Alonzo Cerrano

''Why do I do this? All this torturin' and killin'? Now that's really simple. You see: In this here world - a world where gods hide amongst men, a world ruled from the shadows, BY the shadows - men don't fear swords. They do not fear guns, no. Men. Fear. Monsters.''

█ BIOGRAPHY █

Real Name:

Alonzo Vincente Cerrano

Alias:

the Lyrebird

A.K.A.:

Valencian Talon
One Two or Vantu
Discord
Anton Valentin Orelov [RU]
Boston Hawke [U.S.]
Alonzo the Jailbird

Affiliation:

T.E.N.G.U. [currently]
French Foreign Legion
MI: 5
U.S. Navy SEALs
Nest 629
...

Base of Operations:

Mobile;
Gothic City;
Cerrano Estate;
Numerous other hideouts.

Alignment:

Morally Ambiguous.

Identity:

Public

Citizenship:

Unknown [presumed Spanish]

Marital Status:

Divorced

Occupation:

Mercenary, Theif and Assassin;
Enterpreteur [currently];
Mobster [currently];
Billionaire [currently];
Ex-Intelligence Operative;
Ex-Soldier;
'professional asshole'[always].

Education:

Ph.D.s in Philosophy, Psychology, Psychiatry, Chemistry and Biology at Oxford University.
His education also includes engineering and advanced military operation.

Age:

31 y/o

Gender:

♂ Male

Height:

6'0'' (182 cm)

Weight:

116 lbs. (53 kg)

Hair Color:

Blonde

Eye Bolor:

Cougar Blue

Unusual Features:

Two large scars along his shoulder blades.
Overly tattooed body (mainly arms).
Scar tissue on over 25% of his body.

Species:

Homo Superior - Cheyarafim

Birthplace:

Unknown [presumed somewhere in Valencia, Spain]

█ HISTORY █

♦ 20th April 1983 in Valencia, Spain. An unusual birth takes place. The child, son of Fabián Cerrano and his wife Ángela, is born with cougar blue wings. His mother believes that the birth is a miracle while his mobster father tries to conceal the child from the world. The next day the personnel that helped with the child's birth is disposed of. The child is not allowed to have contact with society and is homeschooled.

♦ 7th July 1996, Fabián Cerrano forces the child to undergo experimental plastic surgery to remove his wings, the operation is kept a secret from the mother. The procedure was sloppy and the child is left with extensive scars on his back. The child never even had time to fly. After Ángela Cerrano finds out she quits her job to fully tend her broken child. The relationship between the parents gets worse by the day.

♦ 13th October 1996, Ángela Cerrano is murdered by her husband infront of their only child. His father was sick of how she tried to turn their mutant child against him. Due to his father's connections it is labeled as an assassination and pinned on a drug addict. Fabián proceeds to mold the boy into a coldhearted gangster and murderer.

♦ 28th August 2000, Fabián Cerrano's body is found in a dumpster behind a slaughterhouse. All deformities on the body point out that he was heavily tortured before his slow death and had the sentence: ''¡Gracias por todo!'' carved into his chest. Alonzo planned his father's death from the day of his mother's funeral. The culprit was never found and Alonzo became the head of the crime syndicate. Under his reign the criminal empire prospered like never before, but he left the organization to study at Oxford University. However, after graduating he disappeared.

♦ 1st January 2013, Alonzo resurfaces in Gothic City and establishes another criminal empire by either killing or overtaking his competetion. Turns out that during his leave he worked for numerous military, paramilitary, intelligence and terrorist organizations and even briefly trained in Nest 629 under the Arcani mistress, Ivanna. His endeavor left him psychotic, yet deadlier than ever. His influence continues to spread over the U.S. like a plague...

█ POWERS & ABILITIES █

Powers

♦ Primary Mutation: Avian Adaptation ♦

Alonzo's entire anatomy is adapted to flying. His bones are hardened and hollow, making him weight far less than he appears to and increasing his natural agility. His body constantly builds muscle, making his body virtually devoid of any fat and granting him strength significantly greater than that of a ordinary male. His eyes and ears are specially adapted to work with maximum efficiency in high altitudes and under high-speed winds. Alonzo's respiratory system also differs from a human: His lungs are oversized and house a special membrane allowing him to extract oxygen from the air at high velocities and altitudes. Interestingly, he is able to rotate his head up to a 180° angle.

Vocal Manipulation:Alonzo has a set of vocal cords that produce sonic frequencies far beyond the range of humans as well as creating multiple voices or sounds at once. He could also perfectly replicate any sound or voice he has heard. He seems to be immune to his own powers.
- Silent Scream: His vocal cords allows him to produce a sonic scream or shriek capable of damaging or stunning objects and people. He has been assumed to reach around 510 dB, which is more than enough to cause earbuds to rupture and metal to shatter in collateral damage. His mastery over this ability allows him to render the scream both infra and ultra sonic, essentially rendering it silent and making it impossible to detect by human ears and also endowing him with several deadly sub-abilites.
- Voice-induced Hypnosis: By 'tuning' his voice to certain frequencies, Alonzo is able to affect the human consciousness and sub-consciousness with his words, in essence giving him control over the victim. Since this ability is not psychic in nature but sonic, he can affect even the greatest of telepaths. Once under his control, the hypnotic effect either fades away with time or with a pre-programmed action performed by the victim, but the exact time he is able to control someone varies from person to person. He is very precise with this ability as he can even tamper with memories or make the victim experience illusions or even affect both individuals and large groups of people. His speciality is implanting key phrases into someone's minds so that he can continuously control them until the phrase is somehow erased.
Enhanced Human Strength:Because his body constantly builds up muscle, his physical strength is much greater than that of a man of the same age. He has been seen curling 250kg/551lbs in each hand and benching over a ton. His strength also extends into his legs and he is able to leap 6mt/20ft out in a single bound and 3mt/10ft into the air without a running start.
Superhuman Respiration: Alonzo possesess oversized lungs that are also more efficient than human ones. These unique lungs provide him with maximum possible endurance with a minimum of oxygen intake and increasing the amount of red and white blood cells in his cardiovascular system. His musculature also produces far less performance impairing toxins and he is able to physically extert him self for several days before tiring. His lung capacity allows him to hold his breath for up to 15 minutes. The force of his exhalation is enough to push a grown male of his balance.
Superhuman Durability: The tissues of his body are harder and more resistant to blunt trauma and pressure than a those of a human. His body can withstand the friction generated by high-speed flight and also endure impacts that would be sufficient enough to severely wound or kill a grown man.
Enhanced Speed and Agility:Alonzo is incredibly fast on foot even with his considerable muscular bulk. He is fast enough to keep up and outrunw olympic athletes. At his peak he was able to sprint at the speed of 75 km/h. His hollow bones endow him with great acrobatic prowess and make him substantially lighter than he appears. His joints and connective tissues are also more flexible.
Peak Mental Process: His mental performance has been greatly enhanced, allowing his mind to operate in the most efficient and rapid manner possible. One manifestation of this is his tactical genius; the ability to quickly process multiple information streams (e.g., threat assessment) and rapidly respond to changing tactical situations. Alonzo also possesses an eidetic memory, meaning that he never forgets anything and has perfect recall. This enables him to remember any military tactic and apply it to any situation.
- Increased Perception:Alonzo is able to percieve the world in a significantly slowed down manner by focusing. This ability ties in to his phenomenal reflexes and sharp vision. The flicker-fusion horizon in his eyes is superior to other people and he says he is able to count the flapping of a hummingbird's wings. His sight affords him the ability to see clearly over vast distances,
- Enhanced Dexterity:Alonzo is incredibly dexterious. He can easily multitask and use both hands at once to perform seperate actions.
- Homing Ability: Similarily to a pigeon, Alonzo has a internalized compass or an extra sense. This sense affects his spatial perception and informs him about where the North is. He can mentally guide himself towards any location he has visited before.
Superhuman Hearing:Alonzo has a supremely enhanced sense of hearing. He is able to hear far beyond the auditory range of both humans and dogs. His senses are also very acute, as he is able to crack safes without any equipment easily.
- Echo-location: He is also able to navigate solely based on sound reflecting back into his ears. This spatial sense is so overwhelmingly powerful that during rain he is able to view even the interial structure of nearby people.
Feathered Wings (formerly): Alonzo had natural cougar blue wings with the wing-span of 16 feet. They were fully feathered and had a flexible skeletal structure. These wings allowed him to fly and carry another person with him. He could reach the height of 10,000 feet for several minutes before the lack of oxygen began to impair him. He could also fly for 18 hours straight. The force with which he could flap his wings was enough to knock several men off their feet.

Regenerative Healing Factor: Alonzo possesses an accelerated healing factor that enables him to repair damaged tissue with much greater speed and efficiency than an ordinary human. He can completely recover from non-fatal injuries such as slash and punctures within a matter of hours and injuries as severe as broken bones within a few days. This ability extends to being transferred by blood, thus he can heal others who come into contact with his blood, provided they have the same blood type. His blood carries a healing agent. This form of healing appears to be very potent as it was able to heal AIDs and completely detox the organism of a woman he knew. Interestingly enough his blood is poisonous to demons.

Resistance to Foreign Substances: His white blood cells are immensely strong are burn away any impurity introduced into his system. This defense affects mainly diseases and often acts as a complete immunity to them. It also affects drugs and other chemicals to a lesser degree. He is incredibly hard to drug and has a hard time getting himself drunk.

♦ Secondary Mutation: Superspeed Bursts ♦

Recently, Alonzo has awakened a new power. He can now temporarily speed himself up to achieve incredible velocities. His acceleration is virtually instantaneous and when sprinting he can reach speeds up to Mach-4. Due to his adapted anatomy he can endure the high-speed friction and other negative conditions. However, while he can achieve superspeed Alonzo can only maintain it for a short amount of time (Standard limit is around 5 seconds.) before he has to stop. Possibly because his power is still developing. To compensate, Alonzo built his techniques around the short time span, for example: during fights he primarily uses this power to suddenly increase the velocity of his attacks to catch his opponent of guard. He can also use it to shoot his revolver like a machine gun or even to speed up his healing. He makes a distinctive *BAMF!*sound whenever he uses this power.

Shock Waves: Alonzo can create devastating sonic booms and shockwaves with as little as snapping his fingers. Their strength depends on how fast the movement was performed and when using his mighty legs, the resulting shockwaves are enough to shake a 10-story apartment building.

Abilities

Genius-level Intellect: Alonzo is an incredibly intelligent and cunning man. He has earned 5 degrees at the Oxford University. His pursuit of knowledge led him from intensely study the psyche of man to becoming a master soldier. Alonzo seems to have some sort of polymathic ability to pick up and master difficult skills. He has also a wide array of suplimentary skills, for example he is a talented tailor. He even wears shoes of his own design.

Polygot: Alonzo is a polygot. His mutation allowed him to easily learn and repeat languages down to perfectly mimicking particular accents. From what is known he speaks English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Czech and Russian fluently but is also able to communicate in Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and Norwegian.
Criminologist: His years of criminal experience endowed Alonzo with a deep understanding of criminal lifestyle and hienarchy. He was able to establish a network of controlled businesses by overtaking them from competetion. His criminal connections also reach into law enforcement.
Expert Strategist and Tactician: Alonzo is an incredible strategist and tactician. He has led numerous military operations with success and memorizes most of famous military tactics. His tactical sense also carried over into his criminal carrer as he was able to corrupt and exploit the system of Gothic City with the law enforcement on his payroll.
Bussiness Managment: As mentioned above, Alonzo is an economical genius. Even without his power behind him he is able to turn a business on the verge of bankrupcy into a stable source of income.
Interrogation and Intimidation: He prefers to do his interrogations himself. He picked up numerous ways to make a person talk during the times he was captured and interrogated himself. Alonzo also likes to get creative during interrogations and stretch them out as much as possible. However, he has also managed to create a fearful reputation for himself. He is a powerful figure who knows how to easily intimidate people using psychological torture.
Skilled Actor: Alonzo is a naturally adept actor. With his powers and knowledge he can pass as almost anyone he chooses. He has also mastered to control his micro-facial expressions.
Unpredictability: His high intellect makes him a dangerous adversary. Alonzo is cunning and unpredictable in any situation. No one knows if this stems from his genius or his psychosis.

Master Combatant: Alonzo has years of military servitude behind him. His endeavor led him to become a deadly fighter both at range and up close. He has intensively trained to fight off any adversary he might encounter, even if they have the strength in numbers. He has mastered Kyokushin Karate, the most aggresive form of this otherwise beautiful style. It relies on speed and bestial strength of it's firm strikes to overwhelm and quickly dispatch the opponent or atleast deliver severe internal damage as efficiently as possible. However, his repertoire also includes Krav-Maga, Ninjutsu, Judo, Aikido, Pankration, Jiu-Jutsu and last but not least his favourite, French Kickboxing. Also known as Savate, french kickboxing mainly focuses on launching destructive kicks while keeping up the momentum to instantly execute subsequent attacks. Alonzo himself prefers to fight using his strong legs while leaving his hands inside his pockets, because one of mediocore kicks carries enough force to break the bone of an arm even when blocking the strike. Most recently, Alonzo started learning MMA from an old colleague and while he is not as skilled he knows the basics.

Expert Marksman: Alonzo is a has great aim augmented with his enhanced vision. He can operate most weapons, but he prefers sidearms. He is able to fire his current sidearm rapidly despite the overwhelming recoil it has.
Expert Swordsman: His main form of swordplay is Kendo, the Japanese Way of the Sword. His common practice is to wear down his opponent by playing defensively until he can end the fight in one swift cut (often aimed at the neck).

Expert Military Operative: Alonzo is more than adept in any military field practice one could think of. His mastery includes intelligence gathering, escape arts, advanced assassination, demolition, survival tactics, hunting, swimming, mountaineering, march/drill skills, map making and reading, decoding cipher and other secret code messages, reading and making wood craft signs and other secret code languages, disguising, interrogation, computers, explosives, communication systems, vehicles and electronic appliances used in armed forces.

Stealth: The advanced training in French Foreign Legion includes stealth lessons. His skill in sneaking is enforced by his knowledge of ninjutsu.

Master Acrobat and Natural Athlete: His mutation naturally shaped him into an excellent athlete. Because his body did not store fat easily and instead built muscle, most sports and athletic disciplines came easily to him while his hollow bones made him incredibly agile and dexterious.

Talented Singer and Musician: Alonzo is naturally talented with musical instruments instruments and while he prefers the electric guitar, he also plays the piano and violin. Due to the shifting nature of his voice he is able to sing almost any genre.

Strength level

Alonzo is endowed with strength significantly superior to that of a normal human or mutant due to the his avian adaptation, he also engages in intensive and extensive regular excercise. As a result Alonzo can lift or press more than twice of his bodyweight --760 lbs-- with little effort. His body is also virtually devoid of any fat and he possesses greater proportionate muscle mass than a normal human.

Weaknesses

Counter Vibrations: His Silent Scream can be canceled out by vibrations of equal force.

Mental Instability: Although not confirmed, Alonzo shows signs of mental instability. While he appears as a calm, well-spoken man the hidden Alonzo is quite different. It is unknown if this is but an act as even amongst his henchmen he is known for being psychotic, power hungry and incredibly hostile. He also has a hard time telling the difference between right and wrong.

5 Second Window and Energy Depletion: When used to it's fullest his new power has only a 5 second window where it can be used. After that he has to stop or he risks severely damaging his organs. These bursts of superspeed also drain him of energy so he has to eat more frequently than others and in larger quantities.

█ PARAPHERNALIA █

Equipment

♦ the Masquerade ♦

Alonzo has a - ''thing'' - for masks. He always wears masks instead of showing his true face. Over the years he has gathered a myriad of unique masks. His choice seems to be purely based on his attraction towards a specific mask since his collention ranges from ancient wooden masks to everyday hockey masks.

The mask he favours the most resembles a black skull which completely hides any of his features, revealing only his cougar blue eyes. However, this mask is not only an accesory, it is made out of jet-black hardened carbon steel. It's material gives it extreme durability, enough to resist even a shot from a high-power sniper rifle. However, the inside is enforced by an unknown metal, possibly carbonadium, which further enhances it's durability while also protecting him from psychic assault.

Other features include a built-in rebreather and retractable lens, allowing the mask to function like a gas-mask if needed.

(The jaw can actually open up.)

♦ Straight Razor ♦

His handy-dandy torture tool. Alonzo seems to always carry it around in his back pocket.

It's sheath/handle is made out of ebon wood and the blade itself is not made from metal. Instead it is hand carved out of what appears to be pebblestone. The bolts are plastic.

♦ T.E.N.G.U. Uniform ♦

Alonzo also uses a Tengu uniform signify his status as the leader. The features on his uniform are greater than those on other personnel. It is completely airtight and features a retractable visor with rebreather capabilities. The whole uniform is made out of Negative hard-light allowing it to retract almost immediately into a watch. The hard-light basis allows it to access the internet and manifest holo-displays. The photo-accumulator built into the suit allows it to gather energy from the enviroment to power up all of the suit's functions and possible addons.

Weapons

♦ ''Fragarach'', the Celtic Sword of Air ♦

''It is said that no one could tell a lie or move, with Fragarach at his or her throat, thus the name 'Answerer'. It was also said to place the wind at the user's command and could cut through any shield or wall, and had a piercing wound from which no man could recover...''

The sword of Manannán mac Lir, the Celtic diety of seas. Similarily to Mjolnir, the sword is enchanted to be virtually indestructible but also endlessly sharp. Another of it's enchantments makes it only wieldable to ''someone with unquenchable thrist for power''.

♦ ''Signature'' - Magnum .454 ♦

''A pinnacle of weapon engineering, the .454 Magnum has enough stopping power to one-shot a charging rhinoceros. However, it also features a grenade launcher under the main barrel for the extra overkill...''

Alonzo's signature sidearm. It is extra powerful to protect him from the rising superhuman population.

Transportation

Mainly limousines or luxury automobiles. He also owns a personal jet and a yacht.

█ NOTES █

Alonzo is a smoker.
Alonzo is often described as an oldschool mobster because he uses old italian gangster practices, his favourite being the ''cement shoes''.
His normal voice sounds like War from Darksiders. (You can listen to him here.)
He is obsessed with the sentence: ''No church in the wild.''
He eats special apple flavoured energy bars that have roughly 20,000 calories to power his superspeed.
Another of Fragarach's titles is ''the Retaliator'' or ''the Avenger'' and the reason for the unusual worthiness enchantment is because only a person who wants power above all else will, sooner or later, become powerful enough to protect all of Ireland.