Vincenzo Maria Fontana / Algrogath / Toxin

Name: Vincenzo Maria Fontana

Monster’s Name: Algrogath

Villain Name: Toxin

Age: 25 26

Birthday: November 9

Gender: Genderfluid, dmab, usually male-presenting

Species: Eldritch-possessed human

Category: Student, Supervillain

Class: College

Grade: 2nd 3rd

College Major: Magic Theory


Appearance Description


Vincenzo is a monster painted on an angelic canvas. He’s tall at 6’1”ft, but not bulky by any means – he’s lanky, all skin and bones to an unhealthy degree. He hides this lankiness with clothes and perfect posture. Aside from his sickly looking body, Vincenzo resembles classical depictions of angels. He’s very pretty, practically doe-eyed. He has pale, pinkish skin, naturally medium blonde hair he dyed platinum, an aquiline nose, pink lips, and a normal human eye in a striking purple color.

The tragedy of Vincenzo is apparent in his features. While his base is angelic, it’s marred by horrific bodily changes, like dripping ink on someone’s portrait, or better yet, ripping off chunks of it. Vincenzo’s right eye – colloquially referred to as his “monster eye” – is visibly gone and covered with blank ink, though it could still be seen on his profile. His second most monstrous feature is his right arm, which has been replaced by a dangerous claw, with glowing purple tendrils circling it, the back displaying a purple jewel. Vincenzo has streaks or spots of this black Eldritch ink all over the body, marking where he regenerated and slowly spreading over time due to Algrogath’s slow consumption of both his mind and body.

Vincenzo is a fan of fashion and make-up. Vincenzo’s own sense of style could be described as a mix of classy and gothic. He likes solid chunks of black and purple, sometimes silver. When he uses patterns, they’re minimal and tasteful. He prefers to strike a nice silhouette. Additionally, Vincenzo likes popped collars on his jackets and coats to give off that villainous vibe. Vincenzo’s favorite coat is an old purple one with a popped collar.

When female, Vincenzo refers to herself as ‘Vin’. Vin continues her trend of classy and gothic even in this gender, but there’s a lot more indulgence thrown into it. She doesn’t half-ass her girliness – when she’s in the mood to be a girl, she wants to be the prettiest girly girl. Vin allows more cutesy patterns, laces, and ruffles in general. Vin has a short, girly haircut framing her pretty face, often adorned with spooky accessories. Sometimes, she goes full on pastel cute when she’s feeling giddy about her husband.

Whatever he’s wearing, he makes sure that it’s ironed, cleaned and nicely put. If he’s ever seen ruffled, there’s something seriously wrong. Vincenzo puts on an eyepatch to cover his monster eye most of the time, mostly because prolonged exposure to the things he could see with it had a habit of stretching his sanity. In school settings, Vincenzo hides it with glamour, making him look like a normal person.

As Toxin, Vincenzo favors a female form, though Toxin can be seen as make. Female Toxin dresses provocatively, but will always have long, purple hair, a gas mask, and a necklace with the toxic sign (skull with two bones across it) on it. Male Toxin also has purple hair but shorter, a gas mask, and a billowy coat with the toxic sign on it. Both Toxins have a deep, mechanical voice.

Vincenzo has a soft voice in both forms, almost hollow, but articulate and erudite. Vin’s voice claim here.


Algrogath’s real form is an 8ft long purple octopus body, slick and vaguely luminescent like an eel. It has eyes at either side of its long face with a black sclera and golden irises, with little feelers surrounding it. It’s quadrupedal, covered in tentacles and little tendrils with suction cups.

Of course, due to possessing Vincenzo, Algrogath has no access to its real form. When temporarily taking over Vincenzo’s body, Algrogath has his body type, but the face would be different. Algrogath’s form has similar eyes, and a mouthful of needle-like teeth. It has white hair neatly combed to the side, though the sheen to it suggests it’s not human hair, and there are small ridges decorating its limbs. Algrogath’s skin is black, slimy and cold like an eel. There are also eight tentacles protruding from its back.





Personality Description


updated February 10 2017

Vincenzo initially comes off as cheerful and self-absorbed with a dark sense of humor. This gets watered down or amplified depending on who he’s talking to. Around his professors and in the library, Vincenzo doesn’t seem like this at all, instead posing as a soft-spoken, well-mannered gentleman. When in the presence of people he’s comfortable with or even total strangers, this dials up to eleven, and he may even expose his crowd to outlandish actions, words, and behaviors.

There’s a vibe he gives out that makes him seem airy and difficult to understand. He might even come off as ditzy evil to most. Vincenzo has a hard time processing what’s normal, what’s real, and what’s accepted, and in his state, it’s impossible to care about things dictated by society because he doesn’t see the value in it. He approaches real life common objects like objects of fascination. Faced with human convention people often take for granted, Vincenzo asks, what is this? Rest assured, Vincenzo understands most of his questions on a conceptual level, but he doesn’t understand the inherent value people put on them. When given a perspective other than ‘just because’ (and one he understood!), Vincenzo would attempt to internalize it and apply it in his interactions with others.

This is Vincenzo’s attempt at genuinely reaching out to others. Before, he would just say pretty words and act in a way he knew a person would deem desirable, but now, he’s making an honest effort to connect to them in a more substantial way. It’s harder and more frustrating, but in a way, a lot more satisfying than hollow, manipulative interactions. Vincenzo started acting this way because he found that normalizing a more palatable persona would point less fingers at him and discourage people from reporting him to the police just because he existed in their general direction. It’s less fun but more safe, and he’s starting to find the value of trying to understand people, even if they’re frustrating to deal with. Once a cover became his default, common personality.

Vincenzo hasn’t shaken off his maliciousness, though, not by a mile. He’s decided to vent his worse impulses through his villain identity known as Toxin. Toxin engages in miscellaneous crimes, different every time in harshness and humor but always guaranteed to be flashy. Toxin is a known saboteur in Manta Carlos with no loyalties. She preys on anyone – rich, poor, criminals, law enforcement, you name it! There aren’t any patterns to her crimes other than entertainment. Toxin is a trickster type that could make or break something, benevolent at times, malicious in others. Toxin’s unpredictability makes her a dangerous criminal to be trifled with, because you never know when she’ll stab you in the back for shits and giggles.

Vincenzo has low, low empathy and a sadistic streak. He likes pissing people off and making them squirm. It’s part of why he has such a low kill streak despite Toxin – when people die, the fun ends, and he doesn’t want that! Even in casual conversations, when Vincenzo gets bored with a person, he attempts to make them more interesting by being mean and poking at their sensitive areas. Vincenzo’s got such an airy personality that very few people would be able to piss him off. If, somehow, someone managed to provoke Vincenzo’s rage, he’d seek to rip them apart with no mercy.

Past the surface, Vincenzo has a more vulnerable spot that he doesn’t let people see. Vincenzo’s a trauma survivor, with a whole stew of mental disorders that makes it hard for him to function at any normal capacity. Vincenzo’s not a stranger to self-harm, but his self-harm comes in the form of repeatedly triggering himself or putting himself in danger. He finds both very thrilling worthwhile endeavors. Vincenzo processes fear and ecstasy as the same thing. He doesn’t fear things in the normal sense anymore. When presented with the opportunity to be ripped apart, his answer would always be an enthusiastic “yes, please!”

He doesn’t like the softer parts of his vulnerability, the kind that sprouts from frustration without the adrenaline. Sometimes, he’d get frustrated with things and start crying. This could come from something as trivial as a dead leech or something as important as missing his husband. When this happens, Vincenzo throws a baby tantrum and hides under his bedsheets until he’s mentally ready to take the world on again. Not only that, Vincenzo’s mind is taking substantial damage from Algrogath’s continued pushing. Vincenzo can barely process object permanence, forgets memories, feelings, and even people. Vincenzo knows when his mind is crumbling. His biggest fear is losing control of his mind and body.

Vincenzo isn’t free from real positive traits. He’s tough and a fighter, and he will not go down without a fight. He’s creative, he’s intelligent, and he’s passionate. He has a deep love of knowledge for its own sake, so many people acknowledge his genius even if they don’t necessarily like him. Because he tries to approach things through a scholar’s perspective, he can even provide a wisdom most people wouldn’t expect from him. He’s capable of being dependable, and because people think so little of him, he tries harder to win their approval. Additionally, when a person wins Vincenzo over, he’d keep coming back to them like a cat. He’s very needy and he loves the affections.

Even if he can’t match the affection, patience and dedication given to him by Milo, Vincenzo cares about him in a capacity he’s not even aware of. Vincenzo is very affectionate to Milo, openly shares his secrets with him, and attempts to take care of him, even if Milo rarely approves of the methods he does them. He’s also shown a bigger interest in Milo’s interests and hobbies even if before they had little in common. Vincenzo openly admires Milo and considers him the only good person in the world.


Algrogath is a being of pure monstrous horror. And it’s fantastic! Algrogath loves being monstrous and horrific. It’s always a good time. Algrogath’s parents, well not parents more like the giant tentacle creatures that laid eggs that spawned Algrogath and its millions of siblings, always say that Eldritch Abominations like them are incomprehensible by the human mind and attempting to decipher them would end in nothing but madness. But that’s ridiculous. Algrogath would like to sit with humans and talk about their hopes and dreams, everything and nothing at all.

Algrogath has many interests, such as collecting small circular objects and small tufts of hair, but its biggest interest of all is humanity in general. Algrogath loves humans to little bits! What with their cute clothing items and the many pieces of leaves they value so much put in fancy carrier pockets. Algrogath can’t wait until its powers corrupt this poor sap so it can finally eat, breathe and live among all the cute humans it loves so much.



Powers


Power doesn’t come cheap. Vincenzo has traded several of his things to the Eldritch Abomination Algrogath to become more powerful and rise above his situation.

Heirloom : Bail

Power: Decoy

Vincenzo can put up one copy of himself anywhere at all and make it last for 24 hours. This form will either be completely solid or hollow depending on its purpose. It will disappear automatically after the 24th hour, when it gets severely injured or when Vincenzo disables the magic. This form does not have access to his abilities and he can only do this once day.

Price: An ancient magical pendant that belonged to the Fontana Family

Toll to his health: Vincenzo has zero control of what this decoy would do. In fact, this is completely controlled by Algrogath. You’d think having an Eldritch Abomination run around with your face would be the lesser evil, but try coming home a criminal and having several bizarre crimes pinned on you. Hahaha, whoops.

Eye : The All-Seeing Eye

Power: The power to see rifts in this dimension and spirits, and, to a lesser degree, aura, powerful magic, minor illusions and glamour.

Exactly what the heading said. Rifts are sensitive holes in this dimension that act as doorways to nearby parallel dimensions. Vincenzo’s magic is not so refined that he could cross dimensions so easily, but he can use the lesser rifts to hide in pocket dimensions. Sometimes, there are minor rifts left by people that know how to teleport. He can travel through them but he doesn’t know where the other end would lead and how long the rift would stay often. He can also accidentally enter fourth dimensional planes with non-Euclidean geometry. Those planes are very dangerous and filled with monsters that would want to tear him apart or drive him insane. He usually errs on the side of caution regarding this power.

Spirits are not limited to the deceased. He can also see astral projections and supernatural spirits.

Price: The vision in his right eye

Toll to his health: Several. When both of his eyes are open, his depth perception and sense of direction are absolute shit, and his vision is a mess of spirits and rifts. He is looking at the world simultaneously in the spirit world and the material plane. In order to properly use this power, he has to cover one of his eyes with an eyepatch, which is an affront to nature in itself.

Being able to see all sorts of disturbing things all the time can mess a man up. This power has taken a huge toll to his mental health. Vincenzo dislikes letting his right eye see things as he’ll be riddled with paranoia and hallucination for days. It stresses him out to the point that his organs don’t work properly.

Arm : Reaching Across Planes

Power: Power absorption / Enhanced Strength and Reflexes / Invulnerability (concentrated on arm)

Vincenzo can absorb and store magical attacks and energy using his right arm. That means that he can absorb stuff like fireballs and electricity from outlets into his arm and reuse them later. He can only store up to five different things, and once he uses them, he can’t reuse them until he absorbs them again. He can use these powers creatively. For example, someone throws a lightning bolt at him. He could throw it back as a lightning bolt, or he could use half of it to electrocute people one by one.

This arm is incredibly strong and invulnerable to attacks. That’s pretty much where the strength and invulnerability ends. The rest of him is very weak.

Price: His right arm

Toll to his health: Vincenzo gave his right arm to Algrogath. Algrogath can’t use this right arm as his own, but it gave it proper footing inside Vincenzo’s body. Algrogath is constantly attacking Vincenzo’s immune system by poisoning him with his right arm. Because of this, Vincenzo is getting weaker and weaker everywhere, constantly plagued by sickness and getting affected by the smallest things, like eating chocolate that is a tad too strong and the slightest wind blown at his direction. Vincenzo is easily exhausted by physical activity.

Vincenzo has never been very healthy, but this attack on his body is sending him closer and closer to death. The silver lining about all this is that Algrogath isn’t intending to kill him! Just weaken him to the point where his will would be weak enough that Algrogath could kick him out and comfortably settle in his body. Yep, yep. He’s getting there.

Family : The Price of Eternity

Power: Regeneration and Immortality

When Vincenzo is torn apart, Algrogath can put him back together again good as new. Algrogath has pumped enough Eldritch sludge into Vincenzo’s system that it could heal cuts and bruises faster than any doctor.

Vicenzo can’t die through violence, diseases or age, but he is still visibly aging. He never asked for youth.

Price: The lives of his family members

Toll to his health: Several. The mutilated parts will exude black sludge around the edges. It slowly creeps around like black veins around his skin, and at times, pulses with blinding pain as if Vincenzo’s system is rejecting the sludge itself, white blood attacking black. This episodes are enough to knock Vincenzo unconscious, given his already fragile physical and mental pain.

This powerful spell also gave Algrogath the ability to take over Vincenzo’s body when he’s unconscious, either when Vincenzo is asleep or knocked out in battle. Vincenzo has tried not sleeping because of this but eventually, his human body failed him and he resigned to a fate where Algrogath is controlling him half of the time instead of all the time.

Also, while he can’t die through violence and disease, it’s important to note that he could still feel them to their full effects. This is especially tough since Algrogath greatly compromised his immune system. Vincenzo is almost always constantly sick.

Algrogath

When Vincenzo is unconscious, Algrogath will play. Algrogath’s human form has the same build as Vincenzo’s body but with black skin with ridges and a completely different face, white hair combed to the side, three eyes with black sclera and yellow iris. Algrogath doesn’t have Vincenzo’s magic, but at the same time, it doesn’t have all his physical problems either. In this form, it’s notable that Algrogath has two all-seeing eyes, two magical arms, legs that could walk on walls and ceilings, and immortality with added regeneration. It has eight slimy tendrils it can use to pick up stuff or squeeze people. It’s not powerful but it is difficult to kill. Don’t worry, it just wants a hug!




Vincenzo has always had an affinity with the darker sorts of magic due to the magic running in the Fontana veins and this was amplified tenfold after he was half-possessed by Algrogath.

Strong Magical Potential

The Fontana family has always had magical potential in their genes. They’re just very hush-hush about it. Vincenzo was born with innate potential for magic. Algrogath’s constant poisoning of his blood stream might be damaging, but it’s also magically sensitive so he learns spells faster than the average person.

Ritual Summoning

Vincenzo is knowledgeable and talented regarding ritual summoning of demons and abominations. This isn’t particularly special since this is something they teach in school and he would require a decent grimoire and other items for it. His mental health is not strong enough to endure more than one ritual summon a week and you can scratch the stronger demons and abominations off the list.

Telekinesis

Vincenzo can carry, knock back and throw up to 250 pounds dispersed into a maximum of 5 items within a 1 kilometer radius. He used to be stronger but recently, anything bigger than that takes a ridiculous toll to his health.



Biography



Vincenzo was born to the well-off Fontana family hailing from Sicily, Italy. The Fontana family was known to be wealthy land owners, having the deed to several of Italy’s biggest farms and associated stores as well as low key ties to the Sicilian mafia. Vincenzo’s family was close enough to the main branch of the Fontana family so they had a good portion of the wealth and a land to supervise.

Vincenzo’s parents and grandmother always argued because the Fontana family has always suppressed the magic that ran in their genes, and Vincenzo was one of the unfortunate black sheep that evidently possessed them. Vincenzo was passionate about magic. Even though his parents rapped his hands with thick sticks or burn his palms to deter him from magic, he would make objects dance in the air or crush rocks with his mind.

This, alongside with the strain in his parents’ marriage and his mother and grandmother’s evident hatred towards each other, made the house miserable. His father became a tyrant, his mother suicidal and his grandmother nitpicking at every single thing. Vincenzo put up with it for years, justifying the physical and psychological abuse as something all children go through.

When Vincenzo was around nine chasing butterflies in the corn fields, he heard a gunshot within the house. He ran inside and found his mother dead on the floor. As he investigated the scene, he picked up the gun from her hand, and in a moment of poor timing, his father rushed inside the room. Needless to say, his excuses fell on deaf ears. Vincenzo was beaten for hours, bleeding and begging for him to stop, and when his father got tired of it, he was thrown in his room for the night and shipped to the nearby boarding school the next day.

The boarding school was hell. Vincenzo was always a meek, isolated child and being stuck in a room full of 20 children gave him panic attacks. He expressed these concerns to the dorm manager that ignored him most of the time, and it was only when Vincenzo got into a fist fight with one of his roommates that ended with his roommate’s teeth on the ground that they sent him to a dirty room at the attic. The room was claustrophobic to say the least, and it didn’t make sense in a geometric sense. If one were to observe the room from outside, the proportions and dimensions were all off. It seemed so small somehow. It didn’t help that there were odd rumors about the old tenant practicing forbidden magic inside the bedroom.

There was something about the room that made Vincenzo uneasy. Every night, he would be haunted by dreams of an unidentified sea creature with razor sharp teeth and eyes whispering things he couldn’t understand.

Months passed in the boarding house. Nobody forgot about Vincenzo’s outburst. Since the kid he punched down was actually one of the teachers’ son, Vincenzo became a pariah because nobody wanted to be on the bad side of that teacher.

Being alone in a crowd was worse than being alone in the literal sense. Vincenzo hated the boarding school and yet he didn’t want to come back to his old house with his shit father and grandmother. He often sat alone at lunch with his nose buried in a book, if only to look less pathetic than he already did. That didn’t stop his peers from smacking him at the back of the head or calling him names and vandalizing his stuff. The worst of the bullying was when Vincenzo came back to his room and saw it massively defaced with paint and rotten eggs. He painstakingly cleaned up his stuff, muttering promises of revenge under his breath that he would never ever forget.

He continued to dream of the monster. He woke up from a dream one night on Walpurgisnacht and saw a soft, faint glow of purple at the side of the room. He followed the purple light throughout the school, careful not to let anyone see him skulking around at the middle of the night. His investigations were stopped when one of the supervisors saw him on the hallway. The supervisor then beat him with a stick and made him promise never to show his face here before classes started.

The light and the dreams continued, with there being nights where Vincenzo would just find himself waking up on the floor with his wooden wall having claw marks and the tip of his fingers bleeding. His “efforts” “paid off” one day when he woke up one morning and there was a visible hole in the wall made by the aforementioned clawing. As Vincenzo pulled the planks off, it revealed a secret passage to a secret room.

At first glance, he believed it belonged to a madman of some sort. There were white writings on the wall of numbers and formulas with small notes on the sides. Whatever they might be, they were incomprehensible to anybody but the author. Vincenzo fell asleep at the middle of the summoning circle, and while sleeping he dreamt of a ritual and words that he could recall in the morning. He gathered up all the necessary items and summoned the monster in his dreams.

The monster came out and introduced itself as Algrogath. After a brief discussion, they reached an accord: Algrogath would help Vincenzo get out of his school situation if Algrogath paid him in blood. Vincenzo offered it an heirloom he was given instead, and it was shiny enough that Algrogath saw this as an acceptable compromise. Algrogath gave Vincenzo the power to make decoys. By making decoys, Vincenzo could go around and do whatever he wanted.

He tried it out. The decoy went to class for him. Vincenzo used this opportunity to board the nearby class going anywhere. It stopped at the nearby city, and there Vincenzo had the best day of his life: He walked around with no one bothering him and ate good, cheap food. When the sun set, he went back to the school and immediately got detained by security. Vincenzo’s blood froze. Did they find out that he skipped school?

It turned out that his decoy caused all sorts of mischief while he was gone. It didn’t even go to class. It just went around stirring shit for everybody. It ate all the green vegetables in the kitchen, stole coins from people’s wallets, stabbed a blackboard to the point it was unusable and threw a dead bird into the window of the teacher’s office. The disciplinary committee beat Vincenzo and gave him detention for a year, and then Vincenzo swore he would never ask help from Algrogath ever again.

He soon went back on that word when, around fourteen, Vincenzo’s looks began to bloom. Vincenzo was prettier, thinner and more delicate than his peers. While normally they shouldn’t care about this development, he neglected to realize he was stuck in an all-boy’s boarding school miles away from the city, with a class that was just learning about puberty. They didn’t do anything in the day but god forbid Vincenzo leave his room in the night. He was on the edge of constant danger, and it peaked when the door was broken open one night.

A teacher of all things snuck into his room at night. After he had his way with him, the teacher threatened to kill him if he ever told anybody. Vincenzo was too shaken up to go to class that day. He etched red lines across his skin and on the floor, and when the sun finally set, he called Algrogath once more and gave him his eye.

The eye was powerful, much more powerful than the previous spell. The eye helped him understand the writings on the wall. They were locations of rifts and secret passages in the school. Vincenzo used the knowledge of rifts to hide in pocket dimensions and travel to different locations in the school for safety purposes, but he could only hide the eye with bandages for so long. The school staff found out. They held him down as they forcibly unwrapped it. They were met with a horrific sight: An eye with a black sclera and gold pupils.

They called him the demon child and contacted his family but nobody in the estate answered. They tried exorcism and just outright beating the demon out of him, but it was no use. The eye was really like that. Vincenzo hoped this would scare the other boys into leaving him alone but they became more violent because of the new addition to his body. Vincenzo stopped being the delicate pretty boy and became a dangerous attraction. The poking, insults and bullying dramatically spiked as they tried to get the demon out.

They got it. Vincenzo gave his arm to Algrogath and used the arm to take all the electric power in the school. After that, he used a rift to get into the kitchen and set it ablaze, absorbing the fire into his arm. His arm pulsed with great stored power of electricity and fire. As his peers scrambled to get the electricity back on, Vincenzo slaughtered every. Single. One. Of. Them.

When the smoke cleared and the carnage died down, Vincenzo stole all the money he could find and boarded the next train hoping to start a new life far away from the school. He found a small apartment in Sweden and began to work as help in a bakery. It was a simple life, loading and unloading fresh bread into carts every morning and afternoon. That was enough.

His illusion of a new life shattered when his grandmother eventually found him and dragged him to the estate. There, the old life continued, but he was treated as a monster for his mutations (instead of just a mistake). Vincenzo didn’t want to play the meek sheep anymore. Vincenzo and his father were constantly butting heads over trivial matters. His father was loud and abrasive. Vincenzo had a sharp tongue. They could never agree on anything. One day, Vincenzo finally said something that provoked his father enough that he tried to kill him. It was all the motivation Vincenzo needed to tie his family down and offer their blood to Algrogath.

There, Algrogath gave Vincenzo everything he wanted: Eternity. Vicenzo became the Head of the Fontana estate and lived in an empty house for years, finding idle fancies like harassing the help and studying his magic. Day by day, he was beginning to notice the extreme toll he was paying to maintain his powers. His nights were marked by nightmares and restlessness. His days were marked by constant pain and illness. He was immortal, but at what cost?

The letter to Starlight Academy came. He didn’t hesitate to go to the school so he could leave this place behind. There, he was allowed to learn magic as freely as he pleased, but his physical and mental health made it difficult to attend class as often as he liked. He only takes about two classes every semester, and even then it’s marked with constant absences. Still, he’s determined to learn as much magic as he can so he could find a way to overpower this blasted abomination permanently.


Additional Information:

• If they ever get separated somehow, I’ll make another profile for Algrogath.
• Pansexual and happily married to his husband, Milo. Doesn't understand the concept of monogamy or why people associate sex with love, but goes along with it to make Milo happy.