Guts(1459)

Guts is a Brutal Hydra agent hell bent on inflicting pain on others.

## History

Biography: Guts was born in an eldritch abomination cult. He was never granted a chance, not even before he was born. If it wasn't bad enough to be born in a cult that wants to invite monsters that'll make the solar system an afternoon snack, he was born with horrific powers. His mutation was apparent from birth, his mother died as a direct result of his abilities -lets just say it was messy. The kind of mess only Guts could make. But all the Guts stuff comes after; before all of this he was named Ashton. He didn't go to public school so he doesn't have the same kind of education you and I do. But even as an inborn cultist he was a strange one, always hesitant to say the words or do the ritual. And because he was difficult his loving family (what was left of them) decided to offer him up as a sacrifice to their King In Yellow. Never before had they 'seen' the deity before, not for ever, even thought they'd been calling out to him and printing his nameless Yellow Sign in order to spread the madness his presence produced for generations. But he did appear, although he was essentially beyond description. Not that Ashton remembers. But he was a roughly octopoid entity with eyes that were many on one side of the face, the eyes seemed to skitter, sometimes vanishing into and out of the either. A yellow cloak, squirming tentacles spread from under, although the whole thing was kinda floating, bobbing in the breeze.  The other half of his face was like radio static which crackled and somehow writhed and seemed to distort reality itself. The King didn't just accept Ashton as a sacrifice, but he took the entire clan with him.

OH what luck! They seemed to have brought along the apocalypse! Certainly they'd be rewarded. But no, only death. Hastur, that awful King in Yellow simply devoured them... It was mercy really, or that's what Ash would say. Not that anybody can understand the will or means of a Eldritch deity. Ashton would say he got it a lot worse; as The King took notice of his powers and maybe thought the child could be a servant, an herald, an avatar of himself on this small blue speck? Nobody knows what The King wants to do but the cultists say he's trying to muster an army to finally take down his brother. Bullshit. Ashton didn't buy a word of it anyhow, but that wouldn't matter would it? The mark was laid upon him, and now he was cursed. Blessed?

Ashton ran away from every foster home the orphanages put him in, and he ran away from the orphanages too. His power manifest early, and it wasn't beyond him to knife somebody to get away. It always hurt like hell, let alone bloody it was like his bones just wanted to break out and do whatever, and the rest of his body was simply doing what it could to survive the process. Life on the street was hard at first, but he learned eventually. He started by eating out of trash cans, drinking out of street puddles and left out sodas, starting trash can fires. He did need to eat after all. Eventually he'd get started by selling drugs on the black market - scratching up enough bread to buy the first bag wasn't hard, and after that it was just a matter of profit and discipline. He moved up from the streets to shitty motels, then to continually nicer places as his trade gave him deeper pockets. He never had to hire an enforcer, because he could handle his own business.

Eventually the use of his powers caused a kind of mind-body disassociation which meant the pain went away, and after the pain was gone the drug pusher got more brazen. He learned how to intimidate his suppliers into cutting him better deals, how to cut throats to get territory and that all important street-cred. Eventually he came up with the name Guts, which he yanked from a dude he liked in a Manga. He saw himself in that character, although Ashton was far from an overall good guy in a really bad situation. Maybe it was the curse? The violence? The presence of demonic fiends? They weren't all that different after all.

Eventually his super powered shenanigans caught the attention of Tombstone; some other street thug with his own abilities, although Ashton didn't think stone skin and super strength was shit against what he was capable of. It turned out that Tombstone was a front for Hydra, which Ash joined and began to climb the ranks after undergoing his own ordeal. Today red skull is dead, and Guts wants to take his place. But how can a young upstart who hasn't even been put on Hydra's super soldier program really take the place of such a legend? Only time will tell.

## Powers

Guts has a collection of body horror abilities.

Osteomancy: Guts has the ability to make any manor of martial weapons and armor out of his bones. This includes blunt weapons, blades, and traditionally motorized weapons like chainsaws and jack hammers that are powered by special body structures which come and go as needed. His favorite weapon is a bone scythe he made himself called Flesh Eater. His bones rip through his flesh and do nearly as much damage to him as they do his victims. He cannot control the bones of others. His can make them harden to the point where only something like Adamantium can cut through them. Talk about a sharp edge! He can make his bones bend and stretch, he can make them like rubber, or fire his finger bones like bullets. He can control his bone structure to slightly alter his appearance.

Healing Factor: Guts body works overtime to heal the damage his bones do to it. His muscles and tendons will adapt to his desires in order to keep him living and make whatever horrible thing work. He cannot control the color or hue of his flesh, or the color of his eyes or body hair, and to date his healing factor is not in his control, his body does it automatically. He is immune to diseases, poisons, pheromones, peptides, viruses, prions, fungi, and sedatives.

Super stamina: As a result of his healing factor Guts is a stamina, adrenaline, and endorphin freak who can run at Olympian speeds for hours. He has the ability to consciously produce those fuels the body needs in order to do these super human acts. He does not feel fatigue, as his body doesn't produce lactic acid, and his sweat glands and flesh will super ventilate in order to keep his cardio-vascular system from taking much damage.

Body disassociation: When his power is activated, Guts doesn't feel any pain. Although he is aware of damage done to his body, the sensation isn't one you'd call agony, it's just a knowledge. During the most extreme uses of his abilities Ashton may see himself totally out of body, instead watching from above or behind, but this is not astral projection. His consciousness and soul and still firmly within his flesh, but his mind has twisted as to believe it isn't. As such he's not capable of astral projection or feats a soul might traditionally be capable such as flight or intangibility. To be clear if somebody had the power to see souls or minds they would see that both were still inside the body.

Schizoaffective Disorder, Alexithymia: Not really a super power, but an impairment. Guts has no ability to feel emotion. He is aromantic unaffectionate and asexual. He does not feel compassion or any feelings at all. He also has trouble recognizing and understanding emotion in others. His breath is just a clock ticking.