User blog:Jackythejack/Richard Trager vs. Alfred Drevis: Preserving Eternal Madness



Horror games; proving that just about any psychopathic individual can go through years of college and get a degree in medicine, or biology, or...torturing people. They really give out a degree for anything these days. Well, when it comes to made doctors, these two are a special case to say the least. But it's time to find out where they stand in the ranks of deadliest mad scientist.

Dr. Richard Trager: Former scientist turned test subject in the Mount Massive Asylum in the hit game Outlast

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Dr. Alfred Drevis, father of Aya Drevis, and seeker of eternal beauty from the indie game Mad Father.

Time to find out who the deadliest is on this cold October night.

Richard Trager
"You must be exhausted. Let's take a break, huh, buddy? A two martini lunch, have a little confab, blah, blah, blah, blah..."

- Trager

Trager is a Variant, a madman who was exposed to the Morphogenic Engine due to the experiments at Mount Massive Asylum, and so, like all the other Variants before him, Trager has essentially lost his mind and gave in to insanity, while also possessing some superhuman characteristics along the way.

However, Trager wasn't always like this. Well, I mean, he was an asshole, that's for sure, but he wasn't always the completely insane individual that he is today. Before he was unwillingly put into the MMA, Tager was the head of Business Development at MMA, and an executive for research development for Murkoff. Prior to the events of Outlast, Trager's branch of business would be put under expection by two officers when there was serious HR complaints coming from his branch.

After some serious charismatic showing, Trager was able to at least get the officers to somewhat trust him, or at least that was what he had thought. In reality, both officers knew that Richard was full of shit, but they played along with him anyways, heading to his home to have a nice get together. it was then that Richard would slip a drug into the female officers drink, and at that point, she knew what was going on. After detecting the taste of rohypnol in her drink, the officer forced Richard to drink it himself and knocked him unconcious.

Later on did they find out that the person who filed the HR complaint was an employee that Trager had forced himself upon and had gotten her pregnant. Once Trager had heard she spilled the beans, he tried to kill her, stabbing her with scissors. The two officers from earlier, thankfully, were nearby and stopped him. After that violent outburst, they put Trager into MMA and used his as a test subject for the Mophogenic Engine.

Nowadays, Trager fancies himself as a surgeon in MMA. An insane surgeon, but one nonetheless, and a surgeon is nothing without his tools. Let's take a look at all these lovely little weapons of Trager's.

Weapons:
Scissors: Nothing is better than a giant pair of, um...surgical scissors. Really these are just overgrown scissors, or you could possibly call them gardening shears, but they're certianly not used for that purpose. Being around the length of Trager's whole arm, the insane surgeon is capable of wielding this rusty thing one handed, and it's useful in particular for stabbing or cutting into someone. However, the cutting into someone seems to be less effective than the stabbing, if the finger cutting scene in Outlast is anything to go off of, that or Trager just likes causing pain to those around him. Either way, it's a vicious weapon for Trager.

Cleaver: The cleaver is a simple weapon, used for some simple slashing and killing by the mad doctor himself. The blade of the cleaver should be a little under a foot long and should prove to do some dangerous damage with it being able to cause large slashes with someone, given how much area of the blade actually cuts. Good for butchering, if you get my drift.

Metal Knife: This metal knife is...well, it's what it says on the tin. It's basically a knife that is completely made of metal. Likely just an old surgical tool and not meant for any form of combat, Trager can still find the time to use it as a weapon if the going gets tough.

Alfred Drevis
"Humans are beautiful. But that beauty soon fades. That is the law of this world. But I have overturned it. After years of research, I have found eternal beauty"

- Dr. Drevis

Alfred had a rather simple life, though...not an exactly innocent childhood. He was a rather sadistic little boy. When he was little he got addicted on the action of murdering animal, ranging mostly to cats and birds. His mother never liked it and he'd have to hide the victims of his addiction from her otherwise she would get very upset with him. He would keep the corpses in his dresser, out of her sight.

It was one day when her mother had caught him hiding the dead bodies in his dresser. She got mad at him. She was infuriated, in fact, yelling directly in his face and telling him just how wrong it was. Alfred, now older and more mature, did the unthinkable at that point. To shut his mother up, he stabbed her. She died shortly after, and Alfred couldn't help but notice how pretty her dying face looked. How enticing...

He got addicted to it. Not just his mother's dead face, but everyone else's as well. This would be what started his long act of killing people. Sometimes, however, he would spare a would-have-been victim. One example would be Monika Drevis, who found herself completely enticed by this man and just how dangerous and psychotic he was. She would later end up marrying him and having his child, who they named Aya.

All the while, Alfred would conduct experiment after experiment, until eventually coming across what he would call "Eternal beauty", which was killing people and turning them into dolls, likely pumping them full of preservatives or otherwise just mixing and matching bodyparts, making awful makeshift humans that would remain "beautiful" forever. He had plans to turn Aya into one of these dolls, to retain her innocence forever, but when her mother found out and confronted him...well, he had to kill her.

Overall, Alfred is an insane man who, while caring deeply for his daughter, is far from right in the head. However, he has some very efficient weapons at his disposal. Let's take a look at the doctor's tools.

Weapons
Chainsaw: Unlike his daughter's mini-chainsaw, Alfred has a full blown chainsaw that he can easily wield and slash around with a single hand. This chainsaw makes a lot of noise and it causes a lot of damage! The blade is around the size of his forearm, and isn't just your normal everyday chainsaw either. This bad boy is capable of easily stabbing through both a door and a mannequin without even being damaged, and it seems like it doesn't take long to either rev up or swing with. A go to weapon for a mad man, and it sure doesn't disappoint.

Kitchen Knife: The knife that Alfred would use to kill him mother, and many other people, with. This kitchen knife is nothing special. It's mostly completely average, but it can be used for some good slashing and stabbing, all the same, and Alfred probably has the most use with his kitchen knife, and the most experience with it. A precise weapon for a precise surgeon.

Dolls: The dolls are part of Alfred's creations. They are his attempt at creating everlasting beauty. With that being said, they're also...able to move, during the course of the game. This is likely due to the spirits of the dead victims possessing them, but they often work to put Dr. Drevis at an advantage, such as when one of them grabbed Aya's leg and forced her to trip. These Dolls generally have normal human strength but are generally able to move a little bit faster, some moving easily as fast if not faster than Dr. Drevis himself, and they're known to carry little weapons as well. For this fight, Alfred will have one doll assisting him who has a scalpel with her.

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Physicality

Trager is, like most of the other variants in MMA, possessing some slightly superhuman physical strength to go along with his already lanky build and not very intimidating physique. He is capable of stabbing through doors and even charge right through them, and he can incapacitate a normal person with a couple of punches (not like he really punches people as a go-to), and he can keep up the chase against someone like Miles, who has a lot of experience with running at this point.

Alfred, on the other hand, is no slouch either, with some boderline superhuman feats himself. You think that the chainsaw was doing all the work when it was stabbed through the door? Alfred had to put in a lot of effort to make it through both a wooden door and an average mannequin, and then to cut through both of them like they were nothing. He's also capable of running in quick and short bursts, which can not only take an opponent by surprise but possibly blitz those that are unsuspecting or just slower than him in general.

Intelligence

Trager is an incredibly intelligent person, as before his incarceration he was put in several higher ranking business positions, though when it comes to anything outside of business he does seem a little bit lacking. I don't want to go that far but...he's not an actual surgeon, and seems to be mostly self taught, and only really knows what parts to go to when it comes to torture. He is possible able to manipulate others, like he did with a fightened Miles when he was running away from crazed inmates, but he's not likely to do that in a fight with someone. He is still irrational and the Morphogenic Engine did take a toll on his mind.

Drevis, on the other hand...well, he is a real doctor, after all, and he's a real surgeon, meaning that he knows exactly how the human body works and how he can shut it down, especially after years of surgery on unsuspecting and unwilling victims. He's also incredibly manipulative of everyone around him, being able to form other personalities in order to get people to like him, which is how he made his assistant Maria appreciate him so much and to actually fall in love with him. However, the most key parts about him is that Drevis is, more often than not, rational. He's aware of what he's doing, and admits that he's made mistakes in life. He's self aware and actually recognizes what happens around him, even if he can be a bit crazy at times. That's a pretty important factor.

Brutality

Trager is insanely brutal. So brutal to the point that, when he had Miles in his clutches and was able to do anything that he wanted with him, he didn't choose to kill him right away or get into the nasty parts. Instead, he cut off Miles fingers, letting him suffer, and then chose to leave him alone in a room all by himself. It's clear that Trager doesn't just kill right away. He toys around with his victims and makes sure they feel great pain before they die, which could prove to be problematic for him.

Drevis, meanwhile, doesn't get much pleasure from killing, and instead gets pleasure from what happens after the fact. Because of this, he's less likely to torture his victims or let them live for longer and instead go right into the killing and dispatch them as quickly as possible, like he did with Aya many of his other victims like his mother. He likes seeing people after they're dead, not while they're dying or in severe pain.

Battle Rules
Only win condition is death, really. That much is obvious. Voting ends when I feel like it. Woo.