Brother Pestilence

Brother Pestilence, formerly known as James Daniel "Jamie" Knight, is a fictional character and one of four secondary antagonists in the Action/Comedy webcomic series Team Season with Superpsion, as well as a major protagonist in its prequel spin-off novel Lochindorb: Destiny Into Darkness. He is a male demon and one of Lord Lochindorb's four demon lieutenants alongside his brother, Brother Death, and his sisters, Sister War and Sister Famine. Brother Pestilence is destructive, rude, foul, reckless, sassy, and insolent, much like Sister War. However, while his sister is more overconfident and mean-spirited, Brother Pestilence has a more unstable, crazed and violent manner, acting chaotically and unpredictably and laughing a mad, psychotic laugh at the drop of a hat. He is occasionally referred to by the derisive nickname "Pesty" by his siblings, much to his chagrin. Brother Pestilence is also a major enemy of Team Season.

Brother Pestilence wears his hair in uneven bangs across his face, with a prominent break in his hairline on the left side. Like his siblings, his skin and eyes are red and he sports horns. His hair is an orange-red color. Like his siblings, Brother Pestilence's eyes sometimes glow yellow with slits for pupils. Like his siblings, he also wields dual fire swords as his weapon of choice. He also possesses the ability to mimic anyone he touches. He utilizes this ability to masquerade as Equinox's boyfriend Noah Masterson, and then Equinox herself just before the Skate-O-Rama competition, although his plan eventually fails when the real Equinox appears while he is in disguise. He is hated with terrifying intensity by Raymond Crux for causing the Second Great Fire of New York that killed the latter's parents. Crux often attempts to kill him out of anger, but never succeeds. Brother Pestilence is also capable of converting humans into Meta-Villains.

Though, like the other demons, he is presumed dead after the destruction of Rolling Vengeance at the end of season 2, Brother Pestilence reappears in season 3, where it is revealed that he is in fact still alive. He has been masquerading as Counselor Robinson, a highly popular member of the staff at Camp Recluse, and is believed to be the sole survivor of Rolling Vengeance's destruction. Supposedly driven insane by rage and grief at the supposed deaths of his siblings and master and hell-bent on revenge, Brother Pestilence creates the Camp Crusher Crew, a team of elite Meta-Villains that he hopes to use as a hit squad to assassinate Team Season, destroy Vertvale City, then exterminate the rest of humanity. However, it is later revealed that Pestilence's siblings and Lord Lochindorb survived the blast as well, and Pestilence was aware of this. He escapes to safety with his siblings on the Maroon Vulture, Lochindorb's dirigible, which departs to Lochindorb's new secret base in the mountains.

Prior to the year 1979, Brother Pestilence was a human teenager named James Knight, although he was more commonly referred to as "Jamie" or simply "Jim". That year, he and his siblings were captured by Lord Lochindorb, who subsequently tortured them with maddening visions and hallucinations of horrifying futures and humanity's depravity, as well as psychic mental attacks. Lochindorb eventually tapped into the Darkness to rip their souls out of them. This corrupted the Knight siblings and caused them to lose much of their humanity, turning them into demons. They subsequently adopted their demon personas, but they also gained their demon abilities and their aging process was halted. Jamie, however, also lost his sanity due to what he had been shown by Lochindorb, which turned him psychotic, unpredictable, exceedingly sadistic and dangerous. Brother Pestilence, like his siblings, eventually has his soul returned to him by Team Season at the end of the series. This restores his humanity, his sanity and his Jamie Knight persona, but causes him to lose his demon abilities and memories. Now no longer a demon, he sets off along with his siblings in search of his now mysterious past.