Real Name | She forgot Class(es) | Enhanced, Alter, Memetic Power(s) | Umbrakinesis and various fringe powers relating to animating shadows Weakness(es) | Light
Back in the aughts, when powers were new and stuff was getting set up, a mysterious woman found a staff in an ocean cave. Some time later, the first appearence of a villain wielding a yellow staff with inky black marks struck North America. She's been bouncing from town to town, area to area, country to country, evolving, changing, annd eventually culminating in the cackling madwoman known across North America as...I giant inconvenience to everyone's lives, but ultimately harmless.
Throughout her career, Erebus has retained only a single passion: being thwarted by a hero. No one knows if it's some sort of compulsion brought on by the staff, a psychotic break, or a fetish thing, but whatever the case, Erebus will threaten to plunge the city into eternal night or flood the sewers with shadowy crocodiles, or jury-rig the local radio antenna to broadcast a hypnotic spell, the local hero(es) will stop her, she'll curse their names, and it all starts over again a few weeks later.
What's scary about this villainess is that there is no known upper limit to her shadowy power and no line she won't cross to have a hero stop her. She'll start with saturday morning cartoon stuff, but if ignored, she'll upgrade to kidnapping, then magical body horror, then...well, it's perfectly clear that her powers are eldritch in nature now...so now she hangs around Blue Hex Port, gleefully setting up plots for the local do-gooders to knock down. Hell, it's clear that doing this makes her happy and if dealt with swiftly, she's not too much of a danger...for now...
----- My take on the cartoon supervillain archetype. Plus an excuse to draw a cat in thigh-highs and a witch hat :3
