{"sf1_id":887505,"sf2_id":null,"title":"The Gremlin (Biography)","author":"Volcan MacAingeal","words":719,"posted_at":"2015-07-17T18:42:00.000Z","tags":["Vandal","beast","enigmatic","gremlin"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/887505-the-gremlin-biography","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/887505","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=887505\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"\nThe Gremlin\nOther\nalias: None\nSecret\nIdentity: None\nOccupation:\nSupervillain, Vandal\nAge:\nUnknown\nGender:\nMale\nHeight:\n6'6 (standing straight, otherwise usually stands hunch over at 6'4)\nWeight:\n359lbs\nAppearance:\nLarge, hairy creature with angular face, long pointed ears and slit-pupil\nyellow eyes, almost cat-like in appearance. Possesses thick arms\ndisproportionately long for his size, with a mouthful of pointed teeth. Has\ndisproportionately long arms ended with large hands, each finger tipped by a\nlong clawed nail that he uses to climb buildings, he has thick, powerful legs,\nand two feet with each toe ending in another clawed nail. Wears no clothing;\nfur is brown with no patterns, and is often matted and bristled.\nPowers\nand abilities:\n   -Herculean Strength\n     -Has punched through metal walls, torn off\nthe hoods or roofs of cars, and even tore his way through an armoured car.\n   -Acute night vision\n   -Able to leap great distances or survive\ndrops from high rises without injury.\n   -Can run up to 75 km per hour on all fours.\n   -Can spit a foul-smelling wad of mucus at\nopponents; although this is not harmful, the stench left by the spit can be\noverpowering to those with sensitive noses.\n   -Multiplication\n     -When his fur gets completely wet the Gremlin\ncan multiply himself to as many as ten the depending on how long he stays in\nthe water. Each clone has all of his strength and abilities, but also share\nweaknesses. \nWeakness(es):\n   -Unintelligent\n   -Emits a putrid smell that makes him very\neasy to track\n   -Side effects of his ability to multiply.\n     -High fatigue factor: the more times he\nclones himself, the more tired he becomes, and can eventually collapse from\nexhaustion.\n     -Limited lifetime: instability in the\nclones leaves them only able to stay whole for only ten minutes, though if they\nare knocked out they break down immediately, indicating a fault in the\nGremlin's ability to multiply.\n   -Pressure points at the temples: discovered\nby Warp, The Gremlin possesses pressure points below each ear that, if struck\nwith enough force causes him to black out. However the points are very narrow;\nhitting outside of them will only make him angry.\n            Information:\n            The first of all monsters Warp ever\ndid battle with, The Gremlin is notorious for his love of destroying machinery;\ncars, turbines, the motors of a boat, or most infamously, elevators; Warp's\nvery first encounter with The Gremlin was the attack on the CN Tower, where the\nGremlin wrecked the motors for lowering the elevator, causing it to be left\ntrapped inside the shaft with passengers on board.\n            Though known mostly for his\ndestructive nature, it has also been shown the Gremlin has a voracious\nappetite, breaking into restaurants to raid their refrigerators; he will eat up\nto double his own weight in food in a single night, and his acts of destruction\nand jumping across buildings only makes him hungrier. Although his sharp teeth\nwould indicate he is carnivorous, he'll eat virtually anything, and seems to be\nespecially drawn to the smell of freshly baked bread; when he smells it, he\nzeroes in on the smell and he heads for it like a lure.\n            Beyond this, though, very little is\nknown about The Gremlin himself; his only real M.O is the destruction of any\nmachinery he sees, wrecking and sabotaging it as the creature of folklore he\nresembles is known for. However, he is more than twelve times as large as an\nordinary Gremlin as seen in fiction. How he came to be so large is not yet known,\nbut it was analyzed by Akechi Akio that he had highly mutated DNA, indicating\nthat his growth is not a natural occurrence. In further contrast to his\nspecies, he's much more aggressive than a normal Gremlin; destructive as they\nmay be, they're known to prefer staying out of sight of fursons, but this one\noperates out in the open -not always in plain sight, but he is not afraid of\nbeing seen.\n            Though not considered to be much of\na threat to people, his strength and massive claws can still make it fatal if\none were to underestimate him and make him angry. He will strike back at anyone\nwho tries to get in his way.\n"}