A sports enthusiast collects baseball cards. A hunter proudly hangs the heads of his prey on the wall. A serial killer is no different, experts say.
Except he collects human heads, breasts or other body parts. He proudly hangs the framed photos of his victims.
The LionHe lives for adventure, and is constantly looking for a new thrill. That’s cool, but sometimes he takes it a bit too far.
Serial killer investigations sometimes reveal an unsatisfactory side to law enforcement ; inertia , incompetence , bureaucracy , mismanagement , agency " turf wars " , missed opportunities , racial or gender bias , and other failures can slow down the investigation and , indirectly , allow further murders .
Many believe that he was not a “man” at all, but a supernatural creature that was able to appear and disappear at will.
Name: Boris Ditto
Alias: The Lion, Wiseguy, Goodfella, Man of honor, Toymaker, Tailor, Stainless
Gender: Male
Species: Gothic body
Homeworld: Terra, Ravens Landing
Height: In his human form, about 6'1", as a 'Terror', it varies with his mood.
Eyes:Blue glass eyes
Hair/Fur: Grey
Age: 82 [Korean war vet], appears to be about 50 years old
Build: Thin, unrefined muscle structure.
Clothing Style: Boris very often prefers suits and fancy clothing, in a desperate attempt to make himself feel important, although his wardrobe varies with his disguise, he could wear a long, billowing red dress to sport the beautiful young women he is portraying, or he could be wearing nothing but a plain old Armani suit. Although, while not disguised, and while attending to his own relaxing schedule, Dmitri can often be seen wearing nothing but a long green robe with a black pattern that is much to big for his thin frame. Why does he wear this, you ask? Well, it's simple really, he wears it to feel free, comfortable, free of his disguises.
Costume: Boris doesn't have a costume per-say, he simply wears a variety of clothing for his different disguises.
Weapon: a yellow lantern ring; whatever his warped imagination can dream up to manifest constructs.
Power: Fear
Likes:
- Scheming
- Tricking humans
- Murder
- Making and using Toxins
- Money
- Hunting for super-beings
- Looking at Women (who doesn't?)
Dislikes:
- GMO - but they do make good minions
- Singing and dancing
- Being caught
- super-beings in general (despite being one himself)
- Toxins
- Humour, laughter
Hobbies:
- Planning on ways to commit megadeath
- Framing his enemies
- Poisoning super-beings
- Getting away with his crimes
- Eradicating laughter and happiness
Flaws:
- Hateful
- Hitler complex
- Easily frustrated
- Devious
- Power-mad
Future Goals:
- Megadeath
- To build his 'Gallery and manage all the trophies from journey
A realistic depiction of your ideological opposition, can't be sympathised with and is completely unreasonable.
Dale :But it's illegal
Boris :That's not an argument. Laws are arbitrary judgements made by whoever is in power at the time. Laws are not universal, they are NOT objective and they aren't rules for life.
Laws are the means for a government to regulate a people in the way THEY see fit, but that doesn't make them a universal gauge for morality. Laws in EVERY country are DIFFERENT.
Illegality is NOT an argument.
He is friendly to strangers. Waving, saying “good morning,” and nod when they pass him on the street. But Boris isn’t always peaceful.
At a young age he realised he had God given powers, and abilities beyond mortal men. However in his early years he focused more on his human qualities which included becoming an ordained minister to send forth the word of God. He realised the forces of supernatural evil were very real, and actually physical rather than just metaphysical.
For some Serial Killers, a bad deed is its own reward. For others, however, something more is needed to satisfy their sick, twisted appetites. Those with an artistic bent become killers with an extra need to fill--the need to create. These foul monsters become Picassos of pain, da Vincis of distress, Michaelangelos of misery. This drive to create while destroying, to bring beauty out of horror, devours the killer's mind, finally encompassing his every waking hour and his every dreaming moment.
He is very child-like and playful. He is imaginative, joyous, and full of laughter. He lives for enjoyment and creativity. Nothing is dull to the lion. He loves to be creative and work with his hands. He'd make a good therapist and doctor. He has a fear of relationships and commitment. Very sociable and are the life of the party. Quite easy going. Very spontaneous but sometimes need to settle down.
Boris Ditto is tracking down and harness people's smell of fear. Studying on the "Identification and Isolation of Human Alarm Pheromones," which "focused on the Preliminary Identification of Steroids of Interest in Human Fear Sweat." The so-called "skydiving protocol" was the his' method of choice. Having a weapon that literally could spread the smell of fear among fighting forces on the ragged edge between fight and flight. Tipping the course of battle hunt.
He acts as a murderer and/or serial killer, his only goal is to kill super-beings. He hunts super-powered villains, heroes, and anti-heroes as his MO, and takes their body-parts as trophies. Boris is going to kill his way across the globe until he reaches megadeath, meaning ONE MILLION DEATHS, when he is stopped/caught, the 'score' resets. He refers to his 'victims' to not as people but as "wooden logs". Having little criminal ambition outside of murder for personal fulfilment, the Lion attempt to hold himself to a stricter code than many of the villains he is surrounded by.
As a killer he never lose sight of perspective. Looking it as three classes of people. Base humans (the Bat family, Green Arrow, etc), Metahumans (Bane, Mob Rule, Deathstroke, Cheetah, etc) And Superpowers (Superman, Wonderwoman, Darkside,Doomsday, basically the OP supers). This classification is absolutely not any sort of 'official' grouping, but it makes hunting easier. Most of his common targets are all base humans and metahumans.
But superpowers are not going to make such crimes go away, any more than the presence of Superman means that no one robs banks in Metropolis anymore.
The ones he most need to worry about are...
- Telepathy. Obviously, in a world were telepathic evidence is admissible in court -- or your telepathic vigilante doesn't care -- criminals in general are in for a rough go of it without significant balancing elements.
- N-Ray ("Penetrating") Vision. Go watch some of the old Superman TV show to see a good example of what this power does to mysteries.
- Retrocognition. Underestimated but dangerous -- consider that theoretically you could always identify the killer if you have a corpse.
- Tracking. Many killer discovers too late that this simple little adder can turn most mysteries on their head.
- Microscopic. It gives them the ability to find fingerprints significantly faster -- without dust that might corrupt DNA samples. Taken to extremes, it allows them to examine DNA without a lab.
- Power Detects. It sounds very innocous -- the ability to detect people with powers, or the ability to detect the use of powers. Be warned however that these can *really* make things messy for a killer. Consider that any "impossible" crime in a super heroic campaign is probably going to be a superpowered person -- a detect like this can almost certainly reduce a list of suspects, or point out a suspect that would otherwise be under the radar.
Superhero can be divided into two types - local heroes and global heroes. Global heroes tend to keep their eyes on the big picture and not try to catch every single crook or even murderer. Local heroes do go after non-super murders and often have good detective skill, powers and or contacts to help them solve mysteries. Because local heroes will concern themselves with serial killers, one would have a hard time making it in Gothic if they are not as resourceful. Therefore, if one would like to do an adventure with an established Serial Killer he needs to take the action somewhere that doesn't already have any local heroes. Like preying upon a small community for years.
How well one would survive in a superhero area would likely depend on the nature of the heroes. A serial killer could probably operate for years with impunity in Glade, but would have a very short career in Gothic. It's all a matter of the "scale" the heroes operate at. In his own campaign a team like COP is a global-spanning group, so a serial killer in Ravens landing is unlikely to appear on the team's crime radar. They deal with a bigger picture.
Serial killers often study other serial killers to see how they are caught. If retrocognition is admissible, at least as probable cause for a search warrant, then some serial killer will figure out that if he hides his identity from the victim, her won't be caught. He may even disguise himself as a super to 'throw off the Hounds'. Of course, he would also have to be very careful about forensic evidence. (The real serial killer) John Wayne Gacy was a businessman, local political party leader, and visited children in the hospital dressed as a clown. Nobody would have ever guessed he was a serial killer.
He is a really mysterious person. Boris has a very odd personality that make others guess if he is a bad guy or good guy. He is somewhat in the middle of that because he is doing something based only on his pleasure, doesn't matter it is good or bad. He is the id personality - controlled by self-satisfaction, wants, and pleasure only.
His intention is to retain certain body parts as a big-game hunter mounts the head of his prey on a wall, the possession of body parts as trophies was a common step in his triumph. He takes inventory. Leaves a copy of it signed by the parts of the body. Heart, lungs, all weighed and measured. Blood neatly stored in gallon jugs and pint pots, ever smaller containers for ever smaller amounts. Bones arranged by size or shape. He's checking for something. The people all have something extra. More teeth than average, four extra wisdom teeth, say. A missing bone in the toes. A quantity of hair. Longer intestines, perhaps.
Artistic Serial Killers heighten their abilities through various means. Some create legitimate artwork in addition to their terrible paeans to madness (but these latter are always considered their "real" work). A few prefer to write journals to keep track of their floating, discordant thoughts, often filling dozens of volumes with their rambling dissertations about life, death, and everything. Most work out in one way or another to keep their physiques trim and strong (to deal with those people that don't want to be a masterpiece).
He leaves a signed inventory only of those organs he takes. He takes a few from each victim, along with patches of carefully removed skin. There is never a repeat in organs. It is obvious that he's measured several other organs per victim, because they're laid carefully aside. He's putting together a new person.
He adopted more of the entomology angle, he was a predator looking at all of his prey like folks who could get tangled in ornate schemes of his design, and he just watched as they toiled and struggled and became, maybe even succumbed to panic, and he would just creep down from the shadows, stare a little while, and complete his purpose.
The Lion would test new constructs on random people at night, and that was okay because there were other things for the predator samurai to be worrying about – the massive social unrest, constant battles, and so on. He would spend spend 90% of his time on earth. Although predominantly stays on earth, he has a ‘local’ outpost on the moon Pluto.
The Lion believes that hismurders will give him supernatural powers. His endgame is to create a monster from stolen, dead body parts to endow with his criminal brain. Resulting in an uncontrollable, murdering fiend.
Artists spend years honing their skills before they are ready to move on to their true calling. When they finally do so, they move quickly and with no regrets; to hesitate is to be lost in the onrushing waves of time. Their "masterpieces" can take many shapes, from a string of related murders to a string of abductions in which all of the victims are tortured and eventually killed.
He really did that stuff on his own, with meticulous preparation, a lifetime of training, and a ton of self-confidence. Serial killers tend to be very cautious and secretive. Often their murders are not discovered for many months or even years after they are perpetrated. Ted Bundy hid his victim's bodies in out of the way wooded areas, others preyed on runaways and prostitutes that could disappear without causing notice.
Besides acting as a Thrill killer he also takes after the Set and Run Killer but as a product tamperer [not a mass bomber]. As a product tamperers, he enjoys instilling a slow-growing fear through the general community. He usually does not directly observe the consequences of his actions, as he has normally escaped away from the crime scene. Injecting or insert poison into products on the shelves of grocery stores [like lacing Aspirin with potassium cyanide]
As a talented individuals he would go after witches. All witches. In some of those cases they are good Sorcerers, Wizards, or even foolish humans who believe they can perform magic. When lacking magic he resorts to tricky tactics to lure a witch into a trap in order to eradicate them in a moment of weakness. Few individuals actually identify themselves as witch slayers while the number one type of slayer is the Vampire Slayer followed by Zombie Slayers, and Werewolf Slayers. Naturally Witch Slaying is the most dangerous of the Slaying professions because of the unpredictability of magical abilities that varies among individuals. It takes someone with extreme bravery, and talent to undertake a life cause such as this. However some are just plain nuts, and probably should seek psychiatric help.
In Juarez, Mexico, just across the border from El Paso over 300 (Yes, 300!) young women have been murdered over the last decade by person or persons unknown despite the efforts of both the Mexican police and even the American FBI to apprehend the killer(s). They aren't even certain if it's one man, a gang, copycats, or some combination thereof. It's become a sort of magnet for killers, that the many failures of local authorities first to respond and then to do so in an effective manner has encouraged others to go down there for "killing vacations". There was apparently some bus drivers that were arrested but their convictions failed purportedly due to police procedural problems. Allegedly the bus drivers worked in a ring where they would cover for each other; a bus driver would take any sole passenger who stayed on until the end of the line and instead of letting her off the bus would drive somewhere secluded to rape and kill her, apparently with some other members of the ring. But even this case, if in fact it wasn't entirely mistaken, only accounted for a minority of the killings.
Strangely enough, Artists are the least overtly violent Serial Killers. They tend to be quiet individuals that never disturb their neighbors and lead relatively normal daily lives. It is only when they are working on a "project" that they become terrifyingly dangerous menaces, monsters capable of killing without a second thought. Ironically, this is also what protects their hunters from their wrath; while on a "project" they hesitate to interrupt the pattern for anything, even to kill their pursuers. An Artist would rather run from police than kill them (although they have absolutely no compunction against doing harm to them to end the chase).
Boris does it because he believes he can. That killer instinct he needs to commit these acts in the first place effectively auto-hypnotizes away all doubt and inhibition.
“It is absolutely normal to have aggressive thoughts that we don’t transform into aggressive, bad, dangerous or murderous behaviors. But serial killers try to enter life with many fantasies, a mix of sex and violence, and because they cannot share these fantasies with others, they end up alone pondering their fantasies for a long time, increasing in complexity and frequency. When they start killing they are in reality pursuing their dream, they try to perfect what they fantasized about their whole life. And because it is impossible, because this perfection is out of reach, they continue killing, hoping to do better the next time, achieving the perfect kill.”
Choosing just ONE victim is like eating only ONE bite of chocolate. Not. Possible.He is tempted to go with something all-encompassing like an entire box of chocolates. He would personally collect the parts of others and therefore could do all kinds of 'fun' things.
Signatures
- specific type of location or environment for the disposal of the bodies
- level of injury to the victim – excessive
- method of locating and getting access to the victim
- the types of injuries and weapons used, and their sequence
- tokens taken away from the crime ie. voice, body parts, etc.
- things left behind (much rarer) ie. a drawing of a lion made of the victim's blood in the style of a cave mural
- an obvious cycle of crimes or frequency of the crimes (pattern of days or months between crimes).
He is a firm believer in the just world theory which postulates that the world is a safe, just place where people get what they deserve and deserve what they get. Even when evidence suggests otherwise, he is very reluctant to give up this belief that the world is not just. Those with a high belief in a just world will do one of two things: either they will try to eliminate the suffering of the innocent victims or else they will derogate them for their fate. To a lesser but still significant degree, the believers in a just world tend to "feel less of a need to engage in activities to change society or to alleviate plight of social victims."
As a fatalist he takes the belief that events are determined by fate. Accepting the outcome of events, and that he cannot do anything that will change the outcome, because events are determined by something over which there is no control.
Most serial killers are skilled at leading a double life, often doing charity work, attending church regularly and otherwise appearing to be a "pillar of the community". Serial killers crave recognition and validation, and tend to have delusions of omnipotence. So, what would such a person do if he suddenly acquired superpowers?
Why, he'd become a superhero.
@baronu Alt for villain type stories and adventures
- http://www.comicvine.com/forums/rpg-9/bad-man-blues-part-1-1612971/#1
- http://www.comicvine.com/forums/rpg-9/bad-man-blues-part-2-1613512/
- http://www.comicvine.com/forums/rpg-9/gothic-city-cvnu-living-location-1450198/?page=215
Tips for interacting:
- His 'powers' and 'abilities' are secret ❤
- His killer side is also a secret ♥
- Finding out is a good way to start a fight
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