Character Summary: Zero (Patient Zero)

Backstory: Zero was once an assistant to the Professor, helping him in the early stages of his experiments, primarily working with animals. However, as the Professor’s obsession with experimenting on living beings grew, Zero became his first human subject. The Professor began using Zero as a test subject for his extreme medical alterations, starting with simple body modifications, which eventually evolved into grotesque experiments with metal, tubes, and bodily augmentation.

The elongated stomach was the first major alteration: to keep Zero alive through machines, his organs were connected to tubes, and plexiglass panels were installed to monitor the effects. This made his upper body appear unnaturally long. To add further shock value, the Professor made a large crack in the glass, from which tubes and sometimes blood leaked. The entire system was meant to keep him alive, but at the cost of his humanity.

The second, more disturbing change was the long arm. The Professor tested his theories on metal body parts by stretching one of Zero’s arms far beyond its natural length, replacing it with metal segments. The arm now drags behind him like a grotesque appendage, causing him to move slowly and unevenly. The two different hands attached to the forearm are a symbol of the cruel experiment, stitched together with thick, visible scars.

Additionally, a tube was installed in Zero’s mouth, as his stomach was no longer functional in its original form. He could no longer eat normally, and the tube became an unnerving feature of his grotesque transformation.