Overview[]

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Name:	Arkady Rossovich
AKA:	None
Codename:	Omega Red
Age:	98
Race:	Altered Mutant
Role:	Villain
Type:	Marvel FC
Registration:	Unregistered

Omega Red

"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons, even death may die." H.P. Lovecraft, Dreams of the Witch-House

Arkady Rossovich, Codename Omega Red, is a mutant serial killer recruited, trained and enhanced by the KGB. His uncontrollable and brutal killing urge eventually caused him to be put in cold storage stasis, only recently revived into the modern world.

He possesses savage strength, rapid healing, and the ability to absorb the life force of others for his own gain. From his wrists, he has virtually indestructible tentacles of a mysterious metal called Carbonadium.

With his Soviet masters dead and buried, Arkady is enjoying his freedom in the bloodiest and most gruesome ways imaginable, sometimes for hire and sometimes for a cause.

Sheet[]

Character Sheet

Abilities: Power

Death Spore: 6, Regeneration: 7, Strength: 4, Tentacles: 7

Abilities: Skill

Deceit: 5, Espionage: 5, Murder: 9, Torture: 7, Violence: 7

Abilities: Technology

Armor: 6

Advantages:

Flaws: Arrogant, Cold, Enemies, Freak, Psychotic, Vampire

Languages: English, German, Japanese, Mandarin, and Russian

Abilities

Power: Death Spore (6)

Omega Red's body produces a pheremone, called the "Death Spore" by his Soviet masters, which drains the life force from those in Red's immediate vicinity and feeds it into him. Merely standing near Omega Red while he produces the spore will not cause immediate, obvious harm, although spending more than twenty minutes in an enclosed room would begin to result in signs of sickness and weakness (and, more than an hour, potential death). Skin-to-skin contact is more effective, draining the life force directly into Red's body, and can kill an average human in around ten minutes, and leave them severely weakened after only three or four. The greatest danger comes from Red's carbonadium coils, the tentacles having been designed to focus and facilitate the death spore. Wrapped in his tentacles, he can drain an average human to death in two minutes with the spore alone. While he can restrain the spore for short periods of time, Red cannot contain the pheremone for more than a couple of hours at most (and, when released, it will be more intense and more rapid in effect for an equal duration of time afterwards).

Power: Regeneration (7)

Omega Red's body recovers from injury with startling rapidity on its own, and draws even more rapid repair from the life-draining qualities of his Death Spore. He has survived gun shot wounds to the head and recovered in a matter of hours, and can heal superficial scrapes and cuts in a matter of minutes. When he absorbs life force through his Death Spore, this healing is accelerated exponentially, enabling him to heal severe wounds almost instantly, depending on both the wound and the amount of life he's able to drain. Because his body recovers so quickly, he has fought hand-to-hand battles lasting nearly twenty four hours in length before reaching exhaustion. These recovery powers also make him seemingly resistant to injury, making him capable of withstanding blows and injuries that should, by all rights, knock him unconscious or kill him. He's even gotten up from a point blank blast from a tank turret, although not at full capacity.

Power: Strength (4)

Due to a mixture of superhuman regeneration of his muscle tissue and the carbonadium infused in his body, Omega Red possesses a moderate amount of superhuman strength, enabling him to bend metal bars, leap several stories in the air and throw physical blows capable of shattering human bone with ease.

Power: Tentacles (7)

Omege Red possesses tentacles housed within his body that can be extended through openings on the inside of his wrists. While formidable enough naturally, these tentacles were further enhanced by the injection of synthesized carbonadium which plated them with flexible, nearly-indestructible metal. The tentacles can extend up to 18 feet in length at their fullest extension and possess a full range of dexterity throughout their length. They possess superhuman strength capable of liting and throwing a car or smashing down a brick wall. Thanks to the carbonadium, they are virtually indestructible, only slightly weaker than adamanium and resistant to most every form of conventional harm. Omega Red's tentacles also provide the most direct conduit for his death spores, the carbonadium being a particularly strong conduit for the transfer of life energies, and contact with his tentacles creates a particularly efficient life-draining attack.

Skill: Deceit (5)

Like many sociopaths, Omega Red has developed the ability to put on a charming personality, to feign empathy, emotion and sympathy with other human beings in order to fit in and put others at ease. Arkady largely uses this ability to put potential prey at ease or to socially manipulate others into letting him have his way. He can put on a believable facade well enough to fool casual observation and to manipulate those of average social awareness, although those more skilled in psychology, social behaviors or body language will be able to see through him.

Skill: Espionage (5)

Although largely intended to be a straightforward killing machine, Omega Red nonetheless was trained by spies and learned a strong measure of spycraft. He understands the principles of stealth and is more than capable of sneaking under the right circumstances (allowing for the fact that he's a 6'7" albino). He knows how to gather information, how to understand intelligene briefings and methodologies, and can even run a spy ring on a localized basis. He's especially adept at spotting spies, understanding their shadow and sneak methods well enough to pick out when he's being followed...and sometimes just because spies are more challenging prey.

Skill: Murder (9)

If Arkady Rossovich has a calling in life, it is murder. He has dedicated his life to the taking of lives, for profit, for country and, most of all, for pleasure. He knows precisely what it takes to kill a person: how long they can survive strangled, how much they can bleed, how much pain they can withstand before their nervous system shuts down with the sheer horror of it. He knows how to kill with maximum efficiency and how to draw it out and make it last. In any situation, he can theorize and analyze the best way to make that other person dead. Of course, understanding and implementation can be different things, depending on the prey.

Skill: Torture (7)

Omega Red knows how to hurt people. He's cultivated the skill for his amusement, and has said skill honed by training from KGB masters of the art. He understands the human capacity for pain, how to maximize it, how to prolong it. He knows how to apply it in the art of interrogation, in order to get answers. He even knows when to withhold pain in order to facilitate the answers he wants, even if he takes no pleasure in said withholding. If anything, his actual knowledge is higher than his usual rate of success. Arkady likes watching them die too much sometimes to settle for mere suffering.

Skill: Violence (7)

Omega Red is a master of violence, combining his natural penchant for causing harm with the finest training the Soviet military and the KGB could provide. He is an accomplished martial warrior, using hybrid striking and grappling techniques perfected by Soviet intelligence, making him a world-class hand-to-hand combatant. He has been trained with both melee weapons and firearms, with a special affinity for knife-fighting for its brutality and close quarters. His firearms training is somewhat antiquated, focused largely in weapons distributed in 1940's Russia, but the principles can largely still be applied.

Technology: Armor (6)

Omega's regenerative abilities give him a strong resistance to injury, but that resistance is augmented by subdermal carbonadium plating placed just beneath his skin at strategic points on his body. His torso, arms, thighs, back, even portions of his face and head have flexible plates of carbonadium subdermally inserted, his mutant regenerative powers keeping them in place. This armor protects Arkady against both penetration and blunt force trauma, allowing him to withstand concussive impacts such as impact grenades and superhuman blows, while giving him resistance to bullets, blades and other puncturing attacks. Carbonadium isn't quite as strong as adamantium, but is as close as has ever been synthesized, but, because the armor is in the form of plates, there are gaps and joints which can still be breached to cause greater harm.

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Flaws

Flaw: Arrogant

Omega Red believes himself to be an apex predator, a perfect killing machine. He does not regard other people as worthwhile of his attention or respect. As a result, he can suffer from severe degrees of hubris, seeing himself as flawless and untouchable. He often underestimates his opponents or sees them as beneath him. Due to his sadistic nature, he may resort to torture or toying with his prey when he should be getting the job done, providing an opportunity to have the tables turned on him. That opportunity grows even stronger because he often presumes his supremacy and does not allow for the idea that he might be defeated. Quite simply, he thinks everything is going to go his way.

Flaw: Cold

Omega Red's metabolism is particularly susceptible to cold and freezing, a difficult problem for someone from Mother Russia. As the temperature drops below freezing, Omega Red's metabolism will begin to slow, growing more sluggish and more weak the longer the exposure continues (and the lower the temperature goes). Warm clothing can counteract the effect of milder forms of cold, but severe cold will quickly begin to hamper his body and cause him to enter a state of suspended animation. Because he has been in this state for long periods of time in the past, it's become a more default state for his body and he's grown more susceptible to this form of stasis as a result. Direct exposure to freezing powers that would encase him in a block of ice or severe sub-zero temperatures would cause him to immediately enter hibernating condition and render him helpless.

Flaw: Enemies

Most of the world's major intelligence services have Omega Red wanted as a person of interest, some of them dating back to World War II. While he had been considered an urban legend by some or presumed destroyed by others, his recent re-emergence has spread through the intelligence community. Like most super-soldiers, Omega Red is wanted by governments worldwide, either as a blueprint for study, a weapon for their arsenal, or as a criminal to pay for past crimes. SHIELD, Checkmate, Russian intelligence, Interpol, the CIA, MI-5, Mossad...you name the intelligence agency, you'll find a file and an all points bulletin. In addition, some of Omega's old enemies from the bad old days might still be out there. He isn't the only one to live longer than anyone expected, after all.

Flaw: Freak

Short of holographic disguise, Omega Red has a severely inhuman appearance (6'7" in height, snow white skin, red eyes) and cannot blend in as a 'normal' person. Mutant haters and those prejudiced against superhumans can easily recognize him as abnormal. Even those not so prejudiced find him a fearful figure. He sticks out in a crowd and cannot simply blend in and hide, nor can he slip past someone in a sneaky fashion without actual stealth such as extensive shadows. Disguise simply will not work for him.

Flaw: Psychotic

Psychologically, Arkady would typically be described as a sociopath, but he does suffer from psychpathic tendencies, particularly when thwarted or enraged. If defeated or obstructed from reaching a goal, he can reach a state of pathological, uncontrollable rage. In this stae, he is senselessly violent, reckless and destructive. While he can cause great harm in this state, he is also more vulnerable, leaving himself open to attack and acting utterly without strategy or coherent thought.

Flaw: Vampire

While he's always happy to kill for the sheer pleasure of it, Omega Red has an absolute, straightforward need to feed on the life energies of others. The carbonadium in his system has poisonous aspects that have destablized his body and his death spores must draw life from others to fuel his regeneration to compensate for that poison. He must feed on the equivalent of a single human life at least once every two days (he can break that up into more digestible chunks if needs require that he be more circumspect and not leave a trail of bodies...although, psychologically, such restraint becomes more difficult over time). Without such feeding, his body will begin to decay, as if he were already dead, gangrene and rot spreading throughout his body, until he's able to feed on sufficient life energies to make up for the lack that he has had. This requirement is not in effect when he is in his hibernating state, but makes conscious forms of imprisonment and restraint extremely problematic. Two weeks without this form of feeding would result in catatonia and potentially death.

History[]

When he was 12 years old, Arkady Rossovich killed his mother. She had discovered him with a girl from the village, much younger than him, whom the preciously grown and powerful lad had been tormenting in the barn. His mother's interference resulted in her death, along with the girl's. He burned the barn and left the village. For the next four years, he lived as a vagrant, traveling from town to town, doing odd jobs and usually more than a few bodies before he'd be forced to move on. Luckily for him, the Soviet Union of the 1920s and 30s had a severe paucity of resource sharing, and his crimes were never connected to one another.

At sixteen, near starving and tired of constantly struggling, he joined the Soviet military. Powerful, terrifying and capable, he got moved to security services, the fast-track for intelligence and the KGB. Unfortunately, he suffered the usual problems by being left in one place for too long, especially as vulnerable women who lived near the base began to turn up brutally murdered. Finally caught in the act by his comrades, Rossovich was put on court martial, tried and executed, shot in the back of the head.

When he crawled out of his military grave ten hours later, his tentacles wrapping around the throats of his former comrades, their life bleeding into him, he was struck down again...and sent to Moscow for further study. There, they used the seemingly unkillable Rossovich as an experiment. Attempting to replicate Western experiments with the miracle metal adamantium, they had created carbonadium, a flexible, near-indestructible metal synthesized from fragments of an asteroid that crashed in the Siberian wastes. The carbonadium had killed every other subject, but, in Rossovich, it thrived. The armor they implanted in him stayed put, making him resistant to harm, while the substance bonded to his tentacles and enhanced their already fearsome power. His skin turned snow white, his eyes red as blood.

Arkady Rossovich became Omega Red. Throughout the Second World War and the years immediately following, Red served as the ultimate wetwork agent, spreading slaughter and violence at the command of his masters, often coming into conflict with both the Nazis and the West, depending on the mission upon which he was sent. In time, however, he was determined to be too unstable for his Soviet handlers, who wanted a weapon more dedicated to the cause and less likely to go off the rails. Paranoid that he would defect to an even more unstable regime, or simply walk away entirely, they lured him to Siberia and tried to have him killed.

The attempt failed and resulted in the death of an entire military base, nearly five hundred souls snuffed out...but, as he fled into the shadowy, frozen night, his body slowed and slowed. The Soviets found him ten miles from base, iced over and insensate. He was transferred into cold storage and buried deep in their vaults. Last year, after decades in storage, the vault wherein Omega Red had been placed, long since forgotten, was being cleaned out, its contents transferred for examination and eventual destruction by a government seeking to purge its past.

The refrigeration unit on Omega Red's transport truck, like so much post-Cold War technology, was on the blink and, in the end, failed. The authorities only found the withered husks of the five driving escorts and gallons of blood spread around. The trail of bodies lead eventually to Europe and, in time, America. After learning just who and what was contained there, they have done due diligence, alerting the intelligence authorities of the world: the boogeyman is back. Omega Red roams the world once again.

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