Doctor Elizardbeth "Liz" Scales (She/Her). Self-made lizard-human hybrid. Zoologist and genetic engineer at the Evil Science Center. If you need a monster for your evil schemes, consider me your go-to gal! I even do custom monster orders (I give a discount if you let me make it a reptile)! Proud trans woman in STEM (Subterfuge, Treachery, Evil, and Malevolence). I definitely have a real doctorate.
[[This is an evil scientist RP blog run by @velociraptrix. Link to the picrew I used for her avatar: https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/582810]]
[[Extremely long-ass story below the cut! CW for violence and like, psychic torture I guess? Not really sure how to describe it but Liz's brain experiences the horrors at one point]]
TLDR Version: Liz encounters a time-traveling monster in the prehistoric past. Hijinks ensue.
It's an ordinary day in the late Jurassic. A gaggle of Dryosaurus graze on a lush patch of ferns on an open plain. In the distance, at the edge of a forest, a herd of Brontosaurus stretch their necks high as they feed from the treetops, a herd of Camptosaurus underfoot eagerly scarfing up the scraps of foliage dropped by the sauropods as they browse. Hidden in the shadows of the underbrush, a trio of Allosaurus watch the herd of herbivores hungrily, waiting for a straggler to stray too far from the rest of the herd.
This prehistoric business-as-usual is interrupted with a loud 'POP!' as a time machine suddenly materializes in the clearing causing the Dryosaurus to flee in fright. Out of the time machine steps Doctor Elizardbeth Scales, an eager and excited expression on her face.
"Morrison Formation, the Land of Giants! Fuck yeah, let's go!"
Liz takes in her surroundings, and spots the herd of Brontosaurus and Camptosaurus. "Jackpot!" She takes off on her draconic wings, making a beeline for the herd.
As Liz nears her target, pulling a syringe out of her pocket, she feels a brief twinge of pain in her head as from behind her a bright blue light flashes, and a high-pitched, shrieking roar rings out, frightening the herd of dinosaurs into a stampede. Liz stops in midair and turns around.
Behind her is an enormous reptilian-looking beast with a long, serpentine body, easily as long as that of a Brontosaurus, if not even longer, ending in a twisting, whiplike tail. Its body is covered in dark green scales, so dark they're almost black, with a pattern of glowing blue spots down its sides. A row of glowing blue spikes run along its back. Supporting its body are twelve legs, sprawled out like those of a lizard, each foot equipped with wicked hooked claws, glowing blue. Its lizardlike head sports four glowing blue eyes with hourglass-shaped pupils, and a glowing blue maw full of razor-sharp teeth, out from which flits a long, multi-pronged tongue. Atop its head sits a glowing blue shark fin-like crest. Supporting the head is a long serpentine neck with a cobra like frill, marked with yet more glowing blue spots. The beast looks around, flicking its tongue, before turning its focus towards Liz.
Seeing this beast, only the most logical of thoughts enters Liz's mind: I've gotta get a DNA sample from this thing! She swoops in towards the creature, only to witness it vanish in a flash of bright blue light that makes Liz feel a sharp pain in her head. As she reaches up to rub at her temples, she immediately feels the beast's tail wrap itself around her and slam her into the ground.
Liz groans in pain as she feels her various bones and organs knit themselves back together. She staggers to her feet and looks up, only to see the beast leering down at her. Its four blue eyes glow brightly and begin to spin as it stares into her eyes. Liz's mind is flooded with visions from many different timelines, visions of her own various deaths. Her head throbs excruciatingly, making it impossible for her to do anything but clutch at her head and scream. Blood leaks out from every orifice in her head. The beast lunges forward to claim its prey, and Liz is -
The beast lets out a shriek of pain, rearing its head back. The agony dissipates from Liz's head enough for her to focus again. She looks to see why the creature stopped, and sees that an Allosaurus has clamped its jaws down on its leg, blue blood staining its snout. Liz can't help but grin, despite the headache, at the dinosaur's sheer audacity, and the fact that her favorite dinosaur just saved her life! The monster twists around and smacks the theropod with one of its other legs, knocking it loose, along with a chunk of its own flesh. Apparently this also knocks some sense into the Allosaurus, as it hobbles off to join two others of its kind currently feasting on the carcass of a Camptosaurus that had been trampled in the stampede.
With that nuisance dealt with, the time basilisk turns back towards its actual target, only to find that she's not there. The basilisk is confused. It had definitely incapacitated her (though it was weird that she survived that much of its power in the first place), how was she gone? It whips its head around and spots her dashing towards the chunk of its leg that pest had ripped out with its teeth. Enraged, the basilisk lets out a shriek, before repositioning itself in a flash.
Liz dashes under the beast as she sees it dislodge a chunk of its own flesh along with the Allosaurus. She didn't think she could love Allosaurus any more than she already did before today, but one inadvertently saving her life and providing her with a convenient tissue sample from some kind of time beast was raising its #1 pedestal even higher. She's almost reached the scrap of bright blue flesh when she hears the beast shriek, and in a blinding flash of blue light that sends a twinge of pain through her head, it's suddenly in front of her, standing over the flesh. "God dammit."
The beast stares down at Liz, its eyes beginning to glow brightly and spin, but Liz shields her eyes with her wing and slides under the beast, grabbing the chunk of flesh. As she tries to make her exit, however, the beast hooks its claws into her wing, and lifts her up to stare her in the face, snarling. Before it can act, Liz closes her eyes and spits out a jet of acid in its face.
The beast screeches in agony and drops Liz, who wastes no time in using this opportunity to hightail it the fuck out of there, dashing away and taking flight the instant the holes in her wing have healed enough for her to do so. She makes a beeline for her time machine, shouting for joy as she makes it. "Haha! Hell fucking yeah, baby!"
Liz quickly enters her time machine and slams the door shut as the beast appears behind her in another blue flash of light. "Time to lose this thing!" Liz sets the coordinates for late Cretaceous Mongolia and pulls the lever, activating the time machine. The machine disappears with a loud 'POP!' just as the beast is about to bring its claws down on it.
Liz breathes a sigh of relief as her time machine arrives in the Cretaceous. She examines the chunk of flesh in her hands. Despite its unusual color, it still smells quite appetizing, but that might just be the hunger from all the healing she just had to do talking. As she turns it around in her hands, she notices an Allosaurus tooth lodged in the flesh. "Nice!" Liz pockets the tooth and places the flesh into a tissue sample container.
"Alright, now that I've lost that thing, it's time to get back to the Morrison!" *Liz turns to the control console of the machine, but she feels a twinge in her head and sees a bright blue flash through the porthole window of the door. "God dammit, really?" Liz takes a look through the porthole. Yep, there the beast was. Definitely the same one from before, judging from the fresh chemical burns on its face. "So you can follow me through time, huh? Guess this is gonna be harder than I thought!"
Liz sends her time machine to the middle Triassic, then the early Cretaceous in rapid succession. There's a twinge of pain in her head and a flash of blue light outside. "Fuck."
She travels through five different time periods in rapid succession. Twinge of head pain, flash of blue light. "Shit."
Eight times. Head pain. Blue light. "God dammit!"
Seventeen. Pain. Light. "You have got to be fucking kidding me!"
Liz sighs. She knows what she has to do. She didn't want to have to do this, but drastic times call for drastic measures. She sets her coordinates for the very end of the Permian period, and pulls the lever.
Liz can immediately tell she's in the right time by the rumbling in the ground. She peers out the window at the apocalyptic hellscape she's deliberately brought herself to. Immediately outside is the smoldering remains of a forest, some fires still burning. The sky is dark with smoke, and volcanoes spew lava in the distance. Burning ash and dust rains down from the sky. It's getting very uncomfortably hot in her time machine, and several alerts pop up on the time machine's console screen.
"Come on, take the bait, I can't stay here long!" Liz taps a sickle claw against the floor impatiently as she waits, staring out the window, which is beginning to crack from the heat. Sure enough, there's that familiar flash of blue light and twinge of pain, as the beast falls for the trap. It lets out a pained shriek as burning ash peppers its body. It keeps repositioning itself through time over and over again, a bright flash of light and a sharp pain in Liz's head each time, trying to get an angle where it can attack the time machine in relative safety. The beast, now badly burnt all over, lets out one final roar before disappearing in one last flash of blue light.
Liz dashes to the console and looks at the screen. Hull integrity is critical, but the machine is still functional. "Oh thank fuck!" Liz immediately sets the coordinates for her home timeline.
With a loud 'POP!' a very beat-up looking time machine materializes in lab 413. Out of the door steps a very frazzled and exhausted-looking Liz. "Woohoo!" Liz pumps her fists in the air, and lets out a tired laugh of relief. "That sure was something!"
Just got back from watching Jurassic World: Rebirth.
Fun movie! Way better than the previous three Jurassic Worlds! Kind of reminded me of some of my own adventures in gathering prehistoric DNA!
I'm way better at making hybrids than InGen is though, mine are way cooler! Also I wish more people had gotten eaten! But other than that, it was a pretty good movie!
From up in the rafters of the ESC lobby, a familiar maniacal cackle is heard.
"Prepare yourselves to behold greatness!"
Dr. Scales swoops down from the rafters on large, bat-like draconic wings. Though she mostly looks the same as she did before apart from the wings, there are a few other noticeable differences as well. Her feet are now digitigrade and raptor-like, her prehensile tail now ends in a claw-like stinger, and the hands of her claws are now larger and more robust-looking. She lands, supporting a familiar sharp-toothed grin.
[[OOC]] I drew Dr. Scales' newest henchman: Sobek, Lord of Beasts!
Quick facts about Sobek:
He's the first officer lord to be created with a combination of Dr. Scales' and Bolesti's methods, to command the Lizardman thralls they created together
He can make any beast, even the most wild and untameable, submit to his will by staring it in the eye
He's 10 feet tall
Despite his appearance, he actually doesn't have any Kaprosuchus DNA in him. Bolesti's God Formula just Did That
He has a pet Allosaurus anax named Alice, which he tamed during the "cute dinosaurs" event
Voice claims:
Speaking voice: Taurox (Sauria) (He starts speaking at 3:39. Also big CW for brutal, bloody violence. If you can handle that though I highly recommend Sauria!)
Roars, growls, hisses, etc: Ceratosaurus (Jurassic World Evolution)
Dr. Scales uploads a video to the ESC forums titled "Competition Entry"
[[putting this under a readmore cuz it's long af, sorry]]
The video opens on Dr. Scales cackling maniacally, wearing a black-and-purple outfit that wouldn't look out of place on an evil sorceress.
Behind her is a large screen, and a big cage covered with a cloth, from under which growls and hisses can be heard.
"Greetings! It is I, Doctor Elizardbeth Scales, presenting for you a joint entry into Teth's Science Competition, an evil science project combining the unparalleled talents of myself and my dear partner in crime, research, and greatest of all, love, Doctor Cezary Bolesti!"
"Now, without further ado, I present to you Saurianthropus horridus, the Lizardman thrall!"
With a dramatic flourish, Dr. Scales pulls the cloth off the cage, revealing that it contains a hulking, eight foot tall humanoid reptilian monstrosity, its green, scaly hide absolutely covered in spikes, its toothy, crocodile-like face radiating menace. Upon being revealed, the beast lets out a mighty roar.
Dr. Scales pulls up a chart on the screen breaking down the Lizardman's genetic composition. "As you can see here, the base genome is human, though it has, of course, been heavily modified with genes selected from other species. Genes from the giant monitor lizard Varanus priscus of Pleistocene Australia have been added to give the creature a venomous bite, the modern Alligator mississippiensis and the Pleistocene Malagasy crocodile Voay robustus have contributed the creature's jaw strength, and thick, armored hide. The theropod dinosaur Megaraptor namunhuaiquii has been used to give the creature its enormous claws and powerful arms, with additional genes from the ornithopod dinosaur Iguanodon bernissartensis and the giant short-faced bear Arctodus simus also contributing to the strength of its arms. Moloch horridus, the thorny devil, has given the Lizardman thrall its covering of spikes, making grappling with this creature an even worse idea than it already would be otherwise. And lastly, the abelisaurid theropod Carnotaurus sastrei has contributed the horns on its head, more for the intimidation factor than anything else, really."
Dr. Scales changes the screen over to a montage of clips, showing the Lizardman in a testing chamber using its strength, agility, and cunning to overcome various obstacles and challenges, as well as slaughtering Unnamed Interns in different combat scenarios. "As you can see, the Lizardman thrall is a force to be reckoned with! But then again, so are all of my monstrous creations, so what's different about this one, you might ask?"
"The difference is, the creature standing in this cage was not grown from scratch in an incubation tank. This beautiful monstrosity was once a mere human!" Liz cackles maniacally. "How can this be, You might be wondering? Well, this is where the talents of my dearest Doctor Bolesti comes into play, these are Lizardman thralls, after all!"
"Using their expertise in microbiology, Doctor Bolesti has created a viral serum that delivers the Saurianthropus genome into human cells, overwriting their own genome and causing them to transform into Lizardman thralls." Dr. Scales plays a video on the screen showing a very scared-looking Unnamed Intern in a large cage. Dr. Scales, wearing a devious grin, jams a syringe into the intern's arm with definitely more force than is necessary, injecting them with the serum. The intern undergoes a viscerally horrifying transformation as they grow and mutate into a Lizardman thrall.
"The thralls shed the virus in their saliva, allowing them to infect additional humans through nonlethal bites, which are possible due to their ability to perform 'dry bites', in which no venom is released from their venom glands." Dr. Scales plays another video, showing a Lizardman thrall biting another Unnamed Intern, then a time lapse showing several hours of the Unnamed Intern showing no symptoms of infection, until suddenly, they collapse to the ground, and transform in the manner seen in the previous video. "As you can see, infection through this method occurs at a much slower rate. This allows the infection to be spread unwittingly into enemy bases by seemingly asymptomatic bite victims!" Dr. Scales lets out another villainous cackle.
"Of course, like all thrall types created by my fiance, an Officer Lord must be created to command them. I am proud to introduce the first Officer Lord ever created through the combined prowess of myself and my beloved, Sobek, Lord of Beasts! Come on out here, Sobek!"
A ten foot tall, hulking, reptilian humanoid lumbers into frame. He's far more crocodilian in appearance than the Lizardman thralls, with teeth like those of a Kaprosuchus lining his jaws. His scales are dark green, almost black, with bright green striping. His eyes glow orange like burning embers.
[[no pic for Sobek unforchies, I wasn't able to finish it in time]]
"Got anything you want to say, Sobek?" - Dr. Scales
"NO." - Sobek, whose voice is a deep rumble, like an alligator's bellow.
"He's a man-crocodile of few words." Dr. Scales chuckles. "Anyway, Sobek here was created by adding three drops of a serum Doctor Bolesti has dubbed the 'God Formula' with a standard dose of the Lizardman viral serum, and injecting this concoction into a human volunteer, who willingly chose to be transformed into the specimen you see before you. The God Formula was only ever synthesized once on accident by Doctor Bolesti, and they have never been able to replicate it in a lab. However, thanks to their experimentation, they have access to a source that produces the God Formula through purely biological means. But I'm afraid I will not be revealing what that source is, unfortunately for all of you. Some secrets are best kept... secret, I guess!" Dr. Scales chuckles.
"The God Formula is used to create Officer Lords such as Sobek here by refining their thrall formulas into a more perfect version. It even somehow gave Sobek Kaprosuchus teeth, despite me not using any Kaprosuchus DNA in the creation of the Saurianthropus genome! Powerful stuff!"
"As an Officer Lord, Sobek inherently has command over all the thralls of his type." To demonstrate, Sobek lets out a bellow, and the Lizardman thrall in the cage, who had been pacing back and forth, hissing and growling in the background, suddenly stands at attention. "Additionally, as I have recently discovered, Sobek is able to tame any wild beast he stares into the eye of, even a creature as violent and aggressive as an Allosaurus anax, one of the most ferocious dinosaurs to ever walk the earth! How about you call Alice up here to demonstrate, Sobek?"
Sobek makes a rumbling in his throat, and a huge Allosaurus stomps into frame, Sobek reaches out his large, webbed hand and begins affectionately petting the dinosaur on the snout.
"And that concludes my presentation! I reiterate that none of this would've been possible without the wonderful Doctor Bolesti, and though they have gifted me the results of this experiment, including any awards it may win, as an early birthday present, I just cannot thank them enough for everything! So thank you so much, Cezzy~ I love you, babe~! And thank you, Teth, for your consideration!" Dr. Scales bows dramatically.
Liz is a trans woman, and she's bisexual, with preferences leaning somewhat more feminine.
Her drink of choice is mezcal, specifically because it comes with a worm she can eat.
Liz was diagnosed with autism at a young age, and she also has an undiagnosed case of ADHD that she's unaware of.
Liz grew up in a small town in Mississippi.
Her middle name is Echidna, as in the ancient Greek mythical figure, not the monotreme.
Her favorite movie of all time is Jurassic Park 3, and she got interested in the field of genetic engineering thanks to the Jurassic Park movies.
She didn't fit in with the other kids growing up, so she had very few friends and was shunned and bullied a lot of the time, so she grew up feeling a detachment from humanity and a desire to be something else.
Liz's favorite modern animal is the Komodo dragon, and her favorite prehistoric animal is the Allosaurus.
She idolized Steve Irwin growing up, and was devastated to hear of his passing.
Liz originally wanted to use genetic engineering to aid in wildlife conservation, for things like resurrecting recently extinct species and mitigating genetic bottlenecks in endangered species.
Liz was terrified of the haunted piano from Super Mario 64 as a little kid, and to this day she finds the concept of inanimate objects suddenly coming alive and eating you terrifying.
Her birth name was Noah Scalbert.
Her birthday, June 11, 1993, is the day the first Jurassic Park film came out in theaters.
Fortunately, Dr. Scales' lab is free of mold, as she had had a special air filtration system installed to protect herself and her creatures, so she's able to continue with her plans for the day. Said plans are time travel to the ancient past to collect more prehistoric DNA. She gets into the time machine, enters a set of coordinates, and pulls the lever. The machine disappears with a loud 'POP!'
Western North America, Early Cretaceous period:
The time machine materializes with a loud 'POP!' Dr. Scales exits the machine, looking a bit tired. This isn't her first stop on this trip, from her perspective, she's been traveling between different places on Earth at different points in time for over a month now, without running into any major issues. This time, though, when she steps out of the time machine, it begins to make a very distinctive rattling sound. Dr. Scales groans. "Oh no, not this shit again!"
"Shit, that's not good!" Dr. Scales says as she sees the colossal robot towering over the ESC and releasing an army of smaller, but still quite large robots to attack the facility. She presses several buttons to release an army of creatures onto the battlefield. An army of Tyrannosaurus imperator, twice as many as she'd had before, focus their attention on the smaller mechs. A massive swarm of flame-acid mini-dragons divide their attention between taking out smaller mechs and weakening the towering colossus. A flock of large creatures with a mix of draconic and pterosaurian features, their beaks crackling with electricity, swoop out over the battlefield. These are lightning dractyls, hybrids of lightning dragons and Quetzalcoatlus northropi. Some of these creatures begin attacking the smaller mechs, tearing at panels with their powerful electric beaks, others target the gigantic one in the center, clinging to it like woodpeckers on a giant metal tree as they work away at it with their beaks.
Once Bolesti has received all of their other birthday presents, and there's a bit of a lull in the festivities, Dr. Scales takes a small box out of her pocket and approaches them.
"So, I know we're technically already engaged, but..."
Liz gets down on one knee in front of Cezary and holds out the small box, opening it to reveal a beautiful golden ring, designed to look like two intertwined snakes facing in opposite directions and coming together to bite a round tsavorite gemstone.
Dr. Scales sends out the following invitation to everyone in the ESC (with the exception of Bolesti themself and the 5 people listed as "not invited"):
You've been invited to a surprise 35th birthday party for Dr. Cezary Bolesti! Tonight in Dr. Scales' lab (#413)!
There will be food and drinks! Bring a gift!
Also, don't tell Bolesti! I want it to be a surprise!
NOT INVITED: Dr. Polybius Crane, Dr. Mei Pauole, Pyroxmangite, Tsavorite, Machista
In the central hub room of Dr. Scales lab (she has a very big lab) there are tables set up with snacks and drinks (both alcoholic and non-alcoholic), a table for presents, and a table in the middle with a big margarita pie with 2 big candles shaped like the numbers 3 and 5 on it (and next to it is a key lime pie for a non-alcoholic option). There are balloons and streamers everywhere, and a big banner reading 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY CEZARY!' hung up over the middle of the room. Once a good amount of guests have arrived, Dr. Scales sends a text to Bolesti:
Dr. Scales has gotten wind that Dean Blatto will be overseeing another raid by ROACH against the ESC today. She knows from what her fiance has told her that Blatto will have learned from the past raid and adapted accordingly, so she's changing up her strategy and setting traps. Living traps, that is. She's directing several strange-looking lizard creatures the size of large crocodiles to hide themselves at various strategic ambush points around the ESC. These odd-looking reptiles, whose scaly skin is wrinkly and covered in odd fringes around the edges, have a gecko-like head shape with four horns at the snout and crocodile-like exposed teeth lining the mouth, independently-moving eyes like those of a chameleon, a wide and flat serpentine body, gecko-like padded feet, and a prehensile tail. Their skin changes color, blending almost perfectly into their surroundings. You'd only see them if you knew to look for them. These creatures, which Dr. Scales has dubbed Ambush Lizards, incorporate DNA from Nile crocodiles, four-horned chameleons, mossy leaf-tailed geckos, Gaboon vipers, acid-spitting swamp wyverns, common cuttlefish, and tasseled wobbegong sharks into their genome. These perfect ambush predators lie in wait for any ROACH raiders to stumble into their trap.
[[CW: depiction of gruesome head trauma below the cut]]
In the middle of a random hallway, Dr. Scales is lying on the floor in a pool of blood with her skull bashed in. At a glance she looks dead, but the pool of blood is a lot smaller than it ought to be, and exaqmining her closely would reveal that she's breathing, her heart is still beating, and, most interestingly, a close look at her exposed brain and broken skull would reveal that it's slowly growing back together.
Dr. Scales is pacing around the halls, bored out of her fucking skull. The solar flare has all of her lab equipment and personal electronics out of commission, so she can't get any work done, nor can she pass the time by watching movies or TV, playing video games, or browsing the internet. She has no idea what to do to occupy her time, so now she's just wandering aimlessly, hoping to stumble upon any sort of distraction.
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