Post by ToxicZodiac on Oct 24, 2012 14:52:13 GMT -6
Name: Augustus Hunter
Age: 84
Codename: the Predator
Gender: Male
Species: Mutant [Half Alligator Snapper, Half Komodo Dragon]<br>
Occupation: Unemployed, Ex-Military
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
PB: Vin Diesel [voice]
APPEARANCE
Eyes: Yellow
Height: 7' 10"
Weight: 245 lbs
Build: Muscular
Augustus is a very large anthropomorphic turtle lizard of the predatorial species. He resembles more of an alligator with a shell than a lizard with a very tough hide that happens to be a very dark rusty maroon, almost close to black. His thick skin is also riddled with scars, ones most apparent is the one over his left eye, his right arm, and his tail. Gus' tail is longer than his body and would have the tenancy to be dragged around more frequently, would be very uncomfortable if not for the thick skin being made for it. He has four digits on his hands and feet which have sharp claws to allow for shredding flesh.
Now being part turtle, he has a shell that is similar or exact to a snapper; rather spiked and rigid black carapace with a rather narrow pale moss green plastron. The carapace is visibly cracked, missing chunks and pieces out of it; yet not quite as fragile as it seems even in this state. His plastron is the same, though not quite as badly as his carapace and the damage is still obvious. Yet despite the condition his shell is in, it remains surprisingly intact even if it sustains more damage with what it had previously suffered.
To add on to being a reptilian predator, his eyes are completely yellow aside from his pupils; which is merely a slit. His eyes always appear like this and his pupils are subject to changing size or shape depending on light sources or current state of being. But for the most part, it almost looks rather intimidating when the pupils are usually a very thin line.
Gus tends to wear coats, particularly trench coats or labcoats even despite where he's located at the time being. Some of his coats are usually ripped up and rugged, others not so much. They are usually big enough to fit him, but not enough to hide his clearly inhuman features; and he doesn't particularly try to. Rarely does he ever wear anything else, but he may on occasion wear something different.. or even rarely go in the nude.
Despite his actual age, he's still technically in his prime and looks much younger than he is.
PERSONALITY
Due to his upbringing, he is rather isolated and distant. His years growing up in the jungles of Africa made him independent, thinking only for himself and providing only from himself. Keeping away from others so he could live in peace. some of that had changed when he ended up on the Benning Islands, where he became a soldier and found love. After the death of his wife, he expressed great care and love for his daughter.. but also feared and worried for her. He was certain she could take care of herself until the unfortunate events that occurred to her during her military career.
After his retirement of course, he went back to being detached from most of the world; still caring for his daughter of course. But for the majority of other people, he's very remote. If you're not important, then you're not worth his time. If you're a human, then you're better off not having met him. He bares hatred, and ill fear towards humans due to the common rash behaviors they commit. With the fact that his daughter walks among them makes it worse. At times he'll growl around people, even if he knows them. He's over and done with the social phase and doesn't plan to go back to that. Rather cynical and skeptical.
While he's a crude old lizard, he's actually a genius. He'd express his talents in learning things rather quickly, and had interest in the medical and technological field when he took college in the islands. Gus is very proud of his intelligence and is not afraid to express it. Mentioning things he likes will usually get him to open up and be social if not temporarily, he'll go back to being grumpy and distant unless the particular person managed to make a mark on him.
He has a very severe temper, easily triggered too. Gus' anger is not something to joke or laugh about as he won't hesitate to charge and attack. His rage works on a "down who pisses me off" routine, almost like it would for berserkers. Because of his explosive volcanic anger, he's easily irritated and frustrated. Won't take him long to start growling and telling others to back off or shut up, because he'll otherwise do it for them. He can be a bit unpredictable as well.
Unlike the majority of his fellow mutants from the Militia, he has a feral and instinctual side. It's not triggered very often, but it happens to be very terrifying when it is. When the feral side of him takes over, it's erratic and inconstant. It's hard to tell what he'll do as he's acting upon his instincts to either kill, hunt, or anything related to his animal species. Animalistic habits and traits that was carried over from his heritage. It's even more probable for him to act more upon anger in this state as well. But, luckily the episodes have a short event period and rarely ever last longer than they normally wound [which would be a few minutes].
But having a feral mind, and from working as a soldier, made him develop mild schizophrenia. He will at times hallucinate, and such hallucinations are usually morbid or bad. Gus had been rather used to them that he doesn't particularly worry about them, but still suffers them regardless.
POWERS AND SKILLS
Augustus is a very... interesting individual. He's inhumanely durable than humans, and very strong--enough to be able to crush human bone with little trouble. But he's an Alligator Komodo Snapper, and shares traits with the species he happens to be. Like hypersensitive sense of smell, supersensitive taste, and a very decreased sense of touch to be able to not be bothered by pains or irritation. His hearing is also greater than average for humans, but not all that great. Powerful jaws, able to snap bone in two with just one snap; like a snapper.
Hard to believe how much damage he can do with his feral abilities in hand. And being able to last longer? Scary. But being a big tough lizard makes him more dependent on force and skill rather than speed. He's smart but slow in comparison to his animal relatives. He's also highly poisonous with very potent venom and toxic saliva that's extremely deadly to humans and most species, it's advised to not let him bite you. Even a kiss could be deadly.
He was trained to be a survivalist and skilled hunter when he was able to walk, and this had been built on even after the loss of his adopted father. He's mastered his skills as a predator, with how far he's come and how hold he really is. Gus was even once an instructor on the specialty. But along with that came with military knowledge and training that he's learned in the Militia. He's rather adept in combat and routines. This guy is not going to hesitate to use what he's learned to do what he needs to.
While he was training to become a solder, he did take on a small degree in science. He studied in the field and was more talented in the medical and technological field, but did incorporate some things to keep himself busy whenever he's alone or bored. Being retired granted him so much free time that he tinkered with things and collected specimens to research to further develop his skills as a doctor and science enthusiast.
As a military officer, he also had to learn languages and is fluent in German, Russian, Korean, French, and Morse Code.
LIMITATIONS
While he is a strong giant lizard guy, he can be vulnerable. Him not being very social can actually complicate things, along with his usual grumpiness and irritation. Gus can also be very possessive and protective, especially over something that is his or happens to be his daughter. Though he's more protective over Selena than possessive, so it's not beyond him to be very cynical or rude around her or to be very skeptical towards her and her decisions.
Very brash and stubborn, to the point where it can get infuriating. He's not going to back down until he succeeds or has proven that he's right. It may take some persistence to get him to back down or admit/accept defeat.
Augustus can be terrifying when angered, but this can also be used against him. Being easily irritated makes it possible for people to use his fury against him. It can also wear him down faster if his anger is continuous. Whenever he's in his triggered feral state, he's not fully aware of what he's doing as he's acting upon instinct; so he may do things that may be very harmful to others or to himself no matter the position or person.
He is slower compared to Alligator snappers and Komodo dragons, so is more likely to take more hits than avoid them and he'll have problems keeping up with faster creatures or individuals. A majority of his senses are very sensitive and vulnerable.
STORY
Augustus was born as a mutant in the thick jungles of Africa, both his parents were mutants when they met. Unfortunately for the hybrid, he never knew them as they had died shortly after he was laid as an egg. Their death was mysterious, and the egg was taken in by a man who resided in the jungle. This man intended to eat the egg, but decided not to as he found it odd and special; later giving it care and waiting to see what would hatch out of it. A baby mutant eventually hatched, and that was Augustus. His caretaker was surprised of what the creature was, and raised the babe as his own. This man was named Mason Hunter and had named the child after his grandfather.
Since then, Gus had lived in that jungle; being raised to survive and hunt. To depend on wit and skill. For years the both of them lived like this, only eating from what they caught or gathered. But sometimes good times must come to an end. By the time Augustus was thirteen, his adopted father was killed by a poacher during one of their hunting exercises. Enraged, the mutant attacked and killed the killer, thinking that their fate was better off the same as the person they murdered. He even had gone far as to eat the body of the poacher, but had become sane enough to give Mason a proper burial.
Even with the death of the man that raised him, he continued to live and survive in the jungle; remembering what he had learned before he lost Mason. As the years came and gone, the more he developed on his skills and eventually he became a master hunter and survivalist. He became the Predator of the jungle. Having spent his life in the jungles of Africa, he felt it was time to move on and explore for more ground. Fashioning a raft out of what he could use, he sailed the Atlantic ocean.
Months had past and he washed up on a beach of an uncharted island where he was found by the natives and brought in for medical treatment. When he came to, he found that the inhabitants were like him, mutants. Of course, he did learn he himself was a mutant; though born as one. This island was home to an entire society of mutants of different types and species of animal, they formed a stable government and lived peacefully since they had originally formed during the Cold Wars. Gus decided to stay on the island and live among them, taking up a military career as well as a science degree. Being more experienced with survival, he became a teaching instructor within the Mutant Militia; the military makeup of the government.
Augustus later settled with a female Komodo Dragon mutant, marrying her and later had plans to have offspring. His wife, Wayla, had poor health that had worsened when she became pregnant. The doctors weren't able to help her very much other than to provide care when it was needed. She passed away soon after she laid an egg, which Gus had taken under his care. He was saddened by the lost of his wife and was determined to raise their child, who later hatched from the egg he cared for. A daughter who resembled more to Wayla, he named her Selena--a name that his wife wanted to give should they have had a girl. Gus raised Selena alone, mostly, giving her the knowledge, care, and education she needed. He taught her survival skills, to be a hunter. This made her into a more effective member of the militia later on.
Having spent a long time in the military of the Benning Islands where he lived on since he first washed on the beaches, he retired and stowed away on a ship for North America where he lived the rest of his retired days in an abandoned underground Laboratory in New York city. While still retired, he kept close eye on his daughter; knowing very well things would become ugly for her with the path she chose for herself.
It was just as he had feared. Years of seeing Selena coming to him to preform surgeries to remove dead fetuses, seeing her break from the events she suffered. It pained him to see his little girl in so much torment that he pulled the plug on her military career and had her relocated to New York where she would take on a new job as a detective. From there, things had seemed to lift the strain and burden from their lives.
But wounds always took a while to heal.
NOTES
The Benning Islands/Mutant Militia is essentially a secret society of mutants that had been around since the Cold War. But they aren't exactly important enough to be more elaborately explained here, so I wouldn't worry about it. Jade Green [greysight] is actually the creator of this society and it is better to ask her for details if you're curious.