Dr. Sempreverde Evergreen

Dr. Sempreverde Evergreen is a character by greensully, and a scientist studying the Grimm. He performs experiments on subjects, and has even developed his own species of Grimm.

Appearance
Dr. Evergreen appears as a tall and lean man with a shock of white hair, unkempt and short. He has a small green streak across the left side of his head. His eyes are a dull green color, and there are several notable scars around his face that look like scratch marks.

Evergreen wears a long white lab coat with several burn marks on it. Part of the right sleeve is ripped, and there are several holes near the bottom where the coat reaches his feet. Beneath the lab coat is a green shirt with horizontal white lines across it. He wears simple white pants with black boots.

His most defining feature is the metal hand in place of his right, which can transform to hold multiple syringe needles at each finger. He also wears a holster for Winter Silence as a belt.

Personality
Evergreen is very passionate about his work. Despite the several dangers associated with Grimm, he relishes being able to study them up close. His passion for the subject has turned into an obsession, and he goes as far as kidnapping people for his experiments, and has no qualms about whether they live or die, calling them "just another set of numbers for scientific progress".

Evergreen has a tendency to erupt into violent outbursts whenever things don't go his way. He has a habit of throwing or breaking lab equipment whenever a test goes wrong, or circumstances force him to terminate an experiment early. As such, his assistants are wary of him during experiments.

Since encountering Grimm and even making his own species, Evergreen has developed a mindset reminiscent of "survival of the fittest". He believes that by continuously giving humanity a challenge, they will inevitably be the better off for it. Thus, he studies and finds ways to improve the Grimm, actively making them deadlier and more dangerous to "evolve" them.

Powers and Abilities
Evergreen is a brilliant scientist with a genius level IQ. His areas of proficiency range from robotics to chemistry to biology. He incorporates all of that into his work. His intellect helps him in combat by quickly studying an enemy's movement and attack patterns and quickly identifying an effective counter. Evergreen himself isn't that strong. He is, however, agile, and uses his speed to make up for strength.

Weapon
Evergreen uses a small handgun called Winter Silence, which is a weapon of his own making. It can automatically target an enemy, at which point the gun fires automatically. Winter Silence is also incredibly quiet, making no noise other than a small whir whenever it auto-targets. The gun also links to Evergreen's metal hand, making it connected to his own nervous system, albeit only for targeting purposes.

Semblance
Evergreen's Semblance is Electroparalysis, which allows his to use electrical signals produced by his aura to override one's central nervous system and paralyze them for a short time. His Semblance only works through physical contact, meaning he has to touch the target directly.

Weaknesses
As said before, Evergreen isn't that strong. He prefers agility over strength, and is thus quite weak out on his own. He doesn't seem to take opponents seriously, and at times underestimates them.

His Semblance only works through direct physical contact, meaning the contact has to be without any barriers, such as armor. He also cannot use his Semblance with his right hand, as it is artificial. The effect also lasts a relatively short amount of time, only about 5 or so minutes.

History
Sempreverde Evergreen was a respected scientist in the academic community. He primarily made his mark on the subject of biology, particularly work studying the behavior of Grimm. At some point, he even developed a catalyst that could preserve Grimm cells and DNA, which he used to further his research.

As time passed, Evergreen grew obsessed with Grimm. His studies were an object of obsession for him, and he soon wished to observe how the Grimm evolve. To that end, he began experiments to try and infuse smaller test subjects, such as rats and monkeys, with Grimm DNA, to observe how Grimm could evolve or be communicated with. Most, if not every, experiment failed, yet Evergreen refused to let the concept go. His maddening search for answers to an unanswerable question alienated him from the academic community, and after attempting an illegal experiment involving human test subjects, Evergreen was arrested. However, he managed to escape and fled into the wilderness.

Evergreen didn't stop looking. He conducted rudimentary experiments using whatever materials he could find. His experience with Grimm allowed him to survive in the wild. Soon, he made it back to civilization. Still a fugitive, however, he was forced to go underground. He set up a laboratory outside of Mantle, in the harsh tundra, and made slowly grew his list of contacts. With newfound power and a never-ending thirst, Evergreen resumed his experiments. He hired spy/mercenary Jet Piedmont to steal back the Grimm Preservation formula that had been taken from him, as well as research conducted while he was gone. He took in 2 lab assistants, and began to use his prior, non-Grimm related research as a way to gain funds, selling products on the black market. He began kidnapping people to use as test subjects, most of which eventually died from the strain.

At some point, Evergreen managed to fashion his own species of Grimm, or at least, a Grimm-like creature, that he dubbed the Yetifoot Grimm, which he later used to help obtain more test subjects and to protect the lab.

Trivia

 * Sempreverde means evergreen in Italian, a reference to evergreen trees, a species of tree that is green all year round. This is the basis of Evergreen's color theme.
 * Evergreen's creation of a Grimm and his Semblance are an allusion to Dr. Frankenstein.
 * Evergreen's hand could originally turn into a claw, but the hand was toned down for practical reasons. Maybe he thought having a claw hand wasn't practical (and it isn't).