Community:The Black Devil

The Black Devil is a mysterious vigilante and gangster hailing from the Capital Wasteland.

History
The Black Devil's childhood is unknown. If his parents named him that, they were either very strange people or psychic. For the Devil truly lived up to the name, long ago given to a superhero that was devilish yet saved the in need. The earliest known sighting of the Devil was at Meresti Trainyard, where he was apparently a member of the vampiric gang known as The Family. It is here he learned to harness his innate powers, possessing formidable strength, agility, and endurance. However, it was noted even then by their leader Vance that the Devil's most dangerous ability was his mind. After some time with The Family he left to roam the wasteland. Unfortunately for him he wandered straight into an alien tractor beam and was abducted and tested on by the little green men. The aliens underestimated his superhuman abilities however, and he was able to take over the ship. He would continue to use it as a base for the rest of his life, using the teleportation array to appear suddenly in small towns during the night, where he then proceeded to wake the residents in the middle of the night, make himself a bit of a nuisance, then generally be forgiven as he solved their problems.

Once he came across Rivet City, he had his first contact with the Institute. After having a rather lengthy conversation with Dr. Zimmer, he then proceeded to teleport himself directly into the Institute, causing quite a stir. Once he tided them over with Zetan weapons to analyze however, the Institute accepted him and it's here he received the first of his cybernetic implants, meant to enhance his reflexes. He became an expert on the field of cybernetics, and using technology he scavenged from around the Capital enhanced himself further. However, while he was welcome to the Institute's old research on Kellogg, he was not allowed to practice his science inside the Institute, due to Father's disapproval of it. This suited the Black Devil just fine, since he had grown familiar with the Zetan surgical equipment, and only ever practiced on himself.

Later he teleported himself to New Vegas, observing strong energy signatures coming from the city on the Mothership's sensors. He roamed Freeside for a bit, terrorizing the streets with his trusty Shishkebab. The King heard of him, and asked him to help deal with some larger threats instead of just common thugs, and as a response The Black Devil laid three heads from Fiend leaders before the King. While the King was recovering from his shock and nausea, The Black Devil noticed Rex walk in, dragging his hind legs as they no longer moved. The Devil offered to fix Rex, and did so, earning a favor from the King. He chose to join the gang, as their ethics very closely matched his, but had formally been denied due to being from outside Freeside. The King allowed it, however soon the Black Devil took his leave, as the Mojave was not to his liking. Before he left he had checked out the Followers of the Apocalypse, and noting his expertise in cybernetics, recommended he stop by their medical clinic outside Vegas, where he acquired several implants from it's storage closet. In addition to those normally in stock, he found some older sets of armor plating that provided impressive protection, but were no longer offered due to generally ruining the good looks of the wearer.

After a lengthy recovery period following his extensive self-administered implantation, he then beamed down to Big MT, looking for technology to scavenge. To their mutual surprise, he had teleported directly into the Think Tank's main dome, and, still somewhat weak from the implantation surgery, was knocked out by Dr. Borous frantically flying into him. He was dissected by the Think Tank's Auto-Doc, however it was interrupted by his extensive subdermal armoring. Aghast at waking up to his own heart being lifted out of him, the Devil tore his way out of the Auto-Doc with his bare hands before collapsing due to a lack of a heart. This process repeated again with his spine, until eventually when placed into a third Auto-Doc his brain hacked it and shut it down soon after it was extracted. The brain then proceeded to send a coded message to his Mothership, teleporting itself up into the cryogenic storage section. From there it would control the body, hijacking the normal Lobotomite process. The Black Devil disguised himself as a regular lobotomite for a time, exploring Big MT for any other cybernetic technology, before eventually being recalled back to Mothership Zeta.

After this he went back to the Commonwealth, but this time traveled around on the surface. During this time he met Wally Mack and his branch of Tunnel Snakes, and after mentioning he had met Butch in Rivet City, Wally Mack made him a Tunnel Snake. He also traveled to the Atom Cats garage and for having a righteous leather jacket and hairdo, was inducted into the Cats on the spot. Zeke noted however that underneath the jacket the Black Devil looked like a poorly assembled synth, and recommended he pick out a set of Power Armor to cover this up. The Black Devil's brain agreed, noting that a Power Armor frame was an exoskeleton and as such kinda like a cybernetic attachment. The Black Devil selected a set of T-51b armor from Zeta's cargo hold, and painted it black to match his reputation. Before entering the suit he decided to complete some implantation surgeries he had been putting off, such as the Kellogg designs he had gotten from the Institute, and a set of implants designed for Star Paladin Cross he took from the Citadel's medical terminal while sneaking around in it feeding on Brotherhood soldiers, as he had been rejected by the gate guard. He was discovered by Sawbones, but bribed him by "fixing" his programming and undoing what a previous Wanderer had done.

When all this was accomplished, he sealed himself in his metal tomb, never to exit again, though occasionally he took off the helmet to feast on other's blood. To test his newfound strength he destroyed all Robobrains roaming the Commonwealth, and then used their parts to make a Robobrain body for his brain to ride in back on Motherahip Zeta. Occasionally his brain would follow him as his sidekick, but it generally contented itself with cataloguing the extensive hoard of items he would bring from the surface.