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Post by Victor Fries - Mr. Freeze on Nov 13, 2014 2:35:32 GMT -5
Real Name: Victor Fries
Alias: Mr. Freeze
Age: Mid-30s, but hasn't aged for awhile.
Gender: Male
Occupation: Supervillain and cryogenics expert
Current Status: Researching a cure for Nora, naturally.
Alignment: True Neutral
Costumed Identity Known By Their Enemies? Yes
Costumed Identity Known By The General Public? Yes
Real Identity Known By Their Enemies? Yes
Real Identity Known By The General Public? Yes, if they care to know
Abilities/Skills:
Intelligence - Born with a powerful, logical mind, he has a natural understanding of both science and technology. It's not generally very difficult for him to learn more on these subjects, or to figure out how to apply what he's learned.
Ingenuity - Basically, if he needs it, he can usually figure out how to build it even if such a thing has never been made before. For example, his suit, gun, and the cryo-stasis chamber for Nora were all invented, designed, and built by him. And he's also constantly refining and improving his designs whenever he discovers a flaw in them.
Knowledge - Having had a fascination with cryogenics ever since childhood, he's applies his considerable mental abilities to the study of that science and is considered to be the world's top expert in that subject. Somewhat more broadly, he's studied physics and chemistry extensively - naturally with an emphasis in matters that relate specifically to cryogenics, but certainly not exclusively. He's also become quite expert in many medical matters as his attempts to save Nora have led him to study a wide range of subjects as he pursues different avenues to save her.
Body - The state that the accident left him in is more of a minus than a plus, but it has a few advantages. He doesn't age or get sick, and suffers fewer ill effects when injured (though it takes him longer than normal to heal).
Equipment - His Cryo-Suit keeps his body at a sub-zero temperature - exactly how he likes it. But it also functions as a sort of exoskeleton, giving him super-strength and protecting him from many other things besides warmth such as toxic substances and batarangs. Over the years he's found that he needs to go to greater and greater lengths to make sure that his suit is durable enough as he keeps on running into a certain Bat that has a knack for finding his weak spot. He also has a powerful weapon in the form of a gun that shoots ice. While it's not completely unheard of someone to survive a direct hit from his gun, it's unlikely and usually only happens when he was in too much of a hurry to make sure he really got the person good or prevent them from getting immediate help from someone else.
Weaknesses:
Body - His natural body temperature is below freezing, so if he's exposed to temperatures much above that then he quickly becomes overheated and suffers all the normal effects of that - the only difference is that he experiences them at a much, much lower temperature than normal. This means that outside of a protective environment he would die, though it's not an immediate thing and greatly depends on just how hot it is. His biggest problem is that pretty much anyone who has heard of him also knows of this weakness.
Nora - The one and only thing in this world that he really cares about is his wife. So, naturally, if anyone wants anything from him then it must involve his wife somehow or he won't see any reason to so much as lift a finger. Threatening any sort of harm to his wife is an ill-advised strategy, however - this tends to send him into a sort of berserker style rage, swear eternal vengeance, and such. None of those are things you want from someone like him. On the other hand, he can be convinced to do literally anything if he thinks that it will help his wife, and something as simple as paying him for his services is one way - the research he does is extremely expensive so the question of where he can get more funds is always on his mind.
Appearance:
The accident that altered his body also changed his appearance somewhat - his skin is white and he's completely hairless. His eyes, on the other hand, have always been the same shade of blue. He's six feet tall and a surprisingly muscular 190 lbs. - though it doesn't take much physical strength to do his research, moving around in his Cryo-Suit is a workout in spite of the design features in it that make it easier, and he does that all the time.
Given that he can't leave home without it, he's most often seen by the public - either in person or in photos, etc. - in his Cryo-Suit and that is the image most people have of him. The exact design of it is always changing as he improves it or sometimes even rebuilds it from scratch, but the basic profile of it is about the same: the body is very sturdy and robotic in nature, with a full or partial dome around his head so that it doesn't obscure his view. He usually chooses blue lights for the parts that need to light up, but he often wears a pair of goggles that provide him with a heads up display - they glow read so that the display doesn't impair his night vision. In the entire suit he avoids things like exposed wires or tubing and he prefers heavy duty acrylics over metals - even someone who doesn't possess his genius learns better than to incorporate such things into his designs with the Bat around.
Though he's not as often seen out of the suit, when he's able to remove it he tends to dress rather simply in plain collared shirts and slacks - before he was Mr. Freeze he was a hard-working scientist, and before that he was a science geek, and that's still who he is when he's at home.
Personality:
Dispassionate to a fault, he's not usually one to experience strong emotions of any kind - whether good or bad. Most of the time he's extremely logical and objective, and he doesn't concern himself with others. Instead he thinks of little but his own goals, needs, and desires without giving those of anyone else a second thought. Which means that he doesn't often work with others, but he's certainly willing to if he believes that it will be to his benefit. And which 'side' the person he's working with does not matter to him at all - he's not exactly loyal to anyone. A job is a job, a deal is a deal, and the past is in the past. In fact, he's perfectly willing to work with someone again even if things did not go very well the last time - he doesn't hold onto hard feelings. Then again, he also has a good memory and he isn't stupid - if someone cheated him the last time he's going to either make sure it doesn't happen again or refuse to work with them again at all.
But there is one huge exception to all of the above: Nora. She is the one thing that he does have strong feelings for, and when she's on his mind he can really be quite moody as his feelings shift from the greatness of his love to her to the utter despair of the idea that perhaps he may never find the way to restore her to who she was. And one thing that he does hold a grudge about is anyone who does anything that risks harm to Nora - that is eternally unforgivable in his eyes. And it's because of his love for her that he does have one small soft spot - while he'll kill pretty much anyone without a second thought, he has a habit of sparing 'young and in love' couples as they remind him of Nora and himself before she became ill.
Background:
His father was controlling - excessively so - and while the young Victor attempted to behave as his father dictated and please him as best he could, he was born with a remarkable intelligence and felt constrained by having to live in such an oppressive environment. Eventually, he really couldn't help but act out, and in his case that meant that his mother began to occasionally find that he'd frozen small animals.
See, his interest in the subject began one winter when he noted that a bird had died next to the sidewalk he took to school everyday. Nobody disposed of it, so he saw the bird twice a day every school day and noticed that the cold of winter kept it perfectly preserved until the spring thaw came and it finally decomposed. When he later learned that there were animals that could survive the process of being frozen and thawed, he was hooked - this, to him, was the coolest thing ever.
But when his interest began to affect the contents of the freezer at home, his parents did not agree. In fact they were horrified by it, deciding that his interest was a sick obsession of the sort only fit for deviants. The next school year, he found himself sent off to boarding school, which was difficult and lonely - he had a very difficult adjustment and found himself alone and friendless. But if that was bad, what came next was even worse - when his classmates went home for the holidays, he discovered that his parents weren't interested in seeing him. Not then, and not ever again. Feeling unloved and unwanted, he became detached from everyone, learning to shield himself from such feelings and instead concentrating on his schooling.
Just when he'd learned to be content with this existence of being alone no matter how many people happened to be around, he met Nora. And she is literally the best thing that ever had and ever will happen to him, and he knows that. She was beautiful and athletic, and managed to steal his heart in spite of the shield he'd put up to protect himself of such things. When they later married he considered himself to be the luckiest man on Earth.
But that joy turned to tragedy when Nora became sick, terminally ill with a rare malady with no cure. Desperate to save her, Victor began working for GothCorp, hoping that his research there would lead to a cure. But she was dying too fast, so he ended up using his knowledge of cryogenics to freeze her so that he could have more time to find the cure and save her. However, he had to use company resources to accomplish this, and when his boss - a man by the name of Ferris Boyle - objected and tried to shut it down, the resulting scuffle in the lab led to the accident that changed him into what he is today. (He's actually quite sure that he could reverse the process, but it's not something that he's looked into since he's noted that the change has halted his aging process, and he counts that as a good thing since he's realized that it may take him a very long time to cure Nora and especially since she's not aging either he thinks that she deserves to wake to find him still young enough for them to live out their lives together like they would have if she'd not gotten sick.)
Managing to escape with Nora after the accident, he invented the first version of his Cryo-Suit and became the infamous supercriminal known as Mr. Freeze. His first act was to attempt to have his revenge on Ferris Boyle, only to be thwarted by Batman. In that fight Nora's chamber was damaged, and he swore revenge on Batman. Over time, though, he's come to regard the results of that fight as being his own fault because of his amateurish mistakes so his grudge has eased, even though he's still a bit more grumpy about Batman than he is toward even most other vigilantes who get in his way.
His life since then has been a wild series of events, the details of which he doesn't really care too much about. All he cares about is the fact that his research for Nora has been going at a painfully slow pace - every time he thinks he's had a breakthrough, he finds himself disappointed in the end. It's not simply a problem of what was killing her now - it's that plus the fact that she's been frozen for so long that the cold itself has been doing damage to her body. Especially since her rest has not been a peaceful one: her chamber has been damaged on more than one occasion, and there's been power outages and she's been moved around - all of this has caused damage that he must figure out how to repair as well.
But Victor refuses to give up, no matter how big the task before him becomes. Not because he's so confident in his success, but because he can't face the idea of losing Nora forever - he will succeed because there is no other option for him.
Current Associates:
He rarely associates with anyone but the occasional hired help, but he's a passing acquaintance with many of the other rogues.
Current Enemies:
The closest thing he has to an enemy is Batman, but in general he doesn't have enemies - there are the people who get in his way, and the people who do not.
Other Relationships:
Nora Fries - he knows a great many other people, but they don't matter to him. She is the only one in the world who matters to him.
RP Sample:
It hadn't been difficult at all to find the location of this particular rogue's hideout. Though Victor reputation for being solitary is well deserved, he does have his business contacts - he acquires vast sums of money, he uses it to purchase the resources he needs to continue research, and the people he buys those sorts of things from have other things to sell. Like addresses. Getting such things is therefore simply a matter of negotiating a price, especially when he indicated that he has no interest in causing irreparable damage to the man he's looking for.
In fact he hopes that it won't come to that at all - not because he has any real fear of getting into a fight, but because such fights tend to take time, get messy, and cause problems. Besides, the man he's seeking he can respect as a fellow scientist, even if their respective fields of study are a vastly different subjects. He has no desire to disrupt the man's life, so long as he gets what he wants.
The unmarked white van he's riding in slows to a stop. He's not driving - not only would the driver's seat not accommodate the size and weight of his Cryo-Suit, he'd also be extremely conspicuous - instead he has one of his hired men acting as chauffeur. Shifting in his seat to get a somewhat better view of the building they've pulled in front of, at least as much as he can when he's sitting in the windowless back area of the vehicle, he asks, "This is the address?"
"Yes, boss," comes the reply.
Without another word, Victor climbs out of the back of the van and takes a quick glance around before he heads toward the building. The whole street looks fairly deserted, but that was the whole point of coming at two in the morning - he's not exactly inconspicuous, and it's best if his visit here goes unnoticed. Besides, the one he's visiting claims to never sleep, so this should be as convenient of a time to arrive unannounced as any.
Walking up to the door, he gives it a firm knock, being careful not to be too firm. He could easily knock the door off its hinges but he imagines that its owner would not be pleased with that, and it's best to not do anything to displease the man. At least unless their conversation goes poorly, in which case he'll have to do many very displeasing things.
Alias: Mr. Freeze
Age: Mid-30s, but hasn't aged for awhile.
Gender: Male
Occupation: Supervillain and cryogenics expert
Current Status: Researching a cure for Nora, naturally.
Alignment: True Neutral
Costumed Identity Known By Their Enemies? Yes
Costumed Identity Known By The General Public? Yes
Real Identity Known By Their Enemies? Yes
Real Identity Known By The General Public? Yes, if they care to know
Abilities/Skills:
Intelligence - Born with a powerful, logical mind, he has a natural understanding of both science and technology. It's not generally very difficult for him to learn more on these subjects, or to figure out how to apply what he's learned.
Ingenuity - Basically, if he needs it, he can usually figure out how to build it even if such a thing has never been made before. For example, his suit, gun, and the cryo-stasis chamber for Nora were all invented, designed, and built by him. And he's also constantly refining and improving his designs whenever he discovers a flaw in them.
Knowledge - Having had a fascination with cryogenics ever since childhood, he's applies his considerable mental abilities to the study of that science and is considered to be the world's top expert in that subject. Somewhat more broadly, he's studied physics and chemistry extensively - naturally with an emphasis in matters that relate specifically to cryogenics, but certainly not exclusively. He's also become quite expert in many medical matters as his attempts to save Nora have led him to study a wide range of subjects as he pursues different avenues to save her.
Body - The state that the accident left him in is more of a minus than a plus, but it has a few advantages. He doesn't age or get sick, and suffers fewer ill effects when injured (though it takes him longer than normal to heal).
Equipment - His Cryo-Suit keeps his body at a sub-zero temperature - exactly how he likes it. But it also functions as a sort of exoskeleton, giving him super-strength and protecting him from many other things besides warmth such as toxic substances and batarangs. Over the years he's found that he needs to go to greater and greater lengths to make sure that his suit is durable enough as he keeps on running into a certain Bat that has a knack for finding his weak spot. He also has a powerful weapon in the form of a gun that shoots ice. While it's not completely unheard of someone to survive a direct hit from his gun, it's unlikely and usually only happens when he was in too much of a hurry to make sure he really got the person good or prevent them from getting immediate help from someone else.
Weaknesses:
Body - His natural body temperature is below freezing, so if he's exposed to temperatures much above that then he quickly becomes overheated and suffers all the normal effects of that - the only difference is that he experiences them at a much, much lower temperature than normal. This means that outside of a protective environment he would die, though it's not an immediate thing and greatly depends on just how hot it is. His biggest problem is that pretty much anyone who has heard of him also knows of this weakness.
Nora - The one and only thing in this world that he really cares about is his wife. So, naturally, if anyone wants anything from him then it must involve his wife somehow or he won't see any reason to so much as lift a finger. Threatening any sort of harm to his wife is an ill-advised strategy, however - this tends to send him into a sort of berserker style rage, swear eternal vengeance, and such. None of those are things you want from someone like him. On the other hand, he can be convinced to do literally anything if he thinks that it will help his wife, and something as simple as paying him for his services is one way - the research he does is extremely expensive so the question of where he can get more funds is always on his mind.
Appearance:
The accident that altered his body also changed his appearance somewhat - his skin is white and he's completely hairless. His eyes, on the other hand, have always been the same shade of blue. He's six feet tall and a surprisingly muscular 190 lbs. - though it doesn't take much physical strength to do his research, moving around in his Cryo-Suit is a workout in spite of the design features in it that make it easier, and he does that all the time.
Given that he can't leave home without it, he's most often seen by the public - either in person or in photos, etc. - in his Cryo-Suit and that is the image most people have of him. The exact design of it is always changing as he improves it or sometimes even rebuilds it from scratch, but the basic profile of it is about the same: the body is very sturdy and robotic in nature, with a full or partial dome around his head so that it doesn't obscure his view. He usually chooses blue lights for the parts that need to light up, but he often wears a pair of goggles that provide him with a heads up display - they glow read so that the display doesn't impair his night vision. In the entire suit he avoids things like exposed wires or tubing and he prefers heavy duty acrylics over metals - even someone who doesn't possess his genius learns better than to incorporate such things into his designs with the Bat around.
Though he's not as often seen out of the suit, when he's able to remove it he tends to dress rather simply in plain collared shirts and slacks - before he was Mr. Freeze he was a hard-working scientist, and before that he was a science geek, and that's still who he is when he's at home.
Personality:
Dispassionate to a fault, he's not usually one to experience strong emotions of any kind - whether good or bad. Most of the time he's extremely logical and objective, and he doesn't concern himself with others. Instead he thinks of little but his own goals, needs, and desires without giving those of anyone else a second thought. Which means that he doesn't often work with others, but he's certainly willing to if he believes that it will be to his benefit. And which 'side' the person he's working with does not matter to him at all - he's not exactly loyal to anyone. A job is a job, a deal is a deal, and the past is in the past. In fact, he's perfectly willing to work with someone again even if things did not go very well the last time - he doesn't hold onto hard feelings. Then again, he also has a good memory and he isn't stupid - if someone cheated him the last time he's going to either make sure it doesn't happen again or refuse to work with them again at all.
But there is one huge exception to all of the above: Nora. She is the one thing that he does have strong feelings for, and when she's on his mind he can really be quite moody as his feelings shift from the greatness of his love to her to the utter despair of the idea that perhaps he may never find the way to restore her to who she was. And one thing that he does hold a grudge about is anyone who does anything that risks harm to Nora - that is eternally unforgivable in his eyes. And it's because of his love for her that he does have one small soft spot - while he'll kill pretty much anyone without a second thought, he has a habit of sparing 'young and in love' couples as they remind him of Nora and himself before she became ill.
Background:
His father was controlling - excessively so - and while the young Victor attempted to behave as his father dictated and please him as best he could, he was born with a remarkable intelligence and felt constrained by having to live in such an oppressive environment. Eventually, he really couldn't help but act out, and in his case that meant that his mother began to occasionally find that he'd frozen small animals.
See, his interest in the subject began one winter when he noted that a bird had died next to the sidewalk he took to school everyday. Nobody disposed of it, so he saw the bird twice a day every school day and noticed that the cold of winter kept it perfectly preserved until the spring thaw came and it finally decomposed. When he later learned that there were animals that could survive the process of being frozen and thawed, he was hooked - this, to him, was the coolest thing ever.
But when his interest began to affect the contents of the freezer at home, his parents did not agree. In fact they were horrified by it, deciding that his interest was a sick obsession of the sort only fit for deviants. The next school year, he found himself sent off to boarding school, which was difficult and lonely - he had a very difficult adjustment and found himself alone and friendless. But if that was bad, what came next was even worse - when his classmates went home for the holidays, he discovered that his parents weren't interested in seeing him. Not then, and not ever again. Feeling unloved and unwanted, he became detached from everyone, learning to shield himself from such feelings and instead concentrating on his schooling.
Just when he'd learned to be content with this existence of being alone no matter how many people happened to be around, he met Nora. And she is literally the best thing that ever had and ever will happen to him, and he knows that. She was beautiful and athletic, and managed to steal his heart in spite of the shield he'd put up to protect himself of such things. When they later married he considered himself to be the luckiest man on Earth.
But that joy turned to tragedy when Nora became sick, terminally ill with a rare malady with no cure. Desperate to save her, Victor began working for GothCorp, hoping that his research there would lead to a cure. But she was dying too fast, so he ended up using his knowledge of cryogenics to freeze her so that he could have more time to find the cure and save her. However, he had to use company resources to accomplish this, and when his boss - a man by the name of Ferris Boyle - objected and tried to shut it down, the resulting scuffle in the lab led to the accident that changed him into what he is today. (He's actually quite sure that he could reverse the process, but it's not something that he's looked into since he's noted that the change has halted his aging process, and he counts that as a good thing since he's realized that it may take him a very long time to cure Nora and especially since she's not aging either he thinks that she deserves to wake to find him still young enough for them to live out their lives together like they would have if she'd not gotten sick.)
Managing to escape with Nora after the accident, he invented the first version of his Cryo-Suit and became the infamous supercriminal known as Mr. Freeze. His first act was to attempt to have his revenge on Ferris Boyle, only to be thwarted by Batman. In that fight Nora's chamber was damaged, and he swore revenge on Batman. Over time, though, he's come to regard the results of that fight as being his own fault because of his amateurish mistakes so his grudge has eased, even though he's still a bit more grumpy about Batman than he is toward even most other vigilantes who get in his way.
His life since then has been a wild series of events, the details of which he doesn't really care too much about. All he cares about is the fact that his research for Nora has been going at a painfully slow pace - every time he thinks he's had a breakthrough, he finds himself disappointed in the end. It's not simply a problem of what was killing her now - it's that plus the fact that she's been frozen for so long that the cold itself has been doing damage to her body. Especially since her rest has not been a peaceful one: her chamber has been damaged on more than one occasion, and there's been power outages and she's been moved around - all of this has caused damage that he must figure out how to repair as well.
But Victor refuses to give up, no matter how big the task before him becomes. Not because he's so confident in his success, but because he can't face the idea of losing Nora forever - he will succeed because there is no other option for him.
Current Associates:
He rarely associates with anyone but the occasional hired help, but he's a passing acquaintance with many of the other rogues.
Current Enemies:
The closest thing he has to an enemy is Batman, but in general he doesn't have enemies - there are the people who get in his way, and the people who do not.
Other Relationships:
Nora Fries - he knows a great many other people, but they don't matter to him. She is the only one in the world who matters to him.
RP Sample:
It hadn't been difficult at all to find the location of this particular rogue's hideout. Though Victor reputation for being solitary is well deserved, he does have his business contacts - he acquires vast sums of money, he uses it to purchase the resources he needs to continue research, and the people he buys those sorts of things from have other things to sell. Like addresses. Getting such things is therefore simply a matter of negotiating a price, especially when he indicated that he has no interest in causing irreparable damage to the man he's looking for.
In fact he hopes that it won't come to that at all - not because he has any real fear of getting into a fight, but because such fights tend to take time, get messy, and cause problems. Besides, the man he's seeking he can respect as a fellow scientist, even if their respective fields of study are a vastly different subjects. He has no desire to disrupt the man's life, so long as he gets what he wants.
The unmarked white van he's riding in slows to a stop. He's not driving - not only would the driver's seat not accommodate the size and weight of his Cryo-Suit, he'd also be extremely conspicuous - instead he has one of his hired men acting as chauffeur. Shifting in his seat to get a somewhat better view of the building they've pulled in front of, at least as much as he can when he's sitting in the windowless back area of the vehicle, he asks, "This is the address?"
"Yes, boss," comes the reply.
Without another word, Victor climbs out of the back of the van and takes a quick glance around before he heads toward the building. The whole street looks fairly deserted, but that was the whole point of coming at two in the morning - he's not exactly inconspicuous, and it's best if his visit here goes unnoticed. Besides, the one he's visiting claims to never sleep, so this should be as convenient of a time to arrive unannounced as any.
Walking up to the door, he gives it a firm knock, being careful not to be too firm. He could easily knock the door off its hinges but he imagines that its owner would not be pleased with that, and it's best to not do anything to displease the man. At least unless their conversation goes poorly, in which case he'll have to do many very displeasing things.
