Etrius vanRandr is a cybernetic white tiger chimera approximately 7'7" (2.3 meters) tall, with cybernetic arms, green eyes, and long, flowing black hair. He is artificially built from many different animals.
History
Etrius used to be a human serving in the US Army. He had green eyes, short graying hair, and a short full beard, and was about 47 years of age. During a deployment to a Middle Eastern state, he was assigned to guard and hold control of a nuclear reactor. However, the nuclear reactor developed a malfunction which caused Etrius to develop brain cancer. He was discharged from service and promptly sent home.
However, a secret Soviet Union remnant faction led by an exiled scientist named Vladimir Petrovich was looking for test subjects to perform inhumane genetic experiments on, and Etrius happened to be the perfect target, as he was already terminally ill.
Etrius was supposed to be sent home to live his remaining days with his family, however, the convoy transporting him to the nearest airport was ambushed by assassins. He was shot twice in the back with tranquilizer bullets, paralyzing him and putting him into a coma. He was then taken to a secret laboratory in Tver, Russia.
As the years go by he is slowly built into a new person, and tensions worldwide rise. When a nuclear bomb goes off nearby, it destroys the Tver nuclear reactor, causing mass evacuations, although Petrovich was unbothered in his underground lab. When Etrius was finished, he was put into cryosleep. Petrovich then left Tver for the safety of Novgorod after another experiment named Ravenna goes wrong and escapes.
Etrius was released from cryosleep after about 10 years with selective amnesia, and begins his journey of self discovery on the way to St. Petersburg.
There, he finds Ravenna Wildfire, now a tyrant, ruling over the citizens of St. Petersburg with an iron fist. Ravenna is Etrius's sister, so to speak - made from parts of his DNA but not born from the same mother. Ravenna is a grey wolf transhuman, just like Etrius is a white tiger.
Etrius vows to end Ravenna's tyranny, but is defeated. She rips his prosthetic arms off and throws him in the river below the Winter Palace, a massive fortress she built at the fork in the river that flows through St. Petersburg. She assumed he would die, but he doesn't, and is rescued by a woman named Julia.
Julia helps him back to full health, and helps him find Petrovich who is rumored to be residing in the inner districts of St. Petersburg, where Ravenna forces him to experiment on wild animals. Petrovich gives Etrius a new set of arms, more powerful, stronger, and able to withstand more damage.
Julia helps him back to full health, and helps him find Petrovich who is rumored to be residing in the inner districts of St. Petersburg, where Ravenna forces him to experiment on wild animals. Petrovich gives Etrius a new set of arms, more powerful, stronger, and able to withstand more damage.
Etrius faces Ravenna once more but is weaker than the first confrontation and is defeated again. Ravenna rapes him and poisons him with a neurotoxin that only affects males, and then tosses him in the river once more, knowing he will survive but die a slow and painful death.
Julia, who had gone back home during his time with Petrovich and the second confrontation, finds him in the river once more, and does her duty again, helping him through the pain of the neurotoxin and taking him back to Petrovich.
Etrius is out of action for six months while Petrovich re-sequences his genes, turning him into a woman. He, now she, changes her name to Itreus, spoken the same but now spelled in a feminine way. Julia finally discovers why she had no interest in men, and opens up to Itreus about this. They become lovers as Itreus becomes accustomed to womanhood and prepares to face Ravenna once more.
Itreus finally manages to defeat Ravenna, knocking her glaive out of her grip and trapping her in a corner. He then impales Ravenna with her own glaive. Her death was not instant, as she had enough cognitive function left to understand she had been bested and she was dead. Her last words were, "I'm sorry. I should have loved you."
A dead man's switch embedded in her body triggered remote explosives that destroyed the Winter Palace and the surrounding area, killing Julia and knocking Itreus unconscious.
Petrovich finds Itreus and takes her back in, and returns Etrius back to his original sex as Etrius recovers from being exploded. He gives Julia a viking burial on the river where Julia first found him. He mourns Julia but ultimately moves on, eventually finding his way to Sigma City after Petrovich passes away.
When Petrovich passes, he leaves his personal affects to Etrius including his personal journal, which contains details on every experiment he ever conducted, including notes on Etrius's past before the war.
Etrius brings Petrovich's body to the remains of Ravenna's castle and buries him where the throne used to be. His house and lab are demolished, hopefully ending any possibility of future experimentation using the equipment there.
Among the things Etrius kept was the journal, Petrovich's glasses, his wristwatch which Etrius now wears, and a portable data drive with all of Petrovich's accumulated knowledge, which Etrius now keeps safely hidden in a compartment under the plating of his prosthetics.
Petrovich's lab under Tver still stands, with a dangerous secret buried even further below it.
Biology
After he was transported back to Russia, Petrovich began to disassemble his body while he was still alive, preserving his brain function while removing the cancerous cells. A new body was built using unknown methodology from many different animals; the heart of a horse, the lungs of a giraffe, the digestive tract of a Great White shark, and the eyes of an owl. Many other features of his body were replaced with synthetic organs, such as his skin.
His bones were fabricated from tungsten carbide, and his arms were replaced with carbon fiber and titanium prosthetics, plated with titanium nitride. His skin is synthetic and is extremely dense, and his fur is also very thick. There are piezoelectric generators attached directly to his heart valves which produce electricity, and supercapacitors placed in hollow sections of his bones which store electricity, for the purpose of powering his cybernetics. His final form weighs about 585lb (265kg), with his skeleton weighing a whopping 325lb (147kg).
His new body now resembles a white tiger in a humanoid shape, with digitigrade feet. The striped pattern of his fur changes slowly over time. He has humanoid hair growing from his head, which he allows to grow quite long. A single patch on the left front side grows white due to poliosis.
His memory was completely erased, although some fragments were left due to selective amnesia. His combat training and skills from military service remain, as does his knowledge of foreign languages.
His body also requires much more food due to having to power cybernetic arms as well. Despite this, his body is 100% efficient at processing ingested sustenence, and there is no biological waste.
Etrius's bodily fluids are entirely black, which means he's easy to track if he's injured. His blood is a strange mix of very dark organic oil and blood cells.
Sexual reproduction
As Etrius is an artificial chimera, his genitals are an odd mix of canine, feline, and serpentine parts, with a feline sheath and spined shaft, a canine knot, and a serpentine glans, with an overall length of about 13 inches (35cm). The knot can expand up to 8 inches (20cm) in diameter. The glans features an equine flare and feline spines.
Because he was originally intended to be an assassin through any means possible, his semen is normally toxic to most other living beings. As ascribed to his rather unconventional biological makeup, some humans and transhumans are immune to the toxic effects, and humanoid eggs fertilized by Etrius grow significantly larger (about 6 inches, or 15cm in diameter), become an inert biomass, and are a soft, silicone-like substance all the way through. They appear black with a red hexagonal pattern similar to a turtle shell. How or why this occurs to toxic-immune individuals is unknown. They can be safely expelled, or in the event that an orifice is not large enough for expulsion, they eventually liquefy into a harmless clear-black discharge after about 30 days.
On account of his unusual sexual organs, Etrius has been deemed by field professionals as sterile and unfit for reproduction, although that has not stopped him engaging in recreational sexual activity.
Personality
As a human, Etrius was a very outgoing and strong-willed person, willing to stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves. He was a strong advocate for intellectualism. After his capture and reconfiguration, he is rather introverted and reserved, mostly from knowing how humans react to seeing him. He is quiet and keeps to himself, but is always ready to spring into action and take charge when necessary. His personality resembles the strong and silent type, only showing his true strength when pushed to his limit.
He typically hides his emotions to the point of stressing himself out over a lack of expression. He will withhold information if it serves little to no benefit being public and is very selective in how he interacts with others.
He holds his anger well, often resorting to a physical expression such as working out or sparring when it becomes too much to hold in.
Strengths and abilities
Etrius' strongest ability is his resilience and persistence. He is incredibly difficult to kill due to his feline agility and his augmented body. His dense skin is resistant to small arms, and his strong digitigrade legs allow him to run in excess of 65KPH (40MPH) and jump as high as 10 feet.
His arms are actually part of his skeleton rather than being true prosthetics, so they are incredibly difficult to remove without causing serious injury. He has a large heart and extremely efficient lungs, as well as having excellent eyesight, especially in the dark.
Etrius' combat training as a US Marine makes him exceptionally skilled not only during the battle but he is a master of mixed unit tactics as well, able to outmaneuver an opponent with relative ease.
His reflexes are second to none, having been able to dodge slower-moving subsonic projectiles on more than one occasion.
Equipment and weapons
Etrius requires very little to function efficiently, often wearing little to no armor in favor of mobility. He also carries little in the way of weapons, once again in favor of mobility.
Armor
When necessary, Etrius will wear a handmade plate carrier with three plates in the front and in the rear, comprised of a layered epoxied titanium carbide plate, a ballistic ceramic plate, and an aramid-UHMWPE hybrid plate.
Etrius's bodily fluids are entirely black, which means he's easy to track if he's injured. His blood is a strange mix of very dark organic oil and blood cells.
Sexual reproduction
As Etrius is an artificial chimera, his genitals are an odd mix of canine, feline, and serpentine parts, with a feline sheath and spined shaft, a canine knot, and a serpentine glans, with an overall length of about 13 inches (35cm). The knot can expand up to 8 inches (20cm) in diameter. The glans features an equine flare and feline spines.
Because he was originally intended to be an assassin through any means possible, his semen is normally toxic to most other living beings. As ascribed to his rather unconventional biological makeup, some humans and transhumans are immune to the toxic effects, and humanoid eggs fertilized by Etrius grow significantly larger (about 6 inches, or 15cm in diameter), become an inert biomass, and are a soft, silicone-like substance all the way through. They appear black with a red hexagonal pattern similar to a turtle shell. How or why this occurs to toxic-immune individuals is unknown. They can be safely expelled, or in the event that an orifice is not large enough for expulsion, they eventually liquefy into a harmless clear-black discharge after about 30 days.
On account of his unusual sexual organs, Etrius has been deemed by field professionals as sterile and unfit for reproduction, although that has not stopped him engaging in recreational sexual activity.
Personality
As a human, Etrius was a very outgoing and strong-willed person, willing to stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves. He was a strong advocate for intellectualism. After his capture and reconfiguration, he is rather introverted and reserved, mostly from knowing how humans react to seeing him. He is quiet and keeps to himself, but is always ready to spring into action and take charge when necessary. His personality resembles the strong and silent type, only showing his true strength when pushed to his limit.
He typically hides his emotions to the point of stressing himself out over a lack of expression. He will withhold information if it serves little to no benefit being public and is very selective in how he interacts with others.
He holds his anger well, often resorting to a physical expression such as working out or sparring when it becomes too much to hold in.
Strengths and abilities
Etrius' strongest ability is his resilience and persistence. He is incredibly difficult to kill due to his feline agility and his augmented body. His dense skin is resistant to small arms, and his strong digitigrade legs allow him to run in excess of 65KPH (40MPH) and jump as high as 10 feet.
His arms are actually part of his skeleton rather than being true prosthetics, so they are incredibly difficult to remove without causing serious injury. He has a large heart and extremely efficient lungs, as well as having excellent eyesight, especially in the dark.
Etrius' combat training as a US Marine makes him exceptionally skilled not only during the battle but he is a master of mixed unit tactics as well, able to outmaneuver an opponent with relative ease.
His reflexes are second to none, having been able to dodge slower-moving subsonic projectiles on more than one occasion.
Equipment and weapons
Etrius requires very little to function efficiently, often wearing little to no armor in favor of mobility. He also carries little in the way of weapons, once again in favor of mobility.
Armor
When necessary, Etrius will wear a handmade plate carrier with three plates in the front and in the rear, comprised of a layered epoxied titanium carbide plate, a ballistic ceramic plate, and an aramid-UHMWPE hybrid plate.
During his story arc (2080-2085) he primarily wore a large, improvised black hood and cloak made from fire blankets, a plate carrier with multiple stacked AR500 steel plates, and a black hand-sewn field jacket with hand-sewn cargo pants, also made from black fire blankets.
Weapons
Etrius' primary weapon is a prototype plasma sword, shaped like a German Zweihander, wherein the blade itself is replaced with a shaped plasma energy beam. Where a fuller would normally be, is where the electronics and emitter are housed. An unknown power source is housed in the handle. The origin of this weapon is also unknown, as Etrius found it while exploring Russia.
His second weapon is a custom modern-forged red, black, and silver fully automatic .50-calibre Browning M1911 with a 20-round double-stack magazine. It is about 150% larger than the standard M1911 due to the calibre and Etrius's large hands being unable to effectively use human-sized firearms. It has an extended 10-inch (254mm) barrel and an underbarrel picatinny rail for accessories such as an IRLP, IRI, flashlight, or UGL. It was created specifically for him by Kalashnikov Concern, but it was never delivered to him on time before the war started. He found it among other things made for him in a deep underground bunker in Russia.
Weapons
Etrius' primary weapon is a prototype plasma sword, shaped like a German Zweihander, wherein the blade itself is replaced with a shaped plasma energy beam. Where a fuller would normally be, is where the electronics and emitter are housed. An unknown power source is housed in the handle. The origin of this weapon is also unknown, as Etrius found it while exploring Russia.
His second weapon is a custom modern-forged red, black, and silver fully automatic .50-calibre Browning M1911 with a 20-round double-stack magazine. It is about 150% larger than the standard M1911 due to the calibre and Etrius's large hands being unable to effectively use human-sized firearms. It has an extended 10-inch (254mm) barrel and an underbarrel picatinny rail for accessories such as an IRLP, IRI, flashlight, or UGL. It was created specifically for him by Kalashnikov Concern, but it was never delivered to him on time before the war started. He found it among other things made for him in a deep underground bunker in Russia.
His cybernetic arms have retractable claws for hand-to-hand combat and can easily piece concrete and bullet-resistant glass, and are more than capable of ripping through steel.
Personal vehicle
Etrius' personal vehicle is a 2090 Famdorchini Airesuqqe RRR, with many aftermarket modifications, such as parts from newer models.
Weaknesses and faults
Because he wears little to no armor, he is vulnerable to shrapnel and bullets despite his thick and dense skin.
Due to an improper memory wipe at the hands of his creator, he suffers from minor short-term memory loss, and he tends to hyperfocus on tasks. Sometimes he will suddenly blackout and continue to carry on a task, and later have no memory of doing so. These blackouts occur more frequently when he is sexually aroused.
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