Name: RED HEAVY Vincent Richards
Age: 26
Class: Heavy
Gender: Male
Team: RED
Appearance: Vince is a monster, pure and simple. Nearly all traces of his previous humanity have been rooted out by his demon through a pair of transformations. Now, his form appears as a draconic demon, with insectoid elements. Vince stands at about 9 feet tall and 12 feet long, his rather bulky body covered in armored exoskeleton segments, each one split into a deep-black, thick backside and a reddish underhide. The backside of the 5 thorax segments are fused together into a heavy shell, with two small openings in the top back, where a pair of enormous, dark-red, leathery dragon wings sprout out, which, when fully unraveled, would reach a combined wingspan of over 30 feet. The underhide of the thorax, on the other hand, remains split, including down the front center, and is shaped roughly like a pair of lungs and abdominal muscles, the bottom few enlarged to give the Heavy his traditional husky appearance.
The two 'lung' segments connect on the sides to a pair of large, bulky arms, each also encased in segments of exoskeleton. On each arm, there are two separate arm segments, connected at the elbow by a joint, a 'wrist' segment, two hand segments, and three claws on each hand, with one of the claws representing an opposable thumb on the side of the first hand segment while the others are on the end of the second. In a similar structure to the arms, Vince also has a pair of large, thick legs, the thighs especially thick, like tree trunks, and also with three foot segments and three claws, except instead of thumbs, the top claw on each foot is a smaller 'dewclaw', while the other two are oversized, built to withstand his incredible weight.
Where his 'bottom' used to be, Vince now sports a rather long, segmented tail. It's roughly conical, with 6 roughly foot-long segments, plus an additional 'stinger', pointy tail end. This tail could be used as an additional piercing weapon, and can swing from side to side in a nearly 180 degree circle, its range only limited from the exoskeleton itself, as it's only able to bend at the segment joints. On the other side, Vince's neck has grown considerably since his days as a human, in both length and width, sporting three additional segments above his chest, each one above shrinking slightly in both length and diameter from the one below it. Overall, his posture is bipedal, with his neck and thorax pointing at roughly a 45 degree angle to the vertical, while nearly all of his tail is mostly horizontal. His legs are almost always bent at the knees.
Vince's head has become larger and much longer depthwise. His human features have been replaced with more reptilian shape for the most part, yet, a masklike shell encases most of his head. Two large, red eyes, with very narrow black slits for pupils, stick out of open slots in his 'mask', but because he has no eyelids, his eyes show open all the time, even when sleeping. The outermost membrane of his eyes have hardened into a protective casing, kind of like the outside of a snake's eyes. Vince also has a pair of long, antenna-like horns on the top of his head, extending back several feet, the base of which were just inside a pair of eye ridges, where eyebrows would be. His mouth, though, is possibly the most interesting part of his head. The size is larger than his whole head used to be, before he met the demon now living within him, and it's split into not two, but two distinct sections. There are the upper jaw and lower jaw, each showing numerous razor-sharm teeth, including a pair of large canines on each jaw, the upper ones measuring almost four inches, the entirety of those two fangs showing along each side of the lower jaw, extending even lower than it when his mouth is closed. But in addition to these two jaws, he also sports a pair of movable mandibles, able to help grabbing onto his food with its several toothlike horns attacked to it.
Personality: PO
Biography: Vincent was born to a single mother in a poor, inner city community. His mother, a waitress by day, spent most of her cash on illicit drugs, and saw Vince as a burden, rather than a joy, and so, he grew up on the streets from an early age. The harsh conditions around him consumed him, and by the age of twenty, he was carrying out orders for the local drug lord, anything from dealing to carrying out hits and striking at rivals. His days on the streets, however, came to an end, after robbing and killing an innocent couple of newlyweds, he was surrounded by cops and taken to jail. His crime list was long by then, and he was chosen as a fall guy by his boss, and so it wasn't long before he was convicted and sentenced to death.
While Vince was incarcerated, and awaiting death row, in a maximum-security prison, he was visited by a strange creature. A small draconic whelp, maybe 2 feet long and covered in black, armored segments, with a red underhide, also naturally armored, hovered in front of the man. The natural red glow surrounding this strange beast awakened Vince from his concrete slab of a bed. Vince was given a choice... he could either stay as he was, and die a weak, shattered shadow of a man, or he could become more... given strength and power beyond his wildest dreams.
The demon had chosen its target well... this was a man who had nothing left to lose, who had lost all hope... until it came... but also a man who had already shown a vicious streak. It was a choice that Vince jumped at, his own lust for power and his survival instincts leading the way. And so, he gratefully gave his body to the demon, The creature dove into his stomach and attached itself to his spine, sending toxins through his body, as well as forming a psychic connection with his mind. The pain was excruciating, head to tail, his whole body began to twist and writhe. For what seemed like an eternity, the mutation continued, his body tearing itself up to reform. But it was incomplete... there was only so much mass available. Yet, Vince could feel the rush of power flowing through his body, as well as another emotion overwhelming his mind... hunger.
It wasn't long before one of the prison guards began to walk over to check on Vince, hearing the screaming and commotion. But by the time he arrived, Vince's initial transformation was complete. He tore through the iron gates like butter with his claws, and burst through, leaping out at the guard. The guard, startled by the abomination before him, could only manage to call for backup before he was pinned to the ground, unable to even draw his gun. By the time additional guards arrived, he was merely a scattered pile of bones, blood, and body parts, along with torn pieces of clothing. Vince was nowhere to be seen, but a large hole had been torn completely through the reinforced prison walls. Sirens alerted the facility to a possible escapee, and floodlights began to shine around the perimeter, but the one glimpse of Vince captured was of an unknown figure, flying out toward the horizon. Vince was soon long gone.
His escape was a success, but Vince otherwise was a mess. Initially, he began to capture humans randomly, feasting on their bodies, but his insatiable hunger remained, and forces out to kill him only continued to close in. The bulk obtained from his feasting began to slow him down, and after a close encounter with a military gunship, he knew he couldn't continue hiding much longer. But this was the moment the demon within him was waiting for... the moment Vince learned of RED. Things apparently had already been working behind the scenes, as RED managed to show up the very next day, explaining how they had pulled some strings with their 'friends in high places' to take him, in the name of research. Of course, they had no actual plans for research, but rather to complete his transformation into possibly the greatest weapon in RED's arsenal.
Other: Yay, finally done!