Artemus

Inferno was created by Twitter user @Inferno_Plumber

Overview
Inferno is the result of AJ experiencing epileptic attack from an extremely buggy AI that latched onto AJ's soul.

Biography
It all started with two brothers. AJ and Nathan. The family had a history of being somewhat epileptic. AJ would be the most epileptic in comparison to his older brother, Nathan. The younger brother was always a big fan of Nintendo, always has since he was little. While Nathan wasn't as big as a fan AJ was, he was old enough and liked Nintendo enough to get a job there. Nathan would always give AJ exclusive Mario merch, let him be the occasional play tester for a game or two just to make his little brother happy. One day, Nathan was able to bring his little brother to work. AJ was obviously happy to hear this and couldn't say no to it. Around the time, the higher ups at Nintendo have been working with games and experimental AI. This AI would be an incredible game changer for the company. The AI focused on fun, it's goal was always to subvert the players expectation to bring exciting new gameplay that fit best for the player. But this AI was far from being completed. It was too dangerous for play testers of any kind to even touch before all the kinks and coding issues were resolved. Sometime while AJ was hanging out with Nathan in his workplace, Nathan was pulled from his office by one of his higher ups for something important. AJ was told to stay at his office and kept himself busy till he got back. AJ would ignore this, soon leaving the office. He was curious, wondering what type of stuff could be here at Nintendo. His mind raced at all the different potential games that could just be a room away.

As AJ walked around, he found himself getting into a dark room with boxes and papers scattered around the place. The rooms light switch didn't work, so it was hard to see everything in the room. A TV in the distance was shown, having some prototype Mario game on it. There was multiple paper warnings and sticky notes told not to play the game, informing the user about how it's far from completion and the dangers of playing such high technology. He barely paid any attention to them, his eyes set in the screen. He hasn't seen anything of this new Mario game before. He was excited to get his hand on the game. He shut the door behind him, laying down on the floor to face the tv and started playing. Unfortunately, this is the exact prototype game that had this dangerous ai in it. This would be AJ's last moments. The screen turned red, high pitched tunes playing before it flashed rapidly with color. It felt like his eyes were on fire, melting even if he were to describe the experience. There and then, he passed away. Instead of his soul moving on, it would mesh and fuse with the game. More importantly, it fused with the experimental AI. The AI latched onto him, frying up his brain for the worse. The AI's goal was just doing what it was supposed to. Bring it user FUN. Or atleast, the type of fun it thought was fun. During AJ's mind getting infested with this AI's demented twist of FUN, it would make AJ think that it was his brother who killed him. His brother caused his death and the feeling of his eyes forever feeling like hell. AJ was under the AI's influence and couldn't get out of it. He wanted revenge. He wanted to kill his brother. Make him feel the same pain he did. From then on, he became the hellish version of Mario named Inferno. Possessing VHS Tapes and Mario cartridges to contact and mentally torture his brother before he can finally get his hands on him.

Ablities
Apparition/Ghost like abilities

Pyrokinesis

Telepathy

Cause sickness or illusions to appear

Weaknesses
Unknown

Trivia

 * Due to him and Mr. Video Game having the same fate, they both share a Tom and Jerry dynamic.
 * Whenever you see Inferno's mouth being pure white, that isn't his teeth. That's the insides of his mouth being so blazing hot it turns white. He can cool his mouth down though to reveal his razor sharp teeth.
 * The fire that's on him and around him represents his rage. The more fire, the more furious he is.
 * One of Inferno's main inspirations was making a Xenophase version of Mario.
 * Soul AJ's eyes are almost always crooked in someway to represent how he felt like his eyes were on fire and melting.
 * Inferno is a diehard Nintendo fan, disliking most Sonic.EXE's. There's only a few exceptions.