Brooklyn McHugh

"Of course not! I love everyone! You too, Quinn! And because I love you, I don't want my friendship to end with you! I'll kill you before that happens! So let's stay friends forever, okay?"

Brooklyn Zyonn (Zion) McHugh is one of the antagonists-turned-main characters of Bonds: Retribution Prophecy. He is a former experiment of the DC, and a current experiment of the SSS. He is known as Experiment 900: The Jersey Devil.

Appearance
Brooklyn is a young man with black hair that reaches only chin-length, and has various stitches over his body. His attire consists of a black suit with black dress pant and red suspenders with yellow triangle pattern.

Later on in Bonds: Retribution Prophecy, Brooklyn's hair has now reached passed shoulder-length once more. He either keeps it tied in a bun above his head or in a ponytail, or without. He has also changed the stitch markings below his right eye, returning it to the original two x's. He has removed all stitch markings from below his right lip. He also changed the Roman numeral in his hair, now making it the Roman numeral XX (20), the "Judgement" tarot.

In his second transformation, Brooklyn's appearance changes drastically. His hair turns white, in it he wears red hairpins, which form the Roman numeral XIII (13), keeping back his bangs.

His stitches change as well. A miniature set of red threads that appeared to be two x's are stitched on below his right eye. One below his bottom lip and a line of several stitching threads from his upper neck downward, and several more around his right arm and hand. His attire consisted of a white suit with sleeves rolled up to the elbows, left halfway buttoned and polka-dotted red suspenders that supported his black pants and a pair of red slippers. He frequently wore a black suit above all this, with rolled up sleeves.

Personality
Brooklyn is a very confident, collected individual, and is able to keep calm under stressful or hopeless situations that most wouldn't be able to handle. He's extremely confident in his skills, and so, when there's even a slight possibility of losing, or more specifically, being harmed- it seems to excite him. Despite Brooklyn's deranged way of thinking, he manages to mask it, and so, appears to be one of the more friendly, less troubled experiments, often referring to everyone he considers a friend, by the simple alias, "friend," or by their first name, and treats everyone in a kind, respectful manner. Most of the time Brooklyn is happy, even when angered. Quinn states that once getting to know him, and see him when angered is the only way you'd be able to tell if he even was.

Brooklyn is a very honest person and keeps his promises, and although being extremely unpredictable, he won't attack those he's promised to never attack, such as Marianna, or the other members in David's alliance. An example of this is when Quinn attempts to attack Brooklyn with Solaris's recently acquired sword, and instead of executing Quinn like he would others, he disarms the ravenette, and later shoves him back into Solaris, wearing his usual smile.

Brooklyn often manipulates others, though unintentionally. When first turning himself into the SSS, he only befriends Aom via her being an artificial angel. He later explains that he was only her friend due to wanting to drink her blood, and claims that he thought she'd known, and even apologizes numerous times. Nonetheless, he does state that he wasn't leaving without a taste of her blood, and that he'd go to extreme measures to get it.

Despite only having one thing in common, Brooklyn and David appear to be good friends, and often have conversations about how they'd like to torture their opponents in various ways. This appears to frighten some of the softer members of The Alliance who were later killed off by Brooklyn. His excuse for this is "because they were too weak for this Alliance," and he claims that he spared them for a miserable, weak, life - which he truly believes.

Brooklyn is extremely ruthless with his opponents, especially when it's one on one. He likes to pick them apart piece by piece, making them live through a slow, painful death. While when facing multiple opponents, Brooklyn prefers to deal with them quickly. Most of his opponents never make it to see the next day unless it's apparent he's not supposed to kill them, or told not to. David states that he's grateful to have someone willing to play the role as the villain with him, and to enjoy it as well.

Brooklyn is obsessed with tasting the blood of others, and has cannibalistic tendencies. He often fantasizes about drinking the blood of his peers and opponents, even willing to go to drastic measures for measly drops. An example of this is when David makes a joke about him having to go on a suicide mission to collect information on Rose, which Brooklyn does by joining the SSS as a spy.

Brooklyn is a yandere who treats those who he has feelings for in a cat like manner, petting them, calling them "kitten," and saying things such as "over here, kitty - kitty." In this case, it would be Marianna. He often treats her like a cat by petting her, stroking her nose, and calling her kitten.

Powers and Abilities
Flight: Brooklyn is able to effortlessly fly throughout the air at high speeds with complete control.

Fire breath: Brooklyn could also breath fire in massive pillars. His fire was hot enough to melt a cannon and intense enough to burn down multiple houses.

Invulnerability: Brooklyn proved to be invulnerable to all weaponry not made of Iron. As such, weapons of other materials would bounce off the Devil like nothing.

Incredibly Sharp Claws: The Devil has abnormally sharp claws, able to slice through cannon balls-in-motion like they were nothing.

Power Replication: Brooklyn is able to mimic and replicate the powers of objects and/or subjects around himself. Unlike Empathic Mimicry, this is not empathic, but strictly physical or psychic as it simply mimics the psychic energy outputs, genetic structure or superhuman physiology that enable abilities in other people. Brooklyn can even stack several powers together, which may lead to Power Mixture.

Adoptive Muscle Memory: Brooklyn can copy any/all movements/actions after observing it performed once, including acrobatics, martial arts, and other physical stunts.

Deflection: Brooklyn is capable of deflecting attacks, normally projectiles or blunt force, away from himself. While usually a defensive method, it can be utilized as an offensive technique by redirecting the deflected attacks against others, or even against the original attacker.

Fang Retraction: Brooklyn has abnormally sharp fangs and can deliver a deadly bite with them. In his case, the fangs are retractable.

Invisibility: Brooklyn can render himself unseen by the naked eye and become invisible in visible spectrum. He can move about an environment unseen by others and act without being observed. He can choose to let certain people see him, while staying invisible to others.

Sharp Tail: In his third transformation, Brooklyn possesses a razor sharp tail that be use to impale others or it can be use to cut through objects.

Heat Generation: Brooklyn can increase the kinetic energy of atoms, meaning he can effectively make things hotter, ranging from slightly warm levels to absolute hot.

Environmental Adaptation: Brooklyn can survive and adapt to any environment and/or condition, being able to tolerate a wide range of temperatures and levels of moisture, any amount/quality of sustenance, breathable medium, etc. with little or no discomfort.

Enhanced Accuracy: Brooklyn can achieve complete and utter accuracy on distant targets, with the activity in their brain center for aim and accuracy drastically improved. He need only to aim for an instant before he can accurately hit a target with a projectile.

Enhanced Agility: With this ability, Brooklyn can go from one motion to another effortlessly, effectively dodge attacks, swing from things easily, sprint, do back-flips, leap across rooftops, and numerous other gymnastic, athletic and martial implements with little to no effort.

Enhanced Combat: Brooklyn possesses proficiency, capabilities and knowledge regarding combat and perhaps other topics closely related or branched out from it. Though not always the case, Brooklyn's abilities extend to all forms of combat, including melee combat, like martial arts and swordplay, or ranged combat like archery or shooting. This ability doesn't only entail that Brooklyn is proficient in combat, but Brooklyn must also possess extensive knowledge and intellect about the subject, allowing himm to extend his combat prowess to day-to-day life outside fighting. Furthermore, combat can also include the supernatural and paranormal, like casting spells, utilizing Magic or even commanding Mons.

Enhanced Condition: Brooklyn possesses all capabilities, attributes and aspects at an enhanced level, beyond that of the peak members of their own species. This means his aspects (w.g. beauty, charisma, character and physique) attributes (w.g. physical and mental condition) as well as capabilities (e.g. potential, feats, skills and abilities, be it natural or supernatural) would be beyond that of anyone he meets.

Enhanced Dexterity: Brooklyn can precisely control his movements and muscles, making him unable to be clumsy or fumbling. He can slip through a network of lasers, reach through dangerous narrow tunnels, keep perfect balance, or juggle effortlessly without ever tripping or wobbling.

Enhanced Durability: Brooklyn's physical durability, the ability to withstand damage, is extremely high, allowing him to take numerous blows of internal or external assaults before succumbing to the effects. Brooklyn can withstand bullets, grenades and explosives, survive falling from the top of tall buildings and building collapse, withstand beatings from superhumans and take getting beaten with steel rods and bars.

Enhanced Flexibility: Brooklyn is able to bend and twist his body beyond the normal limits of physiology, although still only from the joints. His hypermobile joints, muscles, tendons and physiology in general allow him to perform near-boneless looking contortions without stress or damage and comfortably stay in any position he chooses as long as he needs without effort or strain.

Enhanced Lung Capacity: Brooklyn has the ability to use the oxygen in his lungs very effectively, enabling him to hold his breath for extended periods of time while staying active. This may also include birdlike lungs that allow Brooklyn to keep his lungs constantly filled with fresh air.

Enhanced Stamina: Brooklyn's body is highly resistant to the build-up of lactic acid in his muscles, allowing him to be physically active for considerably longer periods than the average member of his species.

Enhanced Reflexes: Brooklyn has dastically enhanced reaction speed, allowing him to dodge bullets, catch flies in mid-air, dodge and maneuver around complex attacks, catch falling objects, block detriments and react instantaneously to what others take more time to react to.

Enhanced Strength: Brooklyn possesses a level of strength beyond that of the peak members of his species pecie and usually in his Verse. At base level, Brooklyn would be able to lift heavy objects such as cars, large boulders, vans, and most other objects that are bigger than him in size. He would also be able to exert great physical force from various parts of his body (prominently through his hands), sending enemies flying through walls or breaking their bones instantly with a single punch.

Vocal Mind Control: Brooklyn can compel people by speaking, the victims are unable to disobey; the seemingly cogent commandment is far too compelling. At a high level, Brooklyn can persuade people into hurting/killing themselves or even flip around sense of logic, but can never cause victims to achieve what they are not capable of (ex. Flight).

Fire Manipulation: Brooklyn can create, shape, control, generate and manipulate every form/type of fire, the rapid oxidation of a material in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products, flame being the visible portion of the fire. Depending on the substances alight, and any impurities outside, the color of the flame and the fire's intensity will be different. Brooklyn can also completely control the temperature of the fire at will.

Ice Manipulation: Brooklyn can create, shape, move, control, interact and manipulate ice, water frozen into a solid state. Ice appears naturally in forms of snow, slush, hail, icicles, ice spikes and candles, glaciers, pack ice, frost, and polar ice caps, thus allowing him to gain control over multiped varied structures and environments. This might extend to manipulating the cold by reducing the kinetic energy of atoms using ice.

Quinn Downs
Despite sharing a rough past, Brooklyn holds Quinn very close to his heart, and states this various times. Quinn seems to hate Brooklyn for choosing The Alliance over him, or, as he says, "abandoning him," many times he attempts to attack Brooklyn, though was often disarmed and thrown into Solaris.

Eventually their relationship becomes something of a rivalry considering they both like Marianna. Nonetheless, Solaris manages to make either of them become at least a bit friendly with one another later one. Though Quinn still holds a deep hatred for Brooklyn in his heart, he states that for Solaris he's willing to push it aside.

David O'Neil
Brooklyn appears to be one of David's close friends apart from Jeremiah, and one of his best spies as well. In an attempt to get a taste of his blood, Brooklyn carelessly turns himself in to the SSS at the end of chapter five to collect information on Rose for David

Trivia

 * The name "Brooklyn," is derived from the Dutch Breukelen meaning "broken land,"
 * The name "Zyonn," also spelled, "Zion," is a specific, historically important location - the name refers to both a hill in the city of Jerusalem and to the city itself - but it's also used in a general way to mean "holy place" or "kingdom of heaven." The root of Zyonn is the Hebrew Tsiyon, and while the word holds a special importance in the Jewish faith.
 * "McHugh," is a common surname of Irish origin. It is an anglicisation of the original Irish Mac Aodha, meaning literally "Son of Aodh". Aodh was a popular male given name in mediaeval Gaelic Ireland. Other anglicised versions of the surname include Hughes and Hewson.
 * Brooklyn, unsurprisingly owns a pet cat who he named "Midnight,"
 * Brooklyn works under David O'Neil as a spy in "The Alliance," to collect information on Rose, since, David apparently still has feelings for her.
 * Despite having three transformations, Brooklyn has trouble transforming into his third one due to lack of practice.

Quotes

 * "I have an idea, friend. If you win this battle, I'll tell you everything I know about David O'Neil! If I win, I'll rob you of your rights, joy, and blood! Of course, whoever loses won't be in any condition to refuse, right friend? So, let's begin!"
 * (To Xander) "It's that, or live through a long painful death. Painful for either of us."
 * (To Delano Red Carter) "Imagine having your insides turned out! Or the glee of having your fingers cut off! Sounds amazing, huh?"
 * (To Aom Amemiya) "Aom, your blood must be delicious! I can't wait to taste it!"
 * (To Nico 'V' Brown) "Dying on the inside, and the outside! You must really feel crappy, huh?"
 * (To Nico 'V' Brown) "Hey, I-... really enjoyed fighting with you..."
 * (To Solaris Whitlock) "Red is the color of blood, of our insides. I want your red."
 * (To Marianna) "C'mere, my cute little kitty."
 * (To Quinn Downs) "Come now, friends help one another. Let me help you."
 * (To Quinn Downs) "I'd never harm you, Quinn. I'd only kill you!"
 * (To Oliver Richards) "I have orders not to execute you. But that doesn't mean you need your eyes, or your ears, or your fingers... you get the point!"
 * (To the Alliance members he kills) "You set all of this up for me? Aw, shucks. I should've brought party hats! After I'm finished, I'll buy hats for all of you and dance with your corpses!"