Post by River on Jul 5, 2006 0:38:59 GMT -5
[[...General...]]
Name: River
Nickname(s): None. River is short enough...
Alias: The Messiah
Species: Scientifically Engineered Hellhound (used to be a doberman pincher)
Gender: Male
Age: 4, soon to be 5
[[...Pack...]]
Past Pack(s): was once a family pet
Current Pack: None
Current rank: Loner
Close Friends: None
General Friends: Sadae, Faust
General Enemies: None
Definite Enemies: Humans
[[...Family...]]
Sire: Butcher
Dam: Princess
Siblings: 2 brothers and a sister
Mate: none... yet...
Spawn: none...yet...
[[...Apparence...]]
Height: 4 ft
Weight: 155 lbs.
Coat Color: dead yellowish blond
Coat Markings: Dark spots on hind quarters and shoulders
Coat Length: Long in some places and wiry in texture
Eyes: Black with glowing green pupils
Claws: black and retractable
Pawpads: dark brown
Body Type: Has been reduced to a lanky, underweight and generally unhealthy sort of status...
[[...Personality...]]
Stereotype: Quiet and relatively peaceful, if a little arrogant
River would actually be considered a nice guy compared to most other hounds. He's not out to kill everyone and isn't particularly evil or anything. He is, however, rather blunt when speaking or even doing something. He isn't afraid to show the mortals what's been done to him or any other horrors of life and never sugar coats anything. He just tells it like it is and shrugs nonchalantly when others turn it upside down and make a big deal out of the matter. In pure truth, he doesn't really care what others think about him or what he does and looks down upon others who focus on appearance and such...
This is partly because River isn't exactly good looking. His fur is shaggy, matted and barely clinging to his discolored skin. His body is almost only said skin and some bones, many of which have been warped from experiments, and most of them show through his thin pelt. One ear is slowly decaying away after an experiment to restore its original shape, as it had been cropped before he was taken away. He smells like rotting flesh, he has a nasty overbite that doesn't allow him to close his mouth and blood drips from infections caused by heavy metal bolts implanted in his skin so the scientists could restrain him or suspend him from hooks during experiments...
Obviously, the past wasn't very good to him and he hates everything it's made of him. As such, he hates it when someone mentions something obvious. "Ew... you smell like something that died on the side of the road." Yeah, cause he didn't notice that already... Drives him crazy, things like that. That and creatures who ask a lot of questions. Basically, anything annoying or anything that can give him a headache. With two rings stuck into the side of his head, he can be pretty sensitive to loud noises and particularly bright lights. Plus, his vision has been tampered with and now he sees like a night-vision camera at night but like a normal wolf or dog during the day. This makes him an excellent night watchman however as he can see everything... and I mean everything. His hearing could be better though so it's actually not very difficult to sneak up on him. It's not recommended as he's sort of jumpy and rather spazztic...
But, if you don't mention the stench or surprise him in anyway, he's actually quite an enjoyable guy to be around. When spoken to, he's very honest and actually pretty loyal toward those he thinks deserves it, having once been a family pet. but, when he isn't involved in conversation or when hanging around with strangers for whatever reason, he doesn't talk much and tends to simply blend into the background. Many don't even realize he's there
Quirks: Drools a lot due to overbite, cannot see the stars due to his night-vision eyesight, often slurs speech, talks to himself... a lot, also talks to an Indian Cobra named Izeya who is only a figment of his imagination, is very lazy and often tired from carrying around all the extra metal in/on his body, whole pelvis was replaced with steel but one hip joint is faulty and often creeks when he walks, sensitive to heat and cold, very finicky appetite, constantly thinks he's hearing things and can get quite paranoid about it, is unable to cry tears and instead cries blood...
Strengths: Extremely fast due to cheetah DNA, excellent balance when walking on cliffs of climbing trees thanks to long balancing tail and retractable claws, brilliant night-vision-like eyesight allowing him to see almost perfectly in the dark, thirst for revenge can drive him to do anything...
Faults: Not very good with pain, sinks in deep water due to all the extra weight from the metal in/on his body, the bolt going through his ribcage often hinders his breathing, prone to neck problems from the heavy chains around his neck, bones in right foreleg are twisted and often cause him to limp a little, strange eyes and neurological problems cause hallucinations, is rather lazy and doesn't often obey commands...
Voice: His voice is... indescribable. Very smooth, often rather monotone unless he's very angry and rather quiet in tone. Just a very average sounding voice, though one that's rather pleasant to listen to... except he often slurs his words...
[[...History...]]
Born in a doberman breeding facility, River was the smallest of his litter but still a fantastic example of a doberman pincher. His coat was originally an Isebellan fawn color, not white or grey but an incredible simulation. Though this wasn't desired among show breeds, it didn't really take away from the pup's find features. His body was perfectly square, his head lean, his neck powerful. he was the perfect shape for his breed but just an inch under the standard height and therefore unqualified for showing. So, he was sold instead to a loving family once he was two months old.
That was the good time in his life. Like all adorable puppies, he cared for and spoiled like a child. He was fed table scraps when the parents weren't looking, he enjoyed sleeping at the foot of the eldest daughter's bed and got to play all day in the big open backyard. It was wonderful, even by domestic dog standards. But so little of that life remains in his memory at this point... he can't even remember the daughter's name, the one he was so attached to, but he still has dreams about her...
Sometime before his first birthday, he was sold to a seemingly nice man. River still doesn't know why he was sold but he remembered looking out off the back of the pickup truck and seeing all his family crying...
What they probably knew, and what he knows now, is that seemingly nice man was taking him to his doom, to hell and back again. At first, the lab was actually a very nice place to be. It was a tall concrete building like the vet's office and, like the vet's office, River was fed tasty treats and really yummy dog food and all that. He was kept in a room full of other young dogs and studied from day to day by the scientists. every now and then, they'd take him out and examine him or take a blood sample, just like the vet's office. For the first maybe week or so, that's all he thought it was. But, once they took him out the final time, he found out how different it was...
The next few years were full of nothing but evil experiments and pain, terrible pain. It started with minor things, purposefully wounding him with a knife and pouring various substances into the cut to see how it effected healing, things like bleach and motor oil. As the pup grew older, the experiments grew bolder and River's struggles more desperate. When they attempted to regenerate his tail (the breeders having docked it when he was young), they introduced the heavy metal color that still hangs around his neck, as well as metal shackles around his feet and abdomen. Using stem cells from a big cat and powerful radiation chambers, they managed to regrow the tail in a matter of a few hours but river did not enjoy a minute of it. The radiation was delivered by a searingly hot beam and it burned his flesh. As the experiment went on, it was soon discovered that the radiation was beginning to backfire, decaying away the flesh on the same tail they were trying to grow so it was eventually stopped. The bandages covering the exposed muscle and bone still remain...
But those experiments were the easy stuff. As things progressed, the scientists found it easier to suspend the animal from the ceiling while they performed various actions upon him. So, they drilled bolts into his side and rungs into each side of his skull. Originally, they were to be drilled through harmless portions of his body but, seeing as he was awake during the procedure and under nothing to dull the pain, River had struggled and the first bolt was drilled through his ribcage instead of the harmless area just below. Now, it hinders his stamina and often chokes him of breath during strenuous activity...
Now with the bolts in, the experiments continued to worsen. they spliced his DNA with that of countless other animals, each one worse than the last. It started with something simple, like a wolf and eventually progressed to a hyena, a cheetah and even a crocodile, but most of the DNA splices were failures, resulting in nasty deformities that morphed his bones and tore his flesh. Many tests had to be stopped so they might fix these ailments in an attempt to keep him alive during it all. Organs had to be replaced, bones were strengthened or even totally replaced with steel parts and the degeneration of many sensitive parts of his body became a serious problem.
As River grew weaker by the moment, the scientists were desperate to keep him around as long as they possibly could. He was the perfect subject biologically, with a generous immune system that didn't repel the replacement organs and a very effective metabolism that responded well to antibiotics and other sorts of medication that were used to keep the infections down. They wanted to continue their experiments on him and tried their best to keep him alive. To increase his muscle strength, they often left lead weights hanging from his chains. The only one that they never removed acted as identification. It's flat and triangular in shape and has the word "Messiah" engraved upon it.. Why? Well, the government was going to use the genetically engineered dogs as part of national security in the war against terrorists. If as successful as River seemed to be, they'd end terrorism as the world knows it. He'd be a global savior... The Messiah...
One of the things the government was really looking forward to was the night vision. Exactly how the scientists managed to give River the ability to see in the dark is unknown. The procedure started like most others, he was chained up and a bunch of volunteers held his head in place and his eyes open. There was a lot of carving and blood and just plain and utter agony before he finally managed to pass out. So, most of what happened is vague or unknown. But while most see such an ability as an improvement, his night vision is probably what River hates most about the ordeal. The sky and stars were his only hope during the night when he was kept in the small concrete holding cell while some other fool was being tortured. He'd often lay there on the cold ground, staring up at the one small window close to the ceiling. All he could see was the sky as it was a very high window but that was enough to keep him sane. But now, he cannot see the stars at night and everything seems so hopeless...
There were a few more experiments after that, most of which River barely remembers. Without the night sky to keep him sane, he began to loose his mind, as anyone would expect him to. So, like so many other hounds before him, he escaped by killing every single scientist testing him at the time with the very same saber teeth they'd given to him. Everyone else he merely knocked over and out ran, using the cheetah speed he'd also been given to avoid most gunfire and guard dogs. That was about a month ago and, now no longer so new to the wild life, he plans to find someplace to settle down... and finally die...
[[...Other...]]
Theme Song(s):
Liberate- Disturbed
Bled For Days- Static-X
Rise- Disturbed
Hell- Disturbed
Perfect Insanity- Disturbed
Stricken- Disturbed
Welcome to my life- Simple Plan
Dance Dance- Fall Out Boys
Metal Gear Solid 2 Theme song
Let Me Prey- Oculus Infernum
Let the Bodies Hit The Floor- Drowning Pool
Can't Be Fixed- Spineshank
Getting Away With Murder- Papa Roach
Between Angels and Insects- Papa Roach
Take Me- Papa Roach
Snakes- Papa Roach
Scars- Papa Roach
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams- Greenday
Breaking The Habit- Linkin Park
Papercut- Linkin Park
Runaway- Linkin Park
Anything But This- Static-X
I Am- Static-X
Other rps featured:
None
Notes:
I will seriously bow down before you or something if you read that whole history. @.@ The longest history I've ever written... maybe... ^^
Reference:
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