God and the Snake
A Swamp of a Human Being
Name: Omul
Origin Story: Monster to some, icon to others, Omul is in truth just another consequence of 20th century environmental abuse. On February 3rd 2002, a roiling mass of continuously shifting wood, algae, and assorted biomatter tore its way out of the toxic Lake Baikal and began rampaging through the industrial mills that had for decades polluted its shores. What followed was a six day running battle between the Russian armed forces and the Great Green Devil, before Omul reached the shores of the Pacific Ocean and disappeared beneath its waters.
Since then Omul has been both horror and hope the world over, attempting to stabilize the planet's collapsing ecology... and perhaps even helping humanity in the process.
Agenda:
14: Restore the global ecosystem
12: Survive
9: Make friends!
6: Nurture humanity
4: Annihilate industrial movements that despoil the natural world
2: Snack
Personality:
Some over the years have characterized Omul as a giant dog, eager for affection but unaware of its own size as its rampages through its person's household. There is some truth to this - there have been numerous confirmed reports of Omul recepircating affection from humans, and often seems ignorant to the consequences of its actions. Critics of this view are quick to observe that for all its apparent simplicity, Omul is capable triggering complex chemical reactions and has an extensive understanding of global environmental conditions. Niether could be possible without considerable cognitive abilities equal to or surpassing human levels.
The truth is that Omul is a new and singular intellect, the only member of a species that should not exist in a world far to small for itself. It has never been socialized. It was never taught its limits by kind or cruel sires. It is fundamentally and irrevociably alone in the cosmos, and only knows what instict has imparted and what it has learned itself.
Superpower:
Omul is a towering creature and a powerful floral biomancer. It can promote the growth of plant-life, manipulate its movements and shape, and even create wholly new forms of life capable of the scientifically improbable. Its spread plastic eating algae, grown forests in deserts, and created several superfoods in famine afflicted regions. However, its efforts often result in unexpected consequences. For example, it once seeded a strain of clovers capable of converting airborne carbon dioxide into soil enriching nitrogen across the western coast of North America, which would only later be discovered to trigger anaphylactic shock in many humans exposed to their pollen. While it will always try and correct its mistakes, it is often difficult for Omul to understand when its done harm.
In addition, Omul seems to have an innate sense of the global ecosystem that brings it to points of ecological disaster.
Second Strike (8/20)
Omul has no formal second strike. Instead, the danger it represents lies within it: Over the course of its first confrontation with the Russian military, a wide cordon in Siberia was showered in Omul's blood. Its ichor proved a potent mutagenic, and resulted in an almost alien and rapidly evolving forest developing in a fifty mile wide band between Lake Baikal and the Pacific Ocean. Attempts to clear it have caused it to become increasingly hostile to human life.
Anything but an immediate and near total annihilation of Omul could lead to its blood showering over a vast geographic region, and eventually lead to an ecosystem arising that is incompatible with modern civilization.
Appearance: Omul maintains a quadrepedal form remiscient of a bulky canine comprised almost entirely flora biomatter: Wood, algae, dirt, and peat compromise most of its mass. When docile, sprawling flower platches and fruit orchords emerge along its body. These vanish when its drawn to battle, being replaced by steely brush boasting meter long thorns.
Origin Story: Monster to some, icon to others, Omul is in truth just another consequence of 20th century environmental abuse. On February 3rd 2002, a roiling mass of continuously shifting wood, algae, and assorted biomatter tore its way out of the toxic Lake Baikal and began rampaging through the industrial mills that had for decades polluted its shores. What followed was a six day running battle between the Russian armed forces and the Great Green Devil, before Omul reached the shores of the Pacific Ocean and disappeared beneath its waters.
Since then Omul has been both horror and hope the world over, attempting to stabilize the planet's collapsing ecology... and perhaps even helping humanity in the process.
Agenda:
14: Restore the global ecosystem
12: Survive
9: Make friends!
6: Nurture humanity
4: Annihilate industrial movements that despoil the natural world
2: Snack
Personality:
Some over the years have characterized Omul as a giant dog, eager for affection but unaware of its own size as its rampages through its person's household. There is some truth to this - there have been numerous confirmed reports of Omul recepircating affection from humans, and often seems ignorant to the consequences of its actions. Critics of this view are quick to observe that for all its apparent simplicity, Omul is capable triggering complex chemical reactions and has an extensive understanding of global environmental conditions. Niether could be possible without considerable cognitive abilities equal to or surpassing human levels.
The truth is that Omul is a new and singular intellect, the only member of a species that should not exist in a world far to small for itself. It has never been socialized. It was never taught its limits by kind or cruel sires. It is fundamentally and irrevociably alone in the cosmos, and only knows what instict has imparted and what it has learned itself.
Superpower:
Omul is a towering creature and a powerful floral biomancer. It can promote the growth of plant-life, manipulate its movements and shape, and even create wholly new forms of life capable of the scientifically improbable. Its spread plastic eating algae, grown forests in deserts, and created several superfoods in famine afflicted regions. However, its efforts often result in unexpected consequences. For example, it once seeded a strain of clovers capable of converting airborne carbon dioxide into soil enriching nitrogen across the western coast of North America, which would only later be discovered to trigger anaphylactic shock in many humans exposed to their pollen. While it will always try and correct its mistakes, it is often difficult for Omul to understand when its done harm.
In addition, Omul seems to have an innate sense of the global ecosystem that brings it to points of ecological disaster.
Second Strike (8/20)
Omul has no formal second strike. Instead, the danger it represents lies within it: Over the course of its first confrontation with the Russian military, a wide cordon in Siberia was showered in Omul's blood. Its ichor proved a potent mutagenic, and resulted in an almost alien and rapidly evolving forest developing in a fifty mile wide band between Lake Baikal and the Pacific Ocean. Attempts to clear it have caused it to become increasingly hostile to human life.
Anything but an immediate and near total annihilation of Omul could lead to its blood showering over a vast geographic region, and eventually lead to an ecosystem arising that is incompatible with modern civilization.
Appearance: Omul maintains a quadrepedal form remiscient of a bulky canine comprised almost entirely flora biomatter: Wood, algae, dirt, and peat compromise most of its mass. When docile, sprawling flower platches and fruit orchords emerge along its body. These vanish when its drawn to battle, being replaced by steely brush boasting meter long thorns.
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