A lone riftclaw living among the humans and mobians of Amalgam, using an extensive network contacts, owed favours, and his GUN security clearance to pursue a treatment or cure to the chaos degeneration disease his clan has developed. His intense study of biology and genetics have pulled him into the world of mobian biology and meta-mobian enhancement, a seedy industry of creating custom supersoldiers for the highest bidder, which he detests and attempts to stymie at every opportunity. Even his own employers aren't spared his wrath, and only his high value as one of the leading experts in the field keeps him out of his own cell.

Personality

V is outwardly prickly and aggressive, his face almost permanently locked into a scowl. This is not, however, indicative of his current emotional state-- regardless of how happy, sad, anxious or concerned he is, his face will still register the same amount of barely-contained anger. He often masks his own intentions and emotions behind this facade, bluffing his way through the interpersonal and political conflicts that litter the hallways of the UF military-industrial complex. He's very driven by self-imposed goals, and will play nice when it gets him closer to them-- but he'll just as quickly abandon that when it stops serving him.

He does not consider himself a good person, or even a particularly likeable one; he's aware that his mask and his often sharp words make him unpopular with many. He is, however, blessed with a rather capricious personality-- it's very difficult to predict how he'll react in any one situation, a fact exacerbated by his blunted affect. Those that know him closely describe him as a surprisingly generous, affectionate person with a strong sense of loyalty, but with a rather amoral streak when it comes to keeping his "pack" happy.

History

Ochre was born on Mobius, and lived for the first 15 years of his life with his mother and grandfather in the Painted-Rocks riftclaw clan. Upon shedding his baby claws, Ochre decided to go to medical school with the goal of studying and hopefully curing the illness that the clan had inherited over the years spent on Mobius, and was granted a scholarship to do so by the clan council. He spent the next several years studying, before joining the military as a combat medic with the goal of getting deep enough in to get his hands on a number of redacted but critically important documents (such as Project Shadow). During his time with the military as part of an all-mobian strike team, he witnessed the catastrophic fusion of Mobius with Earth firsthand, before being badly wounded in the line of duty and discharged alongside his surviving team members.

During his recovery, Ochre picked up research again through distance education, pushing his knowledgebase further into biology, toxicology and chemistry. He took up several odd jobs between courses to build the funds to push himself further along, becoming familiar with a number of the shadier clients looking for someone with a knowledge of science and a lack of morals. After a disastrous stint with Goldwin Industries, V accidentally poisoned himself with nerve agent while doing temp work with another scientist, survived, and renamed himself after the chemical in response.

Shortly after this, another former member of his squad contacted him with a job offer; she'd seen an opportunity for V to get his hands on the information he needed by doing relatively easy work explaining scientific concepts to the boss of the fledgeling organisation of GUN. V pounced on the opportunity, and moved to the Capitol of the United Federation to take the job-- which, once his extended skillset was discovered, began to encompass much more than scientific communication. This got him access to the coveted uncensored government files, however, so he co-operated with the requests as long as he saw sense in them (or was sufficiently bribed with more historical dirt). He enhanced his understanding of his species' genetic code, and consequently hacked his own DNA to give himself the chaos powers that all mobians in Amalgam possess-- accidentally causing his own latent illness to flare up. Despite this, he persevered-- he was a few steps closer than before, after all. It was during this period that V reconnected with Caprice, met Valke, and stole Curie from a bunker in East Germany.

Despite his desire to avoid getting involved in as much of the global conflict as possible, V has been dragged into several intra- and inter-agency conflicts due to his association with the GUN director and commander. Without V throwing his weight around, Shadow-- and many others like him-- likely wouldn't have remained free after the Eclipse Cannon incident, and he put a significant amount of work into helping GUN rally against the Black Arms invasion.

Current Day

In the present day, V focuses as much as possible on his continuing research between GUN missions. He's published several papers about the nature of the "chaos gene" and mobians' sliding scale of immunity to chaos radiation, and occasionally consults for his friend and former teammate Ashe. His suspected involvement in the destruction of the facilty he stole Curie from has attracted attention from SR agents, and the sable he's dubbed "November" has been shadowing him on missions closer to SR territory.