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welldressedevilPLAYER INFORMATION
PLAYER: Jackie
AGED 18+? Yes I’m 36
RESERVED? Link: http://boxlocks.dreamwidth.org/2216.html?thread=483752#cmt483752
IN-GAME CHARACTERS: Mod invite
CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Malcolm Meryln
CANON: DCTV
CANON POINT: Legends of Tomorrow Episode: “Legion of Doom”
ARRIVAL TYPE: Accidental.
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HISTORY:
Malcolm comes from Starling City where he once ran his own transport company Merlyn Global and moved in the upper echelons of Starling City society. He was a loving father and husband, but the city didn’t care. Starling City is a place corrupted by greed, crime and people willing to turn a blind eye to its dark corners and the people who ruled over them. Malcolm was once one of those people who turned away from the city’s darkness until its evil found him and forced him to see Starling for the corrupted place it truly was.
Rebecca Merlyn was the innocent victim whose murder opened her husband’s eyes to the truth. Shot by a mugger while walking in a section of the city called the Glades late one night, Rebecca called her husband and begged him for help as she lay dying on the ground. Malcolm later learned several witnesses had seen his wife’s murder and done nothing to help choosing to save their own lives over hers. He attempted to track down his wife’s murderer himself and just barely managed to kill the man with a well placed bullet while the criminal attempted to beat Malcolm to death. He will later learn the man he killed was a scapegoat for the true murderer Daniel Brick, whose life Malcolm will then spare at the request of his reluctant allies at the time.
Malcolm realized that killing his wife’s murderer did nothing to ease his anger and grief. He blamed the city itself for her death and decided it needed to be cleansed of the criminal element. He also knew he wasn’t yet strong enough to bring his plans to fruition, but he knew of a man who could teach him to channel his anger into death. Turning his back on his young son Tommy, Malcolm followed rumor and legend to Nanda Parbat, the home of Ra’s Al Ghul and the League of Assassins.
For twenty years, Malcolm trained and fought becoming Ra’s right hand, but his goal was never far from his mind, and he conceived of a machine that would pull the Glades apart allowing him to rebuild it in his own image. His ability to think and plan himself out of any difficult situation earned him the nickname “Al Sāḥir[” or “The Magician.” And when he wished to return to Starling, Ra’s released him with the understanding that he would follow the League’s oath in everything he did.
Malcolm returned to Starling an angry and distant man who used his former friends as pawns in his great undertaking. He slept with Moira Queen to gain her trust, which resulted in a daughter, willingly murdered her husband and his best friend when his plans were threatened and turned his back on the League the second they stopped being useful to him. He doesn’t even care his own son dies in the aftermath of his plan to wipe the Glades clean and rebuild even though he claims later Tommy’s death shattered his soul.
The only one able to stop Malcolm was Oliver Queen, Robert’s son, who was caught in Malcolm’s murder plot and survived for five years. He returned to Starling wanting to make up for his father’s mistakes and he and Malcolm clashed several times discovering that they balance each other in both fighting styles and temperament. Oliver barely manages to defeat Malcolm, but Malcolm manages to both destroy part of the Glades and fake his own death by easily out maneuvering Oliver.
For a year, Malcolm manages to hide from justice until he discovers the truth about Thea Queen and he realizes the blood debt the League has now placed on his head will also affect his only living child. He once again becomes the master manipulator using Thea to murder Sara Lance without Thea’s knowledge. This brings the League down hard on Malcolm, but he uses his family connection to Oliver to claim his innocence and ask for protection from his enemy, which Oliver begrudgingly gives him.
The truth is revealed soon enough, however, and Malcolm blackmails Oliver into a trial by combat with Ra’s which the younger archer does not supposedly survive. Thea too learns the truth about her biological father after her half-brother returns from death. While Oliver realizes they need Malcolm in order to defeat Ra’s, Thea does not see any value in Malcolm and confesses the truth to Ra’s daughter Nyssa assisting the Heir to the Demon in capturing Malcolm and sending him back to Nanda Parbat to face justice.
Realizing he needed Malcolm to defeat Ra’s, Oliver mounts a rescue missions, which succeeds and he and Malcolm cook up a plan to get Oliver into the League using his new position to defeat Ra’s from within. Before they can enact their version of the plan, Ra’s stabs Thea and forces Oliver to accept becoming his heir in return for healing Thea using the Lazarus Pit. Oliver agrees and he and Malcolm adjust their original plans and with the help of the rest of Team Arrow to defeat Ra’s.
Malcolm then receives the Demon’s Head Ring and rises to the position of Ra’s Al Ghul much to the distaste of Nyssa Al Ghul. Throughout the next year, Malcolm pops in and out of the lives of both Team Arrow and Team Flash offering advice and causing behind the scenes mayhem. He spends most of the year assisting Oliver in fighting Damian Darhk and keeping Nyssa locked up for fighting against him.
When Nyssa escapes, she goes to Oliver and asks for his help in unseating Malcolm and Oliver goes to Malcolm to warn him. Malcolm agrees to a trial by combat if Oliver will help heal Thea from the bloodlust that is now killing her by allowing Nyssa show him were the cure is hidden. During the trial Malcolm throws the fight and appears to bow to Oliver and Nyssa. Oliver, however, goes one step further and takes Malcolm’s right hand.
Nyssa then pours salt in the wound by disbanding the League and Malcolm sees no other option but to join with Darhk in an effort to protect Thea from Darhk’s plans to wipe the city clean. That plan fails and during a major battle, Damian is killed by Oliver leaving Malcolm to vanish into the night directionless and furious.
Six months later, Eobard Thawne and a younger Darhk appear in Malcolm’s bolt hole and offer him a chance to change his fate. Help them gain the Spear of Destiny and he can rewrite his reality any way he wants. Malcolm agrees, helping to out maneuver the Waverider team in 1920’s Chicago, kidnap Rip Hunter in front of George Lucas and rewrite Hunter’s memories to turn him against the team.
While he clashes often with Thawne, he learns to respect the speedster and demands that both he and Damian act as equals to Thawne. The two men even help the Reverse Flash escape from the Black Flash before the three men vanish into time to continue their hunt for the Spear.
PERSONALITY:
The best word to describe Malcolm Merlyn’s personality is duplicitous. He can be everyone's best friend in one moment and then turn around and stab his so called friend or family in the back in the next breath. He is forceful, cold and focused on his needs at the expense of his family. He doesn't care who he has to step on to bring his plans to fruition.
While Malcolm sees this as his greatest strength it is actually his biggest flaw. Because Malcolm is so willing to use his loved ones as pawns in his plans, they then turn their backs on him and refuse to believe any of his warnings or advice even though his advice most often turns out to be right. He doesn't give up, however, warning people he cares about over and over again when they are going
While Malcolm believes his anger gives him strength and focus it also has turned him into a cold seemingly soulless man who willingly killed over 600 innocent people without blinking an eye. He also turned a trained killer on his daughter and her half-brother and called it training, drugged that same daughter into becoming a murderer herself and made no apologies for any of it. He never considered himself in the wrong and seems offended when other people called him on this.
That is not to say Malcolm doesn't feel at all. Death of any kind affects him on a visceral level. He cannot speak of his son Tommy without freezing and when his hope that Oliver would win against Ra's failed, he wept for the young man who was like a second son to him. He also appears to take every cruel word said about him to heart when he is alone.
Malcolm is also very loyal to his allies. If someone asks him for help he will give it, though not without a price. He doesn't believe in getting something for nothing. He has a very skewed world view, seeing love and any other positive emotion as a weakness, when he is actually much stronger if he fights to protect rather than to use someone.
Malcolm's greatest strength is his bravery. He willingly walks into situations where he knows he will most likely die. He also isn't afraid to tell people what he thinks of a given situation. Nothing is off limits to him and he'll do what needs to be done to save his own life and the lives of the people he cares about. Another of his strengths is being able to stand back and let someone else take charge when the situation calls for it. He also is willing to make alliances with people who hate him in order to keep him safe.
INVENTORY:
Malcolm will be coming in wearing his Dark Archer outfit and carrying his bow and a full quiver of arrows. He will also have knives hidden in his boots.
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