Viko
Viko: Potential Stories & Narrative Technique
Viko power progression
Season 1: infernal & solar. learns electric & wind from Nyrus in Exchange for teaching him infernal and solar
Season 2: infernal, solar, electric & wind. learns land from Haku & water from Hana. Also learns how to better control his chaotic senses from Kiara
Season 3: infernal solar electric wind land and some water. Also has control of his chaotic sense and his other chaotic-based powers. Can mold his shield into a pair of glider wings, then uses his control of air fire and raw plasmic energy he can expel himself forward and direct himself while flying
Inner demon/impulse to do bad stuff parallels to drug & alcohol addiction
Viko’s weapons
Season 1
•Glaive (abandoned sometime after leaving Danarim because it was annoying to carry)
•Longsword (double-edged)
•Morningstar (versatile)
•Shield
Season 2
•Escrima Sticks (learned from Kiara & Haku)
•Longsword (double-edged)
•Morningstar (versatile)
•Shield
Season 3
•Dragonbone Escrima: 1d8 bludgeoning, can alter the surface to deal piercing damage.
•Remnant Longsword: jagged, single-edged, 1d8 slashing with one hand and 1d10 with both. Forged from the pieces of his broken weapons from Season 2.
•Dakatrite Mace: When desiring an offensive bludgeoning weapon, he shapes the shield into its Morningstar form, which has the versatile property and does 1d8/1d10 bludgeoning damage.
•Dragonbone Glaive: formed when Viko combines his Dakatrite Mace & Dragonbone Escrima sticks. 1d12 slashing damage with blade, 1d8 bludgeoning damage with shaft, 1d10 piercing when thrown 20/60 ft, 10 ft reach for melee attacks. Has a sharp backside, making it a double glaive
•Dakatrite Shield: +4 AC, 1d6 bludgeoning for Shield Bash, 1d6 slashing if thrown or slammed into a target on the edges. When on his back, he can shape them into metallic wings, using his powers in tandem to fly/glide.
Season 4
•Dragonbone Escrima: 1d8 bludgeoning, can alter the surface to deal piercing damage. Can be shaped into a staff for 1d10 bludgeoning & 10 ft reach. Can be compacted to the size of a wand with Viko’s advanced antimatter control.
•Memoriam Longsword: forged from his Remnant Longsword & some Dakatrite recovered from the Thugoran Chaos after Season 3’s finale. Double-edged & versatile for 1d10/1d12 slashing damage. Can be compacted to the size of a knife with Viko’s advanced antimatter control.
•Dakatrite Shield: +4 AC, 1d6 bludgeoning for Shield Bash, 1d6 slashing if thrown or slammed into a target on the edges. When on his back, he can shape them into metallic wings, using his powers in tandem to fly/glide. When desiring an offensive bludgeoning weapon, he shapes the shield into its Morningstar form, which has the versatile property and does 1d10/1d12 bludgeoning & piercing damage. Can be compacted to the size of a handheld orb with Viko’s advanced antimatter control.
Other stuff
•has a pet Dragonhound
•I write Viko as an increasingly powerful & near invincible being because of how vulnerable I feel (ex. Fear of law enforcement channels into Viko slaughtering guards & soldiers)
•His hearts greatest desire would also lead his greatest fear; his desire is to fight, dominate & become the greatest warrior on Gaion, but when he achieves this, his greatest fear of people (especially his friends & family) seeing him for the monster he sees himself as and abandoning him, like his mother did to him (channel real life narcissism into this)
•one of his inner fears/phobias is of disease, as no amount of his strength and power can easily counter something so internal and invasive (reflects my real life fear). When he and the GaioCorp cross paths with a cult/enemies worshipping Neris, the encounter triggers a panic attack when he and/or his team contracts a disease (relate this to your real-life panic attacks that you have when you fear you’ve caught something)
•Inner monologue and pacing, talking to myself as if I’m exchanging ideas with another person
•Bloodfire: It’s not always a complete shift in your state of being, like I previously invisioned. Initially, intense negative emotions (anger, hatred, despair, etc.), boosts of adrenaline (life or death situations), & aggressive physical states (combat) can trigger Thugoran magic within the user, intentionally or unintentionally. The intensity of Bloodfire can vary; during combat it merely gives the warrior a physical and mental edge over their opponents, enhancing their strength, speed, durability, stamina, and inherent magical abilities. However, during intense negative emotional states and adrenaline-pumping situations, it can take over quickly and effectively, amplifying the users negative emotions and personality traits to create a monstrous version of their former self (drawing inspiration from my alcoholism & narcissistic rage)
•Thugoran magic builds up in the body, but it requires killing to spark/ignite into Bloodfire. This gives the user an intense bloodlust, ranging from being “in the zone” during combat to uncontrollably raging against anyone in your vicinity, especially the initial target of that rage. During bad times in a Thugora user’s life, the bloodlust can feel like an addiction (drawing inspiration from my pot addiction). After heavy Bloodfire Rage episodes, Viko can pass out for several hours to days at a time to recover.
•When battle is not readily available, Viko occasionally partakes in sadistic torture against those they have committed egregious acts, such as slavery, murder of innocents, or torture of innocents. He normally shooes everyone away when he does this, as he doesn’t want them to see this side of him. However, this level of justified sadism does satisfy his demonic bloodlust when necessary
Include a story where Viko kills his childhood bullies from Banatar. This incident is what gets him banished from the city-state and separated from his mom.
•Lynus Tribbel
•Rickel Mendenda
•play off the names of other bullies
Viko’s mental illnesses:
1. on and off battle with Bloodfire addiction (draws parallels to my struggle with alcoholism and pot addiction)
2. Anxiety, shown through over-aggressive response to challenge/minor issues; putting up a tough front but being ill-equipped to handle when someone gives it back (this is also narcissism in its own way)
3. Depression/PTSD, from being brutally beaten/nearly killed by Thatos after the latter killed his friends [canon]. Continued on and developed into a minor amount of Stockholm syndrome while being trained/tortured by Daedrius [non-canon]
4. Extreme anxiety towards perfectionism, due to the abusive way Goruk trained him. Constantly wants to live up to his expectations and please the crowds
When Thatos completes his reascension, Viko (having had all of his weapons broken) beats the Lord Goruk form to death as Thatos’ laughter echoes throughout the sky, tears in Viko’s eyes. He knows it’s pointless, he’s already lost everything.
Viko Perniam War stuff
1. After the season 2 finale, Chaoblade (Thatos’ sword) & Dracospear (Thatos’ spear) were left on Serega. Viko, the only known survivor of the conflict at the time, gathered the weapons while he grieved his losses in anger. He would later use the bones & metal that made up the weapons to craft a new sword & shield (metal), and kali sticks (bone). During his grief, he worked as a Bounty Hunter, Mercenary & Assassin for clients all across Thagoros.
2. Over time, Viko added the bones of his enemies to the density of his sticks, similar to how Haku densified wood for his own. Similarly, he converted the metal of his enemies’ weapons & armor to replicate the divine metal of his sword & shield, adding mass/density to both and giving Viko the ability to morph his shield into wings. These give him aerial control, while he projects Rouzhai Fire from his limbs to fly. To keep the rest of his body stable while doing so, he creates Rouzhai Currents by emitting small antimatter particles to collide with air particles.
3. Mercenary team he occasionally works with:
•Wiskrak - Rouzhai goblin, ranged fighter, uses a whip, projectiles, & a longbow
•Kongor - Rouzhai ogre, uses heavy weapons in both hands or fights unarmed
•Alphon - Orc werewolf, highly skilled hand-to-hand/animalistic fighting style, can shift between Orc, wolf & hybrid forms willingly
•Dednok - a hobgoblin zombie that used antimatter technology to retain his intelligence after death, uses an antimatter war suit & other technology in the field
4. After the merc team turns on him to collect a bounty on his head, Viko lashes out on his own, killing for pleasure rather than money & taking out whole armies & cities at a time. Chaotic sycophants began following in his wake, making him a terroristic warlord.
-Loss of friends grief steps:
•Denial of feelings/acting like it’s fine
•Anger towards them for leaving/making you push them out
•Sadness because you constantly miss them
Season 3 Viko: the combined grief and insatiable rage from the loss of his friends and mother at the hands of Thatos (his father) truly breaks him. He unleashes his rage-fuled Rouzhai & demonic powers indiscriminately on the battlefield, killing with no remorse due to his detachment and feeling only temporary satisfaction with each kill. His power functions as both an addiction & a cathartic release, but it’s never enough. This is why he becomes one of the most violent protagonists of all time
Season 4 Viko: after dealing with Thatos and putting an end to that chapter of trauma, Viko somehow has to move on. With Kiara as support, he goes through major depressive episodes and guilt for how many people he killed, but eventually finds meaning in it. He presents himself more peacefully during his missions in the world, holding back his strength & power when he fights instead of unleashing it without care. He tries to help as many people as he can, exploring his compassionate side and doing as much right as possible to balance out his wrongs (parallel to why I’m so nice to people, to make up for all the times I was mean).
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