Satyrical

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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> Satyrical or Satyr for short, is the current leader of the Las Vegas Protectorate.

Personality

Satyrical appears to enjoy lying and head games. He is overtly sexual and very flirtatious but remains in love with Pretender. Further, he knows how to use these traits to his advantage.

Appearance

Satyrical wears a helmet sculpted to look like a goat's head with its mouth in a perpetual smile and large eyeholes, belts and leggings. His chest is muscular and waxed free of all hair..<ref name="23.2 e1">Satyrical, Satyr for short, wore a helmet sculpted to look like a goat’s head, the mouth in a perpetual smile. On a good day, I imagined his eyes were bright with mischief, his shaped eyebrows quirked behind the large eye-holes of the helmet. This wasn’t a good day. There were circles under his eyes, and he glowered. With the smile on his helmet, it made him look… I didn’t want to say deranged, but it was the word that sprung to mind.

His bare chest was muscular, waxed hairless, the belt and leggings of his costume slung low enough that I could see the lines of his lower stomach that pointed to his… yeah. It was admittedly distracting. It was meant to be distracting. – Excerpt from Drone 23.2</ref>

Abilities and Powers

Satyrical is capable of splitting apart into multiple clones in a "oozing process" that starts with a polyp that grows seperates from him and then takes on more defined features,<ref name="29.6 e1">He split in two. A slow, oozing process, a lump swelling, pulling free, then forming features. The arms and legs were quick enough, and the details followed, but the new him had no helmet, but slowly reshaped his exterior to match the original Satyr’s costume.

“If you keep doing that, I’m going to have to attack,” I said.

“What’s he doing?” Canary asked. There was a note of panic in her voice.

“Splitting up,” I said. I willed Canary to pull it together. Satyr bulged, clearly preparing to make another double. I called out, “Satyr, I might need to rephrase. If you finish making that copy, I’m going to attack you.”

“He can’t stop once he’s started,” Floret said. “It’s a drawback.”

“I don’t buy that at all,” I said. “So either you need to be more convincing, or I’m wrong, and Satyr has to learn how to cancel a copy in progress in the next five seconds.”

The bulge stopped growing more parts. It began retreating into Satyr.

“We need to talk, Weaver,” Satyr said, still distorted, withdrawing the mass into himself. - Excerpt from Venom 29.6</ref> he can vary the time it takes for this to happen.<ref name="29.6 e2"/> These clones in turn have their own shape shifting ability, but while he can make them physically stronger than a target of equivalent mass, he can not replicate any powers they might have.<ref name="29.6 e2">Satyr forced another copy out in record time, as the other charged me.

I set my bugs on it. On her. My double. She didn’t have my powers.

She was strong. Tougher. She closed the distance to me with ease, with a runner’s strength.

So I moved the bugs to the original Satyr. - Excerpt from Venom 29.6</ref> Once killed or dismissed, the clones wither and collapse into bloody messes.

He is very skilled at bluffing, <ref>“I know you?” one of the pair asked, stopping in the middle of the hallway.

The viking was still walking, but turned around to walk backwards as he called out, “Costume change to fit in with the new era, my friend! You’ll figure it out, and I’ll be very upset with you if you don’t!”

They rounded the corner.

“Did you know him? This Ironscale?”

The viking smiled. “Ironscale? No. A face in a file, at some point. But I have a good memory.”

Liars have to. “It was dangerous, baiting him. Better if we don’t draw attention.”

“Trying to avoid attention is attention-getting enough. You brought me on board for my skills, Teacher. Trust me to use them." - Excerpt from Teneral e.5</ref> psychology,<ref>The other was numb too, but not in the same way. He was very much himself. If he was disconnected, it was a natural sort of disconnection, the sort that had happened billions of times throughout human history.

But the man was talented. He wasn’t acting like he belonged, because he did belong. He was a free spirit, and the world was his oyster. He could put on a different face, and it wouldn’t be a mask, but a role.

He was a warrior, wearing heavy armor. Gruff, rugged, with a beard and the stylings of a viking, complete with fur as part of his costume. When the woman in white found herself off balance, stumbling, he picked his words to counterbalance it, changing the thrust of their interaction. He teased, leaving the road open for clear and unambiguous responses, making small jokes so she could laugh and find her mental footing.

In a very one sided way, he was sustaining and supporting what appeared to be a very natural dialogue between longtime friends. - Excerpt from Teneral e.5</ref> and cold reading.

History

Background

Satyr received his powers from Cauldron.<ref name="SB1">Wildbow: A cape with exceptional shapeshifting and self-duplication abilities.​ - Wildbow on IRC, archived on Spacebattles</ref>

Post-Echidna

When it came out that Cauldron was behind many parahumans within the Protectorate. With Satyr being zeroed out as a client Pretender killed a Watchdog Thinker after she had discovered Satyr's past.<ref name="I24.y">Satyr seemed to take that into consideration, rubbing his chin. When he spoke, though, he spoke of something else. “What you did… you knew that they’d figured you out, and that I was next in line, that I’d get questioned too. You killed her for my sake, to buy me time.”

“Are you mad?”

Satyr shook his head. “We’ve killed before. Selfishly, selflessly. Only difference is you got caught.” - Excerpt from Interlude 24.y</ref><ref name="23.2 c1">Worth stating that the PRT is outing Cauldron capes in positions of power. Team leaders, etc. - Comment by Wildbow on Drone 23.2</ref><ref name="23.2 c3">But what can you do in their shoes? What would you do differently?

The info about what Alexandria is was inevitably going to leak, even before she died, and the death could readily be a catalyst for many people talking about it. Only Contessa was really holding them back (and Cauldron, behind the scenes, decided to stop protecting the Triumvirate: see number man’s interlude). So it was bound to get out somehow.

Alexandria dies, and you have to tell the public -something-. Chevalier makes the call to tell the public about her shady background, with the caveat that he has to reassure the public that the Alexandria situation won’t recur. He promises to vet the leadership, makes it public so the ones in power know to step down while there’s still an excuse.

But you get isolated cases like Pretender, who are too committed to their careers to leave, people who know they have immediate subordinates who are Cauldron Capes. Who find themselves between a rock and a hard place, in a situation where things were already strained at best (ie. Las Vegas). - Comment by Wildbow on Drone 23.2</ref>

Best "friend" was kidnapped by the same people.<ref>Drone 23.2</ref>

Came to the fight separate from the Protectorate.

Post-Timeskip

Ran his team independent of the Protectorate, and did several missions for Doctor Mother during this period.<ref>Venom 29.6</ref>

Golden Morning

Infiltrated the Cauldron Compound to find out what had happened to the Doormaker. Came into contact with The Irregulars and Weaver's group.

Fanart Gallery

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