Purple Mist & Scarlet Haze

As SHADOW agents stole his teleportation experiments, brilliant physicist Brad Raymond was accidentally trans­formed into the gaseous-formed menace Mr. Mist. For years after, Raymond battled against his intermittent sanity and permanently desolid state to regain his hu­manity. With the Freedom League's help, Raymond eventually recovered his purloined notes and components from SHADOW, which enabled him to develop a cure for his condition.
The newly restored Raymond learned two young orphan twins, Jordan and Holly Christopher, were also rescued from SHADOW, having been used as test subjects for rec­reating Mr. Mist’s abilities. SHADOW’s trials succeeded, but left the siblings emotionally and physically trau­matized. Feeling responsible for what had happened to them, Raymond tried and failed to remove the chil­dren’s powers, and in time his increasing guilt led him to become their legal guardian. Noble as his intentions were, Raymond was incapable of both rebuilding his life and parenting disturbed, super-powered young­sters. When teenage Jordan finally ran away for good, Holly in tow, all Raymond could do was begin a still-fruitless search.
Jordan soon embraced a life of thievery, drugs, sex, and emotional sadism. Holly, unable to live without her wicked brother, clung to him and hoped in vain he’d change. Recently, Jordan’s insatiable ap­petite for illicit delights brought him to Freedom City’s infamous House of Usher, and he eagerly embarked on a life of true supervillainy as one of its enforcers. Jordan took the codename Purple Haze, with Holly as his reluctant ac­complice Scarlet Mist.
While primarily a thief of cash, chemi­cals, and anything else that feeds his habits, Jordan is becoming increas­ingly pleased with the great rewards of hurting others for the House of Usher. Holly, as she has her entire life, simply goes along and hopes she will someday find peace, and her brother will be alive to share it.

Physical Description

Special abilities

Purple Haze can transform his body into a semi-opaque, amethyst-hued cloud of gas, rendering him as difficult to capture or harm as the air itself. He can force his gaseous self into the lungs of enveloped victims, and then asphyxiate them or (by altering his drug-laden body chemistry) flood their bloodstream with psychoac­tive substances. The specific hallucinations he chooses to induce are meant as ironic punishments, according to his twisted ideals.
Aided by his good looks, Purple Haze is a masterful de­ceiver. Since his powers preclude him from carrying weapons, he became a skilled brawler out of necessity, though using his fists remains a last resort.
Similarly, Scarlet Mist transmutes into a mass of blood-red mist, capable of drowning those compelled to breathe it in. Once victims are infiltrated, she can force the blood from their veins, producing tremendous pain, trauma, and (potentially) a grisly crimson arterial spray.

Mental characteristics

Intellectual Characteristics

Jordan is a young, beauti­ful, demoniacally char­ismatic, laughing Pan, drawing many irresistibly to him and his personal gospel of indulgent freedom. He com­bines his “liberating” acts of debauchery with seemingly deep and serious spoken ruminations on how he’s rebelling against the real evils of repres sion and hypocrisy while showing off his (broad but shallow) knowledge of poetry, music, literature, and other arts. So long as people are useful to his pursuit of selfish pleasures, this is the side of him they see.
The “useless” find Jordan is immature, petty, remorseless, and mockingly cruel. Even his seemingly deep love for Holly is partly a reflection of how her powers and loyalty are advantageous to him.
Holly shares her twin’s innate personal magnetism, but is quiet, bright, sensitive, and sweetly cherubic. She craves a normal life nearly as much as Jordan hungers for venality, but he’s been her whole life for so long she feels secure with no one else. When Jordan is endangered, the child­like viciousness within her emerges as she defends him. She is the far more stable and strong-willed of the two, but she refuses to abandon her brother.

Social

Contacts & Relations

In addition to his personality cult, Purple Haze is a regular patron and operative of the reborn House of Usher. Scarlet Mist has a number of admirers in many different walks of life, ready to do her favors out of sincere devotion and ad­miration.
As a result of the childhood abuse inflicted upon them, both twins hate and fear SHADOW. Many people wronged by Purple Haze seek revenge. The well-meaning Brad Raymond still seeks to find and cure them.

Gender

Male & Female