DESMOND
Real Name: Desmond
Class: Human cyborg
Occupation: Government agent
Group Affiliation: None
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Pentagon, Washington, DC, Earth-50
First Appearance: Mr. Majestic #1 (September, 1999)
Powers: Desmond was a brilliant cyborg confined to a wheelchair.
History: (Mr. Majestic #1) - Desmond, a child prodigy and cyborg, was employed by the Pentagon. Mr. Majestic came to him when he discovered that a malevolent alien presence was headed towards Earth in the next 100 years. Together they gathered a group of fringe cosmologists and physicists together to figure out how to save the world. Majestic confided in Desmond that he was having a crisis of faith, saying some things were too big, cosmically speaking, to meddle with, and he feared he was playing God. Desmond said the preservation of the human race was a fine justification for interfering in the cosmic order. Majestic decided humanity was noble, if flawed, and worth preserving. It took months, but by August, 1974 Majestic had forged Kherubim kinetic field gauntlets and assembled stabilizing satellites to move Earth’s moon’s orbit by a tenth of a degree as a test run for hiding Earth’s solar system in plain sight. During the U.S. bicentennial Majestic moved Mercury until it became a satellite of Jupiter. Over the next few years Majestic used his heat vision to change Jupiter’s elemental composition and removed Saturn’s rings. He bemoaned that he’d only been off-world a few times in the past few years and missed exploring the universe. He called Desmond who kept him abreast of the last few years of politics, including the Iranian Revolution and Ronald Reagan running for President. Majestic created rings around Mars and added Halley’s Comet to the planets of the Milky Way. Under cover of a solar eclipse Majestic moved Earth into Jupiter’s orbit. His final task was to covert Sol into a binary sun using ancient Kherubim rituals which gave him a moment of cosmic awareness that briefly connected his mind to the entire universe. Majestic was just in time to confront the System-Eater, an entity that moved through the universe consuming every solar system its’ probes discovered. The System-Eater didn’t recognize the Milky Way after Majestic’s work, and part of it sensed that someone had dared to judge it and challenge the natural order, but it nevertheless moved on. Majestic was relieved and exhilarated, and began the long process of restoring the Milky Way to its’ natural order.
(Mr. Majestic #2) - Desmond detected a number of chronal anomalies, and Mr. Majestic responded to a raid perpetrated by 8th Century Vikings on a British waterfront. Majestic brought them to a local jail, but when a police officer asked what he was supposed to do with them Majestic admitted he didn’t. know. A man named Delroy was assigned as a liason between Desmond, Majestic and the rest of the U.S. government and was befuddled when Desmond tried to explain the disruptions to the timestream. Delroy said he was supposed to keep a close eye on them, but chronal anomalies made his head hurt, so he asked them to get back to them when they’d sorted it all out. More anomalies cropped up, with the bubonic plague spreading through France, Mongol hordes attacking China and the Enola Gay appearing over Japan. Majestic prevented Hiroshima from being bombed a second time, having lived through it the first time and hoping no tragedy like that would ever happen again. The Red Sea parted and Majestic was surprised, believing the events of the Bible to be myth. He asked Desmond about it, but he had more pressing things on his mind than theology. Desmond constructed a hypercube to map the time distortions, hoping to find a pattern. He realized the disruptions would reach critical mass at which point the entire timestream would unravel. He tried to contact Dr. Martin Kingsley, the world’s leading expert in theories about temporal anomalies, but learned he’d committed suicide a year ago. He’d learned that his daughter Kata was a living time anomaly, and predicted that her existence threatened the entire timestream, but couldn’t bring himself to live with that reality. Desmond met with MIT, Caltech and a displaced Albert Einstein, and they used Kingsley’s notes to build a stasis generator that could take someone out of time. Majestic visited Kata at the San Sierra Orphanage and used the genrator to put himself and Kata outside the timestream. She said she never wanted to hurt anyone and Majestic said that nothing that happened was her fault. He told her to remember the happiest day in her life before using the generator again, removing her from the timestream completely. Majestic told Desmond he was extremely uncomfortable with how they’d resolved the situation, but Desmond said they had no choice. Majestic hoped Kata was somewhere happy, and she was, in a temporal loop of a day she spent with her father playing on a swing and talking.
(Mr. Majestic #4) - After centuries of planning Mr. Majestic pierced Otherspace, a realm whose existence couldn’t be proven and where reality was a variable. He pluched pre-dimensional star-stuff from a sleeping star and gave it to Desmond to analyze. Desmond was thrilled with pushing the boundaries of science, and Mr. Majestic told him the story of how he’d lost his son Magistrate when he’d arrived on Earth. Majestic built an artificial body and hoped to revive his son by combining the stasis crystal that held his son’s essence with the star-stuff. Desmond set up a machine to bombard the artificial body with energy, and before long Magistrtae was reborn. Majestic held his son tight, allowing himself to feel emotions more strongly than he had in centuries. Majestic educated his son so he could assimilate on Earth, and the boy took the superhero identity of Junior Majestic to enter the family business. Together they took down the supervillain Warknox-Prime, and Junior Majestic became a hit with the media and children. Majestic was a humble man, but his pride in his son wouldn’t allow him to see the press coverage as unseemly. A singularity appeared in Australia, and the Majestics went to investigate. They found a man who’d been turned into a living black hole, and were almost sucked in before attaining escape velocity. Desmond came to the tragic, yet inescapable conclusion that when Majestic took the star-stuff from Otherspace he upset the cosmic balance and caused the singularity. Junior knew he had to sacrifice himself to save the world, and although Majestic pleaded with him, he was convinced when his son reminded him they were heroes and did what was right no matter the cost. Junior flew into the singularity, reuniting his essence with Otherspace and causing the singularity to subside. Majestic held the artificial frame that was once his son and wept.
Comments: Created by Joe Casey, Brian Holguin & Ed McGuinness.
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