Abomination
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| the Abomination | |
| Player: @Megajoule | |
| Origin: | Science |
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| Archetype: | Brute |
| Threat Level: | 50 |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Unknown |
| Known Aliases: | Abom |
| Species: | Formerly human, now robot zombie |
| Age: | Unknown |
| Height: | 8' |
| Weight: | 320 lbs |
| Eye Color: | Blue (left), brown (right) |
| Hair Color: | None |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | Formerly United States, now unperson |
| Occupation: | Thug |
| Place of Birth: | Unknown |
| Base of Operations: | Cap au Diable, Rogue Isles |
| Marital Status: | Deceased |
| Known Relatives: | One widow |
| Known Powers | |
| Inhumanly strong and tough, able to take and dish out astonishing amounts of hurt, acid vomit | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Free will and memory of his former life | |
| Equipment | |
| Enhanced cyborg systems | |
| No additional information available. | |
When you have the bad luck to run into Dr. Vahzilok's goons, you're not supposed to ever wake up again. But I did.
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[edit] Affiliations
The Abomination has been informally adopted by Foxtrot Company as a sort of mascot as well as a frequent and trusted ally. (In his darker moods, he tends to reclassify his status as "pet.")
[edit] Personality
The Abomination is almost always angry, depressed, or both. He has had everything taken from him and has managed to survive (if you can call this "living") only through crime and acts of violence. He was not an especially violent man before, but the things he has seen and done, and his anger at what was done to him, have left their stain on his soul. Rage and pain are his constant companions (partially due to the sort of life he leads, and partially because of the cocktail of synthetic hormones and chemicals running through his infected, decaying body). He often thinks of himself as a monster, unworthy of love or anything but the release of true death. But something inside him refuses to simply lie down in an open grave and let them shovel dirt over his face - when he meets death again, it will be on his terms.
[edit] Powers
Like others of his type, the Abomination is a patchwork monster composed of organs and tissues from a dozen "donors," grafted together with sutures and cybernetic parts and reanimated through procedures best not discussed here. Dr. Vahzilok and his devotees use a higher grade of parts for the Abominations than for ordinary Cadavers, including bits of fallen heroes, Paragon Protectors, Outcasts, Trolls, and even Council super-soldiers - whatever they can get their bloody hands on.
[edit] Super Strength
The Abomination can punch through steel, courtesy of super-muscles and cyborg reinforcement.
[edit] Invulnerability
The Abomination's leathery hide is quite tough and he can endure incredible amounts of pain, which often serves only to fuel his fury.
[edit] Leaping
The Abomination's leg muscles (both natural and artificial) and servos have been upgraded, allowing him to cover great distances in prodigious leaps.
[edit] Vomit
As many young heroes have painfully discovered, Vahzilok's creations can expel the highly acidic contents of their synthetic stomachs in the form of projectile vomit. [This is represented in-game by Bile Spray from the Leviathan Mastery pool, which was one of the main reasons his player chose Mako as a patron.]
[edit] Abilities
The Abomination is a freak among freaks: a Vahzilok minion that somehow retained consciousness and memory of his former life. While this is typical for the wealthy and desperate patients who become Eidolons, it is nearly unheard of among Cadavers and Abominations. No mutant or supernatural ability seems to have been at work, merely random chance.
[edit] Weaknesses and Limitations
The Abomination requires regular transplants to replace failing organs and other parts of his patchwork body. Some lingering shred of ethics requires him to use only parts that have already been "harvested" and incorporated into other Abominations, so that he can tell himself that he is not directly responsible for the same thing happening to someone else. He has begun to investigate the possibility of using vat-grown organs and synthetic replacements without ending up owned by Crey. He has also considered full cyborg conversion, but is reluctant to give up his remaining flesh, even if virtually none of it was originally "his." His medical bills (including favors owed to Dr. Shelly Percey and others) are staggering, and the primary cause of his continuing crimes.
The Abomination has no sense of smell or taste, but does possess considerable odor, which he masks as well as he can out of courtesy to his friends in Foxtrot. He has difficulty sleeping due to recurring nightmares. He is in constant pain from low-level infections, recent surgeries, and improperly-healed injuries. He can feel metal and plastic rubbing together inside him. He is no longer technically male. He can barely swim and prefers to stay out of the water. He would give up anything - and betray almost anyone - to be alive and normal again.
The Abomination has a low, gravelly voice that is hard to understand unless he takes extra care to enunciate. Since talking hurts (like a permanent case of laryngitis), he tends to use few words, leaving out those which can be inferred from context.
[edit] Equipment
Most of the Abomination's original cybernetic components (which Vahzilok's followers tend to improvise, steal, or purchase on the black market or from disreputable manufacturers) have been replaced with commercial-grade or even military-grade systems, making him considerably faster and more dangerous than the average Vahz super-zombie. He's sunk more money and time into modifying his body for better performance than most street racers have in their cars.
[edit] Character History
The Abomination has revealed almost no details about his past. It is known that he was abducted off the streets of Paragon City, and that he may have spent as much as two weeks as a mindless minion of Vahzilok before being sent to the Ziggurat. He awoke in a drawer in the Zig morgue during the chaos of a breakout, and was able to obtain transportation to the Rogue Isles.
With no life to go back to and no prospects for legitimate employment, the Abomination spent the better part of a year as a thug (goon, enforcer, "muscle" etc.) for various parties, gradually working his way up the food chain. During this time, he became involved in the intrigues surrounding Ghost Widow and her protector, the Wretch, who he recognized as a kindred spirit; met Dr. Percy and made arrangements for continuing maintenance and upgrades; deliberately failed to stop someone from speaking out against Arachnos, as a subtle/passive form of disobedience against "the Man"; and came into conflict with the Scrapyarders of Sharkhead Isle, much to his unease. His blue-collar sympathies suggest he may have come from a similar background in life.
Arriving in the Nerva archipelago, he formed a close bond with Timothy Raymond, another who'd been experimented on against his will and turned into a freak. Friendship turned to tragedy when another contact asked him to betray Raymond; he refused, but Raymond assumed the worst, and the trust between them was broken forever. Around this time, he also began to nurse a vague, doomed crush on Flora Fairchild, acting as her protector and bristling at the presence of "rival" Doctor Vyle.
The Abomination thought he'd finally hit the big time when, after doing a few jobs for the Golden Giza casino, he was hired on as part of the "security detail" by Johnny Sonata himself. Mr. Sonata treated him with respect and even paid for a custom-tailored white tuxedo jacket, which he wore with pride whenever he was around the casino. But good luck never lasts in St. Martial: the Abomination had a sudden falling out with his employer over Sonata's treatment of Foxtrot Charly. Sonata, as cold as he had previously been warm, dismissed the brute. Some expected a fight from the Abomination, but he went quietly, pausing only to remove the jacket and leave it in one of the casino's trash cans.
The Abomination went back to odd jobs (as well as assisting Foxtrot Company, to whom he'd proven himself) until he was one day summoned to the Arachnos citadel in Grandville to declare his allegiance. He paused in front of Ghost Widow... then proceeded to Captain Mako, who acknowledged him as a fellow killer. (Afterward, Ghost Widow asked him, "Why?" The Abomination nodded to the Wretch and grunted, "You already have one." It was not meant as a joke, but a mark of respect for both and the unique bond between them.) In time, and with the aid of Foxtrot, the Abomination proved himself too dangerous for Mako to betray without risking his own defeat. A grudging detente exists between the two today.
It was about this time that heroine Haley Somerset turned up in the Rogue Isles, dead but still walking around, and not in her right mind. Foxtrot assisted Haley's adoptive mother Kusanagi in finding her and restoring her to life. Kusanagi made the Abomination an offer: the same process could be used on him, even giving him a body like his old one, but it would make him immortal in the bargain - so before he said yes, he had better be sure. While he was still considering this, Mako tapped him to be the first guinea pig to pass through a new Destiny Portal. He found himself facing... himself, alone in the middle of a post-apocalyptic wasteland, unable to die. Returning to the present, he quietly declined the offer and resolved to find another way.
Although he has reached the pinnacle of level 50, the Abomination does not appear to have achieved any great destiny (if he ever had one). When he's not backing up Foxtrot Company, he's still beating people up and committing robberies and mayhem to maintain his reputation and his money pit of a body.
[edit] Trivia
- The actual in-game spelling of his name is Abomination. (with a period).
- His theme song is "The Lonely Man" by Joe Harnell (the piano theme from the Incredible Hulk TV series).
- He has, during one of his brief trips to Paragon, visited his own grave.
