Realname: Dante Van Mille

Gender: Male

Security Level: 1

Powers appear to be Mutant - Defender based.

Current Base of Operations: Unknown

Suspected Powers

• Dark Miasma
• Dark Blast
• Fitness
• Flight
• Leadership

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Crey Computer Labs Departament Log 21/04/2003
We have managed to hack into The Hive database yesterday, as they had a data leak while upgrading their servers. This enabled us to gather The Hive's personal profile for Moth.
Below you can see a copy of the profile.

Real Name: Dante Van Mille
Age: 52
Characteristic Appearance Features: Blue skin; White hair; Spy outfit
Background:
"Dante Van Mille used to be a prosperous psychologist whose favorite hobby was collecting butterflies. He always had a special place in his heart for moths, who symbolized his bitter childhood. Of his two brothers, he was the youngest. His parents never seemed to treat him as well as the other two brothers, and he always felt that he didn't belong to the family. He thought of himself as a moth, the inferior brother of beautiful butterflies.
In fact, he became a psychologist because he wanted to deal with these problems.
He was pretty good at his job. He cured many people and rarely had empty hours in his schedule.
One day a telepath came to him. He said that he can't help listening to other people's thoughts and that it destroyed his life. Dante decided to help him and they've spent many weeks on therapies. Things seemed to go pretty well, but at one point it started getting a little rough. It turned out that the telepath was incapable of stopping his voyeuristic instincts from spying on Dante's mind as well.
The psychologist got a little angry, but also curious as to what does the telepath know about him. But he would have never expected the answer that he has received. The telepath told him that he was a mutant, since his mind wasn't composed in the regular manner. After hearing that, Dante was shocked and unable to continue the therapy. But it all made perfect sense to him. This must have been the reason why his parents didn't treat him normally and why he always felt different from other kids. After a long research he found an old newspaper saying that a pregnant woman named Elizabeth Van Mille, his mother, had a car accident with a truck carrying radioactive materials. She never told him about this, but why would she? After birth it turned out that the child was not harmed, but it did expose signs of a mutation. Getting used to all this knowledge wasn't easy for Dante, but in the end he did succeed in coping with it.
After a week of vacation he took for doing his research, Dante called his telepath patient and asked him if he knows more about his unnatural factor. The patient was more than happy to help out. He said that Dante has potential super powers and he offered him some basic training. As it became apparent soon enough, Dante had the power to materialize his negative emotions and use them as a weapon. After each use, his skin would become blue for a short while. After he finished his training, a couple of weeks have passed and two men in black suits came to Dante's office, offering him a job. They knew about his powers and wanted him to work for the government as a secret agent. Dante was quite patriotic and the job paid well, so after brief hesitation, he agreed. He picked "The Moth" as his code name, as it seemed the most appropriate. Overall he was a pretty good agent. He had successfully completed many of his missions and managed to get alive from those that he failed. With such an action-packed life, ten years passed relatively fast. When he turned 45, his skin became permanently blue since he kept using hes powers too often. Thus, he was easily noticeable in crowds and he had to retire, since he was considered potentialy dangerous to the success of missions that he participated in.
Then he spent another seven years lying on his couch and doing nothing. It was a happy life, but boring. One day, an idea popped in his head. The fact that he didn't have his job anymore didn't mean that he can't help other people. So he packed his agent outfit, bought one way ticket to Paragon City to live there and fight crime as many other people did."

Beware of this man, since his has very powerful abilities and was especially trained to infiltrate facilities such as ours.

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