Victor Nevarez



"Good grief! It's that blasted bastard leader of the Coalition of the Red Star and one of the grand masterminds behind the Third World War with kakugan-like red eye thingies, black hair, and even a black-colored uniform with a cape on his back! That's Victor Nevarez. I hated him. I wish I'll be pissin' on the grave right now. Oh, and do I mention that he's got a British butler named Jonathon Marple, his sidekick? That's like Dr. Nefarious and Lawrence from Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal. More like up the arse for 'em."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Nevarez

Supreme Leader Victor Nevarez, secretly known by his Sith name as Darth Trethium, or simply The Supreme Leader, is a new character introduced in When the Cold Breeze Blows Away.

As the true leader of the Coalition of the Red Star and the grand mastermind behind World War III, he's one of the two main antagonists of the novel, alongside General Tomislav Vlahović.

Despite his pure evil looks, he's actually an inconsistently heinous character, just like Aku from Samurai Jack.

At the age of 55, he has kakugan-like red eyes (formerly regular brown eyes), black hair, and wears a customized black-colored uniform with a cape on his back.

History
"My disappointment in your performance, cannot be overstated."

--Victor Nevarez to Lola Loud

Personality and Traits
Scheming, powerful, and evil to the core, Victor is an extremely secretive figure, as only the members of the Chaos Council and Jonathon Marple himself seem to be aware of who he actually is, as he always keeps a low profile and tends to lurk in the shadows, though he regarded Quintessa as a valuable ally and that he allowed her to simply address him by his surname when they first met.

In the standard Coalition of the Red Star Joint Military, no one, not even the top commanders, knew that the Supreme Leader is a Sith Lord, as he took great pains to hide his capabilities. Nevarez gives orders to its military through messengers and rarely appears on the battlefield. He believes that everything is pre-ordained and that it cannot be disrupted, as doing so will cause dire consequences.

He has little to no regard for his followers, showing absolutely no empathy when his allies, who swear allegiance to him, are killed right before him. He was also known for being manipulative and mistrustful, as he often makes others do his work for him. However, should any of his plans backfire and result in the failure of his minions (in which he uses Force Choke to punish their failures), he has no qualms for accomplishing a task himself should he deem it worth his attention.

With an insatiable desire for destruction and death wherever he treads, Victor was usually seen by everyone else as nothing more than the ultimate personification of sadism, cruelty, psychopathy, megalomania, power, and madness: an uncompromising and frightening spawn of evil that instills fear into the hearts of those that dare to oppose or defy him, and frequently inspires confidence even in his most distant of allies. Though he has a loyal dominion of servants, even Lola Loud shows cowering servitude before him, often not wishing to incur the Supreme Leader's wrath.

Victor was also a ruthless yet cunning strategist and tactician who often outmaneuvered his enemies and made them play by his rules. Taking the zero-sum game to heart, he did whatever was necessary to gain the upper-hand without any regard to the loss of life in the process. Nevarez truly believed that the end justified the means and until his death at the hands of Alexander Pepper, Victor's tactics would dictate the course of history.

Nevarez occasionally demonstrates a dark sense of sarcastic humor and is able to remain calm and unfazed in situations that would frighten and shock most others, as he remained fully composed even as the Kids Club prepared to take him down. Victor has also shown himself to be surprisingly honorable. He does not go back on the end of the deal he made with others and would honor them even when angered; he extends this even to his enemies, if they prove worthy of his honor.

Despite that, Nevarez was known for being hypocritical and arrogant; shown during his aformentioned encounter with the Kids Club; where he told them that their arrogance had blinded them and that they would pay for their lack of vision when they confronted him. Even shortly before his ultimate defeat, Victor declared himself to be the "Lord of All Villains" while trying to finish off with Pepper; his nemesis.

During his final encounter with Pepper, Nevarez displayed visible fear after being attacked by a powerful Force push from Pepper. He attempted to flee rather than fight, and only confronted Pepper when he appeared to have no other choice in the matter. Despite this brief instance of fear, however, Victor regained enough of his composure as to brag that Pepper would still fail due to his godlike powers; which even surpasses Pepper in terms of raw power.

On a lesser note, Nevarez typically had zero tolerance of failure and was quite unforgiving of it, as he did not get on well with some of the higher-ups in the Coalition and even resorted into using his powers to strangle, telekinetically throw, or seldom kill subordinates who try to insult him, challenge his authority and/or fail to meet his expectations, one example of this being his nearly choking Grand Commandant Erich Dönitz; who is a member of the Chaos Council and a technologist, to death when he questioned the Coalition's allegiance with the Empire of Darkness and its Immortal Armada on Exegol during a meeting of the council on board the Lord Trethium's Wrath, though he survived due to the intervention of Lord Commander Reginar Albrecht. Both Dr. Nefarious and Courtney Gears were not so fortunate however, as the Supreme Leader telekinetically slammed both of them into a wall following blunders they had committed. For their part, only a very few higher-ranking Coalition officials have despised the Dark Lord and his so-called "sorcerer's ways."

Although Nevarez did punish anyone who failed him too many times, he occasionally promoted military, such as Grand Marshal Norman Hofmann, for traits he was personally impressed with. In Hofmann's case, it was his brutal honesty to the Supreme Leader. He also showed merciless attitude towards treason among other things and held some disgust towards individuals who were willing to betray their own comrades for power, even when such actions were to the benefit of the Coalition.

Victor's intelligent, sophisticated, and at times calm demeanor masked his more sinister qualities such as machiavellianism, arrogance, egotism, and narcissism. He was an extremely intimidating individual who possessed a dark nature that rivaled even that of Dark Emperor Torvivum Zuskelgar. Nevarez's demeanor shifted from calmness to anger, depending on the situation.

Additionally, Victor was a cruel master as well as a predator, who identified weakness and exploited it, as demonstrated by how Nevarez dominated not just the entire Coalition but specifically Hermann Fegelein and Richard Loud III, making him a brutal tyrant. He particularly enjoyed using his powers to penetrate the minds of his victims and subject them to agonizing scenes, picking apart their courage and resolve slowly over time.

Despite being a deadly fighter and his status as pure evil, Victor did have reservations toward certain actions and was capable of acknowledging his mistakes. According to Ruby Ramirez, the Supreme Leader "would have been ashamed to use such tactics" as illusions calculated to break someone emotionally. Nevarez was also prone to malfunctioning, during which he will freeze up and play an episode of Lance and Janice before being whacked, usually by Marple.

Even after experiencing his first defeat at the hands of the Kids Club, Victor's beliefs and way of being remained largely unchanged; his sole overriding ambition was the attainment of unlimited power, and the perpetuation of Sith supremacy embodied through him. He would go to any lengths to realize these goals, including harm his own progeny.

Powers and Abilites
As the last Dark Lord of the Sith, Nevarez was one of the strongest Sith Lords in his time (second only to Zuskelgar), with insane levels of mastery over many powers of the Dark Side. He was exceptionally skilled in Force Lightning, and was known to use this both as a lethal attack, and as a way of torturing his opponents. If used to its full potency, he could instantly kill an opponent with a single blast. Although his Force Lightning was generally purple in color, it also occasionally emerged as red. Despite his daunting skill in many other aspects of the Force, Force Lightning was arguably his trademark ability and one that served him well against extremely fierce opponents many times either resulting in their defeat or near defeat.

In addition, Victor could also use Force Lightning in many unique ways, able to target multiple foes with overwhelming barrages. Like Starkiller, Nevarez was able to channel lightning attacks into his lightsaber strikes, amplifying his melee attacks with sudden arcs of dark side energy. He also used lightning in a more tactical manner, charging up or shorting out certain types of machinery. He could also use this power in conjunction with telekinesis to electrify objects while levitating them before hurling them at his opponents, thus increasing the damage potency of the attack, called lightning grenade. As with his telekinetic abilities, Trethium's lightning even had the potential to target more than one opponent at a time and disintegrate targets completely.

The maximum potential of Victor's Force Lightning, however, was achieved before his final defeat on Exegol; when restored back to his true form, Nevarez unleashed an immense wave of Force lightning towards the sky which rapidly expanded enough to disable all Allied starships, while smaller aircraft are instantly annihilated.

On the same side of the coin, Victor was exceedingly formidable at utilizing telekinetic attacks, and often made liberal use of his telekinetic abilities during battles. He could use Force Pulls, Pushes, and Grips to clear massive areas as everything in front of him was blasted back and was capable of breaking through the telekinetic defenses of any Force-sensitive. He was also remarkably dexterous in the application of Force Repulse and Force Wave, and could generate enough power with both attacks to easily take out Force-insensitive assailants. Making often use of both the Force Crunch, Force Rend, and Force Crush abilities in his life, Nevarez proved to be highly powerful in their application. In addition, he was incredibly proficient in Force Choke to the point that he can perform it to deadly effect without needing to see the target even when in large distances away, as shown by how he was able to completely subdue General Zacarías Fulgencio in a chokehold with a single hand gesture. He was also capable of using the Force to telekinetically destroy a target's internal organs, as well as crushing small battle machines and even catch or redirect missiles and other ballistics in mid-flight.

One of Victor's favorite tactics during battles was using Force Throw to pull apart objects in his environment and fling them at his opponents. This served as both an effective practical attack and a way of demoralizing his enemies, his effectiveness with this technique was further bolstered by the fact that he was capable of telekinetically gripping and hurling objects without the need to utilize the "throwing" motion that nearly all Force sensitives used.

Nevarez was also highly proficient in the defensive Force Techniques, displaying great skill in the use of Force Deflection and Tutaminis. Victor was more than capable of aptly deflecting blaster bolts by imbuing his free hand with the Force whenever he could not rely on his Darksaber to protect him.

Nevarez could use the Force to universally enhance his own physical capabilities - this enabled him to become incredibly athletic and acrobatic in combat, shown during his first known duel, where he faultlessly dueled Galen Marek, maintaining the upper hand throughout the entire clash, by maintaining phenomenally precise and effective footwork and even acrobatic feats to gain leverage on his opponents.

Another power that Victor learned during his time as a Sith was Mind Trick, the ability to take complete control the minds of other individuals, especially weak-willed beings. Through this technique, he could compel subjects to either do his bidding, attack their allies, ignore his presence, simply lose consciousness, or in more extreme cases, jump from high places or into environmental hazards. In battle, he would use this skill to confuse his enemies and spread disorganization and chaos.

On a related note, Nevarez demonstrated the ability to drain life essence or the Force from his victims as he did with Alexander Pepper and Ruby Ramirez in their confrontation on Exegol.

After his surgery, his natural strength was vastly augmented by the addition of his cybernetic enhancements and his connection to the Force strengthened considerably, to the point where his son Barthold Nevarez once complimented his powers as being "unparalleled."

In addition, Victor retained his proficiency in using the Force to enhance his physical abilities. In fact, despite the cumbersome weight of his reconstructed body and prosthetics, Nevarez was a master of Force Speed, implementing it into his fighting style and allowing him to move so quickly that his opponents would often find themselves unable to react in time. Victor also had the power of Force Flight, able to hover above the ground in standard gravity, as well as being capable of surrounding himself with a miniature storm of malevolent force energy that slowed the movements of, and tortured all caught in it.

Nevarez showcased on multiple occasions the ability to both lift and hold two people off the ground at arm's length with no apparent effort. As he demonstrated on Heinrich Himmler and Xi Jinping, among others, he could crush a human throat bare-handed.

Victor is a polyglot, this means that he has remarkable understanding of many languages around the multiverse, although his ability to speak and write these languages varies to a considerable degree. The most common languages he spoke are English, German, Russian, and etc. While studying the ways of the Sith, he had learned to speak the ancient ur-Kittât. He and Torvivum were the only known Sith Lords to possess such language.

Moreover, Nevarez was a highly accomplished warrior in almost any form of combat. Able to last in a situation with a melee weapon, firearm, or just his bare hands and feet, the Supreme Leader can usually defeat any adversary he comes across even if they have superior armor and weapons.

Though usually calm and composed in a fight, there is the potential of greatly angering Trethium, indicated by his red irises glowing on his kakugan eyes. When this happens, the Supreme Leader becomes several times more dangerous, as all of his physical traits receive a huge boost in power and his Force powers also get enhanced, though it can have a tendancy to go wild.

Furthermore, there isn't much that can actually injure Victor or even cause him pain (his reconstructed body, despite being mainly made out of outdated alien machinery, allows him to withstand an impressive amount of damage). However, prior to his surgery, Nevarez has been hurt in the past, though he has demonstrated a sufficient healing factor to be able to walk it off within mere moments of receiving the injury.

Victor also was knowledgeable and proficient in Sith magic, as he was aware of and able to perform an ancient ritual that casted a powerful and convincing dark illusion capable of fooling even Yoda, and he was also able to use arcane rituals to detect poisons and drugs in food and drink. Nevarez was also capable of performing a Sith magic ritual to enhance the Force sensitivity of other people, which he used to enhance the Rhyme Bunch's force powers. He also could utter incantations in the Balc language.

On top of that, with his enhanced agility and reflexes, coupled with his overtly terrifying strength and resilience, makes Victor a very dangerous opponent should one underestimate him.

Nevarez was also believed to have perfected Sith alchemy.

According to unknown sources, there are rumors that Victor's power is so great that he can easily handle the power of the Infinity Stones, which speaks for his immense power as very few could even survive touching one, though there isn't any physical evidence to prove this.

Good Things Done by Nevarez

 * He teached the officers and generals how to comply to the Geneva Conventions, just like his opponent Nathan Bradford would do ("Various chapters").
 * In funny moments that involve him, those were taken a bit seriously at first, but it became more acceptable to be taken cheerfully ("Various chapters").
 * He's the first person to agree with Trixie Lulamoon's prophecies about what will happen if the How I Can Make the World Great ceremony succeeded ("The Great and Powerful Prophecy").
 * He used his Force lightning to rescue a crying little girl and her pet puppy from a group of ducanger ARVN soldiers ("The Frenchman of South Vietnam").
 * He treats a Coalition general who was very concerned about the mistreatment of civilians by other generals as a father figure due to the Geneva Conventions compliance he wanted to follow, just like the then Chief of State Nathan Bradford of the Grand Alliance ("The Good Fashion Photographer").
 * He refused to attend the How I Can Help Make the World Great ceremony due to its hidden, malevolent nature since he has matters to do with Megatron and Soundwave ("How I Can Help Make the World Great").
 * He also sent facial masks to the residents of many Coalition member states ("The Ending of A Crazy Long Ride").
 * At first, he was consequently angry about "The Journey Home," but upon hearing the song over and over again, he realized that the song actually touched him as means to comfort the Beleninsk Pact, the New Central Powers and the Coalition of the Red Phoenix's betrayal against the Coalition of the Red Star, only to realize that Vlahović hated that song even more ("The Unsung War").
 * He sent a letter of condolence to Mugman for the loss of Cuphead after Trịnh Thị Kim Chánh killed the latter ("The Ceramic Sorrow : Part II").
 * He secretly despised Palpatine for being a complete monster with his acts so brutally heinous that it was beyond his redemption, which led to the demise of the Galactic Empire and the First Order ("Learning the Failures").
 * He made a lot of plans to save the Skywalker family from extinction by going back in time and kill Sheev Palpatine before he could murder Ben Solo by making him fall down to the pit ("Learning the Failures").
 * He interfered William Tavington's opportunity to burn down a rural house in Balanga, Batangas, Philippines that are filled with women and children ("The Burn").
 * He gave a lot of civilian prisoners and prisoners of war ample food rations by law ("Imprisoned").
 * He made the Coalition prisoners who were under slave labor have their fair amount of salary, medical insurance, and even with assistance of heavy machinery, overseers and fellow Coalition workers, thus ending slavery completely ("Imprisoned").
 * He bans torturing of Coalition-imprisoned prisoners due to the Geneva Conventions ("Imprisoned").
 * He had a huge dislike of kakugan eyes and his demonic voice his butler Jonathon Marple "fixed" to him, which still haunts him to this very day ("The Revelation").
 * He cared a lot of children in front of him on his visit to a kindergarten while telling the story about how to hate Alexander Pepper ("The Story of Lies").
 * He warned Gale Hawthorne and Arnold Perlstein that Tomislav Vlahović is way more evil than him, just as his actions are too irredeemable beyond the Supreme Leader himself, making the Belkan Grey Men leader himself known as the "Slavic Palpatine" ("Hawthorne").
 * He confiscated the family of Vincent Turner US$50,000 for his betrayal as something to forgive them for this incident ("The Darksaber").
 * When he caught a flu, he showed a lot of traitors to the Coalition of the Red Star even more compassion than ever. Since he was recovered, he started to become understandable to the dissidents a whole lot more ("The Flu").
 * He secretly regretted his actions for killing Vincent Turner with his Darksaber while depressingly sitting in his personal study ("The Darksaber").
 * He was shocked to see Alexander Pepper having to take some humorous moments too seriously ("Pepper").
 * Panicked by his demonic voice and his kakugan eyes a little bit more, his butler learned a lesson that it was all because of the outdated machinery he unintentionally chose to. The latter understood that, and should the war be having a Coalition victory, he will be back to normal in no time ("Diaries of Nevarez").
 * He refused to eat a piece of ham during a Christmas dinner with the Chaos Council due to the fact that it came from a dead animal, showing passion towards animal welfare and animal rights over meat production. This would show that he's a vegetarian like his opponent Nathan Bradford ("Christmas Dinners").
 * He felt more upset when he witnesses the Last Day after he was evacuated to the Moon ("War Never Changes").
 * Just as he was about to execute Reginar Albrecht; despite having the rank of Lord Commander, for his lack of planning and cunning strategy, he quickly changed his mind and refused to kill him. Instead, he spared the latter and was instead given a second chance (and even more chances till the very end, which will mean retirement or being killed in action) with only one of his medals; a Hero's Cross of the Iron Cross, confiscated. Later, the two men forgive each other ("A Second Chance").
 * He and Reginar Albrecht regret their actions for destroying Yavin 4, just because it's only the command of Torvivum Zuskelgar ("Destroying Yavin 4").
 * He warns Alexander Pepper that the Destruction of Yavin 4, despite that it was his most heinous action yet, was just a desperate and extreme measure rather than a normal action ("Remember Yavin 4").
 * He even warned Alexander Pepper even more that the Destruction of Eiserne Zitadelle is the most heinous war crime the Grand Alliance had ever committed yet ("Remember Yavin 4").
 * He teached Torvivum Zuskelgar not to be too evil like Palpatine as something to avoid these same mistakes that failed both the Galactic Empire and the First Order after his mission to Exegol successfully ended ("Congressman Andrews").
 * He planted billions of trees within the birch forests of Russia ("The Final Battle").
 * He punishes Palpatine for being a complete monster, just as he was failing the Galactic Empire before he could finish off Pepper. He would do so by using his Force lightning to completely get rid of Palpatine's spirit forever ("The Final Battle").
 * He, after being punched by Bluey Christine Heeler, told the truth to Su Ji-Hoon that there was something that made him evil, and is all because of Torvivum Zuskelgar, and he wasn't born to be evil at all ("The Final Battle").
 * He told the Grand Alliance heroes that the grand mastermind behind the Last Day is actually a female general within the said pact from the United States named Maxine Dunwell, who deliberately unleashed a tactical nuclear exchange between Saudi Arabia and Iran ("The Final Battle").
 * He, despite using the last of his Force lightning desparately, accepted defeat in a polite way, just as he'd rather be called Alexander Pepper II than making the latter become Emperor Zuskelgar II ("The Final Battle").
 * Arguably the most heroic moment yet (or something to put him under duress) is that he, along with the other Sith lords, especially Torvivum Zuskelgar (except for Sheev Palpatine whose spirit was destroyed by his Force lightning before he gets badly wounded), chose to destroy the spirit of Tomislav Vlahović, while dying under Pepper's Force lightning -- instead of killing Pepper to the last minute of this life ("The Final Battle").

Trivia

 * Although he looks like a pure evil/near pure evil character, he is actually inconsistently heinous due to his benevolent actions and behaviors, even funny moments, almost like his rival Nathan Bradford.
 * Torvivum Zuskelgar is also inconsistently heinous, yet in separately different ways. Both of them are eccentric Sith lords.
 * At first, the first chapter named after him ("Nevarez") has his actions that are those from a pure evil villain. In the next few chapters, his heinousness faded away into that of a near pure evil villain, and more and more chapters that has him appeared turned him from being a pure evil villain into an inconsistently heinous villain.
 * Unlike Palpatine (and nearly just like his mentor, Torvivum Zuskelgar, and his rival, Chief of State Nathan Bradford), he is more light-hearted and mostly played for laughs (except only in dire situations where he's resorted into taking those seriously).
 * He would be played by Stephen Fry.