Dr. Ralcon "Voltair" von Voltari Played By: Nightmare The Blasphemy
Basic Statistics
Real Name: Dr. Ralcon (Reel-KOON) von Voltari
Alias: Voltair, Black Smiles
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Nationality: German
Race/Species: Human
Current status (marital/dating): Divorced/Widowed
Police/Criminal/Legal record:
-- 3 accounts of public violence
-- 6 accounts of drunken disorderlies
-- 4 accounts of sexual harrassment/assault
-- 1 account of patricide
-- 1 pending investigating of rape, possibly murder
Occupation: Psychoanalyst/Therapist/Overall care giver in Arkham Asylum.
Title/Rank: Psychoanalytics Supervisor and Administer
Hobbies/Pastimes: Drinking and poetry
Talents/Skills/Powers: Dr. Ralcon is a prodigy in the field of mental sciences, quickly garnering skill and knowledges in his field. Photographic memory and is also skilled in throwing knives, of which he often uses scalpels in place of knives.
PHYSICAL Characteristics
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 179 lbs.
Hair: Dark brown
Eyes: Auburn red
Costume: Typically found wearing a leather lab-coat and suit when not at work.
Other accessories: Usually keeps a pack of cigarettes on his person with strike matches. He also carries around a cracked pocket watch with a photo of his wife in the underlay. The watch doesn't work.
Weapons: Usually carries a Glock .45 when not at work and several scalpels.
Health: Generally healthy, but his constant smoking and drinking lends to acute physical harms to his body.
Physical Qualities: Fairly fit as he keeps in shape, otherwise not substantial in any area.
Other Characteristics
Are they generally balanced or clumsy?: Overall very balanced, very careful in his movements, especially around patients.
Mannerisms/Poses/Movement: Is always found with a cigarette between his fingers. He has odd twitches now and again, especially around patients or his family, taking the form of neck and shoulder spasms, often at the same time.
Habits/OCDs/Obsessions: Habitual smoker and drinking. When he's not at work, he is often found inebriated. For the most part, his living is completely disorganized, but at work, his stations are spotless and everything has it's place and can become violent if something is not where it should be.
Unique phrases/words: "Don't worry. You won't remember a thing."
Psychological/Personality Attributes and Attitudes
Intelligence Level: High. On par with most doctors, if not higher, in his field.
Character's long-term goals/desires in life: Currently none.
Character's short-term goals/desires in life: Cause pain and lasting psychological issues to his "patients", trying to exact this to make him better than his own doctor was.
Secret desires: To kill, torture and violate every one of Arkham's inmates. Specifically however, like a few other doctors, he wants to find the Batman and subject him to the same tortures, perhaps even other members of the JL, but because Batman's like a public hero, he wants to focus on him.
How do they see him/herself? He is aware of what he is which leads to his drinking and smoking problems, but when he is assuming his "Voltair" mindset, he often sees himself as the Punisher of Arkham, crafting Hell for his patients.
What is the character most proud of? His psychoanalysis and treatment of Rogue.
What does the character like least about themselves: That he does what he does.
Patience level: Has a great level impatience for what he views as important, but otherwise he can snap at any given moment.
Most at ease when: He smokes and drinks himself into a stupor.
Ill at ease when: Patients are rejecting or not becoming suceptible to his methods.
Character/Personality/Mental/Social Strengths: Doesn't have very many strengths. It would be almost correct to assume that he barely has strengths at all. When he drinks he can become more of a human being, but as soon as he adorns a lab-coat, he changes.
Character/Personality/Mental/Social Flaws: Is heavily psychotic and is plagued by heavily surpressed issues from his childhood, his dependencies on alchohol and nicotine are all he has to keep him from going insane. His insanity comes out in outlets of poetic monologues he'll have inside himself during the day, especially when dealing with his patients. Effectively, those vices and his job are the only things that truly keep him from being openly wild and manic, that if ever gone out of control, he'd find himself in his own Asylum.
If they could be described with one of the seven virtues, which would it be? None fit.
If they could be described with one of the seven sins, which would it be? Wrath.
Biggest Vulnerability (non physical): His job. Engrained in his mind and psychosis, he believes that his job is the only thing that can keep him from "devolving into a true monster."
Optimist or Pessimist: Pessimist
Introvert or extrovert: Introvert
Greatest Fear: Being subject to his own methods.
Other Fears/Insecurities/Phobias: Losing his work and his mind.
Emotional/psychological/social peculiarities: He often gets connected to doctors who've analyzed him and to his patients. Depending on their levels of tolerance, acceptance or resistance to his methods, he can either view them as his children or as his own mates.
Biggest regret: Killing his second wife.
Biggest accomplishment: Being accepted into Arkham Asylum staff.
Minor accomplishments: Graduating with honors from Gotham University as a Bachelor in Psychology.
Character's darkest/deepest secret: That he loves to inflict and receive the tortures he administers.
Likes/Dislikes
Likes: Whiskey, Rum, Wine, Pizza, Cigarettes, Comics and live action dramas.
Dislikes: Vodka, tequilla, badly animated shows.
Simple Pleasures: Drinking and smoking.
Greater Pleasures: Causing psychological or physical harm to people.
Where does this character like to hang out? Can usually found at a bar when he's not at a bar, usually in the lower ends of Gotham where few like to go.
Motto/Personal quote: "I'll make it all better...but only after it gets worse!"
Mode of transportation: A dark gray Mercedes-Benz 770 F-Cabriolet
Most prized possession: Both his job and his vehicle.
Emotional Characteristics
Describe character's sense of morals: Very loose. He has stooped to many moral lows and has very little reason to hold any beyond in being a doctor and anything to keep his guise going.
What do they consider taboo: There's almost nothing he wouldn't do.
Spontaneous or structured: For the most part, his ideas and mannerisms are structured, but when it comes to psychological prodding, he can almost be at will with procedures. His ever more violent and unpredictable when intoxicated.
Instinctual or logical: He balances them. He relies on a fair amount of instinct but prefers logic to handle much of his situations.
How does this character act in public: Very calm, controlled but hardly polite. It can be very blunt on subject matters.
How does this character act in privacy: He can be much of the same way, but usually in private he will have started drinking in combination to smoking, causing random irritableness and violent tendencies, especially if a woman he desires is around.
Has this character dealt with the loss of someone they knew: Very poorly. It's the reason he's become a medical professional to torture others.
How does this character deal with or react to:
Conflict/Danger: If he percieves the conflict or danger to him as insignificant or unimportant, it's almost the same as ignoring it for him, but if there's a real factor to it, he can become deathly serious.
Fear: Fear is something the good doctor does not exactly exhibit. He's never been confronted enough by others to become instinctually fearful, having surpressed much of those natural responses with anger due to his upbringing.
Change: As long as he can keep on in his present life style, he can be very maliable.
Loss: Again, as long as he's not losing anything he deems important, this being his job, drugs or his vehicle, he virtually doesn't react.
Pain: He verily enjoys it and love to cause it, very much the sado-masochist.
Love: He does not believe very much in love. When he gets affectionate, he is very opt to become violent and even violate the other to satisfy his urges, but otherwise, becoming emotionally attached is something he doesn't see as beneficial to his work.
Friendship/Other relationships: Irrelevant and distracting for him.
Destiny/Duty: Doesn't believe in either, he solely goes for what pleases him the most in any moment.
DRUGS AND ALCOHOL: They're practically his life blood.
Killing/Murder: Past-times and necessary tools for his work to continue.
How does the character view life: A cage of misery, pain and endless wait for rest.
How does the character view death: A release of torment, a gift from the most mericful.
How does the character view society: Like one would look upon a repulsive, growing cancer.
What does this character consider "success" to be: To have lived a long life of producing as much meaningful misery to people as possible and becoming the greatest psychologist in the world, using the minds of his victims to get him to his fame.
What would the character like to change in his/her life: If he could, he would kick his alchohol and cigarette addiction, but previous psychological break downs and multiple attempts at rehabilitation have proven impossible for him to quit.
What makes this character happy: Killing, raping and torturing those unfortunate to be in his grasp.
What makes this character sad: Being left alone to his thoughts and memories.
What makes this character angry: When his tortures are not working on an individual. Otherwise not making any progress.
What humiliates this character: His techniques actually curing somebody, when not intended for it.
What most describes this character's personality: Violent, hormonal, a drunkard with a scalpel with too much knowledge of how to use one.
Relationships with others (non-married)
Marital status: Divorced/Widowed.
Family
Birthparent(s):
Lucy Hemming Susana Voltari-- Deceased/Lung cancer, died at age 37
Douglas Luke von Voltari-- Deceased/Homicide at age 42 by Ralcon von Voltair at 14 years old.
Caretaker(s):
Jaine Hogath, age 82, currently retired and in a senior living home with acute schizophrenia and dementia.
Siblings (if any):
Doug von Voltari-- Still birth. Died due to complications of stress adversely affecting the child.
Margaret von Voltari-- age 21. Legally removed from household after investigation of reports of Douglas abusing his children.
Household
Partner(s):
Denise Witloren Voltari-- age 39, divorced.
Caroline Voina/Deceased at age 27, cause of death recorded as forced intercourse before being stabbed five times in the sternum. DNA trials have proven inconclusive and with no sufficent leads, the case has remained open in inactive status, husband now widow Racon von Voltari suspected of the act, but alibis placing him at Arkham Asylum at the time of the killing, keeps him from arrest.
Mistress(es)/Secret Lover(s)/ Lover(s) outside of marriage:
None known or recorded. Racon has had, however, four sexual victims kept in Arkham Asylum that are "in treatment".
Any illegitimate children with them, and if so who?
None.
Spiritual Characteristics
Religion: Agnostic/Undecided
Superstitions: Typical American superstitions, nothing too deeply rooted.
Background Story:
Dr. Ralcon (Reel-KOON) von Voltari was born to Lucy Hemming Susana and Douglas Luke Voltari. At first a star child in the family, Ralcon enjoyed a fairly normal four to five years of childhood with his mother, rarely seeing Douglas whom followed psychiatry as a field and worked in Arkham Asylum. When he was five years old, the two parents tried to have another child, but Douglas' work was starting to tire on him and he was showing signs of mental instability. Four months into growth, Lucy and Douglas had a large fight over time spent with her and Ralcon which caused her body to produce harm on the child, a peak of stressful activity over their relationship.
The abnormal behavior for the child was caught early but there was nothing that could be done to save the baby. It died shortly after the episode which caused Lucy to become seclusive and depressive, with Douglas becoming bitter and hateful, especially turning so towards Racon. As he grew up, his father steadily became a drunkard and became much more violent and started using aversion psychiatric methods on Racon and his wife to make them more submissive to his will and violently beat both of them. Ralcon was 12 when Lucy started showing signs of being pregnant once again, whom the father was, she would not speak up about it which threw Douglas into fuming rages, but couldn't hold himself against her any longer as she had fled.
Court trials and DNA testing occurred after the birth of her girl Margaret and in a court ruling, both DNA evidence as well as the situation of the home brought into favor of her keeping both children from Douglas and for him to owe money for both children's development and care. This however didn't go over well with Douglas and he followed them from Gotham City to Louisiana where she was originally born. He was intent on killing her and the children, but Ralcon in his own rage at his father, wouldn't let his family get killed. He pulled a kitchen knife on his father when Douglas went to fire a pistol on his wife, stabbing him in the chest which caused him to bleed to death. The culmination of his torture and this event proved to create lasting psychological scars on Ralcon throughout his years, helping to raise Margaret until he was 17 years old.
Shortly after turning 17, Lucy began to have episodes of physical weakness, pains in her chest and periods where she couldn't breathe. She was examined by medical professionals in her state and was diagnosed with malignant lung cancer. Due to shortness of funds and insufficient amount of time, Lucy's situation was not hopeful. She died four short months later, two days before her 38th birthday. With no viable income and Ralcon still being a minor, Margaret was placed into adoption centers for care and for placement in a loving home. Ralcon however, declared emancipation and began taking a interest in professional schooling, starting to follow his father's footsteps in psychology and psychiatric help.
((More to be written))
Additional Notes on This Character:
Voltair's Car
