Crimson (Charlie King)(Earth 1A)

First Appearance: T.A.H. The End of The Beginning

Basic Coverage
Charlie King was trying to have a normal life, and succeeded until he found out about his Disease. You see he had two hearts which gave him an advantage in things like healing from injuries as blood in the circulatory system is pumping faster (A Natural Miracle). It also brought about a shorter lifespan and immense pain.

Crimson is a speedster who was trained for many years to master the full stretch of his inner potential and to build a strong knowledge in martial-arts. His combat skills stretched far with the easy mastery of swordsmanship with a katana and often meditated through the source of the Kings to talk to his ancestors through realms. He has defeated many enemies, from a walking fish to his own brother. The rewards are fair as after he defeats his brother (Time Zone) he gets the orb of parallax, this orb letting him travel in time as he pleases with ‘no consequences’ (To a certain extent).

He works at a lab that makes and manufactures biological weapons, he takes the spare parts from the lab to make his own tech, his own form of genius. In this way he is able to make his own AI, who he calls Dusty. Dusty's programming is to help with everyday tasks and assist with the inventing process. He managed to get a hold of a resistant material that can withstand fire damage, He manufactured this into a resistant costume that can withstand the friction from running.

Birth
Charlie King, Born out of the Cardavini General Hospital with a rare disorder within him. He was born with two hearts that would curse his life if he wasn't one of the gifted Kings (one with powers) although he didn't know of his downfall, and one of his greatest strengths. This disorder is called Duocardiolosis and it affects his circulation and his factor of body repair (healing). It gives him more stamina and a faster blood circulation leading to his rate of healing to increase.

Childhood
He didn't have a normal child's childhood, per say, as he started training in combat and discipline from the age of five and when free time was available it was spent sharpening his concentration and the mind.

By the age of ten he was the equivalent of a jiu jitsu black belt and had sensational reaction speeds, this helped his in classes as he could understand what was happening the moment it happened. He never delayed in sports and his self-study in strategy and things like word-searches and crosswords helped him get the edge in exams, as his memory is sharp. He wasn't liked because of his improvement over everyone else, so he adapted to be in isolation, never looking back to feeling emotion to others and holding close connections to anyone as they will eventually leave. This would soon be destroyed when he met his primary school connection, an inevitable friendship. This was Richard Morgan, a newcomer to the school and they felt together as they were both lost, just in different ways. He had a closer connection to Richard over anyone else, as he didn't have any friends before he came along and Richard was new, so have any friends at all, so a complete god-send on all accounts.

Secondary School
Richard had to move away around this time, so King had lost his only friend. When he moved up into secondary school, he met his new best friend and a girl who he fell head over heels for, but turned out to be a bad egg.

His first year of high school the bullying had carried over from primary as he was different and 'more improved' than the others, and they didn't like his enhanced capabilities, as they all didn't know where they came from, not even King knew himself. The only person to stick up for him in these times of hate and struggle was his soon to be best-friend Brad Bone, he was the only one to talk to him in the hallways, sit with him at lunch and be his partner in practical lessons (Science, P.E etc). This led them to start talking and it was an instant click of friendship. As the years went on, people started to become envious of King's group as they saw the actual level of trust that was held between the two. Then one day, he met with who at that point, he thought to be the love of his life. This changed him forever, as his strict set of morals of no relations outside of family had now been disobeyed, as he had a best-friend and a newfound girlfriend.

His Grandad decided to stop training him at that point because of this. This led King to be quite upset but, with dignity, suggested his sister to be trained instead. His Grandad took this task upon himself, as she was also bullied for her erratic behaviour (the King's of this generation are doing very well), so he decided to teach her in self-defence to protect her from physical abuse. Whilst doing this, he discovered a King anomaly, she also had the Kings potential within her (to a different extent). King found out about this, but decided to carry on with the girl, Sophie Carter, and got his expectations way too high. She turned out to want more than she could have received from him. He dumped her after he learned that she was only after a true materialistic gain, as there is no point in himself jeopardising his future for a girl that would keep demanding and get his heart smashed out after he says no. She didn't take the break up to well and ended up stabbing him in the arm with a pair of scissors off of his desk.

He then picked up his training where he left off, now being able to spar with someone other than his Grandad, so he could sharpen his training without him and help his sister improve in her free time.

After he turned 18, his health started to deteriorate quite rapidly, from a seemingly unknown case. After a while he started to consider going to the GP, just in case it was anything too serious. He ended up putting it off until he couldn't anymore, as he started to randomly faint at random points during the day. It was because of this fainting issue that he finally decided to seek medical attentions, as he feared that it could be something more extreme than just a fever.

University
University started quite well for King, even though he now knew about his condition. It was still at this time when he was heisting, so his life was very conflicted between that and the start of his university life. When he had gone to the hospital for a heart check-up in the September, he was reunited with an old friend, as sitting across the way was his old friend Richard Morgan.

Nicholson Tech
His work at the company Nicholson Tech was regarded as extraordinary and some of the best work of his generation. The work they were doing with experimental weapons and armour far surpassed the work that was being done at Chronos. He worked happily with his co-workers and his work further and further surpassed the work of others, as it was humanly made and not by machines. His skill furthered and his tech for his other life increased, until one night where he had to work both jobs at the same time. He chose to go out as Crimson, as crime was starting to boom during that time and he wanted to slow it down, but that was the biggest mistake he could make.

That night, the experiment went horribly wrong and imploded the entire factory. He lost many co-workers and a few friends, which completely floored him.

Death
The first time he died, he went to purgatory. When he was in purgatory, he waited for his judgement. After waiting for what seemed like an eternity, he saw his Grandad materialise in front of him. He went with his grandad to The Kings Realm, where he trained to use and control his 'special' abilities. To the outside world, it seemed as if he was just in a coma, so they kept him in the general hospital, with the nurses and doctors keeping his secret about him being Crimson to themselves, as ordered by Cardavini.

Back From Death
Around two months later, he awoke from this coma like state and had to double take as to where he was. After realising he was in the same hospital that he was thrown off of the roof of, he hastily changed into the clothes that were on his chair, which so happened to be the ones from two months before. When fully dressed he realised that they were still stained and that they hadn't been washed at all, but decided to leave the hospital regardless.

He thought that the door would be to risky and decided to go out of the window instead, and just scale his way down. That was good and all, but he was on quite a high floor, so it took him a while to actually manage to scale all the way down in one piece. Later on in that day, a student nurse by the name of Ella Scott was sent to investigate if there had been any movement from King and went in to discover that he was gone altogether. It was a few days later and she was finally able to get a location on where King was, or where he would be. She found out that he was volunteering to clean at a nursing home, to give back to society and the people that live in it. It wasn't long until she managed to find him and she went on a big rant at him about how he shouldn't have left the hospital without permission, and how that it was unsafe for him to be moving in the calibre that he was after coming out of a coma that recently.

After trying to shake her off, she stuck to him like glue, and made it sure that he wouldn't escape again. He assured her that he was fine and that he wouldn't escape, as he had a job to do. After she finally started to believe him, she asked why it may be that he is able to move in this way and why he is completely fine. He then managed to get her to leave by arranging to meet up later on, after he had finished his shift.

They met up in the restaurant/bar that King was hoping to acquire, to talk. They ended up being there for hours and it only ended when she started talking about things to do with Crimson, which made King wand to leave as fast as he could. He rushed her away and decided to do the nice thing and see to it that she wasn't in danger on the way home, which was easy to say they were pretty much walking the same way. On the walk home she was talking about how she should report him to Cardavini, and King made her promise not to do it. This was because he didn't really want to be killed again.

A few days later, after becoming friends, King got summoned to Scott's flat for an unknown reason. When he arrived, he was greeted by a very awkward looking Scott, and King asked if she could explain exactly what was going on. Scott explained that she had told her parents that they were together whilst in a panicked state. King decided to remain calm and go along with this lie, simply because he had nothing else to do with his day. He was pulling off this ruse quite well and hours even passed, then it almost fell apart when it was nearing eleven o'clock and King hadn't got to go home yet. This was because he just lost track of time talking to Ella's parents, one of which he had already met, as it was his teacher Mrs. Scott his old English teacher. The other was Frank Scott, who he knew someone of that name, but thought that it couldn't actually by the co-founder of Nicholson Tech. As it turned out, it was the co-founder of the company that he worked for, which absolutely dumbfounded King. This ruse was almost broken again when the doors were locked and King had to share a room with Scott, and in the morning Scott's parents were confused as to why he slept on the floor. In the end, the ruse did come apart after Scott told her parents straight that they weren't actually together at all.

After The War of The Gods
After the war, he decided to hang up the lifestyle that he was living, as he lost self control during the war, and that is something that he cannot continue to use his powers with knowing. A few months after the blur had settled, he finally decided to move forward with his girlfriend and decided to ask her to marry him, hoping it would distract him from the damage he had caused to so many families. He went on to live his life pretty normally from that point, and even forgot about being Crimson for a while.

How He Got His Powers
The final stage of this heist against Cardavini General, he thought he was clear. The heist was going very smoothly, all up until it wasn't.

Trained
He was trained for 15 years in a dojo located in the dark woods to be able to unlock the full potential of the Kings. This path of training lead him down the path of enlightenment, to the truth of the family legacy. The training turned King obedient and disciplined. The Kings potential unlocks the potential to run at a faster speed than light and "Control" the mind in certain ways.

His training was not completed until the night of his death reignited his training and enlightened him (gave him his powers). He completed his training under the harsh actions of the rest of the Kings. He spent two months mastering his potential and eventually returned from the Kings Realm, to find new threats lurking among the island.

Training
In the times of the Fists rampage, steps needed to be taken in order for them to be beaten. Crimson then decided to train his 'team' his ways of training in a few days and somehow managed. This helped King to bring down The King's Legion and led to a suspenseful fight between him and his uncle, Martin King.

His training consisted of hard 20-hour sessions with little to no breaks. He later took on to train them when the Fists rose back from the ashes under the new leadership of Dark Lightning. This just spurred him to realise the actual threat of having an actual organisation pawing at their toes.

When Dark Lightning is finally taken off of the throne, a new 'King' is needed. Crimson then decides to go with the Fists, but only to aim for their evil actions to come to an end. This plan is successful for a while, that is until they realise their true nature and conspire against their still newly elected leader.

Heists
King went on a series of heists with a moral code of Robin Hood, take from the rich and give to the poor. One difference between the two is that King only stole from rich men/ women who earned their money from illegal means such as counterfeit, theft, etc. With the money stolen from the corrupt, he gives most of the money towards cancer research and uses the rest to upgrade his technology. His team consists of many close friends and a random guy called Dave (who we call Bobo). This team ends up committing one of the greatest cases of grand larceny known to man. This gets King more antiquated with Austin Maclean and his childhood friend (sort of) Max Blaze.

Richard's Death
During the Cryonis Heist, everything went wrong and Cryonis rigged his factory to blow. Richard was a victim to this explosion and was presumed dead, among many workers. King barely got out alive and really didn't feel like he should've. This was one of the first times he though he truly failed, and he carried on to mourn until he found out that Richard did not actually die in that building.

Main
His main villain is Bloodshot, a doppelganger of himself from a different universe. He is his main villain because he mirrors him in all senses but his power level is lower. He also knows his fears and his weaknesses, which opens him up to being more 'fragile' in many meanings of the word. He is the most occurring of all of Crimson's lone villains.

Secondary
His secondary main villain is also himself, but pretty much an exact copy. He is the Dark-Verse version of the Charlie King from Earth 1A. He returns many times in his series and even joins with him during the big war to fight against the Dawn of Time. During their time working together, there were many attempts from 1A King to become full allies, but it was clear the 1B King did not want that and constantly tried to get out of the alliance.

Third
His third most

In the beginning
In the beginning, King protects the civilians of Stalmere by defending shops, banks and local people from gangs of people and the slow uprising of crime in the city. He saved victims from muggings, stopped bank robberies and protected many shops from crime for no price.

After The Kings Realm
After he returns, he is gifted with the Kings Potential and started to help the city to grow by cutting the crime rate into half with the help of Max Blaze (Blaze-runner and not 1As) and Brad Bone. Brad, not yet graced by God's presence, watched through a contact lens in Crimson's eye.

T.A.H.
On May 24th, an existential crisis causes King to run into Blaze-Runner, DeadTime and his other friends from before. After having to work together for better purposes, King wages an alliance. He decides it would be best for the entire multiverse if they were to team up for good.

The First Forged Sword of Kings
This sword contains ultimate power within. This sword is a downfall for Crimson, it limits his power as the sword transfers his power into it's own. After it gets broken in the events of The War of The Gods, Crimsons power gets fully released upon Blazerunner in the final run of time and they get sent to The Realm of Celestial Time. This then freeing him from the 'shackles' of the Kings and their ruling thumb. After the sword broke it released the heart of twenty-million storms into Crimson and blessed him with the luck of Thor, giving him the upper level and the confidence needed to win the war. This also releasing his God form upon himself, giving him a new wave of possibilities to end all wars all together.

Leading The Fists
He rose to lead the fists when they were crumbling and they needed to save themselves. They promised to turn into a good faction and King believed them. For a while, they did good for the community and was a handy faction. He was close to changing the faction for good but when Dark Lightning came along, they went under his wing and they became more evil than before, posing a bigger threat now than before. Thanks to Dark Lightning, they were able to gain access to armour that made them more durable to King's attacks and abilities.

Straying from Evil
Some members of the Fists stray from the destined path of evil because they saw the better way of living thanks to King. They reach out to Crimson for help on what to do and together they form a small alliance, called the Warriors. They aim to stop petty crime and even to try and stop the Fists in their tracks. This team lasted a small while but King eventually had to the leave the team due to problems of the T.A.H League as the war was just in its starting stages. He later re-joined the team after the Blur and they all helped to keep crime rate at a new low, thanks to help from all the new task forces that were in their early stages.

The Warriors
When he was approached about stating a new team with members of The King's Legion, he was sceptical. But he decided to trust them anyway, and he was right to. After being under King's leadership, they found out how people feel towards you if you help them instead of try to make their lives suffering. They made a deal to form an alliance, but on the terms that he didn't have to leave T.A.H, even though he does take a small break from leading them.

The War
During the War of The Gods, they did their best to help people that were in danger because of the endless destruction brought by the T.A.H League. They also tried to stop the war by contacting King and telling him he destruction they were causing. This was unfortunately unsuccessful and damage was to still be brought upon Stalmere for another few weeks.

The Blur
During the Blur, they focused themselves in an abandoned building trying to rebuild after the War. They also tried to re-home some civilians that lost their homes. When they met up with King on accident, he made the job a lot easier as he could build and redecorate in minutes because of his increased speed. Once they had restored most of the buildings to what they were before, they then focused on stopping the crime what was happening, because the law was pretty much useless in this time. There was no true law in these times, even the law turned to theft, and only the warriors took time out of their lives to stop it. In this time the holding cells started to fill and even the jail started to become overrun.

Suits
Crimson has seen many upgrades to his suit, evolving from a black hoodie and bandanna to a crimson coloured, fire-resistant battle suit able to travel through the Rifts in Space-Time. He has had may different suits over his time as Crimson. His first suit was a tatty friction proof jumper with a standard pair of tracksuit bottoms.

Tech
He invents his own tech with help from help from Joseph Chronos during his time as 'The Crimson'. He makes his own nano-tech swords and his contact lenses with embedded tech within.

Contact Lenses: He invented contact lenses with tech embedded inside the actual lens. The lens can take calls, transmit videos, connect to Bluetooth, scan environments and hide the natural colour of his irises. He needs the colour changing as the slightest look on any of King's features may reveal the identity of who he is.

Nano-Tech: He makes two gloves from nano-tech and injects nano-particles into himself to summon the nano-tech at any time. Using the gloves he can call and reshape the particles and gloves into different weapons and tools.

Flaws
Very simply, King's hamartia is actually two things, his ambition and his care for his loved ones.

Ambition
His hamartia to do with ambition arrives when he gets his speed, he wants to unlock the 'true ' potential of his speed. It also ramps up when he runs into Blazerunner and he now knows that he is not the only one with speed and wants to be the fastest.

Care
His care originates from his training as his grandad trained him and built their bond closely. The bond just showed him that family is a crucial part of life and should be cherished. When one of his family members is murdered, it fires him up inside (and speeds his speed up by x10).

Abilities

 * Speed : Can outrun time itself (DeadTime, well sort of)
 * Stealth : Trained self in sound of silence for his heists
 * Master Swordsman : Family legacy to be trained with fine swordsmanship
 * Master Melee Combater : Trained for years in a Dojo with little outside contact
 * Can Tap Into Extra-dimensional Forces : Can tap into sources such as the Time-Verse and The Hub.

Quotes

 * "Jump down a cliff and shove it up your arse."


 * "Well if this doesn't work out, I'm a window cleaner."
 * "When running fast AF. You turn too much, you die, you turn too little, you die."
 * "I shop for costumes at Kun'Lun."
 * "I bet Barry Scott joined Cillit Bang so he could drink it."
 * "I actually swear to god if you set me on fire I'm suing you for damages."
 * "You are so large the statue of liberty for you is to scale, for the size of a human."
 * "I know who you are Austin, a big whining wimp who can't deal with a little change in their own life. How do you think I feel, I can run faster than light. Now catch."
 * "How is this so hard to grasp, I'm not gay."
 * "Ohh, you are pushing your luck aren't you mister. Wait, why are you green."
 * "These are my grenades you know, and you are on the course for a good old school beatin."
 * "I hate you so much, seriously you can't just strike me down with my own element and expect it to kill me like that. So now you did that to me, how would you like a taste?"
 * "Why did this war happen? I'll tell you why. A person who has no concept of weight got scared because a portable microwave cooked a lasagne on his stomach. Jesus, can we just stop fighting already? I'm BORED AS HELL."
 * "Can I call you Ek for short?"
 * "I'm not going to lie to you Joseph, you really do look like a paedophile version of Benedict Cumberland Sausage after a meth addiction gone wrong."
 * "BIG WILLY. YOU BIG WILLY."
 * "Okay, if we are doing this, promise you won't be a big willy."
 * "The Kings are flawed, if I'm not lying. They are a bunch of 'super soldiers' that spend their whole lives in solitude making up fake rules about how to live and how to fight. I give up on them, they have never done anything good for me have they, apart from keeping me alive to see everything I care about burn and die."
 * "Right Joseph just because you are on a paddy doesn't mean you can strip me from my suit. What am I going to do, fight crime in my OG suit? Hmmm."
 * "Nobody can bring me down today, ohh my phone buzzed. Oh. Well. That did it. My parents are getting a divorce."
 * "Right, I'm having a staring contest with the testicles of a man who can grow through absorbing radiation. And you think this is fair."
 * "GIBBBBAAAAAAYY!"
 * "THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY. That is from Exodus (20:14)."
 * "I swear to God, if you hit me I will come at you with the full force of Zeus' anus."
 * "Essentially, I need you to activate the portal shift. LIKE, NOW!"
 * "Essentially..."
 * "Right Max since you ruined my last heist, I am giving you absolutely nothing to do or say. Also, DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING!!"
 * "Okay Martin, is this parade with you are your bunch of cronies just to get attention, because we all know all you have ever wanted is love. You wanted it back then and you still want it now. This is why I say to you, lets put down our weapons and you give me a hug. You are my uncle after all."
 * "I don't think I want to die, thank you though, for the offer. Not the action."
 * "Somehow, I do not like how this is turning out so far."
 * "Right, one time I was walking along and I had a heart attack. It felt strange, like a burning, but I carried on walking just like nothing happened."
 * "Oh, that lab over there blew up. Ah it's a Chronos lab. I understand, wait wait. Why is it bloody green?"
 * "No Max, I'm not a hero. I'm just a man who is paying for his sins giving a form of justice that is a super form of community service. I don't like the road I'm on, or where I'm going. I just walk down the slow winding path towards a slow burning death. That burning isn't a metaphor, I literally burn in the Realm of Celestial Time. Wait that might not be my definitive death, but I will find out."
 * "I am going mad, I hear too much. I might just like cut my ear off and make it Van Gooh off a cliff."
 * "I just want to know one thing, who trusts four idiots prancing around in suits? Because if you do, you are on the right side of the battle."
 * "Many people call me a murderer. I mean it's probably to fuel some of their own intentions but still, it just hurts man."
 * "I don't get how you can get away with killing a family of orphans and then I touch a window ledge of a commercial building and I get framed for murder."
 * "Right, I'm walking down the street and I just get shot. Then, this woman walks up to me and says 'are you okay'. You see, at this point, I am in so much pain so I scream at her. But the thing is I scream 'WHAT DO THINK LOVE, I HAVE A MASSIVE CRATER OUT OF MY SHOULDER'. She starts crying and runs away. I walk away in sadness and in regret at shouting at this woman so I find out who she is and a go over and apologise. She then slaps me in the face and tells me to leave."
 * "Oh Jesus, Max why did you set me on fire? It is like a stinging in my core."
 * "You want to know what it feels like when you get hit by a lightning bolt? Wherever you get hit, it feels like the Hulk, Solomon Grundy, Superman, Doomsday, Darkseid and Thanos (with the power stone) hitting you all at once."
 * "Look, DeadTime, I don't want to do this but you want to die and so do I. We have lived an extension that has gone on too long."
 * "Look DeadTime it's TIME you shut up with your time puns."
 * "I can shoot lightning bolts out of my arse, provided I have a really spicy curry the night before."
 * "OOF."
 * "To keep it frank, I don't like you. Even though you are me, I still don't like you."

Speeches

 * "We've changed, the world hasn't changed with us. They don't want us, and to some extent, I don't think we want ourselves either. Our powers are a gift, but what good have we done so far. We say that we try to be heroes but we are absolutely terrifying some perfectly innocent individuals that frankly don't deserve to go through that."
 * "Look, this may be our final stand, it may not. To tell the truth, I'm scared and them out there should be. I don't think we're all gonna make it out but I swear to you all I will stop at nothing to defeat the Dawn of Time. I know that none of us are ready but frankly, who cares. Do you think anyone was ready. Max, were you ready to see your world burn, no I didn't think so. Austin, were you ready to lose your job the first year after having it, no. But the thing is, through all of that negative, came positive. Max you came to a thriving Earth and you are now one of its best defenders, Austin, you are now the number 1 estate agent for miles. So nobody cares if you think you are not ready, I can promise you that you are. Believe in yourself and we WILL destroy his being and make him regret trying to mess with us. Now, let's go."
 * "I'm not gonna lie, when I did tell you I was stopping I meant it. I don't want to say that I will enjoy it, but the fact is I might. What is the point of denying my true self, I was raised to embrace it. Look, I love the fact you want me to be safe."