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Abomination
10-13-07, 02:04 AM
This is mainly to update his appearance from his latest assimilation, and to clarify the process of assimilation since I've been using it in a way that wasn't listed in the original profile. Changes in red. Old thread Here. (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?t=7153)
Name: Unknown
Age: Unknown
Race: Homunculus (Human-type)
Hair Color: Dark Brown, 1/2" Length, Spiky
Eye Color: Blueish-gray
Height: 5'9
Weight: 150lbs

Personality: Blank, this character starts with no discernible personality traits and relies on instincts at first, but quickly adopts any personality traits he observes. Has an intense drive to learn and experiment with his newfound knowledge. His primary objectives are survival and learning.

|Assimilation Archive|
(1)Originally genderless, after his first victim he adopted the physical traits of that person. While not completely assimilating his male victim's attributes, he gained the male gender, some hair in the form of a colorless buzzcut, and a white iris in his eyes. As far as age is concerned, he looks like a man in his 20s. He has a slight build, but his body is very thin.
(2)After assimilating Demonica, his skin color darkened so as not to be considered pale, his facial features gained form, and all his teeth turned into sharp, carnivorous fangs. 1/2" Dark Brown spiky hair, Blueish-gray eyes.

He also has an hourglass-shaped scar on his upper left thigh.

History: He was lying in stasis in a large capsule when an earthquake surfaced remnants of the underground lab he was contained in. This caused his capsule to crack and for his genderless, vaguely-humanoid body to fall out. A lumberjack had been surveying the area and noticed him and tried to help, but the homunculus responded by awakening and devouring him, gaining some of his basic attributes. He does not know anything, only conditioned reflexes from the lumberjack, language, basic understand, and hunger. His hunger satiated, he mindlessly walks deeper into the woods to find his next meal, even though his body does not actually require sustenance after the first DNA assimilation.

Wandering through the forest, he wandered into an abandoned building and attacked the demon girl, Demonica. After assimilating, he found that absorbing her illusion powers had backfired on him and in a panic, he escaped back into the woods.

Skills:

|Auto-Regenerative Skin| Over a very long period of time, he can heal bruises and broken bones, even entire limbs. He can never truly die unless the hourglass mark on his upper-left thigh is pierced through, although he is still affected by humanly damage caused from blood loss or exhaustion, moreso than actual humans because of his weak condition.

|Strength| Like the lumberjack, his body is built and can throw a mean punch. Aside from basic combat skills this is nothing special right now, but it will improve greatly as his body recovers.

|Assimilation| A very limited skill that can only be used in tiny amounts, he can absorb basic physical attributes from those he considers superior to him. Assimilation occurs from direct physical contact with the opponent's skin or blood, whether he wants to or not. This will serve to form his final shape primarily, although the side-effects are unknown. Some side effects have been discovered:

|Short Term| Uncontrolled use of lower level versions of opponent abilities. Uncontrolled personality imitation and memory fragmentation. (A self-defense mechanism keeps him from becoming the person he is assimilating during this time.) The imitation of the person he is assimilating only lasts for a minute or two, and can ONLY use opponent's abilities and his own natural Homunculus abilities.

|Long Term| Physical attribute absorption, some personality retention, very little (if any) memory retention.

Equipment: Black boots, cotton pants with a thick belt, a white t-shirt, and a long, unzipped blue coat whose sides extend down to the knees with a closed collar. Also, a steel short sword with a matching sheath placed on the left side of his belt.

Witchblade
10-13-07, 11:49 AM
...quarter-level update? I sure hope you don't plan on doing one of these everytime you get 500 experience. Also, mid-level updates are only done if something significant has happened to a character that's left a drastic change. Or you need to clarify some important factors about your character.

Now, as for your short term affects. What are these lower level opponent abilities that he has gained?

Abomination
10-13-07, 02:50 PM
They're abilities he can only use for a short time after assimilating. It depends entirely on what the opponent can use. He can't actually "gain" their abilities. Is that not clear somehow? How can I make that clearer?

I only made this update because even though I intended to use assimilation like that (after all, he's a copycat), I never actually stated that it does that.

Witchblade
10-13-07, 03:20 PM
I think it's just that you have the 'only lasts for a minute or two' thing after you mention a self defense mechanism, so it's confusing and makes you think the self defense mechanism only lasts for a minute or two.

If you want to change it, go ahead. Otherwise, you're fine.

Abomination
10-13-07, 07:08 PM
I think I clarified it just now, thanks for helping.

Witchblade
10-14-07, 11:12 AM
All right, approverized!