Eulogy
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| The Haunting Eulogy! | |
| Eulogy | |
| Player: @Cloud Runner | |
| Origin: | Magic |
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| Archetype: | Scrapper |
| Threat Level: | 1 |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Joseph Casket |
| Known Aliases: | Eulogy |
| Species: | Human |
| Age: | Confidential |
| Height: | 6' |
| Weight: | 180lbs |
| Eye Color: | red |
| Hair Color: | black |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Unlicensed Crimefighter, retired police sergeant |
| Place of Birth: | Paragon City, Rhode Island |
| Base of Operations: | Dark Astoria, Paragon City |
| Marital Status: | single |
| Known Relatives: | Crystal Casket (wife; deceased), Emma Casket (daughter) |
| Known Powers | |
| Immortality, Shadow Cloak | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Flight, Sword Wielding | |
| Equipment | |
| Confidential | |
| No additional information available. | |
Contents |
[edit] Affiliations
[edit] Personality
Menacing, but oddly kind. Beneath his haunting image, Eulogy hides a good soul.
[edit] Powers
[edit] Nether Armor
When Joseph Casket was stranded in the darkness of death it became apart of him. When he returned to the land of the living he was cloaked in shadow, wearing it as an armor. Nearing Eulogy with fill you with feelings of complete dread.
[edit] Blades "The Pallbearers"
Eulogy's blades (nicknamed "The Pallbearers") were buried with him in his casket. He has no idea who placed them there, but they have become his symbol of justice in his crimefighting. The blades themselves draw no blood, nor cut no skin, but cut the soul of the wicked, showing them their grim fate if they continue down their path of corruption.
[edit] Wicked Sight
The eyes of Eulogy see all. Every past sin that someone has commited, he sees. This is what aids him in weeding out the wicked from the innocent.
[edit] Flight
After his death, Joseph was confronted by the angel of death, whom gave him his second chance, with it he was gifted the wings of an angel to summon whenever he wishes.
[edit] Origin
Joseph Casket grew up wanting to be a hero. When he finally did grow up that is what he became. No, not a superhero, but a hero, more specifically a cop. He was a sergeant for the Paragon Police Department and put his life on the line every day. After a dangerous days work Joseph could look forward to coming home to his wife and daughter.
The PPD had begun the process of taking down one the largest and most powerful crime family's in Paragon City and the Rogue Islands, the Vario's. At the helm of the family was Lenny Vario, a man very few had actually physically seen, as he hid behind his army of cronies and muscle. Not only did Lenny have criminal masterminds under his command, but he also had connections with many big superpowered criminals. Joseph took the lead in the assualt against the Vario family and already set his sights on one of their major drug warehouses.
A shoe-packing warehouse that moonlighted as a drug highway. And while a major deal between the Vario and Dilenno family's was set to go down, so would the takedown. As the deal was being closed, S.W.A.T. moved into position with Joseph at their command. When the family's found themselves surrounded they did not go down without a fight. The whole worehouse was then filled with gunfire, each of the family's turning on eachother, thinking it was a setup. Only one man survived, Vito Vario, who was then taken into custody. Behind the scenes Lenny Vario raged at his major loss and planned a retaliation.
It did not take much research for Lenny to discover who was behind the entire operation. He found Joseph Casket, husband and father. Through his connections Lenny found a mysterious mastermind of sorts. This ominous man dare not show his face, but merely spoke through a human puppet. This 'puppet', the masterminds own assasin, saved from death row, but now a slave to the insane old man. Death Penalty, he called himself, covered in dark cloth and cybernetic implants. The 'puppet' relayed the words from his master and secured a deal that would mean the death of Joseph Casket.
While at home with his wife and child, Joseph knew nothing of his sealed fate. As he drifted off to sleep, Death Penalty broke into his home. Asleep, Joseph dreamed of a ghostly figure, stalking the shadows of alleyways and fighting swarms of criminals. He awoke in the morning to find his wife missing. In her place was a note, on it was a eulogy, written for himself! On the back of the eulogy, it said: "Moth Cemetary, 12 am. Come alone Joey or they both die!" Joseph searched the entire house, but there was no trace of his wife or daughter.
Though the note said to come alone, Joseph went straight to the PPD. As he got out of his car, he was greeted by the barrel of a shotgun, held by the laughing Death Penalty, shaking his finger. Joseph attempted to escape, but was knocked unconcious. When he awoke he was in a coffin, outside he could hear his wife and child screaming. Then the voice of Lenny Vario spoke: "I told ya to come alone Joey, now look what you made me do..." a gun fired and his wifes screaming silenced. He hammered at the coffin, enraged, but to no avail. Again, Lenny spoke: "Sorry Joey, shouldve minded your own business, seeya around pal!" Dirt was then piled on top of the coffin and the screaming of his daughter faded away. Slowly the air grew thin in the coffin, until Joseph suffocated.
In the darkness of death, his soul floated for what felt like an eternity. Then finally there was light. A white figure approached Josephs lonely soul, it showed him images of his wife smiling, at peace in the afterlife. An angel it was, with brilliant feathered wings. It spoke to him, offering a second chance at life. A chance to save his daughter and bring justice to the wicked. When Joseph accepted this offer, he awoke in his once mortal body, now dusty and decayed. Months had passed, he was dressed in a suit, covered with roses and momentos, obviously given a proper burial. Among these momentos were two blades wrapped in a cloth. On them were the word "The Pallbearers" engraved. Who they were from, he could not figure out, but with them he hacked away at the coffin, until he dug his way out into the surface.
Outside a priest roamed, blessing the dead. When he saw the rotten corpse of Joseph rise out of the grave he fled. The corpse ran after the priest, pleading for him to stop, that he was visited by an angel. When the priest heard these words he stopped and stared at the undead before him. He quickly recognized the rotten face of police sergeant, Joseph Casket, who had been murdered. The priest identified himself as Father Richard and he would help Joseph. He poured the pitcher of holy water on his body, blessing his lost soul. Father Richard recognized the fact that the angel of death had spared Joseph, unjustly killed, leaving his daughter to suffer. He sewed together a disguise, so that Joseph may walk the world of the living unnoticed. Now costumed in the holy garment, he bid farewell to Father Richard and ventured off to save his daughter. Before he left, Richard gave to him a note that had been left on the alter, adressed to "Eulogy". The letter had written upon it the eulogy for Lenny Vario. Joseph, now dubbed Eulogy, knew what this meant.
With blades in hand, Eulogy treaded the dark streets of Paragon City to find it infested with crime. He came upon an old man being mugged at gunpoint by some thugs. The thugs fled with cash in hand, and The Pallbearers came alive, pulling Eulogy after the thugs. When he cornered them, they fired bullets into his unfeeling body. The blades sliced at the thugs, but drew no blood. Instead, a look of pure terrror came over their faces. The blades had cut their souls rather than their body's. Showing them death, hell and the fate that was destined for them if they continued down this corrupted path. They stood frozen by fear and Eulogy retreated to the shadows.
The weeks following the birth of the vigilante, Eulogy marked the end of the Vario family. Family mansion and warehouses all fell to ruin at the hands of the Deathless One. Again, Lenny sent in his meatsheilds after the vigilante first. Death Penalty was the first to try his hand. The two met after another drug warehouse fell, but this time it was a trap for Eulogy. A sniper shot to the head appeared to have killed him, at least to Penalty. He investigated the seemingly lifeless corpse of Eulogy, to find it not breathing. So, he picked up the body and brought it to Lenny Vario's mansion. The Puppet laid his kill before his broker. Lenny threw him his pay and he retreated to give it to his master. When Lenny took off the fallen hero's mask he found the withered face of Joseph Casket. Before he could step away he was met with an ethereal blade to the chest that shred his soul into peices. Lenny was too far gone to be saved and so he was killed, damned to hell.
Eulogy left his body and found himself surrouded by thugs. The lights flickered out and all that was heard was the bloodcurdling screams of each damned soul as they saw their grim fates. In the basement, he found his daughter, alone, barely alive from starvation. He brought her incapacitated body to his mothers house. It was done, all was just, he had been avenged. Now Eulogy watches his daughter from afar, her own guardian angel. Under the moral guidance of Father Richard he still continues to fight crime and bring justice to the wicked.
