Down With the Sickness ~ Challenge to Zetsumi

[Mac II]

Zetsumi, I am challenging you to a match, friend. You, being one of the strongest, will allow me to gain the much needed experience I need.

So, if you don't mind, accept my challenge ~ I will reveal the battlegrounds, rules (Though, they are no different from any other fight) and my template.

If you accept, expect my template posted within the next 48 hours - I've the SAT's tomorrow, followed by work, so I won't have much time to build my character.

So, what do you say? =)

Ah yes, we will need 3 judges. So, first come, first serve. ;D

[Antlion]

Lol, wut? Are you doing what I tried to do long ago and take down the pros?


Good look DJ. Juj lol

[Ragione]

I sense somehow I inspired you to make this thread. Well, I'll judge.

[Mac II]

Take down the pros? No, even though I do see Zetsumi as one of the better ones, I am trying to better myself.

And how better to do that, than to challenge these pros?

[KHFanatic4565]

Good luck MII. This is a good way to get better. I would judge if I could, but I lack opportunity to do so. I probably won't even know if you are victorious or dead.

[Infinite Nova]

JUDGE SPOT.

Lol, Mac. Have fun. Zets might hand your ass to you, or it could be vice versa.

We'll definatly have to see.

[Zetsumi]

Name: Zetsumi
Title: The God of Death
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Race: Necromantic Spirit

Appearance: Despite his constant use of corpses as host bodies, and the use of willing hosts themselves, Zetsumi always alters his host's appearance to match that of one of his former bodies, a man known as Lei Feng of the Invisible Fist. He always appears as this altered appearance unless he's newly infested a host.

He has long, silver hair, reaching to the small of his back, accentuated by glowing silver eyes. His skin is pale, and corpselike, and stretched thin over his skeleton.
Despite this, he is deciptivly strong, and his Monarch infestation allows him to alter his own body at will. Any organics altered by the Monarch will be a signature slate-grey rather then the pallid colour of Zetsumi's skin.

Battle Attire: Dark Matter, a matter with such a low electromagnetic quality so as to be almost immaterial. But...what if that quality could be altered?
Via Necromatic process, this can be achieved, and Umbra in it's base form is created. This can be further refined to create an actual metal, dubbed Umbrilliam, that is almost impervious to damage. Zetsumi wears an ornate suit of this armour, though without helmet or greaves. In essence, this makes his face one of the only weak points for melee attacks against him. Under this, he wears black, baggy clothes. Never one to reveal his true strengths until the vital moment, Zetsumi wears a long robe over his deadly armour, hiding himself inside it.

Formal Attire: For non-comabat occasions, the armour is unnecessary, though it can be summoned at a moment's notice. Thus, Zetsumi's formal attire is, in essence, his Battle attire without the armour.

Personality: Unlike his onetime friend and ally, Zetsumi knows exactally what he wants: Power. He will stop at nothing to grow stronger, attempting even to transgress his epyonomys 'Perfect' form. He's cruel, sadistic, and utterly emotionless in the endless dance of blood and bodies that is his path to power.

History:

Each of history's greatest monsters had a begining. Thus, not unlike them, the focus of Zetsumi's life is his life itself, not his origin. It is known that he was created from a collection of hatred and despair, and that at some point, he became a self-aware spirit. Eventually he began to posses hosts and use them to develop his power. Until this day, nobody has ever seen his true form.

After a countless number of hosts, he took one worthy of his possesion. His name was Theo, and, a gang-leader in Atheon City, he was one of the more influential members in the city. He also happened to be the victim of a thousand-year old curse that rendered him a monster hiding within the skin of a man. It's oddly ironic that it was within this monster that Zetsumi hid, for a time.

Eventally, Theo was defeated by his Nemesis, a skilled mage, and put into a coma. Unwilling to remain in such a broken and crippled body, Zetsumi took the next person to make contact with Theo: His closest friend and bodyguard, Lei.

Unexpectedly, Lei, who's pure heart was unlike that of any of Zetsumi's previous hosts, threw the Necromathic Spirit's exploits into contrast. Lei taught Zetsumi a great deal, including the name he henceforth took, which, in Lei's native tongue, means 'End of Life'. The ninja never ceased fighting against Zetsumi's control, and as a mark of his respect, Zetsumi took on Lei's image, in all future hosts.

After taking on this image, Zetsumi discarded the mask that had been his trademark for so long. Nothing can be attached to such a source of power without absorbing some of that power itself. The mask took on it's own form, known as 'Masquerade', and began a pretense that it was in fact, it's former master.

Around this same time, Zetsumi was the subject of a spell used to summon forth a doppelganger from the realm of mirrors. This was done by Theo's Nemesis, Chris, in order to kill what he thought to be the final legacy of his foe. Instead, Kagami was created, a being of ordered death rather then the chaotic that Zetsumi sought. It ordained it's summoner as it's first kill, and slaughtered Chris.

Freed by Theo's adoptive son, Vida, Zetsumi took the boy as an apprentice, sensing his potential. However, during one of his plots, Vida was awoken to his master's designs, and left him, taking on the name: Mitsukai. Thus Zetsumi lost his pro'tege.

In time, Zetsumi hunted down and absorbed Masquerade, dramatically increasing his own power. During this period, Kagami was killed by Valyon in such a paradoxical mannder that he was removed from space-time itself, and thus became omnipresent. Drawing his past representations into the present, he fused them into Zetsumi to complete him. Newly empowered, the Necromancer observed a virus sweeping the omniverse: The Butterfly Virus. Not unlike him, it took a host, and used it's corpse as a body, drawing nutrients from it's frame. In time, the virus became far more powerful, and in the end, a group including Zetsumi hunted down the Butterfly Queen specimens, to destroy the drive of the virus. However, before they could kill the final Queen, Zetsumi betrayed them, and sealed them off from himself and the Queen.

Allowing her to infect him, he entered a cocoon, and began to change. However, his cocoon was damaged by his onetime apprentice, Mitsukai, before his evolution was complete. Trapped in an imperfect form, he sought out the DNA he needed to complete his transformation.

In time, after absorbing the necessary human DNA, he completed his evolution, into, surprisingly, a humanoid-dominant form rather then the Butterfly form he envisioned. Capable of altering the whole Butterfly strain, he rechristened them as the Monarch virus.

Now, more powerful then ever, his lust for power still drives him to seek out further empowerment.

Weapon:

Zetsumi has access to several 'weapons', including the ability to form Umbra-based blades, and to use the Monarch to turn his own body into a weapon. In all, he tends to create whatever weapon he happens to need at the time.

Abilities:

Umbra
Dark Matter in a purified form, Zetsumi can create and control it. It can be used to deconstruct or reconstruct any object, from any one point to any other point, and thus is a valid from of teleportation. It also can be condensed into a physical form.

Monarch
The Virus inside Zetsumi grants him rapid regeneration, enhanced abilities, and the ability to alter his own body to any extent. He can duplicate the virus itself, along with the lower forms of it's evolution, and thus can create 'shells', organic constructs mindlessly loyal to him alone. As an added bonus, it is a living creature, and thus serves to protect him from Light, his former major weakness.

Necromancery
Magic based on the use or alteration of the dead, be it corpses, spirits, or the like. Zetsumi was borne of it, and is a master of it's intricies.

Home world: None

Theme song: Skillet - Invincible

Quote: “Never shall my path to power be broken. Each setback only serves to create an oppertunity. I am...Perfect.”