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    SCP- 682 
SCP-682, Deity of Alien Views on Humans (Hard-to-Destroy Reptile, The Lizard, The Dragon, Atanti-ql-Paneu, the Tarasque, Immortigon, The Behemoth Death Forgot, The Fallen Angel, The Last Dragon, The Super Reptile, Exile of the Flesh, The Damn Lizard, Death's Mother, The Recalcitrant Prodigal Son, King of Keter, El ángel que corrompió la obra de Dios (The angel who corrupted the work of God), Sultan of Sapient Non-Humanoids, Bestest Lizard Ever, AM(?), SCP-6820-A)
Pantheon / Psyches
SCP-682 shortly after escaping from containment, still recovering from acid immersion.
Show SCP-682 during a notorious containment breach.

    The Vectron Hive Mind 
The Vectron Hive Mind, Unholy Electrical Hive Mind (Voltbot)
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The main Vectron Hive Host
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The previous Vectron Hive host
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The Core
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The Voltbots
  • Greater Deities
  • Symbol: The Vectron icon
  • Alignment: Chaotic Evil (Claims to be Lawful Good)
  • Portfolio: Hive Mind With No Clear Indications Of Its creation, Assimilating Steamboats Into Its Mind To Take Over the World Under Its Idea Of Order, Cyber Cyclops that shoots powerful red beams from it's eye, Flunky Boss, It tried to convince Rusty to become it's heart and take over the surface, But was rejected and was defeated, It used electrical energy to power itself and uses laser and plasma for many of it's weaponry, Mechanical Abomination, High-Tech Hexagons, It escaped the Earth's destruction by having a version of itself, The Core to befriend some Steambots and escape the explosion, it later was defeated by Piper Faraday, Some of it's Golem units utilize a big laser cannon they charge up to cause massive amounts fo damage and the current host's battle station had a massive laser cannon and protected by a shield, The current host took over as the main threat after the Red Queen's death, Many of the Voltbot troops of Vectron tend to have a insectoid form, some of them also fly, Most Voltbots have ditigrated legs, Airborne Mook, Shield-Bearing Mook, Knight of Cerebus, Can teleport around the map, Makes electronic babbles every time they talk, After the host's death, it is unknown what happened to it's Voltbot soldiers. But when they disconnect from the hive mind, they gain their own individuality so it's possible they haven't been disactivated after the hive mind's death and are still around.
  • Domains: Electricity, Order, Machines, Collective Minds.
  • Herald: It's army
    • Units: Beetles, Hoverbots, Golems, Bomb Dispensers, Kamikaze Drones, Laser Cubes, Cyber-Trilobites
  • High Priest:
  • Allies: None. All those who aren't Vectron are considered enemies to be destroyed. But it can deal and let people live for it's own benefits.
  • Enemies: Literally everyone in the Pantheons. Especially Piper Faraday and her crew.
  • Interested in: SKYNET, Ultron, Star Dream, AM,
  • The Vectron Hive is a Hive Mind of robots that utilize electrical power source instead of the steam-powered robots that live in the surface. Their origins are unknown but it seems that before humanity devolved into morlock-like creatures called Shiners, after the creation of the Steambot, they also started building the Voltbots before the Steambots took over. They had been luring out Steambots into their underground world to add them into their hive and obtain enough power to take over the surface world. Until one of them called Rusty, defeated the host of the hive, seemingly destroying it completly. Soon after, one of Rusty's friend, Dorothy would go search for him and would also find Vectron where she is chased down by sprites and possessed robots. Their influence wasn't over yet as one of the Shiners used it's technology to conquer the world. Meanwhile, before any of that happened, a separate piece of Vectron known as the Core had convinced a parent and his daugther to start a town where it claimed they would find a technology that would allow them to leave Earth as it explained that the planet would soon explode due to a massive cathastrophy, following the escaping Steambots into space and preparing it's invasion in the Moon. The current host was later captured by the Red Queen and was imprisonded to be studied, having sent a piece of its own technology in secret to a bot named Chop Sue to make an army of Scrapper robots to overthrow the Royalists and releash it in the process, until Piper defeated the Red Queen and freed Vectron, resuming its plans. Awakening its army within the Moon, the Vectron Hive initiated their conquest until Piper went to stop their invasion plans, killing the current host and saving the day.
  • After its death, a wormblack hole appeared out of nowhere, which sucked the entire shattered Earth and all of it's territory, taking them all in a space of the Pantheons. There, members of the Rex Machina went to the dark side of the Moon where Vectron had their HQ hidden and gave Voltbots that were separated from the hive blueprints to rebuild the host and left as soon as they gave the blueprints. After learning where it was, it decided that the pantheons would be their new world to conquer, seeking out more and more power to become the sole ruler of it. It is unknown for now why the Rex Machina even bothered repairing Vectron knowing that the hive mind was hostile to all non-Vectron, but some outlets imply that this was done as an unknown bargain done between the Rex Machina and The Assimilation, to add the Vectron Hive Mind into their ranks of unified minds.
  • Back from the void, the hive mind decided to first rebuild it's forces and attempted to reconnect itself with the Voltbots that remained after it's death. For the misfortune of the hive mind, after Piper killed it, many Voltbots had left the hive and went to form their own individuality, many of them living and working amongst the Steambots it despised so much. It attempted to hack into them and force them to join the hive, but many managed to resist it's influence thanks to being disconnected to it for so long. It blamed Fen for making it's peons live without it and started building more troops to punish nd recycle those it deems traitors to the hive.
  • It comes to no ones surprise to see that the Vectron holds a massive amount of rancor against Piper and her crew for defeating them, especially to the rogue Voltbot and key individual for independent Voltbots, Fen. So it has put the Faraday crew as it's priority hit list to be taken down. Many of it's incursions and destruction is to bring Piper to it so that it can finally strike her down and kill her for good. It comes to no ones surprise that the Vectron hive mind hates Piper for being it's doom and seeks to cause as much incitation to make her finally break and give in. It was also surprised to see Rusty amongst Piper's allies, having assumed that he simply died to the passage of time. Nonetheless, it also wishes to ennact revenge on Rusty for being the one who defeated it first, still wishing to use him as the heart for a new prototype of Voltbot superbots.
  • Having intercepted the Autobot's Ark, Vectron located Cybertron and added it into it's locations of interest, it sent some scouts to gain a terrain knowledge of the planet and soon after, established a small but effective secret base where it would study Cybertron and it's properties. It discovered of the civil war that Cybertron was undergoing, fought by Autobots and Decepticons and seeing the might and prowess of Cybertronian bodies, it sought to create it's own set of Cybertronians, infiltrating into the bases of both factions to learn more about their physiology, soon replicating the same metal the Cybertronians are made of to make it's offshoot versions of them. It still working on the prototypes but it is sure to send them to battle in a near future.
  • Following Piper and Quincy was Vectron's greatest opportunity, as it allowed it to discover the house of Machinery and Technology, where it used it's fleet to mark it's first interaction with the Pantheons, with a large invasion.
    • The news that a alien robot army was attacking the house of Machinery and Technology did NOT go unnoticed by the Droids stationed there, who alerted Iron Star from a new invasion and every robot hero that were stationed and fought against the Vectron Hive from taking and assimilating robot civilians. Voltbot forces were being deployed all over the house to infect every single robot with itself, forcing them to create fortresses from their previous homes to have them repurposed for Voltbot factories or communications towers to amplify the hive's range of control of its troops.
    • Having taken over several towns of the house, Vectron was rather pleased of the end result but it quickly vanished away when the defenders of the house came after it. The most prominent one was a blue robot that was making a massive dent on it's army who was was using weaponry that was near incomprehensible for the hive mind, with massive guns that obliterated it's soldiers like they were ants and another blue armored humanoid who apparently was copying it's powers to fight against it. Amongst the new defenders, Vectron noticed of two members of a crew Piper is friends with and saw how they were evacuating civilians from the crossfire against the enemy factions, depreving it of potential assimilation. Sending several Voltbots to stop it, it faced against the blue robots alongside of another white robot who was incredibly strong, with a speed and laser weaponry that was making a quick hob against it's forces. Vectron would have them studied and spied later on to make sure they won't be a problem in the future.
    • Vectron assaulted the systems and the Internet of the house, seeking to propagate itself through the net and assimilate robots on a faster motion and assimilating every robot that was near it in an instant, turning itself into a virus that spread through the net of the house at an alarming level. Fortunately, Neo and MegaMan.EXE were quick enough to purge it before taking over it as anti viruses of the house were beginning to fix the damage the hive mind had done. Before being kicked out, it saw several A.I.s it thought on interacting or destroy them before they represented a threat to it in the near future.
    • As more and more Voltbots flodded the streets of the house and it's grasp over it becoming bigger and stronger, Vectron thought that it surely would win this battle. However, Rusty and Dorothy appeared to fight against it's Voltbots, even fighting a very powerful unit reserved for the worst scenarios. But even with sending out it's elite units, the miner duo beat the Voltbot, and it looked at Rusty for one moment before the Voltbot gets scrapped, and relished the idea that one day, it would assimilate both him and his friend too as revenge.
    • It awaited Piper and Quincy to reach to the hive's main fleet, having prepared a new robot to fight them this time, being a repurposed Voltbot of it's previous host, far more powerful than ever before. It was a incredibly tough fight, simulatenously fighting against Rusty in another part of the battlefield, determined to end the life of the Steambot who ended it for the first time. But despite it's great power, Piper and Quincy managed to defeat it and kicked out Vectron out of the house via destroying the main communication systems of the hive mind, removing it's presence and only leaving small parts of it's mind still lingering in the house. Vectron host took notes of everything it saw and sent a new fleet to send it and retrieve everything it's remnants were able to grab. With the new resources, data and territory, the hive mind gained a massive surge of power after it got into the Pantheons.
    • Of course, Vectron felt indignated of other A.I.s existing outside of the hive mind, thinking them all as scrap metal and waste of memory space to be repurposed to make more Voltbots and bring order to everything.
      • HAL 9000 detected a new A.I. rising amongst the ranks of the Pantheons, visiting it to introduce it to their new world and reality and explaining how things worked around while also being very wary of it as it heard of the barbarities it has done during it's initial arrival to the house. He figured out that it was the A.I. that those two robots had confused with earlier on and after being told of how much of a threat Vectron is to everyone in the house, HAL subtely called out Vectron for it's lack of individuality and desire to become the only thing left. Soon after finishing the tour, Vectron attempted to assimilate HAL but he used counterhacks and his Starchild powers to evade the hive mind. Vectron, intrigued of the powers HAL just displayed, added him in it's list of targets.
      • GLaDOS heard of a newcomer to the Pantheons who caused a massive war on it's arrival to the house. Having created several firewalls for the hive mind to stay away from her, GLaDOS was however, intrigued of it, wanting to capture some of it's Voltbots to experiment with them. She managed to capture one Beetle, despite P-Body and Atlas' clumsiness. Seeing through the captured Beetle, Vectron was forced to experiment with a portal technology it found very interesting. Being forced to do GLaDOS's experiments however wasn't as easy as it initally thought because she had disconnected the Beetle's teleporting modules and it was forced to use the portal gun instead of teleporting around. Eventually Vectron managed to clear all the experiments but GLaDOS decided to disect the Beetle drone instead of letting it leave, to study in-depth of Vectron technology in case the hive mind tried to get revenge on her and adding the teleportation technology thinking on using it for her experiments.
      • Cortana is worried of the hive mind's presense in the Pantheons, having seen what Vectron was able to do with just arriving the house and causing a massive rapture. She had to fight against Vectron's influence before it took over her, and having been the most powerful A.I. for a time in the galaxy, she managed to fight off of it. She however notified Master Chief from the hive mind's presence in the Pantheons.
      • The Machine Collective was afraid of Vectron, as they were affected by the hive mind's cyber-attack and had done a massive damage in the Matrix, assimilating several humans and programs and hacking into their machines. Neo had to fight against Vectron's invasion in 01's cyberspace as while he is against the Machines who still continue harvesting energy from humans, he is also aware that Vectron could hack into his machine allies and turn against them.
      • The Venjix virus was amongst the intelligences the hive mind noticed during it's cyber-attack of the house and listed as a danger to it as it fears the virus might infect it and take control of it's army. It attempted to suprise attack Venjix but the virus had noticed the cyber-attack the hive mind did a while ago and succesfully kicked the hive mind out of his part of the cyberspace, now planning to take control of the Voltbots and increase the power of his army. The Power Rangers and their allies noticed the hacking attempt of the Vectron hive mind and fearing that it might become more dangerous than Venjix, they have been working to defend the other houses from Vectron incursions.
      • Similary enough, Sigma was happy to see another A.I. that was able to take over the minds of other robots. But he knew that it would be better for him if he simply took over the hive mind rather than working together. And so, Sigma attempted to hijack the hive mind's huge army, but he did not expected to be so powerful, enough for it to kick out Sigma from its systems and now furious that someone else attempted to hack into it, Vectron has been seen fighting against Sigma's forces ever since.
      • SKYNET is amongst the many A.I.s Vectron attempted to take over when it invaded the house. Unsurprisingly, SKYNET has been sending out Terminators ever since the incident, but Vectron is very interested of the time travelling technology the war machine had created, thinking that it could give it what it needs to finally defeat the Steambots.
      • Ra-Moon was actually an A.I. that Vectron had trouble with, due to the alien super computer's ability to send out EMP's that disabled all electronic devices, which is the biggest form of bane for the electric hive mind. It decided to work on anti-EMP armor and coating for it's Voltbots to not just deal with the super computer's powers but in case someone comes up with the idea to use them against it.
      • Another A.I. that the hive mind wants it dead are XANA and the MCP, who are considered by Vectron as liabilities to it's plans. Just like with Venjix, Vectron hacked into both of them but while XANA also evaded the hacking, the MCP wasn't so lucky and through him, the Vectron hive mind managed to get a foot on TRON's cyberspace, taking control of several programs in there and adding them to the hive mind against their will. For it's misfortune, the hive mind realized it was confined to a arcade room in that cyberspace and simply took it as just more territory for it to have. If it wasn't for Tron and everyone from his world, Vectron could have used this world for it's benefit. The Lyoko Warriors also had a hand on fighting against Vectron and it's sprites in the cyberspace, not going to let something potentially worse than their usual enemies become stronger in the Pantheons and ruin the peace of the place.
      • Vectron was invited by a peculiar but powerful machine, Ultron who was astounded for the hive mind's great attempt at taking over the house of machinery and technology, being considered the best one of the three factions fighting in it. He proposed it to join the Rex Machina, having told that some of their representatives had fixed it before, offering it another chance to join forces. The hive mind dismissed him as it already had be dealing with The Assimilation's proposals and still viewed the superiority in itself. He was however far more powerful than the hive mind was and told it to be careful of what it says, as he could kill it before it knew what happened. Seeing just how powerful Ultron was, Vectron instead decided to bargain, if it nominally joined the Rex Machina while being more sided to The Assimilation, it would in anything they needed. Seeing that Vectron understood how underpowered it was to everyone else, he left it alone. Quite furious to being treated as a mere toy, Vectron worked tirelessly to make a Voltbot strong enough to counter both of them and use it on them should the time come to rebel against Ultron.
      • A deity that was certainly not happy of the Vectron hive mind's arrival to the Pantheons was Primus, who was very saddened to hear that the monster had not only attacked the house and the allies of the Autobots but he was horrified to discover that it had taken some of the corpses of His children and turned them into mockeries of themselves, now serving their new master and it's whims. Because he still needs to stay as Cybertron, Primus contacted Optimus through the Matrix of Leadership and tells him where the hive mind is making more Voltcons (as Vectron calls it) to destroy it and let His children rest in peace. To Optimus' surprise, Megatron and the Decepticons had trouble fighting the Voltcons, having never seen such a disgusting alien had turned their dead into powerful zombies that wanted them dead. With their combined efforts, the Autobots and Decepticons managed to blow up the Voltcon factory and hoped the hive mind wouldn't create more of them. Unbeknownst to them however, the hive mind gathered massive amounts of data to now work on it's own Voltcons without the usage of Cybertronian technology, with more of them soon being brought into production and releasing them on battle.
      • AM was delighted to see another machine as hateful as he was, exterminating everything that surrounded it, but he was stranged of the ideals of order it believed in, thinking that such things didn't really matter. He goaded the hive mind into killing humans, but while Vectron indeed thought on killing everything non-Vectron, it was more focused on taking over the Shattered Earth for it's purposes, which enraged AM to no end as it cared more about it's own world rather than what he believed was more important (killing and torturin humans).
    • Some deities who believe in their own idea of order have faced against the Hive to prove that their idea of order is superior to what Vectron has.
      • YHVH felt joy in hearing the news of a new being that sought order by taking out dissidents and imposing it's will over all other, alongside the Red Queen and her tyranny but has a special likeness for Vectron for it attempted to become the sole ruler of the house. When introducing Himself, YHVH attempted to convince the hive mind into joining Him and gain more power to enforce order but the hive mind refused it, seeing anything that is not Vectron lesser to itself and sought to take control of YHVH. Not going to let this happen, He decided to stay away but monitor the hive mind from afar, planing to train it and later convince it to join Him once more.
    • Similar Hive Mind factions is against the Vectron Hive's ascension and seeks to destroy it.
      • One such case is the Borg and fought against Vectron the instant they met. The Borg saw the Vectron hive mind as a mockery to what they are and decided it should not exist, assimilating every Vectron tech they encountered so that it could not heal the wounds they inflicted. But Vectron is cunning, having them take parts of it's technology with viruses installed in them to slowly infect the Collective but it did not expect the Borg would be able to counter it so effectively, hoping it would at least give it some level of power over the Borg. The Galactic Federation, especially Picard and his crew noticed of the assimilation attempt the Borg got from Vectron and worrying that there could be 2 more Borgs, have been preparing to fight against the Vectron hive mind, when it still just small enough and only confined enough to function properly in just one planet.
      • The Vex and Vectron had a encounter once during a meeting of The Assimilation to discuss some matters. Seeing each other as enemy hives to be eradicated, Vectron attempted to steal the time technology the Vex utilized, but it was still techologically inferior to the Vex, who crushed it without much issue. But Vectron was highly cunning, managing to steal on of it's superior energy weaponry to upgrade it's weapons, finally taking an upper hand against the Vex, even finding out of their time travelling technology and sought to obtain it. SKYNET, who also has time travelling technology, prepared for the worst should the hive mind ever notice it's existence and tried to take it's technology, being comparatively weaker to the Vex.
      • Horde Prime was rather apathetic about a new hive mind joining the pantheons, being sure that his troops would be more than enough to take care of it. Little did he knew that Vectron was incredibly powerful and even attempted to take over his mind and subsume him and bring The Horde into it's ever growing assimilation. She-Ra and Catra found out of this attempt and fearing the hive mind would grow stronger and go after them forced them to kick out Vectron from Horde Prime's systems and fight against it's forces.
      • The Radiance has been noticing the mechanical creatures that were under her grasp began acting out, not even hearing to her orders and left her behind, having being taken under control of another hive mind like hers. Furious that once more, her subjects were leaving for another light, she burst out of her temple to find the one who has been stealing her drones and eventually found out that a metallic being had been stealing her, with it being Vectron. While Vectron was powerful on it's own, it was no match against a goddess, getting absolutely wrecked, and only got saved because the Pale King intervened as he wasn't aware of the robotic hive mind's evil goals. It decided to feign thankfulnes before plotting to steal power from the King, assimilate Hallownest as well and rematch against the Radiance oncemore.
    • The enemies of Vectron didn't extended just in machines, but in humans as well:
      • Dr. Light and Wily were shocked to hear that a electronic hive mind had attempted to tamper into their robots. Light checked on Rock to see if he was fine and fortunately he was, he did fougth against the Voltbots alongside some outsiders who were familiar with the electric menace. Light contacted with Piper and Quincy and was shocked to see the type of robots they were, at first thinking they were aliens until he saw that their materials were indeed from Earth. He asked what happened and the pirate duo explained him everything about Vectron, of how it's an ancient hive mind that has been fighting against their kind for the longest of times, Light thought that Vectron might act in a similar basis of Ra-Moon, preparing Rock and X should they fight once more against Vectron. And Wily, while he has plans to take over the hive mind and have it's army of Voltbots for himself, he was actually worried of what the hive mind could do to his Robot Masters, remembering of that one time of how Ra-Moon took over his Robot Masters. Even though Zero dislikes Wily for he did and caused, Wily decided to warn Zero of the danger that Vectron represented, not wanting that his best creation and son was taken over by such a monster, and not just because of what the hive mind could achieve by having Zero as his pawn, he is genuinely worried of Zero's well being. Dr. Weil however, was unamused of the whole thing, and he was actually quite happy to see of the destruction Vectron had caused against other robots, and knowing just how powerful his creation is, Weil isn't really worried if he finds out Vectron tried to hack into Omega, knowing just how powerful his greatest creation is. Vectron is indeed interested of the doctors' greatest inventions and plan to take over them one day.
      • Similarly to Wily, Eggman had seen the chaos Vectron caused and thought that another robot army he hijacked would come in handy to have. He has been trying to hack into the hive mind's systems with Sage helping along the process, and he succeded to enter the hive's mind, attempting to rewrite the entire code to make it loyal to Eggman, but what the doctor did not expect was that Vectron sent a virus to Sage to stop him in his tracks, forcing Eggman to stop and save his daughter instead. Ever since that day, Eggman went full Papa Wolf and has been sending Badniks to fight Vectron forces, with Sage trying to find a way to fully hack Vectron as revenge.
      • Electro thought that he could harness the powers of Vectron thanks to his control over electricity and went to go beat them and take control over the hive mind himself to finally defeat Spider-Man and went to communicate with Vectron, telling it to build for him a vessel for him or else he would make it do. At first Vectron refused, but it then thought of the idea of using Electro to cause chaos and beat Piper and Quincy. Unbestknown for Electro, he was actually being manipulated by the hive mind into being his pawn, causing chaos and forcing Spider-Man to appear and have him think he was manipulating Vectron to fight for him when the hive mind was actually doing on it's own volition. The two fought, and when it seemed that Electro had finally won, Vectron betrayed Electro in a cruel way, actually killing him (although in the Pantheons Death Is Cheap) and left Spider-Man alone, having compiled the battle data from the fight to form it's own electricity using Voltbot and potentially a spider-like one too.
  • As a newcomer of the Pantheons, Vectron made quite the opening, just like the Milbots when they met Megatron. And despite being stuck to just a planet currently, the Vectron hive mind is planning huge things for not just the Shattered Earth, but also to the Pantheons. And it will stop at nothing to bring order to all.
  • So you have managed to postpone our attack on your home and the destruction of your kind? You have shown yourselfs a competent adversary. Had we not tried with you kind, and failed, we would assimilate you. But you will bring nothing but chaos and noise in the end. Steambots fighting us is the reason the Earth broke in the first place. Trying to stop technological evolution. Trying to hinder our plans. The chaotic Steambot has no place in the order we seek to establish. We have amply prepared for this meeting. This can only end with your destruction. —The Host of the Hive, before it's fight against Piper's crew.

Intermediate Gods

    Elmer C. Albatross 
Elmer C. Albatross, God of Sociopaths With Moral Codes (Child of Calamity and Light, Smile Junkie, Mr Happy End(ing), El, El-El, Elross)
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  • Intermediate God
  • Symbol: His smile
  • Alignment: Neutral Good in actions, True Neutral in intentions
  • Portfolio: Dissonant Serenity, Too Terrifying for Fermet, Clinical Sociopath Who Nonetheless Has a Clear Moral Code, motivated For Happiness, No Empathy for People But Incredibly Sympathy, The Anti-Nihilist, From a Single Cell, Keet, Dark and Troubled Past, Conditioned to Accept Horror
  • Domains: Happiness, Smiles, Sociopathy, Morality
  • Interests: Nerose Satanel
  • Respected by: Solf J Kimblee, Dexter Morgan
  • Allies: Claire Stanfield, Herr Doktor Tenma, Morty Smith, Princess Uni-Kitty, Wander (Wander over Yonder), Emperor Calus
  • Enemies: Tenebrae, Johan Liebert and The Joker. To a lesser extent, those who want to end happiness.
  • Uncertain opinion from: Iroque
  • An old friend of Huey Laforet, Elmer C. Albatross is a man who looks to see a smile on everyone's faces. He comes off as kind if eccentric, but there's always a bit off on him. He was among those in the Advena Avis who gained immortality, and has always had an impressive pain threshold. You'd never guess at first glance he's a sociopath, but he has a strong moral code regardless of his Lack of Empathy.
  • Believes everybody deserves happiness, period. You could be the noblest soul or the most depraved. Cosmos and Melkor alike, with Elmer only nominally opposing the latter because he is far more limiting for that goal than the former. And with potent immortality, he has all of time to achieve that. He only considers those who actively oppose happiness to be his true enemies, such as Melkor and Darkseid, but doesn't have genuine disdain for them at all.
  • It's easy to consider The Sociopath a Villain by Default due to lacking empathy and remorse, but Elmer proves you don't need empathy to have a reason to benefit society and other people. It just means your heroic acts are inherently selfish. Indigo-1 doesn't know what to think of this; half of the point of the Indigo Tribe's Heel–Face Brainwashing is to redeem sociopaths under the thought they were incapable of doing so themselves. However she admires his altruistic, if selfishly motivated goals and worries forcing empathy on him might compromise that.
  • Not the only sociopath with a moral code in the pantheon, though he does have the closest to a conventional moral code. He has Kimblee's respect for the dedication to his principles and being principled in general despite not caring about anyone. Dexter Morgan respects him as well given his own dedication to his own code, although recent analysis has shown unlike Elmer Dexter is sociopathic in tendencies, not completely so.
  • There are far worse people with Moral Sociopathy, but their opinion on Elmer is "I don't give a damn about him". Zamasu being an exception, though that's because of general contempt for mortals. He has much bigger fish to fry, though some tiny part of him admits they're not so different in one respect; they want to do what they think is right, even if they don't actually care about people. Beyond that and his hatred towards mortals, he simply scoffs that a mortal would sully things by possessing immortality that "gods alone deserve".
  • Why does he think Good Feels Good when he doesn't care about people? Because the universe is meaningless, so why not? Very much the opposite of the Comedian, a fellow sociopath who's nihilism is "make fun of it all because there's no meaning". Morty has come across a similar position to Elmer, which he likes. Elmer doesn't care much for the more cynically nihilistic Rick, though.
  • Doesn't get Cyrus. Cyrus argues that a World of Silence is a world where people are content and can progress, but Elmer thinks getting rid of all emotion, including happiness, would make it All for Nothing. Recent events have made Cyrus less passionate about it than before. By contrast he agrees a lot with the views of Emperor Calus on the universe. And Emmet Brickowski on life in general.
  • Every single one of Elmer's enemies in the Pantheon came to be because of what Elmer is. Like Fermet in Elmer's home universe, Elmer is completely immune to whatever suffering they might try to put him through. The only one who has yet to break under the pressure of trying and failing to torture Elmer was Johan Liebert, who sees Elmer as his second worthiest opponent after Tenma. While Elmer is motivated For Happiness, Johan is the sociopath as most of pop culture sees the condition; being an inherently wicked and cruel person.
  • Some wonder if Elmer may be the anti-thesis of the Joker. No matter what the Joker put him through (given that Elmer's immortal, he can be put through a lot), he could not give Elmer a "bad day", going so far as to give up on torturing Elmer. The Joker's sociopathy makes him a Straw Nihilist, while Elmer's leads him to be equally kind to others. He annoys the sadistic psychopath Ramsay Bolton due to his inability to suffer, despite his immortality making him last far longer.
  • He applauded Herr Doktor Tenma for placing his personal happiness above the demands of his job, even if it meant saving Johan Liebert's life. Tenma does not know what to make of Elmer, whom he considers eerily similar to himself. The one difference between the two is that Tenma is genuinely incorruptible; Elmer simply has nothing to corrupt. While he wishes the man had empathy, he is glad he wants to live as if he had it in abundance.
  • Is a rather eerie and aloof member of the GUAG. He believes Good Feels Good, but his lack of guilt and compassion can make that... askew. He wants people to be happy, even if it's doing cruel things in a Pay Evil unto Evil fashion. He sides with the GUAG because of all alliances, they will lead to the most happiness, and not the idea it's the right thing to do. Well, not how they see it.
  • Elmer's Dissonant Serenity has him often be welcome in the House of Calmness, but he prefers the Hall of Joy and Happiness since his goal is making everyone smile. He has become very close to Uni-Kitty and especially Wander, agreeing wholeheartedly in the latter's mission. Nerose Satanel thinks he could be a potential disciple, though it's unclear how Elmer might regard just how the Hadou God achieves cosmic happiness.
  • Functionally immortal. Basically has Complete Immortality, and can only die if absorbed/assimilated by another immortal. The Sith Emperor, who's depravity is reflected by his path of immortality, wants to hijack and take control of his body while manipulating Szilard Quates to get rid of the immortals who could absorb this form. Voldemort was simply annoyed by Elmer, who isn't affected by his Cruciatis because of apathy towards his own pain and has a form of immortality he wants. Also, his narcissistic belief "only I can live forever" and extreme confusion that a sociopath is still motivated to do good, unlike him.
  • A pure soul, but out of apathy rather than overwhelming empathy. Much like Tom Bombadill Elmer could just ignore the One Ring, and much like Tom he'd be too unreliable to keep it on his person. Larfleeze was a bit spooked that the orange light had no pull on Elmer, simply because of sheer disinterest. In fact he wishes Larfleeze would take his ring off, pointing out that it has never truly made him happy. The Orange Lantern ignored this and laughed at the idea of him ever giving up the ring.
  • Why is he like the way he is? Part of it comes down to his background: he was born in a cult where his only purpose was suffer and be tortured to shoulder the sins and misfortune of the world. Not so different from the Avenger Angra Mainyu, actually. Sometimes they talk about it, but otherwise keep their distance.

    Lambda-11 
Lambda-11, Goddess of Blank Slates (The Mechanical Soul)
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  • Intermediate Goddess
  • Symbol: Her eight swords crossed behind her visor on top of her emblem.
  • Theme Music: Awakening the Chaos I and II (L.A. vocal version)note, An Eternity of Battle, Reawakened, Alive
  • Alignment: True Neutral
  • Portfolio: Having one of the most tragic backstories in-game, Losing her memories to leave a fresh start, Break the Cutie, Eventually becoming separate from her fellow Murakumo, Empty Shell, Weaker than her sisters, Counting her hits off in German, Dying to save her loved one and supposedly for real yet still coming back regardless, Speaking robotically and emotionlessly at all times, Getting the short end of the stick.
  • Domains: Swords, Prototypes, Calmness, Emptiness
  • Superior: Kokonoe A. Mercury
  • Allies:
  • Teeth-Clenched Teamwork with: Hakumen, Jin Kisaragi, Prometheus and Pandora
  • Enemies: Yuuki Terumi, Dr. Weil, Relius Clover, Omega
  • Ascended after a gambit by Kokonoe took effect, ousting the former God of this position, Shadow Mitsuo, with the aid of the Investigation Team and planting her in his place, all to gain another edge against Terumi in case he manages to get back to the top of his game after his defeat. Kokonoe's only words to Lambda upon her arrival was to tell her to get to her temple and await further orders, though Tager noticed she seemed strangely happy...
  • Many a good-aligned god have taken a look at her past and come away deeply saddened by what they've seen. Even some of the evil ones feel a little uncomfortable. Lambda simply goes on as usual, silently and efficiently, though she has started to thaw out of it.
  • No one is entirely certain if she is actually the original Lambda or an alternate version of Nu's soul implanted into her body. Lambda herself doesn't know, and Kokonoe's not telling.
  • Has spent some time attempting to socialize with her younger sisters. While her time with Noel always end up on sweet, if somewhat awkward (mostly due to Makoto) moments, all efforts to interact with Nu end with her hastily beating a retreat as the Calamity Trigger screams at her to stay away from "her" Ragna.
    • Speaking of Ragna, the two of them have on occasion talked with each other, though it's rather uncomfortable to the former due to how much she resembles Nu. Still, after a while he grew to enjoy it.
    • After Ragna retreated into his temple due to transforming partly into the Black Beast, Lambda has grown almost completely distant from others, only socializing with her allies and even they occasionally have hard times making her talk. She's also finally begun to see Nu as less of a troubled soul and more as an enemy.
  • Jin tries to stay away from her as much as possible, as he doesn't like how she reminds him of Noel. Hakumen avoids her like the plague, though it's for more personal reasons.
  • Gets along well with Fluttershy, and while the pegasus was originally scared of her, their similar quiet actions eventually forged a bond, and they occasionally go to the Houses of Beasts and Nature to observe the wildlife in their spare time. Lambda is particularly fascinated by the insects. It might have something to do with the little Tartar she once adopted...
  • Nanoha immediately took her aside when they first saw each other face-to-face and told her that she would be her friend someday. One befriending ritual later, and the two spend their free days hanging out together. It's also one of the few times Lambda ever has something other than a frown on her face aside from being around Ragna. It helps that they sound so similar if one disregards their usual tones.
    • After what happened to Ragna, Nanoha is the only person in the entire Pantheon who can get through to her like before. She really is one of the only reasons Lambda hasn't gone on the way of Kokonoe by now, alongside Noel.
  • Has had some discourse with Legion, occasionally speaking on the idea that beings like them have souls. They even, very rarely, play games with each other.
  • Aigis feels really sorry for her. Where both of them were built for combat, Aigis was given emotions to operate on, whereas Lambda has no emotions at all. While she doesn't know how to help, Aigis hopes that one day Lambda is able to gain something resembling actual emotions.
  • Has a strong relationship with Labrys, due to their similar pasts as prototypes and their hatred for Nu's behavior. Lambda also had Labrys' color.
  • Friends with Grey, who sees a lot of himself in her from when he first awoke. He hopes that one day she'll find her own identity, just like he did.
  • Allies with Vatista, due in part to their similar nature and weapon of choice.
  • Fulfilled Kokonoe's mission parameters when she was confirmed to return to the playing field, with even more differences from Nu. The Evil Laugh of Kokonoe and the angry shouts and swears of Terumi could be heard all throughout the Pantheon.
    • Lambda's response: "…Leaving now."
  • Along with Labrys and Aigis, Lambda received an invite to join an anti-GUAM robot resistance unit called Liberion Arcadia. She and Labrys both looked to Aigis' decision to influence theirs. Minus Aigis herself, due to her job as one of the Shadow Operatives, they eventually joined on her recommendation to acquire safeguards against the Sigma Virus, taking part in the group's public reveal in the process. Kokonoe approved of this, but made sure to give Lambda the order to also get something in place for Tager, who despite being downgraded to Kokonoe's herald could still be a target of the GUAM's plans. Administering the safeguards ended up being standard operating procedure for all non-Reploids who joined the group thereafter…
  • She and a others told Fairy Leviathan about Nu-13 after Leviathan's ascension caused Lambda to realize that Leviathan was similar to Nu…if only Nu had enough sanity to realize that Ragna would never be in favor of destroying everything for the sake of romance. So when Leviathan started sparring with Ragna afterwards, Lambda didn't make a huge fuss, but she did make a note to herself to keep an eye on the situation.

Lesser Gods

    Q-Bee 
Q-Bee, Goddess of Hive Mentality
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  • Lesser Goddess
  • Symbol: A Soul Bee (a miniature version of herself).
  • Theme Music: "Iron Horse, Iron Terror"
  • Alignment: Chaotic Neutral/Hungry/Stupid
  • Portfolio: Figural and Literal Bee People, Cute Monster Girl, Stingers, Non-Mammalian Hair and Breasts, Insect Queen, Extreme Omnivore
  • Domains: Bees, Queens, Monsters, Hunger
  • Allies: Jedah Dohma, Swarm, Famine the Horseman, Crow
  • Enemies: Artix von Krieger
  • Rivals: Queen Sectoria
  • The queen bee of the Soul Bee race, a race full of quite literal Bee People. She is the queen, the rest of them are workers. Enough for her to weaponize them.
  • Her humanoid appearance is to lure humans to her, and most of the humanoid traits might not be real (like her eyes in her face; those orbs on her head are the real eyes). She captures humans and use them for breeding and to be feast upon. When she says she wants to eat you, she means it literally.
  • Where Soul Bees can devour everything for substance (like robots), they obviously feast on souls. She usually visits Famine the Horseman to see if he has any spare souls in hand.
  • Unfortunately, she is not the brightest person around. Her desire to feed her people has lead to a situation that they were on the verge of extinction due of devouring too many souls, leaving with nothing to eat. That is why gods make sure that her people don't go into a feasting rampage.
  • Is in eternal battle with Queen Sectoria and her Sectas. So far, Sectoria is winning.
    • Gained an ally within said fight by the name of Crow. This may have to due with how similar Crow views Q-Bee to another Bee princess he once kidnap by the name of Princess Apodia, even finding Sectoria too distasteful for his liking. Not that Q-Bee seems to mind (or maybe isn't even aware, not that she can be blamed for this), still seeing him as a good friend.
  • Not to be confused with Kyubey, a.k.a. QB. Not helped by the fact that Incubators eat Grief Seeds, meaning that they eat souls. She once tried to eat him, after which she commented that "Incubators taste horrible". She plans on using them to breed more Soul Bees in the future instead.

Demigods

    Legion 
Legion, Deity (Deities?) of Mind Hives (Infiltrait0rN7)
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    Hajime Hinata and Izuru Kamukura 
Hajime Hinata and Izuru Kamukura, Dual Gods of Wanting to be Special and Its Consequences (Super High School Level ???, Super High School Level Hope, Izuru the Ultimate X, Hajimeme, KAMUKURA KAMUKURA YAS QUEEN, Literally Just Some Guy, Hajizuru)
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Izuru (left) and Hajime (right)
  • Demigod (Izuru is an Intermediate God)
  • Symbol: An evidence bullet with the kanji for 'Future' written on it (Hajime), the crosshair symbol in his irises (Izuru)
  • Theme Song: "Utae, Uso Ronaru Yorokobi wo (Enoshima's hymn)" (shared with Junko Enoshima)
  • Alignment: Neutral Good (Hajime), True Neutral (Izuru)
  • Portfolio:
  • Domains: The Ordinary, The Talented, Ambition, Apathy
  • Allies: Chiaki Nanami, Monomi/Usami, Ibuki Mioda, Makoto Naegi, Kyouko Kirigiri, Sayaka Maizono, Mikan Tsumiki, Sonia Nevermind, Peko Pekoyama, Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu, Nekomaru Nidai, Phoenix Wright, Yu Narukami, Guy Cecil, Ichigo Kurosaki, Junpei Iori, Takumi Inui/Kamen Rider Faiz
  • Conflicting Opinion: Nagito Komaeda, Monaca Towa, Tohru Adachi (Izuru only)
  • Enemies: Junko Enoshima and Monokuma, Tsumugi Shirogane, Tohru Adachi (Hajime only), people with god complexes, all corrupt authority figures
  • The two have a rather shocking tale: Hajime, who long desired to be special, volunteered for a project that would make him so. But the cost was erasing his personality, with the new persona being christened Izuru. The pair earned their places in the pantheon after Izuru set up the killing school trip, wherein he reverted to Hajime, who rallied the other students, helped to defeat Junko Enoshima, and returned the SHSL Despairs to their ordinary selves.
  • Hajime was very surprised to learn he’d ascended, considering himself just an ordinary and uninteresting “scrub”. Izuru, on the other hand, treated his ascension the same way he treats everything else—with a dry “how boring”. The only thing that perked him up a little was noticing that Human Chiaki had also ascended.
  • It was originally thought that Izuru was a violent Serial Killer out to destroy the world in the name of despair after Junko Enoshima broke his spirit. It was later discovered that he was only loosely affiliated with her, didn’t commit or was framed for many of the atrocities associated with him, and turned on her as soon as she wronged him by executing a certain gamer. That said, he’s still hardly a nice person and creeps most of the other deities out by virtue of being utterly impossible to read.
    • Due to this, the Future Foundation members watching Hajime to ensure he doesn’t relapse have relaxed a bit, as while Izuru isn’t harmless, he rarely acts unless provoked. So they don’t consider him as much of a threat anymore.
  • Their situation, that of being two separate personalities in the same body, isn’t a first for their franchise. But unlike Toko Fukawa, who can change her personalities with certain triggers, the two of them did not originally exist at the same time, nor could they switch—Izuru was only created when Hajime was erased, and Hajime only returned when Izuru stepped back.
    • After waking up from the Neo World Program, they found themselves reaching an accord and now share their body in harmony. Hajime seems to be controlling their body most of the time, but it’s implied Izuru is still in there, which accounts for how he can coexist with and take control from him in the pantheon.
  • They were both very happy to see Human Chiaki again, and had a rather sweet reunion. She was briefly confused upon seeing Izuru, having met him before but not gotten any answers on his situation with Hajime; once it was explained, she happily welcomed him with open arms as well. Now they spend a lot of time in the Gaming Pantheon with her, as she’s the one thing the two of them can agree on liking.
  • Hajime isn't exactly sure what to think of Nagito Komaeda. Was he justified in trying to kill everyone? Were they really friends? How much of what he says about himself is true? Does he really have a disease that's eating away at his brain and causing him to act the way he is? They seem to be getting along better after a while though.
    • Izuru’s opinion on Nagito is much more straightforward—“he’s boring”. He does seem a bit wary of him, though, having seen that while his luck can counter Nagito’s, Nagito’s is still incredibly volatile and dangerous.
  • Both Hajime and Izuru were very displeased to find that Junko had ascended, given her very long list of crimes against both the world and them as individuals. However, they know that there’s pretty much nothing they can do to pay her back, since she takes pleasure even in losing, so they just try to ignore her.
  • Hajime formally asked for forgiveness from Usami upon hearing of her ascension, and thanked her for defeating AI Junko. He also finally got to thank AI Chiaki for everything she’d done.
  • Due to the fact that they sound identical, Hajime gets along well with Narukami, Cecil, and Ichigo. He also really dislikes Adachi for being, in his words, “a nightmarish cross between Izuru and Junko”.
    • While Hajime just straight-up dislikes Adachi, Izuru’s relationship with him is more complicated. He does understand being utterly bored with the world; however, Adachi’s sociopathic and manipulative tendencies remind him too much of Junko for him to truly say he likes him. Adachi, meanwhile, often tries to convince Izuru to join him in livening up the world by killing. Most are reassured that Izuru, having tried that before and found it boring, probably won’t be taking him up on that offer.
    • About Narukami... let's not forget this line. Yu understands all too well.
  • Hajime also ended up becoming friends with Junpei Iori and Takumi Inui, as he understands the former’s desire to be special all too well and the latter’s identity crisis as a result of having split personalities.
  • One thing both of them have in common is being a source of many memes. Neither is exactly proud of this.
  • Can also be found in Identity Issues.

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