Anton Blackburn

Anton Blackburn was introduced in Episode 5, and is played by Levi Simpson. He is the fourth Voidwalker created by Dr. Oris Atlee, combining the body of a Morleyan urchin, Josh Blackburn, and the mind of a Tyvian painter, Anton Niski. He is one of only two living and successful Voidwalker experiments, along with Lord Erimany Talvon.

#### Appearance

Anton is slightly shorter and slimmer than average. He has shoulder-length, straight brown hair and bright blue eyes. He is missing most of his left ear, which was lost due to frostbite, though his hair falls over the ear, concealing the loss. His right hand was blackened and somewhat shriveled from the Broker's mark, unusable though it was not dead. This has since healed. He had the mark of the Daredevil on the back of his left hand, which he hid with Giles Axven's glove until the loss of the mark in Episode 47. He since carved the mark back into his hand, leaving deep scars. He has a tattoo of a raven on the side of his neck, representing the Raven of Argonica, which was done without his knowledge during a liver transplant surgery.

#### Skills

Anton has the innate void ability to gain information on a person. He does this by drawing or painting that person’s face. The limitations on this ability are unclear, but it is known that he must have an accurate knowledge of the target's appearance. Drawing someone who is wearing a mask or whose face is not shown in the painting also does not work. Initially, this agility only granted him pieces of information, but later grew so he could ask question about a person. He would need to draw depictions of the answers he asked for.

Anton is skilled at painting, sketching, and freerunning. He also has a good knowledge of poisonous and mind-altering substances, which he gained by consuming a large variety of each, oftentimes accidentally. He used his knowledge of poisons against the Broker. He also gave Sab a list of poisons.

Anton has recently developed the ability to open portals to and from the void, though the ability is inconsistent. He has developed several more typical Void abilities, such as Time Stop and Bolt. As the campaign progressed, Anton became more attuned to his Void abilities until he fully manifested as a Voidwalker, able to regenerate and take less damage in the Void.

#### Notable Events

Anton was raised back to life by Dr. Oris Atlee using the bodies of a dead Morleyan and a painting student. He was created to be a Voidwalker, a creature that could naturally enter the void.

Anton is known to drink alcohol and take voidphine, often to excess. In Episode 7, he took a mystery substance from a man who guaranteed it would enhance his abilities, but seemed at the time to have no effect. That night, Anton discovered that the true effects of the substance were to keep him awake.

During Episode 8, after a night of wandering about Sunline while high on voidphine, Anton was revealed to have acquired a dog. The origins of the dog are unclear, as Anton does not have a clear memory of obtaining it. When asked what the dog's name was, he named it Bill. This was expanded to Bill Sokolov after Sabastion Grailouse complained about Bill being a boring name for a dog. Bill was then discovered to be female, though her name was not changed. Bill is a Tyvian bear-hunting dog, and as such, is very large.

Anton was tricked by the Broker into receiving a curse, believing he was one of the pantheon. This curse took away the use of his right hand. This was restored after the Broker was killed. Anton was marked by the Daredevil in Episode 16 as he was being chased by a pack of hosslers. This gave him access to Bolt, an ability that allowed him to travel short distances near instantaneously.

Anton met Dr. Atlee at Soulspring Resort for the first time since his creation in Episode 34. Atlee informed him of the other Voidwalker experiments, including the Broker. When the Broker appeared, Anton created a plan to poison and kill the Broker with help of Wayne and Sab.

In Episode 44, Lord Talvon offered Anton a deal to escape the crashing Ivory Respite and find Nikolai Graves. Anton found himself teleported to Fort Vitre, where he met Graves and resurrected the Daredevil’s pet project, a rocket. This rocket flew Graves and Anton back to Briamton after another encounter with Talvon. While Anton was unconscious from the G-force of the rocket flight, he saw Lord Talvon kill the Daredevil in front of him.

Anton was present when the party was framed for Maxim Kennerick’s murder. After escaping Briamton, he was forced to give up the information of where Graves was hiding the information Talvon needed to create a major tear between the Void and the regular world after Talvon killed Graves. Despite his best efforts, Anton was not able to bring Graves back. Anton pursued Talvon to Briamton and was arrested by Kennerick’s Private Enforcers.

After the party, aided by Enforcer Philips, rescued Anton, he carved the Dardevil’s mark back into his hand. LG told Anton afterwards that this process would eventually kill him.

In Episode 64, Anton flew a Project Merchant Clipper rocket in the battle over Counteye, though his rocket was damaged before he was able to hit anything with it. While he died in the fight with Lord Talvon, the Regulator brought him back, giving him a heart bequeathed to him by Nikolai Graves to replace his Voidrite heart.

In the Epilogue, Anton led the people from Josh Blackburn’s underground city out into Morley and across the sea to Pandyssia to establish his new life. He bought a monocycle to traverse Pandyssia and built monuments at the site of the Outsiders’ and others deaths. He began distributing bone charms to protect Pandyssia’s people. In the future, Ex-Curator Merrick taught an art class at the Pandyssian Art Institute, citing Anton’s major contributions to the art of the Second Void Crisis.

#### History

Anton's body was that of a Morleyan and the brain of a student from Tyvia. The Morleyan seems to have lived in an underground city in Morley, which might be a remnant from before the Great Burning.

Anton has little certainty about his own personal history. He revealed in Episode 25 that he has multiple sets of memories, stating that one was very happy and another less so. Some of the same figures appear in both, though in different capacities. Notably, he does not have memories of Dr. Atlee, who created him, in his current state. He also has some unclear memories, such as the memory of a tutor figure which is not clear enough for Anton to draw an accurate representation of his face, preventing him from using his ability to gain information on the figure. He believes the figure was Nikolai Graves, a figure associated with the Tyvian student part of Anton.

In Episode 14, Lysander McRoven mentioned that he was "One of Atlee's". In later episodes, Lysander explained that Dr. Atlee has ongoing experiments trying to create a better version of a human, and that Anton was one of those experiments. He also said that he had seen Anton dead in Atlee's lab and that Anton was the most human of Atlee's experiments, something later affirmed by Wren.

Anton had vague memories of a tutor figure he can't quite recall, who he intended to find in the hopes that he could help Anton understand his past. In Episode 14, a guest at Mattias Teppin’s party mentioned that Anton's sketches reminded her strongly of the style of a man named Nikolai Graves, and asserted that Anton must have learned from him. Upon trying to locate Graves, Anton learned that he was on an expedition to the more dangerous parts of Pandyssia, and would be back in some weeks. While Anton found Graves in Episode 45, they did not have much time together before Graves’ untimely death in Episode 56. Anton found out during that short time that one of his component persons was Anton Niski, Graves’ apprentice, and learned some details about that part of his past.