Volkonir Moroti (Eccentriaverse)

Prince Volkonir Moroti of Cortascius / Vincent "Vinny" Amadeus Mason is a superhero in the Eccentriaverse of Dozerfleet Comics. A Cortascian by birth, he is slightly enhanced over the average human being by his bond to the EccentriaCore of his birth planet. In spite a since-broken spell having kept him preserved to being physiologically hardly a day over 30, he is technically over 400 years old when he begins protecting Bozeman, Montana from the Gwirdons.

He was originally portrayed by John DeBruyn in the promotional materials for the canceled 2008 film Volkonir, and his toy form was first depicted in the trailer for that film.

Skills

 * Knight training: Volkonir has considerable combat experience and training, having been taught by the original Crystal Swan Knight Silnya Semaphry.
 * Talented motorcycle stunt driver: Vinny has used his time as Hanom's understudy to learn modern techniques that can improve his effectiveness as a warrior against the Gwirdons. His becoming adept with stunt cycles leads to Hanom developing the Golden Lion Cycle as one of the first tools to be augmented into Vinny's Tapestry arsenal, apart from Selshon.
 * Advanced knowledge of EccentriaCore: While not on the level of his father, let alone Grinodos, Volkonir has a large amount of knowledge about the EccentriaCore of Cortascius that enables all Cortascians to be anything beyond human, as well as the Tapestry that hosts the Elite Knight powers, armors, and accessories.
 * As such, he is academically proficient on the level of an A student most of the time.

Weaknesses

 * Social unawareness: Vinny is somewhat ignorant of certain Earth culture and social norms, in spite being trapped on Earth in toy form for approximately 400 years.
 * Worse: He hasn't dated anyone since Cortascius - something that Kayla helps him with.
 * His lack of awareness of certain social cues also makes him oblivious to much of Kayla's flirting, resulting in her becoming frustrated with inability to seduce him.


 * Lack of posterior awareness: Vinny has never been very good at watching his own back, making him vulnerable to attacks from behind.


 * Tapestry rules dependency: His armor's ties to the EccentriaCore make it similar to a battery-powered device, in an almost mystical way. This means that he is vulnerable to draining too quickly and requiring a recharge period.
 * Limited "battery" life: While the armor can take a lot of abuse - and can extend its charged period if mode-enhanced or combined with other Knight powers - wearing it for days on end will eventually force it to power down. It will retreat back into the Tapestry to recharge and repair itself.  The longer it has been on, or the more abuse the connection has taken, the longer it takes to repair itself or recharge.
 * Limited armor energy damage tolerance: There is also a limit to how much punishment his Tapestry armor can take - though it is a considerably high amount. This makes Vinny comparable to a Power Ranger, Kamen Rider, or similar Henshin hero.  As is speculated on in the series Death Battle, Power Rangers' access to the Grid influences their suits.  The Grid produces an energy field around their suits that takes damage for them, allowing them to survive blows that would kill or seriously injure anyone else.  But the morph state only holds up to a certain threshold.  If it takes too much damage, an unmorph will occur.  Vinny's mogrification into his armor via the Tapestry operates on similar principles.  Thus, taking too much damage will leave him without his armor, and make him especially vulnerable.
 * Without his armor, he is just slightly tougher than a normal human man.


 * Swivertik: Volkonir is especially vulnerable to Gwirmalesh's wand - as are all Cortascians. This means he can be put into his toy spell form rather easily if ambushed from behind by the wand when not wearing his armor.


 * Mogriffer configuration dependency: Cortascians' exposure to the EccentriaCore and its magic have altered their physiology from that of normal humans. Therefore, Vinny risks injury to himself if he remains too long utilizing a Cortascian Knight power that has been reconfigured to work with regular human physiology.  Conversely, a mogriffer with failsafes to only work with a proper Cortascian will eventually prove dangerous for kaijin or regular humans.
 * As a consequence, when the Knights of Cortascius are restored, Vinny can only wield the Argon Vole or Golden Lion mogriffers safely. His connection to the Golden Lion will cause the Spectral Hare to reject him; and the reconfiguration of the Crystal Swan, Red Serpent, and Silver Ferret mogriffers to work with his non-true-Cortascian allies means that he cannot safely use any of these long-term either.


 * Politics of augmentation: Vinny can augment his armor with that of his allies to create a temporary hybrid form single warrior; but only if the Crystal Swan is the first power augmented. Combining augmentations increases instability, making the solo warrior at risk of power backfire.  Only the Crystal Swan can safely augment the entire rest of her team for an hour-long duration or more - with the exception of the Spectral Hare.  Due to the Spectral Hare being a Sorisenshi-developed knockoff, it cannot augment with the Golden Lion - or anything else.


 * Weaker out-of-universe: If Volkonir arrives in the Dromedeverse via the Percolation Wave, the XomiaFaeCore will act as a substitute EccentriaCore. If in the Gerosha Crossover Gaming Universe, the Marlquaan will act as a substitute.  However, universes that don't have a planetary core or other meta power source that the Golden Lion can bond to will attempt to channel his EccentriaCore bond across the divide between two universes.
 * In the only semi-canonical Volkonir Meets the Power Rangers, the Morphin' Grid acts as a substitute Tapestry. However, while still way more durable than most of the Rangers, Vinny feels himself getting weaker the longer he is in the Rangers' world.
 * It is assumed that in the Marvel Gaming Fanfic Universe, the Power Cosmic (or whatever else granted the Cosmic Rays the power to give the Fantastic Four their abilities) would somehow bond to him and keep his power alive. However, this would leave him vulnerable to being controlled by Galactus.
 * Vinny's armor will take longer to recharge between sessions - and will drain much faster. The longer he is in a foreign timeline, the less efficient he will be.  All Cortascian Elite Warriors have this same issue.
 * Only Marlquaanites and other Gerosha Multiverse beings bonded to the Marlquaan can remain equally strong in a foreign timeline as in their native timeline. All Eccentriaverse and Dromedeverse powered beings get weaker the longer they are in a foreign timeline.
 * The XomiaFaeCore is arguably the least reliable meta power source, as it took very little time for Lemon Witch to become almost powerless in the Teen in Terror Life pocket dimension. Volkonir, by contrast, would have remained competently powerful in that same world for at least twice as long.
 * If the Percolation Wave makes a clone of Vinny and the Golden Lion armor to be native to a different timeline than the Eccentriaverse, that clone will use the native meta power source without the gradual weakening process that the original is vulnerable to.

Equipment

 * Volkonir gains additional abilities and enhancements when in the Golden Lion armor.

Volkonir in gaming

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