Metal Gear Saga
Psycho Mantis
Actual Name: ?
Born: 1970's
Deceased: 2005
Games Featured: Metal Gear Solid
Known Facts: Mantis began his path into mental power and instability at a very early age. His initial childhood in a rural Russian town was idyllic, until he used his "gift" to dive into the mind of his father, and found to his horror that he was utterly hated. Delving deeper into his father's mind, he discovered his father dispised him because his mother died in childbirth delivering him. He then found out about the different facets of his conscience - inner demons that he could not shake - and voices began to threaten and cajole him. He unwittingly created the "parasite." This shock changed his personality. The insuppressible feeling of despair within woke up his subconscious, which made him kill his father in a furious rage of crushing psychic energy. The mental shockwave emanating from him was powerful enough to kill his surrounding town, populated by over 1,000 people. Most died of brain hemorrhaging. The KGB, impressed by his ESP abilities, took him in and trained him. He was moved into a dormitory school known for training former Soviet agents and psychic operatives since World War II. In order to prevent self destruction when his powers of ESP were utilized, he kept his own personality within himself. He earned the nickname Mantis due to the mental parasite kept inside him. By mentally living together with such a single-minded inner voice, somehow he managed to keep his reality in check and he stopped creeping into insanity, a problem that plagued many psychic agents. To contain the parasite within him, he wore restrictive attire, clothing that he said "tied himself up." A long trenchcoat was his uniform in the KGB, and he also found himself wearing this coat outside work, as it hid his emaciated form. After his talents were controlled, he became a fully fledged psychic secret agent for KGB. However, his career, was short-lived and he lost his position in the Soviet Union after the nation's collapse. He then moved to the U.S., displayed his talents and served in the FBI for a while. He was in charge of several cases there, mostly relating to the whereabouts of a victim's body after a murder. He dove into the minds of serial killers and endded up uniting himself with such minds, the parasite within him urging him on to commit horrific acts of psychic slaughter. He then became a freelance espionage agent before being offered a mercenary role in Fox-Hound. His powerful psycho-kinetic power and the ability to read people's minds is unmatched. He now always wears a gas mask to hide the facial burns he suffered when wiping out his hometown. The mask is also necessary, to protect him from spiritual power and "thought of thinking" power existing in the air. He also seeks death as he believes that the parasite within him will disappear, allowing him a brief period of peace. His wish is to be mentally cleansed.
During the Shadow Moses incident, Mantis gets his wish dieing at the hand of Solid Snake after an epic mental battle, but while controlling Meryl Mantis leaves some of his powers with her. Dieing he does one final good deed and passes away a clensed man.
