Mutative

Mutatives, also known as "aberrations" are animals, sometimes Humans, who have undergone extreme genetic and chemical alterations to increase their size and/or appearance by fringe science groups or individuals. Sometimes this is notedly accomplished by the use of magic spells and rituals or the rare instances of a neohuman or alt able to control genetics and mutations.

### **History**

While the term "mutative" covers some cryptozoological creatures and monsters that come in a verity of shapes and sizes, it refers specifically to those purposefully manipulated by advanced genetic splicing and alterations, or rarely, mechanically or cybernetically, and in most cases their existence, origin and purpose are all but unknown.

The timeframe for mutative classification start around the 50's and 60's, when para-science organisations such as Black Labs were starting to attempt such experiments; however in most cases these early creatures actually come from fringe science labs who have had particularly poor security or were poorly prepared for what they had created. It's likely that early Black Labs used such labs just as they do now as fronts, but security was nowhere near as advanced as it is now. It is known that BL may have purposefully released mutatives into the environment to study what would happen, in particular to see how they handle their highly increased metabolism and need to eat.

The capture or dispatch of such creatures are handled by specialist teams or groups with enhanced individuals such as VALER or Starforce.

The exact methods of mutation are likely derived from a mixture of heavy gene splicing, chemical and perhaps even radioactive treatment, that seems to revolved around growth proteins with stabilisation attempted with outside genetic materials, such knowledge was only available to a few .

### **Human Mutatives**

Whilst mostly covering animals, Humans mutated in this manner could be attested to be a type, or at least a subtype of alt or splicer, but the size and form of the only known Human to be classified as a mutative, the Giant of Mangalore, was extremely detrimental to it's own health and linked to Kahloon Industries. The Giant was likely a homeless man who had undergone radical growth, density and strength enhancement, at over 15-foot tall, he began destroying an area of the city of Mangalore in India, he was confused and difficult to communicate with or bring down but was later killed by Glare and Tigerwolfe as part of the Amrita organisation in 2019. Before his death the Giant repeated the words "Where is Kahloon" over and over again along with "food" and "hungry". Glare commented that it was only because of his weakening state that he was able to be taken down.

**Intelligence and Behaviour**

In most cases these creatures are highly altered and mutated animals, some horrifically so, and the animals in any case do not tend to last long, with nearly all acting confused and lashing out at anything an anyone in their path, rarely would a creature display any specific hunting skills or act in a manner that indicates any more intelligence than a basic and somewhat desperate need to feed.

There are, however exceptions, and there are at least three mutatives who have acted in a far more intelligent way than their kin, and displaying a near-human level of planning and intent despite clearly not being human; this may be due to reversed cybridism.

### **Known Mutatives**

**Beast of Exmoor:** A large "panther" spotted in the fields of Devon and Somerset, United Kingdom that had believed to have actually been a housecat undergone radical growth hormone treatment and perhaps even grown from an embryo with "reverse cybridism" (giving animal embryos human DNA) which was said to increase it's intelligence dramatically. Wildstar sought the creature, as it was believed to be related to the hunt for System-12. Her tracking brought her to chemical company Moore Industria and it was discovered that one of the CEO's of the company was a member of S-12. The beast itself, however was never found.

**Chupacabra:** The creature known as the 'goat sucker' that appeared in 1995 may have been an escaped dog-lizard hybrid that had clear hematophagic needs; whether this was an added attribute or something that developed due to it's heightened metabolism and requirements is uncertain, but it is known that the creature was not unique, and multiple instances of the creature known as "Chupacabra" have been spotted across America and even in countries such as Russia. Weather these are clones of an original or some kind of 'species' created, perhaps even naturally breeding in the wild is unknown. In 2018 Robin encountered several of them after being defeated by Winter in Mexico, and may have been created and bred for the purpose of essentially being attack dogs for MiBs, with a unique ability to smell blood over vast distances, the animals would have made perfect tracking organisms for those wishing to find targets, but clearly did not follow orders very well and the creatures were left to the wild, perhaps as a partial experiment by whoever created them.

**Damion:** Though technically an early splicer, because of the way he was altered using pre-cybrid forms of gene-tech and perhaps even radioactively-treated chemicals, he can also be classified as a human mutative, though because of his mixed wolf genome, his continued chemical stabilisation and maybe even cybernetic brain implant, he is not considered a "fully human" mutative such as the Giant.

**Delhi Monkey Man****:** While not attributed as a true "mutative" due to it's cybernetic nature, chemicals in it's body found by Amrita designed to increase performance and accept cybernetic components seemed to have increased it's size slightly. The animal was thought to have been altered by Kahloon Industries along with the Giant.

**Lizard Man:** A large lizard-like creature spotted by a 17-year-old in Bishopville, in South Carolina in 1988 after it damaged his car then went into a nearby swamp, though police investigations and amateur monster hunters turned up nothing, the creature was indeed real, and was likely captured by either a secret, covert government team or Black Labs (if they created it or otherwise).

**Mothman:** The large, winged creature was spotted in the Point Pleasant area in West Virginia, US, from November 15, 1966, to December 15, 1967. It was likely to have been a rapidly-grown owl/moth splice, and may have had a human base.