Mortimer

*“Just because right now I can not give you cancer with a single stare doesn’t mean you can look down on me, okay?”*

## Personal Status

### Relatives

Disease (Father)Unnamed Naturamancy prodigy (Mother)

War, Famine, The Grim Reaper (Uncles)

Sylvia (Cousin)

**Mortimer** is the son of Disease, one of the four horsemen, a half-human, and the cousin of Sylvia.

## Personality

Mortimer is a very polar person. He very rarely can be in between in terms of his emotions, much more often just taking them to the extreme.

Usually he is rather hyperactive, easygoing and somewhat self-confident person, who rarely treats any situation as truly serious. Even in most dire situations, Mortimer can't be seen without a grin on his face.

His height is quite a touchy theme for him, discussion of which is one of two main reasons for him to drop his normal attitude and straight out snap at the speaker.

While not always revealing this he deeply cares for all of his relatives, no matter if they are close or distant ones and will do anything he can to defend them and their honor. In fact any kind of false and/or harmful critique towards any of his relatives is the second reason why Mortimer can snap at anyone.

Additionally it should be noted that due to his current life situation Mortimer is highly power hungry, looking for any possibility to expand his magical abilities, be it through simple research, using artifacts, conducting rituals or any other possible ways.

## Powers and Abilities

**Allergy Trigger**: Mortimer can trigger allergies of any creatures around him.

**Poisonous Body**: Digesting any part of Mortimer’s body or anything it produces will cause severe fever and hallucinations. Works only on creatures of mortal realm, creatures like Reapers or Demons aren’t affected.

**Absolute Immunity**: Mortimer has complete immunity to all diseases and poisons.

**Near Immortality**: Mortimer’s health is not affected by his age, which in combination with his immunity makes him unable to die by any natural causes.

**Limited Cryomancy**: Mortimer can lower temperature of anything he touches up to -30 degrees Celsius.

**Naturamancy**: Mortimer, just like his mother, has a natural talent for Naturamancy. The problem is – due to his lack of experience he can’t properly control his power and thus subconsciously restrains it, shutting his ability to use Naturamancy entirely, except for a few cases.

**Parasitic Fungus**: The only consistent exception to Mortimer’s mental block of his Naturamancy powers. A variation of Naturamancy born from his wish to become as deadly as his father and currently his greatest pride as a magician. Using this ability Mortimer can create parasitic mushrooms on any surface around him and manipulate their growth and size. If grown on non-living surfaces, said mushrooms quickly wither and turn into dust, but if grown on a living surface… These mushrooms instantly dig into the victim growing together with its nervous system and blood vessels, becoming one with victim’s organism and feeding on nutrients in the victim’s blood. Attempts of removing the mushrooms will trigger a defensive mechanism – disturbed mushroom will start to spray its spores around, while the current victim will experience the same effect as if digesting Mortimer’s body – severe fever and hallucinations, with one key difference – it no longer only affects creatures of the mortal realm.

## Weaknesses

**Human**: Mortimer’s main weakness is his human side. While he is a son of a horseman, most of his abilities aren’t anywhere near his father’s in terms of both damage and defense. While, yes he can’t die normally or be poisoned, a slit throat should be just enough to end him instantly.

**Fire**: It should be noted that mushrooms created by his Parasitic Fungus ability can be easily removed by burning them, though the process will cause the victim immense amounts of pain.

## Backstory

Born as the son of Disease and growing up next to his father, Mortimer always looked up to his father and dreamed of becoming his right hand. After all, if not him, then who?

The problems started when his own powers awoke. Turned out that his human side has seriously diluted his abilities, making him not even close to Disease.

Many people in such a situation would simply give up and try to find another calling in their life, but not Mortimer. Standing next to his father was his lifelong dream and he wouldn’t abandon it, no matter what. If his heritage couldn’t give him enough power to accomplish that dream, he would just use what power he had to force the rest upon himself.

And so he set out on an adventure in search of magic that would let him become his father’s equal and finally accomplish his dream.