Bane

* Icon
* Ref

she

```
**Current Status:** Alive

```

## Appearance

Bane is a short, sunflower-flavoured pop made by CT. Her head is mostly a purple-grey colour, with the exception of a patch of yellow on the top right side of her head. A flower crown consisting of four large sunflowers sits atop her head, with the right two looking healthy and yellow, and the left two being rotted and having a similar purple-grey colour as her head. Coming off of the rightmost sunflower is a pair of green leaves that have slight patches of brown on them. The skin on the bottom left area of Bane's face is missing and flayed, revealing brown rot underneath. This area covers the left half of Bane's mouth, revealing teeth embedded in the rotted area below. Purple sores line the edges of this rotted area.

The top portion of Bane's stick is streaked with the purple-grey colour and has a few purple sores near the top. Her organic limbs (left arm and both legs) are a dark purple colour. The left hand has a few purple sores on the top. Bane's right arm is missing, and instead, she has a floating hand powered by magic to replace it. The hand is dark purple but has brighter purple claws. There is a glass panel built into the top of it that shows how much magic energy is left in it. Bane has a long and jagged brown tail with many thorns coming off of it. The tail ends in a rotted sunflower with a pair of large, damaged leaves.

Bane's main outfit consists of a large black serpent beast's head worn as a headpiece. The beast's eyes are grey, but the inside of its mouth is a dull pinkish-red. It has four long, pointed fangs - two on the top and two on the bottom. She wears a black face mask that covers her mouth and the rotted region of her face. Around her neck is a roll of black fabric, which extends to form a long cloak. Attached to the roll of fabric is Bane's Axion symbol, which has a purple Offense Sector star. The inside of her cloak is grey and there are many pockets and holsters for weapons to be stored in. She also wears a dull brown fingerless glove on her left hand to cover the purple sores on it.

## Backstory

**DISCLAIMER: This section contains descriptions of some potentially disturbing/triggering topics such as chronic illness, bullying, child neglect, medical trauma, and murder. Please exercise caution and stay safe !**

### **Early years**

Bane was born to Syra and Ray in one of the many bunker cities of the world. Her parents, who were initially loving, named her Sunflowerpop, or Sunflower for short. Sunflower also had a sister named Sunny. Sunflower was born very small and weak, but despite this, she had a fierce passion and determination for fighting. This passion was fueled by her parents' stories about how the Axion had wiped out their entire town, leaving them behind as the only survivors. However, these dreams would soon be curbed.

### **The wither disease**

At the age of seven, Sunflower contracted a very rare and deadly chronic disease that was known as "the wither disease". It was a disease that slowly withered away the body, first covering it in a purplish colouration, then covering the skin in bright purple sores, before finally rotting away the skin and flesh. The day that the diagnosis came in, something in Sunflower's parents seemed to change forever.

It started out mild at first, with Sunflower still managing to attend school as usual, though rumours did start circulating. However, by Sunflower's eighth birthday, she was regularly taking weeks off school due to being either bedridden at home or at the local hospital. Her parents talked to her less and less and rarely visited her when she was in the hospital, instead opting to coddle and spoil Sunny. They stopped making meals for Sunflower and forbade Sunny and Sunflower from seeing each other. The rumours at school had become common news, and Sunflower's peers started avoiding her.

### **Survival**

By her ninth birthday, Sunflower was spending almost all of her time lying in the hospital, unable to do anything. Her parents almost never visited, and the few times they did, it was always the same disappointed deprecation about how "broken" she was, and how all they had ever wanted was a perfect, healthy child. Her parents didn't even pay for any kind of hospital care or treatment anymore. The only reason she was allowed to stay was because the hospital staff took pity on her.

The rare times that she attended school were just as hellish, with whispers of fear and judgement chasing her wherever she went. But the worst thing was not the parental neglect or the ostracization - it was the envy. All Sunflower could do was lie in the hospital bed all day, forced to watch as her peers grew up and had fun and experienced a *real* life. Sunflower's life was no longer living - it was merely survival.

### **Breaking point**

On the day of her eleventh birthday, the withering of Sunflower's right arm had progressed to the point where it was almost entirely rotted away. Without any payment, the hospital refused to amputate the limb or even give anaesthetic, so Sunflower had to wait in agony as it rotted enough to drop off on its own. The moment she lost her arm was the moment when she thought she realised that she would never be able to live a fulfilling life. Unable to bear it all, she ran from the bunker and out into the wilderness.

Of course, as a very vulnerable child, she didn't manage to survive for very long. A few days after she had run away, Sunflower was lying motionless in the dirt - hungry, exhausted, and waiting for death to come. However, by a stroke of luck, something came to save her.

An object bearing the symbol of the Axion noticed her, helped her up, and gave her some sustenance. They told her that the Axion could treat her disease, help her take back control of her life, and give her the power to enact revenge on everyone who had made her life a living hell, as long as she joined them. She agreed.

### **The executioner**

In the timespan of just two years, she dedicated herself to the Axion and rose bit by bit to become a powerful and respected member. The Axion had treated her disease, built her a replacement right hand that was powered by magic, and gave her extensive training with many different types of weapons as she showed great potential. She became a skilled assassin and executioner who struck both fear and awe into the hearts of others.

About a year after joining the Axion, she decided that it was time for her to enact revenge upon everyone who had wronged her during her childhood. She led an attack on her home bunker, which was one of the few times she did not work solo on a mission. She ordered her soldiers to kill objects on sight, except for those that she recognised, including her parents, her school peers, and the hospital workers. These exceptions were to be captured and sent directly to her instead, so that she could execute them by her own blade. When it came time for the executions, there was no hint of compassion or mercy in her eyes, even as her own parents struggled and screamed for mercy in front of her.

However, there was one last thing that was missing. During her time as an Axion member, she had never told anyone her name. The other members simply referred to her as 'Wither' or 'The Executioner'. When it was time for her to prove herself to ascend to the rank of Supernova, she took on the challenge of slaying a great serpent beast without fear. She defeated it, donned its head as a trophy, and decided to finally take on a new name. She was Bane, the Withering Bane of Worlds.

## Trivia

* Despite the Axion's treatment of Bane's disease, the disease cannot be completely cured. The Axion simply managed to stop the progression of it, but Bane still sometimes experiences milder symptoms such as pain, fatigue, itching, and nausea