Ignis Fatuus

<infobox> <title source="name"><default>Ignis Fatuus</default></title>

<image source="Image"></image> <image source="image"></image> <group><header>Basic Information</header> <label>Civilian Name</label> <label>Aliases</label> <label>Gender</label><default>Unknown</default> <label>Death</label> <label>Age</label><default>Unknown</default> <label>Post-timeskip</label> <label>Ward start</label> <label>Relations</label> <label>Family</label></group> <group><header>Professional Status</header> <label>Occupation</label> <label>Classification</label> <label>Unique Features</label> <label>Alignment</label>

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Deceased

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<label>Location</label> <label>Teams</label> <label>Previous Team(s)</label> <label>Base of Operations</label></group> <group><header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label></group> </infobox> Ignis Fatuus is the name given to the clone of Eidolon created by Echidna. He shared his powers and memories, but, like all Echidna clones, felt a driving desire to destroy everything his original cared about.

Personality

Upon his creation, he wasn't worried by the armed heroes surrounding him, and was primarily concerned about being naked. His first use of his power was to create a costume for himself.<ref name="costume"/> He was shown to have a sense of dramatic flair, tilting Myrrdin's head up to the sky before executing him with a wavy-shaped blade.<ref>The Eidolon flickered, and a knife with a wavy blade appeared in his hand. Before Wanton could reach him, he gripped Myrddin’s mask, raised the hero’s chin towards the sky, knife held ready.

His hand convulsed, and he dropped the knife. Regent.

An instant later, he flickered, rendering his hand untouched, the knife back in position. He thrust it into the soft underside of Myrddin’s chin. - Excerpt from Scourge 19.6</ref>

He craved a good fight, similar to Eidolon. Unlike Eidolon, he was sadistic, lacking the original reasoning behind his desire for battle.<ref>“Craved a fight,” the words reached me despite the winds that were tearing across the battlefield. It wasn’t my bugs speaking, either. “I hoped you’d challenge me.”

Eidolon. He was echoing his sentiment from earlier, that had driven him to fight Echidna alone, except it was twisted, warped, the original reasoning forgotten.

“Do I need to get you angrier? Do I need to push you harder? I could torment you, inflict pain on your teammates until you’re forced to throw all caution to the wind and come at me with everything you’ve got. Or I could attack you on another level. Would you like me to tell you a story?” - Excerpt from Scourge 19.6</ref> He was seemingly uncaring of the well-being of his fellow clones, indiscriminately choking anyone, including clones, within the range of his aerokinesis.<ref>The vacuum extended roughly a hundred feet around him, the air condensing into threads that found him and flowed into his mask to sustain him. Even the clones on his side were suffering, falling to their hands and knees or running to get away. He was indiscriminate, and far more dangerous because of it. - Excerpt from Scourge 19.6</ref>

Appearance

Taylor described his naked form as unattractive, though it's unclear whether it's caused by deformations. He is also described as being small and below average.<ref>Eidolon. I couldn’t tell if he was unattractive by nature or if it was just mild deformations. He looked so small, so below average. - Excerpt from Scourge 19.5</ref>

His armored costume mirrored Eidolon's - a black hood, loose black sleeves and a pale red-orange glow emanating from each opening.<ref>He’d chosen his powers, and by the looks of it, he’d dressed himself in a mirror of his other self’s costume. A costume with a black hood, loose black sleeves and a pale red-orange glow emanating from each opening. - Excerpt from Scourge 19.6</ref> Taylor speculated that his armor was just as functional as the original.<ref>The Psycho-Eidolon stood, and Miss Militia opened fire, joined by several other capes. The Eidolon was driven back, forced to flicker to recover from the blasts. Again, his armor was absorbing the impacts. It would be the best stuff money could buy, if it was a functional copy of what his other self wore, and it was healing every time he did. - Excerpt from Scourge 19.6</ref>

Abilities and Powers

Ignus Fatuus displayed a "flickering" ability much like Scapegoat's, which he used to conjure costumes and tools for himself and a clone of Alexandria, as well as to heal injuries and free himself from bindings.<ref name="costume">The Eidolon-clone apparently wasn’t worried about the mass of armed heroes that were mobilized against him. No, his concern was being naked.

He touched Alexandria, and she flickered. When the flickering died out, she was dressed in a costume; a long white cape, a white bodysuit with high boots and elbow length gloves and a stylized helmet that let her long black hair flow free. The tower on her chest was a tumbled ruin. The ruined lighthouse. A mockery of her other self, the colors reversed.

I really wasn’t liking the implications for that flickering power. Healing, the costume… - Excerpt from Scourge 19.6</ref> He also used aerokinesis, that allowed him to create vacuums, make sounds carry, and fly.<ref>He took one step, and was carried off the ground. It wasn’t flight so much as floating. Combine that with the vacuum around him… It had to be aerokinesis. Manipulation of air. - Excerpt from Scourge 19.6</ref> Eidolon speculated that Ignis Fatuus wasn't affected by his slow loss of power.<ref name="I27">27.x (Interlude, Eidolon)‏‎</ref> Skitter, however, speculated that Ignis Fatuus was enhancing his power using his variant of Scapegoat's power, shifting through various possible states until he reached a desired state at full power.<ref name="19.6e1">The flickering. Was that some variant on Scapegoat’s power? More broad? Paging through realities to find the state he wanted to be in? Uninjured, dressed?

There were a lot of ugly possibilities with that one. Could he affect how he was accessing powers?-Excerpt from Scourge 19.6</ref>

History

Post-Slaughterhouse Nine

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He was finally killed by Miss Militia with a rocket launcher while trapped by Skitter's thread, which was affected by Clockblocker's ability.

Trivia

• He was only named in the chapter tags. The term ignis fatuus means a will-o-the-wisp - a malevolent ghost that leads travelers astray - or more generally something that misleads or deludes; whereas "Eidolon" means an idealized image or phantom of a person.
• Had Wildbow not received more donations, Ignis Fatuus would have had a larger role in the story, serving as a catalyst for Skitter investigating the setting's lore earlier than she did in the canon story-line. Consequently, Worm would have been far shorter.<ref name="SB26">Had there been no donations, it would have been a much smaller story. I probably would have killed off Tattletale, to gut Taylor's access to information she shouldn't have and keep her more on the same page with the reader, and I would have gotten more in depth with the whole 'figuring stuff out' bit. Clone-Eidolon's (Ignis Fatuus') big speech would have made her flip the fuck out. I probably would have driven her out of Brockton Bay to just get her out there and interacting with more setting elements (with a lot more emphasis on Faultline). The story would have been far shorter. - Comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles</ref>

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