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CHARACTER NAME: Alex Mercer
CHARACTER SERIES: [PROTOTYPE]
[OOC]
Backtagging: Yes
Threadhopping: Yes
Fourthwalling: Sure
Offensive subjects (elaborate): None on my end, fine with any degree of dark subject matter. See content warnings for this character and canon below.
[IC]
Hugging/Kissing/Flirting with this character: Feel free to flirt, but he's surly and awkward, and fundamentally a (literal) predator. There's a very distinct, uncomfortable 'off' vibe with him that generally doesn't put people at ease, especially with the way he looks at people. Specifically, that is: like he’s barely restraining himself from eating them (and not metaphorically 😬) He’s slow and suspicious to trust after his ex-girlfriend betrayed him, and an informant he also trusted also betrayed him.
Smut with this character: This might be convoluted to write, but I'm definitely not averse. Although whether you'd want to get this close to a virus that can assimilate human flesh/biomass in an excessively gory and tendril-y fashion as easy as blinking (although for Alex to do so would be a deliberate choice) is a different matter. If your character's a freak, talk 2 me.
Fighting with this character: Yes
Injuring this character (include limits and severity): Go for it.
Killing this character: He's extremely hard to outright kill, discuss first.
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: Go for it!! He's a writhing human-shaped viral bio-mass that's assimilated the memories of uhhhh a lot of people in his protagonist's journey for truth, justice, and answers, it would be a very interesting experience for sure. Feel free to pick up on that if your character has supernatural or extrasensory powers.
Warnings: Body horror (!), medical horror, mutations, viruses, human experimentation, infectious pandemics, use of nuclear weapons, gore, hive-minds and assimilation, etc. Alex himself is not human, but a blacklight virus that infected Dr. Mercer's corpse. He just assumed he was Dr. Mercer with amnesia, but found out later that he wasn’t. He's capable of consuming or absorbing biomass and assimilating it into himself. This usually involves writhing tendrils of biomass and is very quick; effectively instantaneous. The process is exactly as disgusting and visceral as it sounds. For humans, once he assimilates them and their DNA, he can also disguise himself as them - facsimile of their clothes and all - and gain access to some of their memories.
Notes:
- His canon point is usually after the first game - or happy to canon-crossover or AU him up. He slots pretty neatly as a scientific experiment in other canons.
- I never finished Prototype 2, so I'm more interested in playing him as a virus with an identity complex learning How To Be a Real Boy and Do Good (or at least better than the original Mercer, which isn't hard), while not shying away from the nastier parts of himself and his canon. So with more nuance than generic EvilBadGuy who is a Sick and Twisted Cycle Path
- Voicetesting, so please be understanding! It's been a very long time since I last played this game that released in 2009, I got a bit nostalgic. I'm just here to try things out and have fun!
- Powers-wise, he can adapt his biomass to all sorts of freaky weapons and is strong and quick as hell. Whip-fists, armored forms, Edward Scissorarms, pick up and throw tanks around… he’s also very mobile, can jump freakishly high, and loves doing destructive parkour and flips for fun. #parkourlife. Can sprint up or along the side of buildings. (Warning for video game gore: Link to video)
Interested in:
- Crossovers with other canons where Alex finds himself having to adapt to an unfamiliar place or universe where he is very much out-of-context. Horror, fantasy, sci-fi, historical, superhero/villain, urban fantasy, etc all good. AKA I'd love to explore some outside-context scenarios where Alex - as a viral body horror construct as a pure consequence of science, but otherwise looks like a normal dude - is unfamiliar to someone or someplace, and so are they to Alex. For example:
- Alex traveling the world, mostly dodging Blackwatch and trying to keep a low profile, but also discovering humanity. Helping out sometimes, in an exceedingly overkill way.
- Alex rooting out rumors or secret government labs, or going to investigate strange occurrences so plague apocalypse v.2. doesn't happen. He could be undercover in disguise (having subsumed the form of anybody working there), and might make a detour to free imprisoned or kidnapped people if he’s intrigued.
- Government/hero types being sent to investigate reports of gruesome and inexplicable crime scenes. Or to locate and contain/exterminate the extremely dangerous blacklight virus codenamed “Zeus”, who is really just tryna live his life and has no intention of starting a plague apocalypse. Alex being hunted (and of course, doing the hunting in turn.)
- Alex in a post-apocalypse of any sort could be interesting tbh.
- Alex is very much seeking a purpose and discovering 'himself', so I'm game to drop him in other settings/universes and letting him imprint on people like a little murdercat. He really is seeking genuine connection, seeing as he's lacking it very much without his sister, Dana.
- He's honestly really easy to manipulate, if your character has an ounce of subtlety or decent cunning. Just watch out for the claws.
- Pretty open to exploring ideas.
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CHARACTER SERIES: [PROTOTYPE]
[OOC]
Backtagging: Yes
Threadhopping: Yes
Fourthwalling: Sure
Offensive subjects (elaborate): None on my end, fine with any degree of dark subject matter. See content warnings for this character and canon below.
[IC]
Hugging/Kissing/Flirting with this character: Feel free to flirt, but he's surly and awkward, and fundamentally a (literal) predator. There's a very distinct, uncomfortable 'off' vibe with him that generally doesn't put people at ease, especially with the way he looks at people. Specifically, that is: like he’s barely restraining himself from eating them (and not metaphorically 😬) He’s slow and suspicious to trust after his ex-girlfriend betrayed him, and an informant he also trusted also betrayed him.
Smut with this character: This might be convoluted to write, but I'm definitely not averse. Although whether you'd want to get this close to a virus that can assimilate human flesh/biomass in an excessively gory and tendril-y fashion as easy as blinking (although for Alex to do so would be a deliberate choice) is a different matter. If your character's a freak, talk 2 me.
Fighting with this character: Yes
Injuring this character (include limits and severity): Go for it.
Killing this character: He's extremely hard to outright kill, discuss first.
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: Go for it!! He's a writhing human-shaped viral bio-mass that's assimilated the memories of uhhhh a lot of people in his protagonist's journey for truth, justice, and answers, it would be a very interesting experience for sure. Feel free to pick up on that if your character has supernatural or extrasensory powers.
Warnings: Body horror (!), medical horror, mutations, viruses, human experimentation, infectious pandemics, use of nuclear weapons, gore, hive-minds and assimilation, etc. Alex himself is not human, but a blacklight virus that infected Dr. Mercer's corpse. He just assumed he was Dr. Mercer with amnesia, but found out later that he wasn’t. He's capable of consuming or absorbing biomass and assimilating it into himself. This usually involves writhing tendrils of biomass and is very quick; effectively instantaneous. The process is exactly as disgusting and visceral as it sounds. For humans, once he assimilates them and their DNA, he can also disguise himself as them - facsimile of their clothes and all - and gain access to some of their memories.
Notes:
- His canon point is usually after the first game - or happy to canon-crossover or AU him up. He slots pretty neatly as a scientific experiment in other canons.
- I never finished Prototype 2, so I'm more interested in playing him as a virus with an identity complex learning How To Be a Real Boy and Do Good (or at least better than the original Mercer, which isn't hard), while not shying away from the nastier parts of himself and his canon. So with more nuance than generic EvilBadGuy who is a Sick and Twisted Cycle Path
- Voicetesting, so please be understanding! It's been a very long time since I last played this game that released in 2009, I got a bit nostalgic. I'm just here to try things out and have fun!
- Powers-wise, he can adapt his biomass to all sorts of freaky weapons and is strong and quick as hell. Whip-fists, armored forms, Edward Scissorarms, pick up and throw tanks around… he’s also very mobile, can jump freakishly high, and loves doing destructive parkour and flips for fun. #parkourlife. Can sprint up or along the side of buildings. (Warning for video game gore: Link to video)
Interested in:
- Crossovers with other canons where Alex finds himself having to adapt to an unfamiliar place or universe where he is very much out-of-context. Horror, fantasy, sci-fi, historical, superhero/villain, urban fantasy, etc all good. AKA I'd love to explore some outside-context scenarios where Alex - as a viral body horror construct as a pure consequence of science, but otherwise looks like a normal dude - is unfamiliar to someone or someplace, and so are they to Alex. For example:
* High fantasy world where Alex doesn't know what the fuck is going on, and adventurers are very confused by what could have left these claw marks- Fish out of water tropes and scenarios
* Alex stuck in a horror setting and encountering horror protagonists, except he's a weirdo in a hoodie who isn't that phased because he's used to splitting mutant abominations in half with his fist and assimilating their biomass
* Some well-intentioned healer casting healing spells on an unconscious stranger wearing strange clothes, only to find that it's dissolving his 'flesh'
* Or a modern doctor trying to take some tests on him, and uhhhhhhh.....??????
* What do you mean your grotesque biological zombie plague is different to my grotesque biological zombie plague?
* Etc, etc.
- Alex traveling the world, mostly dodging Blackwatch and trying to keep a low profile, but also discovering humanity. Helping out sometimes, in an exceedingly overkill way.
- Alex rooting out rumors or secret government labs, or going to investigate strange occurrences so plague apocalypse v.2. doesn't happen. He could be undercover in disguise (having subsumed the form of anybody working there), and might make a detour to free imprisoned or kidnapped people if he’s intrigued.
- Government/hero types being sent to investigate reports of gruesome and inexplicable crime scenes. Or to locate and contain/exterminate the extremely dangerous blacklight virus codenamed “Zeus”, who is really just tryna live his life and has no intention of starting a plague apocalypse. Alex being hunted (and of course, doing the hunting in turn.)
- Alex in a post-apocalypse of any sort could be interesting tbh.
- Alex is very much seeking a purpose and discovering 'himself', so I'm game to drop him in other settings/universes and letting him imprint on people like a little murdercat. He really is seeking genuine connection, seeing as he's lacking it very much without his sister, Dana.
- He's honestly really easy to manipulate, if your character has an ounce of subtlety or decent cunning. Just watch out for the claws.
- Pretty open to exploring ideas.
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