Victor Zsasz

Character Bio

Personal Information

• Legal Name: Victor Zsasz
• Alias: N/a
• Age: 35
• Sexuality: Hetero
• Part of Gotham Residing In: Old Gotham

• "Man needs no divine assistance. He makes himself! I chose to exterminate the zombies. I chose to kill. But I hurt myself, too -- to remind me that even I am only human!"

Physical Description

5'10 in height and weighing just over 11 stone, Victor has a wiry build but with striking muscle definition giving him an unnatural appearing physique. His skin is naturally pale and compliments his blue eyes perfectly, finishing off his unnerving look. A total of 106 tally marks lie on his skin, though he avoids the neck, hand, feet and face for obvious reasons.

He typically wears a pair of workman jeans with boots, a plain under-shirt and a leather bomber jacket in the day. In the night not much changes, but he swaps the leather for a wind-breaker and wears a flat cap to hide his features. Zsasz always carries a hunting knife with him regardless off where he is going in the day.

Persona

Depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, borderline personality disroder and he cannot stand it when people don't wait for the second flash. Zsasz is unpredictable and excellent at hiding it form the public. By day he works on the pier, checking shipping crates for contraband a simple job that allows him to stay underneath the radar and avoid colleague contact. Zsasz spends all day counting the ways he can pose dead bodies, practicing with toys and pig carcasses as perfecting his killing is the only thing in his mind. Zsasz has one obsession and goal and that is to kill the Batman, he has only ever seen him on the television and in the media but he has been planning his encounter with the Batman for months now, wanting nothing more than to add his mark to his soft flesh.

He usually prefers to attack young women, but has no qualms about any number of victims. He slits their throats and leaves them in lifelike poses, adding a tally mark to his body for every person that he successfuly "liverates" from life. This sociopathic tendancy to think death is a liberating force is only superficial. He knows that there could be nothing on the otherside and that he's just killing to be killing, the trouble is, he's not dead, so he doesn't care. The only relative thing in his life is body-count. The more tally marks he can cut into his body, the better. They're trophies, and physical reminders of his accomplishments.

Key Skills

-Knife play -Bare-knuckle boxing -High-speed driving

Advantages

-High pain tolerance -Joy of violence -Physically fit -Appears physically incapable -No pattern of killing, making him difficult to track

Disadvantages

-Unstable mentality -Obvious psychotic tells (Zsasz has numerous physical tells when he is scared, nervous or excited to cause pain to others) -Short temper

Background

Zsasz was the head of his own software manufacturing company and had amassed an outstanding personal fortune, accompanied with his family fortune made him untouchable. At the age of 25 his parents died in a boating accident, sending him into a deep depression. He turned to gambling, drugs and violence, stepping into the darker places of Gotham for bare-knuckle boxing or dog baiting for a quick buck. His luck made a turn for the better however. At an illegal casino in Old Gotham he bumped into one Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot who flashed his money in Mr. Zsasz' face. Of course feeling lucky from previous winnings he played a round of blackjack with Cobblepot, but the short billionaire had been cheating and Zsasz lost everything. That was it for him, everything was gone and nothing remained, Cobblepot's goons even took the shirt off of his back.

Stunned, he became convinced that [color=maroon][size=10pt][font=georgia]"there was nothing at all at the center of me...no reason for being, no motivation, no purpose. I was just a robot, sleepwalking from one distraction to another, hiding from the truth."[/font][/size][/color] While he was attempting to commit suicide by jumping from Gotham Bridge, a homeless man tried to assault him with a knife after he refused to give him money. Instinctively grabbing the knife, Mr. Zsasz saw in the man's eyes that all life is meaningless and that nothing nor anyone matters. Mr. Zsasz had seen "nothing. He was a robot, driven by forces he didn't even know exist. He was a beast, an animal, a subhuman. Only death could ever save him from his own emptiness." He then proceeded to stab the man to death as a "gift" for saving his life. From then on, he dedicated himself to "liberating" others from their pointless existence. The years went by and Zsasz has racked up more than a hundred kills, mainly women whom he has raped and tortured before their slaughter. For every kill Zsasz adds a tally into his own flesh with his blade, though avoids his face to evade suspicion.

Character Extras

• Face Claim: Aaron Paul
• Ons and Offs:

Victor enjoys rough sex, group sex, non-con, violence, drawing blood and obviously every now and then killing after the act of coitus.