KarnEvil

KarnEvil is the cyborg clown who is nominally responsible for starting the Trojans.

Early Life
Dr Carston Edward Ville was born in 2003, and pursued a lucrative career in psychology for most of his life. While he led a reasonably unremarkable life, this all changed in 2047 when one of his patients had a psychotic breakdown andwhile trying to reason with him, Dr Ville got his body crushed by a construction robot. When he came to, 93% of his body had been replaced with cybernetics. Quietly, he had his own little breakdown in his hospital bed.

He had three years of learning to walk before the Invasion, at which time he was approached by the British government who offered to arm and armour his body if he would go into battlezones to scavenge Invader technology, and anything else that could be considered "advanced". Not really listening, he accepted.

The upgrade process was excruciating, and removed five of the last seven percent of his original body to turn him into a cybernetic weapon. His first mission had him sent to an area in the midst of an Invader attack where he watched helplessly as entire families were slowly and painfully destroyed in front of his scanners. While he did what he could to fight back, the government finally recalled him and sent him back out to Maidstone. It was shortly after this that the Invaders destroyed the bunker housing the remains of Parliament and Carston was left on his own.

As he collected technology, mindlessly following his last objective, he noticed that he began to change, his body got lither and more organic, his hands developed claws and he could form weapons at will. He had become a Transhuman, and one that could alter his body's technology - an exceptionally powerful gift for someone whose body is 98% machine.

As he worked, he gathered a group of followers who helped him find technology. As they worked, they found more people, who had friends and allies who also helped. Eventually, the mechanical creature that had begun calling itself KarnEvil simply sat back and allowed it's human minions to complete it's objective for it.

Current Status
KarnEvil doesn't lead the Trojans. KarnEvil doesn't even believe the events surrounding him have happened. He believes that he's still having his breakdown in 2047, and that his objective to gather all technology that could be considered "advanced" is a task his mind has set itself to allow himself to become more focussed. His body has become that of a clowns because he developed a minor phobia of them as a child, and he has become the thing he hates. The alien Invaders represent his inner demons, and the group that has sprung up around him are the people he councilled, spurred into pointless action at his whim, just because he tells them to. He is unsure what the other people, the red sky and the monsters around Maidstone mean, but that is part of the puzzle that he must figure out.

And the being known as KarnEvil is certain that when he works it all out, he can go back home, back to being Dr Carston Edward Ville, back to a hospital bed in 2047...

In Combat
KarnEvil is a terrifying opponent in combat, capable of creating any weapon that has any effect at a moment's notice from any part of his body. While he favours energy weapons, he will also attack with his bare claws or possibly turn his hands into giant scything blades. It is this unpredictability that makes KarnEvil such an effective fighter, combined with the certainty that those he fights are just his delusions, nightmare visions of those he has wronged trying to punish him.

Why a Computerised Voice?
While I was tempted by someone such as Kevin Eldon or Hugo Weaving to do the voice of KarnEvil, I eventually decided on simply using a computerised voice for several reasons - it's cheaper, it's guaranteed to have no emotion, and it shows the detatchment that is a large part of KarnEvil's character. I'd still love one of the two to do his voice if earlier DLC was created on his backstory when he had just been put in the battlesuit, but as his powers are improved, it should become more electronic and emotionless.