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Story by: Seirozero

Script Written by: Joe Tic, Firman Asalam

Art by: Anton L Bandi

Translation by: Hfy Mai

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I asked my Cousin to render Him this his names Jack harden genetically modified Web swinging hero man ask me questions about him and all tell you

I accidentally made him look like Konshu. That’s supposed to be a plague doctor mask. His “suit” is supposed to be airy and light which allows him to move freely and shrink more easily. I’m thinking of doing a black and dark green main color scheme)

Epidemic, the Lord of Plague, AKA Dante Barbieri

Backstory

During the second world war, Italian leadership and high command was leagues better and more competent. Even then, it was defeated by the allies but it was much harder. When the Soviets liberated Yugoslavia, the Soviets helped it invade Fascist Italy from the north east while the Allie’s moved north. When the war ended, Italy was split much like Germany, the northern regions near the alps becoming a Soviet satellite and everything else becoming the Republic of Italy. Unlike Germany though, the Italian Peninsula was much more messy. There was many terrorist and separatist groups, and different factions rose. When the iron curtain and eastern bloc fell in 1991, the peninsula was in chaos. In Milan, Dante’s mother was pregnant with him and was with his dad and older siblings. A separatist group hit the town they were in with a biological weapon, killing and infecting everyone. When his mother gave birth to him in 1992, she was so weak she died right after. Dante’s surviving uninfected sibling raised him. Unrest in Italy never died down after that, and the Republic was fighting multiple factions. When he was 17, he was ambushed by terrorists and they pointed a gun at him. That’s when he discovered his powers. He mutated the strand of influenza he had and infected them with the stronger strand, making them dizzy and nauseas and shrank down to escape. After the encounter, he slowly discovered and mastered his skills and powers. As an unborn baby, the bioweapon mutated him giving his powers. He threw together cloaks and pieces of ragged cloth to create a suit covering his whole body and stole a Plague Doctor’s mask from a private collection and fitted it on himself. Now he is Epidemic, defender of the innocents of Italy and purger of evil, no matter what faction they are. Only his sibling know who he is. As Epidemic, he is a completely different person, feared by all.

POWERS:

Can shrink to the size of single celled organisms

Has the nature of a pathogen when shrinked. He can free float, cling to surfaces or a person, or even go inside someone. Anything a pathogen could do, he could do. The catch is that he must get back into the air to turn normal sized again

He has a “germ sense” allowing him to see all the pathogens and single celled organisms around him, and can even see the microbiome of someone. This allows him to remember specific people or places depending on what their microbes were like.

Microbes and pathogens (bacteria, viruses, mold and fungal spores/infections, protozoa, prions) around him are attracted to him and surround him like an infectious aura. He can absorb them (for example he could absorb tetanus bacteria onto his knuckles for “rusty knuckles”) and spread them to other people and surfaces around him (he can take malaria from mosquitos and spread it to someone himself)

Can mutate pathogens inside of him and close to him to cater to his needs. For example, he could take corrosive acid producing bacteria (Desulfovibrio) and mutate it to affect people or mutate bone growth bacteria (Lactobacillus Rhamnosus) to make his bones stronger. When he’s inside of someone he could even mess with their own microbiome

The parts of his body that help create cells for the immune system (bone marrow for example) are rewired so they double as pathogen manufacturer. When he bends a pathogen or mutates one, he could tell his immune system to start farming that strand in mass so he has more

Immune system is very strong so he’s not affected by harmful pathogens himself. He can weaken his immune system on command to allow mutated microbes to give him there effects if he wants

Weaknesses:

When I said he has the nature of a pathogen, that also applies to his weaknesses. Advanced anti viral measures and antibiotics weaken him, especially when he’s shrunken down

It take a few minutes for him to start farming strands in mass

My superhero I’ve been working on for 2 years now and I’m finally happy w his design!! (No ai)

Within my AtomicVerse, TinMan is legendary Old School AMERICAN Hero, beloved by everyone. He’s mostly in the background of the story, serving as an Iron Patriot type figure (He’s mostly based off of War Machine). Just wanted to share this piece of Concept Art.

Keisha summers was your average c student on her school’s gymnastics team until one day the god of death saw her do a backflip. The god of death thought that was super cool and gave her a hairpin that essentially gives her the powers of danny phantom and the ability to create an energy sythe and more powers whenever he feels like teaching her. She is immune to Her weakness are whatever weakness ghosts have silver certain magic spells she can bypass those weaknesses by unmorphing except if its something that would hurt a normal human. She is a slacker except in reaping because she genuinely loves reaping. death is basically Charlie sheen from two and a half men he is a pretty chill boss and communicates by talking to her through mirrors and rarely taking her to the underworld. Also she isn’t the only reaper basically reapers are chosen for high spirit areas to handle powerful wayward spirits who escape the afterlife. All around the world teens are chosen to be reapers and often have different weapons the london reaper has a yoyo weapon.most reapers choose to retire in their early to mid twenties mainly when responsibilities kick in. Retiring often means keeping your objects of power but death silences your notifications and you let the new reapers handle it. Only if a truly apocalyptic threat requires retiries to suit back up. Retires often practice in their free time just in case . If you choose not to retire and go full time you essentially sign up for the most dangerous of dangerous missions. If you live in this world you definitely met someone who is a retired reaper. Keisha chooses to not retire and becomes one of deaths top reapers.

Ask me anything about this there are a lot more reapers to draw I’m probably gonna change her costume color to purple instead of black and i might change her head shape idk.

I’ve always really loved his character design. The first one is him when he’s younger and the second one to him when he’s older.