Mr. Blue

 

The BOL’s Janitor

 

Little is known about Mr. Blue. He keeps files on the BOL, but they don’t keep files on him. That makes him an obvious danger, but one the BOL has been willing to overlook in exchange for his consummate service. Mr. Blue is the BOL’s “janitor.” He cleans up after they’re done having their fun. By using his ability to fall in and out of reality by changing the frequency of his energy-body, he is able to retrieve BOL members in police custody and discreetly remove troublesome members–either by transporting them outside a superteam headquarters and ringing the doorbell or by simply making them go away forever in the case of serious infractions like murder.

 

Mr. Blue first became known to the superhero community through BOL leaks in 2000 where he was mentioned as “our factotum” and “the glue holding us together.” He was first seen by a superhero in 2003 where he intervened to rescue the Gamester from the Intercessors.

 

He does everyone’s work. Do they need a hideout? He’ll find one for them. Do they want lunch? He’ll take their orders. Do they need their costumes repaired? He’ll get them tailored. Even the silliest, most ridiculous member of the BOL can ask him to do something and he’ll do it. He’s always polite, always calm, always answers “Yes Gingerbreadman, yes Heartbreaker, yes General Misfit.” He always plays along with the game.

 

When he does have to “remove” a member, no one questions that they had it coming and that he did so in the best interest of the BOL. No one considers him a threat. BOL members wear their ambitions on their sleeves. That’s just the culture of the organization. What are they supposed to think of a quiet, servile guy other than that he’s legitimate?

 

But those outside the BOL know better. Mr. Blue has been described as “the BOL’s one-man praetorian guard,” and the description seems accurate. It’s extremely likely that though he isn’t a king, he’s a kingmaker, and that a good chunk of the power behind the BOL, perhaps even the lion’s share, belongs to him.

 

Superheroes have a relatively good opinion of Mr. Blue. He appears to keep the game “fair” between the BOL and law enforcement. Those that cross the line are dealt with discreetly, either by vanishing, being placed right in the lap of superheroes, or by having their information leaked. Whenever superheroes encounter him, he’s polite and non-aggressive. He’s never so much as thrown a punch at a superhero. He’s a “good” supervillain.

 

Or at least, he acts like one.

 

The BOL Attack on Martin’s

 

Recently, Martin’s was infiltrated by the BOL’s agent Glass who kidnapped student Edith Ogden and took her appearance which allowed it to place several portal generators around the campus. These portal generators were to be used as part of an operation to kidnap Martin’s students and induct them into the BOL as “students,” but Glass’s presence was discovered due to it upsetting the ghost of Donovan Jaspers, the “first” student of Martin’s killed in the Worlds War before the school officially opened and his enrollment could begin. The school’s teachers traced Glass’ energy signature to the cave system beneath Joyous Harbor where they found Edith, Glass, and Mr. Blue.

 

Seeing that their plans were ruined, Mr. Blue activated the portals and an army of myrmidons led by the supervillain team Joy/Buzzer attacked Martin’s. PE teacher Hellbringer was able to beat back the invasion with the help of ARGO, who were present at the school due to their experience with Glass. Mr. Blue fled, but not before the MS teacher Joule got close enough to him to read his energy signature. This energy signature was forwarded to the police who forwarded it to available superteams who followed it to a BOL base and arrested all present save for Mr. Blue who escaped by altering his energy signature and revealing for the first time how he was able to move in and out of reality.

 

Mr. Blue in the Multiverse

 

While chaperoning student Willow Collins as she explored the Willow-Wells universe, Martin’s teachers unexpectedly ran into Mr. Blue again. Mr. Blue seemed happy, even jovial, as he invited Hellbringer to sit with him and drink wine at a broken-in restaurant. He explained that his powerset was energy mimicry. It not only allowed him to slip in and out of reality but the ability to copy energy based powers once exposed to them by matching his frequency to theirs. He had exposed himself to one of Willow’s portal windows and given himself her pictomundus power to travel anywhere in the multiverse he could visualize. 

 

He revealed that though the BOL had wanted a way into Martin’s to kidnap the kids, he had only ever wanted Willow. With her power, he could start carrying out his own plans.

 

Then he, apparently very confident off his victory, engaged Hellbringer in combat which resulted in him being smashed through the planet.

 

It was not known how Mr. Blue had gotten close enough to Willow to copy her powers. The school was turned upside down after the BOL attack and scanned several times over. Answers would come, but not before Martin’s teachers ran into Mr. Blue’s “students,’ which have been called “bluedents” and “anti-Martin’s.” Though he used it as a cover for his true plans, Mr. Blue was apparently fond of the BOL’s idea of “educating” young superhumans. Several of these antis came from our universe such as Sand Queen, Thrust, and Blue Angel, but others came from other universes. Prince Cadell came from the Kingdom and Starshot came from the Star Hegemony.

 

The antis skirmished several times with Martin’s teachers and members of the Willow-Wells rebellion over. They seemed to be part of a plot by Mr. Blue to destabilize the politics of the Kingdom by bringing in beast folk through lies in deceptions. 

 

Through the captured anti known as Ripple and the defected anti called Sand Queen, several facts about Mr. Blue’s operations. Before he copied Willow’s pictomundus power, before Glass infiltrated Martin’s, he recruited several superhuman children to be his “students,” most from Earth State, all very troubled. He promised to be their “Mr. Teacher” and would copy their powers so that he could “better understand what it felt like to have them.” After copying Willow’s power, he began recruiting from throughout the multiverse and settled in the Kingdom.

 

Ripple and Sand Queen aren’t sure what exactly Mr. Blue envisioned in his mind to take him to the Kingdom, but it’s not hard to form a guess. The Elians of the Kingdom were in the middle of a political crisis. Prince Cadell demonstrated a strange power combining the three gifts of the Elians, Dagdans, and Cerbereans called the CAINNEL. His father took the CAINNEL as a sign that Cadell was chosen by the three father gods to lead the universe, but a rumor circulated among the court that Cadell wasn’t born but created. Rumor told that Cadell was built through sorcerous means and was neither of his father or his exiled mother. Cadell crumbled under the stress, and the CAINNEL threatened to slip his control. His father prayed to the gods to send someone to help his son–and as if in answer, Mr. Blue appeared.

 

Mr. Blue probably envisioned something along the lines of “A place with a superhuman child who is politically important, cosmically powerful, mistrustful of his parents, unsure of his place in the world, and desperate for guidance.” 

 

Mr. Blue set himself up in the Elian court as the royal teacher to the Prince, and his plot to destabilize the Kingdom with the beast folk of Willow-Wells is explained by a quirk of the CAINNEL–Cadell’s father says that the the more danger the Kingdom is in, the stronger it becomes, or more accurately, the more Cadell thinks the Kingdom is in danger, the stronger it becomes. Mr. Blue cannot copy the CAINNEL, it’s not an energy-based power, it’s something divine that he can’t copy just by vibrating at a different frequency. But Cadell–and this is something he has only ever told his closest friends (which unfortunately include  Mr. Blue)–can will the CAINNEL to fall under the influence of another.

 

Mr. Blue’s plan seems to be to make the CAINNEL as powerful as possible by heaping stress upon Cadell before offering to take the burden from the young man. He wants to grow Cadell’s power and then harvest it when it’s ripe.

 

Such plans place Mr. Blue well outside the boundaries of what is permissible by the BOL. The BOL doesn’t allow murder let alone plunging a universe into chaos for the same of power. It’s not known what the BOL knows about Mr. Blue’s current actions, if anything. It’s possible that all they know is that Mr. Blue is AWOL.

 

It’s likely Mr. Blue simply used the BOL to further his own plans and cares not a bit for their philosophy. He seems to use everyone he pretends to serve.

 

Sand Queen and Ripple were huge helps in explaining Mr. Blue’s actions, but even they couldn’t answer the question of how Mr. Blue got to Willow. They assumed that Martin’s missed a teleporter, but that was only an assumption.

 

Mr. Blue would answer that question himself during a confrontation between Hellbringer, Martina Morelli, and Tommy Taylor on one side and Prince Cadell and Mr. Blue on the other. While Cadell fought with Martina, Mr. Blue told Tommy that it was because of him that he was able to get close to Willow. While activating the portals for Joy/Buzzer’s myrmidon invasion, Mr. Blue noticed a backdoor in Martin’s omnimover system–a backdoor Tommy placed in the omnimover system to one day use to teleport into the Sandcastle prison and come face-to-face with the killer of his mother.

 

And because Mr. Blue could sense the energy signature of Tommy’s telekinesis around the backdoor, he knew exactly who he had to thank.

 

Mr. Blue remains at large. He uses Prince Cadell and his court as cover, and to prevent a multiverse conflict the Dadgans have sealed the Kingdom from the multiverse with the power of their coire. Now with a political and physical shield protecting him from justice, Mr. Blue will no doubt continue to tighten his influence around Cadell and come closer and closer to taking the CAINNELL for himself.

 

But we have friends in the Kingdom–King Ewen of the Dagdans, his daughter Bleddyn, and Tommy Taylor himself who followed Mr. Blue into the Kingdom before the coire shielded it determined to set right what he put wrong. If we unite with them, we can stop Mr. Blue.

 

Other good news comes from ARGO. Using data collected from Joule’s first scan of Mr. Blue, a “Blue buster” device has been constructed that when used on Mr. Blue will force him to assume his default frequency preventing him from falling out of reality and mimicking powers. If we get Mr. Blue away from the people that think he’s their friend, we can beat him.