Post by YolkaEd on Jul 14, 2012 22:48:28 GMT -5
Name(s):
Antonio Dorrance Diego
Nicknames:
Bane, The Man who Broke the Bat, King Snake Jr.
Age:
32
Species:
Human
Gender:
Male
Alignment:
Evil
Residence:
Gotham City
Occupation:
Criminal
Abilities:
Bane is highly intelligent, devious, a superb strategist and a stellar tactician. In prison, he taught himself various scientific disciplines equal to the level of understanding of leading experts in those fields; possessing knowledge six active languages and at least two additional arcane and dead ones (Spanish, English, Urdu, Persian, and Latin among them). He also has a photographic memory, and is highly deducive.
In prison, Bane also invented his own form of calisthenics, meditation, and a unique fighting style. Usage of the controversial Venom drug enhances his physical abilities, including his strength, and healing process to superhuman levels. He applies the drug via a series of tubes directly connected from his back to his mask and arms; usually just wearing this outfit due to his regular exposure to the formula.
Weaknesses:
Notably, his greatest asset, the Venom drug, is also his greatest weakness. Overexposure to this drug can cause vicious side-effects such as immense body expansion (forcing blood to circulate so thinly through his body that his brain and heart simultaneously shut off), while cutting the tubes as he's feeding on the drug will systematically decrease the dangerous potential he's being fed. In addition, with Venom quite literally being a drug, it has led to Bane craving it obsessively, much like someone suffering from withdrawal.
Personality:
Calm, cunning and calculative, Bane seems to be the perfect mirror image of the Dark Knight himself; clad in dark, replacing the cowl for a luchador mask, acting from the shadows and being a fierce force to be reckoned with. In a stunning contrast to his looks, he is eloquent and disgustingly polite, except when embroiled in the heat of combat, wherein he will turn vicious and hungry for blood; a trait fueled by the Venom drug he both desires and despises at the same time, as he's trying to stop using the drug, but in recent times finds himself relying on it more and more.
Likes:
Organized crime, battling, fighting the Batman
Dislikes:
The Venom addiction, being thought of as a mindless brute
Appearance:
Bio:
Bane's father, Edmund Dorrance, had been a revolutionary and had escaped Santa Prisca's court system. The corrupt government, however, decreed that his young son would serve out the man's life sentence, and thus Bane's childhood and early adult life were spent in the amoral penitentiary environment. Though imprisoned, his natural abilities allowed him to develop extraordinary skills within the prison's walls; reading as many books as he could get his hands on, building up his body in the prison's gym, and learned to fight in the merciless school of prison life. Despite his circumstances, he found teachers of various sorts during his incarceration, ranging from hardened convicts to an elderly Jesuit priest, under whose tutelage he apparently received a classical education. At the age of eight, he stabbed a criminal who wanted to use him to gain information about the prison; taking a life for the first time.
Bane ultimately established himself as the "king" of Peña Dura prison. The prison's controllers took note and eventually forced him to become a test subject for a mysterious drug known as Venom, an experimental drug derived from a certain serum, which had killed all other subjects. The Venom experiment nearly killed Bane at first, but he managed to survive, and found that the drug vastly increases his physical strength and abilities, at the cost of having to be injected quite regularily; at a 12 hour interval, if horrid side-effects were to be avoided. As such, he attained his iconic costume; meant to inject him with Venom at regular intervals.
Eventually, Bane escaped Peña Dura, and his ambitions turned to destroying the Batman, who he had heard stories about while an inmate. Aware that a direct assault on Batman would be tantamount to suicide, Bane personally crushed the walls of Arkham Asylum to let a horde of supervillains escape into Gotham City. Consequently, Batman was forced to recapture the escapees, which took a total of three months for him to finish. In this amount of time, Bane effectively came to the conclusion that Batman was, indeed, Bruce Wayne. After finishing the job of getting the inmates back to Arkham, Batman was then ambushed by Bane, who, taking advantage of the Dark Knight's fatigue, effectively decimating the vigilante with a conclusive attack that broke Batman's back; forever earning Bane the nickname of "The Man who Broke the Bat".
This meticulously well-thought out scheme instantly earned Bane a place among the criminal ranks of Gotham, where he strove to rise up in power after having humiliated the Batman in such a fashion. However, he still had to deal with Tim Drake, the third Robin after Dick Grayson became Nightwing and Jason Todd was murdered. In what should have been an easier fight than against Batman, Bane ended up underestimating the Bat's apprentice, and subsequently, his tubes feeding him Venom were disconnected and he suffered withdrawal; allowing Drake to bring him to Arkham's rehabilitation facilities. He managed to break free, but swore off useage of the Venom drug after the horrific experience of withdrawal and rehabilitation struck him; deciding to rise up in criminal ranks the fair way.
Antonio Dorrance Diego
Nicknames:
Bane, The Man who Broke the Bat, King Snake Jr.
Age:
32
Species:
Human
Gender:
Male
Alignment:
Evil
Residence:
Gotham City
Occupation:
Criminal
Abilities:
Bane is highly intelligent, devious, a superb strategist and a stellar tactician. In prison, he taught himself various scientific disciplines equal to the level of understanding of leading experts in those fields; possessing knowledge six active languages and at least two additional arcane and dead ones (Spanish, English, Urdu, Persian, and Latin among them). He also has a photographic memory, and is highly deducive.
In prison, Bane also invented his own form of calisthenics, meditation, and a unique fighting style. Usage of the controversial Venom drug enhances his physical abilities, including his strength, and healing process to superhuman levels. He applies the drug via a series of tubes directly connected from his back to his mask and arms; usually just wearing this outfit due to his regular exposure to the formula.
Weaknesses:
Notably, his greatest asset, the Venom drug, is also his greatest weakness. Overexposure to this drug can cause vicious side-effects such as immense body expansion (forcing blood to circulate so thinly through his body that his brain and heart simultaneously shut off), while cutting the tubes as he's feeding on the drug will systematically decrease the dangerous potential he's being fed. In addition, with Venom quite literally being a drug, it has led to Bane craving it obsessively, much like someone suffering from withdrawal.
Personality:
Calm, cunning and calculative, Bane seems to be the perfect mirror image of the Dark Knight himself; clad in dark, replacing the cowl for a luchador mask, acting from the shadows and being a fierce force to be reckoned with. In a stunning contrast to his looks, he is eloquent and disgustingly polite, except when embroiled in the heat of combat, wherein he will turn vicious and hungry for blood; a trait fueled by the Venom drug he both desires and despises at the same time, as he's trying to stop using the drug, but in recent times finds himself relying on it more and more.
Likes:
Organized crime, battling, fighting the Batman
Dislikes:
The Venom addiction, being thought of as a mindless brute
Appearance:
Bio:
Bane's father, Edmund Dorrance, had been a revolutionary and had escaped Santa Prisca's court system. The corrupt government, however, decreed that his young son would serve out the man's life sentence, and thus Bane's childhood and early adult life were spent in the amoral penitentiary environment. Though imprisoned, his natural abilities allowed him to develop extraordinary skills within the prison's walls; reading as many books as he could get his hands on, building up his body in the prison's gym, and learned to fight in the merciless school of prison life. Despite his circumstances, he found teachers of various sorts during his incarceration, ranging from hardened convicts to an elderly Jesuit priest, under whose tutelage he apparently received a classical education. At the age of eight, he stabbed a criminal who wanted to use him to gain information about the prison; taking a life for the first time.
Bane ultimately established himself as the "king" of Peña Dura prison. The prison's controllers took note and eventually forced him to become a test subject for a mysterious drug known as Venom, an experimental drug derived from a certain serum, which had killed all other subjects. The Venom experiment nearly killed Bane at first, but he managed to survive, and found that the drug vastly increases his physical strength and abilities, at the cost of having to be injected quite regularily; at a 12 hour interval, if horrid side-effects were to be avoided. As such, he attained his iconic costume; meant to inject him with Venom at regular intervals.
Eventually, Bane escaped Peña Dura, and his ambitions turned to destroying the Batman, who he had heard stories about while an inmate. Aware that a direct assault on Batman would be tantamount to suicide, Bane personally crushed the walls of Arkham Asylum to let a horde of supervillains escape into Gotham City. Consequently, Batman was forced to recapture the escapees, which took a total of three months for him to finish. In this amount of time, Bane effectively came to the conclusion that Batman was, indeed, Bruce Wayne. After finishing the job of getting the inmates back to Arkham, Batman was then ambushed by Bane, who, taking advantage of the Dark Knight's fatigue, effectively decimating the vigilante with a conclusive attack that broke Batman's back; forever earning Bane the nickname of "The Man who Broke the Bat".
This meticulously well-thought out scheme instantly earned Bane a place among the criminal ranks of Gotham, where he strove to rise up in power after having humiliated the Batman in such a fashion. However, he still had to deal with Tim Drake, the third Robin after Dick Grayson became Nightwing and Jason Todd was murdered. In what should have been an easier fight than against Batman, Bane ended up underestimating the Bat's apprentice, and subsequently, his tubes feeding him Venom were disconnected and he suffered withdrawal; allowing Drake to bring him to Arkham's rehabilitation facilities. He managed to break free, but swore off useage of the Venom drug after the horrific experience of withdrawal and rehabilitation struck him; deciding to rise up in criminal ranks the fair way.
