Edward Bloomberg/Red Devil

Subject Facts

Full Name: Edward Bloomberg
Codename: Red Devil
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Archetype: Super-Hero
Aliases: Kid Devil, Gopher, Eddie
Marital Status: Single
Affiliation: N/A (Has been tied with the Teen Titans before)

Subject Attributes

Meta-Human Abilities: Unique Physiology - While Eddie looks like a demon, and despite the fact that Neron granted Eddie his powers, Neron merely activated his latent Meta-Human abilities.

Fire Breathing - Eddie is able to breathe out fire. The limits of the temperature of this ability have yet to be seen.

Enhanced Agility/Strength/Endurance/Durability - Much like his Fire Breath, the upper limits of these abilities have yet to be explored. Eddie's powers here do seem to be more than peak-human however.

Healing Factor - Eddie is capable of recovering from injury at roughly 10 times that of a normal person.

Burning Skin - Eddie can cause his skin to burn to the touch, around 200 degrees. He has shown the ability to increase this, causing his skin to become white-hot, even hot enough to melt metal.

Retractable Wings - Eddie possesses wings under his arms that allow him to glide. It has been hinted that, given time, Eddie will be able to fly with these wings.

Infernal Teleportation - By focusing on where he wants to go, Eddie can use his tail to open a portal that allows him to teleport around.

Standard Abilities: Mechanical Engineering - Eddie has shown an aptitude for creating and maintaining complex gadgets.

Paraphernalia: N/A

Subject Weaknesses: Monstrous Appearance - Eddie looks like a typical demon. This makes a regular social life hard to maintain.

Tied to Neron - Whether or not Neron actually has any hold over Eddie's soul is unknown, but Neron has made it a point to tell Eddie his powers are tied to him. As Neron was the one who woke up Eddie's Meta-human abilities, he told the young hero that if he were not able to trust Blue Devil by the time he was twenty, he would own Edwards soul.

Subject History

Working alongside his aunt at her film company, Eddie would meet, and quickly become a huge fan of, Blue Devil. Vowing to one day become the heroes sidekick, Eddie once snuck into Blue Devils workshop and quickly fashioned himself a suit much in the style of Blue Devil's. Helping Daniel Cassidy in a few adventures, Eddie would eventually meet Young Justice and help them, as well as meet and befriend Jason Todd and Zachary Zatara.

As the young man grew, he attempted to become more of a hero. Eventually coming across a candle, Zachary told him the candle was magical. Lighting said candle brought the two young heroes to Neron. The demon made a deal with Eddie, granting him powers with the caveat that if Eddie could not trust Daniel by the time he was 20, Eddie's soul would belong to Neron. Neron also took this opportunity to explain how Eddie's Aunt Maria's death was Blue Devil's fault. This would cause a rift between the two; a rift that has caused a very rocky relationship ever since.

After some time passed, Eddie finally joined the Teen Titans, becoming fast friends with Rose Wilson, as both felt like outsiders on the Teen Titans. During one mission with the Teen Titans, Eddie is disemboweled by Plasmus and is only able to be saved with the intervention of the Doom Patrol. It is at that time where it is revealed that Eddie is not a demon, but instead has had his latent Metagene abilities awoken and manipulated, thus granting him his powers. Another mission down the lines with the Teen Titans would find the group facing off with future versions of themselves, which results in Eddie learning that he will apparently murder the Blue Beetle, Jaime Reyes. Before the Teen Titans are able to vanquish their supposedly evil future selves, Eddie is warned to not trust Rose or Jaime.

With most of the team away, and Miss Martian recovering from some injuries, Eddie throws a party that goes incredibly awry. This results in severely members of his team scolding him, and him being duped by Dreadbolt and captured by the Terror Titans. The group chains Eddie up and torture him, eventually causing him to go savage and bestial. He eventually attacks Miss Martian, who too has been captured by the Terror Titans. After some fights in the Terror Titans meta-human fighting pits, Eddie and the other captives are saved by the Teen Titans. Since his recovery, Eddie has changed his name from Kid Devil to Red Devil.

Subject Interview

It had been a rough couple of weeks for the team. The Teen Titans had tried to take some much needed R&R with a trip to Europe, but fate didn't seem to want to let that happen. Almost immediately after arriving, the group stumbled upon some H.I.V.E activity. While the group usually never brought them much discourse, this iteration of the organization seemed better equipped and better organized than usual. Needless to say, the group didn't get to enjoy their vacation. While they did get to spend awhile longer in Europe, it was all spent travelling the many countries and finding and stopping H.I.V.E. Sure that was a job well done, but the group didn't get to sit back and relax at all.

Once returning home, the group was called to help deal with a Kobra Cult splinter group that was gaining traction in San Francisco. With barely any rest after all their travel, the teens dealt with that situation as well, but were all pretty much spent.They all needed a break.

While the group never shied away from bringing the fiendish Edward Bloomberg with them when going out on the town, Eddie knew how normal people would react to him when he was hero-ing around. He wanted to give the other Teen Titans a chance to just relax without any chance for disruption. He offered to hang back and keep an eye on their base and despite the groups willingness to let him join, Eddie knew the looks the teens would get with him out in public. Not only would it let the others go wherever they wanted unimpeded, as well as allow him some personal time.

Once the group had left, Eddie spent the next ten or so minutes leaving a voicemail for Daniel Cassidy, the Blue Devil. The two had had many difficulties over the years, but it was time to put it all behind them...if the two could ever get a hold of each other, or stand to talk to one another. In the meantime, they would just play phone tag, leaving each other rambly voicemails, unsure if the other would check it. Once that was done, Eddie lounged on the main living rooms and absentmindedly flipped through the channels.

After about an hour or so of zombie-mode TV surfing, the TV let out a horribly high-pitched alarm and began to flash red. Someone was trying to get into the Tower. Springing to his feet, Eddie's eyes flickered a bright goldish yellow as they cased the screen. The TV switched to an outside camera, picking up Gizmo attempting to mess with the Towers outside wiring. Knowing it would take too long for the rest of the group to get back, Edward cracked his tail against the air and hopped through the portal he created.

Arrive outside, hanging off of a tree nearby upside down with his feet and hands clinging to the branch, a small puff of fire escaped his lips. "'Sup pipsqueak?" Eddie teased, catching the attention of the small villain. Quickly reacting, Gizmo launched out three small spheres, similar to Mr. Terrifics T-Spheres, only these ones whirled blades around them and began firing out laser beams at the Devil. Eddie dropped from the tree, spinning his body to avoid the beams. Landing like a cat on the ground, he pounced forward, his clawed hands extending and grabbing two of the spheres. That turned out the not be very smart as the blades whirled around and sliced his hands. In retaliation, as he let go, hellish flame spewed from his mouth, engulfing and incinerating the two spheres.

Gazing to where Gizmo had been, Eddie noticed he was beginning to flee. Apparently he didn't want to be by the Teen Titans base if someone was there to defend it. The momentary distraction cause by looking for the pint-sized villain resulted in Eddie's ears twitching, picking up on the sound of the last spheres flying at him. He was tired and didn't really feel like giving chase to Gizmo, especially since he seemed to be fleeing, but he also couldn't just let him get away.

Eddie quickly ducked as the sphere came at him. Clenching a fist, he pushed off with his legs, pulled his arm back and let loose a heavy right fist to the sphere that passed his head. Hitting by a flat spot and a blade, Eddie cut himself once more, but also sent the sphere towards Gizmo. He cracked his tail again, this time appearing over the water that surrounded the Tower. The sphere was still in the air from the punch, and Eddie spread out his arms, his wings allowing him to briefly hover. Using his tail for momentum, Eddie whipped himself around in the air, heel kicking the sphere as it approached. Connecting, the bladed circle was sent flying even faster and soon smacked into Gizmo's jetback, causing the small villain to crash into the water.

Another tail crack sounded and Eddie's form dropped onto the floor of the Titans Tower medbay. A small amount of blood trickled out from his foot, as well as his hands. It was hard to see, given his red skin, but Eddie knew it was there. "Uhg...Where's Doctor M'gann when y'need her?" he muttered, as the young fiendish hero began to rummage through the medical supplies for some gauze.

Author's Notes

Player Alias: Ryan

Other Characters: A whole buncha them

How did you find ARFD?: I've been here since before time itself