Vermin

**Vermin** is a fan character of HTF.

## Bio

### Appearance

Vermin has gray fur, with darker marks on his face and tail. He has darker gray paws. He has several stitches along his face and ear, light blue-green fur being attached to his body. He has darker gray spots along his tail, ears, and face. His eyes have pale yellow spirals inside of them. He has short, messy dark gray hair.

He wears a white labcoat, with turquoise gloves. He has long gray, almost black pants as well, and blue-green goggles on his head.

### Personality

Vermin is very cruel, often experimenting on other tree friends. He is focused on improving and forcefully evolving their race, to create the perfect being. He used to experiment on himself, hence why parts of him are stitched together, but has now moved on to experimenting on others. He is very malicious and often kills or gets others killed with his experiments, including himself. He enjoys watching his creations kill or when his patients get killed, and reacts positively to death, unless it’s his friends that have died. He is very fond of dead things in general, often keeping the corpses of his patients for future usage, typically used to sew together with whoever he’s experimenting on. Most scientists believe he puts a bad name on anyone interested in science, and dislike him for that reason. He is very cold and doesn’t have many friends, preferring to stay by himself with his studies. He only pretends to be other people’s friends occasionally to get them to come into his lab. He believes in doing things for the greater good, no matter how bad they are.

His experiments often fail or backfire, but he’s determined to make a change in the community.

### History

Vermin, formerly being known as Puddles, was raised in a toxic and abusive household, being forced to do extremely well academically. He and his brother Cookie were each other's source of comfort and happiness, and were each other's best friends growing up. They eventually moved out and went to medicinal college together, before Cookie dropped out. Puddles was the top of his classes and graduated with a MD. He still supported Cookie, however.

Puddles became a successful doctor in a hospital. He was well loved by many of his patients, but his favorite and best friend was Snowy. After Snowy tragically passed away due to his illness, Puddles wanted to find a cure for this illness, constantly studying and working, not having time for his boyfriend Dizzy. He eventually went insane and wanted to focus on improving the race as a whole, experimenting on himself, Dizzy, and other people. Dizzy and Puddles had a fight and Dizzy ultimately stabbed him in the eye, resulting in him having to use part of a corpse to heal himself. This was the final thing that pushed him completely over the edge, and he threatened Dizzy with the same knife he stabbed his eye with until he left. He renamed himself "Vermin" since he believed his former self, Puddles, had died, as he was no longer the friendly and sweet doctor he used to be. Him and Dizzy have broken up and despise each other. He currently lives with his boyfriend in a home, and now goes around, kidnapping and experimenting on other characters. The police are unable to catch him, and he pins many of his kills onto Dizzy.

## Relationships

Bubblegum: Bubblegum and Vermin are coworkers and best friends, and Bubblegum often helps him with getting victims to experiment on. They enjoy each other's company a lot, but occasionally, they can get carried away and try to hurt the other, for scientific purposes.

Dizzy: Dizzy and Vermin formerly worked together, doing experiments in their lab together. They were also formerly in a romantic relationship as well, and were generally very compatible together. However, now that Vermin is more violent and cold than he was when he was with Dizzy, they have since broken up and have a mutual hatred for each other. Vermin thinks Dizzy is too soft, and is waiting for him to “come to his senses” and join his side, but Dizzy knows what he’s doing is wrong and tries to stop him before he gets others hurt.

Frankie: ?

Pastry: Pastry has a crush on Vermin, and Vermin acted like he returned his feelings, without saying so. Vermin manipulated Pastry, allowing him to experiment on Pastry, which is why he's able to kill others so easily. Pastry tends to avoid him now and tries to ignore his feelings for Vermin. They have a negative relationship if they interact now.

Wyatt: Despite his cruel, sadistic manner, Vermin is very loving to his husband. He loves to show affection to him, often kissing him and cuddling him. He frequently kills and tortures others with Wyatt, while still acting all lovey-dovey in front of their victim.

## Trivia

* He formerly worked as a doctor, before being fired due to cruel treatment of the patients and medical malpractice.
* His favorite weapon is a chainsaw.
* He does not like bitter foods.
	+ Because of this, he has a strong hatred for dark chocolate, despite it being naturally poisonous to dogs.
* He giggles when he dies.