Genus

“*Don't apologize, Hypocrite!*”
―Before his 'demise' at the hands of Isaac to save Kori's life

Genus is one of the top Spartain level members of Earth's W-organization. While he is artistic in favoring technique over sheer force, he strives to become the hero that his best friend and rival, Adam Wesker, is.

## Characteristics

* Name: Genus
* Real Name: Valiance “Val” Light Genesis Grey
* Species: Earthling/Human (Enhanced)
* Age:  24
* Hair:  Deep Red (Greying due to Devolution)
* Eyes:  Fiery Crimson (Side effect of enhancement after joining)
* Likes: his poem book, the piano, his mother, butterflies, Angelo (Best friend), Adam Wesker (Best friend and Rival), being recognized as a hero
* Dislikes: His father and his younger brother, Hypocrites, his uselessness, his Devolution
* Family: Father (Deceased), Mother (N/A), Azrael Grey (Younger Twin)

## Appearance

Genus is a good looking young man with fair pale skin tone, slim athletic build, at 5’11” height, 131 lbs weight. He has a deep red hair, the trademark Warrior's Fiery Crimson eye color . He wears and outfit that Genus helped design to bear similarities to Adam. This consists of a long red coat, crossed leather straps over SIG under suit, the W-Organization's symbol on one black pauldron, and a damaged Unitology symbol on the other one. A butterfly symbol on the back of his coat.

After his Devolution becomes more noticeable his skin becomes pale and his body begin to lose pigment. With his clothes soon to follow with physical loss of weight on his face.

## Background

Val comes from a well high class family who had joined Unitology at the command of his father who wanted to keep his family’s appearance and retain their high status as it seemed most aristocrats are joining the cult. Val was born with the rare gift of telekinesis as well as a genius level intellect. Due to this and being the first born of the family, Val was placed to take tutors along with his place in an academy. As a child he lived until a strict rule under his father, his only friend at the time was a boy he met one day after sneaking out to see how his butterflies are doing. The two became the best of friends. Val quickly picked up how his parents were in a loveless marriage but what really made it difficult was seeing his mother, the parent who showed true love and happiness for him suffer due to his father’s actions and beliefs. The highlight of his accomplishment was using his intelligence in the assistance of making plants that produce food that can grow anywhere, be healthy, and taste better, which won him an agricultural award in process. He even took part in a scientific study for scientists to study his telekinesis lead to the development of the Kinetic module. Just as he had begun to reach his 15th birthday, Val became contracted with a disease that would end his life. When the doctors both Unitologist and not couldn’t find a way to cure their son, the father disowned and renounced him as his heir, seeing Valiance as useless to him, and made sure to make his younger brother the heir. Since then Valiance hated his family, seeing them as hypocrites. While he took all the drugs needed to keep his body going he lived alone in his dorm room, using what access he could to try and concoct a formulate that will not only cure him but also make him immortal. He kept in contact with Chris as much as he could, but eventually his body became too weak and he was visited by his mother who revealed that she did everything she could to save her son. It wasn’t easy as his father took over most of the assets. She was able to ask for a favor and a hospital agreed to keep her son in cryo-sleep until a cure could be found, before he accepts his mother asked him to forgive her, to which he did.

Val remained that way for some years until he was awakened by a younger man named “Adam” who found him and asked if he wished to live, to evolve and to infuriate the ones who wants to see him dead. Val accepted and went through the Warrior procedure which not only cured him of his disease but also increased his telekinesis greatly. As he spend years into the W-Organization, Angelo completed his missions, usually preferring to do the missions either alone or with his best friend Angelo. His new goal, now cured was to become a hero like Adam to be acknowledged for his existence, even though Adam said that if Genus was worthy of it, the title is his. Years before leaving on the mission to find the Prometheus, Genus paid a visit to his mother to tell her about his mission and support her through the years it takes for them to be apart, only to find that his mother is suffering from overwhelming stress and injury caused by his father. In a fit of rage, killed everyone who was affiliated with his father and only spared those who were still loyal to the true Grey line. Once he was done with his vengeance, Genus burned his home down and returned to Warrior HQ. He didn’t know or cared but he placed his mother in a hospital that owed him for keeping safe one mission. Just before they left on their mission the three strongest Spartans went to have a little spar between themselves, not only to keep their skills sharp but also to have fun (Genus agreed to keep his mind off of what happened to his mother and what he did to his father). During which Genus had gotten a small injury. He went to get himself fixed up, but found that the energy of his attack plus being nicked by the weapon that caused his injury started his devolution, which made Genus feel as though he was sick all over again. That made him distant from the others as he ensured that he would be able to join them on the mission. As soon as he awoken and found that the Warriors with him and his friends were on the Ishimura instead of the Falcon, he quickly surmised that it was someone tampered with the transfer orders. When the unexpected deaths and homicides begun, Genus begun to investigate alone, feeling that it was a hero's duty to not endanger others by bringing them with him, however he heard a voice that sounded like his father, even though he knows full well that he killed the man himself. He kept hearing and tring to ignore the hallucinations though as he continued, signs of his Devolution became aparent, especially after meeting Isaac’s group, where he began to see his murdered father.

## Personality

Genus, at the beginning lived a good, but difficult life due to his father’s cruel actions. Under the tutelage he was under, Genus became selfish and cared for himself. This side of him was suppressed due to his kind mother and his best friend Angelo. After becoming afflicted, he was a self-described wallflower at his academy, and the perceived neglection from his peers and his abandonment by most of his family which made him hate fostered a hatred within him for other people. He even became disillusioned with the Unitology cult. He was so much removed from the rest of society that his own father thought him to be dead or as good as trash. This hatred seemed to die down after he becomes a WARRIOR but still noted that he has nothing but bad memories from his old life and home and considered burning it down. Originally he had a huge desire for immortality that stemmed from his affliction by a mysterious disease that weakens his body drastically. But it was stalled after being able to become a Warrior.

Genus can be eccentric and often expresses his love of elegance, referencing his attire as a example of such elegance, while some disagree with this claim. After becoming a Warrior Genus gains a strong desire for attention, very much the opposite of his human identity, which was very reclusive. His fighting style favors technique over brute force as most Warriors favor. He harbored a strong desire to become a hero as to be noticed and loved, and is the person who mostly call out others on being a hypocrite. He refuses to let anyone other than Angelo or Adam say his real name, because Angelo and Adam were the only ones to ever call him by it and truly acknowledge him. After having his mother being placed in critical condition, Genus grew to into a blinding rage that made him use both his strength and telekinesis to kill all those who betrayed his mother. When getting nicked and then become afflicted by Devolution Genus’ eccentric personality went from somewhat eccentric to highly eccentric and believes the only way to purify the universe with hypocritic species and wipe away the bad experience of his humanity is by wiping the slate clean and beginning again with him as god as well as find a means to reverse his Devolution.

## Skills and Abilities

### Abilities

* **Genius Intellect**: Both as a human and a Warrior Genus displayed incredible intellect having an IQ of 230. He had a vast knowledge of science as he won awards in his youth of being able to produce new kinds of plants that not only taste better, but can be grown anywhere no matter the conditions and give healthy results. It also allowed him to deduce was the actual cause of the monsters and how it got spreading on the Ishimura, let alone what the energy that allowed the Warriors be what they are came from. And what he saw was a hallucination when he saw his father.
* **Photographic Memory**: Able to remember things after seeing them once, good with schematics, layout of locations, verses of his poetry book, and formulas.

### Skills

* **Piano Playing**: From the time he was a child learned how to play the piano masterfully.
* **Scientific genius**: Due to his vast intellect, Genus is very gifted with science in the lines of genetics and biology.
* **Swordsmanship**: Genus is a master swordsman, second to Adam. Able to use his sword with one hand or two.
* **Marksmanship**: His marksman training isn’t all that great, even with help from Chris. So he can only handle a pistol.
* **Piloting**: Can pilot a ship
* **Driving**: Can drive a motorcycle.

### Powers (As result of Enhancement procedure)

* **Enhanced Physical Strength**: His strength is third strongest of all Warriors. Genus can physically push his hand through a human chest and decapitate an enemy with his bare hand if he wanted to.
* **Enhanced Speed & Agility:** His speed is the fastest of all Warriors, second to Adam. Able to dodge a bullet or block it.
* **Enhanced Reflexes**: Able to dodge a bullet and stop an attack aimed at him or someone close.
* **Enhanced Senses**: Genus has very strong senses to sense when something is wrong and able to sense ethereal energy. (Like when he knew when he saw his first Xenecromorph)
* **Enhanced Endurance**: Genus is able to have a great amount of endurance once becoming a Warrior. (Due to Devolution his sense of pain is no longer operable)
* **Enhanced Healing**: (weakened by time of Ishimura due to Devolution)
* **ESP Abilities** (Both are 6th sense abilities that he was born with and the other was from the procedure)
	+ **Telekinesis**: He was born with this rare gift, but it was enhanced by procedure to become the highest levels of Telekinesis that was ever evidenced in Warrior history.
	+ **Ethereal Energy manipulation**: Can channel this energy through his sword and use it by command of his hand.

* **Xenecromorph command**: After accepting the power of the Monolith, Genus learned how to summon and command Xenecromorphs from the Monolith itself.
* **Transformation**: After accepting that he was a monster after sensing the similarities between the energy that helped make the Warriors with that in the Monolith, Genus became able to mutate his body to grow wings that resembled a mutated Butterfly wings that allows him to fly.

### Equipment

* **“Legacy”:** Genus' Longer than normal Rapier with a wide red-blade sword he variably uses one or two-handed.
* **“Heritage”:** Genus' side arm, A classic pistol that needs to be reloaded manually.
* **PIC**:
* **Space mask**:

## Quotes

Because of his love for poetry and his photographic memory, Genus speaks in poetry that he feels are in relation to the situation around him. Such as

### Poems

* Introducing himself for the first time to someone who does not know him: *"I have no name: I am but two days old."*
* When someone points out a cruel act he did: *"Cruelty has a Human heart, and Jealousy a Human Face, Terror, the Human Form Divine, And Secrecy, the Human Dress."*
* Walking into in a fashionable manner: *"I curse my stars in bitter grief and woe, that made my love so high and me, so low."*
* When he is about to fight: *"He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence."*
* About crying: *"Men cry not for themselves, but for their comrades."*
* The parting of his three friends, *"My friend, do you fly away now? To a world that abhors you and I? All that awaits you is a somber morrow no matter where the winds may blow."*
* When he leaves a room, but promises to meet them again: *"Even if the morrow is barren of promises Nothing shall forestall my return."*
* Talking about his family and wanting pain to end: *"My soul, corrupted by vengeance Hath endured torment, to find the end of the Journey. In my own salvation and your eternal slumber."*
* His answer about being alone: *"From my childhood's hour I have not been As others were - I have not seen. As others saw - I could not bring."*
* Grieving: *"The busy bee has no time for sorrow."*
* About to kill an enemy: *"Little Wanderer 'hie thee home!"*
* Of Adam's or Isaac's immunity to Devolution or Insanity: *"There is no hate but joy, for you are beloved by the goddess. Hero of the dawn, Healer of Worlds."*
* Killing someone who would become a Xenecromorph or gave into insanity: *"O Rose thou art sick: The invisible worm, That flies in the night In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson; And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy."*
* When talking about investigating to know the truth: *"If the fool would persist in his folly, he would become wise."*
* About to fight one of his friends or one of his friends suffering a loss: *"My friend, the fates are cruel There are no dreams, no honor remains. The arrow has left the bow of the goddess."*
* Knowing of a victory that a price: *"Legend shall speak Of Sacrifice at world's end. The wind sails over the water's surface quietly, but surely."*
* Coming to the end as he accepts death: *"Dreams of the morrow hath the shattered soul, pride is lost, wings stripped away, the end is nigh."*
* About love: *"Never seek to tell thy love, love that never told can be; For the gentle wind doth move silently, invisibly."*
* Accepting an form of an alliance with someone or something: *"While thy branches mix with mine, and our roots together join."*

## Trivia

* Genus is the only WARRIOR who does not have a pendant with a vial of his blood before becoming one, due to the fear of catching that disease again, even though his immunity system was enhanced. He betrays everyone so that he could be cured of his Devolution by the Monolith if he seek out the Creators. His favorite poems are made by William Blake, Edgar Allen Poe, LOVELESS,
* Genus and the W-Organization was created by Twilightnite13