Appearance: Strider now has a purple insect that completely covers his back that has dragonfly-like wings and a large scorpion tail. A purple chitin armor has spread around the parasite to his shoulders (That now resemble pauldrons), and around the edges of his chest and waist.

Name: Strider Kinova

Gender: Male

Nicknames/Aliases: Close friends call him by his given name “Kinova” and “Strider” is used by everyone else.

Epithet: N/A

Age: 26

Hometown: North Blue, Psycho-Kore Island

Marine Rank: Lieutenant

Role: Intelligence Officer

Abilities & Skills: Kinova knows basic subterfuge techniques, and is quite sneaky. He is also proficient in the use of firearms. With the growing neural connection he has with the parasite on his back, Kinova is able to use its wings for flight, and can also use the insect’s scorpion tail to attack, although doing so causes great strain on Strider’s mind.

Equipment: Kinova always keeps his two revolvers at his waist, and they are his main method of combat. He wears a utility belt containing ammo, smoke bombs, caltrops, and tripwire.

Devil Fruit: N/A

Personality: Kinova is cocky, but reserved. He’s always judging others and while he doesn’t consider himself an elitist snob, he does end up putting himself above others that he doesn’t understand. To him, the law is a sacred institution that should be followed and enforced, lest the world become another Meltdown City. He enjoys being around others and has a cheesy sense of humor, although ever since he gained the +1 on his back, Strider can’t help but be self-conscious.

Biography: Strider Kinova grew up in the ghettos of Meltdown City on Psycho-Kore Island, a small metropolis surrounded by tropical jungles. It is here that strange phenomena seems to congregate mysteriously. People disappear and bizarre sightings come up every day. Meltdown, a mecca of lawless chaos for the bizarre to thrive and do as they please, makes everyday life difficult. From a young age, Kinova joined up with a mercenary group known as the Subjugators who have been tasked to take out various criminal groups in the city to try and bring some sense of order. Kinova would serve as a spy and infiltrator in order to uncover vital secrets. This effort would be ultimately fruitless as the Subjugators disbanded after the bombing and destruction of their jungle headquarters after only 5 years of operation.

Kinova would then spend the next few years lying low from the people who would want him and the rest of the surviving Subjugators dead, only ever surfacing to visit the ruins of the HQ. Only, on one of his visits, he ended up lost in the jungles, and attacked by a strange winged purple insect with a large scorpion-like tail. It would proceed to knock him out and when he awoke, Kinova would find the thing imbedded into his back. Afraid of removing it himself, he went to one of the old Subjugator doctors, only to find that the insect had now fused with his spine. Removal would mean death, and after around a month of observation, it was found that this insect was slowly assimilating Kinova’s body to be used as its own. Afraid for his life, Kinova decided to travel the world to find a method of removing the strange purple being. Needing a method, he contacted a former Subjugator ally who was now in the Marines, and joined himself to provide his former paramilitary skills. Time goes on, and already Kinova’s mind grows hazy, and a familiar purple chitin has started growing on his skin…

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