Toby

**Toby** is a villain which originated from Sweden, he came to America in escape from the Swedish heroes, one of which was Astrid Christensen. He didn't stop his acts of villany but rather continued them. Toby's goal is to become the number one villain, as he deems it being more recognizable to become a known Villain than Hero as they strike despair into people rather than hope.

The reason for his goal to rise into becoming the most feared villain is because of his childhood. Due to the nature of his quirk Rift, other children bullied him telling him that he could never become a hero. The other kids swore to become the number one hero, a shining hero of justice. In opposition, Toby promised to become the number one villan and exact revenge on everyone. The childhood trauma of being bullied and being told that he could never be what he wished for led him to become a villain.

Despite wanting to become the most feared villain, he holds a sense of reluctant respect towards heroes. Toby knows that they bring hope to people as they protect them. He admires that very hope which they bring, even though he admires that hope he seeks to extinguish it as he believes it's a false sense of hope. He believes that hope should arise from their own strength, just like he forced himself to go from being weak to relatively strong.

## Appearance

### Physiology

Toby is a male standing very tall at 6'3. He has a very strong physique with very prominent muscles. Toby has dark blue hair which is very long, long enough to reach his lower back. Toby is dark skinned with blue markings in various spots, these markings glow slightly as they carry his rift energy.

### Attires

Toby choses to wear barely anything, he keeps his upper body covered by a long black cloak. He has a necklace made out of tiger teeth around his neck. He wears black baggy pants which are custom made, featuring a pattern with the same blue as the markings on his skin. He walks barefeet as he doesn't see the need for footwear.

## Personality

Toby is a ruthless person who kills whoever he pleases, this is due to his ideology of everyone using their quirks the way they were intended. His quirk Rift, gives him the ability to kill without risking anything and therefor it's only right for him to do such when he pleases. Despite being a ruthless person he is a man of his word as he dislikes liars. Despite his ideology and ruthless personality he doesn't go for a kill without reason, he will however injure people and threaten them as he wants to enlighten them that the only true hope they have are themselves.

## Relationships

### Astrid Christensen

**See main article: Astrid Christensen**
One of the heros who hates Toby is Astrid. She chased Toby from Sweden all the way to the United States of America in order to catch him. She holds several grudges towards him however one is that Toby grabbed her ass once. Despite the fact that Astrid is someone who has different ideals than Toby he's quite fond of her, slightly enjoying the fact that she chases him.

## History

### Don't Fear Despair

**See main article: Don't Fear Despair**

Toby's first major villainry in America was robbing a bank, killing almost everyone who was inside. He spared a banker as he ordered the man to open the vault, which after a retaliation followed by a beating he did. As Toby had nearly finished raiding the vault the hero James Armstrong showed up on the scene. Toby saw the hero enter the vault as he had nearly finished emptying it. Realizing the hero would most likely be too much of a hassle to deal with he used his ability **Rift Tether**, sending it behind him as it slowly started to traverse the floor. In order to purchase some time for the tether to walk through the thick vault walls and onto the streets he gave a speech for James. James didn't care much for the speech and sprung into action, hitting Toby's jaw causing it to bleed. Toby combined his **Tether** and **Bomb** technique in order to outmaneuver James, hitting him in the jaw instead. The hero headbutted Toby causing his forehead to bleed. Being fed up as the original **Tether** was soon where it needed to be, Toby channeled his riftal energies forming a **Rift Swirld**. This new technique was aimed towards James chest.

### Touching Encounter

**See main article: Touching Encounter**

Having struck a deal with Förstöraren, Toby had acquired money through illegal means in order to trade for a flash drive filled with information. As they were about to exchange the items, it was revealed that Förstöraren wasn't going to trade at all. In retaliation, Toby killed Förstöraren which made his entire organization chase after him. Toby had came prepared with an escape and escaped to the rooftops. Running across the roofs of Gothenburg he eventually leapt straight onto Avenyn. He accidentally landed onto the hero Astrid Christensen, his hands slipped onto her buttocks grabbing a firm hold. Just as Toby started running again he turned his head just for it to be revealed to be Astrid, in a panic he shouted "FORGIVE ME!" though it landed on deaf ears as she started chasing him. She quickly caught up as Toby dropped a **Tether** before being thrown high into the air. Using the **Tether** he vanished back onto the street and continued running as Astrid had leapt after him into the air. Dropping anothet **Tether** Toby ran into a Ramen store in order to hide, though to his surpirse he was forcefully pulled out through a wall by his throat. Freeing himself he used the **Tether** to escape, though Astrid shouted that she dared him to touch her again. He did in fact dare as he entered the rift dimension, only letting his hand out as he touched her ass yet again. She in retaliation broke his hand, which he responded with kicking her buttocks. Toby's final farewell to Astrid was jump scaring her by only showing his face in front of her while making an ugly face, followed by stretching his middle finger up saying "fuck you."

## Powers and Abilities

### Quirk

**Rift**: Rift is an Emitter type quirk which Toby inherited from his mother's family side. Rift is a quirk which gives the user capabilities of creating and entering a rift which acts like a sub-dimension of the real world. Inside the rift the user can walk freely and peer into the real world through a blue-ish tint which is about fifteen meters in front of him. The rift world itself is completely empty and devoid of all life, yet it features oxygen which allows Toby to breathe. Despite giving access to the Rift dimension, Toby has also found ways to manipulate it's energies in order to gain extra abilities related to it. An example of this is **Rift Tether** which allows Toby to create a small orb of rift energy which either travels at an extremely slow pace or is stationary, he is capable of connecting a rift to the tether giving him access to teleportation to the location. The **Rift Tether** ceases to exist after he has used it to teleport.

### Physical Abilities

Toby's physical abilities are generally above the average even for the super human society. He excelss in speed and strength, this is due to usage of his quirk Rift puts a strain on his muscles which in terms gives him a denser muscle mass. Toby was shown to be capable of murdering a group of people without any struggle nor growing exhausted. In terms of agility Toby is just slightly above the average as he hasn't taken the time to train his agility. Despite his physical prowess being quite high, his mental fortitude is also quite developed. He is a man of intelligence as he gave a speech in order to stall the hero James Armstrong in order to get enough time to use his quirk.

### Stats

Toby's stats, according to the Official Character Book

## Quotes

### Don't Fear Despair

**See main article: Don't Fear Despair**

* "So, you’re going to open the fucking vault, or your pathetic life filled with hope from the heroes will end." - Toby to a civilian banker.

* "Despair.. The last moments of the people I've killed today were filled with either despair or hope. They despaired once they realized no hero would save them in time, the others hoped that a hero would save them in time. Heroes bring a false sense of hope to them, a false sense of safety, a false sense of laws. It was never about heroes nor villains, it was always about strength and how either side use their strength. We're two sides of the same coin, you heroes use your quirks for others.. We villains use our quirks for ourselves. Villains can't be villains without heroes, the same could be said about heroes as they wouldn't exist without villains. Your side brings hope in the form of shining justice, my side brings despair in the form of a dark injustice. Atleast, that's how the masses view it. It shouldn't be a crime to use your quirk for your own good, that's why I seek to bring despair onto those who live under the false hope of heroes." - Toby to James Armstrong.

## Trivia

* Faceclaim used is Acnologia from Fairy Tail.