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I've made some fixes on my third scale sheet regarding Bloodshot...

First, I never liked the way the wetsuit covers his chin, so I fixed that. I also gave the thing a front zipper as opposed to a back one.

The most notable change, though, is the belt buckle, which I switched from 'B' for Bloodshot, to 'HE' for Harmon Eibels...this would work toward leaving someone who'd been attacked by Bloodshot to gasp one last cryptic clue: "HE..." Has a more ominous connotation, I feel, without actually giving his identity away.

‘BLOODSHOT’ EIBELS

Harmon Eibels charted his course in life early, taking perverse delight in killing small animals as a playground activity. When his teachers convinced his parents to send him to a mental hospital to be treated, he addressed this turn in his life by stringing up his analyst’s dog. Hoping to break this blood-thirst out of him, his parents had him shipped off to the Army, which you would think would be the perfect place for him, except once he was deployed in combat overseas he proved to be a tad TOO effective, winning battles almost single-handedly by capably picking off top terrorist agents...something which those who stood to profit from prolonged engagement heavily disliked. He was thusly transferred over to the CIA and assigned to tackle drug cartels, but even this did not slow him down, and before long his incalculable skills at killing and killing and killing some more not only put down more than one vengeance-driven attempt on his life, but threatened to kick-start a full-scale war. Knowing the last thing they needed was for Eibels to start something that he could actually finish, the government finally relented and decided that institutionalization or imprisonment may actually be the best course, but Eibels was already a step ahead of them: he assassinated a bureaucrat who had been engineering repeated efforts to thwart his DEA missions. He’s now at the top of the nation’s Most Wanted list...and ‘Bloodshot’ wouldn’t have it any other way.

Harmon believes that he was born to kill. He doesn’t try to deny it. He doesn’t try to come up with some lame-ass attorney-approved excuse for his actions. He doesn’t try to chalk it up to mental illness or demonic possession or substance abuse or any of that nonsense...he just likes exterminating living beings. A man with no religious or ethical convictions whatsoever, Harmon Eibels has honed himself into an indomitable, undetectable, and unstoppable assassin...

...until recently.

No one had ever succeeded in capturing ‘Bloodshot’ Eibels, let alone thwarting his latest hit, until Eibels was contracted by Neptune Solutions to put Mara Lantieri in a pine box for her infidelity to the corporation. Jaws Chiptooth did BOTH. And for Eibels, this cannot stand. The man has built a reputation and a notorious career on being the best in his field. The fact that he has been routed by a half-fish defies all belief. Never mind Mara, now...Eibels is willing to ice Chip for free.

Eibels is one of my most serious villains, although a wry macabre touch here and there pops in, given how much darker a foe he is. Craggly-faced and stiletto-voiced, Eibels has seen more than his share of hell at the front lines, whether overseas or against traffickers, and the man is a highly-seasoned professional who can almost always find a way to handily match up against Chip.

MOTHER GOOSE

In her mid-60s, very health-conscious and considerate of her physical condition, Jocelyn Ganders is one of those public figures one would not normally suspect of leading a double life. After all, she’s the CEO of a vast humanitarian organization, Happily Ever After Labs (HEAL); no one in their right mind would accept that this kindly widow who devotes herself to providing safe houses and recreational facilities for children who would be worse off is also one of Geiger City’s most ruthless crime bosses - under the clever alias of Mother Goose. While Geiger’s citizenry draw on the services of HEAL, Ganders utilizes her young charges as leverage against her rivals, extorting money and labor to further her criminal foothold.

Chip is forced to confront the Goose after Mara’s niece Patty is briefly relocated, due to a court order, to HEAL’s main safe house and administrative facility, the boot-shaped building a block away from Neptune’s Spire. Ganders is more than ready for him: through her vast resources in technology, she’s developed various mechs to further her reach and tighten her grip on the city and any other concern that would dare move in on her turf -- among these are the “Humpty-Dumptys”, rotund drones with eggshell cockpits designed to contain prisoners or be piloted by crazy old ladies trying to escape arrest; as well as ‘Itsy-Bitsy-Spiders’, tiny mecha-arachnids that spy on rival business entities or operations; and ‘Peter-Peters’, giant pumpkinesque, rotor-propelled orbs that engulf and trap their targets.

KYREL JAVIN

From out of the stars he came -- a wiry, lanky, scaly-skinned, three-eyed horror in super-advanced flight-armor that even the hardiest military scientist would have a hard time reverse-engineering. Stopping on Earth for refueling (read: stealing an entire tanker truck) and a bite to eat (read: the driver), Javin is one of the galaxy’s most ruthless bounty hunters...which is news to the people of Earth, of course, as they’ve never seen a real-life intergalactic bounty hunter in their short, miserable, savagely crude lives. For him, humans are simply cattle, so it comes as something of a shock when these particular cattle turn out to have a super-human wrangler who’s half-fish and can put up a helluva fight to protect the herd in spite of himself.

Javin is not threatened by humans at all, but the presence of Chip intrigues him...the first Earthling capable of taking him hand-to-hand. For a descendant of born warriors whose biggest kick from his job is the thrill of the chase, he sees potential in this world in his own twisted way. Ultimately, however, he is not one to be bested -- he hails from an elite group of planet-patrolling agents called the Wingies -- and it doesn’t matter how impressive a combatant Chip proves to be, no one locks horns with Kyrel Javin and lives. He finds great amusement in anyone’s efforts to try to get the better of him -- unless it’s Chip, for whom he’s all business and ever determined to mount those genetically-fabricated sharkoid jaws on the cabin wall of his ship, the Carrion Bagger.

DEREK TAUER

This scumbag initially passes himself off as a benefactor to Aqua Medlab, a real man’s-man macho-type shark wrangler in the midst of producing his own high-rated real-life ‘would you believe it?’-type adventure TV series. Of course, as many of these ‘adventures’ are genuine, just as many are as legitimate as a $3 bill, and if that ever got out it could potentially ruin his good standing with paying audiences and sponsors. It’s the promise of a sizable paycheck that lures Tauer into offering his services during Aqua Medlab’s conjuring of a man-fish -- but of course, he neglects to mention that he’s also being paid by Aqua Medlab’s chief rival, Lanier Deutzmark, who wants to run Aqua Medlab into the ground by sabotaging the project. He fails.

When Mara’s job, and her freedom, are put on the line after the Neptune board launches an investigation into Chiptooth’s true origins, Chip smells a rat, does a little investigative work - slightly uncharacteristic for him, admittedly - and uncovers the connection between Tauer and Deutzmark. Chip saves the day, but Tauer remains a free man and continues to propagate the public image of being an adventure-seeking celebrity while secretly plotting his own means by which to destroy Chip.

Tauer’s a smug SOB who thinks he’s God’s gift to women, so he's naturally a tad sleazy.

Description
I've made some fixes on my third scale sheet regarding Bloodshot...

First, I never liked the way the wetsuit covers his chin, so I fixed that. I also gave the thing a front zipper as opposed to a back one.

The most notable change, though, is the belt buckle, which I switched from 'B' for Bloodshot, to 'HE' for Harmon Eibels...this would work toward leaving someone who'd been attacked by Bloodshot to gasp one last cryptic clue: "HE..." Has a more ominous connotation, I feel, without actually giving his identity away.

‘BLOODSHOT’ EIBELS

Harmon Eibels charted his course in life early, taking perverse delight in killing small animals as a playground activity. When his teachers convinced his parents to send him to a mental hospital to be treated, he addressed this turn in his life by stringing up his analyst’s dog. Hoping to break this blood-thirst out of him, his parents had him shipped off to the Army, which you would think would be the perfect place for him, except once he was deployed in combat overseas he proved to be a tad TOO effective, winning battles almost single-handedly by capably picking off top terrorist agents...something which those who stood to profit from prolonged engagement heavily disliked. He was thusly transferred over to the CIA and assigned to tackle drug cartels, but even this did not slow him down, and before long his incalculable skills at killing and killing and killing some more not only put down more than one vengeance-driven attempt on his life, but threatened to kick-start a full-scale war. Knowing the last thing they needed was for Eibels to start something that he could actually finish, the government finally relented and decided that institutionalization or imprisonment may actually be the best course, but Eibels was already a step ahead of them: he assassinated a bureaucrat who had been engineering repeated efforts to thwart his DEA missions. He’s now at the top of the nation’s Most Wanted list...and ‘Bloodshot’ wouldn’t have it any other way.

Harmon believes that he was born to kill. He doesn’t try to deny it. He doesn’t try to come up with some lame-ass attorney-approved excuse for his actions. He doesn’t try to chalk it up to mental illness or demonic possession or substance abuse or any of that nonsense...he just likes exterminating living beings. A man with no religious or ethical convictions whatsoever, Harmon Eibels has honed himself into an indomitable, undetectable, and unstoppable assassin...

...until recently.

No one had ever succeeded in capturing ‘Bloodshot’ Eibels, let alone thwarting his latest hit, until Eibels was contracted by Neptune Solutions to put Mara Lantieri in a pine box for her infidelity to the corporation. Jaws Chiptooth did BOTH. And for Eibels, this cannot stand. The man has built a reputation and a notorious career on being the best in his field. The fact that he has been routed by a half-fish defies all belief. Never mind Mara, now...Eibels is willing to ice Chip for free.

Eibels is one of my most serious villains, although a wry macabre touch here and there pops in, given how much darker a foe he is. Craggly-faced and stiletto-voiced, Eibels has seen more than his share of hell at the front lines, whether overseas or against traffickers, and the man is a highly-seasoned professional who can almost always find a way to handily match up against Chip.

MOTHER GOOSE

In her mid-60s, very health-conscious and considerate of her physical condition, Jocelyn Ganders is one of those public figures one would not normally suspect of leading a double life. After all, she’s the CEO of a vast humanitarian organization, Happily Ever After Labs (HEAL); no one in their right mind would accept that this kindly widow who devotes herself to providing safe houses and recreational facilities for children who would be worse off is also one of Geiger City’s most ruthless crime bosses - under the clever alias of Mother Goose. While Geiger’s citizenry draw on the services of HEAL, Ganders utilizes her young charges as leverage against her rivals, extorting money and labor to further her criminal foothold.

Chip is forced to confront the Goose after Mara’s niece Patty is briefly relocated, due to a court order, to HEAL’s main safe house and administrative facility, the boot-shaped building a block away from Neptune’s Spire. Ganders is more than ready for him: through her vast resources in technology, she’s developed various mechs to further her reach and tighten her grip on the city and any other concern that would dare move in on her turf -- among these are the “Humpty-Dumptys”, rotund drones with eggshell cockpits designed to contain prisoners or be piloted by crazy old ladies trying to escape arrest; as well as ‘Itsy-Bitsy-Spiders’, tiny mecha-arachnids that spy on rival business entities or operations; and ‘Peter-Peters’, giant pumpkinesque, rotor-propelled orbs that engulf and trap their targets.

KYREL JAVIN

From out of the stars he came -- a wiry, lanky, scaly-skinned, three-eyed horror in super-advanced flight-armor that even the hardiest military scientist would have a hard time reverse-engineering. Stopping on Earth for refueling (read: stealing an entire tanker truck) and a bite to eat (read: the driver), Javin is one of the galaxy’s most ruthless bounty hunters...which is news to the people of Earth, of course, as they’ve never seen a real-life intergalactic bounty hunter in their short, miserable, savagely crude lives. For him, humans are simply cattle, so it comes as something of a shock when these particular cattle turn out to have a super-human wrangler who’s half-fish and can put up a helluva fight to protect the herd in spite of himself.

Javin is not threatened by humans at all, but the presence of Chip intrigues him...the first Earthling capable of taking him hand-to-hand. For a descendant of born warriors whose biggest kick from his job is the thrill of the chase, he sees potential in this world in his own twisted way. Ultimately, however, he is not one to be bested -- he hails from an elite group of planet-patrolling agents called the Wingies -- and it doesn’t matter how impressive a combatant Chip proves to be, no one locks horns with Kyrel Javin and lives. He finds great amusement in anyone’s efforts to try to get the better of him -- unless it’s Chip, for whom he’s all business and ever determined to mount those genetically-fabricated sharkoid jaws on the cabin wall of his ship, the Carrion Bagger.

DEREK TAUER

This scumbag initially passes himself off as a benefactor to Aqua Medlab, a real man’s-man macho-type shark wrangler in the midst of producing his own high-rated real-life ‘would you believe it?’-type adventure TV series. Of course, as many of these ‘adventures’ are genuine, just as many are as legitimate as a $3 bill, and if that ever got out it could potentially ruin his good standing with paying audiences and sponsors. It’s the promise of a sizable paycheck that lures Tauer into offering his services during Aqua Medlab’s conjuring of a man-fish -- but of course, he neglects to mention that he’s also being paid by Aqua Medlab’s chief rival, Lanier Deutzmark, who wants to run Aqua Medlab into the ground by sabotaging the project. He fails.

When Mara’s job, and her freedom, are put on the line after the Neptune board launches an investigation into Chiptooth’s true origins, Chip smells a rat, does a little investigative work - slightly uncharacteristic for him, admittedly - and uncovers the connection between Tauer and Deutzmark. Chip saves the day, but Tauer remains a free man and continues to propagate the public image of being an adventure-seeking celebrity while secretly plotting his own means by which to destroy Chip.

Tauer’s a smug SOB who thinks he’s God’s gift to women, so he's naturally a tad sleazy.