John Gallinule IV

John (Rio: Infected), is one of the main characters in Tonybanjak's Rio Infected trilogy. He also makes a return with his same position in the two part story Rio: Return of the Infection.

Rio: Infected Part 1
In part one, John recieves the honor of being the fourth character introduced in the story. John becomes one of the last characters to be followed in part one. It was also John who was responsible for destroying the first facility and killing many birds and people alike.

Rio: Infected Part 2
In part two, John is the main followed character, bringing Craig and Tony along with him. After building the hommade plane, they proceed to travel to Brazil, until Sam's dropship interceps them. Upon accidentally leading their dogfight into Carnaval, Craig spears Tom with a harpoon gun and puts two bullets in his neck. Then Sam enters the scene and proceeds to launch Tony off the plane, sparking one of John's lost emotions: anger. After Sam is disarmed of her Lightsaber, John uses his lewis gun to smash her skull, which suprisingly doesen't kill her, but that's another story.

Rio: Infected Part 3
In part three, John wakes up in the remains of their plane with Craig behind him in his own seat. After exiting their chairs, the mourn for the (currently believed) death of Tony, until a certain...Linda and Tulio find them. Later on, John and Tulio start to develop a disliking to each other, much to Craig's relief and entertainment. They are then seen in the chapter "Final Battle", killing multiple enemies until they find and Reunite with Tony. After killing his enemy Rachel, then once again destroying the main computer, John is acidentally hit in the face when the comuter explodes, and Craig and Tony carry him out. John then wakes up in the "Blu Bird Sanctuary" with his sanity finally restored after so many years; but even so, he is still sentenced to 48 months in animal prison by tulio.

Design and Weapons
John has always been mensioned to be a cool purple color with one eye dark brown, and the other a pure gold and looks like a cobra. In his first design, John's vest was white with a black stripe in the middle, and a blood red cross in the back. In his second design, John's still white vest had a black stripe in the right, a smaller red stripe in the middle (but only reached his upper chest) and a silver stripe with three arrows on it (also reaching his upper chest from the top). In John's current design, his vest is now light green with a very large white stripe completely going down the middle, a white collar, a pale yellow on the top of his head and wingtips, and a black sword sheath for his current long sword. Aside from his long sword, John has been described to have a derringer, but he hardly uses it. John is a fan of meideval weaponry, such as: The kasari gamma, the Ninjeto, the Surikans, the wik-wak staff, the bardiche, and many more.

Craig
When the pain of John's eye being ripped out was reduced to crying, John was found by Craig, who was just infected himeself. The two sat down, began to talk to each other, and eventually became the best of friends. Even so, they still have multiple arguments, which are usually broken up by Tony.

Tony
John's other best friend. Soon after John became friends with Craig, Tony entered the picture and met Craig, who introduced him to John, and soon enough, John got past Tony's new personality and took him in as his best friend, next to Craig.

Rachel
It's no secret that John hates both Rachel and Christine, but John got revenge on the two after John slammed Christine into the concrete floors. Ever scince that moment, John has been hated by Rachel, who swore revenge on John for killing her sister.

Personality and Abilities
There is actually a specific reason for why one of John's eyes is gold: shortly after his infection, Rachel and her twin sister Christine found him and raped his body, ripping out his right eye in the process. After this, John's lost eye was replaced with a robotic one, and shortly after that, his sanity was eaten away by the pain, until both were lost for what would be a very, long time. John also became violent and cruel, only caring for his best friends and no one else, as such he obtained a rude attitude towards others, making him one of the most hated characters in the story, even more than Tony. As for abilities, John is capable of firing what was once purple energy balls from his wingtips (there actually red now, due to an incident in the story). These energy balls are actually rather destructive when they hit their target, depending on how big they are. You see, John has been found to be capable of actually increasing or decreasing his ability, usually depending on what kind of mood he is in.