Height: Unrevealed (but taller than Union Jack's
6'6")
Weight: Unrevealed
Eyes: Red, no visible sclera (may be only the costume/armor)
Hair: Black (may be only part of the costume/armor)
History:
(Knights of Pendragon II#12
(fb) - BTS) - Skire claimed to have grown up in dungeons and studied
hard how to inflict pain, learning all the arts of torture; he became a
sadomasochist, taking pleasure in both inflicting and experiencing pain. At some point, in undisclosed circumstances and unrevealed order he:
acquired an armor equipped with a variety of in-built weapons; became a
professional killer who embraced the sobriquet the King of Pain; and
became an agent of Mys-Tech, though whether as a mercenary carrying out
occasional jobs or a full-time operative similarly remains unrevealed.
When Mys-Tech's board launched a plan to
conquer the world using the global voodoo of their UnEarth device, they
anticipated that the Knights of Pendragon might seek to interfere, as
they had repeatedly done in recent times. In preparation, board member
Ormond Wychwood briefed Skire on their capabilities, and tasked him with
destroying them once the Knights ventured back to Earth from their base
in Otherworld. As expected, the Knights arrived in London near
Mys-Tech's base soon after the UnEarth had unleashed demons across the
globe. Skire let a few of the demons summoned by the UnEarth battle the
Knights first to soften his prey up, waiting until the Knights had slain
the creatures before intervening personally.
 (Knights of Pendragon II#12) - Skire
dropped into the midst of his targets and fired a barrage of spikes from
his gauntlet, causing them to scatter to avoid being struck. The
Knight's speedster, Breeze, raced in to strike Skire across the face,
but merely succeeded in hurting her own hand against his metallic mask.
Distracted by the pain, Breeze came to a standstill, and Skire, boasting
that pain was his business, snatched her up by her right arm and leg and
started to pull her apart, likening his intent to torturing someone on
the rack. Moving in swiftly to save his teammate, the much stronger
Pendragon Union Jack decked Skire with a punch, causing him to release
his captive. Ignoring Albion's warnings not to take on Skire
single-handed, Union Jack pressed home his assault, but Skire rallied
and struck a double-fisted blow under Union Jack's chin hard enough to
kill the hero. The robotic Pendragon Gawain tackled Skire from behind,
but Skire trapped Gawain in a bear hug and extruded twin spikes from his
armor's chest, his "Iron Maiden," causing the robot to short circuit and
burn out. Realizing they were swiftly losing the battle, Albion had the
remaining Pendragons launch a combined attack on Skire, but being struck
simultaneously by Breeze's blows, Albion's energy blasts and Grace's
wrist blades didn't even distract Skire, who concentrated instead on
firing spike's at Pendragon team leader Adam Crown. Jumping on Skire's
back as she continued to slice at him, Grace hoped to locate a weak
point, but Skire electrified his armor, killing her instantly. Declaring
the score to be three down and three to go, Skire leapt for the flying
Albion and slammed him bodily to the ground, simultaneously piercing the
hero's chest with spiked knuckle-dusters, mortally wounding him. Though
far away and itself dying because of the UnEarth's ravages, the
Pendragons' patron, the godlike Green Knight, sensed what had befallen
its champions and, as Skire moved to finish off Albion, the Green Knight
poured its remaining power into Adam Crown. Seeing Crown begin to
coruscate with green lightning, Skire paused in confusion, before being
blasted away screaming as Crown unleashed a powerful energy blast at the
assassin. Skire crashed into a nearby building, which then collapsed on
him, taking him out the fight. Knowing that while the immediate threat
was dealt with, a greater fight remained that would require all the
Pendragons, the Green Knight then restored Skire's fallen victims to
life and health. |
