Strangely, even given that episode of Batman TAS with the giant flytrap and the worm-jaw vines, I’m somewhat turned on by Poison Ivy. Go figure. A girl I used to work with, who is in part the inspiration for the Faith Heller character, once drew a picture of the Little Shop plant and left it for me to find. Of course it freaked me out, but I kind of appreciated the joke.
As anyone who’s seen George A. Romero’s Land Of the Dead can tell you, zombies (and other things that go bump in the night) are scary enough by themselves. But when they learn to use automatic weapons…. So I came up with the Bound Gunner, a badass Gatling gun-wielding host for the Plague.
The Gunner
I considered having an AK clip sprouting from his arm but it didn’t feel right, so I elected for something I think looks much cooler. Gatling guns are belt-fed, so I put a mouth on the side of his gun arm for the bullet-belt to feed through (pun intended).
In terms of powers, he’s a Decay-maker. When the bullets pass through his arm into the gun, they are loaded with Plague, and anyone hit by his bullet(s) turns into one of the Decay (zombie-like, but not vulnerable to headshots–only fire can kill them). The Gunner’s parasite gives him limited psychic control over nearby Decay as well, making him a tactical leader of sorts.
Hope you enjoy this one.
