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A Mexican farmer, soldier and bandit that, because of a curse from a group of pagans, became a plant of the desert. However, he could break free and turned into a human-plant hybrid.

General

Name: Noel "El Nopal" de la Cruz Zepeda
Age: 33
Birthday: 24th May, 1883
Gender: Male
Species: Homo Opuntia Sapiens
Ethnicity or Breed: Mexican - Cactacea/Opuntia
Hair: Greenish-Black
Eyes: Greenish-Brown
Height: 1.95 m (6'3 ft)
Weight: 110 kg (242 lbs)
Languages: Spanish - English with a heavy accent
Religion: Catholic
Sexuality: Straight

History

Noel had a hard life. He was forced to farm an hacienda of a rich man since he was a little kid. When the Mexican Revolution of 1910 started, he also was forced to participate as an insurgent against the government. Few years later, and within the gang he joined during the war, he become a bandit, once again, against his will. Although he had no other choice but to rob to rich people, he didn't feel good doing it.

Back in 1913 , his gang assaulted a group of pagans in Sonora during their way to the United States. They didn't realized until it was too late that the chief of the pagans was nothing but a powerful mage that lend a curse on the bandits including Noel, and turning them into desertic plants. Noel had enough of his bad luck and his will was strong enough to break the curse. This made him became a human hybrid of a plant and realizing about this, he set a journey to avange his comrades.

After a year of prosecution in both Mexico and the US, he finally destroyed the pagans. Nevertheless, his vengance made him even more misserable and he developed a hollowness inside of him. Getting into a strong depression, Noel then started to live in the desert alone, only waiting and wishing to die. He wouldn't fit anywhere, and he started to steal booze from the nearbiest towns just to realize he couldn't even get drunk, and he only got sick because his plant part didn't bear the alcohol.

However, someone made him realize that his life wasn't over, and that his existance had a more important mission...

Personality

He's one angsty guy. His whole life has been a battle between he and the world, and he can be very bitter and rude sometimes. He's quiet and serious, but he also has a warm side that turns him into a kind and gentle person.
Noel has lived a war and he is not afraid to fight. He will kill when necessary if this means ending a fight (which he prefers the most).

Abilities

- Due his nature, Noel has all the atributes from both a human and a desert plant. He can survive months without enough water and he also won't need to eat if he is constantly making photosynthesis.

- The entire area of his skin is covered with spines, thorns, spikes and needles, which he can grow into bigger porportions. He can also modify the shape of his extremities by turning them into cactacea-like fists. His plant side also makes him stretch them, not as long as other stretching-based characters, although he can give you a spikey punch 10ft away from you with enough strength to knock you out.

- Despite the fact that he grows roots, their only purpose is to feed Noel from the ground. Unlike other plant-powered characters that use vines and roots to attack, his aren't very useful.

- He can recover fast. You can cut his arm or a leg off and instantly it will begin to grow up again. There's one problem, however: no one has ever cut his head off, so he doesn't know what will happen. He can either die, or his head will begin to grow a new body. There's also a theory that two Noels can be created if you split his body in half.
As an addition, his blood is green-red colored.

- He is also an excellent gunman with a great aim. He can use revolvers, rifles and shotguns if he ever wields these kind of guns. He won't need them too often, though, because he can also shoot his spikes just like bullets.



WHY DOES HE KEEPS LOOKING LIKE A BAD CLICHÉ!?!
Well, okay, I have to admit he kinda looks... well, not too much original. But c'mon! How many characters from the 1910's era have you seen with superpowers??

HA! One originality point for me... and like 30 negative points too.

Oh well, at least you know that sombreros were a fashion between farmers from 1910 in Mexico. Seriously, stop putting sombreros to the Mexicans. 1910 ended 100 years ago people.

Noel (c) Huoryu (me)