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Finally finished this massive time sink. I’ve had this half painted sitting around fro probably a year now. Finally had the motivation to finish this and talk about Alex. Alex has been a character floating around in my gallery randomly as essentially a character I use when I want to do some very self indulgent stuff. Decided to sit down and actually make a full design for him and a general monster form as well. Though his monster form here is subject to change with my whims tbh. Next I’ll get to designing Mary, his assistant and gf now that I’m actually happy with this piece.

In short, Alex fits the trope of a scientist who in his kindness ends up fucking himself up. He was working on something that could enhance healing in humans, to regrow tissue quickly along with the general scifi nonesense type stuff for helping people. The whole thing was a lot of money, and Alex most results and tests hidden from the people under him while the people above him were pushing him to get things done quicker and quicker. Everyone else was relegated to regular researching and tests on other products, while the real important money sink was to be worked on Alex and his assistant Mary. Animal tests were showing promise, but the regeneration had a high tendency to create extra limbs/tumors/etc.
Eventually Alex was given an ultimatum, start human testing and show the product could have true use, or have funding pulled from himself and everyone under him would suddenly be out of the job with no idea why. Alex is smart, but that crumbles under pressure, and he felt that giving something to paid participants with no idea what was being tested was something he just couldn’t do. Instead, opting to use it on himself.

This went fine at first. A test slicing his own arm, healed, though it bubbled and scarred, but it healed in minutes. Increased hunger and some odd aches didn’t seem like enough of a side effect to worry. Everything was on track until he revealed he hadn’t used any other subjects other than himself. When a one sided fight broke out between him and management, the stress and physical damage started to change him entirely. Mutating wildly. He still has much of his mind like this, and can eventually transform back, but more damage and stress only agitates and creates more uncontrolled changes. I could go more in depth with this, but I worry this is all too long for my essentially big o’ scientist turned monster trope story that is meant for fun. Alex and his reasons for mutation along with his story has many AUs for whatever I’m feeling at the time, but this will be the base.

Mary will have her own blurb when I pin down her design, but she is someone that keeps Alex grounded, when human and not. And also truly doesn’t mind the biological changes he goes through much at all.

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Finally finished this massive time sink. I’ve had this half painted sitting around fro probably a year now. Finally had the motivation to finish this and talk about Alex. Alex has been a character floating around in my gallery randomly as essentially a character I use when I want to do some very self indulgent stuff. Decided to sit down and actually make a full design for him and a general monster form as well. Though his monster form here is subject to change with my whims tbh. Next I’ll get to designing Mary, his assistant and gf now that I’m actually happy with this piece.

In short, Alex fits the trope of a scientist who in his kindness ends up fucking himself up. He was working on something that could enhance healing in humans, to regrow tissue quickly along with the general scifi nonesense type stuff for helping people. The whole thing was a lot of money, and Alex most results and tests hidden from the people under him while the people above him were pushing him to get things done quicker and quicker. Everyone else was relegated to regular researching and tests on other products, while the real important money sink was to be worked on Alex and his assistant Mary. Animal tests were showing promise, but the regeneration had a high tendency to create extra limbs/tumors/etc.
Eventually Alex was given an ultimatum, start human testing and show the product could have true use, or have funding pulled from himself and everyone under him would suddenly be out of the job with no idea why. Alex is smart, but that crumbles under pressure, and he felt that giving something to paid participants with no idea what was being tested was something he just couldn’t do. Instead, opting to use it on himself.

This went fine at first. A test slicing his own arm, healed, though it bubbled and scarred, but it healed in minutes. Increased hunger and some odd aches didn’t seem like enough of a side effect to worry. Everything was on track until he revealed he hadn’t used any other subjects other than himself. When a one sided fight broke out between him and management, the stress and physical damage started to change him entirely. Mutating wildly. He still has much of his mind like this, and can eventually transform back, but more damage and stress only agitates and creates more uncontrolled changes. I could go more in depth with this, but I worry this is all too long for my essentially big o’ scientist turned monster trope story that is meant for fun. Alex and his reasons for mutation along with his story has many AUs for whatever I’m feeling at the time, but this will be the base.

Mary will have her own blurb when I pin down her design, but she is someone that keeps Alex grounded, when human and not. And also truly doesn’t mind the biological changes he goes through much at all.