{"id":2367,"date":"2014-01-14T10:18:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T16:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/?p=2367"},"modified":"2014-01-14T10:18:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T16:18:40","slug":"better-angels-doomslaughter-of-the-villainous-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/2014\/01\/better-angels-doomslaughter-of-the-villainous-nine\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Angels: Doomslaughter of the Villainous Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Greg Stolze and illustrated by Kurt Komoda, \u00a9 2014<\/em><\/p>\n

Doomslaughter was one of the first people General Null<\/a> approached with a request for voluntary<\/i> joining with a demonic spiritual parasite.\u00a0 Dr. Glen Baker had a privileged upbringing, a doctor and the son of two doctors who went to Ivy League colleges. He had a lucrative urology practice in Boston for the better part of two decades before a vacation in Africa put him in contact with an old med school lab partner who was working in the Congo for Doctors Without Borders.\u00a0 Hearing about the conditions there awoke something in Glen, and he left his practice to his partners and threw himself headlong into philanthropy \u2014 to the point that his wife, who thought she had been more than patient, eventually filed for divorce and took his two kids. Then came Null, and Dr. Baker became Doomslaughter.<\/p>\n

\"Doomslaughter,<\/a><\/p>\n

With a demon installed, Glen was, at first, content to return to urology and concentrate on keeping his evil spirit completely corralled.\u00a0 That hope faded the first time his demon (who goes by \u201cAfak-Tuhy the Indelibly Maleficent\u201d) went full Flame-Wreathed during a routine prostatic stent installation, costing the patient his life and Dr. Baker his license to practice.\u00a0 (Witnesses were extremely disjointed about the episode, and it was eventually blamed on static discharge to an oxygen tank \u2014 an extremely unlikely accident but easier on the ear than \u201cthe devil made me blow him up.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Losing medicine made Glen a darker and angrier person. If he couldn\u2019t help the good, the weak and the innocent, he decided to harm the bad, the strong and the unjust.\u00a0 Doomslaughter\u2019s assaults on blood-diamond organizations are sold in the media as his attempt to consolidate that illegal trade, but really it was Dr. Baker trying to destroy it entirely.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the violence only fed Afak-Tuhy\u2019s indelible maleficence, and it was almost ready to drag Dr. Baker to the abyss.\u00a0 Learning what Afak-Tuhy had in store, Baker went sickhouse on a squad of police and superheroes and got himself killed before Afak-Tuhy could take over and chase down his children and the ex-wife he never stopped loving.<\/p>\n

Afak-Tuhy is incensed<\/i> that he got so close with Glen, only to have it all go pear-shaped on him.\u00a0 He\u2019s determined to do better (meaning \u2018worse\u2019) with Esther Minges, who is dubious about taking on the title \u2018Lady Doomslaughter.\u2019<\/p>\n

(The stats below work for either Glen Baker or Esther at the beginning of a supervillain career.)<\/p>\n

Glen was a heavyset, jolly black man with thick glasses.\u00a0 His version of Doomslaughter wore a voluminous black robe with bloodstain-crimson details on the gloves and the hem, along with a horned mask.<\/p>\n

In demon form, Doomslaughter looked like a satanic T-Rex, only with longer arms that and a shorter, narrower snout.\u00a0 The Carapace power expressed itself as smoldering scales, glowing like embers in a dying campfire.<\/p>\n

Esther Minges\u2019 demon form is the same, and for now she\u2019s going with the same Doomslaughter costume design, even though she\u2019s five inches shorter and eighty pounds lighter.<\/p>\n

CUNNING<\/strong> 1, PATIENT<\/strong> 3
\nGreed<\/em> 1, Generosity<\/em> 3
\nEspionage<\/em> 2, Knowledge<\/em> 3<\/p>\n

SLY<\/strong> 3, OPEN<\/strong> 1
\nCruelty<\/em> 2, Courage<\/em> 2
\nCowardice<\/em> 2, Endurance<\/em> 0<\/p>\n

DEVIOUS<\/strong> 1, INSIGHTFUL<\/strong> 2
\nCorruption<\/em> 1, Nurture<\/em> 2
\nDeceit<\/em> 2, Honesty<\/em> 2<\/p>\n

POWERS<\/strong>: Ineffable Defense, Terror<\/p>\n

ASPECTS<\/strong>: Giant, Carapace<\/p>\n

PRIMARY SINFUL STRATEGY<\/strong>: Sly<\/p>\n

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Written by Greg Stolze and illustrated by Kurt Komoda, \u00a9 2014 Doomslaughter was one of the first people General Null approached with<\/p>\n

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