Nathaniel Soho

>   *There is no history. No cure to the world's problems.*
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**Nate Soho** was an adventurer who loved to explore the old ruins of Ark City and its lower, more lesser known locations, such as Ground Zero, The Frontier, The Forge, Vault of the Traveller, and more. After injecting himself with a vial of green serum, he began to slowly mutate in a creature he abhorred. Nathaniel became a hooded hellish abomination with goblin mix troll elements. Dubbed **The Hooded Hellspawn** by Infogenocide news.

## History

**Early Life**

Nathaniel was an aspiring engineer in his youth, using all the scraps and tech he salvaged from wreckages, city-wide events, abhorring catastrophes and the unusual paranormal. Using many parts of previously collapsed Megabuildings, he created a flying pirate ship modeled after a toy he once owned. The ship flew around Ark City salvaging things and even assisting in recon for some low level underworld corporations.

Nate never grew up with parents, but he did grow up with fellow salvagers and squatters, making a living off the aged and the war corrupting the city.

One tragic day in the early days of The Rogue Nation, his makeshift family was attacked and slaughtered by Nadia Doisneau, their resources being stolen and used to assemble the clandestine nation. He never held any grudge toward the organisation, because the world felt like it was every man for themselves. But he hasn't forgotten. Nor will he ever.

**Heroics**

Nathaniel, when searching Downtown, encountered Anthony Murphy, saving him from Sulod's wrath and his Midnight Doom plan. He and Anthony escaped to The Frontier, where they searched for resources to help them defeat Sulod in his horrific realm. When Anthony picked up a shield once owned by **The Patriot**, a famous war hero, a man stepped forward and introduced himself. Nate and Anthony encountered, Nikola Tesla, the Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist - turned time hopper.

The three worked together and headed to the downtown area where they teamed up with Wirebug, Sunel, Aspen & The Messiah to take down Sulod. During the battle, Sulod shattered Nate's pirate ship. The assembled team were eventually victorious over the antagonist, sending him into the zeroth dimension. After the battle, they all went their separate ways, with Nathaniel resuming his ways.

**A Monster**

When searching Ground Zero, Nate discovered a vial containing an unknown genetic mutation serum. Not knowing what it was, he injected it into his bloodstream, hoping for anything. Days after the injection, the man stumbled upon a book documenting the vials of green substances, getting sicker and sicker.

It wasn't long after when Nathaniel began watching himself gradually mutate over time, turning into a troll. He took measures in trying to reverse the effects and keep himself scarce, but it wasn't enough. Driven out of the city by average Arkians, Nate spent his days in a cloak, in shame of what he was and what he'd become.

Side effects to the serum were that he'd become aggressive with his surroundings, breaking and destroying whatever he saw. His decaying mind took a toll, splitting itself into several personalities.

## Personality

**Pre-Serum**

Nate was a charismatic, amiable young man with ambitions to reshape his life and give a new perspective to the forgotten and the chaos. Where there was trash, Nathaniel saw treasure. Nothing was out of bounds for the lad to make. To Nate, a flying pirate ship was his greatest creation.

**Post-Serum**

His psyche was split into nine personalities.

* **Nathaniel Soho**: His consciousness in pre-serum was resilient enough to withstand the mental split. When it's in the early hours of the morning, this personality is its most frequent.
* **Mystique:** When active and in control, Nathaniel turns into a master of disguise, with his personality becoming very reserved and manipulative to those who encounter him. His physical state becomes a chamelon-esque creature, being able to shift his appearance at any moment. Only available when in control.
* **The Animal:** A vicious, feral animal that feeds on anything and everything. Consumption is all he can think of. There was no consciousness to his actions. Predominant at midnight.
* **The Inventor:** A modest man, with a keen sense of humor. His soft spoken and assuring voice held the listener's attention, possessing character traits like developed creativity, introvertion, curiosity, rationality and asceticism.
* **Marty:** A personality with a name. Marty is a man with two kids and a loving wife, the unfortunate reality is they are fake; imaginary. He believes them to be real because his mind creates them as illusions to mask the feelings Nate has deep inside. Marty lives the life Nate wanted, but in make-believe. Sometimes, the come to life through illusions, if his control is uncontested.
* **Crazed Doc:** When in control, Nate speaks in a grand, antiquated manner. His eccentric character doesn't clash with his undying optimism. As he likes to say, “If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything.” This personality is obsessed with the presence of time and how it can be altered - but never has he cracked the ability of time travel.
* **Vampiric Trait:** This personality believes itself to be a vampire, but it is not. Prowling around the night and wearing a red cape, he says corny vampire quotes and laughs maniacally whenever.
* **The Alcoholic:** Its name says it all. Nate becomes a raging mutated alcoholic who speaks in a Scottish accent when under the influence, and has an act for playing the banjo and bagpipes. Due to the inability to own any of those instruments, he creates his own mechanical music devices.
* **Good Chef:** Nate's final personality is a chef who's obsessed with creating divine dishes for himself and any life that is around him, making gourmet meals, and even cooking up special meals for those that listen to what he has to say. Nate's go-to dish is a nice soup. Good soup. Good pie. He can create it all.

## Powers & Abilities

**Powers**

**The Nine Personalities:** Nathaniel Soho has 9 personalities, each with its own unique ability, skill or power. Nate's personalities are spontaneous, but repetitive. Some cower in his decaying psyche, while others fight for control.

* **Metamorph:** Nate's personality, Mystique, can psionically alter the formation of her biological cells at will. As a result, he can cause himself to look and sound like an exact duplicate of any human, humanoid, or semi-humanoid being of any sex, wearing virtually any kind of clothing. His control is so exact that he can precisely duplicate another person's retina pattern in her own eyes, finger, palm and skin-pore patterns on her own hands and skin, smell to overlap the original being, and vocal cords to match voices to the point of corresponding voice prints.
* **Illusion Casting:** Marty's illusion casting can fool cities, even powerful entities.
* **Goblin Formula:** Thanks to the chemical composition of the unidentified serun, Nate's personality, The Animal, gained the following abilities:
	+ **Superhuman Strength:** Nate can easily overpower arkians by lifting them up with one hand or by hurling them around. He can also lift extremely heavy objects, crush and break through wood panels and templates, bend metal, and can punch through glass without gaining injury.
	+ **Superhuman Stamina:** Soho's animal can operate or maintain his movements for up to a day without exhausting himself.
	+ **Superhuman Durability:** The formula also fortified all of Nate's bodily tissues, making them far tougher and more resistant to injury than normal humans. While Nate can be injured by something along the lines of a knife or small conventional bullets composed of conventional material, he is very resistant to great impact forces and blunt trauma. He can withstand powerful impacts, such as falling from several stories or being repeatedly struck by a superhuman enemy, that would severely injure or kill a normal human with little to no injury to himself.
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor:** If The Animal does sustain injury, his body's increased metabolism allows him to heal damaged tissue much faster and more extensively than a normal human is capable of. While not nearly as efficient as the healing powers possessed by John Hancock or Sunel, he can heal from injuries that would prove lethal to an ordinary human.
	+ **Superhuman Agility:** The Animal's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete.
	+ **Superhuman Reflexes:** His reflexes are similarly enhanced and are superior to those of the finest human athlete.

## Trivia

* Nate Soho's first concept image was reminiscent of Mark Hamill.