Creber

* Part 1
* Part 2

**Creber** is the main protagonist of the **Project Creber** series. He is a dissenter with the ability to make copies of himself due to an accident involving Replication Support Gas canisters. Such accident rendered him target of multiple painful experiments from the A.A.H.W.

## History

Creber was a seemingly normal grunt with black clothes that worked for the A.A.H.W. (unknown whether or not by choice), and was tasked of transporting critical Replication Support Gas canisters to their storage. While taking a break and smoking a cigarette, the wall behind him is blasted open by Hank on the other side, knocking him out and causing one of the RSG canisters to burst open and spread the room with it's content. This caused Creber to have seizures and develop mysterious red eyes. Soon after, Creber starts spawning defective clones around him, who are easily killed off by A.A.H.W. personnel (one of which is so defective it dies right after being spawned), while his original body is taken into custody.

After 2 months of full development of his abilities, and multiple experiments that involved killing him repeatedly, Creber is allowed a window of escape from a dissenter sniper known as Enigma, who shot down the machine that kept his powers under control. Creber takes full advantage of the opportunity, easily taking out his keepers and killing every scientist and agent he finds on his way.

## Abilities

Creber's signature ability is the power to spawn copies of himself. Unlike most other clones featured in media, these copies aren't simply clones of Creber, but full-on extensions of himself, all of which share the same mind, which gives him a significant advantage in coordinating his actions, but also comes with the drawback of limiting his focus for each individual copy, as the more copies he spawns at a time the less focus he can have at each individual one. He seems to be only able to spawn clones nearby his location, making so he can't try to escape fights by spawning a clone far away and allowing his original to die (basically, he can't use his ability as a means of teleportation, at least not for anything over a dozen or so meters).

Creber's copy ability can also be read visually: The core on his chest changes color based on the number of instances of himself he has spawned at a given moment. Green means only one instance, yellow means two, orange means three and red means four. Creber is never shown to be able to spawn more than four instances at a time, likely a hard limit.

Besides his copy ability, Creber is also shown to be very proficient with both melee and ranged weaponry, easily winning out against the average A.A.H.W. agent on a duel without using more than one instance of himself (although he is likely below average for most Madness protagonists, relying a lot more on his cleverness and copying ability instead of pure agility). Most notably, he is an extremely fast learner, as stated by Enigma: In a matter of minutes, he learns not only medium difficulty fighting tactics such as distractions, flanking and environment usage, but also how to combine these tactics with his own copying ability. It's however unknown how much he was taught during his time being experimented on.

## Personality

Not a lot is known from Creber's personality besides his brutal nature. His first instinct after getting an opportunity to escape containment is to kill every single agency personnel he meets with. On Extrication Part 2, he growls angrily at the sight of 2 scientists before slaughtering them, likely as a shown of the hatred he developed for the crimes they committed against him. He also executes an agent that surrendered, showing no mercy towards them.

On another end, Creber is also shown to be very wary of possible allies, likely due to trust issues developed from his traumatic experiences. This is visible on his first interaction with Enigma, where he assumes right away there is a "catch" to the plan he is given. Furthermore, Enigma's boss describes Creber as "unstable", and states he does not believe Creber trusts them in the slightest.

## Trivia

* Creber's cloning ability allowed him to have the highest death count of any Madness protagonist: 79 deaths total (43 in Extrication Part 1, 36 in Extrication Part 2);
* Extrication Part 2 was Creber's most lethal episode so far, with a total of 61 kills including suicides (47 in Extrication Part 1);
* Creber is to appear as an origin in next Madness: Project Nexus update