its sharkula!

a dreaded space-shark-vampire from the shark side of the moon! in his grasp is the most amazing RADSLAYER a knife so deadly that it needs 2 handles! a pneumatic dorsal-blade is also available for the constant combat most shark-vampires face on a day to day basis.

now as most vampires, sharkula needs blood to do awesome things. enter the BLUD BELT. on sharkula's waist is the blood belt and it displays how much blood sharkula has in reserve for doing awesome things. whenever sharkula decides to do something awesome (like beating up ryu or out-acting jeffery combs) a light goes out, reminding sharkula how much blood-moves he's got in reserve and how drastically he needs to fill up his reserves.

luckily sharkula slashes through piles of dudes, and wit hall that slicing going on there's bounds to be gallons of blood flying everywhere. a shark-vampire's scales are very absorbent and soak up any blood. they're like a bunch of little shamwows when it comes to blood. so basically, if sharkula focuses on using up his blood points to slaughter his way through dudes, he'll keep filling up his blud belt and keep doing awesome things!

initially i figure that blud belts can get upgraded with enough rank or whatever, like link's hearts.

so an older character i had that i decided to give a face lift. always liked the idea of a 2d sidescroller with this dude bloodening his way through awesome crazy levels. sigh, a man can always dream!

p.s.-
a very good friend of mine (tetro) came up with a wicked idea that sharkula fights the undead in some encounters, cause they have no blood! so sharkula would have to be extra careful with his blood reserves.