Jung Von Herzog

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* Game (Tachibana)
* Game (Osho)
* Manhua

Dr. Jung Von Herzog (荣格·冯·赫尔佐格) is the main antagonist of Dragon Raja III - Black Moon Tide. He has assumed many identities through his life, manipulating multiple sides and people in order to achieve his ultimate goal.

Originally a Nazi scientist, Herzog was captured by the Soviet Union and put in charge of the Black Swan Bay facilities to study the potential uses of Uesugi Koeru's blood. Herzog used them to create hundreds of thousands of embryos, he also led an orphanage of Hybrid children and studied on them.

On December 24th, 1990, he was visited by Bondarev, who claimed to be of Russian royal descent, the installations were compromised, and the pair made a plan to destroy the base and escape with Herzog's research, but he was betrayed by Bondarev and shot to near-death. Herzog recovered from the attack and followed Bondarev to Japan, where he recovered three of his embryos and learned of Bondarev's plan to become a reincarnated White Dragon Emperor.

He changed his name to Tachibana Masamune and became a member and eventual leader of the Yamata no Orochi. He also created their opposition, the Mou Kishu, operating as the puppet master of a war between both factions and experimenting on his subjects. Herzog cultivated three embryos: Gen Chisei and Gen Chime, who were put in opposite sides of the war and Uesugi Erii, who was kept as the secret weapon of the Yamata no Orochi.

Cassell College became aware of the White Emperor's embryo and Herzog attempted to sabotage their mission to destroy it, ultimately cutting ties with the Secret Party to prevent them from discovering and foiling his plans. Agents of the college were trapped in Japan and declared fugitives. When clues to his real identity started to surface, he faked his death as Tachibana and operated strictly through the Mou Kishu as *Osho*.

His plan came to fruition when he sacrificed the Gen brothers and Erii to transform himself into a new White Dragon Emperor, but he was ultimately defeated by the combined efforts of Lu Mingze, Lu Mingfei, Zero and a weapon of the Gattuso Family.

## Biography

### Background

Herzog was a hybrid scientist who was employed by Nazi Germany to prove the superiority of the Aryan race. Failing to find any conclusive evidence, Herzog discovered the presence of powerful dragon genes in the blood samples of his Japanese allies. When Russia invaded Berlin, he was captured and his research was repurposed to serve the Soviet Union instead.

Herzog was sent to Black Swan Bay, where an ancient dragon's corpse was discovered under the ice. Herzog worked with the genes of Koshi Uesugi, provided to Germany by the families of the Yamata no Orochi during World War II. Uesugi's blood contained Izanami's genes, and he used them to produce tens of thousands of hybrid embryos, he also adopted multiple hybrid orphans and experimented on them.

To control his subjects, Herzog practiced a brain pontine splitting surgery, which caused their personalities to split in two and made them controllable after hearing the sound of a woodblock instrument. Patient Number Zero was the first child to go through the surgery, but the process hadn't been perfected yet, resulting in the boy developing an extremely violent behavior. A young girl named Renata was the only orphan who didn't go through the surgery, not out of sympathy from Herzog, but because he considered her a necessary "adornment" in their lifeless environment.

### Meeting Bondarev

In 1990, during the fall of the Soviet Union, Herzog detected an intruder on the cave of an ancient dragon and met a spy inside named Bondarev, who claimed to be a descendant of Anastasia Romanov. Bondarev offered to finance Herzog's operations.

Herzog took his two most stable hybrid babies and initiated the self-destruction process of the Black Swan Bay facility, but he was betrayed and shot down by Bondarev, who took his research and left in a helicopter, taking the dragon corpse with him as well as the dragon embryo that it stored.

### Arriving at Japan

Herzog survived the bombing and tracked Bondarev to Japan. He mistook a man for Bondarev and killed him. In the man's apartment he found his research and some embryos. Herzog also found Bondarev's research on dragon blood stimulants, which he used to create the molotov cocktail. He set a plan in motion that would allow him to turn himself into a White Dragon King, which seemed to be Bondarev's plan as well.

First, he got plastic surgery to hide his burn scars and obtain Japanese facial features. He joined the Yamata no Orochi, a declining underworld organization of Japanese hybrids, who all inherited Izanami's blood. To do this, he forged a new identity as the last living member of the Tachibana clan.

He also instigated the formation of a rebellious Oni group known as the Mou Kishu, unstable hybrids isolated and oppressed by the families of the Yamata no Orochi, and by wearing a mask, he created a new identity to lead them: *Osho's Blade*. After a few years, he was leading both sides of the underworld.

#### The Gen brothers

Herzog located Chisei and Chime, the two babies that he intended to take away from Black Swan Bay. The brothers were living on a a Japanese town under foster care. He paid an alimony to a man to take care of them and often visited the town. He also created another child, a girl he named Erii. Tachibana claimed that she was the last living member of the Uesugi clan. She was born an unstable hybrid. Herzog created a Death Servitor farm and synthesized a serum from the blood of the servitors to keep her temporarily stable.

In order to resurrect Izanami, he needed the three original Japanese hybrids: Susanoo, Tsukiyomi and Amaterasu. The Gen boys, along with Erii were sufficient replacements.

As Tachibana, he often hired Chisei as a guide when he strolled through the mountains and they held long conversations, he also taught him how to do yoga. He told Chisei that he was the last descendant of the Gen Clan of the Yamata no orochi and offered to become his adoptive father multiple times, but the boy refused, since he knew of Tachibana's involvement with the mafia. When the town learned that Chisei was involved with criminals, he was shunned, motivating him to leave with Tachibana as an associate rather than a son. Eventually, Chisei came to see Tachibana as a father.

Tachibana told Chime that he couldn't take both of them back to the city, but he would leave him behind in case he needed a replacement for Chisei. Chime spent some time alone until Herzog came back for him under the identity of Osho. He invited Chime to take strolls in the forest and gave him alcoholic drinks with Molotov Cocktails mixed in. He performed his brain split surgery on the boy and manipulated him with the wood clappers and evolution medicine to awaken his violent side.

As a consequence of the surgery, Chime developed a second personality named Ruri Kazama. Ruri quickly gained popularity with the girls in the town, but he found pleasure in killing them to plasticize their bodies and became a serial killer. As Tachibana, Herzog informed Chisei of his brother's actions, telling him that Chime was an unstable hybrid. Chisei caught Kazama while he processed his latest victim and fatally stabbed him. Chime's personality resurfaced and happily greeted Chisei, before noticing what just happened to him. Chisei dropped the body of his brother to the bottom of a well and sealed it.

Chime survived his wounds and Osho recruited him as the Dragon Emperor of the Mou Kishu. Through the following years, Chime helped Osho to grow the Mou Kishu into a powerful organization that challenged the Yamata no Orochi and took many of its territories.