Role: Villain
Gender: Male
Age: 19
“Someone locks you up in a room with no windows, no light until they turn on the switches. They think they can tame you. They think can control you. Like you’re some kind of animal. They are only two types of people that people see Humans and Animals. But there’s a third type and that’s the things you should be scared of.”
Standing 5’11”, 180cms, and weighing 140lbs, 63kg, with black hair that falls into blue eyes. His outfit is less an outfit and what seems like a torn straight jacket and straight pants. This might be the guy you’re looking for, but there’s something terrifying in the look he’s giving you. He’s dangerous, to himself, and to others.
When Devo speaks it comes off hoarse and gruff, it gives off the impression of someone who doesn’t speak often or someone who hasn’t used their voice in a long time. He sounds near deranged and a little delusional. At eighteen it’s a sad fate, but what is a sadder fate is the condition he leaves his victims in. Even if Devo may have been a victim at some point in his life, risking others and feeling any guilt for others is not an option.
Standing over 6’9”, 205cms, he towered over most an intimidating presence of bioluminescent green. With a skull on its chest and a barbed frills on its neck. A freakishly long tongue behind fangs like prison bars, saliva dripping from each teeth, also bioluminescent green. As to the weight of Caustic, well that is variant, but let’s just go with only Kurt would probably be able to pick him up or stop a full force punch from Caustic. Which is simply a big giant hulking beast of muscles, veins, barbs on its skin, and a nasty temperament. Its voice is deep and trembling like that vibrations of crocodiles and alligators, it is felt through you as it speaks.
Devo’s Personality:
There really isn’t much person left in Devo. Most of his mind was gone or left isolated in that place. What may be leftover is poisoning from Caustic. Though was it really poisoning? It’s the story of the chicken and the egg of who influence who.
Devo was all a little bit of a questionable child when he grew up. He liked horror films and horror books, he laughed when there was blood on the screen and didn’t seem to be scared of much of anything. Yet, he was horribly bullied and for that wanted to see the whole school burn. In fact he probably day dreamed about the school blowing up and people’s flesh melting more times than the teachers would like to admit.
Yet he wasn’t your good little psychopath either, lack the traits of harming animals for pleasure. In fact Devo got along with a lot more animals than he did ever people. He always seemed like a poorly socialized feral dog than he ever did a good little murdering psychopath. Nowadays though Devo’s only a threat to himself and those around him.
All he had was Caustic to talk to not go completely crazy. Yet a lot of him was lost, of what there little was of him. A confused, thirteen year old, with boiling rage and anger from neglect and isolation. To be thrust into an empty room to listen to the mutterings of some alien from some far off planet. To be fed images of war. It bore into his soul.
Caustic’s Personality:
Despite all that brawn Caustic isn’t some dumb meathead. He was actually quite the successful warlord from his planet. One who successfully pulled off a coup and one who successfully dethroned the leader, despite what anyone on his planet would say. He was the one who came up with the plan. Appointed the followers. He was the one who noted the integral weaknesses of the castle and guards protecting the leader.
He was the one who thought of it all. Caustic will not be insulted as some wretched beast with no thought. He sees humans a failure of a species. Their conquering hasn’t really won them much in his eyes. They are still on Earth killing each other. It was Caustic a high official ranking general who earned his species several planets they conquered. These humans are pissants.
Caustic thinks highly of himself, though four hundred years of life will do that to an alien species. He has sired a horde of children. Though he should have considered his own son would have betrayed him as greedy as he was for glory.
Though Caustic doesn’t quite look down to Devo. Of course he sees him as human and he might be a little Xenophobic. In his host mind he sees the desire to conquer the world. He sees the hatred boiling. And Caustic feeds on it. It keeps him strong and gives him a purpose. He will protect his host until he finds someone more suitable than Devo. Though Devo is obedient like a little pet, so he has no desire to leave at current.
Caustic is smart, a planner, a strategic thinker, who sets up ambushes. Despite his size, he can win a good stealthy game if he needs to. That’s kind of the perk of being glowing in a world of wires and glowing lights.
He will become the ruler of Earth. And have the Humans provide food, and bodies for his next wave of children. Then seek out his son and kill him for his traitorous behavior.
Powers:
Symbiote/Old Ones Physiology -
Calling Caustic a Symbiote is sort of rude, the Old Ones are a race of species that can bond their organic material with another organic species organic material through a process of symbiosis. They maintain form without a host, but a host provides the Old Ones a disguise to wear and feed off of when scoping out planets they may want to conquer.
What all Old Ones have in common though with each other are their;
Extraordinary long tongues, which they can use as a prehensile tail, the tongue is strong enough that they can use it to carry their bodies with it, hold objects with it, even turn on switches from far away with it, and even hold people with their tongue as well.
Usually claws and sharp fangs as well, and elongated jaws. The claws are strong enough to dig even into the toughest material and are extremely gifted climbers.
Some have markings on them and some do not. Actually those who have markings on their chest or back, often are insignias of their rank in their society. They are a visual warning to other Old Ones, to a Human it is an ordinary insignia, to Old Ones the markings have a memory imprint on them that they can read and see the glory of the other.
Enhanced Supernatural Strength -
Look if Caustic wants to pound you into the ground and leave a crater size hole doing so, he’s going to do that. Actually despite his hide and ambush techniques, his favorite introduction is just punching a wall with the weight of a semi truck and smashing it down.
Enhanced Supernatural Endurance -
You’re probably going to wear out faster than Caustic is going to. Hitting him and fighting him is like trying to have a fist fight with a tank. He’ll eventually succumb to pain, but it certainly will outlast a human in peak condition.
Each Old One eventually gains powers from the species they have conquered or have been in a symbiotic relationship with.
Caustic’s abilities are;
Body Morphism Camouflage -
Sometimes punching a wall isn’t the best plan. Sometimes an individual has to improvise. Caustic can morph his body into all kinds of different shapes without harm to his host. Wires with glowing green lights could be Caustic, but then again so can that glowing looking computer. Hmmm. This is going to be harder than you thought.
Paralyzing Saliva -
Caustic tongue can be used more than an extra hand. The saliva on his tongue when it touches another species can paralyze the individual for a few short seconds. Though this might give Caustic enough to wrap his arms around and give you a big old crushing hug.
Barbs -
Those a little barbs around Caustic neck are not just for show. They can be extended outward and when they pierce an individuals skin, it injects with them a poison.
Though Caustic is not invincible. It seems the species greatest weakness is to heat, if it gets to hot Caustic might bounce, and fire tends to be their greatest weakness of them all. He can also be forced to change back to his host if there is a loud enough noise like that of a sonic boom. One of the bigger needs to Caustic and the level of strength he has is the need to feed off of another life force to survive.
Humans need to eat. Caustic needs life force. Sometimes that crushing hug he gives someone is Caustic draining them of their life force, leaving them either for dead or at least catatonic and weak.
Bio:
There isn’t really much to say about Devo’s life. He was a weird kid. A weird kid with a lot of issues. His parents were emotionally negligent, less physically abusive, and just not emotionally supportive. And rarely around. This grew into a child born with a lot of resentment and anger issues as he sought other adults for attention in other ways.
He also a tendency to gravitate to the occult or weird. Horror books and novels being his favorite, though it caused concerns for his teachers and other neighborhood parents who influenced their children’s line of thinking by telling them to stay away from someone like Devo. Because of this he was relentlessly bullied.and the teachers were rarely there to aid him because they felt he did it to himself.
Heavily influenced by their bias. They probably would have never saw the more warm kid with animals. Instead they saw him with stray animals and probably went to the worse kind of assumption. Why give any time to a kid like that?
One day when Devo was sixteen something landed in the fields close to his home. Since no one was around, parent wise, it was Devo who check it out. It was just some weird green looking egg thing burning hot from entering the atmosphere. Cracking open some black, green goo, now known as Caustic attached itself to Devo.
Devo never had a friend before. Caustic liked the things he liked. Caustic asked him lots of questions about Earth and he was from a different planet. Every kid dreams of magic or a special discovery and Devo felt like the toughest kid on the block. Caustic showed him things of his world sometimes. The planets he conquered.
Currently Devo is being secured in a Maximum Security Prison, in an Isolation Chamber. Due to an incident two years ago. Sitting in classroom, still a kid with a swarming pool of wrath boiling inside of him, Caustic fed that kids desire.
A thought, I want them all dead. And a, well then why don’t we. Lead to 29 kids and a single teacher killed in a classroom. Devo tried as an adult, and sent to prison for 10 years of his life. He’s only so far served those two years, but Caustic probably can no longer sit still.
Caustic says, We have all the power. Why do we obey them. They should obey us.
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