| “ | “You can destroy my drones as many times as you’d like; you’ll never be rid of me. You can’t hurt me. You can’t kill me. You can’t even touch me. You have to fight me off every single time I come after you, but me? I only need to break you once.” | ” |
–Messias taunting Teresa Challice, Hero X Proxy | ||
| Joshua Messias | |
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| General Information | |
| Species | Human |
| Home World | Earth |
| Alias | Messias |
| Personality Type | ESTJ-A (Executive) |
| Relatives | Mary Christensen (Ex-Wife) Anne Christensen (Daughter) |
| Age | ~50 |
| Status | Awaiting Trial |
| Abilities and Equipment | |
| Details | |
| First Appearance | Truth X Morning |
| Last Appearance | TBA |
Joshua Messias is the main antagonist of the series Tech Cross.
History[]
i really don't want to write this out man i'll get to it later. didn't even know it was possible to create a villain so disgusting that writing about what they did is physically draining. probably should've guessed this would happen when i started writing an entire series based around personal trauma. damn i'm dumb.
Personality[]
Messias sees himself as a pure and godly man, but is in truth anything but, being a self-serving narcissist who twists his religion to serve his personal beliefs. While this is hardly a rare collection of personality traits among clergymen, Messias takes them to a disturbing extreme, doing essentially whatever he wants whenever he wants and becoming infuriated if hindered in any way.
Messias is bigoted even by bigot standards, showing particular disdain towards queer and racial minorities; his racial bigotry even extends to people traditionally considered "white", as demonstrated by his particular hatred for Dr. Emilia Krauze due to her status as a Polish immigrant.
He believes heavily in biblical gender roles and will go to great lengths to enforce them, often violently. He views women as little more than marginally intelligent sex objects, and sees objectively horrific acts such as the torture and continuous molestation of his own daughter as appropriate disciplinary action for those who step out of line.
Abilities[]
Being a human, Messias has no particular special abilities aside from those granted to him by his inventions; his engineering talents are completely unmatched, at least among other humans, but are often held back by his narrow-minded way of thinking.
Equipment[]
Android Bodies[]
Messias's most significant invention, and the one that makes him most dangerous, is his creation of various robotic copies of himself he can remotely control from anywhere on the planet using a proprietary neural network. The majority of these androids are extremely durable and heavily-armed, being nearly impossible for an ordinary human to take down. Their only true weakness is their reliance on the neural network; if their connection to it is somehow severed, they shut down and become unusable until a connection is re-established.
Modules[]
Messias has developed various modules for his androids that augment them with new abilities. The data for these modules are stored in card-like cartridges that are first scanned for authentication purposes and then inserted into a slot built into the back of the android's right hand. The data stored on the card is then used to construct the new module, usually around the android's right arm.
Trivia[]
- Messias was originally intended as an exaggerated near-caricature of real-life clergymen meant to highlight specific issues, but the more research I did for this series, the more I found people exactly like Messias actually existing, which just further tanked my faith in humanity.
- Messias's name is a direct reference to Jesus Christ, the central figure of Christianity, with his first name "Joshua" being an alternate translation of "Jesus" from the original "Yeshua" and his last name "Messias" being an alternate spelling of the word "messiah", which has been used as a synonym for "Christ". This semi-corruption of the name "Jesus Christ" is meant to parallel Messias's nature as a pseudochrist/antichrist figure whose actions and teachings contradict those of the biblical Christ, at least in terms of canonical scripture.