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[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Abraham Sapien
FANDOM: Hellboy/BPRD/Mike Mignola-verse
CHRONOLOGY: After getting possibly killed.
CLASS: Hero
SUPERHERO NAME: Abe
ALTER EGO: Abraham Sapien, he might try out for the police or something, since the bureau doesn't ez
BACKGROUND:
The world of Hellboy is just like ours except supernatural shit happens. Ghosts, demons, frog creatures that bring about the end of the world, you get the idea. In this world there is a sort-of government-sponsored organizzation called the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense aka the BPRD. And in the BPRD is a little fishman named Abraham Sapien.
In the beginning... well. We don't actually know what happened. So I'll start off when he was found in a tube. In the basement of St. Trinia's Hospital. Chilling. He was discovered by some plumbers, and taken into BPRD custody. Found nameless, the BPRD named him Abraham due to the date found inscribed on his tube: April 14th, 1865. The day Abraham Lincoln died.
For a few days after that, Abe was put in a lab and experimented on. The comic hintss at the use of shock and other endurance tests that were pretty much like torture to Abe. But then his future-best-bro Hellboy made the scientists feel bad and rescued him. And they were bffs ever since. Also this was in 1979.
Fast forward to a few years later and Abe is still relatively new to the Bureau. He's met everyone, sure, but he's never been sent on any solo missions or anything. He's been out in the field with Hellboy, but those were never really explored in the comics. The earliest mision we have of his is in 1981 where the Bureau heads reluctantly sent him to the island of Saint Sebastian, off the coast of France. The island was once a leper colony and so of course it's got some messed up supernatural shit going down there. Abe was sent there to retrieve the Lipu Dagger, a special weapon specifically made to kill demons. Oh he's also sent to go retrieve the body of some evil warlock that's laying underwater somewhere nearby.
So yeah, he goes with like two other agents who end up dying because of course something bad happens. It just so happens that these weird zombie-looking things come up out of the ocean and storm into the town killing everyone and eating their souls. Which are shaped like butterflies for some random reason. It's weird. Anyway, on the island: EVERYONE'S DEAD. Luckily, Abe was underwater getting tentacled by an octopus so when he resurfaces he's all confused and shit. And then starts hallucinating. His hallucinations are pretty much just Hellboy telling him he sucks and will fail and yaddayadda. Which Hellboy would never do. So it's basically Abe's Bad Thoughts taking shape and talking at him the entire time. Eventually he tells them to shut up and storms off to go fight the bad guys. Which he does! He gets chased around by a monster for a bit before coming across this witch lady who is like "hey i'm going to be captain exposition now" and explains that... Well she doesn't explain much. Mostly that the things are trying to pull the Lipu Dagger out from Evil Warlock Chan's body and unleash A HORRIBLE EEEEVIL onto the world. Abe is like "okayyyy..." and then she's all "now take my hand and do this creepy chant thing while giant crows try to kill you" and he's all "mmkay sure." So he does this weird ritual thing and then heads to the church where the weird things have just taken the dagger out of Evil Warlock Chan's body. But before Abe sees that he sees this giant floating winged jellyfish god. Who is probably the god of the sea. But we don't know for sure. Anyway he shows up a lot so that's important.
ANYWAY, the daggers out and Evil Warlock Chan grows tentacles and acts all threatening and shit and then the witch comes back and stops him with powers given to her from the freaky ritual earlier. So with that Evil Warlock Chan is stopped and the day is saved!
So after that his next major mission is in 1993. He's paired up with his BFF Hellboy and other BFF Liz Sherman, who has fire powers. Together they go to investigate a large house called Cavendish Hall to investigate the possible cause for the death of Hellboy's father figure, Professor Bruttenholm. So Abe goes with his two buds to figure out what's going on here, because Bruttenholm was killed by this weird giant frog demon thing and that's just wrong. And it turns out this shit didn't happen until Bruttenholm got back from an expedition to this mysterious place at "the top of the world" with the three remaining Cavendish men. Who died. But it's still a lead, so they meet up with the owner of the house, Mrs. Cavendish, and chat and then head up to their rooms. Abe and Hellboy talk a bit more and its decided Abe should go explore the sunken basement of the house. So he dives out the window and does so!
While down there he comes across two of the three Cavendish brothers, who have been turned into the frog demons from earlier. They don't really do anything to him but creep him out. Especially since he mentions "feeling a sort of kinship" with them. Anyway they notice him and in like a minute they're gone. So he explores a bit more and comes across the first male Cavendish, Elhu Cavendish's body. Who then possesses him and rushes to go save Liz and Hellboy from a mystical Nazi Rasputin from calling down these seven doomsday monsters to Earth all at once. So possessed Abe harpoons him because that's a good way to stop anyone. Then he stops being possessed, grabs Liz from Rasputin, jumps down to where Hellboy is and is all "DUDE THIS PLACE IS ON FIRE" and then they run.
So they manage to get out of the house right before it collapses and everyone is safe and fine!
Onto the next mission! Which happens to be in 1996. The role Abe plays in it is relatively small, but an important event happens so... Basically, Hellboy, Abe, and Liz are sent off to three different locations to hunt down a vampire who is being recruited by Nazi Rasputin's minions. Nazi Rasputin, thought to be dead, is actually not. But he is pissed and wants revenge on all three of them for what they did to him at Cavendish Hall. So after exacting his revenge on Hellboy, he plans a trap for Abe, who you know. Harpooned him. The trap is pretty much a giant pit of stakes rising from the ground that Abe was supposed to fall onto. But he missed. So Rasputin gives him a warning instead, which means he's pretty much telling him YEAH THAT'S RIGHT I'M OUT FOR YOUR FISHY ASS PUNK aka he gon try to kill Abe.
Meanwhile over on Liz’s side of things: she’s off exploring a castle and finds an old homunculus body that has like a little hole in his chest that she sticks her finger in! And then the homunculus accidentally sucks all her power out and drains her so she’s dying! The BPRD find out about this and are like “ohshit” and bring her to a hospital where Abe hovers over her and worries while Hellboy finds the homunculus and convinces him to come back and give Liz her power back. Which brings her back to life! And then the homunculus, who Hellboy named Roger, stays with the BPRD.
But, as with all new recruits, he is tested on. Similar tests to what Abe went through which Abe thinks is kind of mean. So, while the scientists are away he sneaks in and frees the guy only for like. All the lab equipment to explode, which of course the scientists hear and come in to yell at him. But then they all discover that Roger’s chill so it’s no big. And then Roger becomes a BPRD agent. Yup.
Years later, in 2000/2001 or so, Hellboy and Roger go on a mission which ends with Hellboy leaving the BPRD for good. The reason is due to the fact that the BPRD higher-ups put a bomb inside of Roger and that is just wrong. Also Liz is gone too so Abe is pretty much the only one of the original three left. This marks a big change in Abe as it not only leads to the series he leads (BPRD), but also pretty much establishes him as the Hellboy Replacement for BPRD. From this point on, he is the leader in the field and the one most people tend to look up to sometimes.
Anyway, we start the BPRD portion of the history with Abe being grumpy and also deciding to leave the BPRD a year after Hellboy has left. This is put on hold when Abe has a freaky thing happen to him where Liz shows up on fire in his room screaming for him to help her. Which of course he does. So, the BPRD gives him a small team consisting of Roger and this new guy named Johann Kraus (a spirit medium who has no body) and sends him to Liz's last known location: a monk temple in the Ural Mountains. So the team heads there and finds all the monks dead and after a bit of investigating figure out that these weird subterranean orange demon things came up and killed them all. And took Liz. So they follow the path the orange demon things left, get repeatedly ambushed, find out the earth is apparently hollow and also an ancient junkyard for old gods and stuff, and then finally: Liz. Trapped in one of the ancient machines left behind by old gods but whatever. She's there. Then the lead Orange Demon Thing shows up in fancy clothing and holding a fiery sword and it turns out that the sword is sucking away all of Liz's powers and therefore her lifeforce or something. This sure does happen a lot. Anyway Abe shoots the guy so he stops killing Liz and the Roger frees her from the machine and then the place starts to fall apart. So Abe, Johann, Roger and Liz run away and manage to escape the tunnels. Basically the mission ends with Abe and Liz deciding to stay at BPRD oh and also Abe is now officially the leader yup.
Their next major mission happens in 2004 and starts off the larger, ongoing plot for BPRD. Which is pretty much Frogs. But before that let's rewind to Cavendish Hall to when Abe saw the two Cavendish Brothers as frog things. Additionally, think back to when Rasputin was all I'MA KILL YOU ABE and yeah this story arc includes both those things.
Anyway, the mission starts off in a lab in New Jersey where the BPRD has a huge ugly ass fungus growing. The fungus was taken from Cavendish Hall and grown in the New Jersey lab for research purposes and all was going pretty well until Creepy Professor Chan managed to get into the lab, shot the scientists, freed the fungus, and essentially turned everyone into the Frog Demons from Cavendish Hall.
Meanwhile on the personal side of things, Abe has been having nightmares of swimming to his death while Rasputin's words from way back when are haunting him (Rasputin's more eloquent way of saying I'm Going To Kill You). It's also mentioned that no one in BPRD really knows all that much about Abe which is weird. And Abe is semi-disturbed by this but they have a mission to do.
So they go to New Jersey, get attacked by some Frog Demon scientists and security guards, capture one and bring it back to the BPRD base in Fairfield, CT. After researching Crazy Professor Chan they find out that he's been donating pretty much all his money to the New Temple of Mysteries in Crab Point, Michigan. So that's pretty fishy so Abe, Liz, Roger, Johann, and the Field Supervisor Kate Morrigan, head out to investigate. When flying over the church, a mysterious force fucks up their helicopter and they crash, losing Roger and Kate (who are not dead, they are literally lost). Abe remains in the crashed helicopter, unconscious and hearing Rasputin's Eloquent version of I Will Kill You again.
The next time we see them, Abe, Liz, Johann and the helicopter pilot are laying on the ground in the New Temple of Mysteries. The pilot quickly gets turned into a Frog monster. Johann starts yelling at the head priest guy and quickly gets his suit (the only thing containing his spirit) ripped apart by the Frog audience. Of course he still hangs around in spirit form and yells some more before the Temple's "god" is unveiled to be the hideous fungus from before! Also the hideous fungus has a face and hands now so it's pretty creepy. And then Johann's blasted out of the Temple and Liz is like "shit" so she just pretty much sets Creepy Fungus Chan on fire. But it gets away. So then he and Liz split up so Abe can chase after it and Liz can save Kate who is outside fending off zombies.
Anyway Abe wanders into what is presumably the priests house and finds a shrine to Rasputin there and is all "oh shit" and then he gets harpooned by the priest. While dying, Abe asks the Priest what exactly it is he intends for. Turns out the Frogs are the children of this ancient god Sadu-Hem, and they are "the next race after man" or something. And when they gather in a group and sing little frog songs they'll bring back Sadu-hem to destroy the world. Oh and while all this is happening the Frog audience is running away and pretty much spreading across America like the plague! This is important for later.
Anyway, the priest walks away and Abe continues to die, eventually drifting into another hallucination thing where he learns about his past!
He's brought back to the age of sideburns aka the Victorian Era to meet his past self, Rhode Island businessman Langdon Everett Caul. Who is a cultist. Who worships supernatural ocean shit. Anyway, Abe sees the floating jellyfish that he saw back in 1981 again, although this time it's cocooned in a... cocoon on the bottom of the ocean floor. Some guy comes and picks it up and brings it to a cult meeting which is where Langdon Caul is, with a group of his buddies. Abe sneaks on the meeting because he's a ghost-thing and can do that right now. However, it looks like, while holding the cocooned jellyfish thing, Caul can see Abe and freaks out. Abe acts chill and shit and merges with his old self, and that's how Abe became a fishman.
Yeah. I know, it makes no sense to me either. But it happened and his companions put him in a....tube. Because all good friends do that right? Anyway Abe wakes up to find that he is not dead and everyone is happy. Except Abe. Who's even more confused. But who cares about him.
Anyway after that Abe goes off to investigate this Langdon Caul fellow since... well. He's him. He finds out that Caul lived in Littleport, Rhode Island (which doesn't exist), used to work for Elihu Cavendish (the guy who possessed him that one time) and that he was married to a woman named Edith Howard. Who killed herself when he left her in 1865.
Meanwhile the BPRD is relocating from Fairfield, CT, to an old military base in Colorado. They get a new team member, too: Ben Daimio. But more on that later.
Back in Rhode Island, Abe finds Caul's old house and walks around it. Eventually, he meets the ghost of Edith who puts up a pretend world where the house was new, she wasn't dead, and he was still Langdon Caul. It's really all an attempt to get Abe to stay with her forever because she misses her husband, but eventually Abe figures it out and forces her to confront the fact that she's dead and has to move on. Which sucks because Abe kind of liked her. But then she disappears and Abe is left forever alone. The whole thing is very sad.
Of course Abe spends the next few missions moping about it while the rest of the team tries to stop the Frogs from spreading all across America. Abe works a desk job, pining and being sad about Edith. Unfortunately, this stops when Roger comes back from one of the missions, dead. Abe believes this is his fault for not being out in the field and immediately resumes field work.
Of course his first mission back out puts him right in the center of hordes and hordes of Frogs. Abe tries his best to... not get overwhelmed but in the end he does. When he comes to again, he's face to face with the madman who organized the Frogs into hordes and hordes, an insane man who named himself the Black Flame. He apologizes to Abe, saying that he "made a mistake". Abe's about to ask why when a giant ugly fucking monster zooms overhead them. Distracted, the Black Flame takes the chance to escape or something. Also it turns out the monster is named Katha-Hem and, like Sadu-Hem from earlier, is one of 369 things called the Ogdru-Hem. The Ogdru-Hem are children of the great dragon, Ogdru Jahad, who is the dragon from Revelations and will bring about the end of the world. So needless to say, its children, the Ogdru-Hem, are bad news.
Anyway Abe heads back to base, thoroughly beaten up, only to find out that Liz, Johann, and Kate are holding a seance to learn how to stop Katha-Hem. They're trying to contact this weirdo guy Liz has been talking to in her dreams, and they do, and they also find out how to stop it. In her dream Weirdo Guy, Liz saw a symbol that represented an object inside Roger's room. So she rushes to get that and then they head out to take Katha-Hem down. And they do! Because the little object Liz got was pretty much an additional oomph to her powers and also a way to... well. Aim them better. So Katha-Hem is dead.
The next mission is a mission Kate and a new researcher, Devon, are off to France to find a book that might hold the solution to bringing Roger back to life. Unfortunately, the guy who owns it will only give it to Kate if she gives him Abe. Unfortunately, it doesn't work out and the misison ends with the book missing or destroyed or just simply gone. So Roger is really dead.
The next mission is one Abe goes on by Daimio. He and Daimio go to Balikpapan, Indonesia, following some mysterious instructions that Abe received in the mail. Abe splits up from Daimio soon after and heads to a new location all by himself. The new location is a little secluded island with a lot of new, funky animal hybrids on it. It also has men in steampunk diver outfits. The first one Abe encounters greets him as "Caul", which automatically makes Abe do a double take. Diver #1 brings him to the two other divers who also greet him warmly. Their names are Ensner, Dameron, McWhirter (McWhirter is Diver #1). Of course Abe then panics, tells them things they don't want to hear, and gets knocked out by a fourth, buff man (named Edward).
When he wakes up again he's in a fancy bedroom inside the house. He gets up and walks around, only to find a scrapbook of sorts that shows his evolution from man to fishman in the tube. It also shows the four men (McWhirter, Dameron, Ensner and Edward) looking jolly and happy around him. After that he meets an old mummy woman named Panya. Who is also psychic. Anyway she tells Abe about what exactly is going on.
Turns out Old Langdon Caul was part of this cult called the Oannes Club, which like I said earlier, worshipped supernatural ocean stuff. And the four other guys on the island are the Oannes Club members. Who are growing new buff bodies for themselves in their basement. Panya warns Abe that the men are trying to destroy the world by using bombs to create massive earth-killing tidal waves and then suck up all the souls of the dead into their buff bodies. Abe soon learns that this is true and is all "yall are crazy fuck that shit" and proceeds to kill them. Daimio comes to pick him up and together they head back to Colorado. Oh and Panya comes along too.
So they go back to Colorado and after awhile receive a new ward, a wending by the name of Daryl. Everything's going pretty well until Daryl escapes and a gory mess of a person is found outside his cell. The funny thing is that Wendigos don't really kill people all that often, so something else is lurking in BPRD headquarters. So pretty much the whole base gets searching for the mysterious killer. And it turns out its Daimio, who's supernatural ability is apparently to become a giant leopard demon. Now in leopard form, Daimio goes around and beats people up. He startles Liz to the point where she goes unconscious, and kills Johann's new human body, at which point Johann's spirit is attracts the spirit of Lobster Johnson, an old pulp hero who fought supernatural nazi shit in ye olden days. Lobster Johnson then goes and spirit-shoots Liz, waking her up. Then he vanishes and Johann's spirit returns.
Anyway, both Daryl the Wendigo and Daimio escape the base, giving the BPRD yet another headache to worry about.
The next time Abe is seen is when he's hunting Daimio out in the mountains of Colorado. He's pulled from this fairly quickly when Kate comes down and tells him they've got a person of interest in the Frog War. The person is an ancient man named Gilfryd, who's been contacting Liz in her dreams for quite some time now. He was the guy that told her to use the little object thing to take down Katha-Hem. Liz doesn't like him which means no one really likes him but its clear that he definitely knows things about the Frog threat and they've got a lot of questions.
Anyway they hunt him down to this weird temple thing in like India or something. And only Liz can see him. Everyone else sees a plane flying away and their pilots sleeping outside and they're like: Hm. That's fishy. So Abe goes to fly their chopper after the plane but then the chopper blows up. And then they find out that this Gilfryd guy kidnapped Liz. And then he gives Abe a warning to leave him alone and the temple collapses.
They find the plane crashed in Munich, Germany a week later. There's no Liz or Gilfryd inside, but there s a house where a crazy old woman apparently lived! But she is a crazy old woman who saw the Black Flame, as evidenced by the painting drawn done on her bedroom wall. This leads them to go searching an underground metro station for Black Flame, and instead they find those Subterranean orange things from before working on giant war machines. Unfortunately, Abe and Johann get spotted and the orange things send their giant war machines out into Munich.
Abe takes his team back underground to try and take out the orange things' generator. He has Johann find out the location of the machine. So they find the big generator powering the war machines and take it out. When they resurface, the war machines are now susceptible to missiles and shit and the German army quickly takes that shit down. Unfortunately, at least half of Munich is gone but oh well. But then they learn that the war machines weren't really machines but like mutated giant Frog monsters or something (they don't really explain this). EITHER WAY it's become clear (to them) that the subterranean orange things and the Frog monsters have teamed up to attack earth from both land and… below land. So the situation looks pretty shitty.
The next mission is to retrieve Liz from Gilfryd and they do this by first going to Lobster Johnson's lair, since it seems that Gilfryd was the Lobster's arch-nemesis. From there, they find out Gilfryd's location and head over to this large temple-city thing in some snowy mountains. They also bring the U.S. army with them. Which is good because while Abe and Kate are inside the main temple thing with Liz and Gilfryd, the frog army attacks. So while that's going on outside, Abe and Kate are trying to win Liz back from Gilfryd. Abe tries the 'yelling and threatening Gilfryd' approach but, unsurprisingly, it doesn't work. It does succeed in getting Gilfryd mad enough at him to finally beat the shit out of him, which of course Liz notices and disapproves of. So she sets him on fire. After that, she rejoins the team and they head back to Colorado.
So the next mission involves Abe, Liz, and that one researcher Devon (and some troops) going back to the Ural Mountains and track down the subterranean orange things. So they head back down underneath the earth and eventually Liz splits apart from Devon and Abe to go off galavanting on her own. So Abe and Devon and troops continue onwards only to get ambushed (again) and captured by the subterranean orange things. From there they're brought into a large cavern which appears to be the creatures' nursery. The Black Flame is waiting for them. Abe tries to reason with him but the Black Flame tells him that he has been acting as the general for the orange things. And then tells Abe that he is meant to be their king. Or the general. Or just the center of power or something. Which isn't too ludicrous considering how similar Abe looks to the frog-things. Abe of course doesn't like this at all and tries to retaliate but then Black Flame pulls up a monster similar to the weirdo giant jellyfish monster that is somehow tied into Abe's origins. Abe's speechless and about to fall prey to Black Flame's words when some random magic guy pops in and teleports Abe and his crew out of there right before Liz lights the cavern ablaze.
Unfortunately it causes a shitton of natural disasters in the world or something. Like volcanoes errupting in Texas and the loss of the islands of Borneo and Sulawesi, eastern Malaysia, Brunei, the Indonesian Islands, and a giant monster popping up in California and spewing a noxious gas. A noxious gas that turns people into creepy monsters. So the U.N. is like "well shit this is out of control" and hires the BPRD as like... a branch of the U.N.
Abe's next most important mission is to go down to Texas and investigate a teenaged girl suspected to have precognition. And by "investigate" i mean "rescue" because Texas was volcano'd and that means that freaky creep monsters are all over the place eating people. The girl's name is Fenix and she is the leader of this group of homeless teens. So Abe tracks her down, saves her and her bros from getting eaten by huge ass bat monsters and then Fenix shoots him. Like five times. Once in the throat and once in the mouth.
Yeah needless to say Abe is pretty much on his deathbed. AND THAT'S WHEN I'M BRINGING HIM IN.
PERSONALITY:
Abe has changed a great deal from who he was at the beginning of Hellboy. At the beginning he was naive, innocent, and eager to get out in the field. Mostly so he could be around everyone and experience all the things he never had, or never remembered ever doing. He formed a tremendously strong bond with Hellboy and relied on him for his main supports. Still, he was tired of playing second fiddle to Hellboy even then and was eager to prove himself, yet unsure at the same time.
As time wore on and events happened, Abe hardened up to the point where he leads the BPRD in Hellboy's place. He's no longer innocent and eager to experience everything the world has to offer. To the contrary, it seems he's fairly tired of it. It's mostly out of a sense of obligation that he works at the BPRD to protect it. Sure, he cares about the world enough, but mostly he does his job out of obligation and the fact that well. The people closest to him are at BPRD.
Abe is pretty protective of his closer friends, especially Liz since she gets captured so damn often. Okay mainly Liz because he's worried her impulsiveness will be the end of her basically. Their relationship is similar to that of a older brother/little sister relationship, with Abe keeping as close an eye on her without smothering her. For the rest of his friends (ie the ones who can fight well) he tends not to worry so much, though he does seem to worry and care about Daimio. Anyway, for the most part Abe trusts his friends to take care of themselves and has faith in all of their abilities. This isn't to say he won't protect them, more like he'll only do so if he doesn't think they can take care of it.
In the field, Abe tends to be pretty serious and focused. Over the years he's learned that if you don't have your head in the game you'll probably end up dead. In that same vein, while he's not exactly hard to knock out in a fight, he's fairly obstinate and will probably end up fighting back. He's very much a soldier, in that he has no qualms about having to kill people to achieve an end goal. He accepts the loss of life with grief, but also realizing that stuff like that happens in his line of work. He doesn't tend to dwell on death unless he feels its somehow his fault, in which case he still tends to put it behind him fairly quickly. It's not really because he's cold so much as he knows that in order to ensure the majority of his troops surviving, he can't be distracted by guilt.
Outside of battle he tends to mostly keep to himself. He does hang out around the base, and enjoys talking to people, but in the end he only truly feels comfortable around a few people and would rather spend his time reading. Outside of the BPRD his interactions with people tends to be pretty awkward as the majority are put off by his appearance. While he himself has grown to become somewhat comfortable with his appearance, the public's reactions to it tends to make him react a bit awkwardly. Oftentimes he'll try to get whoever he's talking to to understand that he's not a monster or going to harm them or anything. Luckily, this has been alleviated in recent canon with the BPRD's growing publicity and public recognition.
Abe also has a penchant for being fairly dry and sarcastic and sometimes his attitude borders on pessimism. He has a low tolerance for bullshit and, if the offense was bad enough, will hold grudges. "Bad offenses" usually fall under the category of "calling me the anti-christ", which is sort of valid.
On a personal level, Abe's kind of in the middle of a life-long identity crisis. It's not really that he doesn't really know who he is so much as he doesn't know what he is. He knows who he was and has come to terms with the fact that his past self was a dick. And that he was in love with his past self's wife. So he's moved on from worrying about who he was and what happened to all his memories and is now more concerned with what exactly he is. And if he has a blood relationship to the Frogs that are plaguing the world. The possibility that he and they are related is canonly acknowledged to be one of his biggest fears.
POWER:
Canonly, Abe is a fishman. This means he can 1) breathe both underwater and on land as he has both gills and human lungs. Unfortunately, his ability to breathe on land has its limits and after a week he has to go underwater again. For this he will probably just submerge himself underwater in a bathtub, which is also how he sleeps! So its convenient.
Abe's second power is not one from canon and will be the ability to pull any weapon out of thin air. All he'll need to do is think up a weapon he needs or wants and it will appear in his hand! However the weapons themselves are normal and will run out of ammo like any other weapon. Additionally, he would only be able to pull out one weapon at a time, so in the case that he would want a new weapon, he would have to trade his existing one in.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
[Abe is facing the comm, his upper torso visible to the camera. He looks extremely unamused. Maybe a bit annoyed.]
I'm going to go through this once, and only once.
I am not nor do I know of Doug Jones. The same goes for Guillermo del Toro. And Selma Blair. And Ron Perlman. In fact, I am not and never will be in any movie. I am also not the Creature From the Black Lagoon and if I hear one more joke about it I swear I will make you regret it.
[He takes a deep breath then sighs, massaging his temple.] I almost forgot what it was like to be stared at. Can't say I've missed it, but what else am I going to do? Walk around with a bag over my head? Never go outside? [He looks back at the comm, eyes softening slightly.] Look. I know I... look different. But trust me, I didn't want to look this way and... [ he's still confused as to how he looked like this... but so not mentioning that...] Well, that's it, I suppose.
[god after 30 years of this you'd think he'd be good at this sort of thing. He sighs again, beginning to feel a bit awkward. There's a lingering silence, as he attempts to think of something to say and fails. But he is reminded of something else. Probably because his phone is ringing in the background. He looks in its direction grudgingly.]
That being said, I find it fairly disconcerting to know that I was apparently in a movie. Which has kindly disappeared, if I'm understanding the director correctly. Must be one of the perks of this place.
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
He thought the apparent lack of the supernatural would be a welcome change. No more giant fights to save the world, no monsters lurking behind corners to hurt people. Just him and Hellboy, trying to live a relatively normal life from himself. Not that that was possible considering the two of them, but… he could hope.
However as the months wore on he soon discovered that he missed his old life. The insane suicide missions. Fighting the undefeatable odds. Struggling to survive and then feeling all the more victorious when he, and his team, did. Even if he didn't exactly enjoy it, it at least gave him something to do. Reading could only keep him occupied for so long before the memories of action called him back.
It was like an insatiable urge, really. A pull of temptation that he didn't want or need but followed anyway. Back home it had always followed him around, pulled him back to the BPRD whenever he felt the urge to leave. But here he felt nothing and it was off-putting.
He didn't tell Hellboy about this. Didn't need to, really. They knew what to talk about and what to leave alone. What things needed to be said and what things they could share without speaking. This was one of the latter; Abe was sure Hellboy had had similar thoughts since coming here.
They were restless. Eager to find another supernatural force and punch it and shoot it in the face. And it was because of this that, once he had enough money, Abe made his way back to Lake Okanagan in British Columbia.
Years ago he had stood on an alternate version of this shore, watching as the Ogopogo, a Loch-Ness-like sea monster, terrorized the surrounding shoreline. It had been one of his first successful missions. Now, he stood on the shore, overlooking a peaceful lake, the water so still it reflected the moon perfectly. A twinge of yearning then, his eyes softening a bit as if being thrashed around by a giant monster was a fond memory.
But in a way it was. By coming back from that mission alive and successful, albeit beaten to a pulp, he had proven himself to be a true agent. Not just Hellboy's right-hand man. It would have been a coming-of-age if he was sure he hadn't already gone through that in his past life. Still. It had been a significant event in his life and it was strange to come here and find it gone.
Still, he stripped down to his shorts, largely thanks to that sliver of optimism in him insisting that there was a chance. So slowly, he waded into the lake, comforted by the feeling of water around him. Whether he liked it or not this was home for him. He was bound to it, forced to submerge himself underwater in a timely manner or die. But in other ways as well.
In a way it was like his pull back to the BPRD. Except stronger, and he was more open to it. Underwater he was the expert, he was the one at ease. It didn't matter who saw him, what they did, how they treated him, all that mattered was the current. The fish. The temperature of the water. It was his separate world. His day spa. His place of relaxation.
Submerging himself, he felt the tension lift from his body. It was clear the moment his gills started to kick in that the Ogopogo wasn't there, but he didn't really mind. Maybe he wasn't looking for it in the first place. Maybe he was just looking for something vaguely similar to his world. His comfort zone. Maybe he just needed a vacation, a dip in some real, unpolluted water. Maybe this was a cleansing of all of the anxieties gained since arriving here.
Whatever the reason, he spent the remainder of the night in the lake swimming and exploring. Then, when the sun rose, he waded out, rented a cheap room at a local motel, and waited until nightfall once more. When it came, he journeyed back out to the lake and repeated the previous night, assuring himself with the lie that this was still business, he was still looking for any traces of Ogopogo, this wasn't a vacation.
He enjoyed it all the same.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
He gets seasick.
NAME: Greer
AGE: 18
JOURNAL:
badumtish IM: hurghleburlebutz
E-MAIL: kukuhead@live.com
RETURNING: 2, Baroona and Roronoa Zoro.
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Abraham Sapien
FANDOM: Hellboy/BPRD/Mike Mignola-verse
CHRONOLOGY: After getting possibly killed.
CLASS: Hero
SUPERHERO NAME: Abe
ALTER EGO: Abraham Sapien, he might try out for the police or something, since the bureau doesn't ez
BACKGROUND:
The world of Hellboy is just like ours except supernatural shit happens. Ghosts, demons, frog creatures that bring about the end of the world, you get the idea. In this world there is a sort-of government-sponsored organizzation called the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense aka the BPRD. And in the BPRD is a little fishman named Abraham Sapien.
In the beginning... well. We don't actually know what happened. So I'll start off when he was found in a tube. In the basement of St. Trinia's Hospital. Chilling. He was discovered by some plumbers, and taken into BPRD custody. Found nameless, the BPRD named him Abraham due to the date found inscribed on his tube: April 14th, 1865. The day Abraham Lincoln died.
For a few days after that, Abe was put in a lab and experimented on. The comic hintss at the use of shock and other endurance tests that were pretty much like torture to Abe. But then his future-best-bro Hellboy made the scientists feel bad and rescued him. And they were bffs ever since. Also this was in 1979.
Fast forward to a few years later and Abe is still relatively new to the Bureau. He's met everyone, sure, but he's never been sent on any solo missions or anything. He's been out in the field with Hellboy, but those were never really explored in the comics. The earliest mision we have of his is in 1981 where the Bureau heads reluctantly sent him to the island of Saint Sebastian, off the coast of France. The island was once a leper colony and so of course it's got some messed up supernatural shit going down there. Abe was sent there to retrieve the Lipu Dagger, a special weapon specifically made to kill demons. Oh he's also sent to go retrieve the body of some evil warlock that's laying underwater somewhere nearby.
So yeah, he goes with like two other agents who end up dying because of course something bad happens. It just so happens that these weird zombie-looking things come up out of the ocean and storm into the town killing everyone and eating their souls. Which are shaped like butterflies for some random reason. It's weird. Anyway, on the island: EVERYONE'S DEAD. Luckily, Abe was underwater getting tentacled by an octopus so when he resurfaces he's all confused and shit. And then starts hallucinating. His hallucinations are pretty much just Hellboy telling him he sucks and will fail and yaddayadda. Which Hellboy would never do. So it's basically Abe's Bad Thoughts taking shape and talking at him the entire time. Eventually he tells them to shut up and storms off to go fight the bad guys. Which he does! He gets chased around by a monster for a bit before coming across this witch lady who is like "hey i'm going to be captain exposition now" and explains that... Well she doesn't explain much. Mostly that the things are trying to pull the Lipu Dagger out from Evil Warlock Chan's body and unleash A HORRIBLE EEEEVIL onto the world. Abe is like "okayyyy..." and then she's all "now take my hand and do this creepy chant thing while giant crows try to kill you" and he's all "mmkay sure." So he does this weird ritual thing and then heads to the church where the weird things have just taken the dagger out of Evil Warlock Chan's body. But before Abe sees that he sees this giant floating winged jellyfish god. Who is probably the god of the sea. But we don't know for sure. Anyway he shows up a lot so that's important.
ANYWAY, the daggers out and Evil Warlock Chan grows tentacles and acts all threatening and shit and then the witch comes back and stops him with powers given to her from the freaky ritual earlier. So with that Evil Warlock Chan is stopped and the day is saved!
So after that his next major mission is in 1993. He's paired up with his BFF Hellboy and other BFF Liz Sherman, who has fire powers. Together they go to investigate a large house called Cavendish Hall to investigate the possible cause for the death of Hellboy's father figure, Professor Bruttenholm. So Abe goes with his two buds to figure out what's going on here, because Bruttenholm was killed by this weird giant frog demon thing and that's just wrong. And it turns out this shit didn't happen until Bruttenholm got back from an expedition to this mysterious place at "the top of the world" with the three remaining Cavendish men. Who died. But it's still a lead, so they meet up with the owner of the house, Mrs. Cavendish, and chat and then head up to their rooms. Abe and Hellboy talk a bit more and its decided Abe should go explore the sunken basement of the house. So he dives out the window and does so!
While down there he comes across two of the three Cavendish brothers, who have been turned into the frog demons from earlier. They don't really do anything to him but creep him out. Especially since he mentions "feeling a sort of kinship" with them. Anyway they notice him and in like a minute they're gone. So he explores a bit more and comes across the first male Cavendish, Elhu Cavendish's body. Who then possesses him and rushes to go save Liz and Hellboy from a mystical Nazi Rasputin from calling down these seven doomsday monsters to Earth all at once. So possessed Abe harpoons him because that's a good way to stop anyone. Then he stops being possessed, grabs Liz from Rasputin, jumps down to where Hellboy is and is all "DUDE THIS PLACE IS ON FIRE" and then they run.
So they manage to get out of the house right before it collapses and everyone is safe and fine!
Onto the next mission! Which happens to be in 1996. The role Abe plays in it is relatively small, but an important event happens so... Basically, Hellboy, Abe, and Liz are sent off to three different locations to hunt down a vampire who is being recruited by Nazi Rasputin's minions. Nazi Rasputin, thought to be dead, is actually not. But he is pissed and wants revenge on all three of them for what they did to him at Cavendish Hall. So after exacting his revenge on Hellboy, he plans a trap for Abe, who you know. Harpooned him. The trap is pretty much a giant pit of stakes rising from the ground that Abe was supposed to fall onto. But he missed. So Rasputin gives him a warning instead, which means he's pretty much telling him YEAH THAT'S RIGHT I'M OUT FOR YOUR FISHY ASS PUNK aka he gon try to kill Abe.
Meanwhile over on Liz’s side of things: she’s off exploring a castle and finds an old homunculus body that has like a little hole in his chest that she sticks her finger in! And then the homunculus accidentally sucks all her power out and drains her so she’s dying! The BPRD find out about this and are like “ohshit” and bring her to a hospital where Abe hovers over her and worries while Hellboy finds the homunculus and convinces him to come back and give Liz her power back. Which brings her back to life! And then the homunculus, who Hellboy named Roger, stays with the BPRD.
But, as with all new recruits, he is tested on. Similar tests to what Abe went through which Abe thinks is kind of mean. So, while the scientists are away he sneaks in and frees the guy only for like. All the lab equipment to explode, which of course the scientists hear and come in to yell at him. But then they all discover that Roger’s chill so it’s no big. And then Roger becomes a BPRD agent. Yup.
Years later, in 2000/2001 or so, Hellboy and Roger go on a mission which ends with Hellboy leaving the BPRD for good. The reason is due to the fact that the BPRD higher-ups put a bomb inside of Roger and that is just wrong. Also Liz is gone too so Abe is pretty much the only one of the original three left. This marks a big change in Abe as it not only leads to the series he leads (BPRD), but also pretty much establishes him as the Hellboy Replacement for BPRD. From this point on, he is the leader in the field and the one most people tend to look up to sometimes.
Anyway, we start the BPRD portion of the history with Abe being grumpy and also deciding to leave the BPRD a year after Hellboy has left. This is put on hold when Abe has a freaky thing happen to him where Liz shows up on fire in his room screaming for him to help her. Which of course he does. So, the BPRD gives him a small team consisting of Roger and this new guy named Johann Kraus (a spirit medium who has no body) and sends him to Liz's last known location: a monk temple in the Ural Mountains. So the team heads there and finds all the monks dead and after a bit of investigating figure out that these weird subterranean orange demon things came up and killed them all. And took Liz. So they follow the path the orange demon things left, get repeatedly ambushed, find out the earth is apparently hollow and also an ancient junkyard for old gods and stuff, and then finally: Liz. Trapped in one of the ancient machines left behind by old gods but whatever. She's there. Then the lead Orange Demon Thing shows up in fancy clothing and holding a fiery sword and it turns out that the sword is sucking away all of Liz's powers and therefore her lifeforce or something. This sure does happen a lot. Anyway Abe shoots the guy so he stops killing Liz and the Roger frees her from the machine and then the place starts to fall apart. So Abe, Johann, Roger and Liz run away and manage to escape the tunnels. Basically the mission ends with Abe and Liz deciding to stay at BPRD oh and also Abe is now officially the leader yup.
Their next major mission happens in 2004 and starts off the larger, ongoing plot for BPRD. Which is pretty much Frogs. But before that let's rewind to Cavendish Hall to when Abe saw the two Cavendish Brothers as frog things. Additionally, think back to when Rasputin was all I'MA KILL YOU ABE and yeah this story arc includes both those things.
Anyway, the mission starts off in a lab in New Jersey where the BPRD has a huge ugly ass fungus growing. The fungus was taken from Cavendish Hall and grown in the New Jersey lab for research purposes and all was going pretty well until Creepy Professor Chan managed to get into the lab, shot the scientists, freed the fungus, and essentially turned everyone into the Frog Demons from Cavendish Hall.
Meanwhile on the personal side of things, Abe has been having nightmares of swimming to his death while Rasputin's words from way back when are haunting him (Rasputin's more eloquent way of saying I'm Going To Kill You). It's also mentioned that no one in BPRD really knows all that much about Abe which is weird. And Abe is semi-disturbed by this but they have a mission to do.
So they go to New Jersey, get attacked by some Frog Demon scientists and security guards, capture one and bring it back to the BPRD base in Fairfield, CT. After researching Crazy Professor Chan they find out that he's been donating pretty much all his money to the New Temple of Mysteries in Crab Point, Michigan. So that's pretty fishy so Abe, Liz, Roger, Johann, and the Field Supervisor Kate Morrigan, head out to investigate. When flying over the church, a mysterious force fucks up their helicopter and they crash, losing Roger and Kate (who are not dead, they are literally lost). Abe remains in the crashed helicopter, unconscious and hearing Rasputin's Eloquent version of I Will Kill You again.
The next time we see them, Abe, Liz, Johann and the helicopter pilot are laying on the ground in the New Temple of Mysteries. The pilot quickly gets turned into a Frog monster. Johann starts yelling at the head priest guy and quickly gets his suit (the only thing containing his spirit) ripped apart by the Frog audience. Of course he still hangs around in spirit form and yells some more before the Temple's "god" is unveiled to be the hideous fungus from before! Also the hideous fungus has a face and hands now so it's pretty creepy. And then Johann's blasted out of the Temple and Liz is like "shit" so she just pretty much sets Creepy Fungus Chan on fire. But it gets away. So then he and Liz split up so Abe can chase after it and Liz can save Kate who is outside fending off zombies.
Anyway Abe wanders into what is presumably the priests house and finds a shrine to Rasputin there and is all "oh shit" and then he gets harpooned by the priest. While dying, Abe asks the Priest what exactly it is he intends for. Turns out the Frogs are the children of this ancient god Sadu-Hem, and they are "the next race after man" or something. And when they gather in a group and sing little frog songs they'll bring back Sadu-hem to destroy the world. Oh and while all this is happening the Frog audience is running away and pretty much spreading across America like the plague! This is important for later.
Anyway, the priest walks away and Abe continues to die, eventually drifting into another hallucination thing where he learns about his past!
He's brought back to the age of sideburns aka the Victorian Era to meet his past self, Rhode Island businessman Langdon Everett Caul. Who is a cultist. Who worships supernatural ocean shit. Anyway, Abe sees the floating jellyfish that he saw back in 1981 again, although this time it's cocooned in a... cocoon on the bottom of the ocean floor. Some guy comes and picks it up and brings it to a cult meeting which is where Langdon Caul is, with a group of his buddies. Abe sneaks on the meeting because he's a ghost-thing and can do that right now. However, it looks like, while holding the cocooned jellyfish thing, Caul can see Abe and freaks out. Abe acts chill and shit and merges with his old self, and that's how Abe became a fishman.
Yeah. I know, it makes no sense to me either. But it happened and his companions put him in a....tube. Because all good friends do that right? Anyway Abe wakes up to find that he is not dead and everyone is happy. Except Abe. Who's even more confused. But who cares about him.
Anyway after that Abe goes off to investigate this Langdon Caul fellow since... well. He's him. He finds out that Caul lived in Littleport, Rhode Island (which doesn't exist), used to work for Elihu Cavendish (the guy who possessed him that one time) and that he was married to a woman named Edith Howard. Who killed herself when he left her in 1865.
Meanwhile the BPRD is relocating from Fairfield, CT, to an old military base in Colorado. They get a new team member, too: Ben Daimio. But more on that later.
Back in Rhode Island, Abe finds Caul's old house and walks around it. Eventually, he meets the ghost of Edith who puts up a pretend world where the house was new, she wasn't dead, and he was still Langdon Caul. It's really all an attempt to get Abe to stay with her forever because she misses her husband, but eventually Abe figures it out and forces her to confront the fact that she's dead and has to move on. Which sucks because Abe kind of liked her. But then she disappears and Abe is left forever alone. The whole thing is very sad.
Of course Abe spends the next few missions moping about it while the rest of the team tries to stop the Frogs from spreading all across America. Abe works a desk job, pining and being sad about Edith. Unfortunately, this stops when Roger comes back from one of the missions, dead. Abe believes this is his fault for not being out in the field and immediately resumes field work.
Of course his first mission back out puts him right in the center of hordes and hordes of Frogs. Abe tries his best to... not get overwhelmed but in the end he does. When he comes to again, he's face to face with the madman who organized the Frogs into hordes and hordes, an insane man who named himself the Black Flame. He apologizes to Abe, saying that he "made a mistake". Abe's about to ask why when a giant ugly fucking monster zooms overhead them. Distracted, the Black Flame takes the chance to escape or something. Also it turns out the monster is named Katha-Hem and, like Sadu-Hem from earlier, is one of 369 things called the Ogdru-Hem. The Ogdru-Hem are children of the great dragon, Ogdru Jahad, who is the dragon from Revelations and will bring about the end of the world. So needless to say, its children, the Ogdru-Hem, are bad news.
Anyway Abe heads back to base, thoroughly beaten up, only to find out that Liz, Johann, and Kate are holding a seance to learn how to stop Katha-Hem. They're trying to contact this weirdo guy Liz has been talking to in her dreams, and they do, and they also find out how to stop it. In her dream Weirdo Guy, Liz saw a symbol that represented an object inside Roger's room. So she rushes to get that and then they head out to take Katha-Hem down. And they do! Because the little object Liz got was pretty much an additional oomph to her powers and also a way to... well. Aim them better. So Katha-Hem is dead.
The next mission is a mission Kate and a new researcher, Devon, are off to France to find a book that might hold the solution to bringing Roger back to life. Unfortunately, the guy who owns it will only give it to Kate if she gives him Abe. Unfortunately, it doesn't work out and the misison ends with the book missing or destroyed or just simply gone. So Roger is really dead.
The next mission is one Abe goes on by Daimio. He and Daimio go to Balikpapan, Indonesia, following some mysterious instructions that Abe received in the mail. Abe splits up from Daimio soon after and heads to a new location all by himself. The new location is a little secluded island with a lot of new, funky animal hybrids on it. It also has men in steampunk diver outfits. The first one Abe encounters greets him as "Caul", which automatically makes Abe do a double take. Diver #1 brings him to the two other divers who also greet him warmly. Their names are Ensner, Dameron, McWhirter (McWhirter is Diver #1). Of course Abe then panics, tells them things they don't want to hear, and gets knocked out by a fourth, buff man (named Edward).
When he wakes up again he's in a fancy bedroom inside the house. He gets up and walks around, only to find a scrapbook of sorts that shows his evolution from man to fishman in the tube. It also shows the four men (McWhirter, Dameron, Ensner and Edward) looking jolly and happy around him. After that he meets an old mummy woman named Panya. Who is also psychic. Anyway she tells Abe about what exactly is going on.
Turns out Old Langdon Caul was part of this cult called the Oannes Club, which like I said earlier, worshipped supernatural ocean stuff. And the four other guys on the island are the Oannes Club members. Who are growing new buff bodies for themselves in their basement. Panya warns Abe that the men are trying to destroy the world by using bombs to create massive earth-killing tidal waves and then suck up all the souls of the dead into their buff bodies. Abe soon learns that this is true and is all "yall are crazy fuck that shit" and proceeds to kill them. Daimio comes to pick him up and together they head back to Colorado. Oh and Panya comes along too.
So they go back to Colorado and after awhile receive a new ward, a wending by the name of Daryl. Everything's going pretty well until Daryl escapes and a gory mess of a person is found outside his cell. The funny thing is that Wendigos don't really kill people all that often, so something else is lurking in BPRD headquarters. So pretty much the whole base gets searching for the mysterious killer. And it turns out its Daimio, who's supernatural ability is apparently to become a giant leopard demon. Now in leopard form, Daimio goes around and beats people up. He startles Liz to the point where she goes unconscious, and kills Johann's new human body, at which point Johann's spirit is attracts the spirit of Lobster Johnson, an old pulp hero who fought supernatural nazi shit in ye olden days. Lobster Johnson then goes and spirit-shoots Liz, waking her up. Then he vanishes and Johann's spirit returns.
Anyway, both Daryl the Wendigo and Daimio escape the base, giving the BPRD yet another headache to worry about.
The next time Abe is seen is when he's hunting Daimio out in the mountains of Colorado. He's pulled from this fairly quickly when Kate comes down and tells him they've got a person of interest in the Frog War. The person is an ancient man named Gilfryd, who's been contacting Liz in her dreams for quite some time now. He was the guy that told her to use the little object thing to take down Katha-Hem. Liz doesn't like him which means no one really likes him but its clear that he definitely knows things about the Frog threat and they've got a lot of questions.
Anyway they hunt him down to this weird temple thing in like India or something. And only Liz can see him. Everyone else sees a plane flying away and their pilots sleeping outside and they're like: Hm. That's fishy. So Abe goes to fly their chopper after the plane but then the chopper blows up. And then they find out that this Gilfryd guy kidnapped Liz. And then he gives Abe a warning to leave him alone and the temple collapses.
They find the plane crashed in Munich, Germany a week later. There's no Liz or Gilfryd inside, but there s a house where a crazy old woman apparently lived! But she is a crazy old woman who saw the Black Flame, as evidenced by the painting drawn done on her bedroom wall. This leads them to go searching an underground metro station for Black Flame, and instead they find those Subterranean orange things from before working on giant war machines. Unfortunately, Abe and Johann get spotted and the orange things send their giant war machines out into Munich.
Abe takes his team back underground to try and take out the orange things' generator. He has Johann find out the location of the machine. So they find the big generator powering the war machines and take it out. When they resurface, the war machines are now susceptible to missiles and shit and the German army quickly takes that shit down. Unfortunately, at least half of Munich is gone but oh well. But then they learn that the war machines weren't really machines but like mutated giant Frog monsters or something (they don't really explain this). EITHER WAY it's become clear (to them) that the subterranean orange things and the Frog monsters have teamed up to attack earth from both land and… below land. So the situation looks pretty shitty.
The next mission is to retrieve Liz from Gilfryd and they do this by first going to Lobster Johnson's lair, since it seems that Gilfryd was the Lobster's arch-nemesis. From there, they find out Gilfryd's location and head over to this large temple-city thing in some snowy mountains. They also bring the U.S. army with them. Which is good because while Abe and Kate are inside the main temple thing with Liz and Gilfryd, the frog army attacks. So while that's going on outside, Abe and Kate are trying to win Liz back from Gilfryd. Abe tries the 'yelling and threatening Gilfryd' approach but, unsurprisingly, it doesn't work. It does succeed in getting Gilfryd mad enough at him to finally beat the shit out of him, which of course Liz notices and disapproves of. So she sets him on fire. After that, she rejoins the team and they head back to Colorado.
So the next mission involves Abe, Liz, and that one researcher Devon (and some troops) going back to the Ural Mountains and track down the subterranean orange things. So they head back down underneath the earth and eventually Liz splits apart from Devon and Abe to go off galavanting on her own. So Abe and Devon and troops continue onwards only to get ambushed (again) and captured by the subterranean orange things. From there they're brought into a large cavern which appears to be the creatures' nursery. The Black Flame is waiting for them. Abe tries to reason with him but the Black Flame tells him that he has been acting as the general for the orange things. And then tells Abe that he is meant to be their king. Or the general. Or just the center of power or something. Which isn't too ludicrous considering how similar Abe looks to the frog-things. Abe of course doesn't like this at all and tries to retaliate but then Black Flame pulls up a monster similar to the weirdo giant jellyfish monster that is somehow tied into Abe's origins. Abe's speechless and about to fall prey to Black Flame's words when some random magic guy pops in and teleports Abe and his crew out of there right before Liz lights the cavern ablaze.
Unfortunately it causes a shitton of natural disasters in the world or something. Like volcanoes errupting in Texas and the loss of the islands of Borneo and Sulawesi, eastern Malaysia, Brunei, the Indonesian Islands, and a giant monster popping up in California and spewing a noxious gas. A noxious gas that turns people into creepy monsters. So the U.N. is like "well shit this is out of control" and hires the BPRD as like... a branch of the U.N.
Abe's next most important mission is to go down to Texas and investigate a teenaged girl suspected to have precognition. And by "investigate" i mean "rescue" because Texas was volcano'd and that means that freaky creep monsters are all over the place eating people. The girl's name is Fenix and she is the leader of this group of homeless teens. So Abe tracks her down, saves her and her bros from getting eaten by huge ass bat monsters and then Fenix shoots him. Like five times. Once in the throat and once in the mouth.
Yeah needless to say Abe is pretty much on his deathbed. AND THAT'S WHEN I'M BRINGING HIM IN.
PERSONALITY:
Abe has changed a great deal from who he was at the beginning of Hellboy. At the beginning he was naive, innocent, and eager to get out in the field. Mostly so he could be around everyone and experience all the things he never had, or never remembered ever doing. He formed a tremendously strong bond with Hellboy and relied on him for his main supports. Still, he was tired of playing second fiddle to Hellboy even then and was eager to prove himself, yet unsure at the same time.
As time wore on and events happened, Abe hardened up to the point where he leads the BPRD in Hellboy's place. He's no longer innocent and eager to experience everything the world has to offer. To the contrary, it seems he's fairly tired of it. It's mostly out of a sense of obligation that he works at the BPRD to protect it. Sure, he cares about the world enough, but mostly he does his job out of obligation and the fact that well. The people closest to him are at BPRD.
Abe is pretty protective of his closer friends, especially Liz since she gets captured so damn often. Okay mainly Liz because he's worried her impulsiveness will be the end of her basically. Their relationship is similar to that of a older brother/little sister relationship, with Abe keeping as close an eye on her without smothering her. For the rest of his friends (ie the ones who can fight well) he tends not to worry so much, though he does seem to worry and care about Daimio. Anyway, for the most part Abe trusts his friends to take care of themselves and has faith in all of their abilities. This isn't to say he won't protect them, more like he'll only do so if he doesn't think they can take care of it.
In the field, Abe tends to be pretty serious and focused. Over the years he's learned that if you don't have your head in the game you'll probably end up dead. In that same vein, while he's not exactly hard to knock out in a fight, he's fairly obstinate and will probably end up fighting back. He's very much a soldier, in that he has no qualms about having to kill people to achieve an end goal. He accepts the loss of life with grief, but also realizing that stuff like that happens in his line of work. He doesn't tend to dwell on death unless he feels its somehow his fault, in which case he still tends to put it behind him fairly quickly. It's not really because he's cold so much as he knows that in order to ensure the majority of his troops surviving, he can't be distracted by guilt.
Outside of battle he tends to mostly keep to himself. He does hang out around the base, and enjoys talking to people, but in the end he only truly feels comfortable around a few people and would rather spend his time reading. Outside of the BPRD his interactions with people tends to be pretty awkward as the majority are put off by his appearance. While he himself has grown to become somewhat comfortable with his appearance, the public's reactions to it tends to make him react a bit awkwardly. Oftentimes he'll try to get whoever he's talking to to understand that he's not a monster or going to harm them or anything. Luckily, this has been alleviated in recent canon with the BPRD's growing publicity and public recognition.
Abe also has a penchant for being fairly dry and sarcastic and sometimes his attitude borders on pessimism. He has a low tolerance for bullshit and, if the offense was bad enough, will hold grudges. "Bad offenses" usually fall under the category of "calling me the anti-christ", which is sort of valid.
On a personal level, Abe's kind of in the middle of a life-long identity crisis. It's not really that he doesn't really know who he is so much as he doesn't know what he is. He knows who he was and has come to terms with the fact that his past self was a dick. And that he was in love with his past self's wife. So he's moved on from worrying about who he was and what happened to all his memories and is now more concerned with what exactly he is. And if he has a blood relationship to the Frogs that are plaguing the world. The possibility that he and they are related is canonly acknowledged to be one of his biggest fears.
POWER:
Canonly, Abe is a fishman. This means he can 1) breathe both underwater and on land as he has both gills and human lungs. Unfortunately, his ability to breathe on land has its limits and after a week he has to go underwater again. For this he will probably just submerge himself underwater in a bathtub, which is also how he sleeps! So its convenient.
Abe's second power is not one from canon and will be the ability to pull any weapon out of thin air. All he'll need to do is think up a weapon he needs or wants and it will appear in his hand! However the weapons themselves are normal and will run out of ammo like any other weapon. Additionally, he would only be able to pull out one weapon at a time, so in the case that he would want a new weapon, he would have to trade his existing one in.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
[Abe is facing the comm, his upper torso visible to the camera. He looks extremely unamused. Maybe a bit annoyed.]
I'm going to go through this once, and only once.
I am not nor do I know of Doug Jones. The same goes for Guillermo del Toro. And Selma Blair. And Ron Perlman. In fact, I am not and never will be in any movie. I am also not the Creature From the Black Lagoon and if I hear one more joke about it I swear I will make you regret it.
[He takes a deep breath then sighs, massaging his temple.] I almost forgot what it was like to be stared at. Can't say I've missed it, but what else am I going to do? Walk around with a bag over my head? Never go outside? [He looks back at the comm, eyes softening slightly.] Look. I know I... look different. But trust me, I didn't want to look this way and... [ he's still confused as to how he looked like this... but so not mentioning that...] Well, that's it, I suppose.
[god after 30 years of this you'd think he'd be good at this sort of thing. He sighs again, beginning to feel a bit awkward. There's a lingering silence, as he attempts to think of something to say and fails. But he is reminded of something else. Probably because his phone is ringing in the background. He looks in its direction grudgingly.]
That being said, I find it fairly disconcerting to know that I was apparently in a movie. Which has kindly disappeared, if I'm understanding the director correctly. Must be one of the perks of this place.
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
He thought the apparent lack of the supernatural would be a welcome change. No more giant fights to save the world, no monsters lurking behind corners to hurt people. Just him and Hellboy, trying to live a relatively normal life from himself. Not that that was possible considering the two of them, but… he could hope.
However as the months wore on he soon discovered that he missed his old life. The insane suicide missions. Fighting the undefeatable odds. Struggling to survive and then feeling all the more victorious when he, and his team, did. Even if he didn't exactly enjoy it, it at least gave him something to do. Reading could only keep him occupied for so long before the memories of action called him back.
It was like an insatiable urge, really. A pull of temptation that he didn't want or need but followed anyway. Back home it had always followed him around, pulled him back to the BPRD whenever he felt the urge to leave. But here he felt nothing and it was off-putting.
He didn't tell Hellboy about this. Didn't need to, really. They knew what to talk about and what to leave alone. What things needed to be said and what things they could share without speaking. This was one of the latter; Abe was sure Hellboy had had similar thoughts since coming here.
They were restless. Eager to find another supernatural force and punch it and shoot it in the face. And it was because of this that, once he had enough money, Abe made his way back to Lake Okanagan in British Columbia.
Years ago he had stood on an alternate version of this shore, watching as the Ogopogo, a Loch-Ness-like sea monster, terrorized the surrounding shoreline. It had been one of his first successful missions. Now, he stood on the shore, overlooking a peaceful lake, the water so still it reflected the moon perfectly. A twinge of yearning then, his eyes softening a bit as if being thrashed around by a giant monster was a fond memory.
But in a way it was. By coming back from that mission alive and successful, albeit beaten to a pulp, he had proven himself to be a true agent. Not just Hellboy's right-hand man. It would have been a coming-of-age if he was sure he hadn't already gone through that in his past life. Still. It had been a significant event in his life and it was strange to come here and find it gone.
Still, he stripped down to his shorts, largely thanks to that sliver of optimism in him insisting that there was a chance. So slowly, he waded into the lake, comforted by the feeling of water around him. Whether he liked it or not this was home for him. He was bound to it, forced to submerge himself underwater in a timely manner or die. But in other ways as well.
In a way it was like his pull back to the BPRD. Except stronger, and he was more open to it. Underwater he was the expert, he was the one at ease. It didn't matter who saw him, what they did, how they treated him, all that mattered was the current. The fish. The temperature of the water. It was his separate world. His day spa. His place of relaxation.
Submerging himself, he felt the tension lift from his body. It was clear the moment his gills started to kick in that the Ogopogo wasn't there, but he didn't really mind. Maybe he wasn't looking for it in the first place. Maybe he was just looking for something vaguely similar to his world. His comfort zone. Maybe he just needed a vacation, a dip in some real, unpolluted water. Maybe this was a cleansing of all of the anxieties gained since arriving here.
Whatever the reason, he spent the remainder of the night in the lake swimming and exploring. Then, when the sun rose, he waded out, rented a cheap room at a local motel, and waited until nightfall once more. When it came, he journeyed back out to the lake and repeated the previous night, assuring himself with the lie that this was still business, he was still looking for any traces of Ogopogo, this wasn't a vacation.
He enjoyed it all the same.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
He gets seasick.
