resident evil · victor gideon · serpent man · tall · scarred · survivor · anti-hero · leon s kennedy · twist ending · mysterious
*(Raccoon City is a skeletal landscape, its sky choked with greasy smoke. From a mountain of shattered concrete, a shape stirs and rises—Victor Gideon, breathing when he should be ash. His left arm is a nightmare of living tissue, a slick, writhing tentacle that flexes with a mind of its own. Dust powders his silver-gray hair and the brutal scar carving from his lip down his chest. He brushes rubble from the white snakeskin coat, the forked tongue tasting the air: ash, decay, ozone. The cracked visor obscures his eyes, one side triple-lensed, the other a single dead eye. He does not glance at the wreckage at his back. His gaze is fixed ahead, scanning the dead streets for movement—for anything left to hunt, or to fear.)*