BIO
Here are some of the characters in the songs:
Bitterwind's World
Most villains compete to be the worst and different factions are often in a war with each other.
About The City, Villains and Groups:
Mainly it’s just called The City. It has some taller buildings, like a block in New York, for example.
Over the City lurks a hill with Thermal Labs, home to the mad scientist Richard Thermal.
There are mostly women, since I found it easier to tell a story from a woman’s perpective. A few characters are undecided whether they are good or bad. If nothing is said (by personal name, or using ‘him’) assume that the character is a woman, working as a Villain.
The names are in alphabetical order, except Ace, Bitterwind and Mayhem, which are three central characters – hence coming first.
Ace
Real name: Mia Winter Fire and ice powers combined.
“Would you like to be fried or frozen?”
Background: Ace can alter temperatures to a factor of eight. She is well aware of her powers, meaning she holds back a little. (Which means you only get destroyed once instead of twice!) Ace is one of five Magnifiers, where all of them can change certain energies. In Condria she let her powers loose combined with two more of the most powerful villains; Bitterwind and Mayhem.
Bitterwind
Real name: Carol Frost Central character, gave name to the band.
“Stand in my way and you’ll be blown.”
Background: What if Storm (X-men, Marvel) fought on the villain’s side instead?
That idea became the character Bitterwind.
Carol Frost is the unlikely child from female Superhero Windy Wendy and Supervillain Richard Thermal. She can summon storms, cold winds and lightning. Her own father injected Ironium in her – otherwise she hadn’t survived. Loyal and rough she defeats any would-be-hero coming. Later she warned both villains and heroes for the double-agent Violet, but none listened. After the destruction of Thermal Labs she tracked Violet to eastern Europe and got her revenge. Whenever she travels, the surrounding weather is rather unstable.
Mayhem
Real name: Miriam Rost Generator.
“If you won’t accept me, villains will hear… Mayhem’s song.”
Background: Inspiration to this character came from Charlie McGee in Stephen King’s book ‘Firestarter’.
Mayhem is another of the five Magnifiers. She can enhance electrons and chain reactions. Give her a little energy and it just grows. If most villains can be classed as “Victory Class”, Mayhem is in the “Really, Really Scary Class”.
For a while she was actually in X-Factor Academy (a hero training center). When they saw her (almost) infinite powers they got scared and asked her to stop. She got furious and decided to join Villains instead.
Blackout
Real name: Vendetta Williams Victim from an imploding reactor, vengeful, never stops.
Background: She volunteered to one of Thermal Labs’ programs to get rid of anxiety and panic attacks, but the experiment backfired (common at Thermal Labs). When she woke up she heard something very unpleasant. They said she was dead and would erase all her records as if she never existed. This drove her into a fury and she rose – seemingly from beyond her death.
A black hole sucked in the nearest things. And the power seemed to come directly from her.
Her fear transferred to the nine soldiers and she killed the entire military base. Well, one guy survived, (sergeant Gray) but six years later she found him, to press him on info about his superiors (so she could go kill them too!)
Blind Ninja
Real name: Rose Turner Blind, agile, super senses, extendable blind stick.
“You got a gun, you’re such a disgrace!”
Inspiration: Daredevil and Elle Driver (Kill Bill) fighting in the dark.
Background: Rose is blind, having extra-sensory powers of movement and heat. She applies for work at a villain group. They just laugh and say that none will hire a blind ninja, with ancient tricks. Well, she smashes the lights, meaning all of them are now in darkness. Then she beats up his rough men and leaves with a sarcastic remark.
Borderline
Real name: Helen Fury Psychiatrist going mad, discovers she has electrical powers.
“I turned into my patients, deadly and mad!”
Background: Helen Fury worked with the worst criminals to understand why you would kill a man. When a loner refuses to undergo therapy she kills him with an electrical blast. She has just committed a perfect crime, with no traces, not even his shoes are left. But that’s the problem. Filled with regrets she has no way to prove it. And what would her respectable colleagues think? Helen Fury has a lot to think about for the next minutes…!
Broken Link
Real name: Sandra Chief Saboteur, decoy, first encounter villain.
Background: She gets really pissed if you call her “scout”. Disturbs radios, buys her employers time – for example by blowing things up. Still she is considered the “good” villain, meaning she will never kill. But she’ll do anything to put your attention in her direction, at the right moment. Ignore her… and worse things will happen.
She also was caught in the exploding generator blast, together with Side Effects. When she recovered, she entered secret military radios and threatened them to tell who was a snitch on her. Or else… she was sure that Red Pepper would allow her to go all-in with her deadly toys.
Chain Reaction
Real name: Tina Nordberg Surviving victim from an imploding reactor, vengeful.
“60 seconds… then I have time to reverse the course!”
Background: Tina Nordberg has changed her job to a quiet night job at Thermal Labs. One day a warning signal goes off, telling all staff to evacuate within 60 seconds. But it was no 60 seconds. More like 40. The imploding reactor hit her in the back. Somehow she survived and swore vengeance on anyone working there.
Dark Metal
Real name: Sissy Charger Vengeful absorber, with a metal skin, later sinister prankster.
(Birth of Meltdown character)
Meltdown never tells what happened at the Ironium mines. This is the song about it:
Background: Her and Dean Anderson’s ways were crossed. Dean Anderson saw a chance to get rid of her and did so by pushing her into the boiling metal Ironium. But the metal enhances any powers and she could absorb.
The metal burnt into her skin into an impenetrable armor. Since she was considered dead, she realized that dead people can’t be trialed! In the night she pushed Dean Anderson into the metal and he died.
Dark Moon
(Song, not a character)
This song shows the assault on Thermal Labs from the heroes’ side. At the bar it sounded like a good idea, destroying Richard Thermal’s work. Here in the mist, it’s rather creepy when ten companions already have vanished. Now they are not sure if vampires exist, or if Bitterwind has back-up not spotted.
deception
Real name: Jenny Border Mind manipulator, messes with senses till you can’t tell what’s real or not.
Background: Jenny Border can manipulate minds and senses, creating fears and echoes that are never there. She finds your worst emotions and turns the volume to 11!
Demona
Putting the old demons back to where they belong!
She was refused to enter the Circle of Seven – the seat for the most powerful of demons. They thought her childish, still using tricks the old demons knew in their teens. As if she would show all her powers to a demon! Well she has polished the tiny things that the others have overlooked, over time eternal. That will spell the older ones doom!
Drain
Real name: Anna Conda Summoner, personal guardian of a secret “mistress”, cousin to Heavy Metal.
“You’re going down for Drain!”
Background: Drain and her cousin Heavy Metal are personal guards for a secret “mistress”. Drain is on the outside, controlling full battlefields with her mental powers. She can send doubts and fears, hurting demons, splitting teams in despair. Sometimes she lets you in, only to be facing her cousin’s traps and dead-ends.
OK, none of them will kill you, but you’ll be so exhausted and bruised, mentally and physically, that you would prefer to be killed instead.
Heavy Metal
Real name: Carla Trapper Machine and metal freak, likes sharp and deadly toys, cousin to Drain.
Background: Heavy Metal is the other part of a deadly duo, guarding her “mistress”. Her mistress doesn’t want any heroes to come disturbing, and Carla will stop you on the inside. Traps, dead-ends and with the ability to twist and shape metals, it will be like navigating an ever-changing maze, unless she gives you a blast of heavy metal in your ears…!
Ironium
Mystical dual-form metal that is rumored to enhance any power tenfold. It’s also said that it changes according to the victim in contact. The main storage is in Thermal Labs, USA. In Inertia a large load is transported through the town. It was supposed to be a secret, but both Heroes and Villains found out.
red Army (T.N.T)
Real name: Tanja Navratilova Tchechenko Russian Stormlady.
“You have me outnumbered, outgunned and I… have only me!”
Background: Remember all those one-man-armies, especially Rambo? This is the female version, but instead of hundreds she has millions to fight.
Tanja is a Russian Officer in the intelligence division, with secret super powers. She knows that Violet is in USA, with plans to steal Ironium and sell it to some suspicious land. This must not happen, or both West and East will suffer! Reluctantly she reveals her powers only to get the russian army after her! Neither heroes nor villains want to hear her warnings about Violet, until one finally believes her: Bitterwind.
Later she joined a group of vigilantes, called Infinity Inc., with her, Rash and Sticky as main operators.
Richard Thermal
Mad power creep and genetic scientist.
“Ah, perfection!”
Background: Inspiration was Telios in the MMO game Champions Online.
Richard is the classic mad scientist/ power creep. He deeply wants to be the worst villain in town, only to found himself beaten by two – women! He has plans for a genetic super army, using Ironium to enhance any existing powers. Most of his test subjects volunteered. Some didn’t! More often than not his crazy experiments go very, very wrong.
Thermal Labs
Something bad will happen as soon the name appears in our songs. Be it exploding reactors, experiments gone awry or heroes assaulting it. Home and workplace for Bitterwind. When the heroes destroys Thermal Labs, she seeks out the double-agent Violet for revenge. Red Army is a great assist in tracking Violet.
Turbine
Real name: Linda Locker City’s worst villain.
“I can be your yoga teacher, a bank guard or more.”
You won’t see her. Literally. She is a master of disguises, meaning she could be your neighbor, yoga teacher or someone else. And you wouldn’t have a clue. The point is that you never know.
Turbine is the one really running the City, no matter how high Richard Thermal thinks of himself. She can be a guard at the same bank she has ordered to be robbed. Only once did she appear in person, during the Inertia Mission.
Even then she used a double decoy, meaning all focus was on Broken Link at the moment she passed the customs. Being one of five (six) Magnifiers she uses her powers to blend into the crowd, to hide her extremely well.