𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐋𝐅
Son-In-All-But-Blood of King T’Chaka, Queen N’Yami, & Queen Ramonda
Elder Brother of King T’Challa & Shuri
Chief of the Hatut Zeraze
Host of S̶c̶o̶r̶n̶ 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐏𝐓
History
Three years before the birth of T’Challa, there was a plane crash near the northern border of Wakanda. Upon investigating, King T’Chaka found all its passengers dead. All save for one; an infant.T’Chaka shocked his people with his next action, taking the child home to the palace and adopting him as his heir. Why were the people of Wakanda shocked by this? A simple reason; the child was white.T’Chaka named the boy Hunter, loved, and raised him as his sole heir for three years, Queen N’Yami doing the same. Though Hunter heard the whispers, how he was not of the blood, what an outrage and impossibility it would be for an outsider to continue to live among them let alone rule Wakanda, a child will still dream. Then, in a single night, Hunter’s dreams were shattered.He knew his mother was pregnant and that she would soon give birth to a child, and Hunter reacted as many small children did. He grew jealous of how his new sibling would draw attention, how he would be even more removed from the family than he already felt, and more. All things too large and complicated for a three year old barely out of diapers to truly comprehend.So Hunter did the only thing a child can when so distressed, he acted out. He threw tantrums, he was reprimanded, and Hunter eventually accepted his incoming sibling, even grew excited.Though T’Chaka used a firm hand and reminded him of the responsibilities he had to the family and Wakanda, how such behavior was beneath a prince, his mother took a different approach.She sat with a crying Hunter after a beating by T’Chaka for his attitude shown at dinner and spoke with him. She told him to not view his sibling as taking love from him, but being someone more for him to love and be loved by. How he could teach their new addition things their parents could, talk to each other about things they could to no other, how he would have someone to stand beside his whole life.And then T’Challa came into the world, taking their mother from it in the process. With T’Challa’s birth, Hunter’s dreams of the throne died, and so did his mother.His heart hardened and Hunter resolved himself to upstage his brother in whatever way he could, to be a better Wakandan than T’Challa could ever dream to be.T’Chaka’s heart weighed heavy with grief, and though he hid it from T’Challa, Hunter saw the weight of N’Yami’s death and the loss on their father far more and felt it just as deeplyStill, Hunter grew to love his brother and they often played together in their youth, though Hunter would often be reprimanded for teasing T’Challa or picking in him physically somehow.Their father would also remarry eventually, finding his new queen in Ramonda. Ramonda, like Hunter, was an outsider seen with suspicion by the people of Wakanda. Despite this, she found two little boys who had lost their mother, two little boys who needed one, and a reason to endure.She developed a special bond with both, becoming the mother T’Challa never knew, and a mother that knew the feeling of being an outsider even among royalty for Hunter.Her daughter and their sister, Shuri, would be born not long afterwards. Hunter had a much softer spot for Shuri, long past the age of childish resentments over attention and his envy over the throne targeted at T’Challa. He became very close with his younger sister, closer than he was with their brother. Even after his self-imposed exile, Hunter kept close and frequent contact with both his stepmother and sister.Though it was all but a certainty that it was T’Challa who would ascend to the throne, T’Chaka loved his other children no less and saw their dedication to their home. For Hunter, he would create the role of The White Wolf and place him as chief of the Hatut Zeraze (The Dogs of War.) They were Wakanda’s elite secret police force, tasked with the investigation, interrogation, and execution of threats both internal and external to Wakanda.Hunter’s methods would be fitting of his role, brutal and blood-soaked, but all done so that Wakanda could persevere and remain shielded from the threats that would tear her down.Hunter was present when Ulysses Klaw killed T’Chaka, blaming T’Challa for the death of their father as well because T’Chaka had died shielding T’Challa from Klaw’s attack. He also blamed himself, believing he should have seen Klaw coming and executed him before he ever became a problem.Hunter and the Hatut Zeraze would continue their duties and service to Wakanda until T’Challa reached maturity and officially ascended to both the throne and Black Panther mantle.Disapproving of his brother and the Hatut Zeraze’s methods, T’Challa had them disbanded. This led to Hunter and the Hatut Zeraze going into self-imposed exile. They became mercenaries but remained fiercely loyal to Wakanda.Hunter would, as son of T’Chaka and a Prince of Wakanda, still retain access to both his inheritance and a large sum of money to continue funding his endeavors. Combined with the money he and the Hatut Zeraze have made as mercenaries, Hunter lives a lavish lifestyle in the outside world, living like a stereotypical rich bachelor. While partly because he enjoys it, it is also a smokescreen for his background and true intentions.T’Challa would, eventually, be ousted from the throne and Shuri would take his place as the ruler of Wakanda and Black Panther. She invited Hunter home and reestablished the Hatut Zeraze.Their brother would, also eventually, return to the throne. Years and experienced had changed T’Challa however, and he understood the necessity of Hunter’s duties. He continued to allow the Hatut Zeraze to operate, though now under strict supervision by himself and the Dora Milaje.
Personality
Angry.Confident.Loyal.These words and many more accurately describe Hunter. He is the eldest Prince of Wakanda and the nation’s most fiercely loyal patriot.Filled with anger over loss and jealousy, Hunter is both spiteful and petty. He will lash out at what he perceives to be sleights against himself or Wakanda, pursue anyone he believes an enemy of Wakanda to the ends of the Earth, and even undermine his brother the King when he believes it necessary.Growing up with the constant whispers and looks by the people of Wakanda, Hunter had little choice but to develop a hardened outer shell. Often seeming cold and glib, mocking others when they annoy him or are otherwise in opposition to him or his goals.Hunter is Wakanda’s fiercest and most loyal patriot despite the color of his skin, loving the land and people who adopted him with all of his heart even when they do not reciprocate the feeling. Hunter would gladly lay his life down in Wakanda’s name, as any good Wakandan would.Despite their differences, Hunter is extremely close with his adopted family. He views Ramonda as his second mother after N’Yami and sees both T’Challa and Shuri as his siblings. Though he has many differences with T’Challa and often clashes with him because of it, Hunter still loves his brother immensely and would neither truly try to kill him or allow him to be killed. He remains extremely close with both Shuri and Ramonda, keeping close contact even during his exile.
Powers & Abilities
Peak Human Conditioning - As part of his attempts to upstage T’Challa and be the best Wakandan he can, Hunter has pushed himself to absolute limits both mentally and physically for training. He is strong and agile enough to contend with his brother, the heart-shaped herb enhanced Black Panther, in hand-to-hand combat. His mind is trained to withstand telepathic attacks and traps. His body and mind are fortified and trained for extensive pain and punishment, able to fight through injury and pain well past normal human limitations.Hand-To-Hand Combat - Trained as an heir to the Wakandan throne and warrior of Wakanda, Hunter is an expert in several forms of martial arts and combat. He is skilled enough to contend with and gain the upper hand on his brother, one of the worlds most renown hand-to-hand combatants.Expert Firearms & Weapons Proficiency - As both the secret police and a mercenary group, the Hatut Zeraze have access to vast array of firearms and weaponry, all of which Hunter has trained himself to master.Stealth - Through a combination of skill, tribal mysticism, and technology, Hunter is a master of stealth. He can disappear in front of someone’s very eyes and become virtually undetectable.
Equipment
Vibranium Synthweave Armor - A custom-made, white armor, it functions much in the same way the Black Panther armor does, with its own key features.Steath-Field Generator - A combination of Wakandan tech and mysticism, it renders Hunter absolutely invisible to the eye and detection. It also allows him to make his armor appear as a white business suit, making it able to be worn anywhere and deployed whenever needed.Various Firearns & Weapons - As both the White Wolf and head of the Hatut Zeraze, Hunter has access to a vast multitude of weapons both conventional and otherwise.Hunter’s Symbiote - Widely believed to have been consumed by Cletus Kassidy when possessed by the Grendel, the Scorn symbiote survived this and was later bonded to a new host to serve her ‘father.’ Following Carnage’s defeat, Scorn and her host were captured then forcibly separated by Alchemax. They wanted to use her technological powers to create the ultimate weapon of corporate espionage. They also sought a way to control the symbiote, not wanting a repeat of countless other attempts to weaponize them. To this extent, Alchemax tried to effectively lobotomized Scorn by bonding her with the anti-venom formula on a molecular level, trying to kill her higher brain functions off while retaining the symbiote power. It did not work, but Scorn 𝙬𝙖𝙨 changed by their experiments. Her memories became fractured, her connection to the Hive severed, and her very existence itself a contradiction. The process should have killed her, eradicated her completely, but instead left her deadly to her own kind. It was then that she truly became and embraced her name; 𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐍. Freed, both accidentally and purposefully, by Hunter, she bonded with him as he was both her rescuer and only option. Unsure if she could survive without a host or her captor’s incubation, she has begrudgingly agreed to work with Hunter on the provision he allows her to real bloody vengeance on her ‘family’ for mistreating then forgetting her as well as her captors. Being a symbiote, Scorn’s bond with Hunter grows stronger as they remain together, as well as endowing him with a multitude of new abilities, some unique to Scorn herself.
- Superhuman Strength
- Superhuman Durability
- Superhuman Stamina
- Superhuman Speed
- Superhuman Agility
- Superhuman Reflexes
- Accelerated Healing Factor
- Wall-Crawling
- ESP (Spider-Sense)
- Immunity to Spider-Man’s Spider Sense
- Webbing Generation
- Genetic Memory
- Camouflage Capabilities
- Constituent-Matter Generation
- Constituent-Matter Manipulation
- Stretching & Deforming
- Offspring Detection
- Tracking
- Techno-Hybrid - Unique among even the symbiotes, Scorn is a ‘cyborg symbiote’ as a result of her birth. She is able to fuse herself and host with technology, not simply adapt it to herself and mimic it like the others, but to actively fuse with it. She has a host of abilities unique to her, like;
- Crashing - Being able to fuse with technology and, in a way, being technology herself, the symbiote negate technological functions whether it be through draining power, EMPs, system errors and computer viruses, etc.
- Cyberlingualism - Scorn, and by extension her host, can communicate with any form of technology either telepathically, verbally, or through physical contact.
- Data Manipulation - Scorn can create, shape, and manipulate data/digital information.
- Mechanical Intuition - Scorn intuitively understands the operations of any mechanical device she encounters and subconsciously/instinctively creates a schematic for it in her memories. This allows her to make complex devices and machinery from what appears to be scrap and/or garbage.
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- Mechanical Morphing - The most iconic of her abilities Scorn can morph, change and/or shapeshift any sort of machinery into herself when she holds or touches an object that is mechanical or technology based. The change in mechanical structure can also give new enhancements or powers to the machines.
- Programming
- Scanning
- Technological Possession
- Technoformation - The Scorn Symbiote lets its wearer create, shape and manipulate technology and mechanical constructs. I.E. computers, robots, hardware, electronics and other devices that can be termed as "technology." Manifested as a special form of tactile electrical/telekinetic manipulation, a special form of "morphing" which allows physical interaction with engineering, or even a psychic ability that allows mental interface with computer data. The user can control the flow of intricate machinery, and assemble or disengage their programming at will and operate most technology at distance.
- Impurity Sense - Part of the mutations following her experiments at Alchemax’s hands, Scorn can sense foreign substances within a person's body. This includes symbiotes, radiation, narcotics, viruses, and other diseases.
- Internal Body Cleansing - After sensing an impurity such as toxins, drugs, diseases, and other malignant substances, Scorn can forcefully "cure" the substance from the person's body using antibodies produced by the symbiote.
- Spider-Power Negation - Proximity to the symbiote slowly drains and negates radioactive spider-based powers until enough distance has been put between them. The webbing Scorn generates also has the effect of negating these abilities until the target frees themselves.
- Fire Resistance - One of the ‘improvements’ Alchemax sought, unlike previous iterations of Anti-Venom symbiotes, Scorn is not immune to fire. Naturally more resistant than her predecessors, the process that fused her and Anti-Venom has increased that resistance ten-fold.
- Sonic Resistance - Like her vulnerability to fire, Scorn is not immune to sonic attacks but was already naturally more resistant to them than her ‘father’ and ‘grandfather.’ Just as with her bolstered immunity to fire, the process that bonded her to Anti-Venom also increased her resistance to sonics.