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//Welcome to Resident Evil verse, Eddie Gluskin. Instead of Murkoff, he was brought to Umbrella co. Where they found out that Eddie bonded with the T-virus.

What is scarier than the groom? A tyrant groom. Art done by @alitan99

We know bioweapons aren't cheap. They're tools of war primarily utilized for terrorism on a mass scale. The original T-Virus is good at what it does because it forces your target to focus on damage control by splitting the enemy forces. If they don't take care of it in time, their own forces will be demolished from infection both swiftly and easily since the initial symptoms resemble other diseases and infections for a while. Your minions don't necessarily have to deal with the aftermath unless they're stupid. Put some infected rats or contaminated water in the enemy camp, and you're good to go.

The C-virus possesses almost all the benefits of the T-virus. The only downside is the incubation period being very visibly obvious with the cocoons and hatching. The delay time can be used to dispose of infected before they cause harm. However, the fact that certain mutations can spread the virus from their own body's aerosal holes is a big bonus. If no bodily contact has to be made in order for infection to take hold, the con of the cocoon delay time is balanced out by the pro of infecting everyone in it's radius with a spritz of blue virus air. You do have to be more careful in that your own forces don't cross paths with infected because of the airborne transmission, but you don't have to work hard. Just work smart to make it happen.

The G-virus is powerful, but it's extremely case specific. Yes, the host of the virus can make dozens of little parasites that attack people, but it goes straight to murdering the next possible host. The only way to successfully infect others and have them enacting the same action to infect more people is if the host infects family members. If you want a bunch of Birkins walking around you have to either infect different people with the original strain, or hope they're all blood related siblings, children, parents, or cousins. Not great for gradual or immediate mass scale infection, but is perfect for eliminating a bloodline at a family party or reunion.

The A-virus is almost perfect. It can be spread through water and saliva like the T-virus, through air like the C-virus, and can be administered via injection. The virus incubation period is faster than T and C regardless of how the host gets infected. The infected can be controlled and commanded. An area of infected can be cleared for any reason whether that be for your own soldiers to get through along with your curing any of your own infected grunts or after your demands are met via the airborne distribution of a cure. The primary defects only come with it's activation, and it's that the function of the virus as a sleeper agent can activate on it's own. Had Arius had more time, money, and less mania to perfect this strain, this would be the most dangerous virus on the market.

The Veronica virus is high risk high reward. The body of the host has to be kept in stasis for over a decade. That is time and money used to preserve the body and move them if their location is discovered for any reason. If the host is not kept in stasis, that is time and money spent on human trafficking to replace any failing organs as the host goes through their life getting constant surgeries in order to survive it's incubation period. The reward? Super powers. Either way, this is a rich man's pet project and not one for an off the ground militia force spurred from the common people.

T-Abyss virus again has all the same benefits of the original T-virus strain. However, it's environmental impact is so damaging that the risks outweigh the rewards significantly. Once you infect the water of the ocean, any ocean, there is no control over how far it spreads or how fast it spreads. Using this virus for terror attacks is the equivalent of shooting your enemy and then shooting yourself in the same spot. The infection was set to spread through plankton. Plankton! A city can be bombed. An oil spill can be cleaned. There are too many animals in the ocean that eat plankton for this virus to be controlled, and once you lose control of the virus you're terrorizing with, you become a victim of your own making. But similar to owning a hundred nukes, this is a very serious threat to hold over people.

The quality of T-Phobos is hard to measure. The activity and function of this virus is viewed within a tightly controlled environment. The incubation period depends on the levels of the infected person's stress which means the chemicals that create stress is what the virus needs in order to activate. Due to there being no earlier symptoms like with the T-virus, this does mean a person can be infected for days without knowing until the virus takes hold. However, that also means there's a wide window of time that can be used to get rid of the infection. The success of this virus completely depends on the level of awareness a host has about their own body, and the scenarios they're placed in post-infection.

Uroboros is probably how T-phobos would behave if released into an open environment. Although the purpose for both were the same, create a super soldier by seeing who can make antibodies to the infection thereby gaining all the benefits and few if none of the consequences, this virus doesn't have the wide window of time that can be used to get cured. If anything, this is a better T-virus. It's effects are immediate with mutating the host and growing the body in size significantly with said mutation. The body model of excess tendrils means more hands to latch onto more people. Despite it's obvious weak point, it has an unnatural flexibility and speed meaning it can be a challenge to kill it. It's primary weakness is too much heat, specifically concentrated fire or lava/magma. So unless your enemies have an excess of bombs and flame throwers, there's going to be a lot of carnage before it's taken out. And that's something that can be planned around with the right mole.

Although the Plaga, all three types, isn't a virus, I will briefly touch on it. This is another high risk high reward method. You can attain an undead army at the cost of infecting yourself in order to control them. How much of your own humanity are you willing to sacrifice? How important is your cause that you would turn your comrades or subordinates into shells of themselves in order to attain your goals? How many of your own are you willing to put in the line of fire in order to get to the finish line, and how comfortable are you knowing that when they die that you were the one pulling their strings from start to end? So yeah, think about it.

And finally there's Dylan's stupid T-virus variant that I'm sure was a wholly defective product they were trying to get rid of when he bought it. It doesn't spread through saliva, water, or the air. It has to be injected into each individual. The virus incubation time is completely inconsistent and unpredictable, because there are people who turn instantly, and there are people who can get pricked and not see any symptoms for hours. And then there are people who immediately see symptoms after getting infected but the process for complete infection is a complete drag. The virus is made to gestate inside containers INSIDE the stomachs of lickers which have to be kept in tanks of ocean water likely with tightly controlled temperatures. There are individual mosquito sized drones made to deliver these viruses to specific people, but the only land testing these drones have had is inside a building. There is no testing the durability of these tiny drones under extreme heat, under extreme cold, under strong winds. What about sand? What about dirt? If these things start in liquid, how lubricated do their parts have to be in order to maintain flight to get to places as far as any European or African country from FUCKING CALIFORNIA. And even if they somehow make it to their target that is thousands of miles away, it only infects one person. A person who can only kill and cannot infect anyone else around them. This will be written off as mass hysteria at it's strongest and random mania of one rando at it's weakest.

Zombies are walking on mutagens. These green puddles are no longer dangerous for them. Even green rivers are no longer dangerous. Some kind of mutational liquid is bubbling there. A whole soup of viruses. In the form of a stable puddle and river. Everything is bubbling. Rings move through the water. And bubbles jump up.

Any Resident Evil fans in the house? ☣️🧬

These are the latest versions of the biotech virus samples I’ve been designing for Mutation Station. I gave them a more original containment-lab look while steering away from direct franchise designs, especially for Etsy.

Still, I had to start with the classics:

T and G. 😈

Resident Evil 1 and 2 on the original PlayStation were absolute legends and a huge inspiration growing up. Between the creatures, the atmosphere, the lab experiments, and the gloriously over-the-top biotech horror, those games permanently altered my brain chemistry. 🤣

More specimens, parasites, containment tubes, and engineered horrors are already in development…

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