K.A.S. Giganuuk

Name: Giganuuk

Factions: Rogue

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral (at least, it seems so. . .)

Rank: 6

STATS:

Height (shoulder) 75 meters (when rearing) 140 meters

Length: 170 meters

Weight: Approx: 55000 tons (chaotic magnetic pressure makes weighing . . .difficult)


Abilities:

-Magnetic Pulsations: Giganuuk's body, through unknown means to humanity, is in a constant state of electromagnetic flux. The amount seems to vary by emotional state, though this pressure gives off a few interesting abilities. For one, the amount of positive/negative contrast can at times give Giganuuk strength far beyond estimation, able to floor the largest kaiju as though they were made of wax. In contrast, at times it can weaken him, typically when placid, to power levels a Rank 3 could match. This state is often matched by one of the creature's most natural instincts, hibernation.

Also, this power makes close proximity combat near impossible for nearly all targets. Kaiju getting close often find themselves feeling drained and sick to the stomach, mecha are near useless (though Unum is impossibly functional. . .) and people often die of radiation sickness and dementia.

Glacier Breakers: An aspect of Giganuuk's enigma mutation is the hardening of the shoulder muscles, the tip of the tail, and the near entirety of the front paws, which are essentially the kaiju equivalent of brass knuckles.

360 degree thermal vision: Another of the Enigma mutation aspects would be the apparent lack of eyes and nose on the creatures face. In their place, a series of heat detecting slits runs down his length, granting him thermal vision all around.

Hibernation: Gianuuk is rather slow in the regeneration department, next to nonexistent when stirring. However, after sustaining enough damage, the creature will simply find a good secluded location and enter a state of hibernation, massive wounds slowly healing over time. It is ill advised to attack him in this state.


Muscular Body: While neither the strongest, largest, or most dense of the monsters, he is one of the most ripped, his entire body at a level of muscle mass deemed unnatural, almost steroidal. . .

Weaknesses:

Heat based attacks: While the attack does little damage to his tough, muscular hide, it can render his senses inert for a time when used. Granted, this is an on the fence tactic, as blindness tends to make the mutation angrier and thus stronger.

Nega lightning: One of the strangest occurences in kaiju lore also has one of the strangest weaknesses. The nega energy utilized by the enigmatic flier Corvosaurus Rex has proven to be quite capable of both injuring and weakening the massive Northern Juggernaut. The two seem to counteract each other, though, as his magnetic radiation keeps the mutant at a safe distance.

Rival Radiation Sources: A source of radiation greater than or equal to his own can practically put the mutation out of business for quite some time.

Personality: Giganuuk's personality is best deemed chaotic. At times the creature simply seems predatory, at times a menacing juggernaut with evil destructive intentions, and at times nearly heroic, standing up to rival monsters of apocalypse class power.

History: Giganuuk's history is one fraught with great mystery, Cold War Myth, and intrigue. To mankind, the first modern encounter was in 20X0, when he first appeared in the Arctic. However, his true origin's are obscure as they come.

Though man would not learn of this until their fateful victory over the dreaded galactic conqueror's known as the Salvgar, Giganuuk's origin's were not long after one of the most fateful days of the twentieth century, the Tunguska explosion. Though mankind would find no remains, the truth of the incident was quite extraterrestrial. And even more surprising was the near mythical perpetrator.

Grigori Rasputin, the man known as the Empire breaker, was well known as a mystic, able to communicate with those outside of our world. While in the time period, outside implied more spiritual means, but in truth he was in contact through ESP with a mighty conquering force, who told him that earth was about to be tested, both the east, and the west. The Eastern portion of the world would be tested first, and sent a great gift to test their will to conquer. But, in order to obtain the approval of the empire, they must pass the test and use the gift to their great benefit. Months later, the world was alight in fire as the alien craft exploded over the Tunguska forest, but this was far from an accident, in fact it was part of the test.

The craft was nothing more than an empty shell meant to harbor a piece of weaponry the Salvgar had acquired long ago, a strange metallic sphere known in our tongue as 'The Bio- Enigmagnet.' It landed harmlessly in the forest during the great cataclysm, but the Russian's of the area were either killed or frightened away, and none dared enter the woods, save one creature that had wandered a little too far in the pursuit of food.

A lone polar bear, half starved and haggard from a long journey, had wandered into the smoky forest in the days after the fire's died down. Eager to find any scrap of food he could, the massive predator stumbled onto the sphere, the size of a ping-pong ball, and swallowed it whole. The changes were near immediate.

Rasputin, told in a vision to go to the ruins, arrived and found the bear, which was at that point the size of the Wright Brother's aircraft. The data is very sparse at this point, but Rasputin had supposedly passed the test, and was able to control the great bear, which was mutating every day into a greater and more powerful creature. The alien empire, pleased at the show of power and control, was prepared to come to earth, wiping out the mighty Russia and granting the mystic a place of honor as the man that gave them half a world. But that was not to be, for Rasputin was killed in the days preceding the Soviet uprising, before the aliens could even arrive.

Outraged at the loss of a good pawn, the aliens decided to bide their time and test the West in the 1940's, sending down a craft containing a pair of bioseismic emitters, and in the meantime allowing their other weapon, the great bear, to slumber in the Dyatlov Pass, where he would rarely stir, save for one incident where a group of young hikers found the bear slumbering in the 1950's, when it was the size of a large dinosaur, and badly carved the Soviet Symbols into its skin, raising the ire of the slumbering giant and spelling the end of the people who visited the pass.

Time passed quietly until the kaiju began to arise, the only hint of Giganuuk's arrival being 'the stirring' as it was later called, when the technorganic scorpion Unum was seen heading into the Arctic circle into a large magnetic flux. After Unum was brought under control, though, the pattern's stopped and did not start again, at least, not until the day he arose, a few weeks after 'the Burgess incident'.

It began when the European Union was testing out their prototype mecha the Templar, who was on the trail of the enigma mutant Vastrato. As the expedition led far into the Arctic circle, all communications were lost, as well as all radar. The pilot would return a few days later, and tell a story like many others before it, the story of a new kaiju on the scene.

He encountered Vastrato, but what was surprising was that the mecha was not the object of his attention. That role was given to a massive polar bear with a long tail, no eyes or nose, and big armor plates all over its body. What more so is the fact that the beast was Vastrato's size ON ALL FOURS.

The two did battle for a time, Vastrato's superior weight being heavily utilized to keep himself grounded from the bludgeoning blows of the armored front paws. But as time passed, it was very apparent that Vastrato, one of the deadliest kaiju in the world, was being driven back.

The battle ended when Vastrato slipped under the ice and swam to recover its wounds, deciding it best not to continue against the mammalian monster. The bear roared in victory, a roar that near knocked the malfunctioning mecha into the Arctic waters. The pilot then flew home in the escape pod, which was the only feature he really got to use.

Despite disappointment over the failure, the people were more worried about the bear, which had disappeared from radar. More accurately, the entirety of the Arctic circle disappeared from radar. The beast was sighted in Northern Canada days later, progressing southward in a steady march, and it met little resistance. No military vehicles could get close, much less aim properly. But then Tamotahn arrived. The two scuffled for a short time, Tamo releasing his solar blast immediately on the giant. This sent the blinded bear into a berserk frenzy, throttling the stone giant into a skyscraper and rendering the guardian inoperable for a few days.

The scientists studying the creature's unique appearance had different reactions. Some believed him to be the mythical Hyperborean nightmare legend Tatgoon, other's a Russian superweapon from the discolored fur on the shoulders. Regardless, it was apparent that the creature, headed in a beeline for Area 51 according to satellite imaging, was up to something. Fortunately for mankind the western part of the country was considered a kaiju hole, for many of the creatures up to that point had called the region the bear was soon to pass through home.

What happened after that was an all out multi monster brawl as Unum, freshly recovered from his defeat at the fins of Burgess, was deployed, surprisingly immune to the effects of the magnetism. Other monsters eager to fight a new powerful foe also rallied on the scene, such as the famous Tyrantis and Mizzy, as well as the stone guardian Tamotahn, who was back for a second round, the amorphous SpinnYeggehr, the giant Sheymir who was attempting to study Spinn's strange genetic structure, as well as the dueling Azurex and Vongo who happened to be nearby. The monsters did battle for some time, but the bear seemingly grew stronger the more they struck at it, making the fight seem a little one sided, but then, everything changed.

A long fighter jet blazed over the battle, and in pursuit of the craft was a massive stormcloud! The young man who had broken orders by flying without permission, the hotshot named Paul Gregory, would later be called a hero for his bravery, for he himself had come up with the idea of flying over Corvosaurus Rex's island. He didn't know much about magnetism but what he read in a doctor's office waiting room, but he knew that magnetism could theoretically be undone by the near mythical 'nega electricity' which the raven mutant supposedly possessed. Raising the ire of the bird by several low fly by's, Paul then led the bird on into the battlefield, where the bird's black lightning would bring the bear' power levels down to mere fractions of what he had moments before.

The tables almost instantly turned, the various kaiju using their powers on the mutant and driving him back. It seemed victory was at hand, but then the bear had one last laugh when he launched a mighty front paw right into Unum's core, damaging his uplink and knocking the arachnid to the ground in a crumpled heap. But then, something else happened as a massive column of magnetic energy shot up from Unum and the bear into outer space. The bear, exhausted, soon collapsed. Finding the bear to be weak to C. Rex's energy, the American government recruited some 'superpowered help' to move the beast to a neighboring island, where the two would keep each other at arm's length. The beast was dubbed 'Giganuuk' by Paul himself, who had read on polar bears at the dentist before, and the name stuck.

Now, it seemed the incident was over, but as a set of eyes watched the earth celebrate the defeat of one of their weapons and the damage of another, it seemed that action would have to be taken. . .

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This is a drawing I've had saved for a while for KAS, mainly for when Rank 6's became available. This is my 'verse's juggernaut, the mutant polar bear Giganuuk, given a new lease on life. When I submitted the original version, one person thought he was an alien, so I thought when KAS came out 'why not?' and this piece kinda wrote itself.

After Burgess got released I thought about having the two fight, but I changed it to Vastrato after the revisions happened. This was closer to my original plan anyway, so its cool.

Powers wise, he's practically a kaiju equivalent of the Hulk, getting stronger via magnetism as he gets angrier. Also, including Tunguska and Rasputin made for two fun figures of history at the same time. Yay Obscurity!

Now, perhaps you guys are seeing an interesting pattern develop here, but I won't reveal anymore about the aliens for a while, at least until I see what else people can come up with. The Salvgar have alot of potential and I don't want to steal any spotlights.


Awright, 'till next time. I should submit some sketches within the next couple of days.