Adam Monroe

Character Name: Adam Monroe Age: 422 Occupatation: Former plantation owner, former soldier in the Confederate army, former British mercenary commander, former member of the "Queen's forces" and former Ronin samurai swordsman Known Relatives: Two sons, names unknown Significant Other: None. Formerly many Current Location: Level 5, Hartsdale, New York Affiliation: Evil Known Ability: Rapid cell regeneration Biography: Adam's birth and origin are of very little consequence. He had a family once with a mother, a father, and siblings like so many people, but they have since drifted in the sands of time. Adam only remembers them in the vaguest senses. Sometimes he'll catch a scent on the breeze or a sound that will take him back to London in 15th century England where he was born and raised, but that has happened a lot with many things in his life. Having been lost to the currents of time, Adam has been forced to constantly rebuild his existence, and it started in 1670 when, after the death of his new wife and son during prolonged childbirth, he packed up his things, gave what he couldn't take with him to his older brother, and left London to seek his fortunes in the Orient.

But he found out, rather quickly, that a man running from his ghosts only ends up being haunted by them from afar. Memories plagued him until he lost himself in the indulgences of spirits. For a year, almost, he made his way through villages indulging all of the vices that he had been holding at bay for years. It helped him to forget, to put the worst of it behind him, so much so that it became the central focus of his life. While dreams of a fortune were not forgotten, any reality of it had disappeared, and each job that he took was only to pay for the sake and geisha that would be his entertainment later on.

In order to aid his con-artistry, he abandoned his English name and instead took a Japanese alias that would give the illusion that he was a great hero. He chose Takezo Kensei in hopes that it would strike enough fear in the hearts of his enemies that they wouldn't even bother to show up. And, barring that, he hired other mercenaries to pose for him. They'd get their wage out of what was paid to him...if they came back alive, that was.

The appearance of a very oddly dressed Japanese man in spectacles would, however, derail all of his schemes. Determined to set him onto the course of the straight and narrow, this odd little man who looked a bit like a carp when he talked charged himself with Kensei's well being, training, and destiny. This man, Hiro, seemed rather big on this whole destiny thing. And it wasn't long after that Kensei found out exactly what he meant by it. After having his armor stolen by the little midget so that he could go and fight the ten swordsmen, Kensei was attacked by some of the people he owed money to and shot three times in the chest by arrows.

Sure that he was dead, Kensei was surprised when this wounds healed after Hiro pulled out the arrows. Convinced that the other man had put a curse on him, he'd ran, scared and confused until Hiro explained to him just what it meant. It was the break he'd been looking for! It would make him rich! Of course, the little Carp had other plans, plans to turn him into a legendary hero. Plans that were working quite well, giving him a purpose finally in life, winning him the love of a wonderful woman, and setting his life back on track.

That was, until Hiro and his love, Yaeko, betrayed him by falling for each other. He might as well have ripped out his heart and handed it to Hiro the way that catching them together wounded him to the core. Anger and bitterness surged in him and all thoughts of being a hero were dismissed. He was going to make Hiro suffer if it was the last thing that he ever did. And in some respects, it was. Ended up caught in the explosion in White Beard's camp, Kensei stumbled away after recovering via his ability to make sure that nobody knew that he was alive. He had to start all over again for the second time and certainly not the last.

The years between then and now are all a blur of lives and loves and potential only half spent. Each wife holds a place in his heart, either in the side that can still feel or in the side that grows progressively colder as the years go on. Despite having many loves, friends were difficult to come by. True friends, that is. He had plenty of acquaintances in order to sate the boredom, but trusting someone enough to rely on them in a way that he had relied on Hiro had been next to impossible for him.

It wasn't until the late '60s when he ended up meeting a young man by the name of Daniel Linderman who introduced him to a collection of people like himself that he finally felt like he had a place to belong again with true friends. Sadly, for Adam, true friends have this horrible tendency to betray each other, and watching things decay around you to the point that even those that you trust, even the ones whom you would never expect, turn into monsters is too much for a psyche to take. Adam saw his opportunity in the Shanti virus that was being developed by the Company they had founded. Highly lethal, it had the potential to give them a new start and a world were people appreciate each other rather than hating each other.

Stopped before he could release the virus and locked in the Company's maximum security area for decades, Adam watched those that he had once called friends age and some even time over the years of his incarceration while he remained as young as he ever had. Now, nearly thirty years after first being locked up, Adam quietly watches and waits for his opportunity to take his revenge. He just has to be patient. Time, after all, is on his side. Character Journal: lazarusrisen Played by: Kira