Phantom.SAV

Phantom.SAV is the ghost of a boy inhabiting a Super Nintendo Console. He was created by Yellowpig101

Biography
The story begins with the Tanner family, The tanners are a poor family with 7 kids they could barely provide for. One of the kids, Andrew, was very into internet culture and video games even though the tanners could never afford a console or PC for themselves, instead only being able to play games when he hung out with friends. But on his 11th birthday his parents surprised him with something, a SNES! Appearently they had got it from a yard sale for cheap and it even came with super mario world.

Andrew played it with his big brother jeremy all day and even into the night until he fell asleep. But disaster would strike that night as there was a house fire which burnt the tanner residence to the ground. The rest of the family got out in time but when they did a head count they realized they missed andrew. When the firemen came and put out the flames, inside the burnt building andrew's body was found, clutching the super nintendo which was miraculously unharmed by the inferno.

But while his family mourned him, little did they know that andrew lived on in the console.

As mario world was the game Andrew had in the console, it was the world his soul was now inside. At first it was fun to explore the world he found himself inside and Andrew quickly found himself to be both powerful and basically invincible within the game world. But it quickly got both boring and lonely to be trapped in a digital world alone with nothing but simple AI to interact with. he spent days in the game by himself, days turns into weeks became a month or more. He felt like he would go mad in his isolation until one day, the game turned on.

After they got a new house His brother jeremy turned on the game to play his brother's favorite game to remember the fun he had with him before the fire happened. At first andrew stayed away from mario, not wanting to scare his big brother, but eventually it became too much and he rushed into the view of the player. This obviously scared the shit out of jeremy who tried to run away from the huge dark silhouette, calling it a demon and a monster. Hurt by his brother's comments he screamed that he wasn't a demon and in this outburst he first learned of how powerful he truly was. As he cried out he teleported directly to mario, killing him instantly in spite of the fact that he had a fire flower and altering the level's data, turning it into a monochromatic wasteland. Andrew was just as shocked at what he just did as jeremy was playing it.

Seeing what he had done, Andrew warped away to another map in the game to get away from jeremy. In his solitude he learned his powers the best he could, learning to warp the game's world to his will.

Meanwhile Jeremy was convinced that what he saw was a demonic entity possessing the console, and likely the reason the house burnt down as soon as they bought it. He decided to press on with the game, find a way to destroy the demon entity which he dubbed "The Phantom" and avenge his brother, Having no idea that what he saw was in fact, the spirit of his late brother trying to contact him.

Andrew, still hurt by what his brother said, decided to mess with him a bit. Kill him in the game a few times and bend the game to make levels unreasonably difficult. Jeremy didn't stand much a chance at the new levels and andrew's interference, quickly getting a game over before he continued and tried again. He was feeling increasingly empty with each death and felt like he was going mad. Eventually he got to the first castle of the game and made it to a boss with the "Phantom" and was promptly easily defeated by andrew, getting a second game over.

After this jeremy completely lost his mind. He called andrew a demonic phantom to his face before shutting the game off. Poor andrew was crushed as he realized that he drove his brother away again by trying to fuck with him. But he had no idea how bad it really was. After failing to stop the "Demon", Jeremy committed suicide. Grabbing the console and taking it with him as he jumped into the freeway, killing him in the oncoming traffic but the console that housed the spirit of his brother was unharmed, simply falling off the freeway and onto the ground below where it was picked up by someone else.

After Jeremy died, he would wake up within the game, his soul now binded to the console as well, as a minion of phantom who drove him to madness, unable to talk nor say no to anything andrew told him to do. Andrew on the other hand, had no idea the new minion that spawned was his brother's soul, simply believing the mute minion to be a creation of the powers he was still learning to control.

Andrew still haunts the console as the phantom, "playing" with anyone who finds it, unaware of the torment he does to the souls who play it, hoping one day to reunite with his brother and make things right, unaware that his brother is right by his side as a tortured minion

Abilities

 * Game Manipulation - Phantom can control the data of any game he's currently inhabiting, even if it's another exe's game
 * Game Transferal - He can transfer himself from the console, to whatever game cartridge is in it, and from those cartridges into any other Super Nintendo they're put into
 * Durable Container - Any device his soul is currently inhabiting becomes immensely durable, capable of withstanding things such as the fire that claimed his life originally or a head-on car collision into the console
 * Teleportation - Phantom can teleport to any location within the game world
 * Flight - While in his true form phantom is capable of levitation and flight at high speeds
 * Super Strength - Phantom is capable of shattering normally unbreakable blocks and killing characters in one hit even if they have power ups
 * Mimicry - Phantom can make faker forms by turning himself into a monochrome version of another character, obtaining all their abilities in the process
 * Shapeshifting - Although having a defined form, his body is actually made of Amorphous darkness and as such he can shapeshift his body to anything he pleases, including growing vastly bigger or smaller
 * Immortality - He's immune to most forms of damage and what few things can hurt him such as someone with a Super Star, he will later regenerate from anyways
 * Death of Mind, Body & Soul - Every time a player is killed by phantom in the game they lose a part of themselves, losing that part entirely when they run out of lives and gave over. First they will lose their soul bit by bit with each death, after they game over and lose their entire soul no matter how they die or when in the future they die, when they do their soul will wake up in the game under the control of Phantom.SAV. for their next set of lives they will lose their mind, going entirely insane when they game over. And finally if they keep playing and get a 3rd game over their body will die a little more with each death, before the finally drop dead at the game over screen.
 * Minion Creation - Every soul from failed players manifests in his world as a smaller, weaker but similarly Amorphous shadowy humanoid silhouettes. They are unable to talk and they cannot disobey Phantom's orders
 * Absorption - Phantom.SAV can absorb his minions which makes him exponentially more powerful with each soul. If he were to absorb another exe then he would absorb any souls they took aswell. He can part with these absorbed souls to turn them back into minions if he wants

Weaknesses

 * While he can never die to the things from any normal game world, other exes could potentially kill him with data or soul manipulation
 * Although he can manipulate the game data of any world he's in, his Data Manipulation isn't super strong and thus in a battle with another data controlling exe he would likely lose unless he had enough souls to amplify his power
 * He only has partial control over his powers. Not only can his game manipulation passively activate and change the world around him if he's feeling emotional but also Death of Mind, Body & Soul will always happen when he kills a player even if he doesn't want it to, in fact he doesn't even know that he has the power in the first place
 * While he gets all the powers from anyone he mimics, he also gets their weaknesses
 * While very durable, the Cartridges/Consoles he's in are not invincible and he is extremely tied to them. Not only would he die for good if they were destroyed, but also he's not even able to see or hear what's happening outside of the game world unless the game is turned on
 * Although it poses basically no threat to him, he is deeply afraid of fire due to how he died when he was human

Trivia

 * Although his power isn't massive normally, He doesn't have an upper cap of his potential power. Meaning he could get immensely powerful should he be allowed to enough souls. It's uncommon for him to absorb a ton of souls though as he prefers to keep his minions around instead due to his crushing loneliness in the game.
 * While Super Mario World is the game that he mainly stays in, he can effect any SNES game and can make faker forms for characters in all of them.
 * Despite his traumatic fear of fire, He's strangely fine with lava.
 * If he were to learn that all his minions were the tortured the souls of his players he would be mortified and likely seclude himself deep within the console where no players would find him so he could never hurt anyone again.
 * He hasn't met any other Exes personally, but he has heard of them.