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A-137
Alex / The Monstrous
A-137
Art by, SirBlizz98
Emblem by SirBlizz98
- Strength-14
- Intelligence-6
- Charisma-1
- Endurance-12
- Agility-15
- Luck-4
Age: 26 years
Height: 6'6" ft
Species: Notail
Job: A literal monster
Likes: Salt, Meat, Father's day, Revenge, The morning after a terrible storm
Dislikes: Most other notails, Unsolicited violence, The taste of gauze
Notable contributions: Being an utterly ruthless, incredibly effective, "Perfect" killing machine.
Traits
This character is more able to survive in an unfavorable environment, given time. This character is able to handle radical changes without folding under pressure.
This character takes no penalties from eating rotten or rancid rations. In fact, it’s good for them.
This character is crafty when it comes to lying and deception, able to more easily trick others to get what they want. They may also have a knack for illusions.
This character is willing to kill in order to solve most problems, and may have absolutely no problems with doing so. This may result in a character threatening to kill people ahead of them in a line without hesitation, and following through if not taken seriously.
This character is slow to trust others and may not understand sincerity or integrity, believing that people must be motivated by self-interest. They may disobey orders or go against their own crew because they believe they are trying to trick them.
This character very easily holds a grudge and almost never forgives. If this character feels that they have been wronged, they will seek out revenge. It’s very difficult for others to work with this character once they have a grudge.
This character will eat not only characters of their own species but will also eat other sentient beings. The moment that if the character runs out of food they will attempt to eat others nearby. This character may also eat sentient beings even if they have food.
Physical Description
A-137 is, by the standards of A-Class notails, fairly unassuming at first glance. It stands a mere six and half feet tall, and is possessed of a thin, skeletal build that belies it's incredible physical ability. A-137's skin is an incredibly pale, nearly white coloration, and is possessed of decidedly long, red hair.
Its body is deformed and warped, covered in scarring and seams that suggesting an unnatural ability to compact and expand itself. While it sometimes can be found walking and posturing in a manner not wholly dissimilar to a more benign sort of notail, it is more typically found in a feral stance, legs warped into double jointed runners, arms broken and split into a multitude of lethal rending claws, and scything talons.
It is covered in numerous eye-like boils and growths that may or may not be functional as actual eyes, as well as pseudo-mouths on numerous parts of its body. Indeed a preponderance of eyes and teeth dominate many parts of its body, particularly on its face. Concerningly, for notails, it's often found not wearing any sort of face, and instead bares its monstrous natural features. Non-notail observers are advised that these features are not necessarily representative of notails on the whole.
Numerous eyes far more than most species would be comfortable with dominate its face, and these are certainly functional, probing about as they do with a feral predatory cunning. Down the center of its face is a very distinct seam, from the top of the forehead, through where a nose would be, and splitting down the jaw. Particularly during moments are fury, A-137's face splits open down this seam, and others beside the mouth, revealing a horrid maw filled with teeth.
Some would struggle to call A-137 a notail, for two, decisive reasons. The first being its noted lack of notail's distinct antenna, with some have theorized are the source of its homicidal inability to relate to other notails. The second, is its pointed lack of no tails. Indeed it has a trio of them, split off from a single point, and ended in fearsome serrated blades.
A-137, as before mentioned, often forgoes the traditional notail face and thus many are unaware of what that face is. Thankfully the notails provided the record of what it was: a simple white face with small eyes and a simple squared off expression of distress. The few survivors who also happened to have seen A-137 with a face note it does not seem to be wearing that mask these days, though those few survivors were quite understandably not close enough to properly describe what face it wears these days.
Personality & Traits
A-137 is above all other things, unreasonably aggressive and violent. This is not, in and of itself, overly atypical of the A-class, who're are typically valued very much for this fact. Unlike most A-classes, who're are noted as unthinkingly savage most of the time, and usually no longer classified as sapient, A-137 is terribly intelligent.
It demonstrates intellect in excess of what one might dismiss as merely killer instinct, or predatory cunning, and clearly demonstrates not merely sapience, but a certain profound cleverness which incidentally, has caused some to question the repeated referral of A-137 as an "It" finding it rather inappropriate being able to surmise traps and tactics that would befuddle talented hunters, let alone clever animals.
As with most A-classes, A-137 is a violent, incredibly aggressive creature sparing little time for sympathy or concern for the beings it ruthlessly ends. It seems to bare a particular grudge against notails, which, while somewhat understandable on the whole, is nonetheless rather profound, as A-137 has been observed allowing others to live to pursue its vendetta against notails in particular.
Nevertheless, some "experts" have reported a belief that there is something good and conflicted within A-137. They, alleged that A-137 is merely a victim of its own abhorrent biology, and would be fully capable of goodliness and love if the right approach is taken. Actual experts state that approaching A-137 in any way is a profoundly terrible idea, and disrecommend it immensely.
History
A-137 was an unexceptional A-class child, born in entirely typical circumstances, and is entirely unlikely to have been notable if it hadn't been misplaced in an extraordinary "bureaucratic disaster".
After this they remained unnoticed for some sixteen years, before it was discovered in the care of an errant notail who was "holding onto it for nefarious purposes, probably". After an intense engagement in the notail's domicile, A-137 was officially reported as "deceased", but according to leaks of official reports, simply disappeared during the confusion of the violence.
For the next several years sightings of a frightful beast of vaguely notail-ish description were reported across a multitude of notail controlled planets. It was confirmed that is was likely an A-class of some description when across these worlds, a great many notails ended up brutally murdered by a creature or individual with an excess of sharp rending devices.
Those who had cause to look into the slayings which was a great deal of people as they were a matter of tremendous public interest noted that there was indeed a discernable pattern amongst the notails slain this manner: they all had known relations with each other and with a mysterious and allegedly seditious organization that that, officially, does not exist. Officially this was declared a pointlessly conspiratorial coincidence, as there was a tremendous amount of other random pointless slaughter attributable to A-137, around each of the killings of interest.
Alas, the creature which would know for certain, is A-137 itself, and quite understandably, no one is eager to speak with it.
Special
Hyde: A-137 is believed, by some, to simply be the released primal nature of some individual. The deeply repressed savage id, long confined, now free to wreak havoc, but that theoretically, it could be re-contained. "The genie forced back in the bottle" as it were. If you have more information the subject, contact your local Cosmosdex branch office.
Trivia
• A-137 has often been spotted in the vicinity of a very particular Galaxy Burger (Home of the Galaxy Burger), stalking, cryptid-esque, just outside the realm of believability. Due to the seeming unreality of its appearance, little action has been taken, despite the increased disappearances.
• Derelict ships are often found where the black-box and/or AI refer to a "Horrible Killing Spectre" or some other such poetic epithet. The rare camera footage found on such things reveals nothing save for a pinkish-white blur of teeth and claws, that many believe to indeed be A-137.
• Wherever A-137 is conclusively found, death soon follows. Severe death. Death in numbers proportionate to the creature in question that boggle the empathic beings ability to rationalize "why". Curiously there is always at least one survivor of such events. Though they are loathe to discuss them.
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