Charles Johnstone is a biological engineer/author born 1989. Charles' father Dr Grant an inventor, his biggest achievement was developing the world’s first form of time travel, with the assistance of his good friend Doc Emmett Brown a time machine was developed. Dr Grant wanted to test it as soon as possible, forgetting that particular day was kids at work day, without hesitation turned on the flux capacitor, still two of his children playing in the back seat of the four door Delorean, the three of them traveled to the past together, still not knowing where he was were going, just after hitting the switch Dr. Grant heard the children he turned and saw his son Mende and Charles. When Doctor Grant arrived to the destination, he realised somehow Mende and Charles were no longer with him. Not being able to find them again Doctor Grant left back to his time and swore never to use the machine ever again. It is unknown as how Charles reached the destination where he was first found, Or whether the time machine transported him to South America or he was taken there is not known, What is known though is that he was found in his late teens being raised by two wild vegan animals, a Black panther and a Grizzly bear, whom of which has taught him how to roar. Growing up in the wild jungles gave him an insight to inner beast within humanity; he is the first human to be raised in this environment. He used these gifts to his advantage but after time with the other animals he grew to realise he did not belong in the jungle but with other humans. Charles was visited by a party of explorers, at the time this was very strange and hard for his mind to comprehend, the explorers tried there best to communicate with Charles and have him return with them, he seemed to understand but was unsure what to do. After long strenuous thought he decided to leave with the party he parted his two wild vegan fathers and followed the party of explorers headed by none other than his brother whom of which came in search of Charles. Leaving back to England Mende had succeeded in convincing him to return with him. With a rich almost endless knowledge of rare and exotic plants Charles' next step to the journey of his life was written in stone, he was later considered one the utter most key parts of English botanical history.
Mende taught Charles the English language and had become a gentleman and no longer considered a beast, he later more famously known as the Godfather of biological engineering. He began researching qualities of different plants and using a method of alchemy to create a combination of plants creating hybrids. This set in motion the process of attempting hybrid creatures in the 1820’s; he first succeeded in creating a rat/pigeon by sewing them together at their backs. He then began to research on cross breeding, The first two species he successfully cross bred of lion and tiger, this is the first known recording of the Liger, he continued to create countless new creatures a giraffe which was a cross of a leopard and a Llama, a bull dog where a bull and a dog cross bred, a platypus a cross between a duck, beaver and possum also a a mix of a Snake and a pig, when the creature he dubbed the Snakon shed its skin he would cut the skin into bacon pieces, this stopped world hunger but begun the great war. His first break through , the ability to create a new species with crossing two similar species prompted Charles to further his research in a cross breed of higher mammals. He succeeded in creating hybrid with characteristics of a human and a silverback gorilla, the subject was named Tu. At the time Tu's creation was considered an abomination, Tu was extremely strong with the ability of speech and intelligence of a human. Tu was criticised by many and was soon asked to be put to death, 1828 it was trialed and was to be executed. Charles then left England with Tu and moved back to live with his vegan parents in South America, where he was raised to continue his work uninterrupted by modern civilization, it is said he released Tu into the jungles of South America where he once roamed. No knowledge of where Charles Johnstone released Tu or what happened to the hybrid either, although there have been sightings of the beast in local villages. After successfully cross breeding the human and great ape he wanted to see if he could somehow harness these strengths himself, he began work throughout the mid 1820's on the development of a serum which could induce an almost instantaneous acting yet gradual change of physical attributes, it had to be injected every 6 hours to stay in that form. The serum had proven successful although the effects were only temporary as they would wear off. Charles' ultimate goal was to be like his late adoptive parents, In time he created a more stable serum which were based on the characteristics of a panther and a bear, he used this serum on himself to create what was described as Manbearpanther, the effects were said to have given excessive strength, speed all senses and his ability to roar even louder was heightened greatly. The streets of London were often considered a dangerous place in these times, Charles decided to use his strengths for good, each night would put on a hood and cloak after injecting himself with the formula and take out crime going by the name Manbearpanther. The thugs of London soon fled and only peace existed. This of course led to allot of attention and even followers. Although his work was not accessible to public, others tried to duplicate his work which was not successful, until Dr Mende Johnstone his brother also known as Mr. M became jealous of Charles he knew his identity and became angry as he felt he was still a man from the jungle, and began working on a formula himself. Mr. M successfully created a formula similar to that of the Manbearpanther serum, the only difference was that Mr. M created a serum which could transform him into a form he called a Manrhinodillo; the characteristics of a man the strength and horn of a rhino with its thick skin and also an armadillos armor plating, with his sheer strength was virtually unstoppable. Mr. M was not like his younger brother he wanted and sought power; Mende used his new obtained powers to take whatever he wanted as his strength could not be out matched, no one could stop him. Charles did not try to stop Mr. M at this time as he had a new view on life after witnessing a innocent civilian die at the hands of his brother Mende he felt responsible as he created the formula first. He wanted to change the world with words not violence and force, he decided to teach the children as they are the future and opened a school called Charles Johnstone's Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good.
For a short time Charles had found a new passion in life as a novelist/teacher. He started to write children's novels such as "Don't look under your bed because the boogie man might grab you and drag you away so that your parents can no longer find you." and "The story of the boy who went for a long walk by himself and got lost and ended up on the other side of the country because he had no sense of direction." Both novels were published and became best sellers in their time. He was then known as professor Charles Johnstone. In time the children slowly stopped coming to the school, he soon realised that most people were fleeing the city in fear or the Mr. M and his minions of flying grizzly bears, Mr. M had trained a hybrid of grizzly bear and enhanced albatross to do his biding. Realising that Mr. M and his minions needed to be stopped and that no one else could, the professor re-created the serum again and put on the hood and cloak. Some time in Late October he confronted Mr.M and pleaded he stop the mindless killing, but Mende had become addicted to the pain of the weak, it would be safe to say it brought him pleasure to a great degree. Mende would could not be reasoned with, Mr. M's serum had some sort of effect that was causing an unstopable rage. Due to Mende's unsound mind he had grown hate for humanity he had also become addicted to the drug. Charles had to stop Mr. M from taking the drug and bring him back to his normal self as he could not be reasoned with. At first he tried to persuade Mr. M, A part deep within seemed to be listen.. But Charles was tricked as, as soon Charles' guard was down Mr. M sent his flying beasts upon him, as he fought the creatures whilst Mr. M fled into the darkness. Professor Charles defeated the Flying minions after a long battle, Charles with great speed and determination, tracked down Mr. M in minutes. Mr. M could not believe he had reached him already, he underestimated the professors abilities, his speed was more than enough to out match Mr. M's, Mr.M concluded that he could not win this fight, Mr. M had a trick up his sleave and activated his final weapon. The professor was first not sure what Mr. was doing, he had a handheld version of the time machine and flux capacitor. Mr. M activated it and left back to the future once again.
After realising that Mr. M needed to be stopped he decided that he would have to stop him at all costs not matter what time he may be in he found his lair found Mende's journal, he created his own version of the time machine and left back to the future to stop Mr. M. He Now lives a double life as a call customer service representative during the day but at night, MANBEARPANTHER!!
Charles Johnstone is the hero the people deserve, but not the one they need right now. Even if he's hunted he knew he could take it. Because he's not the peoples hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark Manbearpanther.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J. M. Dent & Sons; New York, E. P. Dutton.