Ox

Ox, real name unknown, was a cybrid originally from somewhere in Massachusetts, he was one of many across the world whose parents underwent artificial insemination by PGI Research in London and developed physical animal mutations during puberty. He was one of the first members of the Genetic Victims Society founded by Mole.

### History

Where exactly Ox was born is unknown, other than he was a native to the state of Massachusetts, and had a troubled upbringing after his birth; according to him his father never wanted a child and his mother went ahead with the insemination anyway. Growing up mostly on the streets until he hit puberty and his cybridisation manifested, he wound up in Boston when he was 16, where he started dealing with gangs.

He spent years stealing food, where he became a legend known as the Demon of Boston and was later hired by one of the most prolific crime syndicates in the state, starving and desperate he took the job and became an issue for authorities to the point where the police would no longer bother the gang.

The gang became known as the Boston Demons and they ran the town for years.

When Mole spent a short time as a vigilante, he fought the gang and confronted Ox, but rather than fight him Mole began to wonder at the two's mutations; however the CIA, who had been monitoring Mole all along, were simply using him to get to Ox; but Mole, disgruntled and used, refused to turn him over and Ox took him to his safehouse in return.

From there Mole began the search for other genetically-engineered human-animal hybrids, which he later discovered through online searching to be called cybrids, and begat the Genetic Victims Society.

TBC

### Personality

Ox was loud and abrasive, once a quiet and somewhat solemn young man who hid in the shadow, his time in the Demon Gang and in the GVS made him proud and highly defensive of his cybridisation, he was not afraid to voice his own opinion, even though he was not particularly that smart, he had a temper and was often short on patience.

### Appearance

Ox was a tall, extremely-muscled African-American man with brown eyes and a strongly defined jawline, with shaved head, his notable feature was his two horns that protruded from his head and his skull seemed to be thicker on the top of his head in addition. He had lighter mottles of brown upon his head and down his back, shoulders and arms and possessed cow-like ears that he could move individually. Originally he also possessed a bovine-like tail, but his first encounter with Match saw his tail burned off; with cauterisation the tail would not ever grow back.

### Powers and Abilities

#### **Powers**

Ox is a cybrid whose embryo was cybridised with some form of bovine DNA, from the shape of his horns, likley from a Musk Ox, his mutation manifested when he was 12 and granted him the following abilities:

**Part-Bovine Cybrid Physiology:** Ox developed a number of bull-like abilities and characteristics thanks to the mutation caused by his cytoplasmic hybridisation.

* ***Greatly increased strength:*** He had the ability to lift (press) nearly 37 tonnes with ease, crushing steel weapons and tossing cars like toys.

* ***Enhanced Durability:*** He developed extremely resilient skin, muscular structure and bones, while he was not bulletproof, could shrug off most forms of melee attack with very little damage to his body, including falling from great heights or being struck with superhuman forces. He was able to withstand a blast of electricity from Volt that would have easily knocked a normal human unconscious, and withstood higher deadly voltages, though it still brought him to his knees. He withstood the striking force of Elliot's halberd several times without budging (though this did actually fracture his bones a later x-ray would show). He was also highly resistant to extremes in temprature.
* ***Pain Resistance*:** He had a much higher tolerance to pain, not outwardly showing signs of being damaged, although he did feel it, his brain seemed to process it as a diluted sensation.

* **Enhanced** **Hearing and Smell*:*** While most of his senses were pretty much on average with normal humans, his sense of hearing was above that of most by a large degree, in part due to his bovine-esque ears that he was able to position according to sounds, and also possessed increased olfactory processing.

#### **Abilities**

* **Street Fighting:** He knew various streetfighting and self-defence forms.
* **Boston knowledge:** He knew backstreets and the locations of secret hideouts within and outside the city of Boston

### **Limitations and weaknesses**

Ox was not particularly intelligent and aside from being very strong, had no real skills in anything. He had a short fuse and no patience.