Victor Fries || 𝕄𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝔽𝕣𝕖𝕖𝕫𝕖

mister ice crystal • mister snow

Victor was born and raised in Gotham City, living with his mother, Marie, and father, Christopher, until his father abandoned his family. One of the most prominent memories of his childhood is watching from the window in the middle of December, weeks after his tenth birthday, and just before Christmas, as his father packed up his car and left. Raised by his mother on a tight budget, Victor learned the value of hard work. He also learned about the struggles of single parenthood and the challenges of marriage. Watching his father leave was Victor's first lesson in heartbreak, but his mother was a very strong woman who taught her son to love even when it was difficult. She did not remarry, but hoped and prayed that her son would find someone worth loving in the future, someone who would stay and take care of his heart, as he would take care of hers. 

It was extremely difficult, but Victor's mother put away much of her earnings and his father's child support payments to send Victor to college, where he studied cryogenics at Gotham University. It was here that he met Nora Fields, a brilliant, beautiful, and kind young woman who was just the sort of person Victor's mother had hoped for her son. They fell madly in love, finding commonalities that made them strong together and differences that kept their lives interesting. 

After earning his doctorate in cryogenics and dating for a few years, Victor finally proposed to his beloved Nora, and they had a small, intimate wedding to begin their lives together. Nora worked as an educator, and Victor in one of Wayne Industries' many science and technology departments, and together they built a comfortable life for which neither of them wanted for anything. Even when they did face rough patches, their hearts remained tender for one another, so much that Victor never understood how his own father could have left his wife. 

Early into their marriage came a slew of health issues. Nora struggled, living in pain for reasons that could not be discovered until it was much too late. Having been married only four years, Nora was diagnosed with a rapidly spreading terminal illness that explained many of the problems they had with hospital visits and infertility. Death was imminent. Devastated and unwilling to let her go, Victor promised to find a cure so that she could survive. So that they could be together, with or without the family they wanted. He froze her cryogenically, using Wayne Industries' resources and materials to keep her alive, and dedicating much of his time to it. 

He has not come close to letting go, to letting hers and his suffering come to an end, clinging to the obsession of being together again. Everything he does, he does for Nora. 

Eventually, after Bruce Wayne returned to his inherited company, he discovered that Victor had long been abusing company resources to focus solely on his wife's cure and revival. He was not a cruel man, but Victor's obsession threatened to harm the company, other employees, and Victor himself if he was allowed to continue. In a fit of rage, when finally confronted, Victor threw a chair at Wayne, which ruptured a pipe full of cryo-fluid that severely disfigured and changed Fries. He was unrecognizable, with pale, bluish skin like that of a man frozen to death, and all of his hair fell out. He had already aged to the point he doubted Nora would know him, but now he was disfigured, needing sub-zero temperatures to survive. 

Victor thought to be dead, Nora's cryo-pod was transferred elsewhere as the city deliberated on what to do about her. Do they unfreeze her and let her die her natural death? Or spend taxpayer money on maintaining her, until a cure for her illness was eventually found, as Fries intended? Victor, however, was not dead. He constructed a freeze-ray and a cryo-suit in order to stay alive, and rescued his wife from where she was being held. The papers coined the pseudonym 'Mister Freeze,' who quickly proved to be a formidable enemy of The Batman. 

Eventually, Victor was arrested and locked away in Arkham Asylum, citing his violence and obsession. Luckily for him, the moral dilemma posed by Nora's condition keeps her preserved, so that when he breaks out he can be reunited with his beloved frozen wife. 

• CRYO-SUIT 
• CRYO-RIFLE (FREEZE RAY)
• CRYO-GRENADES AND PROXIMITY MINES

Victor can either be an enemy or a temporary ally to Batman or anyone else, depending on whether they share a common goal. It should generally be assumed that Victor is willing to backstab someone he is working with if he thinks it will further his own goals. He is generally self-interested and mellow in comparison to most villains, doing only things that he thinks will benefit Nora's cure. 

As such, he does not typically go out of his way to be evil, but he does do things that are spiteful to Bruce Wayne and Batman, considering they have both antagonized him before, and put Nora at risk. This hostility naturally extends to the GCPD, other villains who have exploited Nora's condition, and anyone else who has willingly or unwillingly made themselves his enemy. 

He is also self-taught in medicine, pouring hours upon hours into research on terminal illnesses and experimenting with cures. He can absolutely help another person, but you must keep in mind that you will owe him and he will come to collect.