History

Born September 29th, 1976 to Rosalind Anne Mathias and Barnabas Mathis in Liverpool, England. At a young age he showed signs of ███████████████████ █████████████. Under the guidance of ████████ he was taught to play chess and ████████ with promising skill. He also was taught piano, cello, and ████████ by ████████. The ████████████████ and the ████████████████ kept their eyes on him as a potential prodigy to bring into their folds.

In adolescence and his teenage years he continued to show heightened intellectual capacity and ████████████████████████ leading to ████████████████████████. Even with eyes on him John found time to be the teen, to some point. He developed a love for (British) Punk Rock music and would sneak out to the clubs when he could. Despite having a slight bit of rebellion in him his parents kept him under tight-fisted discipline. Graduating with Summa Cum Laude, he moved on to attend Oxford, then Yale. His studies focused on law, where he graduated with Summa Cum Laude from both. At the same time he began the process of ████████████████████████ for ██████████████. He also was contacted by ███████████████████.

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With his father’s death John realized that ████████████████████ needed to be shut down. He vowed revenge on ██████████████████ and ███████████████████that had killed his father. Over time he ███████████████ ███████████████████████████ █████████████████████████████████ ████████████ and ███████████████████████████████████████████ ████████████████. With ████████████████ at his heels he hid is mother in plain sight. ██████████████████ ██████████████████████████████████████ █████████████████ ████████████████████████ █████████████████████████████ ██████████████████████████████████ ███████████████. These actions eventually lead him to Lorna Fox. He planned to ███████████████████ █████████████████████ in order to ████████████████, falling in love was never part of the plan, but ███████████████████████████████ and she won him over.

Powers, Skills, and Assets

Trained Hand-to-Hand Combat -

Impeccable Aim -

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Multilateral Thinker -

Well Connected -

Weaknesses

Lorna -

Over Confidence -

Bad Loser -

His Queen, His Mum, and His Pawns

His Queen

Lorna Fox

His Mum (DECEASED)

Rosalind Anne Mathias

His Pawns

Mantis

Enemies and Rivals

The Checkmate Society

Powers/Abilities: ███████████████████

Occupation: Various/Setting events into motion

Likes: Control, Power,

Hates: Having Events Outside of their control, John

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Threat Level:

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Eternals, Inc.

Powers/Abilities: Various

Occupation:Heroes

Likes: Fighting Crime, Seeing Justice Prevail

Hates: Seeing good people suffer, Bad Marketing

Info:

Threat Level:

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Global Defense Force

Powers/Abilities: Various

Occupation: Heroes

Likes: Truth, Justice, and the American Way (OH, and World Peace)

Hates: Evil Doers, Injustice, When Villains Get Away

Info:

Threat Level:

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Soundtrack

1. "Frankenstein's Monster (Magneto's theme)" - Henry Jackman

2. "The Royal We" - Silversun Pickups

3. "Welcome to My World" - Depeche Mode

4. "Brave New World" - Covenant

5. "London Calling" - The Clash

6. "Anarchy in the UK" - Sex Pistols

7. "You Know My Name" - Chris Cornell

8. "Tear You Apart" - She Wants Revenge

9. "I Spy" - Pulp

10. "Bitter End" - Placebo

11. "Paint It Black" - Rolling Stones

12. "White Shadows" - Coldplay

13. "All Mine" - Portishead

14. "Code Name Vivaldi" - The Piano Guys

15. "Wolf Suite Pt.1" - Danny Elfman

16. "in The Hall Of The Mountain King" - Grieg

17. "Violin Concerto, 2nd Movement" - Phillip Glass

Bonus Track: "One Night in Bangkok" - Murry Head

Tropes

Appearance

Brainy Brunette -

Icy Blue Eyes -

Sharp Dressed Man, Badass In A Nice Suit, Evil Is Sexy -

Personality

Manipulative Bastard -

The Charmer -

Lack of Empathy, No Sympathy -

Morality and Philosophy

Leave No Witnesses -

Black Gray Morality, A Lighter Shade Of Black -

Necessarily Evil -

Combat and Skills

The Chessmaster, The Spymaster -

Sherlock Scan -

One Many Army, Jack of all Trades -

Quirks

Smart People Play Chess -

British Accent, Smart People Speak The Queens English -

Blood Lust -

Background and Events

Mysterious Past -

Ivy League For Everyone -

Secret Intelligence Service -

Nebulous Evil Organization -

Character and Motivations

You Killed My Father,The Chain Of Harm, Pay Evil Unto Evil -

Balance Between Good and Evil, Order Versus Chaos -

Because I'm Good At It -

Relationships

Lorna Fox

Even Evil Has Loved Ones, Unholy Matrimony -

Love Epiphany, What Is This Thing You Call Love?, Love Is A Weakness -

Achilles Heel -

Possessions

Action Girlfriend, Hot Consort - Lorna.

Cool Boat, Big Fancy House - ██████████████ ██████████████ ██████████████ ██████████████ █████████████████████ ███████ ██████████████ █████████████████████ ███████ ██████████████ █████████████████████ ███████ █████████████████████ ███████ ██████████████

(Seemingly) Infinite Supplies, Money To Burn -

Profession

Double Reverse Quadruple Agent -

Professional Killer, Assassin Outclassin' -

Diabolical Mastermind -

RP Hooks

~ John tends to not really have many RP Hooks. There are people who have run into him and question his motives, but over all he tends to try to keep himself off the radar. He doesn't want to be connected to the deeds he has done. He is a shadow. A myth.

~ Attended both Oxford and Yale law.

Trivia

IC

~ The Checkmate Society refers to him as the Rogue Bishop because of the roll he was to fill in their ranks.

~ While he wasn't really raised to love his parents, he is forcefully loyal to them.

~ His middle name is Benedict.

~ He has many loves, but has never really loved another human being till he met Lorna.

~ HATES to lose.

~ He is a chess master. No one, no matter how skilled, has ever been able to beat him.

~~ The one Exception to this is Lorna. Somehow he just can't seem to win a game against her.

OOC

~ Inspired by: A Villain played in CoV.

~~ Checkmate Society inspired by Court of Owl mixed with Illuminati

~~ John is suppose to be a mash-up of Sherlock, Moriarty, Khan, and James Bond

~ Casting Choice: Benedict Cumberbatch

Comments

"I've never met anyone that I seemed to align with so well. No matter what subject I want to talk about, John can pick up and have a engaging conversation. In some ways he's been a dream come true. We seem to click. Our souls resonate in harmony and he makes me feel balanced. However, I have started to see some very dark aspects of him lately. In someways he terrifies me. We will see which note our romance ends on: Dream or Nightmare." ~ Lorna Fox

Gallery

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  John Mathias and Lorna Fox by Sbel02

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  John Mathias and Lorna Fox (Caïssa as The White Queen) by VPdessin