[hider=Boris / Watchdog] [center] [img]https://i.imgur.com/mNo2Ekc.png[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/2DT3RTK.png[/img] [color=gray]"Original OC art"[/color][/center][indent][table][row][/row][row][cell][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/z9wJRgJ.png[/img] [color=5a78d9]Watchdog Costume[/color] [color=black]▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔[/color][/center] [color=gray]》[b][color=5a78d9]B A S I C I N F O[/color][/b] [color=5a78d9]♦ Name:[/color] Boris Shostak [color=5a78d9]♦ Title:[/color] Watchdog [color=5a78d9]♦ Species:[/color] Enhanced Human [color=5a78d9]♦ Gender:[/color] Male [color=5a78d9]♦ Sexuality:[/color] Homosexual [color=5a78d9]♦ Age:[/color] 31 [color=5a78d9]♦ Birthday:[/color] May 21 [color=5a78d9]♦ Current Residence:[/color] New York City 》[/color][color=gray][color=5a78d9][b]L I K E S[/b][/color] [color=5a78d9]♦ [/color]Money [color=5a78d9]♦ [/color]Smell of nature [color=5a78d9]♦ [/color]Physical activity [color=5a78d9]♦ [/color]Watching sports [color=5a78d9]♦ [/color]Eating a lot of food [color=5a78d9]♦ [/color]Talking, interrogating [color=5a78d9]♦ [/color]Reluctantly... belly rubs [color=gray]》[/color][color=5a78d9][b]D I S L I K E S[/b][/color] [color=5a78d9]♦ [/color]Criminals that harm civilians [color=5a78d9]♦ [/color]Uncomfortable clothes [color=5a78d9]♦ [/color]Smokers [color=5a78d9]♦ [/color]Bad smells [color=5a78d9]♦ [/color]His dog-like tendencies [color=5a78d9]♦ [/color]When others use those tendencies against him [color=gray]》[/color][color=5a78d9][b]S K I L L S[/b][/color] [color=5a78d9]♦ [/color]Police training [color=5a78d9]♦ [/color]Interrogation [color=5a78d9]♦ [/color]Tracking [color=5a78d9]♦ [/color]Firearms [color=5a78d9]♦ [/color]Hand-to-hand combat [color=5a78d9]♦ [/color]Cooking 》[color=5a78d9][b]W E A P O N S[/b][/color] [center][img ]https://i.imgur.com/CrbLDt1.png[/img][/center] Boris' weapon of choice is a compact Baton, roughly based on a classic police baton, but equipped with an inbuilt rifle which he only uses when absolutely necessary. Typically Boris always uses his fists first, but pulls out his baton when he feels he needs more reach or harder blunt force.[/color][/cell] [cell][indent][indent][center][color=5a78d9]Ukrainian ♦ 6 foot 2 ♦ 194 pounds ♦ Brown hair ♦ Blue eyes ♦ Fair Olive skin[/color][/center] [color=gray] [color=gray]》[b][color=5a78d9]P̟ E̟ R̟ S̟ O̟ N̟ A̟ L̟ I̟ T̟ Y̟[/color][/b] [color=5a78d9]▶[/color] Talkative [color=5a78d9]▶[/color] Brooding [color=5a78d9]▶[/color] Witty [color=5a78d9]▶[/color] Animalistic [color=5a78d9]▶[/color] Nosey Boris tries to keep a grumpy and brood like demeanor, hoping to maintain an intimidating front - often successfully, but the changes he experienced after the serum often make him act out of character. Things that didn't before, excite him more than usual, like the opportunity to play with a ball, or even when a usually not-so delicious meal is presented in front of him. He sometimes views a fight with someone as a playful thing, which can confuse his opponents. Boris thinks of it almost as if the transformation has given him a second personality, and often gets angry with himself after that personality comes out. With his powers, he is often seen doing dog-like actions like sniffing around, and even panting, which due to his condition, allows him to regulate his own temperature by doing so. [/color] [color=gray]》[/color][color=5a78d9][b]P O W E R S[/b][/color] [color=5a78d9]♦ Chernobyl Exposure[/color] Boris was born with a mutated metabolism, allowing him to metabolize the radiation his birth mother was exposed to, which meant he also had the ability to survive the gene-splicing variant of the super-soldier serum which killed most of its subjects and disfigured those it did not. [color=5a78d9]♦ Cunobelinus Serum[/color] The Cunobelinus variant of Super-Soldier Serum metabolized and permanently enhanced all of Boris’ bodily functions to above peak of human efficiency as part of the canine gene splicing included in it, while still remaining completely human. Enhanced peak-human strength, speed, durability, agility, reflexes, stamina, recovery, senses and mental processing. [indent][color=5a78d9]♦ Enhanced Smell[/color] Also given to him by the serum but can almost be categorized as its own power. Boris can detect specific persons, objects, substances or even places, locate their origin, and track targets with nothing but his nose. With practice he may even be able to detect lying, sicknesses, or tumors by which hormones/smells a target excretes. [i][b]Other possible applications of his enhanced sense of smell:[/b][/i] [color=5a78d9]♦ Blindsight[/color]: By discerning the surroundings through scent. [color=5a78d9]♦ Empathy[/color]: By detecting the pheromones related to emotions. [color=5a78d9]♦ Tracking[/color]: By following and picking up places left with the target's scent. [color=5a78d9]♦ Illusion Awareness[/color]: Boris can detect the lack of scent from an illusion. [color=5a78d9]♦ Invisibility Awareness[/color]: Still able to pick up scent from invisible targets. [color=5a78d9]♦ Pregnancy Perception[/color]: By detecting pheromones released during pregnancy through scent. [color=5a78d9]♦ Shapeshifting Awareness[/color]: Most shapeshifters keep at least a trace amount of their own scent. [color=5a78d9]♦ Near-Canine Physiology[/color] Boris can do things like regulate his body temperature by panting. [/indent] [color=gray] 》[color=5a78d9][b]W E A K N E S S E S[/b][/color] Although the Cunobelinus Serum gave Boris many enhancements physically and mentally, it did also create some draw backs on both domains. Physically, Boris's color perception has been greatly weakened, and most colors appear dull to him, having a hard time telling purple from blue. His sense of smell, although a great tool, can also cause a lot of harm if he isn't concentrating, as the constant stench of the streets can make him feel sick to his stomach. Mentally, the serum created an unfortunate divide, as if a puppy sometimes took over and acted for him - this means the risk of being unpredictable, hard to work with, and a great risk for well thought out plans.[/color] [/color] [/indent][/indent][/cell][/row][/table][/indent] [color=gray] [color=gray]》[/color][color=5a78d9][b]B A C K S T O R Y[/b][/color] [color=5a78d9]♦ Birth[/color] In the wake of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, many children of women exposed to the radioactive fallout were born with harmful mutations and congenital deformities. Boris was one of the lucky ones. Though his mother was suffering with an advanced multiple myeloma, he was born strong and healthy, though his mother died within months of his birth. At 14, his adoptive family with a view to starting afresh, emigrated to the United States on the merit of his father’s skills as an accountant. He found work in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and there the family made their new home. Boris grew up to become a police officer, often sent out on tracking calls to locate drugs and those who deal them. He was not an honest cop, however, often agreeing to take bribes to let criminals go. Boris frequently took on jobs from various criminal organizations, but refrained from harming civilians, which helped him justify his actions to his conscience. [color=5a78d9]♦ Turn for the worse[/color] When he was approached by a mysterious agent of an unknown organization for a job involving human trafficking, he wanted to refuse at first, but decided that was not something he could turn a blind eye to. He tried to involve the rest of his department, but corruption in the police force extended far beyond him, and shortly after he was suspended from the police force when his off-duty weapon was used in the killing of a drug dealer, and soon after that, he became a victim of a hit and run - left to die on the pavement. Next thing he knew, he was strapped to a bed, a mysterious woman with a lab coat leering over him with a syringe gun of sorts in her hand. The woman introduced herself as Dr. Sharp, and explained she was a physician working for the man who ordered the hit on him, but decided to go against these orders and try to save Boris by injecting him with an experimental serum that could kill him anyway. She explained that she was able to stand by when the serum was experimented on evil men who she believed deserved death, but as soon as innocents were brought in, she could no longer bring herself to keep working under the mad scientist who concocted this formula, Dr. Declan Cunobelinus. With his experience as a cop, she hoped that if she could save Boris’s life, she could help him take Dr. Cunobelinus down by testifying under his protection. Having researched Boris’s past, and seeing his birth certificate, Dr. Sharp theorized that Boris’s resistance to radiation during birth could make the serum compatible with his genetic code. She leaned close, and asked for his consent, clarifying that his choices were (1) possible death from the serum, or (2) assured death from the injuries he sustained from the hit on him - which really did not leave him with any choice. [color=5a78d9]♦ The Villain[/color] Dr. Declan Cunobelinus is a scientist obsessed with duplicating Abraham Erskine's Super-Soldier Serum to improve the human genetical structure and allow for gene splicing with animals, such as dogs, which Dr.Cunobelinus has mostly been experimenting on. The Cunobelinus Process, an experimental cell regeneration and gene splicing variant of the Super-Soldier process, meant to imbue subjects with animal-like traits, had been created and conducted in the Eastern State Penitentiary in illegal experiments on inmates under life imprisonment. The experiments were conducted by other physicians, but Dr.Cunobelinus was only interested in attending to the operations that yielded somewhat positive results, since for the most part, the experiments provoked unsustainable mutations that killed the subjects, and those who survived were warped and turned into monstrous wendigo-like beasts that had to be put down. Word of the experiments had eventually reached outside the walls of the prison, and soon after, a police investigation ensued. Many prison guards and surgeons were caught and arrested, but Dr.Cunobelinus was nowhere to be found. By the time an underground pathway was discovered, the mad scientist was long gone. But the experiments did not end. No longer having access to the inmates, Dr. Cunobelinus turned to abducting individuals he believed would not be missed, like drug addicts and homeless people. [color=5a78d9]♦ ReBirth as Watchdog[/color] Boris woke up, alive. In the mirror he still looked like himself, but bigger, no longer fitting into his blood stained shirt. He felt as if something was inside of him, and his mind was spliced, with many invading thoughts taking over the ones he tried to hold on to. His senses were sharpened, specifically his sense of smell, the colors in the room were dull, and the light affected his eyes differently. When Dr. Sharp walked in, he aggressively grabbed her by her coat, but she easily managed to sway him away by throwing a bone across the room. When he realized he was nibbling on it, he threw it away, scared and confused by the fact that it was almost like he was possessed. She explained that the serum allowed for gene splicing, which goes beyond physical traits, and pointed at an operating table where a Doberman was dissected. This was the only way that she could save him, as the serum also gave him a degree of accelerated cell regeneration, although not instantly, as he was unconscious for 4 days, and most likely believed to be dead by those who wanted him to be. For the next 4 months, Dr. Sharp helped Boris adjust to his new state with physical therapy and training. They often talked about how they would take Dr. Cunobelinus down, and how Boris would reintroduce himself back into the police force and prove his innocence in the shooting of the drug dealer, but ultimately both realized that even if Dr. Sharp testified, Cunobelinus would find a way to operate under the shadows. Knowing she has the missing key the mad scientist was looking for in order for the serum to be successful, she explained that Boris would need to keep his transformation secret, and operate under a codename, a superhero much like the others running around in this world. And thus the Watchdog was created. Designed and branded by Dr. Sharp, a new hero in the streets of Philadelphia and New York, working to take down corruption in the police force and any operation of Dr. Declan Cunobelinus, until they find him, and stop him for good. [/color][/hider]