PROJECT GRANDIOSE

## KAZAMA-437

**KAZAMA-437**, the *PROJECT GRANDIOSE*; the best known high ranking assassin on the PROJECT Command Line. A fabled marksman, he is a competent sharpshooter; As a result, he ends up being the most dedicated rival of the acerbic PSYLOCKE-832, better known as the NIGHTSTALKER in their ranks.

## Biography

### Background

Kaziyama is a meticulous and money hungry criminal psychopath from Roji who believes murder is art. Once an Evalkan prisoner, but freed by shadowy elements within a secretive ruling council, the serial killer now works as their assassin. Using his gun as his paintbrush, Kaziyama creates works of artistic and sadistic brutality, horrifying victims and onlookers. He gains a cruel pleasure from putting on his gruesome theatre, making him the ideal choice to send the most powerful of messages: terror.

Due to this, he is known as "The Virtuoso Gunslinger".

### Cybernetic New Life

During the Riots of 2999, Kaziyama and a large number of other people are drafted into the service of PROJECT corporation. He was ecstatic because he saw no other way to get a cybernetic body and a massive pay-check. His recruitment occurred shortly after he murdered 326 people on Valenthia, Avarshi, and the Monterissan city of Robrievillian. He is said to have decorated the corpses in an artistic manner, earning massive public disturbance.

After PROJECT took over the planet, KAZAMA-437 was given a suit of armour and was known as **PROJECT GRANDIOSE**, and he went from being a black-market augment hacker to a notorious mechanised killer for hire. Kaziyama's habitual theft of technology from his victims has left him with severe personality fragmentation and an unwavering support for PROJECT's future... and are opposed to nevanity in general.

### A Call to Arms

#### A Taste of Blood, New Rival

After learning that G/NEX was PROJECT's greatest threat, he became aware of COALESCENCE's growing power. As a result, he's heard of the elusive PROJECT NIGHTSTALKER, also known as PSYLOCKE-832, and her illustrious career as the security's elite assassin. He comes up with the final decision to confront her, intending to establish dominance, and prove that he is the better shot, through outmatching her own skills and killing her. Coincidentally, he has minimal cybernetics yet.

In 2999, the two happened to cross paths. They are both unarmed and have begun to confront one another. KAZAMA-437 quickly warns PSYLOCKE-832 about her fight with COALESCENCE against the PROJECT corporation, threatening her with the danger of being dispatched by PROJECT. The latter is dissatisfied. Both quickly developed a dislike for each other, and KAZAMA-437 draws his pistol at her, intending to execute her in a remote location, with the intention of COALESCENCE operatives discovering her corpse to send a message. He is quickly disarmed, however, and a fight ensues. The nightrider's superhuman physiology and far superior hand-to-hand combat abilities quickly outmatched KAZAMA-437. As a result, he pulls out an assault rifle, only to be disarmed by PSYLOCKE-832 again. A glaive from her is quickly aimed right at his threat, filling him with immense hatred and deafening silence as a result. He demands a rematch, but with PROJECT technology and guns. PSYLOCKE-832 accepts it and quickly destroys his jaw with a kick, cutting off his dialogue abruptly.

He is actually *killed* by the kick. However, his body was found by PROJECT and PROJECT GRIMM takes his corpse for repair and transformation. He becomes grafted with multiple Cybernetics, and his arms are hybrid in design, making him one of the most advanced cyborgs to be produced.

### PROJECT-G/NEX War

GRANDIOSE, a cybernetic soldier of PROJECT, has demonstrated yet again that he is the Command Line's best marksman, or sniper; Though INTERCEPTOR-409 begs to differ, since the latter has yet to miss a shot. His cybernetics were high precision, designed to make him stronger, faster, more nimble, and, of course, to maximise his shooting ability. This gives him a fighting chance against his opponent, PSYLOCKE-832 and overall create a better version of himself.

Unfortunately, he is an assassin throughly, and being a soldier doesn't fit his virtues, beliefs and judgement.

#### Rampancy: Under Repair

Due to his massive injuries at the hands of Rachelle Palmer, aka PSYLOCKE-832; His jaw is replaced with a bionic form, and majority of his body were grafted with Cybernetics, without amputating any limbs. This however, proved extremely painful and he relied on numerous doses of pain killers to alleviate the excruciating pain and remain alive, despite the unbearable suffering.

#### The COALESCENCE: Reborn and Set for Vengeance

Now repaired and fully converted into a cyborg, Lieutenant PROJECT GRANDIOSE has nothing left to focus except for serving the PROJECT corporation, killing the G/NEX and all opposers, and most importantly: Kill PSYLOCKE-832. Muldoon Lundgren directed him, MEDARDA, and SHADOW to infiltrate Rutherland, COALESCENCE's seat of power and the location of her headquarters, in order to achieve this goal; Alongside an entire invasion force. He even told his teammates that he would leave PSYLOCKE-832 to no one but himself. He wants to murder her to prove who is the better assassin. MEDARDA even warns him that she is "PSYLOCKE-832 is worth a thousand soldiers, and possessing the fighting skill of thousands." He shrugged, that was merely because he doesn't have cybernetics and she does not wear armour.

Nevertheless, he didn't care for MEDARDA's warning and their team started to enter Rutherland, with the intent of stealing COALESCENCE's DATA; A highly advanced artificial intelligence utilised by the security company for a variety of purposes and applications. SHADOW and MEDARDA effectively invaded the main headquarters of Rowley, due to the fact that Rutherland's capital is undergoing massive construction. As a result, he joyfully killed numerous COALESCENCE operatives and they proceed to ride an ARMADILLO truck to secure the stolen AI.

However, it didn't take long for PSYLOCKE-832 to discover of the heist orchestrated by GRANDIOSE and proceeds to solicit the services of VI-516 to make things *FAR* more easy for her. As a result, a highway chase starts, and a long battle unfolds in the streets, with the three of PROJECT's operatives causing chaos when they miss their attacks on PSYLOCKE-832 and VI-516 while riding their motorcycle. JINX-362 knocks him out and everyone else out after she destroys the enormous truck with her rocket launcher, and everyone rushes to find the AI. JINX-362 hides away, but intends to find the A.I so GRANDIOSE shot her in the leg to prevent from interfering.

PROJECT GRANDIOSE was ecstatic to see PSYLOCKE-832's armoured form and claimed that he would overcome her. Even if PSYLOCKE-832 can still defeat him, she insists that VI-516 also team up with her and kill him, most likely to humiliate him and add insult to injury. GRANDIOSE fired at them, but VI-516 stopped the rifle rounds with her gauntlets. It didn't take long for the two to work together and kill him, as GRANDIOSE used his rifle to shoot them, PSYLOCKE-832 used her railgun to blast him in the air, and VI-516 followed up with a right hook that essentially threw him away, broken to pieces.

As a result, he is recovered by PROJECT MEDARDA before PSYLOCKE-832 has the chance to kick his head again. Apparently, he is killed by the combined efforts, yet again. But he can be revived.

#### Going All Out

In Going All Out, GRANDIOSE was slowly repaired and right after being fit for duty he was actively fighting throughout various locations around the planet, even if it meant losing in numerous military operations; He was grafted with far superior Cybernetics and his eyes are replaced with Optical Implants. As a result, he quickly tested his new body and witnessed massive improvements, while he later questioned Muldoon Lundgren and the executives about the war's viability. He stormed out after receiving no response from the megacorporation's highest members, instead leading Command Line forces. He orders GRIMM to conduct regular checks on the soldiers and to execute any potential escapees caught in the act of desertion.

##### Defence of Obrinia

Following that, he was called up to fight in the "Operation: Penetration." It was to breach Obrinia's defences as the megacorporation sought to enslave the most powerful nation once more. GRANDIOSE has shown great enthusiasm in seeking to kill RUBICORE soldiers again, viewing them as pawns to be slaughtered, and, of course, he considers fighting his rival again. As the megacorporation's regular soldiers have struggled against the newly formed Panamoan military, he wasted no time in using his marksmanship skills to destroy RUBICORE soldiers stationed on the wall. To make things interesting, the military has requested the assistance of PSYLOCKE-832 in the battle, quickly defending the wall from the incoming enemies.

Seeing his rival again draws his attention. He is unable to save his own soldiers, as the NIGHTSTALKER wiped out his squad with a sniper rifle. The two communicated via phone calls, but the latter was uninterested in him and mockingly asked if he *wanted* to die again. As a result, he assaulted her with radio jammers, interfering with her helmet's communications, and attacked him by trapping him with his own thrown device.

##### Battle of Supremandy

As a result, he is immobilised and unable to move. He was only freed by LANTERN after disabling a group of tanks. After a long battle in defending the city from PROJECT, they ultimately lost. However, he took the opportunity to capture PSYLOCKE-832 in the height of the battle at Supremandy, making her the first person in history to make her defenceless from an opponent. On the NOVEMBER headquarters, he taunts her and touches her inappropriately.

However, he didn't expect someone to be knocking the door of the headquarters. Upon checking the door, a MK6 Titan tank barges in, fires the cannon in the air, while VI-516, TRISTANNA-651, FIONA-384 and ASHE-159 come out, quickly disabling PSYLOCKE-832's restraints. SCYLLA-028 mocks her for being defenceless, to which she retorted by proving that it cannot be broken by physical means. After destroying her restraints, she responds to them with a wink. She also gave them her own tracking grenades, as a result of her appreciation. GRANDIOSE is disappointed, so he shoots upon the five of them, but PSYLOCKE-832 quickly fights him through firing a shot at him and instigating melee combat, asking to duel her again, in a specific location: A lavish city, known as Henvul.

As a result, he watches all his previous battles with her and takes note of her abilities, fight patterns and behavioural patterns, hoping it could turn the tide of their upcoming fight, yet again.

#### Technological Lies: Red and Purple Ledgers

Hearing that the Command Line forces were dropping in numbers thanks to one certain assassin, GRANDIOSE quickly commands him own squad to follow him as he makes his way to Henvul, the city known for being unusually clean and furbished with PROJECT skyscrapers and structures from smaller corporations. As they have agreed for a duel to the death, no rules are needed and the two settled to bring all their full might.

PROJECT GRANDIOSE quickly locates her, but he sends his best soldiers against her to give the elite assassin a proper challenge. It didn't take long for PSYLOCKE-832 to repel his own team of elite warriors, even ripping one of their skulls in half with her own physical strength. To mock him, she hurls the robotic heads of three soldiers she killed while GRANDIOSE was doing nothing but surfing the internet and reading the news, which the heads landed near him on an overpassing bridge amidst his time of using a corpo-network. However, he gets anger by the loss of his men and quickly stops his doing, quickly gesturing for her to meet in a dark alleyway. She follows him and a dramatic standoff occurs. As the two meet each other in a dark alleyway, GRANDIOSE was readily expecting for her. The obsidian armour clad assassin stomps her heels in a way to assert her words against him. Unfortunately, GRANDIOSE counters with his own speech.

Following the speech, there is a fight. He has a chance this time, able to hold his own against PSYLOCKE-832 in melee combat while shooting her a couple times with his own guns. The elite assassin reluctantly admits he improved, but she is ecstatic since her opponent now has almost equivalent skills to her, unlike their prior encounters, in which she always won in a one-sided duel. GRANDIOSE, on the other hand, employs a cunning strategy to test her patience: A Chase. He instantly dares her to a fight while he exploits the city by wall running and jumping from buildings and bridges, which she appears to have quickly followed while attacking at high speeds, allowing him to taunt her, stating that her skill can only lead her so far.

Shockingly, GRANDIOSE outsmarts her by using an entrapment field grenade, which she only snared at him while trapped, allowing him to perform a flashy taunt before escaping her pursuit. Unbeknownst to him, PSYLOCKE-832 has a trick against him and unmasks herself while using her wrist computer to track his location, as a tracking grenade is implanted on his back, even if he managed to get away from her at least a thousand meters away.

As a result, he ends up getting injured by the blast of the tracking grenade, unable to remove it on time did to the advanced design. To make matters worse, he gets run over by PSYLOCKE-832 in her bike and kicks him to a wall, quickly dismounting from her bike, with the full intention of ending his life once and for all.

### Death

GRANDIOSE tries to come up with backup countermeasures after being hit by a bike and crippled by a grenade mounted on his back, as he finds himself outmatched yet again. He has, thankfully, recorded the entire encounter, allowing him to instantly construct new attack patterns in his HUD. Curious as to why PSYLOCKE-832 did not kill him right away, he taunts her by being kind and not providing a speedy opportunity to end his torment. She coldly admits to playing with him, knowing that he actually beat her in the duel, but neither is dead, bringing the duel to an even fight.

As the two assassins are ready to kill each other, GRANDIOSE quickly counters her moves, punching and kicking her in the abdomen despite his state then proceeds to shoot her in the chest, with some effect. However, PSYLOCKE-832 decides to toy with him until her rival's skills got the best of him, losing afterwards after she threw him to a wall, shot him dead in the head and rubble drops on him. As a result, he goes offline. His head module detaches from within and attempts to reconnect in order to revive him, but she was able to find out and quickly stabbed the module, alongside his Power core, effectively killing him while preventing any revival attempts.

His death was another huge loss for the megacorporation. Despite his reputation as a Command Line soldier, he was an assassin by heart.

## Personality

Kaziyama aka **KAZAMA-437**, now known as **PROJECT GRANDIOSE**, is a psychopathic maniac who believes murder is an exquisite art, displaying signs of sadism and pleasure as he devises his method of artistic murder wherever he wants to kill a large number of people. Notably, he is best known for his unparalleled hypocrisy, arrogance, snark, and sarcastic humour.

## Abilities

Being upgraded over and over again, GRANDIOSE was a cybernetic "soldier" assassin finely tuned with precision cybernetics and enhanced optical implants allows him to amplify his already formidable capabilities in combat. As a result, he demonstrates increased strength, speed, agility, reflexes and overall accelerated reaction time that allows him to perform actions comparably fast to Alphas, as his previous semi-enhanced form only enhanced him to an ultranevian level. Now, he is performing at the absolute finest.

His guns are four-of-a-kind. Nuff' said.

### Technological Capabilities

* **Maximised Calibration**: High-quality hydraulics and an exoskeleton embedded in his arms allow for perfectly calibrated shots in a rapid pace of gunfire at close ranges. In medium to long range gunfights, however, he uses the deadly accurate *QD40* assault rifle.

* **ULTRA Optical Sensors**: His eyes are cybernetic optics, designed to perform better than a living being's eye, amplify his vision, and improve sight alignment with his guns while moving at high speeds.

* **Nanotech Filter**: Nanotechnology filter allows him to conceal and camouflage his position in combat.
* **QD12 Cover Generator**: When the QD12 is thrown, it creates an artificial blockade that GRANDIOSE can use for cover in a gunfight or to close off entrances. It has a total lifespan of 15 minutes due to its composition of Basalt, Polymer, and Steel. However, it can last an entire day if the cover is stacked up by throwing numerous QD12s at the same spot.
* **QUADSNIPE**: His ultimate ability transforms his 6.5mm assault rifle into a magnum sniper rifle, firing four calibrated shots that will kill four chosen targets. Missing all shots will reset his rifle's state but killing or hitting all four targets allows the rifle to retain its sniper mode as long as he wanted to.

* **Ammunition Stowage**: GRANDIOSE carries a nanotechnology-powered bandolier of ammunition on his cybernetic suit of armour. This ensures he will not run out of bullets no matter how often he reloads.

### Skills

* **Master Combatant**: PROJECT GRANDIOSE is an extremely skilled combatant. He is a force to be reckoned with thanks to his fearsome arsenal of fours; Namely four guns, gadgets, grenades and so on.

* **Master Marksman**: It is no secret that GRANDIOSE is a highly capable marksman. Due to this, it has been a topic of debate on whose the best marksman of PROJECT, always being compared to the soldier INTERCEPTOR-409.

* **Master Tactician**: He is well versed in military tactics; His skills in espionage on the other hand, are questionable. His tactician expertise is more evident on fights, particularly on PSYLOCKE-832.

* **Master Leader**: Presumably a skilled leader.

## Trivia

### General

* Kaziyama shows traits consistent with obsessive-compulsive disorder focused on the number four.
* Four is his favourite number. He has four guns, four gadgets in his arsenal and four thousand confirmed kills.
* GRANDIOSE crossed paths with the NIGHTSTALKER, best known as PSYLOCKE-832 with more than enough times to count.
* Attracted to PROJECT LILIAN, but he she is rejected.
* A fashion icon and a massively successful artist.
* GRANDIOSE is so bad at hand-to-hand combat that he relies on his marksmanship, tactician and leadership skills to survive. He'll be easily defeated if SCYLLA-028 or ASHE-159 fights him without weapons. With that being said, he has absolutely zero chance to win against a fist fight with PROJECT NIGHTSTALKER, but that proved a little otherwise in their final showdown.