History

In a far future era (now assumed to be 2136), the North American government built a 3-kilometer high tower of diamond fiber in Florida, to dehumidify the place and ward off hurricanes.

A somewhat innocent technician had just bought a replica Captain America shield of Russian manufacture at a swap meet, before reporting to work at the tower. Since the shield didn't fit in his worker-assigned locker, he took it with him as he climbed the tower for maintenance. Unknown to him, this tower had been built at the Nexus of Realities! Then a cosmic ray storm happened, transforming his form and granting him superhuman powers! At the same time, he was possessed by the Devil! (Or some creature from an Earth-aligned reality who identified himself as the Devil, anyway.) So the human was tranformed into Red Vigil.

Red Vigil took over the tower he was working at. His future government sent agents and one mercenary magician (known as M.A.N.I.C. 5) to evacuate resident humans on the tower sides and expel him. And expelled he was - albeit the tower was expelled also, separately!

Red Vigil landed in Topeka-Kansas in 1857. All he had to say about his skin condition was act big and dumb and say, "Bad men did this to me." He soon donned a face mask, took on the name "Timothy T. Thompson", and associated with the Kansas state militia who accepted him wholeheartedly. In that era, they didn't care about a man's skin condition, they just wanted him to help fight. And fight he did. He even had his shield. He named himself "Red Vigil" then. And he recruited a "Red Vigilance".

Throughout the years, due to his knowledge of the future, Professor Timothy T. Thompson ("Professor T") prospered. Powered children would congregate around him. But he would often let them graduate, and then he would disappear.

• Once, the young superhuman Stonewater Stern joined him. She still considers him to be a teacher, though Professor T employed a master martial artist "Li Ho Ni" to handle the details. In the modern age, Stonewater has brought other superhumans with her.
• So in the modern era, many of the trans-universe refugees of Total Conversion have joined Professor T. He is within sight of his original goal... His tower is about to appear in the Earth of the Powernauts 2024!
• Wyatt Ferguson may have received the offer - and declined! It's likely he doesn't even remember that now. But he may soon receive the offer again - and make contact with Powernauts about the whole deal.

(to be continued)

Personality

Apparently the original human host has been entirely subsumed within the Red Vigil. Perhaps the human wholly agrees with the Red Vigil outlook on life.

Red Vigil wishes only to hold some piece of land. Now he wants at least an entire Earth. But now that he knows of alternate Earths, he dreams of that also. Yet he will defer that long-term goal, as long as others oppose him.

Powers and Abilities

Red Vigil has high-level superhuman strength. He also has mystic power at high levels. He often travels with a Tower which teleports to any universe. It may also teleport him likewise. In the presence of this tower, his powers are enhanced to highest level. He always has high-level resilience.

Red Vigil has at least maximum human charisma. He can enlist people (or other sentient creatures) to be his Red Vigilance. Such creatures receive a boost to their normal abilities, albeit at a demerit to Red Vigil's own abilities (unless the Tower is there).

Appearance

Red Vigil is covered by stone skin, which may look different from time to time. (Kind of like tectonic shift.) But some of those stone formations are constant. One formation is a red star on his chest. Another is a red crown on his head.

Red Vigil wears some tights for purpose of modesty. It's unknown whether he ever has to take those tights off.

Publications

• Earliest Appearance: Powernaut 1996 (yet to be published)
• First Published: Powernaut 2024
• Most Recent Publication: Powernaut 2024
• Latest Appearance: Powernaut 2024

Author's Notes

Oh, my. I have already wondered if any character may swipe so many concepts from the Marvel Universe all at once. I've already refrained from calling him "Red Guardian 2099" for that reason. But I have to admit, "Red Vigil" works even better.

I have to admit, this character came to prominence when I played a card game! Admittedly it was Omniverse the Card Game. There, various villains strive for goals across multiple worlds, while heroes pop up. Red Vigil came up as a villain and Powernauts as heroes. This card play is leading to a Powernaut comic! Red Vigil's cartoon image has already recieved some admiration online! So he is getting a Wiki entry in advance.

(signed) Scott Eiler, 12 January 2024.

The Powernaut comic of Red Vigil is coming online! I'm incorporating *two* other concepts I'll never be able to sell to Marvel Comics. (1) What if Thanos had been rocketed as a baby to Kansas - in the 1850s? (2) What if, when Thanos had needed to raise a young assassin or two from adolescence, he had bumped off Professor X and raised the X-Men? ... I admire how these concepts introduce some ambiguity to Powernaut Comics, such that it's not an obvious fight. But that does not mean zero fight... (ref: Powernaut 2024)

(signed) Scott Eiler, 30 May 2024.