based in this dimension, 1980.
Joe Cliff Barley, a healthy child was born into a middle-income republican family in New York, but in 1986, he and his family were caught in the middle of a gang war. he was the only survivor, along with the trauma of watching his family die when he was six, he was drafted as an orphan into the U.S. military as a next-generation Special Ops soldier. the Omega Black unit of the U.S. military started almost immediately after the Cold War begun. Joe was partnered with a young man, barely twenty-three, named Jason Ripper. posing as father and son, Joe and Jason Ripper completed several top-secret infiltration missions in both America and a couple other countries. until 1994, when a traitor shot Jason in the back during the middle of a mob-boss assassination mission. fourteen year-old Joe carried the half-dead Jason to the nearest hospitol, only to find out his liver had been pierced, and nothing could save him. Joe then spent the next seven months in his own private lab, astonishing his superiors when he came out with an I.Q. of 212 and the ability to lift over fifteen hundred pounds. Joe had created a muscle enhancer, and over the next five years learned how to access more than eighty percent of his brain, and more than ninety percent of the human body's potential. during those five years he continued his missions with Omega Black. in the year two thousand, he was partnered to a nineteen year-old British secret agent that was transferred to America, she was the only partner he had since Jason that didn't die within the first three missions with him. two years later, they were married. two years after that, Michael Ripper was born. in 2009, Joe was promoted to General of an entire section of the U.S. Special Ops. records stop at this point.
"there are twenty-six types of amino acids, and trillions of combinations. find the right combination and you can make a super-human... or the most horrifying uncurable biological weapon ever imagined." ~General Joe Ripper; 2014 A.D.
note: we actually made this during our Street Fighter obsession, guess who the British agent was?
Raiden Charles
in the year 1014, this dimension. a small demon appeared, and ravaged the English countryside, until it came to a small village and pissed off the wrong knight...
Raiden was a nineteen year-old young knight with his entire life in front of him, three days before his twentieth birthday he was married to a young woman. however, on his birthday the demon came to his village. and killed him right after he sat down for dinner. the demon however did not have enough time to eat him, or kill his wife before the townsfolk arrived in mob form. it escaped. the funeral was the next morning. that night, the demon returned searching for the body. but instead found the recent widow. back in the graveyard, a--very alive--hand burst out of the fresh grave, and Raiden climbed out of the grave, pulling the bandage off his neck, a mourner watched in horror as several vines or some similar things filled in the hole through his neck then colored themselves to his skin. he then ran to his house. though he was too late, the body remained undescecrated, and he buried her in his grave the next morning. then, he went into the local blacksmith, and made his own sword. the Necrocourse. putting two hundred pounds of steel into a regular sized three and a half foot blade. a strange design, a straight blade with a katana-like tip. the village confronted the undead Raiden right before he left. he ignored them until one got between him and the direction he was walking, he tossed the man aside like a rag doll, then left the village, following the demon to the ends of the earth, as a ghoul. an undead created by an unimaginable hate, he never ages, and can never be killed. like the demon, he can become stronger, faster and can learn skills, abilities and Magic by absorbing any one or thing he kills. however, Raiden is not out to kill and absorb, and therefore does not need it to survive. unlike the demon, who starves without food. about a hundred years later, the Shakir demon killed a telepathic monk, but before it could absorb the body and powers, Raiden absorbed it, and now Raiden can learn everything in anyone's memory simply by touching their forehead. later, Raiden was slowed by an army of over two thousand crusaders, in his rage he slaughtered them all, and absorbed them. since then, Raiden stopped saving people, stopped caring if they were there or not, they only slowed him down, and this alone was punishable by death to him.
"what is your purpose?"
"I had a spike driven through my spine, and was lowered into my grave a thousand years ago. I saw the Angel of Death, and I spit in his face. there is no purpose, there is no fate, there is no destiny... he killed me, and now he will die in my hands..." ~Raiden Charles: 2015
note: now this one was made about a month after seeing "Freddy vs. Jason". the idea of an unkillable marauding ghoul was nice, but we usually keep the bad-guy spot for a demon. and whalah, Raiden and Shakir are born!
Kane and Bruno
unknown time, seventh dimension.
in the northernmost mountains of Cron, there are a collection of villages housing the Pumar race. a species that is half human, and half Puma (mountain lion). Pumarians are on average, nine feet tall, and their most common weapon is a long thick spear. Kane, was a regular Pumar guard... until an exiled Werewolf bit his arm right before he ripped out it's heart and poked it with a silver toothpick. now his Feline genes apparently won a consciousness in his Werewolf form, the Werewolf half refers to himself as "Bruno", and is a lot more polite than Kane. the Pumarian King was fully aware of Kane's alter ego, so Kane was more than surprised two years after his infection when a Royal escort from a warring human kingdom came to his village, and the Pumarian King appointed him as guardian of the six year old Princess. Kane and Princess Rita of Ticries traveled through Cron for eight years, until they stopped at Ticries the day before it's enemy's huge armies attacked the capitol city. the leaders of the armies worshipped a moon god, so they thought it was best to attack when their god was most powerful. however, the entire collection of armies could not stop the Werewolf that was three feet taller than any other known Werewolf, and nearly twice as strong, and infinitely more cunning than the mindless killers that Werewolves had always been, he even used weapons, and took down the horses so they couldn't retreat. by the end of the night, the war had ended, and the losing kingdom of Ticries had won. the religious war of Ticries had ended, so Kane, Bruno and the Princess parted, and carrying a Knighthood, Kane and Bruno returned to their village, and were appointed members of the Royal Guard. Bruno's name was removed from history books and folklore, and to this day, Kane's legend lives throughout all of Cron. and a platinum statue of him was sent to Kane's hometown, as a gift from the Princess of the Holy Ticries Empire.
unknowing to the rest of the world, there was an amulet Kane and Bruno made from their blood, they gave it to the Princess. the amulet called Kane to the Princess' side at any time. after Kane and Bruno had died, the Amulet could attach to the platinum statue, and would animate it. partially ressurecting the two.
note: we got the idea after stumbling across a "furry" MUD type thing. the idea of mixing two species wasn't new to us, Neko, Avian, Harpy, Gorgon and etcetera, but there were just so many different races to choose from. none of them were half-Puma, but that's because 99% of the population of the planet doesn't know what a puma is. we decided to make the new species and put a legend for them in Cron. thus, over the course of two days, we created the entire life story of Kane. this is just the little legend for him.
