Erebus Bedlam

"There... Is... No... God" "Absolute power is imperfect and unstable for it constantly changes, and that is what you are Erebus."

- The Scientist

Appearance
Erebus is a tall and huge young man who has a pale skin and black messy hair, four horns can be seen sticking out of his head. He seems rather a bulky person with an intent to kill in his eyes, a look that looked like he abandoned something long ago. He looks unapproachable and disturbing once you see him in person, because he has an uncontrollable twitching eyes that looks restless and constantly moving, much like of a chameleon. Same goes for his whole body, who's always twitchy and restless.

For his clothes, he wears nothing more than a pair of tattered pants, meaning he's bare footed, and topless. But he has these things he can call as accessories, chains and giant nails that's embedded to his limbs. The metal shackles on his neck have about six chains attached to it, the shackles on his hands have nails in them, making his hands stick together somewhat making him look like he's praying.

Personality
Beside him being religious, not much is really shown from his personality, but judging on what he looks like, he seems like one angry person with a murderous look. He's a sadist, the pain from the nails and tightness of the shackles doesn't even faze him. He's mad, crazy and vengeful, the time he spent locked up made him like that, a thing nothing more than a mindless shadow. He's malicious and like to torture his victims until they're not fun anymore, he likes skinning them first, then cutting off their tongue and ears, then he makes them eat their own skin and watch as they spew blood while chocking on their flesh. This is just one way to torture people, he can do more, he has done more. During his time in his cell, he got mad with power and desired for more.

A man engulf by his own shadow is nothing more than a body with no soul. So he is nothing but the embodiment of madness itself, nothing really stands out with him, just that he goes against the flow of the world and defies the law made by human hands. To him, he's different than any other people.

Backstory
Erebus never really had a great childhood, he was born and raised in the military. Even as a young child he was forced to train with a training equal to an average soldier's. Despite this he was proven to be capable and strong enough to handle them. After years of continued training, he became bored, the trainings in the military became so easy for him, just like taking a walk on the park.

As another normal day goes by, he went to the canteen to go get something to eat, he heard some soldiers talking about a rumor. An information spilled out, that there were some experiments going on at the military, they say they're testing out scientific experiments on animals in the belief to make super soldiers, deep beneath the military base camp. Erebus got disturbed by these rumors, he thought that the gossipers were just making the military look bad by spreading false rumors. He got up and walked towards them, he grabbed the soldier by the collar and raised him high almost to the ceiling, then Erebus got told off by another soldier and tried to stop him. He got pissed, he beat up the other soldier too, thinking that he was siding with the gossiper's fellony. Standing tall and looking down on the fallen soldiers before him, he started to boast.

"I am stronger than each and every one of you!"

A scientist, who's been watching Erebus as he grows, stood there near the door and saw Erebus' monstrous strength enough to beat those two trained soldiers. Then Erebus left the canteen and made his way to his quarters, he kneeled down at the side of his bed and started praying before he sleeps. Then, after finishing his prayer, he went to bed hoping that the fight he started doesn't cause him his position as a soldier. The next day, no fuzz were made by the fight that happened, instead they were sent off on a mission to bring back live grimms for further studies with their given weapons, an ordinary sword rifle. Deep within the forest they saw a pack of ursas and did what they were instructed to do, bring them back alive without any casualties. Erebus brought back a quarter of the hauled grimms, the scientist who was watching him heard the news and got really interested in Erebus' capabilities.

After dawn, Erebus got a secret mission, to go see if the rumors are true and go down the military base to confirm it, his officer told him the secret elevator which he just found. He went to were his higher up instructed and saw an elevator hidden by the pipes, he went in and saw that it goes down to about a hundred feet deep beneath the ground. He hightened his senses as he goes down every floor, with a thought that the rumors were real. As the elevator stopped, with a worried look on his face, the door wouldn't open, then a sleeping gas went off inside the elevator leaving him unconcious.

When he woke up he was in a cell, shackled with chains. He screamed for help but no one was there, moments after, the scientist opened the his cell and unlocked him, Erebus thought that he was rescued, the scientist, pointed at a room not so far, quickly telling him to go inside that room for him to escape, but instead he entered an empty white room. To his surpirse, a small group of guards surrounded him and attacked him, he fought back but he wasn't strong enough to defeat them all. He was tied to the wall and got beaten up by the guards. Then when he was knocked out, the scientist conducted experiments to him injecting drugs that would increase human capabilities. These were the drugs that was rumored to be tested with the animals, an experiment to tap inside the brain of the subject to release it's inner primal instincts.

"I chose you, you're the only one strong enough to withstand this experiment due to your uniqueness. And now you will rot in here until you are perfect, just like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly."

After conducting the experiments, the people left him inside the white room and holes started to pop up in the walls, soon on he passed out, not knowing that he inhaled another sleeping gass. He was sent to his cell, and when he woke up he screamed in despair, no one could hear him or even help him, now he is just a guinea pig for the scientist's experiments. He prayed in his cell hoping that God will save him from that place, but unfortunately he heard no replies... He realized that there was no God in that place, nor in the world. He only had his own strength to guide him to keep on living. '''He felt empty, betrayed and the silence drove him mad. So he accepted his fate, and embraced the despair he was thrown into, he chose to let them do experiments on him so that he'll get stronger than anything'''. Every now and then, Erebus was released from his cell by the scientist locked up with chains to test out his strength by fighting grimms in the empty white room. The results were superb, but the way of killing was brutal, because of the nails and chain that Erebus used as a weapon against the grimm.

But the scientist noticed that there were some effects on his brain, even though Erebus got his semblance. He became unstable his actions are more focused on bloodlust and brutality, and doing things that will inflict pain to himself like stabbing himself for no reason. Erebus was lucky though, almost all of the subjects that were experimented resulted to have spontaneous human combustion and died burning with no reason. After months of repeated experimentation, one day, the scientist had an eerie feeling coming from Erebus' cell, he looked inside the cell through the sliding view of the door.

"What's wrong? I thought you like to pray at this time of day?"

Erebus looked at him, while he was barely standing from the shackles, he had an empty look on his eyes. The scientist felt shivers going down his spine as Erebus whispered.

"There... is... no... God..."

The scientist fell down with fear, he thought the cell was dark, but to his shock it was Erebus' shadow, it was tattered and disgusting, like an abomination. It was floating around slightly away from Erebus' body, it's like his soul was slowly separating from his body, leaving nothing but an empty shell, becoming the embodiment of madness. Madness is what he saw, the inner darkness of a human that was released after the soul slowly leaves the body, leaving the darkness to consume the body. he was frightened that the perfect soldier that he was making became a mad, foul monster. Erebus had an inhuman body becuase of the experiments, it was made like that for him to become stronger, his skin became more like that of steel, making it gray and metallic looking. So the scientist decided to lock him up for good, and will be experimented after the scientist gets the perfect formula that will be able to tap the primal instincts of a being and control it at will. Not only the formula, but his weapon as well, a weapon designed to be a match to Erebus' capabilities. Even feeding him now is dangerous, he killed several guards who got close enough to his cell by choking them to death.

Weapon
When Erebus was an active soldier he had a normal sword rifle, which he uses for his mission, nothing fancy about it for it was given to every soldier as their weapon. It is able to fire at long range and can act like a sword in melee combat. These weapons rely more on the skills of the holder rather than it's own strength. Now in his cell, his weapon is the chains holding his body and the nails to keep him embedded to the cell, it's called Demogorgon. He can wrap around the chains to the huge nails to become like a whip with a huge pointy nail for the tip, he has chains wrapped around his arms too, to block attacks like swords without getting damaged.

Semblance
Erebus' semblance is called immortality, this is not immortality though, it's just the enhanced recovery that he uses to his own body, for example let's say he was poisoned he'd quickly heal unlike aura's ability to heal temporarily. Which is what the scientist mentioned, that he was unique, because he can withstand those experiments without dying because of his fast regeneration inside the body. '''This semblance acts more of a pain killer that enhances his immune system for him to not get affected by any kind of ailments inside his body. His semblance only cures the viruses and malfunctions inside his body '''who'll try to treaten it, which means it won't affect the external part, only the inner part of the body. This does not cure wounds, only ailments, his semblance ensure his body is at maximum condition. The side effect of his semblance is tattered shadow, his shadow will become tattered and large enough to engulf a huge room.

Abilities

 * Inhuman strength, due to the experiments done to him, his body is stronger than that of before, and back then he was a well trained soldier. You can only imagine how strong he is now, and why they had to add multiple chains to hold him down and giant nails to pin him to the ground.
 * Semblance, his semblance allowed him to survive the brutal experiments done to him. It acts more of a power to suppress the pain inside the body and then slowly recovers it.
 * Thick rough hide, results of the experiments done to him. It made him more primal and grimm looking, it dramatically adds additional defense.
 * Fighting style, his fighting style is purely focused on brute strenght and tenacity. His movements are reckless and destructive, his pattern is like Sambo, a Russian martial art only that he uses the chains wrapped around his limbs for additional damage.
 * Tartarus, a move made by Erebus. He raises both his arms and spins, the chains will get dragged as he spins to make a black tornado move. The chains will add an adittional AoE to the tornado making it almost impregnable.

Trivia

 * 1) "Erebus" is one of the primordial deities, meaning "Deep darkness, shadow".
 * 2) "Blödsinn" is the German term for "Nothing".
 * 3) "Bedlam" means "Mayhem".
 * 4) His full name translate to "Meaningless dark mayhem".
 * 5) His true weapon is yet to be discovered.
 * 6) "Demogorgon" (his weapon) is a primordial deity, meaning "Demon's grim".