Post by Monster Master on Jul 7, 2008 3:06:58 GMT -5
I'm actually not a fan of giant snakes. Don't get me wrong, snakes kick ass, but they're hardly ever given justice and most kaiju-versions are either lame or highly cool, and the line between lame and cool is very fine in the kaiju world. I had no intentions of doing snake kaiju for a while, and the previous attempts at doing so evolved into Mucus (the giant armored worm) and Dunkleoder (the Dunkleosteus-Eel hybrid). I'm not sure why I finally broke, but I just finished up the touches on what I named Stryker. Inspired by, mainly, the Rattlesnake, Cobra, and Python, I'm hoping he'll remain one of the better kaiju snakes.
Also, excuse the short history on this boy. Considering he's a new, freshly-made kaiju, and a member of Neo-Generation, he hasn't seen any action in my stories yet and I don't like to give out spoilers for Kaiju Origin Tales 2 or whatever else he'll show up in. And... Here he is.
Name: Stryker
Length: 300 meters
Mass: 68,000 tons
Description: Stryker, at basis, is a snake of massive size. He is, quite literally, a massive serpentine chimera composed of the best parts of multiple snakes. Starting from the front, Stryker's head is much like that of a Rattlesnake’s. The inside of its maw, however, is much different.
The jaws are a combination of a Python's, Cobra's, and a Rattlesnake's. When opened, a pair of retractable rattlesnake fangs can extend to inject venom. However, resting between the fangs are two more fangs like that of a cobra's. These fangs are straighter and do not curve, and unlike the other set, can't retract and are exposed when ever it opens its mouth. In order to fit in Stryker's mouth with the other set, the fangs are slightly closer together when compared to a normal cobra's.
Another major difference in its jaws are the fact that both the top and bottom jaws are laced with backward-facing, dagger-like teeth. These teeth act much like a python's and, when eating prey, pull prey into its body at great speeds. Having these jaws and the bone structure of a python allows it to spread its jaws almost three times the width of its head, allowing him to eat most kaiju without much problem.
The head of Stryker is surrounded with an unfolding neck flap that cobra's are equipped with. The pattern of the flap looks much like an Egyptian Cobra's, but is much darker to go with the rest of its body. On the back of the flap, resting on the body, is a round red and white-colored mark.
For the rest of the body, Stryker's build is extremely thick and powerful, much like an anaconda or python. This is simply to crush prey that may be immune to its toxins. This does not mean, however, that he is slow. Stryker's body is covered in rattlesnake-like-shaped scales. The scales on his underbelly are all attached to very powerful muscles that can literally lift the scales up and stab them into the ground and then pull. This allows Stryker, despite its python-like body, to move at very high speeds like its smaller brothers. Likewise, if the situation calls for it, these scales can be stabbed into the ground at an angle, allowing it to move like a sidewinder. This all, coupled with the normal ways snakes move, make him a lethal foe to try and run from.
Moving down, Stryker's tail ends in that of a rattlesnake rattle. Colors wise, Stryker has the ability to change his color in any environment. Normally, when not needed, Stryker is a dark black with diamond-shaped patterns of gray and white running along its backs.
Attacks:
- Hemotoxic Venom: Injected through its extendable rattlesnake fangs, Stryker can pump his prey full of hemotoxic venom much like its smaller rattlesnake brothers. This venom destroys red blood cells (that is, cause hemolysis), disrupt blood clotting, and cause organ degeneration and generalized tissue damage. Enough bites of the same area can cause very nasty tissue degeneration that not even the toughest regeneration can handle.
- Neurotoxic Venom: From his cobra-like fangs, Stryker injects a lethal neurotoxic venom. Like cobras, Stryker will repeatedly bite a victim to inject as much of this venom as possible. In a nut shell, this venom shuts down the nervous system of its prey. Most kaiju feature a strong enough immune system to fend off the first few bites with only feeling some of the damage, but the more bites Stryker does and uses this venom, the more lethal it will get. Also, like the spitting cobra, Stryker can pump out streams of this venom from its twin fangs. Often aiming for the eyes, this can blind his foes and add to the build up of toxin as it enters the blood stream through the eyes.
- Constriction: Like Anacondas and Pythons, Stryker can also act as a very powerful constrictor. Its entire body is composed of nothing but muscle. Its unknown how strong the snake is at constricting, but its strength would be able to crush both M.O.G.U.E.R.A and Super MechaGodzilla into one given the chance he could coil around them both at once.
Powers:
- Scales: Stryker's scales aren't the strongest form of armor, but are heavily resistant to explosive force and edge-based attacks such as claw swipes. The most unique ability that he holds is the ability to change his scales' colors to match that of the environment much like a chameleon does.
- Heat Sensors: The massive snake has two heat sensors on its head that allow it to strike at body heat. Not only does this allow him to see through smoke, but he has also been trained to see through solid objects for up to 25 yards thick and differentiate between non-living heat signatures and live ones.
- Detection: Besides its heat sensors, Stryker is also equipped with the three tools most snakes use when hunting or detecting enemies. The first is his keen eyesight that switches to night vision at night and also have binocular vision that allows it to see many, many miles into the distance. The second is its sense of smell, that, like all snakes, is used with his ever-flickering tongue. His third form of detection is more for defense than offense, and that's his vibration detection. His scales on his underbody are extremely keen at picking up vibrations that warn him of large, approaching creatures and even monsters beneath the ground.
- Locomotion: Stryker, being a snake chimera, comes with all sorts of locomotion capabilities. As mentioned in his description, its scales on its underbelly, specifically in its mid-section, will partially lift up from the body and stab into the ground and pull back in at an angle. This allows the snake to move at incredible speeds when combined with its normal locomotion that all snakes have. Other ways he moves is side winding, much like the desert snakes, and even swimming. However, Stryker is far from a adept swimming like Dunkleoder, but he can move through water undetected for some time.
- Jaws: Like all snakes, Stryker's jaws can unlatch and open wide at thought-to-be-impossible widths. In essence, his jaws can become wide enough to feed on Heisei Godzilla with little trouble.
History: After two failed attempts at making a fourth Bio-Weapon, the U.E.D.F tried it a third time. Unlike Cell and Syntrox, the snake-based Stryker was a success. It had all the characters of the best snakes in the world and then some, but then it went nuts for whatever reasons. The creature broke free from a Colorado-based complex and soon threatened the Western cities. Suchodon and Plague were pitted against the snake, but neither was prepared to deal with such a creature that was easily the perfect predator on Earth. As Plague laid near death from a combination of neurotoxic and hemotoxic venom, a familiar creature rose up to fight it, Chisim.
...... Megarelia, eat your heart out. Depending if I can get any responses, I may also post some other future kaiju here I've been toying with entire a unique Mantis Shrimp-Centipede and Dung Beetle.
Also, excuse the short history on this boy. Considering he's a new, freshly-made kaiju, and a member of Neo-Generation, he hasn't seen any action in my stories yet and I don't like to give out spoilers for Kaiju Origin Tales 2 or whatever else he'll show up in. And... Here he is.
Name: Stryker
Length: 300 meters
Mass: 68,000 tons
Description: Stryker, at basis, is a snake of massive size. He is, quite literally, a massive serpentine chimera composed of the best parts of multiple snakes. Starting from the front, Stryker's head is much like that of a Rattlesnake’s. The inside of its maw, however, is much different.
The jaws are a combination of a Python's, Cobra's, and a Rattlesnake's. When opened, a pair of retractable rattlesnake fangs can extend to inject venom. However, resting between the fangs are two more fangs like that of a cobra's. These fangs are straighter and do not curve, and unlike the other set, can't retract and are exposed when ever it opens its mouth. In order to fit in Stryker's mouth with the other set, the fangs are slightly closer together when compared to a normal cobra's.
Another major difference in its jaws are the fact that both the top and bottom jaws are laced with backward-facing, dagger-like teeth. These teeth act much like a python's and, when eating prey, pull prey into its body at great speeds. Having these jaws and the bone structure of a python allows it to spread its jaws almost three times the width of its head, allowing him to eat most kaiju without much problem.
The head of Stryker is surrounded with an unfolding neck flap that cobra's are equipped with. The pattern of the flap looks much like an Egyptian Cobra's, but is much darker to go with the rest of its body. On the back of the flap, resting on the body, is a round red and white-colored mark.
For the rest of the body, Stryker's build is extremely thick and powerful, much like an anaconda or python. This is simply to crush prey that may be immune to its toxins. This does not mean, however, that he is slow. Stryker's body is covered in rattlesnake-like-shaped scales. The scales on his underbelly are all attached to very powerful muscles that can literally lift the scales up and stab them into the ground and then pull. This allows Stryker, despite its python-like body, to move at very high speeds like its smaller brothers. Likewise, if the situation calls for it, these scales can be stabbed into the ground at an angle, allowing it to move like a sidewinder. This all, coupled with the normal ways snakes move, make him a lethal foe to try and run from.
Moving down, Stryker's tail ends in that of a rattlesnake rattle. Colors wise, Stryker has the ability to change his color in any environment. Normally, when not needed, Stryker is a dark black with diamond-shaped patterns of gray and white running along its backs.
Attacks:
- Hemotoxic Venom: Injected through its extendable rattlesnake fangs, Stryker can pump his prey full of hemotoxic venom much like its smaller rattlesnake brothers. This venom destroys red blood cells (that is, cause hemolysis), disrupt blood clotting, and cause organ degeneration and generalized tissue damage. Enough bites of the same area can cause very nasty tissue degeneration that not even the toughest regeneration can handle.
- Neurotoxic Venom: From his cobra-like fangs, Stryker injects a lethal neurotoxic venom. Like cobras, Stryker will repeatedly bite a victim to inject as much of this venom as possible. In a nut shell, this venom shuts down the nervous system of its prey. Most kaiju feature a strong enough immune system to fend off the first few bites with only feeling some of the damage, but the more bites Stryker does and uses this venom, the more lethal it will get. Also, like the spitting cobra, Stryker can pump out streams of this venom from its twin fangs. Often aiming for the eyes, this can blind his foes and add to the build up of toxin as it enters the blood stream through the eyes.
- Constriction: Like Anacondas and Pythons, Stryker can also act as a very powerful constrictor. Its entire body is composed of nothing but muscle. Its unknown how strong the snake is at constricting, but its strength would be able to crush both M.O.G.U.E.R.A and Super MechaGodzilla into one given the chance he could coil around them both at once.
Powers:
- Scales: Stryker's scales aren't the strongest form of armor, but are heavily resistant to explosive force and edge-based attacks such as claw swipes. The most unique ability that he holds is the ability to change his scales' colors to match that of the environment much like a chameleon does.
- Heat Sensors: The massive snake has two heat sensors on its head that allow it to strike at body heat. Not only does this allow him to see through smoke, but he has also been trained to see through solid objects for up to 25 yards thick and differentiate between non-living heat signatures and live ones.
- Detection: Besides its heat sensors, Stryker is also equipped with the three tools most snakes use when hunting or detecting enemies. The first is his keen eyesight that switches to night vision at night and also have binocular vision that allows it to see many, many miles into the distance. The second is its sense of smell, that, like all snakes, is used with his ever-flickering tongue. His third form of detection is more for defense than offense, and that's his vibration detection. His scales on his underbody are extremely keen at picking up vibrations that warn him of large, approaching creatures and even monsters beneath the ground.
- Locomotion: Stryker, being a snake chimera, comes with all sorts of locomotion capabilities. As mentioned in his description, its scales on its underbelly, specifically in its mid-section, will partially lift up from the body and stab into the ground and pull back in at an angle. This allows the snake to move at incredible speeds when combined with its normal locomotion that all snakes have. Other ways he moves is side winding, much like the desert snakes, and even swimming. However, Stryker is far from a adept swimming like Dunkleoder, but he can move through water undetected for some time.
- Jaws: Like all snakes, Stryker's jaws can unlatch and open wide at thought-to-be-impossible widths. In essence, his jaws can become wide enough to feed on Heisei Godzilla with little trouble.
History: After two failed attempts at making a fourth Bio-Weapon, the U.E.D.F tried it a third time. Unlike Cell and Syntrox, the snake-based Stryker was a success. It had all the characters of the best snakes in the world and then some, but then it went nuts for whatever reasons. The creature broke free from a Colorado-based complex and soon threatened the Western cities. Suchodon and Plague were pitted against the snake, but neither was prepared to deal with such a creature that was easily the perfect predator on Earth. As Plague laid near death from a combination of neurotoxic and hemotoxic venom, a familiar creature rose up to fight it, Chisim.
...... Megarelia, eat your heart out. Depending if I can get any responses, I may also post some other future kaiju here I've been toying with entire a unique Mantis Shrimp-Centipede and Dung Beetle.
