So - the reason why Cyberman 8 has the number 8 in his name is that he was the 8th attempt by Dr. Tani to download a human mind (soul, consciousness, however you define it) into an android body.
There were 7 previous attempts, and they all went wrong for various reasons.
Prototype 6 was one of those. The positronic matrix was, like the other 7, flawed in some way. And so never "woke up".
C8 isn't sure HOW Prototype 6 could even be active. C8 understood that the nature of the previous 7 failures was that a consciousness - the "spark" if you will (to use a Transformer term) - of a human intellect and/or soul - simply failed to take hold or survive the transfer intact. So there shouldn't even be any "ghost in the shell" inside of Prototype 6.
Well SOMETHING is in there, now. Whether it's a delayed reaction and the original human implant finally activated in the matrix, or whether somehow it got corrupted by a version of Mechanon or whether someone simply finished Dr. Tani's work in some fashion... Heck - in his more whimsical moments, Cyberman 8 wonders if maybe Foxbat implanted a copy of HIS mind in there. Because Prototype 6 is decidedly crazy.
My goal on the visual design was to create something that looked like it could have been a precursor to Cyberman 8. Blockier, more "Mecha"-like. Almost like a giant action figure or a toy. He stands almost a head taller than C8. I used a metal texture on the face and the "geometric" pattern. (Kinda almost makes him look like a cross between Robocop and Kryton from Red Dwarf actually. >.>;;; )
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He used electricity for his powerset, so I figured I'd use the chest emblem to create the suggestion of an "arc reactor" of some kind.
There were 7 previous attempts, and they all went wrong for various reasons.
Prototype 6 was one of those. The positronic matrix was, like the other 7, flawed in some way. And so never "woke up".
C8 isn't sure HOW Prototype 6 could even be active. C8 understood that the nature of the previous 7 failures was that a consciousness - the "spark" if you will (to use a Transformer term) - of a human intellect and/or soul - simply failed to take hold or survive the transfer intact. So there shouldn't even be any "ghost in the shell" inside of Prototype 6.
Well SOMETHING is in there, now. Whether it's a delayed reaction and the original human implant finally activated in the matrix, or whether somehow it got corrupted by a version of Mechanon or whether someone simply finished Dr. Tani's work in some fashion... Heck - in his more whimsical moments, Cyberman 8 wonders if maybe Foxbat implanted a copy of HIS mind in there. Because Prototype 6 is decidedly crazy.
My goal on the visual design was to create something that looked like it could have been a precursor to Cyberman 8. Blockier, more "Mecha"-like. Almost like a giant action figure or a toy. He stands almost a head taller than C8. I used a metal texture on the face and the "geometric" pattern. (Kinda almost makes him look like a cross between Robocop and Kryton from Red Dwarf actually. >.>;;; )
He used electricity for his powerset, so I figured I'd use the chest emblem to create the suggestion of an "arc reactor" of some kind.