King

### Costume

Black tracksuit with small white crown symbol on chest, black trainers and the Alien Crown- a silver band of metal with faintly glowing green circuitry

## Extras

### Theme

Alpha - LaFontaines

Rex is the player character of the ongoing solo campaign, King of London. Born Rex Dylan, he has taken the alias King as a crimefighter using the powers of the Alien Crown for his street crusade.

## History

### Early Life

For as long as Rex can remember, his family have had to work hard to get by, but this only got worse when his dad committed suicide. Being too young at the time to truly understand the reasons for it and why it even happened, he was old enough to understand *what* had happened. After that, he saw his mum less and less as she had to work harder to provide for her family of five kids by herself. His brother stepped up and Rex saw even less of him. His older sister, Cait, soon departed to follow her own dreams studying to become a nurse. With no parental guidance, Rex began to lash out with his behaviour in school. As a child he found it hard to put into words how he was feeling, and when talking to teachers and others, he could see they found it hard to put into words how to reassure or even help him.

Rex had two close friends that stuck by him through it all, JD and Grayson, and the trio supported each other, picking each other up when they were down. As Rex grew older and his behaviour worsened when reaching the start of secondary school and the spells of lashing out with bad behaviour became more and more frequent, and teachers became more unsure of how to deal with him and the emotional turmoil he was going through. This changed when Rex meet big Al. Alan Davies, a local gym owner was helping run fitness training and boxing sessions at the local youth club for under privileged kids and it was by chance one day that he met Rex. With Al knowing the tragic history of Rex’s family and seeing that he could offer Rex some discipline and guidance he took him under his wing, it also certainly helped that Rex showed a love for the sport and a great natural ability. Rex was eventually invited to join big Al at his own gym to train there with him (for free, provided he stayed committed and didn’t ever take this for granted).

With Rex now having a place to channel his confused feelings and emotions, more structure in his life and finally a goal; his behaviour in school soon improved. Soon Rex was back to being that cocky, fun loving kid he used to be. He became more social in school again with his peers no longer afraid to approach him, and his best pals, Grayson and JD still by his side. He eventually got to know Alice and they have been in an on and off relationship since.

### Origin

On his way to his first underground fight, Rex sees a woman being attacked on the streets by some thugs and intervenes saving her, along with a helping hand from a reluctant Grayson. He eventually makes it to his first fight and either by luck or skills, wins it. Celebrating with his friends for most the night, he stumbles home drunk alone before he gets jumped by the thugs from earlier. Hit hard over the back of the heard Rex appears to be dead or dying to the thugs and so they decide its best to dump the body off a bridge, leaving no trace of the crime they committed. He is saved by, unbeknownst to him, an alien robot who resuscitates Rex and places the alien crown on his head. After a brief encounter with a robotic alien predator which he takes down with his new enhanced reflexes, Rex stumbles home in the early hours of the morning and runs into his sister Cait. She helps him to his room and helps care for him as he spends the next day or two recovering.

### King of London

#### Revenge

Rex wearing the crown and going by the name King turns his attention to trying to find his would-be murderer and finds out that the thugs that attacked him are part of the Pistols; a gang that runs his local area. He confronts his killer and after this decides to take the gang down for good, only its not as easy as he first thinks. Beating up thugs on the streets proves ineffective and he ultimately crosses paths with a nightclub owner called Dennis. Dennis proves a useful informant telling King about the Pistols plot to steal a billionaire's gold car, but also that they are rumoured to have a member that can see into the future. King, undeterred, tries to foil their plan anyway only for it to go sideways when its revealed they hired the Dandy Bullet to slow him down. Only able to save a few lives, King barely makes it out of there with his own as Dennis picks him up in his limo. Dennis, hitting King with some truths, tells him to be far more careful and to focus on helping people rather than a suicidal mission.

“He’s got to start from the bottom and work up. Be the King of the people, start working and helping the little guy training to be a hero from there. His heart wasn’t in trying to fight and save a billionaires gold car, but he cares for his streets and the people that live on them.

Time to make a change. In his actions and his streets.” – Taken from King's thoughts.

#### Monsters and Men

During one of King's patrols he breaks up a drug deal going down in his neighbourhood, but gathers some important and terrifying intel from one of the thugs. The thug explains that from one of the houses they use to make the drugs, sounds can be heard from next door – sobbing and sometimes screaming and pounding on the walls in the basement. King decides to check it out and stumbles into the lair of the serial killer known to the public as the Bitemark Butcher. King fights with the man with the terrifying meta ability to stun and paralyse people with his voice. Fortunately King takes him down and rescues the little girl from the monster's clutches. The police eventually arrive on the scene and take the butcher away.

On Christmas eve Rex receives a call from his sister Cait, calling him from the hospital she works at. She explains that the hospital has been locked down by the villain Fearworks and that she needs King's help. Rex quickly responds and sneaks past the police barrier to help his sister as King. He finds that the villain had started releasing a hallucinogenic gas throughout the hospital that causes terrifying and vivid hallucinations and heightens paranoia. King eventually finds and stops him, taking him down and stopping the gas being spread further through the hospital, foiling his plan and stopping his maniacal monologue on social Darwinism. King does take a nasty whack on the head from his sister who had taken in the gas and wasn’t able to recognise her brother in his hero costume. King left the police and other services to arrest Fearworks and his thugs and help the people still acutely affected by the fear toxin. Fearworks managed to surprise the arresting officers and get away.

#### Year of the King

Shortly into the New Year he stops Ice Ting from breaking into an ATM and on his way home rescues Zoe from some assailants.

Reconnects with his mentor Big Al who he'd been avoiding for the past few months because he knew he'd disapprove of the underground fighting. Big Al stresses to him how stupid he's been and promises to reach out to his old contacts to get Rex a legitimate in. In the meantime Rex will be working in the gym after school.

JD calls Rex, telling him he's got a surprise. The next day JD shows up in his new car- JD deflects questions about how he could afford it and tells Rex to get in. JD, Rex, Macca, and Sarah's boyfriend Nate go for a drive, Rex is pressured into having a drink from the icebox while Macca and Nate get stoned in the back. The police notice the car going past them is full of smoke and put the sirens on for them to pull over. JD starts freaking out, speeding up way too fast for the roads they're on and tries to shake the police. When Rex asks him what he's doing and to just pull over because it's not like he's been drinking or smoking JD tells him to check the glovebox. After popping it open Rex sees a gun and a lot of white bricks. When the car slows down due to a particularly windy road, Rex decides to jump out of the moving car with the gun and drugs. He runs from the police hides the narcotic and the weapon and calls JD to pick it up.

When JD comes to collect it cocky as hell and more worried that it's all there than he is for his friend's wellbeing, Rex blows up at him and they argue. Rex tells JD that they're through and he won't be fighting in the ring any more.

He later witnesses a robbery in the road while without his crown. Confidant, a villain dressed in all black uses their telekinetic powers to make a car swerve off the road- nearly injuring an elderly bystander. Rex shouts at the guy for not being more careful and the villain pauses, considers what the young man is saying and then apologises to both Rex and the old woman. He then sends over his "Confidant" business card to Rex with his name and number.

Rex decides that King needs a way of talking to his people directly and takes a page out of Zoe's book- creating a social media account for King and filming short videos to grab people's attention. Many of these are clickbait and some of his fights are straight up against the TOS of most social media sites.

#### Crime Wave

For the next few weeks, Rex focuses mostly on completing his many outstanding school projects, working part-time and going on occasional patrols. He ends up patrolling nearly every night as every time he goes out he seems to run into at least one crime in progress- a far cry from the boring early days when he was lucky to even find a guy hawking drugs.

He catches a particularly belligerent and slightly drunk man who's mugged multiple people in the same night with a knife and not even bothered to hide the evidence who asks how King hasn't noticed that the police won't come to this neighbourhood anymore. King almost doesn't believe the man, refusing to accept that the police can be so brazenly corrupt. But it was true he hadn't seen them. He leaves the man hand cuffed to a lamppost even when the man begs to be freed so he can pee.

He goes to the knowledgeable Dennis at Club Midas, who confirms what the man had said. Adding that the man behind it calls himself Caesar and that he had made sure every two-bit thug in London knows the neighbourhood is being ignored. Now it's a petty crime free-for-all.

While trying to figure out what to do next walking through the park at night he hears shouting nearby, he goes to a rooftop to scope out the situation and to set up his phone to record. He watches a group of men trashing a shop while another man holds back an old woman. He intervenes, rescuing the woman who barely acknowledges his help before heading into her shop, while he fights the assailants. Another man steps out of the luxury black vehicle revealing his name to be Rubicon and his status as one of Caesar's men, he dons his signature shock gloves and fights with King until they both hear a gunshot. The old woman has come back form inside her shop and has shot Rubicon in the back, she reveals that she is part of the Pistols crime family in an aggrandising speech and King realises the men were here for her. King knocks the gun out of her hands and helps the injured Rubicon and his men get to their car as more pistols start to arrive.

He flees the scene and shakes off any attempts to follow him, only to come across the villainous Ice Ting and his mates in the middle of looting some of his neighbourhood's high street shops. He fights them briefly until the pistols rock up, again and he realises he has to let Ice Ting go or else he'll be captured by the pistols.

Realising that soon his neighbourhood will be an all-out territory war he resolves to "get the word out", believing that public pressure will force the police to intervene before things get too crazy. He makes more Tik Toks, to a steady number of streams but it's not enough. He decides to invoke a journalists help, many ignore his emails but one is willing to meet and hear him out- Alex O'Hara.

They met in the park, he explained the situation and she admitted there could be a story in it but she wanted time to corroborate what he's saying. After she had done so they met again in a mask café (where the patrons all wear masks) and she agreed to help write this story and try to find a publisher all while trying to find out how high up the corruption goes.

In the weeks that followed King would continue his own campaign to be the first line against the rising wave of organised crime along with his social media campaign to spread the word about the police's inaction. This all came to a head when he uncovered a plot between Caesar's crime organisation and the police to eliminate the Pistols once and for all by lending SWAT equipment to thugs under Caesar's control. King rushed to the Rose and Pistol bar and tried to save the gangmembers to prevent bloodshed in the neighbourhood. Unfortunately, he only achieved minimal success at warning the gang and was soon caught in the crossfire between the superior force and the desperate pistols. The timely intervention of London's number one archer hero- Sherwood- created a distraction that gave King a chance to disarm many of the men. The Pistols surrendered, with many members being recruited the same night into Caesar's organisation.

Shortly after, footage of King fighting against the police would be shown on TV discredited both him and Alex's article about corruption- leaving only his community who had seen first hand the police's inaction in his corner.

## Personality

A hero with the audacity to call himself King reveals a lot about them, but does it reveal everything? Yes, King is at times full of himself. Overconfident, over ambitious, but not yet over himself. However, it is these traits that help him each night put on his crown and jump across rooftops to help those in need and those that cant protect themselves. King cares deeply about his community and his family. His desire to change the streets for the better comes from wanting to protect and look after those he loves; while also giving him the kick of adrenaline he craves.

He has learned a lot in his last few months trying to be a hero. He has learned the importance of patience, knowing your limitations (or even accepting that you have some) and also that hero work isn’t always easy. It can be hard to balance family, friends and other relationships and keep them safe. King isn’t always the best friend of or even boyfriend and can be selfish or hurt others when he doesn’t think things through, but recently he’s been trying to be better. King can find it hard to listen and understand others opinions and emotions and is usually resolute in his own, especially if his mind is made up. Only certain people in his life have the power to get him to consider and think on things such as his big sister Cait.

There is one thing King knows for certain, he can’t standby and watch his city, his streets, his hometown, become even more unsafe. Watch out criminals, there’s a new King in town.

## Powers, Abilities & Equipment

### Trained Fighter

Knows how to throw a punch and, more importantly, how to dodge a punch.

### Alien Crown

The full capabilities of the crown are not yet known, but it greatly enhances Rex's senses and reflexes as well as making him resistant to psychic abilities. It can produce a bright flash of light that disorients his enemies. It can also provide him with an adrenaline rush to reduce his fatigue.