Basil

**Basil**, formerly known as **Rocco** and **Bennett**, is a Scourge member and serial killer. His real name is **Griffin Morgan** and he is the twin brother of **Deika**.

## Appearance

Basil is a young man of average height. With long, dark gray hair, pale skin and red eyes, Basil can be considered to be a rather attractive individual. He uses this trait to lure people in, manipulate, seduce and even kill them.

Basil frequently wears a gray coat with white fur around the collar, a light army green tank top, ripped dark blue jeans and a necklace with animal teeth stained with blood. He frequently uses his amp to hide this necklace to avoid scaring off people he meets.

Basil also purposefully alters his body language to suit the effect he needs to have on people. Typically he's extremely touchy and smooth, but other times he paints himself as intimidating to manipulate other people to doing things for him.

## Personality

The first thing one can point out about Basil's personality is that he is extremely charismatic, almost to an unsettling level. He seemingly never fails to crack jokes even in the worst of times and is always invading the personal space of others. Basil seemingly doesn't care about the feelings of other people, judging by how he frequently gets touchy and invasive with others. Basil only values himself and the fun he's having, and if he values another human being besides himself, it is an extremely rare occasion.

Basil seems to have perfected the art of manipulating his personality and faking emotions just to get what he wants. Him and his twin brother Deika share this trait, they both morph and mold their personalities into ones that benefit them and them only.

Basil is also quick to grow incredibly sadistic when in violent situations, typically ones that involve him as the dominant presence. He enjoys playing with people before taking their life, seeing that he likes giving people a glimmer of hope right before their untimely demise. Alongside his sadistic tendencies, Basil is also quite the lustful individual, frequently hooking up with anyone he deems attractive and failing to keep in touch with them afterward. If he does, it'll only be for intimate reasons.

## Origin

Basil grew up in a terrible household alongside his twin brother Deika. Him and his brother were born to two drug addicts that neglected them and subconsciously abused them. They spoiled Deika and Basil but in the wrong ways. They frequently let them eat whatever they want whenever they want, leave the house at any time and much much more. Their early exposure to the streets was what carved them into what they are now.

Because Basil was more exposed to the streets then Deika was, he was quick to run away from home and leave his brother in the dust, not after explaining to him why and where he was going. Deika chose to stay at home for a bit longer and was forced to run away as well once their parents overdosed right in front of him on the couch. Basil and Deika's paths split after this event and Basil found himself getting involved in Forseti's gangs comprised of kids and teenagers. After leaving home, Basil took on the alias of Rocco and shot up the ranks of the first gang he came into contact with. He stayed with them for a while and ended up becoming rivals to the gang that Zeus High student Cato McCreary belonged to. After brutally scarring Cato's back by stabbing him multiple times, Basil went on to come into contact with Scourge. Scourge offered Basil a chance at having an amp since he was born without one, or so he thought. Basil didn't know it, but the poor household he was brought up in never allowed him to test for an amp, and because he never had any signs of one, he assumed he didn't have one.. but in reality, he did.

Before he was picked up by Scourge, one of Basil's gang members put two and two together and confronted Basil about his decision to abandon them.. and after they failed to respect his decision, he killed all but one of them. The person he spared ended up escaping.

Basil, now at Scourge, was given another amp but to him it was his first amp. They gave him the ability to summon illusions, and once Basil had come out of the recovery chamber Scourge had put him in, he announced that he was going by the name Basil from now on, and that is the name he goes by to this very day.

A while after being picked up by Scourge, Basil began frequently breaking into Zeus High with the help of his amp out of boredom, but he ended up meeting a student by the name of Aulia Howard and falling in love with her, all because she was okay with his criminal reputation. He enjoyed not having to put on an act for someone to get them to like him.

## Amp

Basil was born with an amp he wasn't aware of, then was given an amp later in life by Scourge.

**Seduction:** Basil has the natural ability to get people to enjoy his presence by simply talking to them. If they already like him naturally, they will like him even more because of this amp.

Because this amp is passive, there are little to no downsides:

* It is more difficult for Basil to form a genuine connection with someone because of this power.

After being recruited by Scourge, Basil was given another amp in addition to his other one:

**My Reality:** The amp Basil was given alongside Seduction is called My Reality, it allows him to cause any illusion to appear that only he and a person of his choice can experience. He can manipulate the things someone sees, hears, feels and tastes as well as himself. Anything Basil can imagine, he can make into an illusion.

Because this amp is much more useful and has a lot more capabilities than Basil's Seduction, it has more downsides:

* Once the victim of this amp figures out the illusions aren't real or stops believing in them, the illusions disappear and Basil's amp is rendered useless.
* Basil can only manipulate the reality of himself and another person, so his amp is weaker when the victim of the amp has people around them to help them get over the illusions.
* When Basil is overwhelmed with emotions, his amp activates on its own. This was seen when Basil altered the reality around him and Aulia when the two were kissing.

## Extra

* Basil is one of the only people that have successfully broken into Zeus High's campus without setting off alarms. The other people were the members of Kresis when they attacked the school.
* Basil was one of the first people to get an amp gifted by Scourge.
* Both Basil and his brother have suffered from anorexia, but they both have recovered from it.
* Basil was addicted to the pleasure of drugs for the majority of his life, but replaced that ecstasy with the pleasure he feels when taking a human life. His logic? Drugs can kill him, murdering other people cannot.