03-23-2016, 07:46 PM
(03-23-2016, 07:33 PM)Umbra Wrote:He's a depressing character whose entire purpose in my stable of OCs is for his excessive outbursts and thick accent.(03-23-2016, 06:45 PM)Surge Wrote: Well Leo is an unfortunate victim of illegal experimentation. There a legal and moral limits to genetic modification but in circles accustomed to breaking the law, of which there are many throughout Confederate space, neither limit holds any bearing, however the biological limits still do. As such any "doctors" or criminal organizations that wish to push the envelope so to speak and create their own super soldiers or something generally have to resort to kidnapping children to get viable subjects, however as children are traditionally more of a communal responsibility than a familial one it is depressingly easy for these kids to simply be left alone with somebody that harbors ill intent and then go missing. Depending on the nature of the procedure the fatality rate varies, in some cases an organization simply wants their own super soldiers that they will raise, train, and otherwise groom as gang enforcers, in others the "doctor" working with the organization wishes to test something out and requires guinea pigs, in the former the survival rate is generally good but it's actually not that uncommon for local authorities to break the operation up at some point and try to return the affected kids to normal society, in the latter there is a more pronounced casualty rate due to the unpredictably nature of what is being done, victims can wind up permanently disfigured, crippled, or have their bodies simply reject the modifications and die. Which brings us back to Leo, the exact nature of what was done to him can only be left to speculation but suffice to say it has made him a very formidable fighter, and depending on what you want to say they wished to make of him he has either fell askew of this goal or exceeded it handily.
The physical enhancements are fairly standard fare and well understood by anyone in the field, he enjoys a great deal of physical strength noticeably above what is reasonable given his lifestyle in exchange for an altered metabolism to maintain the muscle mass and quickly burn fat to prevent build-up, his body's response to trauma has also been altered, with pain signals from his nerves universally muffled allowing him to shrug it off easily, and the replication rate of his cells has been increased, causing wounds to seal substantially faster (though never immediately observably so) and his body to replace lost blood faster. The various senses have been sharpened, which is another common mod but again in this case pushed farther than is usually considered safe and/or necessary, as well as various refinements to internal processes improving his body's ability to filter and flush toxins, recover from normally crippling trauma, and some streamlining of the digestive process to try and offset the altered metabolism. The part that gets Leo into the most trouble is a simple change made to his brain, where certain stimuli have been wired to illicit chemical responses that steer his behavior, most notably a tendency for his brain to accelerate various bodily functions when it should aim for the opposite due to trauma, and a release of chemicals in response to certain stimuli generally associated with battle and violence that will encourage Leo to commit further acts of violence.
Leo was, aside from lucky to survive these procedures, further fortunate to be rescued by local authorities afterwards, although he struggled to adjust to any sort of normal life and ultimately found himself as a freelance mercenary, the only sort of work suitable for somebody with his formidable abilities and obvious mental instabilities, but as he developed a reputation for savagery and excessive violence he came to feel more and more as if he was not in control of his own thoughts or actions, and so he sank further and further into alcoholism until virtually everything outside of his last and next mission was just a drunken haze free of responsibilities or introspection.
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Why haven't you written a book?
Nonetheless, he sounds, uh... Interesting. I'd almost think he'd fit into this book I still have't started writing yet am coming up with tons of ideas for.
Also I had a rudimentary outline for a book, I've already posted a pair of excerpts from that outline here but been grappling with the motivation to piece all of it together into a cohesive novel and the finer details of linking all the necessary events.
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