some WIP character designs for the storyline surrounding the Elizabeth Arkham Memorial State Hospital within my DC Alt Universe
Tatsu “The Huntress” Yamashiro
A prime asset for the “Task Force X” initiative within the Agency, Daughter of a Yakuza lieutenant who was murdered in a power struggle in post-occupation Japan. She witnessed her father’s death and her mother’s suicide, then was shipped to live with a distant relative in Los Puertos, California, in the early 1950s. She learned kenjutsu from her Uncle Fujiwara and became a sword-for-hire in the Bay Area’s criminal underworld before the Agency recruited her in 1960. She carries her family’s ancestral blade, claiming it “holds the souls of those it kills,” but whether she believes this literally or metaphorically is unclear.
Mark “Blockbuster” Desmond
A prime asset for the “Task Force X” initiative within the Agency, Mark was a longshoreman from Gotham’s docks who got involved in union organizing in the late 1950s. When the unions started making real progress, LuthorCorp needed to break them. They framed Desmond for a murder he didn’t commit, then offered him a choice: life in prison, or participate in a “rehabilitation program.”
The program was hormone therapy and experimental augmentation, derived from Project Ultra-Humanite research. Desmond underwent severe limb-extension gaining and chemical conditioning, gained immense strength and durability, but in the process damaging his cognition. He’s not stupid, but he’s suggestible, following orders without questioning them while not seeming to retain long-term memories well.
The Tweed Twins (Deaver & Dumphrey)
Horrifically conjoined at birth due to a chemical exposure leaking from Ace Chemical Plant in Gotham, New Jersey, the twins would grow up to find work within Jervis Tetch’s drug and child trafficking scheme in Gotham before the discovery of their incestous relationship having spawned from childhood trauma landed them in Arkham Hospital in 1949. Dr. von Strange favors the twins as a “personal security guard.”
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