QUADRA Shooter

*For the original, see PROJECT GRANDIOSE.*

## Subject 039 - Clone 008

**Subject 039 - Clone 008** is the rival of the superhero NEXTECH Man, known as the *QUADRA Shooter*. In contrast to his heroic traits and representation of the day, the supervillain himself represents the night and exploits the darkness to hunt down unsuspecting victims through mass murder, viewing it as his own art in a wicked perspective, similar to his original.

In actuality, he is the clone of *Kaziyama Watanabe*, popularly known as Kazi, and PROJECT GRANDIOSE. Should he become wounded in a fight, he enters a devastating state of rage known as the Bloodshot, turning his mask red and his only thoughts are focused on killing; Every bullet, spills the blood of the innocent.

## Biography

### Background

Despite Kaziyama aka PROJECT GRANDIOSE's death, someone in the megacorporation's NAZIRA headquarters created an exact likeness of him a day later, minus the cybernetics. In exchange, that unknown scientist, unknown even to Frazier Lashley or any of the executives, was able to dramatically increase the clone's age, growing into an adult in a matter of weeks, and the ageing stopped right there. Finally, the clone known as **Subject 039** is designed to have the peak physical condition of soldiers, with Kaziyama Watanabe's personality, skills and mannerism serving as the sole foundation for his design. He also lacks pain receptors and is immune to ageing. The only weakness... is by killing him.

However, he was put on stasis until three years later, and a different era has begun. He was known to exhibit perfect replications of Kaziyama's unstable personality with ease.

### New Heroes, Another Ultimatum

A killer haunts the city in the darkness, away from the country's daytime, looking for a new subject of his next calling card of devastation. Subject 039 abandoned the hunt after hearing a ruckus in time to witness a super powered combat. Donning disguises, they battled as if impenetrable. A seed of inspiration was planted, and what he refers to as "Nightshade" will soon bloom. He has announced his name to be... The QUADRA Shooter.

QUADRA Shooter has faced NEXTECH Man since the end of the new war. He uses the night to cover his tracks and uses it in every opportunity to face him, proving to be an extremely capable adversary despite his reliance on the use of stealth, deception and his signature use of firearms. In fact, his killings are so secretive that only NEXTECH Man can find it in all the nights they cross paths with. Moreover, he has been attributed to recent serial killings, intending to take advantage of the free world's current state of peace.

### True Ultimatum

QUADRA Shooter becomes the new sensation after Frazier Lashley was arrested for his crimes, that ranged from mass abduction, mass murder, illegal experimentation , conspiracy and of course, his past killings as a serial killer. This was carefully executed by choosing night time as his setting, in order to avoid immediate persecution from the law.

#### Showdown of the Night

In order to provoke his rival, the NEXTECH Man, the artistic QUADRA Shooter preferred the nighttime to establish his name as a supervillain and a new serial killer. Every day, he vanishes like a shadow, but every night, he reappears with genocidal intentions to kill and brutalise as many people as he can in the Aryaine Kingdom in order to maximise his true presence in the dark. When the superhero arrives to answer his summons, they usually battle without regard for laws or hesitancy. Notably, despite being a clone of GRANDIOSE, QUADRA Shooter is equally as capable as the original, capable of fighting NEXTECH Man despite his strength, flight, and a mighty hammer.

#### Awakening

When a tremendous disturbance threw Avarshi into chaos, effectively shattering the delicate post-war peace that nevanity had celebrated, QUADRA Shooter had an unusual sensation. As he became more interested in it, he realised that it was none other than LORD ANNIHILATOR himself, who was reincarnated after Phantom Wolf activated his mind and he used a spare body to step foot into the surface world, more than ready to enact his vengeance on nevanity, gradually leading them to annihilation. He soon went off the grid, eluding the authorities and even NEXTECH Man himself in order to find out if he would be a new member of ULTIMA. That is the name of the megacorporation should it reform.

This can possibly mean the deceased PROJECT GRANDIOSE's mind may be recreated and merged into him, creating the best of both worlds.

## Personality

QUADRA Shooter is created with the embodiment of vanity. His high charisma and charm on artist flairs is highly overshadowed by his high ego and unhealthy vanity.

He is the ideal psychopath, seeing others as nothing more than puppets to which he will constantly pull the strings. Subject 039, a psychotic serial murderer with no regard for nevian life and no feeling of humanity, has no boundaries for his explicit sadism towards others.

Subject 039 appears to be calm and collected practically the whole time, a calculated and thorough mind that thinks before acting, but such attributes are overpowered by his lust for attention. QUADRA Shooter, who is exceedingly flamboyant and theatrical, appears to be the focus of attention every night, whether in a good or terrible way. He frequently refers to many types of art and connects them to his murder. preferring to see his gruesome contortions of nevian corpses and their deaths as an elaborate stage that he orchestrates and sets up. Although it does seem he is aware of his surroundings, bringing question to whether his beliefs are but fabrications of his theoretical insanity, or that he genuinely sees the murder of others as beautiful.

He demonstrates his delusion of his way of "art" most clearly when he devises a slew of strange and horrific methods of murdering his victims. This includes not just accurately blown heads or limbs, but also how he chose to arrange the bodies when his passion for "art" demanded it.

## Abilities

**QUADRA Shooter** is built to be the perfect clone of PROJECT GRANDIOSE, formerly known as Kazi. As a result, he possesses outstanding abilities such as shooting, wit, and tactical expertise. In actuality, his super suit is constructed in commemoration of Kazi's characteristic clothing before he became a cybernetic "soldier". His supervillain persona was also brilliantly mirrored in his costume.

Whilst in his enraged state of the "Bloodshot", his costume transforms into a more sinister motif, while his capabilities are far more impressive than ever before. IN this state, a drug activates in his body that dramatically improves his marksmanship, speed and agility.

In contrast to his rival, the NEXTECH Man, who prefers to use flight and brute force, QUADRA Shooter prefers ranged combat and would set up an infinite system of traps to keep him from fighting him up close, allowing him to maintain a safe distance for a flawless shot.

### Moveset

* **FOUR CAP**: All of his guns share a four round capacity, due to his obsession with the number. This proves a technical disadvantage from a conventional firearm standpoint, which forces him to use the amount of rounds wisely, notably his every last shot is a guaranteed perfect shot. Moreover, the last round is an explosive variant and would likely execute the target at all time.

* **PATHFINDER**: QUADRA Shooter fires a shot where if he hits his enemy prior, they will be locked into a holographic cage for a while, allowing him to finish off a trapped target.

* **STALLER**: Similar to PROJECT GRANDIOSE's traps that he used against PSYLOCKE-832, these are designed to trap the target into a containment field and trigger a non-lethal explosion that will disorient the victim. Stepping on it results its detonation, similar to a land mine.

* **QUADSNIPE**: His ultimate ability transforms his pistols into a magnum sniper rifle, firing four calibrated shots that will kill four chosen targets. Missing all shots will reset his rifle's state but killing or hitting all four targets allows the rifle to retain its sniper mode as long as he wanted to.

### Skills

* **Master Tactician**: QUADRA Shooter is adept in tactics. A great example is him using the night to operate as a supervillain, which he correctly infers that nighttime is where people are unaware of the environment and the darkness leaves them open to any form of harm.

* **Master Marksman**: Despite his marksmanship skills being only derived from an artificial memory, QUADRA Shooter possessed a proficiency comparable to the original blueprint, PROJECT GRANDIOSE. However, NEXTECH Man appears to predict his skills, evidenced by deflecting and blocking his rounds before he can kill the superhero.

* **Brilliant Manipulator**: Owing to outlandish personality, he can easily manipulate people. This allows him to easily start a killing frenzy and in the right timing, the public may watch as his "audience".

## Trivia

### General

* Those who witness his enraged state, the Bloodshot, never survives.
* Popular media depicts him as PROJECT GRANDIOSE without the cybernetics. The truth is, he is a clone and not the original.
* He is designed to replicate the personality of PROJECT GRANDIOSE in every way possible.
* He has four guns, four grenades and four teleporters. He is prepared for every eventuality, by stylising his equipment through the number four.
* His main reason for operating in the night is simple. He hates the press and paparazzi, and welcomes his "audience" at night.
* NEXTECH Man proved to be his most favourite and capable adversary.
* Whoever designed him in the likeness of Kaziyama has done a great job, as the original's memories are not transferred to him, only his personality, character, mannerisms and skills.

### Developmental Notes

* QUADRA Shooter is expecting Highlander XTREME's presence. The latter appears to be intending to rob NEXTECH Man of his own technology to render powerless.
* One of his absurd murders saw a corpse being meticulously arranged into pieces like a gun that is disassembled.