Feral Hunter

## Character Overview

The **Feral Predator** was a Yautja that conducted a hunt during the September of 1719 across the Great Plains, which was at the time territory of the Comanche tribe.

After wrecking havoc against both the Comanche and French trappers, he eventually came into conflict with a Comanche healer and aspiring hunter, Naru; he was ultimately defeated and killed by her after she managed to use the creature's advanced weaponry against him.

The Feral Predator was a unique specimen amongst typical Predators, not only possessing a visually distinctive appearance, but also sporting weapons and gadgetry that were far more primitive compared to other examples seen in Yautja culture (though still far superior to that of Humans). This was due to the creature's unique background - presumably hailing from a different, even hotter hemisphere of the Predator homeworld, essentially being a 'Desert Predator'.

Another, more minor difference between the Feral Predator and others is his very blood - while still green in color, it appears as a much darker shade of green, and is noticeably less luminous than other Predators' blood.

Feral Predator culture supposedly held a reverence toward bones, not only for the fashioning of their armor and equipment, but also being key to the subspecies' diet as well, and has larger jaws to showcase this.

Owing to his name, the Feral Predator displayed large degrees of savage behavior. Indeed, the Predator seemed to specifically enjoy close-combat over stealth, and actively engaged in up-close skirmishes frequently. He notably wrestled with and killed a bear with his bare hands. That is not to say he wasn't adept in armed combat, however, and he employed the use of several unique armaments that he used to dispatch of numerous victims. He was also extremely durable, and showcased a massive pain tolerance, able to shrug off most injuries, including being impaled through the chest, being shot in the back of the head and even losing his right arm.

The Feral Predator possessed a curiosity towards the dynamic between local fauna within the Great Plains, and, upon encountering several of its inhabitants, he slowly built up his repertoire of trophies, working his way to larger and deadlier prey, from snakes and wolves, to bears and humans.

Though it is unknown if the Feral Predator shared the same code of honor as his more well known cousins, he at least bore some traits reminiscent of an honorable Yautja, taking little interest in prey he deemed inadequate for his collection - he notably ignored Naru for much of his hunt, until she eventually posed a threat to him. However, this sense of familial sporting behavior had its limits, and the Predator would employ his cloak in combat whenever necessary; he notably engaged with the wolf and grizzly bear fully-cloaked, and when he fought Taabe, who was wounding him frequently, the Feral Predator eventually cloaked himself and subsequently stabbed Taabe in the back. He also killed a maimed Raphael Adolini after merely startling him, in addition to resorting to the use of his Bolt Gun after being overwhelmed by Naru in their final confrontation despite appropriately handicapping himself for much of their duel.

## Biography (P)

### 1719: American Great Plains Hunt of Animals, French Trappers, and Comanche

The Feral Predator arrived on Earth during the early 18th century, landing in North America in the middle of Comanche territory. Though cloaked, the sight of his hidden ship which passed through the region's stormy clouds was witnessed by Comanche woman Naru, who assumed it to be a thunderbird.

From there, the Predator began his search for worthy prey to hunt, claiming his first trophy by killing and skinning a rattlesnake. Naru was the first to grow suspect of the hunter's activity in the area, noticing the remains of the flayed rattlesnake and the creature's unusually large footprints.

Later, the Predator observed a wolf hunting a rabbit in an open field. After interrupting the creature, he killed the wolf, severed its head and claimed it as a trophy. Settling into a nearby cave, he removed the flesh and fur from the canine's skull using his disintegrator gas, hanging his new trophy across his body. Upon hearing the barks of Naru's dog Sarii, he departed once again.

Stumbling upon skinned buffalos, the Feral Predator noted the presence of a burnt cigar and flowers Naru left behind for them, lingering there a bit before moving on. Subsequently, he would come to witness Naru herself being attacked by a grizzly bear. Seeing the animal as a worthy challenge, he battled with it with his bare hands, eventually delivering a death blow that broke the bear's neck and holding the beast above his head. Roaring in triumph at his new kill, and bathed in the grizzly bear's blood, he noticed Naru fleeing, intriguing him, and he decided to follow her.

Tailing Naru, the Predator would witness her being subdued by a search party sent out to look for her by her brother, Taabe. Using his Bolt Gun, he would first dispatch the party leader, Wasape, before engaging in a brief duel with Huupi and Ania - he would go on to brutally kill both. Witnessing Naru flee once again, he would kill the remaining member of the party, Itsee, before catching up to Naru, now incapacitated in a bear trap. Realizing her handicap, the Predator grew disinterested, and allowed Naru to be knocked out and taken away by a party of French voyageurs led by Big Beard, whom the Feral Predator had come into conflict with at an earlier point.

The voyageurs decided to use Naru and Taabe as bait within a scorched meadow in an attempt to lure the creature into a trap. However, the hunter was already one step ahead, silently dispatched several lookouts who were in charge of the Frenchmen's horses and ignored the terrified Taabe and Naru who eventually realized the Yautja's modus operandi. The Yautja nonetheless was briefly caught in the Frenchmen's trap and restrained with a net, though this only angered him, and he easily escaped the trap and proceeded to slaughter the voyageurs with ease, utilizing an array of unique armaments, including a Netball, Wrist Shield and bolas. The Feral Predator finished the rest of the Frenchmen with several proximity mines.

After tending to wounds he sustained from the fight with a Medicomp, the hunter went to the voyageurs' camp to search for survivors, unaware that Naru was there as well. Searching the area, he stepped on a wounded Raphael Adolini by mistake, causing him to scream and prompting the startled Yautja to kill him. The Feral Predator then saw Naru's dog, Sarii approaching him and aimed his Bolt Gun at him, before being ambushed by Taabe.

As a duel ensued, Naru, struggling to properly load the flintlock pistol Adolini gave to her, noticed how his projectiles were tracked toward where his Bio-mask's targeting lasers were pointed at. Overwhelmed by Taabe's relentless assaults, the Feral Predator activated his cloak to distance himself from his opponent, allowing him to impale Taabe from behind with his Wristblades shortly afterwards. Moving onto Naru, he observed that she was wielding a weapon, and slowly approached her. With the last of his strength, Taabe distracted the Predator by stabbing his leg with an animal skull, leading to the hunter to deliver the killing blow with his Combistick, and buying Naru and Sarii enough time to escape.

Having discovered a vulnerability with the hunter, Naru incapacitated Big Beard in a bid to lure her enemy out of hiding. As expected, Feral Predator emerged and decapitated the voyageur with a swing of his combistick, all while oblivious to Naru's presence due to the orange totsiyaa she had ingested to mask her body temperature. She subsequently shot the creature in the back of the head and stole his Bio-mask to use against him.

Luring the Predator into her chosen field of battle, a violent clash between the two ensued, with Naru managing to sever the hunter's right arm. The fight culminated to her pulling the battered Feral Predator into the area's quicksand to drown him. But the Yautja, with his remaining strength, lifted himself to the surface and resorted to the use of his Bolt Gun. The Yautja fired his weapon and narrowly missed her, only to realize that his mask was placed nearby with its targeting laser aimed at his face. The projectile subsequently burst through the Yautja's skull, killing him and ending his hunt.

Afterwards, Naru brought his severed head back home and succeeded her brother as the next war chief of her tribe. Her efforts would subsequently earn the attention of several Yautja ships, who would arrive nearby Naru's camp at some point following the Feral Predator's defeat.