Name: Dr. Alexander Fate
Age: 100+ years
Race: Human
Description:
Doctor Fate is a man that never lets his face be seen. Standing at six feet tall exactly he appears to be built like an anatomically perfect individual with a body composed of only functional muscle. His clothing seems to be tight to his body but never hinders movement while his gloves and boots appear to be made of a yellow metal. The blue suit sports a high collar that is often accompanied by a long, yellow scarf which can be tucked in during less civil occasions.
The scientist is never seen without the red helmet, a yellow set of wings marks most of his clothing and can be seen on more than just his wardrobe. He dubs them the 'Wings of Fate' and will decorate near anything he owns with the golden feathers. His facial features beyond a hard jawline and glowing, white eyes are unknown. The helmet seems to keep a portion of his face in perpetual shadow even if it were to be lit with the brightest of lights.
Relationship Status:
ComicVine - Mara Cretena
History
Alexander is a man that was born at the turn of the century in America, the year of 1892 to be exact. He was a young man interested in the world of science from the very beginning, his calling was known almost instantly. As a boy he tinkered with everything possible, creating clockwork toys from scrap during middle school and powering them with homemade batteries. In detention he could often be seen with a box of random garbage, parts of some broken clock or device that he would turn into a creation to put military scientists of the day to absolute shame. However, he was placed in detention not because of his grades but due to his unique view of progress and improvisation as a boy in second grade science class wasn't exactly credited when he argued the ideas of complex genetics against the curriculum.
As he grew older his interest in medicine did as well. By the age of ten he was not only reading the latest medical journals but finding valid problems with them, his many letters of input seemed to go unnoticed due to his radical ideas. Alexander was a step ahead of the world when it came to the human body, studying things that would only be toyed with by the superstitious in world war two. Genetics, human enhancement and life extension. Through use of simple technology, microscopes that he empowers himself along with crude equipment that would be make today's household computers look like garbage, he was able to study the human body in ways that no one else had dreamed of at that time. Due to the strange interests he had as a child he found himself alone often with books, with tools and ideas that didn't belong in the time where he was born. Molecules, medicine and physics as they directly related to man where his areas of focus.
It wasn't until he made it to college that things finally began to work out for him. Alexander gained special scholarships that eventually led to him working under a military contract for the United States, his job was to make breakthroughs in advanced medicine so that less people would have to die during a war. During this time he met the love of his life Mara Cretena a person that also shared his love of science though her interest was on something more interesting, the prevention of human injury. While Alexander had been working on ways for the body to allow itself to heal from various injuries, poisons even paralysis or limb loss Mara had tried to take a different path that would allow the body to prepare itself for hardships in advance. A sort of forced mutation that would utilize the natural ability of the body to adapt by exposing the DNA to mediated hardship, a way to bypass the idea of selected breeding for certain traits.
Alexander fell in love with the idea and the woman behind it. As military scientists they were mostly out of the way and to themselves as they performed ideally, putting out medical solutions for many of humanities common problems. It wasn't until nearly a year later that tragedy struck in the form of espionage, with a madman on the other side of the world that wanted to create super soldier the good doctor and his colleague were abducted and shipped off to Germany. The facility with most of their research was destroyed by the prototypes that were created to be super soldiers, unstable creatures that could hardly retain their human characteristics. Spliced with necrotic materials from animal experiments, these monsters were effective but had a short life span and ultimately were a failed experiment. Alexander and Mara were charged with the feat of improving the genetic serum and giving the Nazi empire complete control over the creations that they had attempted to bring to life.
Aboard a large ship they were continually kept at sea so that they were beyond the hope of retrieval while they were introduced to the experimental programs of a madman. The ultimatum given was to create what they had failed to do and cure the degenerative properties of their spliced soldiers, failure was to become a test subject of their less than qualified counterparts.
Alexander and Mara had different plans in mind.
Using their advanced knowledge they instead went to work on a way to escape by developing exactly what the German regime wanted them to. A super soldier serum though one that would be used on their own bodies. It was a basic version of what they had been working on the past few years. The serum took the natural aspects of the human body and allowed it to experience controlled hardship to become much more resilient than normal. The results seemed to be outstanding, the test subjects exhibited enhanced strength, speed, immunity to standard toxins and even bodily durability. The two scientists injects themselves and threw together a rough suit to further their protection from small arms fire, they didn't know what to expect beyond their own cell-like laboratories but they knew that they had to try.
Everything seemed to go well, their preliminary serum put them on a level that allowed them to trounce standard guards. They were even a match for the spliced soldiers aboard the ship once they acquired weapons to fight back with. The only thing that hadn't prepared for was something that would haunt Alexander for the rest of his life. Hitler had not only turned to genetic enhancements and the ideas of a mad scientist but also to the mystic and the occult. The command officer of the vessels was only what could be described as a warlock, a male witch. When the two scientists emerged on the surface of the vessel they made haste to locate a plane but they were caught off guard. Mara was stricken with a black of dark magic that her suit was not designed to withstand, then when she fell she was immediately downed again with necrotic energy. She rotted from her enhanced human form to that of a skeleton before Alexander's eyes.
A grueling battle took place, magic and sorcery against science and lead. Victory came at a high price, the ship was ravaged and left as a burning wreck. Alexander was the only man left standing as the sun set, on his knees before the pile of ashes that belong to the woman of his dreams. He took a pilot's helmet from the wreckage that day, it had been stolen as a trophy from an American Ace. The story was well known among the military community and it bore the golden wings of freedom that Mara had talked of more than once with stars in her eyes. Alexander flew away from the burning aircraft carrier with a vow never to be involved with wars of man. Doctor Fate would never show his face again.
(more coming soon)
Research
Doctor Fate specializes in a wide variety of research though he focuses on four main areas:
- Genetics and Physiology
- Microfiber Technology
- Molecular Control
- Anti-Magic Technology
Genetics and Physiology
Doctor Fate specializes in genetic research that governs the body's natural ability to adapt. From a retrospective view the idea behind genetic material is to adapt and create the most useful form for survival.
Specific research breakthroughs have been in the area of increasing the normal operating parameters of the body and allowing it to maintain homeostasis without the need for outside intervention. He has also delved into the problem of human aging and the idea that it can be combated. His preliminary formulas were developed with the assistance of Mara Cretana and have to do with a controlled environment wherein the body is allowed to examine various attempts on itself and adapt forthwith. More advanced research has been done on disease, accelerated healing, mental conditions and the extension of human life in general. The Doctor believes that once humans can stave off the enemy of a short lifespan that they will be able to look towards greater knowledge and wisdom as opposed to constant war for control.
Considered the highest authority on anything genetic, Fate's knowledge of living tissue is next to none as he can contrive cures for any form of ailment to the body. He has also come into contact with aliens and lifeforms that were not carbon based while still demonstrating enough knowledge to patch them up or bring them to their knees through natural weakness. His expertise is so refined in medicine that he can recognize features different from that of a typical human without an exhibition, judging physical strength and speed from mere muscle tone and body structure. If the man gets a piece of DNA rest assured he will know everything from your grandparent's diet to what the extent of your powers encompass.
Microfiber Technology
The name is just as it suggests, an advanced form of technology that is carried out in a fiber format. Unlike nanotechnology this is much, much smaller. Modeled after the refinement and efficiency of what he was able to learn through his medical expertise. While there have been advancements over the years to make technology smaller Doctor Fate has been doing it for a long time.
This technology can fit rooms worth of the world's finest computers and systems and reduces them down beyond the size of a DNA strand. Computers and machinery that operate on this are incredibly fast, redundant to avoid overloads and infestation. Every aspect of a microfiber is built to mimic the ideas behind organic genetics which give it the ability to adapt, repair itself through a liquid fusion format and store immense amounts of energy. In comparison to a nanite the quality of storage and application is over a thousand times greater. The unique form of fibers and their size are created through deep space compression through the use of artificial and natural gravity without the interference of wayward molecules or photons. Because they are created through advanced compression technology they are also highly durable with a single strand able to suspend over a hundred pounds of weight. Due to their shape, durability and functions these strands can be woven into technology that already exists, implemented into even the smallest of machines or woven into clothing as is Doctor Fate's custom use for them.
Each Microfiber powers itself and comes custom built with a failsafe that will shut the entire program down and allow nearby fibers to reboot it once they have analyzed the fiber with a smart AI and deduced that it is not a threat to reactivate, other orders within the AI may exist.
Molecular Control
The Quark has long been thought to be the smallest form of matter that is observable, rather that is what recent science suggests with the research done on observing Hadrons to learn about the six known Quarks. However, Doctor Fate has looked into the substance that composes these entities in order to learn more about them and how they effect the world at large. Being the most recent topic of his research he keeps most research on the topic to himself. The interior of a quark is best described with two metaphors the first being a lighted match for visualization and the second being the consistency of water.
A Quark consists of three colors as it were, just like a normal match exhibits from the bottom up: Blue, Yellow and Red. The yellow is the outside of a Quark and composes the shell, it is the most similar to the world's common notion of 'matter' when observed in passing. Blue and Red are two different forms of matter within the quark that seem to be in a state that is halfway between energy and matter; Red embodies the idea of force or action while Blue embodies the idea of resistance or reaction. The Red and Blue are on the inside of the quark in varying amounts depending on the state of energy or matter while the yellow is the tense barrier on the outside similar to the surface of a lake.
- These colors are referred to as Cretena Red, Blue and Yellow respectively.
Cretenas are hard to understand for even genius level intellects so when explaining them Doctor Fate sticks mostly to metaphor as they are a subject that ties quantum physics into knots. The major things to know is that Red is the only part of the Quark that holds any mass, things like Photons (light particles which have no known mass) have very little Red Cretena inside of them and have a very hard time transferring momentum without specific circumstances. Red Cretena actually are the part of the Quark that creates mass or weight and as such they are found in only small amounts when phenomena such as lightning, pure energy or spiritual essences are concerned.
Blue is just the opposite as it is a substance without mass that would be found to completely fill something like a Photon and be found abundantly in a ghost that is not choosing to interact with the physical world. To throw a complete wrench in the works the two colors of Cretena, Red and Blue are similar to a liquid inside of a balloon of Yellow. The two Cretena interchangeably switch from one to the other depending on what is happening to the Quark, providing the means to answer the question of why matter and energy is constant. The inside of a Quark, the Red and Blue, constantly strain the Yellow on the outside and seek to absorb it into itself. However, as long as there is even a fraction of Red or Blue the Quark is stable and the Yellow will remain solid like the surface of still water being pulled taunt. If a case occurs where the Red or Blue matter is completely gone then the yellow will be absorbed into the remaining color and the Cretena will diffuse as loose Red or Blue material until it finds another Quark to be absorbed into. This will cause an expansion and swelling of the Quark until the Yellow is stretched far enough to warrant a split into two perfectly new Quarks, hence the preservation of matter and energy
- Yellow Cretena is semi-permeable and will allow Red or Blue to enter but not to escape, though it will allow Yellow to escape. It is assumed that the ammount of yellow in the universe is set and only disappears for a short time before a mitosis esque event allows it to stretch and encase more red and blue. The stable support of Yellow no matter how many times it has been stretched goes to support the idea that Yellow is actually a side effect of red and blue being in close contact with eachother and only serves to dissapate when Red or Blue has been fully changed into the other.
Let it suffice to say that Molecule research is complicated. Though with his breakthroughs Doctor Fate has discovered a powerful piece of knowledge that he has dubbed the Matter Equation.
Anti-Magic Technology
The last specialty of Doctor Fate is technology that revolves around thwarting magic and reality warping. Due to the events of his life he harbors a strong distaste for magic and how many of its' effects alter natural laws in an attempt to assert superiority. He has shown himself to be more than capable of designing machines that not only can contend with the arcane but completely cancel it out.
Due to his research in Molecular control he has been able to make great advances in this field and even make his laboratories a place that could only be deemed as Anti-Magic. He has done research into the specific powers that cause magic and reality warping to work, tracing them back to science involving the human will and the degree of power that it has. He has summarized that most magic is based on the individual will or authority that the caster is willing to assert while contracts and witchcraft call upon a being with higher power or authority over the natural world. Even still his research has led him to believe that there may be beings of authority over molecular structures and energies that surpass the level of power attributed to most 'gods'. These beings of unknown potential and power he dubs 'Abstract' being as they would house a great deal of authority but likely only over a given thing as demonstrated by how all of nature, even molecular structures have a specific purpose that is for them alone.
Harnessing the power of natural laws and technology with his own prowess he has been able to combat wielders of magic by asserting the theory of technology or natural powers to be superior as they are not only larger but seem to be a product of a will set in place by a much larger force. Doctor Fate does not have a problem with the idea of God just those that claim themselves to be him.
- Doctor Fate has knowledge of Abstract beings but does not currently know them beyond theory.
Powers
- Beyond Super Genius intellect as shown via his specialites.
- Lightspeed Reactions due to the speed of his brain.
- Immense thinking speed on par with Divine beings.
- Intricate knowledge of living tissues and their weaknesses.
- Technology creation to thwart magic and reality warpers.
- Mental resistance on par with a powerful psychic.
- Comprehension of how other powers and machines work through only viewing them briefly.
- Matter Equation which appears to be a fundamental law of existence and allows him to handle energy as a physical substance in addition to granting simple manipulation of Cretena through use of his willpower and machinery though he summarizes that there is a second half to discover that he dubs the unknown Energy Equation which will fully explain the transition between energy, matter and willpower.
- Hand to hand abilities from his knowledge of living tissue that make him a dangerous opponent in any kind of a fight, also due to medical knowledge he can read physical cues from an opponent's body that betray them before they act.
- Touch of Fate is a specific grab that Doctor Fate uses with his thumb and two fingers on the shoulder of a target or their neck depending on physiology to render them unconscious. High level psychics and those with physiology beyond his own can fight it though with extreme pain that normally brings the subject to their knees. If this touch is held the target will eventually loose consciousness regardless of their strength, physical or mental.
- Infinity Knee is a unique attack that utilizes the Blue Cretena suit to transfer an immense amount of speed and energy into any physical strike with a trail of pure, Blue Cretena trailing from the stricken opponent. The attack can be scaled up to an unknown amount and is often seen to rupture a target completely.
- Red Matter is control over the specific Red Cretena through use of the Matter Equation that involves the use of the Yellow Cretena gloves. Red Matter is what he dubs the excessive gathering of Red Cretena into one place as it immediately expands to seek to stabilize itself into new quarks. Excessive compressing and use of Red Matter can be used to make enourmous explosions or strikes that could reach unknown potentials.
Physiology
Though originally a super genius of a human Doctor Fate has augmented his body through the use of a super serum originally crafted by himself and Mara Cretena. The formula has been renovated a few times since initial conception but still retains the same ideals. His body has created a sort of over redundancy that grants him resistances and parameters that most humans will never attain in addition to the fact that his body does not appear to age.
- Immunity to toxins and poisons.
- Microscopic visions that allows him to see down to the level of molecules when he focuses on an object.
- Telepathic resistance due to his brain redundancy.
- Compressed bone and muscle tissue that seem to house over a hundred bones and fibers where only one would normally be, each individual bone or muscle fiber retains the strength of a normal sized one. This grants him enhanced durability and allows for great feats of strength and speed.
- Movement speed of mach 20 without technology assistance.
- Strength rating of fifty tons without technology assistance.
- Low Level regeneration that allows him to mend a bone within an hour naturally.
- Ability to ignore pain completely through use of his powerful mind.
Equipment
Fated Helm: The helmet that the doctor wears is said to be constructed completely of microfibers, woven and interlaced until they have made a solid material. The durability rating of the helmet makes it so that it could survive even the impact of a nuclear missile.
It grants him advanced shielding from psychics and mind readers as they would be sent through the trillions of pathways of microfiber networks that are linked to his mind. The helmet also gives him an advanced HUD that amplifies his microscopic sight and allows him full access to his database so that he can log information automatically and retrieve it if necessary. The helmet also has the ability to completely protect his eyes at all times and vibrates energy back and forth at such a high-speed that his eyes are always shown as white lights. The vibration has been shown to shred a titanium sword that was stabbed into it.
The computer inside of his helmet is advanced enough to give him complete information on anything that it views, even foreign substances with a lightspeed analysis. If someone were to fight him for too long the computer would begin making suggestions on the psychological tendencies and tactics of the target.
Blue Cretena Suit:
The suit that Doctor Fate wears has many uses to include information gathering and physical enhancement but a few things stand out as the primary function. The suit is woven completely out of Microfibers and is insanely durable in addition to the fact that it gathers information on whatever it touches akin to a spaceship scanning an object.
If desired Fate can have his suit examine an entire area while he is in it for storage and analysis at a later date. The main function of the suit is a defensive step up from the one that he created on the aircraft carrier as it is immune to magic and highly resistant to reality warping. Anything that comes into contact with the suit will interact with a layer of controlled Blue Cretena that allows the energy to transfer through the fabric, using the path of least resistance, to flow around his body and leave him unharmed. Essentially as much Blue Cretena that the suit can handle manipulating at a given time is how much force he can sustain from any outside obstacle, physical or energy. It should be noted that phasers or ghosts that come into contact with his suit interact with it as if they were light touching a mirror, they simply are reflect off.
Yellow Cretena Gloves and Boots:
The gloves and boots of Doctor Fate are engineered to abuse the properties of Yellow Cretena and augment his ability to touch energy as if it were a physical object. In addition it feeds off his Blue Cretena suit and grants the gloves nigh indestructibility as well as resistance to reality warping.
He has also been seen to repulse objects in a manner similar to a psychic by extending a pulse of Yellow Cretena out though large bursts of it seem to drain the power supply of his suit more quickly than his other abilities. However, it should be noted that these pulses have the ability to interact with ethereal or otherwise untouchable beings.
Inventions
M.A.R.A (My, Automated, Rectifying, Agent):
A computer system and database with an automated guardian that possesses near human interaction ability. The job of the AI is to guard and run all of the inventions of Doctor Fate with extreme prejudice against anyone that attempts to pose their ill will on the research or the Doctor himself. She runs all of the HUDs and programs that deal with Microfibers directly and exists and an entity that is immune to magic and reality warping, the pinnacle of the Doctor's anti-magic technology as he wanted a partner that could never be effected by the enemy of science again.
MARA has come into contact with alien entities before and proven time and again that her systems are redundant and complex enough to not only lock out intruders but destroy their attempts to control her or hack her. As a being composed not only of impossible programming and Doctor Fate's hatred towards the arcane she establishes a constant field around the home base of Fate that annihilates the usage of magic as it pertains to data retrieval from her stores.
Human Potential Serum
The original formula that Dr. Fate and Dr. Cretena developed has actually not changed much since its' creation. It uses a natural gene sequence that rejuvenates the body on a cellular level and allows it to reach superhuman potential. What actually occurs is the body learning to manage its' energy and adaptation qualities on a much higher level.
Immediate injection is enough to save the life of an individual that has been declared dead for an hour by modern medicine and fully rejuvenate their body, naturally. Subjects injected with the serum will gain strength slowly and maximize their potential faster or slower depending upon the hardships they subject their body to. Even a small amount of hardship will cause adaption in the body equal to a year of training whereas constant exposure to threats and injury will produce a super human without limit. In truth once a person has been injected their potential will never stop growing but it will slow when they reach a hundred times the factor of a normal human.
Alexander has never added to the formula due to the respect he held for his deceased partner.
Timeline
Teams
Notes
- As inventions are made they will be added to this profile.
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