Deadbeat

**Debut** | TBA

**Deadbeat** is the Simplicitrix/Stabilized Simplicitrix's DNA sample of a Divorced Nuptialoid-A from the planet Matri-Monium. He is a free-use alien originally made by WTB.

## Appearance

Deadbeat is a mutated humanoid figure with masculine features, loosely resembling that of the Nuptialoid-A, more specifically the "Groom" of Wedlock, species that it derives from. Deadbeat not only lacks the Groom's signature groom suit and wedding ring, but appears a lot more ferocious and disheveled in terms of appearance, being much taller and bulkier with broader shoulders, prominent cheek-bones, fanged teeth, pointed fingertips, and inverted skin colors, now primarily being bright orange with jagged dark teal stripes that are much larger than before, with more stripes now running down to the back of his hands, down his forehead to his eyebrows, and down the sides of his face. Deadbeat has a blockier chin, sharper nose, and receding hairline, although his hair has become much longer in the back, while most prominently, he now has a dark bony claw extending from each ring and middle finger respectively.

Deadbeat's outfit consists of an open black blazer with a popped collar, a red undershirt covered in mystery stains, a crooked leather belt with no buckle, dark gray pants, and black and red shoes that vaguely resemble the Groom's dress shoes, although instead more so that of boots.

Deadbeat may wear the Simplicitrix somewhere underneath his blazer, although the stains on his shirt vaguely form the shape of the symbol itself.

## Personality

Deadbeat represents the epitome of dead weight, that of an extremely lazy, parasitic, good-for-nothing freeloader without any good social skills or manners nor the will towards performing the simplest of tasks unless they directly benefit himself or require such minimalistic effort he can half-ass them with anyone caring enough to even bother, especially with his hostile, apathetic behavior towards other people, and the intricate sailor mouth he has to boot too.

While nowhere near fierce, violent, and physically intimidating as his female mutant counterpart, Unholy Alimony, in fact not caring the slightest about his own public image, and instead alternatively displaying misogynistic behavior with his hatred towards femininity and the like, despite any hypocritical contradictions, Deadbeat can still stand on his own two feet and give his opponents a run for their money, even despite his occupation as a full-time slacker that rides the line of legality, and the fact that unlike Unholy Alimony, Deadbeat has absolutely no good side for anyone to get on, so barren of his former maternal instincts that he absolutely loathes even the sight of children, let alone being in the presence of one.

## Powers

* Deadbeat partially shares Wedlock's primary ability of bond manipulation, although only the fusion aspect at a much greater intensity, with his clawed ring and middle fingers acting as the primary conduits, although he can still project them through energy beams in the form of broken rings, just now at a much shorter range.
	+ Through scratching or impaling with his claws, Deadbeat can completely blend together the atomic bonds of any physical matter, causing them to forcefully amalgamate together with varying levels of fusion, ranging from a perfected being, to a writhing, screaming mass of disjointed body parts mashed up with one another.
	+ Deadbeat can alternatively create, form, and restore figurative bonds, whenever causing those in failing relationships to come back together, or for two complete and utter strangers to form a completely new relationship with one another, typically using the latter to his advantage by distracting his opponents by literally making them fall in love with each other. Deadbeat can also reinforce other figurative bonds and powers of the same nature, such as psychic bonds, including telepathy, telekinesis, persuasion, and mind control, and spiritual bonds, such as possession.
	+ Deadbeat's mitotic rate of cellular division and replication has been immensely accelerated of his mutation, although his abilities are constantly active on a subconscious level throughout her entire body, fusing excess ones and eliminating abnormal cell growth. However, Deadbeat can directly manipulate the size of his body parts by instead overclocking his cells at an even faster speed through forcing the process of fusion throughout them, using it to his advantage by selectively increasing the strength and proportions in specific parts of his anatomy, and with little needed additional concentration, his entire body overall.
		- Compared to Unholy Alimony, who most commonly enlarges herself with this ability, Deadbeat alternatively shrinks down, and even merges his hyperactive cells with his own environmental surroundings, or even through other people, achieving a tactile form of intangibility where he can reform something from the inside out, or mutilate his opponents from within his their bodies.
	+ Deadbeat has enhanced strength, durability, agility, reflexes, and dexterity, all of which greatly exceeds the combined efforts of Wedlock by almost double the amount, on top of being able to concentrate his superior strength into enhanced stamina and jumping.
		- Deadbeat has the natural resistances of both instances of Wedlock combined together, including his original tolerance towards plasma-based attacks in the form of extreme heat and pure laser energy, but also extreme cold and pure energy attacks. Deadbeat has both their total immunity towards psychic abilities, and now also an immunity towards body possession.

## Weaknesses

* Deadbeat's hostility and couch potato lifestyle are his greatest weakness, completely hindering his ability to properly socialize and work with others without his selfish needs or crippling lethargy taking over, and bittering the moods and attitudes of others with his display of incautious, absent-minded attitude towards his own image and unfound enmity towards femininity. Although his behavior makes him more of a mild headache, at worst just a persistent nuisance to deal with, this completely changes when he decides to completely shut down and enter a state of ergophobia that results in him having to be literally dragged off the nearest couch.
* Stated above, Deadbeat's mutation causes him to completely lose the fission aspect of his ability, only able to conjoin, create, and form bonds, at the cost of not only being much more stronger than before, but seemingly almost too strong for him to completely handle, especially his risky ability of mitosis acceleration, as too much concentration or even blatant ignorance can cause him to shrink too much, or even melt into his surroundings.
	+ Deadbeat can only grow back up by letting his own heightened mitosis replace all of the fused cells of a shrunken body part until it eventually corrects itself and reaches its original size again, which is a numbingly slow process that will very quickly chip away at Deadbeat's laughably short attention span and patience.
	+ Just like Wedlock, Deadbeat cannot sever the immense psychic and genetic link of a Nuptialoid Union.
* Deadbeat has inferior strength, size, and claw length compared to Unholy Alimony, although makes up with it with his extra pair of claws.

## Etymology

* Deadbeat's name means "an idle, feckless, or disreputable person," not only directly alluding to Deadbeat's actual personality traits, but the fact his own divorced status would make an actual *deadbeat* father.

## Trivia

* Deadbeat was a theoretical transformation idea that was thought up and put into question by Ghost King after the creation of Unholy Alimony's page, centering around the idea that if the female counterpart of a Nuptialoid Union that divorces apart and eventually mutates into its own subspecies, what happens to the male counterpart?
	+ Blake suggested his name, while the base of his design was reused from an unfinished Ultimate Wedlock base mock-up created by WTB.