Daniel

Monster

5

Passive // Hostile⁽¹⁾

Biologically irrelevent, answers to Male pronouns

Daniel is... Daniel, I suppose. His "gift" makes pinning down his physicality impossible, but we I can give the basics. He stands at a solid 8'6 and can weigh anywhere between 700 and 800 pounds... that's about all I can say with any accuracy. His flesh is always shifting, sometimes he's covered in spikes and tentacles,
other times he's all scales and corrosive mucus. He transcends description, both grotesque and sublime all in one.

Daniel has a duality to him that can only be observed by us behind screens. To the faculty of the IOS he is little more than an animal, aggressive to the extreme and highly suspicious of anything we do, which can be understood. Yet in the presence of the other Children, he is nearly docile, rarely raising whatever voice he may have above a whisper and seems to attempt to make himself smaller when amongst the smaller Children. He's also shown an intense loyalty to Subjects 2 and 18, with records of him jumping to their defenses multiple times and even taking heavy damage in his protection.

Infinite Mutation: Daniel may appear to be connected with the Hydra, but in actuality has is more in common with Alpha than any of the other children. We honestly have no idea how he does it but he's siphoning an immeasurable amount of energy from a source outside of our knowledge and unconsciously permeating his cells with it, causing them to mutate indefinitely and without any visible cell damage. These mutations are invariably geared towards combat, with bone samples found to be unnaturally sharp and strong.

Pain Tolerance: It's no secret that Daniel's mutations cause him great pain, but it's apparent that he's learned to live with it and nearly any he seems to heap upon himself.

Regeneration: The constant shifting of his physiology has gifted Daniel with an incredible healing factor, able to heal minor wounds near instantly unless cauterized.

Enhanced Strength: The energies that cause his mutations seemingly also fill them with unnatural strength as well, making containment fairly bothersome. In the field, he's been shown to casually rip apart nearly anything he can get his "hands" on and his tantrums have shown that not even our hardest materials are guaranteed to hold him.

Power Surge:It has been shown that, during times of high stress, Daniel's body goes haywire as it's flooded with more energies than it can rightly handle. This power surge creates a rash of grotesque mutations appear across his body and, worse yet, strains his containment suit to the limits. Plates buckling and batteries filling to near critical levels. These transformations seem to be far more painful than his normal ones, however, as they immediately turn him into a frothing animal.

Frenzy: Daniel is plagued by rage, one of the few outlets he has for his torment. These moments of animalistic rage are thankfully rare but always costly in collateral, both in structure and life, and the only surefire way of taking him out of it is to either pump him with enough sedatives to kill a whale, beat him down until exhaustion takes him, or talking him down, an incredibly dangerous tactic only the other Children have been able to pull off.

Overgrowth: Daniel's mutations are so random and so numerous that we must take every precaution to keep them under control, lest he lose himself completely to the madness that is his body. To this end he must have regularly scheduled surgeries to remove excess growths and the batteries connected to his armor must be monitored intensely. We don't know what will happen to Daniel, and all those around him, if he were to lose control of that energy... and we aren't about to find out either.

Like A Sack of Bricks: A harsh, but apt, description. Daniel has been noted as being simpler than many of his siblings, but I personally think that's a grave oversimplification. He's cunning,
the way he watches things is less like a man but more of a predator, and to dismiss that is to sign your own death certificate.