The Flight And The Fall character backstories

Victor Alexandratos is a young vigilante who gets swept up in a battle for the survival of earth when a new friend comes into his life and changes everything he knew about himself. This inconvenience occurs just as he is getting into a routine, slacking off in the daytime and fighting criminals for money in the night, and justifying his way of making a living as some civil service. Victor is an unkempt and rough person. His rude attitude turns people away from trying to get to know him, which suits him fine. He has an over inflated ego and believes himself to be highly important. His delusions of grandeur are what lead him to his crime fighting life style in the first place. In reality, he is no saint. Victor is selfish. However, he does believe in a few things. Justice, and the equality of all men. To this end, he refrains from killing, and merely incapacitates or cripples his opponents. Victor’s ideals about the life being a sacred thing come from a girl that once saved him from a terrible fate.
Cerylia is a sailor, running back to the ocean every other week or so. There’s something she says that she has to do every time she leaves, though she won’t tell him what it is. There’s something special about her, but Victor can’t figure out why she seems so different that anyone else he knows. She occasionally joins him a few nights while she is on land. She was the one that pulled him from the ocean one night. He can’t remember what he was doing out there in the first place. She says that he fell from the sky.
And then suddenly everything changes. Cerylia leaves, just as someone else walks into the picture. His name is Seoul. Just Seoul, like the city in a now singular Korea. He likes what Victor is doing and readily joins in his escapades. Seoul tells him things about his life, and about what happened in Korea. There was a final war; one that determined the fate of a nation. In the end, it wasn’t who was right or wrong. It was about who was stronger. Seoul learned from that experience, vowing to never let anyone become stronger than him. Seoul fears being controlled. Victor tells him about Cerylia, and how she saved his life on the night he was found adrift at sea. Seoul believes that it was a selfish act, that she had other motives. Victor believes that it indicates that all people are inherently good. Perhaps Victor is not as calloused as he once was. He spends more time alone thinking and contemplating about people.
That’s when things started to change. Seoul and Victor both felt the change. It was like a crucible was ignited within them. That’s when the fires started.
Both of them discover that they can make fires from their bodies. It empowers them to new heights. Victor treats it like a parlor trick, showing off his new “magic” every night, lighting up the sky with his overly-dramatic fights with thugs and criminal. He becomes more public. Seoul uses it to take their crime fighting to a higher level, using it as a weapon. Victor convinces him to be more careful with their ability and not to use it to kill. Seoul disagrees, seeing it as a method to ensure that he is dominant, fulfilling his wishes. Eventually they develop a reputation amongst the nightlife of Prosper as watchers of the city, cloaked in flames. Victor takes on the pseudonym Icarus. Seoul chooses to remain unknown, staying out of the spotlight. Some call Victor an angel. Others call him the next stage of evolution. Victor allows no one near himself, choosing to become isolated. The people of the city are left to wonder who or what he is, while at the same time, Victor questions this himself.
Seoul chooses to operate in the shadows. He too considers that perhaps they are not normal, or even human. He decides that they trying to clean up the city by preserving human life is a wasted effort. Human life should not be sacred to them because they are above humans. Just as the life of a cattle bred for meat and leather is not sacred. Seoul breaks off contact with Victor, though he still roams the night. He abandons regard for others, burning his victims to death and leaving their charred corpses to be found. The people of the city turn on Icarus knowing no one else to blame for these murders by fire. Victor must now go into hiding. He alone knows about Seoul and must hunt down and stop his former ally.