Bombardier Beetle
Background
Once a promising biochemist and weapons engineer working in elite clandestine circles, Dr. Melanie Ruiz rose to prominence for her radical experimentation in chemical augmentation and crowd-control weaponry. Her research, deemed "morally abhorrent" by international watchdogs, was discredited after a catastrophic lab breach involving unauthorized human trials and volatile weaponized compounds.
Critically injured in the resulting explosion and fire, Ruiz was presumed dead—until she resurfaced under the codename Bombardier Beetle, aligned with the extremist terrorist organization S.W.A.R.M. They salvaged her broken body and gave her new purpose, installing her into a cybernetic shell of war-armor and commissioning her to develop next-generation chemical weapons for their campaigns of global destabilization.
She has since become both feared and infamous—her gas attacks incinerating lungs and liquefying armies, her armor a walking symbol of pain refined into science. She operates with fanatical loyalty to the Hive Master, craving their approval as much as she craves data.
Personality
Cold, analytical, and fiercely devoted to her work, Bombardier Beetle believes that suffering is an acceptable cost for scientific advancement. She dismisses traditional morality as an impediment to progress, regarding those who hinder her experiments as intellectually bankrupt or ideologically delusional.
Ruiz shows signs of growing obsession with the Hive Master—not merely as a superior, but as a guiding intellect who recognizes her genius in a way no one else ever has. Her emotional landscape is heavily repressed, medicated, and compartmentalized, but under the armor lies a woman consumed by the need to matter, to create, and to control. She does not fear what she has become. She fears only being forgotten.
Once a promising biochemist and weapons engineer working in elite clandestine circles, Dr. Melanie Ruiz rose to prominence for her radical experimentation in chemical augmentation and crowd-control weaponry. Her research, deemed "morally abhorrent" by international watchdogs, was discredited after a catastrophic lab breach involving unauthorized human trials and volatile weaponized compounds.
Critically injured in the resulting explosion and fire, Ruiz was presumed dead—until she resurfaced under the codename Bombardier Beetle, aligned with the extremist terrorist organization S.W.A.R.M. They salvaged her broken body and gave her new purpose, installing her into a cybernetic shell of war-armor and commissioning her to develop next-generation chemical weapons for their campaigns of global destabilization.
She has since become both feared and infamous—her gas attacks incinerating lungs and liquefying armies, her armor a walking symbol of pain refined into science. She operates with fanatical loyalty to the Hive Master, craving their approval as much as she craves data.
Personality
Cold, analytical, and fiercely devoted to her work, Bombardier Beetle believes that suffering is an acceptable cost for scientific advancement. She dismisses traditional morality as an impediment to progress, regarding those who hinder her experiments as intellectually bankrupt or ideologically delusional.
Ruiz shows signs of growing obsession with the Hive Master—not merely as a superior, but as a guiding intellect who recognizes her genius in a way no one else ever has. Her emotional landscape is heavily repressed, medicated, and compartmentalized, but under the armor lies a woman consumed by the need to matter, to create, and to control. She does not fear what she has become. She fears only being forgotten.
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