Sloan

Sloan is a villain active in New Brazil since 2013, operating at various cities including Hezus.

Appearance
Sloan is a tall middle aged man with a protruding stomach, a nearly bald scalp and a mix of greying and black messy strands of hair shooting off at the sides and back of his head. He has bulging eyes with bright red blood vessels surrounding his small brown irises. He wears a crusty dirty old apron, brown and red from all the blood it's seen, with parts of yellowing formerly white fabric showing through. Other clothing varies but he always wears very heavy combat boots. He wields a large cleaver in one hand and a butcher's knife in the other.

Career
It is unknown when Sloan first started killing but he was first spotted in 2013 as he moved his efforts to a larger city. Suspected to have been terrorizing smaller towns and villages for years, Sloan is a serial killer who eats the flesh of his victims.

The police and heroes have had little luck intercepting his killing sprees, leading many to the suspicion that Sloan is supported and shielded by larger villain organizations. Due to his versatility he could be a great hired assassin, which could make certain Villains want to protect Sloan and support his hobby.

Powers
Sloan has the power to temporarily assume the properties of those whose flesh he eats. Eating flesh can cause certain emotions, replay memories (if eating the brain itself), enhance his physical abilities (although for his size he's very agile and strong naturally) and even replicate super powers. However, the extent to which he can benefit from eating the flesh depends on its freshness. Dried or preserved in any other way meat is far less effective. Despite that, Sloan is said to carry pieces of dried flesh from various heroes he's killed, eating them mid-combat if the situation requires it.

He doesn't have to fully digest the flesh for the effect to take place but he needs to swallow it. There are accounts of Sloan cutting off pieces of his opponents mid-fight. A drawback to such a tactic that he only has a superficial understanding of how the powers work only having seen them or heard of them. The dried flesh he carries has much weaker powers but he's far better at using them due to practice.

Motivations
There aren't many records of anyone having a conversation with Sloan and living to tell about it but the few records available are all consistent with the same ideas. Sloan states that he kills for pleasure, indulgence. According to Sloan, no person has ever tasted the same as another one he's eaten before and it's just as exciting every time. He wants to try every possible flavor. Sloan says that supers and especially heroes have very memorable and exciting flavors due to the mix of emotions, values and physical properties.