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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davies" data-source="post: 8619037" data-attributes="member: 30538">Doctor Typhon/ドクター颱風<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-4wsdGj8/0/3cff2368/M/OsAVaS-M.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Nearly fifty years after his death, he remains one of the most notorious supervillains in the history of Japan. (His notoriety outside of Japan was much more short-lived.) It is somewhat telling that there are those in Japan who will insist that he was not Japanese himself, citing his birthplace and some old rumors about his birth as proof. This would have annoyed him -- and his annoyance tended to have fatal consequences for its subjects.Ichikawa Sousuke was born in Taiwan in 1924, but Taiwan was then a colony of the Empire of Japan, and his father was a bureaucrat within the colonial administration. His mother died not long after his birth, and the rumors derive from the fact that his father quickly married his Taiwanese housekeeper (and reputed mistress.) Regardless of such gossip, the young man grew up full immersed in the nationalist ideology of the time, and fully intended to serve in the Japanese army. He would get his wish, but not in the way that he expected. By his seventeenth birthday, it was already clear that he was had a prodigious intellect, and he was promptly recruited for a special unit. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731" target="_blank">No, not that one.</a> There were others, and his was based in the Home Islands.While working there, Ichikawa made the acquaintance of an older scientist, one Kunisawa Chihiro. They were not friends, but the younger man did find some of the theories that the older proposed concerning the hidden strengths of the human body to be fascinating. Even if they had been friendly, however, Ichikawa would have come to despise Kunisawa after the latter deserted the unit and went underground midway through 1943. For his part, Ichikawa vowed to fight to the bitter end. Of course, then Japan as a whole surrendered, and there was nothing he could do about that. Worse, the critical research he and the others had accomplished during the war was judged irrelevant, and he was neither prosecuted for war crimes nor recruited to continue his work elsewhere. Frustrated, Ichikawa settled down with a wife and soon grew a family, taking out his frustrations on them when they grew too much for him.In 1954, however, some of the work he had done on the nascent science of gigantology came to the attention of an office of the recently established Japan Self-Defense Forces, and he was contacted with regards to an expedition to Dread Island. Pleased to be at work again, Ichikawa agreed and joined the expedition, leaving his pregnant wife and two young children behind. The last radio contact with the expedition reported that they had arrived at the island and were setting up camp. After that, there was nothing but radio silence.Ten years after, an Australian expedition to Dread Island was startled when a delirious and disheveled Japanese man stumbled out of the jungle and into their campsite. Ichikawa claimed to be the last survivor of his own expedition, but was confused about how long he had been on the island, believing that it had been no more than a month since his arrival. The Australians had already concluded their observations, and they agreed to take him back to Japan on their way home. After reporting on the disaster to the JSDF, Ichikawa prepared to return home, sure that his family must be deeply mourning his absence.They were not; once seven years had passed, his wife had promptly remarried and his children now viewed her second husband as their father, and were quite happy about their new circumstances. This annoyed him, fatally so. The one survivor of the massacre was the son who had not even been born when Ichikawa set out, who happened to be playing baseball with some friends. In the aftermath, Ichikawa went underground and abandoned his name, assuming the alias Doctor Typhon and seeking to punish the world for not recognizing his genius and for the suffering he had endured.Doctor Typhon had several clashes with the Reid group and other American heroes, but his most frequent foes were Jiraiya and Tsunade. (It is not clear if he ever realized they had been trained and enhanced by Kunisawa.) However, he generally worked through minions or lieutenants, rarely allowing his opponents to confront him directly. He developed many horrific inventions in his career as a supervillain, most famously a series of kaiju-scale robots that each caused as much damage as any of the actual creatures of Dread Island. His signature weapon, however, was the aptly-named "dust of death", a paralytic compound that suffocated its victims. Fortunately, his efforts to produce a form of the chemical which could affect large areas came to naught.In 1974, Doctor Typhon was contacted by an individual interested in recruiting his scientific services. Amused at her presumption, he agreed to the meeting, fully intending to murder her for her effrontery and completely uninterested in what she had to offer. Despite that, he found her ideas intriguing, but as Jiraiya and Tsunade had begun an attack on his base at the same time, he was forced to cut the interview short and end it as he had originally planned. Before he could do so, however, she somehow disarmed him, as though she knew exactly what he was about to do, and shot him with his own dust. When the two ninja broke into the control room of his base, they found him stone dead and completely alone.The son who had survived his rampage kept the family name of his stepfather, going by Serizawa Katsuhito for the rest of his life.Doctor Typhon -- PL 8Abilities:STR 0 | STA 2 | AGL 2 | DEX 3 | FGT 3 | INT 7 | AWE 3 | PRE 4Powers:Dust of Death: Affliction 9 (Resisted by Fortitude; Dazed and Vulnerable, Stunned and Immobile, Dying and Paralyzed), Extra Condition; Removable (-3 points) - 15 pointsImperturbable: Immunity 5 (interaction skills) - 5 pointsAdvantages:Assessment, Defensive Roll 2, Equipment 10, Improved Aim, Improved Initiative, Improved Trip, Inventor, Ranged Attack 2, Startle, Uncanny Dodge.Equipment:50 points as needed for any given plot, typically including bases and vehicles.Skills:Close Attack: Dust of Death 2 (+5), Deception 6 (+10), Expertise: Criminal 2 (+9), Expertise: Science 4 (+11), Insight 6 (+9), Intimidation 8 (+12), Perception 8 (+11), Ranged Attack: Guns 4 (+7), Stealth 5 (+8), Technology 6 (+13), Vehicles 3 (+6).Offense:Initiative +6Unarmed +3 (Close Damage 0)Dust of Death +5 (Close Fortitude 9)Gun +9 (Ranged Damage varies)Defense:Dodge 7, Parry 5, Fortitude 4, Toughness 7/2, Will 9.Totals:Abilities 48 + Powers 20 + Advantages 21 + Skills 27 + Defenses 15 = 131 pointsOffensive PL: 7Defensive PL: 7Resistance PL: 7Skill PL: 8 Complications:Power--Motivation. Casual Killer. Intolerance (persons who express emotion.)</blockquote>

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