Arcade

Shaun White as Arcade

GENERAL Name: Arcade Birthdate: {$birthdate} Faction: Murderworld Codename: Arcade Position: Architect/Serial Killer Hometown: Unknown FAMILY STATISTICS Partner(s): NA Height: 5'6" Father: NA Weight: 140 lbs Mother: NA Hair Color: Red Siblings: NA Eye Color: Blue Children: NA

Background

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Arcade has no name, no picture on file, no history. What can be seen in the vague allusions to his past is a nearly normal childhood in some uneventful little corner of America. It's inevitable that a child like Arcade would experience some unhappiness and oppression from his peers but that doesn't make someone a killer. It's also entirely likely that he had an obsession with games and carnivals from his earliest days but that's no excuse either. Whoever he is and wherever he's from: Arcade came into the world this way.

Arcade has already established, used, and closed down several "Murderworlds" worldwide. Each Murderworld is a microcosm of horror and ugliness and each has its own purpose. To date, Arcade has used them as laboratories, testing grounds, to better understand what motivates people to kill and even volunteer to die as part of his games. In some of these games, he has also tested weapons of various sorts, some of his own design and some acquired from elsewhere.

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Traits

Powers

• HYPERINTELLIGENT: Arcade's intellect isn't a mutant power but is far beyond the human norm. His basic intellect and reasoning skills are accompanied by a near-perfect memory and an innate understanding of systems and engineering. Everything from materials engineering to physics to architecture comes naturally to Arcade. His mind works non-stop, deconstructing and reconstructing everything he can see or imagine.

Skills

• AD-MAN: Arcade is a born ad-man. From carnival pitches to Madison Avenue campaigns, he's got a way of getting people in the door — no matter what's on the other side. He's a smooth talker and shameless salesman.
• ARCHITECT: While it's impossible to track down Arcade's formal education, his work shows a lifetime of study of architectural styles and forms. What he makes is more than functional, much of it is admirable.
• ATHLETE: Though he has a normal human physique, Arcade is fit and agile from his non-stop drive to play — no matter what that looks like. He's a long-distance runner, pool shark, rock climber, skateboarder, cyclist, and more. If it involves a challenge and a thrill, he's on it.
• ENGINEERING: Arcade is not just a natural engineer, he has studied the work of other geniuses from around the world. His work shows experience and education that is undeniable in spite of the fact that it cannot be sourced.
• HUNTER: His prey is human, not animal. Weapons and combat are last resorts but that doesn't mean Arcade isn't able to default to those tactics as fall-back measures when he's hunting and killing. He also needs to subdue his 'clients' from time to time when they won't play right. He's trained in several schools of martial arts and the use of most street weapons and firearms.
• MURDERWORLD: Arcade is a master of murder. His "Murderworlds" are horrific carnival games designed to exploit human nature and maximize psychological and physical suffering before death. Not all his Murderworlds are self-contained. There is evidence that he has played with some "free range" games, using social engineering, surveillance, communications, and manipulation to carry out — or have others carry out — multiple murders on an open stage. Still, he prefers to be in complete control, drawing people into his perfectly designed and elegantly constructed "entertainment complexes" where they struggle, suffer, and die for his amusement.

Advantages

• ANONYMOUS: Arcade has no law enforcement files, no photographs on record, no real name. He's a myth, or would be, if it weren't for the missing people and the murmurs in his wake. The law knows he's there. The disturbance of his passing is real. But there's no face to put to the name they've given him.
• BERNARD: A well-dressed thug able to follow orders. Bernard is loyal for reasons even Arcade doesn't entirely understand but assumes it's just because Bernard would rather someone else do the killing while he enjoys the show. Arcade isn't going to argue. Bernard knows his place and that place is to make sure Arcade's mundane needs are attended to at all times.
• CONNECTIONS: Arcade has a web of connections in the underworld, especially through various gangs and mobs. He also seems to have connections in the business and real estate spheres. It's unclear how he pulls all this together but his skills are definitely in demand on many levels. He's managed to leverage all that into a near-perfect machine for getting his own way in the world.
• FINANCES: No one knows where he gets his money but Arcade has a lot of it. It's possible that he's selling designs under another name, that he's sitting on a huge inheritance, that he has shadowy backers, or that he's made good use of the stock market — or all of the above. He's got what seems like an endless amount of money to spend on his personal amusements and cleaning up after his murder games.
• RESOURCES: In addition to what he acquires as needed, Arcade has plenty of goodies squirreled away for a rainy day or impending arrest. Money, connections, vehicles — Arcade is a man with a plan and that plan includes staying free and staying amused at all times.

Flaws

• CONTROL: Arcade is a one-man show. He doesn't delegate, doesn't diversify. He has hirelings and minions but he doesn't ever let anyone else drive. If he's removed from the equation, things fall apart.
• NON-STOP: Arcade can't stop. He hardly sleeps. He doesn't have a way to turn off his brain or his body. He's driven to stay engaged with something at all times. If he didn't have things to build, people to kill, he'd lose his mind. His greatest terror is prison, where he'd be bored and helpless.
• OBSESSIVE: Won't stop, can't stop. Arcade can't be anything but what he is. He covers it up under laughter and smoke and mirrors but the truth is that there's no other life for him. Even he doesn't understand why. Every time his designs are defeated, he returns to the task. He won't stop until he's literally the last man standing — and it's got to be a good show. Utilitarianism isn't an option. The abattoir needs to sing.
• MANIC: Arcade's mania can drive him to carelessness at times. Usually it's mitigated by his intelligence and his paranoia, but it's possible that he could lose control entirely and have to go to great lengths to erase or repair whatever trail he leaves during his manic episode.
• PARANOID: Paranoia goes with the territory. Arcade doesn't make friends, doesn't trust people, and will stab his supposed allies in the back the moment he doesn't need them anymore.
• SERIAL KILLER: Arcade is a wanted serial killer. No one knows his name but the longer he's around the harder it is for him to fly under the radar. There's a price on his head. If only they had a face to put with the name.

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