World of GeneX - Kosmo the Morph
Blog Entry: World of GeneX - Kosmo the Morph
Blog Entry: World of GeneX - Kosmo the Morph
Kosmo is a shapeshifter, and can therefore take on any appearence he chooses. His default form is fairly simple, and all his personal forms sport purple as the primary color, with red as the secondary color and green as an occasional tertiary color. He wears pale green shoes, and in all forms, his eyes constantly glow yellow. His glowing eyes have all-black pupils.
Only Bucky the Rat knows the full circumstances of the creation of Kosmo, AKA Experiment 3. In the early stages of his life, he developed a strong hatred of naturally-born creatures, a hatred possibly born of jealousy. Regardless, Bucky viewed this hate, coupled with the nature of Kosmo's power, as a great danger, and had him sealed in suspended animation. This only served to further enrage Kosmo, leading him to seek out the Chaos Emeralds in an effort to destroy all life once freed from his suspended state. Once defeated, he transformed using the power of collected artificial Master Emeralds, and injured Sonic and Shadow. However, Tails and Copter took charge of the situation, and defeated him with their super forms. Beaten, Kosmo reverted to his normal form and fled. He was weak, and GUN pursued him, but Shadow the hedgehog appeared, offering aid. He seemed to understand Kosmo's heart, and his words started the morph on a new path to find himself in a world where all of the Experiments were being hunted. His first major act, ultimately, would be to rescue Copter from police pursuit.
Kosmo found a temporary home in an abandoned, creepy mansion in Troblusk City, but once it was found by various forces, Kosmo had to abandon it. Left with no idea what to do, he took the Covenant of Despair up on an offer to join them. It wouldn't take long for him to realize that Despair wasn't as heroic in their pro-animal, anti-human mission as they would have their agents believe...
Kosmo's rage has lessened a bit since he was first awakened, though he still holds a grudge against his creator and Richard Gunner. In combat, and for general purposes, he can transform into just about anything, but sometimes the imagination is lacking, sometimes space is lacking, and also, transforming repeatedly saps his energy. Still, he can be quite devastating over a short space of time, and is one of the most powerful of the Experiments.
Author Commentary!
I am considering redesigning his default look, so I didn't go to any trouble to describe it. I should say redesigning AGAIN, because his character initially went through so many design concepts in my head I ultimately just gave up and did what I could sprite. (more or less) I did want him to have an interesting hairstyle. Couldn't really pull it off.
There's more to tell in Kosmo's origins. I was originally going to address it in "Knuckles the Echidna", but it proved to be one plot thread too many. Anyway, I'd like to bring in the character of Nova again for that purpose. I actually have a whole troop of morph characters in the back of my head, sobbing that I took the series in a different direction.
I've been trying to redeem Kosmo lately. How's that going? Is it believable at all? I want him to stay on, but I went maybe... too far in characterizing him as a villain. I didn't think too much about the future back then. But he's my favorite of my creations, I don't want to have him waste his existence as a rarely-appearing ultimate-villain. So I worked on some ideas of weaknesses, like over-transforming tires him out... I also found I lack imagination with his transformations... That right there will limit his appearences anyway. Oh well...
Only Bucky the Rat knows the full circumstances of the creation of Kosmo, AKA Experiment 3. In the early stages of his life, he developed a strong hatred of naturally-born creatures, a hatred possibly born of jealousy. Regardless, Bucky viewed this hate, coupled with the nature of Kosmo's power, as a great danger, and had him sealed in suspended animation. This only served to further enrage Kosmo, leading him to seek out the Chaos Emeralds in an effort to destroy all life once freed from his suspended state. Once defeated, he transformed using the power of collected artificial Master Emeralds, and injured Sonic and Shadow. However, Tails and Copter took charge of the situation, and defeated him with their super forms. Beaten, Kosmo reverted to his normal form and fled. He was weak, and GUN pursued him, but Shadow the hedgehog appeared, offering aid. He seemed to understand Kosmo's heart, and his words started the morph on a new path to find himself in a world where all of the Experiments were being hunted. His first major act, ultimately, would be to rescue Copter from police pursuit.
Kosmo found a temporary home in an abandoned, creepy mansion in Troblusk City, but once it was found by various forces, Kosmo had to abandon it. Left with no idea what to do, he took the Covenant of Despair up on an offer to join them. It wouldn't take long for him to realize that Despair wasn't as heroic in their pro-animal, anti-human mission as they would have their agents believe...
Kosmo's rage has lessened a bit since he was first awakened, though he still holds a grudge against his creator and Richard Gunner. In combat, and for general purposes, he can transform into just about anything, but sometimes the imagination is lacking, sometimes space is lacking, and also, transforming repeatedly saps his energy. Still, he can be quite devastating over a short space of time, and is one of the most powerful of the Experiments.
Author Commentary!
I am considering redesigning his default look, so I didn't go to any trouble to describe it. I should say redesigning AGAIN, because his character initially went through so many design concepts in my head I ultimately just gave up and did what I could sprite. (more or less) I did want him to have an interesting hairstyle. Couldn't really pull it off.
There's more to tell in Kosmo's origins. I was originally going to address it in "Knuckles the Echidna", but it proved to be one plot thread too many. Anyway, I'd like to bring in the character of Nova again for that purpose. I actually have a whole troop of morph characters in the back of my head, sobbing that I took the series in a different direction.
I've been trying to redeem Kosmo lately. How's that going? Is it believable at all? I want him to stay on, but I went maybe... too far in characterizing him as a villain. I didn't think too much about the future back then. But he's my favorite of my creations, I don't want to have him waste his existence as a rarely-appearing ultimate-villain. So I worked on some ideas of weaknesses, like over-transforming tires him out... I also found I lack imagination with his transformations... That right there will limit his appearences anyway. Oh well...