Justin DeVeere

Justin DeVeere is an antagonist appearing in the Monster, Villain and Hero arc of the Gone Series. He has the ability to morph into Knightmare.

Description
Justin is 5'9 in height and has a light skin complexion with shoulder-length straight black hair worn loose and pale gray eyes. He has an IQ of 152, making him smarter than 99.9% of humanity, but he is also a sociopath. He enjoys art and is extremely talented at it. He wears tight black jeans and silk black T-shirts in which he silk-screens bits of text (either some version of "fuck you" or sexual references) in cuneiform or Sanskrit alphabets. He is lazy, sadistic, selfish, and cunning.

Power
Justin has eaten one ounce of a meteor, making his morph a regular one. The meteor was mixed with swordfish and crayfish DNA when he ate both. Whenever he morphs, he heals all injuries to both bodies, but this doesn't work for disease or poison.

He turns into Knightmare, a colossal humanoid creature with the ability to speak in a deep, loud voice (described as sounding like a cross between Vin Diesel and Darth Vader), and it also has a bladder, meaning its anatomy could be humanoid as well. It has a dirty blue and coral-colored large sword for its right hand and a dirty blue and coral pincer for the other and is covered in a hard, dully shining, coral-tinged chitin shell with tiny spikes sticking up from it. Its flesh where visible and is a sickly white described like a trout's belly. Knightmare is also incredibly strong and can jump high enough to reach a helicopter - over twice its own height, about twelve feet. From sword tip to pincer tip it is twice as wide as it is tall, and its eyes are black, small, and said to be soulless. His feet have talons like a bird of prey or some carnivorous dinosaur.

Appearances

 * Monster

Justin first appears with his girlfriend Erin O'day to steal a remnant of the meteor (which contained the virus that created the Gaiaphage) that Shade Darby and Cruz Rojas missed in the field in Iowa. He consumes it but turns into a monster during a beginning to take off in a plane, to both his horror and fascination, kills everyone he can in the plane to make sure they don't tell anyone about who the monster really is.

He and Erin O'Day go on the run and decide to pretend that the monster (whom Justin calls Knightmare) is a separate being that takes over sometimes. However, police attack and Justin kills them, as well as destroying the golden gate bridge in a car chase resulting in him escaping, ruining this plan. Shade returns and tries to defeat him at the lighthouse, but she has to flee when DiMarco bombs the area, killing Erin. When DiMarco captures him, he cannot escape. She sends him to fight Vincent Vu with Armo and Dekka, but he is defeated. And is later transported to the Ranch.


 * Villain

Justin is being held in the Ranch, before being freed by Shade when she attacks the ranch. while running from the ranch he ends up on a truck, along with Seargent Tolliver and some other mutants (unknown hawk man and turtle lady) that are heading towards Las Vegas. Justin spots a small shadow passing the moon's orbit and, realizing it is a missile sent to destroy them, rolls off the truck. He kills Tolliver out of mercy because he critically wounded by a missile.


 * Hero

Justin goes to New York in an attempt to stop being Knightmare and return to being an artist. While going back to his apartment then sees all the chaos currently happening in New York and decides to join vectors gang. He encounters Francis Spector in a bathroom stall with Malik and she pretends that Malik is hurting her. He holds his hand, placing him in the fourth dimension from which he is unable to return. He is not considered deceased in this state, because as demonstrated by Malik, a 3-dimensional person can still retain consciousness in the 4-dimensional universe. Bengal tiger was also transported into the fourth dimension but it is unknown if they meet.