Jean-Paul "Alec" Vasil

Alec, born Jean-Paul Vasil and known as Regent in costume, is the son of Nikos Vasil and a member of the Undersiders.

Personality
Regent is generally far more amoral than most of the Undersiders due to his upbringing. He does however care for them; when Taylor asked the team not to get revenge on her tormentors, Regent went against this while controlling her tormentor's body with his power. Even though he didn't care, he felt he ought to, as Skitters teammate. The action ultimately resulted in Sophia breaking probation and getting sent to juvenile detention.

Generally Alec is passive-aggressive when it comes to conflict, making wry comments behind the scenes while his friends try to figure out a problem. However, this does not mean Regent could not contribute to the Undersiders planning. He is noticeably perceptive and astute, but he is largely driven by pleasure seeking. As a consequence, he does not try to keep fit and generally does not apply himself to a task without prompting.

Regent is best described as "a straight-up hedonist", and is bisexual, showing no preference in gender for his partners.

Relationships
Given his long term exposure to his emotion manipulating father, the extent Alec can have relationships with people is an open question.

Family
Largely dismissive of his family, having made the choice to disassociate himself from them.

He did not appreciate the lengths his father tried to push him to.

He displayed no qualms about killing his sister or keeping her in indefinite imprisonment.

Undersiders
Gets along with his team-mates but is very good friends with Imp. Taylor had no idea what their relationship actually was. His closest friend on the team was definitely Aisha, who he hung out with the most. Imp considered their relationship to be an equal partnership that was destined to rule the world. Whether or not it was romantic was an open question given each of their approaches to life.

He was defensive of his team's safety and berated Shadow Stalker for trying to kill Skitter.

Appearance
As Alec= In his civilian guise, Alec/Jean-Paul is described as more pretty than handsome, though undeniably attractive. Lanky, with European descent and black curly hair, he wears expensive if not particularly attention-grabbing clothing, preferring to buy new clothes rather than wash something and wear it a second time. Makes a habit of wearing white.

As Regent, he wears renaissance-era clothing, with leggings and loose fitting shirts. His mask is in the style of a Venetian mask, with an attached silver coronet. The mask has a hard exterior and is padded underneath which offers him some protection. When the Undersiders first formed Regents mask did not cover his mouth, later versions of his outfit did.
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Abilities and Powers
Alec has the power to cause targeted involuntary movements in the bodies of other people, ranging from twitching a leg, to manipulating internal organs, and inducing vomiting. As an Undersider, he mainly uses this power to trip his opponents during battle before finishing them off with the taser hidden inside his scepter. While useful in combat, Alec's Master 8 rating stems from prolonged use of his ability on a subject. If given enough time to use his power repeatedly, he becomes able to control all bodily functions of his victim. This includes using their parahuman abilities if applicable, and having access to their full sensory suite. He is able to feel the emotions of his subjects and any pain they endure when under his control, but it is not usually enough to affect him. He is able to have full control over multiple people at the same time, but has a limit.

Alec's control over his completely subjugated targets worsens as the distance between himself and the people he's controlling widens or when he is trying to control more people. As a side effect, his own coordination, speech, and fluidity of movement suffers the same extent that the people under his control have. In addition, assuming complete control over a person requires Alec to have a long period of time in close proximity with the subject, up to a few hours, so that he can "learn" how their nervous system works.

While not strictly immune, Alec is highly resistant to the powers of his relatives, such as his father and his sister Cherish. Through concentrated effort they could over power Alec's resistance, but he would have the same opportunity to do so to them. This resistance extends to similar Masters.

Power interactions
As a human based Master he was resistant to, and interfered with, similar Masters. Regent control over people kept his sister Cherish from emotionally forcing his puppets to hurt themselves, while her ability to emotionally overload people effectively made them useless to him. He himself was highly resistant, if not out right immune to her, given a lifetime of exposure. His own Father had difficulty affecting his emotions after Alec triggered. He would likely also be resistant to Gallant's emotional blaster power though the concussive element would still affect him. Gallent could likely incapacitate any puppets of Regents much like Cherish did. Alec might also have some resistance to Glory Girl's aura. It is unknown if shape shifting is able to confuse his memorization of a bodies pattern.

Background
Born Jean-Paul Vasil, Alec was the fourth of Heartbreaker's children to develop powers. At one point, when Alec was approximately eight years old, his father punished him for throwing a tantrum by giving Alec, as well as two of his sisters and a minder, a wave of intense terror. In the aftermath of this event, Alec refused to speak for several months. He ended up undergoing a trigger event at the age of ten, likely due to his father's actions. Jean-Paul worked for his father as "Hijack" for a few years, learning the family trade, until his father began to ride him. Nikos pushed Jean-Paul's limits, forced him to complete dangerous assignments, and forced him to do things that were hard on his conscience.

Eventually, Nikos had Jean-Paul kill a rival foot soldier that was trying to push them out of their territory before telling him that he did it wrong. Jean-Paul realized that, no matter what he would do, his father would tell him he had done it wrong and make him keep doing it.

Knowing his father would continually try and force him to be something he wasn't, Jean-Paul walked away. Hijack would acquire a new identity as Alec and "Regent". He was eventually contacted by Coil and joined the Undersiders.

Story Start
Once the Undersiders learned that Lung was planning to attack them, they argued strategy for the better part of the day before deciding to meet him halfway. They encountered Oni Lee with half a dozen Azn Bad Boys and fought him. Eventually, Oni Lee got spooked and ran before the Undersiders continued on. They found Lung on a rooftop whereupon one of Bitch's dogs tackled him off while the other dogs landed on top of it.

Regent slid off his mount and then hurried over to the edge to watch Lung fight with Bitch's dog. He told Grue off after he introduced him "last and least", but in a tone to show he wasn't offended. Tattletale then told them that they had to scram and Regent got onto one of Bitch's dogs before they left.

He participated in the Battle at the Bank and Battle at the Gallery alongside the Undersiders.

Shortly after Lung was brought into custody by the PRT, Armsmaster pushed them to look into the Undersiders' backgrounds. They identified Regent's old identity as Hijack.

Stayed by Tattletale's side when the Endbringer came to Brockton Bay given that his abilities made him utterly useless for the conflict.

Post-Leviathan
'Totally' wanted Skitter back on the team because she is both good at what she did and to make sure that Grue would 'unclench'. Destroyed Shadow Stalker's career, by revealing what she had been doing to Taylor at Winslow High, and by causing her to break her probation through using his power on her.

Collected Shatterbird in the battle against the Slaughterhouse Nine

Did not contribute when the Undersiders' benefactor turned against them. He did participate in the later actions however.

Post-Echidna
Was at the meeting to talk to the Bay's new villainous arrivals about the lay of the land.

Participated in the fight against the Fallen, with the extracurricular activites he was doing with Imp being a deciding factor. He also fought against the Teeth. Insuring his imprisoned sister was useful one last time.

He did not send a letter to the imprisoned Undersider leader, but said to say 'hi'.

Killed by Behemoth during the New Delhi fight when he distracted the Endbringer from Imp, stepping out of cover into the aberrations firing range, doing so in order to allow his friend to get to safety.

Legacy
After his death, Imp removed Heartbreaker from consideration and gained custody of Alec's various siblings.

Imp was educating herself in the classics and similar to be a good enough villain, while looking after his siblings.

Trivia

 * Though rarely mentioned, Alec has noticeable talent when it comes to drawing and painting, but like many activities he doesn't apply himself.
 * Clones of Alec made by Echidna are tagged as "Viziers". Just as a regent can step onto the throne of monarchical european countries, so too can a vizier (usually a secretarial position) in Middle Eastern countries.

Quotes
“Hey Shitcrumb! Easy-“ -last words.

Fanart Gallery
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