Gena Weisburg

**Gena Weisburg**

jp name
ジーナ・ワイズバーグ

Gender
Female

Age
22

Status
Deceased

Affiliations
Medical Industry

Appearances
Deep Fear
Sound Drama Vol. 1/Vol. 2

Voice actor
Karen Kennedy (English)
Yūko Mizutani (Sound Drama)

Dr. **Gena Weisburg** was a molecular biologist who worked for the world famous medical appliance manufacturer, Medical Industry.

## History

According to Gena, she was raised in an orphanage, describing her childhood as being very lonely and devoid of family or friends.

Possessing an IQ of 180 in adulthood, Gena was employed by Medical Industry and was assigned to the Big Table as the facility's research director. On January 5th, 1999, following the recovery of a mysterious space pod that crashed in the Pacific Ocean, Gena was assigned to examine the pod's sole occupant, a chimpanzee named Anthony. Gena eventually learned that the pod belonged to NASA and that Anthony himself was a subject of the Project Mercury in which he was launched to space 40 years ago. The facility's commander, Clancy Dawkins, became interested in Anthony's longevity and initiated the "Deep Blue Project", in which Anthony was to be subjected to a series of experiments in hopes of developing a cold sleep apparatus. Gena saw that Clancy's plan could benefit mankind as not only it would have made extended space travel be possible, but also help people suffering from incurable diseases. Gena ultimately agreed to partake in the project, serving as research director.

Clancy had Gena, as well as a few selected Navy personnel stationed in the Navy Area to isolate the project's existence from the Big Table's occupants. During her time studying Anthony, Gena gradually bonded with the primate, becoming his only friend due to her own lonely upbringing causing her to sympathize with him. After weeks of extensive tests on Anthony's blood, Gena eventually discovered the truth behind Anthony's longevity; a new parasite-like bacterium inhabiting Anthony's body, which she dubbed the Parasite Cell. Upon further research, Gena also learned that the Parasite Cell was in fact a mutated strain of VMH-117, a harmless bacteria commonly found on primates. Gena deduced that the bacteria was mutated due to to Anthony's direct exposure to space radiation during his time in space. Anthony's very presence would cause everybody within the facility to be unknowingly exposed to the bacterium.

The Parasite Cell eventually went out of control and infected the Navy Area's personnel, transforming them into hostile creatures. The outbreak extended to the nuclear submarine, SEA FOX, and eventually the rest of the Big Table. ERS operative, John Mayor, managed to rescue both Gena and Anthony and had them evacuated to the Docking Area. Upon discovering Anthony as being the source of the contagion however, he moved to kill him to prevent him from spreading to the surface world, causing Gena to turn against John as she refused to let him kill Anthony. It was at that moment however that the Parasite Cell within Gena became active, causing her to mutate into an enormous amorphous blob while crying for John to help her.

The mutated Gena proceeded to attack John, who fired back in self-defense. After enough damage, the blob that used to be Gena mutated once more, changing her into a glowing deity-like marine version of her original appearance. Though she attacked John once more, he managed to injure her to the point she appeared to regain her sentience, tearfully explaining her reasons for defending Anthony and leading the entire facility and its inhabitants to their doom. Realizing John was correct and that the Parasite Cell could not be allowed to leave the facility, she advised him on how to set the facility's self-destruct sequence while allowing him to escape.

As John boarded the space capsule that would allow him to escape, he was confronted by Anthony, who was determined to use the capsule to escape and spread the Parasite Cell within him to the surface world. Realizing she could not allow him to live, Gena tearfully restrained Anthony as John boarded the capsule and escaped, just as the facility began flooding, leading Anthony to drown and Gena to be destroyed in the facility's self-destruction sequence, ending the threat of the Parasite Cell.

## Trivia

* According to Yasushi Nirasawa's 1998 art book, *NIRAGRAM*, he stated in his commentary that he was not satisfied with Gena's mutated form. Noting that he felt the final design lost reality, whereas with the other creatures he was very careful in trying to make them look realistic.
* Gena is the only character mutated by the Parasite Cell to regain full-sentience after her mutation, whereas every other infected character would eventually lose themselves to feral aggression.