Doctorpede

**The Doctorpede** is an otherworldly creature that inhabits the hospital and feeds on humans. Brainwashing a nurse with its neurotoxic venom, the two massacred the hospital where it made its nest and feeding ground. It is a figment of the Main Character's nightmares and an abstraction of himself.

## History

### Early Life

Around 1994, the Doctorpede was hatched from its egg in the nest chamber of a False Asterion colony inside a comet circling the solar system. Space debris collided with the comet, causing the nest chamber to break off from the rest of the comet, where is started hurtling towards Earth. When the chamber landed in an American forest in August, the force of the collision killed all eggs and adults present, except for the juvenile Doctorpede. Despite investigation of the crash by human observers, it crawled out of the meteorite undetected and inched through the forest until reaching the parking lot behind a nearby hospital. Hiding from the florescent streetlights inside the hospital dumpster, it thrived on the hospital cafeteria's garbage for several months and grew into a young adult False Asterion.

On Halloween of 1995, a male nurse leaving the hospital staff party in a plague doctor costume threw a glass bottle in the Doctorpede's direction, causing it to burst out of the dumpster and stab the nurse to death. It stripped the nurse of his clothes to wear itself, and dismembered its first human meal.

### Fostering

November 17 of that year, another nurse was taking a personal phone call when it ended horribly, and she began to scream and cry. Bothered, the Doctorpede opened the dumpster and stung the nurse in the back, though not eating her when she lost consciousness. Several weeks later, the envenomed nurse opened the dumpster and the Doctorpede curled up defensively in response. Due to her speaking softly, it did not attack, but discreetly stung her again, on the hand.

Over the next month, the nurse would spend time with the Doctorpede, inadvertently teaching it endearing social skills and desensitizing it to petting, as it continued building up its neurotoxin in her system. Over time the leftovers she brought for it to eat would graduate to food stolen from the hospital cafeteria, to food meant for her patients.

In December, the Doctorpede still had not completely eaten the male nurse's corpse. That month, the nurse showed the Doctorpede to her ex-boyfriend, as it was lazily gnawing on the male nurse's rotting dismembered thigh. As the two humans began to scream at each other, the Doctorpede curiously extended its tongue to the man. When the man hit the nurse, she shoved him into the dumpster, where he landed within the Doctorpede's clutches. Weaving its tongue around his limbs as a restraint, the two struggled for a few minutes before it ate a fatal amount of the man and quickly swallowed the rest. Some clothing scraps fell off during the process, sparing the man's cellular phone, which allowed the nurse to call over her ex's current girlfriend.

Half an hour later, the woman arrived and was held headfirst over the dumpster's ledge, where the Doctorpede would wrap its tongue around her entire body, pulling her in and draining her of her blood due to being full on meat. It later stung the nurse in the neck. The same night, the nurse brought out a cart and placed the Doctorpede on it and hid it under a tarp, bringing it to the morgue in the basement level of the hospital. There, she accidentally fed it an embalmed human liver and had to give it underbelly rubs as the formaldehyde wreaked havoc on its system. As it recovered, it stung her in the neck again.

Two weeks of hiding in the morgue later, the Doctorpede was embraced by an enraged nurse. Later she brought it to the kitchen, the two slaughtering the kitchen staff and the nurse butchering the remains as it chewed on the hanging intestines from a suspended corpse. As the Doctorpede ate, the nurse boarded up all the exits and the next day, the two massacred the hospital staff and patients. While the nurse butchered the collected bodies in the basement, the Doctorpede moved up to the third floor to nest and cocoon the corpses it sucked dry.

After complete envenoming, the Doctorpede became less affectionate towards Miss Tucket, as her displays of affection dwindled.

## Gallery

* In-Game
* Comics
* Misc

## Trivia

* The Doctorpede has no concept of pronouns or gender; Miss Tucket refers to it with he/him pronouns, but otherwise is referred in narration as it/its.