Character facts VI: Dirty deeds done dirt cheap

1. Sullivan Cleaner developed his empathic abilities as a young child, causing him to suffer from frequent mood swings. His parents spent years trying to understand what was "wrong" with their son.
2. A psychologist, Dr. Morse, claimed to know of similar cases and revealed Sullivan's psychic potential. Morse who quickly struck up a friendship with the boy as he offered to mentor him, but the doctor had ulterior motives: namely, recruiting the boy into a criminal organization comprised of powerful mentalists.
3. When Morse finally made his move, the shock caused Sullivan to subconsciously separate the essence of his psyche from his body. As he had locked himself in a washroom and was crying over a sink at the time, it was literally flushed down the drain... and into the sewers. Sullivan's mind suffused itself with the waste it landed in, and as a result he found he could somehow control it as if it were his own body.
4. His initial emergence as Sludd happened to be right at the scene of a mugging. His inadvertent play at heroics was both emboldening, and a cause for personal conflict.
5. Since becoming Sludd, Sullivan's mental power has grown-- he is now able to detect the emotions of other people even from underground, can communicate telepathically, and sense the world through his makeshift body as if it were his own.
6. He can assume a crudely humanoid form, draw in or expel waste matter to alter his size and shape, and otherwise control sewage in his vicinity as he wills.
7. Sludd also has a means of fast travel by simply merging with the sludge of an underground channel and moving his mental essence to a new location, where he can reform.
8. Sludd's psyche is as fluid as his own body. He is as often seen capable of coherent, rational thought as he is simple-minded and unable to form even simple sentences.
9. The prominence of Sullivan's empathy causes him to be drawn to particularly powerful, or unique, emotions like an insect to flame. As Sludd dwells below the surface world, this is oftentimes the reason he is compelled to emerge from the sewers-- or investigate anyone entering his domain.

10. Sludd was created in Champions Online in March 2013, so in about a month he'll be four years old!
11. Was originally concepted as an adult janitor who had a similar out-of-body experience, falling under the influence of a mind-control device. Sludd as he is now is in his early teens.
12. Is generally inspired by elemental characters like Swamp Thing, and Man-Thing, (and I only found out later that Garbage Man was also a thing). Initially created in CO to be an equivalent of an old teen character from City of Heroes: specifically, the cloud-form mutant who would later get another spin-off into Cloudcrown.
13. Out of all the MMO characters' I've concepted and RPed, perhaps Sludd has the potential to be the most powerful or most difficult to fight.