Lifeforce
| Lifeforce | |
|---|---|
| Capacidades | Épico |
| Residencia | Lux |
| Mundo natal | Tierra (Reckoners) |
Lifeforce is a High Epic and the ruler of the flying city Lux. He uses his Epic powers to grant immortality to the denizens of his city. He and the city are currently in Texas to plunder what remains of it.[1]
Attributes and Abilities
Powers
Lifeforce has the ability to grant what amounts to immortality to anyone, causing them be able to heal themselves. He heals wounds on himself or others, but at the cost of causing identical wounds to appear on someone else. He keeps a multitude of prisoners kept in glass tubes, on whom the wounds are inflicted on every time one of Lifeforce’s subjects heal. Despite being able to heal from any wound, Lifeforce still feels the pain of the injury every time.[2]
Weakness
Lifeforce’s weakness is silver. People touching silver cannot be affected by his powers, and if silver touches Lifeforce, it negates his powers, including his healing. [3]
History
Early Life
Languish and Lifeforce used to work at Target together before Calamity, and were good friends. Vera, who was good friends with both of them, started dating with Lifeforce, and she eventually broke up with him. After all three of them became Epics and Lifeforce got his revenge on Vera, Languish joined up with his friend. Languish served Lifeforce, ensuring that no Epic could challenge him.[4]
Ruler of Lux
Lifeforce dreamed of creating a floating paradise, and so sought out Wingflare and Cloudbreaker, so that he could make his dream a reality.[4] He locked Vera in the tunnels underneath his palace as punishment for her rejection. He filled her prison with gold, and tortured her through starvation, but using his healing powers to ensure she never died. His city established, Lifeforce had Lux pillage and loot cities throughout Texas, capturing prisoners for the tubes. Several Epics and groups of Epics challenged him, wanting to take over Lux for themselves. With Languish’s aid however, the challengers were all easily defeated.[5][6] During this time, Lifeforce preformed numerous experiments and research with Parik, his chief scientist, trying to inject a serum into people to put Deathrise into them.[3] He also worked to give himself the powers of other Epics, and successfully gave himself the power of the Epic Shiversting.[7]
After Parik learned a lot of valuable information about Epic DNA from Jax, Lifeforce was intrigued by the boy, and ordered Wingflare to capture him during the events at Arlington.[8] When Paige escaped being crushed by a large slab of pavement, she fought and killed a Raven multiple times. Lifeforce was impressed, and had her fight ten Ravens at once. When she defeated them, he made her into one of his Ravens.[9]
Fighting against the Reckoners
Lifeforce likely didn’t know about the Reckoner infiltration until Briggen was captured during their mission to attach the Wingflare motivator to the power grid. Lifeforce offered Briggen a luxurious and free life in exchange for betraying his friends, and Briggen accepted.[10] Lifeforce laid a trap for the Reckoners. Languish dampened Jax’s mitosis motivator, rendering the assassination attempt futile. When Ravens came in and surrounded them, Jax wanted to duel Briggen, but Lifeforce offered himself up instead. Lifeforce ordered Languish to stop dampening the mitosis motivator, making the stakes real. Jax was winning at first, but the mitosis motivator overheated and broke. Lifeforce used the stolen Epic power of Shiversting to shatter Jax’s sword, defeating him.[10] The Reckoners surrendered, and Lifeforce tried unsuccessfully to get Jax to join him as one of his scientific assistants. Lifeforce locked the Reckoners in the tubes underneath his palace, and killed Abigail by shooting himself in the head.[2]
Lifeforce worked with Parik in their lab, and tried to give himself the abilities of the Epic Liquidyne without success. He tried to heal himself during the experiment, but found that his healing wasn’t working. Transferring the wound to a different prisoner worked, but it left Lifeforce disturbed.[7]
Lifeforce was furious when Languish was kidnapped by the Reckoners, and summoned Briggen to see him. He took Briggen to the Chrysalis Hollows, where he injected Briggen with a special serum. Like all the other test subjects, Briggen went insane and died after a few minutes, leaving Lifeforce dissapointed.[11]
Notes
- ↑ Cover Reveal for Lux: A Texas Reckoners Novel
— Brandon's website - 2021-06-24# - ↑ a b Lux capítulo 23#
- ↑ a b Lux capítulo 55#
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- ↑ Lux capítulo 11#
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- ↑ a b Lux capítulo 25#
- ↑ Lux capítulo 12#
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- ↑ Lux capítulo 32#