Abe Sapien

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

### Langdon Everett Caul: 1798 - 1840

Langdon Everett Caul was born in Codsville, Maine — a small fishing village where the academic boy learned to sail and swim, beginning a lifelong interest with the sea and its creatures. Too intelligent to enjoy a life as a fisherman, Caul would find a way to attend school in Boston, becoming an educated biologist, doctor, and chemist.

In the course of his studies, Caul met Edith Howard from Rhode Island. Though Edith was not always stable at the best of times, Caul had a calming effect on her. Their marriage brought Caul to the attention of the political friends of Edith's father.

These friends were members of the secret Oannes Society, a wing of the Order of Ancient Mysteries based in Washington D.C. Caul's expertise interested them as they had a need for someone with his particular skillset and interest in aquatic life. After a lengthy grooming period, Caul was invited to join their society. Eager for the opportunity, Langdon and Edith relocated to the nation's capital.

Once settled into his new home, Caul was taken to a hidden bunker deep underground where he was shown a strange aquatic creature taken from an underwater ruin that the Oannes Society believed to be tied to Atlantis. Though the Oannes Society had their own agenda, Caul was more interested in the creature's regenerative properties—believing he might have found the elixir for immortality.

Before proper testing could be done, Caul developed a rare lung condition. Panicked by the thought of his own impending mortality when he felt on the very of the ultimate discovery, Caul rushed his research. Becoming desperate, Caul cut an organ from the creature which he believed contained the secret to its immortality. With his rational impulses taking a backseat to his own survival, Caul ingested it.

### Langdon Everett Caul: 1840 - 1865

The next day, Caul's associates walked in on a gruesome display. Caul was passed out in a lavatory with his human skin and organs scattered around his new form. Not recognizing their associate, the Oannes Society feared that Caul had been devoured by this humanoid abomination but were unwilling to kill it without any proper study.

Instead, they dragged the barely conscious amphibian man into an occult stasis tank and sealed the "creature" therein while they searched for Caul's replacement.

The replacement was never found as the Oannes Society was forced to suspend operations by the outbreak of the American Civil War. The underground lab's last sentry abandoned the site immediately after reading the newspaper article of Abraham Lincoln's assassination.

### Langdon Everett Caul: 1865 - 1978

The sentry left the paper atop the stasis tank where it was the only thing a semi-conscious Caul could look at for over a hundred years. He heard nothing of Edith's suicide after years of being given no word of her husband's whereabouts.

### Abe Sapien: 1978 - 1984

The site's existence was discovered by Professor Trevor Bruttenholm of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense while he was reading old Men of Letters documents on the Oannes Society. Curious about this bunker, Bruttenholm ordered an excavation. Trevor Bruttenholm was accompanied by Hellboy when the still-functioning stasis tank was found with its occupant still alive... barely.

Upon being removed from stasis, the creature's stasis sickness left his cognition impaired. When Bruttenholm asked for his name, the amphibious humanoid could only say "Abe." When Hellboy asked what he was, he could barely explain he was "once a man" but failed to recall much else.

Renamed "Abe Sapien," the amphibian man began a new life among the BPRD. Though it would be some time before his memories and identity returned to him, Abe made the most out of his situation by practicing the new abilities his altered body afforded him and adjusting to his new aquatic lifestyle. When Abe recalled his past as Caul, Hellboy helped him sneak out to his wife's grave. This turned out to be Abe's first field mission when his wife's spirit was found to be an angry ghost.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Ichthyonic Mutated Physiology:** Abe has a fairly unique physiology that resembles those of some Atlantean mutants. He may be a modern example of Atlantis' early attempts to adapt to life underwater.
	+ ***Amphibious Nature:*** Abe has both gills and lungs, allowing him to breathe both air and water. His body actually requires both, but he can go without air for prolonged periods of time by entering a hibernative state in which he remains semi-conscious.
	+ ***Cold Resistance:*** Abe's bloodstream is filled with amino acid that keeps his body from freezing in the ocean depths. His own temperature is naturally high.
	+ ***Enhanced Senses:*** Abe has a form of low-light vision that allows him to see clearly in the dark and underwater. He also has other sharp senses particularly well-suited to underwater environments.
	+ ***Enhanced Strength:*** Abe is stronger than his build suggests, with dense muscles. He is roughly as strong as an athletic human bodybuilder in peak condition.
	+ ***Enhanced Swimming:*** Abe is a talented swimmer, with a natural affinity for water, He can swim underwater at rates upwards of a 100 MPH (160 kph) under ideal conditions, though he prefers to swim at a slower pace.
	+ ***Regeneration:*** Abe heals at remarkable rates and can even recover lost limbs and organs if he can rest in moist environments. His regenerative nature has also stalled his aging. Though he is over two-hundred years old, he is still in prime condition.
* **Psionic Aura:** Abe has a powerful psychic aura and a potent brain.
	+ ***Aura Perception:*** Abe can see the auras of others, giving him insight into the personalities, behavior, and abilities of those he encounters.
	+ ***Empathy:*** Abe can sense the emotions of those around him. With concentration, he can even assert specific emotions on others, influencing their behavior. He can easily manipulate the emotions of animals, particularly aquatic creatures.
	+ ***Neurocognitive Disruption:*** Abe has the ability to disrupt memory chains and upper brain functions on a living organism. This can be used to make concentration difficult, cause an aggressive person to become docile, or render them unconscious. Particularly weak-minded persons or those with compromised brain chemistry might be susceptible to suggestion or memory alteration/erasure.
	+ ***Psionic Tracking:*** Abe can trace subjects by their psychic signature. This ability allows him to pinpoint the exact location of a specific person he is familiar with within fifty yards. He can trace where a target has been recently, with more powerful psionics leaving their psychic residue on a area for longer than ordinary persons.
	+ ***Psychometry:*** Though touch, Abe can obtain historical memories or sensations. If triggered when handling an object, Abe may gain the knowledge of its makers, previous users, or insight to what may have been done with it. If triggered through personal contact, Abe might relive one of their recent or more potent memories.
	+ ***Supernatural Senses:*** Abe is able to see, hear, and interact with beings on the astral plane, unmanifested ephemeral entities, and invisible spirits such as ghosts. He is also sensitive to intrinsic and psychic phenomena.
* **Master Parapsychologist:** Abe is a master parapsychologist, particularly in regards to marine parapsychology.
* **Genius Scientist:** Abe has a genius intellect that was heightened by his transformation. In his past as Langdon Caul, Abe was a world-class medical doctor, chemist, and biologist. Though his schooling is a bit outdated, he has since mostly caught up on modern practices.

### Weaknesses

* **Dehydration:** Abe finds it difficult to function with dry gills. He is severely impaired in arid environments without the use of his hydro-collar.
* **Migraines:** Abe suffers from intense chronic migraine headaches.
* **Vice — Pride:** Abe may come across as a bit of a snob when around those who are not familiar with his intellect and cultured personality. Abe takes failure rather hard, particularly when others are relying on him to solve a problem with his intelligence.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Occult:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Weaponry:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Expertise:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Range:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Strategy:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
	+ **TOTAL:** 80
	+ **RANKING:** Moderate Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* He is best friends with Hellboy and friends with Trevor Bruttenholm, Liz Sherman, Roger, Ben Daimio, Johann Kraus, Kate Corrigan, and Carla Giarocco. He is also the Godfather to Hellboy and Liz's children.
* He was able to save Nina Frankenstein from dying from the same disease that he had by giving her a blood transfusion however it caused her to mutate.
* The Manhattaning took away the cure that Caul had developed for himself and the girl whose life he had saved. Unable to feel sorry for his condition in the light of such devastation and death, Caul properly abandoned his human identity and began to accept his new life, embracing the name Abe Sapien and becoming more engrossed in the BRPD and its mission. He and Hellboy would go on to become unlikely best friends.
* He used to be in a relationship with an elf.
* There was an attempt to use his water tank Liz was giving birth. Unfortunately the water started to boil and Johann Kraus had to step in to deliver the children as Abe was left with severe burns.
* He's one of Brig and TJ's teachers. TJ shadows him, trying to learn more.

### Notes

* Abe Sapien is a character from the *Hellboy* series and its related media.

## Gallery

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## Network Files

Network Files Abe Sapien 1.jpgNetwork Files: Abe Sapien 1

## Links and References

* Appearances of Abe Sapien

1. ↑ Network Files: Abe Sapien 1
2. ↑ Roy Reimagines... Hellboy
3. ↑ VOX Box: Hellboy Saves Christmas 1
4. ↑ Network Files: The Bruttenholm Twins