Editing Mr. Bough (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
Mr. Bough has a bio-manipulation ability that allows him to change the bodies of people into grotesque forms. Examples include changing a boy into have the head and limbs of a dog, changing three women to look exactly alike, and aging a woman 40 years.<ref>If everything else hadn’t thrust me into a bad place, the pictures here would have.  Before and after pictures.  Abducted people, then what Bonesaw would have called art.  What my sister would have decried as a mistake.  A young man made to have the heads and legs of a dog, only the trunk of the body normal.  Three women, apparently abductees from overseas, made to look identical, the ‘after’ picture showing them sitting in a row, smiling the same smile.  A Mr. Sheppard had paid for a Mrs. Sheppard, wife, to be changed into an old woman, paying forty thousand dollars for the procedure, and another fifty thousand for the mental changes to go with it.  There was a picture of Legend, same features, hair, build, and costume.  An exact likeness bought and paid a dizzying price for by villains trying some obscure scheme.  It hadn’t worked. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/05/11/black-13-11/ Excerpt] from [[Black 13.11]]</ref>

Mr. Bough creates needles from his body, that he can use to splice the traits of other beings into a person.<ref>“I make needles,” Mr. Bough said.  He ran his finger along his arm, and a needle slid out of it, a foot long and, as it disconnected from the flesh, bulbous at the tip.  “I can place what I need at the head, and it will disseminate into the patient.  That way, I can splice in traits I want-”<br/><br/>“What the patient wants,” Victoria said, stern.<br/><br/>“He wasn’t being duplicitous,” Effervescent said.<br/><br/>“Just sketchy,” Victoria muttered.  “Go on.”<br/><br/>“Some of this, if I use the right pins, and I do plan to, is going to tap into the patient’s self image.  Some of this is necessary to make the connections feel natural, making the body feel intuitive, instead of like a fit of shoes that’re the right size but worn and stretched out to fit someone else’s subtly different foot.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/05/14/13-z/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 13.z]]</ref>

As a Titan, his needles effectiveness have increased dramatically. He is capable of fully mutating someone with only momentary contact, and his victims do not seem to be able to revert.<ref>“The Ophion Titan.  Formerly a villain who went by ‘Mr. Bough’, one half of the human trafficking partnership Orchard, which mutated people in body and mind to customize them for their clients.  He was incarcerated in a prison world, and was closest to the breach that created an overlap between our world and the prison dimension.  Several who attempted to escape past him and into our world were struck with his needles, and have mutated dramatically.  He attacks quickly and with great reach and accuracy, and even brief contact with the needles seems to induce physical changes.  With one of his creations arrested and one dead, we haven’t seen them revert yet.  We’re holding out hope.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/05/14/13-z/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 13.z]]</ref> Titan Ophion can create monsters that are over 12 stories and taller, towering even over other titans. The needles that he creates can manifest from the ground itself.<ref>I could follow on the monitor ringed by open flame.  The Titan was as tall as a twelve story building, but the monsters he had just made were taller than him.  They surged forward on limbs that were still mutating, one covered in brightly painted blisters, and the other narrower, leaner, and meaner.  The lean one didn’t seem to take any meaningful damage from any incoming attacks, while the blistered one had pockets of fluid or gas that popped every time something struck it, bogging down the battlefield.  The camera showed the bodies of the capes who had been caught by the first surprise blast of liquid.<br/><br/>For each and every one of them, their flesh was melting off at the arms and legs only, with bones showing.  Their mobility was limited, with only a few people able to use powers to try and get away.<br/><br/>The needles skewered them, appearing from the ground and carrying them up dozens of feet. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/12/14/radiation-18-9/ Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.9]]</ref><ref>And the trio of creatures keeping it company were larger than any of the Titans we’d fought yet.  Not so big as the Dauntless Titan, but… comparable to storms on a city’s bay before a weather event that shut down the city.  Crafted flesh, towering skyward, reaching from ground to clouds. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/12/24/infrared-19-1/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.1]]</ref>

[[The Firmament]] bombing permanently weakened his power in all its aspects.<ref name="II19.3"/><ref name="II19.6"/>