Ethan Robinson

Real Name: Ethan Robinson

## **Status**

* Identity: Public
* Citizenship: American
* Relationship Status:
* Occupation: Businessman, Professional Criminal
* Education:

## **Characteristics**

* Gender: Male
* Race:
* Birthday: August, 1975
* Age: 42 in 2017
* Height: 6'2"
* Weight: 188.5 lbs
* Build: Muscular Cut
* Eyes: Green
* Hair: Black
* Facial Hair: Goatee

## **Origin**

	+ Altered Human
		- Superhuman - Maneuver Hybrid
* Place of Birth: Albany, New York
* Personality: Ethan Robinson is very determined and dedicated to his work in the Octet, power and business, and would sometimes employ illegal and morally dubious tactics to those who oppose him, yet can't or won't kill for various reasons. Being eccentric, self-conscious, ambitious, courageous, and charismatic, Ethan uses this tremendous power as a selfless humanist, a man of and for the people. Ethan is outwardly smug, manipulative, arrogant, sadistic, and sinister, and delights in playing mindgames to psychologically torture people -- with his main target being Tenebris. Inwardly, however, Ethan let power corrupt him into the very antithesis of what he had originally sworn to stand for, inspired to attempt to drag Tenebris down to his level. While often calm and collected, he is capable of fearsome fits of rage and personality is tainted to a hideous degree by his horrifically unstable ego deriving from his low morality, meaning he has little inhibition about seeing the world prosper only as he sees fit. He is relentless, ruthless, pragmatic and immensely dislikes insanity and inefficiency, but would only be vocally irritated to it instead of dealing with it, unless those, like Tenebris and her friends, ruin his plans. His ultimate wish, aside from power, is to destroy those that he deems as competition - namely his main nemesis Tenebris, although he also feels (much less) intrigued by others, specifically Scarlette's friends, and so puts a lot of effort into keeping close tabs on them after their first encounter. Furthermore, Ethan's ruthless attempts to prevent others from overthrowing him imply psychopathy, as the methods he implements are extremely immoral and ruthless, having little to no real care for the tactics used to achieve his goals. Ethan takes smug pride in his phenomenal intellect, usually sadistically thinking of others as his inferiors and pawns. He is driven purely by a single-minded desire to order things according to his own wisdom, though he consistently relies far more on intellect and plans, never allowing arrogance to become his weakness. Ethan is also an indomitable winner who refuses to lose, though somewhat effective, due to somewhat being limited by thinking boundaries. Even with all his superpowers, Ethan tends to move in secretive ways rather than directly claim attention, being a schemer and not a fighter. He prefers to quietly build up his power bases, scheme and live in luxury. He even bears a penchant for unspeakable crimes, though far more covert and implicit, and hence far more successful at keeping those crimes from getting tied to him, although his crimes are also committed for the greater good as opposed to anarchy for its own sake. And he is an incredible deceiver who covertly manipulates his enemies and superbly hides in plain sight, though he has a greater number of contingencies planned. Being skilled in the art of deception, Ethan often hides his true dark (almost sociopathic) personality by maintaining a façade in public - while still serious and intelligent, he purposefully comes off as a somewhat arrogant womanizing playboy and is known to be a generous and kind businessman, often giving donations and performing charity acts through his company, and he could completely shed his playboy façade in the face of great tragedy. When fighting, Ethan not only uses his powers, but he also uses every tool in his ungraded arsenal and everything in his environment or around him to his disposal. He'd even try to use Scarlette's own scepter against her. Ethan appears to respect Steven Walker, aka the Bulldrifter, due to his efficiency and healthiness. Ethan genuinely admires him, and Ethan therefore selects him to be the one to work closely with him. Ethan does not, however, view Steven as an equal, nor does he with others, as he takes pride in his intellectual superiority. Ethan is phenomenally brilliant in sciences and business, as well as tactics and strategy to the point that he boldly claims not to know how to lose, and is thereby practically always the smartest man in a room, even with the other leaders of the Octet. His tremendous intellect and cold calculation allow him to very effectively compensate for this at almost all times, mastering almost any situation with his numerous tactical contingencies, and even though he does express a level of shock whenever one of his plans fail and he has to resort to one of his less ethical contingencies, he is very quick to recover from it. Hence overall, Ethan is extremely unpredictable, as he often has numerous back-up plans to his back-up plans, accounting for numerous possible scenarios with efficient contingencies. Indeed, Ethan's unparalleled ability to plan, strategize, restrategize and break down his opponents grants him power that surpasses others, since his ability to predict and gather information on his many opponents allows him to easily out strategize any of them one-on-one, thereby making it almost impossible for them to succeed against him. Even Steven, who knows him best, can be ultimately not privy to all of Ethan's master plans, and therefore is unable to correctly predict his future actions.
* Reasons:

## **Powers and Abilities**

* Superhuman Strength
	+ Superhuman Speed
		- Superhuman Reflexes
* Superhuman Durability
* Superhuman Stamina
* Superhuman Agility
* Superhuman Endurance
	+ Regenerative Healing Factor
		- Is able to recover from injuries at an accelerated rate, regenerate his missing skin and instantly heal from a lethal gunshot.
		- Toxin Immunity
* Electric Discharge of Pyrokinesis
	+ Able to hold a high-frequency electrical discharge and have the capacity to discharge for up to five minutes of sustained fire, having fists of fire started by a spark of bio-electricity such as snapping fingers or clapping hands together.
* Immortality
* Fire Immunity
* Mechanokinesis
	+ The ability to mentally control technology and hardware.
* Electrokinesis
	+ By focusing the lightning in his hands, Ethan is able to enhance his strikes and generate lightning to electrocute people on contact.
* Enhanced Senses
	+ Enhanced Hearing, which is extremely acute, allowing him to hear conversations, heartbeats and even breaths.
		- Echolocation, able to detect objects in his environment by sensing echoes from those objects, by actively creating and listening for sounds. Since this ability isn't based on sight/light, invisibility is useless against him, as are most forms of camouflage.
	+ Enhanced Smell, that is even sharper than a dog.
	+ Enhanced Taste, able to taste copper in the air from blood.
	+ Enhanced Touch, able to feel the presence of those around him through vibrations, air currents, and body temperatures. He can sense the presence of others by feeling the slightest changes in the air pressure around him, as well as electromagnetic pulses, in objects such as glass. He can even sense attacks and projectiles cut through the air, creating ripples of currents only detectable by him.
		- Thermoreception, able to sense changes in heat in the environment.
		- Electroreception, able to detect electric fields, similar to a shark.
* Aside from his own and his armor's natural durability, he has a defensive output that can be temporarily boosted by a barrier of electromagnetic energy that nullifies attacks. Thanks to this protective aura, Ethan is capable of resisting tremendous kinetic impact forces that could easily crush or kill a human, without suffering any serious external or internal injuries.
* Interrogation
* Indomitable Will
* Genius Level Intellect
	+ Ethan is highly intelligent and skilled in the fields of (bio)chemistry, psychology, and engineering, as well as an expert with explosives. He is an exceptionally intelligent man with exceedingly advanced knowledge in science and technology, his talents being a large source of power for The Octet. He was capable of hijacking television and radio broadcasts. Ethan is also extremely smart and intelligent and is skilled with mathematics and science, possessing an immense knowledge of chemistry and the side-effects of drugs on humans and animals. While his true capabilities remain unknown, Ethan is shown to be a very methodical and knowledgeable man. Well-prepared, he skillfully uses a variety of technology to prevail. He is also shown to be a proficient tactician and deceiver, planning several steps ahead, able to fool and bluff. He's created and modified people down to the circulatory and nervous systems, implanting an extremely high level of cybernetics, created weapons that could counter an individual's regenerative abilities, devices that could absorb and store energy, a powerful virus capable of incapacitating those who are exposed to it, and the suit Bulldrifter uses, also manipulating the concept of its flamethrower fire. Similarly, Ethan is able to extensively augument someone with cybernetics, effectively rehabilitating them enough to engage in intense combat. For espionage, he's developed tools that can be used to gather information, such as drones that can sense energy, track invisible targets, and store information whilst being hidden from sensors. He also performed modifications on himself.
* Toxicology
* Investigation
* Leadership
* Tactical Analysis
* Hand-to-Hand Skilled Combatant: Is moderately, but highly skilled in hand to hand combat fighting, due to his speed.  He is able to hold his own against stronger opponents, as long as he is faster and more agile, and his fighting style is chaotic and difficult to predict, however he could eventually be subdued through physical force. He has also proven to be very skilled in the area of martial arts as well. His fighting style is a very balanced and harmonious fusion of Boxing that incorporates Muay Thai, Wrestling, Kung Fu, Wushu, Judo, Aikido, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Capoeira, Jeet Kune Do, Taekwondo, Eskrima, Silat, Ninjutsu, Aiki-Jujutsu, Savate, Krav Maga, Karate, and Greco-Roman Wrestling. He is also capable of using most weapons proficiently, proficient in wielding various martial art weapons through his ninjutsu training, such as swords (katana), chain weapons, stick and staff weapons, combat knives of all types, both ancient and modern military style, and projectiles such as shurikens, throwing knives, bows, and even firearms. He is a masterful expert in wielding all types of stick weapons which include staffs, batons, nunchaku, and paired short sticks.
* Intimidation
	+ Is adept at torturing his victims endlessly, including shooting one, torturing others to death and beating some into submission.
* Stealth
* Expert Marksman
	+ A skilled sharpshooter with various firearms and is capable of throwing sharp objects as projectile weapons with great accuracy.
* Weaponry
	+ Highly skilled with knives in combat.

## **Weaknesses**

* Acid
* Being underwater
* Sense disruption

## **Equipment**

* Revolver Pistol
* Sword
* Other Unknown Defensive Capabilities: Altered Deterrent Contingencies
	+ Numerous personally developed customized devices and abilities that can neutralize enemies and allies alike; a talent that enables him to hold sway over even the most powerful members of the Octet. Ethan would have to first study his opponent or prepare for the worst, but that's only if the technology or countermeasure capability is possible. Due to this, he was unable to prepare for Scarlette; despite his increased durability, he was no match for her.
* A generic, mesh, reactive and heavily armored vest that is made with nanofibers and is powered by electrically conductive nanofibers, along with electronically-powered titanium stainless steel and kinetic energy. The armor also contains overlapping layers of titanium-niobium steel. The titanium-steel alloy is light, has high durability, a high melting point and high thin-wall rigidity. Underneath the external portions are layers of bullet proof fiber. The armor is incorporated with chainmail-like material, giving further protection from high impacts, such as the punches or kicks inflicted. It is also made of kevlar and an artificial alloy that, when attacked, hardens up specific areas of the suit that are struck to protect the wearer from impacts such as bullets and blunt trauma. Sections of the vest that are hit will explode outwards. This neglects the projection force of any projectiles hitting the damaged spots. It is capable of absorbing most impacts, as said before, being powered by kinetic energy, having an energy absorption feature that is effective enough to endure heavy punches, allowing the user to take potentially lethal attacks and stay standing; it is also designed for withstanding the temperatures.
* Steroidal Cocktail mixed with Radioactive Liquid
	+ Increases his strength and electromagnetic emissions, as all objects, including human bodies, emit electromagnetic radiation.

## **Appearance**

* Wears an eyepatch after a battle with Scarlette, as she cut his eye with her scepter
* In Combat
	+ Armored Vest
	+ Torso-less Jacket
* Daily Basis