Yakob Cascabel

:"Death is... a barrier. Surmountable, inconvenient. Something that is to be permeated." - Cascabel to his niece, Dr Viper.
Yakob Cascabel is a member of the Cobra family, being Valerie and Malik Viper's uncle and the Cobra children (Johnny, Cassandra and Tybalt)'s great uncle. He is a disgraced neurologist who was driven out of the medical community for unethical experiments involving necro-robotics.
==Character==
===Appearance===
Cascabel is a tall man with a corpselike complexion. He has dark red hair swept back and streaked with greyish-pink. His eyes are luminous red and obscured by square glasses; he has a beard. His jaw is made of metal, as are both of his arms, his left leg and part of his brow, though he has convincingly disguised them as organic parts.
He often wears a black turtleneck and tan slacks with grey loafers. He walks with a cane but doesn't need it; the cane is a complex multitool. He usually either wears a white labcoat or a grey cardigan. He also wears sophisticated statement rings.
===Personality===
He is stoic and severe like the harsh mountain winters, but has a dry, ironic sense of humour. He has little patience for fools but dotes on his niece.
===Skills & Abilities===
He is hardier, sturdier and stronger than the average human due to his plethora of robotic and cybernetic parts. He is also a genius scientist and surgeon with a high pain tolerance for self-upgrade and augmentation. He is adept in hand-to-hand and polearm combat, as well as the use of a crossbow.
==History==
Yakob was born in Switzerland. He was a smart child with a penchant for playing 'surgery' on small animals. He feigned reform and made it into a prestigious school, eventually becoming a licensed neurosurgeon, but shortly into his surgery career his suggestions of 'improving' patients or proposing 'augmentations' to the human form led to him losing his license and being forced out of the medical community. His attempts to redeem himself only made matters worse as he presented an augmented human being - a serial killer he'd lured to and augmented in his loft apartment - to the medical board. The man had been 'upgraded' to have manually controllable/toggled emotions, a 'stop switch' that disabled his limbs, a neurally-enforced sleep cycle, the ability to metabolise airborne particles into nutrition and more things that led to the medical board being really really upset.
Cascabel's license was double-revoked and the authorities put a bounty on his head. He faked his death and escaped from the coroners' office, retreating to his serial killer patient's Alpine cabin which he renovated from a kill cottage to a cozy rustic home. He has since augmented many parts of his body and performed surgery on willing patients who visit him on the down-low. His primary focus is bringing back the dead as well as enhancing the human form; he has a fascination with aliens and powered people, and bringing normos up to their level.
=== Colkiverse B ===
In Colkiverse B, he is called down from the Alps by jet to Iraz, where in a desert bunker his beloved niece implores him to perform surgery on Tybalt Cobra, who had been maimed by the Bio-Slime Monster controlled by Bill Large, under the Mysterious Shadowy Figure's command. Cascabel enthusiastically complied, incensed by the betrayal and bringing the deceased Tybalt back with a vengeance.
==Trivia==
* He has attempted to murder three of Viper's prior boyfriends, but finds Sylvester Cobra amusing and inoffensive enough to consider a non-threat.
* The cascabel is also the name of a part of a muzzle-loading cannon and a kind of pepper also known as the 'rattle chilli', but here is primarily referring to the Crotalus Durissus, or Venezuelan Rattlesnake, whose common Spanish name is the Cascabel. This snake is a kind of highly venomous pit viper.
* Though he dotes adoringly on his beloved niece Valerie Viper, he also has a kind place in his heart for his nephew and Valerie's brother Malik.
* He has called the UNWD personally (via their open civillian hotline, spelling out messages in body parts for the NEST cameras to pick up, finding Gordonson's personal number, etc) on several occasions to barter for Viper's release from Sarkham. They have denied his multiple requests as they usually consist of 'I would like my niece to be taken to my cabin and in return I will not raise every corpse in your cemetery and march on your base with a violence known only by the dead'.
** He has also offered to trade Valerie for other family members, such as Boomslang.
Category:Males
Category:Elite Normos
Category:Scientists
Category:Cobra Family