The Nightbeast Family and Allies

Nemeses

Hideouts

The Beast('s) Lair

The Beast Lair, or simply called the Lair by Candi, is a cave-based hideout located beneath Carter Tower. The Lair is gigantic chasm that covers most of Millennium City and even has exists that lead to some of the city's outskirts. Franklin later repurposed these chasms into a special hideout for him to work out of when going on his adventures as the Nightbeast, There are many different entrances into the Lair and the main one is a hidden elevator in the Carter Mansion located behind a bookcase. In the Lair lies many things ranging from the high-tech computer to the weapons cache and a series of vehicles Nightbeast will tend to use to chase enemies by either sky, land, or sea. There also lies a river that leads out to the ocean surrounding most of Millennium City, though the exit is concealed using a bunch of leaves and vines and a steel blast door which can only be opened via motion sensors that reside from the inside.

The Dojo

The Dojo is more of a sanctuary/training ground made for Franklin. The Dojo is connected to a separate cave in the Lair. The Dojo lacks any computer equipment, except an interface with H.E.C.T.O.R and some training equipment back from Franklin's training days an a "ninja" so-to-speak. This Dojo is also where Franklin trains his younger son, Calvin (K-9), Samantha (XK-9), Michael (Badger) and the rest of the Nightbeast Family. Franklin is a very paranoid individual and thinks supernatural powers aren't enough to combat some of their worse opponents and they need to be prepared for the day when their powers are ever nullified or can not be used.

The Pound

The Pound is more of a hideout/super-prison built especially for Nightbeast, Warbeast, K-9, and XK-9. The Pound was made especially for people within the Nightbeast Family with regenerative healing factors and raw physical strength, it was created as a backup measure just in case one of the Family members succumbs to mind control or worse and Nightbeast can't stop them because of their healing factors. The Pound features a chamber of cells that are constantly emitting a chemical suited for nullifying healing factors and reducing the powers and or abilities of a person once their locked inside, Nightbeast also worked this chemical into a syringe which he carries on a daily basis. This was also made just in case Nightbeast ever loses his cool and needs to spend a night (or month) in the Pound to protect himself and the low-lifes out there he may kill.

The Sanctuary

The Sanctuary is a special high-tech, heavily defensed hideout made to house the Nightbeast Family in times of a crisis. The Sanctuary was primarily made in case of the secret identities of the Family were ever found out and they would be compromised. The Sanctuary is located in an undisclosed location and houses numerous items ranging from high-tech weaponry and swords to military-grade weapons and food and clothing as well as a wing that houses most of the cars Nightbeast has driven throughout the years as well as sky-based vehicles like planes and helicopters and even sky-cycles. The Sanctuary is never used unless its in case of a "Family" emergency and even though he can't get drunk, this is the one place Nightbeast a.k.a Franklin Carter puts his one bottle of Scotch and a shot glass in case of a stressful moment too much for even him to handle gets to him and just punching bad guys in the face isn't enough.

Powers and Abilities

• Superhuman Strength: Although the exact strength limit is unknown, Franklin can push his muscles beyond the natural limits of the human body without injury, granting him some degree of superhuman strength.

• Superhuman Speed: Nightbeast can move at low level speeds, pushing his leg muscles to limits not even the finest Olympic athletes could.

• Superhuman Agility: Nightbeast's agility, balance and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels far beyond the natural physical limits and capabilities of the finest human specimen.

• Superhuman Durability: Nightbeast has superhuman durability. Franklin's is incredibly dense, allowing him to survive brutal punches from Black Fang, Ripper, or Black Talon. His durability is also slightly enhanced when wearing the Bloodhound Armor.

• Superhuman Reflexes: Franklin's reflexes are similarly enhanced, they are also superior to those possessed by the finest human specimen and are equal to the likes of the current Black Mask.

• Superhuman Senses: Nightbeast possesses superhumanly acute senses that are comparable to those of certain animals. He can see at far greater distances, with perfect clarity, than an ordinary human. He retains this same level of clarity even in near total darkness. His hearing is enhanced in a similar manner, allowing him to detect sounds ordinary humans couldn't hear at a greater distances, enough to hear a teardrop in another room that have thick walls with enough focus. He is able to recognize people and objects by scent, even if they are well hidden. He can track a target by scent, even if the scent has been greatly eroded by time and weather factors, with an extraordinary degree of success.

• Fear Sense: Nightbeast can use his keen sense of smell to detect fear due to chemical changes within a person's scent.

• Disease Immunity: Franklin's highly efficient immune system, which is part of his accelerated healing factor, renders him immune against all known Earthly diseases and infections.

• Foreign Chemical Immunity: Franklin natural healing also affords him the virtual immunity to poisons and most drugs, except in massive doses. For example, it is extremely difficult for him to become intoxicated from alcohol. For this reason alone, Franklin is rarely ever seen drinking alcohol.

• Q-Metal Claws: Franklin has the mutant ability to grow his fingernails to resemble claws. Franklin's Bloodhound Armor uses Multifarian memory metal within the gloves and can break down basically all metals at the molecular level. The claws also have the ability to emit small energy blades from the tip as well as launch them as projectiles.

• Regenerative Healing Factor: Franklin's primary mutant power is an accelerated healing process that enables him to regenerate damaged or destroyed tissue with far greater efficiency than an ordinary human. He can regenerate greatly damaged or destroyed tissue with few seconds. Franklin's accelerated healing powers have been commonly referred to as his mutant healing factor. The full extent and speed of Franklin's healing factor isn't known. He has been shown to fully heal from numerous gunshot wounds, severe burns covering most of his body, and regenerate missing eyes within a matter of seconds. Among the more extreme depictions of his accelerated healing factor involves him having his skin, muscles, and internal organs incinerated from his skeleton only to fully regenerate the tissue within minutes.

Skills

• Genius-Level Intellect: Franklin is a polymath genius with a genius-level IQ and is probably the 6th smartest person in the world. He is said to possess an eidetic, or commonly known as "photographic" memory, although none can say for sure. He has been able to manage two companies with ease as well as break down super-materials like Viperium to learn its formula in order to re-craft his very own version of the metal.

• Martial Arts Master: Taking up an interest in self-defense as a better way of being prepared for a fight, being the commonly known rich boy in school. Franklin has trained with some of the best martial artists the world has to offer, its undetermined how many he plans to uses but he still seeks to become the best there is, as he fears losing his mutant gifts and becoming powerless. So far Franklin has learned Tae Kwon Do, Judo, Kung Fu, Boxing, Jujitsu, Ninjitsu, Muau Thai, Hapkido, and Hebjitsu, a martial art created by VIPER which Franklin happened to learn after a brief battle with Mechaniste caused him to somehow remember it, hinting that Franklin might also possess photographic reflexes. Franklin most likely plans to learn more in the following years.

• Business Management: Franklin Carter has extensive skills and experience in business management, has thorough understanding of financial marketing and management and is often known as a example of successful industrialist and businessman, he can run two businesses from the ground-up and have little trouble keeping up with recent events that unfold within one of the two of them.

• Skilled Swordsman: Franklin is also very proficient with a sword. He has beaten several skilled and expert swordsmen and women in a sword-fight. He can deflect an incoming bullet, arrow, knife, etc. with either a sword, staff, pole, anything that can qualify as a sword to Frank.

• Skilled Marksman: Franklin is an expert marksman. He is skilled with throwing projectile weapons, archery and firearms. He has been practicing such skills since the early days of his training and is capable of throwing almost anything in his hand into a weapon, this can range from knives, playing cards, toothpicks, lockpicks, keys, etc.

• Skilled Acrobat: Carter is proficient in gymnastics and acrobatics.

• Diplomatic Immunity: Carter Enterprises is a widely known organization and has companies across the globe, for this reason alone Franklin can travel anywhere he pleases without having government organizations like UNTIL stopping him.

• Multilingual: Before doing his whole traveling around the world montage during his teenage years, Franklin took multiple foreign language classes so he can better understand the people of where he went and their native langauge. Franklin has learned Spanish, French, Latin, German, Japanese, English, Russian, Mandarin, Greek, Portuguese, Arabic and can speak them very fluently.

• Master Inventor: Franklin can invent various devices with special properties when needed. He possesses engineering abilities and intellect that makes him a peer and has proven to be able to invent and create weaponry that rivals their engineering capabilities. Franklin can also duplicate practically any other technologies after learning how they work or by glancing at the designs.

Equipment

• Bloodhound Armor: As Nightbeast, Franklin wears the Bloodhound Armor, the armor was made specifically for if Franklin lost his powers he could survive almost anything til he gets to safety. The Armor is composed of bulletproof padding that can even withstand laser rifle blasts. The suit is even environmentally-sealed using Dragonite, a flexible alloy which can withstand extreme temperatures, an item of unspecified origin. Finally the suit is fire and electric proof. The mask is composed in small part by lead, which shields Nightbeast's face from identification via x-rays. It has also an infrared viewer and auditory sensors. The mask is outfitted with security systems (aggravating gas, electric blasts, etc.) like the utility belt. The mask is also a transmitter-receiver. Although possessing a healing factor that can heal wounds in a matter of seconds the armor is like Franklin's "second skin" and keeps him alive if he ever lost his regenerative healing factor. The Bloodhound Armor also keeps in-touch with H.E.C.T.O.R and monitors Franklin's vitals, constantly giving him updates on whats wrong with him if he sustains a serious injury during most fights.

• Viperium Daggers: Viperium is an experimental light-weight super-metal created by VIPER for their body armor. Franklin managed to manufacture his own version of Viperium and incorporate it into the form of daggers he can use to cut through almost anything.

• Questionite Bindings: Handcuffs made basically for containing and metahumans. Sometimes used on super-powered or normal everyday thugs and gangsters.

• The Dog Whistle: This tiny microchip resides in the mouth piece of Nightbeast's mask. This was made by the redesigning of UNTIL's U-ELC Screech Owl Pistol and taking the special sonic sound chip and incorporating it into his mask. It is activated by reading the brain's neuro-electric pulse. Upon activation the chip pierces the eardrums of enemies within a 50 foot radius.

• Holographic Decoy: This is compact disk that hides within Nightbeast's belt. Upon dropping against the ground the disk creates a convincing, realistic decoy of Nightbeast, confusing enemies and soon with the press of buttton the decoy can be armed to explode, knocking anyone within it's blast radius unconscious.

Armors

Every hero must prepare for an upcoming battle someway, somehow. Thats where Franklin's advanced IQ comes in! Franklin has been studying the superhumans of Millennium City and figures that its about time he take his crime-fighting career to the next level by building Power Armor, inspired by Harmon Labs breakthrough Holo-Hex Mark IV Power Armor as well as Warlord's he took that maybe he should build power armors of his own meant for very specific superhumans or locations, below is the following armors created so far.

Costumes

Weaknesses

• Attempted Spinal/or Brain Damage: Franklin stated that if any damage done to his brain or even his spinal cord could cause problems for his healing factor. The fact alone that his brain plays a major part in his healing process, if it is ever damaged even slightly his healing factor can be slowed and as for his spinal cord if that is ever damaged it could mean a slower healing of the damaged nerve cells.

• Corrosive Acids: Due to how corrosive products can do constant damage, Franklin's healing factor will have a rough time healing from an injury that is consistently being eaten away at by the minute.

• Kelvarite Exposure: Franklin's powers and healing factor act awry when he's around Kelvarite, the radioactive energy Kelvarite gives off. Whenever around this strange item his healing factor can begin to become unstable and won't heal him as quickly.

• Magic: Magic seems to effect Franklin dearly, most likely due to that his powers are of mutant origin instead of the usual supernatural. For this reason alone, Franklin does his best to avoid magic at all costs.

• Pulson Particles: Ironically, the strange energy that Franklin's own company takes interest in, is actually one of his weaknesses. Pulson Particles have a chance to burn right through Franklin's skin.

• Vulnerable Senses/Sensory Overload: Franklin's only other "weakness" is the fact that his heightened senses can be taken advantage of. For instance, sonic weaponry can nearly kill him due to his heightened sense of hearing.

Comments and Opinions

Gallery

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  Binary Corp. a company known for its official superhero, Binary Man and its advancements in technology

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  Carter Tower in Downtown, Millennium City

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  The Beast Lair located right beneath Carter Enterprises

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  Franklin in his Nightbeast uniform

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  Franklin in the Doghouse without his mask

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  Franklin outside of his Nightbeast costume

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  Franklin in his Ninja/Ronin Garb during his training days

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  Harmon Industries, company known for its interests in Aerospace technology and snobby bachelor, James Harmon IV

RP Hooks

• Posters regarding Carter Technologies are often found posted all around the city.

• Nightbeast is frequently targeted by VIPER.

• Need armor and/or weapons? Carter Technologies is known for its infamous metal, Flexium that is frequently incorporated into many power and body armor types.

• Franklin Carter is often seen on TV, supporting mutants and mutantkind.

• Newspapers regarding Nightbeast's harsh and brutal actions are regularly seen in newspaper vendor machines and more.

• Only and ONLY Franklin knows the formula to Flexium and is publicly known for what it can do and for that, he doesn't regularly let other lab corporations have the formula.

• Nightbeast has a widespread reputation throughout mainly Westside and Millennium City's City Center.

Trivia

• Franklin owns a separate company outside of Carter Technologies thats devoted to shutting down anti-mutant organizations like IHA.

• Franklin is a patronizing womanizer with a cocky and overconfident attitude. He does this to further throw people off from making the assumption that hes the Feral Nightbeast.

• Carter Technologies has enough heavy machinery to refine 4 caves of Questionite Ore.

• Franklin enjoys chewy chocolate chip cookies. He says he likes how it almost feels like its melting in his mouth.

• Assumptions have been made that Franklin could be a mutant due to how hes one of the few billionaires that supports mutants.

• Enjoys calling James Harmon "Chisel Chin".

• Absolutely loves tacos.

• Once had to wear braces during most of 10th grade year.

• Loves watching Nancy Grace on the HLN channel.

• Despises being called "Frank".

• The CreepyPasta story on Jeff the Killer actually creeps Franklin out, let alone the horrifying look of the character gave him nightmares for a whole week.

• Franklin is the creator of a special metal called, Flexium. A malleable metal that can be applied to power armor, body armor, or any spandex costume and offer the same levels of protection as Kendrium.

• Character aspects of Nightbeast include Batman, Black Panther, Green Arrow, Iron Man, and Wolverine.

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Transhumans: Arachnae • Arachnicide • Blue Patriot • Bugg • Data • Gargoyle • Red-Arachnid (Brian Smith) • Strange Thing • The Bullet • Velocitus
Imperfects: Galestorm • Magyik • Mindscape • Nightbeast • Omegan
NPCs: Halloween • Red Soviet
Places and Things: DothCorp • Hyper-Force
Stories: Bugg: Chapter One