The Silencer

All Thomas Oliverti ever wanted to be was a musician. Unfortunately, his father, one of the most influential “businessmen” in Freedom City, wouldn’t hear of any such a thing. It was important for Thomas to learn a trade and make something of himself. Thomas never abandoned his fascination with sound, however. He went to school to study acoustics and became a scientist, having as little to do with the “family business” as possible. He made his father proud when he graduated at the top of his class and quickly earned his Master’s degree. He was working on his Doctorate when his father was murdered. Thomas’ older brother, Johnny, became head of the family, and he called his brother home. Thomas and his brother never got along, but family obligations brought him home anyway.
Thomas hated being involved in the family business, but there was no choice. So long as the families were strongly rooted in Freedom City, there was no escaping his birthright. However, if he could eliminate The Mob's  influence in the city, then he would be a free man. More importantly, he could avenge his father’s death and show up his domineering older brother. Studying the designs of the then-reformed super-criminal the Maestro, Thomas secretly created the weapons and costume of the mysterious Silencer and embarked on a one-man crusade against the Mob.
The Silencer was quite effective for a time, bringing down several Mob operations, even killing some Family lieutenants or leaving them for the FCPD to find. The heads of the three Families became increasing concerned about this mysterious masked man, and the Silencer became a legendary figure amongst Mob thugs and made-men, who were justifiably terrified of him.
While the police weren’t sorry to see the Mob taking a few hits, the Silencer’s willingness to use illegal methods and kill his foes branded him a criminal vigilante and a wanted man. He played a dangerous game, operating on both sides of the law, but belonging to neither.
The Silencer’s mission might well have succeeded if not for the intervention of heroes like Foreshadow and Oliverti’s own blinding hatred of his family and people like them. Increasingly paranoid and driven by a desire to destroy the people he felt responsible for his misery, the Silencer intended to eliminate boss "Big Al" Driogano himself, and ran afoul of the mysterious powers of his aide and advisor Tarot. She lured the Silencer into a trap and silenced him instead.
Whatever spell she used captured part of Thomas Oliverti’s soul, and he has been bound to Tarot’s will ever since. Boss Driogano was able to strengthen his grip on the Mob by presenting the terrifying Silencer as his personal enforcer and hit man, and he holds the secret of the Silencer’s identity as an ace-in-the-hole for when he has to deal with Johnny Oliverti.
Although he has struggled to regain his freedom, Thomas is completely outclassed by Tarot’s power and knows nothing of the mystic forces at her command. His skills are in science and sonics, not sorcery. A prisoner in his own mind, he is slowly going mad, and dreads that being forced to serve the monsters he sought to destroy—particularly the man responsible for his father’s death—might finally break his spirit and truly silence him forever; he fears not even that would be an escape.

Physical Description

Apparel & Accessories

Silencer has a variety of sonic-based weapons at his command, coupled with considerable training in science, martial arts, and tactics.
His main weapon is a sonic rifle capable of firing coherent beams of sound that can batter targets unconscious or vibrate with enough force to punch through concrete. A wider, less coherent ray can create deafening noise or induce powerful vertigo.
He can create a field that counters all sound and makes an area totally quiet, widening to cover an entire building, or contracted to just himself. This preternatural silence often precedes the Silencer’s attacks, and the Mob has learned to fear it.
The Silencer usually uses his silence field to sneak into an area, strike with a screamer blast to deafen and disorient his opponents, and then wades into close-quarters combat with his sonic blasts and hand-to-hand skills. He doesn’t hesitate to use lethal force when he—or his mistress—deems it necessary. He virtually never speaks, often because his voice would be muffled behind his silence field anyway, but also because he rarely has anything he can or will say to his targets.

Mental characteristics

Intellectual Characteristics

Thomas Oliverti felt driven by the pressures in his life to do whatever was necessary to secure his own freedom; he’s quite ruthless in pursuit of his goal. He feels the Mob does not deserve equal and fair treatment—he’s seen what it does first-hand, and he shows his enemies the same mercy they would show him.
He considers himself too intelligent to believe in fairy tales like “truth and justice for all.” Although he fought a personal crusade, he believed he was doing some good, and that justified his actions. Deep down, Thomas hates the Mob for what they’ve done to his life. In many ways, he’s a hurt and angry man striking back at his childhood tormenters.
Now, the Silencer is practically a broken man: deprived of even the small chance at freedom his masked identity brought him, bound to serve those he despises, he rarely shows any emotion but resignation. Still, his eyes reflect a deep and desperate fear and longing that he cannot vocalize.