Ni. However, every time he died, he would revert back to an infantile stage, starting his life over from zero, but would retain several characteristics such as his experience in fighting, natural attitude, and the memory of his previous life and only his previous life. After he had realized this, he had kept a journal of the several lives he lived in an attempt. The truth of the Infinity Curse would not be revealed to him until after he was told by the man who caused this, Chaos. His current life is documented in his journal stating: "*After I dropped out of high school, I enlisted a year later into the Military in 1969. What happened afterwards would proceed to get me famous in the Military due to setting several records during the U.S-China wars and put me quickly up the ranks. They called me an inhuman machine. They thought my talent as a soldier was incredible...they didn't know I had several centuries of war under my belt, it was no surprise to me, the getting famous and recognition of my 'talent.' In my previous lives, I'd made marks in the histories of other countries I'd served before. My kill count was somewhere in the 2,000s, though most of my records were scrapped after I was dishonorably discharged for treason when I was framed. I lived the rest of my life in misery and came home to find my wife and children dead. It was my worst nightmare...they'd looked forward for me to come home only to discover that there would be no tomorrow for them. I fell into alcohol addiction and somebody left a mysterious "mask" at my house. I initially thought it was some sort of joke, but this individual claimed it was a 'gift' in a letter they had left. One night, I remember this quite well...I was drunk and put on the mask only to discover it had stitched itself to my face. Annoyed, but not aware of what it actually did, I decided not long after that, I needed to make ends meet. I enlisted in bounty hunting due to crime being so bad in my city, the police were offering compensation for citizen's assistance. I later turned to crime and people gave me the nickname, The "Silent Killer." It was at that time enlisting in crime that I understood the swamp my city was in, or the corruption. We bounty hunters were just their tools...their vigilantes, they were lazy. The crime festered in the city because they were in someone's pockets. Someone was allowing them to be lazy and run a scheme where they enlisted people to clean up messes that they were supposed to. I'm not going to let corruption fester in a city I had lived in for several years, not the city where I lived with my family. I was going to clean up all of it, no matter what. Under that guise I led a gang called the Red Hearts. After looking into the case of the death of my family, I found the culprit, James Costello. What shocked me the most was knowing that he was just like me...We had both lived for several thousand years. His first life was as a 'Polish' (and I say that with quotes as Poland didn't exist yet) man named Andrey Zbyszko. The real bit of disbelief wasn't the fact that he was immortal, or even that he killed my family that I had finally loved. It's that my enemy for several centuries was my comrade in arms in this one. Eventually, I would have my revenge and kill him. He told me before I did that I couldn't win. Not long after, I would realize he was right. If I'd obliterated his soul with the Eternity Sword...The person who tutored him through his lives would've brought him back. Looking back, I wonder what took me so long to fight like I hadn't been immortal. I felt alive again, maybe Andrey was the reason. A foe among the ages to fight...That's not so bad.*" Not long after though would Lee would find himself enlightened to the bigger picture around him...

## New Timeline

In the new timeline, Lee's past ended up being much the same except for something different happening in his original life. When Chaos came and attacked the planet, the Infinity substance also allowed Chaos energies from the then-decimated village to enter his body. In his life as Lee however, many things would change. While he would go on to have mostly the same life, he was told by someone that about a plan to frame him for treason by his colleagues that had been paid off by a mystery individual. With no way to stop the plan or determine the individual responsible, he made contact with the individual to arrange for his family to be taken off the grid knowing what happened to the families of traitors. Next, he forged a letter stating that he had been KIA and sent it to his family. On the next mission, Lee would go AWOL and flee. Having succeeded in faking his own death and protecting his family, he was soon labeled a traitor by his own country, with the government stripping him of the accomplishments he had earned in the wars he had fought in. While none of this phased Lee, he was depressed at the thought of not being able to see his family ever again. For a while, Lee enjoyed the life of not having to fight as a soldier for once in his life. Eventually, Lee would go back to America after stowing away on a refugee ship and went back to Oregon. After finding the subdivision, he was led into an alleyway by an individual. He recognized the voice immediately: it was the individual who inadvertently saved his family's life. He revealed his name to Lee: Andrew Weber. Lee was confused as to why a renowned pacifist was helping out a war vet. Naturally, Lee inquired as to why Andrew wanted to help him. Andrew told Lee of an organization of war vets who were affected by corruption that he and another individual started up to provide refuge for the forcibly dishonorably discharged war vets. Lee thanked Andrew and joined him at the refuge center. Andrew explained to Lee that he wanted him to rule over the new gang he created to oppose the United States military: The Renegades. When asked why by Lee, Andrew told him that Lee's legendary status and greatness as a leader would help boost their morale. Lee also found Lazarus, an old friend of his that had been a member of the Renegades previously.

## Personality

Lee was not a very personable person as a human or as a New God. As a human he was stubborn, strict, patriotic, and violent but had a clear love for family as well as fighting. Ever since losing his family, he became apathetic, bitter, cold, and even more violent to the point of unprovoked aggression. Despite appearing to have a hatred for his country and humanity, he appears to want change as well as for them to unite under a common goal for the sake of diplomatic peace worldwide. Because of this, he can be seen as a person who doesn't really like having war as an out anymore, but someone who recognizes as all he has. When Lee found out of his immortality after his first death as Osbourne, he was shocked to discover his age had shrank while simultaneously remembering his life as Osbourne. He has appeared to have been numbed to certain emotions due to his extensive life although he claims his family as "Lee" made him understand the feeling of love for the first time in a long while.

## Physical and Mental Analysis

An analysis was done on Lee/Osbourne by Physicus and Mech. Here is what they have concluded:

* Lee has an infinite lifespan but is still largely human. As a result of 7,000 years of living, Lee tends to have an unserious demeanor when fighting.
* Lee's body is on a clock. When he dies he is reborn with only his past life's memories. He only remembers all of his lives' memories thanks to Chaos giving him the memories back.
	+ He is currently stuck in his life as Lee due to becoming a New God. He no longer is capable of dying unless he is killed with the Eternity Sword. However, instead of a "true death." He is reborn in a new life again.
* Lee was once known only by the mantle of the Silent Killer. As the Silent Killer, he not only became wanted by many countries and governments, but even extraterrestrial civilizations, such as the Seraphs, in his time working for Hell. Targets of Lee who survived an encounter with him would even become celebrities.
* In nearly every life, Lee was regarded as the world's most dangerous soldier. In 7,000 years of living, Lee amassed a kill count of around 26,000,000; possessing 3,000+ confirmed kills in each lifetime.
* While he is not the best hand-to-hand combatant physically, he is easily the universe's most technically-versed fighter, holding mastery over several different fighting styles and having innovated several different fighting styles. This is likely due to his long life.
* While Lee doesn't appear smart, he has multiple decades of experience in psychology, ballistics, pyrotechnics, forensics, explosive engineering, and weapon engineering.
* Another alias Lee went by was as an interrogator, where he became known as the "Human Polygraph." It is said that Lee's deduction, methodology, and reasoning are so amazing that not a single person he interrogated had ever gotten away with a lie.
* His main fighting style, the Street Fighting style, possesses four different stances.
	+ The Soldier stance is his offensive stance, where he breaks down the enemy by destroying pressure points and bones. This is the style he uses to wear down enemies over time until they collapse from their own wounds.
	+ The Beast stances is his defensive stance where he soaks up damage and relies heavily on grappling. This is a grappling-based fighting style where he uses throws and submissions as opposed to other moves.
	+ The Villain stance is his evasive stance where he uses the enemy's impatience and anger to land retaliatory shots. The stance is much more crude and relies on informal fighting techniques such as taunting.
	+ The Silent stance consists of Lee's most brutal techniques that he innovated and stopped using after his tenure as the Silent Killer. He came up with these techniques when whispering to himself the many ways he would hurt his family's killers once he found them.
* He was the Tactician and the Leader of four different divisions in Hell under the Disorder Legions service.
	+ He was also the former leader of the now-disbanded gang The Red Hearts.
* Lee is older than most of the New Gods. Only Olteus, Azazel, Orochi, Tenebris and Lux are older than he is.

## Relationships

Lazarus (Positive) - One of his friends when he was still living, Lazarus and Lee had been partners in crime for a short time before both of their untimely deaths. They would come to figure out the both of them had returned to life somehow and both eventually ascended to godhood.

James Costello (Despised) - Lee's main enemy. James claimed in their encounters that like Lee, he had also acquired a form of Immortality as well. This might have been a result of dealing with Lux, granting him immortality.

Malignagon (Negative) - Lee never liked any of the deities. He claimed that none of them were ever good and that Malignagon was just like most of Earth's politicians int he regard that "everyone is their stairway." After forcing Malignagon to break the contract to his soul, Lee peacefully retired, but as he would discover, he never could retire in peace.

Tenebris (Negative) - When Lee had begun working for the Tenebrites, it is likely that deep down, he knew that Tenebris had exaggerated his promises to Lee to take advantage of his vengeance. Tenebris was the first of many examples to Lee that deities were taking advantage of all the people they could get their hands on. After Lee had finished his tenure with the Tenebrites, he had hoped to have never had been pulled back in again.

Chaos (Negative) - Lee's description of Chaos can be summarized in two words: "Crazy Bastard". It is clear to Lee that a person like Chaos is unstable to the point where even Lee finds himself not wanting to be around Chaos, not out of fear, but out of the fact that he knows he won't be back in one piece if he does. He also claims he is "thankful" for Chaos giving him his immortality, regardless, he does not approve of Chaos's mindless killing and he has no interest in serving him.

Annihilus (Positive) - Lee finds himself resonating with Annihilus very well. The two in their civilizations have had similar paths, including toppling their governments. While both have become numbed to emotion. Lee notes that Annihilus's big problem is that he can't seem to figure out whether he should live with having nothing or fight to gain what he did have back.

Lux (Despised) - Lee considers Lux equally responsible for the deaths of his family as if he had not granted James immortality, then he would not have lived to kill his family. Lux also tried to sway Lee into joining his ranks to which Lee refused.

Daemon Sultan (Negative) - According to Lee, the type of person the Daemon Sultan is is the exact type of person that pisses him off. Lee heavily dislikes how condescending he is, and he dislikes him due to his nature as a Primordial. The feeling is mutual as the Daemon Sultan is not fond of any of Chaos's proteges.

Nexon (Neutral) - Lee has been recruited to join the new Nexus Council multiple times. While Lee has expressed interest in doing good, he refused as at the time, he had been retired from action. Nexon did not hold Lee's decision to join the Disorder Force against him, which made Lee heavily respect him, but not trust him.

Olteus (Positive) - Lee and Annihilus both are responsible for helping Olteus expand his shop's wares as Lee's gift with munition crafting and pyrotechnics have allowed him to make and distribute special ammunitions to Olteus.

## Quotes

"**Sorry pal, the one to kill James was never going to be you. It was always going to be me. I'd like to say this isn't personal, but I'd be lying.**" - Lee to Barry after massacring the Black Skulls

"**Let me ask you a question: What would you do with an hour left to live? Would you make your peace, say goodbyes, or maybe both? I'd find the answer quickly. You have an hour left to live.**" - Lee to James, moments before their final battle

"**I find God's biggest mistake to be creating a bunch of followers. That is exactly what humans are, just dogs waiting to be told what to do by the people with the right voice. The cunning have established the elaborate ruse of choice and free will, when discreetly...People behind the scenes are already telling them what to think, believe, and say. I can see the strings on them, thin as they are.**" - Lee to Lazarus