Canon History

Algidus was cloned from Glacius, so his canon history is the virtually the same. His ancestor made the journey to earth two millenia ago in response to a distress signal that was sent out by a scouting party that became trapped on the planet. The alien embassador was captured by the cultists of the ancient demon lord Gargos and was forced to fight his way to freedom. Once Gargos was defeated, the ambassador went on to locate his stranded comrades, whom he then freed and lead back to his ship. Though all of the aliens ultimately made it back to their homeworld safely, the ordeals of this alien ambassador explain why his race made a point of avoiding contact with humanity…

…until his descendant was forced to crash-land on our world 2000 years later.

This was Algidus, though it was before he had been brought into the Box, cloned, and had taken on the new name to as a result of attempting to further his differentiation. He possessed a natural talent for fighting, a love of exploration, and a certain curiosity. While wandering the galaxy in search of new life, the ice alien skimmed too close to the Earth and got trapped in its gravitational field, only to crash-land deep in the heart of a snow-bound mountain range. Though his injuries were grievous, the alien was able to use the healing ice around him to recover. Groggy but counting himself lucky to be alive, he surveyed the damage and set out in the hope of finding the parts he needed to repair his ship. Upon making his way towards the nearest city, the alien discovered that much had changed since his ancestor visited the planet. In that span of time, the world had changed; pollution weakened the environment, governments fell, and chaos ruled, with huge mega-corporations battling and destroying each other for shares of the world’s wealth. Though his ancestor wrote warnings in the history books of Algidus’ race of humanity’s unreasoning brutality, the alien hoped they were simply exaggerating. Unfortunately, the alien was soon made to regret his trusting nature when a corrupt mega-corporation named Ultratech captured him for use in their own unique brand of “scientific research”.

Ultratech had risen above the other warring mega-corporations through nefarious means: rather than joining in direct battles with their competitors, Ultratech profited from their suffering by selling them the very weapons they use against each other. Sales of weaponry were not the only source of profit for Ultratech, however. Their entertainment division produced the top rated television broadcast of the future: the Killer Instinct tournament, which also served as a testing ground for Ultratech’s weapons. The winners of the tournament were promised whatever they desire, while the losers suffer a significantly poorer fate. It was in this brutal, bloody competition that Ultratech forced the captured alien to fight if he ever wanted to see freedom again, with hopes to ultimately prove his race to be inferior to humanity. Unfortunately for Ultratech, Algidus fought fiercely to see his homeworld again, defeating each and every competitor that he was matched against… but he never killed any of them, even if his mercy came at great cost to himself. Having no plans to actually free the alien but realizing they were running out of options, the corrupt mega-corporation unleashed Cinder, a being of fire, upon the alien in his final match. The battle was fierce and Algidus was ultimately forced to take the convict’s life, which in turn forced Ultratech to honor their agreement with him.

After escaping from the grasp of Ultratech, Algidus took the advanced technology from them that he needed and finally returned to the site of his crashed spaceship. With the materials on hand, the alien repaired the escape shuttle of his ship and headed home, the memories of the corruption he faced there gradually fading… though he knew he would have to return.

With the husk of his crashed ship still lost out in the arctic rim, the alien was honor-bound to return to earth despite the pain and suffering he endured there in order to recover his lost technology. His goal in this was two-fold; he was tasked to remove all traces of his presence on earth and by doing so safeguard the existence of his people, and to prevent his technology from falling into the wrong hands. Unfortunately, he wouldn't get the chance to complete this mission, as he was pulled into the Box from this canon point. How his stay in that horrific prison changed him and resulted in the being known as Algidus is detailed here.

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(Note: For Algidus' canon history as Glacius, read the preceding entry.)

Once Algidus (though again, at this point he still had his original name of Glacius as he had not yet been cloned) was pulled from his canon into the Box he underwent a number of events that changed him as a person. Very soon after he arrived, a strange eclipse occurred that stripped the inhabitants of their powers and tampered with the senses of those that did not have any. The alien's icy outer skin began to melt and as he desperately searched for a way to keep himself cool he stumbled upon a young woman named Mia Allen. As he had only been in the Box for a few days and was still learning how differently things worked here, Algidus was petrified that she would react with fear or attempt to turn him in to whatever authorities were present in this strange new land. Instead--to his utter relief-- she chose to help him. She lead him to a walk-in freezer that he would come to call his home for a large portion of the upcoming summer. Later on, he returned the favor by coming to her aid when she lost one of her arms and remaining by her side until proper medical attention reached her. Thus was the start of one of the alien's core friendships in the Box.

His interactions with Mia were so completely different from anything the alien had come to expect from humanity that he began to come out of his shell a little bit. When flesh-eating vines invaded the Box, the valiant alien found himself unable to just sit idly by while innocents suffered. He used his unique powers to destroy the insidious plants wherever he found them and come to the rescue of any who might need his aid. One of the beings he helped during the event was a vampire named Paloma (though Algidus had no idea of her condition until much later). Later on, when Algidus was exploring the ocean and was attacked by a shark, Paloma found him limping back through Southtown--and instead of reacting with fear or condescension she took him aside and helped him wash out his wounds and reconstitute his icy skin so that he could begin to heal. Once again, the alien had experience kindness in a time of need; his wariness and mistrust of others, particularly humans, began to rapidly ebb away.

An angry post on the network by a young woman known as Jolene Harris threatened to remind him of the things he disliked about humanity, but after conversing with her briefly he was surprised to discover how much he emphasized with her feelings of being lost and out of place. The two arranged to meet in person to see how they could help each other, and it was from that sense of understanding plus the support he had been shown by others that Algidus finally opened up enough to let someone in on his plan for escape from the Box. The alien was assuming this to simply be a mutually beneficial partnership; he had no idea that they had planted the seeds of what would be the closest friendship he would ever know. As Jolene and Algidus did what they could to further their plans they weathered numerous Technician-concocted torments-- a catastrophic flood, illnesses that nearly claimed both of their lives, and a deadly pathogen that finally did take them-- and the two beings that had become so accustomed to operating alone learned to rely on and trust one another. This friendship (which eventually entered into a romantic relationship) plus the friendship he shared with Mia, Paloma, and numerous other residents of the Box helped Algidus put his past behind him. He began to realize that not only was there merit to not keeping himself walled off from every single person he came across, but that he could not condemn all of humanity for what he suffered at the hands of Ultratech.

Unfortunately, this budding trust and faith in humanity was turned completely on its heels when Algidus awoke in the bowels of the Technician's Facility in early May. This was the point where he had been cloned, and he and Glacius became separate entities. As he began searching for an escape back out onto the killing floor, he witnessed on full display the true depth of the terrors and monstrosities that his captors were responsible for. Through wretched torments, the Technicians were serving a power that posed a threat to everything in the galaxy-- everything he'd ever known. Just as he felt foolish for trusting Ultratech’s representatives and allowing himself to be taken into their custody when he first landed on earth, the alien now felt blind for believing that humanity could ever be anything but a cancerous blight to the universe. The horror and pain of this realization only increased when made his way into the Box and realized his original was alive and well within the killing floor. The Technicians had hard-wired him and the rest of the clones to want to replace their originals; they had turned him into one of their terrors, and the icy alien became embittered over the hand he had been dealt. With the friendships he had forged wrested from him, the Box and the people in it became nothing more than a monument to humanity’s sins, and the dark icy creature became desperate to escape so that he could return to his people to warn and safeguard them from this unparalleled threat. He headed out to the Southtown shore (where he originally arrived in the Box), keeping a constant watch for any weakness in the barrier through which he could flee. It was during this lonely vigil that he grappled with not only with his identity, ultimately forsaking his old name and taking on the name of Algidus, but with the sense of responsibility for humanity that he had developed before he was cloned.