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A 5’8” Caucasian. The original body wears a black jacket, a brown hoodie, a white collared shirt, a pair of jeans and metal toed shoes.




If he loses a limb, he’ll have to get it tattooed again. If he loses his torso he’ll just get a tattoo. If he loses his head, then his new head will still have the same discrepancy.

A lax, confident soldier. His moral compass however is askew. He does what seems “right.” He spent his whole life being a "good boy," not making a mess in the tube, not fidgeting around during experiments, not breaking the glass, not escaping. Well look where being a good boy got him. So now he's independent and plays by his rules and no one else's.

He doesn’t remember his parents, he just remembers the twisted metal frame of a car and flames everywhere. So he went to an orphanage when he was only 7, and thought he would just live there like the rest, but he was one of the “lucky” few. He got adopted! Well if only they knew who adopted him. He was adopted at 10, and spent his life in a tube for the next four years. He slept there, floating in mildly heated water, as his genes were constantly extracted and experimented on with different animal genes to find a compatibility as he survived off tubes that fed him nutrients, oxygen, and electrical surges to stimulate his muscles. Finally they found a match, and put him into the soldier corps with his new five brothers. Yet troubles arose as they went into more missions, becoming closer knit to their squad through experience together. Death was part of the job, so when the first brother died, everyone felt it but got over it until he came back the next day. The squad knew that it was weird there was six identical siblings, but it wasn’t infeasible. But when one came back, that raised alarms. When another died and came back the next day, the squad knew what was up. Their comrade was a monster, and so the six became the squad’s punching bags. Until the six decided in the middle of a mission, to kill them all. Mutiny, high treason, homicide in the first degree, execution was inevitable. So he was fused back to one person, and then “thrown away.”

Reason for being “Thrown away:” The mental link severely inhibited his uses, as if three of them die simultaneously or in close time proximity of each other, the other three are in too much pain to function for a while. Another death makes them undergo seizures, and another makes him comatose until all hearts regenerate. The fact he killed twenty soldiers was just topping on the sundae.

He was spliced with the genes of the common earthworm. He has six hearts functioning throughout his entire body: one in each limb, in its original place, and in his brain. He can rip his body apart and each limb can regenerate into a clone, which takes about an hour. If he wants to, he can also put his body back together which doesn't take much time as all, he would just have to rip the limb off and replace it. He doesn't take much damage from wounds unless they become life-threatening (like bleeding or decapitation), but he takes severe pain from dying. He cannot regenerate from cuts or bullet wounds, they have to be a dismemberment. However he can seal wounds which become useful if the heart is not destroyed, but limbs are cut off, the body will play dead and regenerate. Each body is completely functional with just one limb, the heart moving from its original location to the designated place in the chest for a normal heart. If that heart is killed, he has to insert it back into his body and it takes a day for it to regenerate. Any of the clones can be considered the original. However if all his hearts die, then he cannot regenerate any of them. His regeneration strength is also determined by how much materials he has to turn into a heart, how many hearts he has remaining, and his activity level. It is a day if he has all other five hearts, but each lost heart is an additional 5 hours. So if he has four hearts, then to get one back would take one day and five hours, then the sixth heart will take a day. He can reorientate his heart locations as to transfer living hearts into dead hearts' places. Like arm hearts can swap to the destroyed torso or head. This is also if he’s just resting. Participating in any sort of strenuous work will stall regeneration. If his heart is completely obliterated, then he loses it forever unless he takes another person’s heart, while it’s still beating. It a short while to augment it to fit his body’s needs. Due to his splicing with the earthworm, he can eat basically anything that his teeth can crush, so no metal or rocks.

Equipment: He has an aluminum bat that has barbed wire soldered onto it.

Extra: Each clone emphasizes a part of emotion, but are all still linked, it's a hive mind. So each feel each other’s pain but not the results. When the clones emerge, they are buck naked. He is capable of hand-to-hand combat and using most weapons, not as masters, but to the competence of typical soldiers. Each are simply called by their limb names, only the head will react to Richard. All of his physical, endurance, and agility is on the level of a soldier due to his time as a soldier. So he's stronger than an average man and most trained operatives, but it's not his specialty.

Originally, Alex was a female child for her first 6 years of life. Living happily with her parents, she became successful in school and skipped several levels of education to immediately go into a special course at the middle school level. While in this environment, she matured quickly, acting much more like an adult than a child early on. Despite her academic success, she had few friends due to her strange way of thinking and heavy difference in age. However, at the age of 5 both of Alex's parents were brutally killed by a road accident that involved a metal beam from a nearby building slamming into the car, causing her two parents, who were in the front seat, to be ripped into bloody piles of chopped up meat. Sitting in the back of the car, Alex managed to survive. Having been knocked out by the initial impact of the vehicle, Alex did not witness her parent's death. She was then hurried into a hospital, where she remained in a coma for several months. After this, she was redistributed to a orphanage where she stayed for an additional year before escaping after learning of her parent's death from records she found in the office of those running the orphanage while sneaking around at night.

Several weeks later, she was found by those running the project while she was unconscious in an alleyway. After bringing her in and analyzing her broad mental capabilities, they decided to run experiments on manipulating her brain structure to be able to send chemical waves from the brain to manipulate the chemical structure of physical objects. Not only was this experiment a failure, but the intense pressure of brain surgery caused the child to die abruptly, making it necessary to create an artificial copy of the him/her for later experiments. Thanks to the artificial copy's brain being enhanced further from the original physical form, the experiment was a technical success. While the experiment did partially work, all the child could do was change the chemical layout of objects to manipulate the way they reflected light. While not what was originally intended, the scientists decided it was nonetheless worthy of continued experiments to improve the conditions of the ability. Despite this accomplishment, the child soon was able to use her abilities to make it seem as if they were not in their containment area. The doors were then opened, and the child began to explore the facility while invisible thanks to her ability to manipulate color/texture. Making her way to the main office of the building, the child discovered the real purpose of the project. Deciding to leave immediately, she was almost able to escape the facility until she noticed the containment of other children listed in the records. Too compassionate to leave without them, the child foolishly tried to save them as well. The moment she tried to de-activate the containment procedure for one of the experiments, she was found and put back into her containment area. Realizing the child could not be allowed to repeat the situation, the scientists wiped her memory, further modified her brain to have diluted emotions, and ripped away her gender. Unfortunately for the facility, this lead to the increase in "it's" mental capacity unexpectedly, the new change not noticed by those observing. 9 years later, the "it" was able to break out of the facility again, this time not caring enough about the others to come back for them. However, "it" was eventually chased down and fired upon. While able to delude the pursuers for a while thanks to "it's" powers, "it" had not realized "it" had a tracker attached to the bottom of "it's" heel. Using this tracker, the facility was able to send a scanning drone which then fired several bullets into the escapee's back, one of the projectiles hitting the spinal cord. This immediately caused the "it" to fall unconscious, nearly paralyzed. Believed to be dead, the teenagers body was then sequentially dumped into the junkyard.

After Alex had been unconscious for some time, a kind medical specialist who was out of work was able to revive the escaped test subject and remove the bullets along with the strange tracking device. Upon discovering it had none to call itself by, the savior would later give "it" the name Alex Hatfield, the last name being the same as the medical specialist's. As Alex woke up, "it" identified the savior as a female in her mid thirties named Jen Hatfield. Alex expressed "it's" gratitude for being saved and briefly told "it's" story to Jen before passing out due to intense pain. It was at this time the medical specialist decided to take care of the young person and keep them shielded from society. During this time, Alex studied several medical and historical textbooks, memorizing their contents within a few days. This later evolved into math and languages as well. Alex was soon fluent in advanced English, Mandarin, Spanish, and Latin. It was during these studies that Alex slowly came to believe that reality itself was nothing without the perceptions of those within it. Going by this belief, Alex decided to learn as much as possible about the human mind, trying to find out how it truly worked to perceive it's surroundings. However, after about 4 months of rest and study, Alex realized that the answers "it" sought could only be found in the facility "it" escaped from. Resolving to venture back, Alex said "it's" goodbyes to Jen, who was now forced to be employed in the criminal underworld secretly as a hire-able medical specialist in order to provide money for both of them, Alex promised "it" would return and make both of their lives the good ones they deserved in the near-future.

Thanks to a combination of an extremely high intelligence and multiple neural/sensitive modifications to "it's" brain, Alex has the ability to manipulate the chemical layout of objects/gases/organic substances in a way that allows "it" to change the way they reflect light by sending chemical waves from "it's" brain to interact with the subject in question. Usually this can be done at a decent range of 30ft nearly instantly. Any farther than that and it takes several seconds to travel to the subject Alex is focusing on. This requires Alex to concentrate the bigger an object gets, but nonetheless it isn't very exhausting for "it" with most things around the size of a large person or smaller. If concentrating hard enough on the texture and color combined, Alex can make someone appear as someone else of around the same body type and size. As well as change the color and texture of things, Alex is also able to use this ability to turn objects/gases/organic substances invisible, but this requires more intense concentration if it is not "itself" that is being targeted. The color/texture change will always revert back to normal within one hour of the change occurring if Alex does not reuse "it's" ability on the subject. As for invisibility, if not used on Alex "itself", it will turn off within 20 seconds of Alex losing concentration. As for Alex, invisibility will tend to last the same as color/texture changes unless turned off. When this ability is used on people, they usually do not feel anything during or after the transformation unless they have extremely attentive nerves, in which cause they feel a small amount of nausea for a short moment when the change occurs. This ability cannot change the direct shape of something, but can make it appear as if the shape has changed by meddling with the texture.

For technical ability, Alex is skilled with a knives, stealth movement/tactics, and agility (Agility is extremely good, but nothing beyond normal human limits.) "It's" weaknesses include poor strength, completely untrained in unarmed combat, lack of training in almost all weapons other than knives, and slightly below average endurance. If forced into direct combat, Alex will tend to be at a disadvantage when against opponents with more advanced combat training or superior strength.

When faced with a combat situation, Alex will tend to hang back and try to confuse the opponent into attacking their allies or being mislead towards the wrong direction. Since Alex has been hiding from people all of "it's" life since the experience at the orphanage, stealth is "it's" preferred method of confrontation. For killing ability, Alex will usually prefer to simply change the target's surroundings to look safe when in reality there may be heavy drop-offs or dangerous devices nearby they could run into. If "it" has to, Alex was given a long knife with a fixed blade from Jen to use in self defense, and has practiced with it a good amount ever since (Alex stores this knife hidden under "it's" over-shirt in a sleeve on "it's" belt with a leather flap locked in and secured with a metal button to prevent it from falling out. Alex is able to quickly swing "it's" arm under the over-shirt to pull the knife out if needed thanks to the large opening the over-shirt has on either side for the arm holes.)

Standing at 5"8, Alex wears a loose white over-shirt with 2 short black cords hanging from the shoulders and sides cut at the sleeve edges to be pulled off more quickly. The over-shirt is also made of water-resistant synthetic fabric. Under this, Alex wears a white long-sleeved T-shirt with white cargo pants. Alex has gray(ish)/blue eyes that never appear to be focused on any one thing, constantly darting around in search of something nonexistent. For skin color, Alex is extremely pale, almost unnaturally without complexion. In addition to this, Alex has extremely long, unnaturally green hair going down to "it's" knees. This strange appearance gives Alex a distinct unnatural look while not under color/texture change in public areas. Alex almost always has "it's" hair recolored to a dark brown, but the true color is still revealed while "it" is sleeping. To keep the hair from restraining movement, Alex will tend to wear it in a ponytail behind "it's" head. Unless examined closely, Alex will usually appear to be a girl due to the length/style of it's hair and gender-less body type. While Alex does have white running shoes, "it" somehow prefers to walk barefoot in most situations, feeling this allows "it" to use it's abilities more smoothly on "it's" surroundings. Alex has a large scar on "it's" heel from where the tracker was pulled out, as well as 3 different dotted scars running down "it's" back, revealing where it was shot from before by the drone from above. Upon close inspection, Alex also appears to have no sexual organs, having no gender or inclination towards any reproductive action. Even more specific is that Alex rarely smiles, usually keeping a stoic and bland look over "it's" face unless "it" is in an extremely emotional situation, in which case it may reveal small parts of "it's" emotions over time. Due to being artificially created, Alex's body is frozen at the age of 18, resulting in the inability to physically age beyond that point. When in public areas, Alex tends to change out of "it's" over-shirt and change the color of "it's" shirt and pants to avoid standing out in a crowd. Alex also uses changes in the texture of "it's" face to look like someone else in order to avoid being recognized by anyone looking for "it" while in these areas.

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