Intrepid

*"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."*
—Matillo, quoting Wilhelm Stekel in *The Catcher in the Rye*
**Matillo**, also known as **Intrepid**, was a warrior alien being residing on Earth. A master martial artist, Matillo grew up on Earth honing his skills and befriending other skilled warriors such as his would-be best friends, Minato and Evan Broxton. He matured to the point he mentored Andrew Lavellan in hand-to-hand combat and ki training up until the latter's death.

## Biography

### Early Life

*"I was born badass."*
—Matillo
Matillo was born on the planet Sadal, and would often face the fascist agenda of his race during his youth. At the age of 12, Matillo was sent to Earth by his departing father for his own safety, and to escape the culture of his brutal warrior race. After landing on Earth, Matillo spent most of his days hunting and honing his instinctive battle talents. Eventually, he discovered that he held within his body a dormant power known as ki.

#### Life of a Warrior

Matillo only grew in power and skill as he aged. He befriended other warriors, such as Evan Broxton, who invited him to join the Arcadian Rebels. Matillo would operate under the codename "Intrepid" while on missions with the Rebels.

### Noble Sacrifice

Matillo sacrificed himself in the final fight against the Roman Legion.

## Personality

*"I'm an understanding and empathic guy."*
—Matillo
Matillo believes himself to be arrogant, but this is far from true. He greatly values honor and the true spirit of martial arts. He avoids unfair advantages in fights, and even sometimes describes himself as understanding and empathic.

His more apparent traits are impatience and tenacity. As his codename suggests, he is a brave and daring individual willing to go to many lengths to achieve his goals, even putting his own life in danger, such as when he hung himself to deactivate a superpower-dampening ankle bracelet.

Matillo has a great deal of respect for fellow fighters. He proudly refers to his best friend as "the Great Minato," and he even respects certain non-powered human martial arts such as Almanac.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

*"If you want me to start, then pray that you live through this."*
—Matillo
* **Alien Physiology:** Matillo came from a race of proud warriors, bred to fight and conquer.
	+ **Survival Empowerment:** Several times, Matillo has been beaten down to an inch of his life, but he kept on fighting. When he is beaten down to his last breath, but gets an opportunity to recover, he comes back to an even stronger place than where he was before. His opponent is not only helping him better his technique, but even become stronger in the process. He is very well-trained and dedicated his life to bettering his technique. At one point in his life, Matillo surpassed Thunder Storm's capability, despite the latter having received training from Death itself. Matillo's power has been compared to Mars, the Roman god of war.
	+ **Superhuman Strength:** Matillo possesses incredible superhuman strength, being one of the strongest of his species, which allows him to overpower average humans in combat quickly and easily. He claims to be stronger than the combined efforts of the United States Armed Forces, and he's demonstrated this through copious feats of physical strength, most notably punching Earth's Moon away from making contact with Neo Arcadia and back into orbit. In combat, Matillo's strength exerts the air in the path of his fists, meaning he doesn't even have to hit his opponents to injure them. Due to his unique physiology, Matillo becomes stronger every time he emerges from the brink of death, which is reinforced by his ability to use ki to augment his physical attributes.
	+ **Superhuman Durability:** Matillo is nearly indestructible and extremely resilient to injury by normal physical and also supernatural means. While he could still be harmed and potentially slain by other beings of extreme power, his durability is so great that even those beings have extreme difficulty harming and killing him. He's compared his skin to that of steel.
	+ **Superhuman Speed:** Matillo can move at incredibly fast speeds, and while not as fast as his friend Minato or other speedsters, he can still perceive his movements in combat. Additionally, Matillo has mastered "Instant Transmission," where he dematerializes and travels as a mass of light. However, this requires immense concentration. According to his late apprentice Andrew Lavellan, Matillo is faster than Death itself, although Death clarifies that Matillo is equal in terms of speed when Death is in his mortal form. Matillo's maximum speed is over 1,600,000,000 MPH, which is 2.3 times the speed of light. In his godlike Blue mode, Matillo contended with Minato at high speeds.
	+ **Superhuman Agility:** Matillo is superbly agile and gymnastic despite his large, bulky frame.
	+ **Superhuman Senses:** Matillo has a very keen sense of smell, similar to that of a dog's. He also has powerful senses of touch and hearing. He is very alert to vibrations through the ground and shifts in the air, enabling him to instinctively react to incoming danger from these subtle signals. This allows him to easily fight his opponents in absolute dark or even blinded.

*"It's not about what you are... it's about the ki you have."*
—Matillo to Evan Broxton
* **Ki Manipulation:** Matillo possesses masterful control of ki. For him, ki is metaphysical, made up of things such as vigor, courage, and being in one's true mind, a kind of natural lifeforce energy. He harnesses and manipulates this for most of his energy attacks, from various lasers and blasts to much more concentrated techniques.
	+ **Ki Sense:** By focusing on the living body of another, Matillo can feel that person's inherent life force, as a form of detection and tracking. He can also sense when a person is tired, and takes advantage of this momentary weakness to turn the odds in his favor.
	+ **Energy Blasts:** Matillo can unleash several forms of concussive blasts, including pure chi or heat energy.
	+ **Flight:** Matillo can take high-speed flight.
	+ **Elemental Manipulation:** Matillo can also use ki to manipulate the elements, though not with the same proficiency as Minato.
		- **Water Manipulation:** Matillo once resorted to using a water jutsu to project a concussive stream of water from his mouth.

### Abilities

*"I'm always ready."*
—Matillo
* **Master Martial Artist:** Matillo's life revolved around combat. He cared little for anything else, unless his friends and family are involved. Having fought with trained, superpowered martial artists his entire life, Matillo was highly adept in martial arts, able to go toe-to-toe with powerful opponents due to maintaining his proficiency by training with Evan Broxton, Minato, Kage and Solaris, some of the greatest fighters in the world. He was familiar with Kung Fu, Judo, Taijutsu, Taekwondo, Kyokushin Karate, Boxing, Professional Wrestling, Muay Thai, and Capoeira, though he is a black belt in Taekwondo. His fighting style was primarily Kung Fu-based, specifically Monkey-style; with his distinctive style of Kung Fu fighting, Matillo's unpredictable moves and unique personality always kept his attackers guessing. His style was acrobatic, playful, comical, unpredictable, quick, and energetic. He confused his enemies by striking at will from any position with speed, deception, and agility - with blows from his hands and feet that seem to come from everywhere all at once. Matillo was a skilled and tactical fighter, as he always tested his enemies out with his base form to see just how strong they are, and how they fought. Once he tuned into that, he would make the right power level choice to continue the fight, or put in other terms, elevate his ki or power level to a place where it will inflict enough damage to his opponent, but still remain at a level where he could control it. He used his incredibly useful teleporting move to give him an unprecedented control of the battlefield. Under his tutelage, Andrew Lavellan would become a proficient fighter in his own right. Matillo was notably one of the greatest fighters in his friends' inner circle, seen most prominently when he effortlessly defeated many members of the Roman Legion, disarming the powerful Titus Curio of his shield and even killing their leader, Gaius Aloysius in single combat.

*"He never gives up no matter what happens ever at all."*
—Matthew
* **Indomitable Will:** Matillo's greatest strength was not his literally incalculable levels of physical strength, but rather his tenacity and never-give-up attitude. He did not fight to defeat others, but rather, fought to defeat himself.

## Techniques

* Transformations
* Ki
* Chakra

* **Super Saiyan:**
* **Super Saiyan Two:**
* **Super Saiyan Three:**
* **Super Saiyan God:**
* **Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan:**
* **Legendary Super Saiyan:**

- **Kamehameha:** Matillo's signature technique is gathering his life energy and releasing it through a powerful, concentrated blue beam.

- **Katon: Gōka Mekkyaku/Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame:**

- **Water Style:**

## Relationships

Allies* Z-Force
	+ Evan Broxton - Best Friend
	+ Minato/Wavelength - Best Friend
	+ Aranza - Good Friend
	+ Andrew Lavellan † - Good Friend, Apprentice
* Arcadian Rebels
* EPF
* Roman Legion