Adam Monroe
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[edit] The Mun
- Name: Chris
- Contact:
- Email: eriols_girl@yahoo.com
- GChat: whatineverhad@gmail.com
- AIM: KawaiiSpinel99
- LJ: http://kawaiispinel.livejournal.com
[edit] The Character
- Name: Adam Monroe (Or Takezo Kensei or Richard Sanders or whatever)
- Age/Birthdate: 350; Born in 1643
- Species: Human/Wanderer
- Type: Shapeshifter (Red fox and white rat)
He also has the ability of rapid cellular regeneration which allows him to heal from any wound (except a gunshot to the head) and dramatically halts his aging process as well as gives his blood certain regenerative properties when transferred into another person, but... He had all that before the Rift. (The Rift did make the magic healing blood a little less potent in the sense that it doesn't always work.)
- Canon: Heroes (2X11: Powerless)
- Journal: http://howangryarethey.livejournal.com
[edit] Appearance
Handsome, albeit in a slightly unconventional way, with a certain charisma about him that makes people gravitate towards him when they don't have a clue who he is and what he's capable of. He has a rather expressive face and striking blue eyes, and could be said to resemble an older, less emotionally stunted Julian Sark. He's tall and, while not painfully so, very thin, but with a lot of lean muscle, suggesting a fencer's build.
While he looks to be in his late twenties/early thirties, he carries the weight of four centuries on him, although that's not always obviously apparent physically.
[edit] Personality
Before the years turned him into something of a class act, Adam was a drunken brute of a man, more interested in money and turning a profit than honor. That changed, however, when he met Hiro Nakamura, which shifted his perspective and taught him to be a better man, and when Hiro betrayed him... Well, that set the standard for a downward spiral that would last a few centuries.
At a glance, he's a charming, charismatic individual with passionate views on the world and how to save it, and while all that's true, it's not the whole story and most people don't realize this until it's too late. It always seems like he knows the right thing to say to get people to agree with him and people genuinely get along with him when they first meet him. Scratch the surface and there is a broken man, betrayed by the one person who actually saw what he could be and ripped it away from him at the last minute. He's disillusioned with humanity in general and leads people on to avoid being manipulated as easily as he was in the past (or so he believes). He has a god complex the size of Canada and deeply wants to be the world's savior, which might not be such a bad thing if he didn't want to destroy the most of humanity first to do it. He's of the personal belief that to save a broken world, you must first wipe it clean, and deep down he knows this is the right thing to do and no one will ever be able to convince him otherwise.
He's highly vengeful and if he feels he's been wronged, he won't hesitate to destroy everything the person who wronged him holds dear. He's not one to forgive and he doesn't forget. Betrayal is not something that sits well on him and it's generally punished to the highest degree. If you fall in as one of his disciples, you either stay with him or you die- simple as that.
Above all, he is extremely manipulative, more than willing to use people to suit a purpose, and will go to any lengths to get people to follow him, whether it be playing to their egos, doing them small favors, or being just genuinely charismatic and full of pretty lies.
[edit] History
Once upon a time, there was a young Englishman who, rather bored and looking to seek his fortune in distant lands, hopped a merchant ship to Japan and then never went back, figuring there might be some way of getting rich quickly there. He found what amounted to his calling, as he so believed, as a con artist, operating under the assumption that he was a fearsome samurai warrior named Takezo Kensei, when he was, in fact, just a drunk, ornery white man. This served him well as an existence, until one Hiro Nakamura arrived in 1671 Japan and made it his goal to turn this shell of a man into the real Takezo Kensei that he knew of from stories in his childhood in order to "fix history."
Adam, at that point Kensei, understandably, wanted none of this, but through trials and... More trials, Hiro somehow managed to turn him into something of a hero. This was wonderful for Kensei who was slowly starting to realize the benefits of this hero thing... Not so good for Hiro, who had kinda-sorta-totally fallen in love Yaeko, who was the woman both Kensei was meant to have according to legend and the one he was, more or less, in love with... Although whether he was more in love with Hiro or Yaeko is debateable, but that's another story.
After attempting to rescue Yaeko's father from the wardlord Whitebeard, Yaeko and Hiro shared a kiss that Kensei unwittingly witnessed when he went to find them to make sure they were okay, and this started his rapid downward spiral into a villain. He made a deal with Whitebeard and captured Hiro and in exchange was offered half of Japan and Yaeko, who, understandably, would have nothing to do with him since it was Hiro she loved. Eventually, this culminated into Hiro and Kensei engaging in an epic swordfight that ended with Kensei swearing that he would "lay to waste all he held dear" just before the tent he was in exploded rather spectacularly.
That was not the end of the story for Takezo Kensei, eventually to be known as Adam Monroe, had the ability of rapid cellular regeneration and it takes a lot more than an exploded tent to kill him. For the next three hundred years, he traveled the world, fought in dozens of wars, fell in love, was betrayed more times than he could count, and basically began to come to think of himself as a god amongst men, convinced he would one day save the world and be the hero he was supposed to be.
Sometime in the late sixties/early seventies, he found a bunch of young hopefuls with supernatural abilities just like him and together, they founded The Company and tried to save the world, but after a few years of that mess, Adam came to realize that the world just wasn't worth saving and attempted to destroy a good portion of humanity as a means to wipe the world clean and start over, with himself as humanity's sole savior. This, obviously, didn't sit well with the rest of the Company and he was locked away for thirty years until he eventually escaped with the help of Peter Petrelli.
His first order of business was to kill everyone who had anything to do with his imprisonment, but only successfully managed to kill Kaito Nakamura and Victoria Pratt (Angela Petrelli escaped). His second order of business was to manipulate Peter Petrelli into helping him release the virus again, giving him the impression that he was going to destroy the virus to save the world and not... Destroy the world to save the world. They made it all the way to The Company's storage facility in Odessa, Texas before Peter finally realized the truth and by that time, Hiro had finally caught up with them, intending to seek revenge for the murder of his father.
The last thing Adam remembers before he was claimed by the Rift was dropping the vial, containing the virus just as Hiro attempted to teleport him away. For all he knows, he may have completely succeeded in his goals (he didn't), because somehow he wound up in the Riftverse before Hiro could exact whatever revenge he intended, and has been there for.. Well, actually Adam won't ever tell how long he's been there, mostly because he's adjusted so well, it's like he's always been in this world.
Especially since he has a rather interesting new friend to help him along his way.
