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OOC Information
Player Name: Bluepard
Player Age: --
Player Contact: bluepard on DW, bluepard on plurk
Player/Character HMD: Here.
Other characters in game: N/A

IC Information
Character Name: Lyrl Dox
Character Canon: DC Comics (OU)
Character Age/Gender: 16 and male
Canon Point: Post final issue of REBELS.
Character Canon History: Lyrl is the grandson of the super-genius Superman villain, Brainiac. Lyrl's father had no intention of passing on his genes and their potential, and Lyrl's mother had been raised to believe that she was inherently sinful and had passed that onto Lyrl at birth. Neither of them wanted to be parents or were any good at it.

Lyrl's father, Vril Dox, ran a mercenary group called LEGION. Lyrl's mother, Stealth, worked for him. Due to Vril's enemies Lyrl was kidnapped and his life threatened within months of his birth. Vril showed some concern at the time, but he soon realized his infant son, not even one year old, was a genius who was already speaking multiple languages. He immediately began to use Lyrl to collect information and to run his company.

With the directness of an infant, Lyrl decided things would work better if he mind-controlled all the worlds under their protection (about 80 planets). His parents ended up fighting him and their own organization. Eventually they succeeded in beating Lyrl, and Vril chemically lobotomized him and told the galaxy he was dead.

For a short time Vril and Stealth raised Lyrl together on a deserted jungle planet, but eventually Vril left them to return to LEGION, replacing his employees with robots. Later, by the time Lyrl was a teenager, Vril was confronted by a mind-controlling invader named Starro. Starro sought to conquer the universe and wished Vril to join him. Vril declined and fought back instead.

Starro planned to kidnap Lyrl as bait, so he took control of Vril's own robots and sent them after Lyrl. His mother died protecting him, after which Vril managed to find him on the run. The reunion wasn't happy. Lyrl saw Vril as abandoning him, at first thought Vril had killed his mother, found out that his father had lobotomized him, and that Vril had only come for him so that Starro couldn't use him as a weapon. Angry and filled with grief, Lyrl ran away and was caught by Starro.

While researching him Starro realized that Lyrl had actually been more intelligent than his father before his intellect was suppressed, so he restored Lyrl's intelligence and forced limited mind control on him. Lyrl began calling himself Brainiac 3 and quickly unraveled his father's defenses in revenge.

The fight was interrupted by the rise of the Black Lanterns, a zombie invasion force seeking to kill both sides. Finding that Starro couldn't kill the zombies, Lyrl sought out his father through a portal to help him save his master, apparently oblivious to the fact that his father was on the opposing side. He and Vril worked together well briefly before Lyrl was assaulted by the corpse of his own mother, now possessed and transformed into a Black Lantern zombie. Lyrl quickly overcame his shock and fear at this, growing cold and repeating that he was Brainiac 3 now. Vril, despite showing fear for his son, grew angry that Lyrl was siding with Starro and threw Stealth's corpse and Lyrl back through the portal. Lyrl did his best to fight the Black Lanterns, and he eventually shunted the zombies through a portal and into a black hole. Starro was furious at this, making Lyrl realize that what Starro really wanted was to die fighting.

Lyrl's subservience to his new "master", previously seeming absolute, was overcome by logic. Despite the mind-control influence on him, Lyrl decided it a waste of his genius to serve someone seeking their own death. He used his position as coordinator of Starro's forces to find weaknesses and possible traitors and to arrange it so that Starro's forces would be preoccupied. He then confronted his father to tell him that he planned to deliver Starro into his hands through a portal, and he broke Vril's arm to keep him out of the fight, saying he wanted him alive. After that he left Starro to be defeated by his father's plan.

Lyrl decided that he needed some sort of education and that the way to get it would be to attack his home planet, Colu, and steal the knowledge straight out of his captive grandfather's skull. For this purpose Lyrl destroyed a star to turn it into weapon/A.I. that he declared to be his son, Pulsar Stargrave. Stargrave immediately tried to kill him (which Lyrl called "cute") but could not due to the way Lyrl had programmed him. Lyrl insisted Stargrave know the family history so that attacking Colu would be fun for him.

He and Stargrave demanded total control of Colu, but they accidentally awoke Brainiac from his induced coma during their attack. Brainiac was freed and took over Colu's core computers and the planet, intending to destroy his descendants. Vril entreated Lyrl to join forces against him, and Lyrl agreed.

Lyrl attempted to use Stargrave to destroy Colu's core computers while Vril teleported away, but Brainiac trapped Stargrave and hacked into him, causing Lyrl to lose control of him and leaving Lyrl defenseless. Vril returned with backup to find Lyrl pointing a gun at him and accusing him of abandoning him again. Vril talked him down, and they tried to trick Brainiac so they could hack back into Colu's computers. Brainiac caught them and hacked back into their brains, draining their minds like Lyrl had planned to drain his and putting the both of them into comas. But he was defeated by an exposed element of Vril's psyche he didn't expect: his daddy issues. Shaken by emotion, Brainiac retreated with his spoils and left the two of them alive. In return for working for him, Vril told the press that Lyrl's attack on Colu was part of a ruse against Brainiac and that Lyrl held no responsibility.

During the time Lyrl worked for Vril their relationship was hostile yet familial. Lyrl bristled at being used, but he was immediately compliant and helpful. Starro escaped and attacked them again. Lyrl helped by killing a member of the team, Tribulus, and bringing him back to life with stronger and more specifically-tailored powers. Tribulus then joined Lyrl's father in defeating Starro, leaving Lyrl free to teleport away from the mess once Starro was defeated.

Lyrl was last seen waxing philosophically on the ideas of good and evil, and stating that he is above both.

Character Personality: Lyrl has had only one real relationship in his life, with his mother who raised him alone and in hiding. She recently died, and Lyrl to some extent blames himself for this because she died to protect him. Lyrl has almost no experience dealing with people, and he feels the real closeness he had with his mother is impossible for him to have with anyone else given who and what he is. Before he was born people were already saying he'd be a monster, and now he knows there is no doubt in anyone's minds that they were right.

Lyrl is so lacking in decent relationships that he is willing to put up with some level of use and abuse from others such as in his relationship with his father. He tends to handle his interactions as transactions, looking for what he can get out of it and what the other person is trying to get from him. This doesn't mean there isn't an emotional component, but Lyrl's logical mind is always keeping tallies.

Lyrl can often be neutral or even polite, usually reflexively treating others the way they treat him. He generally sees no point in acting with aggression towards people who aren't in his way, and he does want better relationships in his life. He desires relationships to the point where he even built himself a son (which was also a deadly weapon programmed to be unable to kill him, of course, because that's both useful and safe). But despite these wishes Lyrl is a dangerous person to know. He is arrogant and considers himself above good and evil, and has no problem with killing the innocent. He may be calm one moment and volatile the next.

Although a super-genius, Lyrl has had little education or experience. He's unused to being as smart as he is, so he tends to use his intellect as a blunt hammer. He will seize the first solution he finds and force it rather than putting thought into his plans. Although he cares little about most subjects, he's very emotional when he does care and is prone to childish fits when he doesn't get his way. All of this can make him seem less intelligent than he is.

Lyrl has no interest in proving himself to be "good". He has seen his father twist the ideas of good and evil and of hero and villain to suit himself to the point where they have no meaning. Lyrl is tired of being defined by others and used by others, and he wants to go out and force the world to conform to him for a change. Having been left in the dark for so long, Lyrl is mainly concentrated on furthering his education and preparing himself for the next fight, whether it is one he makes or yet another that comes to him.
Character Abilities: He is a 12th level intellect, meaning he's intelligent, capable of many thoughts at once, and a very fast thinker. His mutant alien biology is unpredictable, but may increase his recovery from injuries. He has also taught himself grappling techniques and is fast and agile, along with other skills learned in the jungle (such as how to severe something's throat with your teeth).
Character Inventory: He carries a small, hand-held computer capable of medical and environmental scans.
Samples:

Thread.

Lyrl was unfortunately accustomed to being kidnapped, but usually his abductors were after his mind, not his body. He was feeling a bit insulted. If they had wanted Brainiac's super-geniuses genes, he would have understood. If they had wanted his mother's mutant alien biology, he would have understood. Really, Lyrl was a fine specimen for all sorts of research, one that only he and his father had tested. Yet if he had been scanned it was not deeply or in a way he was familiar with. Instead, he was told to touch someone. More than a little odd.

Perhaps it would make more sense if he didn't feel so shaken up. His scanner declared him to be fit and healthy so far as it could tell. The environmental scans gave him no cause for concern, but he had nonetheless been affected by something despite his unpredictable biology. Taking their silly hand-holding advice in order to stabilize himself was bad enough--having it actually work was troubling. What could possibly be the motives and the means for all this? Were they his old enemies, his father's enemies, his grandfather's enemies, or had he really stumbled into something new?

Perhaps when he had teleported away to freedom he had accidentally intersected with their experiment, and they weren't aware of who he was? It certainly seemed to make more sense to him than what he was being told.

Lyrl would just have to file that concern away for later. Whatever the reason behind his entrapment, he needed to understand this biological interference first. At least there was an abundant amount of data, even with just his hand-held scanner to collect it. He was sure he could acquire enough information to construct a pattern. And he would reward himself by stealing their tech on the way out.

He just needed to find himself that way out before his father found him. Until then, this might prove an acceptable waylay while he made his plans, scientific and otherwise.