Captain Kaiju

Once a prominent Marine Biologist Takeshi rose to prominence in the Japanese Navy due to his research into training sea animals to act as field assets. His wife acted as his assistant and tragically passed away from chemical poisoning when they uprooted some ancient ruins believed to have been related to the Atlanteans in the past. This substance, however, proved to have immense mutagenic properties, especially for amphibian and ocean dwelling creatures.

Takeshi was driven mad by his obsession with "Compound K" and discovered that it unlocked the secrets of life within water dwelling creatures, such as those mankind had evolved from at their earlies stages. When World War II broke out his research was provided massive funding and allowed him to create assets that could provide an edge to the Naval forces.

His research bore a price, however and he slowly began to mutate himself due to exposure to the chemical and the sea creatures. As he worked he acquired scales, gills, strange whitened eyes and difficulty in surviving the environments of surface and sea alike. He donned a diving suit that allowed him to manage his ideal environment and became a field agent to oversea his creatures, which recognized him in a parental context.

After the war he eluded capture and remains a criminal in his homeland today having fought anti-Axis forces during the war that subsequently became the prominent heroes in the years following the war. As far as Takeshi was concerned he was a patriot and had no actual loyalty to anyone other than his country, thus he rankled at the consequences of the Axis affiliation.

As his mutations remained unstable, allegedly including hosting a rare breed of toxic barnacles on his skin, he grew more and more unhinged and became obsessed with the giant monsters and strange beasts that seemed to gravitate towards Halcyon City. Believing that this was interrupting with his "finale breakthrough" in his research he set about deploying creatures against Halcyon's Heroes relentlessly.

After his attack in 1999 that destroyed Smashtown he was arrested, extradited to Japan and subsequently locked away in a secure facility due to his mental instability and seriously devastating mutations. Rumor has it that a contingent of Atlanteans petitioned for him to be sent to them for punishment but their reluctance to explain his crimes shut downt he conversation.

## Powers and Abilities

As a member of the Japanese Navy "Captain Kaiju", as he came to be known, was trained in basic hand to hand combat, firearms and in the use of most tools and piloting methods of small watercraft and submersibles. He was a noted Marine Biologist and Animal Trainer which served him well following his mutation with "Compound-K".

Following his transformation he sealed himself into a diving suit that was apparently intended to handle the difficulties with his transformation coping with his mammalian and sea-creature features. He was noted as having a resistance to poisons and diseases due to his mutated genetics and as being surprisingly strong, though his size did altar following the transformation.

His diving suit could resist most small arms fire and even rifle round in its later iterations, it was equipped with sonar and thermal imaging as well as a boost pack that enabled him to swim at incredible speeds under water and leap great distances on land. He wielded a harpoon or spear throughout his career that would be charged with a powerful voltage, sufficient to stun or incapacitate his enemies.

Captain Kaiju's main ability was to control the creatures he created, though his supply of Compound K ran out his studies made him a master of creating monsters and engineering them with traits. Those he creates respond to him as though he was their leader and/or parent.

## The Captain's Kaiju

The Captain generally has his own names for these creatures he creates, they are in a language impossible to replicate phonetically or otherwise due to his altered vocal cords, as such these entities were given their names by the media or by heroes in most cases