Living Swarm

= GAMEPLAY INFO: =
== Special Moves: ==
* Mosquito Ball: QCF + MA (He throws his mosquitoes [shaping themselves like a ball like Drahmin's Ball-O-Flies] to his opponent, forcing him/her to float for five seconds.)
* Flying Headbutt: HCF + MA (He hops and then headbutts his opponent while his mosquitoes help him during the maneuver, similar to Urien's Dangerous Headbutt. Can be done in air too.)
* Diving Terror: HCB + HA (He descends slowly with a dual divekick to his opponent, helped by his mosquitoes during the maneuver. Air move only.)
* Descending Swarm: Tap D three times + A (He commands his mosquitoes to go upside down to attack. Distance varies depending on the button: closer [LA], medium [MA] or farther [HA].)
* Energy Devourer: QCB + LA (He commands his mosquitoes to devour his opponent's incoming projectiles, gaining bits of his Charge Indicator.)
== Superdrive: ==
Live in Fear: Living Swarm orders his mosquitoes to cover him, forming a body that allows his swarm to do ranged attacks. The visual difference is that his eyes are flashing.
== Powered Charges: ==
* Follow the Mosquitoes: QCBx2 + LA (He commands his mosquitoes to raid where his opponent is located in a spherical shape, attacking him/her many times. His Superdrive version, has these mosquitoes cover the entire screen, not allowing his opponent to escape yet can be blocked, until they bite him/her in order to replenish their owner's lost health once they return to him.)
* Shaped Like a Punch: HCFx2 + MA (He commands his mosquitoes to take shape of a humongous punch to knock down his opponent in straight line, delivering huge damage. His Superdrive version, has these mosquitoes delivering a dual fist shape, first hitting his opponent downwards and then upwards, sending him/her flying to the ground.)
== Ultimate Charge: ==
* Enjoy the Silence*: F, HCF + HA (The background turns into a dark blue hexagon pattern with his emblem appearing in the center for a while as Living Swarm by assuming a mysterious pose as he says "You cannot escape the swarm!" and then he pushes his opponent. Once it connects, the background turns black as he commands his mosquitoes to his opponent. These mosquitoes start to surround their target and start to trap him/her like they are devouring entirely. The camera focuses on him for a while as he says "Enjoy the silence... forever." as we see how the mosquitoes are absorbing his opponent entirely, with his/her right hand being the last time we see before it disappears entirely, effectively killing him/her. After the attack, Living Swarm brings back his mosquitoes as he grabs one of them, injecting the stored blood to him via transfusion, saying "Good boys.".)
* = Requires the Maximum Charge Indicator to perform. Your opponent must have 25% of health in your winning round
= MISC.: =
* Voice Actor: Gregg Berger (English), Hayato Isomura (Japanese), Sergio Morel (Latin American Spanish)
* Intro Sequence: A group of Zika-infested mosquitoes show up with Living Swarm standing on them before he lands to scene without stepping the mosquitoes. He then greets his off-screen opponent with a butler-styled reverence as he says "I will enjoy your slow and painful death." before he goes to his fighting stance.
* Victory Sequence: Living Swarm crosses his arms and says "I am the swarm incarnate, and you will not be alive to tell it.", before his mosquito swarm assume a carpet-esque group to his feet, floating him as he laughs.
* Stage: Tragic Favela (Stage Transitions: No)
= STORY MODE: =
== Personal Data and Short Biography: ==
(The screen shows the stastics of Living Swarm, whose waist-up portrait is located at right.)
Height: 167 cm
Weight: 68 kg
Blood Type: O
Birthday: May 10
Classification: Power
Ronaldo Santana lived in the rural favela of Jungla Bonita, suffering from a brain tumor that many doctors considered incurable, that is until a swarm of Zika-transmitted mosquitoes killed everyone living there, except him. Now with his newfound army, he now awakes as a fear monger, commanding the very plague responsible for the deaths of many people in recent memory as a way to cure his tumor.
== Stage 4 Interlude - VS. Primadonna ==
=== Pre-Fight Cutscene: ===
(Scene takes place in Chinatown. Primadonna is seen knocking down some police officers with her Tai Chi strikes.)
Primadonna: "Zhè jiù gòule! (Translation: That's enough!)"
(Suddenly, a Zika-transmitted mosquito shows up and attempts to bite Primadonna's neck, but she splats it with her hand.)
????: "I wouldn't kill that beautiful animal, if I were you."
Primadonna: "Who said that?"
(Living Swarm shows up and walks towards Primadonna.)
Living Swarm: "Your victims demand justice."
Primadonna: "What do you want here?"
Living Swarm: "Paying the price for what you did."
Primadonna: "Hah! You are like those fake people who claim that they are murderers, yet you are one of them."
Living Swarm: "You dishonored yourself by killing the mother of your former childhood friend."
Primadonna: "Honor itself can go to heck for what I care! I did what it's correct!"
Living Swarm: "By siding with the Supervillain Resistance?"
Primadonna: "I work with them for the chujià zuìgao de rén (Translation: highest bidder). If I kill Gon Lee, they will reward me."
Living Swarm: "Your motive is not true. I saw you talking with Valiant Schoolgirl, the leader of The Team."
Primadonna: "Are you spying me?"
Living Swarm: "You cannot deny your true purpose in this world, menina (Translation: girl)."
(Primadonna rushes towards Living Swarm and does many Tai Chi attacks, of which he parries them with one hand just like Neo from The Matrix Trilogy.)
Primadonna: "You think you can check me? I already have a purpose!"
Living Swarm: "Não me mente (Translation: Don't lie to me), Wendy!"
Primadonna: "Then, weng weng sheng (Translation: buzz off)!"
(Living Swarm hits Primadonna with a kick that knocks her down before she gets up. Then, both of them are now in the square one.)
Living Swarm: *commands his mosquitoes to surround him* "Shame on you... it's time for me to absorb your bloodstream."
Primadonna: "I'd rather survive than to die by your plague!" *assumes her fighting stance*
=== After Match Cutscene: ===
(Living Swarm walks closer to a downed Primadonna and grabs by her neck.)
Primadonna: "Ugh... why... you!"
Living Swarm: "Confesse a verdade (Translation: Confess the truth)! You are no Resistance member!"
(Living Swarm immediately puts Primadonna down from the chokehold, with a few coughs before she recovers.)
Primadonna: "I admit! Sophie and I were classmates in Les Saisons Academy, but I left that school due to myself admitting that I can't surpass her."
Living Swarm: "A dropout, I suppose... But, why are you working undercover for The Team?"
Primadonna: "For one reason... this world is not what you think. In order to make ammends with Valiant Schoolgirl, I faked being a resistance member in order to check the true motives of Techno-Hacker, of which are less than noble."
Living Swarm: "I never liked his group in first place."
Primadonna: "As for me killing Jessica Lee... I noticed something strange to her."
Living Swarm: "Wait! This means--"
Primadonna: "Yes, we are infiltrated!"
(Living Swarm suddenly falls down to his knees, feeling a bit of pain in his head.)
Primadonna: "What's wrong?"
Living Swarm: "My brain tumor... I need my mosquitoes to absorb your sangue (Translation: blood) and transfuse it to mine!"
(Living Swarm attempts to attack Primadonna, but she gets scared and runs for her life.)
Primadonna: "You are a freak! Lí wo yuan dian! (Translation: Stay away from me!)"
(Primadonna leaves the scene by running from Living Swarm's mosquitoes.)
Living Swarm: "Run! Run as fast as you can!"
(The mosquitoes then change their target to the downed off-screen officers, taking their life source before they return to Living Swarm and complete the blood transfusion.)
Living Swarm: "Ahh! Muito melhor! (Translation: Much better!)"
== Stage 7 Interlude - VS. EctoSpectre ==
=== Pre-Fight Cutscene: ===
(Scene takes place in York's Mansion, in the Communal England. EctoSpectre is looking to his family portrait, with himself as a child, an elder sister of which is brunette, his blonde mother and black haired father. All of them wear aristocratic suits.)
EctoSpectre: "If only I have time to see them again."
(Living Swarm opens the door and shows up, surprising EctoSpectre, of which turns around.)
Living Swarm: "Nice mansão (Translation: mansion)... rule-breaker."
EctoSpectre: "Compared to my current mood today, I used to have a good childhood: A family who cared me, friends whom I used to enjoy playing with... and a cute redhead girlfriend I dated earlier on."
Living Swarm: "But what happened?"
EctoSpectre: "Those criminal scums murdered my entire family, and later on, that bus crash caused the deaths of many, including my dear Annabelle."
Living Swarm: "You are not the one who lost everything. Those mosquitoes who are currently assisting me, also caused many losses where I live, but they are actually helpul to me in spite of that."
EctoSpectre: "Why you want to fear anyone?"
Living Swarm: "In fact, you should fear against those who almost ruined your life."
(EctoSpectre floats down to the square one.)
EctoSpectre: "Fear shouldn't be a tool for despair!"
Living Swarm: "And neither is your hatred... brooding boy."
EctoSpectre: "So be it... Then take this, scum!"
(EctoSpectre launches his ectoplasmic waves to Living Swarm, of which he uses his mosquitoes to absorb the waves.)
Living Swarm: *commands his mosquitoes to surround him* "I wouldn't do that if I were you."
EctoSpectre: "Time to meet the destroyer of souls, murderer!" *hovers with his ectoplasm*
=== After Match Cutscene: ===
(EctoSpectre is laying down, and attempts to get up.)
EctoSpectre: "You... will not... get away... with your crimes."
(Living Swarm kicks the still downed EctoSpectre, sending him farther to the ground.)
Living Swarm: "How pitiful, I thought you would kill me with all of your hatred."
EctoSpectre: *attempts to recover* "Coward!"
Living Swarm: "Heh! I expected better from a brooding boy like you, but instead... you angst for nothing!"
EctoSpectre: "I have a reason... for my angst... I must eradicate... every scum!"
Living Swarm: "Keep talking, emo brit. Você é um fracasso (Translation: You are a failure)."
(EctoSpectre gets up, albeit slower due to his battle damage.)
EctoSpectre: "I'm not a failure!"
Living Swarm: "Then, strike me with all your hatred!"
EctoSpectre: "So be it!"
(EctoSpectre walks slowly while launching his ectoplasmic waves while Living Swarm commands his mosquitoes to absorb them.)
Living Swarm: "That's all? Work harder!"
(EctoSpectre keeps doing it until he gets closer to Living Swarm, of which the fear monger chokes the anti-hero with one hand.)
EctoSpectre: "Miserable... son... of a... hitch!"
Living Swarm: "Sua chance acabou (Translation: Your chance is over), Edmond."
(Living Swarm throws EctoSpectre to the mirror, breaking it while he falls down unconscious. Suddenly, a blot of black substance from nowhere falls down to the ground.)
Living Swarm: "Wait a minute... something is suspicious."
(The black substance moves by itself and attempts to strike Living Swarm as a way to symbiose with him, but he evades it and then grabs a torch to burn the substance, melting it in the process.)
Living Swarm: "I don't know why... but what said that girl earlier on is right... we are infiltrated."
(Living Swarm leaves the scene with his mosquitoes serving as a carpet for him to step. The camera then focuses on a still unconscious EctoSpectre while another black substance from nowhere falls to the ground.)
== Mid-Boss Cutscene: ==
(Scene takes place in the mayor's office. The doors are open as Living Swarm is entering as Greed-O-Crazy gets scared.)
Greed-O-Crazy: "Aah! ¡Un monstruo! (Translation: A monster!)"
Living Swarm: "Covarde rainha! (Translation: Cowardly queenie!) The former mayor at last had dignity, unlike you!"
Greed-O-Crazy: *laughs maliciously* "Nice try, fool! But I don't fear you! *flips Living Swarm with the middle finger, but censored in blurry mosaics* In fact, I mock you!"
Living Swarm: "Don't insult me, you piece of dung!"
Greed-O-Crazy: "Let me guess... you want the cure for your brain tumor?"
Living Swarm: "I don't need medicine, because I got the cure right here." *shows to Greed-O-Crazy his mosquitoes*
Greed-O-Crazy: "Your mosquitoes? ¡No me hagas reir! (Translation: Don't make me laugh!)"
Living Swarm: "By absorbing the citizens' vitality, they can transfuse it to my blood stream in order to cure my brain tumor."
Greed-O-Crazy: "Those mosquitoes are completely dangerous for your health!"
Living Swarm: "Wanna bet how dangerous they are to the common being?"
(Greed-O-Crazy gets up from his seat, presses a button to summon a powered armor for him to wear, and starts to walk to the square one.)
Greed-O-Crazy: "I'm aware of the Zika outbreak years ago. You could have been killed by the very insects surrounding to you."
Living Swarm: "Instead, they gave me a second chance! My brain tumor will be cured!"
Greed-O-Crazy: "¡Es hora de exterminarlos por completo con mi Fliptonita! (Translation: It's time to exterminate them entirely with my Flyptonite!)"
(Both assume their fighting stances.)
== Sub-Boss Cutscene: ==
(Greed-O-Crazy is defeated but he gets up easily.)
Greed-O-Crazy: "I can't believe it! You almost killed me!"
Living Swarm: "And I'll kill you for real, but not before telling me about that black substance."
Greed-O-Crazy: ¡No sé que estás hablando, pero sé que estás demente! (Translation: I don't know what are you talking about, but I know you're insane!)"
Living Swarm: "Very well... your death awaits."
(Living Swarm orders his mosquitoes to absorb the bloodstream of Greed-O-Crazy.)
Greed-O-Crazy: "You are a menace to this city! I'll call to plague control!"
????: "The plague you are referring... is yourself!"
Greed-O-Crazy: "¡Creo que ya estoy fregado! (Translation: I think I'm now screwed!)"
(The mosquitoes retreat back to Living Swarm as a white energy ray is coming somewhere and it hits Greed-O-Crazy, effectively dissintegrating him to death via black silhouette before the camera returns to normal.)
Living Swarm: "O que? (Translation: What?) I thought you are dead!"
(And it turns out, the one who did it, turns out it's Major Megapower, whom everyone thought he was dead, but in reality, he's alive and well. He shows up to scene.)
Major Megapower: "But I got better... that's the fact!"
Living Swarm: "As for me... I must cure my brain tumor!"
Major Megapower: "Your methods to do so are not correct, Ronaldo. Are you aware that those mosquitoes could have killed you?"
Living Swarm: "They actually benefitted me, at the cost of their lives."
Major Megapower: "I can't believe you are a murderer!"
Living Swarm: "Now... tell me where did came that black substance?"
Major Megapower: "Over my dead body!"
Living Swarm: "You just asked for it!"
(Living Swarm commands his mosquitoes to attack Major Megapower, but the superhero runs towards the fear-monger. Then, Major Megapower grabs the Brazilian's neck and goes flying with him to an abandoned observatory. Later, we cut to both of them landing to scene, but not before Major Megapower throwing Living Swarm farther, of which the latter gets up.)
Major Megapower: "You want to talk about that black substance?"
Living Swarm: "Yes! I need it to investigate its roots!"
Major Megapower: "The black substance in question can be found somewhere here."
Living Swarm: "I got the information, but I think your glory days are over!"
(Both assume their fighting stances.)
== Final Boss Cutscene: ==
(Major Megapower is trying to get up.)
Major Megapower: "You will never be cured, Ronaldo!"
Living Swarm: "Your bloodstream is needed to cure my brain tumor, foolish hero!"
Major Megapower: "Sorry to say this, but he's coming!"
(Just when Living Swarm attempts to attack Major Megapower with his mosquitoes, the screen turns black as we hear Major Megapower's death scream followed by blood splattering sounds by an unknown force before it retuns back to normal as Living Swarm just reacts quietly.)
Living Swarm: "What is this? I don't even--"
????: "The fear monger thought he saw it all."
Living Swarm: "You..."
(Major Megapower's corpse [whose gory hole in the back is not shown on-screen] starts to dissolve into ashes and then we are treated with a black substance, and forming from it, is Xenozydos.)
Xenozydos: "Stop the formalities, anyways let me present the mastermind of the biggest catastrophe you're witnessing now, Xenozydos."
Living Swarm: "Major Megapower told me about that black substance. Is this the place where I can found its roots?"
Xenozydos: "So you finally found out about the homunculi sooner. I'm a bit impressed."
Living Swarm: "The Homunculi? Who are them, and what does that black substance involving?"
Xenozydos: "The Overlord has created them as a way to inhabit this very city, masquerading as simple citizens."
Living Swarm: "Including these citizens from that hospital where I am diagnosed of my brain tumor?"
Xenozydos: "My answer is affirmative. On the other hand, those mosquitoes of yours are good companions... but I got bad news for you."
Living Swarm: "Tell me or I'll kill you!"
Xenozydos: "Your mosquitoes absorbed the homunculi's bloodstream! In other words: Your brain tumor is starting to cover life by itself!"
(Living Swarm kneels down, feeling that one day or another, he will die for real.)
Living Swarm: "That's not fair! I thought I'm soon to be cured forever!"
Xenozydos: "And you have no choice than to pick two options: Join me in my personal war game and help the Overlord devour the life source of the entire planet... or die refusing my offer. There's no middle ground."
(Living Swarm knows that there are no second chances, so he decides to off Xenozydos.)
Living Swarm: "For what? To become your slave for an eternity? I would rather die than serving you!"
Xenozydos: "I gave you an opportunity to get cured, Ronaldo!"
(Xenozydos turns the abandoned observatory into an eldritch area filled with all things Lovecraftian, and above them, is the Overlord of the area, complete with a watching eye.)
Xenozydos: "And you choose the death instead!"
Living Swarm: "I noticed that your bloodstream is incompatible with me, but that doesn't stop me from killing you, inhuman!"
Xenozydos: "You and your plague will be extinct, Living Swarm!"
(The final battle begins as both assume their fighting stances.)
== Ending: ==
(Living Swarm is seen standing over the dead corpses caused by the Zika outbreak.)
Ronaldo's chances to cure his brain tumor are no longer effective, especially since it's revealed that the victims of the outbreak turned out to be homunculi, much to his dismay.
Living Swarm: "I no longer have a purpose here... since when the citizens are not humans?"
(Suddenly, the brain tumor starts to grow inside Living Swarm's head, causing him to feel pain.)
Unfortunately, the absorbed bloodstream from the homunculi causes the tumor to grow further, to the point that even his mosquitos are also slowly dying too.
Living Swarm: "I cannot control my tumor! Somebody help me! PLEASE!"
(We see through the silhouettes how Living Swarm's head gets exploded, falling him to the death. Then, we see those mosquitoes dying alongside with their owner, with one boot stomping on one of them, revealing the identity of Chess Strategist, a black haired man with a moustache, wearing an outfit resembling Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish from Game of Thrones.)
Ronaldo Santana died as a result his brain tumor's growth caused by inhuman blood absorbtion. However, his death is revealed to be all part of the plan of a strategist who is currently assisting a prophet of the Overlord.
Chess Strategist (voiced by Aidan Gillen): "As my master prophesized, your death is a proof that no one dares to defy the Overlord!"
(The screen fades black after the ending.)
(Ki:Theory's "Enjoy the Silence" starts playing as the credits which background is a blue wall with hexagon patterns with the emblems of the characters showing up at once while the credits are rolling.)
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