Ratthew

Ratthew began as one of Outsider's greatest enemies but eventually became more like a brother to him.

## Ratthew

### Occupation

Criminal (formerly), Hero (occassionally), "Contract Worker"

## Appearance

### **Physical Description**

Ratthew is a giant, bipedal rat that stand at the height of, at least, a small child. He's got a dark grey fur coat paired with a hairless tail, white whiskers, and dark blue, almost black, eyes.

### **Clothing**

Ratthew has some form of class and manners as he's taken to covering himself in a similar fashion as the terrans do. Ratthew's outfit often consists of a short-sleeved, white, button-up shirt and a pair of trousers. Occassionally he'll wear gloves when he's working on an invention.

## Personality

Ratthew possesses the personality of an intellectual. He can be reasoned with, enjoysa riveting conversation, likes to debate current events and discuss local news, and is even willing to learn from others who possess greate knowledge than himself. He's a bit of a hoarder and is as much a foodie as he is an intellectual. The only thing he loves more than a good book is some tea and biscuts to pair it with.

Outsider, upon actually interacting with him, was easily able to persuade Ratthew away from the side evil through simple reasoning abilities and relating to his emotional issues. Ratthew initially felt like even more of an outsider than Willem, mostly because he was a large rat, and most people were afraid of him. All it took was having the right person to talk to to save Ratthew from heading down a *very* self-destructive life path.

## Skills and Abilities

### Rat Physiology

Ratthew is a rat, from Earth, and therefore possesses the capabilities that any normal rat would possess.

### Superhuman Intelligence

When Willem's biosphere crashed down on Miniburg, it fell in a rain of fire. This biosphere contained quite a lot of uranium. Due to the impact and the location of some of the biosphere pieces, the uranium bonded with the local element, Aether, to create a compound that Ratthew refers to as **Uranium Triaethide**.

**Uranium Triaethide** is highly mutative and affected Ratthew. He gained a small array of useful abilities formo the mutations, such as the abilities to understand, speak, write, and fully comprehend both English *and* Angalish. He can walk in a bipedal fashion and is capable of controlling his instinctual urges. He possesses a lot of very basic terran skills, which allow him to theoretically function as a member of society. But beyond this, Ratthew is a genius far beyond that of Terra's greatest minds, such as Frederick Mobile. Not only is he equipped with the knowledge of Earth's technology, Ratthew is smart enough to assemble highly complex Earth machines together from low-tech Terran scraps. Many of the devices he builds are thought of as magic by most common folk.

### Mutated Physiology

Much like how Willem's body had a reaction to the over exposure to aether, the combination of prolonged aether exposure, plus the mutative properties of **Uranium Triaethide**, altered Ratthew. He grew much larger, gained opposable thumbs, the abilities to walk on his hind legs, and heightened intelligence.

The change to Ratthew's body also altered his weakness. Unlike how Outsider is weakened by uranium due to aether exposure and the element being from his homeworld, Ratthew seems to be weakened by a small, somewhat rare, yellow gemstone called **topaz**. The gemstone isn't radioactive and it only affects him if Ratthew were to physically interact with it, like touch it or eat it. Making contact with **topaz** gives him similar symptoms to food poisoning, only worse, and temporarily negates his more "alien" abilities.

### Superhuman Speed

Regardless of the fact that rats are already faster than humans, Ratthew is many times faster than terrans. Ratthew is actually slightly faster than Outsider.

### Enhanced Strength

Despite his alien origins, Ratthew isn't all that much stronger than most terrans. He can lift a small carriage over his head if he's motivated but, otherwise, Ratthew's feats of strength aren't anywhere near impressive as Outsider's.

### Superhuman Durability

Just like how Outsider is far more durable than any old terran and can hardly be injured at all by weapons of their world.

## Equipment

### Uranium Plasma Gun

One of Ratthew's earlier inventions, part of a collection for defeating Outsider. It uses the same kind of focusing arrays that Autoknight's Automaton Knights uses in order to project uranium plasma attacks.

### Laser Ray Gun

In his "youth," Ratthew designed a weapon that would be able to affect him just to see if he could. He designed a weapon capable of magnifying and focusing sunlight through a **topaz** lense to create a dangerous ray of light capable of causing injury to powerful people, like himself.

### **Lithium Dioxi-Aethide** Powered Jet Pack

Ratthew possesses a clunky, steampunk style jet pack made from **Andrixtung** and powered by a battery core composed of a material invented by Ratthew: **Lithium Dioxi-Aethide**. This jet pack allows for mid-altitude flight for around 12 hours per charge and can be operate remotely via a remote control in the possession of Ratthew. Its current top speed maxes out around 103.1 mph, or slightly faster than one of Frederick Mobile's Automaton Knights.

### Net Gun

After his switch from villain to (occassional) hero, Ratthew designed a tool to help ensnare evildoers rather than harm them. It's a medium-sized firearm type gadget that is loaded with a weighted net capsule.

### Smoke Screens

Like most steampunk inspired heroes, Ratthew is equipped with little metal spheres that release clouds of steam to lower people's ability to see in order to make quick entries and exits.