[hider=Brucie] [color=007fff][b]Name:[/b][/color] Brucie [color=007fff][b]Alias:[/b][/color] Brucie [color=007fff][b]Race:[/b][/color] Hammerhead Shark (genetically modified) [color=007fff][b]Sex:[/b][/color] Male [color=007fff][b]Class:[/b][/color] Bombardier [color=007fff][b]Equipment:[/b][/color] Brucie's chief claim to fame is his set of mechanical limbs. They are tough, sleek, highly functional pieces of tech. The teal and dark blue sections are hard, usually overlaying rubber 'muscle' that itself conceals the moving parts. The rubber itself is very dense, prone to catching blades and bullets that try to pierce it. Both the arms and legs can strike with a lot of power, but not very quickly. The hooklike talons on the arms can also rip flesh from bone if allowed to get a grip Implanted into Brucie's lower jaw are biotic plugs that enable him to survive on land. They also link directly to his circulatory and immune systems, able to inject adrenaline, morphine, or antibiotics and filter out toxins. This is also where his voicebox is Brucie's mechanical limbs come equipped with two weapons. The first, attached to his right arm, is a hose that can expel torrents of water at very high pressure, capable of both damaging and pushing back whatever gets caught. By altering the firing mode manually, Brucie can also use it to launch bouncy, explosive bubbles of water that explode with concussive force if burst. His secondary weapon is a missile launcher on his shoulder, which can lock on to enemies to fire up to six rockets. Thanks to a built-in portal system Brucie's weapons will not run out of water, but he would need to stock up on rockets Brucie's trump card is a device known as the Shark Tank. Once removed from the inside of his left leg and activated by slamming the halves together, it creates a huge, thin bubble shield before opening an internal portal to the sea, rapidly filling the 50-meter radius area with water. In the water, enemies typically suffer equipment malfunctions and have trouble moving, and they can drown, but Brucie is able to move freely and attack with renewed vigor [color=007fff][b]Abilities:[/b][/color] Being a genetically modified shark, Brucie can bite with nothing short of killer ferocity, able to maul even moderately protected targets and make a solid attempt at ripping up whatever metal he can get his teeth around. He has naturally high stamina and can seemingly flat-out ignore pain, though he still sustains damage dealt to his body. His cybernetic enhancements, including the limbs and their weapons, afford him a decent amount of firepower in certain situations, but he's typically not effective beyond mid to close range. He can regenerate pretty quickly, though it is by no means a super healing factor [color=007fff][b]Fighting Style:[/b][/color] Brucie typically starts out fights using his equipment, battering enemies down with cannons and blasts of water as well as missiles. If engaged at close range, or if he runs out of missiles, he transitions to a sort of berserker attack mode, just as liable to pounce on and start mauling a foe as try to break them with brutal swings from his mechanical limbs. He will use his trump card liberally when things aren't going his way. His habit of flooding an entire battlefield with water can pose extreme threat to certain people but possibly even help others, all depending on his opponent. However, despite his brute force and useful tech, he is a somewhat vulnerable berserker. His body, while regenerative, has no shielding, and his chances of victory plummet if his durable limbs somehow get taken out. Of course, he does have one weakness in particular: the plugs in his jaw which, if disabled, will cause him to suffocate [color=007fff][b]Personality:[/b][/color] 'Bombastic' is a perfect word to describe Brucie. His uniquely boisterous and inconsistent demeanor comes across in practically all he does. His shark instincts remain at the forefront of his consciousness, giving him the capacity for great savagery and cruelty. Brucie loves to fight, and often feels as though he should, but most of the time chooses to act normally instead, though his normal is still kooky compare to most. Rather than some kind of rage that needs to be constantly kept in check, his instincts come to him merely as satisfying suggestions. Instead of ripping and tearing all the time, Brucie behaves with a genial liveliness and earnest sense of humor that make him into more of an energetic, goonish jokester than anything else, albeit one with a killer streak. He's an animal that lives with no regrets, and indulges in thrill-seeking and general tomfoolery whenever he can. He speaks like a classic hooligan [color=007fff][b]Bio:[/b][/color] In the modern age, humans often look back to animals as inspiration or subjects for study, seeking to understand and emulate their gifts, but only an intrepid few seek to bring beasts to the level of men. While Winston was growing up on Horizon Lunar Colony, the program of which he and his kind were art spawned a variety of echoes back on earth. Some were professionally executed and formally funded; others proved ill-conceived and doomed to failure. The terrorist organization known as Talon hatched its own scheme to harnass the earth's deadliest creatures to use as shock troops, and from their endeavors, Brucie came to be. Originally an ordinary hammerhead shark captured in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of Italy, he underwent massive chemical and technological augmentation and almost died. In the end, the experiment's director, an ambitious technophile named Francesca Marini, sold all she owned to see the years-long operation through. Brucie awoke, possessing a near-human mind, robotic limbs, and the ability to speak through a special impulse translator, to see the grin of a woman who'd achieved her vision quest. Talon wasted no time putting Brucie to work. At his superiors' behest, Brucie turned his formidable water-based technology and homing missiles on Watchpoint: Gibraltar and other ex-Overwatch installations, his mission to wipe them from the face of the earth. As fun as it was, it did not leave the shark truly satisfied. Fighting was all he knew; he could not go among humans to observe and interact with them, for he was a freak. His lack of interest in Talon's ultimate goals became apparent to its leaders before too long, and they toyed with the idea of 'cutting him loose'. Ultimately, however, they decided that the chance of Marini's creation surviving and going on a roaring rampage of revenge was too high. Instead, they let him go, and he made a half-sunken ship in the Adriatic Sea his home under Talon's discreet, watchful eye. There he lived with Francesca and her young niece, who used the ship's renovated cabins and laboratory to continue working for Talon and other such entities, unbeknownst to Brucie. Since Overwatch's recall, Brucie has been cultivating acquaintances with its members to make amends for his naive warpath in the past—with Talon in the know all the while. [color=007fff][b]Wish:[/b][/color] To become human [color=007fff][b]Echo:[/b][/color] The half-sunken ship, which is mostly derelict except for a functioning laboratory and pretty nice cabins. Brucie's own quarters, which was the cargo hold when the ship was still afloat, is completely submerged. This place serves as his home and base of operations, and now it has appeared off the shore of the City of Echoes [color=007fff][b]Appearance:[/b][/color] [hider=Large and in charge] [img]http://i.imgur.com/Py6sp6g.jpg[/img] [/hider] [color=007fff][b]Frenzy:[/b][/color] Contorted by pain, Brucie undergoes rapid mutation. His flesh surges outward and overgrows his mechanical limbs, using them as a carbon-fiber skeleton for the organism that is to come. The end result is a wretched, swollen humanoid [url=http://pre05.deviantart.net/c5f1/th/pre/i/2012/077/c/1/hammerhead_comp_by_kptoons-d4t3qg9.jpg]shark[/url], rippling with muscle and hideous in its deformity, but possessed of an immense regenerative factor and surprising speed to accompany overwhelming physical strength. Disturbingly, he will continue to talk as he fights in this form, but his speech openly suggests a complete loss of sanity [color=007fff][b]Inventory:[/b][/color] Phylactery [/hider]