Editing Jean-Paul "Alec" Vasil (section)

==History==
===Background===
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Born Jean-Paul Vasil, Alec was the fourth of Heartbreaker's children to develop powers.<ref>[[Buzz 7.1]]</ref>  At one point, when Alec was approximately eight years old, his father punished him for throwing a tantrum by giving Alec, as well as two of his sisters and a minder, a wave of intense terror.  In the aftermath of this event, Alec refused to speak for several months.<ref name="I11g"> - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/interlude-11g/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11g]]</ref>  He ended up undergoing a trigger event at the age of ten, likely due to his father's actions.  Jean-Paul worked for his father as "Hijack" for a few years, learning the family trade, until his father began to ride him. Nikos pushed Jean-Paul's limits, forced him to complete dangerous assignments, and forced him to do things that were hard on his conscience.

Eventually, Nikos had Jean-Paul kill a rival foot soldier that was trying to push them out of their territory before telling him that he did it wrong. Jean-Paul realized that, no matter what he would do, his father would tell him he had done it wrong and make him keep doing it.<ref name="7.1 e7">Alec shrugged, “So yeah.  I worked for him for three or four years.  We did jobs, I learned the family trade.  Called myself Hijack at first.  He started to get on my case.  I think maybe he was having trouble affecting me the same way he did before my powers kicked in, so he compensated for that by riding me.  Pushed my limits, made me do stuff that was dangerous, stuff that was hard on my conscience.  Wanted me to break, beg him to stop, so he’d have leverage to get me to do what he wanted.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/buzz-7-1/ Excerpt] from [[Buzz 7.1]]</ref>

Knowing his father would continually try and force him to be something he wasn't, Jean-Paul walked away.<ref name=":0"/> Hijack would acquire a new identity as Alec and "Regent". He was eventually contacted by [[Coil]] and joined the [[Undersiders]].<ref>[[Buzz 7.7]]</ref>
===Story Start===
Once the Undersiders learned that Lung was planning to attack them, they argued strategy for the better part of the day before deciding to meet him halfway. They encountered [[Oni Lee]] with half a dozen Azn Bad Boys and fought him. Eventually, Oni Lee got spooked and ran before the Undersiders continued on. They found Lung on a rooftop whereupon one of Bitch's dogs tackled him off while the other dogs landed on top of it.

Regent slid off his mount and then hurried over to the edge to watch Lung fight with Bitch's dog. He told Grue off after he introduced him "last and least", but in a tone to show he wasn't offended. Tattletale then told them that they had to scram and Regent got onto one of Bitch's dogs before they left.<ref name="1.5">[[Gestation 1.5]]</ref>

He participated in the [[Battle at the Bank]] and [[Battle at the Gallery]] alongside the Undersiders.

Shortly after [[Lung]] was brought into custody by the [[PRT]], [[Colin Wallis|Armsmaster]] pushed them to look into the [[Undersiders]]' backgrounds. They identified Regent's old identity as Hijack.<ref>"What do you know about how I grew up?" Regent challenged him.<br><br>"I know what the Protectorate knows.  Not long after Lung was brought into custody, Armsmaster began pushing for details on your group.  Staff at the PRT offices were tasked with looking through old criminal records and reports of lesser known parahumans, trying to find parallels.  Find if perhaps a supervillain in another area perhaps moved to Brockton Bay, changing their names, costumes and methods.  They found <em>you</em>." - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/tangle-6-8/ Excerpt] from [[Tangle 6.8]]</ref>

Stayed by [[Tattletale]]'s side when the Endbringer came to Brockton Bay given that his abilities made him utterly useless for the conflict.
===Post-[[Battle against Leviathan|Leviathan]]===
'Totally' wanted Skitter back on the team because she is both good at what she did and to make sure that Grue would 'unclench'.<ref name="C10">[[Parasite]]</ref> Destroyed [[Shadow Stalker]]'s career, by revealing what she had been doing to Taylor at [[Winslow High]], and by causing her to break her probation through using his power on her.<ref name="I10"/>

Collected [[Shatterbird]] in the battle against the [[Slaughterhouse Nine]]
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Did not contribute when the Undersiders' benefactor turned [[Coil's Betrayal|against them]]. He did participate in the later actions however.

===Post-[[Battle against Echidna|Echidna]]===
Was at the meeting to talk to the Bay's new villainous arrivals about the lay of the land.

Participated in the fight against the [[Fallen]], with the extracurricular activities he was doing with Imp being a deciding factor. He also [[Destruction of the Teeth|fought against]] the [[Teeth]]. Insuring his imprisoned sister was useful one last time.

He did not send a letter to the imprisoned Undersider leader, but said to say 'hi'.<ref>[[Drone 23.3]]</ref>

Killed by Behemoth during the [[New Delhi]] fight when he distracted the Endbringer from Imp, stepping out of cover into the aberration's firing range, doing so in order to allow his friend to get to safety.<ref name="24.4 c1">The insult doesn’t/didn’t matter – he was simply the first to step out of cover. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/crushed-24-4/#comment-59829 Comment by] [[Wildbow]] on [[Crushed 24.4]]</ref>

===Legacy===
The Undersiders mourn Regent’s death following New Delhi. However, Taylor is unable to join them, as she was forbidden from having any contact with her old team due to the conditions of her probationary Ward status.

Imp removed Heartbreaker from consideration and gained custody of Alec's various siblings. She later began educating herself in the classics and similar to be a good enough villain, while looking after his siblings.<ref name="e.2"/>