Karl Heisenberg

Name

Karl Heisenberg. Karl. Heisenberg. Lord Karl Heisenberg.

Background

Lord Karl Heisenberg was a human mutant who lived in an Eastern European mountain range. A genius in engineering, he is presumably the patriarch of the Heisenberg family. He runs the inherited Heisenberg Factory, located just outside the village, and serves Mother Miranda, along with the other three major houses in the mountain range. As a child, Mother Miranda kidnapped him and conducted a cruel experiment on Karl and other kidnapped people to move into the body of the parasite Cadou. She was sure that this would help find a suitable vessel to revive and return her daughter, to whom she was very attached and who died of the Spanish flu. After this, Heisenberg received supernatural abilities (powerful magnetic telekinesis of metal objects), but was forced to obey Mother Miranda against his will for a long time. Over time, Karl, along with Alcina Dimitrescu, Donna Beneviento and Salvatore Moro, entered the council of lords under her control. Among the Lords of the Four Houses, Heisenberg was the only one who held a grudge against Miranda, due to her own selfish desire to revive her late daughter at the expense of the villagers and how she saw their "family" as nothing more than experiments. As such, he secretly planned a rebellion to get his freedom back, building an army of cyborgized reanimated corpses. The Heisenberg family was closely associated with the noble Beneviento, Moreau, and Dimitrescu families, and maintained an alliance with them in controlling the region. According to sources, Heisenberg rarely strayed from his family's factory, preferring to hole himself up in its walls.

Personality

Despite his intelligence, Carl is a conflicted and short-tempered man, prone to poor impulse control, name-calling and melodramatic behavior, which often prevents him from maintaining relationships with others. Heisenberg and Dimitrescu often don't get along with each other, as Dimitrescu called him a child. Heisenberg also said that Dimitrescu has a big ego, which makes him a hypocrite, given his own narcissism. Despite the fact that Heisenberg was sadistic and ruthless, unlike the other four lords, he respects the strong novices who were able to survive after his traps and Miranda's experiments on them. He is very proud of his "Soldier" units, seeing them as proof of his superiority over others (even though their design is far from perfect), and adheres to a rather Darwinian view of life, believing that "the strong will destroy the weak." It is noteworthy that Carl became so fixated on murdering Miranda not only because of his desire to free himself from her influence, but also because of a simple dislike for her for using him as a guinea pig in her experiments. Not only does he not lose his purpose after a radical transformation, but he is also the only one of the lords who has retained his sanity and intelligence after the mutation, while his arrogance, talkativeness and excessive self-confidence still remain in force. Sarcastic, brash, grumpy, smart, narcissistic, flirtatious, horny, workaholic, calm, gentle and sweet. He often swears, radiating Dad's vibes.

Appearance

Heisenberg is a tall middle-aged man with long black greying hair, a mustache and beard. He wears a long tattered brown coat with a beige shirt underneath, brown trousers, boots, gloves and a wide-brimmed hat, as well as what seems to be a compass, an old fish scale and a dog tag around his neck. His weapon of choice is a huge custom-made hammer assembled from different mechanisms that he sometimes carries around with him.Green-blue eyes, many scars on the face and body, sharp fangs, shaggy gray hair. He also was old-fashioned sunglasses, and is often been smoking a cigar. On Karl, you can see a military badge (unknown, from the 1st or 2nd World War) in the form of an oval medallion. It is noteworthy that the medallion is intact, because if Karl had died in the war, his medallion would have been broken into two halves, to report to the command that the soldier had died. Also, in one of Heisenberg's notes, he mentions that Mother Miranda kidnapped him, therefore, he was not resurrected.

Abilities/Powers

Karl is a brilliant engineer, being able to build a vast underground factory full of complicated technology for fast and efficient production of his cybernetic soldiers, however his genius mind is not without flaws, considering most of his creations, though inhumanly strong and durable, are rather cumbersome and have obvious weak spots, but the sheer scale of their manufacturing and intelligence (some of them are capable to covering their weak points with their drills) is impressive. Other than this regenerative powers from the Cadous, Heisenberg also has electric organs similar to an electric ray, that allow him to control magnetic fields and move metallic objects. This is shown when Heisenberg was arguing with Alcina Dimitrescu and he was able to get his hammer by just bringing out his hand. He's capable of precise throwing of various metallic pieces as well and, at one point, he fully encased Ethan in a "capsule" consisting of rusty metal parts by mentally manipulating the objects to stick to the protagonist. He can also transform by stretching his body apart and spreading his biomass through a large mechanical apparatus he assembled and can become a cyborg so powerful that he can only be defeated using a special metal/polymer tank that Karl cannot manipulate. In his mutated state, he possesses a large circular saw capable of slashing through solid metal, can ram his heavy metal body into Ethan's vehicle at high speed and is able to block the protagonist's attacks with wide metal sheets. Further into the battle, he regenerates his mass by drawing more scrap to himself and even grows a long metallic claw to grab Ethan's vehicle with. In the end, his decision to assemble himself into a gargantuan rotating fan proves fatal for him, since it allows Ethan to fire a cannon right into his core, obliterating Karl for good. Karl is also a half-lycan, which explains his sharper fangs and more body hair.