Langdon Wilson

* Human
* Superhuman

Langdon Wilson is the CEO of Wilson Industries and one the top-10 richest people in the world. He is also the secret leader and financier of S.I.N. He is the father of Jared Wilson and a Level 2 Superhuman.

## Background

Langdon Wilson is initially introduced off screen as Jared's immensely wealthy, influential, and demanding father. Their relationship seems antagonistic, with Langdon largely concerned with Jared maintaining his relationship with Jess, and by extension her influential father Maxwell. He also shows inordinate interest in investigating superhumans, especially the MC's alter-ego after the Frat House Massacre.

It slowly comes out that he is coordinating a group of wealthy interested parties (including the Aldain Syndicate) to try and control Superhumans. He is revealed to be working with Ella; using his vast resources to search for strange stone artifacts for her in exchange for the knowledge and materials needed to manufacture superhumans. He also asks for tablets specifically tailored to him and and Jared.

A little after H.E.R.O is publicly revealed, Ella and her wards move into the Wilson Industries headquarters and setup a portal linking it to Hex's dimension. They use it as their base of operations as S.I.N is announced to the public. Wilson Industries H.Q also serves as Langdon's research, manufacturing, and information center.

Langdon is next seen during the MC's infiltration of Wilson Industries HQ. If the MC successfully infiltrates the organization, Langdon is quite impressed at the MC's competence and wishes his own son was more like him. He reveals his own superhuman powers when the MC kills the random Wilson Industries employee Langdon was possessing and leaves before the MC slaughters the three superhumans (Tasha, Clint, and Langdon Guard) sent to stop him before making his own exit. If the MC messes up the infiltration, Langdon springs a trap when he enters the office. After a quick conversation with the MC, he orders his subordinates (Tasha, Clint, and Langdon Guard) to capture the MC and leaves. The MC slaughters them before escaping the building.

Langdon is next seen during the S.I.N initiation infiltration. He welcomes all the new recruits and gives them his speech and pitch for S.I.N. The pitch can be summarized as follows:

He states that H.E.R.O. is an organization representing tyranny, that it has subsumed the world government to help it enslave superhumans. All to throw them into the meat grinder of the endless fights against monsters. S.I.N offers a different path, whereby the superhumans instead ally themselves with the monsters and try to coexist with them. He brings out Eisheth to prove his point and states that the threat of monsters is fabricated by H.E.R.O. to give them leverage. He finishes by welcoming every to S.I.N and telling them that they are part of the future.

Langdon then introduces the tournament that S.I.N uses to determine standing in the organization and then step aside to allow Cole Yun to explain the intricacies.

If the MC is sufficiently stealthy during his infiltration, Langdon simply moves through the rest of initiation ceremony and is non-the-wiser about his presence till Nicolette Heart attempts to break into the dimension. Hex swiftly evacuates S.I.N members and Langdon is presumably among them. If the MC arouses suspicions, Langdon asks for him to the brought to him personally. There he gives the MC another pitch to join S.I.N which the MC can either be open or closed towards. As the talk ends, Nico begins to break into the dimension and Langdon swiftly makes his exit.

## Powers and Abilities

Langdon Wilson became a superhuman after requesting Ella Vulpe tailor a superhuman ascension for him after assessing his compatibility. He survived the process and reached Level 2 in a matter of months.

### Human Abilities

Langdon Wilson is a tremendously talented, intelligent, and ruthless man. He has successfully maneuvered his conglomerate Wilson Industries into one of the largest and most powerful companies in the world. The company controls most of the defense satellites in the world, the most important of which are the anti-nuclear defense systems.

### General Superhuman Abilities

Langdon's powers are almost purely supernatural so he is unlikely to be significantly enhanced beyond the human peak. He has the standard suite of superhuman senses and enhancements.

### Level 2

Langdon appears to be able to possess Humans and Superhumans of a lower supernatural power level than him. He is first revealed to have possessed a body double of himself to ensure that he could safely conduct his business while on H.E.R.O's bad side. On the death of the host, he appears in a spectral form that is able to to communicate but not interact with anything. While H.E.R.O is familiar with the monster that has this power (the M97) they do note that it is unusual for the power to be exerted over long distances, showing that Langdon has an unusual and powerful mutation of the Possession ability.

## Relationships

### Jared Wilson

Langdon is a narcissistic megalomaniac and as such is generally contemptuous of his son. He sees his son as weak and lacking drive and generally gives him responsibilities with little expectation of his success. On the other hand, since he views his son as an extension of his own self-image he doesn't really care if Jared uses his name to intimidate and browbeat others. In the early portions of the story he shows minimal interest in Jared's feelings and is only concerned with Jared keeping his relationship with Jess since that gives him access to R&X University's research and influence. After Jared's ascension, Langdon puts him in charge of finding the stone artifacts for Ella.

### Dexter Miliken

Langdon both despises and respects Dexter. He views him as a rival and is constantly working to outmaneuver him in business, politics, and the new battlefield of superhuman power. Their families are familiar with each other.