[General Information]
Name: Julio Rivera
Nicknames: Jules, Juli, Lover Boy, The Psychic Killer, The Psychic Vampire, A.E.D [Active Extremely Dangerous]
Titles: Omega
Aliases: Julio Lopez, Gabriel Rubio, Julio Vega
Age: Eighteen
Birthday: September 5th
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Race: MetaHuman
Moral Alignment: Evil
Personality The entirety of Rivera's character is hard to distinguish based on how he lies and tricks people for a living. He is capable of convincingly portraying friendly and flirtatious, timid, vulnerable and scared. For the most part though, he is a level-headed, strong-willed and independent young man. Though he is a mercenary and an assassin he is by no means stuffy and has a sarcastic sense of humor and an ever-present smile on his face. Unlike Deathstroke, who he was trained to be superior to, Julio enjoys having fun and and enjoys the thrill of his job. Despite this friendly personality, Julio realizes that there is a time and place for everything. When he worked under the LoA, Julio was known for getting the job done in the quickest most efficient way possible and became their best assassin within weeks. Likewise, if it comes to it, Julio is able to kill in cold blood as though it were as natural as breathing and will feel no remorse after the fact. It should be noted though, if Julio doesn't think he'll win a fight, he has absolutely no problem withdrawing from it.
[Personal Information]
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 164lbs [Mostly Muscle Mass]
Occupation: Master Assassin, Mercenary, Thief, Saboteur and On and Off Hacker
Sexuality: Bisexual
Likes: Baseball, Spanish Soap Operas, Hard-to-Hack Places, Breaking into Wayne Enterprises
Dreams: While the dream itself is may sound weird to others, Julio dreams of [somehow] becoming a normal teenager. Sadly, when one is trained in over 100 ways to kill a target, it's hard trying to adjust to a normal lifestyle.
Dislikes: Bugs, The Cold, Being restrained, Feeling weak
Fears: Spiders, Being Buried Alive, Losing Jorge or Letting Him Down
Darkest Secret: There is a part of Julio that truly enjoys snuffing the life out of others. The thrill that he gets from killing is a thrill unlike anything else and he's afraid that one day it'll take over.
Favorite Food: Beef Stew
Favorite Drink: Orange Soda
Least Favorite Food: Sushi
Least Favorite Drink: Grape Anything
Loyalties: To say that Julio possesses a loyalty would be just as easy as lying and saying that he has never killed anyone. It's a lie. While he may not be against aligning himself with others in order to achieve a common goal, he has never once placed his trust or loyalty in them. Now despite working alongside others he is always ultimately looking out for himself and his own survival. If things become too drastic while he's aligning himself with others then it is not out of his nature to initiate a tactical retreat without saying anything to his partners. Having said that, should an individual actually gain Julio's trust and friendship than there is nothing he would not do in order to make sure his friend survives with him.
Intelligence Level: As a child prodigy, Julio has gone through most of his life without trying hard intellectually, and with a family of scientists, it was only natural for him to pick up on certain subjects. The bulk of his intelligence is more on the psychic side though. Due to his telepathy he possesses advanced cognitive and mental abilities allowing him to organize and construct his thoughts at accelerated rates, process data at high speeds, construct and formulate his thoughts with vast quantity and quality, project ideas and impressions into the minds of others. His intelligence level currently stands at two-hundred and forty-three [243].
Dominant Hand: Right
Strengths: Close Combat, Assassinations, Telepathic Combat, Self-Preservationist
Weaknesses: Better Trained fighters, Stronger Assassins, Superhuman Combatants
Cherished Items:
Worn around his neck and kept beneath his catsuit is a silver necklace with two dog tags currently on the chain. These dog tags have the names of his little brother and of a girl he failed to save from the League of Assassins. On the back of her dog tag are the names of every member he failed to save when he escaped. Their names are there so that he can carry them with him always and never forget the sacrifices they made.
Philosophical/ Social Viewpoint:
Only the strong survive and the weak live only by the mercy of the strong. Such was the teaching of the League of Assassins, drilled into his head from his childhood. This viewpoint has stayed with Julio all his life and now he believes it to true in light of his own life. If one wishes to change their life they simply need to get stronger and if change cannot be made then they must learn to optimize their strengths and cancel out their weaknesses. If you decide to help someone weaker than you, you must be prepared to accept whatever consequences occur as a result.
Religious Viewpoint:
Despite being from a religious family, Julio's belief in a higher power has dropped significantly because of his time with D.E.A.T.H.S. Seeing as no higher power, nor any assistance from a good Samaritan [i.e Batman] was enough to free him, he believes nothing helps but one's own strength. Does he still believe a higher power exists? Yes, and mostly because he knows there were some assassinations that he survived simply by the skin of his teeth, i.e - he shouldn't have survived. Having said that, he is still teaching his little brother about typical Roman Catholic beliefs so that the boy doesn't view the world in the same way that he does.
Romantic Viewpoint:
Let the record show that Julio fully understands and comprehends romance. However, in his line of work romance has never been something of an option. Romance and in turn love have only ever been used by him in order to get what he needed out of a target or a person close to his target. He's never been given the time or an opportunity to actually pursue a true relationship but he's also never thought about doing so either. There's simply no time to fit romance into the life he currently leads.
Biography
D.E.A.T.H.S - Deliver. Excellent. Assassinations. To. Horrible. Scum.
An organization run in the underground world of Gotham, borne out of the League of Assassins Stronghold that catered specifically to children ranging from ages four to nineteen. Its purpose was to create more child weapons that could be used without fail and the reason for this was simple. Slade Wilson and Damian Wayne represented the pinnacles of what could be done through training on both sides of the age gap. Since both assassins managed to either leave or escape the League, replacements that could be controlled were necessary and thus D.E.A.T.H.S was born. All members of D.E.A.T.H.S were children given up by assassination targets in order to stay alive and those members of the League that managed to bear children immediately lost them to D.E.A.T.H.S. Every child or teen placed into D.E.A.T.H.S immediately received injections of an altered version of Slade Wilson's DNA that would aggressively strike the child's own DNA in an attempt to overtake it. Only those who possessed strong enough bodies were able to fend off certain death via injection and after surviving they were immediately placed into the N.S.S [New Slade System]. Julio Rivera , however, was a special addition to D.E.A.T.H.S as his uncle, and various members of his family had done the scientific work needed to grant average humans the genetic mutations via Slade Wilson's DNA.
At the age of four, Julio was writing system programs for D.E.A.T.H.S security under the pretense of "learning to write a video game code" for his Uncle's elaborate facility. By the time he had turned seven a family trip had been planned in order to "begin his new life." The "trip" took a turn for the worst when his parents drove off a cliff into various rows of trees below, and while the gamble to see if Julio would survive was high, he pulled through only to wake up within an underground base alongside other children near or within his age group. Each child was told that if they wished to see their parents again, they would need to survive the training they'd be put through, along with any means of testing administered.
Julio and the other captives were put to work. Friendships that formed in the training facility had broken because of an order to fight until only one survived, and when freedom rested in whether or not they performed well, children that would have never hurt a fly became killers. At the top of the food chain, was Julio Rivera. While he would laugh, smile, and play with the others, when it was time to get to work, he acted mercilessly and would not hesitate to seize a chance at victory. When it seemed as though there were no others in the facility that could take on Julio and come out alive he was put up against members of the actual LoA. Initially, he had lost each of his fights, but the losses were only because he was not used to fighting actual adults. By time of his fifth fight, Julio had snapped the Assassin member's neck, broken four of his ribs, and dislocated both of his shoulders. That one battle served as his first kill in his entire life. The children he had fought before had not died, but had been placed into comas because of Julio's knowledge on the body and its functions. While the children all awoke within months, the male he had killed remained dead. Strangely enough, after he had killed the male, there were no tears. No remorse, and no regret.
From there, it was decided that Julio was the perfect candidate, and after being brought before his superiors, a computer was placed in front of him. The same "game code" he had written as a kid was in front of him once more. This time, the ones who had placed it in front of him were both of his parents and his uncle. Initially, he wanted to run and hug them, but guns were pointed at him, and so with orders given to him, he finished the game code. Later that day, the game code had been revealed as the N.S. S that had killed multiple amounts of children before his eyes. After dismantling the guards that attempted to quell his rage, he went after his uncle, only to have the N.S.S injected into his neck as he grabbed the male by his throat. The room grew dark and within moments he had blacked out. When he awoke, he was shirtless, and strapped down to an operating table with multiple scientists around him. They had begun to clap, for as time would tell, he was the only one to survive having the N.S.S injected into him. What they did not know was that the N.S.S had awakened the dormant MetaHuman gene that resided within Julio's genetic code.
From the day of his fifteenth birthday, he was transferred into the LoA [League of Assassins], and from there he began to gain an understanding of just what the New Slade System had done to him. Enhanced abilities in every aspect had made things easier for him, but harder in response to the missions he was deployed on. It also didn't help that he could hear the thoughts of everyone around him but he would cope in order to do his job, practicing with his powers on the side as needed. Assassination contracts were given to him, and while he did not want to do them, they were all completed without hesitation. Prime Ministers, Ex-Council Members, Aristocrats, Ex-Parliament members, and the list continued. Each one of his targets had been killed in such a way, that the authorities in each country, city, etc could not identify what had caused their death, but assumed suicide. He had become a killer, and on his fifteenth birthday, he grew tired of the treatment he was receiving, and the treatment he was sure the League was putting other children through. On a visit back to D.E.A.T.H.S, he was greeted with the same disgusting sight as when he was a child. Children throwing up blood and dying from the physical trauma of taking part in the New Slade System.
The failed test subjects were labeled as Alpha, with Julio being named Omega because he seemed to be the end product of their testing. On a routine clean of the LoA's systems, Julio downloaded and saved all of the League's information onto a us for his later use for in the days to come everything would change. On a simple training exercise to show the kids how the real world was, a revolt began lead by none other than Julio. Within two hours, they had completely taken over the D.E.A.T.H.S facility and realizing that it could just start again, Julio killed the man who had orchestrated everything. His uncle. His parents were given death promises should they attempt something like that again, and when the children were all evacuated, the underground facility was destroyed.
On his sixteenth birthday, Julio made a blood oath with a child within the former D.E.A.T.H.S program. He would go across the globe and eliminate the assassins that he could in whatever hiding places they remained in. The very first trip, took him to the Secret Service of the United States. His next trips involved the KGB, and various assassinations of LoA members across the globe. When the LoA had finally gained wind of Julio's betrayal a permanent hit was placed on the young man. They gave him the codename La Muerte [Meaning Death] and were told to approach with extreme caution because was A.E.D [Active and Extremely Dangerous]. Having finally been freed from the LoA hold on him, he began his life a new, though is never truly able to return to a normal life because of the things he saw, committed, and learned. It's been two years since his complete liberation from the League of Assassins and since then, he has made quite the name for himself as a mercenary and as a contract killer. As of late though, he's been seen at the side of Owlman.
[Relationship Information]
Friends:
Thomas "Tommy" Wayne, Jr. | Evil | Business Associates/Self-Proclaimed Best Friends
As Tommy would say, "they aren't friends" and Julio is perfectly okay with that because they're actually BEST friends. However, he's pretty sure that he knows far more about good ol' Tommy than anyone else. Hell, he gets away with calling him Tommy so there's gotta be some form of a something there. The two met thanks to The Penguin hiring Julio. His job was to kill the man dressing as a bat despite the recent disappearance of Batman. Needless to say it quickly became apparent that the male before him was not the Batman that he had been hired to kill. Julio was then offered more money and a better career in the long run should he work for him. So he's been at Tommy's side ever since.
Enemies:
The Bat Family | Mostly Good Guys | Enemies
Julio holds hatred in his heart for the entirety of the Bat Family, new and old. The proclaimed "protectors" of Gotham allowed D.E.A.T.H.S to go on for years right underneath their noses. Batman, his Robin and their associates each had some kind of tie to the League of Assassin. Yet, they all managed to fail to notice that children were going missing and if the greatest detectives on the Earth had noticed, they chose to do nothing. The amount of children that died in that facility will forever haunt Julio and as result of all of this, he will never forgive the BatFamily or anyone who dons his symbols for what they let happen to his life and the lives of so many others.
Family:
Jorge Espinosa | League of Assassins [Formerly] | Adopted Brother
A relationship born out of comradery; Jorge Espinosa, now age 7, was a boy who was placed into D.E.A.T.H.S alongside Jorge. Unlike Jorge though, the boy had no family to call his own and as such, when they took over the facility, had nowhere to go. Having disowned his own family, Jorge made a blood oath with the young boy, promising that the two of them would remain brothers well beyond the end of time. Since his freeing himself of the League of Assassins Julio has been taking care of Jorge full time. The money that he earns from his contracts is put into a secret fund for Jorge so that in the event that he is killed or must leave the boy, there will be more than enough money for him to survive without worry for the rest of his life.
Romantic Relationships:
Selina Kyle (Catwoman) | Evil | One-Sided Crush
Does this even need an explanation? If someone has seen Selina Kyle then they'll understand why he has a crush on the Queen of the Cats.
[Weapon Information]
Catsuit: The red and white catsuit that Julio wears was a suit made by the LoA that was ultimately stolen by Julio. Despite its skin-tight appearance, the red and white catsuit worn by Julio is made of high-density polymerized titanium that serves as flexible armor, and has resilience to heavy artillery.The Catsuit is also able to resist various kinds of high-intensity flame, even that generated by superhumans, and is likewise insulated for when dealing with colder environments. In a similar sense the catsuit protects him from some blunt force trauma, allowing him to battle those possessing Superhuman Strength for a short amount of time. It is further enhanced with tiny suction cups that allow him to cling to walls and even ceilings.
- Nanite Tech: Woven into the fabric of the catsuit are small nanites that operate in tandem with his thoughts. These nanites are able to repair his costume and restore it to it's original form before any fights, burns, tears, etc occurred. So long as a piece of the catsuit remains intact, the rest of it can regenerate like that of his healing factor. Likewise, the nanites are also capable of discharging electricity on command with his thoughts. This is typically used whenever Julio has been grabbed during combat.
Utility Belt: In comparison to utility belts worn by Batman and likewise other members of the Bat Family, the stolen utility belt he wears only comes with a small amount of items. These items include a mini re-breather, a grappling hook, smoke pellets, fire extinguishing pellets, wing-dings, and small flash bombs.
[Ability Information]
Telepathy: Before being an assassin, Julio is a Metahuman. Julio's metahuman ability allows him to affect and manipulate the minds of other sentient beings. He can read minds and communicate mentally with others over long distances. Despite being a self-taught telepath, Julio's power in telepathy is unmatched by many. Julio is also capable of using deep and subtle influence. Julio is also capable of displaying various psionic feats with the minds of others including reading and communicating with thoughts over vast distances, controlling the mind of weaker humans and detecting the mental presences of those around him. Using a combination of these methods, he can also interpret unknown alien languages and slowly begin to learn them. The strength of his self-taught telepathy is so great that he is able to psychically dampen his pain receptors in order to prevent himself from feeling pain. He is by no means on the level of a being like the Martian Manhunter but he is quite powerful in his own right and can put up quite the psychic fight against someone of the Martain Manhunter's caliber. While utilizing his telepathy, Julio's eyes glow white.
- Psionic Blasts: Julio can project psionic force bolts which have no physical effects, but which can affect a victim's mind so as to cause the victim pain, unconsciousness, or even death.
Telepathic Cloak: Can mask his presence from being detected by others. His abilities can at times go undetected or be counteracted by other more powerful telepaths depending on their level of skill in using their own psi abilities.
Telepathic Relay: Other wise known as a telepathic link. Julio is able to use his telepathic prowess as a relay station for a group of minds, who can then "speak" to each other through him. It goes without saying that it is impossible for him to hold a relay with beings that are not on Earth and if they are in another city or state it takes a considerable amount of energy to hold the connection.
Telepathic Tracking: Enhanced psionic senses enable him to detect and track other sentient beings by their unique psionic emanations especially if they pose a threat to his well-being in his immediate vicinity.
Absorb/Download Information: He has the ability to quickly process, learn and store information via mental transference. In a similar sense he is able to place large amounts of information in another's mind like the knowledge of how to do a cartwheel for example. Due to being self-taught, this is by no means a pleasant experience for those whose mind he's delving into. Some of his targets have died from the mental trauma after having the information stripped out of them. As of late he has been learning to do this more carefully so that valuable targets do not die immediately.
Astral Projection: Julio can project his astral form from hisbody onto astral planes or the physical planes. In the astral plane, he can mentally create psionic objects and manipulate the aspects of his environment.
Telepathic Camouflage: The ability to telepathically mask himself, and other peoples' presence from those around him. Can telepathically disguise himself, making his appearance to those around him quite different (changing the appearance of clothing, etc).
Empathy: An offshoot of his telepathy would be Empathy. As an empath, Julio can psychically feel and perceive the emotions of the those around him. Through their emotions he is capable of discerning their mental states.
Psychoscopic Awareness: This newest ability brought on in recent months; Julio possesses the ability to read the mental impressions left by events in the fabric of time and matter. In essence, this allows Julio to replay the events that occurred at a given location using only the residue mental energy. As mental energy fades over time, there are times when he can only piece together half of what may have happened at an event and other times in which all he is able to see is someone running away. He can also extend the awareness to other people, showing them what he sees.
Psionic Siphoning: He is able to siphon the psychic energies from other psionic individuals (telekinetics or telepaths). Julio can then use the stolen psychic energy to boost his own powers or channel the energy into someone else, in order to augment their own powers.
Psionic Immunity: Julio has been shown to have an immunity to certain psionic attacks such as; mind reading, illusions, and telepathy. While he may not always be fast enough to protect the minds of others, his own mental defenses have been reinforced repeatedly over time. His telepathy keeps him more aware of the fact that they exist, though he may not always be able to defend against them.
Artificially Enhanced Physiology: Due to the League of Assassins enhancements on his body through the N.S. S, Julio Rivera's physiology was changed permanently. Through intense training, specialized diet, and biofeedback treatments, Julio has become one of many who represent the pinnacle of human physical prowess. His physical attributes exceeded that of any Olympic level athlete that has ever completed. Having begun his physical and mental training at the age of seven, he's gained total control over his body, similar to that of the man whose DNA was injected into him.
- Regenerative Healing Factor: With an enhanced ability to heal damaged tissue, the rate at which Julio's body recovers from injury and capable of being repaired before death. As such, Julio's body can take a tremendous amount of punishment before succumbing to death. Simple gunshot and stab wounds, cuts, and broken bones can heal faster than normal. He was once impaled clean through his chest with a blade, and while it did not stop him due to his endurance training, it did greatly slow him down and cause great pain.
Enhanced Immunity: Julio's regenerative abilities have some affect on his body's ability to process through harmful, foreign substances and he has become naturally immune to deadly poisons and illnesses.
Enhanced Reflexes: Julio possesses enhanced reflexes. The speed at which he reacts allows him to dodge fast-moving projectiles such as arrows and bullets. He can usually out-react even the fastest humans. He is shown to be able to scale city buildings, can leap the length of a rooftop, and maneuver the through the air in battle with ease. Julio is also capable of performing somersaults, front and back handsprings, and all while in motion. Having been to make his entire body a weapon, he is able to twist, bend, and contort himself into positions nearly impossible for an ordinary person to achieve.
Enhanced Speed: Julio is able to run at speeds of up to 45mph and long distances far out-performing any Olympic athlete.
Enhanced Endurance: His endurance is comparable to that of the finest Olympic Decathlon participant. Julio's lung capacity is so great that he can hold his breath underwater for 2 minutes and 15 seconds.
Enhanced Stamina: Rivera can exert himself at peak capacity greater than any human could. He is able to go for 4 days straight with no sleep. Granted, the longer he stays conscious without sleep, the less effective he is.
Enhanced Strength: His entire muscular system was hardened and strengthened making Julio many times stronger than an average human. His strength is sufficient enough to press about a 1 ton with ease.
Master Hacker: Thanks to both his high intelligence level, and the consistent training via D.E.A.T.H.S, Julio has become something a skilled hacker. He is skilled enough to hack into both Wayne Industries, as well as Price Industries, although his skill doesn't stop them from tracing whatever device he uses back to him.
Weapons Proficiency: Although he is not known to use close combat weapons, Julio's incredible reflexes and hand-eye coordination allow him to wield weapons very efficiently. Julio is skilled with swords, knives, nunchucks, and staffs. His weapon proficiency even allows him to make a Sai (A traditional Japanese weapon) out of paper with enough sharpness on it, to kill someone with a quick jab to the throat.
Multilingualism: Due to the various missions Julio was deployed on during his time in D.E.A.T.H.S, he has learned to speak Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Mandarin, Korean, and Portuguese proficiently alongside English and Spanish as well.
Stealth: Julio's Ninjutsu training has also made him capable of breaching high security facilities, offices, cities, and countries without being easily detected.
Hand to Hand Combat (Advanced): Julio trained in hand-to-hand combat growing up in D.E.A.T.H.S facility, and when he was sent across to various countries, he proved himself to be one of their best special-ops fighters. He is so well versed, that he is able to go up against multiple trained military personnel with his hands bound behind his back by rope. Having been trained so that he could one day go up against the Terminator, his combat prowess is not to be looked down upon.
Acrobatics: Although not on par with persons like Batman or the Robins of old, he has shown to be a proficient acrobat, and has used this skill to survive fatal falls by rebounding off building sides and somersaulting to create more drag.
Expert Spy/Assassin: Julio is a dangerous agent trained in espionage, stealth, disguise, infiltration, and demolitions. He displays an uncanny affinity for psychological manipulation, partially because of his telepathy, and can mask his real emotions with little to no effort at all. His talents and years of experience enabled him to reach a high ranking as an agent of D.E.A.T.H.S, and later allowed him to become a high-valued target for the League of Assassins.
[Weakness Information]
Programmed Sleep: As a fail-safe program, all members of D.E.A.T.H.S had code words or phrases implanted into their subconscious. Once the word or phrase is repeated aloud to the operative, in this case Julio, he'll blackout for an undisclosed amount of time. During this time, he can be ordered to do whatever the person wishes of him, save for killing himself, and he will follow the order without fail. The phrase that puts him into a trance like mode is "Luz de la muerte" meaning "Light of Death."
Entomophobia: Entomophobia (also known as insectophobia) is a common fear of or aversion to insects and similar arthropods, and even other terres bugs. This condition causes a slight to severe emotional reaction, a form of anxiety or a panic attack.
Pediophobia: Pediophobia, also known as the fear of dolls, is a relatively common kind of phobia. It is an anxiety disorder that can be associated with a range of dolls from old-fashioned china dolls and porcelain dolls to dolls that talk and move. A porcelain doll in the right place will easily get Julio to turn tail and run away from the area.
Children: Every person has one thing that will stop them at all costs and for Julio its kids. No matter what Julio will never fight or harm a child. For him to have his childhood stolen, he refuses to do anything even remotely similar. He would stop in the middle of a fight in order to save a child.
Human Clause: For all of the modifications made to his body, Julio is still essentially a human being and as such can be killed and wounded like one.
Emotional Influence: While there are not many things that can suppress his telepathy, the main factor that proves to be the most difficult are his emotions. When Julio's emotions are out of whack, he can't concentrate, and usually finds himself helpless. His powers have a direct link with his emotions so when confused or afraid of making mistakes, or just being scared in general, his powers shut themselves off. Even if Julian suppresses his fear, he is unable to connect with his powers until he admits he is truly afraid.
Mental Overload: For as strong as his powers may seem he is still a telepath by nature with the same telepathic weaknesses as everyone. For starters, too many thoughts at once will cause him to have a massive migraine before passing out from the pain if he cannot mitigate it in some way. In a similar sense, if a mind, like the Joker's for example, proves to be too much for him to handle he'll receive a powerful mental backlash of psionic energy that may or may not knock him unconscious, and at worse, put him into a mental coma. When in this coma, only a telepath rivaling his own abilities would be able to bring him back faster than his mind simply repairing itself slowly. Likewise, when dealing with an unstable mind, Julio runs the risk of picking up any mental disorders that they may have if he does not tread carefully when searching their mind.
Astro-Limits: Julio is only capable of spending a small time [4 posts] upon the astral plane before he must rejoin his ethereal form with his physical one, lest he succumb to corporeal deterioration leading to bodily death and eternal suspension as a spirit. The physical form remains in an inert, death-like trance, vulnerable to both physical and magical forms of harm while the astral form is absent. If harm were to befall his physical form while he was in his astral form, he would be stranded in his wraith-like state until placed back in his body by another magic user.
Psychic Sponge: When it comes to his Empathy, Julio is in a class of his own. Where most can redirect or control the emotions, or feelings attached to memory that they pick up from others, Julio absorbs them all like sponge. This absorption can not only alter his mood, but also stun and overwhelm him depending on the strength of the emotion. Then, as if adding insult to injury, he is not, for lack of better words, a "true" empath. He cannot manipulate the emotions of others, merely feel them.
Psionic Siphoning: First and foremost, in order siphon the psychic energy of another being, he must be making physical contact with them, similar to that of the Parasite. Secondly, in forcibly taking the psychic energy of another in exchange for augmenting his own abilities, he must deal with the consequences of temporarily overloading his own body with energy. The consequences range from a bloody nose, migraines, passing out, slipping into a psychically-induced coma, or at the worst, death. Furthermore, when siphoning off the energy of others, it's quite possible for him to become "high" off of their energy, driving him to take more and more energy until the energy overloads his body and kills him on the spot. Lastly, the siphoned energy does not remain with him permanently and gradually disappears as the person he takes the energy from recovers naturally.
His Little Brother: Jorge means the world to Julio and as a result, is his greatest weaknesses. Should someone manage to get a hold of the boy and use him as leverage, Julio would do whatever was asked of him in order to keep the boy alive and well. It goes without saying that he would turn on anyone if it meant saving his little brother.
Tickling: Julio is very ticklish.
