The Neon Architect "Vapor Mercury"

Introduction
William “Vapor Mercury” Trevers (Vapor for short) is a neon-utilizing architect working for the Circle of

Chaos (formerly worked for the Government). He was injected with the “Neon” element against his will right after he found out about the Government's true intentions. Initially he didn’t want his newfound powers. However, he eventually learned to adapt with it.

Pre-elemental life
Being born into a poor family, Vapor didn’t really have a good life. He barely had access to any tools that could improve on his life. Although, Vapor was quite intelligent. So he managed to learn how to live through a poor life. Since his childhood, Vapor had skills in architecture and had a huge interest in it. So he signed up in the architecture academy in his hometown during his early 20s. With his skills, Vapor managed to become the best architect in his town and one of the best in the world. However, this didn’t solve his problem of having a poor life. During this time, the Government had already acknowledged Vapor’s architecture skills and his high intelligence. They also noticed his life being in a bad condition. So they offered him a better life on the condition that he works for them. While Vapor didn’t want to work for the Government at first, he didn’t really have a choice. So he decided to accept the offer.

He worked for the Government for a few weeks while he was still living the poor life he already had. One day he decided to ask the Government about why he wasn’t getting his promised “Better Life”. So he went to the Government “secret” hideout. The deeper he went, the more dark secrets he found out. The darkest place he found out, opened his eyes to reality; A secret lab where humans get experimented on with different elements. Shocked in terror, Vapor was horrified after realizing the Government was just using him for their personal deeds. Right when he found out the truth, a scientist tranquilized Vapor and put him on the experimental table.

Vapor woke up shortly after being put on the experimental table. The Government leader walked up to him and told him that he should have continued working for them. This made Vapor extremely angry, although he was horrified at the same time and was tied up, so he couldn’t do anything. The Government scientists were ready to inject their next element in Vapor, Neon. He was injected with the element. At first nothing happened. However, a few seconds later, something very impactful happened to both Vapor and the lab. The results were gruesome. It’s better not to explain the details.

Right after the big impact, the lights in the lab went off and Vapor was broken free, so he used this time to escape.

After the events of the horrifying experiment, Vapor ran away from his hometown to avoid getting caught by the Government again even though they were searching for him. The impact didn’t only affect the Government dark lab, but also the whole town. Vapor couldn’t return to that town anymore, so he escaped.

Vapor was later found by another organization, the Circle of Chaos. Vapor was initially very distrustful of them due to what happened to him by the Government. However, the Circle of Chaos actually offered him a suitable place on the condition that he works with them. Vapor, who had nothing left to lose, had no choice but to accept the offer. Unlike the Government, the Circle of Chaos gave their promised offering to him right after he agreed to the terms and conditions. The Circle of Chaos’ purpose was to stop chaos by using chaos.

Vapor, now in his new-home inside the Circle of Chaos, finally started to have a good life. He used his newfound powers that were injected in him combined with his brilliant mind to build himself his personal gear. He became the first agent of chaos for good deeds.

Personality
Despite his cold past, Vapor is a smart and patient person. While he distrusts new people he meets, he eventually begins to adapt with them as long as there are no backstabbing and dark secrets. Even though he’s an agent of chaos, his intentions are not villainous and he thinks before he acts. Regardless of the trust issues, Vapor actually likes other architects/designers and respects whoever helps him or asks help from him if there is a problem with the designing.

However, Vapor wouldn’t hesitate to defend himself if things go wrong, even if it means killing the person he sees as a threat.

Abilities
Energy structures: Being injected with Neon combined with his high intelligence and architecture skills, Vapor can amplify certain tools and weapons with electricity produced by his stored neon being in low pressure. At high pressure, his amplified weapons can be used for making his enemies stunned and lightheaded.

Vapor can also forge limited-use weapons and tools, but it’s not really easy for him as it takes about a certain amount of his stored neon. It also cannot stun the victims as it’s just the same as the weapon the creation resembles just in a glowing appearance.

Photogenesis: Vapor can use blinding flash by using a small amount of his stored neon, blinding his foes for a limited time.

Aside from his neon-based powers, he still has a high-level intelligence.

Weaknesses
Despite being powerful, Vapor has his weaknesses as well. One of them is his strictly limited resource usage. If he uses too much neon at once, he will feel light-headed, confused and visually blinded like his victims do. If he runs out of neon, he will need to wait for it to recharge. During this time, he is powerless and it’s best for him to take cover for a while.

The other weakness is not letting go of the past. Because of this, he occasionally gets reminded of the events of the big impact and forces him to daydream for a few moments which is not good in certain moments as it can lead him to get harmed or even worse, to die.

Additional info

 * His name derives from the founders of the Neon element, William Ramsay and Morris Travers. His middle name is a synonym to “Neon light”.


 * Despite being a genius at architecture, he’s terrible at science.
 * He’s a bottom :D (“Stfu corpse twink who is writing this >:/”).


 * He is still traumatized from the horrific experiment he suffered during his time as a Government architect.


 * He always brings a knife to a gunfight despite being good with guns.


 * Regardless of what he said 3 sentences earlier, he’s actually quite mannerful (“Dafuq? I’m not >:/”).


 * His right eye, while not destroyed, is blinded from the events of the big impact.


 * He lost the lower half of his face flesh from the events of the big impact which is why he is wearing a mask almost all the time.


 * Him and the people around him used to wear hats all over their faces which helped reduce the coyote population :P.


 * His pickup line is “How do you answer the dead?”.


 * He enjoys going to Zer0’s bar. But heavily despises the Blue Haze.


 * He’s asexual biromantic.