Gatling Ref

I GIVE YOU... GATLING!!! Refsheet for the OCT It's my first OCT too.

Here we go, hugely long info ahead-- PREPARE YOURSELF.

Name: Gatling (like the gun)
Stage Name: Experiment R
Age: 17 years old, but he's more like 24 in human/experiment years.
Gender: Male
Species: Genetic Experiment
Act/Talent: Gatling has been infected by something known as the Delta Virus, which makes him utterly insane, so he'll ramble about in eloquent speech and he'll frequently quote lines of poetry or recite some of his own. This and his general freakish looks are enough to hold the audience's attention, but he can also juggle with the mouths in the flowers on his head, and he can literally disappear into shadows so only his eyes can show, even if the shadow is something small cast on the floor. From the shadows, Gatling's disjointed speech can resonate throughout the whole area, which is enough to give the audience chills. This way he can also seemingly appear out of nowhere from the shadows and disappear somewhere else.
Abilities: Gatling's abilities include the way he can move about in the shadows, the freakish nature of the mouths inside the flowers on his head, and he can see in the dark/shadows.
Strengths:
-he can disappear/reappear, so he's got the element of surprise most of the time, despite being roughly 10 feet long from nose to tail.
-he can see in the dark quite well
-he's very durable (as most genetic experiments are) meaning he can survive rough damage without long term injuries
-he can easily scare most people
-he's agile and can move quietly
Weaknesses:
-Gatling has no offensive attack to speak of save for his teeth and claws
-he's insane to the point that it's a fault, and will have severe manic episodes at random periods due to the effects of the Delta Virus, being unable to concentrate on his objective
-said Delta Virus also causes Gatling to be in really poor health (his fur will randomly fall out, he'll get wracked with coughing or vomit blood, and he's almost always got a fever. If it weren't for his durability of being a genetic experiment, he would be dead). This picture is of him on one of his good days. He becomes far more sickly and disheveled about twice a month when the major symptoms return for a few days.
-he does not fare well in bright or hot conditions

Personality: Gatling's personality before he went crazy was fairly nice and easy going. Now, however, he has the brain of a madman, although he's almost always insanely euphoric. He'll randomly burst into laughter and talk to himself, too, and he likes talking a lot. He's not really evil, just a lunatic, and he doesn't feel the urge to kill others or anything like that. He's just in a really REALLY good mood. All the time. It's not hard to see why few have felt at ease in his deranged presence, but it's impossible to say he doesn't like you. He probably loves you. As only a crazed genetic experiment can, of course.

EDIT: if Gatling does not feel crazy happy or poetic at the moment, he is in a sort of dazed mood, and he'll seem a bit clueless... hopefully you'll be able to see what I mean in my audition.

History: (...I really tried to make this as feasibly short as I could. Some of this information may be included in the audition, but most of it will not. SO READ )
Scientists created Gatling (known by the humans as Experiment 493-R, shortened in his stage name to Experiment R) in a lab approximately 17 years ago, where he and several other genetic experiments were designed to be used for fighting in the humans' World War III. In order to keep track of the experiments, microchips were embedded in all the experiments. When Gatling and his squadron lost one of their most crucial battles, the government decided to restart the genetic experiment project, but kill all the old experiments, including Gatling. However, in the middle of the round up, one experiment named August (she's a small greenish blue cat with huge ears) discovered she was resistant to the lethal injection that the scientists gave the experiments to kill them. She used this opportunity to attack the humans, and many other experiments used the diversion to object against the humans in a mass retaliation that the scientists and soldiers were unable to contain. Hundreds of experiments died, and only a small handful survived, but those managed to escape into the ruins of the war-ravaged cities and forests. Most of the experiments tore out their microchips, like August, but others such as Gatling chose to keep it in to serve as a reminder of their past lives. The humans had more important things to do than to track down a few rogue creations in practically uninhabitable lands.
The majority of the remaining experiments split up and lived their separate lives, but Gatling and August decided to stay together. This lifestyle worked out pretty well for about a year-- until the Delta Virus came.
The Delta Virus was a virus created by a computer hacker from the opposing side of the World War III, who managed to hack into the government database and transmit a virus to over 50 percent of the microchips embedded in the experiments and the soldiers. The microchips had served a purpose of equipping human soldiers with virtually limitless amounts of information regarding the war, and these were once praised with their ingenuity. However, the Delta Virus ravaged through half of the micro-chipped human soldiers, killing all those who were not born with some sort of genetic resistance within a matter of weeks. However, there have been no more Delta Virus attacks since then, and the virus is not contaigious.
Experiments with the Delta Virus first suffered from thirst, itching, and a mild fever, but it soon developed to full-blown symptoms such as hair loss, sores, vomiting, seizures, internal damage, and a mass of other symptoms. Approximately half of the infected experiments died within the first month. Those that survived the symptoms, however, suffered from a state of insanity and dementia, as is Gatling's case to this day, with massive mood swings and schizophrenia.
In a furious state of frenzied anger, Gatling had tore out his microchip, complaining that it itched under his skin. However, he tore open such a big hole on his back that he passed out from blood loss. When he woke in his deranged state, he found that his companion August had bandaged his wounds, but being confused and in an unstable mental state, Gatling attacked and killed August.
Rather than realizing the magnitude of what he had done, Gatling laughed, and told the dead body to stop staring at him.
Since then, he hardly ever shows the mental symptoms of anger and fury, but rather does everything with a smile on his face or a sort of delusioned cluelessness. He can, however, remember the day he killed August with a feeling of dread and discomfort.
He now wanders around without meaning, looking for some way to spend his life.
Likes:
-Poetry and songs. He will make them up or quote ones all the time.
-Whistling is fun too.
-Scaring people and speaking in his whispery, disjointed voice
-Drinking liquids-- just about any liquid will do, even blood. He can't stomach solid foods particularly well, but he feels he can't be bothered enough by having to chew anyway.
Dislikes:
-Mentions of August. Even if someone just says the month. This is the only thing that will cause him to show intense anger.
-People who drone on about courage, glory, valor, or the importance of life. He doesn't see much of a value in any of these things, and they really get on his nerves (This may make him get snappy, but nothing like the anger mentioned above).
-Light or hot conditions (he will avoid deserts)
-The sound of a gunshot always makes him jittery from his past fighting in war.
Other:
-His tongue is long, thin, and blue.
-He's almost always smiling and unrestrainedly euphoric, or he'll be unreasonably furious.
-If Gatling loses one of the flowers on his head (like if it gets chopped off or something) he can regenerate it fairly easily. Sometime's he'll rip them off just because.
-His blood has a toxic appearance as a result of the Delta Virus.
-The black parts in his eyes are his pupils! (he's got three in each eye woohoo!) so they can expand and contract and all that just like pupils do.
-He's got ears, but they fold down and are hidden underneath his hair. Sometimes he'll raise one up if he hears something. (...I should've drawn him doing that -_- )
-HE'S POSTIVIELY INSANE.


There ya go! Sorry for the novel-ness. I can edit it.
Gatling © Me
Tapestry of Horror © ~Songdog-StrayFang
Textures from a brush from *redheadstock