VA: Aleks Le (ENG), Akira Ishida (JAP)

Alias: Dark Taeho, The Crimson King, Ruler of the Dark Multiverse, The Entity

Species: Ascendant

Age: Unknown (Presumably early 20s)

Gender: Male

Relatives: Unknown

Occupation: Dark Multiverse Ruler, Traveler

Alignment: Neutral/Lawful Evil

Personality

Compared to his prime variant and other variants of himself who are known for having some sense of empathy and friendliness despite being mischievous and unhinged psychopaths, this Taeho is more calm, level-headed, and surprisingly polite, while at the same time much more manipulative, ruthless, sociopathic, and nihilistic in nature.

Dark Taeho's most known for his sadism, as he enjoys others' pain and suffering for his own amusement. Furthermore, his nihilism makes him most dangerous as he does not care for aspects of good nor evil, as he believes ideals and such are meaningless concept. Because of it, he does not tolerate between a hero or a villain trying to interfere with his fun, he would either kill them in a rather excruciating and gruesome manner, or keep them alive in a near-dead state to hear their screams of agony. He once tortured many people while listening and dancing to their screams.

He is also very charismatic, something that isn't present in his prime self. Dark Taeho would like to manipulate others and even seduce them sexually in order for him to break them mentally, so that he could enjoy their pain and them giving into the pleasure. He is also rather cannibalistic in nature as well.

Dark Taeho is also known for being rather masochistic in nature, as not only he enjoys others' pain, but his own as well. He would often purposefully hold back so that his enemies would attack brutally and even provoke them to attack him to feel pleasure from the pain.

Biography

Much of Dark Taeho's background is unknown, but it is known that he is an Ascendant much like his Prime variant, and he was born in Earth-Negative Prime, the first Earth to be created within the Dark Multiverse.

Being born in the heart of the Dark Multiverse, along with his latent Ascendant power, caused him to be merged with the Dark Multiverse itself, granting him the powers of the distorted and dark worlds. Soon afterwards, he became the ruler of the Dark Multiverse, conquering all of the existing Earths within, and taking control of the inhabitants, mostly being monsters and other entities.

Throughout his life, he assumed many forms and many names, including the Crimson King and simply, the Entity.

Powers

Dark Multiverse Connection: Dark Taeho is bound to the Dark Multiverse, and thus he is able to manipulate it.

Reality Warping: Taeho was born with the rather powerful ability to bend reality to his will which is part of his Ascendant heritage. Taeho's reality warping is far greater than his father and other Ascendants to the point he is almost omniscient and having powers beyond that of divine beings. With having absolute control over fabric of reality, he is able to freely interact and change reality with his imagination and thought to the point he can override any laws or concepts of the universe and even bend them to his whims. With his powers, Taeho has absolute power and can change anything to suit his thinking, which is basically an all-powerful God-like being. His reality warping additionally makes him immune to other forms of reality warping or even overpower those who have similar powers as he does, and can even stabilize the Dark Multiverse itself, as he prevents it from deteriorating.

Fundamental Forces Manipulation: Taeho is able to manipulate the four fundamental forces of the universe: The gravitational force, electromagnetism force, and forces of strong and weak interactions.

Omnipresence: Taeho is able to exist in everywhere and anywhere within the Multiverse. This allows him to exist every reality and universe, is and can be everywhere at the same time to no limit. Additionally, this makes Taeho aware that he is a fictional character, and occasionally break the 4th wall.

Space-Time Manipulation: Taeho is able to manipulate space and time itself, where he is able to teleport and travel through dimensions and alternate realities, while also being able to fast forward, stop, or rewind time itself. While controlling the fabric of time and traveling through them, he can use his powers to prevent paradoxes for happening while causing changes in the timeline, jokingly calling it "retcon power".

Immortality: Thanks to his reality warping, Taeho is virtually immortal, and as a result he cannot be killed or die in any ways.

Telekinesis: Taeho is an immensely powerful telekinetic, where he is able to manipulate living beings and inanimate objects alike, which also including forms of energy. His telekinesis is so powerful that he can manipulate even planets and universes with his mind alone. In combat, Taeho usually uses this power in a form of blasting an invisible bullet through either snapping his fingers or making a finger gun that completely obliterates his enemies in a gruesome fashion. But aside from that, he can project telekinetic blasts in a form of concussive force, create psionic force fields, can move or fly at high speeds, and even deflect attacks, powers and physical attacks alike.

Telepathy: Taeho is a powerful telepath who can read minds of many people simultaneously, see through illusions, read thoughts across vast distances, scan billions of minds to find a specific person, communicate through people across the Multiverse, and block psychic waves, hypnosis, and mental controls, to the point he can cause severe injuries by rejecting them. Even those with powerful mental abilities has no effect.

Mind Control: Taeho additionally has the ability to psionically control people. He is capable of completely overriding a person's will and telepathically control their thoughts and actions. With this power, he can additionally persuade people, implant strong thoughts or feelings into someone, wipe or restore memories, and can even completely shut down their mind and render them brain dead.

Illusion Creation: With his psionic powers, Taeho is able to create powerful illusions that manipulate the five senses and cannot be discerned by anyone. He usually uses his illusion to shapeshift into different people or to trick/trap his enemies. It is stated that this power is even greater than of Aizen's.

Memory Manipulation: Taeho is able to psionically manipulate people's memories. He is able to read the memories of those around him, project himself into their memories, instantly erasing them and cause amnesia, implant fake memories, and even restore lost ones.

Psychometry: Taeho can can read residual thought imprints left on objects touched by people. By touching an object, Taeho is able to see past events that happened with the object and around it, days or even decades ago. Sometimes he did not even need to touch an object, only enter the room to see what happened there many years ago.

Astral Projection: Taeho is able to project his consciousness outside his body to enter astral plane.

Mental Shutdown: Taeho is able to shut down people's minds and render them braindead.

Resurrection: Using his powers, Taeho can bring people back to life by psionically recreating them.

Cosmic Horror Manipulation: Because the cosmic horrors originate from the Dark Multiverse, Taeho can freely control them as they are under his commands. This also includes Outer Gods such as Shub-Niggurath, Nyarlathotep, Yog-Sothoth, and even Azathoth, along with other entities such as the Scarlet King and more.

Monster Manipulation: The Dark Multiverse's connection allows Dark Taeho to control and summon many types of monsters.

Corruption Inducement: Dark Taeho is able to corrupt anyone with his powers, and make them his slaves under his will. The corruption refers to both physical and psychological in nature, as due to the power of the Dark Multiverse will drive them insane at the same time it will make their appearances monstrous in nature, until they are nothing but malformed abominations with desire to kill and obey Dark Taeho's will.

Darkness Manipulation: Dark Taeho can control darkness which comes in a form of black smoke-like substance.

Forms

The Crimson King

The Entity