Rorschach

Rorschach is a vigilante detective from New York City. He is a former member of the Crimebusters and one of the few active members of the team. He is an antihero by definition and often uses violent means to punish the people behind various crimes he investigates. Due to this, he is wanted by the NYPD and is considered a violent criminal by them. His real identity is not known by the public nor his allies, with his inkblot mask being the only 'face' of his they have seen.

## History

Walter Kovacs was born to an abusive mother who made a living through sex work. Kovacs grew an intense hatred of his mother due to this, while admiring his father despite never meeting him. As a youth, he found himself in various violent encounters with other people.

Kovacs secured a job as a tailor in a clothing factory and began making clothes to be sold. One of the company's customers had turned down a dress made from special material that featured moving black patterns on white fabric. Kovacs later found out that Kitty Genovese was murdered and recognised her name as the customer from before. Upon reading that an alleged almost 40 people had witnessed her attack and none of them had called the police or helped her, he used the rejected dress to create a 'face he could look at in the mirror' and decided to become thje vigilante known as Rorschach, with Genovese's murder being one of the major factors as to why.

Rorschach initially did not kill criminals, instead opting to apprehend them and let the police deal with them. This changed when one case caused a psychological change in him. Rorschach promised the family of a kidnapped child that he would find her and return her to the family alive. After interrogating various informants, he had tracked down Gerald Grice and investigated his property. Rorschach came across remains of the child's clothes in a furnace and came to a grim realisation of what had occurred. Once Grice had returned home, Rorschach cuffed him to a radiator, doused the room in kerosene and handed Grice a hacksaw, giving him an ultimatum of dying or sawing his hand off. He set the building ablaze and watched for almost an hour in case Grice escaped the blaze.

Rorschach had teamed with vigilante superhero Nite Owl II and made work on eliminating New York City's gangs. The two were members of the unsuccessful Crimebusters team that was spearheaded by Captain Metropolis and also included Ozymandias, The Comedian, Silk Spectre II and Doctor Manhattan. The first and only team meeting came to an end when The Comedian set Captain Metropolis' display on fire and declared that the team was a pointless effort.

After the merge, Rorschach remained active as a detective and took on various cases. One of which was a mysterious house in suburban New York that was surrounded in mystery and disappearances. On his first visit, he found a mysterious message painted behind the wallpaper signed by The Doctor, telling him "Beware the Weeping Angel" and to duck, even addressing him directly by name. Rorschach ducked and avoided an incoming rock that was thrown from outside by seemingly no one. Understandably spooked, he left the house and went to Dan Dreiberg, A.K.A. Nite Owl II's home to meet him for the first time since Dreiberg had quit being a costumed vigilante. Rorschach showed Dreiberg a photograph of the wall and requested that he help him. Dreiberg agreed on the condition that Rorschach help him investigate a mysterious video that had mysteriously made its way onto different DVDs.

Rorschach returned to the house with Nite Owl II who had contacted The Comedian to help them. Nothing out of the ordinary occurred until The Comedian shouted to the others that he had found something. However, once Rorschach and Nite Owl II made it to the room, The Comedian was nowhere to be found with a statue of an angel being the only thing there. Rorschach labelled it a Weeping Angel but Nite Owl II passed it off as nothing but a statue before urging that they leave the house.

Back at Dreiberg's house, Rorschach watched the mysterious video and attempted to figure out the mystery. Dreiberg gave him a little more information about the mystery including a list of movies that included the video on their respective DVDs. While Dreiberg was talking, he noticed a mark on the wall and looked at it. He felt the area of wall that the mark was on was hollow, which prompted him to break the through the wall. Inside he found a note from The Comedian to look at the list, to which he did and realised that the DVDs the video had been put on were all the DVDs that he owned. After this revelation, Rorschach told Dreiberg to take a laptop and go back to the old house with him.