Perfidy

Perfidy is a French trained supervillain. She is a member of the Temeraire Club and a founding member of the Midnight Crew.

## Biography

Rosine Fosse was an athletic prodigy who represented France at the Olympics, becoming the first athlete to win gold medals in both gymnastics and fencing at the age of only 16. But Rosine fell from grace when accusations of cheating stripped her of her awards. Eurostar, recognizing her potential, recruited the disgraced athlete as a prospective member-in-training. Taking the name Perfidy, she quickly became the team's cat burglar and infiltration expert. But personalities clashed, and just a few short years later she was kicked out of the group. She fled to England not long after, and there met her best friend and criminal partner Hellion. The two women eventually formed their own super-villain team, the Midnight Crew, and began taking mercenary contracts and performing heists all over the world.

Perfidy and her team eventually resettled in Chicago after Europe became "too hot" thanks to their rampant crime sprees and the growing enmity of Eurostar. She frequently crossed paths with the Atlantean and his team and even occasionally allied with them.

Years later, Perfidy began to think seriously about retirement, after claiming many times that she already had. She began training a protégé to inherit her swords. Unfortunately, these plans were interrupted when the young Perfidy II was critically injured in a battle with the heroes Feywild and Ringster. Although the girl survived, she was left in a state of partial paralysis and her nascent career as an acrobatic super-criminal was over. Perfidy gave up any idea of retiring and instead embarked on a campaign of bloody vengeance against the heroes and their allies.

After several failed attempts to kill Ringster, the Temeraire Club officially abandoned its support of her vendetta as being too expensive to continue. Perfidy fell into a deep depression for some weeks as a result of this failure. She eventually decided to give up revenge when Hellion announced she was going to join the Contenders in their bid to defeat the Time Wizard; she reconciled with Ringster by lending him her Saturnite saber as a means of destroying the Time Wizard's deadly Chroniton Rod.

## Personality

Perfidy is an easy-going, thrill-seeking person motivated by amusement first and money a distant second. She treats a life of crime as an entertaining hobby with little real stakes for anyone involved. Although she is not shy about injuring others, she always refrains from excessive violence. She has no fear of being captured and arrested, confident that she will escape captivity sooner or later. She holds no grudges against heroes who defeat her, and she prefers losing a good fight to not having any challenge at all.

Perfidy has been known to make friendly connections on both sides of the law, and enjoys the company of heroes even more than she does most villains'.

## Powers

Perfidy is a highly-trained human. She is one of the most skilled swordswomen in the world, and has defeated such renowned fencers as Scimitar and Fireblade in single combat (though she always fights dirty, even in a 'duel'). Perfidy is also an accomplished martial artist and acrobat, and her keen tactical sense provides her with critical insight into the weakness of her enemies which she can use to effectively coordinate her team.

Perfidy is renowned for her primary weapon, a tech-saber forged of Saturnite designed by legendary weaponsmith Waylon Talos. This flexible sword can carve through nearly any material short of adamantium, and has a capacitor in the hilt that charges the weapon with electricity at the push of a button. This can be used to cause painful, tazer-like shocks that incapacitate a target on touch, or with an adjustment of resistance settings it can instead superheat the blade and inflict devastating burns.

Perfidy also carries a variety of tech gadgets to augment her capabilities. She has titanium grapple-lines that can be used to entangle foes or swing around a battlefield, wrist-mounted flechette launchers that fire poisoned, armor-piercing darts, blinding smoke bombs, and more. Perfidy wears a combat visor that gives her a comprehensive communications suite and sensor package, allowing her to fight even while in pitch darkness (or in the middle of one of her own smoke clouds).

For defense, Perfidy generally relies on her excellent agility to mitigate damage, though she does wear an armored jacket to help deflect anything she can't evade.

## Weaknesses

Perfidy is a normal human with no real weaknesses to speak of. Her fun-loving personality does occasionally cause her to take unnecessary risks or underestimate her foes, though she has so much battle experience that these errors are rare.

## Predestiny, Paradoxes, and Heavy Metal

Perfidy was eventually revealed to be the granddaughter of Analog, a hero who had time-traveled back to 1914 in order to ensure Perfidy's birth in the 70's. The two women had a mission to repair the instability of the universal timeline and prevent a multiversal war with the forces of another reality; this mission culminated in 2023 and Perfidy's role was to use the power of the ten dark matter-infused metals, along with the Lustrians' Sol Cleaver, to singlehandedly defeat the forces of the encroaching Dark Multiverse.

Perfidy left her native reality through a portal created by Netherog in order to prosecute her one-woman war against darkness. This portal shut behind her, and it is likely that Perfidy will never be seen in her own universe again.

In her final form, Perfidy held cosmic powers of staggering scope. At this point, her abilities included:

* Creating hundreds or even thousands of temporal duplicates via Z-Ray manipulation
* Varying degrees of invulnerability
* Universal energy manipulation
* Immunity to aging, suffocation, poison, and other mundane mortal dangers
* Megascale teleportation and interdimensional travel
* Superhuman intellect
* Telepathy
* Regeneration & self-resurrection
* Manipulation of both arcane and divine forces

All of these powers operated on a massive scale thanks to the energy-multiplying properties of Dilustel, which had infused her entire body in a pattern based on Hardback's Saturnite design.

Perfidy also wielded the Sol Cleaver, a Lustrian weapon of staggering power made of a condensed star. This ever-burning blade is infused with power gathered from the death throes of hundreds of Lustrian God-kings, each one ritually slain by their successor in a final act of regicide. As a result the Cleaver is just as deadly to divine targets as it is to mortal ones.