#hazard the lizard

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Okay so WHAT IF

The Biolizard was an actual Mobian?

Introducing Hazard the Lizard!

(Not entirely happy with the design yet but I just wanted to get it out here)

Ramblings about this concept under cut!

In this AU, "Project Finalhazard" was the precursor to Project Shadow, and created Hazard. He was basically Shadow's big brother, and lived with Shadow and Maria on the ARK until the incident with GUN.

Hazard has really powerful regeneration abilities and is essentially immortal, as well as having a bit of Chaos Energy (but not as much as Shadow). He has no Black Arms DNA, being fully lizard (although with plenty of genetic modification by Gerald). The canon version of the Biolizard is actually a form he can take, called his "Finalhazard form", and happens when he's extremely upset or angry. The inhibitor rings on his arms and wrists help him keep it under control. He also is basically entirely "powered" via the green tubes and the thing on his back, which act almost like a heart for him.

While Hazard loved his little brother Shadow, he was extremely aware of his own position as the "prototype" and thus felt inferior to Shadow. There was a lot of jealousy and tension on his part, although Shadow wasn't really aware of the extent of it.

When the ARK was raided, Shadow took Maria to try to get her to safety, being faster than Hazard, while Hazard tried to fight the GUN agents. They managed to lock him away, and because he was in his Finalhazard form, they thought he was just a creature and basically forgot about him. He was left alone aboard the ARK when they finished the raid and remained there until the events of Sonic Adventure 2.

Hazard went a little insane being sealed away on the ARK for fifty years. (Fortunately he slipped into stasis a lot due to the ARK's power being mostly shut off, so he didn't experience the entire fifty years, but still). He particularly got pretty messed up about Shadow, partially being really worried about him and wanting to see him again, and partially being really angry and blaming him for everything. Shadow also lost most of his memories of him due to Gerald's manipulation of his memories. When Shadow and Sonic found him in SA2, Hazard was at first super excited to see Shadow, but then went a bit crazy and ended up going into his Finalhazard form and fighting them like in the actual game. After the final battle, he was able to get back inside the ARK in his normal form and felt extremely guilty about Shadow's "death". Sonic and the gang brought him back to Earth, but he promptly ran away and decided to just roam and do his own thing.

Currently, he still deals with a lot of psychotic issues, especially when it comes to Shadow. Whenever they interact, he ping-pongs between wanting to kill fight him or wanting fun brotherly antics. He's getting better though, slowly. Mostly he just enjoys exploring the world, having adventures, and causing minor trouble. He's mostly a good guy aside from being unstable.

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Slight redesign for Hazard

I'm definitely liking this one a lot more, especially with the yellow spikes on his face being less huge and obvious. I kinda want to add more detail to his backpack/power core thing but I don't want to make his design super complicated.

I think he has a lot of unhealthy habits from being trapped alone on the ARK, including lots of clawing at things. When they found him during SA2, his claws were extremely overgrown and unkept. Once they got back to Earth, Amy helped him trim them to a manageable length at some point before he decided to leave.

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So fun fact about my OC Hazard: he deals with voices and hallucinations after being trapped alone on the ARK for so long. It took him a while to get used to dealing with them. They can really mess with him some days, but most of the time he handles it pretty well.

Technically he doesn't actually need to eat (or drink, sleep, or breathe) because he's sustained by his power pack, but he just likes to. He also doesn't actually have teeth (mainly because I thought it was funny that the canon Biolizard doesn't appear to have teeth so I incorporated it) but he can kinda gnaw on stuff.

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Okay guys I'm going to fully embrace the cringe don't hate me...

I think I ship my OC Hazard with Surge now 🙃