Post by Hybrid on Sept 10, 2006 9:48:35 GMT -5
Name: Dr. Samuel Register.
Alias: The Zookeeper.
Age: Old. Past middle-aged...He would be the same age as Garfield Logan/Beast Boy/Changeling's parents remember.
Powers/Abilities: Shape-shifting like Changeling and the mind of a mad scientist.
History: Over twenty years ago Dr. Samuel Register worked with Mark and Marie Logan in their lab in Africa, searching to study and better understand the animal world. When the Logans' young son, Garfield, was infected with Sakutia, a disease only animals were known to survive, they injected him with a serum from a green monkey as a last ditch attempt at saving him. Garfield survived but remained green, a side effect of the disease. He also gained the ability to shape-shift into any animal at will, a gift that intrigued Register for some time.
For years Dr. Register obsessively tried to recreate the experiment that gave Gar Logan his powers to discover the 'missing link' between humans and animals. He earned the nickname 'The Zookeeper' while working at the government's animal research center in Tampa, Florida. He was fired for unorthodox methods including testing humans with animal blood and vice versa. He then worked at S.T.A.R. Labs San Francisco branch to lead their abnormal and extraterrestrial disease program.
Sometime between being hired for S.T.A.R. Labs and meeting up with Beast Boy for the first time Register had a son who he hoped would be useful in his experimentation. As the boy, Ryan, grew, however, Register found himself growing attached to the boy and raising him as a son not an experiment. When Ryan ruined the closest breakthrough Zookeeper had ever come to discovering the missing link he abandoned his then five year old son dumping him off with his mother (a random colleague at S.T.A.R. Labs). They hadn't made contact in over ten years.
He later injected a sample of the Sakutia virus into his own body and gained scaly purple skin as well as a shape-shifting ability almost identical to Beast Boy's. He caused a massive outbreak of the disease across the city of San Francisco, which was believed to have been caused by Beast Boy. Register told the city officials otherwise and Beast Boy was immune from blame.
Seeking a cure to the disease Zookeeper tried to cut Beast Boy open to learn his biological secrets. The Titans saved their teammate and Beast Boy took Zookeeper down himself in a massive shape-shifting battle through San Francisco. The Zookeeper was brought to Alcatraz Prison and is known to be immune to any cure for Sakutia (unlike Beast Boy who once actually lost his shape-shifting ability and returned to his normal, human form from before the incident).
Plotting revenge and escaping the prison Zookeeper managed to infiltrate Titans Tower and experiment on Beast Boy's adopted son. He accidentally altered the young boy's DNA, splitting him in half to a human looking shape-shifting form and his usual yellow one. Register wanted to take the human looking one back to his lab with him to experiment on but the yellow shifter stopped this idea by reconnecting with his other half. With two halves of a soul, and both halves with the ability to shape-shift, Hybrid's unstable DNA allowed him to morph into hybrid forms now. And that fascinated the Zookeeper even further.
Ten years after the first incident Zookeeper ambushed Hybrid and split him apart again, this time with the intent to kill off the yellow half that stopped his experiment in the first place. Using Hybrid's own other side against him he managed to stop the yellow shifter in his tracks and just before finishing him off his long lost son, Ryan Register (AKA Predator) showed up and literally paralyzed him. He escaped by way of Frederick, Hybrid's other side, and is no doubt plotting revenge on both Hybrid and his son.
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Alias: The Zookeeper.
Age: Old. Past middle-aged...He would be the same age as Garfield Logan/Beast Boy/Changeling's parents remember.
Powers/Abilities: Shape-shifting like Changeling and the mind of a mad scientist.
History: Over twenty years ago Dr. Samuel Register worked with Mark and Marie Logan in their lab in Africa, searching to study and better understand the animal world. When the Logans' young son, Garfield, was infected with Sakutia, a disease only animals were known to survive, they injected him with a serum from a green monkey as a last ditch attempt at saving him. Garfield survived but remained green, a side effect of the disease. He also gained the ability to shape-shift into any animal at will, a gift that intrigued Register for some time.
For years Dr. Register obsessively tried to recreate the experiment that gave Gar Logan his powers to discover the 'missing link' between humans and animals. He earned the nickname 'The Zookeeper' while working at the government's animal research center in Tampa, Florida. He was fired for unorthodox methods including testing humans with animal blood and vice versa. He then worked at S.T.A.R. Labs San Francisco branch to lead their abnormal and extraterrestrial disease program.
Sometime between being hired for S.T.A.R. Labs and meeting up with Beast Boy for the first time Register had a son who he hoped would be useful in his experimentation. As the boy, Ryan, grew, however, Register found himself growing attached to the boy and raising him as a son not an experiment. When Ryan ruined the closest breakthrough Zookeeper had ever come to discovering the missing link he abandoned his then five year old son dumping him off with his mother (a random colleague at S.T.A.R. Labs). They hadn't made contact in over ten years.
He later injected a sample of the Sakutia virus into his own body and gained scaly purple skin as well as a shape-shifting ability almost identical to Beast Boy's. He caused a massive outbreak of the disease across the city of San Francisco, which was believed to have been caused by Beast Boy. Register told the city officials otherwise and Beast Boy was immune from blame.
Seeking a cure to the disease Zookeeper tried to cut Beast Boy open to learn his biological secrets. The Titans saved their teammate and Beast Boy took Zookeeper down himself in a massive shape-shifting battle through San Francisco. The Zookeeper was brought to Alcatraz Prison and is known to be immune to any cure for Sakutia (unlike Beast Boy who once actually lost his shape-shifting ability and returned to his normal, human form from before the incident).
Plotting revenge and escaping the prison Zookeeper managed to infiltrate Titans Tower and experiment on Beast Boy's adopted son. He accidentally altered the young boy's DNA, splitting him in half to a human looking shape-shifting form and his usual yellow one. Register wanted to take the human looking one back to his lab with him to experiment on but the yellow shifter stopped this idea by reconnecting with his other half. With two halves of a soul, and both halves with the ability to shape-shift, Hybrid's unstable DNA allowed him to morph into hybrid forms now. And that fascinated the Zookeeper even further.
Ten years after the first incident Zookeeper ambushed Hybrid and split him apart again, this time with the intent to kill off the yellow half that stopped his experiment in the first place. Using Hybrid's own other side against him he managed to stop the yellow shifter in his tracks and just before finishing him off his long lost son, Ryan Register (AKA Predator) showed up and literally paralyzed him. He escaped by way of Frederick, Hybrid's other side, and is no doubt plotting revenge on both Hybrid and his son.
End transmission.