#gavala

Ok so, Dr. Simon Octavius. I based his outfit design off of Alfred Molina’s Doc Ock the most, but I also took inspiration from a few other designs in comics, and from my own universes’ Spider-Man and such.

Here’s his deal: he isn’t a doctor. Not like, a scientist doctor or a medical doctor, but he does have a doctorate. He’s got a doctorate in business and a masters in finance & accounting.

How did he end up being doc ock then?? What?

He was the tax preparer and accountant for a large share in the Osborn-Wilkins Industry. Works for a very expensive and very lucrative accounting firm and is employed through them to represent a very particular branch of the OWI; the Biomedical // Biological Engineering department. He handled all of their paperwork and fundings through their accounts and investments, and was very good at his job.

That is, until he noticed money going missing. Now, usually a sleazy white collar accountant might be willing to overlook certain things, especially in an economy and society with superheroes and villains, but he didn’t. He asked questions, and ended up finding out exactly where the rabbit hole led when he trailed the money that was missing to a large-scale embezzlement operation that a lead developer and researcher had been involved in, the same secret program that was developing the radioactive spider that bit Dorian— was also dabbling in telepathic user-controlled bio-weaponry. When he found this out he attempted to report them for this— only for the program to find out and silence him before he could.

Doc Ock is the result of a seriously flawed “study” they did on their newest “voluntary” test subject: and one and only Simon D. Octavius was implanted with a neural device which used his brainwaves to pilot 4 mechanical arms. The shock his body underwent caused a great deal of issue which lead to the use of radioactive material to further along the process and mutate his genetics to better fit the machinery, causing him to become a mutant much like Dorian (Spider-Man).

At first he had full control, however the mental and physical stress from the abuse and torment he went through under duress from the project and scientists he once worked for caused the system to collapse in on itself a number of times. Before long, it began acting out on the intrusive thoughts Octavius had begun developing, coupled with the AI learning cycle it had been programmed with, leading it to develop its own mind; one that was highly violent, dangerous and volatile. He could not stop them now, and was often at their beck and call, trapped in a cycle of violence.

The arms end up breaking him out quite violently, and the mutations of his body cause him to secrete a venom with similar potency to many octopus venoms, designed to paralyse and trap their victims. He is at the will and mercy of these arms, often half-sedated himself as the arms work.

In many ways, he is a direct parallel to Spider-Man. Since they both have mutations from the same lab-grown psychos, some of their abilities are similar, including the venom which they both utilise (albeit Dorian’s is different in function) The difference being Dorian was able to maintain and control the mutations within himself whereas Simon is battling a machine which reads his mind and acts in a sporadic and unpredictable way.

Eventually, a long-standing rivalry between Spider-Man and doc ock ends when Spider-Man discovers his anti-venom ability is highly effective against the mutations provided by the scientists to Simon, causing a shift and disruption in the compatibility of the arms and his body. While it cannot cure him completely, Dorian was able to flush out his systems entirely with an anti-venom concoction made from simons venom (a skill which he had honed while making his own anti venom to combat his own venom) and by pumping it through his system effectively shut down and paused the arms system entirely, allowing Dorian, a scientist with experience in systems and programming, to dismantle the AI and relinquish control back to Simon completely. With a little work, they were able to take the arms off entirely, leaving only minimal damage and permanent fixtures to his body, while still allowing him to don the arms and become doc ock willingly now; something he utilises for good, as Spider-Man’s right hand and man in the chair.

Spider-Man and doc ock have a very uncle/nephew or father/son style relationship and they’re very dear to me anyways yeah