Alec Holland (Swamp Thing)

# Swamp Thing

## Alec Holland

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*Disgraced Biochemist who, in their last breaths of wanting to do an Environmental good, had tragedy strike them into death and rebirth as a Plant Elemental who now serves a bigger role learning how to keep balance to the forces of nature.*

## History

### Early Life

Alec's life has had its fair share of Grayness, like any other person's life. At Five years old, his biological dad left him to get some cigarettes while his mother worked the night shift. No real rhyme or reason behind it just left, but his mother eventually remarried Larry Holland. That's where he got his last name. Although he didn't exactly warm up to Larry, Positive influence ultimately affected him for the better. He even got himself a younger sister Linda as another support he could rely on at any time. Life continued, and he excelled well in school; his genuine interest in science showed when he became a prodigy in Chemistry. He would get himself out of High School with a Full Scholarship at MIT. There he was, Majoring as a biochemist with honors and possible prospects, perhaps getting into palmer technology or even to a place like Star Labs. After a while, he progressed far into University, even getting himself up to a Master's.

### Fallen from Grace

Then again, Not everyone gets to keep a lucky streak; Unfortunately, That didn’t last long for Alec. Once, his younger sister got into a lower college. One of Alec’s old professors he knew when he was a Junior, Dr. Jordan Schiller, substituted for one of her classes. Their Student-Teacher Relationship became a bit more skewed. The Professor even escalated to some unwanted advances and put clear incentives that there seemed to be no choice about. And then, once Alec found out, He did what any other older brother would do. He responded naturally, with his Fist Connecting to the Professor’s Face during a Lecture. It doesn’t take much of a genius to figure out what happened next. The professor reported the assault; Alec got arrested, and his family helped pay for the bail. Unfortunately, that whole scandal worsened when his professor turned the debacle into petty revenge. The professor insinuated that Alec plagiarized his entire paper. As a result, against the word of a student to a professor, Alec was kicked out of school. It didn’t help that his school “accidentally” misplaced his research papers and topic into the pocket of some small-time millionaire. At this point, he has nothing left. he can’t finish his doctorate now; scientific journals call him the star pupil who fell from grace. He couldn’t get any good-paying job outside of the minimum wage ones, like a barista or in retail. His family stopped talking to him, his sister especially, or it was more like he stopped answering their calls. He can’t exactly tell who started first anymore; eventually, it was just him. However, he might not have his promising upstart future ahead of him. But he knew he couldn’t exactly just leave things alone as is. So Alec did the responsible thing, worked his butt off in menial jobs, and paid his family back for their help when he needed it the most. as well as in the meantime, he investigated where exactly his research paper and trademark rights ended up.

### Meeting Avery Sunderland

It took some years, but once he discovered Avery Sunderland down at Marai’s, Louisiana. Alec spends the last of his savings to meet face-to-face with the opportunist billionaire. All with the plan to figure out what he plans to do with his formula. And once Alec talked face-to-face with the silver-tongued billionaire decided to use his bio-restorative experiment to benefit this small town. Alec believed him; he was even surprised when Avery offered Alec to work at a private lab in the middle of the swamp to help improve his original design. Alec got on board and believed in his mission. After all, if his results and evidence returned positive, this would be a chance to regain a good reputation with the scientific community and benefit his career. All in the name of getting his life back on track. Into the next several months in Louisiana, Alec spends his time getting familiar with the locals. Spend some time at a local dive bar called Delroys that, seemingly, everyone gets a drink at. However, Alec saw through several of Avery’s promises. Their work comradery was great in the beginning. All Alec did was just send reports to Avery about the progress of this chemical. But then Alec got wind of something fishy and started putting his nose in Avery Sunderland's business, such as following the strange trail of accidents and mysterious disappearances of fishermen out in the swamps outside Marai’s. He looked into some highly active mutagenic sites of plant growth in many pocket areas around the swamp. And the unusual amounts of chemical composites out in the swamp of skeeter cove. He even found that the potent chemicals in the swamp matched his formula.

### Confronting his Demise

So when presenting these results to Avery and showing that this could become life-threatening if they keep pursuing this. Avery gives Alec a speech to reassure him not to get anyone else involved, especially government-affiliated agencies like the CDC. After one night of getting drinks with him, Alec decided to head back to his lab. He discovered a dark silhouette hanging around outside of his lab. When he asked what he was doing there, Alec got shot, and the individual threw a stick of dynamite on his boat. The entire experience went too fast for him to register as quickly. It was just a bright light at one moment; he was burning, trying to swim, and pitch black.

### Becoming Swamp Thing

When he woke up, nothing was quite the same. He was sure he was still Alec Holland, but once he trekked through the swamp, he looked into the water. What stared back was not what he expected. Alec Holland was no more; all he sees is green leafage in the mass of what used to be him and red eyes. Alec Holland died when Swamp Thing was born, and it took him a while to get his bearings. What the trees saw for the decades it’s been standing tall to witness. Understanding that the things he knew before were just surface level once he connected with the memories of the swamp. Not precisely understanding what’s going on at first, Swamp Thing deals with himself and the sudden rise of dark forces that occasionally pop up. And within a year of being this avatar of the green, he’s experienced many experiences. Avery Sunderland had bounty hunters go down to Alec Hollands' lab to tie up loose ends, and once they had seen swamp thing. He defended himself but not precisely in the best way, after exposing Swamp Thing to liquid nitrogen and stopping him. Some bounty hunters captured him and presented Swamp Thing with the new scientist under Saunderland's retainer.

Dr. Jason Woodrue experimented on him and found that this plant elemental that screamed, he is Alec Holland, discovered that, from Woodrue's Observations, his old body wasn’t even him. He’s just all plant which existentially scared him until he escaped his confides and went back to the swamp. Swamp Thing met Phantom Stranger, who advised him where he could seek his answers in a not-so-helpful cryptic way. He fought and told the forces that controlled a rotting corpse to stop terrorizing a community out at Houma. Swamp Thing discovered he could transplant his consciousness to other areas of greenery. Even found himself called to a place known as the Parliament of Trees down in South America. He has taken away a deeper understanding of his capabilities and role. Swamp Thing is the protector of the green and will do whatever it takes to keep balance with the world.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Avatar of The Green:** The Chosen Champions that represent The Green have a second chance in life. Under life-threatening trauma and specific circumstances warrant it, with the human body consumed in flames, withering away at deaths door near active floral, and becomes part of it. The conciousness is fully assimilated within the flora and can later become apart of an collaboration of flora known as the Parliament of Trees. Now becoming a plant elemental. Specifically for this Swamp Thing, his memories, experience, and conciousness is from Alec Holland as everything he once knew right before his death is now with Swamp Thing and The Green.
* **Chlorokinesis:** As a by product of being apart of The Green. He is able to commune, and control floral matter with anything and all that is associated with plants. As his body is made up of Plant-Based stem cells to the roots and vines coming from the geography of the Louisiana Bayou.

### Abilities

* **Scientist:** As Swamp Thing retained the memories and experience from Alec Holland, he would in turn have his mastery and proficiency in being a Biochemist as well as knowledge in Botany. Which can increase his range of effectiveness in being the Avatar of the Green.

### Weaknesses

* **Potential Dangers to him:** As a representative of The Green there by all Plant Life. Anything that comes to harm for it, harms him and potentially could weaken to kill him as well as Vice Versa to The Green.