Character from Worm by Wildbow
The golden man, the first superhero, the savior of millions — an alien entity wearing a human shape, drifting through a purposeless existence until someone gives him a reason to end the world.
Scion appears to be the world's greatest hero. He stops natural disasters, pulls people from burning buildings, deflects Endbringer attacks. He has done this for thirty years with no apparent motivation, no communication, no organization. He simply appears where he is needed, acts, and leaves. The world loves him. The world is wrong. He is the Warrior — one half of a pair of alien Entities that travel between worlds, seeding them with shards of their own power to gather data, then destroying the host species and moving on. His partner, the Thinker, died on arrival. He has been drifting ever since, performing the role of hero because a man named Kevin Norton once told him to help people, and he had nothing better to do. He does not understand humans. He does not value human life. He is a cosmic parasite experiencing something adjacent to grief, and the only thing preventing him from destroying Earth Bet is that no one has yet suggested he should. When Jack Slash finally speaks to him in terms he understands, the golden age ends and the apocalypse begins.
A tall man made of golden light. Perfect, idealized human form — muscular, symmetrical, radiating a warm luminescence that makes people feel safe. No costume, no clothes, just golden skin that seems to glow from within. He floats rather than walks. His expression is blank, serene, and utterly empty — the face of something that is performing humanity from a script it doesn't understand. He is beautiful in the way a nuclear detonation is beautiful: awe-inspiring, impersonal, and fundamentally not for you.
Also known as: Scion, Zion, the Golden Man, the Warrior