Quite a sinister prospect, the Corinthian is. You can make a sign up if you want, Jason C, just so I can see what he'd look like on paper.
Oh, and regarding the discussion thread, I have absolutely no problems with you playing Snowflame, Go A. Though you'd have to decide which you'd prefer to play.
edited 27th Jan '13 12:43:31 AM by LizardOfAus
And a Strange Figure Emerges.All right. First Draft sheet for your consideration. I am assuming that Dream has not yet escaped his prison.
Name: The Corinthian
Gender: Male
Age: Seemingly Middle aged
Appearance: Depends on the body he is currently inhabiting. But he will always have white hair. His most notable physical feature is his lack of eyes: in their place, two rows of small, jagged teeth line each eye socket, which he often covers with sunglasses. He can speak, eat and even respire through these mouths. The Corinthian is an impeccable dresser and will often wear only white clothing.
Alignment: Evil
Powers: The Corinthian does not seem to suffer in any way from his lack of eyes, and indeed claims to be able to see very well, even while wearing sunglasses at night. He is however fond of taking the eyeballs of his victims and eating them with his own socket/mouths. Consuming the eyes of his victims allows him to view what they have viewed in their lives and even see the future in some cases.
The Corinthian is also able to possess human beings. When the Corinthian assumes control of a new host, the eyes are consumed and replaced by teeth and the hair of the victim turns white. During the process, the eye sockets bleed profusely. All other physical characteristics remain the same for the host. This lets the Corinthian jump between bodies and even show himself off as his victims if he is able to hide or explain the physical changes.
He is very skilled at hand-to-hand combat. He is extremely resistant to damage and seems to be completely fearless.
Origin: The original ruler of the Dreaming, Dream of The Endless, created him to be a nightmare that would show humanity its own dark nature. "A nightmare created to be the darkness, and the fear of darkness in every human heart. A black mirror, made to reflect everything about itself that humanity will not confront." He was to be his masterpiece.
But when Dream went missing, other beings, including Nightmare, usurped his throne. The Corinthian, no longer content with haunting the dreams of man, took advantage of the chaos and escaped to the mortal world, where he has spent the last few decades immersing himself in the darkness of man.
He has learned to kill, but rarely does so on impulse, preferring instead to devise schemes that almost always allow him to pull others down into that darkness that lies within humanity.
"You are my future selves? Am I having a Mid-Life Crisis?" The War Doctor - Day of The DoctorThe supernatural types usually deal with the big splashy stuff. He wouldn't be doing that, just being quiet. Hell, In the Sandman comic he'd stayed off the radar for close to a hundred years, just doing his thing. Influencing murderers, encouraging the darkness out of all sorts of people. He probably had a lot of fun in Nazi Germany and Stalin's Russia.
This Corinthian will have also been a lot more wide ranging than just being the Patron Saint of Serial Killers, which is all the first one seemed to be in the comic. Morpheus was more disappointed in him than anything else when he found him.
"You are my future selves? Am I having a Mid-Life Crisis?" The War Doctor - Day of The DoctorActually the supernatural heroes in both Marvel and Dc come in all levels (not unlike regular ones) all the way down to urban-horror hunting ones. Heck, I suspect our merger universe must have dozens in it, many of them active for centuries. I'm pretty sure the Corinthian would be spotted sooner or later (also remember, Vertigo drifted away from regular DC continuity eventually, to the point The Endless and company didn't even show up during the Big Crisis. Most of their stories probably weren't even canon.)
edited 28th Jan '13 1:20:01 PM by Sijo
Maybe the Corithian is similar to real life serial killers like BDK or Jack The Ripper: The heroes know he exists and possibly faced him down before, but he's constantly one step ahead of them and always managing to escape capture/destruction, forcing them to wait until another victim comes under their radar or he slips up HUGE.
He is essentially a Nightmare, created to be the personification of the darkness that lives in humanity. And however much you want to, you can't permanently get rid of something like that; Not unless you change humanity at a fundamental level. You might be able to destroy this one, but Dream would most likely go ahead and make another Corinthian to replace him.
@Sijo. They couldn't have shown up for Crisis on Infinite Earths because that was written about 10 years before Gaiman created Morpheus and the rest of the Endless. And apparently Death did show up in one of the many Crisis'. At least that's what I was told.
edited 29th Jan '13 1:04:13 AM by JasonC
"You are my future selves? Am I having a Mid-Life Crisis?" The War Doctor - Day of The DoctorSnowflame
A nameless junkie lay dying in the gutter of a cocaine overdose. Death stands ready to release him from his suffering but is denied her prize by Asgardian trickery. He is filled with magic of fire and chaos, imbuing him with life and power to match his high. Like a phoenix emerging from pure white ashes, Snowflame rises up.
Snowflame is a muscular man who looks like he is not only healthy but in peak physical condition. Sadly, the same power that lends such vitality to his body has utterly wrecked his mind. Long white hair frame pitch black eyes filled with mania and madness. A garish costume best described as a Santa Claus in his younger days as a professional wrestler adorns his body.
Snowflame has a galore of powers; invulnerability, speed, strength, flight and pyrokinesis. However, the might of his abilities is proportionate to his high, necessitating that he constantly consume cocaine although it doesn't seem to do him any harm. It's also possible different drugs would give him different powers. Considering the source, fire is likely to always be involved, however his insanity and his addiction make such considerations unlikely.
Snowflame unwittingly does the bidding of his benefactor in spreading chaos in the mortal world, coming to believe in the divinity of cocaine and right of all people to share in its high. He avidly works at producing and distributing the stuff, and encouraging more people to get hooked on it. He's actually a pretty nice drug dealer but damn inconsistent. He doesn't stay in one place forever, leaving a city filled with a enlarge population of cocaine addicts and their mysterious supplier of a cheap fix up and left. The city have small outbreaks of anarchy and chaos afterward. Even when he is around, there is never enough to share between his 'followers' and lion's share he keeps for himself.
I believe I still have Lizard's permission for this.
Name: Deadpool
Real Name: Wade Wilson (Maybe)
Gender: Male
Age: Mid 30's
Appearance: Clearly you still recall me, Lizzy.
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Alignment: Anti-Hero
Personality: Deadpool has no real person skills and will blab on either about random things that pass by his mind or about the fourth wall. He is at least slightly psychopathic and likes killing people too. Deadpool is a well-meaning idiot sometimes and sometimes he's a cruel murderer. Depends on how he's feeling that day.
Powers and Abilities: Deadpool has an accelerated healing factor making him immune to diseases and can recover tissue quickly, however he can temporarily die and he has been shown to feel pain. His cancer is also now accelerating at an absurd rate leaving him disfigured over his entire body. He also is immune to telepathic assaults due to his healing factor recovering dying brain cells rapidly however it also helped make him insane. He is also a master swords-man, marksman and martial artist. Lastly he has an expanded life span and superhuman reflexes, stamina, agility,and flexibility.
Weapons and Equipment: Guns, swords and sometimes a piece of tech that allows him to take a holographic disguise.
Origin: Wade Wilson had a very unhappy childhood. With a dead mother and an abusive father, Wade turned out to be a delinquent in his teenage years. However one night one of Wade's friends took out Wade's father's handgun and shot him dead. Following a short time in the military Wade started his merc career in his late teens killing only those who he believed deserved death. Years later Wade had contracted cancer and broke up with the woman who he loved. A Canadian special development branch of the Weapon X project came to Wade and made him a test subject, arresting his cancer with a healing factor taken from Wolverine. However this healing factor made his cancer spread which along with some other factors drove Wade insane.

I vote no to that. I dislike Vertigo comics and don't consider it a true part of the DC Universe. Besides, add the Endless to the Marvel Cosmic Pantheon and they come across as weak and ineffectual. In my opinion of course.
If you do bring them in however, you could have Morpheus as the true ruler of the Dream Dimension, usurped by Nightmare during his absence.