"Roderick is what my Mother called me. I'm not that boy anymore. So use Belial, please"
Belial has not changed much from his days when he was first mutated. Or rather, his violent streak has only begun to grow more significantly. Embracing the mutation now, he wants to fight and he will happily jump into one. His cannibalistic tendencies have also become more savage, and he'll happily attack and maul someone in broad day-light for a feast. Despite this, Belial still maintains his out-going and talkative nature, always more than happy to converse and talk with people. Belial has always had a love for close-quarters fighting, and it shows through the equipment he brings and uses.
Belial still suffers from The Red Thirst (still waiting to see if somebody can figure out the reference!), however he has learned how to control it better and even to harness it. The thirst is a powerful urge that he always has, which is the need to feed on flesh like other zombies. Most often he can easily overcome this urge, but as he becomes more exposed to violence and blood, it begins to take over and quickly he will degrade to the savagery and mindlessness of other zombies. Lately though he has been learning how to harness this ferocity, to turn himself into a far more and vicious head-hunter.
There are two things that Belial always carries with him. First is his new, heavily modified saiga-12 shotgun. The shotgun has had it's barrel shortened and it's stock removed, as well as an added high-powered laser for quick target acquisition.
The other item he always carries is a tool he picked up when he discovered that his claws weren't enough to get through metal or other tough materials. While he may call it a "sword", it is nothing but a thick piece of steel which has a side he has sharpened, the sword also having been hardened and tempered and has a grip added so he can wield it better. In all honesty, Belial is nowhere near close to being called a sword master, instead he simply relies on his augmented physical abilities as well as the swords heavy weight, to blast through and take out whomever he may be fighting.
Belial, originally Roderick Lemartes, was a serial killer who was captured and locked in a maximum security prison a few months before the outbreak began. Still shut within, he and other inmates were left to rot when the guards and personnel abandoned the prison to escape the hordes. However, he was saved from a slow death f starvation by taking up an offer from Director Scott. In exchange for freedom, he became the subject for several tests, which resulted in the mutant of a man that lives now. He has chosen to abandon his name of Roderick Lemartes, on the grounds that he wishes to let that name still have some sense of normality. (not that there was much normality to it to begin with.)
His mutations were caused by the same parasite that created the zombie hordes, however through genetic manipulation of the parasite, as well as the Implants to protect his body, Belial is able to maintain some sanity and to avoid dying or turning into and a zombie. Since he was brought into the order by Scott, he has continued to serve as a head-hunter, bodyguard, and whatever else Scott may need the mutant of a man for.