Mephiles the Dark

**Mephiles** is a major antagonist in FanRP. He was the malevolent conscience, mind and will of the sun god Solaris. Mephiles was born during the Solaris Project when the experiments on Solaris split him into Mephiles and Iblis. After his birth, Mephiles was sealed inside the Scepter of Darkness by Shadow (who traveled back in time using Chaos Control) but was freed ten years later during a skirmish between Shadow, Songxu, and Torak.

After his release, Mephiles orchestrated a centuries-long plan to release Iblis from Songxu and rejoin with it, which succeeded when he killed Omari. He then re-merged with Iblis, remaking Solaris, but was defeated by X, Shadow, and Silver and Morax. and subsequently erased from existence.

## Physical Appearance

Mephiles has three forms. His original form was an amorphous mass of darkness, which emitted an aura and behaved similarly to liquid. In his second form, Mephiles appeared almost identical to Shadow, aside from having green eyes with slit pupils, a pale-skinned muzzle with no mouth (though his muzzle moves when he speaks, as if he does have one), and the fact that everything that is red on Shadow is a grayish-green on Mephiles. Just like Shadow, he had rings on his wrists and ankles. His third and most iconic form was a crystalline, a human appearance with no mouth, nose or even feet. Instead, his legs ended in a purplish mist. His eyes also change color in this form, gaining reddish-pink sclera and lime green irises, while his hair were bushier and ended in white tips. Lastly, his hands, gloves and all, became crystalline like his arms, with the fingers now ending in white-tipped claws.

## Personality

Unlike most of the villains in FanRP, who are driven by a lust for power or revenge, Mephiles (according to Shadow) only seems to crave nothing more or less than violence and destruction. He is portrayed as a heartless, malevolent, and ruthless sadist with no sense of compassion or empathy, and would do anything to accomplish his goals, even if it means taking innocent lives. Mephiles happens to take great pleasure and delight in hurting others and has been shown to have a very warped and twisted sense of humor, making him a very remorseless and unsympathetic being. For example, he made it his sole mission to cause pain to Songxu throughout the entire course of the Incident, and even broke out into a maniacal laughter after ending Omari's life. Mephiles is also highly intelligent, persuasive, deceitful, and manipulative, capable of using and manipulating people to further his evil plans.

Perhaps what is most unsettling about him is that he is completely calm, emotionless, patient, and falsely affable, all of which especially helps out with his manipulative nature. He is not known to lose his temper or even raise his voice, even when angered, injured, or even when in imminent danger. While not known to lose his temper, he can get enraged, shown when Shadow outright refused to join his destructive goals for the second time, but even then, did not lose his patience completely.

Mephiles also has misanthropic and even nihilistic tendencies, as evidenced in his final fight against Shadow, where he asked why Shadow even bothers fighting at all, and why Shadow even bothers defending Teyvat when they will inevitably persecute him later. However, it seems that he has some manners, as he bowed to Shadow after taking his form, though this was most likely done as a mocking gesture than actual politeness.

Mephiles showed limited interest in entities, taking particular interest in Shadow, Silver and Omari, the latter only because he needed to kill him. Mephiles is shown to hold a particular hatred for Shadow since it was he who sealed him in the Scepter of Darkness.

## Powers and abilities

Mephiles is a being who may not have a material form at all. He has a great deal of shapeshifting skills that allow him to turn into different forms of matter, like liquid or gas, or even take another person's appearance by absorbing that individual's shadow. Subtle differences are applied, however, such as a far darker shade of various colors, a pale complexion, and bestial green eyes. He can also grow stronger by absorbing shadows, especially if it comes from the same type of shadow as the being whose shadow he absorbed earlier outside of time counts him as a very powerful character in the series. This is especially evident with his second encounter, where he managed to effortlessly escape imprisonment from another Scepter of Darkness due to his present self having gone back in time absorbing Shadow's shade while the latter was sealing away Mephiles' past self. When he emerges from his victims' shadow to confront them, he is also shown to be much faster.

Mephiles can manipulate and move through time with an ability similar to Chaos Control. Whether or not this was due to taking Shadow's form through his shadow or it was one of his innate abilities is debatable; however, being one half of the time god Solaris, the latter seems more probable. In addition, he has enough control over his time manipulation to separate pursuing enemies, as evidenced by how he managed to escape Shadow after their first fight in the future. His primary offensive technique is a massive sphere of black energy spawned from his hands that home in on their targets. He can also use the energy spheres to move himself and others through time. Since Mephiles absorbed Shadow's shade, he has the ability to physically become the shadow itself, as seen in the first boss fight against him. Furthermore, he can alter his physical form to sink into the ground and merge with the shadow of another. He can also manipulate shadows to create "clones" of himself, although they are warped and imperfect without Chaos Emerald energy. He can also merge the clones together to make large shadow monsters.

Mephiles can blast opponents away by firing shockwaves of energy at them. Mephiles' final attack used before fusing with Iblis to become Solaris was a beam of energy that he extends from his right hand to kill Omari. He is also capable of flight.

Mephiles appears to be immortal, surviving every fight he takes part in, and whenever he is beaten he seems to just shift into his base form. Whether or not he is capable of feeling pain is unknown; although he reacts to taking damage during his boss battles with Shadow, he merely stood and allowed himself to be shot multiple times when confronting Shadow at Wave Ocean. Indeed, when defeated by Shadow a second time, he also declared himself to be immortal and invincible.

Because he is the mind and will of Solaris, Mephiles is very intelligent. He is also shown to have adept knowledge on using modern technology. This is most likely due to his apparently endless lifespan and time travel power allowing him to study the world around him for as long as he needs to.

Mephiles is very skillful in the usage of the Chaos Emeralds' reality warping capabilities. He can release unseen shockwaves from them, have them instill visions in others, blind opponents, and warp the other six Emeralds to his location instantly using just one. Presumably in the latter's case, he utilized the Chaos Emeralds' magnetic properties to pull this off.

### Mephiles's monstrous form

*Main article: Mephiles's monstrous form*
**Mephiles's monstrous form** is a state that Mephiles reached after empowering his darkness with Chaos Emerald energy and fusing with his shadows. Creating a giant body that he controls. In this state, he can fire large lasers in addition to the increment in physical capabilities.

## Weaknesses

As a being made of darkness, Mephiles is vulnerable to light-based attacks, such as Chaos Spear, which render him immobile. His shadow-merging skills are also not infallible as intense power can force him out of other people's shadows

## History

### Past

Mephiles was accidentally created during the Solaris Project, under the supervision of the Duke of Soleanna. In one of the Project's experiments, Solaris was split into two separate entities: Iblis, its raw power, and Mephiles, its cunning mind. As Mephiles was trying to escape the facility, he was sealed in the Scepter of Darkness by Shadow, who had traveled through time by ten years in the past. As Mephiles was sealed inside the scepter, he vowed that he would not forget Shadow and that one day, he would kill him.

Mephiles, having either escaped or simply survived the fight with Shadow, finds the purple Crystal. He uses it to warp to Omari and Songxu's location shortly after they escape Torak's exploding Egg Carrier. He blinds them with the Crystal's powers, and projects an energy spear that impales Omari from behind, almost killing him. Songxu cries over his death and, as a result, Iblis is released, allowing Mephiles to fuse with him and transform into Solaris. Solaris is soon defeated in the final battle against Shadow, Silver, X and Morax in Super States before Songxu goes back in time and extinguishes him when he was a mere flame.

## Trivia

* It is possible that Mephiles might have a low tolerance for aggravation, which can be seen when Shadow refused to join with him. The result of that was Mephiles changing form and during the following boss fight, as well as the follow up one later, snippets of dialogue suggest a more aggressive side, in which he will growl and even make threats. However, being that both fights are paired against Shadow and only Shadow, it's also likely that due to Mephiles' hatred towards him, that this was merely a display of hostility.
* Even though Mephiles appears to lack a visible mouth, the general area on his "muzzle" moves in and out as he speaks in a manner similar to an inflating balloon.

**Fun Facts**

* When Inori was introducing Mephiles to Zane, Zane accidently said Miplhlis. And thus Miphlis was Born.
* Solaris, Mephiles, Iblis and Soleanna were added only because Inori really likes Sonic 06