GREGORY

Introducing GREGORY for a creature design challenge. Inside its powerful and flexible neo-metal body, this champion houses an advanced species of the cordyceps fungus, always trailed behind by its own hyphea that aid it in battle.

GREGORY is small (6'0) compared to most of its opponents, but with the help of the stalks growing on its back, which extend and grip on surfaces, it achieves outstanding and quick mobility, besides the spores it releases as defense. When threatened, GREGORY releases two types of spores: necrotic, which cause immediate rot upon contact, and possession, which allows it to take control of the opponent for some time and cause further damage.

As a last resort, GREGORY may remove its helm, modeled after the ants that the cordyceps species feed off of, and unleash the ever growing fungus that so desperately wants to spread.