Nikolai Almuff

**Nikolai Almuff** is the Indigo Syndicates very own Military Division general. A former RUC member, Nikolai ended up getting mechanical treatment due to his wounds from the Peninsula War, forcing him to become a cyborg. Once the war ended, he joined the Indigo Syndicate to become the leader of their Military Division.

## Personality

A rough and violent man, as can be expected from a former soldier of the RUC, he's obsessed with the many acts of violence he plans on committing and the brutal ways to slaughter "demons," especially with his new cyborg body.

He looks down on what he considers "weakness" and especially anyone who seems to have second thoughts about the syndicate. He's known to "cull" his soldiers and recruits for any "undesirable" traits. Particularly after the incident with Carlos Afify, he's been much more stringent on killing off any recruits that show any signs of dithering, to ensure that only the most fanatically loyal soldiers would remain in the syndicate's ranks.

Perhaps due to him being heavily injured just before being promoted to general back when he was in the RUC, he's also become obsessed with reminding anyone speaking to him that: yes, he is indeed a general. A military general. Of the military. He's a general of the military. He's a military general.

In light of that, he is very, very proud of himself. He believes that suit of his makes him pretty much invincible, and greatly overestimates his own leadership skills. He hates taking orders from anyone besides Popeye Jr., Popeye himself, or Eva. Lazlo in particular irks him, being the only one who actually criticizes his training regiment and the way he leads his troops. Regardless, once in a while he will begrudgingly take his advice, but most of them he'll blow him off stating "I'm the military general here, not you!"

## History

Nikolai used to be a regular foot soldier of the RUC during the Peninsula war. However, he got caught in an explosion and was injured as a result. The details are unknown, though some first-hand accounts suggest that this occurred during a confrontation against a Resistance unit led by Donnel. Afterwards, a group of other RUC soldiers found him and a couple of other barely living survivors and brought him to recovery. He was taken in by The Republic, whose researchers managed to make him into a hulking cyborg. At the cost of saving his life, his otherwise violent personality became even moreso, allowing him to become a psychotic war hawk.

At some point, he joined the Indigo Syndicate to work on their military forces. His training has been mediocre at best, even if he is pretty threatening.

At one point, he found one of the RUC's older "enemies", "Boris Pork"(For sanity sake, he's just Boris). Boris was supposedly helping Ira when Nikolai found Boris. The two ended up fighting but Nikolai got the upper hand.

Nikolai decided to publicly execute Boris in one of the most unusual and messed up ways possible. He slit Boris' throat and threw him into a giant tank full of starving piranhas. Due to how long they forced the piranhas to starve, it made them frenzy enough to devour Boris.

As messed up as that is, what he did before could be severely screwed up to many people... (tbd)

On a side-note, he is one of the few Indigo Syndicate members to have faced off against Stylekrong. The fight was completely one-sided in Stylekrong's favor, and he managed to kick Nikolai in the face hard enough to make his teeth grow back. Nikolai has never forgotten this humiliation.

## Sunset Hill Cat people massacre

One day while scouting around the area for any "demons", Nikolai found resistance member Bern/Fredericka talk to a cat person he named Marba(Not really his name.). In his mind, just because this was a cat person talking to Bern/Fredericka who is associated with cats(Fond of cats? Part cat? Cat-like abilities?), this gave Nikolai justification to try and attack the whole race and dub them in a rather racist sounding name, "Cat-Bleeders".

At a peaceful city named Sunset Hill, he saw it was full of these cat people. He got a hold of the Indigo Syndicate to give him some CYBER bots, the Syndicates line of robots. He ordered the robots to massacre them all. People tried to run away in terror while his robots began to massacre them all. A few managed to survive but the rest ended up getting gunned down or crushed.

The Indigo Syndicate used Julius Roysons talk show to cover it all up and blaming everything on them.

## Evaluation

Though he possesses a cyborg body now with all the enhancements it comes with, all it really gives him is enhanced strength, but not any more "skill" or "refinement" when it comes to combat. As can be expected from a former RUC soldier, he relies almost entirely on brute force to get his way, he just has more margins for error thanks to that mechanical suit of his.

His training is also very poor, mostly just teaching his soldiers "just shoot stab and kill your enemy," and leaving it at that. There was also a time where, to ensure that only the "strongest" soldiers would remain, he would take a concrete block and smash it into pieces, then expect his recruits to do the same. Anyone who isn't able to do so would be killed on the spot. While Nikolai can smash the block just fine due to his cybernetic enhancements, regular troops can't, which lead to Nikolai killing off an entire rank of recruits. Since then he's been persuaded by Lazlo to stop this practice since it's just broken their recruitment process.