Descension


"I am the bullet in the gun, I am the truth from which you run..."



Alias: Descent
Name: Alexei Rossovich
Sex: Male
Age: 53 (the face lies)
Hair: Black
Eyes: Marble Grey - Burning, Halcyon Golden When Mutation is in Effect
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 200 lbs without armor
Nation: Genosha
Mutant Class: Due to Descent's unique and bizarre mutation, he is a rather powerful Alpha-Class mutant
Strength Class: 30 Tons all the Time, 70 Tons for Limited Amounts of Time
Affiliation: Loyal to the White Queen and Black King of the Hellfire Club (current), Enslaved to Dark Beast - Weapon X | Project OSIRIS (current), Loyal to the Maximoff Family (former)
Weapon of Choice: Anything Inorganic or Artificial in a Block Radius
Skills and Abilities: Alexei Rossovich is a remarkably seasoned combat veteran of exceptional skill; well versed in the art of infiltration and sabotage, marksmanship, swordsmanship, guerilla warfare, demolitions (hand-made, military issue, or construction uses), and hand-to-hand combat. Olympic level gymnast and martial artist - his form of unarmed combat is of Chinese heritage - excelling in the internal arts of Taiji, Bagua Zhang, Bak Mei, and the external form of Choy Lay Fut (Longfist) Wushu



Mutation: Abiogenesis - In the discredited theory, the spontaneous generation of organic or living matter, from artificial or nonliving matter. In Descent's given affinity, it is more elaborate. He has the rare ability to generate living matter, from inanimate or nonliving structures, objects, or other matter. The "living" matter is manifested in the color and hue of the previously existing matter it was meld from, and it's durability and power deriving from the same previous structure. For example, he could spontaneously generate a powerful tendril or organic tentacle, from a 4 by 4, or long sheet of metal. The manifestation as powerful and strong, as the peice of steel, or the wooden bat. Another example, on a grand scale; he could transform the support beams and even entire lower level of a building into that organic matter, from the very concrete or steel of the building - and thus, cause it to generate into a different angle and cause the building to fall, or simply degenerate the matter in the same sense. Even beyond that, Descent has taught to concentrate on more enclosed vacinities like a room or a car; in which case once he is able to manipulate the steel of the car - he could generate it upward and in grotesque proportions; for instance, to spontaneously mold the steel frame of the car up into the driver and passenger seat, filling the area with steel spikes and protruding bladed edges from the steel of the automobile. The catalyst for the spontaneous generation, would be Descent's mental concentration. If he cannot focus, he cannot execute the process of abiogenesis. However, mental anguish, anger, hatred, duress, and any other negative emotional feeling could trigger the mental trigger in order to "create," so to speak; albeit if the process is orchestrated through sheer emotional will, it is far more chaotic and uncontrollable. Each manifestation, or organic matter is linked to Descent telepathically, and psionically - and can all be controlled through Descent's will in unison, or be orchestrated to act accordingly to it's own situation, and task. This process can orchestrate through any unliving, artifical, or metal source. The limitation of this ability is that the organic matter Descent may create seperate from himself, are vulnerable as they are powerful. Should one be cut or injured, Descent would not inherit the wound - but it would cause the same pain, mentally. As Alexei is psionically connected to each incarnation, their pain is shared with the string holder. He has however trained himself over years, to block the pain to the level of the sharp spike of a headache - however, if too much proverbial 'mental' pain ensues, an uncontrolled, violent spike in his power may occur as a backlash to his allies on the field.



History: Born as Alexei Rossovich in Moscow, Russia. His early life was tramautic, and almost unrecorded - being the son of an abusive alcoholic father, and a tentative mother. As an adolescent, the young Alexei actually was tied down and forced to watch, as his clinically insane father beat his mother to death, with the house hold toaster oven. This was the first time his mutation surfaced, as at that moment the toaster oven his father had smashed the back of his wife's skull in with pulsated with life, and twisted in it's metal structure - to literally snap Alexei's father's wrist bone into splinters, shattered tendons, and essentially removed the hand from the forearm. This was unexplained as to how it occured, and when Moscow's secret police came to investigate the domestic disturbance, they found a barely concious father craddling a stub of a forearm, and muttering lunatically at the top of his lungs - the toaster covered in blood, identical to as it had been before, and laying on the kitchen floor next to his disembodied hand. A dead mother and wife, and a pale boy tied to a kitchen chair with razor wire - eyes wide open, and the scrutiny hollow and gazing at the hand on the floor. The father was instituted, and the young boy was taken into the secret police, better established as the KGB. Raised and trained as a hunter and assassin, Alexei Rossovich grew up past adolescent and into adulthood, as one of the best marksmen of the KGB of his time. As trained and proficient as he was with firearms, he was that much affinitive in the art of blades, close quarter combat, and unarmed combat. Over his life forming his own perfered style of fighting, which held it's foundation mainly on the concept of TaiJi(combat applied Tai Chi Chuan born from Chen Buddhism). Beyond that, his last love was explosives. Before 1991, and the radical reforming following glasnost, Alexei's mutation would surface again. On a key intelligence operation, Alexei was drugged with a powerful psychedelic serum, in a ploy by his "allies" in the KGB to remove him as a threat.


The serum was injected into his neck, and once the hallucination of his father killing his mother went through Alexei's perception, nothing could save them. Using the process of "abiogenesis" (as that is what Alexei calls it) he turned the inside of the warehouse they were in, into something any sane man would pray is a hallucination. The KGB members who intended to assassinate Alexei were reduced to ribbons of skin and flesh, their bones ground into the earth beneath the building, and nothing left of their bodies in the end of it what so ever. Their plan backfired, and the building itself caved in on itself, in the end. Not much is known what happened after that, as Alexei left no survivors, and did unfathomably well at covering his tracks. He went into hiding, stowing away on a ship to escape the motherland, and headed toward the US. However, finding the opposition against mutant kind even more eminent here then Russia (as that was what Alexei had found himself to be, he was a mutant, and he accepted it with grim reassurance and self serving solace) he grew impatient. Untill, he heard of a nation known as Genosha. A nation, for mutant kind. Finding solace finally, and for once - a place to call home, he arrived at Genosha. Not living there long, before he gained the attention of Magneto himself - through his most ellusive talent of abiogenesis, and his more mundane abilities to infiltration, and assassination. At his later years, Alexei Romanov adopted the alias of Descent, and worked as a personal assassin, and servant to Magneto. A loyal subject to the Ruler of Genosha, he served his Nation and Master well, and his allegiance unquestioning. Over a decade or more, Descent worked with loyalty to Magneto, even through the events of Empire X. During the following times, he became to care deeply for his daughter, Wanda Maximoff, looking at himself as her distant older brother, forming a bond with her in the terms of a younger sister, or child. His loyalty to Magnus and his love for the Maximoff family lasted years, until eventually he lost his honor with Magnus himself. The events are unclear as to where he lost his favor, and will be touched on at a later date; but needless to say he was exiled from the Empire's service, or he simply fled.


Years later he found himself under employment of the Hellfire Club, finding solace under the White Queen and Black King; Emma Frost and Alexander Summers. Later on, through a business venture, he came into a loose partnership with a representative of the Weapon X project, ran by Dr. Hank McCoy. Alexei had known of the individual during his career in the Royal Guard, but there was nothing that could have prepared him for the trap he walked into. Originally on the behest of a Seran Evans, he was caught off guard and subdued by McCoy's greater intellect. Affixed with a cerebral implant in the form of a miniaturized EMP device (designed to fry the neural pathways if ever detonated, and render the subject a vegetable) McCoy and Weapon X brainwashed Descent to the point of complete compliance, having the implant as a proverbial trump card. After genetic tampering, the Dark Beast instilled in Descent effects of TK resistance, and total psionic nullification of his mind - making him the ample candidate for the enforcer in his Project OSIRIS, conducting expierments on mutants to create the perfect Psionic.



Additional Information:
  • Abiogenetic Armor: Through the process of abiogenesis, Descent is able to convert the tissue of his body into an organic, "living" substance akin to steel, albeit extremely light weight. It is of an unknown composition (as the mutation would give Descent the ability to bond compounds together molecularly, or in this case, intertwine and over the very tissue of his body), but would appear analogous to osmium, and similar to carbon steel. The armor makes him impervious to most injury. His armored form can withstand ballistic penetration, including that of a 155 millimeter Howitzer shell; as well as temperature extremes from 70º above absolute zero (-390º F) to approximately 9000º F. He can survive a collision with a loaded, ten-ton flatbed truck at 100 miles per hour or an explosion of 4500 pounds of TNT. He can also survive falls from great heights while in his armored body. The "second skin" is potent, but more malleable and adaptable - able to reform, and be reshapen to protect or reinforce any part of his body, when in need of additional protection. The suit is also able to rapidly generate tentacles or tendrils of varying size, as well as a web of organic mesh, coiling a victim to it's grave. These manifested appendages are of the same material as the suit's unique compound, and thus have just as much durability as the armor itself. As a byproduct of the abiogenesis, a corrosive/virulent element is generated in Descent's stomach, forming in appearance and composition as 'sweat' layered over any blade he may fashion from his armor, or at the end of a tentacle/tendril/appendage. The element has a corrosive effect, and when faced against a being of durability to the extent of Colossus for example, he is able to intertwine and spin his tendrils to form a concentrated tentacle, able to produce stronger corrosive elements to break down stronger physical resistances; through liquefaction, to break the surface down at an atomic and molecular level. If entering the blood stream, beyond the obvious damage a corrosive effect would have on any impact with the cardiovascular system, microscopic spores of the poisonous element would travel throughout the blood stream, and begin immediately to severely weaken the victim physically, and mentally (cognitive function would slow) almost having the beginning of a paralysis effect, yet not paralytic, more muscle and cognitive slowing in effect. If for example, an adamanatium blade were to severe an appendage, or cut down a creation from his mutation, the creation, appendage, or blade would 'bleed' this same putrid green corrosive element, having the same concentrated affect as many tendrils folded together - able to break down any physical object or resistance, at a molecular level. The substance when concentrated, would flow like blood, or liquid. Through this same manner, Descent is able to maximize his strength level for limited periods of time, by wrapping many tendrils/tentacles around his arm or a central appendage, or leg for that matter, to raise from a 30 ton force to a 70 ton force, before he is forced to scatter the tendrils and revert to his constant 30, as to not expel all of his energy at once.


  • X-Genome Tampering: After contact with, and being subdued and experimented on by Dr. Hank McCoy Descent procured two secondary mutation effects. In accordance with his role designed for Project OSIRIS by Dark Beast himself Descent's mind is a nullified stronghold against any kind of telepathic, psionic, or mystical effect. In addition Descent cannot be effected by telekinetic means either, nor can the air or molecules around him; he creates a telekinetic negating area around him, as an aura or field of as of yet unrecorded radiation around his person; for lack of a more scientific term. He can however, be effected by things of the physical world effected by telekinetic means; such as an automobile thrown at him by a telekinetic or mystical force.





    The Art of War - Sun Tzu




    XII. THE ATTACK BY FIRE




    1. Sun Tzu said: There are five ways of attacking with fire.


    The first is to burn soldiers in their camp;


    The second is to burn stores;


    The third is to burn baggage trains;


    The fourth is to burn arsenals and magazines;


    The fifth is to hurl dropping fire amongst the enemy.







    Nine Inch Nails - Reptile

    She spread herself wide open, to let the insects in.
    She leaves a trail of honey, to show me where she's been.
    She has the blood of reptile, just underneath her skin.
    Seeds from a thousand others, drip down from within.
    Oh, my beautiful liar.
    Oh, my precious whore.
    My disease, my infection.
    I am so impure...
    Devils speak of the ways in which she'll manifest.
    Angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress.
    Need to contaminate, to alleviate, this loneliness.
    I now know, the depths I reach are limitless.
    Oh, my beautiful liar.
    Oh, my precious whore.
    My disease, my infection.
    I am so impure...