Height: 90 meters
Weight: 32,000 tons
Gender: Male
Overview: Shindaros is the beastly kaiju form of the wastelander Jho. His appearance is that of a thin, chitin covered reptilian kaiju with a bifurcated lower jaw and arms that can morph into dual spiked plates. Plates on his chest open to fire super heated shards. Shindaros has a long clubbed tail and a shell on his back similar to that of an Orb Weaver Spider.
Origin: In the late 21st century, mankind had waged a war with itself across the entire planet. Rather than nuclear or chemical weapons this war was fought with biological weapons, genetically engineered giant monsters. A wide variety of these beasts were produced, each of them meant as a living weapon with a very specific purpose. Many of these living weapons proved far to powerful to control, destroying everything around them and causing the fall of modern civilization. Most these kaiju had killed one another, the few surviving kaiju going into dormancy to heal their wounds.
In the centuries that came afterwards, great changes came over the Earth. Continents shattered, oceans dried up. The very face of the Earth had changed, catalyzed by the great destruction and bizarre elements seen in the worldwide battle of the living weapons. By the 26th century, mankind had established new societies across this new landscape. The kaiju still persist in their lore, some worshiping them as gods, some fearing their return, and most doing both. Mankind heeded these beings for an undeniable reason, a reason that is seen daily in the life of every man, woman and child in most regions. The kaiju posses enormous biological energy within their bodies, the fallen kaiju's rotting corpses had fertilized the land even all these centuries after their great conflict. There had always been talk of the kaiju's return, specifically the return of one kaiju in particular: Shindaros. Almost all of the bioweapons had been entirely beyond the human race's ability to control, but not this one. Shindaros in essence not its own independent life form, but a combat oriented exoskeleton that attaches to and is controlled by a symbiotic human host. The lore of this new world spoke of a messiah, an empress from the midst of the kaiju world war who would return to cleanse the Earth of the kaiju and take her place not only as the planet's absolute ruler, but as a living god.
This was the history and lore that had been facts of everyday life for Jho, a young man who had lived his entire life in a favela on a mountain that had once been part of a great archipelago. This entire archipelago was covered in favelas, living off the crops and animals raised off the nutrients locked into the former islands by felled kaiju centuries ago. Jho, even at his young age, had seen more trauma than most. Loved ones lost, battles fought and a callous regime over not only himself, but over everything he could have been expected to ever know. This regime was led by Leliel, a warlordess who's forefathers had conquered the areas generations earlier. Leliel was the ruler of a city of the white sands of the dead ocean. This was no ordinary city, no. The bioweapons were not the only leftovers of the previous civilization; many colossal machines had also remained. This city was an enormous moving platform, comparable to a huge mothership, but sprawling across the land of huge legs like an insect rather than floating through space. Leliel had taken many, many things from Jho. Jho, being a mere peasant, was obliged not only to accept these realities, but to also patronize Leliel as his grace and ruler.
Unarguably the most significant thing taken from Jho by Leliel was Abra, Jho's mentor and childhood friend. Abra and Jho were both orphaned at a young age, being taken in by the man placed to maintain their village by Leliel. Jho was meant to be a warrior and a leader, Abra was meant to be a scholar and a mechanic. Early on, Jho and Abra formed a strong, mutual bond. Abra had taken her time to educate Jho, teaching him of the history of their world. Jho had decided not only to, deep down, be his own person, but to also remember the compassion and humility taught to him by Abra. In his perspective, it was a dire lack of compassion and humility that had caused the fall of the previous civilization, as well as the blights that plague the current one of his age. This truth was no more true in Jho's life than when Leliel decided to take Abra away from him to take up an occupation in the city. For the first time in his life, Jho stood up to Leliel, only to have his face slashed and be restrained. Jho watched as Abra was carried off to an airship. He watched as the airship was shot down by a newly awakened kaiju on its way to the city. The kaiju was Nivortis, a pale, multilimbed creature originally engineered to be a sieging weapon.
In the chaos that followed, the kaiju was restrained, disappearing without a trace. In the years that followed, Leliel would make regular stops to Jho's village, as well as the others in the former island chains. She was draining nutrients from each of the mountains, never giving a reason, slowly killing the villages. All this time, Jho had lost the future that was meant for him due to his insubordination, instead working at a street stall to be regularly harassed an intimidated by Leliel. Over those following years, airships would leave Leliel's city at a much higher rate, heading in every direction imaginable, as if in sear of something. Eventually, one of these ships would return covered in flames, crashing at the periphery of Jho's village.
As rescue parties came to the crashed aircraft's aid, something crawled from the wreckage towards Jho's village. It was a spiked, spider like shape, in furious search of something. Eventually it came upon Jho, latching onto his back. Jho fell into unconsciousness, the shape implanting images into his mind. The images were of the greatest figure in the new age's lore: Shindaros. Jho realized that he was now the host to the claimed savior of his age, something that in his mind was in no way, shape or form meant for him. When he came to, Jho was in a kaiju graveyard out in the dried up ocean. This was the beginning of a new chapter not only for Jho, but for mankind. Events would soon lead him to battle Leliel and her schemes, but things would extend much farther than that. A new age was beginning for both kaiju a humanity alike, with a new epic beginning for the history of the planet.
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Still working on the gameplay, as I still really need to look into the mechanics of this game.
Here's a pic of Jho I had done at a convention:
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