Laemon

Early Life
The circumstances of Laemon's birth were rather depressing ones - He was born to a mother who didn't very much care for him, a father who left before ever finding out he was conceived, and with a brother with a terrible superiority complex... which, to be fair, was understandable, as he was so far above the rest of his family. But alas, poor Laemon was condemned to a childhood full of nothing but resentment for his father for abandoning him. Eventually, he pursued a career in forensics and became a CSI for the NYPD.

Introduction to the Laemon Cult
While investigating a chain of murder cases, Laemon discovered a few links to an old cult based in the remote mountains of India, named the "Laemon People." The cult, believed to be fictitious, told of people with the power to use acid-related magic. He thought nothing of it... until his grandfather was killed by them. After this incident, he decided to set out to India for himself, and see who exactly these people were.

Shortly after arriving in a village near the aforementioned mountains, he was accosted by an old man, who invited him to his home, then drugged him. He woke up in a dungeon. he managed to escape, only to encounter a group of these cultists, who used their magic to burn off Laemon's right arm. It was at this moment that Laemon awakened his inner power, using the same acid powers that he'd heard so much about to defend himself. However, unbeknownst to him, the cultists' leader had been watching, and was impressed by his skills. And so it was that Laemon was inducted into the cult, with promises that he's learn who his father was.

Joining UPVOTE
Laemon trained for two years under the cult, only to in the end unveil their secret intentions of world domination. Upon learning of this, he stole the one thing he heard was crucial to this plot - a gold amulet, with six holes in it - one of them containing a yellow gemstone. After his escape, he went to the newly made public UPVOTE.

Upon his arrival at Upvengers tower, he met Fancy and Lab. He and Lab... didn't get along very well, with what started out as a minor disagreement over Laemon's car escalating into a full out fight between the two. However, despite this, he eventually gained Lab's respect, and his position at UPVOTE as an Upvenger. It was now that he was given the moniker "Laemon," a reference to his former involvement with the Laemon cult.

Career as an Upvenger
During Laemon's time as an Upvenger, he lived to see a great deal of action, quite a bit of it at the hands of the very cult he was once a part of. The so-called Laemon Council each went out of their way to hunt Laemon down, but with the help of Upvote, Laemon had eventually succeeded at defeating all but one - their leader, a man named Set. And with the death of each council member, another gemstone was found for Laemon's amulet - Eventually, he had filled five of the holes, the only one left being the centre one. So, he and Sancho set out to the Laemon temple to kill Set once and for all... and they did, leaving the final gemstone for Laemon to place in his amulet, and complete.

However, the Laemon cult was the least of Laemon's worries, for not too long after, he learnt of the existence of a series of orbs with magic powers, one of which was possessed by the cultists he had killed. A being arrived, dubbed "Void Man" by Lab, with intents to steal all of the orbs, and resorted to tricking UPVOTE into obtaining all of them by various means. After they were all gathered, he stole them all and fled, the location he went off to being unknown.

With the new threat gone, Laemon went back to the temple to train for an indefinite period of time...