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Gladiator Biography

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Name: Gladiator

Alter-Ego: Otum Matron

Age: Unknown
Ht: 15’8”
Wt: 5,286 lbs
Eyes: Charcoal colored
Hair: Bald

Appearance: Extremely muscled, indications reveal years if not decades of gladiatorial training to the highest degree, scars a patterned along his face, chest, and back indicating his tiered position.

Base of Operations: The Imperial Star.

Personality type: Brutish, Confrontational, Calculating when pressured, and overall he loves to fight.

Skills: Heavy Weapons Artist, Gladiatorial Styles Combat, Blacksmithing, and Tactician in Hand to Hand combat.

Powers

Super Strength: Starting out with this, due to his own planet having such a high gravitational pull Gladiator’s muscular structure is much stronger than that of someone on Earth. Combined with the various times he has spent in different arenas, he has amount much pure physical strength. This was later augmented when he bonded with the Nicton and granted him strength to fall between 90-95 tons. He can go higher; however, this is only reflective to the amount of kinetic energy he has absorbed.

Near Invulnerability: While he isn’t indestructible, Gladiator has shown to take many beatings from both weapons and fists. Gladiator’s skin is thick enough to take a direct shot from a tank; however, he can get knocked off his feet. Gladiator compensates for this lack by crafting armors of a superior metallic/mineral blend.

Kinetic Energy Absorption: This is pretty much his greatest power. On top of being a gladiatorial genius, he has the ability to absorb the energy into direct impacts. Swords lose their cut, fists lose their drive, and he only gets stronger the amount of energy he absorbs. Usually he can channel this to his muscular frame to get a bonus to his strength; however, it is limited to only physical attacks.

Semi-Juggernaut State: With the mysticism of Brimstone in play, there have been efforts to try and combine the spirit of Chik’tar to Gladiator. While this hasn’t worked, it has led to the spirit being encased inside the armor Gladiator uses for invasions. If given a running start, Gladiator becomes near impossible to stop, even by himself. Often having to dig his feet to the ground, Gladiator becomes nearly unstoppable unless given a great opposing force.

Weaknesses:
Breathing: Even though Gladiator is a living tank, he does have his limits. Gladiator can adapt to the different air environments around him; however, he does need a source of breathing to continue the fight. Chokeholds are usually effective; however, for those who can fly or teleport putting him in airless environments tends to stop his rampage.

Ego: Being a gladiatorial champion does have his flaws; Gladiator is extremely egotistical about his strength, reputation as a gladiator, and his skill. This has led him to fail to accurately depict his opponents and often puts him at a disadvantage. Spoiling himself with fortune, food, and women Gladiator is the epitome of egotistical behaviors.
Intelligence: With great strength comes a great lack of intelligence. Born on a planet with no real need for technological development and a hierarchy built upon the strongest, Gladiator isn’t that brilliant in technology or clever wits; however, he is a genius at fighting with or without a weapon.
Psychics: Gladiator is extremely vulnerable to psychics. While making him being manipulated is out of the question due to his bond with the Nicton, Gladiator’s mind is able to be opened and read to gain a better advantage to his fighters. From tactical styles to even predicting his next move, Gladiator tends to remove any psychics in the area before fighting.

Background

Born into a gladiatorial system, Otum was thrown into the planet’s system of deciding who would be where based upon their strength. Otum was sentenced to venture out to get stronger for failing his tests of gladiatorial skill. This lead him to be featured in many black market fighting rings which soon evolved into actual gladiatorial rings. While Otum’s body became stronger, he was still limited by his size as he was often paired with monsters from other worlds.

One day when he was mucking out the stalls a stranger in a black cloak came to him and offered him a chance to become stronger than his wildest imagination. The figure soon identified himself as Nexus and was looking for an enforcer to lead his division of heavy hitters. Agreeing to this, Otum was immediately bonded to the Nicton parasite from Nexus himself. This allowed the conqueror to reshape Otum to his precise image and the image Otum would want to be known for. Using the various genetic codes of worlds he had already inhabited, including some superheroes from Earth, he crafted Otum to be a titanic gladiator.

The next day Otum, dubbing the name “The Gladiator”, killed the beast that was sent to him. This followed in a vicious and brutal slaughter of his opponents until the gladiatorial head eventually released Otum in the form of his freedom. Otum joined the ranks of Gladiator as they traveled back to his home world and quickly enslaved it. Under Otum’s new guidance the strongest were inducted into his own personal squadron of heavy hitters.
After establishing himself as the “Chieftain” of the planet, Gladiator gave the rank to one of his most trusted lieutenants to aid Nexus in his galactic conquest. Often being seen as the driving force after the invasion has weakened the defenses, Gladiator has built up a reputation for himself as being both a warrior of brutal nature and one of Nexus strongest generals. 

Notes

1. Gladiator often carries a heavy weapon. While this ranges from a hammer to a broad sword, he is never entering a battlefield unarmed.
2. Gladiator wears a brand on his back to remind him of his days as a stable boy for the intergalactic arenas. This involves a serpent coiling on his back and around the shoulder blades.
3. He keeps a “collection” of his fights. Usually pieces of equipment or even sometimes body parts are lined in the shelves to commemorate his greatest fights.
4. He has a brotherly relationship with Kelly Stone “Beretta”.
5. He keeps a collection of harems in his quarters as he selects the prime women from the various races he has encountered. They serve in assembling his armor, keeping maintenance and cleaning it up, and even service him in various “services”.

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Howdy Deviants,

To shed some light behind the Nicton Armada I am going to shed light behind the enforcer and the strength of the armada, Gladiator. Here is the biography that I could compile; however, I will edit this in future tenses should inspiration demand that I add more to the vast lore. I plan to have individual solo stories featured about the various generals and how they were hand picked by Nexus himself to be part of the vast amarda that is the Nicton empire. I hope y'all enjoy it and feel free to check out it's fellow generals.

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It currently exists in the :iconangel-fallsda: universe where he seeks stronger competition to be the greatest gladiator, warrior, and fighter in the known galaxy.
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kryptonianknight's avatar
Sounds like an interesting character to fight thrun the conquer