Brandon Henderson

Brandon Henderson is a side character that features in a couple of titles set in the Elsaverse: he's the main antagonist that detectives Nathanial Blake and Michelle Won must chase in the double episode that closes Darkness Falls (2018-2019) first season. Brandon has an unnatural power that allows him to dissolve himself in thin air for a brief instant, which makes him bulletproof, and he can also teleport small objects from a distance to get them. Portraited as a young incel, Brandon uses these powers to go on a killing spree for a couple of days until he's finally taken down by the "Triple A" group of heroines, who were secretly helping detectives Blake and Won in their investigation.

Personal
Despite his crucial role in the overarching plot focused on detectives Blake and their realization of powers' existence, Brandon Henderson is not given a proper background: he is just a small and skinny blonde young man who lives in SoBa, the Sangrive's industrial district, and who is an incel that blames women for not allowing him to have sex with them. That's his only motivation to take advantage of his unnatural skills and become a serial killer. Even Alexis, one of the three women who eventually manage to stop him, mentions that they figured something horrible must have happened to him to bring him up to the point of starting killing innocent women, but when she sees him and read his feelings, she only gets a ridiculous sense of self-righteousness.

From the detectives' investigations, it can be inferred that, one day, Brandon just decided to kill some random women to punish all of them for 'forcing' him to be celibate. He started by buying a tactical knife at a local weapon store, where he also asked for a battleaxe; however, the axes available in the store were only ornamental. A month later, after practicing how to throw and retrieve the knife and getting a proper axe, Brandon decided to enact his plans: wearing a mask, he approached a street hooker in broad daylight and just threw his knife at her, inflicting her a mortal wound; then, he used his power to retrieve the knife from a distance without physically extracting it from the woman's body. After confirming he could kill someone that way, that same evening Brandon rented a limo to go to "El Cuerpo" nightclub, where he managed to convince three young women to go out with him under the pretense of bringing them to a wild party where drugs were allowed. However, he just drove them to a lonely place, threatened the limo's driver, and then proceeded to kill the three friends: Brandon beheaded one of them with an axe and threw his knife at the other two as he did with the prostitute hours before.

After this triple murder, detectives Blake and Won manage to locate Brandon's home at SoBa, as he naively paid for the rental limo with his credit card. The next afternoon, they try to arrest him, but Brandon runs away and gets cornered in an industrial alley. There he puts his mask on to face the detectives and showcases his ability to avoid getting shot by vanishing in thin air for a brief instant; then, he throws his knife at Blake, injuring him, before trying to do the same with the female officer. However, a woman named Amanda Reid enters the scene and manages to block his arm using her own mind power, and when he turns his attention to the newcomer, another woman appears on the roof of a near building to draw his attention to herself, saving her friend Amanda. This third woman, Alexis, teases Brandon, who keeps throwing his knife at her without hitting his target, as she can read his intentions and dodge the knife. Eventually, when Brandon is getting tired after a few throws, the third member of the "Triple A", Anastasia Bertradino, makes herself visible next to Brandon and knocks him out with a crowbar.

In their official reports of the incident, detectives Blake and Won state Brandon's unnatural ability to dodge bullets and retrieve objects from a distance, and this forces Lara, the Internal Affairs investigator, to visit them and convince them to change their original reports, as her superiors don't want the powers like Brandon's to become public knowledge. She also tells Blake that Brandon has been locked away in a special prison that can contain his powers.

Powers
Brandon Henderson can dissolve himself in thin air for a brief instant, long enough to dodge bullets: apparently, he first noticed he had this power after getting shot when he was younger. He can't, however, stay in the void for longer periods, which prevents him from dodging slower objects or phasing through thick elements; for this reason, he is imprisoned in a special cell inside a mountain, where the thinnest wall is multiple feet thick. Brandon is also able to teleport small objects from a distance to get them: it's not clear whether he can do that with every object or if he needs to have been in contact with that object first, but he only uses this power to retrieve a knife he had previously thrown at others. When he uses this teleporting power, the object just vanishes and reappears immediately in Brandon's hands. During his clash with detectives Blake and Won, and especially after the "Triple A" intervention, Brandon seems to gradually lose grip over his powers, as the repetitive efforts to retrieve the knife exhaust him.

Miscellaneous

 * Brandon Henderson is the first character ever introduced in the Elsaverse who uses his powers for an evil cause without being somehow involved with Morland Reyes.


 * In Elsaverse: Transitions (2020-2021), Lara dismissively refers to him as 'Phase Boy'.