Snake Doctor ♂

Sure, Victor made plenty of questionable choices throughout the game, but in this case, people are missing one key detail: there are security cameras installed all over the clinic, and Victor has direct access to them right from his visor. This is clearly demonstrated to us the moment Leon arrives at Rhodes Hill.

He keeps an eye on Grace through the cameras the exact same way, sees that she can hold her own, and therefore doesn't intervene. But there was one instance early on when Grace couldn't handle it – the Girl grabbed her, slammed her against a radiator, and dragged her into the dark. And at that exact moment, when Grace was in real danger, Victor was already rushing to her rescue. But Leon beat him to it.

If you recall the cutscene, Victor was standing right in that same hallway, staring at Marie's shot-up head. He was just a second too late. If Leon had been delayed even slightly, Gideon himself would have been the one rescuing Grace from the monster. Which actually sounds pretty fascinating.

I promised a while back I would do HC's for Victor for @gideonsexperiment ... So here it is!

GIF BELONGS TO alexwlwesker

Canonical shirtless Gideon from the game files. Please welcome him with open arms.

Fandom draws Victor as fat.

Meanwhile Victor:

I want to run my nails down that back.

I also discovered that his hair is extremely thin at the crown of his head.

His wing has extra joints, allowing it to open much wider. I wonder how much more varied his moveset could have been during combat? Perhaps Victor could have used it as a shield, similar to the enemies in RE6.

Comparison of his height with Tyrant. Two wardrobes. Place your bets, who's knocking down whom?

Now I understand why this render has been floating around the web looking like this. It’s a horrific mess of meshes. I separated them all, and here is what I got:

There's an attack and jump-back animation here.

He's definitely enjoying the process

Vik the breakdancer.

Lizard

Honestly, this version of his final form looks weird. It's some kind of mixture of reptile and insect. He has segmented limbs, similar to the legs of a praying mantis, and fly wings stick out from his neck (remember the fly with a skull on his ring?)

There's also some kind of tumor growing out of his head.

Instead of a right arm, he has an appendage resembling a feathered wing (I'll make a separate post about this detail analyzing the biblical references in RE9).

It looks like a very early model, possibly even predating Victor's tentacle-arm model. Because, as you can see, his left arm is still there. Does this mean that in the original script, Victor didn’t lose his left arm, and the motorcycle chase didn’t exist at all? How different could the early version of the game have been from what we ultimately got? Every time I think about it, I feel sick.

There is also a piece of clothing on his left arm, but the fabric texture looks more like a lab coat than his snakeskin trench coat.

The scar on his stomach has turned into a toothy tear... and what are those two appendages between his legs? They look like chelicerae, but we all know what you're thinking right now. A male counterpart to vagina dentata? Is double-barrel Victor canon?

Comparing his size to Leon. With dimensions like these, I feel like this should have been his final form – as in, without mutating into a Nemesis.