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Arachnid -> RE: Project: HEROES WIP (9/27/2015 3:58:58)
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Ugh, I hate being sick. I can barely focus on anything. Makes modeling hard. So, i've been playing with Willow's shading. Learning some stuff, making progress.
Anyways, I promised some Krieger backstory.
Krieger is part of a long running family of knights, paladins, and other do-gooders. They're good people. So when some Silver Axe decided to show up, asking if Krieger would like to volunteer for some testing to help them cure this "magic", why would he say no?
Fast forward a week or so, and we see Krieger, on his knees, shackled to a wall in a windowless cell, and drained of a lot of blood. Krieger was Experiment 003, so he was one of the first in the blood trials. His specific mode of fun was being drained of his own blood, nearly to the point of death, but supplied with blood from someone else; just enough to keep him alive. Obviously very weak, he doesn't try to escape for two reasons: First, he's too much of a good guy to want to. If he did, how would they be able to help cure others of this terrible disease? And second, he barely has enough strength to stay awake, let alone escape.
And so, we insert Scarlet (formerly know as Red) into our scene. Scarlet has plenty of reason to escape, but she doesn't have the numbers or the strength to do so. She kills the two guards, busts open the door, and throws them inside to hide them. And what does she see, but someone else that has survived these tortures! Unfortunately, he can barely muster up the strength to look up at her. She borrows a key from one of the guards and unlocks the shackles anyway, and leaves Krieger in the room.
Blood starts flowing from the guards towards Krieger. It flows up his arms and soaks into hims, restoring his muscles, his strength, his vitality. He grows to nearly seven feet tall, his muscles and strength restored. The guards are entirely drained of blood, all of it absorbed by Krieger. They'll blame him for the dead guards; they'll kill him. He has to escape. He runs out out of his cell, though the hall, and out the door to the main courtyard. There he finds Scarlet, held down, arguing with the torturer. Something about morality. It's hard to focus. There's yelling. She knocks her captor in the face with the back of her head, drawing blood. She turns and scratches at him, and run towards Krieger. She shakes her hand, flinging blood on his face, and the air explodes into steam, blocking all visibility between her and the captors.
Krieger falls to the ground. His heartbeat grown louder. Faster. His blood pumps. And then he changes.
And all there is...is blood.
As we know, Krieger has the ability to shift into the Blood Beast. This, however, is not an intentional change. The magic in his body has been irreversibly changed. In order to keep him alive, it's changed to passively absorb blood from others to keep him in top condition. Once he hits this magic amount of blood, his magic will no longer absorb blood from dead or unconscious targets. However, if he comes in contact with any, his body will absorb it, and it will force the body to uncontrollably seek out high amounts of blood. It turns him into a monster that was crafted to do this task.
The details on how he shifts back are a little hazy, but one could assume that not getting any blood would return him to his normal state.
Krieger is our resident "villain". Though, I don't like playing standard roles just because the story demands a good guy and a bad guy. A villain is never a villain "just because". Every character has a story, even a villain. Krieger has a fairly interesting story being that he starts as one of societies nicest and most caring people, and slowly turns into someone who wipes out villages to gain power. He has to deal with what the Silver Axe has done to him; making him into the bad guy.
Next up will be either Echo or Scarlet. Scarlet is our most important side character, whereas Echo doesn't yet have very much story.
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