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Olympian Squadron - Deus Zeta

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Here's the thirteenth profile in my original characters encyclopedia project. This one features one of the lead protagonists in my never-before-revealed Olympian Squadron team.

For more information about the Olympian Squadron concept and backstory, check out the description accompanying the first piece in this series (seen here: fav.me/dagg9pf).

As mentioned previously, the designs for the Squadron are meant to reference Grecian armour and also reflect a contemporary superhero aesthetic. With Zeta, his look matches the others but is also reflective of my envisioning him as the kind of "sixth Ranger" of the group. Where the others had white and silver elements to their costumes, his has grey and gold.

To help me with deciding the roster for the Olympian Squadron, I asked my watchers to rank Zeus' Olympian children. The most popular characters were therefore selected as members of this five-piece team. These votes also determined the rank of each character and the posting order. Ares placed outside of the top five, but I couldn't help but include him anyway as the "sixth Ranger." With all that said, I'd like to thank those of you that voted on the poll. Specifically, I'd like to give a shout-out to Topherlee2, UncannyX-Factor, bjv016, m4gichat, Gold-Reaper, kingziggy, Steelpoodle, Jose-Ramiro, MercyInk87, featureanimestar97, digipinky75910, herofan135, Xameoh, GDupons, ParisNJones, ei9, RakaiThwei, K-Jounin, Jovan2013, justinator119, Godzilla713, ChazH101, DanFalcon and Leumasy. I hope you all like this concept and these characters!

Zeta here is the last of the Olympian Squadron, so I hope you all enjoyed this chunk of my original characters project!

For those who need clarifications as to what the power rankings consist of, you can view the outline here: static8.comicvine.com/uploads/…

As always, I love hearing from you all so please feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments section. If you all would like to see more of these profiles, please let me know.

Enjoy! :)
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I really like Malcolm's appearance. His headpiece is really cool looking, as well as the straps, golden accents that’re given a different shade to Alton’s, and his axe's sleek but still imposing look.

I also like how, despite there being a description of him in Peyton's profile as not being more different than her and being brash and rebellious, he's still excelled at school like her. I like how he takes a much more aggressive approach than Peyton's in term of a career, too, as he clawed his way up the corporate ladder to get to where he is.

While you do make mention of his superhuman physical characteristics with the mention of him being transformed into an elite fighting machine, I'm really curious as to how he may exercise his ability of mind control, especially given the fact that he's a reincarnation as the God of War. I'm wondering if he might either cause his allies to overflow with confidence or hype, or perhaps he might subvert the idea by simply removing the will to fight him.

I really like his status as the black sheep of the group, alongside his elusive and resistant nature to being part of the team, as well. I also enjoy how he's got a strained relationship with Peyton, harking back to their description as not being more different given how they've got opposing moralities. I do like how, instead of giving him a strong affinity with Miles given his conflict with Peyton to create a further conflict, you instead actually have him find common ground with Daphne and Alton, who sometimes agree with his methods, which I feel makes a greater contrast, if only by subversion of expectation, since they're the other siblings on this team, yet they also both have more positive relationships with Peyton.

Once again, I've really gotta say that you've done some great work, here. :)