Swamp Thing

**Alec Holland** is a Plant-Human hybrid male and former botanist who would go on to become the avatar of the Green, known as **Swamp Thing**.

## **History**

Once a famed botanist, Alec Holland worked on a chemical which not only enhanced the growth of plants, but also their durability in his laboratory within an isolated swamp. A rival company however, had sent mobsters to his lab to force him to cease his work, but because he refused, the mobsters destroyed his laboratory following them planting explosives in it. The resulting explosion killed his wife Linda, as well as dowsing him in his own chemicals and set on fire before being hurtled into the swamp. Holland then arose days later, no longer as the man he was, but as the avatar of the green, Swamp Thing.

## **Powers & Abilities**

### Powers

* **Elemental Physiology:** Since becoming Swamp Thing, Alec's body has become one of sentient vegetation, as well as the connection to the semi-mystical green.
	+ **Chlorokinesis:** Swamp Thing is capable of communing and controlling all forms of plant life, enabling him to ensnare and attack enemies. He can even manipulate microscopic flora and was able to even make a city with fully interactive people, all with his plant based abilities.
		- **Astral Projection:** Through his connection to the green, Alec is capable of abandoning his body in one place and create a body in another, such as forests, deserts, etc. He's even capable of possessing people. He did this once with John Constantine in order to mate with his wife Abigail.
	+ **Self-Sustenance:** Through composting and photosynthesis, Alec is capable of sustaining himself without the need for other sources of nourishment.
	+ **Superhuman Strength:** Alec possesses strength via his connection to the Earth, which enables him to lift objects far heavier than himself. His connection to the Green also supplies him with extra strength, which depending on the health of the green, is nearly incalculable.
	+ **Elemental Control:** Through his connection and communion with the essense of the Earth, Alec possesses the ability to control all the elements including fire, water, air, flesh and earth.
	+ **Bio-Fission:** Alec is capable of creating duplicates of himself, however these duplicates possess no sentience of their own and take orders from Alec himself.
	+ **Enhanced Intellect:** By growing an organic brain, Alec is capable of enhancing his mental capacities.
	+ **Immortality:** So long as there is plant life in the universe, Alec can theoretically live forever, as a means of transferring his consciousness to other vessels. Should he die in one body, Alec is easily capable of regrowing a new body for himself.
	+ **Illusion Casting:** Alec is capable of growing orange tubers, which when eaten by people, said people experience illusions. Those who are good experience a pleasant and relaxing emotion, while evil people experience an illusion of pain and terror.
	+ **Size Alteration:** As an elemental, Alec is capable of altering his size at will, from his normal height to that of a towering giant.
	+ **Regeneration:** Should Alec's body sustain damage, he is capable of regenerating damaged tissue and regrow limbs.

### Abilities

* **Chemistry:** Alec retains all of his knowledge as a chemist before his accident.

## **Weaknesses**

* **Pollution:** The Green is vulnerable to the harmful effects of pollution. Should one weaken the Green, Alec too becomes weakened in the process.
* **Speech Impediment:** Despite his intelligence, Alec possesses a slower manner of thinking, as well as speaking, mostly due to brain damage he sustained during his accident.

## **Characteristics**

### Physical Appearance

Alec Holland was once a caucasian male, with blond hair and blue eyes, prior to his accident. Following his accident however, he became a humanoid of sentient vegetation of both variable height and weight, possessing no hair, green skin and red eyes. His humanoid form is also known to take a very athletic looking figure.

### Personality & Traits

Since becoming Swamp Thing, Alec is a good man at heart and uses his abilities to protect both nature and people, regardless. He is willing to do what it takes to protect Earth and all on it, even at the cost of his own life.

## **Trivia**

* Alec, prior to his transformation, tended college with Pamela Isley.