M33: Hexenringe

Hex - S class Hexenringe

M33: Hexenringe are highly aggressive and dangerous monsters with spacial manipulation powers. So far in the game only one instance of this monster has been seen on screen: Hex.

## Background

M33 are innocuous to look at. They typically appear as a brightly colored ring of variable color and size. They do not appear to communicate in a human intelligible manner but various characters like Aglaecwif, Briar, and Charlie all seem to have complex conversations with Hex so they seem to have some way to communicate with people.

M33s typically fall into the Class A band since their powers make them extremely dangerous to anyone they face. They are fast, unpredictable, and seem intelligent. While only one instance of the monster is directly a part of the story, several M33 been involved at pivotal moments in the background.

The first described encounter with a M33 is of the monster that was responsible for Nicolette Heart's ascension. The monster appears to have attacked her and her friend/partner resulting in Nico's ascension and the death of her friend/partner. Nico seems to have tracked down and killed this particular M33.

The second encounter is when Team Lucifer encounter the mutant S-Class M33 instance known as Hex approximately a year before the story begins. Team Lucifer engaged the monster but it escaped. Hex was noted to have a mutation allowing it some ability to manipulate the flow of time; which when combined with its innate spatial manipulation allowed it to create entire parallel dimensions it could overlay on reality.

A third M33 appears when Ella Vulpe escapes H.E.R.O. HQ with Jake. She summons an M33 to distract Alexis Allaband and provide cover for her escape. The monster is killed by Alexis.

The M33 known as Hex has continued to play an important role in current events. Its protection is the sole reason H.E.R.O. has been unable to destroy S.I.N. It's powers also make S.I.N's operations possible and it supports the dimension for The Chosen and other monsters who've arrived from the monster dimension to acclimate in before entering the world.

## Powers and Abilities

An M33 is basically a sentient wormhole. When they exert their power, the ring that makes up their bodies expands to encircle their target. Once the target is encircled - something that can be practically instant - the M33's body becomes a wormhole; sending their target to wherever the M33 wants to. The amount of energy expended is proportional to the size of the object being moved and the distance being moved. Though - according to Nico - after a certain distance the cost of energy expenditure to distance decreases dramatically.

This makes M33s extraordinary dangerous to any monster and superhumans who lack specialized supernatural defenses. Regardless of level or power differential the M33s gate acts like a physical phenomena so anything encircled by the ring simply passes through to the other side if it cannot escape its bounds fast enough. Since the effect is not considered an attack by a superhumans' innate defenses, most superhumans are helpless once caught in the gate. The M33 can then simply route the gate into space or a volcano or the bottom of the ocean and let the environment be the fatal factor. This is the M33's primary method of attack.

This power is also an incredible defensive tool. Insufficiently quick attacks from range can simply be warped away and the M33 itself can teleport without constraint.

The only weaknesses of the power are that objects that are significantly out of the bounds of the ring will not be teleported. So very large targets are difficult for M33s to move. Fast targets can also be difficult to encircle with the ring. Finally, certain monsters like Valravn and others from his lineage disrupt Supernatural powers and are therefore completely immune to an M33s power, as long as they have the internal energy to keep their defenses up.

## Trivia

* Hexenringe is a german word for a fairy ring