Oni Lee
<infobox> <title source="name"><default>Oni Lee</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>
<label>Status</label><format><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> Oni Lee was one of Lung's lieutenants in the Azn Bad Boys.
Personality
Taylor Hebert described Lee as a "scary sociopath".<ref name="1.3">Lung wasn't the only one with powers in the ABB. He had a flunky, a scary sociopath called Oni Lee, who could teleport or create doubles of himself – I wasn't a hundred percent sure on the details – but Oni Lee had a distinctive look, and I didn't see him in the crowd. If there was anyone else with powers that I needed to watch out for, I hadn't seen or heard anything about them in my research. - Gestation 1.3</ref> His Parahumans Online page contained a bright red warning that he was exceedingly violent and should not be approached.<ref name="2.2">Insinuation 2.2</ref>
Grue noted that "there's a reason he's not leader of the ABB"; observing that he "got spooked without his boss there" when fighting the Undersiders.<ref name=":0" /> Though it should be noted that, as Grue's power is a effective counter to Oni Lee's abilities, he had reason to flee.<ref name="R1"/>
Jack Slash determined that Lee's mind had been "wiped" by successive teleportation, describing him as a "tabula rasa". Although he was able to hold a conversation with Jack, and expressed interest in having his leg healed, he was unable to propose possible tests for joining the Slaughterhouse Nine.<ref name=":1">Interlude 11b</ref>
Appearance
Oni Lee had a "distinctive look"<ref name="1.3"/>, a black bodysuit with belt and bandoleer of knives and grenades on it, and a demonic mask with leering, fanged, ear-to-ear grin.<ref name="Cast1">Oni Lee – Subordinate to Lung, can teleport and leaves short-lived duplicates behind when he does. Wears a demon mask in the gang colors, and a bodysuit bearing various knives. - Cast (spoiler free)</ref><ref name="5.7"/><ref name="2.2"/> The mask was Japanese in style, crimson with two green stripes down either side.<ref name="2.2"/>
Abilities and Powers
Oni Lee's power is a hybrid between teleportation and duplication. When Oni Lee teleports, he leaves his original body behind which can act autonomously for five to ten seconds before disintegrating into a cloud of white carbon ash. Essentially, he can create another version of himself anywhere within his line of sight, while the old version can stick around long enough to distract or attack his target.<ref name="2.2"/> He can not teleport to anywhere he cannot see.<ref name="R1">Oni lee needs line of sight. Grue blocks it. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit</ref>
Oni Lee has used this ability to attack his target with a number of suicide bombers,<ref name="2.2"/> to swarm opponents, and create smokescreens. The downside to this ability is that, when he teleports, he also clones anything that is on his body. This allowed Skitter to track him after directing her insects to bite and sting him as they were teleported alongside him.<ref name="5.7 e3">Oni Lee appeared thirty feet away from me, standing just to my left and behind me. My bugs gave me a sense of his position before anything else, and I threw myself to one side. I thought maybe I saw the shape of one of his throwing knives pass through the air where I’d been standing, but I wasn’t seeing very well with a cracked lens on my mask.
At my command, The bugs that had alerted me to his position gathered on him and began biting and stinging.
Then I noticed something weird. More bugs popped into existence in the midst of the cloud, near Sundancer and Labyrinth. I felt the original bugs perish as they exploded into ash.
He was taking them with him. I don’t think he could help it.
I could track his movements. - Excerpt from Hive 5.7</ref>
History
Background
Oni Lee was recruited by Lung from adestroyed gamg, sometime between when Lung came to America, joining the first incarnation of the Azn Bad Boys, and when the man-dragon settled in Brockton Bay.<ref name="22.y e1">“The ‘Azn Bad Boys’ is a shit name,” Bakuda said.
Lung didn’t react, staring at her.
“Just saying.”
“It was the name of the group I joined when I came to America.”
[...]
“But the ‘Azn Bad Boys’?”
“A reminder, to my enemies, of what I’ve done before, what I could do again.”
Bakuda frowned.
“I defeated many gangs, many groups. Some had powered members, others did not. I recruited some. Oni Lee was one. The rest I killed.” - Excerpt from Lung's Donation Interlude</ref>Oni Lee was Lung's only parahuman lieutenant prior to Bakuda's recruitment. The exact details of his power weren't widely known. He had been labelled a sociopath by the PRT.<ref name="1.3" /><ref name="2.2" />
He fought Purity on two occasions.<ref>A year ago, she had made the ABB a priority target. Three to five times a week, she had carried out surgical strikes against the low level operations of the gang, interrupting shipments, beating up dealers and thugs, attacking their places of business and all the while, she had been gathering information. That information had paid off from time to time; she had clashed directly with Lung on no less than four occasions, had encountered Oni Lee on two. In all but one of those encounters, she had successfully forced them to retreat, to abandon whatever it was they were doing at the time. - Interlude 3½ (Bonus)</ref>
Story Start
Lee fought the Undersiders along with a half-dozen ABB members, but fled when Lung didn't arrive to back him up.<ref name=":0">"Wouldn't you know, his flunky Lee is there with a half dozen guys, but Lung and the rest of his gang are nowhere to be found," he laughed, a surprisingly normal sound for someone wearing a mask with a skull on it. "Lee's no slouch in a fight, but there's a reason he's not leader of the ABB. He got spooked without his boss there and ran. I guess you're responsible for that?" - Excerpt from Gestation 1.5</ref>
Oni Lee helped Lung escape during the chaos caused by Bakuda bombing multiple parts of the city. <ref>Shell 4.11</ref>
Oni Lee was inside an Azn Bad Boys warehouse that was attacked by a coalition of capes from Brockton Bay's other gangs. He attacked and incapacitated Newter on the second floor of the building.<ref>Hive 5.6</ref> He fought Skitter, Sundancer, Bitch and Labyrinth, along with snipers from Coil's Organization. When Skitter discovered his teleportation brought her bugs with him, he was shot in the leg and forced to flee.<ref name="5.7 e3" />
Post-Leviathan
Jack Slash found Oni Lee living above a grocery. Jack told him that the Nine could heal him if he proved himself. Jack challenged him to propose a suitable test, and realized that Oni Lee was basically a blank slate when he was unable to propose anything. Jack defeated Oni Lee, transported him to Kayden Anders' apartment, and dumped him in a bathtub filled with ice and other frozen objects.<ref name="Cast2">Oni Lee (Deceased) – Lieutenant of Lung. Real name not given. Could teleport, leaving duplicates of himself that would continue to fight for several seconds before exploding into a cloud of carbon ash. Was scouted for the Slaughterhouse Nine by Jack Slash, failed his test, and was made into an artificial siamese twin by Bonesaw, melding him with Hatchet Face to become ‘Hack Job’. - Cast (in depth)</ref>
Jack later removed Oni Lee from the bathtub and told Theo Anders that he would be giving him as a treat to one of his teammates.<ref name=":1">Interlude 11b</ref>
Oni Lee was revealed to have suffered moderate brain damage from his ordeal that Bonesaw fixed before she meshed him together with Hatchet Face to create Hack Job. Bonesaw told Amy Dallon that Oni Lee couldn't control his body, but was fully aware of what was going on.<ref>Interlude 11h</ref>
His pain was ended by Sundancer.<ref name="13.9e1">“And Trickster! Because Ball-of-fire girl killed Hack Job. I want another.”
Hack Job? - Excerpt from Snare 13.9</ref><ref name="13.9c1">Hatchet Face is dead, though. Bonesaw said she wanted Trickster because Sundancer nuked Hack Job. - Comment by Wildbow on Snare 13.9</ref>
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