Heartbreaker

Nikos Vasil, known publicly as , is a renowned supervillain based in Montreal.

Personality
Heartbreaker is short-sighted as his power has typically allowed him to receive anything he wants with minimal effort. However, he is not stupid when he tries taking what he wants. Heartbreaker 'oozed' confidence and sexuality.

He is cautious and typically plays it safe; he does not go out much and instead uses his women and kids to run errands and search for potential victims. Through planning and careful application of his power, Heartbreaker has managed to remain several steps ahead of the authorities. However, his cult-like group can slip; if forces mobilize against him, Heartbreaker and much of his group will run and move out to a rural location for a while or disappear into another densely populated neighborhood.

Heartbreaker is willing to let some men pay him for access to his women. More specifically, to have his women keep them company. He is also willing to let some men purchase time to spend with his daughters.

He had the habit of collecting wedding rings, presumably from the married women he abducted.

Reputation
Was known to the public throughout the northeast of United States of America and Canada. His use of his abilities gives him a fearsome rep, whether or not it is exactly earned.

Appearance
Heartbreaker is a tall man with a lanky, muscular physique, long black hair, and a goatee. Unlike most capes thanks to his cautiousness and intelligence he has been able to live to middle age.

Abilities and Powers
Heartbreaker has the Master ability to manipulate the emotions of nearby people. He used this ability to form a harem of beautiful/useful women that serve him zealously, committing crimes and dying for him.

Heartbreaker appears to require line of sight to use his power on targets. Both of his runaway children have greater range with their powers than he does. However, the effects of Heartbreaker's power are long-term or permanent, continuing even after his death.

As a human-based Master, Heartbreaker is resistant to, and interfered with, by similar Masters. After his son Jean-Paul gained his powers by Heartbreaker using his powers to cause a Trigger, Heartbreaker had troubles affecting him, so attempted to obtain leverage instead. It might also be possible to build up resistance to Heartbreaker's powers after years of exposure.

Background
Heartbreaker was born in Europe and later moved to Quebec. Due to his slipperiness, he was active for several years and never caught. Authorities did mobilize forces against him when he slipped, but they often fought guerilla forces of innocents that let Heartbreaker and much of his group get away. Authorities kept an eye on things and maintained warnings, but avoided placing a Kill Order on him due to the risk of crazies coming out and getting themselves controlled by Heartbreaker.

After working for his father for three or four years as a cape, his son Jean-Paul decided to leave because Heartbreaker kept trying to control him. After some time passed, Heartbreaker eventually got enough resources to break his typical pattern. He and the Heartbroken kidnapped the actress Sidney Saile from Vancouver and took her back to Montreal. However, Heroes from Vancouver and Montreal went after them and successfully foiled his attempt to collect the actress. His family lost half of their resources after the fight and his daughter Cherie ended up leaving, which left Heartbreaker in a black mood for a while.

Story Start
Two of his children, Jean-Paul and  Cherie, had run away from him at this point. He sent two of his children after at least one of them.

Post-Echidna
Made initial forays into Brockton Bay looking for his wayward children.

Saw a video where one of his children died.

Post-Timeskip
Heartbreaker was driven to suicide by Imp who then adopted his children as a way of honoring the memory of Regent.

Legacy
He had many children but seemingly all of them are working in the exact opposite direction that he had all of his life.