Tourniquet is the Omnitrix's DNA sample of a Remedepex from the planet Remede Fascia in 5 Years Later.
Appearance[]
Tourniquet is a tall humanoid alien with a thin, lanky body. His makeup consists of a light, sponge-like material, with a transparent, prehensile, exoskeletal caging, similar in color and build to plastic. This organic caging wraps in spirals and jags around his head, body, arms and legs. The caging at the end of his arms forms 3 large fingers and a thumb, while the caging at the end of his legs forms stilted, segmented "feet". He has three green eyes on his head with black pupils. He has four prehensile tentacles protruding from his back.
The Omnitrix symbol is located on his chest.
Abilities[]
- Sponge-Like Physiology - Tourniquet's body is composed of an organic, sponge-like material called Remedepate, that is able to harden or soften at will. At hardest, it feels like a dry sponge, and at softest, toilet paper.
- Healing Touch - Remedepate is an intricate compound has the inherent ability to stimulate the immune, integumentary, circulatory, skeletal, and nervous systems of an organic's body upon contact. It also has the capability to reroute and/or temporarily create other bodily functions to simulate these systems in places where they are inadequate, deficient or missing. These factors all work together to give Remedepate the nigh-all-encompassing ability to accelerate bodily damage repair, with duration needed depending on the severity of the wound(s). Being made of Remedepate, Tourniquet is essentially a walking medical miracle machine.
- Elasticity - Tourniquet's entire phisiology is prehensile, his caging more than the Remedepate itself, but even so. Therefore, he is able to manipulate his body into any shape or size within reason, generally to wrap around wounds.
- Anatomical Liberation - Tourniquet is able to dismember whatever Remedepate-based part of body he chooses without any pain.
- Instantaneous Body Tissue Regeneration - Thanks to the regenerative qualities and dense quantity of his Remedepate, Tourniquet is able to instantly regenerate any of his lost body tissue.
- Enhanced Strength and Durability - The tensile strength and regenerative qualities of Remedepate allow Tourniquet's body to absorb significant blows without taking damage. His arms can hold up to 110lb of weight.
- Prehensile Tendrils - Tourniquet's body possesses four prehensile linen-bandage-like appendages that sprout from his back. He can shoot these out at high velocities and, for example, wrap up a target like a mummy very quickly. He can also grab and hold objects of up to 70lb with these.
Weaknesses[]
- Water - Remedepate dissolves with water, reducing it to a pile of slop similar to wet toilet paper. Tourniquet's body is no exception, and though he cannot be killed unless he his atomized in this manner, it still takes a good while to dry off and reform.
- Slow Traversal - Although his body grants Tourniquet many enhanced physical attributes, these generally fall under strength and durability. Weighed down by the heft of his absolute tensile density, his main body is not particularly quick or agile. His back tendrils pick up the slack in that department.
- Flammable - Remedepate, dry and linen-like, is naturally highly succeptable to catching on fire. Tourniquet can sever the part of his body that is burning, but if his entire body catches flame, the damage will most likely end up fatal.
- Mute - As Remedepex do not have any traditional organs that can create or simulate speech, they are considered a mute species. However, they do have an intricate communication language called Pexish, achieved through a combination of tendril shaping and subtle tone shifts when clanking their exoskeletal caging tips together. Most sapient species are incapable of learning fluent Pexish within their lifetimes, but words and phrases can be correctly guessed upon with enough study.
Mythology[]
Given the inherent difficulty for most to understand Pexish, and the rarity of the species, Remedepexian history is shrouded in mystery. From what has been gathered, the Remedepex began as, and remain, a highly religious species. The god they worship has been cross-referenced between Pexish experts to be known amongst Remedepex as BEGIN Remedepex TOUCHED Star, but the deity is referred to by all else as Pex for short. The teachings of Pex, Peximism, preach purity and charity; Giving all of yourself to expunge corruption from existence, even if it means death. Remedepex all share the core belief that using yourself up to heal another is the noblest death a Remedepex can strive for.
Remedepex are all but blank slates. They are gullible, easily led, and emotionless. They exhibit no want, desires, or opinions past what Peximism dictates, no personality, and arguably little sentience. They are a near-perfect servantile species, for better or worse. Beyond this, little to nothing is known of their kind, including the location of their homeworld, Remede Fascia. It is unknown how new Remedepex are born, but it is postulated, between information gathered from them and carbon dating, that a new birth can only be achieved through lost methods and use of materials found exclusively on their homeworld.
Today, the accumulated sighting total of unique Remedepex is at 7; 4, if you're only counting the living whose locations (and existence) are confirmed. The 4 that remain are all owned by private entities, used to unknown ends. There have been countless protests and calls to release the Remedepex people from their chains, but none have been heeded. The common held sentiment by skeptics outside of the activism is that, even if they were freed, the Remedepex wouldn't know what to do with itself. Activists argue that the Remedepex could act as wandering curers, healing whoever needed healing, but the skeptics argue that the activists would be no better than their current owners, imposing their own will on the creatures. The truth is that we will likely never know what a Remedepex would do with freedom, for as the skeptics say: "As long as greed exists, there will never be another free Remedepex."
History[]
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Appearances[]
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Trivia[]
- Tourniquet's official art used to represent him with a transparent, blue exoskeletal caging. In 2025, Kuro and Kellen updated the official art, the caging still transparent, but now a shade of grayish-tan.
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