Villains Are Made #2: The BRIDE of Frank
You've been thunderstruck, Ticketholders and Heromachiners! It's really Heroes Are Made #2, but that doesn't really make sense when the next character I have for you today isn't a hero, or even a heroine for that matter.
In fact, this is an update on the very first villain I created with Heromachine. Since I had already made Frank Hallows (inspired by Frankenstein and his monster, and Iron Man, and Dean Koontz's Deucalion character from the Frankenstein series) for the Family contest, when the folks at Heromachine decided to throw a Public Domain Literature contest, I immediately started work on my interpretation of the bride of Frankenstein's monster, and the following character emerged.
Name: The B.R.I.D.E.
Alias: Elizabeth Victoria Stein
Enemies: Frank Hallows, Deus-X
Race: Android
Birthplace: Ithaca, NY
Powers: Superhuman strength, Energy claws, Absorbs (downloads) human memory by touch.
Bio: Dr. Elisabeth Victoria Stein (Evie to her friends) was once a prominent scientist at HallowGen, contracted by founder Frank Hallows to research the connection between computers and the human brain. Her work would soon form the basis for the interface Frank now uses to control the P.A.T.C.H. suit. But Dr. Stein's ambitions reached much higher. She wished to push the boundaries of ethical science by attempting to have human brains directly interface with computer hardware, and even convert human memory into binary data for storage on computer mainframes.
In fact, this is an update on the very first villain I created with Heromachine. Since I had already made Frank Hallows (inspired by Frankenstein and his monster, and Iron Man, and Dean Koontz's Deucalion character from the Frankenstein series) for the Family contest, when the folks at Heromachine decided to throw a Public Domain Literature contest, I immediately started work on my interpretation of the bride of Frankenstein's monster, and the following character emerged.
Name: The B.R.I.D.E.
Alias: Elizabeth Victoria Stein
Enemies: Frank Hallows, Deus-X
Race: Android
Birthplace: Ithaca, NY
Powers: Superhuman strength, Energy claws, Absorbs (downloads) human memory by touch.
Bio: Dr. Elisabeth Victoria Stein (Evie to her friends) was once a prominent scientist at HallowGen, contracted by founder Frank Hallows to research the connection between computers and the human brain. Her work would soon form the basis for the interface Frank now uses to control the P.A.T.C.H. suit. But Dr. Stein's ambitions reached much higher. She wished to push the boundaries of ethical science by attempting to have human brains directly interface with computer hardware, and even convert human memory into binary data for storage on computer mainframes.
Fearing the devastatingly godlike potential this would have in the wrong hands, Frank shut down Dr. Stein's program and fired her, retaining the rights to all of Stein's research and keeping her findings under the highest level of security possible.
Weeks went by without incident, but Dr. Evie Stein would return in force, breaking into HallowGen with a bang and escaping the ensuing chaos with her research and several million dollars' worth of stolen HallowGen technology.
The bomb she planted below her former employer's office would leave Frank paralyzed from the waist down, dependent on the newly completed P.A.T.C.H. suit for his mobility and survival.
Meanwhile, the disgraced Dr. Evie Stein would continue her work in secret, fashioning the Bionic Remote Interactive Digital Envoy from her cache of stolen P.A.T.C.H. and X-2 technology and taking the fatal risk of using her own brain as the upload source for what would prove to be her final experiment.
The transfer was a success. Dr. Evie Stein's human body was now an empty, soulless shell. But what did it matter when she had a stronger, faster cybernetic body at her command? She would never learn the answer to that question, for the collection of firing synapses that comprised the essence of Dr. Elisabeth Victoria Stein would quickly fall victim to the numerous security subroutines embedded in the patchwork of stolen HallowGen tech, leaving behind only a heavily armed, psychologically unstable automaton with a now-baseless hatred of Frank Hallows and an unwavering desire to possess as much human knowledge as possible. Beware, for The B.R.I.D.E. is alive!
The bomb she planted below her former employer's office would leave Frank paralyzed from the waist down, dependent on the newly completed P.A.T.C.H. suit for his mobility and survival.
Meanwhile, the disgraced Dr. Evie Stein would continue her work in secret, fashioning the Bionic Remote Interactive Digital Envoy from her cache of stolen P.A.T.C.H. and X-2 technology and taking the fatal risk of using her own brain as the upload source for what would prove to be her final experiment.
The transfer was a success. Dr. Evie Stein's human body was now an empty, soulless shell. But what did it matter when she had a stronger, faster cybernetic body at her command? She would never learn the answer to that question, for the collection of firing synapses that comprised the essence of Dr. Elisabeth Victoria Stein would quickly fall victim to the numerous security subroutines embedded in the patchwork of stolen HallowGen tech, leaving behind only a heavily armed, psychologically unstable automaton with a now-baseless hatred of Frank Hallows and an unwavering desire to possess as much human knowledge as possible. Beware, for The B.R.I.D.E. is alive!
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