Description

Personality

Personality:
He is an odd mix of caring hero and emotionless monster bound into one. He might save a woman from being raped/mugged, only to kill all the men brutally and eat the last one alive, just to hear him scream. He is sadistic, enjoying killing and hurting, but only those that he thinks deserves it. For the 'innocent' he is sarcastic and laid back, more of an observer than a doer. He enjoys watching others to their thing from afar, waiting to intervene when necessary. Does things 'for the good of not just you, but everyone', which leads to some questionable acts. Like eating defenseless homeless people to gain the energy to kill the bad guys. Hey, its not like that 60 year old hobo was going to amount to anything, am I right?

Joe is a man that "does it for the lulz". He does everything so he can enjoy life. Joe would rather experience things than stay in any one spot. He is an adrenaline junkie, leading to doing stupid things for the fun. He is fond of excitement, so forcing him to do a boring job is a bad idea, and if you do He has a high chance of simply walking off the job to have fun.

Equipment

Powers: A result of the Company superhuman experiments ,Joe is only human in the vague sense of the word. He is made of a colony of supercells, called hyper-somatic body cells. They have full DNA, meaning he cannot reproduce, but they exhibit a rather extreme ability. Joe has the power of Shape Manipulation. It only applies to himself, but as long as it concerns his body and is made of biological compounds, he can become it.

All of the cells' power is because of the ability to rapidly change their composition and shape on command. AKA shapeshifting. As long as he has the density, he can rapidly change size and shape when needed. He can slip through cracks in walls or even under doors, then rapidly reform. At at the same time the cells can change their color on command as well. This means he can fake the looks of other people, or simply look human. The cells themselves are jet black, mixed with veins of bright yellow randomly.

The cells can mimic organs of other creatures too. If Joe understands the chemical makeup of an organ, he can create it for his use. His subconcious gave him his eyes, mouth, ears, stomach, etc... but he could, for example, add fangs and a rattlesnake's venom pouch, if he takes the time to learn how one is made. NOTE: if he changes form, he looses the usage of these organs. If he turns into pure hyper-somatic cells, he looses his sight, taste, hearing, and everything other than touch really. He cannot feed very well in that form, being blind and deaf, meaning that unless he happens to stumble on a fresh corpse, he will be unable to eat or drink while in that form.

A special ablity of the cells is a kind of black armor created from the manipulation of carbon bonds, The glossy black stuff is made of carbon nanotubules, strands of carbon that are extremly strong compared to all known materials, bonded to diamond. The specific strength of carbon nanotubes are around 48,000 KN - mg - k-1, while steel has one of about 154. This is ONLY stretching forces! Compression, twisitng or crushing foces buckle them easily. These tubes are only a backbone to microscopic sheets of diamond bonded inside and around the tubes. What it looses in hardness, it gain in structure. The hard carbon lattices hold the tubes open, while the tubes keep the diamond sheets adhered together. Combined they create a sen-flexible armor that is very light. It can shrug off anything short of explosives, but a straight-on bullet hit will crack it. Any other shot will be deflected without much damage. Fractured armor is much weaker, which would make it vulnerable to any more hits on it. The broken diamond structure would expose the nanotubes. Then the tubes themselves would be damaged, thus destroying the armor's integrity. He CAN take bullets, but he tries to avoid them if he can. Plus, he has to actually MAKE the armor first. If he does not create the armor, he is as defenseless as a regular human. The armor has uses in making melee weapons as well, such as claws or hammers. On a minor note, Joe can also creating a filter of sorts over his mouth, made of the hyper-somatic cells, that is highly resistant to gas weapons and other irritants (AKA smoke and stuff). It appears as a halfshell over his mouth and nose with six horizontal vanes on each side that hiss quietly as they filter the air. It takes about 20 seconds to make, so he cannot create it on command instantly. Any good nerve again like Sarin would kill him long before he has a chance to protect himself. Also, caustic agents can simply each away the breathing membranes inside the mask, rendering them useless.

Strengths:
He is always armed with some kind of melee weapon. Don't be surprised if a handshake suddenly turns into a spike that lunges towards your heart.
He can mimic other people easily, even their voices to an extent. Not mentally however;his personality stays the same. He can slip into small spaces like holes or grates to escape others.
Can grow armor on command. Goes from man to walking tank in seconds (30-60 seconds for full growth)

Weaknesses:
Still human. Without his armor and such, he is just as squishy as you and me.
Take time for any advanced transformations.
The spot that is being changed turns black and yellow, meaning that any shapshifting is obvious, which means he can be killed before he has a chance to change to defend himself.

History

Bio:
Joe was born in Philidephia, and never left the area around it for his whole life. He may have lived for only seventeen years, but hey, that's still his whole life.

He was found to have a rare disorder, some kind of error with nerve sigal transport. He was no dumber because of it, but it made his thoughts odd, as well as attracting certain government agents. On the contrary, Joe is a genius of the most dangerous type: the bored kind. He never really found an outlet for his intelligence, which led to him doing stupid dangerous things on a regular basis. It was during one of these events that an unnamed truck stole him away and deposited him in a lab in a lab run by the Company.

It was here that he was introduced to the hyper-somatic cells through the special injection. The scientists, for reasons unknown to him, wanted to observe what would manifest. His powers manifested as the special cells. The cells were studied as they grew in a massive tumor in his arm, where the injection was sent. They thought that he would be killed because the cells were actually changing his biological makeup on the cellular level. The scientists expected a quick, painful death over a few days. What they did not expect was the cells were turning his body into HC cells as well. What they expected even less was for the cells to incorporate his brain cells into themselves, rather then just eating them. The signals kept firing as bioweapon painstakingly changed these neurons to hyper-somatic cells that could carry nerve impluses. His mind entered the new body intact and in control. Skip forwards past one breakout via the ventilation shafts, a score or so of dead guards, and you have Joe free and roaming the world.

His life is one of travel. He is being hunted by the government, but being able to change his form on command leaves any pursuers baffled. He spends his time moving from city to city, soaking in the sights and the people. He also studies, a lot. Like nonstop. Apparently the cells are also super-efficient as neurons, meaning that he is a glutton for memories and facts. By now he has a Bachelors's degree in Biology, Organic Chemistry, Biotechnology, and Biological Engineering, just without the diplomas.