Lord Lochindorb

"Oh yeah. You're goin' down, you moldy old fart.  You're getting incinerated.  I might not be the heroine this city is looking for, and it might not be my home, but I've taken a liking to this place, and I won't let you destroy it.  I don't have many plans as of currently, and though I might not get out of this alive, neither will you.  So, when you get back to where you're from, do me a favor and tell ol' Satan I said hi, will ya?  Good.  I've just watched everything I hold dear die.  Now, it's your turn.  Sayounara, evildoer.  Boom."

-Eclipse to Lord Lochindorb before the Evilization Engine explodes.

Lord Lochindorb, also known as the "Cheesiest Villain in the Whole Wide World", "Lochindorb, Lord of Darkness", or "The Revenant", and referred to as "My Lord" or "His Lordship" by his subordinates, is a fictional character. He is the primary antagonist and arch-villain of the Action/Comedy webcomic series Team Season with Superpsion, the upcoming short story/novella Team Season: Lost in London, and the other Seasonverse novels. He is also the anti-hero of the upcoming prequel spin-off novel Lochindorb: Destiny Into Darkness, and the tertiary antagonist of its upcoming sequel novel, Immortals, in which he does not play a major part except as a plot catalyst. He is a mastermind supervillain who appears in every chapter of the series, from the start of the original webcomic to the final novel, and is the archnemesis of Team Season. He and the demons are the only major villains to do so, though the Royals appear as recurring minor antagonists at least once in every season.

Despite his appearance being human, Lord Lochindorb is actually a menacing revenant formed from the angry souls of a class of high school students, who were killed in a school bus crash in 1978 and now seek to take revenge on all of Vertvale City for the deaths and troubles of their families. This is established in Lochindorb: Destiny Into Darkness, which paints Lochindorb initially as something of a tragic anti-hero seeking a form of justice for wrongdoings done to his family. However, after corrupting the Knight siblings and transforming them into soulless abominations, it becomes clear that Lochindorb's views of the world have been horribly twisted and corrupted, and he is shown to have chosen a far more villainous route.

Despite being the main antagonist, Lord Lochindorb does not play a central role in the series until halfway through the first season. He first appears in the comic of the same name, which is the tenth in the first season of the series, though his name is mentioned in the earlier sixth comic, "A New Lead". He is the mastermind behind all the attacks on Vertvale City.

Lord Lochindorb is styled as a spoof of common stereotypical supervillain tropes. He is introduced with a cheesy villain-introduction song, employs bumbling underling demons as his chief minions, and utilizes unstable Meta-Villains as the backbone of his army of loyal servants. He has an inferiority complex that he quickly develops during LDID, thinking that everything in the universe is second to him and that he is the ultimate life(or un-life)form. He makes long dramatic speeches after winning or losing a battle, and often rages when Team Season beats him or his soldiers. He is also a major adversary of both Team Holliday and Superpsion.

The spirits that make up Lord Lochindorb are not fully identified in terms of name and age. They existed for a little under a year only as spirits before learning that their families had been killed through various crimes and accidents in 1979, 13 years prior to the events of the mainstream series. Upon discovering this, the spirits turned angry and vengeful, coming together to make a physical form. The resulting revenant would later become the supervillain known as Lord Lochindorb.

Despite his adult appearance, Lord Lochindorb is technically the same age as Summer, Team Season's youngest member. At the start of the series, set in 1992, Lord Lochindorb has been a revenant for all of the 1980's and the years 1990, and 1991, making him about 13 years of age as a revenant. Very little is known about the spirits that he is comprised of. It is not yet clear how old each of the spirits were before they were killed or what their names were.

Though most of his servants are often weak and easily defeated, Lord Lochindorb himself is astonishingly powerful. He has the ability to turn his spirit energy into a substance called Evilization Ether. He can use this Ether to transform ordinary humans into Metas. Lochindorb also possesses highly powerful psionic abilities, which are comparable even to those of Superpsion. Rather than fighting Team Season himself, however, Lord Lochindorb usually prefers to orchestrate his malicious plans from the shadows, acting as a puppet-master who controls all the strings.

Lord Lochindorb employs four demons as his lieutenants, who are named after the four horsemen of the apocalypse described in Christian religion. Two of the demons are female, with the names Sister War and Sister Famine, while the other two are male, with the names Brother Pestilence and Brother Death. All of the demons wield specialized flaming swords and, like their master Lochindorb, are capable of utilizing Evilization Ether to transform humans into Metas. They also possess mimetic abilities, being able to imitate anyone they touch. They are shown to be aggressive, sadistic and haughty, but also quite skilled in combat. It is revealed in a commentary from Sister War that the demons were originally a group of human teenagers, the Knight siblings, but were then tortured and dehumanized by Lord Lochindorb until they lost their souls, most of their humanity was stripped away, and they became demons. However, following Lochindorb's death at the end of the series, the Knight siblings have their souls restored, which restores their human personas and memories. However, it also causes them to lose their demon abilities, including their nigh-immortality, and to begin aging again as normal. The Knight siblings are also left without any memories of their time as demons, which prompts them to search for the cause and contents of their 20-year memory gap.

Much like his demon lieutenants, Lord Lochindorb is bitter, cruel, haughty, sadistic, arrogant, malicious, diabolical and cold-hearted. Unlike the demons, however, he believes in well-ordered systems and organization, but he has no care or regard for the welfare or safety of anyone but himself or his allies, and will resort to inhumane or unethical means to achieve his goals. He will also betray a close ally when it suits his goals, as he does not care who has to die in his quest for vengeance. Lord Lochindorb will only show interest in another person's welfare if they can be useful to him in furthering his cause. These evil traits have come about because Lochindorb is in fact a pawn of the Darkness, though he is unaware of this.

At the end of the second season of the series, Lord Lochindorb attempts to destroy Vertvale City with an Evilization Engine inside his mobile fortress, Rolling Vengeance. He converts his four demon lieutenants into weapons in an attempt to stop Team Season from thwarting his plan, sprouting an extra pair of arms to do so. When Eclipse attempts to sacrifice her life and uses a grenade from Autumn's blaster to destroy the Engine just before it releases its pulse signal, it detonates the PRIME conduit connecting it to the reactor at the core of Rolling Vengeance. This causes a devastating chain reaction throughout the fortress. The transmitter at the top of Rolling Vengeance, which is charging to release the pulse, stops charging and de-powers as explosions devastate the interior of the fortress. The reaction culminates in the meltdown of the reactor, which explodes, releasing a massive blast wave that completely destroys Rolling Vengeance, while debris from the explosion litters the park at the city limit. Eclipse and her siblings are saved when Michael Clearwater intervenes, using Divine Intervention to teleport them to safety, but Lochindorb and the demons are caught in the blast and are presumed dead. While the demons' deaths are later refuted by their appearance at Camp Recluse in Season 3, Lochindorb's is seemingly confirmed when a VCPD salvage worker named Shawn (last name unknown) finds his damaged helmet in the wreckage of Rolling Vengeance. However, Shawn's partner Allen discards it, thinking it to be a "twisted piece of scrap metal." The helmet cuts open Allen's hand as he tosses it away, and whether or not this is caused by some lesser fragment of Lochindorb inhabiting the helmet is unknown. After the helmet tumbles to a rest beside some bushes, an unknown individual, presumably one of Lochindorb's minions, steals it. Valentine Masterson also trips over and recovers one of Lochindorb's gauntlets following the explosion, which she gives to Autumn Season as a sort of present for him and his family. Patrick Holliday uses this gauntlet to identify Lochindorb's armor and how he got it shortly afterward.

For much of the novel Team Season and The Revelation at Camp Recluse, Lord Lochindorb is presumed dead and his henchmen scatter, but it is later revealed that he faked his own death. Lochindorb then returns to reinstitute fear in Vertvale City. However, Lord Lochindorb is eventually killed for good at the end of the series.

For much of the series, Lord Lochindorb wears a suit of Spirit Armor with a greek-style helmet and a retractable black cape, and sports red eyes, although the armor's design and abilities change slightly throughout the series. In LDID, it is revealed that the spirits making up his body generate spirit energy to maintain his form. However, the energy prefers to travel along its concentration gradient into the environment, and is escaping slightly faster than he can generate it, leading his body to slowly waste away as though suffering from a terminal wasting illness. This is revealed to be a trait unique to revenants that explains why they are so rare, as many of them deteriorate before they can don Spirit Armor or find some alternative. Lochindorb spends much of the novel wired to a Spirit Generator, which keeps his body functioning, but severely limits his mobility. He ends up donning a Mark I suit of Spirit Armor, which serves a dual role as protection and life support, to contain the energy. At the end of Immortals, he trades it for the Mark II suit, which provides the additional ability to convert the excess spirit energy into attacks. At the end of Revelation at Camp Recluse when he officially returns, he is wearing a version of the Mark I armor with a slightly different design, dubbed the Mark III. He also appears withered and shrunken, and repeatedly falls into coughing fits. He reveals in a flashback that this is because though he survived the explosion of Rolling Vengeance, his armor was badly damaged, and he was forced to absorb the life force of a homeless fisherman to stay alive. He managed to rebuild the Mark I armor into the Mark III, but was left sickly and ill as a result of all the energy lost from the extensive damage to his suit.

At the end of the novel Team Season and the Team From the Other Side, Lochindorb is about to destroy the barrier between the mortal world and the Realm of the Lost, an astral plane where the lost spirits of the recently deceased wander while they wait for their fate to be decided. However, his plan is foiled by Team Season, along with their counterparts from the Flipverse, Team Season II. However, he tricks them and takes Petra and Peter Minella (the Flipverse and Primeverse versions of Superpsion, respectively) hostage, telling Eclipse Season I and II that he will release them if both teams agree to stay out of his way and avoid interfering in his plans forever. However, the two Eclipses tell him that they can use an ancient Spheronian spell to grant him the power he needs to reopen the rift. Lochindorb lets the hostages go, and demands the spell, which the two Eclipses cast, using the Spheronian language that Lochindorb does not understand. Once the spell is complete, Lochindorb triumphantly tells them that they have made a foolish mistake and he has won. However, as he attacks them, he notices black fluid beginning to run from his eyes. After Lochindorb furiously asks the two Eclipses what they have done to him, they tell him that the spell they cast on him was not a spell to grant him the power he needed to open the rift, but a horrific ancient Spheronian curse. They refer to it as the Curse of the Taker, and it is described as being so horrible that it has only ever been used once in Spheronian history. After hearing this, Lochindorb realizes that he has been tricked, and is dragged to Hell. He later returns to the mortal world despite this.

Lord Lochindorb is named after Lochindorb Castle in Scotland.

Image: Lochindorb, as he appears in Team Season with Superpsion, wearing the Mark II armor.

Trivia

 * 1) Lord Lochindorb was created to replace Psychic Fox as the main antagonist when Team Season's precursor serial Peter and Ellie Vs The World was being remade.
 * 2) Lord Lochindorb originally had a much darker and nightmarish design, but the series' creator Thundermoth, or "Moth" discarded this version, both because of the limited capabilities of Pixton, the series' primary platform, and because he didn't want to scar teens for life.
 * 3) The villain's name was originally planned to be "Lord Evilmonger", but this name was scrapped owing to its unoriginal flavor, and unappealing sound.  Other names were also considered, such as, "Lord Superbad", "Lord Dirtbag", and "Lord Cheater".
 * 4) The name "Lochindorb" was conceived when Moth read about Lochindorb Castle in Scotland during a research binge in the late fall of 2019.
 * 5) Lord Lochindorb was planned to make a cameo appearance in the fourth installment of Moth's more popular "Squid Girl" fan-made remake series.  The actual comic in which he appeared was not released, as Moth stopped development of Squid Girl shortly into the fourth volume.  The circumstances of his appearance were highly improbable, as it would require time travel, but Moth was planning to let those questions go unanswered for drama.
 * 6) Though he is usually referred to as being male and has a masculine appearance, Lochindorb is a revenant and therefore is neither male nor female.  Though his servants refer to him as a "he", Lord Lochindorb is actually genderless.