Doc Holiday

There exists a malefic, resentful, other-dimensional entity that is the dark mirror of the joy and reverence inspired by earthly festivals and celebrations. As it grew in power, it exercised a greater malign influence on our world. Its first major accomplishment was to subtly manipulate Freedom City resident Bryant Haliday into becoming the super-villain known as Doc Holiday during the 1960s.
Haliday eventually regained enough strength of will to resist the entity and give up costumed crime, leaving it more embittered and focused on inflicting its terrible designs on mankind. The entity bided its time, gathering more strength, until it was able to possess and physically transform a human host. Showing its wicked sense of mirth, the entity chose to infect FCU student Mark Holiday simply because of his name and his mistfortune in choosing his namesake “Doc” Holiday as the theme for a college costume party (that terribly awry).
Since that time, the good and decent Mark Holiday has periodically been forced to become the entity’s host, involuntarily perpetrating mass terror as the second Doc Holiday. The new Doc Holiday is a greater menace than the first, having far less madcap whimsy and a desire to inflict nothing but fear and misery. This leaves the increasingly agitated, guilt-ridden Holiday ever more driven to find release from the Doc Holiday curse, knowing he’s only one flip of the calendar away from becoming a city-wide menace.
Thus far, all forms of treatment, both scientific and supernatural, have failed to alleviate Holiday’s unique condition. Once aware of his curse, he initially tried locking himself up on important holidays, but the entity always found a way to escape once it controlled and transformed his body. Similarly, he tried taking sedatives, but these apparently had no effect on his other selves, and left Holiday even more disoriented and less in control. Likewise, the few mystic practitioners and resources he has sought out have not been able to break the curse.

Physical Description

Special abilities

Doc Holiday manifests as a mystically-powered, evil and twisted embodiment of major holidays. The specific powers and abilities change with each particular appearance, but are always derived from the holiday then occurring.

Mental characteristics

Intellectual Characteristics

Mark is intelligent and charming, only occasionally showing his great anxieties about his accursedness. Doc Holiday is fiendishly clever, ruthlessly cruel, and malevolent, doing whatever causes the most terror and destruction.