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Age: 29
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IC:
Character Name: Enigma / Edward Nashton
Canon: DC Comics (Trinity)
Age: unknown, probably in his 30s
Canon Point: End of Trinity
Bender: Y, fire. Enigma is extremely determined, almost to a fault. He is ambitious in his desire to save his own antireality, protect his daughter, and invent new technology. He has been known to make aggressive, ambitious moves.

How quickly will they learn how to bend? Once he figures it out, probably quickly as he’s very intelligent and prone to experimentation. However, Enigma has the tendency to stray away from anything that isn’t logical, particularly magical and supernatural things, leaning more towards his obsession with technology.

During the events of Trinity, he did find means of combining magic and technology to harness the energy necessary to cast the trinity spell. If he finds a use for bending, he will be more adamant about practicing it and putting it to good use.

Weapons:
Enigma has one weapon his mind his staff. Like his positive matter counterpart, his staff is an elongated metallic question mark. It probably reaches about 5’ in height. It’s a big staff.

Enigma is very fond of this staff. After he becomes the Quizmaster and later Enigma, he is never seen without it. He even takes the staff with him when he takes his shadow form.

The staff is technologically based, powered by some power source that seemingly never runs out. The staff is capable of emitting powerful bursts of energy and lightning at his silent command. The metal is pretty strong as well, as he often leans on it.

Questions/Notes:
Question:
1. Will Enigma be able to keep his shadow form? (see the ability section for details).
2. Since Enigma is from the antireality, would his positive-matter self be allowed to play here as well? He is wholly a separate person from his mirror.

Notes:
As a resident of the antimatter world, Enigma’s heart is on the right side of his body.
As his identity is secret, he will generally introduce himself as Enigma.
Enigma (well Eddie) seems to have a buttload of money, though how he got it isn’t ever stated.

Appearance:
Enigma looks remarkably similar to his positive matter counterpart. He has short brown hair, usually slicked backwards, and bright green eyes. His most notable feature is the metal mask he wears on the left half of his face. Ultraman burnt off half his face, hair included. To hide that, he fused to his face the metal mask.

Eddie is somewhat tall, standing at about 6’. He tends to stand up straight or perch himself on a ledge or object. His body frame is pretty average, as he isn’t the type to be muscular or even physically fight.

His general attire is a long green tunic with white trim. He wears matching dark green slacks with black shoes and white gloves.

Due to the trinity spell, he acquired a shadow form. That form is a human-like shape, all black save the large green question mark. The crook of the mark traces around his eye and often traces all the way down the front of his body. On occasion, he appears to be wearing a tunic matching what he wears in human form.

A few links:
Enigma, partial shadow form, with his staff
Enigma perched with his staff


Personality:
Enigma is extremely bright and technologically-minded. He is considered the smartest man on his world. He is capable of inventing things beyond imagination, surpassing anyone in his world. With his knowledge, he’s also dabbled in the sciences and has a vast understanding of tactics and strategy. He as a large obsession with riddles and puzzles, as well.

His knowledge of strategy causes him to come across as a criminal mastermind. He is capable of devising massive schemes, orchestrating the players and predicting the results with frightening accuracy. For one of his most involved schemes, he impersonated his positive-matter self, Riddler, to utilize his mirror’s resources. Impersonating the Riddler, he manipulated many of Gotham’s villains to steal artifacts that were needed to perform the trinity spell. The only person who figured out who had crafted such a scheme was the Riddler himself.

While seeming like a villain, Enigma is actually good at heart. He is capable of love and affection, though rarely does he ever seem to show it. (It only ever comes out when he’s doing his best to protect Stephie). He tends to come off as very level-headed most of the time, capable of talking Morgaine down from her path of burning Europe to the ground, but the moment she talks about his own home or Stephie, he becomes rather antagonistic. He’s prone to emotional outbursts whenever anyone attempts to harm her.

He spent some time on the wrong side, believing it would help fix his own world. His lapse of judgment was caused mostly by an overwhelming sense of hopelessness. His family had been murdered, his own team was slaughtered. He felt as if this were the only way. The actions he took during that time are something he greatly regrets and works to make up for his past mistakes. He wants to do right by the world and hopes to clean up the villainy in his own world.

Enigma is incredibly determined and dedicated to complete his goal of saving his own world, sometimes to a point of obsession. It seems to blur his logical thought at times, even bringing him to destroy another world to protect his own. He does see the error in his ways, and becomes extremely determined to reverse everything he’d messed up.

Enigma has a tendency to hole himself away and observe the world from a distance. He often watches events through monitors, keeping his distance from the action. He keeps very few people close to him, including Stephie (while in the SPHERE) and previously the members of Justice underground. He tends to be a solitary creature, though he has no trouble communicating with others and forming friendships. Enigma can be rather openminded with people, as he is fully aware of other worlds existing and that not all are the same. He seems to have a tendency to people-watch, often observing them from a distance.

He has a strange obsession with Batman. He is often referred to as Batman’s counterpart in both technology and intelligence and serves as the Batman-like piece in the anti-trinity. He has extensive knowledge about Batman, his skills, and his tech, as well as knowledge about his villains. Strangely enough, it’s Batman who indirectly saves his life and returns him back to his home world.

Background:
http://www.comicvine.com/enigma/4005-55658/
http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Edward_Nashton_(Antimatter_Universe)

The two links cover most of Enigma’s backstory, though there are a few key elements they leave out. Before becoming the Quizmaster, Eddie was fascinated by the idea of parallel dimensions, discovering the existence of other worlds very early on, perhaps even before the Syndicate had discovered them. He didn’t share information about them but he learned something very troubling: his own world was a mirror of all others in existence. It was a place where crime thrived and the good guys were driven into hiding. This discovery eventually lead to his masquerade as Quizmaster.

Quizmaster formed a team of other underground heroes which were all mirrors to villains on the other worlds. He called it the Justice Underground. Quizmaster had a vast network of underground connections that helped the JU operate and interfere with the actions of the Crime Syndicate. The Syndicate eventually caught up with the JU, killing or maiming most of the members, and driving Quizmaster into hiding. The Syndicate eventually caught up with him, burning off half his face and murdering his family.

Fast forward to after the Trinity spell has been cast the first time, about half-way through the series. To achieve his goals, he’d slipped into villainy, joining up with Morgaine to destroy the positive-matter world, which would in turn reverse his own to a world that was worth living in.

As the anti-trinity was attempting to close all the rifts which had formed across the world, Enigma saw something that began to change his perspective. For some time, Stephie had been bothering him about what he was doing, telling him that he was destroying another world for their own. She’d stayed with him, despite her objections. Enigma understood her objections, but continued on the path heartlessly. He still had some good left in him, as he did intervene with Morgaine’s senseless destruction of Europe.

However, while he was watching his own men close the rifts that had formed across the world, he witnessed a woman, the positive-matter counterpart to his own wife Sarah, running in fear. She was killed by the process of closing the rift, and it horrified him. His outlook completely flipped back to where he initially was. He began objecting to Morgaine’s misuse of power, but he continued to go on with the plan of finishing the trinity spell properly, despite his own hesitations. He’d come too far to stop.

When the trinity spell fails a second time and the real trinity appears, the anti-trinity went into desperation mode. They went to strike a deal with Krona, an ancient scientist fascinated by the need to talk to planets and the cosmos. (Interestingly enough, Krona was responsible for the creation of Enigma’s antimatter universe when he toyed with the big bang.) Krona wanted to use Stephie’s soul to create a new worldsoul, causing Enigma to completely snap and flip sides, opening fire on Morgaine and Krona. His new friend Xor jumped in to help, giving them enough time to escape. From then on, Enigma attempts to foil Morgaine’s plans, nearly resulting in his own death when Despero impales him through the heart. Stephie’s SPHERE was also damaged beyond repair, leaving her soul without a place to go. Godly Batman saved Stephie’s life, and she in turn saves Enigma’s. The two return home and begin anew to help bring hope to their world.

Skills/Abilities:
Enigma’s greatest asset is his intelligence. He is considered the smartest man alive on his homeworld, and his inventions and strategic decisions do often reflect this.

For example, he built something called a Sub-Plasmic Heuro-Elective Retribution Engine (S.P.H.E.R.E). This giant sphere is capable of transdimensional travel (even with transdimensional barriers put up), firing off energy and electric-based bursts, flying, and various other things. It housed the soul of his daughter. While it only seemed to buzz, Enigma could understand it when Stephie (his daughter) spoke through the circuitry. The SPHERE was pretty strong, and Enigma often stood on it as a quick means to travel. His shadow form served as a replacement means to travel later on.

Enigma is also capable of creating technology to harness magical and supernatural power as a power source. To fuel the trinity spell, Enigma creates a machine that runs on the power of a cosmic egg and brainwashes scientists to work on it for him.

Strategic-wise, Enigma is able to craft incredibly complex plans. For example, he impersonates his own positive-matter self to get Riddler’s allies to help him out with gathering magical artifacts needed for the trinity spell.


Physically, Enigma has very basic skills. He’s not a brawler, nor is it truly known if he even knows hand to hand combat. However, he’s been shown to be very nimble on his feet, capable of dodging attacks and balancing himself on his S.P.H.E.R.E as it flies about.


Due to the trinity ritual, Enigma obtained a godlike form which turns his body into a shadow with a giant green question mark down the front. The actual powers of this form are completely unknown as Enigma never uses them (unlike his counterpart, Morgaine, who decides to throw fireballs and decimate cities) nor is it known if he gained any sort of godlike power in the first place. Given his affinity with technology, it’s probably the latter. He prefers to use his staff for combat instead. He can take this form at will, becoming a shadow to transport himself over long distances or make himself bigger or smaller. It’s truly unknown how or why he kept the form after the events of Trinity, as everyone else lost or gave up theirs. Enigma’s shadow form

Sample:
Third Person:

Enigma had holed himself up in his makeshift lab once again. He shooed the messenger bird out the window and shut it. The only person who would probably come contact him was the Jokester, probably the only person who really understood his reverse-world. And if he wanted to get in contact with dear Eddie, then he’d probably just break down the door.

So until then, Enigma had holed himself away. He turned to look at his desk, lit by one sole candle. He’d finally found his staff. It didn’t work anymore, the power completely depleted from it. Strange, though, as he designed it to never require a replacement power source. Had to be the sorcery of this land. Blasted sorcery.

Regardless, he had his staff back. He’d kept it by his side since he was the Quizmaster, the one thing he ever held on to. It had been with him when he’d nearly lost everything thanks to the Syndicate, and it had been there when he nearly destroyed his own world with that trinity spell he probably shouldn’t have done. He regretted that last part but was working to fix things. Had been, at least before he got sent here.

But enough of the past. He parked himself in a chair, hunching over the makeshift work desk he’d made from whatever he could acquire. The tools were somewhat primitive by his standards, but they’d do. They were enough to pry open the outer casing to the staff and reveal its inner workings of wires, circuit boards, and its unusual power source. He looked it over. Nothing fried, nothing disconnected or even misplaced. And yet the power source, the uninterruptable, everlasting power source was completely depleted. It was baffling, certainly something to keep him occupied for days on end.

But an idea crossed his mind. This power he was given, the one he continued to avoid. This fire ability. It didn’t make sense. The locals attempted to explain it but he didn’t much care for magical things. It’s natural, they’d told him. Right. Sure.

But for the first time, it seemed the gears turning in his head were actually considering using this ability. Enigma generally relied on circuitry, yet what if he used steam-based technology instead? It only made sense. He could create fire to flash-boil the steam and power whatever technology he desired.

He pulled out a few pages of paper and a pencil, quickly sketching out a few ideas. A few physical equations dotted the page edges as he drew quick blueprint schematics for a potential steam-based engine that could be powered by touch. Yes, this would do nicely.