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Ouroboros - The Homunculus
Character information:
Name: Project No. 66 "Ouroboros"
Gender: None
Species: Cyborg/Android/Homunculus
Age: 32 (Year of completion 1979)
Height: 7ft.
Weight: 200lbs.
Alignment: Evil
Specification: Artificial lifeform
Ouroboros, named after the symbol of Ouroboros, the serpent eating its own tail, symbolizing eternity and the obscutiy of the beginning and end of existence, is an artificial lifeform, its composition remaining unknown to its entirety.
During the Cold War, the concept of Ouroboros came from a genius Russian scientist Dr. Alexander Vissarionovitch Kuznetsov. Interested in the aspects and fundamentals of alchemy, as well as robotics and the onset of the Babbage engine, which later developed into computer science, Kuznetsov fantasized about creating life from complete lifelessness. After graduating from the university of Moscow in the 1940s, added with secret research on ancient tome regarding the extensive knowledge of alchemy throughout human history. One in particular he was most intent on learning was a detailed, yet morbid documentation by a Russian alchemist Victor Steltzin dating back from the fourteenth century. These documents pertained about life and death, the infusion and distiling of souls, the creation of astral entities from living spirits. Another series of documents he focused on regarded the legendary creatures called golems.
It took Kuznetsov over twenty years to calculate and formulte the construction of his "perfected homunculus". Realizing the lack of funding and resources, Kuznetsov appealed to the military, requesting his requirements to further his research on the construction of his homunculus, while in return promising them a new form of soldier, a perfect infantry unit more powerful than a platoon of enemy troops.
His obsession having chipped away at Kuznetsov's sanity, he would spend another twenty years tirelessly revising and perfecting his model homunculus, constructing model after model, all of them failures. At Project 19 did Kuznetsov succeed in creating a living homunculus, but this first living model was nowhere the desired results, surviving only a day. The following homunculi would all come out as living, but all models were ill-suited for both the military's needs and Kuznetsov's vision. His resolve and determination finally destroyed the last vestigs of his humanity, Kuznetsov's experiments only turned darker and inhuman, developing system after system and model after model, his goal for the perfect artificial life-form seeming to be at his fingertips, yet every attempt would be missing that which he desired.
Finally, in 1979, at the age of 74 did Kuznetsov see the fruits of his long, twisted labour. Utilizing the flesh of imprisoned dissidents, war criminals and other opposer's of the communist faction, and his knowledge of alchemy to create artificial tissue, a combination of living flesh and blood and metal and circuitry, along with computer science deemed far too developed for its time, along with the aid of several biologist and physiologist aids, Kuznetsov constructed a being of what can best be described as cybernetic flesh. Using his unique technology, constructing a skeletal base from titanium-laced bone, adding to that artificial organs and a brain a combination of computerized circuitry and brain tissue, topped with a malleable metal-like outer coating.
His vision of the perfect artificial life almost a reality, Kuznetsov began to program the construct with an advanced computer, instilling data of various forms into the homunculus, in code, audio and visual forms. However, before the programing could be finished, one of his aides, a long-time dissident of the communist regime, snuck inside his laboratory and shot him in the back. In the ensuing ruckus of attempting to obtain Kuznetsov's notes and delivering them to West Germany, the dissident was killed and the documents were destroyed in a sacrificial suicide explosion. With Kuznetsov's research gone, and with no-one able to decipher the engineering, programming and the construction of the homunculus, Kuznetsov's research was left in the dark for decades, his mad ambitions finally put to a stop unless one day someone could discover Kuznetsov's workings again...
However, during a lightning storm during the summer of 2011, a conductor accidentally forcing a strong surge of power to the abandoned laboratory rebooted Kuznetsov's master computer. The jolt triggered a back-up program that automatically reinserted the homunculus' programing and activated it. Kuznetsvo's twisted research finally brought to fruition, the homunculus, dubbed Projcect No. 66, or Ouroboros, had finally been realized...
Powers and abilities:
"Copying": Ouroboros, being a combination of living flesh and computer techonology, as permitted by his structure and Kuznetsov's programming, has the ability to gain the physical abilities of other organisms and upgrades from technological devices. Ouroboros can gain such abilities with two methods, depending on the abilities in question:
-"Absorption": Due to having almost no genetic make-up whatsoever, Ouroboros can implement genetic coding to his body by devouring DNA from living organisms. To accomplish this, Ouroboros simply has to ingest anything containing the genetic make-up of an organism, gaining its physical abilities by implementing the genetic codes throughout his artificial cells. This ability only works for gaining strictly physical, biologically based functions.
-"Scanning": Utilizing his eyes, Ouroboros can commence a fullbody scan of an individual by launching a horizontal beam of infra-red light. Doing so allows his artificial cells to create non-biological improvements. He can also update his computerized brain by scanning other pieces computer technology and his artificial cells allow him to reassemble and upgrade his programming, becoming more advanced the more complex technology he scans. He can also scan the knowledge of magic users, gaiing the ability to cast certain spells, depending on whether or not these powers come from lineage or studying magic. To use lineage-based magic, Ouroboros must scan an individual and devour his/her genetic make-up.
Due to being part mechanical, Ouroboros is much stronger and faster than regular people, as well as certain super-human level individuals.
What makes Ourorobors unique is, due to being both mechanical and biological, is his requirement to feed and respire. When sustaining any form of damage, like a living being, his body begins to repair itself, but to do so effectively, Ourorobors must devour matter with the required raw materials to maintain his artificial flesh. Ourorobors can also tire, so he also needs raw materials and oxygen to create phosphate molecules to power his biological functions. He can breathe air, but also underwater, his artificial lungs simply by abosrbing oxygen from water via osmosis. In an environment lacking oxygen, Ouroboros can respire and digest anaerobically. If he needs to, Ouroboros can also store electricity inside his body to maintain functioning if oxygen and energy is not available to him.
Inspirations include: Cell from Dragonball Z, Amazo from Justice League among other things some people might not even know of. ^^
Name: Project No. 66 "Ouroboros"
Gender: None
Species: Cyborg/Android/Homunculus
Age: 32 (Year of completion 1979)
Height: 7ft.
Weight: 200lbs.
Alignment: Evil
Specification: Artificial lifeform
Ouroboros, named after the symbol of Ouroboros, the serpent eating its own tail, symbolizing eternity and the obscutiy of the beginning and end of existence, is an artificial lifeform, its composition remaining unknown to its entirety.
During the Cold War, the concept of Ouroboros came from a genius Russian scientist Dr. Alexander Vissarionovitch Kuznetsov. Interested in the aspects and fundamentals of alchemy, as well as robotics and the onset of the Babbage engine, which later developed into computer science, Kuznetsov fantasized about creating life from complete lifelessness. After graduating from the university of Moscow in the 1940s, added with secret research on ancient tome regarding the extensive knowledge of alchemy throughout human history. One in particular he was most intent on learning was a detailed, yet morbid documentation by a Russian alchemist Victor Steltzin dating back from the fourteenth century. These documents pertained about life and death, the infusion and distiling of souls, the creation of astral entities from living spirits. Another series of documents he focused on regarded the legendary creatures called golems.
It took Kuznetsov over twenty years to calculate and formulte the construction of his "perfected homunculus". Realizing the lack of funding and resources, Kuznetsov appealed to the military, requesting his requirements to further his research on the construction of his homunculus, while in return promising them a new form of soldier, a perfect infantry unit more powerful than a platoon of enemy troops.
His obsession having chipped away at Kuznetsov's sanity, he would spend another twenty years tirelessly revising and perfecting his model homunculus, constructing model after model, all of them failures. At Project 19 did Kuznetsov succeed in creating a living homunculus, but this first living model was nowhere the desired results, surviving only a day. The following homunculi would all come out as living, but all models were ill-suited for both the military's needs and Kuznetsov's vision. His resolve and determination finally destroyed the last vestigs of his humanity, Kuznetsov's experiments only turned darker and inhuman, developing system after system and model after model, his goal for the perfect artificial life-form seeming to be at his fingertips, yet every attempt would be missing that which he desired.
Finally, in 1979, at the age of 74 did Kuznetsov see the fruits of his long, twisted labour. Utilizing the flesh of imprisoned dissidents, war criminals and other opposer's of the communist faction, and his knowledge of alchemy to create artificial tissue, a combination of living flesh and blood and metal and circuitry, along with computer science deemed far too developed for its time, along with the aid of several biologist and physiologist aids, Kuznetsov constructed a being of what can best be described as cybernetic flesh. Using his unique technology, constructing a skeletal base from titanium-laced bone, adding to that artificial organs and a brain a combination of computerized circuitry and brain tissue, topped with a malleable metal-like outer coating.
His vision of the perfect artificial life almost a reality, Kuznetsov began to program the construct with an advanced computer, instilling data of various forms into the homunculus, in code, audio and visual forms. However, before the programing could be finished, one of his aides, a long-time dissident of the communist regime, snuck inside his laboratory and shot him in the back. In the ensuing ruckus of attempting to obtain Kuznetsov's notes and delivering them to West Germany, the dissident was killed and the documents were destroyed in a sacrificial suicide explosion. With Kuznetsov's research gone, and with no-one able to decipher the engineering, programming and the construction of the homunculus, Kuznetsov's research was left in the dark for decades, his mad ambitions finally put to a stop unless one day someone could discover Kuznetsov's workings again...
However, during a lightning storm during the summer of 2011, a conductor accidentally forcing a strong surge of power to the abandoned laboratory rebooted Kuznetsov's master computer. The jolt triggered a back-up program that automatically reinserted the homunculus' programing and activated it. Kuznetsvo's twisted research finally brought to fruition, the homunculus, dubbed Projcect No. 66, or Ouroboros, had finally been realized...
Powers and abilities:
"Copying": Ouroboros, being a combination of living flesh and computer techonology, as permitted by his structure and Kuznetsov's programming, has the ability to gain the physical abilities of other organisms and upgrades from technological devices. Ouroboros can gain such abilities with two methods, depending on the abilities in question:
-"Absorption": Due to having almost no genetic make-up whatsoever, Ouroboros can implement genetic coding to his body by devouring DNA from living organisms. To accomplish this, Ouroboros simply has to ingest anything containing the genetic make-up of an organism, gaining its physical abilities by implementing the genetic codes throughout his artificial cells. This ability only works for gaining strictly physical, biologically based functions.
-"Scanning": Utilizing his eyes, Ouroboros can commence a fullbody scan of an individual by launching a horizontal beam of infra-red light. Doing so allows his artificial cells to create non-biological improvements. He can also update his computerized brain by scanning other pieces computer technology and his artificial cells allow him to reassemble and upgrade his programming, becoming more advanced the more complex technology he scans. He can also scan the knowledge of magic users, gaiing the ability to cast certain spells, depending on whether or not these powers come from lineage or studying magic. To use lineage-based magic, Ouroboros must scan an individual and devour his/her genetic make-up.
Due to being part mechanical, Ouroboros is much stronger and faster than regular people, as well as certain super-human level individuals.
What makes Ourorobors unique is, due to being both mechanical and biological, is his requirement to feed and respire. When sustaining any form of damage, like a living being, his body begins to repair itself, but to do so effectively, Ourorobors must devour matter with the required raw materials to maintain his artificial flesh. Ourorobors can also tire, so he also needs raw materials and oxygen to create phosphate molecules to power his biological functions. He can breathe air, but also underwater, his artificial lungs simply by abosrbing oxygen from water via osmosis. In an environment lacking oxygen, Ouroboros can respire and digest anaerobically. If he needs to, Ouroboros can also store electricity inside his body to maintain functioning if oxygen and energy is not available to him.
Inspirations include: Cell from Dragonball Z, Amazo from Justice League among other things some people might not even know of. ^^
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Fantasy
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 905 x 1280px
File Size 152 kB
Well, in truth that's just how it's been programmed. Kuznetsov wanted the first advanced homunculus to be perfect in every aspect, virtually unbeatable. It just follows said programming to keep upgrading itself so it would always stay perfect.
So when it comes across, say, my character Kalma, who posesses the ability to almost perfectly conceal himself (more on that in his profile), Ourorboros will instantly want to copy and incorporate this ability to be perfect, so he'll engage Kalma to scan and absorb his genetic information. Having every beneficial trait, feature or ability is its only reason to pretty much exist.
Also, though its actions could deem it evil since it will harm people and inflict even massive damage to its envrionment, which could result in casualties, to continue the strive of perfection, it more reflects on the ambitions of its creator. Kuznetsov went insane during his work on the perfect homunculus, so one could say his morals kinda degraded at that point. Bottom-line, Homunculus is pretty much a relfection of Kuznetsov's disturbed psyche.
And thank you. Though I am a bit ashamed that his deisgn immediately reminded a friend of mine of Frieza from DBZ. ^^
So when it comes across, say, my character Kalma, who posesses the ability to almost perfectly conceal himself (more on that in his profile), Ourorboros will instantly want to copy and incorporate this ability to be perfect, so he'll engage Kalma to scan and absorb his genetic information. Having every beneficial trait, feature or ability is its only reason to pretty much exist.
Also, though its actions could deem it evil since it will harm people and inflict even massive damage to its envrionment, which could result in casualties, to continue the strive of perfection, it more reflects on the ambitions of its creator. Kuznetsov went insane during his work on the perfect homunculus, so one could say his morals kinda degraded at that point. Bottom-line, Homunculus is pretty much a relfection of Kuznetsov's disturbed psyche.
And thank you. Though I am a bit ashamed that his deisgn immediately reminded a friend of mine of Frieza from DBZ. ^^
Well thought out story, I'll admit. I still think that, in the search for perfection, this character lost a lot of understanding exactly what that means. Perfection is an impossible ideal, because no two people will ever agree on what they believe is perfect. Thusly, how can a logical, unemotional entity begin to understand what perfect is? Would it just be perfection as based on their own opinion? For more emotional, peace-loving creatures, he's as far from perfect and ideal as one could get, so does he ever take that into consideration and loathe himself at times? That could make an interesting arc as well.
Yea, the other bit is that Ouroboros is literally a computer. Its ideals stem directly from its creator and it never takes emotion into consideration. The one bit that makes him dangerous is exactly the fact that it posesses no emotion. If it lacks something that would make it closer to being perfect, it'll pursue whatever its own logic dictates.
So yea, you make a valid point on the term "perfect". Since we all have a very different opinion on it (personal being that nothing is perfect), nothing can actually be mutually perfect. However, as I said, Kuznetsov became disturbed and trapped in his own little world in his head about perfection; something which can adapt and incorporate any feature or trait, be it biological or artificial.
What makes Ouroboros so dangerous is that its programmed desire to be perfect is something it will never achieve. Hence why it can be considered a dangerous enemy since it will never stop pursuing this goal, no matter how impossible it is, since it never takes anything but its programming as valid. So you can consider this futility as its (and Kuznetsov's) character flaw.
So yea, you make a valid point on the term "perfect". Since we all have a very different opinion on it (personal being that nothing is perfect), nothing can actually be mutually perfect. However, as I said, Kuznetsov became disturbed and trapped in his own little world in his head about perfection; something which can adapt and incorporate any feature or trait, be it biological or artificial.
What makes Ouroboros so dangerous is that its programmed desire to be perfect is something it will never achieve. Hence why it can be considered a dangerous enemy since it will never stop pursuing this goal, no matter how impossible it is, since it never takes anything but its programming as valid. So you can consider this futility as its (and Kuznetsov's) character flaw.
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