In creating original NPCs for my MasksXOverwatch campaign, I’m turning to the playable heroes’ alternate skins for inspiration. Eventually I’ll compile a document with all of them, but writing backstories takes time so for now I’ll just post them individually to see what y’all think.
Masquerade: Bronze generation, “to be whoever Talon needs him to be,” Afraid and Insecure
“Who do I want to be today…?”
Virgil Antonio was a small-time con man operating in the streets of Florence, until he scammed a member of the mafia, who set fire to his house in retaliation. He lost his left arm, and his face was severely burned (he has no hair anywhere, his nose and ears are just holes, and is face in general is sunken and vaguely skull-like). He wandered, broken and disfigured, until Talon found him and offered him a new lease on life. They fitted him with a prosthetic arm designed to look just like skin, and while they couldn’t restore his face, they used incredibly lifelike masks to give him a new one… or two… or twenty. Now, he serves Talon as a spy, infiltrator and assassin under the codename Masquerade.
*Change identities as easily as clothes
*Seamlessly blend in with any situation
*Fire a gun hidden in his cybernetic arm
#OverMasks
I love the idea of using their alternate skins as inspiration.
I agree, great way to develop more in-theme material quickly.
I love this character.
I feel like it might be cool to make a site like hardholder.com was for custom moves, but for Masks NPCs. The Infinite Deck of Villains.
OK, I’m working on that site right now.
The AEGIS Lock-Up Kit La Touche!
Contact me, I’d love to be in on this project.
Jason Corley Contact you how? And in what capacity do you want to be involved?
I was replying to Kit’s database idea. Sounds like you are on your way w/o me. 😀