Zeno the Chimera

This is an article about Zeno the Chimera, a character created by Memphis the light on 04/16/2015.

Appearance
A well maintained individual whose fiery electric crimson eyes pierces through a being. Being a Chimera means that he is a mish-mash of different species; his most notable features is his hedgehog like muzzle which is lined with tribal tattoos, his cat like pupils which accent his red eyes. Having a set of dragonic black horns and one dragonic black wing via his right shoulder. Also having a metalic wyvern tail which he wraps around his waist as a make shift belt. While Zeno wears a simple pair of jeans and combat boots, his upper torso tends to be free of any article of clothing (Save for cold tempatures in which he puts on a clean cut jacket.) his exposed chest showing off more tribal marks on the right side of his body and shoulder blade. His fur and scale coloring is a bit of a mismatch in terms of segway, as his primary fur color is amethyst but then his arms give way to an armor like scaling of dark grey. The same can be applied for his waist long, free flowing hair for the tips segway into sharp armored like scales. Zeno prefers to wear metalic gauntlets which have extendable amethyst nail like portrusions which he can extend and retract at will. However Zeno's most notable feature are the limiters placed on his body; One on his neck, one on both arms, one on both wrists and finally one on both ankles. Electric Crimson in coloration to accent his eyes. The inhibitors also have key symbols engraved towards the front of it with varying greek symbols such as, Omega, Beta and etc.

Personality
The young man is an enigma, one moment he can be cheery, the next he is dead pan serious. This could be attributed to his background as a trained test subject whose primary goal was to act as a foot soldier. However due to constant subjegation at the hands of his creator, Zeno has become somewhat of a sly smooth talker. Albeit he hates to flirt with women and tends to go out of his way to avoid them, deeming them "A waste of time and resources." This once again can be attributed to his creator who stigmatized the young man into being wary of the female gender. Yet he knows that if he needs to get something done and a woman is involved, there will be no other choice but to talk to them. This proved to be a slight insight to the young man, for some of them actually became good friends to him and trusted associates.

Personable as he may be, this fact is a mask that hides something a bit more malicious (To be explained in history). His true personality arises in combat, where if someone is standing in the way of his goal, he will have no objections in killing and removing said obstacle by any means necessary. He is violent, sadistic and cruel. Aiming for joints and bones to break and fracture for the mere purpose of hearing his opponents scream. When asked why he took such a slow and maticulous style of fighting, he merely replied "I enjoy hearing my enemies scream.." with the most deadpan face.

A slight personality kink is that he tends to tug gently on the inhibitor that acts as a choker around his neck. When getting ready to kill someone he tends to recite, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, rest your weary bones, death shall grant you sweet release."

Creation:
Zeno was not naturally born, but an algamation of superior creatures pieced together and raised in a test environment. The creator, Medusa. Sola's, Vexx's and a majority of the other heroes most hated enemy. Zeno was created with the pure and simple task of acting as the woman's perfect body guard. Having been abused at a young age by her to bring a sense of twisted need and hatred that would act as a bonding agent for the majority of his young age. However a side affect of this mistreatment was a general mistrust in the female gender, but to Medusa this was just a fringe benefit. For it meant that the boy would not betray her for another woman.

Young age:
At the biological age of seven. Medusa would allow the young boy to venture out into the world to gain knowledge and information about it. Going so far as to tutoring him on which places would be best to gather information to hunt down targets and those that opposed her 'mother'. This of course led the boy to wander into seedy bars and locations that were not really sanitary for a boy of his age, but his disattached personality allowed him to pay no mind to his surroundings and continue on with his alloted tasks.

First kills:
It was not long before some rowdy bar goers would make a game to verbally abuse the young boy. Escalating it everytime Zeno made an appearance at the bar. Going so far as throwing a mug of glass towards the boy, which to their joy Zeno just took and moved on. It would not even be a month before the man who was the leader of the abusers confronted the boy in front of the bar and dragged him to the back to begin beating on him. His friends laughing and cheering the man on. Zeno held his own, taking each blow as if they were nothing, his 'mother's' abuse was so much worse. But everyone has their limits and realizing that he would be late getting home, the young boy snapped back and all that would be heard is the scream and splat of those men.

The next day, the news would read "Three men killed by being literally embedded into the wall. Building near collapsing." This was also the day that Medusa gave Zeno his first inhibitors on his wrists, 'Gamma the Seal of Destruction.'

The situation of the three killed mean also seemed to resolve itself. It was most likely due to Medusa pulling some strings to make the matter disappear.

Making a name for himself:
As Zeno continued to grow up biologically and mature. He would be given assassination tasks by his 'mother' in which he happily complied with. Each kill done in the most destructive manner which was a bit irksome to the woman who had to constantly clean up his misdeeds. However, she knew that this was not his fault as his growing body also meant that his over exuding power would grow up with him. Nonetheless she would punish him and make an example of him. Before long the assassinations were being called 'The Derailed Train' killings. For every kill seemed to be as if a train had smashed into the location and exploded. Each following kill had a bigger explosive diameter and was only growing as he aged. So to stem the issue, Medusa put inhibitors on both his arms and legs. His arms being contained by 'Epsilon the Seal of Chaos' and his legs being contained by 'Alpha the Seal of Beginnings.'

With the new inhibitors in place, his attacks became a lot more discrete and pinpoint. Thus 'The Derailed Train' killer faded away into memories.

Final Inhibitor:
Reaching the age of eighteen, his power once again had begun to sky rocket and was leaving messes once again. A disgruntled Medusa began the process of working on the next inhibitor. All the while Zeno began to advertise himself as a contract killer, this was a means to do work on the side and get back at his 'mother's' years of abuse. It would take some time before Medusa found out about her 'son's' misgivings, but ultimately she did not care. He was doing work, honing his skills and making money for the household. So what was there to complain about?

It wouldn't be long before she was given a reason to. A women who was a regular contracter for Zeno managed to become close to the young man. The way he looked at her and the way she looked back at him was going to prove troublesome if she let things be. So coming down to the contractors location whilst Zeno was there. With a smile killed the woman right in front of him. Zeno did not even bat an eye, yet he felt a pain erupt in him. What was this pain? Before he could analyze this further he was taken by his 'mother' and was given the final inhibitor around his neck, 'Omega the Seal of the End'.

Medusa going so far as saying that 'This final seal is a testament to your ever growing power and reward for not caring about the woman. Remember my child, you are nothing more than a monster. No one deserves you and you deserve no one."

Betrayal:
Those words echoed in the young man's mind. That and the site of seeing the woman die in front of his eyes. Everytime he thought of that scene, he would feel a sharp pain in his chest. Just, what was going on? Why did he feel that pain in his chest? All he could do was go back to his location to grab more contracts and perform more killings. By this point he was a sessoned killer, he had control over what jobs he took and when he would do them.

Right there is when it dawned on him, could it be that the reason he was feeling this way was due to the sudden lose of control? That had to be it, he always felt at his best when he was controlling the situation and was leading himself to do what he wanted. Tugging on his inhibitor around his neck which he now casually called his choker, he made up his mind and left Medusa. Doing so in the cruelest possible way; by revealing that she was behind all the killings and tipping off authorities as to where she was hiding out. As for him, he merely slinked away into the darkness, his mind set into a course of action that he would take to better his own situation.

Rise of a Kingpin:
Control and power, that is what the world needed. As he traveled around and took jobs to stave off hunger. He took notice of all the unorganized crime that was tearing up innocent lives. Honestly, he didn't care if they died or not in the crossfire. But needless casualties made wrapping up a job harder. Now more than ever since Zeno had no one to clean up his messes. At this point of his life is where it got weird, for he began to save innocents from being in the middle of firefights. But why would he do this?

The answer in his mind was simple, to garner good standings with the people and lower unneeded damage done by the unorganized crime. Following up on his plan, after doing some research on the city of Serumbra in which he now resided in; He found just who were the bosses of said groups of criminal activities were. Calling them all out into a meeting was simple, getting them to agree to his conditions was even easier. And his condition was..

"Join me, or die."

Of course they laughed and threatened to kill Zeno, after all, he was a new dog in town and no one knew his name or what he could do. But upon removing his right wrist's inhibitor and deftly exploding one of the bosses with a blast of pure volatile air which in turn left a massive crater where he once stood. The other's quickly sat back down and listened to his conditions in silence. Honestly, it wasn't a bad deal to go under his banner, and the cuts would be great. But he made it clear that if any innocent life was taken, or failure to uphold his cause was done. The person would face immediate termination.

As Kingpin he rules his group of affiliates and lackeys with an iron-fist. However, he is known to show great respect for those who do well for him and will even go out of his way to thank a subordinate for doing a good job. The complete opposite for those who undermine him. His stern rule, skills and smooth talking prowess has earned him the respect of those who work under him as well as fear to those who oppose him.

Thus began the reign of the first Kingpin of Serumbra, and strangely an era of 'peace' was brought upon it.

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