Black Mask

Origins
Little is known about this Black Mask's past, but all people can put together was that he was part of a rich family who loved one another vey much. However, their fortunate wasn't completely earned through legitimate means the father was a powerful crime boss in Los Angeles who had ran numerous operations and hired countless criminals into his empire. Though despite being a criminal he had moral code on how he ran things and always tried to maintain the order. But, it didn't take long before others started to think that the current crime boss's way of thinking didn't really benefit as it use to. While Aoi was away at school his parent's family home was completely destroyed by a couple of local hitmen. The young orphaned child grieved immensely for the loss of his parents and as part of their will they gave everything to him. He was shipped to an exclusive boarding school to receive a expensive education in hopes that would make his parents proud by forging a future for himself. The boy grew up to be a highly respected young man who had graduated from Harvard with a degree in numerous fields; business, psychology, and world languages. He had returned back home to visit his parent's graves one last time and to seek revenge on the ones who sought their deaths. After some work digging information around the criminal underworld he managed to track down the hitmen that had rigged the explosives in his former home. When he had them he hard ruthlessly tortured them to reveal the identity of their employers. After hours of nonstop physical and metal suffering upon the hitmen they finally revealed the information he wanted. The one who had killed his parents was the current family head and closet friend of his parents of course simply killing wouldn't be enough for him. He wanted to not just kill him, but to claim his throne for himself as well. It took a week of careful preparations, however he formulated a plan to get the revenge he wanted. He had disguised himself as potential business partner for the crime boss by taking on the name Black Mask. The original Black Mask had been dead for 5 years during conflict with the Joker. However, that Black Mask was mainly a local criminal who hardly done business outside of Gotham. This would allow him to take the mask of the infamous rouge to his advantage when approaching the crime boss because someone who is highly connected in a crime city like Gotham would have much to offer. The deal would take place at the man's home estate which was guarded by numerous armed thugs. Unknowing to the crime boss that it was all a setup because Aoi had looked the crime boss's men background having them bought off or killed to be replaced so they'd all be working for him. When Aoi explained the deal to his parent's murder he thought it a joke and would attempt to have him killed for wasting his time. Unfortunately for the crime boss, that is what Aoi had wanted and soon enough all his men were pointing their weapons at him. Shocked and freighted by these unexpected turn of events he would try beg to see if they could negotiate, however Aoi declined and order the men to brutally murder the crime boss and dispose of the remains.

Gotham's New Kingpin
After effectively killing his parent's murder and seizing all his assets, Aoi left Los Angeles seeking to start somewhere new in a place where he could make a name for himself and possible continue his father's legacy. However, Gotham was a rather chaotic place and hardly takes kindly to upcoming crime lords. That is why Aoi continued to use the Black Mask persona to use a means to control the fallen crime lords resources and men for himself. After a couple of weeks he managed to take the former Black Mask's operations for himself and begin his reign over Gotham City.

Personality
Despite being one of Gotham City's most powerful crime lords, Black Mask has a very shy and introverted demeanor. He did not like crowds and was uncomfortable around other people, with some exceptions. Black Mask almost had an compulsive mindset, being a creature of habit and hating when things in his life changed, or went against how they were planned.

However, in spite of his social anxiety and his awkward nature, he is nonetheless capable of being extremely persuasive and charismatic when he needs to be. He has a keen understanding of psychology and social dynamics, which allows him to almost effortlessly manipulate people around him and exploit their psychological and emotional weaknesses. He also has a natural talent for leadership, as his take-charge attitude, the sheer force of personality, and raw physical presence enable him to take control of chaotic situations. As evidenced from the speeches he gave at his press conferences, he knows how to play a crowd as well, feigning emotion and passion in order to rally support from the masses.

He is a polite, articulate, and well-spoken man of courtesy and manners. He expected courtesy from his subordinates as well, as he would attack and sometimes even kill those who did not show respect to him or those he cares about. Black Mask is a man of deep sophistication, enjoying the high-class life despite his poor origins. He enjoyed fine suits, fine dining, and classic literature and music. He considered himself a man of honor and always kept his word. While he can be a brutal, cold, calculating machine, he honestly believed what he was doing for Gotham was righteous.

Abilities

 * High-Level Intelligence: Black Mask's mental performance allows his mind to operate in the most efficient and rapid manner possible. Some manifestation of this is his exceptionally perfect charisma, eloquence, leadership skills, deductive/analytical skills, and tactical genius. His mind also processes information quickly, giving him an accelerated learning aptitude. Black Mask has demonstrated the ability to quickly process multiple, limitless information streams (e.g., threat assessment) and rapidly respond to any changing tactical situations, by creating perfect winning strategies rapidly. He possesses an eidetic memory (he never forgets anything and has perfect instant recall), he can read at superhuman speeds, and can intuitively understand what's going to happen and how to deal with it.
 * Master Strategist: Black Mask can instantly create strategies and plans several steps ahead of his enemies and allies alike, with Deadshot stating that he could see five steps ahead. He is able to elaborate complex strategies and apply them in not just battle, but any other activity as well. Black Mask has showed foresight by instigating many operations to ensure that his criminal empire ran efficiently for any possible threat. He was also able to out-think Batman when he attempted to convict him by feeding him information of evidence that was fabricated.
 * Master Businessman: Black Mask is extremely well-respected in the business world, able to command people's attentions when he speaks on economic matters by virtue of the fact that he is savvy enough to have, over the years, built up several multi-million dollar companies from virtually nothing. He is known for the loyalty he commands from and returns to those who work for him, as well as his impeccable business ethics.
 * Master Manipulator: Black Mask possesses an incredible and innate understanding/knowledge of psychology. He can see, understand, predict and manipulate personal behavior. He can spot another's deepest secret and inherent flaws with short conversation. These abilities allows him to detect lies, make allies, and be able to apply subtle mental pressure enabling the easy manipulation of any individuals. He always knows what to do or say.
 * Master Martial Artist: Black Mask is incredibly skilled martial artist with training in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, judo, jujutsu, sombo, aikido, aiki-jitsu, gun-jitsu, car-fu, and shinobi-iri. He can quickly outmaneuver, outmatch or simply outlast his opponents, even being capable of taking on multiple enemies at once. Black Mask is able to adapt to his opponent's fighting styles, studying them during the fight and adapting to negate their strengths. He also sometimes uses a dirty move like hitting below the belt.
 * Master Marksman: It is safe to say that Black Mask knows his way around a variety of pistols, rifles, and shotguns as well as being able to precisely eliminate targets from a long distance while remain his training to maintain his accuracy. Black Mask is able to effortlessly blend his marksmanship with his hand to hand skills, being able to swiftly use grappling moves combined with precision shots to take on large groups of organized gunmen.
 * Master of Disguise: He appears to be a master of disguise and a highly gifted actor.
 * Master Torture: Black Mask is an expert on torture techniques that would make talk even the most strong-willed person.
 * Multilingual: Black Mask is fluent in English, German, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, and other different languages.