Leviathan

Leviathan is one of the Endbringers. He is the second of the Endbringers to appear, making him the middle child between Behemoth and Simurgh. His powers involve great control over water, super-speed, and the extreme durability and regeneration associated with other Endbringers. Despite not having as much sheer power as Behemoth or being as clever or intelligent as Simurgh, he is still a very destructive and dangerous threat that is far more intelligent than he appears to be. The first appearance directly in the plot was in Buzz 7.12.

Appearance

Leviathan is thirty feet tall with a seemingly disproportionate body and scaly skin. He has a top-heavy appearance due to his hunched shoulders and the large cords of "muscles" standing out on his neck, upper torso, and shoulders. However these muscles are superficial only as his strength and movement are not impaired when they're damaged. The top heavy appearance is only strengthened by his much thinner forearms and calves, topped off with massive claws and digitigrade feet. The face lacks any kind of mouth, nose, or ears, the only recognizable feature being 4 green orbs acting as eyes (three on the left side, one on the right). At the rear end of his body is a prehensile whip-like tail around 40-50 feet long.

When walking on two legs he sways his upper body back and forth in sync with the swaying of his arms, using his tail for balance. However he is far more balanced and significantly faster once on four legs, fast enough to run on the surface of the water. Within water he moves faster than any speedster, almost appearing to teleport. He constantly has his after echo appearing whenever he moves, perpetually shrouding him in water.

Abilities and Powers

Macro-Hydrokinesis:

Leviathan's main power (and by far is his most powerful) is the manipulation of water on a massive scale. He often preludes his arrival to his target with a torrential downpour and a tsunami, which he continuously creates throughout the battle. Each one of these waves is more powerful than the last, eventually becoming powerful enough to topple entire buildings. The frequency of these is dependent on whether he is able to focus his ability on them, meaning a sustained attack can delay them. He often uses these to cripple strategic areas like evacuation centers or and smaller ones to change the balance of the battlefield if he begins to lose the advantage.

However the true strength of this ability is to create extreme amounts of water pressure and movement in unseen places such underground aquifers or coastlines. If not stopped soon enough he can create forces tremendous enough to collapse cities or even sink entire islands as seen with the complete destruction and disappearance of Newfoundland and certain parts of Japan.

The only weakness to this ability is that it lacks fine control. When working with relatively small amounts of water the best he can do is create shield-like geysers or send smaller waves to throw off opponents. This means he can't do things like manipulating water within the body or pinpoint high pressure drilling.

After-Echo

Along with his hydrokinesis, Leviathan has an "echo" of water that appears whenever he moves. For any body part moved, voluntarily or being attacked, water will appear seemingly out of nowhere to fill the space in the air where that body part just was. This water will maintain the speed and direction of the area that created it, even if the movement of that area changes. For example if he whips his tail then quickly stops it, the water produced from that movement will continue with forward at the same deadly speed as the tail was moving (something he uses to greatly increase the range of his attacks). Normal physics still apply to this water and it can be manipulated by him afterwards.

Super-Speed

Leviathan also possesses extremely fast speed, allowing him to move around 50-60 mph and rapidly dodge the slower ranged attacks. Dodging his attacks is nearly impossible given this amount of speed. Combined with his other two main powers he can flood the battlefield with his after-echo very quickly and run on the top of water when it's too shallow to dive into. Once submerged though these combine to allow him to move at speeds so fast it resembles teleportation.

Other Powers

Leviathan also has the standard Endbringer powers as well. These include extremely durable skin, stronger than tungsten only 6% towards the core, regeneration that only quickens the deeper the wound is, massive strength, great intelligence, and a physics breaking core.

History

Notable Attacks

Kyushu, Japan

On November 2nd-3rd Leviathan attacked the southernmost island of Japan, Kyushu, while pummeling the entire country with tsunamis. In a display of his intelligence he strategically cut off and destroyed evacuation efforts. This attack was incredibly devastating as most of Japan's native heroes were killed along with 9,500,000 civilians. The battle finally ended when Lung fought him to a standstill and he collapsed Kyushu as he retreated. 3,000,000 evacuees were left homeless and Japan was effectively reduced to a third world country.

Newfoundland, Canada:

On May 9th, 2005 Leviathan began an attack on the Canadian island of Newfoundland. However the defending heroes once again didn't stop him soon enough and he managed to sink the entire island, killing 500,000 people, including Andrew Richter. From this point on his targets were classified as hard, meaning heroes could stand their ground and gradually wear him down, and soft, meaning he must be attacked quickly and not given a chance to build up his attacks.

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